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1. What was the American project to put a man on the moon called?

2. What can only be seen in the night sky every 76 years?

3. What is the art of drawing maps called?

4. What is magma called when it appears on the surface?

5. What is the world’s longest river?

6. What does OPEC stand for?

7. When did the UK become a member of the United Nations?

8. In which year did the United Nations vote for the expulsion of Nationalist China and the inclusion of Communist China?

9. What do you not have if you die intestate?

10. Who rules in a Kaksitocracy?

11. What is the confirmation ceremony for a Jewish Boy called?

12. Who is the patron saint of Brewers?

13. Who is the patron saint of dancing?

14. Who in the Bible was the second son of Adam and Eve?

15. In Norse Mythology what was the Home of the Gods called?

16. In this place, what was the Hall of Hero’s called?

17. The constellation Ursa Major has two common names. A point for each.

18 What is the locking stone at the top of an arch called?

19. What is a slender tower of a mosque called?

20. What was Thomas More’s mythical paradise called?

22. What is the generic term for the American Professional Theatre?

23. What is the largest nation in the West Indes?

24. Who is the patron saint of carpenters?

25. The Gallery in a theatre is more commonly referred to as what?

26. Who according to the Bible was swallowed by a Whale?

27. What is the study of Government called?

28. Which island group lies between the Shetland Isles and the Scottish Mainland?

29. What to within 500 is the permanent population of Antartica?

30. In thousands of Miles what is the distance from the Earth to the Moon (to within 500 Miles)?

31. What does the word SCUBA stand for?

32. What does UNICEF stand for?

33. What is the American equivalent of Music Hall called?

34. In which form of music might you hear a paper and comb or a washboard being played?

35. How is the Church of the Latter Day Saints otherwise known?

36. In which year was the Berlin Wall built?

37. Which new political party was formed in the UK in 1982?

38. Who was the first European to visit China?

39. Who was UK Prime Minister between Harold Wilson’s two terms in Office?

40. What are the seven deadly sins (a point for each)?

41. Who was the third Doctor Who?

42. What are the ten ways of being out in Cricket ( a point for each)?

43. Who discovered the river Zambezi?

44. James Earl Ray killed whom in 1968?

45. What is the 8^th Planet from the Sun?

46. From which ore do you get Aluminium?

47. 742 miles per hour is the speed of what?

48. Who invented the Condensing Steam Engine?

49. What is the name for a group of Foxes?

50. Who invented the Diesel Engine?

51. Which two Houses were involved in the War of the Roses?

52. Which famous nurse is associated with the Crimean War?

53. In which year was the League of Nations founded?

54. In which year was the Great Fire of London?

55. In Musical terms how is 28^th Street New York better known?

56. According to the Bible, was the world’s first Murderer?

57. Who is the Patron Saint of Tax Collectors?

58. What does NATO stand for?

59. What is the name of the world’s highest Water Falls?

60. Who was the First Man in Space?