1) ‘The Last Shadow Puppets’ is a band consisting of the lead singers of ‘The Arctic Monkeys’ and which other band?
2) In what year was the ‘Natural History Museum’ in London opened?
3) What is the most abundant metallic element in the Earth’s crust?
4) What was the pseudonym of the famous British writer, Eric Arthur Blair?
5) Caladan, Kobol, Beaumonde and Mondas are all fictional what?
6) Who painted ‘Whistlejacket’?
7) Which is the only city in the world to lie in two continents?
8) Which comedian’s catchphrase was ‘Just like that!’?
9) What does a notaphilist collect?
10) What is the maximum score possible in ten pin bowling?
Round 2 – The Natural World
1) Spider, Squirrel and Colobus are all species of what?
2) Unlike most other fish, sharks have no, what?
3) What is the tallest and thickest type of grass?
4) ‘Buteo, Buteo’ is the scientific name for what?
5) What is a baby eel called?
6) Where can the oldest pot plant in the world be found?
7) What is the fastest animal on Earth?
8) What do insects do through their spiracles?
9) Oology is the study of what?
10) There were originally eight subspecies of tiger, how many are now extinct?
Round 3
Round 4 – English Premier League (Football/Soccer)
1) What year was the English Premier League established?
2) Other than Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea, who has also won the league?
3) Who is the only player to have scored in every Premier League season to date?
4) With 260 goals, who holds the record for the most Premier League goals?
5) What was Manchester united originally known as?
6) How many clubs have played in the Premier League all together?
7) Who scored the first ever Premier League goal?
8) How many goalkeepers have scored in the Premier League?
9) With 566 caps, who holds the record for the most Premier League appearances?
10) Since its start, how many managers have won the Premier League?
Round 5 – Middle Earth
1) Finish the rhyme: ‘One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to...’
2) In what ‘age’ is ‘The Lord of the Rings’ set?
3) In ‘The Silmarillion’, Luthien fell in love with whom?
4) Where is ‘The Golden Hall’?
5) Name TWO of the three Elven rings.
6) Who is known also as ‘Wingfoot’, ‘Telcontar’ and ‘Elessar’?
7) In ‘The Hobbit’, what colour was Bard the Bowman’s arrow that killed Smaug?
8) Who did Tolkien supposedly base the character Treebeard on?
9) In the film version of ‘Fellowship of the Ring’, Arwen helps Frodo reach Rivendell but which BOOK character does she replace?
10) In the films, who says; ‘Your love of the halflings’ leaf has clearly slowed your mind’; and to whom?
Answers
Round 1:
1) The Rascals
2) 1881
3) Aluminium
4) George Orwell
5) Planets
6) George Stubbs
7) Istanbul
8) Tommy Cooper
9) Bank notes
10) 300 (12 strikes)
Round 2
1) Monkey
2) Bones
3) Bamboo
4) Common Buzzard
5) Elver
6) Kew Gardens
7) Peregrine Falcon
8) Breathe
9) Eggs
10) Three (Bali, Javan and Caspian)
Round 3
1) K-9 / Doctor Who
2) Marvin / Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
3) Robby / Forbidden Planet
4) Johnny 5 / Short Circuit (also will accept No.5)
5) Muffit II / Battlestar Galactica
6) Bender / Futurama
7) C-3PO & R2-D2 / Star Wars
8) Ash / Alien
9) T-800 / Terminator
10) The Fix-Its / Batteries Not Included (also will accept ‘The Little Guys’)
Round 4
1) 1992
2) Blackburn Rovers
3) Ryan Giggs
4) Alan Shearer
5) Newton Heath L&YR FC
6) 43
7) Brian Deane
8) 3 (Peter Schmeichel; Brad Friedal and Paul Robinson)
9) David James
10) 4 (Alex Ferguson; Kenny Dalglish; Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho)
Round 5
1) ...bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
2) Third
3) Beren
4) Edoras (will accept Rohan)
5) Narya, Nenya and Vilya
6) Aragorn
7) Black
8) C.S. Lewis
9) Glorfindel
10) Saruman to Gandalf
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