1. Which word links a type of bread and a cut of precious stone?

2. What country does China have its longest land border with?

3. Kevin Kline won best supporting actor Oscar which 1988 film?

4. The first US copyrighted film showed what in 1894?

5. Astronomer Fred Hoyle coined which phrase?

6. Paludism is the old name for which disease?

7. The ball is 38 millimetres in diameter and weighs 2.5 grammes - what sport?

8. What was the worlds first patented synthetic food in 1869?

9. Polish sprinter Ewa Klobukowska was first to do what at Kiev in 1967?

10. Surnames that originate from job titles: Baker, a cook, obvious, but what was a "Pallistair" or "Pallister"?

11. Which worldwide-known organisation was recently banned in Russia because they thought it is paramilitary?

12. Who's song did the Beatles sing on their first TV appearance back in 1962?

13. What lasted five hours and twelve minutes in 1969, the longest ever?

14. If a dog is canine, a cat is feline, what creature is accipitrine?

15. "Ab Ovo" in Latin, the very beginning, but what does it literally mean?

16. What got named by novelist Gilbert Frankau at a party in 1926? Three Letters.

17. What have the following places in common:
    Aurora, Texas, 
    Spitsbergen, Norway and 
    Ubatuba,  Brazil?

18. Staying with links, what have the following sports in common:
    Cricket, 
    Rackets, 
    Croquet and 
    Motorboat racing?

19. How many one legged Popes have there been?

20. Samuel Pepys' wife always slept with what in her hand?

ANSWERS

1. Baguette

2. Mongolia

3. A Fish Called Wanda

4. A man sneezing

5. The Big Bang

6. Malaria

7. Table Tennis

8. Margarine

9. Fail sex test - was later disqualified

10. A Fence maker

11. The Salvation Army

12. Roy Orbison, the song was "Dream Baby"

13. Wimbledon TV match, no tie break

14. A hawk

15. From the egg

16. Zip. He said "Zip! its open, Zip! its shut"

17. UFO crash sites

18. They all only appeared once at the Olympics.

19. None

20. His p enis

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