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Quiz 1

A Which horse won the 2004 Grand National?

B What name is given to the study of projectiles?

C Which operatic heroine worked in a cigarette factory?

D In which book of the Bible did Moses die?

E What is the collective noun for a group of larks?

F What was the first UK number one hit single for The Beatles?

G What does the G stand for in MGM?

H What is the more common name for the octothorpe on a computer keyboard?

I What is the more common name for dyspepsia?

J Cap of Rushes was the first story to be told on which TV show?

K Who found the pocket, lost by Lucy Lockett?

L The organisation Trinity House is responsible for the maintenance of what?

M Which city is home to the Jacques Cartier Bridge?

N Which group were hanging tough at the top of the 1990 charts?

O What was the name of the hospital in which the TV drama Emergency Ward 10 was set?

P In which city was Legionnaire’s Disease first identified?

Q Which muscles of the body are located in the thigh?

R What is the first name of Jeeves with regard to Jeeves and Wooster?

S What is the only English anagram of the word percussion?

T Which seven letter word derived from the Chinese for great wind?

U Where did Showaddywaddy want to go for a walk?

V Which city is to host the 2010 Winter Olympics?

W Which bird’s display flight is known as, roding?

X In which film did Hugh Jackman play the role of Wolverine?

Y What is the name of the Japanese counterpart of the Mafia?

Z What is the capital of Croatia?

Answers

Amberleigh House
Ballistics
Carmen
Deuteronomy
Exaltation
From Me to You
Goldwyn
Hash
Indigestion
Jackanory
Kitty Fisher
Lighthouses
Montreal
New Kids on the Block
Oxbridge
Philadelphia
Quadriceps
Reginald
Supersonic
Typhoon
Under the Moon of Love
Vancouver
Woodcock
X Men
Yakuza
Zagreb