Question: What is the standard duration of a chukka in the sport of field polo?
Answer: Seven minutes

Question: What is the title of the first James Bond film?
Answer: Dr No

Question: In the US and Canada, Labor Day falls on the first Monday of which month?
Answer: September

Question: What was the name and call-sign of the Apollo Eleven lunar module?
Answer: Eagle

Question: What is the chemical formula of snow?
Answer: H2O

Question: US President Franklin Pierce introduced what to White House Christmas tradition in 1856?
Answer: Christmas tree

Question: What red-blooming Christmas plant came originally from Mexico?
Answer: Poinsettia

Question: Brandy is made from distilling what?
Answer: Wine

Question: What was Girls Aloud's 2002 UK Christmas number one single?
Answer: Sound of the Underground

Question: Quaid-e-Azam's Birthday is a 25th December celebration in which country?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: Choirboy Peter Auty sang the film version of which song later recorded as a hit record by Aled Jones?
Answer: Walking in the Air

Question: What creature, noted for feeding on its berries, is linked by name to the mistletoe plant?
Answer: Mistle thrush

Question: 'Full of Eastern Promise' is an advertising slogan of what exotically positioned chocolate product?
Answer: Fry's Turkish Delight

Question: Which poem written by Clement Moore was originally titled A Visit from Saint Nicholas?
Answer: The Night Before Christmas

Question: What was the title of the first Christmas TV special Peanuts cartoon?
Answer: A Charlie Brown Christmas

Question: What celebratory receptacle is falsely claimed to have been modeled on the breast of Marie Antoinette?
Answer: Champage coupe

Question: Christmas Crackers was the first Christmas edition of which popular UK comedy series?
Answer: Only Fools and Horses

Question: Which hugely popular actor was born on Christmas day 1899?
Answer: Humphrey Bogart

Question: What British spacecraft was lost on Mars at Christmas 2003?
Answer: Beagle 2

Question: What was Queen's 1984 Christmas single called?
Answer: Thank God it's Christmas

Question: American cartoonist Thomas Nast is credited with creating the traditional image of which popular Christmas character?
Answer: Santa Claus

Question: Jackie Wilson's re-issued song Reet Petite became the 1986 UK Christmas number one after helping to advertise what brand?
Answer: Levi's

Question: What is the name of Dorothy Gale's dog in The Wizard of Oz?
Answer: Toto

Question: Born Christmas day 1908, by what name was gay icon author of The Naked Civil Servant popularly known?
Answer: Quentin Crisp

Question: What is a baby Turkey more correctly called, other than a chick?
Answer: Poult

Question: La Befana is the legendary character who delivers Christmas presents to children in which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: Who is the central businessman character in the film It's a Wonderful Life?
Answer: George Bailey

Question: In technical astronomical terms what is the duration of the winter solstice; an instant, a day, three months, or six months?
Answer: An instant

Question: What Christmas-time song did James Pierpont compose in 1857?
Answer: Jingle Bells

Question: What is the title of biggest selling Christmas single, globally?
Answer: White Christmas

Question: What Christmas item takes its name from the old French word estincelle, meaning spark?
Answer: Tinsel

Question: Kiritimati, the first inhabited place to experience each New Year, is more commonly known as what?
Answer: Christmas Island

Question: In which city was the Salvation Army founded?
Answer: London

Question: What drink advert launched the slogan 'The Right One' in 1970?
Answer: Martini

Question: What is Virgil Hilts' nickname in the film The Great Escape?
Answer: The Cooler King

Question: In which country is it a tradition to hide all brooms in the house on Christmas Eve?
Answer: Norway

Question: Who wrote the songs for the 1954 film White Christmas?
Answer: Irving Berlin

Question: Which US President banned Christmas trees from the White House?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Question: How many courses are there traditionally in a Ukrainian Christmas Eve supper?
Answer: Twelve

Question: In the song The Twelve Days of Christmas, how many pipers are there?
Answer: Eleven

Question: From what does the month of December take its name?
Answer: Ten

Question: Lake Inari, within the Arctic Circle, is which European country?
Answer: Finland

Question: Herman van Rompuy, the first President of the European Council, was previously prime minister of which country?
Answer: Belgium

Question: Which multi-million-selling car whose front wheels turn 360 degrees celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2009?
Answer: Cozy Coupe

Question: What is the name of the seat used for riding on the back of an elephant?
Answer: Howdah

Question: Who composed Pomp and Circumstance No.4 in 1907?
Answer: Edward Elgar

Question: What is the basic monetary unit in Vietnam?
Answer: Dong

Question: In which London park does the annual Frieze Art Fair take place?
Answer: Regents Park

Question: Metachrosis is the ability of some animals to do what?
Answer: Change colour

Question: Where on the human head would you find an epicanthic fold?
Answer: Eyelid

Question: Which British prime minister resigned in 1940?
Answer: Neville Chamberlain

Question: What is the name of the plant in the 1986 film the Little Shop of Horrors?
Answer: Audrey II

Question: Dulse is an edible type of what?
Answer: Seaweed

Question: From what island destination was HMS Bounty returning when its famous mutiny occurred?
Answer: Tahiti

Question: Which of the Marx brother's original name was Adolph?
Answer: Harpo

Question: Which famous poet and author, born in India in 1865, wrote the poem 'The Female of the Species is More Deadly than the Male'?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question: Zagazig is a city in which North African country?
Answer: Egypt

Question: Who was named England's first Poet Laureate?
Answer: Ben Johnson

Question: Which of the British armed forces is known as the Senior Service?
Answer: Royal Navy

Question: Who were the runners up in the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Who was William Shakespeare's wife (other than Mrs Shakespeare)?
Answer: Anne Hathaway

Question: What type of fruit is a Jargonelle?
Answer: Pear

Question: What is the name of the opera house which opened in Milan in 1778?
Answer: La Scala

Question: What is the longest nerve in the human body?
Answer: Sciatic nerve

Question: What was the old English silver coin worth four pre-decimal pennies?
Answer: Groat

Question: The Bay of Plenty is on the coast of which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: WWII General Joseph Stilwell's nickname was also the name of what 1970s rock act fronted by Elkie Brooks?
Answer: Vinegar Joe

Question: Who played Louise Sawyer in the 1991 film Thelma and Louise?
Answer: Susan Sarandon

Question: What is commonly produced by pouring water into a pan of boiling cooking oil - an indoor rainbow, dry ice, popcorn, or a fierce kitchen fire?
Answer: A fierce kitchen fire

Question: The natural geological columns of Fingal's Cave and the Giant's Causeway are formed of which rock?
Answer: Basalt

Question: Who was the last emperor of China?
Answer: Pu Yi

Question: The introduction of what vegetable coincided with the coronation of the British monarch in 1902?
Answer: King Edward potato

Question: How many strings does a mandolin commonly have?
Answer: Eight

Question: What three-letter brand meaning 'flight' is the Polish national airline?
Answer: Lot

Question: Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy played the title roles in which UK 1970s TV sitcom?
Answer: George and Mildred

Question: What are the first names of writer J R R Tolkien?
Answer: John Ronald Reuel

Question: Which British cyclist crashed out of the 1998 Tour de France while wearing the Yellow Jersey?
Answer: Chris Boardman