Question: What name is given to natives of the second-largest island of the Maltese archipelago?
Answer: Gozitans

Question: The island of Foulness lies off the coast of which English county?
Answer: Essex

Question: Which guest chose a stuffed Michael Palin as his luxury to take to the Island?
Answer: John Cleese

Question: What title is currently held by Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger?
Answer: Pope Emeritus

Question: What trade name did Bayer give to the analgesic drug diamorphine?
Answer: Heroin

Question: Which 1988 film was subtitled From the Files of Police Squad?
Answer: The Naked Gun

Question: Which two former popes were canonised on 27th April 2014?
Answer: John Paul II and John XXIII

Question: According to Christian tradition, Saint Non was the mother of which saint?
Answer: St David/Dewi Sant

Question: In which national park does the annual Green Man festival take place?
Answer: Brecon Beacons

Question: Which city stages the annual Celtic Connections festival?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: Used as launch mascots for BBC2 in 1964, what were Hullaballoo and Custard?
Answer: Kangaroos

Question: What is the Turkish word for “lion”?
Answer: Aslan

Question: By area, which is largest landlocked state in the USA?
Answer: Montana

Question: Who was the first of the Mr Men characters to be created by Roger Hargreaves?
Answer: Mr Tickle

Question: The name of which electrical safeguard is abbreviated “RCD”?
Answer: Residual Current Device

Question: In 1968, Tommy Docherty was sacked as manager of which club after just 28 days?
Answer: QPR or Queens Park Rangers

Question: In which year did the USSR bring the dogs Belka and Strelka home safe from space?
Answer: 1960

Question: Which aborted Apollo mission saw the crew dramatically and safely brought home?
Answer: Apollo 13 / Thirteen

Question: Which Scandinavian (1546-1601) made observations of stellar and planetary positions?
Answer: Tycho Brahe

Question: What is the traditional form of address when first meeting the Queen?
Answer: Your Majesty

Question: As PM, William Lamb, aka Viscount Melbourne, mentored and served which monarch?
Answer: Victoria

Question: Which London club did Holmes' brother Mycroft co-found?
Answer: Diogenes

Question: What was Doctor Watson’s first name?
Answer: John

Question: Although she represented the UK in ‘Eurovision’, what nationality was Gina G?
Answer: Australian

Question: Who is unique in being named Billboard's ‘Woman of the Year’ twice, in 2011 & 2014?
Answer: Taylor Swift

Question: James Braddock won the title from which boxer whose son was in The Beverly Hillbillies?
Answer: Max Baer

Question: Born Arnold Cream, which 37yr-old became the oldest man to win the title (up to 1951)?
Answer: Jersey Joe Walcott

Question: Which cautionary, three word motto is used by House Stark of Winterfell?
Answer: Winter is coming

Question: Which regal title does Daenerys Targaryen acquire by marrying a Dothraki horse lord?
Answer: Khaleesi

Question: Who plays the President in the 2013 Roland Emmerich thriller 'White House Down'?
Answer: Jamie Foxx

Question: Who played Freddie Krueger in no fewer than seven horror movies?
Answer: Robert Englund

Question: Who played the character Roy Batty in the 1982 movie 'Blade Runner'?
Answer: Rutger Hauer

Question: In the classic movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', who appeared as the Wicked Witch of the West?
Answer: Margaret Hamilton

Question: Which icon did the BBC label a "manipulative, neurotic and sexually repressed woman"?
Answer: Florence Nightingale

Question: Which of the Greek muses had a name that can be translated as "delight in dancing"?
Answer: Terpsichore

Question: Before Paris abducted her, 'Helen of Troy' was linked to which other famous place?
Answer: Sparta / Lacedaemon

Question: Which country applied to the UK courts for the extradition of Julian Assange?
Answer: Sweden

Question: The Libyan civil war came to an end when Muammar Gaddafi was killed in which city?
Answer: Sirte / Sirt / Surt / Sert / Syrte

Question: In population terms, which is the world's largest Muslim country?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: Who completes this Old Testament group of friends; Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and…?
Answer: Abednego

Question: Under what Phoenician name does musician Rollo Armstrong’s sister record?
Answer: Dido

Question: Who is the little boy in the 1963 children's book 'Where The Wild Things Are'?
Answer: Max

Question: Convicted in 1987 of war crimes, who was known as the ‘Butcher of Lyon’?
Answer: Nikolaus 'Klaus' Barbie

Question: From which popular musical do we get the songs ‘The Impossible Dream’ and ‘Dulcinea’?
Answer: Man of La Mancha

Question: Which former Playboy model was the subject of an opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage?
Answer: Anna Nicole Smith

Question: During a Papal visit, which nation observed Good Friday for the first time in 50 years?
Answer: Cuba

Question: Which author of ‘Jonathon Livingston Seagull’ was injured, ironically, in a flying accident?
Answer: Richard Bach

Question: Which Scandinavian retailer air-brushed women from the Saudi edition of its catalogue?
Answer: Ikea

Question: Which Christian Socialist politician became chancellor of Austria in 1932?
Answer: Engelbert Dollfuss

Question: Who is best known for discovering the Earth's magnetosphere?
Answer: James A. Van Allen

Question: Which moon of Jupiter is roughly three-quarters of the size of Mars?
Answer: Ganymede

Question: In which city did women's basketball teams first contest full Olympic medals?
Answer: Montreal

Question: In which US State do teams play baseball in the Cactus League?
Answer: Arizona

Question: December 2011 saw her appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy. Who?
Answer: Tracey Emin

Question: What do we call the paint type traditionally mixed with water, honey and gum Arabic?
Answer: Gouache

Question: Which mathematician and inventor conceived the first automatic digital computer?
Answer: Charles Babbage

Question: Who allegedly killed his pregnant wife, Poppaea Sabina, by kicking her in the stomach?
Answer: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

Question: Its name means ‘Main Province’, which island makes up 60% of Japan’s total land area?
Answer: Honshu

Question: Honiara is the capital city of which nation?
Answer: Solomon Islands

Question: Who composed the music for the films 'Gandhi' and Satyajit Ray's revered 'Apu Trilogy'?
Answer: Ravi Shankar

Question: Admiral Américo Tomás became president of which NATO-member nation in 1958?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Hanbok is the traditional dress worn by men and women in which Asian country?
Answer: South Korea *Chosŏn-ot in the North]

Question: Which country's TV market is the largest in Western Europe, with 34m connected homes?
Answer: Germany

Question: Which country is home to Lake Balaton, the largest lake in central Europe?
Answer: Hungary

Question: Which US ‘Pop’ artist’s work includes a 1974 piece entitled ‘The red horseman’?
Answer: Roy Lichtenstein

Question: Which bone in the human forearm is slightly thicker than its pair?
Answer: Radius

Question: What is removed in a procedure called an oophorectomy?
Answer: Ovary or Ovaries

Question: Who is 'tournament pro' at the 5-star golf resort on the shores N. Ireland’s Lough Erne?
Answer: Rory McIlroy

Question: Who coined the term 'Big Bang' for a cosmic theory with which he did not himself agree?
Answer: Sir Fred Hoyle

Question: A blood-soaked conqueror; in 1370 AD, who made Samarkand his imperial capital?
Answer: Timur / Tamerlane the Great

Question: The EU's student exchange programme is named for which Dutch, Renaissance figure?
Answer: Erasmus of Rotterdam

Question: Originally native to Africa, the Ankole-Watusi is a breed of what particular kind of animal?
Answer: Cattle / Bovid / Cow

Question: The calendar of which Mesoamerican people led to a fixation with the year 2012?
Answer: Maya

Question: In Greek myth what was the name of Orpheus's wife trapped in Hades?
Answer: Eurydice