Question: The Stoop is the home of which Premiership club?
Answer: Harlequins

Question: What Latin phrase is used for one’s old school or university?
Answer: Alma Mater

Question: Which popular TV sitcom screened its last ever episode on New Year’s Day?
Answer: Miranda

Question: In 2008 Great Leighs became the first new venue for which sport for 80 years?
Answer: Horse Racing

Question: On the Beaufort Scale which number is registered as High Wind?
Answer: 7

Question: What did a Hungarian teacher of 3-D design produce in the late 1970s?
Answer: Rubik’s Cube

Question: What is the capital of Barbados?
Answer: Bridgetown

Question: A Wayzgoose is an annual outing or party in which industry?
Answer: Printing Industry

Question: To which club did Mr Winkle, Mr Tupman and Mr Snodgrass belong?
Answer: Pickwick Club

Question: In which way did the crucifixion of St Peter differ from that of Jesus?
Answer: He was crucified upside-down

Question: Who is currently Government Chief Whip?
Answer: Michael Gove

Question: ... a mineral, varieties of which include emerald and aquamarine?
Answer: Beryl

Question: What nationality is Richard Flanagan, winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction?
Answer: Australian

Question: The first ball of the 2014 Major League Baseball season was pitched in which stadium?
Answer: Sydney Cricket Ground

Question: Which two islands are linked by the 33 and a half-mile-long Seikan rail tunnel?
Answer: Honshu and Hokkaido

Question: What is the standard frequency of domestic mains supplies in the UK?
Answer: 50 Hertz/50 cycles per second

Question: Which actress and comedian’s familiar appellation derives from her childhood flatulence?
Answer: Whoopi Goldberg

Question: Who was revealed to be the fourth Russian spy in the Burgess, Philby and Maclean affair?
Answer: Anthony BLUNT

Question: Who wrote the 1987 novel 'The Bonfire of the Vanities'?
Answer: Tom WOLFE

Question: Which anti-arthritis drug was withdrawn in Britain in 1982 because of its side effects?
Answer: Opren

Question: Taught as part of driving theory; what does the acronym P O M mean?
Answer: Prepare Observe Manoeuvre

Question: Where would you most likely expect to find ‘harmless’ plants known as epiphytes living?
Answer: On OTHER PLANTS

Question: From the Greek for "lazy", what property is an object’s resistance to change in its state of motion?
Answer: Inertia

Question: The poisonous toadstool fly agaric usually has a cap of red and what other colour?
Answer: White

Question: At the outbreak of the war, who led the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
Answer: FRANZ JOSEPH the First

Question: What was the name of the half-bird, half-woman creature of Greek mythology?
Answer: Harpy

Question: In the 90s, who starred in the tv series ‘The Manageress’ and several Kenco adverts? (She
Answer: Cherie Lunghi

Question: Whose painting, ‘Benefits Supervisor Resting’, sold for £35.8million at auction?
Answer: Lucian Freud

Question: What name did Manuel give to his pet rat in ‘Fawlty Towers’?
Answer: Basil

Question: ‘The Perfect Year’ and ‘Surrender’ are songs from which musical?
Answer: Sunset Boulevard

Question: A mendacious person is prone to doing what?
Answer: Telling Lies

Question: Pop. ‘Tubthumping’ was a 1997 no.2 hit for which group?
Answer: Chumbawamba

Question: Which ‘Egghead’ published the book ‘The Great Railway Quiz’ in 1984?
Answer: Chris HUGHES

Question: The French word for which colour is jaune?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Which US term used along with the word ‘figure’ to indicate an approximate amount?
Answer: Ballpark

Question: In which county of England would you find the royal residence of Sandringham?
Answer: Norfolk

Question: What is the name of the Greek dish derived from the words for fish roe and salad?
Answer: Taramosalata

Question: 'Leigh Toaster' is a variety of which crumbly English cheese?
Answer: Lancashire

Question: What was the title of the 2008 sequel to 2005’s ‘Batman Begins’?
Answer: The Dark Knight

Question: Nicholas Cage is the nephew of which Oscar-winning film director?
Answer: Francis Ford COPPOLA

Question: Which African antelope has species called Coke’s, Lelwel, Western, Swayne’s and Tora?
Answer: Hartebeest

Question: Mariano Rajoy became Prime Minister of which EU country in 2011?
Answer: Spain

Question: Former probation officer Leanne Wood was elected leader of which party in March 2012?
Answer: Plaid Cymru

Question: Situated in Nevada, what is known as 'The Biggest Little City in the World'?
Answer: Reno

Question: Nicknamed 'The Pearl of the Orient', which capital is bisected by the Pasig River?
Answer: Manila

Question: Which city hosted the opening stage of the Tour De France on 5 July 2014?
Answer: Leeds

Question: Battleship, thimble, iron, cannon, battleship and what else were the original six tokens?
Answer: Top Hat

Question: Who got to no.7 in the UK charts in 1977 with ‘Lovely Day’?
Answer: Bill Withers

Question: In ‘Penny Lane’, who keeps a portrait of the Queen in his pocket?
Answer: The FIREMAN

Question: Which boy band took its name from a character in the film Back To The Future?
Answer: McFly

Question: What type of establishments were run by lanistas?
Answer: Gladiator Schools

Question: Which ITN newsreader also wrote three TV plays before leaving to work in Australia?
Answer: Gordon Honeycomb

Question: The three Provinces wholly in the Republic are Leinster, Connaught and which other?
Answer: Munster

Question: What was the name of the computer that beat Gary Kasparov at chess in 1997?
Answer: Deep Blue

Question: What allegedly crashed at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947?
Answer: A Ufo

Question: What would be kept in an etui?
Answer: Pins/Needles

Question: What do we call lava while it is still underground?
Answer: Magma

Question: The Peppermint Lounge in New York was the launch pad for which 60’s dance craze?
Answer: The Twist

Question: Which clothing company has a name that translated into English means ‘water guard’?
Answer: Aquascutum

Question: What are the women’s trousers cut to look like a skirt?
Answer: Culottes

Question: Which hot drink claimed to combat ‘night starvation’?
Answer: Horlicks

Question: The American woodchuck is also known by what name?
Answer: Groundhog

Question: What was the age that no-one wanted to reach in Logan’s Run?
Answer: 30

Question: In Othello what did the bard mean by ‘the beast with two backs’?
Answer: Sexual Intercourse

Question: Which Prime Minister lost the North American colonies for Britain?
Answer: Lord North

Question: Lauren Bacall was married at different times to Humphrey Bogart and which other actor?
Answer: Jason Robards

Question: What name is given to jackrabbits (which aren’t actually rabbits!) less than a year old?
Answer: Leverets

Question: The Adam’s Apple helps to protect the walls and the front section of what bodily part?
Answer: Larynx

Question: What was the middle name of Mark Chapman, John Lennon’s killer?
Answer: David

Question: In which county is Bosworth Field, site of the famous battle of 1485?
Answer: Leicestershire

Question: Which Scottish King was killed when his horse fell from a cliff at Kinghorn, Fife?
Answer: Alexander III

Question: In 1973, who joined the EEC at the same time as Britain and Ireland?
Answer: Denmark

Question: What word describes the property of a metal that allows it to be drawn out into wire?
Answer: Ductility

Question: Whose law states that “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”?
Answer: Parkinson

Question: What type of flower derives its name from the French for ‘lion’s tooth’?
Answer: Dandelion

Question: In the tv programme ‘Dad’s Army’, what was the name of the vicar?
Answer: Rev. TIMOTHY FARTHING

Question: Jazz. Who had four Top 10 hits in the 60s, including ‘Sukiyaki’ and ‘Midnight in Moscow’?
Answer: KENNY BALL and his Jazzmen

Question: Where is the Happy Valley racecourse?
Answer: Hong Kong