1. Name the animal. Top speed around 30kph, weight unto 1 tonne, offspring 20-50, length 3 to 5m. Hmmm. Does this need another hint? Or is it a shoe in?
2. What is the most common name given to the children of the royal family over the past 200 years, male and female? 2 questions.
3. What machinery did Jethro Tull invent?
4. In what year did Bob Dylan win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
5. In which country did coffee first grow?
6. At the peak of the first lockdown what percentage of waking hours time was spent by people watching tv?
7. Which organisation was surprisingly not given a contract for NHS test and trace?
8. The Peterloo massacre where government troops killed protesters was in which UK City?
9. Which Prime Minister sent troops into South Wales to suppress a strike?
10. Who was the Government Health Minister who created the National Health Service?
11. How many times did the Conservative party vote against the creation of the NHS?
12. Who is on the the £50 note in 2020?
13. Of which NASA scientist did John Glenn say that he would not go into space unless she had done the calculations?
14. The 6 masts on the SS Great Britain are named what, clue ‘one missing’.
15. The clock on the outside of St.Nicholas Market (Corn Exchange), Bristol has 2 minute hands 10 minutes apart. Why?
16. On the same Bristol theme, what is the derivation of ‘Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion’?
17. What was the name of the oil tanker that sunk in a storm off the south coast of Cornwall in 1967?
18. Put in order from West to East the following: Edinburgh: London: Bristol: Leeds.
19. How is Saint Piran best remembered inCornwall?
20. How many Stannary towns were there in Cornwall?
21. Where was the Doomsday Book kept during WWI?
22. Name in order, the 3 towns with the largest populations in Cornwall.
23. Maria Branwell was the Cornish mother of which famous siblings?
24. Who was the captain of the Revenge?
25. Which two countries flags have purple on them?