Question: The advance south into England by Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745 reached approximately as far as the Swarkstone Bridge on which major English River?

Answer: TRENT


Question: Who succeeded Brian Epstein as manager of The Beatles?

Answer: Allan Klein


Question: What was singer Jack Jones father Allan's theme song

Answer: Donkey Serenade


Question: What is the first name of either of the twin brothers of Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter books?

Answer: FRED or GEORGE


Question: Aconcagua is the highest mountain in which mountain range?

Answer: Andes


Question: Charles Lindbergh became famous by flying which aeroplane?

Answer: The Spirit of St Louis


Question: By what first name is West Indian cricketer Sarwan known?

Answer: RAMNARESH


Question: What colour is the liqueur Galliano?

Answer: Yellow


Question: If two lemons are added to two apples what, in mathematical terms, is the result?

Answer: Four pieces of fruit


Question: Genever is the old word for what alcoholic drink?

Answer: Gin


Question: In Ian Fleming’s novel ‘Moonraker’, Sir Hugo Drax is suspected of cheating at which game in the Mayfair club ‘Blades’?

Answer: Bridge


Question: The state of a plant grown in the dark with yellow leaves and long thin stems is known as what?

Answer: ETIOLATION


Question: What Latin word meaning equal expresses a quality standard/norm (on or below or above etc), alluding to golfing performance?

Answer: Par


Question: 238 AD is known in Roman history as the Year of the ........ (how many) Emperors?

Answer: SIX


Question: What animal kills more Americans than any other?

Answer: Bees


Question: What was the christian name of the daughter of William Dorrit, known as Little Dorrit in the 1857 novel of the same name by Charles Dickens?

Answer: AMY


Question: Which Thornbridge beer, gravity 5.9%, is named after an Indian city?

Answer: JAIPUR


Question: The King of which fictional country is drugged on the eve of his coronation in the 1894 book The Prisoner of Zenda?

Answer: Ruritania


Question: In which country is the La Quebrada cliff and the Acapulco Bay at its foot?

Answer: Mexico


Question: Which former Soviet republic is the largest land-locked county in the world?

Answer: Kazakhstan


Question: Throughout the 80s and 90s Phil Collins recorded on which record label?

Answer: Atlantic


Question: Which golf course, which has hosted the Open Championship, was bought by Donald Trump early in 2014?

Answer: The Aeneid


Question: As what are Jeff Ement, Matt Cameron, Mike McCready and Eddie Vedder collectively known?

Answer: Pearl Jam


Question: Which group released their third studio album X+Y in 2005?

Answer: Coldplay


Question: In British Wrestling who was Shirley Crabtree?

Answer: Big Daddy


Question: Who in verse sailed to the land where the bong tree grows

Answer: The owl and the pussycat


Question: What is the name of the ship featured in the 1957 film The Yangtse Incident?

Answer: HMS AMETHYST


Question: Which famous actor is well known for his voice over work, including the "This is CNN" tag and the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars film franchise?

Answer: James Earl Jones


Question: What hill does a bill sit on before it becomes a law?

Answer: Capitol Hill


Question: In 1998, which director's Oscar acceptance speech included the line I'm king of the world?

Answer: James Cameron


Question: What is the surname of the father and son who rode Grand National winners, L'Escargot in 1975 and Bobbyjo in 1999?

Answer: Carberry


Question: Which organisation uses barbed wire and a candle as its symbol?

Answer: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL


Question: In 1938 Orson Welles, who was 22 at the time, wrote, produced, and narrated a radio play adaptation of what work, the US broadcast of which sparked widespread upheaval and panic?

Answer: The War of the Worlds by H.G.Wells


Question: Acousticophilia is the sexual arousal by what?

Answer: Sounds or music


Question: "The last words of which German philosopher and author were (in translation) ""More Light!""?"

Answer: J W VON GOETHE


Question: Rathlin Island, off the Northern Ireland coast, was refuge to which Scottish King in 1306?

Answer: Robert the Bruce


Question: In which year did both T-Rex's Marc Bolan and Elvis Presley die ?

Answer: 1977


Question: Pistol and Boo, who became internationally famous in 2015, were what?

Answer: Yorkshire terriers


Question: Which womens squash player won the World Open four times (1985, 1987, 1990 & 1992) and the British Open eight times?

Answer: Susan Devoy


Question: Which fruit did Nell Gwynn, mistress of King Charles II, sell in Drury Lane?

Answer: Oranges


Question: Which European city had the world’s first birth control clinic?

Answer: Amsterdam


Question: What had Edmond Hillary worked at before taking up mountain climbing?

Answer: Bee Keeping


Question: In which country was Saddam Hussein President 1979-2003, being deposed and then hanged in 2006?

Answer: Iraq


Question: Shire, Arabian, Mustang, and Hackney are types of?

Answer: Horse


Question: "Who sang the theme tune to the James Bond film ""Die Another Day""?"

Answer: Madonna


Question: Which film star is the title of a 1984 hit single by Madness?

Answer: Michael Caine


Question: Which villain, played by Richard Kiel, appeared in two James Bond movies, 'The Spy Who Loved Me' and 'Moonraker'?

Answer: Jaws


Question: In the sport of curling what name is usually given to the playing surface?

Answer: THE BED


Question: Whose girlfriend had a pet snake called Enid?

Answer: Adolf Hitler


Question: In the fairy tale Thumbelina, what creature wants the miniature girl to marry her son ?

Answer: TOAD


Question: What is the name of the plastic bit on the end of shoelaces?

Answer: An aglet


Question: Kurt Russell is the long term partner of which actress?

Answer: GOLDIE HAWN


Question: Which American state shares borders with Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania?

Answer: OHIO


Question: At 1900 the largest fishing port in the world was?

Answer: Grimsby


Question: The USS Langley was the country's first type of which vessel?

Answer: AIRCRAFT CARRIER


Question: Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

Answer: George W Bush


Question: Which shipping passage was closed from 1967 to 1975?

Answer: Suez Canal


Question: Which American Ivy League University is situated in Ithaca, New York State?

Answer: CORNELL UNIVERSITY


Question: The Nag's Head was the local pub in which TV comedy series?

Answer: ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES


Question: Covering an area in excess of 30,000 square miles, in which country can you find the 'Dasht  e Kavir Desert' the largest to lie wholly in it's own country?

Answer: IRAN


Question: Which former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland died in August

Answer: Albert Reynolds


Question: Who supposedly chopped down a cherry tree, but couldn't lie about it?

Answer: George Washington


Question: What is unusual about tennis professional Mianne Bagger?

Answer: She used to be male


Question: David Stern was the commissioner of what organization?

Answer: NBA


Question: Espiritu Santo is the largest island of which island republic?

Answer: VANUATU


Question: By which other name is the metallic element Potassium also known, hence its chemical formula K?

Answer: KALLIUM


Question: What colour is the square (which contains a white star) on the flag of Chile?

Answer: BLUE


Question: Which band, formed in Salford in 1976, contained Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook?

Answer: 'JOY DIVISION'


Question: Where is the Headquarters of Boeing?

Answer: SEATTLE


Question: Saloth Sar was the real name of which infamous dictator?

Answer: Pol Pot


Question: "In the novel, ""Nicholas Nickelby"", by Charles Dickens, what was the name of the school, run by Wackford Squeers?"

Answer: DOTHEBOYS HALL


Question: Octavian, who became Augustus, and Lepidus were two of the 'Second Triumvirate' in 43 BC. Who was the third?

Answer: MARK ANTONY


Question: The character Sally Bowles appears in which film?

Answer: Cabaret


Question: How many Brandenburg Concertos did Bach write?

Answer: 6


Question: The official beverage of Puerto Rico since 1978, what drink consists of rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice?

Answer: Pina Colada


Question: Hong Xiuquan was the pivotal figure of what 19th century upheaval in China which ultimately claimed about 20 million lives?

Answer: Taiping Rebellion (1850 to 1864)


Question: What name is given to a piece of land assigned as part of a clergyman's living?

Answer: GLEBE


Question: Who, with 84 goals in 85 games is Hungary’s highest international goal scorer?

Answer: FERENC PUSKÁS


Question: In which 1816 novel do we meet the characters Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth?

Answer: Persuasion


Question: Which mythical hero wielded the magical sword 'Hrunting'?

Answer: Beowulf


Question: "In Ovid's poem ""Metamorphoses"" Pygmalion famously fell in love with Galatea; what was Pygmalion's relationship to her?"

Answer: Her sculptor


Question: Aberdeen is known as what?

Answer: The Granite City


Question: What mountain's peak is the farthest point from Earth's centre/center?

Answer: Chimborazo


Question: Who is featured on Puff Daddy's Can't Hold Me Down?

Answer: Mase


Question: Which media mogul married actress Jane Fonda in 1991, the marriage ending in divorce ten years later?

Answer: TED TURNER


Question: For a point each, name the 6 countries surrounding the Republic of Cameroon.

Answer: Nigeria, Chad, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo


Question: An alkali turns red litmus paper what colour/color?

Answer: Blue


Question: The capital city of Nunavut, Iqaluit lies on which large island?

Answer: Baffin Island


Question: At the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich, who won back to back gold medals in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres, defeating American distance runner Steve Prefontaine in the former?

Answer: Lasse Virn


Question: What is the name for mammals born incompletely developed and carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother's belly?

Answer: Marsupials


Question: In World War II, what were Horsas and Hamilcars?

Answer: GLIDERS


Question: Famous as a presenter on TV-am with Anne Diamond, who is the chairman of Luton Town FC?

Answer: NICK OWEN


Question: In the human body, what is stored in adipose tissue?

Answer: Fat


Question: Who wrote the original novel 'The Phantom of the Opera' in 1910?

Answer: GASTON LEROUX


Question: Political leader Mustafa Kemal is better known by what name?

Answer: Ataturk


Question: An apartment in which building has been the official London residence of the MP for Buckingham since June 2009 ?

Answer: PALACE of WESTMINSTER


Question: The purple grenadilla is another name for which fruit?

Answer: Passion fruit


Question: In April 1963, Lester Bowles Pearson became Prime Minister of which country?

Answer: Canada


Question: What documentary filmmaker gained fame, and 25lbs, when he ate nothing but McDonalds for 30 days, a diet which was immortalized in the film Super Size Me?

Answer: Morgan Spurlock


Question: In which country was Earl Spencer's acrimonious divorce settlement heard?

Answer: South Africa


Question: Which Scottish University was established as the world's first Mechanics Institute in 1821 ?

Answer: HERIOT-WATT


Question: "Which American legal TV drama-comedy (2004 to 2008), a spin-off of ""The Practice"", followed the exploits of attorneys at Crane, Poole & Schmidt?"

Answer: Boston Legal


Question: Which knight is with Arthur at the end and throws Excalibur into the lake?

Answer: Sir Bedevere


Question: The 53.5 km Milford Track is a long-distance walk in which country?

Answer: NEW ZEALAND


Question: Andy Warhol factory members Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dallesandro, Joe Campbell and Jackie Curtis were the real people who inspired which 1972 song?

Answer: WALK ON THE WILD SIDE


Question: Which ruler sold the Louisiana Territories to the USA in 1803?

Answer: NAPOLEON or BONAPARTE


Question: In 2004 who became the first African actress to win an Oscar for Best Actress?

Answer: Charlize Theron


Question: Which poet (1770-1835) was known as the Ettrick Shepherd?

Answer: James Hogg


Question: Which English poet and dramatist was jailed for murder of the actor Gabriel Spencer after a duel in 1598?

Answer: BEN JONSON


Question: In cockney rhyming slang what is a dog and bone

Answer: Telephone


Question: "What was the name of the dog in the children’s TV series ""The Herbs""?"

Answer: Dill


Question: What is the name of the commercial airport which opened in 2005 on the site of the former RAF Finningley?

Answer: Robin Hood Airport


Question: Which area of London derives its name from a hunting call hum medieval times?

Answer: SOHO


Question: The eldest son of a French King was always given which title?

Answer: Dauphin


Question: When was the person who said “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” born?

Answer: 22-Apr-04


Question: Which film is set on the remote Hebridean island of Summerisle?

Answer: The Wicker Man


Question: What country produces the most olive oil?

Answer: Spain


Question: Before which annual sporting event is it the custom for the two club Presidents to toss a coin, an 1829 sovereign?

Answer: OXBRIDGE BOAT RACE


Question: Vancouver is not the first Canadian city to host the winter Olympics. What city holds that honor when they hosted the 1988 games?

Answer: Calgary, Alberta


Question: What is the title of the 2009 biopic film directed by Sam Taylor-Wood about the early life of John Lennon

Answer: Nowhere Boy


Question: Opened in 1963, which London nightclub did Mark Birley name after his then wife?

Answer: ANNABELS


Question: November 30, 1810 saw the birth of what U.S. inventor and business man who is credited with creating the gun that won the west?

Answer: Oliver Winchester


Question: At the age of 86, which US actor married 40 year old make up artist Arlene Silver in 2012?

Answer: Dick Van Dyke


Question: What was the name of the alliance of trading cities and their guilds, each with their own law system and with armies for mututal aid, that established and maintained a trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland, from the 13th to 17th centuries?

Answer: Hanseatic League


Question: England won the 1966 World Cup beating Germany 4-2. Hurst scored 3 of England's goals who scored the other?

Answer: Martin Peters


Question: What is the correct name for a punt pole

Answer: Quant


Question: The 2013-4 MacRobertson Shield international competition, hosted in New Zealand, was in what sport?

Answer: Croquet


Question: Turkey's internet country TLD (Top Level Domain) code is?

Answer: .tr


Question: Which four letter word beginning with T is a small mountain lake?

Answer: Tarn


Question: Who succeeded Nelson Mandela as South African president?

Answer: THABO MBEKI


Question: In 1969, a man was stabbed to death by a member of the Hell's Angels at a Rolling Stones concert. Where was the concert held?

Answer: Altamont


Question: The port of Plymouth is in which English county?

Answer: Devon


Question: Which composer did pianist Clara Wieck marry in 1840?

Answer: ROBERT SCHUMANN


Question: Name either of Marge Simpson’s twin sisters in The Simpsons.

Answer: PATTY or SELMA


Question: The voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Woody Woodpecker, Barney Rubble, Mr. Spacely, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Heathcliff, Speedy Gonzales, Elmer Fudd and hundreds of others, which American voice actor was born on May 30, 1908?

Answer: Mel Blanc


Question: Which car was once dubbed the Reptina because of it's popularity with sales reps

Answer: Ford Cortina


Question: What was the title of Fun Lovin’ Criminals’ 1996 song that nearly made the Top 20?

Answer: SCOOBY SNACKS


Question: Under what name is the American singer/songwriter Steveland Judkins better known?

Answer: STEVIE WONDER


Question: January 18, 1778 saw Captain James Cook discover what island group, which he named the Sandwich Islands, in honor of his sponsor, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich?

Answer: The Hawaiian Islands


Question: What is the name of a shoe that is traditionally made of wood?

Answer: Clog


Question: Complete the name of the MLB (Baseball) team based in Arlington, Texas - 'The Texas....'?

Answer: '..RANGERS'


Question: Which fashion editor has the nickname 'Nuclear'?

Answer: ANNA WINTOUR


Question: "In September 2010, why did Chen Xiaomei of the city of Xian announce that she was suing a cinema and film distributors of Chinese box office hit ""Aftershock""?"

Answer: Wasting her time


Question: Who is the only person allowed to consume alcohol in the chamber of the British House of Commons and even then on only one special day of the year?

Answer: CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER


Question: What is the name of the family’s pet goldfish in the US television cartoon series ‘American Dad’?

Answer: Klaus Heissler


Question: In which year did St George die?

Answer: 303


Question: In pantomime, who is Cinderella's father?

Answer: Baron Hard-Up


Question: The Colorado beetle attacks what crop?

Answer: Potato


Question: "Which actress/singer starred as Doralee Rhodes in the 1980 film, ""Nine to Five""?"

Answer: DOLLY PARTON


Question: Which Tennis star was Brooke Shields once married to?

Answer: Andre Agassi


Question: In the British Army, which commissioned rank is indicated by a crown on each shoulder?

Answer: Major


Question: Who were the American explorers who travelled from Missouri to the Oregon and back between 1804 and 1806?

Answer: Lewis and Clark, William Clark & Meriwether Lewis.


Question: The sea between Australia and New Zealand is named after an explorer of what nationality?

Answer: DUTCH


Question: "Who, as part of his performance in the 2015 film ""Revenant"", was realistically eviscerated by a bear on screen?"

Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio


Question: What are the words kayak, radar and sagas?

Answer: Palindromes


Question: Bryan Ferry was the lead singer of which 1970’s band?

Answer: Roxy Music


Question: In which town did the Co-operative Movement begin?

Answer: ROCHDALE


Question: The worlds largest marketer of fruit juices, what is the juice arm of the Coca Cola company?

Answer: Minute Maid


Question: "What was the most famous song from the movie ""Frozen""?"

Answer: Let it Go


Question: In which year did John Stonehouse disappear and the Flixborough chemical plant exploded?

Answer: 1974


Question: Which Swiss firm of architects was responsible for the Allianz Arena in Munich and converting B Power Station in London into Tate Modern?

Answer: ERZOG & DE MEURON


Question: Lead poisoning, caused by increased levels of the metal lead in the blood, that may cause irreversible neurological damage, renal disease, and reproductive toxicity, is not also known in medical circles as ?

Answer: Gunshot wounds


Question: "Which car company, in 1986, comissioned ""Cars"", a series of artworks to track the evolution of its designs, from Andy Warhol?"

Answer: Mercedes-Benz


Question: Give a year in the reign of King Stephen.

Answer: 1135-1154


Question: What type of animal is a pongo

Answer: Ape


Question: In which year in the 20's did the General Strike occur

Answer: 1926


Question: In the human body, which bone connects the humerus with the calvicle?

Answer: Scapula (shoulder blade)


Question: While working for an advertising agency, which famous author was part of a team that devised the advertising slogan “Nice One Cyril”?

Answer: Peter Mayle


Question: Colchester stands on which river? The river shares its name with a Lancashire town.

Answer: Colne


Question: "Jared Kass, one of the inventors of a recreational sport described it as follows. Fill in the missing word which is also the name of the sport. ""I just remember one time running for a pass and leaping up in the air and just feeling the Frisbee making it into my hand and feeling the perfect synchrony and the joy of the moment, and as I landed I said to myself, 'This is the ... game. This is the ... game.'"""

Answer: Ultimate (frisbee)


Question: On 7 January 2006, Elliot John Crosby became the youngest bowler in Britain to achieve what in a sanctioned ten-pin bowling competition?

Answer: Roll a perfect single game score of 300


Question: What are the narrow bands of strong winds called which move around the world between about six and twelve miles high?

Answer: Jet Streams


Question: American singer Ernest Evans called himself Chubby Checker to emulate the name of which other musician?

Answer: Fats Domino


Question: What is the name of the world's largest church, that was begun in 1450, finished in 1600 and consecrated by Pope Urban XIII in 1626?

Answer: St Peter's, Rome


Question: In which English country is the country house Dorneywood?

Answer: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE


Question: A pioneering method for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers in the 1840s has what significance for the digital age?

Answer: The method, created by Ada Lovelace for Babbage's Analytical Engine, is widely credited as the world's first computer program.


Question: According to TV advertising which company has the slogan, 'It's got our name on it'?

Answer: WICKES


Question: In the British military, a bombadier is equivalent to which other rank?

Answer: Corporal


Question: I Drove All Night in 1993 was the last solo UK chart entry for which singer?

Answer: Roy Orbison


Question: By what name was Australia known before British colonisation?

Answer: New Holland


Question: February 8, 1960 saw the creation of what major Los Angeles attraction which runs for 1.7 miles from North Grower Street to North La Brea Avenue, a short segment of Marshfield Way, and a section of Vine St between Yucca Street and Sunset Boulevard?

Answer: Hollywood Walk of Fame


Question: The Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, is the leader of which political party?

Answer: SYRIZA


Question: What is, or was, a barouche?

Answer: A (FOUR WHEELED) CARRIAGE


Question: Vijay Singh, a US Masters champion, comes from where?

Answer: Fiji


Question: The world became aware of the Chernobyl disaster after detectors were triggered in which country?

Answer: SWEDEN


Question: Who composed the music for ‘Billy Elliot, the Musical’?

Answer: Sir ELTON JOHN


Question: In what film did Oprah Winfrey make her big screen acting debut?

Answer: The Color Purple


Question: What was journalist Richard Littlejohn’s nickname for Cherie Blair?

Answer: WICKED WITCH


Question: On what body of water did Jesus supposedly walk?

Answer: Sea of Galilee


Question: Which nation boasts the world's longest running TV sports show, Hockey Night, first aired 1952?

Answer: Canada


Question: What was the name of the secret society which led a revolt of the Kikuyu people of Kenya in 1952 ?

Answer: MAU MAU


Question: Bullfighting is central to which Ernest Hemingway non-fiction book?

Answer: Death in the Afternoon


Question: What is a form of word play that deliberately exploits ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humorous or rhetorical effect?

Answer: Pun


Question: The Centigrade temperature scale is also known commonly by what name?

Answer: Celsius


Question: "The Jacques Brel song ""Le moribond"" (translation ""the dying man"") was a hit in English for Terry Jacks under what title?"

Answer: SEASONS IN THE SUN


Question: What plant do we often call the 'Busy Lizzie'?

Answer: Impatiens


Question: A drupe is a type of what?

Answer: Fruit


Question: Which was the only country to win two silver medals and no other medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics? (clue - both medals were won in men's sprint events)

Answer: Trinidad and Tobago


Question: Which organization of the Catholic church whose name is Latin for 'Work of God' received world attention with the publication of The Da Vinci Code in which it is portrayed as participating in a sinister international conspiracy?

Answer: Opus Dei


Question: A speechwriter for both Ford and Nixon, before becoming actor and comedian, who won a Emmy award as host of a game show in which you could win $5000 of his own money?

Answer: Win Ben Steins Money


Question: In what city would you find Yale University?

Answer: New Haven


Question: Where did Richard III ‘imprison’ his two young nephews in order to eliminate them from succession to the throne so that he could gain the crown of England?

Answer: Tower of London


Question: What Chinese tile game was popular in the U.S.?

Answer: Mahjong


Question: What was once the most abundant bird in North America but was driven to extinction in 1914?

Answer: Passenger Pigeon


Question: "Which album by Lily Allen contained the tracks ""The Fear"", ""Not Fair"" and ""22""?"

Answer: It's Not Me, It's You


Question: In which US state is Harvard University?

Answer: MASSACHUSSETTS


Question: What style of American Football founded in 2003 is a full-contact 7 a side game where uniforms consist of helmets, shoulder pads, elbow pads, knee pads, bras, and panties?

Answer: Lingerie Football League


Question: By how many years to the day did OJ Simpson's conviction for robbery and kidnapping follow his acquittal of murder?

Answer: Thirteen


Question: Which American won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002?

Answer: JIMMY CARTER


Question: "What was the first pop video directed by John Landis, whose directing credits include ""National Lampoon's Animal House"" and ""The Blues Brothers""?"

Answer: "Michael Jackson's ""Thriller"""


Question: Where does Roseanne have a tattoo of a pink rose?

Answer: Her foot


Question: In what Beijing square were democracy activists massacred in 1989?

Answer: Tiananmen


Question: The main international cricket competitions are Test matches, ODI, and which other?

Answer: Twenty20 Internationals


Question: Geoff Keegan was leader at which youth club on TV throughout the 1990s?

Answer: Byker Grove


Question: Which actress was voted Miss Greenwich Village in 1942?

Answer: Lauren Bacall


Question: Which King reigned for only 325 days?

Answer: Edward 8th


Question: The daughter of the extravagant baronet 'Sir Walter Eliot', 'Anne Eliot is the central character in which of Jane Austen's novels?

Answer: 'PERSUASION'


Question: "The song ""Have yourself a merry little Christmas"" comes from which musical?"

Answer: MEET ME IN ST LOUIS


Question: Harvey was one of Dr. Crippen’s first names. What was the other?

Answer: HAWLEY


Question: Which zodiac sign is between Libra and Sagittarius?

Answer: SCORPIO


Question: Deficiency in which vitamin causes Beri-Beri?

Answer: B1


Question: ‘The Weeping Woman’ is the work of which artist?

Answer: Pablo Picasso


Question: Specifically, What is the only mammal that could be described as parasitic?

Answer: The Vampire Bat


Question: First published in 1932, what is the official magazine of the British Film Institute?

Answer: SIGHT & SOUND


Question: Which Rugby League team plays home games at Derwent Park?

Answer: WORKINGTON TOWN


Question: The infectious disease roup affects which creatures?

Answer: Poultry and pigeons


Question: Who was the author of Pygmalion'?

Answer: George Bernard Shaw


Question: Duke D'Mond, who died aged 66 in 2009, was lead singer of which successful UK comedy pop group?

Answer: The Barron Knights


Question: Which poet wrote ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’?

Answer: William Butler Yeats


Question: In which decade of the 20th century was Anne Bancroft born?

Answer: 1930s


Question: The first stations on the four lines leaving which city by rail are Wymondham, Salhouse, Brundall Gardens and Diss?

Answer: NORWICH


Question: "What type of clothing is a ""sou-wester""?"

Answer: Hat


Question: Which Bradford car manufacturer, up until 1954, built the Javelin and Jupiter models?

Answer: JOWETT


Question: What is the name for the Vietnamese New Year? (Hint: three letters)

Answer: Tết


Question: Which was the last non-capital city to host the Summer Olympic Games?

Answer: SYDNEY


Question: Hedonophobia is the irrational fear of what?

Answer: Pleasure


Question: Which country since the late 1900s has governed/overseen the increasing independence of the New Caledonia archipelago, east of Australia?

Answer: France


Question: In 1947, Chuck Yeager was the first to do what in an aeroplane?

Answer: Break the sound barrier


Question: Which precious gem is the birthstone for May?

Answer: Emerald


Question: Antananarivo is the capital of which country?

Answer: Madagascar


Question: Which member of the cabinet is MP for Maidenhead?

Answer: THERESA MAY


Question: What well known alcoholic drink was originally known as 'Usquebaugh'?

Answer: WHISKY


Question: "The chant ""Boom I ay!"" meaning ""kill him"" was famously used to egg which sportsman in 1974?"

Answer: Muhammad Ali (during the Rumble in the Jungle fight)


Question: Which Dickens' novel features Mr Merdle, Edmund Sparkler and Tattycoram?

Answer: Little Dorrit


Question: Hob and Jill are the male and female names respectively for which type of creature ?

Answer: FERRET


Question: Trinidad lies opposite the delta of which major river?

Answer: Orinoco


Question: What was the stage name of singer/actor Terence Nelhams?

Answer: Adam Faith


Question: The English Football Association banned (What?) from 1921 to 1971 at its member clubs?

Answer: Women's Football games


Question: Sir Basil Spence is associated with what activity?

Answer: Architecture


Question: Quantrill's Raiders, a loosely organised force of Partisan rangers under the leadership of William Clarke Quantril, fought in which war?

Answer: American Civil War


Question: Who were the victors of the Battle of Austerlitz?

Answer: The French under Napoleon


Question: What kind of bird is a Blue Orpington

Answer: Chicken


Question: What piece of equipment was banned from the National Gallery in 2015?

Answer: SELFIE STICK


Question: What separates East and West Malaysia?

Answer: South China Sea


Question: Who played Beverley Hills hairdresser George Roundy in the 1975 film ‘Shampoo’?

Answer: Warren Beatty


Question: What speaker component is used to produce the highest audio frequencies, usually between 2,000HZ and 20,000HZ?

Answer: Tweeter


Question: In what South American country was unrepentant asshat Che Guevara and his band of merry men captured and ultimately executed?

Answer: Bolivia


Question: What collective noun is normally used to describe a group of finches or hummingbirds ?

Answer: A CHARM


Question: Bjrn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson wrote most of the songs for which pop group?

Answer: ABBA


Question: In which city was the rock star Michael Hutchence found dead in 1997 ?

Answer: SYDNEY


Question: The Isis is the upper reach of which British river?

Answer: River Thames


Question: Who played Rachel Green in Friends?

Answer: Jennifer Aniston


Question: The Frenchman Jean Robert-Houdin (1805-1871) is credited with formalizing what form of entertainment?

Answer: Magic


Question: "What actor played the father on ""Little House on the Prairie""?"

Answer: Michael Landon


Question: Who is the next in this series: John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, James J. Jeffries, Marvin Hart, ... ?

Answer: Tommy Burns


Question: Which stretch of waterway separates Madagascar from the African mainland?

Answer: MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL


Question: Who had a hit in 2013 with Lost Generation

Answer: Rizzle Kicks


Question: In 1926, Irish aristocrat Violet Gibson attempted but failed to assassinate which political leader?

Answer: Benito Mussolini


Question: "What is ""Too much money chasing too few goods""?"

Answer: Inflation


Question: What does the average person have 206 of?

Answer: Bones


Question: The Royal Border Bridge crosses which river

Answer: Tweed


Question: Who did Michael Gorbachev succeed as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?

Answer: KONSTANTIN CHERNENKO


Question: 'The Umbrellas' is the work of which French impressionist?

Answer: Renoir


Question: In the middle ages, what were built in Canterbury, York, Lincoln, Salisbury, Lichfield and Winchester?

Answer: Cathedrals


Question: Which 70s show was based on the British show Till Death Us Do Part?

Answer: All In The Family


Question: Which Irish politician was known as 'The Liberator'?

Answer: Daniel O'Connell


Question: What is the scientific name for the heart's pacemaker?

Answer: Sinoatrial node


Question: Dishes prepared with spinach can be referred to as what?

Answer: la Florentine


Question: What artist famously cut off one of his own ears?

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh


Question: Which US comic superhero has the real name Steve Rogers?

Answer: Captain America


Question: How long was swimmer Michelle Smith-de Bruin banned for attempting to manipulate a drugs test?

Answer: 4 years


Question: Said to refer erroneously to the temperature at which book paper catches fire, the title of Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel about a futuristic society in which reading books is illegal, is called 'Fahrenheit...' what? 972; 451; 100; or 25?

Answer: 451


Question: What survey line, completed in 1767, is typically thought to separate the slave owning South from the freedom loving North?

Answer: Mason-Dixon line


Question: January 17, 1929 saw the pride of Chester, Il, Elzie Segar debut what iconic cartoon character in a Thimble Theater strip?

Answer: Popeye the Sailor Man


Question: Which artist David was born in Bradford UK?

Answer: Hockney


Question: The first Olympic flag, presented to the IOC at the 1920 Olympics by the city of Antwerp, Belgium, was lost until 1977. Where had it been?

Answer: In the bottom of a competitors suitcase


Question: What name was given to the English Civil war in the 15th century between the rival houses of Lancaster and York?

Answer: Wars of the Roses


Question: What famed British naturalist, born on Feb 12, 1809, wrote a book famously subtitled "the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"?

Answer: Charles Darwin


Question: What was the language of the Roman Empire?

Answer: Latin


Question: What is the most common phobia in the United States, according to the NIMH?

Answer: Fear of Public Speaking


Question: Which saint established a monastery and Christian community on the island of Iona in the year 563?

Answer: ST COLUMBA


Question: What was Sophie Kinsella's best selling book of 2009?

Answer: Confessions of a Shopaholic


Question: "Which Latin phrase, that translates literally as ""under the rose"", means 'secretly' or 'in confidence'?"

Answer: SUB ROSA


Question: Who was the mother of Edward VI?

Answer: JANE SEYMOUR


Question: John Hannah and Ken Stott have both appeared in the role of which fictional detective?

Answer: John Rebus


Question: Which female succeeded John Prescott as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in June 2007?

Answer: Harriet Harman


Question: What is the more correct term for the sport of archery?

Answer: TOXOPHILY


Question: Who, more famous for his opera ‘Faust’, wrote the music used for the anthem of the Vatican City?

Answer: CHARLES GOUNOD


Question: For which art form is Henri Cartier-Bresson best known?

Answer: Photography


Question: Plaka is the old quarter of which European city?

Answer: Athens


Question: Which is the most southerly country of the EU?

Answer: Malta


Question: "After stints backing Little Richard and the Isley Brothers, who was discovered leading ""Jimmy James and the Blue Flames"" at the Caf Wha? in New York and taken to London on 26 September 1966 to make hit records?"

Answer: Jimi Hendrix


Question: What was the middle name of the author William Thackeray?

Answer: MAKEPEACE


Question: Where do you find the Bridal Veil, American, and Horseshoe Falls?

Answer: Niagara Falls


Question: What is hopology the study of

Answer: Weapons


Question: Oct 5, 1902 saw the birth of Ray Kroc, who started which ubiquitous food source, the most successful fast food operation in the world?

Answer: McDonalds


Question: What section of Los Angeles was devastated by six days of rioting in August 1965, following a drunk driving arrest, which resulted in 34 deaths and over $50 million in property damage?

Answer: Watts


Question: What is the name of the Sunday before Easter Sunday?

Answer: PALM SUNDAY


Question: What was named after American frontiersman James Bowie?

Answer: Knife


Question: What name is given to the declaration of aims and policies of a political party before an election?

Answer: Manifesto


Question: Who was the executioner of Louis XVI?

Answer: Sansom


Question: "The ""phylloxera epidemic"" affects what?"

Answer: Grapevines


Question: What is the final event in a decathlon?

Answer: 1500 metres


Question: Bonham’s, Christies, Forbes and Fellows are are what type of business?

Answer: Auctioneers


Question: Which advert on TV, showed a young boy pushing a bicycle up a steep hill, to the strains of Dvorak's Ninth Symphony?

Answer: HOVIS


Question: What weight was Cyril Smith MP when he was at his heaviest

Answer: Twenty nine stone twelve pounds


Question: Emelius Browne, Mr Jelk and Colonel Heller are all characters in which Disney film?

Answer: Bedknobs and Broomsticks


Question: The cup, or bowl, Jesus was said to have used at the Last Supper is known as ‘The Holy ‘what’?

Answer: Grail


Question: In Channel 4's 1987 adaptation of Tom Sharpe's novel 'Porterhouse Blue', who played the part of Skullion the Head Porter?

Answer: David Jason


Question: What was the name of Shari Lewis' sassy sock puppet?

Answer: Lamb Chop.


Question: What is the name for the practice of water divining by deploying a deflecting stick?

Answer: Dowsing/Rhabdomancy


Question: A wisp or walk is the collective noun for which group of birds? Latin name gallinago gallinago.

Answer: Snipe


Question: "Who was the author of ""Around The World In 80 Days"" and ""20,000 Leagues Under The Sea""?"

Answer: Jules Verne


Question: Opened in May 11, 2010, Charlotte, NC is the home to the Hall of Fame for what popular outdoor sport, the second most watched sport (on TV) in the US?

Answer: NASCAR


Question: What painter is sometimes confused with Claude Monet because their last names differ by just a single letter?

Answer: Édouard Manet


Question: Who resigned in October 1983 after a scandal over his ‘lovechild’?

Answer: CECIL PARKINSON


Question: Which actress was born Demetria Gene Guynes in 1962?

Answer: Demi Moore


Question: The Levant, (deriving from 15th century French, lever, 'rising', relating to the Eastern sunrise) refers to what part of the world?

Answer: Eastern Mediterranean


Question: What is the only football league team in Britain which doesn't have any of the letters from the word football in its name?

Answer: Dundee


Question: A Lemur is a small primate found only on which island?

Answer: MADAGASCAR


Question: In which US city is the 1974 film Towering Inferno set?

Answer: San Francisco


Question: "Which Welsh actor portrays David Frost in the 2008 film, ""Frost/Nixon""?"

Answer: MICHAEL SHEEN


Question: Which metal is produced by the Bessemer Process?

Answer: STEEL


Question: Haematite is an ore of which metal?

Answer: Iron


Question: Which river meets the sea at Fleetwood on Lancashire's Fylde coast?

Answer: Wyre


Question: Richard Daley was mayor of which city for 21 years?

Answer: Chicago


Question: Which ship did Drake command against the Spanish Armada?

Answer: Revenge


Question: Which ballroom dance is Spanish for double step

Answer: Paso doble


Question: Who wrote much of King George V's first Christmas broadcast, made in 1932?

Answer: Rudyard Kipling


Question: "Who wrote the story ""A Christmas Carol""?"

Answer: Charles Dickens


Question: Who, in May 2006 when aged 17 years and 75 days, became the youngest footballer to play for England?

Answer: Theo Walcott


Question: Mercosur (or Mercosul) is an economic political agreement among which six South American countries?

Answer: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia


Question: Benigo Aquino murdered in the Phillipines, a Korean Boeing 747 shot down over Sakhalin Island, and John McEnroe wins at Wimbledon for the second time. Which year?

Answer: 1983


Question: "What were the last words of Romeo in Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet""?"

Answer: Thus with a kiss I die


Question: What's the capital of the state that the Space Needle is at?

Answer: Olympia


Question: What Michelle Pfeiffer movie got a boost from the Coolio song Gangsta's Paradise?

Answer: Dangerous Minds


Question: What award is given for a wound in the American forces

Answer: Purple Heart


Question: What is either a bay in the Indian ocean or a subspecies of tiger?

Answer: Bengal


Question: Under what name did Bernard Schwartz (1925 to 2010) find fame as a film star?

Answer: TONY CURTIS


Question: What was the Roman name for England

Answer: Albion


Question: An enclave nation is (What?) by another nation?

Answer: Surrounded


Question: The Tour de France always ends in Paris. In what European city did it begin this year?

Answer: Monaco


Question: What was Grace Darling's father's job?

Answer: Lighthouse keeper


Question: When was the person who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born born?

Answer: January 8, 1891


Question: When was the anime studio that made Sword Art Online founded?

Answer: 9-May-05


Question: Which movie was a biopic about the life of David Helfgott?

Answer: Shine


Question: Which 'literary' nickname has been given to the extinct species of man, discovered in Indonesia 2003, named Homo Floresiensis?

Answer: Hobbits


Question: What singer is by far the most famous person from the island nation of Barbados?

Answer: Rihanna


Question: In the novel 'Treasure Island' name the pirate shot dead by Jim Hawkins in the rigging of the Hispaniola

Answer: ISRAEL HANDS


Question: In selling and communications, what do 'open questions' generally achieve? Open questions

Answer: gather information, improve understanding, and build rapport by encouraging the other person to talk and explain things, including how they feel about things


Question: Quitline is a system of centres to help people to quit what?

Answer: Tobacco or alcohol


Question: What was invented in the 1940s by Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine, who was building magnetrons for radar sets?

Answer: Microwave oven


Question: What highly durable footwear is used to name a species of bat and crab, alluding respectively to nose and body shapes?

Answer: Horseshoe


Question: "Which Scottish actor, born in Paisley, starred in the movies ""300"", ""Law Abiding Citizen"" and ""P.S. I love you"" ?"

Answer: GERARD BUTLER


Question: Who wrote the 1963 novel ‘The Spy Who Came in From the Cold’?

Answer: John Le Carre


Question: Which nonagenarian is one of the foremost exponents of dontopedalogy?

Answer: PRINCE PHILIP


Question: In the late 60s Owen Finlay MacLaren pioneered what useful item for parents of small chldren?

Answer: Baby Buggy


Question: What is the common name of the flowering plant Kniphofia?

Answer: Red Hot Poker


Question: The greatest confirmed age for any living creature is for a species of quahog (pronounced ko-hog) at over 500 years old. What is the common name for this species of creature?

Answer: Clam


Question: "What sort of animal is Beatrix Potter's ""Mrs Tiggywinkle""?"

Answer: Hedehog


Question: In what year did Torville and Dean (Jane and Christopher) win their first Olympic gold, scoring 12 perfect sixes in their free-dance routine?

Answer: 1984


Question: What name is given to the practice of arranging voting districts to favour one candidate or party above another?

Answer: Gerrymandering


Question: In old measurement 1 rod = 1 pole = 1 perch = what fraction of 1 chain?

Answer: A QUARTER


Question: What is the largest state in Brazil?

Answer: AMAZONAS


Question: "What profession requires the artist to know about ""F stops""?"

Answer: Photography


Question: Gingivitis affects which part of the body

Answer: Gums


Question: Who won the World Professional Snooker Championship six times in the 1970s?

Answer: Ray Reardon


Question: What is the “com” in the top level internet domain “.com” short for?

Answer: Commercial


Question: Whose official country residence is Dorneywood, Buckinghamshire?

Answer: Chancellor of the Exchequer


Question: Known as the 'Phoenix Park Murders', the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke in 1882 occurred in which city?

Answer: DUBLIN


Question: What is the capital city of Saudi Arabia?

Answer: RIYADH


Question: Beers called Budweiser are named after a city of which modern nation?

Answer: Czech Republic


Question: According to the proverb, what should you never give a sucker?

Answer: an even break


Question: Which King of Macedon a great military leader was reputedly never defeated in battle?

Answer: Alexander the Great


Question: What musical term means in a majestic, stately or dignified manner?

Answer: Maestoso


Question: Who has children called Track, Bristol, Piper, Trig and Willow?

Answer: SARAH PALIN


Question: What might you do in Australia with a 'Durry'?

Answer: SMOKE IT (it's a type of cigarette)


Question: What was Julian Schnabel's acclaimed 2008 film of the book written by a stroke victim's blinking eye?

Answer: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly


Question: Which Beatle was the first to release a solo album

Answer: George Harrison


Question: In which year was the Royal British Legion founded?

Answer: 1921


Question: Which root vegetable pie was named after a Minister of Food during World War II?

Answer: WOOLTON (Pie)


Question: The human brain is made up of between 10 billion and 100 billion nerve cells known as what?

Answer: NEURONS


Question: Which 1962 ecological classic was written by Rachel Carson?

Answer: Silent Spring


Question: Which charity was founded in London in 1961 following the publication of the article 'The Forgotten Prisoners' in 'The Observer'?

Answer: Amnesty International


Question: Composers Joseph Haydn and Franz Schubert were born in which country?

Answer: Austria


Question: In which modern country is St Nicholas's birthplace and hometown?

Answer: Turkey


Question: The key attribute of what distinctive ethnic group has one possible explanation as the low ultraviolet light levels in rainforests hindering the production of vitamin D and limiting calcium uptake for bone growth?

Answer: Pygmies (short height)


Question: Where was the Fiddler in the musical's title?

Answer: On the Roof


Question: Yigal Amir assassinated whom in 1995?

Answer: Yitzhak Rabin


Question: Which Flemish Baroque painter’s Antwerp home is now a museum?

Answer: Peter Paul Rubens


Question: Which Hollywood film star (1899 -1957) had the middle name De Forest?

Answer: Humphrey Bogart


Question: The 1999 Spike Lee film Summer of Sam focuses on the crimes of what famous serial killer?

Answer: David Berkowitz


Question: Loosely translated, Aleph Beth Gimel Daleth are the first four letters of what alphabet?

Answer: Hebrew


Question: What relation were Ravi Shankar and Norah Jones to each other?

Answer: Father and daughter


Question: What is the term for nutrient enrichment of lakes?

Answer: Eutrophication


Question: George and Mildred and Robin's Nest were spin-offs from which TV series of the 1970s?

Answer: Man About The House


Question: Marat, Robespierre, Danton are names associated with what event at the end of the 18th century?

Answer: The French Revolution


Question: What was founded by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile to keep Catholic orthodoxy as the major religion of their kingdoms?

Answer: Spanish Inquisition


Question: Which TV series was won by a man named Paddy Doherty on September 8th this year?

Answer: CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER


Question: The Hindhead Tunnel is in which English county?

Answer: Surrey


Question: A tour by a sporting group caused major unrest in their host country,1971 in Australia and 1981 in New Zealand, leading to a state of emergency being declared during the tour. Which was the group?

Answer: South African rugby union national team


Question: What is the more common name for the white crystalline salt called hydrated sodium pyroborate?

Answer: Borax


Question: The fourth largest city in Germany was originally called what?

Answer: Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium


Question: What colour are the two stars on the national flag of Syria?

Answer: Green


Question: Which racecourse, home to the King George VI steeplechase, is situated at Sunbury on Thames?

Answer: KEMPTON PARK


Question: In which year did students first enrol in the Open University in the UK

Answer: 1971


Question: Who was born in a cross-fire hurricane and raised by a toothless bearded hag?

Answer: Jumpin’ Jack Flash


Question: To what country does the island of Leyte belong, known for the Battle of Leyte Gulf in WW2?

Answer: The Philippines


Question: Who was the father of British King James ll?

Answer: King Charles l


Question: The existance of which planet was mathematically

Answer: NEPTUNE


Question: "What is the ""lead"" in modern pencils made from?"

Answer: Graphite


Question: Which film finds Mike Myers deeply suspicious about his newly-married wife's skills with a meat cleaver?

Answer: 'SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER'


Question: Which famous London events which occurred between April 10th and April 12th 1981 were dealt with in the Scarman report?

Answer: BRIXTON RIOTS


Question: Which is the only non-European country to have hosted the Winter Olympics only once?

Answer: CANADA (1988)


Question: When sending an email you are given the option to 'Add Cc' or 'Add Bcc'. For which word is the 'B' the initial letter?

Answer: BLIND (carbon copy)


Question: Which cigarette manufacturer used to boast of its tobacco ‘It’s Toasted’?

Answer: Lucky Strike


Question: If something is colubrine, it resembles or relates to which type of creature?

Answer: Snake


Question: Who was European Footballer of the Year for 1973 and 1974?

Answer: JOHANN CRUYFF


Question: In the history of the universe what term refers to immediately after the Big Bang?

Answer: Inflation


Question: HRH Princess Anne?s Gloucestershire country home is called what?

Answer: Gatcombe Park


Question: Who is the only black man to win a singles title at Wimbledon?

Answer: Arthur Ashe


Question: Which US President has a statue in Parliament Square?

Answer: KENNEDY


Question: How many 'Oscars' did the film 'Slumdog Millionaire' win?

Answer: 8


Question: You have probably all heard of the CD record but what number is CD in Roman numerals

Answer: Four hundred


Question: What natural effect is only visible during a total eclipse of the sun?

Answer: Baily's Beads


Question: "According to Rudyard Kipling what were the ""two imposters"" to meet and treat the same day?"

Answer: Triumph and Disaster


Question: Barra island, Outer Hebrides, has at 2012 the world's only official beach-based what?

Answer: Airport


Question: What airline, founding member of the Star Alliance, the largest airline alliance in the world, got its start as the Boeing Air Transport company in 1927?

Answer: United


Question: Which Chilean socialist leader was deposed and killed by General Pinochet during a U.S. backed coup in 1973?

Answer: (Salvador) Allende


Question: In which city is the Munch Museum, home to two of the versions of 'The Scream'?

Answer: OSLO


Question: What is the Pacific terminus of the Trans Siberian Railway?

Answer: Vladivostok


Question: What are the traditional words used to vote in the British House of Lords?

Answer: Content / Non content


Question: What Canadian-born teen idol of the 1950s-60s wrote the lyrics to Sinatra's song My Way?

Answer: Paul Anka


Question: Who composed the 1965 choral work Chichester Psalms?

Answer: Leonard Bernstein


Question: Ornette Coleman, Louis Armstrong and Charles Mingus are associated with what style of music?

Answer: Jazz


Question: Who designed the Queen's wedding dress?

Answer: Norman Hartnell


Question: What is the nickname of Sheffield United

Answer: The Blades


Question: Which duo created the “Dagenham dialogues”?

Answer: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore


Question: In which city would you find the International Court of Justice, otherwise known as The World Court?

Answer: The Hague, Netherlands


Question: On what would you find a Cowcatcher?

Answer: A Train


Question: What name is given to the person in a restaurant responsible for the wine and assisting customers with their choice of wine?

Answer: Sommelier


Question: Who is the only British Olympian to have won three successive Olympic gold medals

Answer: Steven Redgrave


Question: Why did Jason Alexander from Louisiana hit the headlines in January 2004?

Answer: He married Britney Spears


Question: Although Steven Spielberg Directed 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark', he did not have the final cut. Who did?

Answer: GEORGE LUCAS (Executive Producer)


Question: What year was the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, released?

Answer: 2007


Question: In which country will the 2019 Rugby Union World Cup be played?

Answer: JAPAN


Question: "Which is the only UK top ten single for ""The Doors"" when it wasreleased twenty years after Jim Morrison's death?"

Answer: Light My Fire


Question: Besides Ireland, what country is geographically closest to the United Kingdom?

Answer: France


Question: In Rowing, who received gold medals for the Women's coxless pair?

Answer: Helen Glover and Heather Stanning


Question: The most populous national capital city was established in what year?

Answer: 1045 BC


Question: Which British athlete won the gold medal in the Women's Javelin at the 1984 Olympic Games?

Answer: Tessa Sanderson


Question: What type of creature is a margay ?

Answer: (Wild) CAT


Question: In which musical would you hear the song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas?

Answer: Meet Me In St Louis


Question: Which country shares a 530 km border with Saudi Arabia on the west, south, and southeast, a 450 km border with Oman on the southeast and northeast, and a smaller border with Qatar in the northwest?

Answer: United Arab Emirates


Question: Born in Kingston, Texas in 1925, who is generally recognized as the most decorated American soldier of WWII, before he launched a successful film career?

Answer: Audie Murphy


Question: Wanlockhead is the highest village in which European country?

Answer: Scotland


Question: "Which popular family farmhouse – styled licensed restaurant that now has over 200 Different outlets was founded in 1983 and has the advertising slogan ""Bring Out The Best"" below the words ""Salad And Grill"" ?"

Answer: HARVESTER


Question: What food staple is the focus of a 1980 documentary ___ Is as Good as Ten Mothers that was filmed primarily in Gilroy, California?

Answer: Garlic


Question: In the series of films by Disney Pixar, Nemo is a clown-fish, what type of fish is his friend Dory?

Answer: Blue Tang


Question: What are the last four words of Gone With the Wind?

Answer: Tomorrow is another day


Question: What was the name of the Clampett’s daughter in The Beverley Hillbillies

Answer: Ellie May


Question: According to the much recorded song Memphis Tennessee how old was Marie?

Answer: 6 YEARS


Question: What 1945 film won best picture, actor, director Oscars?

Answer: The Lost Weekend


Question: Which Czech tennis player knocked out Andy Murray in the fourth round of the Men's Singles at the French Open?

Answer: THOMAS BERDYCH


Question: Whose personal aircraft is known as ‚Shepherd One‛?

Answer: The Pope


Question: What is the name of the document issued, by law, giving information about a company to be floated on a stock exchange?

Answer: Prospectus


Question: By what name was world champion boxer Walker Smith better known?

Answer: Sugar Ray Robinson


Question: In medicine, if something is subcutaneous it is applied or located under which organ of the body?

Answer: Skin


Question: Prior to Gordon Brown, who was the last British Prime Minister to represent a Scottish constituency?

Answer: ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME


Question: The characters Denisov and Dolokhov appear in which famous novel?

Answer: War and Peace


Question: Who became the first President of newly independent Ghanain 1957?

Answer: KWAME NKRUMAH


Question: Who are the only two groups to have had 3 consecutive Christmas Number Ones in the UK charts?

Answer: The Beatles and The Spice Girls


Question: Which brand of foodstuff still bears the slogan 'Original and Best'?

Answer: KELLOGG'S CORNFLAKES


Question: A footpad was a criminal from the 16th to 19th century but what term is used to describe them today?

Answer: MUGGER


Question: In which war was the Battle of Bunker Hill fought?

Answer: AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE


Question: What are the first names of the two dancing instructors in the UK television series ‘Hi De Hi’?

Answer: Barry and Yvonne


Question: In the human body, what eight letter word is used to describe the purulent inflammation of the gums and tooth sockets often leading to lossening of the teeth ?

Answer: PYORRHEA


Question: What medical speciality is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of hormone disorders?

Answer: ENDROCRINOLOGY


Question: What nickname was given to Ana Cumpna, also known as Anna Sage, who betrayed John Dillinger to the police when he attended the Biograph Theater in Chicago?

Answer: Lady in Red


Question: The song ‘Seventy Six Trombones’ is from which musical show?

Answer: The Music Man


Question: Which lengthy narrative poem by Lord Byron describes the trials and reflections of a world weary young man?

Answer: Childe Harold's


Question: What is a common feature of komodo dragons, aphids, and whiptail lizards?

Answer: The ability to reproduce asexually


Question: According to the Bible, who was renamed Israel because he wrestled with God?

Answer: JACOB


Question: Who sang the theme song in 9 to 5?

Answer: Dolly Parton


Question: Which footballer scored a record six international hat- tricks for England?

Answer: JIMMY GREAVES


Question: Which type of lens is thicker at the centre than at the edge, as used in microscopes?

Answer: Convex lens


Question: How many black keys are there on a standard modern piano?

Answer: 36


Question: How old would Bobby Kennedy have been had he lived to the end of the 20th century?

Answer: 74


Question: "Give the name of the character played by James Stewart in the 1946 film ""It's a Wonderful Life"""

Answer: George Bailey


Question: Which city in Georgia was burned by General Sherman during the American Civil War

Answer: Atlanta


Question: What port city lies at the mouth of the River Seine?

Answer: Le Havre


Question: What was the fate of Lucia di Lammermoor in Donizetti's opera?

Answer: She went mad and committed suicide


Question: Who plays 'Mahmud Nasir', a Muslim who finds out he was born Jewish, in the 2010 film 'The Infidel'?

Answer: OMID DJALILI


Question: The Black Hills are located primarily in which US state?

Answer: South Dakota


Question: What name is given to the unnatural fear of men?

Answer: Androphobia


Question: According to the proverb, what is the better part of valor?

Answer: Discretion


Question: What type of animal is the star of the 2005 film Racing Stripes?

Answer: Zebra


Question: The stone Lapis Lazuli is used to make which shade of blue pigment for artists?

Answer: ULTRAMARINE


Question: The film 'Pushing Tin' features which occupation?

Answer: Air Traffic Control


Question: What main category of machines 'produce continuous power from a wheel/rotor, usually with vanes, revolved by fast flowing fluid'?

Answer: Turbine


Question: Name the popular music identification app founded in 1999 whose paid-for version is sub-titled Encore?

Answer: Shazam


Question: What are young squirrels known as?

Answer: Kittens


Question: Which was Disney's second animated film?

Answer: Pinocchio


Question: Who played 'Peter Pan' in Spielberg's 'Hook'?

Answer: Robin Williams


Question: In which Poe tale is a wife murderer exposed by an ill-treated pet?

Answer: The Black Cat


Question: What began when Bohemia revolted against the Habsburgs in 1618?

Answer: Thirty Years War


Question: Which country is currently ruled by the Chakri dynasty that has been in power since 1782?

Answer: Thailand


Question: "What was the Scopes ""monkey trial"" really about?"

Answer: Evolution


Question: Film musical interpretations of Romeo and Juliet and the memoir of Baroness von Trapp shared what lead character name?

Answer: Maria


Question: Thanatology is the scientific study of what?

Answer: Death


Question: What is the first name of Ragnor’s brother in the historical drama television series ‘Vikings’?

Answer: Rollo


Question: Who lead the enquiry into the Iraq war?

Answer: Sir John Chilcot


Question: Who is the father of the father of modern experimental psychology?

Answer: Maximilian Wundt


Question: Swedish director Lasse Hallström who directed Chocolat and My Life as a Dog is also known for his contribution in the world of music to whom/what?

Answer: ABBA (he directed almost all of ABBA's promotional films)


Question: What nationality was the tennis player Judy Teggart who lost to Billie Jean King in the 1968 Ladies Single Final at Wimbledon?

Answer: AUSTRALIAN


Question: Cape Wrath is on the coast of which country?

Answer: Scotland


Question: The traditional logo of which famous pre-ground bean coffee is a white script lower-case four-letter name on a red square background?

Answer: illy


Question: What notorious leader had a similar style mustache to Charlie Chaplin?

Answer: Adolf Hitler


Question: The Crossbill belongs to which bird family?

Answer: FINCH


Question: Mrs Darrell Waters books were translated into 120 languages. What was her pen name?

Answer: Enid Blyton


Question: Who sang behind Huey Lewis?

Answer: The News


Question: What was the top speed in miles per hour of the first ever train?

Answer: 18,000 mph


Question: What is the surname of singer Florence of 'Florence and the Machine' ?

Answer: WELCH


Question: Smith is the most common English surname, what's the Japanese version

Answer: Suzuki


Question: The 'impossible' Penrose Stairs and Devil's Pitchfork are famous?

Answer: Optical Illusions


Question: What is mixed with whisky to make a rusty nail

Answer: Drambuie


Question: Who wrote the book His Dark Materials?

Answer: PHILIP PULLMAN


Question: Neal Foulds, John Dunning and Mark Williams are associated with which sport?

Answer: Snooker


Question: What 'oronymic' word is a killing and also male mirth?

Answer: Manslaughter


Question: Which body of water was previously called the Euxine, after early colonisation of its southern coastline by Greeks, derived from their word for 'hospitable'?

Answer: The Black Sea


Question: What is the title of Max Bygraves autobiography

Answer: I Wanna Tell You a Story


Question: 'Roquefort Cheese' is made from what sort of milk?

Answer: Ewe's Milk


Question: Which English Rugby Union team play their home games at Adams Park?

Answer: London Wasps


Question: Cryos, the worlds largest sperm bank, recently announced that they will no longer accept donations from guys with what physical characteristic?

Answer: Redheaded


Question: In 2006, who was the first football player in World Cup history to win the ‘Best Young Player Award’?

Answer: Lukas Podolski


Question: The UK's longest National Trail, what path stretches 630 miles between Minehead and Poole Harbour?

Answer: SOUTH WEST COAST


Question: What was the surname of the French explorer who discovered the area where Montreal is now situated, on this day in 1953?

Answer: (Jacques) CARTIER


Question: "What is the name of the short actor who plays the main role in the BBC2 comedy series""Life's too short""?"

Answer: WARWICK DAVIS


Question: What is the flavour of the liqueur Triple-Sec?

Answer: Orange


Question: What is the lightest metal under standard conditions?

Answer: Lithium


Question: I n dressmaking what are featherweight, skirt weight and open ended

Answer: Zips


Question: Who was the only female victim to be killed off in the opening credit sequence in Police Squad?

Answer: Florence Henderson


Question: Which company currently sponsors The Grand National?

Answer: Crabbies (Ginger beer)


Question: Which motor scooter had a name meaning ‘wasp’?

Answer: Vespa


Question: "The opera ""Duke Bluebeard's Castle"" and the ballet ""The Wooden Prince"" are the works of which composer?"

Answer: BARTOK


Question: What is the most abundant substance in the plant kingdom, which no mammal produces the enzyme to digest?

Answer: Cellulose


Question: According to Arthurian legend, Arthur's wife Guinevere, had a little on the side with which Knight of the Round Table?

Answer: Lancelot


Question: Which magazine is produced and sold for the benefit of homeless people?

Answer: The Big Issue


Question: Armistice Day (or Remembrance Day) takes place during which month of the year?

Answer: November


Question: Which French romantic artist who painted Massacre at Chios and Women of Algiers was born on this day in 1798?

Answer: (Eugene) Delacroix


Question: The city of Leeds stands on which river?

Answer: AIRE


Question: "Whose autobiography ""Going Rogue"" was published in 2009?"

Answer: Sarah Palin


Question: With its capital at Jaipur, what is the largest state of India, by area?

Answer: RAJASTHAN


Question: In which European country is the HQ of the food company, Nestle ?

Answer: SWITZERLAND


Question: In humans, Duane Syndrome affects which part of the body?

Answer: Eye


Question: Which country left the Commonwealthin 1972 and rejoined in 1989?

Answer: PAKISTAN


Question: What name was given to areas of England under Viking control?

Answer: Danelaw


Question: With which sport do you associate the Coventry bees?

Answer: SPEEDWAY


Question: An American ban lasting 21 years was lifted in 2010 for what Scottish food?

Answer: Haggis


Question: The Antarctica Treaty that is presently in force ends in which year?

Answer: 2041


Question: Who was the first person from the USA to win the Nobel prize for literature?

Answer: Sinclair Lewis


Question: Who wrote the 1975 novel ‘The History Man’?

Answer: Malcolm Bradbury


Question: Fremantle prison, which was closed in 1991 and is now a heritage site, is in which country?

Answer: Australia


Question: What type of tower is the Muslim version of a steeple?

Answer: a Minaret


Question: Titan is a satellite of which planet?

Answer: SATURN


Question: "In literature, what is the word for the events that follow the climax of a drama, literally ""the untying of the complexities of a plot""?"

Answer: Dnouement


Question: "Who wrote the 1993 Booker Prize winning novel ""Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha""?"

Answer: Roddy Doyle


Question: In the church calendar what name is given to the three days before Ascension Day?

Answer: Rogation Days


Question: To the nearest whole number, the diameter of the Earth is how many times that of the Moon?

Answer: FOUR (4)


Question: What name is given to the song of a Venetian Gondolier?

Answer: BARCAROLE


Question: Complete the name of the Church of England diocese: 'Bath and .....'?

Answer: WELLS


Question: In ‘Cats’, who is the “Brummel of cats” who is “putting on weight every day”?

Answer: BUSTOPHER JONES


Question: Which country music performer was portrayed by Sissy Spacek in the 1980 biographical film 'Coal Miner's Daughter'?

Answer: LORETTA LYNN


Question: April 18, 1942 saw the first retaliation against Japan for the attack on Pearl Harbor when what famed American aviator led a flight of B25 bombers from the deck of the USS Hornet?

Answer: James Doolittle


Question: In 1951, which European country saw the abdication of King Leopold lll in favour of his son Baudouin?

Answer: Belgium


Question: Thomas Cromwell was executed for treason after being blamed for Henry VIII?s failed marriage to whom?

Answer: ANNE OF CLEVES


Question: Latin 'collum' refers to which part of the human body?

Answer: Neck


Question: Who was the husband of Rebekah Brooks from 2002 to 2009?

Answer: Ross Kemp


Question: Which group had a number one hit in July 2010 with 'The Club Is Alive'?

Answer: 'JLS'


Question: The Sinai Peninsula is part of which country?

Answer: Egypt


Question: Which British city is served by Eastleigh airport?

Answer: Southampton


Question: General Augusto Pinochet was the former dictator of which South American country?

Answer: Chile


Question: Betty Lou Oliver held a long-standing Guinness World Record for what event that occurred at 9:40 a.m. on 28 July 1945?

Answer: The longest survived fall in an elevator


Question: On which instrument would a ‘paradiddle’ be played?

Answer: Drums


Question: Later a 'Blue Peter' presenter, who played 'Steven Taylor', an assistant to William Hartnell's 'Doctor Who'?

Answer: PETER PURVES


Question: "What film, released in 2000, is the story of Gilbert and Sullivan's first production of ""The Mikado""?"

Answer: Topsy Turvy


Question: Whose state in Virginia was requisitioned to build Arlington Cemetery?

Answer: ROBERT E. LEE


Question: In which Spanish city is the Alhambra Palace located?

Answer: Granada


Question: "In the 1956 film ""The Ten Commandments"", who played Moses?"

Answer: Charlton Heston


Question: Jazzman Joe Venuti pioneered which instrument in jazz?

Answer: The Violin


Question: The animated televisionseries 'South Park' is set in the fictional town of 'South Park' in which American state?

Answer: COLORADO


Question: The Bridge of the Horns is a proposed construction project to build a bridge across the Bab-el-Mandeb, the strait between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. What two countries will it connect?

Answer: Djibouti and Yemen


Question: What is the nickname of baseball star Jimmie Foxx?

Answer: Double X


Question: The cathedral in which British city is known as ‘The Ship of the Fens’?

Answer: Ely


Question: Who played Grandad in the UK television series ‘Only Fools and Horses’?

Answer: Lennard Pearce


Question: In which 1996 film were there characters known as Rent Boy, Spud, Sick Boy and Franco?

Answer: Trainspotting


Question: "Which organisation runs the undergraduate college in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, that is known as ""The Academy""?"

Answer: The US Navy


Question: Which Roman historian was the son-in-law of Agricola the Roman Governor of Britain?

Answer: Tacitus


Question: The Limpopo River separates Zimbabwe and Botswana from what country?

Answer: South Africa


Question: "Which Bob Dylan song begins ""You got a lotta nerveTo say you are my friend. When I was down, You just stood there grinning""?"

Answer: Positively 4th Street


Question: What country won 3 of the 5 Olympic gold medals awarded in baseball?

Answer: Cuba


Question: What French word prefixes couture, cuisine and ecole meaning high quality or advanced?

Answer: Haute


Question: Which now defunct newspaper was originally owned by Eddy Shah?

Answer: Today


Question: ‘The King of Barataria’ is the subtitle of which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta?

Answer: The Gondoliers


Question: Which town in southeast Wales became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000?

Answer: BLAENAVON


Question: What has a central vein called a midrib?

Answer: Leaf


Question: Who was the star of the 1940 satirical film 'The Great Dictator'?

Answer: Charlie Chaplin


Question: Which famous 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte features a character named Edward Rochester who resides at Thornfield Hall?

Answer: JANE EYRE


Question: In La Cage Aux Folles, what was La Cage Aux Folles?

Answer: Nightclub


Question: Which US group of the 1970s consisted of Dewy Bunnell, Dan Peek and Gerry Beckley and had hits including Tin Man and Sister Golden Hair?

Answer: America


Question: ‘The Road Back’ is the sequel to which novel by Erich Maria Remarque published in 1929?

Answer: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT


Question: Clifford’s Tower is all that remains of which city’s castle?

Answer: York


Question: What was the first name of the mother of US President Barack Obama?

Answer: Stanley


Question: Which country was formerly known by the Greeks as Tylos?

Answer: Bahrain


Question: Who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring?

Answer: Johannes Vermeer


Question: Which month of the year came second in the Roman calendar?

Answer: April


Question: Which British Prime Minister served the constituencies of Limehouse and Walthamstow West?

Answer: Clement Atlee


Question: Who aged 65 became the oldest Britain to climb Mount Everest, as at 2009?

Answer: Sir Ranulph Fiennes


Question: What sort of creature is a Pacific Sea Wasp?

Answer: A Jellyfish


Question: Who was the main female singer with the groups Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship?

Answer: Grace Slick


Question: The Canary Islands in the Atlantic are named after what?

Answer: Dogs


Question: Name the private gardens adjoining Windsor Castle which housed the Royal Mausoleum, the burial place of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert?

Answer: FROGMORE


Question: "Shakespeare coined which four word phrase in the play ""Macbeth"" which has become a commonly used cliche for compassion ?"

Answer: MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS


Question: Which architect designed the Albert Memorial in 1875?

Answer: George Gilbert Scott


Question: Involvement with which corrupt architect led to the resignation of Home Secretary Reginald Maudling in July 1972?

Answer: JOHN POULSON


Question: What comes next in this sequence: Microwave, Infrared, Visible Light, …

Answer: Ultraviolet


Question: In measurement, a hand is equal to how many inches?

Answer: Four


Question: Who wrote the poem The Dong With The Luminous Nose?

Answer: Edward Lear


Question: Which castle near Deal in Kent has served, since 1708, as the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports?

Answer: WALMER CASTLE


Question: What legal term, whose etymology comes from how editors traditionally indicated corrections to a written copy, means that a portion of contract is void but the other part is enforceable?

Answer: Blue pencil doctrine


Question: Which actor played Chandler Bing in “Friends” ?

Answer: Mathew Perry


Question: St Joseph’s Day is celebrated during which month of the year?

Answer: March -19th


Question: The Asian Tsunami or Boxing day tsunami that hit Thailand, Indonesia and many other countries happened in what year?

Answer: 2004


Question: Who was the 'Referee' on the TV game show 'Big Break'?

Answer: John Virgo


Question: Which supermarket chain started selling straight croissants in its stores in February?

Answer: TESCO


Question: Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Chad, Niger, Mali and Ethiopia are the largest nations in the world without a?

Answer: Coastline


Question: To a thousand, what is the area of Illinois in square miles?

Answer: 55,646


Question: Which US folk singer had the words “This machine kills fascists” written on his guitar?

Answer: Woody Guthrie


Question: Which duo wrote the UK television series ‘Dad’s Army’?

Answer: Jimmy Perry and David Croft


Question: In the abbrevation SPCK - for what does the 'K' stand?

Answer: Knowledge


Question: Hannibal Hayes and Kid Curry were the central characters in which 1970s American TV series?

Answer: Alias Smith and Jones


Question: Who was the only judge on 'X Factor' to return for series eight in 2011?

Answer: LOUIS WALSH


Question: What Brazilian city exports more coffee than any other port in the world?

Answer: Santos


Question: Who are the only players in an ice hockey game allowed to be in the referee's crease?

Answer: Captain and alternate captain


Question: According to Colossians, Ch 4 v 14, what profession was followed by St Luke?

Answer: A PHYSICIAN


Question: Known as the Toison d'Or (French), Goldenen Vlies (Germany), and Toisón de Oro (Spain), the historic European supreme award is The Order of the (What ancient authority symbol?)

Answer: Golden Fleece


Question: "Which 17th century philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer provided the basis for the calculus of Newton and Leibniz by applying infinitesimal calculus to ""the tangent line problem""?"

Answer: Ren Descartes


Question: What type of food in the United States are Brown Bobbies

Answer: Doughnuts


Question: Which city was visited by Prince William in March 2011 after suffering two earthquakes in the preceeding six months?

Answer: CHRISTCHURCH


Question: To which family of animals does the okapi belong?

Answer: GIRAFFES


Question: An Adder's Mouth is what type of plant?

Answer: Orchid


Question: What is the title of the 1944 film starring Barbara Stanwyck as the wife who seduces an insurance salesman into killing her husband?

Answer: Double Indemnity


Question: What band is playing music for nickels in Creedence Clearwater Revival’s hit “Down on the Corner”?

Answer: Willy & the Poorboys


Question: Give a year in the life of Miguel Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet and playwright?

Answer: 1547-1616


Question: River Phoenix died during the making of which movie?

Answer: Dark Blood


Question: According to the Bible, how many stones did David pick up before he faced Goliath?

Answer: Five


Question: In which 70’s sitcom did we hear about the Tooting Popular Front

Answer: Citizen Smith


Question: In geology, Greywacke is classed as what form of sedimentary rock?

Answer: Deep Ocean


Question: Which principality was established in 1278 by the Treaty of Joint Suzerainty?

Answer: ANDORRA


Question: What is zoophobia a fear of?

Answer: Animals


Question: What is entombed in a cenotaph?

Answer: Nothing


Question: "Who said ""we're more popular than Jesus now"", in 1966?"

Answer: John Lennon


Question: What is the middle name of US actor Samuel L Jackson?

Answer: Leroy


Question: What Caribbean nation is considered the first black-led republic in the world?

Answer: Haiti


Question: "Heinz' 1963 song ""Just Like Eddie"" was a tribute to whom?"

Answer: Eddie Cochrane


Question: Which force is nothing more than the bending of space and time?

Answer: Gravitational force


Question: "The musical ""Jersey Boys"" is based around the music-of-which American pop group?"

Answer: The Four Seasons


Question: What was the catch-cry of the Three Musketeers?

Answer: Tous pour un, un pour tous


Question: Which French vessel was the first ocean-going liner to exceed 1,000 feet in length ?

Answer: NORMANDIE


Question: Which firework is said to be named after an instrument of torture on which a saint is said to have been martyred?

Answer: Catherine Wheel


Question: Amerigo Vespucci international airport serves which European city?

Answer: FLORENCE


Question: Who were Bolton Wanderers opponents in the first Wembley F.A. Cup Final

Answer: West Ham United


Question: What is the capital of the French region of Burgundy?

Answer: DIJON


Question: Which river runs through Hamburg?

Answer: Elbe


Question: How many hundredweight are in a UK ton?

Answer: 20


Question: To whom did the risen Jesus say 'Touch me not'?

Answer: Mary Magdelene


Question: 2004 is the 300th anniversary of Britain’s first victory on European soil since Agincourt when Marlborough defeated the French in which battle?

Answer: BLENHEIM


Question: Which numbers refer informally to a combination of impactful events, derived from a boxing metaphor?

Answer: One-Two


Question: Jimi Hendrix presented the broken parts of the guitar that he destroyed on-stage at the 1968 Miami Pop Festival to whom? Not sure if the recipient named it Moon Unit.

Answer: Frank Zappa


Question: What is Bangladesh's unit of currency?

Answer: TAKA


Question: The Arsacid Dynasty ruled which country from 250 B.C. until 224 A.D.

Answer: Persia


Question: Mark David Chapman was scheduled to appear before the New York State parole board next week for his 6th attempt at getting out of prison for the 1980 murder of whom?

Answer: John Lenon


Question: Franz Liszt ended up the father-in-law to which other very famous composer?

Answer: Richard Wagner


Question: A Nychthemeron is a period of how many consecutive hours?

Answer: 24


Question: Who wrote the novel ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’?

Answer: Muriel Spark


Question: Which Asian country was once called Siam?

Answer: Thailand


Question: Which Spanish philosopher and writer wrote 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'?

Answer: George Santayana


Question: Which Scottish mathematician discovered logarithms?

Answer: John NAPIER


Question: Who was the original base player with The Shadows?

Answer: (Jet) HARRIS


Question: What does a querulous person do?

Answer: Complain


Question: Which memorial trophy is awarded by the BBC for the try of the season in Rugby League

Answer: The Eddie Waring Memorial Trophy


Question: What is the highest elevation (in meters) of the second largest island in the world?

Answer: 4,884 m


Question: In which sport is the Solheim Cup contested?

Answer: WOMENS GOLF


Question: Which US No 1 single came from Diana Ross's platinum album Diana?

Answer: Upside Down


Question: Which chemical element is the most abundant in the average human body, making up around 65% of actual composition?

Answer: Oxygen


Question: Which city is generally accepted as the birthplace of Grunge, a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s?

Answer: Seattle


Question: What is the leather finger protection used by archers called

Answer: A tab


Question: Which US artist married Lee Krasner in 1945?

Answer: Jackson Pollock


Question: "What year did Jean-Francois Champollion publish the first correct translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs from the Rosetta Stone, the Roman Catholic Church take Galileo Galilei's ""Dialogue"" off their list of banned books, and Britain repeal the death penalty for over 100 crimes?"

Answer: 1822


Question: Tessellation technically refers to which form of decoration?

Answer: Tiling/mosaic


Question: What corporation pioneered the use of coupons in consumer marketing, beginning in 1887, so that by 1913 over eight million Americans had sampled its product for free?

Answer: Coca-Cola


Question: Who wrote the play The Three Sisters?

Answer: Anton Chekhov


Question: Who was the golfer who went for a paddle in the 1999 Open Golf championship

Answer: Jean Van Der Velde


Question: Thomas the Tank Engine lives on which fictional island?

Answer: Sodor


Question: The material out of which the Great Sphinx of Giza is made of is mainly composed of what mineral?

Answer: calcite


Question: Which major computer language shares it's name with an Indonesian Island ?

Answer: JAVA


Question: Lord Ruthven is the title character of what 1819 story/novella that created a genre whose legacy continues through the books of Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer?

Answer: The Vampyre by John William Polidori


Question: What is the study of armorial bearings called

Answer: Heraldry


Question: A creance is the name of the long fine cord used in which sport?

Answer: Falconry


Question: For a point each, name the 4 countries surrounding Belgium.

Answer: France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands


Question: Where on the body would a Hindu woman wear a bindi?

Answer: Forehead


Question: What is the name of Inspector Clousseau's manservant

Answer: Cato


Question: How many valves does a trumpet have?

Answer: Three


Question: What name was given to the metal hoop worn by women in the 16th and 17th centuries to make their dresses stand out?

Answer: FARTHINGALE


Question: Name the 2003 Turner Prize winning artist whose alter ego is Claire?

Answer: GRAYSON PERRY


Question: Which Jersey-born actor played Superman in Man of Steel?

Answer: Henry Cavill


Question: What is the Latin for wolf spider?

Answer: Lycos


Question: What colour is the liqueur ‘Parfait d’Amour’?

Answer: Purple


Question: "Who played the part of Hilda Ogden for many years in the TV series, ""Coronation St""?"

Answer: JEAN ALEXANDER


Question: For a point each, name the 5 states surrounding New Mexico

Answer: Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, Arizona


Question: On what country did the U.S. declare war on May 11, 1846?

Answer: Mexico


Question: Which English religious leader founded The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the 17th Century?

Answer: George Fox


Question: The largest ice fields in the southern hemisphere outside Antarctica are located where?

Answer: Patagonia


Question: Which former British PM was christened “Grocer” by Private Eye?

Answer: Edward Heath


Question: In which city in the UK is the National Railways Museum?

Answer: York


Question: What was the first name of the jazz trombonist Kid Ory?

Answer: Edward


Question: Being developed from earlier keyboard instruments, what year was the piano invented?

Answer: 1709


Question: Who had an album called Physcomodo?

Answer: Cockney Rebel


Question: In what country did the Romani ethnic group originate?

Answer: India


Question: The plot of which Arthur Miller play takes place entirely within the mind of a new York Jewish intellectual called 'Quentin'?

Answer: 'AFTER THE FALL'


Question: Which car company produces a model called Eos?

Answer: Volkswagen


Question: In which Middle Eastern country is the ancient city of Petra ?

Answer: JORDAN


Question: First developed from 1531 onwards in Paris, what is Garamond?

Answer: A family of typefaces


Question: Which architect was known as the Wizard of the Dome?

Answer: Buckminster Fuller


Question: What is the state capital of Alabama

Answer: Montgomery


Question: Which actor played the title role in the ITV series 'Tarzan' from 1966 to 1968?

Answer: RON ELY


Question: In which novel by Charles Dickens does 'Miss Cornelia Blimber' appear?

Answer: 'DOMBEY & SON'


Question: Which serial killer is the subject of the films A Study In Terror, Murder By Decree and From Hell?

Answer: Jack The Ripper


Question: Charles Sands (USA), Margaret Abbot (USA) and George Lyon (Canada) were winners in what Olympic sport at the 1900 and 1904 games?

Answer: Golf


Question: Mount Fujiyama is on which Japanese island?

Answer: Honshu


Question: What is the name of the seven-branched candelabra used in the Jewish religion?

Answer: Menorah


Question: Who was the demon barber of Fleet Street?

Answer: Sweeney Todd


Question: Carpology is the study of what?

Answer: Fruits and seeds


Question: What is the meaning of the word crepuscular?

Answer: AT DUSK / TWILIGHT


Question: Who composed the ballet ‘Swan Lake’?

Answer: Pyotr Tchaikovsky


Question: What is the US state capital of Idaho?

Answer: Boise


Question: What in the human body is the calcaneum?

Answer: Heel bone


Question: Who in 1928 piloted the first flight between Australia and New Zealand?

Answer: CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH


Question: "What TV character used the catchphrase ""I know nothing""?"

Answer: Sergeant Shulz


Question: What famous ancient city is on the river Tiber?

Answer: Rome


Question: """Andre 3000"" & ""Big Boi"" make up which hip hop duo?"

Answer: Outkast


Question: From which Daphne DuMaurier book is the opening line 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again'?

Answer: REBECCA


Question: What is the perfect score in ten pin bowling?

Answer: 300


Question: Who is the largest aircraft carrier in the world is named after?

Answer: Gerald R. Ford


Question: Name one of the two 'Great Lakes' that Niagara Falls lies between?

Answer: ONTARIO or ERIE


Question: In April 1814 which King gained the French throne to begin the Bourbon Restoration?

Answer: LOUIS XVIII


Question: What country dominated the East Indies spice trade in the 17th and 18th centuries?

Answer: Netherlands


Question: The novels The Cuckoo’s Calling and the soon to be published The Silkworm are written by a well-known author using which pseudonym?

Answer: ROBERT GALBRAITH (really J K ROWLING)


Question: Which film starring Reese Witherspoon had the same title as a hit by Lynyrd Skynyrd?

Answer: Sweet Home Alabama


Question: What is the world's smallest land-locked country?

Answer: Vatican City


Question: Glint Of Gold would have won the 1981 Epsom Derby had it not been for the presence of which 'superstar'?

Answer: SHERGAR (Glint Of Gold finished second)


Question: Who won the first ?

Answer: Kelly Clarkson


Question: Who is the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Saturn?

Answer: Kronos (Cronus)


Question: In what city was Muhammad born?

Answer: Mecca


Question: What does an octopus spray when threatened?

Answer: Ink


Question: What is produced when you strike steel agains flint?

Answer: a Spark


Question: In croquet, what is used to hit the ball?

Answer: Mallet


Question: What was the former name of the British Green Party?

Answer: Ecology Party


Question: The invention of what in 1867, made Alfred Nobel famous?

Answer: Dynamite


Question: Who in the Bible, became the first drunken man after planting a vineyard?

Answer: NOAH


Question: In which city is George Eliot’s novel ‘Romola’ set?

Answer: Florence


Question: "In which film did Bacall say to Bogart, ""If you want me just whistle""?"

Answer: 'TO HAVE AND TO HAVE NOT'


Question: The ESRB provides ratings for what?

Answer: Video Games


Question: Which is the longest length below?

Answer: Rod


Question: What is the acronym for the agency which provides co-operation between police forces worldwide?

Answer: Interpol


Question: What is the official language of Barbados?

Answer: English


Question: "The song ""If I Ruled The World"" comes from which musical?"

Answer: PICKWICK


Question: Who invented the wind-up radio?

Answer: TREVOR BAYLISS


Question: What two word name connects of all of the following: a brand of scotch whisky, Radio 2 DJ and a statue at the Pier Head, Liverpool?

Answer: Johnny Walker


Question: What communal cooking method/equipment derives from French 'melted'?

Answer: Fondue


Question: Which museum has the highest-funded art gallery?

Answer: Getty Museum


Question: Who does Emilio Estevez play in the 1988 film ‘Young Guns’?

Answer: Billy the Kid


Question: A group of which fish is called a Lap?

Answer: Cod


Question: What are the only two types of mammal that can lay eggs?

Answer: Platypus


Question: Which opera by Borodin features the Polovtsian Dances?

Answer: PRINCE IGOR


Question: ‘La Marcha Real’ (The Royal march) is the national anthem of which country?

Answer: Spain


Question: Which is the style of music, characterised by staccato offbeat rhythms, and owing much to the influence of mento, jazz, ska and rhythm and blues?

Answer: Reggae


Question: What is the name for the point in the lunar orbit when the moon is nearest to the earth?

Answer: Perigee


Question: What is a nattatorium better known as

Answer: Swimming pool


Question: Which writer created the detective Charlie Chan?

Answer: EARL DERR BIGGERS


Question: Which king experienced regicide at the hands of Shakespeare's Macbeth?

Answer: King Duncan


Question: The announcement came in November 1978 that which member of the 'Royal Family' was to join the armed forces?

Answer: PRINCE ANDREW


Question: Argentina invaded UK's Falkland Islands, Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, Canada became officially independent of the UK, Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the USSR, died, all in what year?

Answer: 1982


Question: The Walker Art Gallery is in which UK city?

Answer: Liverpool


Question: Which South American capital was founded on the banks of the Rio Mapocho by Pedro de Valdivia in 1541?

Answer: SANTIAGO


Question: In what film would you have seen a sword fight on the Cliffs of Insanity?

Answer: The Princess Bride


Question: What name given to an autumn full moon in the northern hemisphere alludes to the brightness of the night sky that aids the shooting of migrating birds?

Answer: Hunter's moon


Question: What Mexican duo are famous for their high energy classical guitar music, including a version of Stairway to Heaven?

Answer: Rodrigo y Gabriela


Question: What is the capital of the Navarre region of northern Spain

Answer: Pamplona


Question: What are Merapi in Indonesia, Rabaul in Papua New Guinea and Ruapehu in New Zealand?

Answer: Volcanoes


Question: The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine is used for immunisation against what?

Answer: Tuberculosis


Question: Which foreign car manufacture has a rams head on its badge?

Answer: DODGE


Question: What noted film director and producer, born on May 14, 1944, founded the theatre audio company THX, and the visual effects company Industrial Light and Magic, among others?

Answer: George Lucas


Question: Which Archbishop of Canterbury led the prayers for Diana, Princess of Wales at her 1997 funeral service?

Answer: George Carey


Question: In Greek myth, who was the beautiful youth beloved of Aphrodite, who died of a hunting wound inflicted by a wild boar?

Answer: ADONIS


Question: Which chemical element has the symbol TI?

Answer: THALLIUM.


Question: "Who played Luke Skywalker in the 1977 original ""Star Wars"" film?"

Answer: (Mark) HAMILL


Question: In the human body what is the Axilla commonly known as?

Answer: The armpit


Question: "In the sentence ""Wherever he went, he carried the scratching cat, his eyes red."", what part of speech is ""his eyes red""?"

Answer: Phrase


Question: In internet domain names what country is represented by the domain code '.se'?

Answer: SWEDEN


Question: Who scored the most goals in the 2012/13 English Premier League season?

Answer: Robin van Persie


Question: Beethoven wrote only one opera, can you name it?

Answer: Fidelio


Question: What is the name of the long narrow island off the east coast of Russia?

Answer: Sakhalin


Question: Which Chinese city gave its name to the forcing of men to become sailors against their will

Answer: Shanghai


Question: What caused a 34 minute suspension of play in the 2013 Superbowl?

Answer: Power-cut


Question: Which bird is the international symbol for happiness?

Answer: Bluebird


Question: What type of hat does Indiana Jones wear?

Answer: Fedora


Question: What are Cohíba, Hoyo de Monterrey, Montecristo, Partagás, Romeo y Julieta and Quintero?

Answer: Cuban cigars


Question: In what country did Venetian blinds originate?

Answer: Japan


Question: According to famous American architect Louis Henri Sullivan, known as the father of skyscrapers, "form follows what"?

Answer: Function


Question: With a population of almost 930,000 inhabitants, what is the capital city of Nicaragua?

Answer: MANAGUA


Question: Which serialised TV drama had a title that is a Lesbian slang term for oral sex?

Answer: Tipping The Velvet


Question: What colour is lapis lazuli?

Answer: Blue


Question: Which dancer has only one notable film cameo, appearing with Sean Connery in the 1979 movie The First Great Train Robbery, breaking into a guarded station office.

Answer: Wayne Sleep


Question: Which Shaw play is set during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War?

Answer: Arms and the Man


Question: The 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles is a modern version of which Shakespeare play?

Answer: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW


Question: What is the system of raised dots called which blind people use to read with their fingers?

Answer: Braille


Question: Who was the only boxer to win more heavyweight title fights than Mohammed Ali?

Answer: Joe Louis


Question: In German cuisine, what type of food is Stollen?

Answer: Fruit Loaf


Question: In the novel by Dumas, where was the Count of Monte Cristo imprisoned for 14 years?

Answer: Chateau d'If


Question: Who played the part of 'Alice Tinker' in 'The Vicar Of Dibley'?

Answer: EMMA CHAMBERS


Question: Which animal completes the name of the stop-motion animated children’s TV series “Raa Raa the Noisy _____”?

Answer: Lion


Question: What name is given to someone who starts fires maliciously?

Answer: Arsonist


Question: What is phobophobia the fear of?

Answer: -Â  Fear itself


Question: According to the nursery rhyme, how many blackbirds were baked in a pie?

Answer: 24


Question: Author J.R.R. Tolkien was born in which country?

Answer: South Africa


Question: What was the more famous two word name of American singer and ukele player who had the real name Herbert Khaury. In 1968 he released a classic version of a popular song which he sang in a high pitched voice?

Answer: TINY TIM


Question: Why was the bougainvillea plant given that name?

Answer: The botanist who described it was on a ship commanded by Admiral de Bougainville


Question: Used primarily to talk to the dead (and the scare the snot out of younger siblings), what is the name of the Parker Brothers game that consists of a flat board marked with letters, numbers, and other symbols, and a wooden disc known as a planchette?

Answer: Ouija Board


Question: Which famous media son and mogul joined the board of GlaxoSmithKline as non-executive director in Feb 2009?

Answer: James Murdoch


Question: Ur was a major city of which ancient civilization?

Answer: SUMER


Question: Which comedian had an alter ego called Fred Scuttle?

Answer: Benny Hill


Question: Which comic strip character was created in the early fifties by the Southport artist Frank Hampson?

Answer: DAN DARE


Question: Which country staged the first Winter Olympic Games?

Answer: FRANCE (Chamonix in 1924)


Question: Suger Mice was a 1987 single for which British rock band?

Answer: Marillion


Question: 'The Playboy Riots' occurred during and following the opening in 1907 of 'The Playboy Of The Western World' by J.M. Synge, at which Dublin theatre?

Answer: ABBEY THEATRE


Question: In which pastime/game would you use the Forsyth-Edwards Notation or the GBR code?

Answer: CHESS


Question: In the 2014 zombie comedy Life After Beth, a character takes offense when asked about zombies just because she is from what country?

Answer: Haiti


Question: In which month of the year does pheasant shooting legally begin?

Answer: OCTOBER


Question: What is a third divided by a half?

Answer: Two-thirds


Question: Anchored by the star Polaris, the constellation ursa minor represents what animal?

Answer: bear


Question: What type of food dish is a ‘London Particular’?

Answer: Soup


Question: In a petrol engine what component mixes fuel and air?

Answer: The carburettor


Question: The 'Yid Army' are/were a gang of football hooligans who supported which London club?

Answer: TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR


Question: What instrument was originally called the trompette-saicueboute?

Answer: Trombone


Question: From which country does paella come

Answer: Spain


Question: Sixty year old Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is the current president of which South American country ?

Answer: ARGENTINA


Question: What is Australia's largest island?

Answer: Tasmania