Question: How many houses are there in a game of Monopoly?
Answer: 32

Question: What is the name of the blue parrot-like cartoon character, often referred to as Switzerland’s Mickey Mouse?
Answer: Globi

Question: In the UK, who was hanged in April 1962 for the A6 murder of scientist Michael Gregston?
Answer: James Hanratty

Question: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are all moons of which planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: Which controversial Indian-born author won the 1981 Man Booker Prize?
Answer: Salman Rushdie

Question: Elapidae Naja is the scientific name for which snake?
Answer: Cobra

Question: In the game of darts, what score is known as ‘Breakfast’ or ‘Bed and Breakfast’?
Answer: 26

Question: Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang and Ivan Drago are all opponents of which fictional boxer?
Answer: Rocky Balboa

Question: Which English singer appeared in the 1998 film ‘The Wedding Singer’ as himself?
Answer: Billy Idol

Question: The Kyat is the basic monetary unit of which country?
Answer: Burma (Myanmar)

Question: If an object is sherardized, what it is coated with?
Answer: Zinc

Question: A romaine is what variety of foodstuff?
Answer: Lettuce

Question: In animals, an onychetomy is the removal of which part of the body?
Answer: Claws

Question: Which Charles Dickens followed ‘Nicholas Nickleby’?
Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop

Question: The Peewee Boyz were Europe’s first all-male what?
Answer: Cheerleaders

Question: Who does a pediatric doctor specialise in treating?
Answer: Children

Question: Which ancient Greek is known as ‘The Father of Medicine’?
Answer: Hippocrates

Question: In 1975, Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of which mountain?
Answer: Mount Everest

Question: Peter Gilchrist is a world champion in which sport?
Answer: Billiards

Question: Neossology is the study of which young creatures?
Answer: Birds

Question: What were the first names of 19th Century circus/fairground owner P T Barnum?
Answer: Phineas Taylor

Question: If a bone is navicular, it is shaped like what?
Answer: A boat

Question: In cooking, what is calamares?
Answer: Squid

Question: Which two months have equinoxes?
Answer: March and September

Question: Port Said stands on which canal?
Answer: Suez Canal

Question: What is the name of the title character in the 2005 animated film ‘Corpse Bride’?
Answer: Emily

Question: What colour light indicates the starboard side of a boat?
Answer: Green

Question: The world’s longest fence is in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: What is the capital of Jordan?
Answer: Amman

Question: The 1999 film ‘The Insider’, starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe, is based on a true story about which US industry?
Answer: Tobacco industry

Question: ‘The Starry  – ‘what’ is a painting by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh?
Answer: Night

Question: Which British charity has the slogan ‘Refusing to ignore people in crisis’?
Answer: British Red Cross

Question: What is the capital of the Italian region Piedmont?
Answer: Turin

Question: A daikon is what type of vegetable?
Answer: Radish

Question: What does the Latin phrase ‘Caeci caecos ducentes’ translate to in English?
Answer: Blind are led by the blind

Question: Which 2006 film, starring Channing Tatum, was inspired by Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’?
Answer: She’s the Man

Question: Garryowen, Shoeing and Mulligrubber are terms used in which sport?
Answer: Rugby Union

Question: In medicine, dysuria is pain or difficulty in doing what?
Answer: Urinating

Question: In the UK, the ‘Great Writ’ is better known by what name?
Answer: Habeas Corpus

Question: In October 2011, which planet in our solar system was mistaken for a distress flare by a member of the public in Tynemouth, England?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: Who wrote the 1939 story ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’?
Answer: James Thurber

Question: Which band released a 1979 album entitled ‘The Great Rock and Roll Swindle’?
Answer: Sex Pistols

Question: The Cochiti Dam is in which US state?
Answer: New Mexico

Question: Who plays editor Lucy Spiller in the US television series ‘Dirt’?
Answer: Courtney Cox

Question: Who was the lead singer in the US rock and roll group The Teenagers, who died in February 1968, aged 25?
Answer: Frankie Lymon

Question: Poet and novelist Nazim Hikmet, one of the all-time greatest literary figures of the 20th Century, was what nationality?
Answer: Turkish

Question: Which island lies at the toe of Italy?
Answer: Sicily

Question: What is the cube root of 125?
Answer: 5

Question: Which country has the international vehicle registration CDN?
Answer: Canada

Question: In which English city is highwayman Dick Turpin buried?
Answer: York

Question: ‘What a Night for a Knight’ was the first episode of which US animated television series, first broadcast in September 1969?
Answer: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You

Question: What is the name of fictional character Babar the Elephant’s wife?
Answer: Celeste

Question: Which English actress was born Dora Broadbent?
Answer: Dora Bryan

Question: In the Harry Potter series of books, what is the name of the Weasley’s Shop?
Answer: Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes

Question: Deva was the Roman name for which Cheshire city?
Answer: Chester

Question: The ingredients for the 1947 wedding cake for the future Queen Elizabeth II were a present from the Girl Guides of which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: The Axel Springer company, the largest publishing house in Europe, has its headquarters in which city?
Answer: Berlin

Question: Shiraz is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: Grape

Question: The song ‘White Shadows’ by Coldplay is said to be a tribute to which late Hollywood producer?
Answer: Bruce Paltrow

Question: How many points are scored for a try in Rugby league?
Answer: Four

Question: Which English-born Australian darts player has the nickname ‘The Silver Surfer’?
Answer: Sean Reed

Question: Who played Vince Everett in the 1957 film ‘Jailhouse Rock’?
Answer: Elvis Presley

Question: Alurpoda Melanoleuca is the scientific name for which animal?
Answer: Panda

Question: What was the first British recording to reach number one in the US Billboard Hot 100, in May 1962?
Answer: Stranger on the Shore

Question: The first purpose-built bobsleigh (or bobsled) track was opened in which European resort town in the early 20th Century?
Answer: St Moritz

Question: Tony Curtis played Albert DeSalvo in which 1968 film?
Answer: The Boston Strangler

Question: What is the name of the London art gallery where John Lennon first met Yoko Ono at her art show in November 1966?
Answer: Indica Gallery

Question: What is the title of the 2009 film, directed by Richard Curtis, about a pirate radio station?
Answer: The Boat That Rocked

Question: Michael Parkinson, James Coburn, Clement Freud and Christopher Lee all appear on which 1973 album cover?
Answer: Band on the Run

Question: How many furlongs in a mile?
Answer: Eight

Question: Who was the US President nominee for the Democratic Party in the 2004 Presidential election?
Answer: John Kerry

Question: A sorrel is which animal with a light reddish-brown coat?
Answer: Horse

Question: Who wrote the 1970 book ‘Future Shock’?
Answer: Alvin Toffler

Question: Which Pink Floyd album was released in March 1973?
Answer: Dark Side of the Moon

Question: Which four letter word beginning with A is the name of a  god depicted as a bull, symbolising fertility and strength in war?
Answer: Apis

Question: Which four letter word beginning with E is the yellowish-brown colour of unbleached linen?
Answer: Ecru

Question: Which four letter beginning with F is a puffer fish eaten as a Japanese delicacy, after highly poisonous parts have been removed by an authorised chef?
Answer: Fugu

Question: Which four letter word beginning with G is a large, unwieldy umbrella, named after a Dickens character?
Answer: Gamp