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13What is a tabard?

14What type of fabric shares its name with a light cake of US origin?

15Which item of clothing goes with “tails” to indicate a formal outfit?

16Which nickname for a US detective derives from footwear?

17Called braces in the UK, what is the American name for straps used to hold up trousers?

18Which type of hat shares its name with a cover used in the garden?

19What is a crinoline?

20Where would a gaiter be worn?

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QUIZ 53– Pot Luck

1How many stripes does a police sergeant have on his arm?

2What is the unit of currency in Estonia?

3In a game of bezique, what is the minimum number of players required?

4What is the capital of the Czech Republic?

5How many official languages are there in Switzerland?

6What type of horse racing does not include fences and obstacles?

7What is the square root of 25?

8Which Black Sea peninsula was the location of a war in the 19th century?

9Which Lancashire seaside resort has a famous Pleasure Beach?

10Rory Bremner and Chris Barrie were among the people providing voices on which satirical show of the 1980s and 1990s?

11Edinburgh has what postcode area code?

12Where did Joan of Arc win her famous victory against the English?

13What is the term for an irrational fear of enclosed spaces?

14What is organza?

15Paddington, Marylebone and Waterloo are linked by which London Underground line?

16What metallic element is mixed with tin to form the alloy bronze?

17In which decade did Channel 4 start?

18What do the letters PS stand for at the end of a letter?

19Which fictional sleuth featured in the mystery Death on the Nile ?

20Who hosted the 2006 FIFA World Cup?

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QUIZ 54– Literature

1Who wrote the 1968 novel Airport ?

2Which famous children’s author and artist lived and worked in the Lake District for much of her life?

3Who was the dictator of Oceania in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four ?

4In The Jungle Book , what is the name of the bear?

5Who wrote The Hobbit ?

6“Water, water everywhere” are words from which Coleridge poem?

7Who wrote the fable The Fox and the Grapes ?

8Who wrote the 1938 novel Rebecca ?

9Which book includes the words “All for one and one for all”?

10Who created the character of Huckleberry Finn?

11From which country does Hercule Poirot hail?

12Which famous novel begins “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”?

13Which classic book features Mole, Rat, Badger and Toad?

14Who wrote the novel Brighton Rock (1938)?

15Why was Tweedledum cross with Tweedledee?

16Passepartout is Phileas Fogg’s manservant in which 1873 novel?

17Lee Child has written about which fictional character since 1997?

18What is the surname of Arthur, the main character in The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ?

19 The Casual Vacancy was the first foray into adult fiction for which children’s author?

20In what country are Jo Nesbo’s books set?

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QUIZ 55– Pot Luck

1Who played James Bond in The World Is Not Enough ?

2He is the chemical symbol for which element?

3The letter D is on which row of a computer keyboard?

4In cricket how many balls are there in an over?

5What is the next highest prime number above 31?

6Who hosted the UK game show, Deal or No Deal ?

7Which character “stole a pig and away did run”?

8Which tragic Shakespearean king had three daughters?

9What is a cheroot?

10On a dartboard, what number is to the immediate left of 20?

11What source of light is used in producing a hologram?

12What type of animal is a springbok?

13In which county is Kidderminster?

14What is the surname of the central gangster family in Peaky Blinders ?

15Who created the sculpture The Angel of the North ?

16What is the hardest gemstone?

17In Scrabble®, what colour are the triple-word score squares?

18Which mountain range runs through Peru and Chile?

19In Dad’s Army , what did Pike’s mother always try to make him wear?

20The 1985 event Live Aid was organised to provide aid to which country?

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QUIZ 56– Over and Out

1Who starred in the 1987 film Over the Top ?

2 Out of the Blue was a 1977 album by which group?

3Who starred as RP McMurphy in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest ?

4Barra and Benbecula are part of which island chain?

5Which English football club did Marc Overmars play for from 1997 to 2000?

6Who released the 2004 single Left Outside Alone ?

7What colour is used to describe the situation of being overdrawn in terms of funds?

8In which sport might a ball end up out of bounds?

9What do the initials PTO indicate at the bottom of a page?

10Which outlaw did Clint Eastwood play in a 1976 film?

11In which game might a player end up with an overtrick?

12What do the initials OB stand for in relation to television?

13Who composed the William Tell Overture (1829)?

14According to the saying, what is something out of if it is out of sight?

15In the rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle , what jumped over the Moon?

16Which sport featured in the 1979 play Outside Edge ?

17Which character in The Wizard of Oz sings Over the Rainbow ?

18In which part-improvised TV series did Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner play the parents of three children?

19What do the initials OHP stand for?

20Which band released the 1991 album Out of Time ?

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QUIZ 57– Pot Luck

1Which car company manufactures the Cayenne?