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100

Big Bertha was a nickname for what huge piece of equipment?

Gun (aka Howitzer)

100

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

100

Who is the current President of France?

Emmanuel Macron

100

Which tiny country does Belgium, France and Germany border?

Luxembourg

100

Who wrote Dracula?

Bram Stoker

200

Who was oldest: Hitler, Stalin, Churchill or Roosevelt?

Churchill (born 1874)

200

Which legendary British physicist wrote A Brief History of Time?

Stephen Hawking

200

How many MPs are there?

650

200

Which American city was once called New Amsterdam?

New York

200

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

300

Which comedian starred in the wartime comedy propaganda film He Snoops To Conquer?

George Formby

300

Out of the seven colours of the rainbow, which one is in the middle?

Green

300

Who was the last British Prime Minister who did not attend Oxford or Cambridge?

Gordon Brown

300

How many lines are there on the London Underground?

11 (Bakerloo, Central, Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee, Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria and Waterloo & City)

300

Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities. What are the two cities?

London and Paris

400

Who was on the UK throne on VE Day 1945?

George VI

400

In September 1975, when the magazine New Scientist asked its readers to name the best-known scientist, which British scientist came third after Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein? (Clue: He was often on the TV!)

Magnus Pike

400

What is Keir Starmer's constituency?

Holborn and St Pancras

400

Which sea in Northern Europe is bounded by several countries including Sweden, Finland, Poland and Germany?

The Baltic Sea

400

What is the name of Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale?

The Testaments

500

What heroic figure of the merchant navy shares his name with a brand of alcoholic drink?

Johnny Walker

500

At which temperature does water boil on the Fahrenheit scale?

212 degrees

500

How old do you have to be to stand for US president?

35 years old

500

Which country has the longest coastline in the world?

Canada


500

What is the name of the final book in the Harry Potter series?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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