Question: What is the name for the Parliament on the Isle of Man?
Answer: The TYNWALD

Question: Who was the first poet to be buried in Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey?
Answer: Chaucer

Question: An ossuary is a room or container in which what are kept?
Answer: Bones

Question: Blueberry Jelly Beans were created for which US president?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: What is the name of the Creole stew made with okra, rice, shellfish or pork?
Answer: Gumbo

Question: What is the German bratwurst?
Answer: Sausage

Question: What word from German means ‘delighting in another’s misfortune’?
Answer: Schadenfreude

Question: The Yiddish word ‘schmuck’ meaning a contemptible person, literally means what?
Answer: Penis

Question: What was the nickname of Stephen Lewis’s character in Last of the Summer Wine?
Answer: Smiler

Question: Which sitcom character’s middle names were Albert Kitchener?
Answer: Harold Steptoe

Question: Pioneer 10 in 1983 was the first man-made object to do what?
Answer: Leave the Solar System

Question: Salyut in 1971 was the first ……what?
Answer: Space Station

Question: Who left little Nancy in the toilets at the Plough Inn?
Answer: David Cameron

Question: Who bowed out with Blackstar?
Answer: David Bowie

Question: What is the popular name for Mozart’s Divertimento in G for Strings?
Answer: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Question: The tune Duelling Banjos features in which 1972 film?
Answer: Deliverance

Question: Who was Britain’s Defence Secretary at the time of the Falklands War?
Answer: John Nott

Question: Which 1976 Derek Jarman film was dialogued entirely in Latin?
Answer: Sebastiane

Question: Who designed the Cenotaph in London?
Answer: Lutyens

Question: Which crooner’s only UK No.1 was Memories Are Made Of This in 1956?
Answer: Dean Martin

Question: What was the name of Sonny Crockett’s pet alligator in Miami Vice?
Answer: Elvis

Question: Who became the Royal Ballet’s youngest principle dancer in 1989 at the age of 20?
Answer: Darcey Bussell

Question: Which Caribbean island group has a reptilian name?
Answer: Cayman Islands

Question: Who were the ascetics who lived on the top of pillars or columns?
Answer: Stylites

Question: Oneiromancy is the divination of what?
Answer: Dreams

Question: Which Greek philosopher lived in a tub?
Answer: Diogenes

Question: Mr Elton, a vicar, is a character in which Jane Austen novel?
Answer: Emma

Question: Torch was the final code name for the 1942 Allied landings ……..where?
Answer: North Africa

Question: The RENFE is the railway system of which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: In which country are the Harz mountains?
Answer: Germany

Question: Which international football team are known as ‘The Albiceleste’?
Answer: Argentina

Question: What is the name of the dragon that guards the treasure in The Hobbit?
Answer: Smaug

Question: Benvolio is the cousin and friend of which Shakespearian hero?
Answer: Romeo

Question: Which African country is regarded as the spiritual home of Rastafarianism?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: Someone feigning unconsciousness or death is said to be playing which animal?
Answer: Possum

Question: What is the SI Unit of Luminous Intensity?
Answer: Candela

Question: Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses?
Answer: Dorothy Parker

Question: Who has taken over from Sandi Toksvig as presenter of The News Quiz?
Answer: Miles Jupp

Question: Which cry always opened the Billy Cotton Band Show?
Answer: Wakey Wakey

Question: Who played the Chief Petty Officer in The Navy Lark?
Answer: Jon Pertwee

Question: Which modern currency is derived from the old European coin the ‘thaler’?
Answer: Dollar

Question: Before adopting the Euro which country’s currency was the markka?
Answer: Finland

Question: On which peninsula are The Mumbles situated?
Answer: Gower Peninsular

Question: In which national park are the Black Mountains?
Answer: Brecon Beacons

Question: Which is the nearest town to Ben Nevis?
Answer: Fort William

Question: Apart from the Bolshoi which is Russia’s other famous touring ballet company?
Answer: Kirov

Question: Detective Jimmy Perez investigates in which BBC drama?
Answer: Shetland

Question: Which English painter was the first President of the Royal Academy?
Answer: Sir Joshua Reynolds

Question: Which opera did Verdi supposedly compose for the opening of the Suez Canal?
Answer: Aida

Question: What was the name of his American mother?
Answer: Jenny Jerome

Question: Upon which war did he report as a foreign correspondent for the Morning Post?
Answer: Boer War

Question: For which constituency was he first elected to parliament as a Unionist MP in 1900?
Answer: Oldham

Question: Which hormone is called epinephrine in the USA?
Answer: Adrenalin

Question: What was Elvis Presley’s first film – the only one in which he did not get top billing?
Answer: Love Me Tender

Question: Who was presented with the first ever gold disc?
Answer: Glen Miller

Question: Who was the first British artist to top the US chart?
Answer: Vera Lynn

Question: Which brewery produces Director’s Bitter?
Answer: Courage

Question: What is added to Scotch to make a Whisky Mac?
Answer: Ginger Wine

Question: What exactly is the crime of embracery?
Answer: Bribing of a Juror

Question: In olden-day police parlance what were ‘darbies’?
Answer: Handcuffs

Question: Which form of strangulation was for years the official method of execution in Spain?
Answer: The Garotte

Question: Who sailed round the world in the yacht Lively Lady?
Answer: Alec Rose

Question: To which Mediterranean island were UN peacekeepers sent in 1964?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: Who played Monica Geller in Friends?
Answer: Courtney Cox

Question: What is the collective noun for kangaroos?
Answer: Mob

Question: In which European capital is Bromma Airport?
Answer: Stockholm

Question: What is the collective noun for frogs?
Answer: Army

Question: Which late rock singer was known as ‘The Electric Poet’?
Answer: Jim Morrison

Question: Which American author created Tarzan Of The Apes?
Answer: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Question: Which T Rex hit was called 'Bang A Gong' when it was released in the USA?
Answer: Get It On

Question: Prince William adopted which title in 2011?
Answer: Duke of Cambridge

Question: Athlete Florence Griffith was given which nickname after her marriage in 1987?
Answer: Flo-Jo

Question: If two unidentified men are found in the USA, what name will the second be given?
Answer: Richard Roe

Question: Who was the second woman elected to the House of Commons?
Answer: Nancy Astor

Question: In 1932 which record breaker was the second person to fly the Atlantic solo?
Answer: Amelia Earhart

Question: Which dictator moved into the Casa Rosada in June 1946?
Answer: Juan Peron

Question: Pope Gregory XI was the last Pope to live in which French city?
Answer: Avignon

Question: Adrian IV, the first English Pope, was educated in which city named after the first English martyr?
Answer: St Albans

Question: Alexander Graham Bell discovered that which type of cabling cancels out electrical interference?
Answer: Twisted Pair

Question: What sort of sea creature is a Medusa?
Answer: Jellyfish

Question: The name of which Titan was given to a large flightless bird of South America?
Answer: Rhea

Question: Which part of the body is named after the goddess of the rainbow?
Answer: Iris

Question: In 2015 it became unlawful in France to name children after which sandwich spread?
Answer: Nutella

Question: Named after Mrs Gamp, a character in a Dickens' novel, what is a Gamp?
Answer: Umbrella

Question: Which meal is regarded as the Spanish national dish, although it is more specific to Valencia?
Answer: Paella

Question: What was Esther and Abi Ofarim's only number one single in Britain?
Answer: Cinderella Rockefella

Question: Elizabeth Taylor, Farrah Fawcett and Cheryl Ladd all advertised which brand of shampoo?
Answer: Wella