Brainstretcher

1) Who lives at 62 West Wallaby Street?
 
2) The M25 is the second longest ring road in Europe. Which city does the longest ring road encircle?
 
3) Which of Britain’s 14 overseas territories has the largest population?
 
4) What relation was Queen Victoria to her predecessor William IV?
 
5) What the literary link between Gary Numan’s 1982 top 20 hit Music For Chameleons and Deep Blue Something’s 1995 number one hit Breakfast At Tiffany’s?
 
6) What historical event is known in Irish as An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol
 
7) What does King Kong climb at the end of the 1976 movie?
 
8) Vesta is the only one that can be seen by the naked eye. What?
 
9) What planet is I Vow To Thee My Country from?
 
10) First it was Harlech Tower in Acton then it was Whitemead House in Bristol. What?
 
11) What's the smallest city in the UK?
 
12) Adam Svenson was Blue, Seymour Griffiths was Green and Conrad Turner was Black. What colour was Paul Metcalfe?
 
13) Which event was first won by Lottery in 1839?
 
14) What is the UK’s biggest selling instrumental single of all time?
 
15) Which island do French speakers call Terre-Neuve?
 
16) In the culinary world what’s measured on the Scoville scale?
 
17) Who lived in Oil Drum Lane, Shepherd's Bush?
 
18) Who are the current holders of the Henri Delaunay Trophy?
 
19) Which song was originally recorded by the woman who would later become Marc Bolan’s girlfriend, but only hit the Number 1 spot 17 years later when it was covered by two former Leeds Polytechnic students?
 
20) What kind of people have phone numbers starting with the dialling code 01632?
 
21) Around 8,000 people once died on Senlac Hill. Why?
 
22) What links a man leaving a pet shop with two white Sealyham terriers, a man boarding a train with a double bass, a man on the left side in a class reunion photo and a man missing a bus (just after his name passes off screen)?
 
23) Why has Doktor Avalanche, who has provided the drums for goth rock group The Sisters of Mercy since the early 1980s, never been paid?
 
24) In web addresses such as www.five.tv or www.countrychannel.tv for what is ‘.tv’ an abbreviation?
 
25) In terms of land area, what’s the largest country in the EU?
 
26) What drink is named after the man who was British PM from 1830 to 1834?
 
27) Which Championship football team’s nearest away fixture for the 2007-08 season was 116 miles away?
 
28) What falls on the first Sunday after the 14th day of the lunar month that falls on or after the ecclesiastical vernal equinox?
 
29) What’s the lowest prime number?
 
30) What island is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei?
 
31) What was the name of the large dog which sprang from the Russian vessel Demeter that was shipwrecked in Whitby?
 
32) The A1034/1079 from Brough to York, the A1198 from Royston to Huntingdon, the A46 from Leicester to Lincoln and the B1256 from Bishop’s Stortford to Braintree are among the few examples of what in Britain?
 
33) Why was Chief Supt Christopher Foyle anachronistic?
 
34) What’s the largest type of cat?
 
35) Excluding Greater London, how many counties does the M25 pass through?
 
36) Who was the head of the Special Executive for Corruption, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion?
 
37) Which is the smallest country to win the football World Cup?
 
38) Laser is an acronym for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation'. What does the M in maser stand for?
 

39) Which musical instrument, used in the title music to Midsomer Murders and many old science fiction films, was named after the Russian physicist who invented it in 1919?

40) What did Gavrilo Princip indirectly start?

41) Why did the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats not contest the Glasgow North East seat in the 2005 General Election?

42) In classic children’s TV, what surname links a New York policeman and an English fireman?

43) Where is the highest mountain known to Man?

44) First there was Brian Blessed, then George Baker, then John Hurt, then Derek Jacobi. Who was next?

45) What’s the longest river in Britain?

46) Who were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly?

47) Nazi Germany declared itself the Third Reich – but what were the First and Second Reichs?

48) What comes between the troposphere and the mesosphere?

49) Which European city has the largest population?

50) Which five footballers have won 100 caps for England?

51) What town links the 1970s TV show Crown Court and Viz?

52) John Foxx was the first, Tony Fenelle was the third and Sam Blue was the last. Who was the second?

53) Why did DIY retailer B&Q recall sonic mole repellers from its Northern Ireland stores in April 2008? 
 
54) How many official languages does the UK have?
 
55) What’s the largest English county in terms of area?
 
56) Which pop group took their name from a villainous doctor in the film Barbarella?
 
57) How many monarchs did Britain have in the 20th century?
 

58) What’s the highest UK bank note in circulation?

59) Which of the planets in our solar system is the largest to be composed primarily of rock?

60) What is unique about the flag of Nepal?
 
61) Who lived at 52 Festive Road?
 

62) What fashion statement is shared by Miss Marple, Robert Langdon from The Da Vinci Code and the 11th incarnation of Doctor Who?

63) Which island left the European Community in 1985 after a dispute over fishing rights?

64) Who was the first person to miss a penalty at the 1994 football World Cup?

65) What took Lu Chao, a 24-year-old graduate from China, 24 hours and 4 minutes to recite without error?
 
66) Who ran around to Yakety Sax?
 
67) Sheep have 54, cows have 60 and horses have 64. What?
 
68) Its last know victim anywhere was in Birmingham (England) in 1978.
 
69) What separates Rumelia from Anatolia?
 
70) How many bytes are there in a kilobyte?

71) Who expected Ximenez, Biggles and Fang?

72) The new flag of Kosovo is similar to the flag of Cyprus and no others in what respect?
 
73) In terms of royalty, what is significant about September 10, 2015?
 

74) Name all the 12 national teams to have reached the football World Cup Final. (N.B. This is counting Germany/West Germany as one country).

75) Who was Ken Hutchinson’s partner?

76) Which is the most densely populated country in the world?

77) Which Football League club has a ground in two countries?

78) In December 1972, what were Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt the last men to do?

79) What links Hector McQueen, Edward Henry Masterman, Pierre Michel, Mary Debenham, Colonel Arbuthnot, Princess Natalia Dragomiroff, Hildegarde Schmidt, Count Rudolf Andrenyi, Greta Ohlsson, Caroline Hubbard, Antonio Foscarelli and Cyrus Hardman?

80) What links Sir Cliff Richard, Crystal Gayle, Gary Numan and Loretta Lynn?

81) In which village does Pat Clifton live?

82) Which of the 92 Premier League and Football League clubs’ grounds in the highest above sea level?

83) Which month of the year is the longest?

84) What connects The Friday Night Project and Northampton Town FC?
 
85) What is the next number in this sequence? 3,3,5,4,4,3,5,5,4,3…
 
86) Britain is the eighth largest island in the world (88,787 sq miles) (229,957 sq km) – which seven are larger? (A small clue – Australia is usually classed as a continental landmass and therefore doesn’t count).
 
87) Which UK parliamentary constituency has the largest population?
 
88) Who married the Countess Teresa di Vicenzo but quickly became a widower?
 
89) What notable event happened in Britain from September 3 to September 13, 1752?
 
90) Discounting the semi-mythical King Lear and Cymbeline, which ten Shakespeare plays concern kings of England?

91) What links Peter Moffett, Percy Kent-Smith and David McDonald?
 
92) What links Jack Cohen and T.E. Stockwell?
 
93) Which band have had the most top 40 hits without making Number One?
 
94) How many days will there be in the next 100 years?
 
95) In what year was coronation chicken invented?
 
96) How is 30 St Mary Axe in London better known?
 
97) Who, after his last professional match in 1990, said: "I've had 24 pints of extra strong lager and eight double vodkas - and I'm still not drunk"?
 
98) How much does a cubic centimeter of water weigh?
 
99) What do Tony Curtis’s portrayal of a bogus millionaire in Some Like It Hot and Francis Matthews’s voice for Captain Scarlet have in common?
 
100) A total of 4,345,027 fell over in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands on November 14, 2008. What?
 
101) A watch is stuck on 11 o’clock (with no indication of AM or PM) and the date counter is stuck on 31. How many occasions during the year will it tell the right time and date?
 
102) What links song titles by 80s bands Visage, Talk Talk and Living In A Box?
 
103) The dinosaur Gojirasaurus takes its name from the Japanese word for what?
 
104) Where has actor Deryck Guyler been heard nearly every night from November 25, 1952?
 
105) Which is the only word in the English language to be an anagram of a day of the week?
 
106) Which footballer is named after the lead character in a 1960s spy series?
 
107) Who is the only current member of the Privy Council to be appointed there by George VI?
 
108) Which number do some mathematicians celebrate on March 14? Pi.
 
109) Which evil scientist has been played by Michael Wisher, David Gooderson, Terry Molloy and Julian Bleach?
 
110) What links the movies High Noon, Rope, 12 Angry Men and The Set-Up?
 
111) What links Bond girl Gemma Arterton, Gary Sobers, Little Tich, an extra in Get Carter but not, contrary to widely-held belief, Anne Boleyn.
 
112) Which football team changed their name in 1968 by dropping an ‘s’ and ‘United’, but added back the ‘United’ in 1977?
 
113) What happened for the only time in human history in Sweden in February 1712? (The month is a clue) .
 
114) Alexander's Band is the name for a dark area of sky between two what?
 
115) What bizarre world record is held by the church steeple in Suurhusen, East Frisia, Germany (and not, as you might expect, somewhere in Italy)?
 
116) It was probably in Kent, though it could have been Sussex (and looked remarkably like Norfolk), had a pier, a Novelty Rock Emporium, the Swallow Bank, the Marigold tea-rooms, Anne's Pantry, the Dutch Oven, a butcher's shop, a greengrocer's, an undertaker's, Saint Aldhelm's church and numerous pubs including the Red Lion. Where?

117) What do the Kings of Spades, Clubs and Diamond have that the King of Hearts usually doesn’t? 
 
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