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7 Which musical centres around the character of Sally Bowles?
8 What title is given to an army chaplain?
9 Which number is written as XC in Roman numerals?
10 Where were the summer Olympic Games of 1980 held?
11 What jelly is made from seaweed and used in glue-making?
12 What was the middle name of the poet Shelley (b.1792)?
13 Which French wine-growing region is also a deep red colour?
14 Jacob Marley is a character in which Dickens novel?
15 Which US city suffered a massive earthquake in 1906?
16 What type of creature is a painted lady?
17 What term is given to the highest part of a tropical rainforest?
18 Who was elected Mayor of London in 2016?
19 Which band had a hit in the mid-1980s with Take On Me?
20 What is the name of the Royal Military Academy near Camberley in Surrey?
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QUIZ 42 – Literature (#ulink_1140dfdd-6a0d-50d0-af63-273b48a9d390)
1 How many lines are there in a sonnet?
2 For what type of book is Samuel Pepys best known?
3 Which author created the Secret Seven?
4 Who wrote the 1899 novel Heart of Darkness?
5 Whom did Gepetto the woodcarver create?
6 In which Dickens novel does Miss Havisham, who was jilted on her wedding day, appear?
7 Who is Scotland’s national poet?
8 Which creature raced against the hare in Aesop’s fable?
9 Who wrote Salem’s Lot, Cujo and It?
10 Which bear admitted to “having very little brain”?
11 What is Sherlock Holmes’ address?
12 What is the name of the girl who flies to Neverland with Peter Pan?
13 Who wrote the 1961 novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie?
14 Which Tennyson poem begins “Come into the garden”?
15 Elizabeth Bennet is the main character in which 1813 novel?
16 What is the family’s surname in the 1868 novel Little Women?
17 Which classic novel features the character of Catherine Earnshaw?
18 Which novel by Richard Adams was made into an animated film in 1978?
19 CS Lewis penned stories set in which imaginary land beyond the wardrobe?
20 Which author created Inspector Wexford?
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QUIZ 43 – Pot Luck (#ulink_7ed4badb-2c6a-54f3-be97-1491737df50e)
1Smooth Operator was a 1980s hit for which singer?
2 What name is given to a male goose?
3 What was the first name of French philosopher Sartre (b.1905)?
4 Which kind of building can be found at Westminster, Woburn and Whitby?
5 Which offence in the US might be “grand” or “petty”?
6 Who starred in the 2003 film Hulk?
7 In which county is Preston?
8 In which month is Twelfth Night?
9 Which salad is made from romaine lettuce, croutons and Parmesan?
10 What name is given to a Freemasons’ meeting place?
11 Who played Carrie in Sex and the City?
12 Which word can be an island, a coffee bean or a computer language?
13The Catcher in the Rye (1951) was written by which novelist?
14 Which city, near the Pyramids, is the capital of Egypt?
15 Which fatty substance is found in wool?
16 What nickname is given to a private in the Royal Engineers?
17 Which ex-Neighbours actor had a hit in 1991 with Any Dream Will Do?
18 What is the German equivalent of the title “Miss”?
19 Which Spanish Surrealist painted The Persistence of Memory (1931)?
20 How many pounds are there in a stone?
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QUIZ 44 – Crime (#ulink_be0975f7-d4cb-53fd-b97f-bbe5f7828bdd)
1 The 1995 film Rogue Trader was based on whose autobiography?
2 Which Scottish legal officer performs the functions of public prosecutor and coroner?
3 For what crime was Al Capone jailed in 1931…?
4 …and what was the nickname of the team of agents, led by Eliot Ness, who investigated his crimes?
5 What name is given in the UK to an establishment where criminal cases are tried by a judge and jury?
6 What were Bonnie and Clyde’s surnames?
7 In which city was John F Kennedy assassinated?
8 Which former UK politician unsuccessfully attempted to fake his own death in 1974?
9 In which year did the Great Train Robbery take place in the UK?
10 Which criminal organisation is known in the USA as Cosa Nostra?
11 What term is given to the likeliest perpetrator of a crime?
12 Who has responsibility for maintaining the law in a US county or independent city?
13 Which murderer was the subject of the 1985 film Dance with a Stranger?
14 What did Colonel Thomas Blood famously steal in 1671?
15 Which phrase describes a court case held behind closed doors?
16 What term is given to the head of a prison in the UK?
17 Who played OJ Simpson in the 2016 American Crime Story dramatisation The People v.O.J. Simpson?
18 Which term describes evidence which may not be brought before a court of law?
19 Which Roman statesman was murdered on the Ides of March?
20 The term “Triad” is used to describe criminal gangs in which country?
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QUIZ 45 – Pot Luck (#ulink_89dc462b-fd32-5da1-b4ed-25fa968db1c4)
1 Who presented the long-running children’s series Animal Magic?
2 Which is the second-largest city in Pakistan?
3 The Goat represents which star sign?
4 What term is given to a grotesquely carved water-spout found on churches?
5 What is the common name for the delphinium?
6 Where are the headquarters of Surrey County Cricket Club?
7 What is the measurable unit of work or energy in the CGS system?
8 Which London hotel was built by theatrical impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte?
9 In which US state is San Francisco?
10 Which red gem is January’s birthstone?
11 Which beetle was sacred to the ancient Egyptians?
12 Who directed the 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life?
13 What reaping tool is associated with Old Father Time?
14 What was Mel B’s Spice Girls’ nickname?
