GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
How many minutes in four and three-quarter hours?
285 MINUTES
How are Messrs Hodges and Peacock better known?
CHAS & DAVE
Who were the first winners of the Women’s Cricket World Cup in 1973?
ENGLAND
Elvis Presley died.
1977
What can be planes or sprays of water?
JETS
What can be seen from Earth only once every 76 years?
HALLEY´S COMET
“Shape of You” was a 2018 hit for which singer?
ED SHEERAN
What is the lightest weight in boxing?
FLYWEIGHT
Concorde made its maiden flight.
1969
You just bought a cute rabbit at a pet store. The rabbit can breed once every month, and deliver 7 babies at a time. How many rabbits do you have after 12 months?
ONE - IT TAKES 2 RABBITS TO BREED
Which three South American countries does the Equator cross?
Brazil, Columbia and Ecuador
Who recorded the album “A Night at the Opera”?
QUEEN
What colour jersey is worn by the leader in the Tour de France?
YELLOW
The first Harry Potter novel was published.
1997
What can you catch but not throw?
A COLD
Which card game has two forms, called auction and contract?
BRIDGE
Which rock guitarist had a band called the Experience?
JIMI HENDRIX
In 1925 at Windsor, bookmakers went on strike. Against what?
BETTING TAX
Football’s World Cup took place for the first time.
1930
What do the following words have in common: Racecar, Civic, Eye, Level?
They are all palindromes. They can be read the same backward and forward.
What is the Aurora Australis also called?
THE SOUTHERN LIGHTS
Which Beatles double-sided hit titles were Liverpool placenames?
Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
Which club, formed in 1863, won their first trophy 109 years later?
STOKE CITY
The first UK motorway opened.
1958
A farmer has a wolf, a chicken, and a bag of grain he needs to get accross a river. He has one boat to take them all across. He can only take one at a time. He cant leave the wolf alone with chicken or the chicken alone with grain. How does he do it?
He takes chicken first. He takes the wolf over second and comes back with the chicken. He drops of the chicken and takes the grain to the other side with the wolf. Last he goes back to get the chicken and brings him across.