Question: Which planet is nearest to the Sun?
Answer: Mercury

Question: Author Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote the children’s novel ‘The Secret….’what’?
Answer: Garden

Question: What is the square root of 36?
Answer: 6

Question: Which reptiles camouflage themselves by changing colour?
Answer: Chameleons

Question: What type of angle is less than 90 degrees?
Answer: Acute angle

Question: In the human body, the patella is commonly known as what?
Answer: Knee cap

Question: What is the capital of Norway?
Answer: Oslo

Question: How many reeds does an oboe have?
Answer: Two

Question: Which author wrote the 1991 book ‘The story of Tracy Beaker’?
Answer: Jacqueline Wilson

Question: Singer Justin Bieber was born in which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: The Eiffel Tower is in which European city?
Answer: Paris

Question: Welsh rarebit is another name for ‘what’ on toast?
Answer: Cheese

Question: ‘The Abduction from the Seraglio’ (Il Seraglio) is an opera by which composer?
Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question: The former African nation of Nyasaland is now known by what name?
Answer: Malawi

Question: Vache is French for which animal?
Answer: Cow

Question: Edward Seymour, Ist Duke of Somerset, was executed for treason during the reign of which English monarch?
Answer: King Edward VI

Question: Bibliophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: Books

Question: Which English football club is nicknamed ‘The Addicks’?
Answer: Charlton Athletic FC

Question: In archery, what is a person who makes bows called?
Answer: A bowyer

Question: Which is the longest line on the London Underground Railway system?
Answer: Central Line

Question: Who was the second husband of actress Angelina Jolie?
Answer: Billy Bob Thornton

Question: English statesman John of Gaunt was regent to which future king of England while he was too young to take the throne?
Answer: Richard II

Question: Which late singer/musician was shot in an assassination attempt in Jamaica in December 1976?
Answer: Bob Marley

Question: Terra is the Latin name for which planet in our solar system?
Answer: Earth

Question: Which singer released a 2007 album entitled ‘Good Girl Gone Bad’?
Answer: Rihanna

Question: In the Bible, Conquest, War, Famine and Death symbolise the Four ‘what’?
Answer: Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Question: Which novel by Robert Louis Stevenson was originally published under the title ‘The Sea Cook’?
Answer: Treasure island

Question: According to the Bible, how many children did Adam and Eve have together?
Answer: Three

Question: Southdown is a breed of which animal?
Answer: Sheep

Question: Transylvania is in which European country?
Answer: Romania

Question: Soave wine is produced in which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: Michael Gordon Peterson, often referred to by the British press as ‘The most violent prisoner in Britain’, changed his name to that of which US actor in 1987?
Answer: Charles Bronson

Question: How many ‘beds’ are there usually on a Shove Ha’penny board?
Answer: Nine

Question: ‘Hen Wlad FY Nhadau’ is the national anthem of which European country?
Answer: Wales

Question: Actor Jay Silverheels is famous for playing which fictional television American Indian?
Answer: Tonto

Question: Which English composer conducted the London Symphony Orchestra at the 1931 opening of the Abbey Road Studios in London?
Answer: Edward Elgar

Question: Lake Havasu City is in which US state?
Answer: Arizona

Question: Which British television chef created snail porridge?
Answer: Heston Blumenthal

Question: What is the title of the work by artist Damien Hirst in which a sheep is suspended in a tank of formaldahyde?
Answer: Away From the Flock

Question: Who played Bodie and Doyle’s boss, George Cowley, in the UK television series ‘The Professionals’?
Answer: Gordon Jackson

Question: The Olmec and Mayan are two of the earliest recorded civilisations of which modern-day country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Who wrote the 1973 novel ‘The Dressmaker’?
Answer: Beryl Bainbridge

Question: Who plays Debbie Aldridge in the BBC 4 radio series ‘The Archers’?
Answer: Tamsin Greig

Question: Which chemical element has the symbol ‘As’?
Answer: Arsenic

Question: What was the first name of English singer/musician Elton John’s wife?
Answer: Renate

Question: The French resort of Biarritz lies on which body of water?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: Mid-off, Cover Point and Square Leg are all terms used in which sport?
Answer: Cricket

Question: Which horse won the 2001 English Grand National?
Answer: Red Marauder

Question: Who was the last Kaiser of Germany?
Answer: Wilhelm II

Question: Drax Power Station is in which English county?
Answer: Yorkshire

Question: What is the name of the gallery from which members of the public can watch proceedings in the British House of Commons?
Answer: Strangers Gallery

Question: Which British football manager was known as ‘El Tel’?
Answer: Terry Venables

Question: US President Ronald Reagan belonged to which political party from 1962?
Answer: Republican Party

Question: Brothers Leon and Michael Spinks are associated with which sport?
Answer: Boxing

Question: On the human body, exungulation is the trimming of what?
Answer: Nails

Question: Lenny Small and George Milton are the main characters in which novel by John Steinbeck?
Answer: Of Mice and Men

Question: How many zeros are in a US quadrillion?
Answer: 15

Question: In human behaviour, rhinotillexomania is compulsive, obsessive what?
Answer: Nose picking

Question: Bait, Fly and Lure are all types of which device?
Answer: Fish hooks

Question: The 2000 Guineas Horse Race is run at which British race course?
Answer: Newmarket

Question: In the British television series ‘Callan’ played by Edward Woodward, what is Callan’s first name?
Answer: David

Question: What type of fish is a Sockeye?
Answer: Salmon

Question: How many pips sound in the BBC radio time-signal?
Answer: Six

Question: Which board game includes a swinging boot, a bucket, a bath tub and a seesaw?
Answer: Mouse Trap

Question: What is the eagle on the Great Seal of the US holding in its right talon?
Answer: Olive branch

Question: Who wrote the 2004 play ‘The History Boys’?
Answer: Alan Bennett

Question: What was the name of the last concert by the Canadian-American rock group The Band in November 1976?
Answer: The Last Waltz

Question: Who was the longest, continuously-serving British prime Minister of the 20th Century?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Question: Who was the second husband of singer Madonna?
Answer: Guy Ritchie

Question: The Reverend Flasher is a fictional character in which 1974 ‘Carry On’ film?
Answer: Carry On Dick

Question: What is the name of the densely forested moon inhabited by the Na’vi in the 2009 film ‘Avatar’?
Answer: Pandora

Question: The ruins of Troy are in which modern-day country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: A septcentenary is an anniversary of how many years?
Answer: 700

Question: What is the title of the 1956 film, starring Kirk Douglas, which is a biography about the life of painter Vincent van Gogh?
Answer: Lust For Life

Question: Which English author said ‘Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play……..it is war minus the shooting’?
Answer: George Orwell

Question: Historical figure Robin Hood is associated with which shade of green?
Answer: Lincoln Green

Question: Which animal is the symbol of the US Democratic Political Party?
Answer: Donkey

Question: What is the real name of fictional character Shaggy from the animated television series ‘Scooby Doo’?
Answer: Norville Rogers

Question: Maria Bicknell married which English artist in 1816?
Answer: John Constable

Question: Venta Belgarum was the Roman name for which Hampshire town in England?
Answer: Winchester

Question: Which is the only one of Disney’s Seven Dwarfs who does not have a beard?
Answer: Dopey

Question: The Internet company Google is based in which US state?
Answer: California