98 Who wrote the Opera Madam ?
Answer
Butterfly Puccini
99 Eric Arthur Blaire was the real name of which author?
Answer
George Orwell
100 Names – Baker Cook obvious what did Cordwainer do?
Answer
Shoemaker
101 Which country do Sinologists study?
Answer
China
102 Rudy Stevens became famous under which name?
Answer
Barbara Stanwyck
103 Which non alcoholic cordial is made from pomegranates ?
Answer
Grenadine
104 What is Orchesis – either professional or amateur?
Answer
Art of Dancing
105 Taken literally what should you see in a Hippodrome?
Answer
Horses
106 Who wrote the Man in the Iron Mask?
Answer
Alexander Dumas
107 Which 1993 Disney film starred Bet Middler as a witch?
Answer
Hocus Pocus
108 Who piloted the first flight across the English channel ?
Answer
Louis Bleriot
109 What was the first James Bond film?
Answer
Dr No
110 What 1991 film won best film, actor, actress, director Oscars ?
Answer
Silence of the Lambs
111 What was the capital of Ethiopia?
Answer
Addis Ababa
112 Aescapalious emblem staff snake Greek Roman god of what ?
Answer
Medicine
113 Giacomo Agostini – 122 Grand Prix 15 world titles what sport?
Answer
Motorcycle Racing
114 What is the largest state in the USA?
Answer
Alaska
115 Alan Stuart Konigsberg famous as who ?
Answer
Woody Allen
116 Which human rights organisation founded 1961 got Nobel 1977 ?
Answer
Amnesty International
117 Whose autobiography was The long walk to Freedom
Answer
Nelson Mandela
118 What was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter?
Answer
Tutankamen tomb
119 Clyde Tonbaugh discovered what planet in 1930 ?
Answer
Pluto
120 Who won the women’s heptathlon at Seoul in 1988?
Answer
Jackie Joyner-Kersey
121 Who wrote Northanger Abbey ?
Answer
Jayne Austin
122 Who ran through the streets naked crying Eureka ?
Answer
Archimedes
123 Who composed the Brandeberg ?
Answer
Johan Sebastian Bach
124 Who won the World Series in 1987?
Answer
Minnesota twins
125 What is the correct term of address to the Pope?
Answer
Your Holiness
126 In which city was Alexander Graham Bell born in 1847?
Answer
Edinburgh
127 Who composed the ballets Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker?
Answer
Tchaikovsky
128 AG Bell opened school in Boston in 1872 for Teachers of what ?
Answer
The Deaf
129 Benjamin Kubelsky 1894 fame as what comedian ?
Answer
Jack Benny
130 In the Old Testament what book comes between Obadiah?
Answer
Micah Jonah
131 Robin Williams dressed in drag for which 1993 film?
Answer
Mrs Doubtfire
132 Which chess piece could be a member of the church?
Answer
Bishop
133 Which German word means lightning war used in WW2 ?
Answer
Blitzkrieg
134 Broccoli belongs to what family of plants?
Answer
Cabbage
135 Who designed the first Iron ship the Great Britain in 1845 I. ?
Answer
Kingdom Brunel
136 Whose boat Bluebird was recently raised from Coniston water?
Answer
Donald Campbell
137 in 1951 which (of two) car companies introduced power steering Buick?
Answer
– Chrysler
138 Who wrote Catch 22 (both names) ?
Answer
Joseph Heller
139 Which country set up the world’s first chemistry lab in 1650
Answer
Netherlands
140 What links the names Botvinik, Tal, Karpov, Fischer ?
Answer
Chess World Champs
141 What is the national flower of Japan ?
Answer
Chrysanthemum
142 Bombardier Billy Wells was seen on many Rank films – why?
Answer
Hit Gong
143 Where in France do claret wines come from ?
Answer
Bordeaux
144 What did mathematician John Napier invent in 1614?
Answer
Logarithms
145 What was the world’s first high level programming language 1957?
Answer
IBM FORTRAN
146 Consumption was the former name of which disease?
Answer
Tuberculosis
147 Which American state is nicknamed The Diamond State?
Answer
Delaware
148 What are the Sirocco, Mistral and Chinook?
Answer
Winds
149 Who wrote about Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?
Answer
Roald Dahl\
150 Who, at USA customs declared, nothing but my genius?
Answer
Oscar Wilde
151 Issur Danielovitch became famous a who?
Answer
Kirk Douglas
152 Who sailed in the Golden Hind ?
Answer
Sir Francis Drake
153 What was the name of the plantation in Gone with the Wind?
Answer
Tara
154 Who won the 1988 Superbowl Washington?
Answer
Redskins
155 Which group believes in The Great Architect of the Universe?
Answer
Freemasons
156 Robert Alan Zimmerman real name of who?
Answer
Bob Dylan
157 Processed Galena produces which metal?
Answer
Lead
158 Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels (both names) ?
Answer
Jonathon Swift
159 What is a Ha Ha?
Answer
Sunken Fence
160 In Japan what is Seppuku Hari Kari ?
Answer
– suicide
161 Who discovered blood circulation ?
Answer
William Harvey
162 The dunnock is another name for which common bird?
Answer
Hedge Sparrow
163 If someone said they were from Hellas – which country ?
Answer
Greece
164 Who was the son of Zeus and Maia – Gods ?
Answer
Messenger Hermes
165 Roy Scherer jr became famous as ?
Answer
who Rock Hudson
166 Who wrote Brave New World (full name) ?
Answer
Aldus Huxley
167 What links Calabria, Liguria, Puglia and Veneto ?
Answer
Regions of Italy
168 Which city in Rajasthan has riding breeches named ?
Answer
Jodhpur
169 Portugal has had six Kings with what?
Answer
first name John
170 What martial arts name means gentle way?
Answer
Judo
171 Jean Claude Killy famous in which?
Answer
sport Skiing
172 Kimberlite contains what precious item?
Answer
Diamonds
173 Who directed Dr Strangelove – 2001 – The Shining (full name) ?
Answer
Stanley Kubrick
174 Rene Lalique – Art Nouveau designer worked what material?
Answer
Glass
175 Who created the children’s land of Narnia and Lion Witch Wardrobe?
Answer
Clive Staples Lewis
176 What animal lives in a drey?
Answer
Squirrel
177 The title of whose book translates as my struggle ?
Answer
Adolf Hitler
178 Anna Mary Robinson – famous American painter – what name ?
Answer
Grandma Moses
179 In which country would you find the Negev desert?
Answer
Israel
180 Which character has been played by the most actors?
Answer
Sherlock Holmes
181 In Greek mythology a Hamadryads spirit guarded what ?
Answer
Trees
182 Jocasta was the wife of Laius and the mother of who?
Answer
Oedipus
183 Who wrote The Rights of Man – and The Age of Reason?
Answer
Thomas Paine
184 What is the capital of Sicily?
Answer
Palermo
185 What was invented by Dr Edward Land in 1947?
Answer
Polaroid
186 Syd Barett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason ?
Answer
– Group Pink Floyd
187 Carlo Collodi created which famous children’s character ?
Answer
Pinocchio
188 What is mainly extracted from pitchblende?
Answer
Uranium
189 Which connects Delft, Sevres, Wedgwood,?
Answer
Chelsea Porcelain
190 Which country introduced the worlds first diesel loco in 1912 ?
Answer
Germany
200 in 1656 Christian Huygens invented what type of timekeeper ?
Answer
Pendulum clock
201 Duvali, Dushira and Holi are religious days in which religion ?
Answer
Hindu
202 In what industry did John Davidson Rockefeller get rich ?
Answer
Oil
203 The Mau Mau were terrorists in which country late 50s early 60s?
Answer
Kenya
204 Why is Louise Brown – born 1978 famous ?
Answer
First test tube baby