Question: In Greek Mythology the Hydra had how many heads?
Answer: 9

Question: The lonicera plant is more commonly known as what?
Answer: Honeysuckle

Question: In cricket Allan Lamb played for which county?
Answer: Northamptonshire

Question: Which World War 2 event of May 1943 was called Operation Chastise?
Answer: Dambusters Raid

Question: There are 44 Church of England cathedrals, 42 are on mainland Britain, name either of the other two?
Answer: Gibraltar, Peel (IOM), also accept Valletta, Malta or Brussels which are pro cathedrals

Question: George Ravenscrofi (1632-1683) was an early manufacturer of what product?
Answer: Glass

Question: Which poetic eponymous character lived by the Gitchee, Gummee River?
Answer: Hiawatha

Question: Of what are grapnel, bower and stockless all types?
Answer: Anchors

Question: The height of which biblical character was 6 cubits and a span?
Answer: Goliath

Question: At the Battle of Balaclava, how were the 93rd Highlanders described by the Times war correspondent William H. Russell?
Answer: The thin red line

Question: Which DIY product originated the slogan 'does exactly what it says on the tin', in 1994?
Answer: Ronseal

Question: In which sea is the island of Martinique?
Answer: Caribbean

Question: In the comic books, what is Batman's real identity?
Answer: Bruce Wayne

Question: What is second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin's real Christian name?
Answer: Edwin

Question: The 2005 BIRC was Britain's biggest mass-participation indoor sports event. What piece of equipment did the participants use?
Answer: Rowing Machines

Question: The name of which boy band is a play on the last letter of the first name of the original members?
Answer: 'N Sync

Question: The poet Byron was the sixth Baron Byron of which northern town?
Answer: Rochdale

Question: What was the subject of Hugh Gray's famous photograph, published in the Daily Express on 6th December 1933?
Answer: Loch Ness Monster

Question: Rodin's sculpture 'The Burghers of Calais' stands in front of the town hall in Calais, however twelve copies were made, where does the British copy stand?
Answer: (Victoria Tower Gardens) in front of the Houses of Parliament

Question: Who is the only post World War 2 Conservative Prime minister not to win a general election?
Answer: Alec Douglas-Home

Question: Who played Ellie May in the Beverley Hillbillies?
Answer: Donna Douglas

Question: In which book did Aunt Ada Doom see 'something nasty in the woodshed'?
Answer: Cold Comfort Farm

Question: Marie Antoinette was born into which Royal House?
Answer: Habsburg

Question: Which King was born and died in Buckingham Palace?
Answer: Edward VII

Question: Lord Grey, in 1973, was the last person to hold which political office?
Answer: Governor of Northern Ireland

Question: 'Live well for less' is the slogan of which supermarket chain?
Answer: Sainsbury's

Question: Which mainly Scottish game has the nickname 'Chess on Ice'?
Answer: Curling

Question: Which tradesman would have used a composing or setting stick?
Answer: Printer / Compositor

Question: The River Thames has its source in which county?
Answer: Gloucestershire

Question: The cocktail 'blue lagoon' includes what alcoholic spirit?
Answer: Vodka

Question: What is the standard rail gauge in most parts of the world?
Answer: 4 feet 8½inches

Question: Which Liverpool-born comedian and violinist, of Russian parentage, once said: 'When I heard about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading'?
Answer: Henry 'Henny' Youngman

Question: Which savoury dish is made with the dried Bummalo fish?
Answer: Bombay Duck

Question: To which of his wives did Henry 8th have the shortest marriage?
Answer: Anne of Cleves

Question: Which spirit is produced from the fermented juice of the Blue Agave plant?
Answer: Tequila

Question: Name either of the engineers who appear on the reverse of the newest issue of £50 notes.
Answer: Matthew Boulton, James Watt

Question: The ferry terminal at Stranraer has now been transferred a few miles north to which small port on the eastern coast of Loch Ryan?
Answer: Cairnryan

Question: The great all round sportsman and polymath C B Fry was once reputedly asked to, and turned down, the opportunity to be King of which country in the 1920's?
Answer: Albania

Question: Juliet, Cupid and Desdemona are moons of which planet?
Answer: Uranus

Question: Whose diary was first published in 1947 under the title 'Het Achterhuis'?
Answer: Anne Frank

Question: Who was voted Time Magazine person of the century in 1999?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: Four footballers have won the 'Balloon d'Or' three times, but only two have done so in consecutive years. Lionel Messi is one, who is the other?
Answer: Michel Platini

Question: Which Surrey and England cricketer retired in 1934 after making 199 first class centuries?
Answer: Jack Hobbs

Question: In which country was Jean-Claude Van Damme born?
Answer: Belgium

Question: Who in the Old Testament was the wife of Moses?
Answer: Zipporah

Question: Which of the 7 wonders of the ancient world was located at Ephesus?
Answer: Temple of Diana/Artemis

Question: Composed in 1831, what was Rossini's last opera?
Answer: William Tell

Question: Which English city has parliamentary constituencies named Moor View and Sutton & Devonport?
Answer: Plymouth

Question: Who played the father of Indiana Jones in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'?
Answer: Sean Connery

Question: The 1812 Overture was written to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon in which city?
Answer: Moscow

Question: What name is given to a person who tests metals for quality?
Answer: Assayer

Question: Who wrote the science fiction novel 'Stranger In A Strange Land'?
Answer: Robert Heinlein

Question: Who would wear a chasuble?
Answer: Priest

Question: Which north-west venue is considered to be the spiritual home of Northern Soul music from 1973 until its closure in 1981?
Answer: Wigan Casino

Question: Who replaced 'Sid & Dick' as the main writer for Morecambe and Wise?
Answer: Eddie Braben

Question: An annual New Year's Day concert is held in the 'Golden Hall' of the Musikverein, in which city?
Answer: Vienna

Question: By what name is anarchic comic Jim Moir better known?
Answer: Vic Reeves

Question: What sort of creature is a gallinule?
Answer: A Type Of Fowl

Question: Which Greek hero was husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus, and son of Laertes and Anticlea?
Answer: Odysseus

Question: At which venue did Civil Service FC lose an amateur league match 2-1 to Polytechnic FC early in the 2013-14 season?
Answer: Buckingham Palace

Question: Which BBC series of 2012/13, set in the 1950's is centered around Nonnatus House in the East End of London?
Answer: Call the Midwife

Question: Which annual sporting event was depicted in the song and film Yankee Doodle Dandy and in William Frith's painting of 1858, now on display at Tate Britain
Answer: The (Epsom) Derby

Question: Since South Sudan ceded from Sudan in 2011, what has been the largest country, by area in Africa?
Answer: Algeria

Question: Which planet, whose largest moon is Triton, was discovered in 1846?
Answer: Neptune

Question: Which team won the Formula 1 Constructors' Championship in 2010?
Answer: Red Bull

Question: Who was the first singer to win the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland?
Answer: Dana

Question: Who was Poet Laureate between Robert Bridges and Cecil Day-Lewis?
Answer: John Masefeld

Question: In addition to the pelican and the puffin, which other bird gives its name to a formal pedestrian crossing in the UK?
Answer: Toucan

Question: To what did the insurance company Norwich Union change its name in 2009?
Answer: Aviva

Question: Which song, which opened The Beatles first album in 1963, has the opening line 'Well, she was just seventeen - you know what I mean'?
Answer: I Saw Her Standing There

Question: Which variety of hummingbird is the world's smallest bird?
Answer: The Bee