Now That's What I Call Trivia 1

1 Which department store employs the slogan, Never Knowingly Undersold?

2 What is Scooby Doo’s full name?

3 What word derives from the Persian phrase, “Shah Mat” meaning the King is dead?

4 What is the name of the caterpillar in the Dangermouse cartoons?

5 What does a caliologist study?

6 Which son of a former Millwall goalkeeper won a gold medal in the Winter Olympics in 1980?

7 Who gave the longest acceptance speech in the history of the Oscars?

8 Which novelist’s great great grandfather founded the Yorkshire Post newspaper?

9 The prefix quindeca indicates which number?

10 Whose reputed last words were, “my neck is very slender”?

11 What is the only book of the Bible that does not mention God by name?

12 What was the name of the female counterpart of the Hitler Youth?

13 Which cartoon character invented the planes in Stop the Pigeon?

14 What is the largest island in the world beginning with the letter L?

15 What seven letter word is the name given to a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet?

16 Which country contested the Pastry War with France in 1838?

17 What did Blaise Pascal invent as a result of his experiments into perpetual motion?

18 Which bone of the body takes its name from the Italian for flute?

19 Who was the first US President to appear on colour TV?

20 Which university did Albert Einstein bequeath his brain to in his last will and testament?

21 What is nelophobia the fear of?

22 What is the more common name of herpes zoster?

23 What is the first name of Captain Pugwash?

24 The Silver Grey Fellow was the first model to be produced by which manufacturing company?

25 Aspirin was originally obtained from the bark of which tree?

26 What do the initials LBV signify on a bottle of port?

27 Which duo sailed to the land where the bong tree grows?

28 Which crime has a potential 324 different combinations?

29 What became the 20th state of the USA in 1817 and the title of a number one hit 159 years later?

30 Which novel opens with the words, “When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor”?

ANSWERS
1 John Lewis
2 Scoobert Doo
3 Checkmate
4 Nero
5 Birds nests
6 Robin Cousins
7 Greer Garson
8 Jilly Cooper
9 Fifteen
10 Anne Boleyn
11 Esther
12 The League of German Maidens
13 Klunk
14 Luzon
15 Pangram
16 Mexico
17 Roulette wheel
18 Tibia
19 Dwight Eisenhower
20 Princeton University
21 Glass
22 Shingles
23 Horatio
24 Harley Davidson
25 Willow
26 Late Bottled Vintage
27 The Owl and the Pussycat
28 The murder solution in Cluedo
29 Mississippi
30 The Secret Garden