1. What was the name of the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed to America in 1620?
The Mayflower
2. Housing around 25,000 workers, which is the world's largest office building?
The Pentagon
3. What name is given to the list of matters to be dealt with at a meeting?
Agenda
4. "Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words" were the opening line of what hit song?
Killing Me Softly
5. Palermo is the capital of which Mediterranean island?
Sicily
6. On a restaurant menu describing the dish 'surf and turf' which word is the meat element?
Turf
7. In which country would you find the world renowned Winter Sports resort of St Moritz?
Switzerland
8. What is the larval stage of a butterfly or moth called?
Caterpillar
9. How many players in an Ice Hockey Team?
Six
10. The seeds from the garden flower Helianthus Annus, often provide oil for culinary use. How is it usually known?
Sunflower
11. Who played Popeye in the 1980 film?
Robin Williams
12. Which type of dog has varieties including Japanese, Sussex & King Charles?
Spaniel
13. In English, what is the only anagram of the word English?
Shingle
14. Who won Great Britain’s only gold medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics?
Steve Redgrave & Matthew Pincent
15. Who is the only 'James Bond' to have presented 'Sunday Night At The London Palladium'?
Roger Moore
16. What type of bird is a Bookbook?
Owl
17. What is the worlds flattest continent?
Australia
18. Which game originated in India and was originally called Caturanga?
Chess
19. Which word is the most searched for on the internet?
Sex
20. Which Year - Bill Gates, aged 19, and his friend found Microsoft, A British scientist produces the first clone of a rabbit, Gillette launches the first disposable razors made of plastic, The film Monty Python and the Holy Grail is released in the UK and The first 'drive-thru' McDonald's hamburger restaurant is opened?
1975
21. Quiztime Survey Question - Name something you jump on?
Trampoline / Bus / Bed / Train / Scales
22. Which 1989 film cast Tom Cruise as real-life paralysed Vietnam War veteran Rob Kovic?
Born On The Fourth Of July
23. In 2003, Penny Lancaster, became the fourth woman to give birth to a child , fathered by what rock singer?
Rod Stewart
24. Which farmyard creature has breeds including, 'Large Black', 'Berkshire' and 'Landrace'?
Pig
25. What is the official language of San Marino?
Italian
26. Which king of Wessex and defeater of the Danes, lived from 849AD to 901AD?
Alfred The Great
27. Lycanthropy involves men changing into what?
Wolves
28. For which English county did West Indian, Brian Lara, score a record 501 not out in 1994?
Warwickshire
29. Which Spanish dance in triple time is usually accompanied by a guitar and castanets?
Fandango
30. The male of which large member of the seal family has a large snout which can be inflated in times of anger or sexual provocation?
Elephant Seal
31. Which car manufacturer produced the Volante and Vanquish models?
Aston Martin
32. "The art of kicking and punching". Which Korean martial art has that literal meaning?
Taekwondo
33. If you suffered from Alektorophobia, of which sort of animals would you be afraid?
Chickens
34. Which American President married a lady named Mary Todd?
Abraham Lincoln
35. The Botany Bay colony eventually became which city?
Sydney
36. Al-Lubnan is the official, albeit abbreviated name of which Middle-Eastern country?
Lebanon
37. Which radio and TV star lost his fight against AIDS in April 1995?
Kenny Everett
38. Which Shakespearean play features the line, "The evil that men do, lives after them"?
Julius Caesar
39. Which barbarian animal fighting was banned in Britain in 1848?
Cock Fighting
40. The Parthenon, in Athens, was built as a temple to who?
Athena
Tiebreaker - How many miles is it from Manchester to Baghdad?
2,614
