Round 1 Name: 1 Who was the author of the Famous Five and

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Round 1
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Name:________________________________________________
Who was the author of the Famous Five and Noddy books?
What is the largest desert in the world?
What is the first letter in the Greek alphabet called
With what did Snow White’s mother tempt her?
Which woman is holding up a torch in her right hand and represents freedom?
What kind of farming is arable farming?
Which leader of the Soviet Union - 1918-1924, is known as the founder of Communism?
In what part of the body are the bones, the tibia and fibula?
To which sport does the butterfly stroke belong?
How many lines does a Limerick always have?
Round 2
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What is the collective name for a group of cows?
What is the collective name for a group of thieves?
What is the collective name for a group of bees
What is the collective name for a group of actors?
What is the collective name for a group of singers?
What is the collective name for a group of lions?
What is the collective name for a group of angels?
What is the collective name for a group of wolves?
What is the collective name for a group of flowers?
What is the collective name for a group of monkeys?
(eg. A flock of birds)
Round 3
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Name_________________________________________
What is the occupation of a person who designs buildings?
What is the occupation of a person who makes articles made out of iron? (gates etc)
What is the occupation of a person who mends shoes and boots?
What is the occupation of a person who makes barrels and casks?
What is the occupation of a person who sells fish?
What is the occupation of a person who grows or sells flowers for a living?
What is the occupation of a person who builds using stone?
What is the occupation of a person who works in wood, especially in building?
What is the occupation of a person who carves or models figures in stone, marble etc?
What is the occupation of a person who arranges and manages funerals
Round 4
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What is the feminine noun for actor?
(e.g. King = Queen)
What is the feminine noun for Duke?
What is the feminine noun for a bull?
What is the feminine noun for a fox?
What is the feminine noun for a lord?
What is the feminine noun for cockerel?
What is the feminine noun for a wizard?
What is the feminine noun for a boar/pig?
What is the feminine noun for a gander?
What is the feminine noun for a monk?
Round 5
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Name: ______________________________________________
What is the diminutive (young or baby) of a deer?
What is the diminutive of a bear?
What is the diminutive of a butterfly?
What is the diminutive of a cow?
What is the diminutive of an eagle?
What is the diminutive of a Kangaroo
What is the diminutive of a whale
What is the diminutive of a lion
What is the diminutive of a swan
What is the diminutive of a frog
Round 6
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The Santa Maria was the flagship of which explorer in 1492?
What city will host the 2016 Olympics?
Specially trained pigs are used to search for this fungus beginning with ‘T’?
What shaped puzzle did Erno Rubik invent in 1974?
Uluru is known as _____________ Rock
On a compass what direction is directly opposite from North-East?
What verb beginning with ‘A’ is used to describe when a King or Queen gives up their thrown?
Name the furniture store set up in Sweden in 1943, which specialises in ready to assemble
furniture?
Havana is the capital of which Island in the Caribbean Sea?
In which city would you find The Louvre, Arc de Triomphe & Champs-Elysees?
Round 7
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Name:____________________________
Which American civil rights campaigner refused to give up her seat? Rosa ___________
Which 6 letter word beginning with ‘F’ is used to describe painting onto a wall or plaster?
Salvador Dali known for his surrealist paintings is from which country?
People who use banks are known as customers, people who use credit unions are known as what
word beginning with ‘M’
Which Irish singer, who was in the rock band Boomtown Rats, became more widely known for his
work with Band Aid and as a campaigner to ease world debt?
Name the German Scientist born in 1879 who is credited with the Theory of Relativity?
What sport is played at Stade de Roland-Garros in France?
Meringue is made from sugar and whipped __________________?
What fruit are dried to produce Raisins and Sultanas?
Which US city is named after its first President?
Round 8
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The vegetable ‘Yam’ is known as a sweet ________.
Bottlenose, Dusky, Spotted & Commerson are species of which maritime mammal?
In which European city would you find the Trevi Fountain and the Colosseum?
The Tagus river flows through Spain and which other country?
Who was the Norse and Germanic God of thunder?
What is the name given to a 6 sided polygon?
The Madeira River at 3, 380 km is the world’s longest tributary of which river?
Zagreb is the capital of which European country?
What is half the distance of a diameter?
How many sides does a dodecagon have?
Round 9
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Name:_____________
How many seconds in a quarter of an hour?
What is the largest country in South America? (area)
What is the most populous country in Africa?
What colour do you get when you mix red and blue?
The Book of Kells is written in which language?
In the common saying, what word beginning with ‘P’, what comes before a fall?
Every year the Credit Union will hold an ‘A.G.M’. What does A.G.M stand for?
Which John invented the television?
Red Admiral & Painted Ladies are species of what?
Antarctica covers which of the earth’s poles?
Round 10
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What name is given to a triangle where all the sides and angles are the same?
Who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
What kind of craft rides on a cushion of air?
Which founder of Apple died in 2011?
Who is the founder of Microsoft?
Apples & Oranges have pips, what do peaches and plums have in the centre?
How many points is ‘Q’ worth in scrabble?
Peter Parker, aka Spiderman, works as what?
What is the national emblem of Scotland? (Ireland = shamrock)
Beginning and ending with the letter ‘A’ what is the loss of memory known as?
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