50 questions as below on a variety of subjects. They should be relatively Googleproof. You can answer as a group in the thread as I think it's probably quite hard, but if anyone wants to have a full go themselves and either post or PM me their answer they're more than welcome - but beware spoilers in the thread replies if so. Enjoy and Merry early Christmas. The only hint I'll give is that most of these are quite cryptic and things aren't often as they seem (although sometimes they are). If you get all 50 between you I'll award you a gold star.
Sport 1. Each of these sequences represents an annual progression in sport from 2010 to 2015, which is left blank. Can you name the 2015 entry for each sequence?
1. Victoria - North Lanarkshire - Essex - Essex - Leicestershire - ???
2. Scotland - England - Scotland - Brazil - United States - ???
3. Barcelona - Man Utd - Dortmund - Man Utd - Benfica - ???
4. 49ers - Rams - 49ers - Patriots - 49ers - ???
5. 5 - 11 - 5 - 13 - 0 - ???
Music. Name an artist which completes the sequence. NB: There are various possible answers for each, and they are in order.
6. Belle & Sebastian … Oasis … The Beatles … Jake Bugg … UB40 … ???
7. Gershwin … Debussy … Vaughan Williams … Tchaikovsky … ???
8. U2 … Rolf Harris … Bob Marley … ??? … Noah and the Whale
9. ??? … Michael Jackson … Neil Diamond … Tom Jones … The Beatles
10. John Denver … Tony Christie … Sting … Ed Sheeran … ???
Sport 2. Name the sporting link in each of these picture sets.
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Film. Name the odd one out.
21. Jaws, The Jungle Book, The Lion King, Jurassic Park
22. The Full Monty, Goldeneye, Brideshead Revisited, Goal!
23. Cool Runnings, Live and Let Die, Quantum of Solace, A Few Good Men
24. Saving Private Ryan, Saving Mr Banks, Apollo 13, Charlie Wilson's War
25. Manhattan, Doctor Dolittle, Evergreen, Toy Story 3
Geography. I'm going on some long distance cruises, but there's a certain rule about where the ship can dock on each journey. Can you name it?
26. Dublin to Auckland, docking at: Madeira, Praia, Victoria, Colombo, Jakarta and Hobart
27. London to Mumbai, docking at: Southampton, Bridgetown, Port-of-Spain, Wellington, Brisbane, Colombo and Bangalore
28. Liverpool to St Petersburg, docking at: Ipswich, London, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Gothenburg. Not quite docking at Dundee.
29. Guangzhou to Miami, docking at: Rangoon, Chennai and Lagos.
30. Stockholm to Busan, docking at: Oslo, London, Vienna (this one's on a narrow boat), Alexandria, Accra and Rangoon.
Football. Who am I, which club do I play for, and what season is it?
31. I play in midfield, and this year I'll win the first of two European Cups in a row, although my first final was six years ago. Myself and two of my current team mates will each manage a different London club in the future. One of my team mates will lift the next World Cup - but another two will win World Cups 24 years apart. Only one of this squad will ever play for Derby County.
32. The manager's leaving at the end of the season - that'll be the end of an era, for sure. Two of this squad are reigning World Cup winners, and of course most of us won the European Cup last year. I'm one of three world famous forwards at the club. We play for three different countries internationally, but we'll all be forever associated with our time here.
33. What a squad we have here. Some of these players will go on to win everything the club game has to offer, but none of it will be at this club. In seven years' time, I'll win the European Cup, beating two of my current team mates in the final. One team mate of mine will eventually become a Sky Sports man. Another team mate will win two UEFA Cups, another still has already won the World Cup Golden Boot - it's a wonder we're so crap.
34. We're having some season this year, winning the European Cup, and it won't be the last one I win either. This is a hell of a team. Our right back and captain will go on to manage the club, and I'll become a manager myself, although perhaps my best managerial work will take place at one of our chief rivals before I make a successful move to England. One of the elder statesmen here has appeared in the World Cup final twice, something I'll never do. Brian Clough once signed our goalkeeper.
35. Finally, the wait is over for my club. We've won the European Cup. The World Cup's coming up in the summer, and lots of the squad here are going, for eight different countries, including most of the leading contenders. I, though, will be the only player here who wins it. It'll be a bit of a disaster for the domestic players here, but one of my club team mates will win the Golden Boot. Times will change for me, though - in three years I'll be playing for an unfashionable English side, a club that one of my current team mates will manage many years later.
36. It's rare to see such a decorated squad of this quality in this part of the world. I play alongside World Cup winners from two different countries, and our manager won the World Cup as a player with yet another country. I never reached the heights with my country, but I've won everything there is to win at club level, and broken records along the way. The rest of the squad? Well, if I remember their names on a daily basis, I'm happy with that.
37. We have an eclectic squad here, one that's bringing the club arguably the best period in its history at the moment, and we'll retain our European trophy this season. Our futures diverge, however. One of my team mates in particular will go on to have a glittering career with a bigger club in the same country. Another will be a dreadful flop on Merseyside, and sadly another will die in tragic circumstances. Me? I'll go to Manchester, and I'll win the Premier League.
38. Good times lie ahead for my club, but currently we're in the third tier and in the midst of a bizarre invasion of manager and 7 players from a small European country. A decent career also lies in wait for me, although I've only made one senior appearance so far, in the LDV Vans. I'll go on to represent a country other than the one of my birth, and perhaps my best years will be spent at that country's leading club, but I'll also play on both sides of a local rivalry in England.
39. Our squad has some interesting players. I've scored the winner in a European Championship final, and one of my team mates is a legend who's won everything in European club football many times over. One of our midfielders will go on to win it all with a European giant, too, as will our goalkeeper. But what about this club? It never quite happens for us. This year's European Cup semi-final was a remarkable achievement, considering, but you get the feeling that's as good as it's going to get.
40. I'm the manager here, and what a coaching future lies ahead of me. I'll win the league, and I'll win the European Cup - but right now I'm at a tiny club whose finest hour will be to have had me as its manager. It's about to change its name - slightly - and it'll achieve a little cult fame via television, but that's decades away. One of my players here, though, will win everything with me, not that he'd guess it now. His balls have barely dropped.
General Knowledge
41. Which duo regularly performed under pressure?
42. Which US President began to dance after receiving a letter?
43. Which arse plays with a flute?
44. Who went to Paris and started a war?
45. Which impossible situation was caused by something worse than hell?
46. What lies between an elephant and an oval?
47. Where can you find hot, mad, lax fun?
48. Which three Americans went down on a mare?
49. What can be bald, booted or solitary?
50. Where would you find a digital watch, an Academy Award, a female comedian and a turd?
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