b <NO_N Q_CúA_Cú 1Where were the Olympic Games held in 1948 ? London 2In 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 3In sailing what is a sheet ? A rope 4What is onomatopoeia ? The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named, e.g. A snake hisses 5What would you do with a canap‚ ? Eat it - an hors d'oeuvre 6What is a palindrome ? A word or phrase that reads the same backwards as forwards e.g. Mum, Level 7How many in a baker's dozen ? 13 8In cockney slang what is a "pony" ? œ25 9In cockney rhyming slang what is "apples and pears" Stairs 10In what game might you find a dummy ? Bridge 11In what game is a castle the same as a rook ? Chess 12Who wrote a poem about Slough ? Sir John Betjeman 13The Latin "Ars magna" means major art. What is an anagram of "Ars magna" ? "Anagrams" 14What is the significance of the title of Samuel Butler's book "Erewhon" ? It is "Nowhere" rearranged 15Never twice the same colour. To what does this refer (rather cynically) ? NTSC - the United States colour television standard 16What does PAL stand for ? Phase Alternate Line - The European television standard 17What is 2 to the power of zero ? One 18What is 10 to the power of zero ? One 19Americans call it a double eagle. What do we call it ? An albatross 20Who "stoppeth one of three" ? The Ancient Mariner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 21To what name did the Russian city of Leningrad revert in 1991 ? St Petersburg 22How many cricket pitches are there in a furlong ? Ten - a furlong is 220 yards 23To what question can a person never truthfully answer "Yes" ? "Are you dead ?" 24What are Macgillycuddy's Reeks ? Mountains in S.W. Eire, near Killarney 25What was the name of Basil Fawlty's wife in the TV series ? Sybil 26... and where did Manuel, the waiter, come from ? Barcelona 27... and in what town was the hotel "Fawlty Towers" located ? Torquay 28How many bytes are there in a Megabyte ? One million 29What does ASCII stand for ? American Standard Code for Information Interchange 30Why did the chicken cross the road ? Because it wanted to get to the other side 31What is the most southerly point in England ? The Lizard 32What is the most westerly point in England and Wales ? St David's in Wales 33Name a place in England beginning with Z Zennor in Cornwall, Zeals in Somerset 34Where is Yell ? Shetlands 35What is the nearest town to the point where the Greenwich meridian leaves the east coast of England ? Withernsea 36... and where it leaves the south coast ? Peacehaven 37In what country is Zanzibar ? Tanzania 38In what ocean is Cocos Island ? Indian Ocean 39In what ocean are the Galapagos Islands ? Pacific Ocean 40In what year was Puerto Rico made a state of the United States ? It never was 41Is the year 2000 a Leap Year ? Yes, because it is exactly divisible by 400 42What would you do with a panama ? Wear it - a hat 43If 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 longitude 44What is -2 squared ? 4 45What is the square root of -9 ? Square roots of negative numbers do not exist 46How 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 47Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo . what comes next ? Foxtrot - the phonetic alphabet 48... then we have Golf. What next ? Hotel 49What is a mnemonic ? An aid to memory 50Billy Brown Revives On Your Gin But Prefers Good Whisky. What is this ? A mnemonic for the resistor colour code: Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Grey, White 51Run Off You Girls, Boys In View. What is this ? A mnemonic for the colours of the rainbow. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet 52Where is Noel Coward's "Noon Day Gun" ? Hong Kong 53What language, formerly known as Mandarin, is now the official language of the People's Republic of China ? Putonghua 54Where 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" 55 "The .... homeward plods his weary way". Who ? ploughman (from the same poem) 56Who "has that lean and hungry look" ? Cassius - Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare 57Who wanted his pound of flesh ? Shylock - The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare 58What is better than two in the bush ? A bird in the hand 59Who said "let them eat cake" ? Marie Antionette 60... on hearing what news ? That there was no bread and the poor were starving