Question: Which of Santa’s seven reindeer comes first in the alphabet?
Answer: Blitzen

Question: Which king of England had the nickname ‘Beauclerc’?
Answer: Henry I

Question: Turdus Merula is the scientific/Latin name for which bird?
Answer: Blackbird

Question: Purl, Plain, and Fisherman's Cable are all types of what?
Answer: Knitting Stitches

Question: Who is the famous actress mother of the actress and playwright Amy Rosenthal?
Answer: Maureen LIPMAN

Question: Which 1970s US TV comedy-drama featured two 'outlaws' trying to go straight?
Answer: Alias Smith & Jones

Question: By area, which is the largest state in the USA?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Which fictional character has been played by the largest number of different actors?
Answer: Sherlock HOLMES

Question: In which country does the Zambezi River reach the sea?
Answer: Mozambique

Question: Who had a UK Top 10 chart hit in 1976 with 'Devil Woman'?
Answer: Cliff RICHARD

Question: Who’s the only major deity to have the same name in both Greek and Roman mythology?
Answer: Apollo

Question: In which country was the world's first international Air show held in 1909?
Answer: France

Question: Which classic French sauce is made by whisking clarified butter into warm egg yolks?
Answer: Hollandaise

Question: What was the title of Status Quo’s first UK hit single, a tribute to L. S. Lowry?
Answer: Pictures of Matchstick Men

Question: An island purchased by Isaac Bedlow in 1667 is the site of which US National Monument?
Answer: The Statue of Liberty

Question: Tórshavn is the capital of which island group?
Answer: Faroe Islands

Question: Who was the treacherous knight of the Round Table?
Answer: Mordred

Question: On which island is the New York borough Brooklyn?
Answer: Long Island

Question: Who played Hotlips in the film version of Mash?
Answer: Sally Kellerman

Question: What type of creature is a Turnstone?
Answer: A Bird

Question: What is the highest point on the Isle of Man?
Answer: Snaefell

Question: Erect-Crested, Little Blue (or Fairy), Humboldt and Chinstrap are species of what?
Answer: Penguin

Question: What was Thomas Hardy s last completed novel?
Answer: Jude the Obscure

Question: The voice is based on a show originally from which country?
Answer: The Netherlands

Question: By population what is the second city of Greece?
Answer: Thessalonika Acc Salonika

Question: What very British name do we give to an alloy of Antimony, Copper and Tin?
Answer: Britannia Metal

Question: What nationality is tennis legend Roger Federer?
Answer: Swiss

Question: What nationality was the astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953)?
Answer: American

Question: What nationality is the TV company who created the popular animated TV series ‘Pingu’?
Answer: Swiss

Question: Which Muppet shares his name with members (male & female) of the Roosevelt clan?
Answer: Kermit

Question: Ending humiliatingly for Italy, which country did Mussolini try to invade in October 1940?
Answer: Greece

Question: Which N.W. club were thrown out of the FA Cup in 2006 for fielding an ineligible player?
Answer: Bury

Question: Who invented the first mass-produced toothbrush in 1780?
Answer: William ADDIS

Question: Which country was formerly called Northern Rhodesia?
Answer: Zambia

Question: In which country did the world's first human heart transplant take place?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Henry Ford first used an assembly line in 1908. But which car maker was first, in 1901?
Answer: Ransome OLDS or OLDSMOBILE

Question: On the banks of which river is the Taj Mahal at Agra situated?
Answer: Jumna or Jamuna

Question: Who is the ‘Coalminer’s Daughter’?
Answer: Loretta Lynn

Question: Which BBC sitcom features various members of the Pearson family in Tyne and Wear?
Answer: Hebburn

Question: What term is used for a phrase that has grown stale with use such as ‘over the moon’?
Answer: Cliche

Question: The island of Zanzibar is part of which African country?
Answer: Tanzania

Question: Who has written 18 novels featuring the American drifter Jack Reacher?
Answer: Lee Child acc Jim Grant

Question: Where might you go to visit the big gun called Mons Meg?
Answer: Edinburgh Castle

Question: Which mammal is alternatively known as the glutton?
Answer: Wolverine

Question: Which UK resort’s pier hosts the annual “Birdman” human-powered flight competition?
Answer: Bognor Regis acc Worthing

Question: As what is the barely navigable sea route from Baffin Bay to the Beaufort Sea known?
Answer: North-West Passage

Question: What is the name for the spiked helmet worn by the Prussian and later German military?
Answer: Pickelhaube or Pickelhelm

Question: What was the original function of the spike on a pickelhaube?
Answer: To hold a plume

Question: Paradoxically, which city is the original home of the Harlem Globetrotters?
Answer: Chicago

Question: What is the two-letter prefix used in numbering the highest grade of Spanish motorway?
Answer: Ap

Question: With which English region or county are the bagpipes known as “small pipes” associated?
Answer: Northumbria/Northumberland

Question: What is the subject covered by the regular short Radio 4 programme “Tweet of the Day”?
Answer: Birds or equivalent

Question: What is the name of the coarse woollen textile used to cover snooker tables?
Answer: Baize

Question: Of what species is Yggdrasil, the immense tree at the heart of Norse mythology?
Answer: Ash

Question: Which US composer wrote the 1976 opera, Einstein on the Beach?
Answer: Philip Glass

Question: Of Dvořák’s 9 symphonies, which number is subtitled, From the New World?
Answer: Symphony No. 9

Question: Which 17th century scientist, also Irish-born, was the 14th son of the 1st Earl of Cork?
Answer: Robert Boyle

Question: “I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss” is a line from which 1971 Top 10 hit?
Answer: Your Song

Question: The calcaneus is the Latin name for which part of the body?
Answer: HEEL bone

Question: The outer whorl of a flower is called a calyx . What is the plural form of the word?
Answer: Calyces

Question: Who played Violet Kray, the mother, in the 1990 film ‘The Krays’?
Answer: Billie Whitelaw

Question: Some Minions have two eyes, but many have only one. In which 2010 film did they first appear?
Answer: Despicable Me

Question: Which pop group’s last UK number 1 single was entitled ‘Holler’?
Answer: Spice Girls

Question: What is the name of the central family in ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’?
Answer: The Griswolds

Question: What used to be called the Trucial States?
Answer: United Arab Emirates

Question: Who was Emperor of Rome when the invasion of Britain was completed?
Answer: Claudius

Question: What fortification did the Romans build from the Forth to the Clyde?
Answer: Antonine Wall

Question: What kind of food is an Abernethy?
Answer: Biscuit

Question: Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA fame collaborated with Tim Rice on which hit musical?
Answer: Chess

Question: The Household Cavalry consists of the Life Guards Regiment and which other?
Answer: Blues and Royals

Question: Which TV series is filmed in Springbrook National Park, Queensland?
Answer: I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out

Question: Which dictator called himself ‘Brother Number One’?
Answer: Pol Pot

Question: Gordon Comstock is the chief protagonist in which Orwell novel?
Answer: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Question: Between 1922 and 1927 Orwell lived in Burma – what was his job there?
Answer: Policeman

Question: What are fats in the blood called?
Answer: Lipids

Question: Which acid is produced by the Gay-Lussac process?
Answer: Sulphuric

Question: Where in Pennsylvania in the USA did a partial nuclear meltdown occur in 1979?
Answer: Three Mile Island

Question: What is the Japanese dish of beef and vegetables in soy sauce?
Answer: Sukiyaki

Question: Who announced that his offspring was to be called Eric?
Answer: Simon Cowell