OPLDatabaseFile 601+Where were the Olympic Games held in 1948 ?London02)In what sport could you once be stymied ?^Golf - when your opponent's ball on the green lies in a direct line between yours and the hole'03In sailing what is a sheet ?A roper04What is onomatopoeia ?WThe formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named, e.g. A snake hissese06What is a palindrome ?JA word or phrase that reads the same backwards as forwards e.g. Mum, Level$07How many in a baker's dozen ?13>093In cockney rhyming slang what is "apples and pears"Stairs010%In what game might you find a dummy ?Bridge711-In what game is a castle the same as a rook ?Chess512Who wrote a poem about Slough ?Sir John BetjemanY13JThe Latin "Ars magna" means major art. What is an anagram of "Ars magna" ? "Anagrams"h14IWhat is the significance of the title of Samuel Butler's book "Erewhon" ?It is "Nowhere" rearranged15INever twice the same colour. To what does this refer (rather cynically) ?3NTSC - the United States colour television standardU16What does PAL stand for ?7Phase Alternate Line - The European television standard(17 What is 2 to the power of zero ?One)18!What is 10 to the power of zero ?OneG196Americans call it a double eagle. What do we call it ? An albatrossW20Who "stoppeth one of three" ?5The Ancient Mariner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poemQ21?To what name did the Russian city of Leningrad revert in 1991 ? St PetersburgR23=To what question can a person never truthfully answer "Yes" ?"Are you dead ?"K24 What are Macgillycuddy's Reeks ?&Mountains in S.W. Eire, near KillarneyE25;What was the name of Basil Fawlty's wife in the TV series ?Sybil?261... and where did Manuel, the waiter, come from ? BarcelonaH27<... and in what town was the hotel "Fawlty Towers" located ?Torquay828(How many bytes are there in a Megabyte ? One millionR29What does ASCII stand for ?2American Standard Code for Information InterchangeS30$Why did the chicken cross the road ?*Because it wanted to get to the other side<31-What is the most southerly point in England ? The LizardR33(Name a place in England beginning with Z%Zennor in Cornwall, Zeals in Somerset34Where is Yell ? Shetlands*37In what country is Zanzibar ?Tanzania038In what ocean is Cocos Island ? Indian Ocean;39)In what ocean are the Galapagos Islands ? Pacific OceanQ40@In what year was Puerto Rico made a state of the United States ? It never wasN41Is the year 2000 a Leap Year ?+Yes, because it is exactly divisible by 400542!What would you do with a panama ?Wear it - a hat43If you travel through the Panama Canal from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, through how many minutes west in longitude do you move ? (to the nearest 30 minutes) None, you move east in longitude44What is -2 squared ?4Q45What is the square root of -9 ?-Square roots of negative numbers do not exist46How long does it take your voice on the telephone to reach Australia from London by communications satellite (to the nearest half second) ?About half a second,48"... then we have Golf. What next ?Hotel)49What is a mnemonic ?An aid to memory50GBilly Brown Revives On Your Gin But Prefers Good Whisky. What is this ?lA mnemonic for the resistor colour code: Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Grey, White51/Run Off You Girls, Boys In View. What is this ?[A mnemonic for the colours of the rainbow. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet552'Where is Noel Coward's "Noon Day Gun" ? Hong Kongy53kWhat language, formerly known as Mandarin, is now the official language of the People's Republic of China ? Putonghua54DWhere in poetry is "far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife" ?It isn't - a common misquotation. "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife" is in Thomas Gray's "Elegy written in a country church-yard"U552 "The .... homeward plods his weary way". Who ?ploughman (from the same poem)Y56%Who "has that lean and hungry look" ?/Cassius - Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare\57Who wanted his pound of flesh ?8Shylock - The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare<58%What is better than two in the bush ?A bird in the hand359Who said "let them eat cake" ?Marie AntionetteQ60... on hearing what news ?2That there was no bread and the poor were starving?05!What would you do with a canap ?Eat it - an hors d'oeuvre+08#In cockney slang what is a "pony" ?25\478Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo ... what comes next ?Foxtrot - the phonetic alphabet0P6:`.Ar 3pROM::EPSON.WDR%P @No:Q:A: t35eWhat is the nearest town to the point where the Greenwich meridian leaves the east coast of England ? Withernsea836)... and where it leaves the south coast ? PeacehavenR221How many cricket pitches are there in a furlong ?Ten - a furlong is 220 yards>32*What is the most westerly point in Wales ?St David's Head