01 If a cockney said "'Arry's joined the brussels", what did he mean ? That Harry had joined the Scouts (Brussels Sprouts) 02 If a cockney said "I 'ave to pay me Burton every week", what did he mean ? He has to pay his rent (Burton-on-Trent) 03 What are Large Whites and Saddlebacks ? Pigs 04 What is a Suffolk Punch ? A horse 05 Which singer made famous 'Puppet on a String' ? Sandie Shaw 06 In the pop song, what colour was the 'itsy bitsy teeny weeny polkadot bikini' ? Yellow 07 Which people speak Yiddish ? The Jews/Slavonic people 08 In which country is Afrikaans an official language ? South Africa/Namibia 09 Traditionally, who would wear a cap and bells ? A Jester/fool 10 Nowadays, who might wear a wimple ? A Nun 11 Of which country is Jutland a part ? Denmark 12 In which country is the Giant's Causeway ? Northern Ireland 13 Which king was responsible for building The Tower of London ? William I (The Conqueror) 14 Name a battle in which an English king was killed Hastings (Harold), Bosworth (Richard III) 15 In which American state is Long Beach ? California 16 In which American state is the city of Memphis ? Tennessee 17 With which sport do you associate Rosemary Casals ? Tennis 18 With which sport do you associate Henry Cotton ? Golf 19 Where in your body is your frontal bone ? Forehead 20 Whereabouts in the body is the thyroid gland ? In the neck 21 Who wrote 'The Compleat Angler ? Izaak Walton 22 Who wrote 'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples' ? Sir Winston Churchill 23 In the Bible, Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son. Name his son. Isaac 24 In the Book of Genesis, a group of men built a tower. What was its name ? Babel/Tower of Babylon 25 Which city was once called 'Sarum' ? Salisbury 26 What was the city of Volgograd once called ? Stalingrad (also once called Tsaritsyn) 27 Who wrote the book 'The Spy that came in from the Cold' ? John Le Carre 28 Who wrote the book 'Jaws' ? Robert Benchley 29 Where is Port of Spain ? Trinidad 30 What is the difference between a lapwing and a peewit ? Nothing - the same bird by different names 31 If a cockney said "Wot smashin' bacons" to what might he be referring ? Legs (Bacon and Eggs) 32 If a cockney said "Meet me in the balloon", what would he mean ? Meet me in the Saloon Bar (Balloon Car) 33 What did the most expensive TV commercial to date advertise ? Apple Macintoch computers. It was shown once - in 1984, cost £360,000 to produce, £600,000 to show and is considered the most cost-effective commercial ever made 34 Who, in 1996, was the richest businessman in the world ? Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, with a personal fortune of £18.5 billion in that year 35 What is osmosis ? The passage of a solvent through a semi-permeable partition into a more concentrated solution 36 What is alliteration ? The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely-connected words e.g. Around the rocks the ragged rascals ran 37 What does RAM stand for ? Random Access Memory 38 If you toss a coin in the air 1000 times and it lands Heads up every time, what are the odds on it landing Tails up at the 1001st toss ? Evens 39 Who wrote "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" ? Handel 40 What is a Paradox ? A seemingly contradictory statement 41 What is the Reciprocal of a number ? One divided by that number 42 What is the reciprocal of 1 ? One 43 Philip Nelkon won the British National Championship four times, in 1978, 1981, 1990 and 1992. At what ? Scrabble 44 Which river, also the longest in the UK, has the greatest number of tributaries ? The Severn 45 ... and how many tributaries does it have ? 17 46 Three generations of which family won Oscars ? Huston 47 Cob and Pen are the male and female of which bird ? Swan 48 In natural history what do we call a male pea-fowl ? Peacock 49 What sort of bird is a Cinnamon Norwich ? Canary 50 In Canada, of which province is Winnipeg the capital ? Manitoba 51 In Canada, of which province is Toronto the capital ? Ontario 52 What were 'Oxford Bags' ? Very wide trousers 53 In the tropics, why are white clothes preferred to black ones ? White reflects heat rays, black absorbs them 54 In what kind of theatre did Vesta Tilley become famous ? Music hall 55 Which country lies immediately south of Estonia ? Latvia 56 In which American city is there a famous road called Pennsylvania Avenue ? Washington 57 In which city is a famous street called Wall Street ? New York 58 In which sport is the 'US Masters' a major competition ? Golf 59 In which sport would you gybe ? Sailing 60 Where would you find a centreboard ? In a sailing dinghy, a board extending underwater below the hull for stability, but retractable (unlike a keel)