What do the following abbreviations stand for?
1. WTO
2. OPEC
3. INTERPOL
4. ICRC
5. UNESCO
6. OECD
7. FIFA
8. ICC
9. What colour are National Lottery balls 20-29?
10. Which woman found lasting fame for her exploits on the night of 7 September 1838?
11. Which cartoon cat had the catchphrase ‘I hate those meeces to pieces’?
12. What is the largest landlocked English county?
13. In the nursery rhyme, what did the third ‘Little Piggy’ have to eat?
14. Which cartoon character has a rubber chicken called Stretch?
15. The Boeing Jumbo jet is known as the 747, what is the number for the jet called the Dreamliner?
16. A branch of which canal runs from the River Thames in London up to Birmingham ?
17. Which action packed TV show did one of the characters have the catch phrase “Crazy fool”?
18. Who wrote ‘Mill on the Floss’?
19. Which king of England was the son of Jane Seymour and Henry VIII?
20. The first castles in England were built on a raised mound of earth with usually a wooden keep surrounded by a ditch, what were they called?
21. Who was the comic actor Arthur Lucan better known as?
22. When an air bag is deployed in a car, which gas is used to fill the bag?
23. Which is the largest country in the world with only one time zone?
24. In December 1952, what killed around 4,000 people in London?
25. In the northern hemisphere which way do winds rotate around a low pressure system ?
26. What colour is a Granny Smith apple?
27. Name the three fire signs of the zodiac?
28. Which fictional detective had a secretary named Felicity Lemon?
29. Where, in the Midlands, is the only official German war cemetery in Great Britain?
30. Which famous architect was born in the Wiltshire village of East Knoyle?
ANSWERS
1. World Trade Organisation
2. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
3. International Criminal Police Organization
4. International Committee of the Red Cross
5. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
6. Organisation For Economic Co-Operation and Development
7. Fédération Internationale de Football Association
8. International Cricket Council
9. Pink
10. Grace Darling
11. Mr Jinks
12. Shropshire
13. Roast beef
14. Garfield
15. 787
16. Grand Union Canal
17. Mr T in The A Team
18. George Eliot
19. Edward VI
20. Motte and bailey castles
21. Old Mother Riley
22. Nitrogen
23. China
24. Smog
25. Anticlockwise
26. Green
27. Aries, Leo, Sagittarius
28. Hercule Poirot
29. Cannock Chase
30. Sir Christopher Wren
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