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Thirty questions for when you want laughs as well as points: trick questions, weird-but-true facts, proper British oddities and some very strange animals.

Questions
30
Rounds
4
Difficulty
Medium & Hard

Round 01 / Think first

Trick questions

  1. You have six apples and you take away four. How many do you have?

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    Four

    Also accept: 4

    You took four, so you have four.

  2. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

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    The letter M

    Also accept: M, Letter M

  3. How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the ark?

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    None: it was Noah

    Also accept: None, Zero, 0

  4. A rooster lays an egg on the peak of a barn roof. Which way does it roll?

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    It doesn't: roosters don't lay eggs

    Also accept: Roosters don't lay eggs, Neither, It doesn't

  5. How many times can you take 10 away from 100?

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    Once

    Also accept: One, 1

    After that, you're taking it away from 90.

  6. A plane crashes exactly on the border of England and Scotland. Where do they bury the survivors?

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    Nowhere: you don't bury survivors

    Also accept: Nowhere, You don't, You don't bury survivors

Round 02 / Weird but true

Weird but true

  1. What is a baby hedgehog called?

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    A hoglet

    Also accept: Hoglet

  2. What is the collective noun for a group of flamingos?

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    A flamboyance

    Also accept: Flamboyance

  3. Which large mammal is famously unable to jump?

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    The elephant

    Also accept: Elephant

  4. Which bird is the only one that can fly backwards?

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    The hummingbird

    Also accept: Hummingbird

  5. What colour is a polar bear's skin, under the fur?

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    Black

    The fur isn't really white either: each hair is clear and hollow.

  6. Which Australian animal produces cube-shaped poo?

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    The wombat

    Also accept: Wombat

    The cubes stack neatly, which helps wombats mark their territory.

  7. Which famous landmark was only meant to stand for 20 years before being taken down?

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    The Eiffel Tower

    Also accept: Eiffel Tower

    It was saved partly because it was useful as a radio mast.

  8. What colour are flamingo chicks when they hatch?

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    Grey

    Also accept: White, Grey and white

    They turn pink from pigments in the food they eat.

  9. Which animal has fingerprints so like a human's that they could confuse a crime scene?

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    The koala

    Also accept: Koala

  10. A broken one of these was the first item ever sold on eBay, in 1995. What was it?

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    A laser pointer

    Also accept: Laser pointer

    It sold for $14.83. The buyer collected broken laser pointers.

Round 03 / Only in Britain

Proper British

  1. In Cockney rhyming slang, what are your "plates of meat"?

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    Your feet

    Also accept: Feet

  2. In rhyming slang, what are you doing if you're "having a butcher's"?

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    Having a look

    Also accept: Looking, A look

    Butcher's hook: look.

  3. In which county does the annual race of chasing a wheel of cheese down Cooper's Hill take place?

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    Gloucestershire

    The cheese is a Double Gloucester, and it can reach around 70mph.

  4. Which Anglesey village has the longest place name in Europe, 58 letters long?

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    Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

    Also accept: Llanfair PG, Llanfairpwll, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

    In full: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Any recognisable attempt gets the point.

  5. Cornish Yarg is wrapped in the leaves of which stinging plant?

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    Nettles

    Also accept: Nettle, Stinging nettles

  6. What is unusual about a Bedfordshire clanger?

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    It's sweet at one end and savoury at the other

    Also accept: Sweet and savoury, Savoury and sweet

    A suet pastry with meat at one end and jam or fruit at the other.

  7. The world championships of which sport are held in a peat bog near Llanwrtyd Wells?

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    Bog snorkelling

    Also accept: Bog snorkeling

Round 04 / Animals

Animal magic

  1. What is a male duck called?

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    A drake

    Also accept: Drake

  2. Which animal sleeps for up to 20 hours a day, and hangs upside down while doing it?

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    The sloth

    Also accept: Sloth, Bat

    Bats hang upside down too, so give the point for a bat.

  3. Which is the fastest bird on Earth, reaching over 200mph in a dive?

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    The peregrine falcon

    Also accept: Peregrine falcon, Peregrine

  4. Which animal has the longest pregnancy of any mammal, at around 22 months?

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    The elephant

    Also accept: Elephant, African elephant

  5. What is a group of rhinos called?

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    A crash

    Also accept: Crash

  6. What is a group of jellyfish called?

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    A smack

    Also accept: Smack, A bloom

  7. A group of ravens is known by which unflattering name?

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    An unkindness

    Also accept: Unkindness

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