Questions

1) D.S Steve Arnott is one of the principal characters of which long-running police drama?

 

2) According to the proverb ‘He is a fool who makes his’ what ‘his heir’?

 

3) If someone has features described as “ursine” what are they being likened to?

 

4) The Roman road, The Aurelian Way, ends in Genoa but where does it start?

 

5) The Calypso was famously the survey ship of which French oceanographer?

 

6) In cricket what is a Wicket Maiden?

 

I've given you a series of sporting events, but can you correctly guess in which year they happened?

 

Clues

1) Michael Schumacher won the Formula One Championship, and Colin McRae the World Rally Championship

Mike Atherton scored 93 as Lancashire defeated Kent in the Benson and Hedges Cup final at Lords

Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League

 

2) Man United defeated Chelsea in the UEFA Champions League on penalties.

 

Below are a series of statements and all you have to do is decide whether they are true or false, good luck!

 

Questions

1) A Dublin theatre manager made a wager that he could introduce a new word into language within 24 hours in 1782, the word he made up was Quiz.

 

2) ‘Achtung’ is the German word for stop.

 

3) The term ‘spud’ which we now often refer to a potato as was originally actually a tool used for digging up potatoes.

 

4) Ballistophobia is the fear of missiles.

 

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Questions

1) What is the collective noun for grass?

 

2) How many degrees do the angles of a quadrilateral add up to?

 

3) What colour is alabaster?

 

4) What paper size is the next biggest after A7?

 

5) Who crossed the Atlantic on his raft RA II in 1970?

 

6) Which beer ‘refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach’ according to the advert?

 

 

Questions

1) Which two actresses are the leads in the TV series Killing Eve?

 

2) If something is described as being ‘porcine’ what is it being likened to?

 

3) What is the name of the Roman road that runs between Lincoln and Exeter?

 

4) The mnemonic ‘Brave your black girl’s relatives’ is a way of remembering which sporting symbol?

 

5) Which American state has a border with Alaska?

 

6) What is the name for the authority which controls UK lighthouses?