Question: Which playing card is known as ‘Helen of Troy’?
Answer: Queen of Hearts

Question: Danish Navigator, Vitus Bearing, discovered which US state in 1741?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Carlos Menem was made president of which South American country in July 1989?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Solyanka is what type of cooked food dish?
Answer: Soup

Question: Which British sports commentator famously said ‘He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave’?
Answer: Sid Waddell

Question: The Mosul Dam is in which country?
Answer: Iraq

Question: What is a line on a map called that connects two points which have the same average summer temperature?
Answer: Isothere

Question: How many gold medals did the USA win in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games?
Answer: Nine

Question: Chiswick Eyot is a small island in which body of water in England?
Answer: River Thames

Question: What does Italian company Aprilia manufacture?
Answer: Motorcycles

Question: Who wrote the novel ‘The Mayor of Castorbridge’?
Answer: Thomas Hardy

Question: Pitch and Putt is a form of which game?
Answer: Golf

Question: Which coastal town in North Yorkshire, England, is twinned with Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands?
Answer: Whitby

Question: How many commandments does the Jewish Torah contain?
Answer: 613

Question: Donwell Abbey is the home of George Knightly in which novel by Jane Austen?
Answer: Emma

Question: The ‘Wisden Almanack’ relates to which sport?
Answer: Cricket

Question: Which British politician wrote the 1880 novel ‘Endymion’?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: Which company’s name is short for Durability, Reliability and Excellence?
Answer: Durex

Question: Which writer had a pet cat called Caterina, that was the inspiration for his story ‘The Black Cat’?
Answer: Edgar Allen Poe

Question: In the US tv series ‘Seinfeld’, there is supposedly a reference to which comic-book hero in every episode?
Answer: Superman

Question: Which US singer/guitarist was on the ‘Winter Dance Tour’ when he was killed in a plane crash along with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper?
Answer: Buddy Holly

Question: At which English racecourse was the Derby run during World War II?
Answer: Newmarket

Question: What is the name of the land where ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ lived?
Answer: Honalee

Question: Shami Chakrabati became the director of which British pressure group in 2003?
Answer: Liberty

Question: The Cenotaph is situated in which London street?
Answer: Whitehall

Question: Murder on the Calais Coach’ was the US title of which novel?
Answer: Murder on the Orient Express

Question: Square, Irish and Line all are types of which activity?
Answer: Dancing

Question: A ‘Flying Mare’ is a term used in which sport?
Answer: Wrestling

Question: What is the square root of 196?
Answer: 14

Question: Sania Ramel Airport is in which North African country?
Answer: Morocco

Question: ‘The Dong With a Luminous Nose’ was written by which poet?
Answer: Edward Lear

Question: Which mobile phone company has the motto ‘Connecting people’?
Answer: Nokia

Question: On which river is the German town of Meissen, famous for its porcelain?
Answer: River Elbe

Question: Rashin-Coatie is the Scottish version of which fairy tale?
Answer: Cinderella

Question: What is the largest recorded number of children born to one woman?
Answer: 69

Question: Which US President signed the orders that made Mother’s Day a national holiday in America?
Answer: President Woodrow Wilson

Question: Babies born during which month of the year are said to be the heaviest?
Answer: May

Question: According to the Guinness Book of Records, the heaviest baby born and survived at 22 pounds 8 ounces, was in which European country?
Answer: Italy

Question: Which group had a hit with ‘Baby Love’ in 1964?
Answer: Supremes

Question: What are the first names of David and Victoria Beckham’s daughter?
Answer: Harper Seven

Question: What is a baby hamster called?
Answer: Pup

Question: Beatrice, Alice, Louise and Helena were daughters of which British monarch?
Answer: Queen Victoria

Question: A sapling is a young what?
Answer: Tree

Question: Which part of a baby’s body stays the same size from birth?
Answer: Eyes

Question: How many children did actor Charlie Chaplin have?
Answer: Eleven

Question: The name Wendy was made up by the author for which children’s book?
Answer: Peter Pan

Question: What is the largest recorded number of puppies to be born in one litter?
Answer: 24 – Neopolitan  Mastiff

Question: What was the top baby girl name in England in 2008?
Answer: Olivia

Question: Babies depicted on roller skates dancing to hip hop were used to advertise which product on television?
Answer: Evian water

Question: What was the top baby boy name in England in 2008?
Answer: Jack

Question: How many bones are babies born with?
Answer: 300

Question: What does a noctambulist do?
Answer: Sleepwalk

Question: Which US state is the setting for the 1971 film ‘The Last Picture Show’?
Answer: Texas

Question: Which Italian-born fashion designer introduced the colour ‘Shocking Pink’ in 1936?
Answer: Elsa Schiaparelli

Question: The Winter War (November 1939 – March 1940) was fought between which two countries?
Answer: Soviet Union (Russia) and Finland

Question: Grace Cathedral is in which US city?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: Prior to Andy Murray, who was the last British tennis player to win the Wimbledon Men’s Singles Final?
Answer: Fred Perry

Question: A flitch is another name for a side of what?
Answer: Bacon

Question: Didymitis is the inflammation of which part of the human body?
Answer: Testicle

Question: What was the name of the convict ship which set sail from Britain in 1789 with the first cargo of female prisoners for a penal colony in Australia?
Answer: Lady Juliana

Question: Who played Christine Painter (a thinly disguised Cynthia Payne) in the 1987 film ‘Personal Services’?
Answer: Julie Walters

Question: In 1950, which US President ordered air and sea forces to defend South Korea?
Answer: Harry S. Truman

Question: Jimmy and Alison Porter are characters in which John Osborne play?
Answer: Look Back In Anger

Question: In which year did Patrick Moore present the first episode of ‘The Sky At Night’ on television?
Answer: 1957

Question: ‘Bowl of Fruit, Violin and Bottle’ is the work of which artist?
Answer: Pablo Picasso

Question: The Kingdom of Lesotho is completely surrounded by which country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Who played gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk in the 2008 film ‘Milk’?
Answer: Sean Penn

Question: Which jockey won the 2003 Epsom Derby on Kris Kin?
Answer: Kieran Fallon

Question: Who wrote the play ‘The Night of the Iguana’?
Answer: Tennessee Williams

Question: Mary of Teck was the wife of which British monarch?
Answer: George V

Question: The Philippines lie in which ocean?
Answer: Pacific Ocean

Question: How many times does the word ‘eternity’ appear in the King James version of the Bible?
Answer: Once

Question: Mercury Seven, also referred to as the Original Seven, were a group of what?
Answer: Astronauts

Question: In which year were the Academy Awards first broadcast on television?
Answer: 1953

Question: The Ryder Cup is contested in which sport?
Answer: Golf

Question: Abdullah Gul was elected President of which country in August 2007?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Meniere’s disease affects which part of the body?
Answer: Inner ear

Question: Which Irish artist had a poet brother called William?
Answer: John Butler Yeats

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

Question: In which US state is Lake Dillon?
Answer: Colorado

Question: Which British monarch said of Thomas Seymour ‘This day died a man of much wit and very little judgement’?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth I

Question: Who were the runners-up in the 1978 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: The village of Blenheim, the scene of a 1704 battle, is in which mainland European country?
Answer: Germany