Question: Which poet’s mother, sister and lover were all called Fanny?
Answer: Keats

Question: Which fashion house produces the perfume ‘Bamboo’?
Answer: Gucci

Question: Who made a cameo appearance in Die Another Day as fencing instructor Verity?
Answer: Madonna

Question: Which double Oscar winner plays the villain in the latest film Spectre?
Answer: Christoph Waltz

Question: ‘He’s all England needs – another queen who can’t dress’ by Joan Rivers?
Answer: Boy George

Question: Who was the rich king of Lydia renowned for his wealth?
Answer: Croesus

Question: Who rode from Boston to Lexington to warn US forces of a British Approach?
Answer: Paul Revere

Question: What name is given to the interference caused to wave patterns by an object or gap?
Answer: Diffraction

Question: Which Scottish loch is deepest at the maximum depth?
Answer: Loch Ness

Question: What is the plural of matrix?
Answer: Matrices

Question: What is an Alaskan Malamute?
Answer: Dog

Question: What is the main ingredient of the Swiss dish Rosti?
Answer: Potatoes

Question: From what illness did King George VI die?
Answer: Lung Cancer

Question: Which condiment is made from reduced trebbiano grape juice?
Answer: Balsamic Vinegar

Question: What is the collective term for freemasons?
Answer: A Lodge

Question: Filibeg is an alternative name for which item of clothing?
Answer: Kilt

Question: Dr Tertius Lydgate is always plagued by financial troubles in which classic novel?
Answer: Middlemarch

Question: In which adventure story does the magistrate Dr Livesey feature?
Answer: Treasure Island

Question: Who is to take over from Stephen Fry in the next series of Q.I.?
Answer: Sandi Toksvig

Question: In which French city does the Pont Saint-Benezet only partly span the river Rhone?
Answer: Avignon

Question: In New York the Verrazano Narrows Bridge links Staten Island with which other borough?
Answer: Brooklyn

Question: Which bridge was inscribed as a ‘World Heritage Site’ in July this year?
Answer: The Forth Bridge

Question: Who are the Brave Blossoms?
Answer: Japanese Rugby Team

Question: Johanna Konta is the new British female No.1 in which sport?
Answer: Tennis

Question: Parsees are followers of which religion?
Answer: Zoroastrianism

Question: The five ‘K’s feature in which religion?
Answer: Sikhism

Question: On 23rd April 2005 ‘Me at the Zoo’ lasting 19 seconds was the first what?
Answer: Video posted on You Tube

Question: Where did Tecwen Whittock cough when he shouldn’t have done in 2003?
Answer: On Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

Question: Where do Catholics believe their souls wait for the atonement of sins before entering heaven?
Answer: Purgatory

Question: Which huge commercial chain is named after a character in the novel Moby Dick?
Answer: Starbucks

Question: Which kind of animals are associated with the word ‘lapine’?
Answer: Rabbits

Question: What is the chief ingredient of a ‘dhansak’ curry?
Answer: Lentils

Question: Until 1968 which official could censor British theatre?
Answer: Lord Chamberlain

Question: On a weather map ‘isohyets’ link places of equal ………what?
Answer: Rainfall

Question: The first major battle of the English Civil War ended in stalemate in 1642 – what was it?
Answer: Edge Hill

Question: Which Archbishop of Canterbury was beheaded as an enemy of Parliament in 1645?
Answer: Laud

Question: Which title was bestowed upon Oliver Cromwell in 1653?
Answer: Lord Protector

Question: Which film sees the brothers Marcus Et Spencius slave trading company?
Answer: Carry On Cleo

Question: Risotto is usually made with which type of rice?
Answer: Arborio

Question: In the West Indies which is the largest of the Leeward Islands?
Answer: Antigua

Question: Which intra-continental ridge system runs right through Kenya from north to south?
Answer: Great Rift Valley

Question: What physical feature do all pinnipeds have?
Answer: Flippers

Question: The hamadryas is a species of which monkey?
Answer: Baboon

Question: Which Smiths guitarist co-wrote many of the band’s hits with Morrisey?
Answer: Johnny Marr

Question: What purpose does fibrin serve in the blood?
Answer: Clotting Agent

Question: In what part of the body is the deltoid muscle?
Answer: Shoulder

Question: The international car number plate GBY represents where?
Answer: Malta

Question: Bingo slang ‘dancing queen’ represents which number?
Answer: 17

Question: The international car number plate GBZ represents where?
Answer: Gibraltar

Question: Which now outlawed pursuit was once known as The Royal Diversion?
Answer: Cock Fighting

Question: Which US city is nicknamed ‘Lost Wages’?
Answer: Las Vegas

Question: DJ Kenny Everett allegedly gave the BBC which nickname?
Answer: The Beeb

Question: Which foreign political leader is nicknamed 'Bibi'?
Answer: Netanyahu

Question: Which wartime nickname was shared by the 7th Armoured Division and the 8th Army?
Answer: Desert Rats

Question: Which television presenter is nicknamed The Hamster?
Answer: Richard Hammond

Question: The Sentinel serves which Midlands city?
Answer: Stoke-on-Trent

Question: What name is given to the area of large country houses around Worksop?
Answer: The Dukeries

Question: Which village became infamous for its wise men?
Answer: Gotham

Question: Where is England's most complete workhouse to be found?
Answer: Southwell

Question: Which manager appeared on TV's Fast Show?
Answer: Ron Manager

Question: Who became manager of Melchester Rovers in 1978?
Answer: Roy Race

Question: Fused glass powder is called what?
Answer: Enamel

Question: Which black, igneous rock was used by the Mayans to make their sword blades?
Answer: Obsidian

Question: Which shell-fish soup originated in the north-east of America?
Answer: Chowder

Question: The most eastern part of Massachussetts is called what?
Answer: Cape Cod

Question: In 1962 who became Margot Fonteyn's dance partner?
Answer: Nureyev

Question: 'Emergency' was a 1979 single by which appropriately named punk group?
Answer: 999

Question: A popular cookery program of the 1990's took its name from the bingo call for which number?
Answer: 88

Question: American films use which fictional area code in telephone numbers?
Answer: 555

Question: Garfield Sobers first captained the West Indies against England in which year?
Answer: 0011

Question: James Bond, 007, had four colleagues: 006, 008, 009 and which other?
Answer: 0011

Question: What did Dirty Harry say was the most powerful handgun in the world?
Answer: .44 Magnum

Question: Alan Partridge drove from national to local broadcasting down which road?
Answer: A11

Question: Whiff-Whaff and Gossima lost out as brand names to which rival, according to Boris Johnson?
Answer: Ping-Pong

Question: Christopher Marlowe was murdered 'while playing at tables'. What is 'tables' now called?
Answer: Backgammon

Question: A castrated chicken is called what?
Answer: Capon

Question: In which capital of the British Isles would you find the Royal Canal?
Answer: Dublin

Question: Which canal links the Grand Union Canal to the Limehouse Cut in London?
Answer: Regents

Question: The Royal Military Canal separates which area from the rest of England?
Answer: Romney Marsh

Question: The Soviets invaded which Baltic country in November 1939?
Answer: Finland

Question: The Arabic phrase 'As-salamu alaykum' is abbreviated to which word?
Answer: Salaam

Question: Which Hawaiian word has come to mean both hello and goodbye?
Answer: Aloha

Question: Which Hebrew word is often used to mean both hello and goodbye?
Answer: Shalom

Question: What was the title of Stevie Wonder's 1977 tribute to Duke Ellington?
Answer: Sir Duke

Question: Darts had their last Top Ten hit in 1979 with which song?
Answer: Duke of Earl

Question: Which trio had their first No 1 album with 'Duke' in 1980?
Answer: Genesis

Question: Which Venezuelan spirit is the only one exempt from VAT in Britain?
Answer: Angostura Biters