1. Which children’s cartoon show was first broadcast in the UK 10 years ago tomorrow?
2. According to a recent study, which island nation has the highest proportion of overweight people of any country in the world ?
3. Most English translations of the Bible begin with which three words?
4. What is this?
5. What is the name of the chalk headland, situated near Eastbourne, which is one of the highest cliffs on the South Coast of England?
6. What name is given to the male reproductive part of a plant where pollen is produced, consisting of the anther and the filament?
7. A white heart-shaped face and an eerie shriek are distinguishing features of which owl?
8. If a French dish contains onions as a principal ingredient, what word is often used in describing it?
9. What links these pictures?
10. Name the film.
11. What name is given to any of the group of twenty organic molecules that are the basic building blocks of proteins?
12. In mathematics, what is represented by a symbol resembling a figure of eight, lying on its side?
13. Who is this ?
14. What name was given by Westerners to members of a sect founded in what is now Turkey, because they chanted their ritual prayers with musical accompaniment, while spinning on one foot?
15. What common five-letter word, when written in capitals, looks the same when viewed upside down (180 degree rotation)?
16. Which term for an expert in a particular field, especially one called on to explain the subject to the general public, comes from the Sanskrit for ‘learned’?
17. Which term for the band of colour formed when a beam of visible light is split into its constituent wavelengths was first coined in the 1670s?
18. Neil, Sam and Michael have a race. Sam can run at 5mph but soon tires. After 2 mins of running he has to walk at 1mph for the next 3 mins before running again. Michael can run continuously at 4mph, but has a habit of swerving back and forth. So for every 3 feet he runs he only actually advances 2 feet. Neil can run straight and continuous at 2mph. Which of the three won their race over 1 mile?
19. What links these pictures:
20. Unscramble the two rivals: A C D E M N N O S S T T U
