Question: Golf was clearly popular in Scotland in 1457, when James II did what?
Answer: Banned it as an unwelcome distraction to learning archery

Question: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria, Catalonia and Navarre are all autonomous communities of which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: Who would be interested in pabulum?
Answer: Someone who is hungry

Question: Who led English barons in an attempt to influence Henry III, called a parliament in 1265 and was defeated at the Battle of Evesham?
Answer: Simon de Montfort

Question: Suriname's three neighbouring countries are Guyana, French Guiana and which other?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Which pantomime is about a boy who discovers a magic lamp?
Answer: Aladdin

Question: Why was the Olympic flag raised upside down at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia?
Answer: Mistake

Question: What was the author Tolstoy's first name?
Answer: Leo

Question: What do the tampura, theorbo, vihuela and vina have in common?
Answer: They are stringed musical instruments

Question: Where is Dan Brown's book "Angels and Demons" mainly set?
Answer: The Vatican

Question: Who led the Dutch colony of New Netherlands in America until surrendering it to the British in 1664?
Answer: Peter Stuyvesant

Question: Ding Junhui is a rising star in which sport?
Answer: Snooker

Question: What is apiphobia the fear of?
Answer: Bees

Question: Memphis, Tennessee, lies in the river valley of which river?
Answer: Mississippi

Question: Who entitled his autobiography "Memoirs of a Professional Cad"?
Answer: George Sanders

Question: Who is the next in this series: Rajiv Gandhi, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Chandra Shekhar Singh, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ... ?
Answer: H. D. Deve Gowda

Question: What links Samarkand, Tashkent, and Bokhara?
Answer: They are cities on the old central Asian silk route

Question: What is the "Uroclub", invented by Floyd E Seskin of Florida, which looks like a big-handled golf club?
Answer: Portable urinal

Question: How many films have been made in the Harry Potter series?
Answer: 8

Question: What does a draper usually sell?
Answer: Fashion design skills

Question: Who was declared president by both houses of the US Congress because there was no precedent or clear constitutional rule for a vice president to assume the office of president upon the death of his predecessor?
Answer: John Tyler

Question: Where did British mill engineer Joseph Jagger famously "break the bank" at a gaming establishment in 1873?
Answer: Monte Carlo

Question: Where is the shelf of muscle in the human body known as the diaphragm?
Answer: Below the rib cage

Question: What mythical creature is a symbol of Wales?
Answer: Dragon

Question: The sport parkour developed from what?
Answer: Military style exercise

Question: Who used the name "Henry", in communication with Westerners between 1920 and 1932?
Answer: Puyi, Emperor of China

Question: Which prophetess, the daughter of Priam, King of Troy, was killed following the fall of Troy by Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra?
Answer: Cassandra

Question: What is the guillotine most popularly associated with?
Answer: French Revolution

Question: What does a "Terrarium" simulate?
Answer: A habitat suitable for plant-growing

Question: Richard Griffiths won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, all for his role in which play?
Answer: The History Boys by Alan Bennett

Question: Where would you most likely see a Zamboni?
Answer: At an ice rink

Question: Tehran is situated at the southern end of which body of water?
Answer: Caspian Sea

Question: What is "amblyopia" commonly known as?
Answer: Lazy eye

Question: What is another name for the jawbone?
Answer: Mandible

Question: Who, in 1901, won the Triple Crown in Major League baseball?
Answer: Nap Lajoie

Question: The autobiography of which "Bond girl" was called "Golden Girl"?
Answer: Shirley Eaton

Question: What part of Ecuador is completely surrounded by ocean?
Answer: Galapagos Islands

Question: What is often thought of as the medieval forerunner of chemistry, especially seeking to turn base metals into gold or silver?
Answer: Alchemy

Question: The government in the UK 1935 to 1945, leading up to the partition of India in 1947, and from 1951 afterwards was Conservative; what was the UK government which saw the partition into effect and who led it?
Answer: Clement Attlee, Labour

Question: The Gulfs of Tonkin and Thailand both lead to which body of water?
Answer: South China Sea

Question: The work of French playwright Racine appears in which modern English classic by A.S. Byatt?
Answer: The tetralogy The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman

Question: What was stolen from Stanley Gibbons' stamp company's exhibition in the Westminster Central Hall on Sunday 20 March 1966, and found by David Corbett's dog Pickles on March 27 under the hedge of Corbett's house?
Answer: Jules Rimet Trophy (FIFA World Cup)

Question: Which US vice presidential candidate made "The Checkers speech", an address on TV and radio on 23 September 1952, which was an early example of a politician using television to appeal directly to the electorate?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: Which guitarist collaborated with David Bowie on his music projects from 1988 to 1999?
Answer: Reeves Gabrels

Question: Born in Australia in 1898, Walter Lindrum was one of the greatest practitoners of what sport?
Answer: Billiards

Question: The film 1953 Calamity Jane produced which hit for Doris Day that reached #1 on the Billboard charts in 1954?
Answer: Secret Love

Question: The word "horror" comes from a Latin word meaning what?
Answer: Bristle

Question: Whom do Sikhs venerate as the founder of their religion?
Answer: Guru Nanak

Question: Jim Carrey played which character in the 2004 film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"?
Answer: Joel Barish

Question: Wordsworth was inspired to write "Earth has not anything to show more fair" by the view from which London bridge?
Answer: Westminster

Question: Among NATO members, which is the only one with no standing army?
Answer: Iceland

Question: In the 14th century, what name was given to Edward, eldest son of Edward III and father of Richard II?
Answer: Black Prince

Question: In which country were constitutional reforms initiated in 1954, resulting in a new constitution when Britain granted self-government in 1964?
Answer: British Honduras

Question: Chess tournaments are typically conducted in round robin (individual againt individual), Swiss system, elimination, and what other system?
Answer: Scheveningen

Question: How many years after leaving the USA was Roman Polanski extradited to return to face sentencing on his conviction for rape, and to face further related charges?
Answer: As at 2014 he has not been extradited

Question: In American football how far is the longest ever successful field kick in yards?
Answer: 64

Question: Thiamine, niacine and riboflavin belong to which vitamin group?
Answer: B

Question: The BBC began sending experimental TV images to the British nation in what year?
Answer: 1929

Question: Gloss is usually applied to what part of the body to provide a sheen?
Answer: Lips

Question: Electric, fuel cell, gravity, Wankel are all types of what?
Answer: Go-kart engines

Question: What word is used to describe an illegal hunt of game or fish?
Answer: Poach

Question: Which play, based on a story of apparent patricide, caused riots when first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 26 January 1907, where it was described as "a vile and inhuman story told in the foulest language we have ever listened to from a public platform"?
Answer: """The Playboy of the Western World"" by John Millington Synge"