Question: Which Palestinian paramilitary group seized eleven Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games?
Answer: Black September

Question: Which element is represented by the letters Hg in the periodic table?
Answer: Mercury

Question: What is the national flower of Switzerland?
Answer: Edelweiss

Question: In January 1953 over 70% of all TV sets in the USA were tuned in to watch the star of which show go to hospital to give birth to her son?
Answer: I Love Lucy

Question: What type of creature is a minke?
Answer: Whale

Question: Which playing card is known as ‘Lancelot’?
Answer: Jack of clubs

Question: The Azores island group is administered by which country?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Which was the first Latin-American country to legalise same-sex marriage?
Answer: Argentina

Question: In which event did Amy Williams win a gold medal for Britain at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Women’s skeleton

Question: ‘Tanach’ describes the whole of the scriptures of which religion?
Answer: Judaism

Question: Who played Vicky Pollard’s twin sister in the 2006 Comic Relief episode of ‘Little Britain’?
Answer: Kate Moss

Question: Deba, boning, sashimi and paring are all types of what?
Answer: Kitchen knife

Question: Managua is the capital of which South American country?
Answer: Nicaragua

Question: In the game of Bingo, ‘Jump and Jive’ is the nickname for which number?
Answer: 35

Question: In Greek mythology, Hypnos was the god of what?
Answer: Sleep

Question: Who directed the 1968 film ‘Rosemary’s Baby’?
Answer: Roman Polanski

Question: How many starting players are in a basketball team?
Answer: Five

Question: Fratricide is the killing of one’s what?
Answer: Brother

Question: Dubris was the Roman name for which English port?
Answer: Dover

Question: Which 18th century British author described a second marriage as ‘The triumph of hope over experience’?
Answer: Samuel Johnson

Question: Which real-life couple starred in the 1994 remake of the film ‘The Getaway’?
Answer: Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger

Question: In January 1986, George Younger took up which British cabinet post
Answer: Defence Secretary

Question: Alice Fitzwarren was the wife of which Lord Mayor of London?
Answer: Dick Whittington

Question: What are author J.R.R. Tolkien’s first names?
Answer: John Ronald Reuel

Question: In which city was tennis player Martina Navratilova born?
Answer: Prague

Question: What type of animal is Sooty the Bear’s girlfriend Soo?
Answer: Panda

Question: Who plays the Alfred the butler in the 2005 film ‘Batman Begins’?
Answer: Michael Caine

Question: Who was the first US President to appear on television while still in office?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question: Castle Howard is in which English county?
Answer: Yorkshire

Question: The headwear item ‘yamulke’ is better known by what name?
Answer: Skull cap

Question: Dydd Iau is Welsh for which day of the week?
Answer: Thursday

Question: The quetzal is the basic monetary unit of which country?
Answer: Guatemala

Question: The East Siberian Sea lies in which body of water?
Answer: Arctic Ocean

Question: What is the collective name for a group of rhinos?
Answer: Crash

Question: British athlete Tessa Sanderson competed in which field event?
Answer: Javelin

Question: Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury between 1980 and 1991?
Answer: Robert Runcie

Question: In medicine, belonephobia is an irrational fear of what?
Answer: Needles

Question: What type of creature is a kagu (or cagou)?
Answer: Bird

Question: A ‘Lace’ anniversary celebrates many years of marriage?
Answer: Thirteen

Question: Who was the father of English monarch Edward VI?
Answer: Henry VIII

Question: In 1785, the first crossing of which body of water was made by Francois Blanchard and John Jeffries using a hot air balloon?
Answer: English Channel

Question: How many coloured rings make up the Olympic Games symbol?
Answer: Five

Question: ‘Prince Caspian’, ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ and ‘The Silver Chair’ are all books from which series?
Answer: Narnia Chronicles

Question: The paint calcamine (or kalsomine) is better known by what name?
Answer: Whitewash

Question: In which sport would a referee say ‘Crouch, Bind, Set’?
Answer: Rugby union

Question: Author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is better known by what name?
Answer: Lewis Carroll

Question: Vermicide is a substance used for killing which creatures?
Answer: Worms

Question: Miss Gatsby and Miss Tibbs were two elderly residents in which UK tv sitcom?
Answer: Fawlty Towers

Question: ‘The Angel of the North’ is the work of which British sculptor?
Answer: Antony Gormley

Question: Who was US actor Mickey Rooney’s first wife?
Answer: Ava Gardner

Question: In which US state were the 1692 Witch Trials held?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: In the Harry Potter series of books, what is the name of Hermoine Granger’s cat?
Answer: Crookshanks

Question: In Greek mythology, who murdered Glauce, the bride of Jason, on their wedding day?
Answer: Medea

Question: Which English Premier League football club has the motto ‘Nil Satis Nisi Optimum’ (Nothing but the best is good enough)?
Answer: Everton F.C.

Question: Which UK comedy series featured the characters Eccles, Bloodnok and Bluebottle?
Answer: The Goon Show

Question: What is the cube root of 729?
Answer: 9

Question: The railway in Africa which runs from Mombasa to lake Victoria, which was hit by a series of disasters, is known as The ‘what’ Line?
Answer: Lunatic Line

Question: Carried in front of English sovereigns at their coronation to represent mercy, what is a curtana?
Answer: Sword (unpointed)

Question: A hexagon is a plane figure with how many sides and angles?
Answer: Six

Question: Chopin Airport is in which European city?
Answer: Warsaw

Question: What is the main ingredient of a matelote dish?
Answer: Fish

Question: ‘The Divine Miss M’ was the debut album of which US singer?
Answer: Bette Midler

Question: Cobweb and Toolroom are Secret Service codenames for whose US office?
Answer: The Vice President

Question: Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was written for actress Gertrude Lawrence, who died a year later halfway through the show’s run?
Answer: The King and I

Question: Curtly Ambrose played for which national cricket team?
Answer: West Indies

Question: Which was the 48th US state to be admitted to the Union, in February 1912?
Answer: Arizona

Question: Irish businessman Sean Quinn became the owner of which British golf course in 2005?
Answer: The Belfry

Question: Donald Pleasance, Telly Savalas and Charles Gray have all played the role of which James Bond villain?
Answer: Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Question: In Greek cookery, what is the name of the selection of small hot and cold dishes served as an appetizer?
Answer: Meze (or mezze)

Question: Pen y Fan is the highest peak in which British national park?
Answer: Brecon Beacons

Question: What is the US state capital of North Dakota?
Answer: Bismarck

Question: Which singer released a 1989 album entitled ‘Foreign Affair’?
Answer: Tina Turner

Question: Who invented the electric battery in 1800?
Answer: Alessandro Volta

Question: In which mountain range is the Scottish mountain Ben Nevis?
Answer: Grampians

Question: Formula One racing driver Jody Scheckter was born in the city of East London in which country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: In 1936, Joseph Bowers was the first inmate to attempt an escape from which prison?
Answer: Alcatraz

Question: In which year did Queen Elizabeth II first visit Australia as a reigning monarch?
Answer: 1954

Question: Galatasaray are a football team based in which European country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: In which religion is there one god called Ahura Mazda?
Answer: Zoroastrianism

Question: The port of Watchet is in which English county?
Answer: Somerset

Question: Which US President was given the nickname ‘The Trust Buster’?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt