MASTERMINDS
1. What percentage of the world population is blood group type ‘O’?
2. How many parts are there to a painting known as a ‘triptych’?
3. In maths, what do you get if you take the number of days in a week from the number of months in a year?
4. How many players are in a standard cricket team?
5. How many £5 notes make £100?
6. How many 5p pieces would you get for £2?
7. In the children’s story, how many of the 101 dalmations are puppies?
8. What is 11 multiplied by 14?
9. How many inches are there in 100 feet?
10. In which year were the Olympic Games last held in Russia or, as it was then, the Soviet Union?
11. In which 2007 film did Simon Pegg try and impress Thandie Newton by donning tight shorts and trainers?
12. What is the earliest possible date for Easter Sunday and the latest possible date?
13. In Fever Pitch, which football club threatens to undermine Colin Firth’s relationship?
14. Which film trilogy finished up At World’s End?
15. Scottish engineer, Archibald Leitch, is particularly associated with what sort of structure?
16. What is the name of the 3800 metre high active volcano on Ross Island in the Antarctic?
17. Which royal house was re-established as the ruling family in Spain by the accession of King Juan Carlos?
18. Who wrote spy trilogy Game, Set And Match?
19. According to the Italian origin of the word, how many days should a period of quarantine last?
20. Which Beatle’s second book, A Spaniard in the Works, was published in June 1965?
21. What 1985 film was the last to star Roger Moore as James Bond?
22. In transport, what is the device operated by the foot that controls the speed of an engine?
23. In the animal kingdom, the mandrill is an ape native to which continent?
24. Is France in front of or behind Greenwich mean time?
25. Which legendary scientist said: ‘Our technology has exceeded our humanity’?
26. Copenhagen is the capital city of which European country?
27. Which actress and singer played Billie Holliday in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues?
28. In the 1980 spoof disaster film Airplane!, did Leslie Nielsen play a pilot or a doctor?
29. What year did Donald Duck first appear in Walt Disney cartoons?
30. Which coastal English town was known as Dubris by the Romans?