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18Gnocchi is a food from which country?

19What is the main ingredient in a chow mein?

20Basmati and pilaf are varieties of what?

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QUIZ 35– Pot Luck

1What term is given to a voluntary renunciation of the throne of a country?

2In the 1939 film Gone with the Wind , who played Rhett Butler?

3What is the English meaning of the phrase Anno Domini ?

4What is the mathematical method of calculating by symbols?

5In greyhound racing, what colour jacket is worn by the dog in trap three?

6If three is on the top side of a die, what number is on the hidden side?

7In Cockney rhyming slang, what are “plates of meat”?

8Who or what is Sweet William?

9Who had hits with Passengers and I’m Still Standing ?

10From which country do Volkswagen cars originate?

11In which county is Blackpool?

12Who is the TV cartoon son of Marge and Homer?

13Which island is located south of Turkey and northwest of Israel?

14In the rhyme, who went with Christopher Robin to Buckingham Palace?

15What well-known dinosaur species’ name includes the word “king” in Latin?

16Which ABBA hit inspired the name for a 1990s Steve Coogan show?

17The Pittsburgh Steelers play which sport?

18Which brothers wrote the music and lyrics for Crazy for You ?

19Which liquid measure is equivalent to a quarter of a pint?

20On which Cornish moor is Jamaica Inn located?

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QUIZ 36– Board Games

1In which board game does the player act as a doctor removing plastic ailments from a patient?

2In which two-player game do players take turns placing coloured disks in a vertical grid?

3What is the full name of the game often referred to as D&D?

4Which board game takes its name from an apology?

5The American game Parcheesi is similar to which game played in the UK?

6Which board game includes the characters of Colonel Mustard and Miss Scarlet?

7In which popular board game can players choose to play as a Scottish terrier and racing car, amongst others?

8In which general knowledge game released in 1981 do players collect “wedges” of different colours?

9What two-player game shares its name with a Shakespeare play?

10In which classic game must the player travel from the bottom left of the board to the top right by rolling dice and avoiding hazards?

11In which game must players guess the word drawn by their team-mates?

12Which game involves a spinner and a plastic mat with red, yellow, green and blue circles?

13What is the name of the game in which players are represented by rodent-shaped game pieces?

14In which game must the player roll five dice in certain combinations to win?

15What is the name of the board game in which up to four players must construct words to win points?

16Which two chess pieces are involved in the move “castling”?

17In which strategy board game must a player conquer the earth through conflict or diplomacy?

18Which board game issued in 1992 gives players 30 seconds to describe words to their team?

19Which board game is played by two players who must guess the positions of the opposing player’s pieces to win?

20In which board game must players move 15 pieces across and off the board to win?

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QUIZ 37– Pot Luck

1Which monarch is credited with writing Greensleeves ?

2Hg is the symbol for which chemical element?

3What was the first name of Mr Packer, the Australian entrepreneur who died in 2005?

4Which word means “related to the moon”?

5What is the meaning of the name of the Spanish lottery El Gordo ?

6In which country is the city of São Paulo?

7Which is the alternative term for the playing card the Jack?

8What is the traditional colour for Aran wool?

9In which century was Hans Christian Andersen born?

10London and Southampton are connected by which motorway?

11Which fruit’s varieties include Mirabelle and Yellowgage?

12Which girl group had a 1983 hit with C ruel Summer ?

13What was the nationality of the mathematician, philosopher and scientist Aristotle?

14What is New York’s Metropolitan Opera more popularly called?

15Captain Hastings is the sidekick of which fictional detective?

16Who released the hit 1987 single You Win Again ?

17In which US state is Lubbock?

18What is caviar?

19Which green salad vegetable belongs to the same family as the squash?

20What is ten cubed?

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QUIZ 38– Animal World

1What is the term for a male wild pig?

2Is a bass a freshwater or sea fish?

3A chameleon can change the colour of which part of its body?

4Which creature leaves “hills” on lawns?

5What is a female horse called, up to the age of four years?

6For which marsupial is “mob” a collective noun?

7How many legs has a cranefly?

8What name is given to an adult male seal?

9What is the body of a penguin covered with?

10A baby elephant is known by what name?

11Which is the smallest bird in the world?

12Army, weaver and leafcutter are types of which insect?

13What is another name for the prairie wolf?

14What is Britain’s largest land mammal?

15A glow-worm is not a worm: what type of creature is it?

16What kind of animal is a pipistrelle?

17A seahorse is what type of creature?

18What term describes a black and white horse?

19Grizzly bears are what colour?

20What name is given to the larva of a fly?

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QUIZ 39– Pot Luck

1Which actress starred in the film Sliding Doors ?

2Golders Green is a suburb of which UK city?

3Where is the Sea of Showers?

4How much did the wedding ring of the Owl and the Pussycat cost?

5Zak and Marlon are members of which Emmerdale family?