Round 1: Zzzzz…

  • 1. Disneyland, with the Sleeping Beauty Castle, opened in 1955, almost four years before the animated film Sleeping Beauty was released. True or false?

  • 2. Sleeping Beauty was the last animated Disney movie based on a fairy tale until, what movie, 30 years later?

  • 3. Who is the Greek God of Sleep?

  • 4. Who is the Greek God of Dreams (son of the above god)?

  • 5. What band had a hit with ‘No Sleep till Brooklyn’?

  • 6. Name the tune chiefly used to wake military personnel at sunrise. The name comes from the French word for "wake up".

  • 7. At night time we get increased levels of this 'darkness hormone', which helps us to fall asleep.

  • 8. What duo sang All I Have to Do Is Dream (in 1958)?

  • 9. What does REM stand for in ‘REM sleep’?

  • 10. What insect is known for causing Human/African sleeping sickness?

Round 2: Picture Round - Movie Villains

Name the character, actor and movie or movie franchise (0.5 points each)

  • 1. Character, actor, movie?

  • 2. Character, actor, movie franchise?

  • 3. Character, actor, movie?

  • 4. Character, voice actor, movie franchise?

  • 5. Characters, actors, movie?

  • 6. Character, actor, movie franchise?

  • 7. Character, actor, movie?

  • 8. Character, actor, movie?

  • 9. Character, actor, movie franchise?

  • 10. Character, actor, movie?

Round 3: Latin

These are the Latin names of which animals? (Genus or species)

  • 1. Bubo Bubo

  • 2. Apis

  • 3. Alces alces

  • 4. Canis lupus familiaris

  • 5. Castor

  • 6. Vulpes

Round 4: National Animals

  • 1. Country?

  • 2. Country?

  • 3. Country?

  • 4. Country?

  • 5. Country?

  • 6. Country?

  • 7. Country?

  • 8. Country?

  • 9. Country?

  • 10. Country?

Round 5: Next. please!

What comes fourth in each of the following sequences?

  • 1. Athens - Beijing - London - ?

  • 2. Dr No - From Russia with Love - Goldfinger - ?

  • 3. Wilson - Callaghan - Thatcher - ?

  • 4. Phi - Chi - Psi - ?

  • 5. Sylvester McCoy - Paul McCann - Christopher Eccleston - ?

  • 6. Earth - Mars - Jupiter - ?

  • 7. I - V - X - ?

  • 8. Eisenhower - Kennedy - Johnson - ?

  • 9. Sergeant - Nurse - Teacher - ?

  • 10. Triangle - Quadrilateral - Pentagon - ?

  • 11. Marble Arch - Bond Street - Oxford Circus - ?

  • 12. Philosopher's Stone - Chamber of Secrets - Prisoner of Azkaban - ?

  • 13. Z - V - R - ?

Round 6: General knowledge

  • 1. How many hot drinks has James ever finished?

  • 2. According to the well-known Christmas Carol, when did the ‘ladies dancing’ make their first appearance?

  • 3. Ronald William George Barker was half of which famous duo?

  • 4. Name all of the ‘classical elements’

  • 5. Since the beginning of the last millennium (i.e. 1000 AD), how many sovereign rulers of England and later Britain have been women (i.e. the ruler on the front of coins)?

  • 6. Which 1986 film featured Chevy Chase, a singing bush, and El Guapo?

  • 7. As described in the book of Exodus, how many plagues of Egypt were there?

  • 8. Which band made recordings titled ‘Never can say goodbye’, ‘Santa Claus is coming to town’, and ‘Blame it on the boogie’?

  • 9. Which British Army did Field Marshal Montgomery command during the North African Campaign of World War 2

  • 10. What was the first full length (i.e. not short length) animated film ever produced?

Round 7: Sing along, if you can...

  • 1. Artist?

  • 2. The only Japanese song to top Billboard. What’s the western name for this song?

  • 3. Name either this original artist (1987) or the one that covered it in 2008

  • 4. Artist?

  • 5. Artist?

  • 6. Artist?

  • 7. Country?

  • 8. Artist?

  • 9. Country?

  • 10. This song was the first Italian track in Eurovision. True or false?