Question: Whose catchphrases included ‘Hello, playmates’ and ‘Ay thang yaw’?
Answer: Arthur Askey

Question: Which classic children’s tv programme began with “Stand by for action!”?
Answer: Stingray

Question: What are fan-tan and faro?
Answer: Card Games

Question: In the 1977 film Demon Seed what takes over the house in which Julie Christie is trapped?
Answer: A Computer

Question: Where would you find the towns of Ramsey, Peel and Port Erin?
Answer: Isle of Man

Question: Which Persian king invaded Greece to punish Athens?
Answer: Darius

Question: Truva in Turkey is the site of which ancient city?
Answer: Troy

Question: The American woodchuck or whistle-pigis also known by what name?
Answer: Groundhog

Question: Who fell in love with Heloise the beautiful 17-year-old daughter of Canon Fulbert?
Answer: Peter Abelard

Question: What is the country of origin of the yeastless beer called ‘faro’?
Answer: Belgium

Question: Which relative of the giraffe has zebra-like stripes?
Answer: Okapi

Question: Which US city filed for bankruptcy in July?
Answer: Detroit

Question: Polydactylism is distinguished by extra what?
Answer: Fingers or Toes

Question: If a dessert is served ‘a la mode’ what is it served with?
Answer: Ice Cream

Question: What is the chief ingredient of passata?
Answer: Tomatoes

Question: If you were using a pull-through what would you be cleaning?
Answer: A Rifle

Question: In which fictional county is ‘The Archers’ set?
Answer: Borsetshire

Question: Which straits separate Tierra del Fuego from mainland South America?
Answer: Magellan

Question: In the heroic poem ‘The Song of Roland’, which ‘O’ is Roland’s best friend?
Answer: Oliver

Question: Henry Morton Stanley was born in which country?
Answer: Wales

Question: To which land did Cain go after killing Abel?
Answer: The Land of Nod

Question: ‘I must get a little hand put on this watch’ – heard regularly in which sitcom?
Answer: Nearest and Dearest

Question: Which county was absorbed into Cambridgeshire in 1974?
Answer: Huntingdonshire

Question: Which literary character is told of a fabulous treasure by the Abbe Faria?
Answer: Edmund Dantes accept Count

Question: The Golden Spurtle is awarded for champion makers of what?
Answer: Porridge

Question: Adelaide, Australia stands on which river?
Answer: Torrens

Question: What was the name of Michael Bentine’s Bafta-winning tv show that ran from 1960-64?
Answer: It’S A Square World

Question: What is the English for ‘Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite’?
Answer: I Told You I Was Ill

Question: In 1979, which seaside town became the first in Britain to set up a nudist beach?
Answer: Brighton

Question: Which actress was forced to leave ‘Coronation Street’ in 2007 because of poor health?
Answer: Liz Dawn

Question: ‘The Last King of Scotland’ (2006) was set in which country?
Answer: Uganda

Question: What was the birth name of the woman who married Laurence Olivier in 1961?
Answer: Joan Plowright

Question: What is the second-most expensive property in a British game of ‘Monopoly’?
Answer: Park Lane

Question: Torre Pendente is the local name for what world-famous visitor attraction?
Answer: Leaning Tower of Pisa

Question: In the human body what is the common name for the third molar teeth?
Answer: Wisdom Teeth

Question: Clints and grikes are found in formations of which rock?
Answer: Limestone

Question: Which British commander was killed at Corunna in 1808?
Answer: Sir John Moore

Question: Which title character does John Ridd fall head over heels for?
Answer: Lorna Doone

Question: Which prolific author’s first novel Jigsaw was published in 1922?
Answer: Barbara Cartland

Question: The Longmuir brothers were in which teeny-bop group?
Answer: Bay City Rollers

Question: A poker player throwing in his cards says what?
Answer: Fold

Question: Wulfrunians are residents of which English city?
Answer: Wolverhampton

Question: What was the alleged weight of entertainer Tessie O'Shea?
Answer: Two Tons

Question: What is the address of the White House in Washington DC?
Answer: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave

Question: Which amendment to the US constitution protects against self-incrimination?
Answer: Fifth

Question: Rolo, Aero, Kit Kat, and Roses were all introduced in which decade?
Answer: 1930s

Question: The title First Level Nurse replaced Registered General Nurse, which replaced what?
Answer: State Registered Nurse

Question: Which French phrase describes women who have not fallen totally into a world of vice?
Answer: Demi-mondaine

Question: In which eastern county is Holme Fen, the lowest point in the UK?
Answer: Cambridgeshire

Question: Which is both the highest capital city in Europe and one of its smallest?
Answer: Andorra La Vella

Question: Which of the Balearic Islands has a name that means 'biggest'?
Answer: Majorca

Question: Atoms that have either gained or lost electrons are called what?
Answer: Ions

Question: The song Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands is about which singer’s wife?
Answer: Bob Dylan

Question: Who wrote the songs Camptown Races and Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair?
Answer: Stephen Foster

Question: A cronut is a cross between a doughnut and a what?
Answer: Croissant

Question: In which country is the Hryvnia the currency?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: It is generally accepted that the letter ‘D’ is short for which word?
Answer: Day !

Question: Whose book, ‘Dreams From My Father’, was published in 1995?
Answer: Barack Obama

Question: “Some dance to remember, some dance to forget” – in which hotel?
Answer: Hotel CALIFORNIA

Question: Which STD is colloquially known as ‘the clap’?
Answer: Gonorrhea

Question: Anna Mae Bullock is the real name of which singer, dancer, actress and author?
Answer: Tina Turner

Question: Which teenage high school student is Spiderman’s alter ego?
Answer: Peter Parker

Question: What would the initials ANPR mean to a petrol station attendant?
Answer: Automatic Number Plate

Question: Elizabeth of Glamis and Dorothy Perkins are both types of what?
Answer: Roses

Question: Tinca Tinca is the Latin name for which fish?
Answer: Tench

Question: Shrub Hill station serves which English town or city?
Answer: Worcester

Question: Which Kathryn Bigelow directed film, centred on the hunt for Osama Bin Laden?
Answer: Zero Dark Thirty

Question: What artistic term was given to the music of Debussy, Ravel and Delius?
Answer: Impressionist

Question: In which US state are the Sonoma and Nappa Valley wine growing areas?
Answer: California

Question: Which of the Spanish ‘Costas’ has a name meaning ‘gold coast’?
Answer: Costa Dorada

Question: Which condition was known as ‘The King’s Evil’?
Answer: Scrofula

Question: At Cambridge the ‘Senior Wrangler’ is the top performer at what?
Answer: Mathematics

Question: What is the youngest section of the Scouting movement, covering ages 6 to 8?
Answer: Beaver Scouts

Question: What was the country of birth of Pope Benedict XVI?
Answer: Germany

Question: In which county is Malin Head, the most northerly point in all Ireland?
Answer: County Donegal

Question: In which English city are Park Hill Flats, the largest listed building in Europe?
Answer: Sheffield

Question: What phrase is used in the UK for that which North Americans often call a “Texas Gate”?
Answer: Cattle Grid

Question: a Victorian farce and a situation in which two people take turns to occupy a position?
Answer: Box and Cox

Question: Which dance craze’s name was allegedly inspired by a pioneering transatlantic flight?
Answer: Lindy Hop

Question: Which poet laureate wrote “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks”?
Answer: Nahum Tate

Question: At which indoor sport was TV presenter Matt Baker talented in his younger days?
Answer: Gymnastics

Question: On Twitter, Facebook, etc., what icon denotes a ‘like’?
Answer: Thumbs Up

Question: What is the name of the major seaport which serves Mexico City?
Answer: Veracruz