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Question 1

Some players, a tiny ball, some clubs and a tee

Accepted Answer

golf

Question 2

Two players, 2 cues, a table with green cloth, 15 red, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 green, 1 blue, 1 pink, 1 black, 1 white ball

Accepted Answer

snooker

Question 3

What structure was 26.5 miles long until 1989?

Accepted Answer

The Berlin Wall

Question 4

Two times 13 or 15 players plus one oblong, egg-shaped ball.

Accepted Answer

Rugby

Question 5

What is the name of the long appendage that hangs from an elephant's face?

Accepted Answer

trunk

Question 6

The concentration camp of Auschwitz/Birkenau is in which country?

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 7

Who was imprisoned for 27 years because he was trying to fight against apartheid in South Africa?

Accepted Answer

Nelson Mandela

Question 8

In George Orwell's '1984' who is watching?

Accepted Answer

Big Brother

Question 9

Which South American country is named after an Italian city?

Accepted Answer

Venezuela

Question 10

What famous scientist was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for his work in theoretical physics?

Accepted Answer

Albert Einstein

Question 11

What island country is Southeast of Australia?

Accepted Answer

New Zealand

Question 12

I _____ her since the day I met her.

Accepted Answer

've loved

Question 13

Who was stabbed to death in the Senate house, Rome, on 15 March 44 BC?

Accepted Answer

Julius Caesar

Question 14

Where and when was the Magna Carta Signed?

Accepted Answer

1215, Runnymede

Question 15

What is the order of planets?

Accepted Answer

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Hermes, Aphrodite, Gaia, Ares, Zeus, Kronos, Uranus, Poseidon

Question 16

Which artist painted this?

Accepted Answer

Edgar Degas

Question 17

Two players, a net, a pair of rackets, and a feathered 'ball'

Accepted Answer

badminton

Question 18

Who was the leader of the Russian Revolution in 1917?

Accepted Answer

Vladimir Lenin

Question 19

Hundreds of people _____ from an industrial unit.

Accepted Answer

have been evacuated

Question 20

What Russian priest was poisoned, shot and finally drowned on December 30, 1916?

Accepted Answer

Rasputin

Question 21

Two times 11 players plus an oblong, pointy ball

Accepted Answer

American Football

Question 22

Riyadh is the capital of what Middle-Eastern country?

Accepted Answer

Saudi Arabia

Question 23

She _____ if we hadn't been there to take her to the hospital.

Accepted Answer

wouldn't have survived

Question 24

Which artist painted this?

Accepted Answer

Rene Magritte

Question 25

I _____ beans when I was a child, but now I love them.

Accepted Answer

didn't use to like

Question 26

In 'The divine Comedy' what is reportedly written on the entrance to Hell?

Accepted Answer

Abandon all hope all ye who enter here

Question 27

Two times five players, two hoops and a large orange ball

Accepted Answer

basketball

Question 28

Another name for a tidal wave is a?

Accepted Answer

Tsunami

Question 29

What is the capital city of Australia ?

Accepted Answer

Canbera

Question 30

I'd like to _____ help you, but I don't have money right now.

Accepted Answer

-

Question 31

Which artist painted this?

Accepted Answer

Wassily Kandinsky

Question 32

"Do you like _____ books?" B: "Yes. I'm always at _____ library."

Accepted Answer

- / the

Question 33

He crashed his car into a tree because he _____ attention to the road.

Accepted Answer

wasn't paying

Question 34

What is the 2nd largest ocean?

Accepted Answer

The Atlantic

Question 35

Which Monarch signed the Magna Carta?

Accepted Answer

King John Lackland

Question 36

Finish the famous soliloquy 'To be or not to be, that is the question...'

Accepted Answer

...Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of ...

Question 37

Which artist painted this?

Accepted Answer

Vincent Van Gogh

Question 38

Rabat is the capital of which Kingdom?

Accepted Answer

Kingdom of Morocco

Question 39

Which two countries fought during the Hundred Years' War?

Accepted Answer

England and France

Question 40

Which famous scientist has won 2 Nobel prizes in two sciences?

Accepted Answer

Marie Curie

Question 41

Two times six players, a net, and ball.

Accepted Answer

volleyball

Question 42

What is the closest star to Earth?

Accepted Answer

The Sun

Question 43

Two times eleven players plus one ball, often 'chequered'

Accepted Answer

Football/ soccer

Question 44

Which artist painted this?

Accepted Answer

Leonardo Da Vinci

Question 45

Why did Oscar Wilde choose the name Ernest in the play 'the importance of being Earnest?

Accepted Answer

It has two meanings, proper name, and serious

Question 46

Which is Agatha Christie's famous detective

Accepted Answer

Hercule Poirot

Question 47

A number of participants and 42 kilometres of running

Accepted Answer

marathon

Question 48

What is the name of the creatures that attract sailors through their songs in Homer's 'the Odyssey'?

Accepted Answer

Sirens

Question 49

What is coulrophobia a fear of?

Accepted Answer

clowns

Question 50

In 'Harry Potter' what is the difference between an 'animagus' and ' a 'metamorphmagus'?

Accepted Answer

One can change their body, the other can become an animal

Question 51

What thin country accounts for more than half of the western coastline of South America?

Accepted Answer

Chile

Question 52

Who fought in the Punic wars?

Accepted Answer

Rome and Carthage

Question 53

What is the name of the part of the human skeleton which protects our brain?

Accepted Answer

Cranium

Question 54

In which country is Timbuktu?

Accepted Answer

Mali

Question 55

Which artist painted this?

Accepted Answer

Jackson Pollock

Question 56

Which artist painted this?

Accepted Answer

Claude Monet

Question 57

Which artist painted this?

Accepted Answer

Georges Seurat

Question 58

What comes next? One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all,

Accepted Answer

and in the darkness bind them

Question 59

We _____ tomorrow morning. The train _____ at 7:45 a.m.

Accepted Answer

leave / leaves

Question 60

What common mineral is NaCl?

Accepted Answer

Salt

Question 61

In Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', who is Frankenstein?

Accepted Answer

The Doctor

Question 62

Complete this verse from E.A. Poe's poem 'The Raven', 'Quoth the raven...'

Accepted Answer

Nevermore

Question 63

What _____ to do when we finish?

Accepted Answer

do we have

Question 64

Two players, a net, a pair of rackets, and a small ball

Accepted Answer

tennis

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