Question: Which musical features the song Sit Down You’re Rockin’ The Boat?
Answer: Guys and Dolls

Question: Kenny Everett’s TV show introduced which sexy dance troupe?
Answer: Hot Gossip

Question: Who remained unbeaten for 10 years in the men’s 400 metres hurdles?
Answer: Ed Moses

Question: What is the first event on Day 2 of the Decathlon?
Answer: 110 Metres Hurdles

Question: Which island calls itself Kerkyra?
Answer: Corfu

Question: Wallachia is a region of which country?
Answer: Romania

Question: Which capital is on the river Manzanares?
Answer: Madrid

Question: A mutated MC1R gene causes what physical trait?
Answer: Red Hair

Question: Which liqueur is marked D.O.M?
Answer: Benedictine

Question: In which French city is the HQ of Interpol?
Answer: Lyons

Question: Which Turkish town was the birthplace of St Paul?
Answer: Tarsus

Question: What sort of device is a ‘loupe’?
Answer: Magnifying Lens

Question: The Four Hills is a tournament in which sport?
Answer: Ski Jumping

Question: Who was the last King of Troy?
Answer: Priam

Question: Which scientific principle is used in a police speed trap?
Answer: The Doppler Effect

Question: What kind of rock is formed as a result of heat or pressure?
Answer: Metamorphic Rock

Question: To whom did Clive Anderson say ‘Is there no beginning to your talents’?
Answer: Jeffrey Archer

Question: Who said of Mick Jagger ‘This man has child-bearing lips’?
Answer: Joan Rivers

Question: Who played Dudley Moore’s love interest in the 1981 comedy Arthur?
Answer: Liza Minelli

Question: What is Dorothy’s surname in The Wizard of Oz?
Answer: Gale

Question: The 1992 film Hear My Song involves a search for which tenor?
Answer: Josef Locke

Question: In which ocean is the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya?
Answer: Arctic

Question: Which Caribbean island is only 11 kilometres off the Venezuelan coast?
Answer: Trinidad

Question: What is the capital of the North Atlantic island of Bermuda?
Answer: Hamilton

Question: Whose portrait of Sir Winston Churchill was burned on lady Churchill’s orders?
Answer: Graham Sutherland

Question: Which painter was born Jacopo Comin, later changed to Jacopo Robusti?
Answer: Tintoretto

Question: The Goddess of Protection and daughter of Ra, Bastet had the head of which creature?
Answer: Cat

Question: What is the name of the Scottish river spirit usually appearing as a horse?
Answer: Kelpie

Question: Which type of transport has a name meaning ‘for everyone’?
Answer: Omnibus

Question: Which Rolls-Royce engine was fitted into the Spitfire fighter plane?
Answer: Merlin

Question: Which luxury train which linked London and Paris was withdrawn in 1972?
Answer: The Golden Arrow

Question: In which city are the brewers S A Brain & Son based?
Answer: Cardiff

Question: Which Premiership football club started out as St Domingo?
Answer: Everton

Question: Band leader Glenn Miller also played which instrument?
Answer: Trombone

Question: In which city is Cain’s brewery situated?
Answer: Liverpool

Question: Band leader Benny Goodman also played which instrument?
Answer: Clarinet

Question: Iodine is necessary for the functioning of which gland?
Answer: Thyroid

Question: What was Lester Piggott’s first Derby winner?
Answer: Never Say Die

Question: Goodluck Jonathan is president of which African country?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: After Ben Nevis which is the second highest mountain in the British Isles?
Answer: Ben Macdhui

Question: Which French painter fractured both thigh bones in his teens leaving him deformed?
Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec

Question: What is the Italian culinary version of hors d’oeuvre?
Answer: Antipasto

Question: A male cat is called a Tom – what is a female called?
Answer: Queen Acc Molly

Question: Where on your body might you suffer from a whitlow?
Answer: Finger

Question: Which is the USA’s City of Brotherly Love?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: Who played Oliver Barrett IV in the film Love Story?
Answer: Ryan O’Neal

Question: What is odd about Cambridge University’s May Ball?
Answer: Usually Held in June

Question: Hedra Carlson played by Jennifer Jason Leigh?
Answer: Single White Female

Question: ‘I don’t want to sound paranoid, but that electric line judge knows who I am’?
Answer: John McEnroe

Question: Which famous Scotsman died aged 37 in 1796?
Answer: Robbie Burns

Question: Which Scottish region has the highest population?
Answer: Strathclyde

Question: Which detective of novels and TV has the aristocratic title The Earl of Asherton?
Answer: Inspector Linley

Question: Helen Clark became the first woman Prime Minister of which country in 1999?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: What word do citizen’s band radio enthusiasts use for the police?
Answer: Bears

Question: In the USA an FBI agent is often called a G-Man – for what does the G stand?
Answer: Government

Question: In population terms, what is the largest city in China?
Answer: Shanghai

Question: Which country had a parliament called the Duma?
Answer: Russia

Question: In later years which TV sitcom character had a black home-help called Winston?
Answer: Alf Garnett

Question: What is the white knee-length pleated skirt worn by men as traditional dress in Greece?
Answer: Fustanella

Question: In which county is the Forest of Dean?
Answer: Gloucester

Question: Who are the base and deformed humanoids he meets in the land of the Houyhnhnms?
Answer: Yahoos

Question: Which state on the Pacific seaboard lies between California and Washington?
Answer: Oregon

Question: Which state borders on four Great Lakes – all except Ontario?
Answer: Michigan

Question: When Perseus slew the Medusa what sprang up out of her blood?
Answer: Pegasus

Question: Who did Evan Davies replace in a long-running TV programme this summer?
Answer: Jeremy Paxman

Question: In which comedy does Frances de la Tour play a secret drinking headmistress?
Answer: Big School

Question: What do the Chinese call ‘lively or quick little fellows’?
Answer: Chopsticks

Question: ‘Frappe’ is a term meaning served on a bed of ………..what?
Answer: Ice

Question: On which Japanese island did the Americans take control of vital Pacific airfields in 1945?
Answer: Iwo Jima

Question: What is the name of the Jewish candlestick with special religious meaning?
Answer: Menorah

Question: What do Americans call a love-bite?
Answer: A Hickey

Question: Who replaced Michael Gove as Education Minister last summer?
Answer: Nicky Morgan

Question: Which tradesman performed most of the runaway marriages in Gretna Green?
Answer: Blacksmith

Question: Which TV programme saw Assumpta electrocuted in the cellar?
Answer: Ballykissangel

Question: What do the initials u.c. mean to a printer?
Answer: Upper Case

Question: Which Australian service was founded by the Rev. John Flynn?
Answer: Flying Doctor Service

Question: Which Belgian sportsman was nicknamed ‘The Cannibal’?
Answer: Eddy Merckx

Question: The droppings of which British mammal are called ‘spraints’?
Answer: Otter

Question: Leatherback and loggerhead are varieties of which creature?
Answer: Turtle

Question: What is the term for cud-chewing animals?
Answer: Ruminants

Question: What is the skull cap worn by men of the Hebrew faith called?
Answer: Yarmulka acc Kippah

Question: The X and Y axes on a graph are called the abscissa and ………what?
Answer: Ordinate

Question: What is next in this series of Fibonacci numbers – 3, 7, 10, 17, 27, 44, 71 ……?
Answer: 115

Question: Who has appeared as a team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats since its inception in 2005?
Answer: Sean Lock

Question: Which World cup team are known as the Albiceleste?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Who won the Third-Place play-of?
Answer: Holland/Netherlands

Question: Which player top-scored and won the Golden Boot?
Answer: James Rodriguez

Question: When women were first given the vote in 1918 how old did they have to be to receive it?
Answer: 30

Question: Who wrote the feminist work Fear of Flying?
Answer: Erica Jong