Question: What was first founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee?
Answer: Ku Klux Klan

Question: Who played the title character in Bugsy Malone?
Answer: Scott Baio

Question: Only two elements are liquid at room temperature – mercury is one – what is the other?
Answer: Bromine

Question: In maths the hexadecimal numeral system has a base of which number?
Answer: 16

Question: What name is given to the outward force on a rotating body?
Answer: Centrifugal

Question: Who is the only son of Prince Rainier of Monaco?
Answer: Prince Albert

Question: According to Einstein what is the Fourth Dimension?
Answer: Time

Question: Which Spaniard painted the Naked Maja?
Answer: Goya

Question: At the mouth of which English river is Spurn Head?
Answer: Humber

Question: Which tax came into being in April 1966 and was phased out in October 2001?
Answer: Betting Tax

Question: The Tripitaka are scriptures central to which faith?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: Which record label turned down the Beatles after an audition in 1962?
Answer: Decca

Question: Which general had a surname meaning ‘of France’?
Answer: De Gaulle

Question: Which general burned Atlanta in the American Civil War?
Answer: Sherman

Question: In which city is the HQ of the World Health Organisation?
Answer: Geneva

Question: Which is Britain’s largest native butterfly?
Answer: Swallowtail

Question: What name is given to the long tongue or feeding tube of a butterfly?
Answer: Proboscis

Question: Who failed three IQ tests on an LBC radio phone-in?
Answer: Boris Johnson

Question: With which part of the body does a stomatologist specialise?
Answer: The Mouth

Question: Low blood sugar is known by which medical term?
Answer: Hypoglycemia

Question: What does an antipyretic drug do?
Answer: Lowers Temperature

Question: Who is the second-most senior judge in England and Wales after the Lord Chief Justice?
Answer: Master of the Rolls

Question: The four Inns of Court are Gray’s Inn, Inner Temple, Middle Temple and which other?
Answer: Lincoln’s Inn

Question: Which Scottish author died in Samoa?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

Question: Which Russian author was reprieved from execution at the last minute?
Answer: Dostoyevsky

Question: What does an American call a frying pan?
Answer: Skillet

Question: Who is the female presenter of the UK TV programme ‘Most Haunted’?
Answer: Yvette Fielding

Question: In which sport is an attacking shot called a ‘spike’?
Answer: Volleyball

Question: What is the general rule about people other than royalty appearing on British stamps?
Answer: They Have To Be Dead

Question: Who translated the Bible in 1380?
Answer: John Wycliff

Question: What reached England from Europe in 1348?
Answer: The Black Death

Question: Here lies one whose name was writ in water?
Answer: John Keats

Question: Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here?
Answer: Jesse James

Question: Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons make up what duo?
Answer: The Chemical Brothers

Question: Which writer’s name means ‘jackdaw’ in Czech?
Answer: Kafka

Question: Which country withdrew from the Warsaw Pact in 1968?
Answer: Albania

Question: Which animal was once thought to sweat blood?
Answer: Hippopotamus

Question: What is the nickname of Richard Rogers’ new Leadenhall building in London?
Answer: The Cheesegrater

Question: An armoire is a large ornate ……..what?
Answer: Wardrobe

Question: Brewster, spoonback and fauteuil are all types of what?
Answer: Chair

Question: Mount Toubkal is the highest peak in which range of mountains?
Answer: Atlas

Question: Off which country is the Gulf of Carpenteria?
Answer: Australia

Question: Islam. What is the name of the festival which immediately follows the end of Ramadan?
Answer: Id-ul-Fitr

Question: Which ancient religion is followed by Parsees or Parsi?
Answer: Zoroastrianism

Question: What is the highest caste in Hinduism?
Answer: Brahman

Question: What is meant by the word eldritch?
Answer: Weird or Strange

Question: Diddicoy is a slang and impolite term for what?
Answer: A Gipsy

Question: A simian person would resemble which creatures?
Answer: Apes

Question: What do we call a number that divides exactly into another?
Answer: Factor

Question: Where in the body is the Sartorius muscle?
Answer: Leg

Question: Who composed The Cat Waltz?
Answer: Chopin

Question: What is a female salmon called?
Answer: Hen

Question: Where is the body is the Trapezius muscle?
Answer: Neck

Question: Who composed The Harmonious Blacksmith?
Answer: Handel

Question: What is a female ferret called?
Answer: Jill

Question: In French cuisine, of what are lardons small pieces?
Answer: Bacon

Question: Of which mollusc are the acorn and goose the two varieties found on British shorelines?
Answer: Barnacle

Question: What is the country of origin of the shipping and transport line Maersk?
Answer: Denmark or Danish

Question: Who was the Roman counterpart of the Greek goddess Demeter?
Answer: Ceres

Question: Who was the only driver to win a F1 World Championship in a car of his own design?
Answer: Jack Brabham

Question: Who or what are The Warrior, The Plank and The Downward Dog?
Answer: Yoga poses

Question: For achievement in what field is the Fields Medal awarded?
Answer: Mathematics

Question: What was the country of birth of the Gilbert half of Gilbert and George?
Answer: Italy

Question: Who, with his colleague Picasso, was credited with originating Cubism?
Answer: Georges Braque

Question: What is the one-word alternative name for the spiny anteater?
Answer: Echidna

Question: Which Renaissance artist fled Rome after a fatal brawl, possibly over a game of tennis?
Answer: Caravaggio

Question: Under what stage name did rock’n’roller Richard Penniman perform?
Answer: Little Richard

Question: Which fleet was famously defeated and scattered at the Battle of Gravelines?
Answer: Spanish Armada

Question: In which British city did gangs in the 1980s fight a turf war dubbed the “Ice Cream Wars”?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: Which month traditionally sees the start of the Isle of Man TT races?
Answer: May

Question: Limestone is essentially made up of which chemical compound?
Answer: Calcium carbonate

Question: In which Irish county is the extensive area of limestone pavement known as The Burren?
Answer: County Clare

Question: Which is the only club from outside Scotland to play in the Scottish Football League?
Answer: Berwick Rangers

Question: Which is the only club in the League of Ireland from outside the Republic of Ireland?
Answer: Derry City

Question: Which is the only club from outside France to play in the French Ligue 1?
Answer: AS Monaco FC

Question: Which composer’s “Minute Waltz” is used as theme music for ”Just a Minute”?
Answer: Frédéric Chopin

Question: Which folk band’s version of The Archers’ theme introduces the Sunday Omnibus Edition?
Answer: The Yetties

Question: The “Brain of Britain” theme music is adapted from which Mozart piece?
Answer: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Question: Which life-saving natural hormone was first extracted by Banting and Best in 1921?
Answer: Insulin

Question: Which Cumbrian town’s boundaries incorporate the 11-mile-long Walney Island?
Answer: Barrow-in-Furness

Question: Which town’s Horse Fair each June is notable as a gathering for Gypsies and Travellers?
Answer: Appleby-in-Westmorland

Question: In Scottish music, what is a clarsach?
Answer: A kind of Harp

Question: Living from 1672 to 1769, which card games authority is known as “the father of Whist”?
Answer: Edmond Hoyle

Question: Under what pen name does novelist David Cornwell write?
Answer: John le Carré

Question: Who is the medical examiner central to the crime novels of Patricia Cornwell?
Answer: Kay Scarpetta

Question: In which constellation is Polaris, the Pole Star?
Answer: Ursa Minor or Little Bear or

Question: What is the one-word term for a dining chair with arms?
Answer: Carver