Round 1
Q1. Which country hasn’t fought in a war since 1815? #twubquiz
Q2 Which is the only city in the world to lie in two continents? #twubquiz
Q3 How long does it take light to travel from Earth to the moon? (approx) #twubquiz
Q4 What is the ‘Star of India’? #twubquiz
Q5 What’s the annual list of ALL ships called? #twubquiz
Q6 Which condition first reported by coal miners is also known as ‘Caisson disease’? #twubquiz
Q7 For what is the Bay of Fundy in Canada famous for? #twubquiz
Q8 In a choir, what is the term given to the lowest female singing voice? #twubquiz
Q9 In which city is the Taj Mahal located? #twubquiz
Q10 What was John Wayne’s real name? #twubquiz
Round 2
Q1 Who wrote ‘A Prayer For Owen Meany’? #twubquiz
Q2 Which classic novel is set in Maycomb, Alabama, and is narrated by the 6 year old ‘Scout’? #twubquiz
Q3 The title of which book by Ray Bradbury refers to the temperature that paper auto-ignites? #twubquiz
Q4 Which book follows Holden Caulfield’s 3 days after being expelled from Pency Prep? #twubquiz
Q5 What is the name of the ranch owners son in Steinbecks ‘Of Mice and Men’? #twubquiz
Q6 Which Anthony Burgess book had its final redeeming chapter omitted from US editions prior to 1986? #twubquiz
Q7 What is the name of the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel ‘The Great Gatsby’? #twubquiz
Q8 Which book, published in 1957, is considered the defining work of the ‘Beat Generation’? #twubquiz
Q9 In which year was Joseph Conrads ‘Heart of Darkness’ first published? #twubquiz
Q10 Which Kurt Vonnegut novel features the substance ‘Ice 9’, an alternative structure of water? #twubquiz
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Round 4
Q1. Which famous sportsman embarrassingly crashed his car recently? #twubquiz
Q2 Who recently gatecrashed a White House state dinner? #twubquiz
Q3 Which small Wiltshire town recently fell silent for the 100th time commemorating UK servicemen killed in action? #twubquiz
Q4 In which US city did a gunman shoot dead 4 police officers recently? #twubquiz
Q5 Whose recently released album is expected to be the biggest and fastest selling this year? #twubquiz
Q6 Which huge construction finally started work on Sunday, only 14 months late? #twubquiz
Q7 Which state-owned conglomerate sent shockwaves through the business world recently by declaring $59 billion losses? #twubquiz
Q8 Name either of the two NFL teams that recently played at Wembley Stadium? #twubquiz
Q9 Where is Barack Obama due to stop off on his way to collect the Nobel peace prize? #twubquiz
Q10 Who was Hamid Karzai’s opponent in the recent Afgan presidential election? #twubquiz
Round 5
Q1 Dionysis, the Greek God of wine, was known by the Romans as what? #twubquiz
Q2 How many varieties of wine grape exist worldwide? #twubquiz
Q3 Who said “Come quickly, I am tasting stars!”? #twubquiz
Q4 Which wine producer has as their motto “Welcome to our place”? #twubquiz
Q5 Which type of wine is the world’s most expensively priced at C$ 30,000 for a half bottle? #twubquiz
Q6 The aphid ‘Phylloxera’ was responsible for what in the mid 19th century? #twubquiz
Q7 In 1906, in the US, 30 million gallons of wine were lost due to what natural disaster? #twubquiz
Q8 Which Asian wine, in legend, has its origins as a Dragon lure? #twubquiz
Q9 Which popular wine is grown in Veneto, Italy? #twubquiz
Q10 In the US, what does ‘AVA’ stand for?
Round 1
Q1 Switzerland
Q2 Istanbul
Q3 1.26 secs
Q4 It’s the worlds largest sapphire
Q5 Lloyds register
Q6 The bends
Q7 The highest tides on Earth
Q8 Contralto
Q9 Agra
Q10 Marion Morrison
Round 2
Q1 John Irving
Q2 To Kill A Mockingbird
Q3 Farenheit 451
Q4 Catcher in the Rye
Q5 Curley
Q6 A Clockwork Orange
Q7 Nick Carraway
Q8 On The Road
Q9 1902
Q10 Cat’s Cradle
Round 3
Q1 Jupiter
Q2 Halleys Comet
Q3 The Crab Nebula
Q4 The Horsehead Nebula
Q5 Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Q6 Scorpio
Q7 Neptune
Q8 The Cat’s Eye Nebula
Q9 Pleiades (the Seven Sisters)
Q10 Meteors
Round 4
Q1. Tiger Woods
Q2. Tareq and Michaele Salahi
Q3. Wootton Bassett
Q4 Seattle
Q5 Susan Boyle
Q6 The Large Hadron Collider
Q7 Dubai World
Q8 Tampa Bay Buccaneers New England Patriots
Q9 Copenhagen
Q10 Dr. Abdullah Abdullah
Round 5
Q1 Bacchus
Q2 10,000
Q3 Dom Perignon
Q4 Jacobs Creek
Q5 Icewine
Q6 The Great French Wine Blight
Q7 The San Francisco Earthquake
Q8 Sake
Q9 Pinot Grigio
Q10 American Viticultural Area
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