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27501. I'm not sure if many of you have heard of the animal 'titi'. Well, the titi is a small monkey and it is found in South America. All I want to know is that if it has something to do with Lake Titicaca in South America...?

27502. My father told me that when he was young he saw Tom Jones in the local working-man's club.He said that Tom was not very good but his backing group was great. Can you tell a disillusioned Welshman the name of his backing group?

27504. Where was Al Jolson born?

27505. In Britain, What year was The Open University founded?

27506. Who are the actors in the electric 6 danger high voltage video?

27507. What were the names of the two championship toads that got squished by the twin girls in theB.B.C.series 'THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN?

27509. Which piece of music has been recorded about four times, but for technical (not copyright or moral, etc) reasons cannot be broadcast (at least by the BBC - someone is BOUND to say that their local station has played it many times!)?

27510. When was the first traffic light used (red, yellow, green)?

27511. What is HACCP?

27512. What is BRC?

27516. Which president joined the Confederacy after he was no longer in office?

27518. What is the name of the London venue for the UK Proms?

27519. Which cricketer both batted and umpired in the same test match(William Gunn,Lala Amarnath,Javed Miandad,Ken Barrington)?

27521. In which of these games does Indian Airlines have a better team(Hockey,Basket ball,Kabaddi,Volleyball)?

27522. On what date did Singapore fall to the Japanese army during World War II?

27523. What is the full name of guitarist Carlos Santana?

27524. Where did Hitler commmit suicide?

27527. I can't find a site for reference, so can anybody tell me the names of the properties on the Norwich (UK) edition of the board game Monopoly, and their equivalents on the London version?

27528. In the most recent series of "I'm Alan Partridge" what is the name of the track to which Alan plays along on the air guitar in his caravan?

27531. The tomb of which scientist bears the figure of sphere within a cylinder: Aristotle, Archimedes, Albert Einstein, or Arthur Eddington?

27532. Who is widely regarded to be the patron saint of breast cancer patients: St. Agatha, St. Annabel, St. Meryl, or St. Doris?

27534. Who invented Chocolate?

27535. What US supreme court justice served the longest?

27536. What was the Know Nothing Party?

27537. What year did the Atari Video Game come out?

27538. Where does the rubbish go in an American garbage disposal thing, is it under the sink or does it travel along a pipe to a garbage room?

27539. Do plants get cancer?

27540. Where are the headquaters of Pepsi-Cola?

27541. How do we get the term 'soft drink'?

27542. When did the last Japenese soldier, fighting for the Imperial Government, surrendor to the Allies?

27545. Can someone without a sense of smell since birth - 'taste' food?

27547. What is Tom Paxton's latest CD?

27548. When and how did harry chapin die?

27549. Is Mary Chapin Carpenter related to Harry Chapin?

27550. How many and what are harry chapins CDs?

27551. Is the Tom Paxton Ramblin Boy LP available on CD?

27555. Where is the world HQ of Heinz?

27556. What is the origin of the Heinz emblem?

27557. What is the world's most famous beer festival?

27564. Which four US states have the most National Parks?

27567. If I were watching a soccer match, and counted every player on the playing field how many would I count?

27568. What are the origins of the word bar-b-que (bar-b-cue, barbecue)?

27569. One of the most famous couplings from both sides of the Atlantic was Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.In the 'ROAD'films Bing would usually end up with the girl,can you tell me which film(s) did Bob end up with the girl?

27571. What is the meaning of the word Diasphora?

27573. What color is pistachio?

27576. What is the highest rank in the U.S. Navy?

27577. When Will Formula 1 2003 Come Out?

27579. Who invented the sandwich?

27580. From which town in Ireland does Superbowl winning captain John Lynch's grandfather hail from?

27581. In Dr Strangelove an excellent Peter Sellars movie,how does the movie end?

27584. When Roger Bannister first broke the 4 minute mile barrier in 1954, who finished 2nd and 3rd in the same race?

27585. Which player has the most blocked shots in an nba all-star game?

27586. Who won the first ever 'Grand National' in horse racing, and what year did it take place?

27587. Is the famous mathematician John Forbes Nash, subject of the film 'A Beautiful Mind' still alive, and if so what age is he?

27588. What is the first of and last of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'?

27589. Which sport has the largest playing surface?

27590. How did Groundhog's Day begin?

27595. What were the Seven Wonders of the World and how many are still standing?

27597. What is the collective noun for a group of hippopotami?

27598. Why is it better to breathe through your nose?

27601. What was the full name of a 1927 Hemingway book of Short Stories 'Men Without...'?

27602. Who wrote, "Before I built a wall I'd ask what I was walling in or walling out"?

27603. Who in the 1840s wrote 'La Comedie Humaine'?

27604. How did Kurt Cobain think up the title of the Hit Song 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'?

27605. What is the meaning of the alternative rock band's name Depeche Mode?

27606. Is it true that the Great Wall of China can actually be seen from the moon and if not, can any man-made creation be seen from there?

27607. There are sweet, sour, bitter and salty tastes, but what determines if something tastes spicy?

27608. What is a lemming and a lemming migration?

27612. Who was it who said (roughly) 'Those who would give up basic liberty for temporary safety deserve neither.' and what is the correct wording of the quote?

27614. Why is sumo wrestling so called?

27616. What do you call a group of koalas?

27617. Where was the first brick home built in the United States?

27618. Name some top business men coming from seventh day adventist church group?

27619. Who is doctor.Gandee - the founder of natural innovations?

27621. Robbie earle is supposed to be a vegetarian soccer player according to the guardian. do you know whether he has a good reputation?

27622. Where did the English WOman started her North pole Adventure ?

27624. What year was the first drunk driving citation issued?

27625. Ben Mathiews Gary Gromet and Jonathan Didonato Ben Richardson Charlene Williams Kim Wurzel Dina Head Debbie Stephens Could plz tell me what these sports achieve in thier respective field?

27626. Judy Garland was a third cousin to what US president?

27627. What metal burns readily in water?

27628. Does anyone know anything about the fruit Maracuya - I have just eaten a peach and maracuya yogurt, but when I looked it up in the dictionary to see if it had a different name, it wasn't there?

27629. In what county in England will you the find 'Boston'?

27630. What year were the Houses of Parliament finally erected?

27631. Which is the most consumed vegetable annually in the world?

27632. Does Britain have a constitution and what year was it written?

27637. What is the opposite of hibernation?

27639. Who invented toilet roll?

27640. Which British male artist has had the most No I's in the U.S charts?

27641. What is Hodgkin's disease and who first discovered it?

27644. What is the area of the playing space inside a baseball diamond?

27645. How does the rest of this verse go: Thirty days hath September, April, June and November; All the rest have thirty-one, excepting February...?

27648. How did the dance The Macarayna get its name?

27649. Who is O'Hare Airport named for?

27650. How did we get the nick name Uncle Sam?

27651. What is the fastest running British bird?

27652. I have been wondering, my friends said if you drink mountain dew you lose sperm... is that true?

27656. What is the largest salamander in the US?

27659. During WWII, what was the German V-3 (that is a three, not a two or a one)?

27660. What is the ethnic group from Northern Iraq?

27661. Could someone please explain briefly the situation that caused the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1868?

27662. What is the forest land of Russia called, and what is its almost treeless belt referred to as?

27668. Who was the female drummer who filled in for Motley Crue after Tommy Lee quit and his replacement was hospitalized?

27679. What is a 'fillip'?

27680. What is the most common pub name in Britain?

27682. INTRANSIGENCE is the longest what?

27684. What star of There's Something About Mary was taught to swim by Gladys Knight?

27685. Why are 'dusters' always yellow?

27687. What are the spices in Souvlaki?

27688. How long does cress take to grow from seed to plant- and are there any visable signs of growth after just one day?

27689. Who came up with the 40-hr work week?

27691. How many NBA players have posted a quadruple double?

27693. In which county in England will you find the town of Runcorn?

27694. Which female actress has won the most Oscars?

27695. Who has had the most nominations for an Oscar without ever having won an Oscar?

27697. What is evidenced to be the world's oldest sport or game (and to short-circuit the debate about whether they qualify) excluding hunting and fishing?

27699. Following on from my question last night, name the British female artist who has had the most No. 1's in the U.S charts?

27700. What is herpes and who first discovered it?

27701. What is the capital of the Turks and Caicos island group?

27707. The Rio Grande River is 1885 miles long. The Sacramento River is 20% as long as the Rio Grande. How long is the Sacrament River?

27711. I remember a series in which a man was called MR T.What was the series called and what was his real name or birth name?

27712. When British Monarch reigned for the shortest period of time?

27714. Besides writing, what art was practiced by William Blake?

27715. Queen Elizabeth II has reigned for a long time but who is or was the world's longest reigning monarch?

27716. What bird breeds on the coasts of North America, but makes its winter home in the Antartic?

27717. What 2000 horror spoof had ads that read, 'No mercy. No shame. No sequel.'?

27718. What is the most Oscars ever won by one film?

27719. What do Monty Hall, the creator of IMAX projections, the founder of Harlequin books, and the voice of Hal in '2001: A Space Odyssey' have in common?

27720. Before he was the lead singer of The Police, what was Sting's name and occupation?

27721. How did Sting get his nick name?

27722. Who said: we will protect only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught.?

27723. Who said'that ain't a knife,this is a knife'?

27724. What is the world's smelliest creature?

27725. Which creature has the largest eyes?

27726. How many Takahe are there?

27727. Who or what is Moana?

27728. Can anyone tell me about Taniwha?

27729. What is Pounamu?

27733. Which capital in the world doesn't have a fire brigade?

27734. In the new james bond movie 007 gets a new watch from Q(played by that wonderful manic actor John cleese)Given Bond's reputation with gadgetry,Q reminds him how many watches he has already used by stating this watch is number----?

27736. Has any Japanese or Chinese song reached number 1 in the U.S.A or U.K and if so when and what song/songs?

27738. What is the name of the housing complex that the Jetsons live in ?

27739. Have there ever been persons serving time in a U.S. prison who were legally blind?

27740. In the last episode of Ally McBeal who got married?

27741. Unlike our friends in North America,European countries come and go,change names or disappear completely.Which was the last country to disappear from the map of Europe?

27744. Where did the band the 'Eagles' get their name?

27745. In what county in England will you find Macclesfield in?

27747. Was ''The Good Life'' actually filmed in Surbiton?

27748. Whatever happened to former World Championship darts finalist Dave Whitcombe?

27749. Aside from mercury, which metallic element is the poorest conductor of heat?

27751. Trivia for Universtiy of Utah?

27752. In chicago there was a carpet company magickiss,they had a phone number that started with Hudson 3 anyone know the rest of it?

27753. There's a pub in England that's known as 'The pub where time was never called' Where is it?

27761. What's the most popular beverage in America?

27762. By what name is the cry of a grouse called?

27766. What Network carried the TV program Dragnet in 1952?

27767. What constitutes a conventional weapon?

27769. In 'A Clockwork Orange', when Alex comes home from prison there is a stranger sitting with his parents. What is this person's name, and what is he eating?

27770. Who wrote the song 'The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald'?

27771. Whose national anthem is 'Tautiska Giesme'?

27772. Which former 'hoops' star challenged Al Gore for the 2000 Democratic nomination?

27773. What did John Mason Brown call "chewing gum for the eyes?"

27774. What sentiment did Samuel Johnson define as 'The last refuge of the scoundrel'?

27775. What did Shakespeare mean by 'a pipe blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures'?

27776. Who defined a classic as 'a book which people praise and don't read...'?

27779. We Celts have been making incursions into England or Albion from time immemorial, killing, looting, pillaging, raping (and that's only the animals!) What name is given to the coast to coast fortifications designed to keep out the fierce warriors from making day trips into England/Albion?

27782. How many roses are delivered on Valentine's day?

27783. What is Ernie's favorite toy?

27787. What was written on the front of Ken Kesey's bus?

27788. Is it true that the F1 McClaren car has gold plates near the engine to prevent the heat from melting the car?

27789. What are the real names of the Magnificent Seven?

27790. Gordon Jackson played who in the Professionals?

27793. What are the names of Witchipoo's 2 main henchmen?

27794. Can anyone please tell me what the recipe is for the mixed drink Mass Confusion?

27795. Who can name the most dangerous occupation in the world?

27796. What is the name of the famous dog in the Men In Black films, and what breed of dog is it?

27797. In what county in England will you find Burscough?

27800. Who is the first and the only cricketer to participate in the first six world cups?

27802. If the cost of a pub sign is down to the number of letters in its name, where would the cheapest sign in England hang ?

27806. Where and what is commonly called 'The skyskraper of the prairie'?

27807. Who did Laurence Harvey play in the 1964 London production of 'Camelot'?

27808. What 1947 drama pictures life in England if Hitler had conquered it?

27809. What city does Chekhov's 'Three Sisters' dream of going to?

27810. What Japenese form are Sewamono plays?

27811. Who can remember what happened in the final season of the popular tv show Mork and Mindy?

27812. Psalm 46 was the basis for what well known hymn?

27813. What 'MASH' veteran played sidekick Bill Gannon in a 1967-70 revival of 'Dragnet'?

27816. Similar to 'West Side Story' there was conflict in the UK at the same time, usually at Brighton on weekends. Who were the main protagonists and what transportation did they use?

27817. What countries sit on the UN Security Council?

27818. Who said 'Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer?

27819. Which is the only license plate in the U.S of A that has a creature on it?

27820. What's the name of the song at the start of 'White Collar Blue', shown on Channel 10 in Australia. It is not a 'pop' or 'rock' song that I am aware of. Can anyone help me please?

27821. Which was the first chart topper in England since 'Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus' to be sung entirely in a foreign language?

27824. There is one place the Queen (or King) of England can not enter, What is this place and why can't she?

27827. When did Canada get full control of its own foreign policy?

27828. Which British writer wrote a wild, woolly, melodramatic novel (c. 1907) about ' 'sin' on a tiger skin'?

27830. In the movie version of 'Fiddler On The Roof' a word sounding like 'mazaltoff' is constantly said, what does this word mean?

27831. What is the longest word you can type using only the top row of the keyboard?

27835. What Michigan city did the TV show Rosanne take place in?

27836. Who is the only person to twice win a Nobel prize in the same category?

27837. Who invented pantyhose?

27839. I am not sure if this is fact but it sounded interesting -Who was the star of the cartoon that took the longest to broadcast on television?

27840. Why wouldn't Mel Blanc accept an invitation to eat at Bug Bunny's?

27842. What year did the Viet Nam War offically end?

27843. Who directed the movie 'New Jack City'?

27845. What exactly is a computer 'byte'?

27846. Who inspired the fictional character Robinson Crusoe?

27847. What was the first European permanent settlement in Baja California, and who founded it?

27848. What is the Muslim center of the mainly Roman Catholic Philippines?

27849. What is a antipodean island nation?

27851. Which cricket player won his love by delivering shuttlecorcks (kapil dev, sourav ganguly, sachin tendulkar, maohammed azharuddin) ?

27853. For the benefit of UTQ, I will re-post his/her question: Oranges have a higher sugar content than lemons, but how much?

27855. What does SPQR tattoed on General Maximus Decimus Meridus's arm, in film, The Gladiator, stand for?

27856. In The Hobbit, from where does Bilbo get the ring?

27858. What is Frank Skinner's real name?

27859. What is the name of the Church in Dad's Army?

27864. Who presented 'Out of Town' British TV series?

27866. Who believe that christ's resurrection was a feat of cloning technology (the raelians, black stockings, faith missioners, jehovah's witnesses) ?

27867. What is a Baldrick?

27868. Does Enron still exist?

27870. I know Eamonn Andrews was the first presenter of 'World of Sport' but were there any others that followed?

27872. Help please - trying to help son with his GCSE science. Can a cloned person or tomato even reproduce itself by normal means?

27873. I don't speak French so I got angry when my husband wrote one whole scene entirely in French in one of his history plays. Which play is it?

27877. What is the oldest national flag in the world?

27879. What famous World War 1 hero who died in 1935 tried to escape fame by joining the R.A.F as Aircraftsman Shaw?

27880. Which ball game has a playing surface 100feet x 50feet?

27881. Hot shot Phil Spector was once a member of a 1950's top ten charting pop group what were they called?

27884. Which film has a high school prom with the theme 'meant for each other - great lovers throughout history'?

27885. In 2001 what percentage of people surveyed said they would rather have a valentines text message than a card or bunch of flowers?

27887. Who painted the portrait of Queen Elizabeth that prompted one critic to say he 'should be locked in the tower' for it?

27888. Who said 'The navy gets the gravy, and the army gets the beans...'?

27889. How do Night Vision Optics work?

27890. What classic movie had the tagline'They had s date with fate'?

27893. What is another name for a Glasgow Ranger?

27894. Who is considered to be the founder of modern day Las Vegas?

27895. What is this Dubya that people refer to goerge w with?

27896. Where is Itchycoo Park?

27897. Can anyone tell me the main song in the movie, 24 Hours in London, it plays on the DVD region 1 title page, and it plays at the end of the movie?

27900. What are the four horses of the apocolypse?

27901. What does 419 mean?

27902. Who or what is ceffyl?

27903. How many cups of coffee can you get from a coffee bean tree, or is there one?

27904. Where do coffee beans come from?

27905. When was the first long distance (trans atlantic) phone call?

27907. What is the third largest animal in the world?

27909. How big is Texas and how big is Alaska, preferably in square kilometres?

27911. Who said, "The end justifies the means"?

27916. What broadway show needs 1600 pounds of dry ice to create fog for a weeks worth of shows?

27917. What was Elvis Presleys army badge number?

27918. When and where was the first gas street light in U.S.A.?

27920. During the years 1975 - 1977, what was the cost of a movie theater ticket for a teenager?

27921. What year was the movie Tommy released, and did Elton John make an appearance in that movie, what songs other then Pin Ball Wizard was in the movie, and who did the song in the movie?

27923. Which present member of the Namibian world cup cricket team was also a member of the world cup rugby team?

27926. What is the name of the main gorilla in the movie 'Congo', and what is the name of the Romanian doctor?

27927. What state in South East India has Chennai as its capital?

27928. What is another name for Potassium Carbonate?

27929. What was the profession of the author of 'Lord of the Rings'?

27930. Mandarin and English are the two most widely spoken languages but what is the third?

27931. What is the location of the landscape with distant ruins, which features on the front of the album ''Bury The Hatchet'' by The Cranberries?

27932. From where did the band The Teardrop Explodes get their name?

27933. What is the greatest number of contestants to have been eliminated in the first round of ''Fifteen To One''?

27934. Does anyone know the actual title of a very famous traditional Portugese song, that I have heard played a few times on the radio, and it's not the national anthem!?

27936. Does Saturn really have 18 moons true or false?

27937. Who was the best supporting actress nominee for the film 'Tootsie'?

27938. Who won best supporting actress for her film 'My cousin Vinny'?

27939. Name the river in N France which was the scene of heavy fighting in World War One?

27940. What is the screen or wall decoration at the back of an altar called?

27941. Name the English explorer who led the 'Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition from 1955-58?

27942. What was the capital of Malawi until 1971, before it was replaced Lilongwe?

27944. A small italian mouse ,so sexy and a voice to die for,I would have left Mickey for him.Who was he and who was his creator?

27945. What State has the highest percentage of people who walk to work?

27947. What is the name of the song playing in 'Taxi Driver' when he's watching people dancing on TV and holding his gun?

27948. Following on from the Teardrop Explodes question, where did Everything But The Girl get their name from?

27949. What year were conversation hearts were invented?

27951. How does a phelomyxa reproduce?

27953. If kingdoms are organized like 'kingdom, phylum, chess, order, family, genus, species' why are eubacteria and archaebacteria reffered to as 'groups' and fungi as 'divisions' if all the other kingdoms are referred to as phylum or order in my textbook?

27954. Why are hemiptera, dunata, and isoptera inconplete metamorphosis if for example dragonflies have larvae?

27955. Why are we the only mammals with fingerprints?

27956. How does a magnifying glass work?

27958. Is it possible to have one eye looking up, while the other is looking down. or one eye looking right, while the other is looking left?

27960. What year did the titantic sink?

27961. In ten pin bowling parlance, what do the initials AMF stand for?

27962. What did Popeye and Betty Boop do together in the 1933 cartoon Popeye the Sailor?

27963. What is the popular drink of the '60s that featured Bugs Bunny as its spokesman in TV ads?

27965. What snake loving rock veteran hyped Big Bertha golf clubs in the 1996 TV ads?

27966. What TV family lived at 10 Stigwood Ave.?

27967. What actor has been Emmy nominated three times as the same character in three different series?

27968. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, who or what was Livingston?

27969. What were the names of the 5 original V-Jays on MTV?

27970. What singer's February 6th birthday is a national holiday in Jamaica?

27971. What is the most frequently ingested mind altering drug?

27972. What unique situation occurred in the 1951 Bugs Bunny cartoon 'Operation Rabbit'?

27973. Leave it to Beaver, The Munsters and Frasier what do these TV shows have in common?

27974. With today's trend to build smaller cars to conserve petrol, I remember seeing some small cars on the road many years ago. What was the name of the car that you had to sit one behind the other, and is there more than one manufacturer of this kind of two seater where the passenger sits behind the driver?

27979. Umpires at leeds test between India and england in 1986 allowed RAMAN LAMBA to field but then sent him back. what was the goof-up ?

27984. To veg club Actually I posted that question in reminder to an already posted question.I didnt know that the previously mentioned wouldnt come up .Sorry about that.My question was IS robbie earl an english player was/is a strict vegetarian or not ?

27987. 150 pounds of honey would fuel how many trips for a honey bee to fly to the moon?

27988. Where does coffee come from?

27989. How many presidents has the United States had?

27990. Name the youth of Abydos in Greek mythology who drowned in the Hellespont?

27991. Name the actor who replaced Tom Baker as Doctor Who?

27995. How did Cardiff get its name?

27996. For how long has aluminium been known as ''aluminum'' in the US - or was it ever thus?

27997. Following the recent questions about the origins of band names, does anyone know the origin of the name ''Mott the Hoople''?

27998. Here in Britain, we are shortly to have our very own RND - Red Nose Day. Has anyone from outside of Britain ever heard of it, or have similar events?

27999. What do you call an inverted 'V' used for inserting missing text in a sentence?