Question: Which city is known as the ‘Pearl of the Adriatic’?
Answer: Dubrovnik

Question: The LED (light-emitting diode) started life in 1962 as a single illumination in which colour?
Answer: Red

Question: Which lake has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in the world?
Answer: Lake Superior

Question: How many rows of whiskers, on each side, does a cat usually have?
Answer: Four

Question: Who played Bill Sykes in the 1968 film ‘Oliver’?
Answer: Oliver Reed

Question: What does the statue of Eros, in Piccadilly Circus in London, hold in his left hand?
Answer: A bow

Question: Myology is the scientific study of which part of the human body?
Answer: Muscles

Question: Who starred as Jim Bowie in the 1960 film ‘The Alamo’?
Answer: Richard Widmark

Question: Which British place of learning is referred to as the ‘OU’?
Answer: Open University

Question: In the Bible, who is the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth?
Answer: Noah

Question: Fictional character Sir Percy Blakeney is better known by what name?
Answer: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Question: In the children’s television series ‘The Magic Roundabout’, who is the operator of the roundabout?
Answer: Mr Rusty

Question: Mount of Venus, Plain of Mars and Mount of Jupiter are all found on which part of the body?
Answer: Hand

Question: The 1971 ‘Seabed Treaty’, between the US, Russia and the UK, banned the placement of what on the ocean floor, beyond a 12 mile coastal zone?
Answer: Nuclear Weapons/WMDs

Question: How many metres is one lap of a standard Olympic running track?
Answer: 400

Question: What type of jump is made by jumping from a tall structure wearing a strong rubber cable, usually fastened around the ankles?
Answer: Bungee Jump

Question: The Interlagos Formula One racing circuit is in which country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: How many sheets of paper, of the same size and quality, is in a metric quire?
Answer: 25

Question: In which mountain range did fictional character Rip Van Winkle sleep for twenty years?
Answer: Catskill Mountains

Question: Omphalophobia is the irrational fear of which part of the human body?
Answer: Navel (belly button)

Question: In Formula One racing, what does a red and yellow striped flag denote?
Answer: Potential traction hazard/slippery surface

Question: How many rings are on the Audi car logo?
Answer: Four

Question: Who plays Isobel Crawley in the UK television series ‘Downton Abbey’?
Answer: Penelope Wilton

Question: Rubber, Boxing and Gardening are all types of what?
Answer: Glove

Question: A ‘Cabriole’ is a movement in what type of dance?
Answer: Ballet

Question: Which English football team won the 2008 FA Cup?
Answer: Portsmouth FC

Question: Serac is what type of foodstuff?
Answer: Cheese

Question: In which year was cigarette advertising banned on British television?
Answer: 1965

Question: How many coins in one ‘turn’ does each player use in a game of Shove Ha’penny?
Answer: Five

Question: Which martial art means ‘The gentle way’?
Answer: Judo

Question: What was the first name of late US actor Steve McQueen?
Answer: Terence

Question: Which fictional doctor is the central character in a series of books by Hugh Lofting?
Answer: Doctor Dolittle

Question: What is the name of the drink consisting of Cider and lager in equal proportions?
Answer: Snakebite

Question: A sou was a coin of low value in which European country?
Answer: France

Question: Who was the first non-human to win an Oscar?
Answer: Mickey Mouse

Question: The Magic Fountain of Montjuic is in which European city?
Answer: Barcelona

Question: All the proceeds from J M Barrie’s novel ‘Peter Pan’ are bequeathed to which London hospital?
Answer: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children

Question: What does an arctophile collect?
Answer: Teddy bears

Question: What are baby beavers called?
Answer: Kits

Question: Which US President had a new one-lane bowling alley installed at The Whitehouse in the 1960’s?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: US singer and musician William James Adams is better known by what name?
Answer: will.i.am

Question: ‘Fanfare For The Common Man’ is a work by which 20th Century composer?
Answer: Aaran Copland

Question: What value, in points, is the purple ball in a game of ‘Snooker Plus’?
Answer: Ten

Question: What type of creature is a malimbe?
Answer: Bird

Question: Which sport is the subject of the 1996 film ‘Happy Gilmour’?
Answer: Golf

Question: What is the official language of The Bahamas?
Answer: English

Question: The Lakeside Shopping Centre is in which English county?
Answer: Essex

Question: Which US actor is the voice of Gru in the 2010 animated film ‘Despicable Me’?
Answer: Steve Carell

Question: What is the name of the bridge, a world famous tourist site designed by Richard Lee, which connects Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario?
Answer: Rainbow Bridge

Question: Butler’s, London, Farmer’s and Belfast are all types of what found in the home?
Answer: Sink

Question: Edward Woodstock, 14th Century Prince of Wales, is popularly known by what name?
Answer: The Black Prince

Question: England rugby player Mike Tindell married which member of the British royal family in 2011?
Answer: Zara Phillips

Question: Which sport is nicknamed ‘Chess on Ice’?
Answer: Curling

Question: In human anatomy, what is the name of the wall that separates the nostrils?
Answer: Septum

Question: The famous Reeperbahn is in which European city?
Answer: Hamburg

Question: A bevameter is a device used in terramechanics to measure the mechanical properties of what?
Answer: Soil

Question: Pica Pica is the Latin name for which bird?
Answer: Magpie

Question: Buzkashi is the national sport of which country?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: In humans, ‘Traumatic auricular haematoma’ is the medical term for which sporting injuty?
Answer: Cauliflower Ear

Question: Amarillo is Spanish for which colour?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Which monarch won the Battle of the Boyne in 1690?
Answer: William III of Orange

Question: Harold Matson and Elliot Handler founded which toys and games company in 1945?
Answer: Mattel

Question: The AEX is the stock exchange in which European city?
Answer: Amsterdam

Question: What colour is the bird on the Twitter website logo?
Answer: Blue

Question: What type of fashion items are ‘Mary Janes’?
Answer: Shoes

Question: Which word comes after Swindon, Ipswich and Huddersfield in the names of three English football clubs?
Answer: Town

Question: Which is the only county in Britain to have two separate coastlines?
Answer: Devon

Question: In humans, what is the medical term for night blindness, the inability to see in dim light or at night?
Answer: Nyctalopia

Question: Rosaria, Mendoza and Salta are all cities in which South American country?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Who became US President in March 1801?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Question: Which three actors played ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ in the 1966 film?
Answer: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach

Question: In humans, Vrolik disease affects which part of the body?
Answer: Bones

Question: The ‘Fashoda Incident’ of 1898 was the climax of imperial territorial disputes between the Britain and France in which country?
Answer: Africa (Eastern)

Question: Which American author’s last two words on his deathbed were ‘Moose’ and ‘Indian’?
Answer: Henry David Thoreau

Question: In which year did Barbados join The Commonwealth?
Answer: 1966

Question: In religion, what are the Zoroastrian books of Sacred Texts called?
Answer: The Avesta

Question: The Duke of Monmouth, who was executed in 1685 after leading a rebellion against King James II, was the illegitimate son of which monarch?
Answer: King Charles II

Question: Who was the host of the first two series of the UK television panel game show ‘Odd One In’?
Answer: Bradley Walsh

Question: ‘Ocimum citriodorum’ is the Latin name for which herb?
Answer: Lemon Basil