Name a mammal that can’t jump.
Elephant, sloth, hippo, rhino
What name is given to a substance with no active therapeutic effect that is given in order to deceive the recipient into thinking that it is an active treatment?
Placebo
Which tiny country does Belgium, France and Germany border?
Luxembourg
Who wrote Dracula?
Bram Stoker
How many colours are there in the UAE flag?
Four (Red, Green, White and Black)
What school did Harry Potter attend?
Hogwarts
Which legendary British physicist wrote A Brief History of Time?
Stephen Hawking
Which American city was once called New Amsterdam?
New York
How many ghosts appear to Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?
4 - Jacob Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come
Which country is U.A.E's largest crude oil customer?
Japan (62% of crude oil goes to Japan)
What’s the name of the toy cowboy in Toy Story?
Woody
Out of the seven colours of the rainbow, which one is in the middle?
Green
How many lines are there on the London Underground?
11 (Bakerloo, Central, Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee, Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria and Waterloo & City)
Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities. What are the two cities?
London and Paris
The abandoned Soviet IL 76 -Russian cargo plane is in which emirate?
Umm Al Quwain
What colour is at the top of the rainbow?
Red
Which substance in the skin filters out harmful light from the Sun?
Melanin
Which sea in Northern Europe is bounded by several countries including Sweden, Finland, Poland and Germany?
The Baltic Sea
What is the name of Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale?
The Testaments
For a time, the British nickname for the region of the Emirates was descriptive of an unsavoury feature. What was it?
The Pirate Coast. In the 16th century the UAE was controlled by the British. In that period many pirates were operating from the harbours in the area, earning the country the nickname 'Pirate Coast.'
Name 3 of the ingredients that went into the chocolate fondant for the recent bake off
Chocolate, (self-raising) flour, eggs, sugar, butter
At which temperature does water boil on the Fahrenheit scale?
212 degrees
Which country has the longest coastline in the world?
Canada
What is the name of the final book in the Harry Potter series?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
When the UAE was founded on 2 December 1971, which emirate was missing
Ras al Khaimah. It later joined the UAE federation on 10 February 1972