Question: Which aristocratic title derives its name from the Anglo-Saxon term for ‘warrior’?
Answer: Earl

Question: Which musical instrument represents the duck?
Answer: Oboe

Question: Which musical takes place in the Kit Kat Club?
Answer: Cabaret

Question: Which bird is traditionally said to have attempted to free Jesus from the Cross?
Answer: Crossbill

Question: The Bible, Which psalm begins “The Lord is my shepherd …”?
Answer: 23

Question: What distinguishes journeys in traghetti from those in other boats for hire in Venice?
Answer: Across canals or equivalent

Question: Which romantic poet kept a Newfoundland called Boatswain?
Answer: Lord George Byron

Question: To which proverbially ruthless figure, then still a child, does Richard III compare himself?
Answer: Niccolò Machiavelli

Question: Which region’s name is Persian for Five Waters, alluding to five tributaries of the Indus?
Answer: Punjab

Question: Which real-life baseball manager and former player was the central character of the 2011 film Moneyball?
Answer: Billy Beane

Question: In which field was Marie Stopes (1880-1958) a pioneer?
Answer: Birth Control

Question: “It’s the way I tell ‘em!” was one of the catchphrases of which comedian?
Answer: Frank Carson

Question: Who plays the title character in the 2013 remake of ‘The Great Gatsby’?
Answer: Leonardo Dicaprio

Question: Who directed the 1942 film, ‘Casablanca’?
Answer: Michael Curtiz

Question: Which fish is included in the ingredients of Worcestershire Sauce?
Answer: Anchovies

Question: Music of the Night is a song from which stage musical?
Answer: Phantom of the Opera

Question: Where did German teenager Matthias Rust land his small plane in 1987?
Answer: Red Square

Question: Cerulean is a shade of which colour?
Answer: Blue

Question: In Indian cuisine what is ‘murgh’?
Answer: Chicken

Question: In which conflict did the Battle of Pork Chop Hill take place?
Answer: Korean War

Question: The Gegs are an ethnic group from which European country?
Answer: Albania

Question: What is the capital of Azerbaijan?
Answer: Baku

Question: Dr Claw is the arch-enemy of which children’s cartoon title character?
Answer: Inspector Gadget

Question: The three types of chemical matter are – element, mixture and which other?
Answer: Compound

Question: Which electrical goods brand advertised with the tagline ‘The Appliance of Science’?
Answer: Zanussi

Question: The protein fibrin aids which process in the blood?
Answer: Clotting

Question: The Gay Gordons is commonly danced to which tune?
Answer: Scotland The Brave

Question: In the USA unidentified women are usually assigned which name?
Answer: Jane Doe

Question: Mary of Modena was the second wife of which of our monarchs?
Answer: James II

Question: What was Reginald Perrin's middle name?
Answer: Iolanthe

Question: Which Spanish queen sponsored the expeditions of Christopher Columbus?
Answer: Isabella

Question: Which French port has namesakes in both Derby and Nottingham?
Answer: Dunkirk

Question: In Urbana Illinois on the 12th January 1992 Mr Langley taught a HAL 9000 computer which song?
Answer: Daisy

Question: Born in Denby in 1646, who was the first Astronomer Royal?
Answer: John Flamsteed

Question: FIFA's annual award for most beautiful goal is named after which Real Madrid player?
Answer: Ferenc Puskas

Question: What is the oldest railway station in Liverpool?
Answer: Lime Street

Question: On 1st January 2014, which country became the 18th member of the Eurozone?
Answer: Latvia

Question: Spoken by Gloucester, what are the first seven words of Shakespeare’s Richard III?
Answer: Now is the winter of our

Question: Known as the Father of Western Medicine, Hippocrates was born on which Greek island?
Answer: Cos

Question: Which bodily fluid is secreted by the parotid glands?
Answer: Saliva

Question: A statue of which poet can be found at Hull Paragon Interchange railway station?
Answer: Philip Larkin

Question: If California is “The Golden State”, what is New York state?
Answer: The Empire State

Question: It was revealed recently which pop star wears tinted glasses as he is a glaucoma sufferer?
Answer: Bono or Paul Hewson

Question: Which Baltic nation adopted the Euro currency, becoming the 17th Eurozone country?
Answer: Estonia

Question: What is the given name of the daughter born to Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise?
Answer: Suri

Question: Angus Jones apologised for urging viewers not to watch which TV show in which he stars?
Answer: Two And A Half Men

Question: Which EU country's major daily newspapers include the title 'Algemeen Dagblad'?
Answer: Netherlands or Holland

Question: Which native Australian bird gave its name to a leading cricket equipment manufacturer?
Answer: Kookaburra

Question: What technical term describes the science, production, and study of grapes?
Answer: Viticulture

Question: What type of vehicle is International Rescue’s Thunderbird 3?
Answer: Rocket/Spacecraft

Question: What is found in the middle of a Sussex Pond pudding?
Answer: A lemon

Question: Rain was the B-side of which Beatles single?
Answer: Paperback Writer

Question: On which day are American Presidential elections always held?
Answer: Tuesday

Question: Relative density is the density of a substance relative to what?
Answer: Water

Question: Scoop, Muck, Roley and Lofty are whose vehicles?
Answer: Bob the Builder

Question: Britain’s oldest tabloid newspaper closed down in 1971 – what was it called?
Answer: Daily Sketch

Question: Which poisonous plant has a name meaning ‘beautiful woman’ in Italian?
Answer: Bella Donna

Question: What is the name of the central female character in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”?
Answer: Truly Scrumptious

Question: What is the most likely total to result from a throw of a pair of dice?
Answer: Seven

Question: Which island group was once known as The Sandwich Islands?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: Which large British mammal has the Latin name Cervus elaphus?
Answer: Red Deer

Question: Who was the hostess of The Golden Shot between 1969 and 1975?
Answer: Anne Aston

Question: What is the Latin name for the common buzzard?
Answer: Buteo buteo

Question: Bob Hope is a character in which British TV soap opera?
Answer: Emmerdale

Question: Which city is served by O'Hare airport?
Answer: Chicago

Question: With which musical instrument is jazz musician Sydney Bechet associated?
Answer: Soprano Saxophone

Question: Name the artist responsible for the controversial painting of Marilyn Munroe on a hillside near Mold recently
Answer: Ken Evans-Loude

Question: In 1468 Orkney was ceded to Scotland in lieu of an unpaid dowry by the king of which country?
Answer: Norway

Question: The character played by Steve Carell in the US version of The Office and the current Vice Chancellor of Glyndwr University.
Answer: Michael Scott

Question: Which species of python is the longest snake in the world and gets its name from the Latin for "net-like" because of the patterns on its skin?
Answer: Reticulated

Question: Which island in the Indian Ocean has the highest population of any French island and sends five deputies to the National Assembly in Paris?
Answer: Reunion

Question: Baltra, Floreanna, San Crystobal and Santa Cruz are the five inhabited islands in which Pacific group?
Answer: Galapagos

Question: What was the real christian name of the comedian Grougho Marx, born on this day in 1890?
Answer: Julius

Question: In which Swiss resort is the famous bobsleigh track, the Cresta Run?
Answer: St Moritz

Question: Guy Lombardo and Oscar Peterson were the first inductees into which nation's newly instituted Music Hall of Fame in 1978 ?
Answer: Canada

Question: In the phonetic alphabet what word represents the letter U ?
Answer: Uniform

Question: From the fur of which animal is a camel's hair brush made?
Answer: Squirrel

Question: Eric Arthur Blair was the real name of which famous novelist?
Answer: George Orwell