1. Which drink is Cockney rhyming slang for a gold watch?

2. What is the smallest planet in our solar system?

3. Which river flows through the city of Amsterdam?

4. In restaurants, what name is given to the lift that transfers food and drink between floors?

5. How is U. S. rapper Shawn Corey Carter better known?

6. Who was the Roman god of thunder?

7. What would a cruciverbalist make or design?

8. Who played Carrie Bradshaw in the TV series ‘Sex and the City’?

9. In which year were penalty shoot outs introduced in the F. I. F. A. world cup finals?

10. Which British boxer’s biography was named ‘Zero to Hero’?

11. What is the longest single span road bridge in Britain?

12. The inventor of Bakelite, Leo Baekeland, was born in which mainland European country?

13. Stout and champagne are mixed to form which cocktail?

14. Edradour Distillery is close to which Perthshire town?

15. Which act had most U. K. No.1 singles between 2000 and 2010?

16. In pre-decimal currency, how much was a ‘bawbee’ worth?

17. In which country was Greenpeace founded?

18. What were Steven Spielberg’s first two Best Director Oscars?

19. At the 1996 summer Olympic Games, Great Britain’s only gold medal was won by which two men?

20. In the Shakespeare play, what was the name of Othello’s wife?

21. In 2011, which bank had the advertising slogan ‘for the journey’?

22. What is the boiling point of water in degrees Fahrenheit?

23. How many letters are there in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet?

24. Lansing is the capital of which U. S. state?

25. What is the main ingredient of borscht soup?

26. Name two of 10 c.c.’ s three U. K. No.1 singles in the 1970s.

27. How was statesman and military leader Arthur Wellesley better known?

28. Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie have played which sleuth on TV?

29. On which day and which month is the U. S. President’s inauguration?

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31. Who wrote the novel ‘Ring of Bright Water’?

32. What type of bridge is the Forth Rail Bridge?

33. Mossad are the secret service of which country?

34. In which German city is Beck’s brewed?

35. In which English county is the town of Hexham?

36. What is the nickname of iron pyrites?

37. Which singer wrote the Monkees hit ‘I’m a Believer’?

38. Which actor died during the filming of the 1999 film ‘Gladiator’?

39. Which company produced the Daytona and Bonneville motorbikes?

40. In which sport is the Stableford system used?

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