Question: In which county is Clacton-on-Sea?
Answer: Essex

Question: In which county are Hailes Abbey, Sudeley Castle and Berkeley Castle?
Answer: Gloucestershire

Question: Which group, also 'one hit wonders', topped the UK charts in 1975 with 'Barbados'?
Answer: Typically Tropical

Question: Which of the world's seas has no shoreline but lots of seaweed?
Answer: Sargasso sea

Question: In which country will you find the Negev desert?
Answer: Israel

Question: Which west-coast NFL team won the Superbowl in 2014?
Answer: Seattle or Seahawks

Question: Which Frenchman won the Alpine triple-crown at the 1968 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Jean Claude Killy

Question: In the context of food, Eccles in Lancashire is famous for what?
Answer: Cakes

Question: Which former EastEnders actor was once married to Colleen Nolan of The Nolans?
Answer: Shane Ritchie

Question: Which popular, free computer operating system owes its existence to Linus Torvalds?
Answer: Linux

Question: In the UK, what is the value of the letter P in Scrabble?
Answer: 3

Question: What ingredient makes a black pudding black?
Answer: Congealed Blood

Question: Kept in many schools, in which landlocked Asian country did the Gerbil originate?
Answer: Mongolia

Question: Which 1993 Disney film starred Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker as witches?
Answer: Hocus Pocus

Question: Ruby Catherine Stevens first became famous in the 1930s under which name?
Answer: Barbara Stanwyck

Question: Whose music looms large in the novel (and its film version) 'A Clockwork Orange'?
Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven

Question: Which hot drink did J S Bach enjoy so much he wrote a cantata for it?
Answer: Coffee

Question: In 1643 Evangalista Torichelli invented the world's first what?
Answer: Barometer

Question: Who invented the first safety razor in 1895?
Answer: King Camp Gillette

Question: What is the capital city of Sicily?
Answer: Palermo

Question: What is the state capital of New Jersey?
Answer: Trenton

Question: Whom did a jealous Athena turn into a spider?
Answer: Arachne

Question: Who was the beautiful sister of the twins Castor and Pollux and mother to Hermione?
Answer: Helen of Troy

Question: In the 'Eagle', who was Dan Dare's greatest enemy?
Answer: Mekon

Question: As leader of the Teen Titans, ‘Robin’ aka Dick Grayson took on which other identity?
Answer: Nightwing

Question: Joe Shlabotnik is which fictional character's favourite (and also fictional) baseball player?
Answer: Charlie Brown

Question: The title of whose best-known book translates into English as 'My Struggle'?
Answer: Adolf Hitler

Question: According to his business card, the gangster Al Capone dealt in what?
Answer: Used Furniture

Question: Agrippina married her uncle, later having him poisoned. Which Roman Emperor was he?
Answer: Claudius

Question: Who famously said his goodbyes to a fictional school called Brookfield?
Answer: Mr Chips or Mr Chipping

Question: To which London club, of which he was a co-founder, did Mycroft Holmes belong?
Answer: Diogones

Question: Besides Agatha Christie who is the most widely translated English author?
Answer: Shakespeare

Question: In 1934, who wrote 'The Thin Man'?
Answer: Dashiell Hammett

Question: Who was the author of 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Answer: Jonathon Swift

Question: Who wrote the stories 'Billy Budd' and 'Moby Dick'?
Answer: Herman Melville

Question: Who was nicknamed 'Queen of the Blues', but was later elevated to 'Empress'?
Answer: Bessie Smith

Question: Who famously set James Thomson's poem, 'Rule, Britannia' to music?
Answer: Thomas Arne

Question: Whose estranged wife Ingrid was granted a 'quickie divorce' at London's High Court?
Answer: Chris Tarrant

Question: Which Indian 'Celebrity' thanked Tony Blair for his support during her torrid time on TV?
Answer: Shilpa Shetty

Question: At the beginning of a game of chess, which pieces are found on b1, b8, g1 and g8?
Answer: Knights

Question: Which poker variant features cards referred to as 'the flop' or 'the river'?
Answer: Texas Hold Em

Question: Now at 38 St Mary Axe, London, which ‘exchange’ started in a coffee house in 1744?
Answer: Baltic Exchange

Question: Arranged alphabetically, which would be the first book of the Old Testament?
Answer: Amos

Question: Arranged alphabetically, which would the last book of the Old Testament?
Answer: Zephaniah

Question: By what other name is La Giaconda much better known?
Answer: Mona Lisa

Question: Between 1901 and 1904 Which painter’s career was described as his 'Blue period' ?
Answer: Pablo Picasso

Question: Which 17th century Dutch painter did the forger Hans van Meegeren most often copy?
Answer: Jan Vermeer

Question: Which psychological response is seen in the way some hostages react to their captors?
Answer: Stockholm Syndrome

Question: Based on real events, which 2005 film earned Steven Spielberg his 6th Oscar nomination?
Answer: Munich

Question: Which Oscar winner played the title role in the 1964 Hollywood film 'The Pawnbroker'?
Answer: Rod Steiger

Question: He died in 1965, who has a statue in Dockwray Square, North Shields (erected in 1989)?
Answer: Stan Laurel

Question: Which order in the class Insecta includes the butterflies, skippers, and moths?
Answer: Lepidoptera

Question: Broccoli belongs to which family of plants?
Answer: Brassica

Question: What 1-word name is used as an alternative for the creature also called 'Snow Leopard'?
Answer: Ounce

Question: The Racoon is noted for doing what with its food before eating it?
Answer: Douse or 'Wash'

Question: Which animal can you find in a shallow depression or flattened, grass nest called a 'form'?
Answer: Hare

Question: Which festival in the Western Church gave its name to a bay and city of S.W. Texas?
Answer: Corpus Christi

Question: Where in his house was King George II when he died?
Answer: On the Toilet

Question: Also her brother, what was the name of Cleopatra's first husband?
Answer: Ptolemy Dionysus

Question: Portugal has had six Kings all with which first name?
Answer: John or Alphonse

Question: Who was the famous mother of politician Shirley Williams?
Answer: Vera Brittain

Question: Whom did both Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor marry?
Answer: Eddie Fisher

Question: The 'Giant's Causeway' and nearby Bushmills, famed for its distillery are in which county?
Answer: Antrim

Question: At the Kennington Oval in 1872, who did Wanderers beat in the very first FA Cup final?
Answer: Royal Engineers

Question: Built in 1776, which T was the name of the first submarine used for military purposes?
Answer: Turtle

Question: On what material was the Mona Lisa painted?
Answer: Poplar Wood

Question: Which 1980 historical novel is narrated by a young Benedictine monk, Adso of Melk?
Answer: The Name Of The Rose

Question: Which late, regular on Radio 4's 'Just a Minute' had served as Liberal MP for Isle of Ely?
Answer: Clement Freud

Question: Which regular on Radio 4's 'Just a Minute' has served as Tory MP for the City of Chester?
Answer: Giles Brandreth

Question: To which religion does the famous Lotus Temple situated in New Delhi belong?
Answer: Baha'ism or Baha'i

Question: Who sang the theme for the James Bond film ‘Thunderball’?
Answer: Tom Jones

Question: According to Coleridge, where did Kubla Khan decree his pleasure dome?
Answer: Xanadu

Question: What is the minimum number of smaller cubes required to make a larger cube?
Answer: Eight

Question: What is Stephen Fry’s nickname for the researchers/writers on the tv programme ‘Q.I.’?
Answer: Elves

Question: For what profession did Mahatma Ghandi train?
Answer: Lawyer

Question: Flight-lieutenant Jerry Rawlings ruled which African country from 1981-2001?
Answer: Ghana

Question: Who was King of Scotland from 1040-1057?
Answer: Macbeth

Question: Who wrote the 1924 adventure novel ‘Beau Geste’?
Answer: P.C. Wren

Question: What is the name of Pip’s brother-in-law in ‘Great Expectations’?
Answer: Joe Gargery