Question: How many crowned Tudor monarchs did England have?
Answer: Five

Question: In 1933, US President Franklin D Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102 which banned US citizens from hoarding what?
Answer: Gold

Question: Yellowstone National Park is located primarily in which US state?
Answer: Wyoming

Question: In the 1982 film ‘Blade Runner’, what are the genetically engineered organic robots called?
Answer: Replicants

Question: Who played Ann Darrow in the 1933 film ‘King Kong’?
Answer: Fay Wray

Question: In anatomy, if something is ‘subcostal’ it is situated or performed below which part of the body?
Answer: Ribs

Question: Javier Sotomayor set the world record in 1993 for which athletics event?
Answer: High Jump

Question: Louis Philippe I, King of the French and last king to rule France, abdicated in 1848 and lived the rest of his life in exile in which country?
Answer: England

Question: Which element has the highest melting point?
Answer: Carbon

Question: In July 2012, singer/actor Snoop Dogg announced that he had been rechristened Snoop ‘what’ by a Rastafarian priest in Jamaica?
Answer: Lion

Question: The Nightingale Training School for Nurses was set up in 1860 at which London hospital?
Answer: St Thomas’s Hospital

Question: What colour is the inner cross on the national flag of Iceland?
Answer: Red

Question: What is the largest artery in the human body?
Answer: Aorta

Question: The grave of poet and author Oscar Wilde is in which Paris cemetery?
Answer: Pere Lachaise

Question: In the children’s fairy tale, what was Cinderella’s carriage before it was changed by the Fairy Godmother?
Answer: Pumpkin

Question: In British slang, which vegetable is the name of the snippets of cloth appropriated by a tailor from a customer’s material?
Answer: Cabbage

Question: In June 1972, Sally Priesand became the first female ‘what’ in the US?
Answer: Rabbi (in Reform Judaism)

Question: What colour Onions was a 1962 instrumental hit single for Booker T & the Mgs?
Answer: Green

Question: Chrysophobia is the abnormal fear of which colour?
Answer: Orange

Question: Which European country is known as ‘The Boot’?
Answer: Italy

Question: Chulalongkorn University is the oldest university in which Asian country?
Answer: Thailand

Question: Apart from the special stars, how many categories of stars are there embedded in the pavements on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Answer: Five

Question: What is the surname of Carrie in Steven King’s novel ‘Carrie’?
Answer: White

Question: What is the title of late actress Elizabeth Taylor’s last feature film?
Answer: The Flintstones

Question: Which  British darts player is known as The Crafty Cockney?
Answer: Eric Bristow

Question: Fish use their gills to extract what from the water around them?
Answer: Oxygen

Question: Brian Clough said of which sportsman ‘Misguided, mishandled, criticised and crucified  – and only because he’s different’?
Answer: Geoffrey Boycott

Question: What are the three main ingredients of a Tequila Sunrise cocktail?
Answer: Tequila, orange juice, grenadine

Question: What are the first names of the two Aprile brothers in the US television series ‘The Sopranos’?
Answer: Richie and Jackie (Richard and Giacomo)

Question: ‘It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen’ is the opening line of which novel?
Answer: 1984

Question: The German dessert Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte is known by what name in Britain?
Answer: Black Forest gateau

Question: According to the Bible, on which day of Creation did God make man?
Answer: Sixth day

Question: What is the name of the ‘Special Agent’ meerkat toy in the UK television commercial for Compare the Market?
Answer: Maiya

Question: Which species of fish is a sterlet?
Answer: Sturgeon

Question: Marke Rutte became Prime Minister of which European country in 2010?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: Manchuria is a historical name for a large region of which continent?
Answer: Asia

Question: What is the title of the 1998 romantic comedy-drama film, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah, which alternates between two parallel universes?
Answer: Sliding Doors

Question: What is a temperature of 0 degrees Kelvin also known as?
Answer: Absolute Zero

Question: Which Roman numerals depict the year 1980?
Answer: Mcmlxxx

Question: The main entrance of which London museum is situated on Great Russell Street?
Answer: British Museum

Question: On a standard dartboard, which number lies opposite 1?
Answer: 19

Question: How many players in each team enter the field at the beginning of a game of the South Asian tag sport Kho Kho?
Answer: Nine

Question: Which was the first national football team to beat England after they won the 1966 World Cup?
Answer: Scotland

Question: Double Dutch, Double Unders and Dipsy Doodles are all term used in which activity?
Answer: Skipping

Question: Hester Prynnne is the main character in which novel by US author Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Answer: The Scarlet Letter

Question: According to the WHO (World Health Organisation), which country had the longest life expectancy in the world in 2011?
Answer: Japan

Question: Who was announced as the new television Doctor Who in July 2013?
Answer: Peter Capaldi

Question: Who became Vice-President of the USA in December 1973?
Answer: Gerald Ford

Question: The towns od Grimsby and Cleethorpes are in which English county?
Answer: Lincolnshire

Question: In September 1990, Geoffrey Palmer resigned as Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: What is the first name of the Parkinson’s cleaner in the UK television series ‘Butterflies’?
Answer: Ruby

Question: How high, in metres, is the London Eye?
Answer: 135 metres

Question: The rock musical ‘Rent’ is based on which opera by Giacomo Puccini?
Answer: La boheme

Question: Who won the 1976 UK Pipe Smoker of the Year Award, and was Pipeman of the Decade?
Answer: Harold Wilson

Question: In 1976 Dave Wagstaffe was playing for which team when he became the first football player in England to receive a red card?
Answer: Blackburn Rovers

Question: Mary Lennox, Colin and Dickon are all characters in which children’s novel?
Answer: The Secret Garden

Question: On a regular clockface, which number lies opposite 5?
Answer: 11

Question: Which is the tallest steel arch bridge in the world?
Answer: Sydney Harbour Bridge?

Question: A douroucouli is what type of animal?
Answer: Monkey

Question: The towns of Bishop’s Stortford and Berkhamsted are in which English county?
Answer: Hertfordshire

Question: Who was the first woman tennis player to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in the same year?
Answer: Maureen Connolly

Question: A pyroclastic flow comes from which natural structure?
Answer: Volcano

Question: Who became the first socialist Prime Minister of Greece in 1981?
Answer: Andreas Papandreou

Question: What type of animal is a lechwe?
Answer: Antelope

Question: Professor Henry Higgins is a character in which 1964 film?
Answer: My Fair Lady

Question: Which retailer opened its first new UK store for over 300 years at St Pancras station in London in November 2013?
Answer: Fortnum & Mason

Question: What is the most expensive property in the US version of the board game Monopoly?
Answer: Boardwalk

Question: What is the name of the race horse and the title of a 2003 film starring Jeff Bridges as the owner, and Toby Maguire as the jockey?
Answer: Seabiscuit

Question: The Euroscar European Player of the Year Award is awarded for which sport?
Answer: Basketball

Question: What is the first name of inventor Dyson, who invented his own brand of vacuum cleaner?
Answer: James

Question: Janet Weiss, Brad Majors and Magenta are all characters from which 1975 musical film?
Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Question: ‘You’re doing fine’ is the call for which Bingo number?
Answer: 29

Question: Which US Apollo astronaut died on 25th August 2012?
Answer: Neil Armstrong