Question: What is the musical term 'Pizzicato'?
Answer: The plucking of violin strings

Question: Which English seaside town had the first Butlins camp?
Answer: Skegness

Question: Scotland acquired the 'Hebrides' in 1266 from which country?
Answer: Norway

Question: After nine years of work, ' A Dictionary of the English Language' was published in 1755. Who was the compiler?
Answer: Dr. Samuel Johnson

Question: Actress Kate Hudson is the daughter of which famous female film star?
Answer: Goldie Hawn

Question: Name the tennis star who was stabbed during a tournament in Hamburg in 1993?
Answer: Monica Seles

Question: Nicknamed 'The Muscles from Brussels' who is the actor?
Answer: Jean-Claude van Damme

Question: The 'Serengeti National Park' is situated in which country?
Answer: Tanzania

Question: 'The Wall Street Crash' happened in which year?
Answer: 1929

Question: At a 1996 Ascot race meeting, name the jockey who rode all seven winners?
Answer: Frankie Dettori

Question: What city is the capital of Argentina?
Answer: Buenos Aires

Question: Bill Clinton was the governor of which US State before becoming President?
Answer: Arkansas

Question: Where would you find a grasshoppers ears?
Answer: On it's legs

Question: What kind of monkey would you find on the 'Rock of Gibraltar?
Answer: Barbary Ape

Question: Where in Britain would you find the River Medina?
Answer: Isle of Wight

Question: What would you add to lead to make pewter?
Answer: Tin

Question: Which of the Wombles shares his name with a South American river?
Answer: Orinoco

Question: George Stubbs is renowned for paintings of which animal?
Answer: Horse

Question: Who played the title roll in the Flint films?
Answer: James Coburn

Question: Geronimo was a member of which (American) Indian tribe?
Answer: Apache

Question: Powdered almonds, eggs and sugar are used to make what?
Answer: Marzipan

Question: Diamond is the birthstone for which month?
Answer: April

Question: Who was Moses elder sibling?
Answer: Aaron

Question: What is the more common name of the plant Hedera?
Answer: Ivy

Question: Who played Godber in the sitcom 'Porridge?
Answer: Richard Beckinsale

Question: Kelp and Wrack are types of what?
Answer: Seaweed

Question: Which vegetable is the main ingredient of Sauerkraut?
Answer: Cabbage

Question: Where is the British 'National Motor Museum'?
Answer: Beaulieu

Question: Thomas Lord gave his name to what?
Answer: Lord's Cricket Ground

Question: The resort of Worthing is in which county?
Answer: West Sussex

Question: The French call them Iles Normades. What do we call them?
Answer: Channel Islands

Question: What was Marilyn Monroe's real full name?
Answer: Norma Jean Baker

Question: Who wrote the novel 'Tom Sawyer'?
Answer: Mark Twain

Question: What was Valentina Tereshkova best known for?
Answer: Being the first woman in space

Question: What nationality was scientist 'Marie Curie'?
Answer: Polish

Question: What is Woody Allen's real name?
Answer: Alan Stuart Konigsberg

Question: Who wrote the Opera Madam Butterfly?
Answer: Puccini

Question: What was author George Orwell's real name?
Answer: Eric Arthur Blaire

Question: Who piloted the first flight across the English channel in 1909?
Answer: Louis Bleriot

Question: Who was the author ofÂ 'Man in the Iron Mask'?
Answer: Alexandre Dumas

Question: Buddy Holly, Lyndon Johnston, Janice Joplin were all born in which US State?
Answer: State of Texas

Question: On which country's national flag would you find an eagle and a snake?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Which TV series featured 'Blaire General' hospital?
Answer: Dr Kildare

Question: What was Pink Floyd's first album?
Answer: Piper at the gates of dawnÂ

Question: Chep Lap Kok airport is located where?
Answer: Hong Kong

Question: The 'Little Mermaid' memorial to Hans Christian Andersen is located where?
Answer: Copenhagen Harbour

Question: The 'Mojave Desert' Is located in which US state?
Answer: California

Question: Where is the 'Sorbonne' university?
Answer: Paris

Question: The 'Chatham Islands' belong to which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: What is the common name for 'Nacre'?
Answer: Mother of Pearl

Question: The 'Mona Lisa' was painted by which artist?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Question: The Ferret is a domesticated variety of which animal?
Answer: Polecat

Question: The 'Battle of Trafalgar' took place in which year?
Answer: 1805

Question: A violin has how many strings?
Answer: 4

Question: The French call it Lac L?man. What do we call it?
Answer: Lake Geneva

Question: From which US city can one travel south to Canada?
Answer: Detroit

Question: What would a cartographer make?
Answer: Maps

Question: According to the saying what is paved with good intentions?
Answer: The road to hell

Question: Which World War II commander had the Christian name Erwin?
Answer: Rommell

Question: Who was Lady Chatterley's lover?
Answer: Mellors the gamekeeper

Question: Which dangerous gas is given off when coke burns?
Answer: Carbon Monoxide

Question: How many Godfather films have been made?
Answer: Three

Question: What does the vertebral column protect?
Answer: The spinal cord

Question: True or False, The Earth and the Moon are the same age?
Answer: True

Question: What travels by conduction, convection and radiation?
Answer: Heat

Question: In golf, how long may you look for a ball before it is declared lost?
Answer: 5 minutes

Question: On what day of creation did God make the Sun, the Moon and the Stars?
Answer: The Fourth

Question: Which toy was originally a Filipino jungle weapon?
Answer: The yo-yo

Question: What is unique about this sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog."?
Answer: It uses every letter of the alphabet without repeating

Question: The sun is 330,330 times larger than what?
Answer: The Earth

Question: A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time. How long?
Answer: 1/100th of a second

Question: A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, what is a group of geese in the air?
Answer: A skein

Question: If you had a medal depicting three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders, what would you have?
Answer: The Nobel Peace Prize

Question: Which king is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card?
Answer: King of Hearts

Question: How many noses do slugs have?
Answer: 4 noses

Question: What is the only letter in the English alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States?
Answer: Q

Question: Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with which letter?
Answer: E

Question: A group of larks is called what?
Answer: An exaltation

Question: Which can last longer with out water a camel or a rat?
Answer: Rat

Question: What is a group of toads called?
Answer: A knot

Question: Which country has the most lakes?
Answer: Canada, it has more lakes that the rest of the world combined

Question: In which county would you find 'The Lost Gardens of Heligan'?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: From where does grass grow, tip of the blade or base of the blade?
Answer: Base of the blade

Question: What do snails do in winter?
Answer: They hibernate

Question: What kind of plant is a prickly pear?
Answer: Cactus

Question: Which type of fruit could be called 'Cambridge Favourite'; Calypso' or 'Royal Sovereign'?
Answer: Strawberry

Question: If you were using 'Baby's breath' in your flower arrangements, what plant would you be using?
Answer: Gypsophilia

Question: When scarifying your lawn, what would you be removing?
Answer: Moss and dead grass

Question: The saffron flower often used in cooking is a type of which plant?
Answer: Crocus

Question: What is a besom broom?
Answer: A broom made of twigs primarily used for removing leaves from a lawn

Question: Vine weevils attack which part of a plant?
Answer: The roots

Question: If your soil has a ph of around 4, what colour are your hydrangeas likely to be?
Answer: Blue