Question: What is the parasitic insect with the Latin name Pediculus humanus capitas better known as?
Answer: Head louse

Question: Who designed the Banqueting House in London’s Whitehall?
Answer: Inigo Jones

Question: Who was elected President of the Italian Republic in May 2006?
Answer: Giorgio Napolitano

Question: Which playing card is known as the Snowman?
Answer: Eight

Question: What colour is the flag awarded for clean beaches in New Zealand and Canada?
Answer: Blue

Question: John Wayne Airport is in which US state?
Answer: California

Question: Tynwald Day is celebrated on which island in July?
Answer: Isle of Man

Question: When a young squire was knighted for his deeds of valour in battle, he was said to have won his what?
Answer: Spurs

Question: Which US state is known as the ‘Old Line State’?
Answer: Maryland

Question: Which legendary folk singer played his first concert in Vietnam, in April 2011?
Answer: Bob Dylan

Question: Durango, Veracruz and Campeche are all states in which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: In the human body, mydriasis is the dilation of what?
Answer: The pupil (of the eye)

Question: Who wrote the novel ‘Doctor Zhivago’?
Answer: Boris Pasternak

Question: In zoology, which order of mammals include apes, monkeys, prosimians and man?
Answer: Primates

Question: In 1965, who became the first British driver to win the Indianapolis 500?
Answer: Jim Clark

Question: What was US President Gerald Ford’s middle name?
Answer: Rudolph

Question: In Southern Australia, a strong, hot, dry dusty wind is known by what name?
Answer: Brickfielder

Question: What price did an adult British passport rise to in 2009?
Answer: 77.50

Question: Which British Prime Minister said ‘A week is a long time in politics’?
Answer: Harold Wilson

Question: Which UK television chef caused controversy by cooking a human placenta on his show?
Answer: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Question: What is the profession of Nick Bottom in Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’?
Answer: Weaver

Question: Josip Broz was the original name of which Yugoslav statesman?
Answer: Marshall Tito

Question: German footballer, Oliver Khan, played in which position?
Answer: Goalkeeper

Question: Ophidiophobia is the fear of what type of creature?
Answer: Snake

Question: Which of his books did British author Jeffrey Archer re-write in 2009, 30 years after it’s first publication?
Answer: Kane and Abel

Question: Love, caddy and apostle are all types of what?
Answer: Spoon

Question: Sir Guy of Gisbourne was which legendary character’s henchman?
Answer: The Sheriff of Nottingham

Question: Which fruit is used in making Melba sauce?
Answer: Raspberries

Question: Which historical figure called the English ‘A nation of shopkeepers’?
Answer: Napoleon I

Question: Gelotology is the study of the effect of what on the human body?
Answer: Laughter and humour

Question: Which planet in our solar system takes the shortest time to orbit the sun?
Answer: Mercury

Question: The coastal resorts of Sopot and Leba are in which European country?
Answer: Poland

Question: Who is the star of US tv series ‘Adrenaline Junkie’?
Answer: Jack Osbourne

Question: The Bundesliga is a professional association football league in which country?
Answer: Germany

Question: Sudan, Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Kenya border which landlocked African country?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: The Elite One Championship in France is for which sport?
Answer: Rugby League

Question: Patriot Day is celebrated in the USA in which month?
Answer: September – 11th

Question: At which London landmark does the ‘Ceremony of the Keys’ take place?
Answer: Tower of London

Question: Barolo, Barbaresco and Moscato are wines from which European country?
Answer: Italy

Question: Which Scottish hero was made Guardian of Scotland in 1297?
Answer: William Wallace

Question: In mathematics, what is an angle called which measures more than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees?
Answer: Obtuse angle

Question: In which British tv sitcom did Tony Britten and Nigel Havers play father and son doctors Toby and Tom Latimer?
Answer: Don’t Wait Up

Question: What is the Indian term for cauliflower or cabbage?
Answer: Gobi

Question: In the fairy tale ‘The Princess and the Pea’, how many mattresses did the princess sleep on and still feel the pea through?
Answer: Twenty

Question: At which university did British spies Burgess, Blunt, Maclean and Philby meet?
Answer: Cambridge

Question: The Kyat is the national currency of which Asian country?
Answer: Burma (Myanmar)

Question: If it’s 4pm in London England in May, what time is it in New York USA?
Answer: 11am

Question: How many spikes are on the crown of The Statue of Liberty in New York USA?
Answer: Seven

Question: What type of animal is Beatrix Potter’s Mr Tod?
Answer: Fox

Question: Which US outlaw married his cousin, Zerelda ‘Zee’ Mimms, in 1874?
Answer: Jesse James

Question: How many Gold Medals did Canada win in the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Fourteen

Question: Which 1975 film features the character Frank N Furter?
Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Question: What is the nickname of English football club Sheffield Wednesday?
Answer: The Owls

Question: What is a straight line passing from side to side through the centre of a circle called?
Answer: Diameter

Question: Which word represents the letter ‘K’ in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet?
Answer: Kilo

Question: Which group of islands were claimed by the British in 1833?
Answer: The Falkland Islands

Question: Which saint was the first British Christian martyr?
Answer: Saint Alban

Question: The plant ‘Amaranthus Caudatus’ is better known as Love-Lies-‘what’?
Answer: Bleeding

Question: Which English poet’s works include ‘Birthday Letters?
Answer: Ted Hughes

Question: In zoology, what is an animal called which feeds on decomposing organic matter?
Answer: Detritivore

Question: BS is the international car registration of which country?
Answer: Bahamas

Question: Which golfer won the 1997 US Masters?
Answer: Tiger Woods

Question: How many points is the ‘J’ tile worth in the game of Scrabble?
Answer: Eight

Question: Which film director’s epitaph reads ‘I’m in on a plot’?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock

Question: Vincent Crummles appears in which novel by Charles Dickens?
Answer: Nicholas Nickleby

Question: Melodiya was the state-run record label of which country?
Answer: USSR (Russia)

Question: In Norse mythology, the chariot of which goddess is pulled by two cats?
Answer: Freya (Freyja)

Question: A quincentenary is an anniversary of how many years?
Answer: 500

Question: Which cartoon character is depicted on the welcome sign in Crystal City, Texas, ‘the spinach capital of the world’?
Answer: Popeye

Question: A muskellunge is what type of creature?
Answer: Fish

Question: Misogamy is the hatred of what?
Answer: Marriage

Question: Aotearoa is the local name for which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: British companies, Wagtail, Kelham Island and Revolution are all what types of which industry?
Answer: Breweries

Question: Which country has the internet domain .mt?
Answer: Malta

Question: Japan lies in which body of water?
Answer: Pacific Ocean

Question: Who married Prince Ranier III of Monaco in 1956?
Answer: Grace Kelly

Question: Who was known as ‘The Butcher of Lyon’ during World War II?
Answer: Klaus Barbie

Question: Which planet in our solar system has a year which lasts around 84 Earth years?
Answer: Uranus

Question: Artist Salvador Dali made a sofa inspired by the lips of which Hollywood actress?
Answer: Mae West

Question: The village of Cheddar is in which English county?
Answer: Somerset

Question: Fashion company Benetton is based in which European country?
Answer: Italy

Question: Roentgen Rays, named after Nobel Prize winner Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, are better known by what name?
Answer: X-Rays