1. What name is given to the coloured uniform of a jockey?
ANSWER: Silks.
2. What is the name of the first train station you come to after "go" on a UK monopoly board?
ANSWER: Kings Cross.
3. What is the name of the sacred river of the Hindu religion?
ANSWER: The Ganges.
4. What is the name of the road where the Desperate Housewives live?
ANSWER: Wisteria Lane.
5. What is the outer layer of a baked alaska made from?
ANSWER: Meringue.
6. Over which river does the Clifton suspension bridge cross?
ANSWER: The River Avon.
7. Baron Silas Greenback is the arch enemy of whom?
ANSWER: Danger mouse.
8. Which US state flag has a Union Jack in the top left corner?
ANSWER: Hawaii.
9. In which country was Osama Bin Laden born?
ANSWER: Saudi Arabia.
10. Which is Britains most easterly football ground?
ANSWER: Carrow road (Norwich).
11. Who wrote in his diary on March 17th 1912, "I'm just going outside, I maybe sometime"?
ANSWER: Captain Oats.
12. Prince Charles is Duke of which county?
ANSWER: Cornwall.
13. Who wrote "The Water Babes"?
ANSWER: Charles Kingsley.
14. Which tribe of Britains was lead by Boadicea?
ANSWER: The Iceni.
15. What name is given to a cockerel that is castrated and fattened for the table?
ANSWER: A capon.
16. Which country has compulsory military service for women?
ANSWER: Israel.
17. The imprisonment of Nick Leeson followed the collapse of which bank?
ANSWER: Barings.
18. Who was the leader of the USSR in World War 2?
ANSWER: Joseph Stalin.
19. What is the latin for "free of charge"?
ANSWER: Gratis.
20. Speeding is the most common motoring offence in the UK, what is the second?
ANSWER: Having no insurance.
21. Which is the worlds only completely car free city centre?
ANSWER: Venice.
22. Which insurance company is constantly being asked to "quote me happy"?
ANSWER: Norwich Union.
23. On your body, what do we call the area from which a hair grows?
ANSWER: A follicle.
24. What word do we use to describe the asexual reproduction of a genetic carbon copy of an animal or plant?
ANSWER: A clone.
The following 5 questions are what we call the quizlink. Questions 25-29 will all have something in common and question 30 is the answer to that common link.
25. Which bird has a large, fan like tail?
ANSWER: A peacock.
26. An acre was the amount of land that could be ploughed in 1 day by which animal?
ANSWER: An ox.
27. Which type of insect makes honey?
ANSWER: A bee.
28. What former WWF star has the same name as a film featuring Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage?
ANSWER: The Rock.
29. What is a fox's tail known as?
ANSWER: A brush.
30. What is the quizlink?
ANSWER: They're all sayings. "Proud as a peacock, strong as an ox, busy as a bee, solid as a rock and mad as a brush."