Question: Which country is known as the George Cross Island?
Answer: Malta

Question: Two members of which group were the only people to perform on both Band Aid charity singles?
Answer: Bananarama

Question: What is the maximum score possible in a game of ten-pin bowling?
Answer: 300 – with 12 strikes in a row

Question: What type of leaf did US baseball player Babe Ruth wear under his cap to keep him cool?
Answer: Cabbage leaf

Question: In Edward Lear’s ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’, how much did they pay the pig for the ring in his nose to use as a wedding ring?
Answer: One shilling

Question: In UK politics, what position did Labour politician Manny Shinwell hold from 1950-51?
Answer: Minister of Defence

Question: In Greek mythology,what was left in Pandora’s Box after the rest of the contents had been released?
Answer: Hope

Question: Lethologica is the temporary forgetfulness of what?
Answer: Words

Question: In the folklore of which country does a goat named Ukko help Santa Claus?
Answer: Finland

Question: The word ‘durst’ is the past tense of which English word?
Answer: Dare

Question: The English city of Lincoln lies on which river?
Answer: River Witham

Question: In English football, from which team did Aston Villa buy footballer Dion Dublin in 1998?
Answer: Coventry City

Question: Great Aunt Ada Doom is a character in which novel by Stella Gibbons?
Answer: Cold Comfort Farm

Question: In Scotland, what are breeks?
Answer: Trousers

Question: Ghosts appear in how many of Shakespeare’s plays?
Answer: Four – Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Richard lll, Macbeth

Question: The Order of the Falcon, established in 1921, is a national order, or badge, of which country?
Answer: Iceland

Question: In which English town is the University of Teesside?
Answer: Middlesbrough

Question: Which was the first country to stage football’s European Championship final twice?
Answer: Italy

Question: Which musician/singer had a pet cat called Rupi that inspired the title song of his 2004 album ‘Rupi’s Dance’?
Answer: Ian Anderson

Question: What items were issued to British pilots in World War ll, which could be soaked in water and unfold to reveal a map for escape if the pilot was captured?
Answer: Playing cards

Question: In which year was the Ford Anglia car first produced in the UK?
Answer: 1940

Question: Dame Mary Lesley Perkins is a co-founder of which chain of UK opticians?
Answer: Specsavers

Question: Former Wimbledon tennis player John McEnroe was born in which country?
Answer: Germany

Question: The term ‘Cathay’ refers to which modern day country?
Answer: China

Question: Who wrote the novel ‘Across the River and Into the Trees’?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Question: St Gallen Airport is in which European country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: In ancient Rome, what was a scutum?
Answer: A shield

Question: In medicine, a penectomy is the removal of what?
Answer: Penis

Question: Which scientist was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952 by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: In the UK, what was the first Welsh football team to play in the Premier League?
Answer: Swansea City

Question: Which part of Peter Pan was kept in a drawer in the Darling household?
Answer: His shadow

Question: Who was the first US President to speak in Westminster Hall in London?
Answer: Barack Obama

Question: How many tiles are at there in a Double-12 set of dominoes?
Answer: 91

Question: Cherophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: Gaiety or merriment

Question: Which English comedian’s real name is Royston Vasey?
Answer: Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown

Question: Composer Jean Sibelius was born in which country?
Answer: Finland

Question: Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated in the US during which month of the year?
Answer: January – 3rd Monday

Question: Scientist Humphrey Davy discovered the inhalation of which gas could relieve a conscious person from pain?
Answer: Nitrous Oxide (laughing gas)

Question: In which year was the Battle of Britain?
Answer: 1940

Question: Which country’s national football team was knocked out of the 1998 FIFA World Cup despite scoring six goals in their last match?
Answer: Spain

Question: Epping Forest is in which English county?
Answer: Essex

Question: In medicine, exsanguination is commonly known as what?
Answer: Bleeding to death

Question: How many states are there in Mexico?
Answer: 31 – and one federal district

Question: Moorfield’s Hospital in London specialises in the treatment of which part of the body?
Answer: Eyes

Question: Which English singer entertained the crowds on Centre Court at Wimbledon in 1996 when rain stopped play ?
Answer: Cliff Richard

Question: What number shirt did footballer Bobby Moore wear when he played for West Ham?
Answer: 6

Question: A luce is the name for which fully grown fish?
Answer: Pike

Question: Dakahlia, Ghabia and Helwan are governorates of which country?
Answer: Egypt

Question: Former French President Charles de Gaulle said ‘How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of ‘what’?
Answer: Cheese

Question: Pattie Boyd, George Harrison’s first wife, was cast as a schoolgirl fan in which Beatles film?
Answer: ‘A Hard Day’s Night’

Question: July 1938 saw the first ascent of the North Face of which Alpine mountain?
Answer: The Eiger

Question: The famous ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech is delivered in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: As You Like It

Question: What was known as the ‘National Razor’ during the French Revolution?
Answer: The Guillotine

Question: What was the name of  the consort of Britain’s Queen Victoria?
Answer: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Question: Lechon is a dish made with which meat?
Answer: Pork

Question: The charreada, or charreria, rodeo originated in which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: In which country was athlete Eric Liddell born?
Answer: China

Question: Thon Buri was the capital of which Asian country during the 18th Century?
Answer: Thailand

Question: Japanese baseball player, Ichiro Suzuki, joined which US baseball team in 2001?
Answer: Seattle Mariners

Question: Which mountain range separates Spain and France?
Answer: The Pyrenees

Question: Which Welsh singer was born Gaynor Hopkins?
Answer: Bonnie Tyler

Question: Which Hollywood actor died in 1955 when his car collided with another car near Cholane, California?
Answer: James Dean

Question: Who did the former British king, Edward Vlll marry in June 1937?
Answer: Wallis Simpson

Question: In human anatomy, an ossicle is a very small what?
Answer: Bone

Question: Which ex-Playboy Bunny sang in a band called ‘Wind in the Willows’ before becoming the singer in one of the most famous bands of the 1970’s and 80’s?
Answer: Debbie Harry

Question: Lee Brilleaux was the vocalist in which 1970’s band?
Answer: Dr. Feelgood

Question: The Curtis Cup is a challenge trophy contested by women in which sport?
Answer: Golf

Question: Which company is named after the blue dot that was placed on their products which passed quality tests?
Answer: Blaupunkt

Question: Who was Prime Minister of Australia at the beginning of World War ll?
Answer: Robert Menzies

Question: LADE (Lineas Aereas del Estado) is the national airline of which country?
Answer: Argentina

Question: A new, controversial 657 million five mile extension of which UK motorway opened in June 2011?
Answer: M 74

Question: Strangers Gate is an entrance to which famous park?
Answer: Central Park, New York

Question: ANZAC Day, Australia’s annual holiday to remember its war dead, is held during which month of the year?
Answer: April

Question: In the book ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’ by C.S. Lewis, what type of creature is Maugrim?
Answer: Wolf

Question: ‘The Virgin on the Rocks’ is the work of which artist?
Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci

Question: Sir Robert Chiltern, Viscount Goring and Mrs Marchmont are characters in which Oscar Wilde play?
Answer: The Ideal Husband