Question: Which word can go before Pot, Cup and Spoon to make three other words?
Answer: Tea

Question: Which word can go after King, Hair and Nine to make three other words?
Answer: Pin

Question: Which word can go before Board, Point and Ware to make three other words?
Answer: Hard

Question: How wide, in metres, is an Olympic swimming pool?
Answer: 25 metres

Question: Who was the only British Prime Minister to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: Which was the first state in the US to ban smoking in public places?
Answer: California

Question: Who plays the title role in the US television series ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’?
Answer: Sarah Michelle Gellar

Question: Which British singer/musician released a 2012 album entitled ‘Kisses on the Bottom’?
Answer: Paul McCartney

Question: A sauger is what type of creature?
Answer: Fish

Question: The first passenger fare-paying railway service was established in which European country in 1807?
Answer: Wales

Question: In Greek mythology, Diomedes is the owner of which man-eating animals?
Answer: Horses

Question: The Copo and the Laguna Blanco National Parks are in which South American country?
Answer: Argentina

Question: What is the dot over a lower case ‘i’ called?
Answer: Tittle

Question: Which British Merseybeat singer was born William Howard Ashton in 1943?
Answer: Billy J Kramer

Question: In the board game Monopoly, what is the highest denomination banknote in ‘pounds’ sterling?
Answer: 500

Question: Since 1992, what type of boat is the logo of aftershave ‘Old Spice’?
Answer: Yacht

Question: Which English comedian was born Frederick Fowell in 1943?
Answer: Freddie Starr

Question: In describing which city, author Tom Wolfe said ‘Culture just seems to be in the air, like part of the weather’?
Answer: New York

Question: Enero is Spanish for which month of the year?
Answer: January

Question: Who played the title roles in the 1977 film ‘Fun With Dick and Jane’?
Answer: George Segal and Jane Fonda

Question: In the Southern Hemisphere on which date do all racehorses celebrate their birthday?
Answer: August 1st

Question: Which was the first major battle of the English Civil War, that took place in October 1642?
Answer: Battle of Edge Hill

Question: American millionaire Leonard Jerome was the grandfather of which British Prime Minister?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: El Prat Airport serves which European city?
Answer: Barcelona

Question: Which late British Punk rocker had a city square named after him in Grenada, Spain?
Answer: Joe Strummer

Question: In the British army, which rank is between Lieutenant and Major?
Answer: Captain

Question: The name of which animal derives from the Native American word for ‘He who kills with one leap’?
Answer: Jaguar

Question: What is the name of a Telly Tubby and an Italian river?
Answer: Po

Question: The ‘Althing’ is the national parliament of which country?
Answer: Iceland

Question: What is a score of 40-all otherwise known as in the game of tennis?
Answer: Deuce

Question: In Britain, the top layer of a wedding cake was traditionally saved after a wedding for what?
Answer: Christening of the couple’s first child

Question: Which English football club is nicknamed The Hornets?
Answer: Watford FC

Question: Which planet in our solar system has a white cloud pattern in its atmosphere nicknamed ‘Scooter’?
Answer: Neptune

Question: Scapa Flow is a body of water in which Scottish island group?
Answer: Orkney Islands

Question: What is the basic currency of Laos?
Answer: Kip

Question: In mathematics, how many sides does a rhombus have?
Answer: Four

Question: A phoebe is what type of creature?
Answer: Bird

Question: Which political leader married Austrian Archduchess Marie-Louise in 1810?
Answer: Napoleon I

Question: US film and television actor Harvey Lee Yeary is better known by what name?
Answer: Lee Majors

Question: An escalor is what type of creature?
Answer: Fish

Question: What is a slow stately dance, usually for couples,  in triple time called?
Answer: Minuet

Question: The Swiss pastry Carac is traditionally covered with which colour icing?
Answer: Green

Question: The songs ‘Shall We Dance’, ‘Getting to Know You’ and ‘I’ll Whistle a Happy Tune’ are all from which 1956 musical film?
Answer: The King and I

Question: Lunes is Spanish for which day of the week?
Answer: Monday

Question: In the final Harry Potter novel, who becomes headmaster of Hogwarts School?
Answer: Severus Snape

Question: Which British band released an 1993 album entitled ‘Walthamstow’?
Answer: East 17

Question: Which Shakespeare character said ‘A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse’?
Answer: King Richard III

Question: Johnny Depp plays John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, in which 2004 film?
Answer: The Libertine

Question: In Greek mythology, who was given asses ears by Apollo for preferring, in a contest, the music of Pan to that of Apollo?
Answer: King Midas

Question: The original motto of which organisation was ‘Amidst War, Charity’?
Answer: Red Cross

Question: What is the name of a person who forges and shapes iron with an anvil and hammer?
Answer: Blacksmith

Question: During which month of the year is the Crufts Dog Show held in the UK?
Answer: March

Question: In which year did Italy join the Six Nations (then Five Nations) Rugby Union Championship?
Answer: 2000

Question: What is the title of the only published novel by J D Salinger?
Answer: The Catcher in the Rye

Question: The Andaman Sea is known by what other name?
Answer: Burma Sea

Question: Dunlop cheese comes from which country?
Answer: Scotland

Question: Who plays the villainous Soviet agent Irina Spalko in the 2008 film ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’?
Answer: Cate Blanchett

Question: An Insulinoma is a tumour of which organ of the body?
Answer: Pancreas

Question: The St John’s River is the longest river in which US state?
Answer: Florida

Question: Sir Edward Burgh was the first husband of which wife of English monarch King Henry VIII?
Answer: Catherine Parr

Question: Brazo is Spanish for which part of the body?
Answer: Arm

Question: ‘Forty Years On’ is the title of the first West End play by which British playwright?
Answer: Alan Bennett

Question: A sculpin is what type of creature?
Answer: Fish

Question: In which US state did Bill Gates found Microsoft in April 1975?
Answer: New Mexico

Question: The Incas referred to which metal as ‘Tears of the Sun’?
Answer: Gold

Question: Which chemical element has the symbol Cn?
Answer: Copernicium

Question: A ‘Justacorps’ was which type of garment worn by men in the 17th and 18th Centuries?
Answer: Coat

Question: Cranial nerves emerge directly from which organ in the human body?
Answer: Brain

Question: The OXO Tower is a landmark in which European city?
Answer: London

Question: Which religion calls outsiders ‘The English’?
Answer: Amish

Question: Which 1975 novel by Larry McMurty was adapted for a 1983 film starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger as mother and daughter?
Answer: Terms of Endearment

Question: Which Boeing airliner made its maiden flight in September 1981?
Answer: 767

Question: Which marsupial has the Latin name Phascolarctos cinereus?
Answer: Koala

Question: Which British singer and musician is known as ‘The Modfather’?
Answer: Paul Weller

Question: What is a female hippopotamus called?
Answer: Cow

Question: What was discovered in the American River in California in 1848 by carpenter and sawmill operator James W Marshall?
Answer: Gold

Question: How many days is a sennight?
Answer: Seven ( one week)

Question: Who are the title characters in the Shakespeare play ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’?
Answer: Valentine and Proteus

Question: Who is Rosalind disguised as in the Shakespeare play ‘As You Like It’?
Answer: Ganymede

Question: Bunker, Birdie and Fore are all terms used in which sport?
Answer: Golf