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Here’s 10 to start you off. Answers included and checked.
1.What type of animal is a Cotswold lion? Answer is Sheep.
2.What is the radius of a circle if its diameter measures 25cm? Answer is 12.5cm
3.What was the name of the first dog in space? Answer is Laika
4.How many commonwealth countries are there in total? Answer is 53 countries
5.In Germany, the word ‘Gesundheit’ is used to wish someone good health especially when that someone has just what? Answer is Sneezed
6.In Greek mythology, who is the Goddess of the Dawn? Answer is Eos
7.What word, containing all five vowels, appears first in the English dictionary? Answer is Abstemious
8.True or false: Anteaters have teeth? Answer is False
9.How many square inches are there in a square meter? Answer is 1550
10.What plant is usually found in a classic Mojito cocktail? Answer is Mint
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1) Cyclist – Byker
(2) Multi coloured clothing – Cullercoats
(3) Oliver’s partner – Stanley
(4) Musical show – Consett
(5) Cut finely – Chopwell
(6) Not an old fortress – Newcastle
(7) Horse on open land – Shiremoor
(8) What the dentist says – Wideopen
(9) Work of Lumberjack – Felling
(10) Heavy metal opening to field – Leadgate
(11) Not an old small one – Newbiggin
(12) Heavy laundry – Washington
(13) Polished and in line – Shiny Row
(14) Person on foot – Walker
(15) How Americans like eggs – Sunniside
(16) Stroll along – Amble
(17) A thief – Crook
(18) Stop and blow a tune – Haltwhislte
(19) Coloured form of transport – Redcar
(20) To view properties – Seahouses
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!
Hope these might be useful. Tried to pick stuff from my own circle of knowledge, however small, and avoid “standard” quizzy questions.
1. The character Judge Dredd originated in which publication? Answer: the British comic 2000ad.
2. The kookaburra is a member of which family of birds, one of which is found in the UK? Answer kingfisher.
3. What is the only word in English to start with the letters “t m”. Answer tmesis. Can put in a bonus question here and ask them what it means. (the splitting of a word by inserting,say, an adjective like “con-bloody-fusing”.
4. The chough (pronounced chuff) is the rarest what in the UK? Answer crow.
5. “Scrambled egg” was the original title of which song? Answer “Yesterday”.
6. “K5054” was the serial number of which aeroplane? Answer prototype Spitfire. (may be a bit obscure, but if there are a number of mature chaps answering questions, they’ll get it if they made the Airfix model!
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