1

What is the only berry to have seeds on the outside of its flesh?

2

Name any one of the two official languages of Malta.

3

Sweden will play their first world cup game on Sunday, against which nation? 

4

One of the best films ever made (personal opinion) was Flash Gordon in 1980. Name these four cast members.

5

What is the only country in the world to still have a sitting emperor?

6

What abbreviation for Mendelevium is also the two letter code for the state of Maryland?

7

In the News lately,Sazan Island caused riots in which country after News came out saying that it would be developed into a resort by Ivanka Trump. Which European country is Sazan Island a part of? 

8

Name these six Asian nations.


9

In the 17th century Port Royal, sometimes called ”the wickedest city on earth” was the most prosperous town in the Caribbean and a safe haven for privateers, buccaneers and pirates such as Edward Teach. Port Royal is a real place and can be found in which modern day country?

10

Pointless Question

100 people were given 100 seconds to name as many countries in the world that had railways at least 7000km long. Name any 1 of them. Give only one answer. You will get a point for a correct answer, 2 points for a correct answer where less than ten mentioned, three points if less than five said it and four points for one of the four answers that nobody said.

11

Name these four movies from these four very short clips, you will hear each one three times

 

12

Write down one answer only. You will get one point if you get the answer that is first in this list, two points if you get the second,

If measured in straight lines,what is the closest capital city to Berlin (outside of Germany)?

13

The Statue of Liberty has a metal framework that acts as a ”skeleton” for the statue. Which French civil engineer designed/engineered that metal framework?

14

Name the cities where you would find these Mosques

15

Created in 1938 by US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, The March of Dimes, originally called the National Foundation of Childhood Paralysis, was a charity created to combat which debilitating viral disease?

16

There are only three men to have scored 10 or more goals during a single FIFA World Cup tournament, name any one of them?

17

Which architect, later nicknamed “God’s architect”, died in June 1926 after being struck by a tram in Barcelona and initially mistaken for a beggar because of his dishevelled appearance? 

18

Name these four celebrities from their school yearbook photos

19

Name any element on the periodic table named after a country, except Germanium. There are five to choose from

20

In the books by Arthur Conan Doyle, who was the biographer of Sherlock Holme

21

Which is bigger, the width of Australia or the diameter of the moon? 

22

Karaoke, every  Wednesday night here in Fagans. here are some karaoke tracks, Name the six songs. You will hear each one twice. 

 

 

1

Strawberry

2

Maltese or English

3

Tunisia

4

a) Sam Jones

b) Max von Sydow

c) Timothy Dalton

d) Chaim Topol

5

Japan

6

MD

7

Albania

8

a) Mongolia

b) Vietnam

c) China

d) Indonesia

e) Pakistan

f) Nepal

9

Jamaica

10

1 Point
Russia, USA, India, China, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Turkey

 

2 Points.          
Germany, South Africa, France, Ukraine, Iran, Spain, UK, Sweden, Romania, Pakistan 

3 Points.               
Japan, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Czechia, Egypt

4 Points.          
Indonesia, Myanmar, Cuba, Hungary, 

11

a) Titanic (1997)

b) Pulp Fiction (1994)

c) Grease (1978)

d) 300 (2007)

12

1 Point – Prague (280km)

2 Points – Copenhagen (355km)

3rd Warszawa, 515km

13

Gustave Eiffel

14

a) Istanbul

b) Malmö

c) Mecca

d)Jerusalem

e) Medina

f) Casablanca (Tallest Minaret in the world) 

 

15

Polio(myelitis)

16

Just Fontain
(Fr, 1958, 13)
Sandor Kocsis
(Hu, 1954, 11)
Gert Muller
(Ge, 1970, 10)

17

Antoni Gaudí

18

a) Taylor Swift

b) Ariane Grande

c) selena Gomez

d)n Sandra Bullock

19

Polonium (84, Poland)

Americium (95,America)
Francium(87 France)
Ruthenium (44; Russia)
Nihonium (113, Japan)

20

Dr. John Watson

21

Australia 

(c4000km v c3475km)

22

a) Billie Jean (Michael Jackson, 1983)

b) One More Time (Brittany Spears, 1998)

c) Perfect /Ed Sheeran, 2017)

d) Bring Me To Life (Evanescence, 2003)

e) Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush, 1978)

f) Amerika (Rammstein, 2004)