Geography
Two nation states (states which are recognised by the United Nations) both claim the same city as their capital. Which two states?
Israel and Palestine
This animal was rescued from a World War One battlefield and went on to star in 27 Hollywood films? What was the animal's name.
Rin-Tin-Tin
The Currie Cup is one of the top club competitions in which country and sport?
South Africa, Rugby.
Which former Australian Prime Minister appeared in the lobby of the Admiral Benbow Inn in Memphis wearing only a towel?
Malcolm Fraser
What started on 2 April 1982 and lasted for 10 weeks?
The Falklands War
What are the westernmost and easternmost states of the United States? 100 points for each correct answer.
Alaska and Alaska
Which novelist wrote Cover Her Face, Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men?
P. D. James
After the founding of the Premier League in 1992 Manchester United were champions in four of the first five seasons. Which football team broke Manchester United's monopoly by winning in 1994/5.
Blackburn Rovers
Who is the current president of Belarus?
Alexander Lukashenko
Which Coronation Street actor/actress was nominated 5 times for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Prize for best novel?
Beryl Bainbridge
The equator passes through three Latin American countries. Please name them.
Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil.
Kingsley Amis wrote more than 20 novels, including Take a Girl Like You and Jake's Thing. What was the title of his first published novel, published in 1954, which was also his best selling work.
Lucky Jim
Which member of the British royal family played in the Wimbledon Championships?
George VI. Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, played in the Wimbledon doubles in 1926 losing in the first round.
In the closing decades of the fourteenth century, which great conqueror tore through Asia, Africa and Europe at the head of a ferocious army, raising cities, torturing inhabitants and decapitating his enemies?
Timur (Tamerlane, Taimur)
Which organisation, which existed from 1936 to 1938, included amongst its members Wily Brandt (future Chancellor of West Germany), James Robertson Justice (British actor), Erich Mielke (future head of the GDR secret police), Paul Robeson and Stephen Spender, amongst many other famous people?
The International Brigade
Which river rises in Russia, then flows through Belarus and Ukraine before emptying into the Black Sea?
River Dnieper
On 2 March 1973 Don Maclean, The New Seekers and Thin Lizzy appeared together on a long-running UK TV programme. What was the programme?
Hint: Phil Lynott's father-in-law was a former presenter of the programme.
Crackerjack
Which city has the largest sports stadium in the world?
Pyongyang in North Korea. The Rungrado 1st of May Stadium has a capacity of 114,000.
Who was Vice Presdent in the administration of Jimmy Carter from 1976-80?
Walter Mondale
What was the dominant religion in Ancient Persia.
Zoroastrianiam
What is the name of the territory bordered by Poland to the south, Lithuania to the north and east and the Baltic Sea to the west? It is slightly larger in area than Northern Ireland, with an area of 15,100 sq km and has a population of approximately one million people.
Kaliningrad Oblast. It is part of the Russian Federation.
Bob Dylan won an Oscar in 2001 for his song Things Have Changed and, more controversially, a Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Who is the only other person to have been awarded an Oscar and a Nobel Prize?
George Bernard Shaw. He won the Oscar was for the screenplay for the 1938 film Pygmalian, having previously won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
In the 1968 Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico, the USA and the Soviet Union occupied the first two places in the medal table. Which team came third?
Japan
The Peace of Westphalia signed in 1648 brought to an end to one of the most destructive wars in European History, estimated to have killed 8 million people. How is that war commonly known?
The Thirty Years War
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