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1. What percentage of French wines is labelled ‘Appellation Controlee’?
2. How long has the cockroach, in its modern form, been on earth; a) 25,000,000 years, b) 250,000,000 years or c) 2,500 years?
3. What is the highest pitched woodwind instrument?
4. How old was Mary Queen of Scots when she became queen?
5.What is ‘cassata’ a type of?
6.In the RAF how many squadrons make up a wing?
7.What is another name for a DublinBay prawn?
8.What is another name for a Norway lobster?
9.What is the full moon following a harvest moon called?
10. Which metal is extracted from sphalerite?
11.Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir had a lifelong morganatic marriage. What is a ‘morganatic marriage’?
12.Which German motor manufacturer produced the first motorcycle in 1885, by fixing an engine to a frame?
13.If Earl Derby hadn’t won the toss of a coin, what would the Epsom Derby be called today?
14. What is the practice of growing plants without soil called?
15.What was the former name of Hawaii?
16.Of which country is the River Glomma the longest river?
17.What is another name for the lapwing?
18.What is a sepulchre?
19.In which year was Prince Charles invested as the Prince of Wales?
20.In which present day country is the biblical land of Sheba?
21.What is the name of the dwarf planet Pluto’s largest moon?
22.Which company manufactured the Lancaster bomber?
23.Who wrote the Father Brown stories?
24. Who was shot in the kitchens of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1968?
25.What is a single menhir called?
26.What sport did Jahangir Khan play?
27.What is the English name for the stretch of water that the French refer to as ‘the Sleeve’?
28.What do funambulists do?
29.On whose tomb in Westminster Abbey is the inscription “Malleus Scotorum “?
30.What is the name for a garden of small hedges, herbs etc., grown in complicated, geometric patterns?
31.In parliament, the commons vote ‘Ay’ and ‘No’. How do the Lords vote?
32. Which country’s troops landed on Sword, Juno and Gold beaches on D-Day?
33. In which mountain system does the Colorado River rise?
34. To which bird does the collective noun ‘convocation’ refer?
35.In which country are the Mountains of the Moon?
36.On which river does Carlisle stand?
37. A frittata is an Italian version of what?
38. Which country’s capital city is known to its natives as Krung Thep?
39. How was the singer Edith Giovanna Gassion better known?
40.Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is the fear of what?
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