Question: What is the name of the horse ridden by Zara Phillips, which she affectionately calls 'Noddy'?
Answer: Toytown

Question: Which element is named after the Greek for ‘moon’?
Answer: Selenium

Question: Uniqlo is a casualwear company based in which country?
Answer: Japan

Question: Emma Thompson plays which author in the recent film ‘Saving Mr Banks’?
Answer: P L Travers

Question: GEQ is the IOC code for which country?
Answer: Equatorial Guinea

Question: Abraham Lincoln served one two-year term in the House of Representatives for a district in which state?
Answer: Illinois

Question: This is the second verse of a famous monologue about a ferry. Which river does it cross? In days afore Transporter Bridge were put up, A ferryboat lay in the slip, And old Ted the boatman would row folks across At per tuppence per person per trip.
Answer: MERSEY (entitled THE RUNCORN FERRY)

Question: Queen Maud Land on Antarctica is a dependent territory of which country?
Answer: Norway

Question: With headquarters in Bern, Switzerland what is the official language of the U N Agency the UPU?
Answer: French

Question: In the BBC Curse of comedy series, name either actor who played Wilfred Brambell or Harry H Corbett in the episode The Curse of Steptoe?
Answer: Phil Davis or Jason Isaacs

Question: Which river splits Norfolk from Suffolk?
Answer: Waveney

Question: Name the year Idi Amin seize power in Uganda, barriers collapsed at Ibrox stadium killing 66 people and Joe Frazier beats Muhammed Ali on points?
Answer: 1971

Question: How many gallons are there in a hogshead?
Answer: 54

Question: Antares is the largest star in which constellation?
Answer: Scorpio

Question: Camulodunum was the roman name for which town?
Answer: Colchester

Question: At this year's "Golden Globe Awards", which programme starring Albert Finney, won the award for best TV movie?
Answer: 'The Gathering Storm'

Question: Who starred as 'Arthur Parker', a sheet music salesman, in the Dennis Potter TV drama, 'Pennies From Heaven'?
Answer: Bob Hoskins

Question: 'Michaelwood Services' are located on which Motorway?
Answer: M5

Question: Who was the first and only President of the Confederate States of America?
Answer: Jefferson Davies

Question: The characters 'Nelly Deane' and 'Mr. Lockwood', narrate which book?
Answer: 'Wuthering Heights'

Question: First performed in 1941, which English composer's first operetta was named for the American folk hero 'Paul Bunyan'?
Answer: Benjamin Britten

Question: Who became the second Archbishop of Canterbury upon the death of St. Augustine in 619 AD?
Answer: ST. LAURENCE (or Laurentius)

Question: In 'The Pickwick Papers', what is the name of 'Mr. Pickwick's' landlady who sues him for breach of promise to marry her?
Answer: 'Mrs. Bardell'

Question: According to official EU population statistics, which is the largest city in the European Union to begin with the letter 'H'?
Answer: Hamburg

Question: The surname of which Wimbledon Champion can be formed using the chemical symbols for beryllium, carbon, potassium and erbium?
Answer: Boris BECKER

Question: Lordosis affects which part of the body?
Answer: SPINE (accept Back)

Question: Which sportsman won 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2005?
Answer: Darren Gough

Question: 'Caractacus Potts' is a character from which book and film?
Answer: 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'

Question: Who married both Billy Bob Thornton and Johnny Lee Miller?
Answer: Angelina Jolie

Question: Which group ha a number one hit for three weeks in 1982 with 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'?
Answer: Tight Fit

Question: """Now fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws apace"" is the first line of which Shakespearian play?"
Answer: 'A Midsummer Night'S Dream'

Question: Which football team play home games at Bloomfield Road?
Answer: Blackpool

Question: Three African countries have names with four letters. One is Chad. Name either of the other two?
Answer: MALI or TOGO

Question: Who captained the England Test Cricket Team in Bangladesh earlier this year?
Answer: Alastair Cook

Question: In which year of the 1970's was the 'Yom Kippur War'?
Answer: 1973

Question: What was the first name of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?
Answer: 'Victor'

Question: Which US cartoon series is based around 'Peter and Lois Griffin' and their children?
Answer: 'Family Guy'

Question: In the Enid Blyton books, who is the sister of 'Peter', the leader of the 'Secret Seven'?
Answer: 'Janet'

Question: Who captained England in the 2010 Six Nations Rugby Union Championship, but missed one game?
Answer: Steve Borthwick

Question: What was the name of the weekly magazine established by the BBC in 1929, which ran until 1991?
Answer: The Listener

Question: On which course did Frankie Dettori ride all seven winners in 1996?
Answer: Ascot

Question: For which novel did Herman Wouk win the Pulitzer Prize in 1952?
Answer: 'The Caine Mutiny'

Question: Which pop group recorded the hit album 'The Lexicon Of Love'?
Answer: Abc

Question: Which actress won a 'Golden Raspberry' award as Worst Actress in the same year that she won an 'Oscar' for Best Actress?
Answer: Sandra Bullock (2010)

Question: Name either of the termini that the train called the 'Canadian' starts or finishes?
Answer: TORONTO or VANCOUVER

Question: In which Australian state is the town of Albany?
Answer: Western Australia

Question: Which river rises in the Drakensburg Mountains, flows west entering the South Atlantic Ocean in Alexander Bay?
Answer: Orange

Question: Who composed both 'The Desert Song' and 'The Student Prince'?
Answer: Sigmund Romberg

Question: Which of the 'Spice Girls' advertises 'Jenny Craig' slimming meals on t.v.?
Answer: MELANIE BROWN (Scary Spice)

Question: Which peak has a name derived from the Greek meaning "I burn"?
Answer: Mount Etna

Question: What was the middle name of the character 'Geraldine Granger' from the t.v. series 'Vicar of Dibley'?
Answer: 'Bodicea'

Question: Ponta Delgada is the capital of which Atlantic group of islands?
Answer: THE AZORES (Acores)

Question: Who was president of the USA between 1925 and 1929?
Answer: Calvin Coolidge

Question: Which Australian city shares its name with the wife of William IV?
Answer: Adelaide

Question: Of which team was Glen Hoddle the manager before taking the England job?
Answer: Chelsea

Question: In which Parisian square is the Arc de Triomphe?
Answer: Etoile

Question: In cricket, which year was the competition for the Ashes instituted? (2 years either way)
Answer: 1882(1880-1884)

Question: Who was the American President during World War I?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Question: What connects singers Elvis Costello, Napoleon Dynamite and The Imposter?
Answer: THEY ARE ALL NAMES UNDER WHICH DECLAN McMANUS RECORDED

Question: On which island is Nagasaki the recipient of the second 'Atomic Bomb'?
Answer: Kyushu

Question: Bywhat name was Sir Francis Drake's ship known before he circumnavigated the world?
Answer: Pelican

Question: Who played the part of 'Valerie Barlow's' uncle in 'Coronation Street'?
Answer: Jack Howarth

Question: Which famous battle of 1645 took place when the Parliamentary Army led by Fairfax defeated the Royalist Army led by Prince Rupert?
Answer: Naseby

Question: Who shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela?
Answer: F.W. de KLERKE

Question: The buccaneer Henry Morgan was pardoned and knighted by which king?
Answer: Charles Ii

Question: The 'Brickfielder' is a hotdry wind in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Similarly, in which country does the 'Diablo' blow?
Answer: U.S.A

Question: Which 'equestrian' received an MBE in November 2007?
Answer: Zara Phillips

Question: What is another namefor Oedema?
Answer: Dropsy

Question: In cooking, what does the word 'tikka' mean?
Answer: Cooked On Skewers

Question: Which famous person was drowned when the 'Don Juan' sank in 1822?
Answer: Percy Byssheshelley

Question: The 'Battle of Heligoland' took place during which war?
Answer: Napoleonic Wars