Question: In the books by Raymond Briggs what type of creature is Fungus

Answer: Bogeyman


Question: Where is the grave of Bing Crosby?

Answer: Culver City, Los Angeles County, USA


Question: The result of a tryst with the wife of his bitter enemy, what legendary English ruler is the bastard son of Igraine and Uther Pendragon?

Answer: King Arthur


Question: Which country does the airline TAAG come from?

Answer: Angola


Question: In which part of the body might one sustain a Pott's Fracture? \

Answer: The ANKLE


Question: Which was the first Liverpool group to top the UK chart?

Answer: Gerry & The Pacemakers


Question: What was the name of the second wife of Johnny Cash, who he married in 1968?

Answer: June Carter


Question: Which TV and film character has a blood group T Negative? (the same as his father with some human elements)

Answer: Mr.SPOCK


Question: Who wrote the words to 'Land of Hope and Glory'?

Answer: AC Benson


Question: What Family Guy character moved from Quahog, Rhode Island to Stoolbend, Virginia to spin off his own show?

Answer: Cleveland Brown


Question: In the name of the mountain K2, for what does the K stand?

Answer: KARAKORAM


Question: Last month, what word was named by Oxford Dictionaries as the word of the year?

Answer: SELFIE


Question: What is the only letter of the alphabet which does not appear in any of the names of the 50 American states?

Answer: Q


Question: What was the name of the 'Birdman of Alcatraz'?

Answer: ROBERT STROUD


Question: Which African country's capital is named after an American president?

Answer: Liberia


Question: What is the maximum airspeed (in km/h) of the third fastest bird?

Answer: 320 km/h


Question: Who famously had children with both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony?

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera has the alternative title 'The Lass that Loved a Sailor'?

Answer: HMS Pinafore


Question: The first Apollo moon landing?

Answer: 11


Question: In the TV series Cracker what is Fitz's christian name

Answer: Eddie


Question: "What is another name for ""mother of pearl""?"

Answer: Nacre


Question: In the 1962 film ‘Lolita’, what is Lolita’s first name?

Answer: Dolores


Question: What is the longest time that there can be between General Elections in the UK?

Answer: 5 years


Question: Who is the detective played by Martin Shaw in a t.v. series set in North East England in the 1960's?

Answer: 'GEORGE GENTLY'


Question: Which pop singer shot himself to death in 1990 whilst suffering from depression?

Answer: DEL SHANNON


Question: Who directed the 2013 film ‘Twelve Years a Slave’?

Answer: STEVE McQUEEN


Question: What was the name of the 1960’s rock band which comprised Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech?

Answer: Blind Faith


Question: Which Charles Dickens novel has two title characters, both called 'Paul' and a full title that ends with the words: 'Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation'?

Answer: 'DOMBEY & SON'


Question: What is the name of the first digital library founded by Michael Hart in 1971?

Answer: Project Gutenberg


Question: What is the name of the sidekick of cartoon superhero DangerMouse?

Answer: Ernest Penfold


Question: In 1961, who famously scored six goals in a match but still ended up on the losing team in a FA Cup tie?

Answer: Denis Law


Question: In what year was the first Tarzan novel published?

Answer: 1914


Question: Which author wrote ‘I came form Des Moines. Somebody had to.’ in their book ‘The Lost Continent’?

Answer: Bill Bryson


Question: In which TV 'quiz' show was the consolation prize a chequebook and pen?

Answer: Blankety Blank


Question: What island country lies off the southeast tip of India?

Answer: Sri Lanka


Question: In which country is the volcano Mount Meager?

Answer: Canada


Question: On what day is Michaelmas celebrated?

Answer: Michaelmas Day is the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, celebrated on 29 September. (St. Michael is the patron saint of the sea and maritime lands, of ships and boatmen, of horses and horsemen. He was the Angel who hurled Lucifer (the devil) down from Heaven for his treachery.)


Question: George W Bush was given which diminutive herbaceous nickname?

Answer: Shrub


Question: Which Dutch admiral boasted in 1667 that he had swept the British from the sea?

Answer: Maarten Tromp


Question: What book knocked Henry Kissinger's White house Years out of first place on the best-seller list in November 1979?

Answer: Aunt Erma's Cope Book, by Erma Bombeck


Question: Which writer and politician became Lord Tweedsmuir?

Answer: John Buchan


Question: Where is the European Court of Human Rights?

Answer: Strasbourg


Question: Which aperitif is named for the Paris chemist who created it in 1846?

Answer: DuBonnet


Question: What is the name of the bay on the shore of which Rio de Janeiro sits?

Answer: Guanabara Bay


Question: Which city was formerly known as “Edo”?

Answer: Tokyo


Question: Star Trek: TOS was cancelled in 1969 after how many years on the air?

Answer: 3


Question: Which organisation was founded by the lawyer Peter Benenson in London in 1961?

Answer: Amnesty International


Question: Who is the the voice of cartoon character Jack Kahuna Laguna in a special episode of Spongebob Squarepants?

Answer: Johnny Depp


Question: Who wrote the songs for the musical Top Hat?

Answer: Irving Berlin


Question: In which English county was Henry 1st born?

Answer: Yorkshire


Question: In what year was the company that was founded as Sound of Music added to the S&P 500?

Answer: 1999


Question: As a figure of speech, what is a statement made in exaggerated terms?

Answer: HYPERBOLE


Question: Which element has the chemical symbol Cs?

Answer: CAESIUM


Question: What short-named body can be called the most geologically active place of the Solar System as the tidal forces of its mother planet cause its solid surface to bulge up by as much as 100 meters?

Answer: Io (Jupiter)


Question: In the DC Comics world, he started as Dick Grayson and ended up as the leader of the Teen Titans, under the identity of Nightwing. By what name is he more famously know?

Answer: Robin, Boy Wonder


Question: Who wrote the book of verses ‘Now We Are Six’?

Answer: A A Milne


Question: When it was a first performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1907, which play caused rioting in the streets because of objections to the portrayal of rural Irish Catholic immorality?

Answer: 'THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD'


Question: What abolitionist raided Harpers Ferry in 1859?

Answer: John Brown


Question: By what name was Peggy Hookham DBE better known?

Answer: Margot Fonteyn


Question: Fidel Castro, former President of Cuba, ordered which board game to be destroyed when he took power?

Answer: Monopoly


Question: What aid to baking was invented by Henry Jones of Bristol in 1845

Answer: Self-raising flour


Question: Which planet has moons with Greek names meaning 'Fear' and 'Terror'?

Answer: MARS (Phobos & Deimos)


Question: What "moderately famous" ship left Southampton, England, before stopping at Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland before stopping floating?

Answer: RMS Titanic


Question: Who was the cartoon adversary of Pixie and Dixie, who would often say I hate those meeces to pieces?

Answer: Mr Jinx


Question: Umberto ll was the last king of which European country?

Answer: Italy


Question: The meibomian gland is found in which part of the human body?

Answer: Eyelid


Question: What did Pickles find in 1966?

Answer: The Jules Rimet Trophy/World Cup


Question: The Wolfe Noel Cup is awarded to the winners of the woman's challenge match the USA v Great Britain at which sport?

Answer: Squash


Question: To the nearest two, how many tennis Grand Slam titles did Jimmy Connors win?

Answer: 10


Question: In medicine, chromotopsia is the term for abnormally coloured what?

Answer: Vision


Question: Where was the Titanic heading for on her maiden voyage

Answer: New York


Question: Who was on the thrones of England and Scotland at the time of the Act of Union in 1707?

Answer: Anne


Question: Which English football league club play their home games at Gigg Lane?

Answer: Bury


Question: Saint Fidelis Church, otherwise known as The Cathedral of the Plains, is located in which US state?

Answer: Kansas


Question: Who (at 2008) plays Doctor Gregory House in the TV series House?

Answer: Hugh Laurie


Question: The girth goes on which part of the horse?

Answer: Around the ribs


Question: A Paris grocer was jailed for two years in 1978 stabbing wife what?

Answer: A wedge of hard cheese


Question: Made in Scotland what type of beverage is Rock Rose

Answer: Gin


Question: In team ball games such as football, a pass to a team-mate which invites an immediate hard tackle on the receiver by an opponent is called a '(What?) pass'?

Answer: Hospital


Question: Name either of Sir Galahad’s companions on his quest to find the holy grail.

Answer: Sir Percival or Sir Bors


Question: What are fished by the crews in the freezing waters of Alaska as shown in Discovery Channel's hit series Deadliest Catch?

Answer: Alaskan king crab and Opilio crab


Question: Who first achieved stardom as the gangster Duke Mantee in the film 'The Petrified Forest'?

Answer: Humphrey Bogart


Question: Which English king was married to Eleanor of Castile?

Answer: Edward the First


Question: What machine devised to move people was first demonstrated in Paris in 1900?

Answer: Escalator


Question: What are the first names of art duo Proesch and Passmore?

Answer: Gilbert and George


Question: Who was the American President when the Berlin Wall was constructed?

Answer: John F Kennedy


Question: Who wrote the political autobiography Speaking For Myself?

Answer: Cherie Blair


Question: "A novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first published in ""All-Story Magazine"" in October 1912, was ""Tarzan of the ... "" what?"

Answer: Apes


Question: Narcotics were originally developed for inducing, and are named from?

Answer: Numbness/sleep


Question: Which actor, who died in June 2014, provided the voice of Captain Scarlet?

Answer: Francis Matthews


Question: What is the only U.S. state that borders just one other?

Answer: Maine


Question: Who is the Vice President, and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy?

Answer: BARONESS ASHTON


Question: On what river is the town of Colchester

Answer: Colne


Question: What song did Wayne and Garth headbang to in the car?

Answer: Bohemian Rhapsody


Question: Which 1983 film starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger won 5 Oscars (Academy Awards)?

Answer: Terms of Endearment


Question: Which anti-conformist movement in 1950's fashion began in New York's West Village and was characterised by black slim trousers , thick sweaters and untucked shirts ?

Answer: BEATNIK


Question: In music theory what is the relative minor chord of C major?

Answer: A minor


Question: What kind of animal is a 'Suffolk Punch'?

Answer: Horse


Question: Paul Newman's title character in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke was imprisoned for decapitating what?, where he succcessfully accepted a challenge to eat 50 what?, respectively?

Answer: Parking meters and boiled eggs


Question: The Kremlin is situated in which city?

Answer: Moscow


Question: What is the title of the 1996 Oscar-winning documentary about the Muhammad Ali and George Foreman 1974 ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ fight in Zaire?

Answer: When We Were Kings


Question: 15 October will mark the 600th anniversary of which famous battle?

Answer: AGINCOURT


Question: A popular 1960s TV cowboy series, what is a cutaneous covering that has not been tanned?

Answer: Rawhide


Question: Which British monarch founded the Yeomen of the Guard, originally as a royal bodyguard?

Answer: Henry VII


Question: Which 2009 movie, the directorial debut of Sam Taylor-Wood, tell the story of the adolescence of John Lennon?

Answer: Nowhere Boy


Question: Which cartoon character is mentioned in the single ‘Life on Mars’ by David Bowie?

Answer: Mickey Mouse


Question: Which European country hosted the 1956 Winter Olympic Games?

Answer: Italy


Question: What is next in the sequence: Lima, Quito, Bogota...?

Answer: Caracas


Question: "The musical ""Les Miserables"" is based on whose novel?"

Answer: Victor Hugo


Question: Mary Surratt was executed having been found guilty of the conspiracy to assassinate who?

Answer: ABRAHAM LINCOLN


Question: Other than a film soundtrack, which pop album has spent most weeks in the UK Album Charts in total?

Answer: BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER


Question: White Gem is a variety of which vegetable?

Answer: PARSNIP


Question: Which late MP owned Saltwood Castle in Kent?

Answer: Alan Clarke


Question: Who said that there are only three true sports, bullfighting, mountaineering and motor racing, the rest are merely games?

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: What do antique dealers call old wooden utensils such as soupspoons, bowls etc

Answer: Treen


Question: Who is the only Spanish winner of the Ladies' Singles at Wimbledon?

Answer: CONCHITA MARTINEZ


Question: When did the president who set the precedent of a two term limit enter office?

Answer: April 30, 1789


Question: How is the year 1994 depicted in Roman Numerals?

Answer: MCMXCIV


Question: Which British swimmer won Olympic Gold Medals in 2008 in the 400 and 800 m freestyle?

Answer: Rebecca Adlington


Question: Turin lies on which river?

Answer: Po


Question: Nick Begs was lead singer with which 80’s pop band?

Answer: Kajagoogoo


Question: Which children's TV show used cabbages as the booby prize?

Answer: Crackerjack


Question: There are three types of rock. Sedimentary is one, give one of the others.

Answer: IGNEOUS OR METAMORPHIC


Question: The scientific term fission means?

Answer: Split


Question: The Corryvreckan whirlpool lies to the north of which Scottish island?

Answer: JURA


Question: On a motorway what is the speed limit for a car towing a caravan?

Answer: 60 mph


Question: Which national team introduced ‘Total Football’ at the 1974 World Cup in Germany?

Answer: Holland/Netherlands


Question: What is the English translation of the place name Las Vegas?

Answer: THE MEADOWS


Question: Which Shakespeare play is set in the Forest of Arden?

Answer: AS YOU LIKE IT


Question: What is the name of the villain Azal’s gargoyle servant in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who?

Answer: Bok


Question: What is the name of the spiritual leader of a community of Zen Buddhist monks?

Answer: Roshi


Question: What country lies to north of the Republic of Chad?

Answer: The State of Libya