Question: Before 'Poppy Appeal' what words appeared on the central black buttons of poppies sold in Poppy Appeal in the UK every year?
Answer: Haig Fund

Question: What title was shared by three different songs which achieved UK or US number one positions within a few months of each other during 1984-85?
Answer: The Power of Love

Question: Who first published and popularised the stories Snow White, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood?
Answer: The Brothers Grimm

Question: What creature is a pismire?
Answer: Ant

Question: What does Samantha Cameron have tattooed on her ankle?
Answer: A dolpin

Question: What is the square root of two-hundred and eighty-nine?
Answer: Seventeen

Question: Yukon and Nunavut are Federal Territories of which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: What is the traditional name for a spot on a domino?
Answer: Pip

Question: A 'Coney Island whitefish' is slang for a what?
Answer: A discarded condom

Question: What word for a wild or half-tamed horse derives from the Spanish word for rough wood and specifically a knot in wood?
Answer: Bronco

Question: Who against huge odds knocked defending champion John Higgins out of the 2010 World Snooker Championship?
Answer: Steve Davis

Question: What name, adapted from the male term, refers to a female tree-feller, popularised in Britain during World War II?
Answer: Lumberjill

Question: In what European city is the historic port of Piraeus?
Answer: Athens

Question: Nicholas Briggs is the long-time voice of which TV evil force?
Answer: The Daleks

Question: The Roman numerals DCLXVI equate to what number?
Answer: 666

Question: What event attracted the highest UK TV audience of the 1990s?
Answer: Princess Diana's Funeral

Question: The Chapman Root Glass Company was responsible for what 1915 iconic design nicknamed the 'hobble skirt' and 'Mae West'?
Answer: Coca-Cola bottle

Question: Which of the Brontë sisters wrote the novel 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'?
Answer: Anne Brontë

Question: A clowder is a collective term for which creatures?
Answer: Cats

Question: Which early British rock'n'roll star was Og the leprechaun in the 1968 film Finian's Rainbow?
Answer: Tommy Steele

Question: The colour of the moon's sky, seen from the moon, is always the same, what is it?
Answer: Black

Question: What is the name of the gland in the human body attached to the base of the brain important in controlling growth?
Answer: Pituitary gland

Question: In which US state is the annual Burning Man Festival held?
Answer: Nevada

Question: What is the state capital of Victoria, Australia?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: The Manzanares river runs through which city?
Answer: Madrid

Question: Name the Rochdale pensioner whom Gordon Brown was heard to call 'a sort of bigoted woman' after meeting her on a pre-election walkabout?
Answer: Gillian Duffy

Question: Metrophobia informally refers to the irrational fear or hatred of what?
Answer: Poetry

Question: USA athletes refused their silver medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in which men's sport?
Answer: Basketball

Question: In which European city is The Council of Europe?
Answer: Strasbourg

Question: If something is coriaceous, what does it resemble or have the texture of?
Answer: Leather

Question: In which country is the city of Mecca?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: A lustrum is a period of how many years?
Answer: Five

Question: A diptych is a painting or altarpiece of how many panels, commonly hinged together?
Answer: Two

Question: What Maryland presidential retreat, previously called Shangri-la, was renamed by Dwight D Eisenhower after his grandson?
Answer: Camp David

Question: In the 1983 horror film 'Christine', what was Christine?
Answer: A car

Question: Which part of a woman's body is named after German physician Ernst Grafenberg?
Answer: G-spot

Question: In 1997 the Royal Academy of Art controversially exhibited a 1995 portrait of which convicted murderer, made from children's handprints, by Marcus Harvey?
Answer: Myra Hindley

Question: What is the most common natural pollinator of the pineapple?
Answer: Hummingbirds

Question: What geographic term for a bay derives originally from the Greek word kolpos meaning bosom?
Answer: Gulf

Question: A symbol comprising three dots, which if joined form an upright equilateral triangle, represents what word?
Answer: Therefore

Question: What is the main element of pewter, used for tableware and vases, etc?
Answer: Tin

Question: The tennis club which hosts the Wimbledon Championships was founded originally in 1868 for playing which sport?
Answer: Croquet

Question: In which city is the Galileo Galilei airport?
Answer: Pisa

Question: Who is the only woman, up until 2010, ever to have run for leadership of the British Labour Party?
Answer: Margaret Beckett

Question: Richard Beckinsale's character Alan Moore featured in which in UK TV series?
Answer: Rising Damp

Question: Which Caribbean island, especially capital city Plymouth, suffered long term devastation after the previously dormant Soufriere Hills Volcano began erupting in 1995?
Answer: Montserrat

Question: Name the Green Party leader and its first parliamentary MP, who won the Brighton Pavilion seat in the UK May 2010 general election?
Answer: Caroline Lucas

Question: In 1834 who invented raised point writing using a six dot system enabling the blind to read?
Answer: Louis Braille

Question: In Japan the word Mikado originally referred to what?
Answer: The emperor

Question: What country's name derives from an Iroquois word for village?
Answer: Canada

Question: What is a car marque, a software company and the national flower of Egypt?
Answer: Lotus

Question: Which Shakespeare character is known as The Moor of Venice?
Answer: Othello

Question: What is the previous and common alternative name of the Indian city Mumbai?
Answer: Bombay

Question: Which city, home to Coca-Cola HQ, hosted the 1996 Summer Olympic games?
Answer: Atlanta

Question: Name Francis Drake's ship, in which he circumnavigated the globe, 1577-80?
Answer: Golden Hind

Question: What skin and eye colouring is associated with jaundice?
Answer: Yellow

Question: What is Mick Hucknell's band?
Answer: Simply Red

Question: The equal combination of green and blue light, and the C in CMYK color printing, are what?
Answer: Cyan

Question: If this were a cryptic crossword clue it could be 'Poetic Irish county'?
Answer: Limerick

Question: What is a tone of photography which results from or gives the effect of age?
Answer: Sepia

Question: What sea has the port city Arkhangelsk (Archangel in English) and Onega Bay?
Answer: White Sea

Question: What comes from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree?
Answer: Chocolate

Question: What semi-precious stone decorated Tutankhamun's burial mask, and is the colour of the American Robin's eggs?
Answer: Turquoise

Question: What is normally green, but can be yellow too, after a French herbal liqueur, introduced by Carthusian Monks in the 1700s?
Answer: Chartreuse

Question: What colour is Tyrian, a dye highly prized by the Romans?
Answer: Purple

Question: Name the London borough and Royal Observatory site which marks international time?
Answer: Greenwich

Question: Prince Andrew served for twenty-two years with what organization?
Answer: Royal Navy

Question: What pigment especially associated with oil painting, derives its name from heat treatment and a Tuscany city?
Answer: Burnt Sienna

Question: The TV presenter and journalist born Kim Taylor in November 1960 is better known by what name?
Answer: Magenta Devine

Question: Caroline Lucas is head of what UK organization?
Answer: The Green Party

Question: Who was English King from 1650-1702?
Answer: William of Orange

Question: What is the negatively emphatic expression in the USA for the smallest amount of money?
Answer: Red cent

Question: What college in New Cross is part of the University of London?
Answer: Goldsmiths