Question: How many events make up a Triathlon?
Answer: Three

Question: What is the name of a small, ground-dwelling songbird and something done for fun?
Answer: Lark

Question: Convict Magwitch appears in which novel by Charles Dickens?
Answer: Great Expectations

Question: What was the surname of US songwriting brothers George and Ira?
Answer: Gershwin

Question: British monarchs are traditionally crowned in which London building?
Answer: Westminster Abbey

Question: What is 1500 in Roman numerals?
Answer: Md

Question: What is the largest natural lake in England?
Answer: Lake Windermere

Question: What value points is the black ball in the game of snooker?
Answer: Seven

Question: Which substance makes bread rise?
Answer: Yeast

Question: Miel is French for which foodstuff?
Answer: Honey

Question: What colour is The Old Kent Road on a Monopoly board?
Answer: Brown

Question: What colour ‘Christmas’ did Elvis Presley sing about in 1964?
Answer: Blue

Question: Pavane, Polonaise and Polka are all types of what activity?
Answer: Dance

Question: Which fictional superhero is known as ‘The Man of Steel’?
Answer: Superman

Question: In the US in the 1920’s and 1930’s the Chicago Piano was a slang term for what?
Answer: Machine gun

Question: In which European city was Giacomo Casanova born?
Answer: Venice

Question: What is the traditional colour of a wedding dress in China?
Answer: Red

Question: The Darya-i-Nur pink diamond is part of the crown jewels of which country?
Answer: Iran

Question: How many times did late actress Elizabeth Taylor marry?
Answer: Eight _ twice to Richard Burton

Question: Who was the mother of the Greek god Eros?
Answer: Aphrodite

Question: Which nuts are traditionally given as ‘Wedding Favours’ to a bride’s guests?
Answer: Almonds

Question: How many children did Queen Victoria and Prince Albert have?
Answer: Nine

Question: What is the name of Juliet’s cousin, and Romeo’s rival, in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: Tybalt

Question: What is the name of Scarlett and Rhett’s daughter in the novel ‘Gone With the Wind’?
Answer: Bonnie _ Eugenie Victoria ‘Bonnie’ Butler

Question: Who was said to have laid his cloak over a puddle for Queen Elizabeth I?
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh

Question: The 1955 film ‘Love is a Many Splendored Thing’ is set in which city?
Answer: Hong Kong

Question: Which couturier designed Queen Elizabeth II’s wedding dress?
Answer: Norman Hartnell

Question: Actress Meg Ryan married which actor on 14th February 1991?
Answer: Dennis Quaid

Question: What is the name of the 17th Century monk who it is believed was the inventor of champagne?
Answer: Dom Perignon

Question: The phrase ‘Sweets to the sweet’ is from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: On which date is St Valentine’s Day traditionally celebrated?
Answer: 14th February

Question: What is Arnold Scwarzeneggar’s profession in the 2002 film ‘Collateral Damage’?
Answer: Firefighter

Question: How many double letter squares are on a standard Scrabble board?
Answer: 24

Question: Which English Romantic Poet had a Newfoundland dog named Boatswain?
Answer: Lord Byron

Question: What must a referee count to when a professional wrestler is pinned?
Answer: Three

Question: Free Byrd is a tribute band to which US band?
Answer: Lynyrd Skynyrd

Question: Which 2009 film was a sequel to the 2006 film ‘The Da Vinci Code’?
Answer: Angels and Demons

Question: Who wrote ‘The Spoils of Time’ trilogy. Which spans three decades of fictional publishing family the Lyttons?
Answer: Penny Vincenzi

Question: ‘Staying Alive’ represents which Bingo number?
Answer: 85

Question: In a standard game of chess, how many pawns does each player start with?
Answer: Eight

Question: Which two colours make up the Arab League flag?
Answer: Green and white

Question: Which English football club is nicknamed ‘The Tractor Boys’?
Answer: Ipswich Town

Question: ‘Fagus sylvatica’ is the Latin name for which tree?
Answer: Beech

Question: What is the name of fictional character Dr Doolittle’s parrot?
Answer: Polynesia

Question: Which gemstone is known as ‘The Bishop’s Stone’?
Answer: Amethyst

Question: Which professional American bodybuilder, born in 1938, was known by the nickname ‘The Legend’?
Answer: Larry Scott

Question: Every month which has a Friday 13th begins on which day of the week?
Answer: Sunday

Question: What do the French ‘Appellation d’Origine Controlee’ laws regulate?
Answer: Wine

Question: A malophile loves which fruit?
Answer: Apples

Question: Which actor played the title role in the 1968 film ‘Bullitt’?
Answer: Steve McQueen

Question: Professor Philip Brainard, Wilson Croft and Martha George are all characters in which Disney film?
Answer: Flubber

Question: The Brockton Blockbuster was the nickname of which American boxer?
Answer: Rocky Marciano

Question: Hu Jintao became President of which country in 2003?
Answer: China

Question: What does Nature require five of, Custom require seven of, Laziness take nine of and Wickedness take eleven of?
Answer: Hours of sleep

Question: Which US President is depicted on a $2 bank note?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Question: Speleology is the scientific study or exploration of what?
Answer: Caves

Question: Actors Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly appeared together on screen for the first time in which 1946 film?
Answer: Ziegfeld Follies

Question: John Alderton played teacher Bernard Hedges in which UK television series?
Answer: Please Sir!

Question: What was the first name of US army officer Custer, who died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876?
Answer: George

Question: Who is the title character in the Shakespeare play ‘The Merchant of Venice’?
Answer: Antonio

Question: The city of Geneva is in which European country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: What is the name of the futuristic nation in the 2012 film ‘The Hunger Games’?
Answer: Panem

Question: In betting, which odds are known as ‘Net and Bice’?
Answer: 12 to 1

Question: Varig Airlines was the first airline founded in which South American country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: A shoat, or shote, is the young of which animal?
Answer: Pig

Question: Catherine Hogarth was the wife of which British novelist?
Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: Former Dutch Guiana is now known by what name?
Answer: Suriname

Question: Which Asian country is bordered by Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia?
Answer: Thailand

Question: In Greek mythology, Actaeon was changed into a stag by who when he saw her bathing, and was then killed by his own dogs?
Answer: Artemis

Question: What type of creature is a serval?
Answer: Cat

Question: Lead singer of The Doors, Jim Morrison, died in July 1971 in which European city?
Answer: Paris

Question: Dorsodynia is a pain in which part of the body?
Answer: Back

Question: An onager is what type of animal?
Answer: Ass

Question: What was the name of the elder brother of Napoleon I of France, who became King of Spain in 1808?
Answer: Joseph (Guiseppe)

Question: The Spectre organisation first featured in which James Bond film?
Answer: Dr No

Question: What is the name of the fictional vicar played by Dawn French in the UK television series ‘The Vicar of Dibley’?
Answer: (Boadicea) Geraldine Granger

Question: Who won the Golden Ball Award for best player at the 2006 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Zinedine Zidane

Question: Who wrote and recorded the 1966 song ‘Mellow Yellow’?
Answer: Donovan

Question: Which English football club play their home games at White Hart Lane?
Answer: Tottenham Hotspur

Question: Who was the mother of British monarch King George V?
Answer: Alexandra of Denmark

Question: ‘Half the World Away’ by Oasis is the theme tune to which UK television series?
Answer: The Royle Family

Question: The Metro Shopping Centre is in which English town?
Answer: Gateshead

Question: Composers Beethoven and Schubert both died after completing which number symphony?
Answer: Nine