Question: Which is a definition of hardwood?
Answer: Wood from dicot angiosperm trees

Question: With what is the name Stirling Moss most associated?
Answer: Driving fast

Question: Why were the Crusades from 1095 - 1291 waged by European forces in the Middle East so called?
Answer: They waged war in the name of the Cross of Christendom

Question: The makers of MMs refused to allow the sweet to be associated with what 1982 US film, because they believed one of the characters was so ugly that children, who were the film's intended main audience, would be terrified?
Answer: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Question: What is the minimum age for a horse to race in the Melbourne Cup?
Answer: 3

Question: When and where did the Austro-Hungarian Schutzkorps first operate?
Answer: 1908, in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Question: Which fictional character was created by Robert E Howard?
Answer: Conan the Barbarian

Question: What word refers to theatre that is made up on the spot?
Answer: Improv

Question: What kind of kite flying was banned in 2000 in the Punjab in India?
Answer: A kite with metallic wire, or any thread coated with sharp material

Question: Who created the character of Doctor Finlay in the British TV series (1962-1971) "Dr Finlay's Casebook"?
Answer: A J Cronin

Question: Who performed "I Will Always Love You", the song played at the end of the film "The Bodyguard"?
Answer: Whitney Houston

Question: A long running television series about a division of police in the UK is ...?
Answer: The Bill

Question: What are the main ingredients of a Caesar salad?
Answer: Croutons, parmesan cheese, egg & anchovies

Question: A full size replica of Chauvet Cave in the Ardche in southern France was opened in 2015 to provide public access to what?
Answer: 35,000+ year old cave paintings, without damaging the originals

Question: Who wrote an autobiography called "Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights"?
Answer: Burt Ward

Question: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch and Giotto were based in what city in the first half of the 14th century?
Answer: Florence

Question: In which country was the Battle of Vinegar Hill fought in 1798?
Answer: Ireland

Question: What is the interest of graphologists?
Answer: Handwriting

Question: In popular tales what bowler famously caught the eye of Elizabeth I of England when the Spanish Armada was sighted off the British coast?
Answer: Sir Francis Drake

Question: The city of Irkutsk, Russia, lies at the southern tip of which body of water?
Answer: Lake Baikal

Question: Argentina encouraged a massive wave of immigration from Europe starting in 1857; between then and 1940 people from which country formed the bulk of the influx?
Answer: Italy

Question: Pointillism is found in what field?
Answer: Painting

Question: Menes in Egypt in the third millennium BCE is recognised as the first leader to do what?
Answer: Unite the Upper and Lower Nile in one kingdom

Question: Considered by many to be the saltiest lake in the world, Don Juan Pond is found where?
Answer: Victoria Land, Antarctica

Question: Whose services, at least originally, did competitors in an archery contest need?
Answer: Fletcher

Question: Which actress began her professional film career aged six in "Bright Eyes" in 1934?
Answer: Shirley Temple

Question: The egg-based painting medium is known as what?
Answer: Tempera

Question: The Visigoth army led by Alaric famously sacked what city in 410 CE?
Answer: Rome

Question: If someone or something is baying what are they doing?
Answer: Barking or howling

Question: What is the main product of photosynthesis in plants?
Answer: Oxygen

Question: Who composed "Air on the G String"?
Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Question: According to NASA where do the majority of meteorites found on Earth originate from?
Answer: Asteroids

Question: How is the shoe held on a racehorse's foot?
Answer: Nails

Question: Where is the Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro designed by Italian engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli, and built in 1589?
Answer: The entrance to Havana bay in Havana, Cuba

Question: When Britain's first Labour Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, came to power for the second time his appointment was almost immediately followed by what world-affecting event?
Answer: Black Tuesday's Wall Street Crash

Question: Who founded the Prince's Trust in 1976 to give special help to Britain's youth, especially those who are unemployed?
Answer: Prince Charles

Question: Where would a cobbler be usually found
Answer: Mending footwear

Question: Which pop group, initially a studio only band for Tony Burrows and songwriter/record producers Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason, are best known for their 1970 record, "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)"?
Answer: Edison Lighthouse

Question: Where did Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed , driven by Henri Paul, and accompanied by Trevor Rees-Jones die in a car crash on 31 August 1997?
Answer: Pont de l'Alma Tunnel, Paris, France

Question: What book includes the characters Dill, "Boo" Radley, Scout Finch, her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus?
Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

Question: A German naturalist and artist, working latterly in the Netherlands, creating seminal paintings of flora and fauna including the full cycle of an insect in its plant and other context, was who?
Answer: Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717)

Question: What is the name of the front, slightly raised area, of a saddle?
Answer: Pommel

Question: The first English prince to bear the title "Prince of Wales" eventually became which King?
Answer: Edward II

Question: In 1962, retired American racing driver Carroll Shelby got a licence to import a British sports car made by AC Motors of England and installed an American Ford engine rather than its original Bristol engine. He introduced the car to the American public as what model of car?
Answer: Cobra

Question: Spa-Francorchamps, Suzuka and Yas Marina share what in common?
Answer: They are circuits in the 2014 Formula 1 World Championship

Question: United Artists, formed in 1919 as a reaction from commercial film companies of the time, was an alliance between actors Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks and who else?
Answer: Director D.W.Griffith

Question: What is the Abilene paradox?
Answer: Group decisions, unless discussed, can be decisions that no one in the group wants

Question: What were the titles of the first two novels by Donna Tartt?
Answer: """The Secret History"" and ""The Little Friend"""

Question: Fairy rock chimneys are a feature of Colorado and the Badlands in North America, the south of France, Taiwan, and Serbia and also, with houses carved from the formations, where?
Answer: Cappadocia, Turkey

Question: What would be found on a palette?
Answer: Oil paints

Question: Guru Nanak established what in India in the late 15th and early 16th centuries?
Answer: The Sikh religion

Question: What size is the circle from which competitors in the Olympic shotput throw?
Answer: 7 ft (2.134 m) in diameter

Question: What does a mordent involve?
Answer: A flutter before a note is sounded consisting of the note itself and the note above or below it

Question: According to Greek legend, who was the muse of history?
Answer: Clio

Question: Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe were better known as what when they hit #1 in 1984 in the UK, Canada and the USA?
Answer: Pet Shop Boys

Question: A nobleman who spent at least 32 years in asylums and prison (10 in the Bastille), the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) was famous for a life preoccupation which led to famous (hopefully) fictional writings, of which kind?
Answer: Erotica combining philosophy with pornography, emphasising violence, criminality and blasphemy

Question: Barabas is the central character in what 16th century play?
Answer: The Jew of Malta

Question: The last episode of 13 years of what popular US TV series was broadcast in 1991?
Answer: Dallas