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100 DIFFICULT Qs&As100 DIFFICULT Q s (&As) FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER 50 Q&A added 07-05-08 We all know that the difficult question is the one we don’t know the answer to, but my intention here is to supply to anyone who wants them as many questions that few people will know the answers to as possible. “Why?” you may ask. That was the first question, and it comes without an answer, save to say I had time to spare! The answers follow on from the questions on this page.
1. Moody and Sankey compiled what special type of book?
2. On which day of the week did England win the 2005 Ashes Series?
3. Which Napoleonic battle gave its name to a chicken dish?
4. Which famous actress has been President of the Dyslexia Institute?
5. Variola is the medical name for which disease?
6. What was the occupation of the Jack Russell who gave his name to a breed of dog?
7. Which movie earned Robin Williams his first Oscar nomination?
8. How many Desperate Housewives were there in the first series?
9. Who was the youngest Wimbledon Women’s Tennis Champion of the twentieth century?
10. In which decade of the twentieth century were the Badminton Horse Trials first held?
11. Who played the title role in Kinsey?
12. Which country is between Nicaragua and Panama?
13. Which character did Harry Enfield play when he was in Men Behaving Badly?
14. Under which name did Orville Burrell top the charts?
15. How many islands make up Fiji?
16. How was the Australian singer Helen Porter Mitchell better known?
17. Who played the queen when Sid James played King Henry in Carry On Henry?
18. What is the middle name of Joan Collins?
19. The Bardini and the Bargello museums are found in which city?
20. What is another name for nacre?
21. Who played Tony Blair in A Very Social Secretary?
22. Serigraphy is also known as what type of printing?
23. Which 1960s pop star’s autobiography was called The Hurdy Gurdy Man?
24. Which country’s currency is the Lev?
25. In which Belgian city were the 1920 summer Olympic Games held?
26. In the calendar year what is the first quarter day in England?
27. How many edges does a cube have?
28. Which was the first commercial jet aircraft in the world?
29. Which drug took its name from the Greek god of dreams?
30. In Ruth Rendell’s Wexford novels what is Reg’s wife called?
31. At the start of 2005 how many countries made up the European Union?
32. In which decade of the twentieth century did the Channel Tunnel open for public use?
33. What would you find in a clocher?
34. What is the capital of Paraguay?
35. Which popular tv series sprang out of another tv series called Police Surgeon?
36. Which magazine was first published by Dewitt Wallace in the 1920s?
37. What is the Russian for ‘speaking aloud’?
38. Which part of the body is affected by thlipsis?
39. Which creatures are bred by a sericulturist?
40. Which novel by Aldous Huxley is set in the seventh century AF ?
41. Which country contains continental Europe’s only active volcanoes?
42. In which city was the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final played?
43. Which Steinbeck novel features George and Lennie?
44. If you are scorbutic, which disease are you suffering from?
45. Which colour is common to the flags of Venezuela, Belgium and Sweden?
46. Which was London’s first railway teminal?
47. Which king was the Rye House Plot of 1683 aiming to assassinate?
48. Who composed the music for the opera Ivanhoe in 1890?
49. What is the more common name for French White?
50. Who wrote How the Camel Got His Hump?
51. In which sport was Vera Caslavska a World and Olympic champion?
52. Who wrote the words and music for the musical Fings Aint What They Used To Be?
53. Which holiday resort was advertised as “so bracing”?
54. Who played Emma Harte and aged from 15 to 80 in A Woman of Substance?
55. Which part of the body is beaten in bastinado?
56. Which king of England wrote A Counterblast To Tobacco?
57. Which part of the body do phrenologists study?
58. An excess of bile pigment in the bloodstream causes what?
59. What is the mathematical term for a six-sided solid whose faces are all rectangles?
60. From the flowers of which fruit is the oil neroli distilled?
61. FIDE is the governing body of which game?
62. What is a jargonelle?
63. What everyday items are decorated with the King’s Pattern?
64. Which Dorset fishing town became a center for fossil hunters in 1811?
65. In geometry, what is a line joining any two points on a curve called?
66. Which android was played on tv by Matt Frewer?
67. What is the common name for chorea?
68. Jai Alai is another name for which ball game?
69. What does an aurologist study?
70. H.W.Fowler produced a book of guidelines to what in 1926?
71. In the USA, which battle is remembered in April on Patriot’s Day?
72. In which county is Charterhouse public school?
73. Which sport, played on a court 32 feet by 21 feet in Britain, is governed by the IRF?
74. What name is given to the flap of cartilage which prevents food from entering the windpipe?
75. What sort of fruit is a Laxton Superb?
76. Under which name did Lord Tweedsmuir write several novels?
77. What is the line called that connects areas of equal rainfall on a map?
78. In which American state are the towns of Anaconda and Moscow?
79. What was supposed to flow in the veins of the Greek gods?
80. What was the name of the aging rock band in Tutti Frutti?
81. Which animal gives us nutria fur?
82. In which novel did Michael Henchard sell his wife for 5 guineas?
83. What is the collective name for a group of foxes?
84. For which English king did Handel compose his Water Music?
85. What is the square root of 729?
86. What colour was Alexandre Dumas’ tulip?
87. From which country did the Bashi Bazouks come?
88. Which fruit did Columbus discover in Guadeloupe in 1493?
89. The character Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart appeared in many episodes of which TV series?
90. In sport, what can be 106cm, 91cm or 84 cm in height?
91. Hides, hundreds, half hundreds, rapes and wapentakes were all what?
92. Who was trapped by the Tar Baby and then thrown into the briar patch?
93. What is the name of the discs in the rim of a tambourine?
94. Which animals are affected by the disease vives?
95. Who is the patron saint of singers?
96. George Galvin was a famous music hall entertainer under which name?
97. How long is a Gunter’s chain?
98. Who defined the Four Freedoms in 1941?
99. In the RAF, how many squadrons make up a wing?
100. What do you do when you nictitate?
Here are the answers.
1. Hymn books.
2. Monday.
3. Marengo
4. Susan Hampshire
5. Smallpox
6. A clergyman.
7. Good Morning Vietnam
8. Five
9. Martina Hingis
10. 1940s
11. Liam Neeson
12. Costa Rica
13. Dermot
14. Shaggy
15. Two
16. Dame Nellie Melba
17. Joan Sims
18. Henrietta
19. Florence
20. Mother of Pearl
21. Robert Lindsay
22. Silk screen
23. Donovan
24. Bulgaria
25. Antwerp
26. Lady Day
27. Twelve
28. The Comet
29. Morphine
30. Dora
31. 25
32. 1990s
33. Bells (it’s a belfry)
34. Asuncion
35. The Avengers
36. Reader’s Digest
37. Glasnost
38. The blood vessels
39. Silk worms
40.Brave New World
41. Italy
42. Johannesburg
43. Of Mice and Men
44. Scurvy
45. Yellow
46. Euston
47. Charles the Second
48. Sir Arthur Sullivan
49. Talcum powder
50. Rudyard Kippling
51. Gymnastics
52. Lionel Bart
53. Skegness
54. Jenny Seagrove
55.Soles of the feet
56. James the First
57. The skull
58. Jaundice
59. A cuboid
60. Orange
61. Chess
62. Pear
63. Cutlery
64. Lyme Regis
65. Chord
66. Max Headroom
67. St Vitas Dance
68. Pelota
69. Diseases of the ear
70. Correct English
71. Lexington
72. Surrey
73. Racketball
74. Epiglottis
75. Apple
76. John Buchan
77. Isohyet
78. Idaho
79. Ichor
80. The Majestics
81. Coypu
82. The Mayor of Casterbridge
83. Skulk
84. King George the first
85. 27
86. Black
87. Turkey
88. Pineapple
89. Dr Who
90. Hurdles
91. Areas of land.
92. Brer Rabbit
93. Jingles
94. Horses
95. St Gregory
96. Dan Leno
97. 66 feet
98. Franklin D. Roosevelt.( freedom of speech, freedom to worship as one chooses, freedom from want, freedom from fear.)
99. Three
100. Wink
ANOTHER 50 Q&A
1. Who swam the Hellespont every night to see his lover, Hero?
2. Iodine is necessary for the functioning of which gland?
3. Where do demersal creatures live?
4. In what year was the Battle of Agincourt?
5. In which country is the source of the Amazon?
6. What nationality was Anne of Cleves?
7. What was the name of Freddy Laker’s cheap transatlantic air service of 1977?
8. Who was the princess in Sleeping Beauty?
9. By which name is the flower Woodbine better known?
10. What is the popular name for the constellation Crux?
11. Which British ruler was nicknamed Old Noll?
12. Which sport is governed by the WWSU?
13. Of which ancient empire was Nineveh the capital?
14. Who became King of England in 1100?
15. Which aircraft, piloted by Gary Powers, was down by Russia on May 1st 1960?
16. Who was Jeanette MacDonald’s singing partner in many musical films?
17. Who wrote the biography of Dr Johnson?
18. Which monarch wrote the Casket Letters?
19. Who played the title role in The Wizard of Oz?
20. In which American state is the Garden of the Gods?
21. In which war was the Battle of Antietam?
22. Which Labour weekly publication did Michael Foot edit for nine years?
23. Rulers of which ancient civilisation wore a double crown to signify the unification of the Upper and Lower Kingdoms?
24. Which was the first British pop group to tour China?
25. Of what petrology the study?
26. Which character appeared the most in Shakespear’s plays?
27. In Norse mythology who was the evil and mischievous god?
28. Who was detective Sexton Blake’s assistant?
29. What is the plural of axis?
30. What was found buried at Sutton Hoo in 1939?
31. Which magical character was played by Gudrun Ure on TV in 1985?
32. One which river does Belfast stand?
33. In which US state are the Green Mountains?
34. Which common substance is made by boiling down hides, horns and hoofs?
35. If your face is rugose, what is it?
36. What type of music is produced by French speaking settlers of Louisianna?
37. In Arthurian legend, what was Ron?
38. In which country was the governor or viceroy call The Khedive from 1867 to 1914?
39. Which ancient Greek word means “I have found it!”?
40. How did the scientist Pierre Curie die?
41. What colour light do ships display at night on the starboard side?
42. Who chose Ottawa to be the capital of Canada?
43. What travels the ‘mean free path’?
44. Who wrote the operettas Rose Marie and The Vagabond Prince?
45. Who was Mr Universe from 1968 to 1970?
46. Which country did Josef Barthel, Olympic Gold medallist in the 1952 1500 meters, represent?
47. Un which country did the Mau Mau terrorists operate?
48. In which country is the opera Turandot?
49. On TV, what was the name of the company founded by Reggie Perrin?
50. In tic-tac, what does a hand on the head indicate?
Answers
1. Leander
2. Thyroid
3. On the seabed
4. 1415
5. Peru
6. German
7. Skytrain
8. Aurora
9. Honeysuckle
10. Southern Cross
11. Oliver Cromwell
12. Water skiing
13. Assyria
14. Henry the first
15. U-2
16. Nelson Eddy
17. James Boswell
18. Mary, Queen of Scots
19. Frank Morgan
20. Colorado
21. American Civil War
22. Tribune
23. Egypt
24. Wham
25. Rocks
26. Falstaff
27. Loki
28. Tinker
29. Axes
30. A Saxon ship
31. Supergran
32. Lagan
33. Vermont
34. Glue
35. Wriknled
36. Cajun
37. Spear
38. Eygpt
39. Eureka
40. Run over by a cart
41. Green
42. Queen Victoria
43. A molecule
44. Rudolf Friml
45. Arnold Schwarzenegger
46. Luxembourg
47. Kenya
48. China
49. Grot
50. The number one
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