Collins Puzzles - Collins Quiz Night - 10,000 original questions in 500 quizzes

2The oil from which tree native to Australia has medicinal uses including clearing congestion?

3What name is given to a botanical tree garden such as Westonbirt?

4The berries of which tree are used to flavour gin?

5Which tree shares its name with a US ski resort?

6Which tree traditionally provides the leaves used for making honorary wreaths?

7What is the term given to a tree’s liquid?

8Which country has a cedar tree on its national flag?

9The wood of which tree is traditionally used to make cricket bats?

10What term is given to a tree that is leafy all year round?

11Which Californian tree has a seven-letter name that contains all five vowels?

12The branch of which tree signifies an offer of reconciliation?

13Which tree is also known as the rowan?

14What term is given to a fruit tree trained on stakes?

15For what use is the Norway Spruce tree most well-known?

16Acorns are the fruit of which tree?

17Which tree “bears the crown” in the lyrics of a well-known seasonal song?

18What name is given to the cylindrical flower cluster that forms on trees such as birch or hazel in spring?

19What is the maple tree genus?

20What term is given to the concentric marks on a tree trunk?

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QUIZ 41– Pot Luck

1Which period of fasting precedes Easter?

2Which mushroom-like organisms are studied by mycologists?

3In which year did Madonna have her first UK top ten hit with Holiday ?

4What is the canine symbol of Great Britain?

5Which bloodsucking worm was once used in medicine?

6In the name of the charity ROSPA, what does the “A” stand for?

7Which musical centres around the character of Sally Bowles?

8What title is given to an army chaplain?

9Which number is written as XC in Roman numerals?

10Where were the summer Olympic Games of 1980 held?

11What jelly is made from seaweed and used in glue-making?

12What was the middle name of the poet Shelley (b.1792)?

13Which French wine-growing region is also a deep red colour?

14Jacob Marley is a character in which Dickens novel?

15Which US city suffered a massive earthquake in 1906?

16What type of creature is a painted lady?

17What term is given to the highest part of a tropical rainforest?

18Who was elected Mayor of London in 2016?

19Which band had a hit in the mid-1980s with Take On Me ?

20What is the name of the Royal Military Academy near Camberley in Surrey?

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QUIZ 42– Literature

1How many lines are there in a sonnet?

2For what type of book is Samuel Pepys best known?

3Which author created the Secret Seven?

4Who wrote the 1899 novel Heart of Darkness ?

5Whom did Gepetto the woodcarver create?

6In which Dickens novel does Miss Havisham, who was jilted on her wedding day, appear?

7Who is Scotland’s national poet?

8Which creature raced against the hare in Aesop’s fable?

9Who wrote Salem’s Lot , Cujo and It ?

10Which bear admitted to “having very little brain”?

11What is Sherlock Holmes’ address?

12What is the name of the girl who flies to Neverland with Peter Pan?

13Who wrote the 1961 novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ?

14Which Tennyson poem begins “Come into the garden”?

15Elizabeth Bennet is the main character in which 1813 novel?

16What is the family’s surname in the 1868 novel Little Women ?

17Which classic novel features the character of Catherine Earnshaw?

18Which novel by Richard Adams was made into an animated film in 1978?

19CS Lewis penned stories set in which imaginary land beyond the wardrobe?

20Which author created Inspector Wexford?

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QUIZ 43– Pot Luck

1 Smooth Operator was a 1980s hit for which singer?

2What name is given to a male goose?

3What was the first name of French philosopher Sartre (b.1905)?

4Which kind of building can be found at Westminster, Woburn and Whitby?

5Which offence in the US might be “grand” or “petty”?

6Who starred in the 2003 film Hulk ?

7In which county is Preston?

8In which month is Twelfth Night?

9Which salad is made from romaine lettuce, croutons and Parmesan?

10What name is given to a Freemasons’ meeting place?

11Who played Carrie in Sex and the City ?

12Which word can be an island, a coffee bean or a computer language?

13 The Catcher in the Rye (1951) was written by which novelist ?

14Which city, near the Pyramids, is the capital of Egypt?

15Which fatty substance is found in wool?

16What nickname is given to a private in the Royal Engineers?

17Which ex- Neighbours actor had a hit in 1991 with Any Dream Will Do ?

18What is the German equivalent of the title “Miss”?

19Which Spanish Surrealist painted The Persistence of Memory (1931) ?

20How many pounds are there in a stone?

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QUIZ 44– Crime

1The 1995 film Rogue Trader was based on whose autobiography?

2Which Scottish legal officer performs the functions of public prosecutor and coroner?

3For what crime was Al Capone jailed in 1931…?

4…and what was the nickname of the team of agents, led by Eliot Ness, who investigated his crimes?

5What name is given in the UK to an establishment where criminal cases are tried by a judge and jury?

6What were Bonnie and Clyde’s surnames?

7In which city was John F Kennedy assassinated?

8Which former UK politician unsuccessfully attempted to fake his own death in 1974?

9In which year did the Great Train Robbery take place in the UK?

10Which criminal organisation is known in the USA as Cosa Nostra?

11What term is given to the likeliest perpetrator of a crime?

12Who has responsibility for maintaining the law in a US county or independent city?