Question: Where would you see Jake the Jailbird and Officer Malloy?
Answer: On a Monopoly Board

Question: In the game of Risk – what colour on the board is Europe?
Answer: Blue

Question: Which flag consists of a blue rectangle with a white rectangle in the centre?
Answer: The Blue Peter

Question: Bernard Hinault was the last Frenchman to do what?
Answer: Win the Tour de France

Question: Who did Zeus have chained to a rock for giving fire to the human race?
Answer: Prometheus

Question: Which country’s national anthem is The Soldier’s Song?
Answer: Republic of Ireland

Question: Which 1932 novel is the most famous work of writer Stella Gibbons?
Answer: Cold Comfort Farm

Question: What is a valetudinarian constantly worried about?
Answer: His or Her Health

Question: Which city’s bishop signs himself Winton?
Answer: Winchester

Question: What is the divine nickname for the elusive Higgs boson?
Answer: The God Particle

Question: What was the sequel to the sitcom Are You Being Served?
Answer: Grace and Favour

Question: Who composed The Resurrection Symphony and The Symphony of a Thousand?
Answer: Mahler

Question: Which opera is set aboard HMS Indomitable?
Answer: Billy Budd

Question: What kind of flower is a Lady’s Slipper?
Answer: Orchid

Question: What is the alternative name for the larkspur?
Answer: Delphinium

Question: What name is given to the dried bummalo fish when crumbled over Indian cuisine?
Answer: Bombay Duck

Question: Which title was held by Queen Victoria’s father?
Answer: Duke of Kent

Question: Which German word means low-brow, cheesy, mass-produced art in poor taste?
Answer: Kitsch

Question: Which French phrase translates as ‘blow of mercy’?
Answer: Coup de Grace

Question: Which dynastic honour group is restricted to 24 members at any given time?
Answer: Order of Merit

Question: Under which Prime Minister were life peerages instituted?
Answer: Harold Macmillan

Question: Which is the highest order of chivalry in England?
Answer: Order of the Garter

Question: Which element Atomic Number 19 was originally called Kalium?
Answer: Potassium

Question: Who wrote The Tracks of My Tears and My Guy?
Answer: Smokey Robinson

Question: Who made the original recording of What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?
Answer: Jimmy Ruffin

Question: Levi Stubbs was lead singer with which act?
Answer: Four Tops

Question: Why did Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos ask for the fan’s forgiveness?
Answer: His team was thrashed 0-4 at

Question: Who wrote the play Equus?
Answer: Peter Schaffer

Question: Which is the most northerly of the Met Office shipping forecast areas?
Answer: South-East Iceland

Question: Isohels are lines on a map linking places of equal ……….what?
Answer: Sunshine

Question: Which Irish province includes the counties of Cork, Kerry and Limerick?
Answer: Munster

Question: What is the administrative HQ of the Welsh region of Ceredigion?
Answer: Aberystwyth

Question: Which body of water separates mainland Scotland and the Orkneys?
Answer: Pentland Firth

Question: Who wrote The Leatherstocking Tales?
Answer: James Fenimore Cooper

Question: Which institution was abolished as ‘useless and dangerous’ in 1649?
Answer: House of Lords

Question: Which educational movement was initiated by Robert Raikes in 1780?
Answer: Sunday Schools

Question: In Greek myth who won the beauty contest judged by Paris?
Answer: Aphrodite

Question: In which cult 1960s TV series did villagers read the Tally Ho newspaper?
Answer: The Prisoner

Question: The A15 crosses which major bridge?
Answer: Humber Bridge

Question: The pagan festival Samhain is now better known as what?
Answer: Halloween

Question: Which special day falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent?
Answer: Mother’s Day/Mothering

Question: Muslims traditionally break the fast of Ramadan by eating which fruit?
Answer: Dates

Question: Which poet had a dog called Boatswain?
Answer: Lord Byron

Question: What was the name of the dog who accompanied the Three Men In A Boat?
Answer: Montmorency

Question: Which series saw Ben Wishaw as a gay man whose new partner is murdered?
Answer: London Spy

Question: Who was killed when Gloria Jones’ mini left the road and hit a tree in 1977?
Answer: Marc Bolan

Question: What kind of clothing is a toque?
Answer: Hat

Question: Soup and Fish is a colloquial term for what?
Answer: Men’s Evening Dress

Question: Which anti-Catholic insurgencies took place in London in 1780?
Answer: The Gordon Riots

Question: In 1797 what occurred at The Nore and Spithead?
Answer: Naval Mutinies

Question: Which economic law says ‘Bad money drives out good’?
Answer: Gresham’s Law

Question: Melbourne, Australia stands on which river?
Answer: Yarra

Question: What is the appropriate gift for a 15 Wedding Anniversary?
Answer: Crystal

Question: Which deceased comedian’s real name was Maurice Cole?
Answer: Kenny Everett

Question: What is the appropriate gift for a 20 Wedding Anniversary?
Answer: China/Porcelain

Question: Which deceased comedian’s real name was William White?
Answer: Larry Grayson

Question: Timbrology was an old name for what?
Answer: Stamp Collecting

Question: Which common bird is also called the dunnock?
Answer: Hedge Sparrow

Question: What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?
Answer: Santo Domingo

Question: What word can precede ‘beer’, ‘bread’, and ‘nut’ to make well-known terms?
Answer: Ginger

Question: What herb, mentioned by Ophelia in ‘Hamlet’, is often used to flavour roast lamb?
Answer: Rosemary

Question: What is the Italian for ‘None shall sleep’?
Answer: Nessun Dorma

Question: ‘I Predict a Riot’ (2004) and ‘Never Miss a Beat’ (2008) were Top 10 hits for whom?
Answer: Kaiser Chiefs

Question: What is the surname of the four sisters in ‘Little Women’ (1868-9)?
Answer: March

Question: In the hashtag ‘pogdogs’, who is ‘pog’?
Answer: Paul O’Grady

Question: What do people who are viticulturists spend much of their time doing?
Answer: Growing Grapes

Question: In which 1989 film is this phrase frequently repeated?
Answer: Dead Poets Society

Question: Who wrote the original poem in the second half of the 19th century?
Answer: Walt Whitman

Question: He wrote the poem after whose death?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: When TNT is expanded into the full word, how many letters does it contain?
Answer: Fifteen

Question: What is the surname of Jacques Alexandre Cesar, after whom a scientific law is named?
Answer: Charles

Question: What were the Goons doing for Christmas in 1956?
Answer: Walking Backwards

Question: Who wrote the 1996 novel ‘The Beach’?
Answer: Alex Garland

Question: Where is an image of the 24-spoked wheel called the Ashoka Chakra most often seen?
Answer: Centre of INDIAN FLAG

Question: Bewdley, Tenbury Wells, and Droitwich Spa are all towns in which English county?
Answer: Worcestershire

Question: In 1952, who was knocked down for the first time in his career by Jersey Joe Walcott?
Answer: Rocky Marciano

Question: Which famous literary character does governess Mary Morstan marry in 1889? (She is
Answer: Dr. Watson

Question: What is the cube root of one-eighth?
Answer: Half

Question: Which actor in silent films, 1887-1933, had the first names Roscoe Conkling?
Answer: Fatty Arbuckle

Question: Who wrote the 1900 novel ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’?
Answer: Frank L. Baum

Question: What is the name of the road that the horses cross in the English Grand National?
Answer: MELLING Road

Question: In British Bingo, which number ball has the nickname ‘Dancing Queen’?
Answer: 17

Question: Where is David Cameron’s Oxfordshire constituency?
Answer: Witney

Question: Who is the long-time judo sparring partner of Arkady Rotenberg?
Answer: Vladimir PUTIN

Question: What is the singular form of the word ‘graffiti’?
Answer: Graffito

Question: In the Bible, at whose feast did the ghostly writing on the wall appear?
Answer: King BELSHAZZAR’S