Question: Who is Prince Myshkin in a Dostoevsky novel?
Answer: The Idiot

Question: What building is located at 32 London Bridge Street?
Answer: The Shard

Question: The Iditarod from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska is a race for what?
Answer: Dog Sleds

Question: Who did Lord Astor famously deny knowing?
Answer: Mandy Rice-Davies

Question: Which catastrophe was caused by phytophtora infestans?
Answer: Potato Famine

Question: Which rock legend was born on the island of Zanzibar?
Answer: Freddy Mercury

Question: Who said ‘a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic’?
Answer: Joseph Stalin

Question: Who was Radio 1’s first female presenter?
Answer: Annie Nightingale

Question: Who is the current chairman of Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue?
Answer: Jack Dee

Question: Which future king was created Prince of Wales in 1301?
Answer: Edward II

Question: Which Scottish hero was executed as a traitor in 1305?
Answer: William Wallace

Question: Who died in 1376 before he could become king?
Answer: The Black Prince

Question: Which maker of fashionable outdoor wear was founded in Basingstoke in 1865?
Answer: Burberry

Question: Who was the father of the apostles James and John?
Answer: Zebedee

Question: Which ‘Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures’ turned out to be the ‘fourth man’?
Answer: Anthony Blunt

Question: Which relatively common affliction is known formally as ‘hemicrania’?
Answer: Migraine

Question: BCG is an inoculation against what?
Answer: Tuberculosis

Question: Which creature is considered to be the natural host of the Ebola virus?
Answer: Fruit Bat

Question: The Gambia is entirely surrounded by which other African country?
Answer: Senegal

Question: Which body of water represents the lowest point below sea level in Europe?
Answer: Caspian Sea

Question: In which state is the USA’s highest mountain?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Which English town/city did the Romans call Camulodonum?
Answer: Colchester

Question: Who had a 1985 UK hit with West End Girls?
Answer: Pet Shop Boys

Question: Semantics is the scientific study of what?
Answer: Word Meanings

Question: Who had a 1985 UK hit with I’m Your Man?
Answer: Wham!

Question: Who played Thelma in the movie Thelma and Louise?
Answer: Gina Davis

Question: Which island lies directly north of Malta?
Answer: Sicily

Question: What kind of creature is a monitor?
Answer: Lizard

Question: What did The Band of Hope pledge not to do?
Answer: Drink Alcohol

Question: Which new innovation was introduced into tennis in 1970?
Answer: The Tie-Break

Question: Which legendary Scottish town appears for just one day every 100 years?
Answer: Brigadoon

Question: In which novel has Britain been re-named Airstrip One?
Answer: 1984

Question: Who was the minstrel in Robin Hood’s band of men?
Answer: Alan A Dale

Question: What is the nickname of his Symphony No.41 – considered to be his greatest?
Answer: The Jupiter

Question: A clutter or cluster is a collection of which creepy-crawlies?
Answer: Spiders

Question: Who played Cathy in Ken Loach’s ground-breaking drama Cathy Come Home?
Answer: Carol White

Question: Which long-running soap was originally intended to be titled Midland Road?
Answer: Crossroads

Question: Pimm’s No.1 is based on which spirit?
Answer: Gin

Question: Which English bridge was the world’s longest suspension bridge from 1981 to 1998?
Answer: Humber Bridge

Question: Where in England could you cross the Mathematical Bridge?
Answer: Cambridge

Question: Vanessa Redgrave plays a sexually repressed nun who causes big trouble for a priest?
Answer: The Devils

Question: The first Garden City was established in 1903 – which was it?
Answer: Letchworth

Question: Who has ‘terrible tusks and terrible claws and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws’?
Answer: The Gruffalo

Question: Which common flavouring is obtained primarily from a Mexican variety of orchid?
Answer: Vanilla

Question: Some children suffer from ADD – what is this?
Answer: Attention Deficit Disorder

Question: Which football team ended Glasgow Celtic’s 10-month unbeaten league run?
Answer: Aberdeen

Question: In which country did the World Indoor Athletics Championships take place?
Answer: Poland

Question: The US Academy at Annapolis is the American equivalent of the British …..what?
Answer: Royal Naval College Dartmouth

Question: Active since 1977, Which unit is the only official US Army Counter-Terrorism force?
Answer: Delta Force

Question: Which is the only New York borough on the US mainland?
Answer: The Bronx

Question: Central Park is in which borough?
Answer: Manhattan

Question: In Lancashire someone is ‘skrikin’ – what are they doing?
Answer: Crying

Question: On which river does Norwich stand?
Answer: Wensum

Question: Why was teacher Prisicilla Davo Ortego suspended from her post?
Answer: Cellotaping Childrens Mouths

Question: In the expression ‘By Jove’ – who is Jove?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: What is the every-day name for the condition Daltonism?
Answer: Colour Blindness

Question: Gertrude Ederle in August 1926 was the first woman to do what?
Answer: Swim the Channel

Question: What calls MPs in the House of Commons to vote?
Answer: Division Bell

Question: Who went ‘Beyond Breaking Point’ in a Sport Relief challenge in March?
Answer: Davina McCall

Question: What can a polyglot do?
Answer: Speak several/many

Question: Mariachi bands originated in which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: What were the V-1 rockets nicknamed by the man in the street during the Blitz?
Answer: Doodle-Bugs

Question: Who produced the V12 powered Miura – the fastest production car around in the 1970s?
Answer: Lamborghini

Question: Villa Park in 1999 was the scene of the very last ….what?
Answer: Cup Winner’s Cup Final

Question: Which river has the world’s largest delta?
Answer: Ganges

Question: In which North American river are the Thousand Islands?
Answer: St Lawrence

Question: At which city do the Blue and White Niles meet?
Answer: Khartoum

Question: Which recent ITV three-part drama was based on real-life wife killer Malcolm Webster?
Answer: The Widower

Question: The BBC satire W1A starring Hugh Bonneville is a follow-up to which show?
Answer: Twenty Twelve

Question: What is the study of reptiles called?
Answer: Herpetology

Question: USAF Boeing VC-25 is also known as what when Barack Obama is on board?
Answer: Air Force One

Question: What region did Khrushchev gift to Ukraine in 1954?
Answer: Crimea

Question: In alchemy what was Aqua Fortis?
Answer: Nitric Acid

Question: Halophytes are plants adapted to growing in which conditions?
Answer: Salty

Question: What was odd about Ben Jonson’s burial in Westminster Abbey?
Answer: Buried Standing Up

Question: Who is the current Secretary of State for Transport?
Answer: Patrick McLoughlin

Question: If the Speaker wants an MP to leave the chamber what does he do?
Answer: Names Him/her

Question: St Mungo’s Cathedral is situated in which British city?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: Ninevah was the capital of which ancient empire?
Answer: Assyrian

Question: Who defeated the Spartans and their allies at Thermopylae in 480 BC?
Answer: Persians

Question: Steve Martin and Martin Short were two of The Three Amigos – who was the other?
Answer: Chevy Chase

Question: A Shot In The Dark was the follow-up to which successful 1963 comedy?
Answer: The Pink Panther

Question: On a sailing ship what are halyards and jeers?
Answer: Rigging ropes

Question: What type of cat can be Classic, Mackerel, Spotted or Ticked?
Answer: Tabby Cat

Question: What do we call the lake that the Germans call Bodensee?
Answer: Lake Constance

Question: The US city of Milwaukee stands on which lake?
Answer: Michigan

Question: The Folketing is which country’s parliament?
Answer: Denmark

Question: In which book did Miss Marple first appear?
Answer: Murder At The Vicarage

Question: Which Asian country has the Kip as its currency?
Answer: Laos