Question: Which cricketer captained England's Ashes winning team of 2005?
Answer: Michael Vaughn

Question: Which snooker player is nicknamed the Rocket?
Answer: Ronnie O Sullivan

Question: The field of play for which sport is often called a grid-iron?
Answer: American Football

Question: At which event has Steve Backley won Olympic Bronze and Silver medals?
Answer: Javelin

Question: Who did Alex Ferguson succeed as manager of Manchester united?
Answer: Ron Atkinson

Question: What was the attendance at the 2003 Rugby World Cup final when England beat Australia?
Answer: 82,957

Question: Which University in the UK has the largest number of students?
Answer: The Open University

Question: Which childrens novel by Raymond Briggs has a main character whose job it is to scare people?
Answer: Fungus The Bogeyman

Question: What is the colour of the flag of Libya, which is the only national flag consisting of only one colour?
Answer: Green

Question: What is Fleetwood Mac's only UK number one single?
Answer: Albatross

Question: Which chemical element has the symbol Fe?
Answer: Iron

Question: The actor Johnny Depp had a tattoo on his arm surgically altered after the break up of his relationship with which actress?
Answer: Winona Ryder

Question: What is the capital city of China?
Answer: Beijing

Question: Which famous tourist attraction can be viewed from the 'Maid Of The Mist'?
Answer: Niagra Falls

Question: Which London railway station has the most platforms?
Answer: Waterloo

Question: What colour is the leftmost stripe on the French flag?
Answer: Blue

Question: In which district of London would you find Harrods department store?
Answer: Knightsbridge

Question: In kilometres, how long is the coastline of Brazil?
Answer: 7,491 km

Question: In the song The Twelve Days Of Christmas, how many ladies dancing are given as gifts in total?
Answer: 36

Question: Who was the first monarch in Britain to make a Christmas Day broadcast?
Answer: King George V

Question: Which Christmas number one includes the line All I wish that everyday was christmas, what a nice way to spend the year?
Answer: Merry Christmas Everyone

Question: What 'D' is the name of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer's dad?
Answer: Donner

Question: Which 2004 film sees Tom Hanks take a boy on a trip to the North Pole to visit Santa Claus?
Answer: The Polar Express

Question: Which famous annual event did Santa Claus win in 1964?
Answer: The Derby

Question: How tall in metres was the Douglas Fir in a shopping center in Seattle in 1950 that holds the Guinness World Record for being the tallest ever Christmas tree?
Answer: 67.36m

Question: Which Generation Game presenter was famous for his catchphrase Shut That Door?
Answer: Larry Grayson

Question: During which TV game show were the contestants invited to go wild in the aisles?
Answer: Supermarket Sweep

Question: What was the name of the regular scorekeeper on the comedy gameshow Shooting Stars and what was the name of the comedian who played him?
Answer: George Dawes, played by Matt Lucas

Question: Who hosted the BBC gameshow Going For Gold which featured contestants from various European countries?
Answer: Henry Kelly

Question: Of all the gameshows that were revived for a series of one-off specials in Ant And Dec's Gameshow Marathon which was the oldest?
Answer: Take Your Pick

Question: Who was the special guest who took part in the 200th edition of A Question Of Sport to help give it its highest ever viewing figures of over 19 million?
Answer: Princess Anne

Question: Who presented Ask The Family when it was revived in 2005?
Answer: Dick and Dom

Question: What were the names of the four original zones in The Crystal Maze?
Answer: Aztec, Futuristic, Medieval and Industrial

Question: Who commanded the Scottish army at the Battle Of Bannockburn?
Answer: Robert The Bruce

Question: With which re-released song did The Bluebells have a number one hit in 1993?
Answer: Young At Heart

Question: At which athletics event did American Mike Powell break the world record in 1991, a record which had stood for almost 33 years?
Answer: Long Jump

Question: International Nursing Day was chosen as May 12th as it is the anniversary of the birth of which famous person from history?
Answer: Florence Nightingale

Question: Which 1960s TV character had a name which was derived from the phrase Man Appeal?
Answer: Emma Peel

Question: In music, which group named themselves after the main character in the 1984 film Paris, Texas?
Answer: Travis

Question: Who were the last football team other than Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea to win the top league in England?
Answer: Blackburn Rovers

Question: From which country does the drink Stella Artois originate?
Answer: Belgium

Question: What did Earl John Montagu allegedly invent so that he could eat with one hand while playing cards with the other?
Answer: The Sandwich

Question: Who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken?
Answer: Colonel Sanders

Question: Which drink is advertised with the slogan made in Scotland from girders?
Answer: Irn-Bru

Question: Founded in Switzerland in 1866 by a German pharmacist, what is the world's largest food company?
Answer: Nestle

Question: What was the first line of the Italian song O Sole Mio altered to in a long series of TV adverts for a food brand?
Answer: Just One Cornetto

Question: What is the main alcoholic spirit used to make a Daiquiri cocktail?
Answer: Rum

Question: Which type of food is named after the French for twice cooked?
Answer: Biscuit

Question: Alicante, Cardinal, Cassidy, Niagara and Palamino are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Grape

Question: In what year was the Big Mac introduced into McDonalds?
Answer: 1968

Question: Which three films are tied for winning the most Academy Awards, with 11 Oscars each?
Answer: Ben-Hur, Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Question: As at 2006, Which actress has had 13 Oscar nominations, more than any other actress?
Answer: Meryl Streep

Question: Which 1981 film is the only Best Picture Oscar winner to contain all of the letters of Oscar in its title?
Answer: Chariots Of Fire

Question: In 1999, which two actresses received Oscar nominations for playing the role of Elizabeth I, but in different films?
Answer: Cate Blanchett (in Elizabeth) and Judi Dench (in Shakespeare In Love)

Question: As it 2006, who is the most nominated male actor in Oscar history?
Answer: Jack Nicholson

Question: What is the running length of War And Peace, the 1968 Best Foreign Language Film winner and the longest film to win an Oscar?
Answer: 7 hours 33 minutes

Question: What is the most common street name in Britain?
Answer: High Street

Question: Which British city has more miles of canal than Venice?
Answer: Birmingham

Question: The first single to sell over two million copies in Great Britain was written as a tribute to where in Great Britain?
Answer: Mull Of Kintyre

Question: Which lake in Great Britain has the largest volume of water?
Answer: Loch Ness

Question: In the TV show Little Britain what is the name of the only gay in the village?
Answer: Daffyd Thomas

Question: In Britain, which University has more students than any other?
Answer: The Open University

Question: According to the 2001 census, how many 21 year olds were resident in Wales?
Answer: 37,567

Question: On which BBC TV show did the plasticine character Morph first appear?
Answer: Take Hart

Question: Which shop did Anita Roddick open in Brighton in 1976, leading to a highly successful chain of stores now trading in over 40 countries worldwide?
Answer: The Body Shop

Question: Zola Budd was blamed for the fall of which fellow athlete as they ran together in the 3000 metres final at the 1984 Olympic Games?
Answer: Mary Decker

Question: Before he left The Beatles, which instrument did Stuart Sutcliffe play in the band?
Answer: Bass