General knowledge quiz

RELIGION

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POT LUCK

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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TELEVISION

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FILM

Which US actor stars as Captain America, having previously been one of the Fantastic Four?

Sam Loomis — the name of a character in Hitchcock’s Psycho — was used for Donald Pleasence‘s character in which later film series?

Heihei the rooster and Pua the pig appear in which children’s animated film? Which railway station was the film location for where the Hogwarts Express departs from in the Harry Potter films? Which epic Oscar-winning film, released in 1960, was directed by Stanley Kubrick and starred Kirk Douglas along with Laurence Olivier as his foe?

Which song by Survivor did Sylvester Stallone commission as the theme for Rocky III?

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What name is usually given to the

Biblical woman who danced before

Herod Antipas, asking for John the Baptist‘s head as her reward?

Members of which Quaker offshoot sect derive their name from their ecstatic rocking and shuddering during prayer? The tomb of Muhammad is in which Saudi Arabian city?

Which English cathedral was also the title of a 1966 New Vaudeville Band hit single? Who was the only British prime minister born into a Jewish family?

The nine-day festival of Navaratri is celebrated four times a year in which religion?

What did ventriloquist Keith Harris call his monkey puppet, Orville the Duck‘s nemesis?

Which playing card is known as ‘the Curse of Scotland‘? ‘Moonstarers‘ and ‘more on stars‘ are both anagrams of which related eleven-letter word?

A region known as East Pakistan became independent in 1971 as which new country?

Richmal Crompton is best known as the creator of which series of children‘s books?

What colour is the mineral malachite, used as an ornamental stone?

Which arachnid derives its name from the female‘s habit of eating her male partner immediately after mating? Which incandescent substance was once heated to produce lighting on the stages of theatres?

Which planet orbits fastest around the sun, taking only around 88 days? In communications, ‘courriel‘ is the official French equivalent of which English word? Which is the second most abundant gas in the observable universe, despite being relatively rare on Earth? A butterfly’s sense of taste is co-ordinated by chemoreceptors on which part of its body?

Which soap originally focused on the Sugden family?

Kevin, Kate and Randall are triplet protagonists in which American drama? What is the name of the dog adopted by DCI John Barnaby after Sykes died in Midsomer Murders?

The archenemy of Danger Mouse,

Baron Silas Greenback, takes the form of which creature?

Which sitcom character claimed he‘d had the same broom for 20 years — with 17 new heads and 14 new handles? In Spooks, which character, played by Peter Firth, led the team as the head of ’Section D’ of MI5?