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100

Which is a World Heritage Site in the UK and a vessel to hold liquid?

a) Bath

b) Bottle

c) Urn

d) Henge

Bath

100

In England, a pub lunch of cheese, pickles, bread and onions is known as what?

a) Bricklayer’s lunch

b) Undertaker’s lunch

c) Ploughman’s lunch

d) Secretary’s lunch

Ploughman’s lunch

100
The first Prime Minister of which country was Edmund Barton?


a) Canada

b) New Zealand

c) Australia

d) South Africa

Australia

100

Who was the leading actor in the epic “Ben Hur”?

Charlton Heston

100

On which temperature scale is 212 degrees the boiling point of water?

a) Richter

b) Celsius

c) Centigrade

d) Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit 

200
What was the former name of Mumbai?


a) Bombay

b) Calcutta

c) Burma

d) Madras

Bombay

200

What is usually served “Thermidor”?

a) Lobster

b) Prawns

c) Oysters

d) Scallops

Lobster

200
After paper, the compass and gunpowder, what was the fourth Great Invention of ancient China?


a) Steel

b) Ice cream

c) Printing

d) The number zero

Printing

200

Who was the female actress dancing in “Singing in the Rain”?

Debbie Reynolds

200

What is done to a herring to make it into a kipper?

a) filleted and rolled

b) frozen

c) smoked

d) gutted

Smoked

300

In which country would you find the Suez Canal?

a) Egypt

b) India

c) Jordan

d) Mexico

Egypt

300

Which of the following are things traditional Dutch waffles with a syrup filling?

a) Sweetwafflen

b) Wafleswat

c) Stroopwafel

d) Gutwafflik

Stroopwafel

300

What did Ben Franklin use in an experiment to prove that lightning was electricity? 

a) light bulb

b) fishing rod

c) kite

d) tv antenna

kite

300

In 1962, the film Dr No introduced audiences to a suave British secret agent code-named 007. Who was the very first actor to play him on the big screen?

Sean Connery

300

Which word is the correct spelling?

a) Entrepreneur

b) Enterpreneur

c) Enntrepenur

d) Entrepeneur

Entrepreneur

400

The Galápagos Islands are governed by which country?

a) Ecuador

b) Brazil

c) Ireland

d) Australia

Ecuador

400

Which is not a type of tea?

a) green

b) grey

c) white

d) black

Grey

400

What were the former rulers of India called?

a) Hula Hulas

b) Tandooris

c) Maharajahs

d) Moguls

Maharajahs

400

In the 1965 musical masterpiece “The Sound of Music”, Julie Andrew’s plays a young woman who leaves her convent to become a governess for seven children.What is her character’s name?

Hint: the movie’s early song asks “How do you solve a problem like …….”

Maria

400

Which is a name for a new-born baby’s clothing?

a) Palette

b) Corvette

c) Layette

d) Noisette

Layette

500

This river, the 11th largest in the world, runs through Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Laos and Vietnam

a) Yangtze

b) Lena

c) Mekong

d) Yellow River

Mekong

500

Which Iranian city gives its name to a popular variety of red wine grape?

a) shiraz

b) merlot

c) sauvignon

d) pinot

Shiraz

500

The famous English landscape gardener was nicknamed who?

a) Capability Brown

b) Horticulture Brown

c) Honesty Brown

d) Green Thumbs Brown

Capability Brown

500

In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 spy thriller “North by Northwest”, Cary Grant is famously chased across a barren field by what unexpected object?

A crop dusting aeroplane

500

What is measured on the Kelvin Scale?

a) Wind velocity

b) Volume

c) Temperature

d) Weight

Temperature

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