1

What is the maximum amount of stars a restaurant can be awarded in the Michelin guide?

2

What country was announced today as the happiest in the world for the eighth year in a row?

3

And which group will represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song contest  competition?

4

Name these four birds , listed amongst the most dangerous in the world

 

5

Which World Chess Champion, a grandmaster at the age of 13, is known as the ‘Mozart of Chess’?

6

Which Biblical figure is the title character of a musical which contains the songs Any Dream Will Do and Close Every Door? In the title he has an ‘Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat’

7

Who founded Kylie Cosmetics in November 2015? 

8

Name these six famous Italians

9

Two answers required here. What are the two longest rivers in Africa?

10

According to the Wall Street Journal, the average NFL Football game lasts 3 hours and 12 minutes. How many minutes is the ball actually in play?

a. 11 min,  b. 22 min,  c. 44 min,

11

By far and away the Irish group that has sold the most number of albums worldwide are the fantastic chieftains. Two of their more popular albums are when they collaborate with other singers. Here are four music clips, name the person they collaborate with.

12

Two answers required here. Name the first two movies (chronologically) where Steven Spielberg won the Oscar for best director.

13

Mein Kampf is one of the most famous books in history, for all the wrong reasons. Which businessman was the only American to have been complimented in Hitler’s Mein Kampf

14

Name these four Irish landmarks, in the case of c name the film that was partly filmed there 

15

If the Cape of Good Hope is on the southern tip of Africa and Cape Horn on the southern tip of South America, Cape Farewell is on the southern tip of which island?

16

One of the most famous voices from the world of animation is Dan Castellanata. Name any one of the eighteen characters he voiced In the 2007 film The Simpsons Movie, aside from Homer Simpson. 

17

The American primatologist Dian Fossey was best known for her work studying gorillas, largely carried out in the Karisoke Research Centre, located in which central African country’s Volcanoes National Park?

18

Name these four strong leaders.

19

Precipitating the American Revolution, in December 1773 protestors boarded ships and threw what commodity into Boston harbour? 

20

Which 1994 movie is the highest grossing hand drawn animated feature film of all time?

21

True or False, When the two numbers on opposite sides of a dice are added together it always equals 7

22

Since the year 2000 there have been nineteen countries that have provided winners of Eurovision. Here are six winning songs from somewhere in that period, name the countries these songs represented.

1

Three 

2

Finland

3

Basel

4

a. Ostrich
b. Australian Magpie
c. Cassowary
d. Golden Eagle

5

Magnus Carlsson

6

Joseph

7

Kylie Jenner

8

a. Sophia Loren
b. Silvio Berlusconi
c. Monica Belucci
d. Andrea Boccelli
e. Galileo Galilei
f. Giorgio Armani

9

The Nile and The Congo

10

a. 11 minutes

11

a. Midge Ure
b. Willie Nelson
c. Marc Knopfler
d. Sinead O’Connor

12

Schindler’s List  (1994)

Saving Private Ryan (1999)

13

Henry Ford

14

a. Cliffs of Moher
b. Giants Causeway
c. Star Wars
d. Book of Kells

15

Greenland 

16

Itchy / Barney / Grampa / Stage Manager / Krusty the Clown / Mayor Quimby / Mayor’s Aide / Multi-Eyed Squirrel / / Sideshow Mel / Mr. Teeny / EPA Official / Kissing Cop / Bear NSA Santa’s Little Helper / Groundskeeper Willie 

17

Rwanda

18

a. Benito Mussolini
b. Adolf Hitler
c. Juan Peron
d. Fidel Castro

19

Tea

20

The Lion King

21

True

22

a. Denmark
b. Greece
c. Austria
d. Norway
e. Ukraine
f. Italy