Question: The Gobi desert is situated in China and which other country?
Answer: Mongolia

Question: In a game of scrabble, the letter V is worth how many points?
Answer: Four

Question: Which bank had the advertising slogan "come and talk to the listening bank"?
Answer: Midland

Question: Which jockey rode 50/1 outsider "Last Suspect" to victory in the 1985 Grand National?
Answer: Hywel Davies

Question: Which six letter word is used to describe a person whose occupation is to drive a dog sled?
Answer: Musher

Question: Which eleven letter word is used to describe a person who performs on a tightrope?
Answer: Funambulist

Question: Which group, on May 18th 1974, reached number one in the UK charts with the record "Sugar Baby Love", staying there for four weeks?
Answer: The Rubettes

Question: In Greek mythology, what was the name of the three headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld?
Answer: Cerberus

Question: The flag of Tunisia consists of which two colours?
Answer: Red And White

Question: Oberon is a moon of which planet in our solar system?
Answer: Uranus

Question: Which city will host the 2014 Commonwealth Games?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: Which eleven letter word is used to describe the study of weather?
Answer: Meteorology

Question: In which northern British city can you find Waverley Railway Station?
Answer: Edinburgh

Question: What was the famous name of English singer Terence Edward Parsons? Born in 1930, he once represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Answer: Matt Monro

Question: Taking office on April 26th 1939, then again on December 19th 1949, who was Australian Prime minister at the start of World War Two?
Answer: Robert Menzies

Question: Who was the captain of the English Cricket Team during the controversial Bodyline series of 1932 and 1933?
Answer: Douglas Jardine

Question: Which shade of brownish purple takes its name from the Spanish for flea?
Answer: Puce

Question: In which English city did entertainer Jimmy Saville sadly pass away recently?
Answer: Leeds

Question: The TV cartoon "Scooby Doo, Where Are You" featured the adventures of Scooby Doo and his three human friends Daphne, Velma and Shaggy and which other character, famous for his strikingly blond hair?
Answer: Freddie

Question: What was the name of the Nottinghamshire fast bowler appointed as the main bowler for England in the Bodyline series of 1932 and 1933?
Answer: Harold Larwood

Question: Taking office on September 5th 1939 until June 4th 1948, who was South African Prime Minister for the vast majority of World War Two?
Answer: Jan Smuts

Question: In which southern British city can you find St James' Park Railway Station?
Answer: Exeter

Question: In the TV cartoon "Dastardly and Mutley in their flying machines". the show featured three friends, Mutley the dog, Zilly and which other character whose speech is punctuated by howls, clicks, whistles and growls?
Answer: Clunk

Question: Which British businessman and Liberal party politician and fraudster was at the centre of an 1892 scandal when the Liberator Building Society which he had set up failed, leaving thousands of investors penniless? He later fled to Argentina before being extradited, tried and imprisoned for 14 years.
Answer: Jabez BALFOUR

Question: Which actor played the roll of Fletcher Christian in the 1962 film "Mutiny on the Bounty"?
Answer: Marlon Brando

Question: Which island, famous for its monastery lies off the coast of South Wales just south of Tenby?
Answer: Caldey

Question: Which famous politician is married to Miriam Gonzales Valladold and has three sons?
Answer: Nick Clegg

Question: LACK UP ALERT is an anagram of which famous female singer?
Answer: Petula Clark

Question: Which actor played the role of Julius Caesar in the 1963 film "Cleopatra"?
Answer: Rex Harrison

Question: Which famous politician is married to Yvette Cooper and has three children, two boys and a girl?
Answer: Ed Balls

Question: Which small island, situated just off Holy Island on the north west coast of Anglesey is famous as being the location of one of Wales's most spectacular lighthouses?
Answer: South Stack

Question: In which war did the Battle of Hamburger Hill take place?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: In which war did the Battle of Cabin Creek take place?
Answer: American Civil War

Question: Which English monarch who reigned from 1422 to 1461 and then briefly from 1470 to 1471 was stabbed to death in the Tower of London in 1471?
Answer: Henry Vi

Question: Which English monarch who reigned from 1377 to 1399 met his death in Pontefract Castle in 1400, probably being starved?
Answer: Richard Ii

Question: Translated as "cluster of eight" and situated in the Pacific Ocean what name did the Ellice Islands adopt on gaining independence in 1978?
Answer: Tuvalu

Question: Who, in 1989 sang the theme song to the James Bond film "Licence to Kill"?
Answer: Gladys Knight

Question: In the USA what is the value of a banknote sometimes referred to as a "Benjamin"?
Answer: $100

Question: Which darts player won the BDO title in 2008 beating Simon Whitlock of Australia in the final?
Answer: Mark Webster

Question: What is the national currency of Brazil?
Answer: Real

Question: Who, upon her execution on October 16th 1793 was known as the "Widow Capet"?
Answer: Marie Antoinette

Question: In the New Testament, which book follows Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?
Answer: Acts

Question: In the USA what is the value of a banknote sometimes referred to as a "Sawbuck"?
Answer: $10

Question: In the Old testament which book follows Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers?
Answer: Deuteronomy

Question: Who, on January 31st 1606, was executed along with three other prisoners - Thomas Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood and Robert Keys?
Answer: Guy Fawkes

Question: What is the national currency of Indonesia?
Answer: Rupiah

Question: Which actress played the role of Morticia Addams in the TV series "The Addams Family"?
Answer: Carolyn Jones

Question: Which actress played the role of Lily Munster in the TV series "The Munsters"?
Answer: Yvonne De Carlo

Question: Which town in West Yorkshire takes it's name from the Latin for "Broken Bridge"?
Answer: Pontefract

Question: What is the name of the Italian dessert that can vary with ingredients but mainly consists of coffee-soaked biscuit layered with sweetened cream?
Answer: Tiramisu

Question: Taking office on May 4th 1979, who was Margaret Thatcher's first Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Answer: Geoffrey Howe

Question: What is the name of the curved knife traditionally used by Gurkha soldiers?
Answer: Kukri

Question: Taking office on May 27th 1993, who was margaret Thatcher's last Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Answer: Kenneth Clark

Question: Which band in November 1984 reached number one in the UK charts with the record entitled "I feel for you"?
Answer: Chaka Khan

Question: Which band in June 1985 reached number one in the UK charts with the record "Frankie"?
Answer: Sister Sledge

Question: What do Americans call what we British call a car bumper?
Answer: Fender

Question: Sb is the chemical symbol for which element?
Answer: Antimony

Question: How many years of marriage are celebrated by a 'Lace' annivesary?
Answer: 13

Question: Which 1948 Hitchcock film shares its name with a weapon in Cluedo?
Answer: Rope

Question: Which 1966 Beatles album shares its name with a weapon in Cluedo?
Answer: Revolver

Question: Which motorway in England, just over 30 miles in length, runs just south of Preston through the major junction of the M6 and M61 motorways, past Darwin, Blackburn, Accrington, Burnley and ends at Colne?
Answer: M65

Question: Some of the work of which Irish poet, who died in 1939, was influenced by his love for a woman named Maude Gonne?
Answer: W B Yeates

Question: Which actor who had starred in a previous show called "Department S" went on to have his own series in 1971 called "Jason King"?
Answer: Peter Wyngarde