Question: What does the expression ‘papering the house’ mean?
Answer: Giving Away Free Tickets To Fill

Question: Where is the ‘benthic zone’?
Answer: Sea Bed

Question: Coprolite is the name given by archaeologists to fossilized ………..what?
Answer: Faeces

Question: What term is used for chains of repeated groups of atoms e.g. DNA, proteins?
Answer: Polymers

Question: In heraldry what colour is argent?
Answer: Silver

Question: Which artist did Gore Vidal describe as ‘The only genius with an I.Q. of 60’?
Answer: Andy Warhol

Question: Which Premiership football club started out as Ardwick FC?
Answer: Manchester City

Question: At which Grand prix circuit was Ayrton Senna killed in 1994?
Answer: Imola

Question: What connected Austria, Finland and Sweden on New Year’s Day 1995?
Answer: Joined European Union

Question: What was Gulliver’s first name?
Answer: Lemuel

Question: Which state has the lowest population?
Answer: Wyoming

Question: Taffeta is a variety of which material?
Answer: Silk

Question: Which English king is buried in Worcester Cathedral?
Answer: King John

Question: What part of a bird might also be a term for a magistrate?
Answer: Beak

Question: Which four-letter word means ‘the prong of a fork’?
Answer: Tine

Question: What word refers to liquid absorption, as by plants through their roots?
Answer: Osmosis

Question: Who was admitted to Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, as ‘Patient 24740, white male’?
Answer: John F. Kennedy

Question: What is the heraldic word for red?
Answer: Gules

Question: In science, what adjective describes a reaction in which heat is absorbed?
Answer: Endothermic

Question: In ‘Treasure Island’, who was the captain of the Hispaniola?
Answer: Captain SMOLLETT

Question: Who is the mother of Kate Hudson?
Answer: Goldie HAWN

Question: After a 1952 film, who became known as ‘the million-dollar mermaid’?
Answer: Esther WILLIAMS

Question: Which group, 'one hit wonders', topped the UK charts in 1976 with 'Mississippi'?
Answer: Pussycat

Question: Jocasta was the wife of Laius and the mother of which other famous individual?
Answer: Oedipus

Question: What was the name of William Wordsworth's sister?
Answer: Dorothy

Question: Which Yorkshire city has two city-centre railway stations, Kirkgate and Westgate?
Answer: Wakefield

Question: Which two European flags are square in shape?
Answer: Switzerland and Vatican City

Question: Population circa 240 million, whose flag is simply two horizontal bands, in red and white?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: Which animal forms the body of the great sphinx of Giza in Egypt?
Answer: Lion

Question: What was the four-word title of Katrina and the Waves’ winning entry in 1997?
Answer: Love Shine A Light

Question: Who wrote the poem ‘The Village Blacksmith’, in 1840?
Answer: Henry W. LONGFELLOW

Question: ‘Hey, Big Spender’ comes from which musical?
Answer: Sweet Charity

Question: What creatures are colloquially known as ‘jaspers’ in parts of England?
Answer: Wasps

Question: What is the full, four-word name of the Statue of Liberty?
Answer: Liberty Enlightening The

Question: Who played the part of Raquel in ‘Only Fools and Horses’?
Answer: Tessa Peake-Jones

Question: Who famously lived to regret saying “You can’t win anything with kids”?
Answer: Alan Hansen

Question: What name is given to the home of an otter?
Answer: Holt

Question: What is the chemical formula for calcium chloride?
Answer: CaCl2

Question: If a pair of adult shoes are European size 42, what is their British equivalent?
Answer: 8

Question: On which pop hit classic did Bob Holness famously not play the sax solo?
Answer: Baker Street

Question: Founded in 1981, which chain of off-licences has now grown to over 600?
Answer: Bargain Booze

Question: Which noted French writer lived in exile in the Channel Islands from 1855-1870?
Answer: Victor Hugo

Question: The ‘A’ represents ‘Amyotrophic’. For what do the L and the S stand?
Answer: Lateral Sclerosis

Question: What is the first name of Bottom, in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’?
Answer: Nick

Question: We call them ‘extras’. What are they called in Australia?
Answer: Sundries

Question: First appearing in 1904, which fictional former pupil might have trouble dealing cards?
Answer: Captain Hook

Question: Elvis Costello’s father wrote and sang the jingle for an ad featuring which product?
Answer: R. WHITE’S lemonade

Question: What was the first fully computer generated film?
Answer: Toy Story

Question: Which European country’s name means Black Mountain?
Answer: Montenegro

Question: Whose followers are Timid Toad, Reckless Rat, Artful Owl and Batty Bat?
Answer: Captain Beaky

Question: The Citigo is manufactured by which car maker?
Answer: Skoda

Question: Who played the role of Ashley Wilkes in Gone With The Wind?
Answer: Leslie Howard

Question: Who wrote The Little House on the Prairie?
Answer: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Question: On Nov. 7th 2013, what landmark did A.P. McCoy reach, in terms of number of winners?
Answer: 4,000

Question: In WW II, in what year did these battles take place: Luzon, Halbe, Trieste and Okinawa?
Answer: 1945

Question: In his poem ‘If’, what does Kipling describe as ‘those two impostors’?
Answer: TRIUMPH and DISASTER

Question: What is the given name of the wife of Conservative leader David Cameron?
Answer: Samantha

Question: Who immediately succeeded Augustus as Emperor of Rome?
Answer: Tiberius

Question: What is most remarkable about the site of Osaka's 'Kansai International Airport'?
Answer: Floating or Man Made Island

Question: Also the proper first name of Milly-Molly-Mandy, what is the doll, Barbie's middle name?
Answer: Millicent

Question: Who played 'The Fugitive' on TV?
Answer: David Janssen

Question: In which 1996 live-action/animation movie did basketball icon Michael Jordan star?
Answer: Space Jam

Question: In which county would you find Kielder Forest?
Answer: Northumberland

Question: Is the mountain range in Ireland in which the river Liffey rises?
Answer: Wicklow Mountains

Question: Which song was the anthem of the German Nazi Party?
Answer: Horst Wessel Song/Lied

Question: Who were the first ever winners of the English Football League in 1889?
Answer: Preston North End

Question: Who is the Great Architect of the Universe in Masonic ritual?
Answer: God

Question: Which composer was Franz Liszt’s son-in-law?
Answer: Wagner

Question: Aves is the scientific name for which creatures?
Answer: Birds

Question: In cricket parlance, what are ‘buzzers’?
Answer: Overthrows

Question: Edmond Dantès is the eponymous protagonist of which novel of 1844?
Answer: The Count of Monte Cristo

Question: Which Scottish border village lies at the northernmost end of the Pennine Way?
Answer: Kirk Yetholm

Question: In his eponymous TV show, which comedian and actor played obstetrician Cliff Huxtable?
Answer: Bill Cosby

Question: In which 1944 film does a drama critic learn that his two maiden aunts are serial killers?
Answer: Arsenic and Old Lace

Question: Which classic rock anthem is about writing a song at either 3:35 a.m. or 3:34 a.m.?
Answer: 25 or 6 to 4

Question: Which wrestler was known as ‘Mr TV’?
Answer: Jackie Pallo

Question: In 1990, Barbara Castle became Baroness Castle of where?
Answer: Blackburn

Question: Which ‘C’ was the Roman version of the Greek goddess Demeter?
Answer: Ceres

Question: Which of Shakespeare’s plays features a herald named Mountjoy?
Answer: Henry V

Question: A simple quadrilateral whose sides are all of the same length is known as a what?
Answer: Rhombus

Question: “Away, you rolling river” is one of the refrains in which traditional folk song?
Answer: Shenandoah

Question: Houdun and Light Sussex are types of which farmyard creature?
Answer: Chicken

Question: ‘Tough’ was the real name of which twosome?
Answer: The Krankies

Question: Which gas, indicating the presence of possible life forms, has been discovered on Mars?
Answer: Methane