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questions for trivia quizzes and pub quizzes
What Latin phrase means operational method, or the way a job is done?
In the human body which gland secretes the hormone insulin?
The state of Nebraska was sold to the USA in 1803 by which country?
Tala is the basic monetary unit of which country?
Carrageen is an edible variety of what?
Who composed the opera Turandot?
Which English cathedral has 'The Clock with no Face'?
Who was the first woman to walk in space?
Spiro Agnew was US vice-president to which president?
In which European town is the Menin Gate Memorial to missing British
and Commonwealth soldiers?
The Lowell Observatory is in which US state?
Who was the president of Chile from 1974-90?
What is the world's smallest republic?
Who played the prison warden in the 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz?
Sounding like a placename, what is the traditional pronged spear used
for catching Salmon called?
Who succeeded Michael Foot as leader of the Labour Party in the UK?
Jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton played which instrument?
Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire, England, is famous for which annual
event?
Which country had the Roman name Mauritania (also spelled
Mauretania)?
The Laughing Cavalier is a work by which painter?
What type of rock is carbonado?
What is limnophobia a fear of?
Ribus Nigum is the latin name for which fruit?
What type of animal is a Garron?
In which US city was the 2006 Super Bowl held?
Which country (at July 2007) boasts the world's longest suspension
bridge span between towers?
What does OAPEC (not OPEC) stand for?
In which country was fashion designer Rifat Ozbek born?
What is the main ingredient of guacamole?
Which country has the international car registration DZ?
In which city is the United Nations headquarters?
In 1987 a French court found which Gestapo chief guilty of war crimes
and sentenced him to life imprisonment?
Which famous US architect designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in
1916?
Ichthyology is a branch of zoology concerning which creatures?
W Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence is based on the life
of which painter?
How many international caps did English footballer Stanley Matthews
(later Sir Stanley Matthews) win?
Who became leader of the People's National Party in Jamaica in 1969?
What element is mixed with Iron to make cast iron?
Which type business traditionally has three balls hanging outside?
What is the fictional Scottish island setting of the 1973 film The
Wicker Man?
Which famous Mormon church leader and educational pioneer died in
Salt Lake City in 1877?
Which US actress's real name is Mary Cathleen Collins?
In which body of water are the Balearic Islands?
Who was hanged in Edinburgh in 1829 for multiple murder in supplying
doctors with corpses for dissection?
Mariolatry is the idolatrous worship of whom?
Who said in a radio broadcast in 1939, "I cannot forecast to you the
action of Russia" ?
What is Zurich's main river?
What is the collective term for a group of woodpeckers?
What is the name of the Cambridge University College that was
originally for women only?
Who was King of Egypt from 1936-52?
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