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{
"question": "Which edible nut is found on a variety of Hickory Tree?",
"answers": [
"pecans"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the commercial airport which opened in 2005 on the site of the former RAF Finningley?",
"answers": [
"robin hood airport"
]
},
{
"question": "The working title of which sit-com, set in the 'Globelink News' office, was 'Dead Belgians Don't Count'?",
"answers": [
"roysten merchant"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the parliamentary constituency of Tony Blair when he was leader of the Labour Party?",
"answers": [
"sedgefield"
]
},
{
"question": "To which order of monks does or did Pope Francis belong?",
"answers": [
"jesuit order"
]
},
{
"question": "Which villain, played by Richard Kiel, appeared in two James Bond movies, 'The Spy Who Loved Me' and 'Moonraker'?",
"answers": [
"jaws"
]
},
{
"question": "Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner became President of which South American country in December 2007?",
"answers": [
"argentina"
]
},
{
"question": "Which film features the characters Sally Albright and Harry Burns?",
"answers": [
"sally albright"
]
},
{
"question": "If you travel due south from Detroit, Michigan, what is the first country you reach?",
"answers": [
"canada"
]
},
{
"question": "Willis-Ekbom disease is more commonly known as?",
"answers": [
"ekbom disease"
]
},
{
"question": "In the computing acronym WYSIWYG (wiziwig) what word is represented by both letter Ws?",
"answers": [
"what"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the last British athlete to compete in the Olympic 100 metres final?",
"answers": [
"dwain chambers"
]
},
{
"question": "The Battle of Vimy Ridge took place in which country during World War l?",
"answers": [
"france"
]
},
{
"question": "Which is the largest city in the USA?",
"answers": [
"new york"
]
},
{
"question": "\"From which Shakespeare play does the line \"\"A plague on both your houses\"\" come?\"",
"answers": [
"romeo and juliet"
]
},
{
"question": "Ikarus was the codename for the proposed German invasion of which country?",
"answers": [
"iceland"
]
},
{
"question": "Which detective was created by G K Chesterton?",
"answers": [
"father brown"
]
},
{
"question": "Known as The Mother of Presidents or The Heart of It All, what state was the 17th state to join the union on March 1, 1803?",
"answers": [
"state of ohio"
]
},
{
"question": "In the human body, which pigment is primarily responsible for the colour of skin?",
"answers": [
"melanin"
]
},
{
"question": "What literally means ‘submission to God’ in Arabic?",
"answers": [
"islam"
]
},
{
"question": "Which motorway runs from Cambridge to London?",
"answers": [
"m11"
]
},
{
"question": "What world leader introduced Glasnost and Perestroika?",
"answers": [
"gorbachev"
]
},
{
"question": "In the Christian calendar what is the first day of Holy Week",
"answers": [
"palm sunday"
]
},
{
"question": "Which scientist discovered the Neutron in 1934?",
"answers": [
"james chadwick"
]
},
{
"question": "Which supermarket chain started selling straight croissants in its stores in February?",
"answers": [
"tesco"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the Poet Laureate at the time of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II?",
"answers": [
"john masefield"
]
},
{
"question": "Which fashionable London thoroughfare, about three quarters of a mile (1.2 km) long, runs from Hyde Park Corner to Marble Arch, along the length of the eastern side of Hyde Park?",
"answers": [
"park lane"
]
},
{
"question": "Which contestant was first to be voted off the 2011 'Strictly Come Dancing' competition?",
"answers": [
"edwina currie"
]
},
{
"question": "In which film does crooked computer programmer Dennis Nedry cause havoc?",
"answers": [
"ingen"
]
},
{
"question": "Who had a 70s No 1 hit with Let's Do It Again?",
"answers": [
"staple singers"
]
},
{
"question": "The Marquesas Islands lie in which ocean?",
"answers": [
"pacific ocean"
]
},
{
"question": "In which country were democratic elections held in May 1989, and though Guillermo Endara was elected president, the results were annulled by the existing government?",
"answers": [
"panamá"
]
},
{
"question": "During his visit in May 2009, the Pope was urged to complain about the state of what landmark between Israel and Jordan?",
"answers": [
"jordan"
]
},
{
"question": "If you had two eight enders in one bonspiel what are you playing",
"answers": [
"curling shoes"
]
},
{
"question": "What fictional Chinese-American detective, created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1923 for a novel published in 1925, was the subject of over 45 films made between 1926 and 1981?",
"answers": [
"number one son"
]
},
{
"question": "How many double-word score squares are there on a standard Scrabble board?",
"answers": [
"17"
]
},
{
"question": "From 1937 to 1942 Alan Lomax, who contributed more than 10,000 field recordings of folk music from the USA, the Caribbean, Ireland, Great Britain, Spain, and Italy, was Assistant in Charge of the Archive of Folk Song of what establishment?",
"answers": [
"library of congress"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the author of Pygmalion'?",
"answers": [
"george bernard shaw"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Whose last recorded words in the House of Commons were: \"\"I wish everyone, friend or foe, well. And that is that. The end \"\" ?\"",
"answers": [
"tony blair"
]
},
{
"question": "In the culinary world, what word is used for the edible offal of a fowl, typically including the heart, gizzard and liver?",
"answers": [
"giblet"
]
},
{
"question": "Who became US President John Kennedy’s Vice President in 1961?",
"answers": [
"lyndon johnson"
]
},
{
"question": "Which short-legged dog was named after the 19th century parson who bred them?",
"answers": [
"jack russell"
]
},
{
"question": "American businessman and philanthropist Solomon Guggenheim (1861-1949) established a famous eponymous international network of?",
"answers": [
"museum"
]
},
{
"question": "Vermillion is a shade of which colour?",
"answers": [
"red"
]
},
{
"question": "What type of creature is a tanager?",
"answers": [
"bird"
]
},
{
"question": "Karl Eisner created which multitool?",
"answers": [
"swiss army knife"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Europeans have been proved to have reached North America before Christopher Columbus?",
"answers": [
"viking"
]
},
{
"question": "Who is the voice of baby Mikey in the 1989 film Look Who's Talking?",
"answers": [
"bruce willis"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name given to the vertical groove that runs between the top lip and the nose?",
"answers": [
"philtrum"
]
},
{
"question": "Cholecystectomy is the surgical removal of which small organ of the body?",
"answers": [
"gallbladder fundus"
]
},
{
"question": "What term refers to a triangle with two equal sides?",
"answers": [
"isosceles"
]
},
{
"question": "Which English football ground features the 'Holte End'?",
"answers": [
"villa park"
]
},
{
"question": "Who set fire to his guitar at the Monterey Pop festival in 19676?",
"answers": [
"jimi hendrix"
]
},
{
"question": "Introduced in 1894 and one of the world's oldest trademarks, Bibendum is better known as what?",
"answers": [
"bibendum"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Jersey-born actor played Superman in Man of Steel?",
"answers": [
"henry william dalgliesh cavill"
]
},
{
"question": "The 'Gowk' is an old dialect word for which bird?",
"answers": [
"cuckoo"
]
},
{
"question": "Elizabeth Gaskill based her fictional village 'Cranford' on which place in Cheshire?",
"answers": [
"knutsford"
]
},
{
"question": "Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI created which principality in 1719?",
"answers": [
"principality of liechtenstein"
]
},
{
"question": "Who won the World Professional Snooker Championship six times in the 1970s?",
"answers": [
"ray reardon"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the title of the 1996 Oscar-winning documentary about the Muhammad Ali and George Foreman 1974 ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ fight in Zaire?",
"answers": [
"when we were kings"
]
},
{
"question": "In March 1994, what was ‘David and Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web’ renamed?",
"answers": [
"yahoo ceo"
]
},
{
"question": "Who wrote the 1963 novel ‘The Spy Who Came in From the Cold’?",
"answers": [
"le carré"
]
},
{
"question": "\"The names of how many states of the USA start and end with the letter \"\"a\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"3"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the capital of Uzbekistan?",
"answers": [
"tashkent"
]
},
{
"question": "In geology, a coomb or combe is a type of what?",
"answers": [
"valley"
]
},
{
"question": "What product is the Singer company well-known for making?",
"answers": [
"sewing machine"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the stage name of singer/actor Terence Nelhams?",
"answers": [
"terry nelhams"
]
},
{
"question": "What American industrialist is credited as the father of the modern assembly line?",
"answers": [
"henry ford"
]
},
{
"question": "In which town is the University of Surrey",
"answers": [
"guildford"
]
},
{
"question": "Which planet has a diameter that is closest to that of the Earth?",
"answers": [
"venus"
]
},
{
"question": "Alan Minter was World boxing champion at which weight?",
"answers": [
"middleweight"
]
},
{
"question": "In a petrol engine what component mixes fuel and air?",
"answers": [
"carburetors"
]
},
{
"question": "Which 20th century American composer wrote the American Festival overture in 1939, and Symphony No. 3 considered the most important new work of 1942, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943?",
"answers": [
"william schuman"
]
},
{
"question": "Which actress is the mother of actress Carrie Fisher?",
"answers": [
"debbie reynolds"
]
},
{
"question": "In which novel does Michael Henchard sell his wife and child for 5 guineas?",
"answers": [
"michael henchard"
]
},
{
"question": "Who has presented BBC TV programmes called his 'Toy Stories' and `Man Lab'?",
"answers": [
"captain slow"
]
},
{
"question": "What nation did the United States declare war on - after the sinking of the USS Maine?",
"answers": [
"spain"
]
},
{
"question": "\"In which North American city would you find a baseball team called the\"\"Blue Jays\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"toronto"
]
},
{
"question": "Which band released the album 'Kid' in 2000?",
"answers": [
"radiohead"
]
},
{
"question": "What color is the lowest level of the Homeland Security Advisory System?",
"answers": [
"green"
]
},
{
"question": "The German film 'The Blue Angel' launched the career of which famous actress?",
"answers": [
"marlene dietrich"
]
},
{
"question": "In MASH what was the character Radars full name?",
"answers": [
"hawkeye pierce"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Scottish football team plays home games at Easter Road?",
"answers": [
"hibernian"
]
},
{
"question": "Who first drew Mickey Mouse when ?Disney first supplied the voice?",
"answers": [
"ub iwerks"
]
},
{
"question": "Julia Gillard became the first female Prime Minister of which country?",
"answers": [
"australia"
]
},
{
"question": "What singer-songwriter promised to write albums for all 50 states, but only completed Michigan and Illinois?",
"answers": [
"sufjan"
]
},
{
"question": "What name is given to the unofficial accolade awarded to the fastest passenger ship to cross the Atlantic in the westbound direction?",
"answers": [
"blue riband"
]
},
{
"question": "Denis Gabor won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics for which invention?",
"answers": [
"holographic"
]
},
{
"question": "From what illness did Mary II die in 1694?",
"answers": [
"smallpox"
]
},
{
"question": "Livorno, Pisa and Siena are three of the largest cities in which Italian region?",
"answers": [
"tuscany"
]
},
{
"question": "Although both her parents are Australian, in which US state was Nicole Kidman born?",
"answers": [
"hawaii"
]
},
{
"question": "What year appears on bottles of the French lager Kronenbourg?",
"answers": [
"1664"
]
},
{
"question": "What major American city is located on Puget Sound?",
"answers": [
"seattle"
]
},
{
"question": "Basutoland changed its name in 1966 to what current name?",
"answers": [
"lesotho"
]
},
{
"question": "The four town halls in Kirklees that contain concert venues are in Huddersfield, Cleckheaton, Dewsbury and which other town?",
"answers": [
"batley"
]
},
{
"question": "Which city of central Spain was renowned throughout the Middle Ages as an important center for the production of swords and other bladed instruments?",
"answers": [
"toledo"
]
},
{
"question": "Libya was a colony of which country from 1911 to 1947?",
"answers": [
"italy"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the spiritual leader of a community of Zen Buddhist monks?",
"answers": [
"roshi"
]
},
{
"question": "Ford Prefect came from a star in which constellation?",
"answers": [
"orion"
]
},
{
"question": "What nation is home to the Zanu-PF poltical body?",
"answers": [
"zimbabwe"
]
},
{
"question": "Mary Mallon was effectively imprisoned for life in New York for being an irresponsible immune carrier of what disease?",
"answers": [
"typhoid fever"
]
},
{
"question": "Odontology is the scientific study of what?",
"answers": [
"tooth"
]
},
{
"question": "On which island was the actor Errol Flynn born?",
"answers": [
"tasmania"
]
},
{
"question": "What in Sikhism, is a Kanga?",
"answers": [
"comb"
]
},
{
"question": "Founded in 1900, in what sport is the Davis Cup played for?",
"answers": [
"lawn tennis"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the residence of the Duke of Devonshire?",
"answers": [
"chatsworth house"
]
},
{
"question": "Gamophobia is the fear of what?",
"answers": [
"married"
]
},
{
"question": "Which 2008 musical film is set on the fictional Greek island of Kalokairi?",
"answers": [
"mamma mia"
]
},
{
"question": "First held on May 17, 1875, what is the oldest, continuously held major sporting event in the United States?",
"answers": [
"kentucky derby"
]
},
{
"question": "Singer and musician Bono called which venue ‘Rock and roll’s great cathedral’?",
"answers": [
"madison square garden"
]
},
{
"question": "The announcement came in November 1978 that which member of the 'Royal Family' was to join the armed forces?",
"answers": [
"prince andrew"
]
},
{
"question": "The Salt Flat of Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, is in which country?",
"answers": [
"bolivia"
]
},
{
"question": "Between 1783 and 1865, Englishmen William Wilberforce, Sir Cecil Wray and Dr Beilby Porteus, Africans Olaudah Equiano and Ignatius Sancho and, in the USA, William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Charles Henry Langston and John Mercer Langston were leading figures in which movement?",
"answers": [
"movement to abolish slavery"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the female alter-ego of Turner Prize winner Grayson perry?",
"answers": [
"claire"
]
},
{
"question": "Gibraltar is linked by ferry to which North African city?",
"answers": [
"tangier"
]
},
{
"question": "Which musical instrument is Albert Schweitzer known to have played?",
"answers": [
"organ"
]
},
{
"question": "Which is the lowest rank of the Peerage?",
"answers": [
"baron"
]
},
{
"question": "What now illegal crop did George Washington grow on his estate?",
"answers": [
"hemp"
]
},
{
"question": "On which river does the Scottish city of Stirling lie?",
"answers": [
"forth"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the first professional cricketer to captain England?",
"answers": [
"len hutton"
]
},
{
"question": "By how many years to the day did OJ Simpson's conviction for robbery and kidnapping follow his acquittal of murder?",
"answers": [
"13"
]
},
{
"question": "Brandon Lee died during the making of which movie?",
"answers": [
"crow"
]
},
{
"question": "The name Jessica was invented by William Shakespeare for which of his plays?",
"answers": [
"merchant of venice"
]
},
{
"question": "Which London street became famous as a fashion centre in the sixties",
"answers": [
"carnaby street"
]
},
{
"question": "Phil Collins was a drummer and singer in what band?",
"answers": [
"genesis"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Complete the title of this James Bond film: \"\"From Russia With ... \"\"\"",
"answers": [
"love"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the German term for wine made from fully ripened grapes",
"answers": [
"kabinett"
]
},
{
"question": "IBM Halt is one of nine railway stations in which Clydeside town?",
"answers": [
"greenock"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the capital of Rwanda?",
"answers": [
"kigali"
]
},
{
"question": "Which 'Smokey' Robinson hit took 'Japan' to number nine in 1982?",
"answers": [
"i second that emotion"
]
},
{
"question": "In law what term translates from the Latin meaning 'elsewhere'?",
"answers": [
"alibi"
]
},
{
"question": "A nectarine is a shiny-skinned variety of what?",
"answers": [
"nectarines"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Italian demonstrated the first modern electric battery?",
"answers": [
"alessandro volta"
]
},
{
"question": "Bryan Ferry was the lead singer of which 1970’s band?",
"answers": [
"roxy music"
]
},
{
"question": "Pompey the Great and Crassus were two of the 'First Triumverate' in 60 BC. Who was the third?",
"answers": [
"caesar"
]
},
{
"question": "As what is the medical condition pertussis more commonly known?",
"answers": [
"pertussis"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the more common name for the white crystalline salt called hydrated sodium pyroborate?",
"answers": [
"na2b4o7"
]
},
{
"question": "Which composer did pianist Clara Wieck marry in 1840?",
"answers": [
"robert schumann"
]
},
{
"question": "Patusnaya and mallasol are types of what?",
"answers": [
"caviar"
]
},
{
"question": "(At early 2000s) the only nation in the world with effectively no shortage of donated human organs, due to a free market in their trade is?",
"answers": [
"iran"
]
},
{
"question": "Richard Daley was mayor of which city for 21 years?",
"answers": [
"chicago"
]
},
{
"question": "JB Who wrote the novel ‘Greenmantle’?",
"answers": [
"john buchan"
]
},
{
"question": "What is a honey locust?",
"answers": [
"trees"
]
},
{
"question": "Mosses are classified as belonging to which part of the plant kingdom?",
"answers": [
"bryophyta"
]
},
{
"question": "The Ore Mountains form a border between Germany and which country?",
"answers": [
"czech republic"
]
},
{
"question": "The ‘what’….House Rule’ is a core principle that governs the confidentiality of the source of information received at a meeting?",
"answers": [
"chatham"
]
},
{
"question": "The body of which US President, who died in 1885, lies in Riverside Park in Manhattan, in the largest mausoleum in North America?",
"answers": [
"general grant"
]
},
{
"question": "How long does it take, approximately, for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth?",
"answers": [
"about 8 minutes"
]
},
{
"question": "Which type of animal represents the Republican Party?",
"answers": [
"elephant"
]
},
{
"question": "Who produces and presents the BBC arts programme Imagine?",
"answers": [
"alan yentob"
]
},
{
"question": "What country has the largest amount of rainforest?",
"answers": [
"brazil"
]
},
{
"question": "Written by Earl Derr Biggers in 1925, 'The House Without A Key' was the first novel to feature which Chinese- American detective?",
"answers": [
"charlie chan"
]
},
{
"question": "By what name was the American short-story writer William Sydney Porter better known?",
"answers": [
"o henry"
]
},
{
"question": "The popular 'Humming Chorus' comes from which Puccini opera?",
"answers": [
"madam butterfly"
]
},
{
"question": "The America's Cup trophy was held by America from 1852 until 1983 when the Cup was won by which challenger?",
"answers": [
"australia ii of australia"
]
},
{
"question": "Blue Gum and Ironbark are species of which genus of Australian tree?",
"answers": [
"gum tree"
]
},
{
"question": "Who preceded Neil Kinnock as leader of the British Labour Party?",
"answers": [
"michael foot"
]
},
{
"question": "Who played factory boss Danny Baldwin in the British television soap ‘Coronation Street’?",
"answers": [
"bradley walsh"
]
},
{
"question": "Which planet, which has moons named after characters from Shakespeare and Pope, was discovered by Herschel in 1781?",
"answers": [
"discovery of uranus"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the better known name of the English singer Yusuf Islam who converted to Islam in 1977 at the height of his fame?",
"answers": [
"yusuf islam"
]
},
{
"question": "Which coral atoll, the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago, was forcibly depopulated in 1971 to make way for a joint UK/USA military base?",
"answers": [
"diego garcia"
]
},
{
"question": "In the British Army, which commissioned rank is indicated by a crown on each shoulder?",
"answers": [
"major"
]
},
{
"question": "The Angostura Bridge crosses the Orinoco River in which country?",
"answers": [
"venezuela"
]
},
{
"question": "\"In the novel, \"\"Nicholas Nickelby\"\", by Charles Dickens, what was the name of the school, run by Wackford Squeers?\"",
"answers": [
"dotheboys hall"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which group had hits with \"\"You Really Got Me\"\", \"\"All Day And All Of The Night\"\", \"\"Waterloo Sunset\"\" and \"\"Lola\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"kinks"
]
},
{
"question": "The SI unit the ohm is often represented by the upper-case form of which Greek letter?",
"answers": [
"omega"
]
},
{
"question": "In 1842, what was ceded to Britain by the Treaty of Nanking?",
"answers": [
"hong kong"
]
},
{
"question": "Which English king was born in Pembroke Castle in West Wales in 1457?",
"answers": [
"henry vii"
]
},
{
"question": "In the TV show Camberwick Green, who lived in Colly's Mill?",
"answers": [
"camberwick green"
]
},
{
"question": "What were invented by Adolf Fick in 1887 and, while being to all intents and purposes invisible, are used worldwide by an estimated 125 million people?",
"answers": [
"contact lens"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the second biggest city in the UK?",
"answers": [
"birmingham"
]
},
{
"question": "Nino Farina was the first world champion of what?",
"answers": [
"formula one championship"
]
},
{
"question": "Bosworth cheese comes from which English county?",
"answers": [
"staffordshire"
]
},
{
"question": "What did Peter Carl Fabergé famously make?",
"answers": [
"faberge eggs"
]
},
{
"question": "In the early 2000's The Birds Eye brand had a make-over, losing it's famous logo in favour of the now familiar red eye logo. What was the old logo, was it A- Albatross, B - Whale or C - Shark?",
"answers": [
"albatross"
]
},
{
"question": "Who finished bottom of County Cricket’s Division One this year?",
"answers": [
"worcestershire"
]
},
{
"question": "Which city is the home of the Palais du Luxembourg?",
"answers": [
"paris"
]
},
{
"question": "Novelist Patricia Cornwell has accused the painter Walter Sickert of being which notorious criminal?",
"answers": [
"ripperologists"
]
},
{
"question": "In which town or city were most of the Bowie knives made",
"answers": [
"sheffield"
]
},
{
"question": "Which musical instrument is associated with Alison Balsam?",
"answers": [
"trumpeter"
]
},
{
"question": "In the Hans Christian Andersen story, who slept in a walnut shell for a cradle?",
"answers": [
"thumbelina"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1855 to 1858?",
"answers": [
"palmerston"
]
},
{
"question": "In which activity were hickory and persimmon replaced by graphite and titanium?",
"answers": [
"golfing"
]
},
{
"question": "In the USA in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt formed the Progressive Party when he lost the Republican nomination to William Howard Taft. What was the party also known as?",
"answers": [
"bull moose party"
]
},
{
"question": "What is Marge Simpson's maiden name ?",
"answers": [
"bouvier"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the first name of Madame Bovary in Flaubert's 1856 novel?",
"answers": [
"emma"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was Richard Nixon's Democratic opponent in the 1968 US Presidential campaign?",
"answers": [
"hubert humphrey"
]
},
{
"question": "The organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) was created in 1971 as an aftermath of what humanitarian crisis in Africa?",
"answers": [
"biafra secession"
]
},
{
"question": "Atychiphobia is the irrational fear of what?",
"answers": [
"failure"
]
},
{
"question": "Russia's TU-144 plane was the broad equivalent of which western airliner?",
"answers": [
"concorde"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which film ends with the line 'Kevin, what did you do to my room\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"harry and marv"
]
},
{
"question": "Apart from being warm blooded and giving birth to live young, what do mammals produce to differentiate them from other families of animals?",
"answers": [
"milk"
]
},
{
"question": "For which scientific discovery did Crick and Watson receive the 1962 Nobel Prize for Medicine?",
"answers": [
"dna structure"
]
},
{
"question": "In which pastime/game would you use the Forsyth-Edwards Notation or the GBR code?",
"answers": [
"chess"
]
},
{
"question": "P.L. Travers wrote which series of books that were turned into a famous film?",
"answers": [
"mary poppins"
]
},
{
"question": "The names for the satellites of which planet are chosen from characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope?",
"answers": [
"uranus"
]
},
{
"question": "Although the Okapi has markings similar to a Zebra, it is most closely related to which other mammal?",
"answers": [
"giraffe"
]
},
{
"question": "In World War II, what was the code name given to the artificial harbours towed across the English Channel after the D-Day landings?",
"answers": [
"mulberries"
]
},
{
"question": "Known as the Hero of Haarlem, what did the little Dutch boy use to plug the leak in a dike?",
"answers": [
"finger"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the first female American astronaut?",
"answers": [
"sally ride"
]
}
] |