b <NO_N Q_CúA_Cú 1If a cockney said "'Arry's joined the brussels", what did he mean ? That Harry had joined the Scouts (Brussels Sprouts) 2If a cockney said "I 'ave to pay me Burton every week", what did he mean ? He has to pay his rent (Burton-on-Trent) 3What are Large Whites and Saddlebacks ? Pigs 4What is a Suffolk Punch ? A horse 5Which singer made famous 'Puppet on a String' ? Sandie Shaw 6In the pop song, what colour was the 'itsy bitsy teeny weeny polkadot bikini' ? Yellow 7Which people speak Yiddish ? The Jews/Slavonic people 8In which country is Afrikaans an official language ? South Africa/Namibia 9Traditionally, who would wear a cap and bells ? A Jester/fool 10Nowadays, who might wear a wimple ? A Nun 11Of which country is Jutland a part ? Denmark 12In which country is the Giant's Causeway ? Northern Ireland 13Which king was responsible for building The Tower of London ? William I (The Conqueror) 14Name a battle in which an English king was killed Hastings (Harold), Bosworth (Richard III) 15In which American state is Long Beach ? California 16In which American state is the city of Memphis ? Tennessee 17With which sport do you associate Rosemary Casals ? Tennis 18With which sport do you associate Henry Cotton ? Golf 19Where in your body is your frontal bone ? Forehead 20Whereabouts in the body is the thyroid gland ? In the neck 21Who wrote 'The Compleat Angler ? Izaak Walton 22Who wrote 'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples' ? Sir Winston Churchill 23In the Bible, Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son. Name his son. Isaac 24In the Book of Genesis, a group of men built a tower. What was its name ? Babel/Tower of Babylon 25Which city was once called 'Sarum' ? Salisbury 26What was the city of Volgograd once called ? Stalingrad (also once called Tsaritsyn) 27Who wrote the book 'The Spy that came in from the Cold' ? John Le Carr‚ 28Who wrote the book 'Jaws' ? Robert Benchley 29Where is Port of Spain ? Trinidad 30What is the difference between a lapwing and a peewit ? Nothing - the same bird by different names 31If a cockney said "Wot smashin' bacons" to what might he be referring ? Legs (Bacon and Eggs) 32If a cockney said "Meet me in the balloon", what would he mean ? Meet me in the Saloon Bar (Balloon Car) 33What did the most expensive TV commercial to date advertise ? Apple Macintoch computers. It was shown once - in 1984, cost œ360,000 to produce, œ600,000 to show and is considered the most cost-effective commercial ever made 34Who, in 1996, was the richest businessman in the world ? Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, with a personal fortune of œ18.5 billion in that year 35What is osmosis ? The passage of a solvent through a semi-permeable partition into a more concentrated solution 36What 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 37What does RAM stand for ? Random Access Memory 38If 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 39Who wrote "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" ? Handel 40What is a Paradox ? A seemingly contradictory statement 41What is the Reciprocal of a number ? One divided by that number 42What is the reciprocal of 1 ? One 43Philip Nelkon won the British National Championship four times, in 1978, 1981, 1990 and 1992. At what ? Scrabble 44Which river, also the longest in the UK, has the greatest number of tributaries ? The Severn 45... and how many tributaries does it have ? 17 46Three generations of which family won Oscars ? Huston 47Cob and Pen are the male and female of which bird ? Swan 48In natural history what do we call a male pea-fowl ? Peacock 49What sort of bird is a Cinnamon Norwich ? Canary 50In Canada, of which province is Winnipeg the capital ? Manitoba 51In Canada, of which province is Toronto the capital ? Ontario 52What were 'Oxford Bags' ? Very wide trousers 53In the tropics, why are white clothes preferred to black ones ? White reflects heat rays, black absorbs them 54In what kind of theatre did Vesta Tilley become famous ? Music hall 55Which country lies immediately south of Estonia ? Latvia 56In which American city is there a famous road called Pennslyvania Avenue ? Washington 57In which city is a famous street called Wall Street ? New York 58In which sport is the 'US Masters' a major competition ? Golf 59In which sport would you gybe ? Sailing 60Where would you find a centreboard ? In a sailing dinghy, extending underwater below the hull for stability, but retractable (unlike a keel)