Collins Quiz Night: 10,000 original questions in 500 quizzes. Collins Puzzles

Which gold-medal winning Paralympian took part in the 2017 series of Strictly Come Dancing?

      16 Athletes from which country won the women’s 100m gold medal in 2008, 2012 and 2016?

      17 Which Japanese city hosted the 1998 Winter Games?

      18 In which year were the first Summer Games held, following the formation of the International Olympic Committee?

      19 Which country always leads the parade of participants at the Summer Games?

      20 Who was the first British athlete to win Olympic gold in a throwing event?

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QUIZ 211 – Pot Luck

      1 Who was David Walliams’ co-star in the 2015 Agatha Christie series Partners in Crime?

      2 Which Irish county lies north of Roscommon and east of Mayo?

      3 Who was the oldest of the Marx Brothers?

      4 For which 2015 film did Leonardo di Caprio win the Best Actor Oscar?

      5 In which year did the Crimean War start?

      6 Barbados is in which Caribbean island group?

      7 Who writes the Jack Reacher series of books?

      8 Which bay on the Isle of Wight is famous for its coloured sand?

      9 Which Greek god of the arts lends his name to many theatres?

      10 What type of rock is granite?

      11 Sonnets from the Portuguese is a collection by which Victorian poetess?

      12 Who shared the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize with the organisation that he led at the time?

      13 Who designed the Crystal Palace for the 19th-century Great Exhibition?

      14 In which sitcom did Christopher Biggins play a character nicknamed Lukewarm?

      15 In which year was North Sea oil discovered?

      16 Which river runs through Newton Abbot, Devon?

      17 What type of construction is the Humber Bridge?

      18 In which Danish port was Hans Christian Andersen born?

      19 Which Greek mathematician wrote The Elements?

      20 Singer Tom Jones had which original surname?

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QUIZ 212 – Sea Creatures

      1 What word describes marine life that lives in the upper waters of the open sea?

      2 The adult of which large sea creature was caught on camera for the first time in 2004?

      3 How many legs does a lobster have?

      4 What is a female dolphin called?

      5 What type of fish has a variety known as “sockeye”?

      6 How is a member of the Hippocampus genus commonly known?

      7 The name “krill” comes from the word for “young fish” in which language?

      8 A loggerhead is a species of which sea creature?

      9 Which is the largest living fish?

      10 What common name is given to both the manatee and dugong?

      11 Humboldt penguins are found in the wild on which continent?

      12 “Sild” is the name given to the young of which species of fish?

      13 Which edible mollusc is also called the sea-ear?

      14 What name is given to a group of whales?

      15 What type of invertebrate is the source of mother-of-pearl?

      16 Sea otters are found in which ocean?

      17 The male of which type of crab has an enlarged claw, waved for courtship and territorial display?

      18 What is the common name for the group of fish which have their eyes on top of their heads?

      19 The “coral” is another name for which part of a shellfish?

      20 Octopuses and squid belong to which class of molluscs?

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QUIZ 213 – Pot Luck

      1 What name was given to the cavalry troopers of Oliver Cromwell?

      2 Eye of the Tiger was from the soundtrack of which film?

      3 Wolfsbane is the alternative name of which wild flower?

      4 Which major Indian language is written in the Devanagari script?

      5 What is the title of the opera by Verdi set in ancient Jerusalem about a Babylonian king?

      6 Which Prime Minister succeeded Sir Winston Churchill in 1945?

      7 At Salt Lake City in 2002, in which sport did Great Britain win their one gold medal?

      8 Which actress starred in the 2003 film How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days?

      9 Which mythological queen of Troy was the wife of Priam?

      10 Which old British coin, legal tender until 1960, was worth one quarter of a penny?

      11 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was the first album by which band?

      12 Which Kansas city was founded in 1872 as a frontier town?

      13 How is Kehlsteinhaus, Berchtesgaden better known in English?

      14 Lydford Gorge is in which National Park?

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