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All the following answers have the initials GC or CG
 

1 The GC- What collective name is given to the four treaties adopted in 1864 in the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino?

2 The CG- With a height of 1600 feet, what connects Kentucky to Tennessee?

3 CG- What do the initials CG signify on an ordinance survey map?

4 The GC- What was put into effect in much of Western Europe on October 15th, 1752?

5 GC- In the RAF, what rank is immediately above Wing Commander?

6 The GC- What begins near Lee’s Ferry and ends near Lake Mead?

7 CG- What kind of tax is charged on profit realised by the sale of the asset?

8 CG- What was banned in Singapore in 1969?

9 CG- Which layer scored the winning goal in the 1971 FA Cup final?

10 The CG- Where in the Mendips Hills is a public path called Jacob’s Ladder to be found?

 

What’s in a Nickname?

Which Scottish football club is nicknamed…?
 

1 The Buddies

2 The Warriors

3 The Pars

4 The Diamonds

5 The Hi- Bees

6 The Blue Brazil

7 The Accies

8 The Wee Rovers

9 The Bully Wee

10 The Red Lichties
 

Red Devils

From which club did Manchester United sign…?
 

1 Denis Irwin

2 Alan Smith

3 Roy Keane

4 Lee Sharp

5 Steve Coppell

6 Cristiano Ronaldo

7 Andy Cole

8 Michael Carrick

9 Gordon Strachan

10 Arnold Muhren
 

Answers to CG/GC
 

1 Geneva Convention

2 Cumberland Gap

3 Cattle grid

4 Gregorian Calendar

5 Group Captain

6 Grand Canyon

7 Capital gains

8 Chewing gum

9 Charlie George

10 Cheddar Gorge
 

Answers to Scottish club nicknames

1 St Mirren

2 Stenhousemuir

3 Dunfermline

4 Airdrie

5 Hibernian

6 Cowdenbeath

7 Hamilton Academical

8 Albion Rovers

9 Clyde

10 Arbroath
 

Answers to Red Devils
 

1 Oldham

2 Leeds

3 Notts Forest

4 Torquay

5 Tranmere

6 Sporting Lisbon

7 Newcastle

8 Spurs

9 Aberdeen

10 Ipswich

 

OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS

Identify the song titles from the lyrics. Each song has a job/occupation in the title
 

1 I put on women’s clothing and hang around in bars

2 There must be some word today from my boyfriend so far away

3 Red dogs under illegal legs

4 Ripped up fields, bullied flocks

5 I wanna be huddled and cuddled as close to you as I can get

6 I got this fever that I can’t control

7 And everybody says he is the happiest man in town

8 The city desert makes you feel so cold

9 Tell her it’s a case of emergency

10 You don’t look at their faces and you don’t ask their names

 

TRANSPORT TUNES

Identify the songs from the lyrics. Each song has a mode of transport in the title

1 C’est la rumba, le vieux rock au mambo bidon

2 In a town where I was born lived a man who sailed to sea

3 LA proved too much for the man

4 It was made in fifty nine in a factory by the Tyne

5 You say black I say white

6 And U say baby, have U got enough gas

7 Riding on a big white butterfly

8 On the sunny beach of Peppermint Bay

9 Come aboard we’re expecting you

10 I threw me pitchfork at your dog to keep quiet

TOP OF THE POPS

In which year were each of the following pairs of songs UK chart toppers?
 

1 No Limit and Mr Blobby

2 Star Trekkin and China In Your Hand

3 Wuthering Heights and Rat Trap

4 I Know Him So Well and 19

5 Livin La Vida Loca and Genie in a Bottle

6 The Ketchup Song and Gotta Get Thru This

7 Summer Holiday and She Loves You

8 Whispering Grass and January

9 Mack the Knife and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

10 Geno and Xanadu

 

Answers to Job Songs
 

1 The Lumberjack Song

2 Please Mr Postman

3 Watching the Detectives

4 Me and the Farmer

5 Teachers Pet

6 Dr Beat

7 The Laughing Policeman

8 Baker Street

9 Night Nurse

10 Private Dancer

Answers to Transport Tunes
 

1 Joe le Taxi

2 Yellow Submarine

3 Midnight Train to Georgia

4 Driving In My Car

5 Bicycle Races

6 Little Red Corvette

7 Paper Plane

8 On the Good Ship Lollipop

9 The Love Boat

10 Combine Harvester
 

Answers to Chart Topping Years
 

1 1993

2 1987

3 1978

4 1985

5 1999

6 2002

7 1963

8 1975

9 1959

10 1980

 

THE SIMPSONS
 

1 What is the name of Homer Simpson’s mother?

2 What is the name of Homer Simpson’s father?

3 What is the name of Homer Simpson’s half brother?

4 What is the name of Marge Simpson’s mother?

5 What is the name of the Simpson’s pet greyhound?

6 What was the name of the three eyed fish rescued from nuclear plant waters?

7 What was the name of Homer’s pet lobster that he accidentally cooked in the bath then ate?

8 Who owns the Leftorium shop?

9 What is the name of Chief Wiggum’s wife?

10 What is the name of Dr Hibbert’s alcoholic wife?

 

COMPUTER ACRONYMS

What do the following computer acronyms stand for?
 

1 DOS

2 WWW

3 AI

4 ROM

5 VDU

6 http

7 CAD

8 LDM

9 DPI

10 URL

FOOTBALL CRAZY

Which football club…
 

1 Has a name that means speckled church

2 Was originally called St Jude’s

3 Was named after an Irish missionary

4 Is also the name of a type of coat, a brand of cigarette and a style of sofa

5 Is also the name of a building for storing weapons

6 Was originally called St Domingo

7 Was also the name of a building destroyed by fire in 1936

8 Shares its name with a novel by Sir Walter Scott

9 Shares its name with the orang- utan in Every Which Way But Loose

10 Is also the name for loaded dice in gambling
 

Answers to Simpsons
 

1 Mona

2 Abe or Abraham

3 Herbert Powell

4 Jacqueline

5 Santa’s Little Helper

6 Blinky

7 Pinchy

8 Ned Flanders

9 Sarah

10 Bernice

 

Answers to Computer Acronyms

1 Disk operating system

2 World Wide Web

3 Artificial Intelligence

4 Read only memory

5 Visual display unit

6 Hypertext transfer protocol

7 Computer aided design

8 Long distance modem

9 Dots per inch

10 Uniform resource locater

 

Answers to Football Clubs

1 Falkirk

2 QPR

3 St Mirren

4 Chesterfield

5 Arsenal

6 Everton

7 Crystal Palace

8 Heart of Midlothian

9 Clyde

10 Fulham

ANAGRAMATICAL

Unravel the anagrams to give the names of 10 Manchester United footballers of the past and present
 

1 A DIM THROW

2 ANY EYE ON ROW

3 DIG KEY THROW

4 A SWINDLE

5 A DESIGNED RHYTHM

6 LATER DRENCH REF

7 BESET CURVE

8 SAGGY GRIN

9 LAKE FRONT PANTS

10 ENROLS JEEPS

ANAGRAMATICAL

Unravel the anagrams to give the names of 10 tennis stars

1 CAPS HAT

2 A SARDINE GAS

3 PAMPERS A SET

4 MAY RUN YARD

5 A HEART RUSH

6 ROVER LAD

7 NETS REF BADGE

8 SURE BREAK

9 OGRE REFERRED

10 AIRED VAIN WIG

 

ANAGRAMATICAL

Unravel the anagrams to give the names of 10 boxers
 

1 TRY A CONK HIT

2 ON BEER JUG

3 RUN FOR BANK

4 LOW LINEN SEX

5 SKY ON TIME

6 CRY GUM BARGAIN

7 CERVICAL MOLL

8 SINK A CHERUB

9 MY DECK JAPES

10 MORALLY HERS
 

Answers to Manchester United anagrams
 

1 Tim Howard

2 Wayne Rooney

3 Dwight Yorke

4 Denis Law

5 Teddy Sheringham

6 Darren Fletcher

7 Steve Bruce

8 Ryan Giggs

9 Frank Stapleton

10 Jesper Olsen
 

Answers to Tennis anagrams
 

1 Pat Cash

2 Andre Agassi

3 Pete Sampras

4 Andy Murray

5 Arthur Ashe

6 Rod Laver

7 Stefan Edberg

8 Sue Barker

9 Roger Federer

10 Virginia Wade
 

Answers to Boxer anagrams
 

1 Ricky Hatton

2 Joe Bugner

3 Frank Bruno

4 Lennox Lewis

5 Mike Tyson

6 Barry McGuigan

7 Oliver McCall

8 Chris Eubank

9 Jack Dempsey

10 Larry Holmes