Question: Which region of France was renamed after the apple brandy distilled there?
Answer: Calvados

Question: Which brand of whisky shares its name with a ship and a Scottish shirt?
Answer: Cuty Sark

Question: In which 1980 film does Ted Striker describe his wartime experiences in Drambuie and Daiquiri?
Answer: Airplane!

Question: Manchester Trousers are made of Manchester cloth, which is another name for what?
Answer: Corduroy

Question: What is sold in the Manchester department of an Australian department store?
Answer: Bedlinen/Towels

Question: Which peninsula marks the southern end of the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: Yucatan

Question: The Mississippi enters the sea in which state of the USA?
Answer: Louisiana

Question: A view of Bognor Regis inspired the theme music to which radio programme?
Answer: Desert Island Discs

Question: Which radio programme used 'Calling All Workers' as its theme tune?
Answer: Music While You Work

Question: Which Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced old age pensions and national insurance?
Answer: Lloyd George

Question: Who said 'There is no finer investment than putting milk in babies'?
Answer: Churchill

Question: Which country adopted an all green flag in November 1977?
Answer: Libya

Question: In which year did Apollo 8 become the first manned mission to orbit the moon?
Answer: 1968

Question: Where is Britain's National Space Centre?
Answer: Leicester

Question: Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello uses what term for sheep mating?
Answer: Tup

Question: In which Japanese form of Buddhism is meditation most important?
Answer: Zen

Question: On the radio for years, Mrs Dale worried about who?
Answer: Jim

Question: The word 'stannary' refers to which metal?
Answer: Tin

Question: There are four types of wetland: swamp, marsh, bog and what?
Answer: Fen

Question: In standard English which three letters convert a verb into a gerund?
Answer: Ing

Question: Which of his marshals did Napoleon call 'the bravest of the brave'?
Answer: Ney

Question: John Wayne played which part in the 1939 film 'Stagecoach'?
Answer: The Ringo Kid

Question: If Wayne Morris played Kid Galahad in 1937, who played him in the 1962 remake?
Answer: Elvis Presley

Question: In which book does a boar named Old Major inspire a revolution?
Answer: Animal Farm

Question: What is James Bond's naval rank?
Answer: Commander

Question: Which fictional fictional (that's 'fictional' twice) lieutenant enjoyed a ride in a troika?
Answer: Kije

Question: Burke and Wills crossed which continent in an 1860 expedition?
Answer: Australia

Question: Which two future Presidents were in Dallas on the day that John F. Kennedy was shot?
Answer: Johnson & Nixon

Question: Blondie's hit song 'Call Me' comes from the soundtrack to which 1980 film?
Answer: American Gigolo

Question: Henry Cavendish, whose tomb is in Derby Cathedral, discovered which element?
Answer: Hydrogen

Question: Periods of the year with distinctive climates are called what?
Answer: Seasons

Question: Diplopodology is the study of which many-legged arthropods?
Answer: Millipede

Question: In astronomy an ‘event horizon’ surrounds which kind of region?
Answer: Black Hole

Question: Who was the first Englishman to win the Formula One Drivers Championship?
Answer: Mike Hawthorn

Question: Which Chinese philosophical system translates into English as ‘Wind – Water’?
Answer: Feng Shui

Question: What are the water buses or water taxi’s in Venice called?
Answer: Vaporetto

Question: Who made up the panel on Juke Box Jury on the only occasion it had 5 members not 4?
Answer: The Rolling Stones

Question: Which 70s/80s show opened with an animated male figure known as ‘The Star Kicker’?
Answer: The Old Grey Whistle Test

Question: Which herb is commonly used to flavour the tomato on pizza toppings?
Answer: Oregano

Question: Which two colours traditionally make up the quarters on a Battenberg cake?
Answer: Pink & Yellow

Question: Ouzel is an old name for the turdus merula aka which common garden bird?
Answer: Blackbird

Question: What did UEFA President Michel Platini deny receiving from President Putin of Russia?
Answer: A Picasso Painting

Question: Which nursery rhyme characters were the victims of a triple caudectomy?
Answer: Three Blind Mice

Question: In which film series does Keanu Reeves play a computer hacker with the alias Neo?
Answer: The Matrix

Question: Who played Ian Dury in Sex and Drugs and Rock n’ Roll?
Answer: Andy Serkis

Question: What was the name of Jodie Foster’s character in Bugsy Malone?
Answer: Tallulah

Question: In Ancient Rome what was a ‘Lustrum?
Answer: Period of Five Years

Question: Which flower appears on the crest of the Borough of Saffron Walden?
Answer: Crocus

Question: Which hollow plastic tube was a craze in the 1960s?
Answer: Hula Hoop

Question: What is the green number on a British roulette wheel?
Answer: Zero

Question: Which country gave Idi Amin sanctuary from 1980 until his death in 2003?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: For which county was Gary Sobers playing when he hit six sixes in one over?
Answer: Nottinghamshire

Question: Which King novel was set at the Overlook Hotel?
Answer: The Shining

Question: Under which other name did King write novels in the 1970s?
Answer: Bachman

Question: Which football club’s ground is closest to the river Mersey?
Answer: Stockport County

Question: The piece of music Offside by Barry Stroller is familiar as what?
Answer: Theme tune of Match of the Day

Question: In the Sermon on the Mount who did Christ say ‘shall be called the children of God’?
Answer: The Peacemakers

Question: Which king was the husband of Jezebel?
Answer: Ahab

Question: Which famous Elizabethan was executed for treason by King James in 1618?
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh

Question: What do you get if you multiply volts by amperes?
Answer: Watts

Question: Which is the largest city within the Arctic Circle?
Answer: Murmansk

Question: Chicory Tip’s release Son of My Father was the first UK No.1 to feature which instrument?
Answer: Synthesizer

Question: The death of which music based show was announced after 18 years and 28 series?
Answer: Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Question: Which instrument was primarily played by band leader Count Basie?
Answer: Piano

Question: What nationality was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
Answer: Japanese

Question: What on the human body are the supercilia?
Answer: Eyebrows

Question: The chairman of which committee oversees Conservative Party leadership elections?
Answer: 1922 Committee

Question: Which famous entertainment venue has a name meaning ‘The Staircase’?
Answer: La Scala

Question: Which small marine creatures make up the genus hippocampus?
Answer: Sea Horses

Question: Which river has Newport at its head and Cowes at its mouth?
Answer: River Medina

Question: Which instrument has a name that is Italian for ‘small’?
Answer: Piccolo

Question: To which section of the orchestra does the saxophone belong?
Answer: Woodwind

Question: Which mammal has the alternative names of carcajou, Glutton or skunk bear?
Answer: Wolverine

Question: The Asian dhole is a wild variety of what domesticated animal?
Answer: Dog

Question: Which is the only variety of bear native to South America?
Answer: Spectacled or Andean Bear

Question: Which English ground better known for football staged its only Test Match in 1902?
Answer: Bramall Lane

Question: Which president used Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Don’t Stop’ as his campaign song?
Answer: Clinton

Question: What did President James Buchanan not do that all other presidents did?
Answer: Marry

Question: Which king was known as ‘Lackland’?
Answer: John

Question: Which future king landed at Torbay in 1688?
Answer: William III

Question: Which monster did Ariadne help to destroy?
Answer: The Minotaur

Question: Of what was Urania the Muse?
Answer: Astronomy

Question: Garuda is the national airline of which Asian country?
Answer: Indonesia