Question: What film of 1968 set in the 41st Century starred Jane Fonda and Milo O'Shea?
Answer: Barbarella

Question: What French term is used in ballet for dancing on the tip of the toe?
Answer: En Pointe

Question: Who sang  with Queen on their 1981 UK Number One Under Pressure?
Answer: David Bowie

Question: Whose assassination on 28 June 1914 sparked the war?
Answer: Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question: Who were the first two countries to declare war?
Answer: Austria and Serbia

Question: Who was the British Prime Minister at the outbreak of war?
Answer: Herbert Henry Asquith

Question: Who wrote the music for the song Keep the Home Fires Burning?
Answer: Ivor Novello

Question: How many British troops were killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916?
Answer: 20,000

Question: Which battle does Anzac Day specifically commemorate?
Answer: Gallipoli

Question: Who wrote You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye, who cheer when soldier lads march by.  Sneak hom and pray you'll never know, the hell where youth and laughter go?
Answer: Siegfried Sassoon

Question: Which president was shot whilst reviewing a military parade in October 1981?
Answer: Anwar Sadat

Question: Lee Harvey Oswald shot John F Kennedy, but who shot him?
Answer: Jack Ruby

Question: Who stabbed Jean-Paul Marat in his bath in 1793, an act which has later been seen as patriotic?
Answer: Charlotte Corday

Question: Politician Airey Neave was assassinated in Westminster in 1979 - how was the killing carried out?
Answer: Car Bomb

Question: Which British jounalist was shot outside her home in Fulham 1999?
Answer: Jill Dando

Question: Which Gerry Anderson TV character is modelled upon James Garner?
Answer: Troy Tempest

Question: In which fictional county would you find DCI Tom Barnaby?
Answer: Midsomer

Question: Which board game is also known as Reversi?
Answer: Othello

Question: Which David Essex hit was co-written by Mike Batt & Tim Rice?
Answer: Winter's Tale

Question: Pound, cup and foot are all types of what?
Answer: Measure

Question: A UK Number 1 for Diana Ross in March 1986 written by the Bee Gees?
Answer: Chain Reaction

Question: Who won an Academy Award for best supporting actor forThe Fighter?
Answer: Christian Bale

Question: An idiom meaning a no win situation came from which novel by Joseph Heller?
Answer: Catch 22

Question: What is London's oldest gentleman's club founded in 1693?
Answer: Whites

Question: Tufted, Ruddy and Mandarin are types of which bird species?
Answer: Duck

Question: Lapsong souchong is a type of what?
Answer: Tea

Question: Who created the character of Brigit Jones?
Answer: Helen Fielding

Question: Which 1949 British film featured the character of Harry Lime?
Answer: The Third Man

Question: Who is known in Scotland as 'Duke of Rothesay' and has the middle names of Philip Arthur George?
Answer: Prince Charles

Question: Which actor has played Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Dr. Jonathan Clemens in Alien 3 (1992), Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986) and Benedict in Last Action Hero (1993)?
Answer: Charles Dance

Question: Carlos Irwin EstĂŠvez is better known by what stage name?
Answer: Charlie Sheen

Question: What are the first names of the Saatchi brothers? (Both required for 1 point)
Answer: Maurice and Charles

Question: Which actor has been cast opposite Dakota Johnson to play Christian Grey in the film of Fifty Shades of Grey?
Answer: Charlie Hunnam

Question: Which hard-man American actor was married to Jill Ireland from 1968 until her death in 1990?
Answer: Charles Bronson

Question: What is the IATA airport code for the largest airport of France?
Answer: Cdg

Question: Who sang the title song of the 1981 Bond film, becoming  the first title song artist to appear on screen in a Bond film?
Answer: Sheena Easton

Question: For your eyes only was the 12th Bond film, and the 5th to star which actor in the lead role?
Answer: Roger Moore

Question: Which band sang the 1982 theme tune to Rocky III, 'Eye of the Tiger'?
Answer: Survivor

Question: What is the more common name of the Peafowl, a species of flying birdbest known for the male's extravagant eye-spotted tail covert feathers?
Answer: Peacock

Question: What is the term used in the House of Commons for a majority of those who agree with the motion that's just been put to the vote?
Answer: The Ayes have it

Question: What is the common name for the eye condition 'myopia'?
Answer: Nearsightedness / Shortsightedness

Question: Erected in 1889, this object has become one of the most recognizable structures & the most-visited paid monument in the world?
Answer: The Eiffel Tower

Question: Which 'Artist' had the UK number one in the UK in the year 2000?
Answer: Bob the Builder, Can We Fix It?

Question: On Christmas day in 2000, which country officially established a new National Anthem?
Answer: Russia.

Question: Which saint's day is also known as Boxing Day?
Answer: St Stephen.

Question: True or False? The German's made the first artificial Christmas tree out of Goose feathers?
Answer: True

Question: True or False? The word mistletoe comes from the gaelic words for kissing girl plant?
Answer: False

Question: Which comedy star plays the title character in the film Elf?
Answer: Will Ferrel

Question: Name the four british prime minister who where bachelors while in office.
Answer: Spencer Compton, Pitt the Younger, Arthur Balfour, Edward Heath

Question: In which four films did Humphrey Bogart and Lauran Bacall co-star?
Answer: To have and have not, The big sleep, dark passage, Key largo

Question: What are the legendary four rivers in the Garden of Eden?
Answer: Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, Euphrates.

Question: What are the first four elements on the periodic table?
Answer: Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Berylium

Question: Which four US Presidents died of natural causes while in office?
Answer: William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G Harding, FD Roosevelt

Question: Which four events make up tennis' Grand Slam?
Answer: Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open

Question: Apart from London, which four other British town or cities have hosted the Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: Edinburgh (1972), Brighton (1974), Harrogate (1982), Birmingham (1998).

Question: Which four historical figures have appeared on the back of the English £20 note?
Answer: William Shakespeare, Michael Faraday, Edward Elgar, Adam Smith

Question: At the end of the novel 'The Day Of The Triffids', on what island do the two sighted protagonists Bill Masen and Josella Payton eventually find refuge?
Answer: Isle of Wight

Question: Which region in the Pacific ocean is also the name of a character in the Dr. Doolittle' stories?
Answer: Polynesia

Question: Which artist is famous for his statue The Thinker'?
Answer: Auguste Rodin

Question: Franz Hals painted his most famous work in 1624; what was it called?
Answer: The Laughing Cavalier

Question: Who was the pilot hero of Captain W.E. Johns stories?
Answer: Biggles

Question: Which Scottish golfer (aka Mrs Doubtfire) has won a record eight European Tour Order of Merit titles, including a streak of seven consecutively from 1993 to 1999?
Answer: Colin Montgomerie

Question: In which town is the cartoon series 'The Simpsons' based around?
Answer: Springfield

Question: Since 1934, the annual Golf Masters tournament is the only major played each year at the same course. Name the course?
Answer: Augusta National Golf Club

Question: What is the often used name of the political protest of throwing a beverage into a harbour in December 1773?
Answer: The Boston Tea Party

Question: Name of the world's busiest passenger sea port?
Answer: Dover

Question: Which American actor, who sadly passed on October 31st 1993 at the age of 23, was the older brother of Rain, Joaquin, Summer & Liberty?
Answer: River Phoenix