Question: The Crickets backed which famous singer-songwriter?
Answer: Buddy Holly

Question: Dizzy Gillespie played what instrument?
Answer: Trumpet

Question: Who was nicknamed 'The Big O'?
Answer: Roy Orbison

Question: What record label did the Beatles establish?
Answer: Apple

Question: Who had a 1960s hit with Step Inside Love?
Answer: Cilla Black

Question: The record label and music company name HMV stood for what?
Answer: His Master's Voice

Question: Who sang the theme song to the film Born Free?
Answer: Matt Monro

Question: Congratulations was Cliff Richard's Eurovision Song Contest entry in what year?
Answer: 1968

Question: Which singer's Eurovision Song Contest entry was Knock Knock (Who's There?)?
Answer: Mary Hopkin

Question: Whose big hit was I love You Because?
Answer: Jim Reeves

Question: Who wrote the instrumental A Swingin' Safari and led the orchestra which played the original hit version?
Answer: Bert Kaempfert

Question: Which British comedian had the massive-selling 1965 hit Tears?
Answer: Ken Dodd

Question: Cher's partner was Sonny ... who?
Answer: Bono

Question: Who made the hit comedy version of the Banana Boat Song, and other similar spoofs including versions of Presley's Heartbreak Hotel and Johnnie Ray's Cry?
Answer: Stan Freberg

Question: Which 1960s easy-listening Irish crooner was famed for his rocking chair and knitted jumpers?
Answer: Val Doonican

Question: What was Chuck Berry's first hit record?
Answer: Maybellene

Question: What number gives its name to the cultish 'club' celebrating rock stars who died at that age?
Answer: 27 (The 27 Club)

Question: Which fruit is the cordial grenadine primarily made from?
Answer: Pomegranates

Question: What type of musical instrument is a goombay?
Answer: Drum

Question: Blepharitis is the medical term for the inflamation of which part of the body?
Answer: Eyelid

Question: The 2003 film Lost in Translation is set in which city?
Answer: Tokyo

Question: Who discovered the Victoria Falls in 1855?
Answer: David Livingstone

Question: Ailurophobia is a fear of what?
Answer: Cats

Question: Who wrote the novel The Cider House Rules?
Answer: John Irving

Question: In golf what is the name of a score of one stroke over par for a hole?
Answer: Bogey

Question: What is the name of the casino on the reservation of the Mashantucket Pequot tribe in Connecticut?
Answer: Foxwoods

Question: Artist and musician Chris Sievey is better known as whom?
Answer: Frank Sidebottom

Question: Exodus, the second book of the Bible, recounts the departure of the Israelites from which country?
Answer: Egypt

Question: What was the nationality of Lazlo Josef Biro, inventor of the ballpoint pen?
Answer: Hungarian

Question: Which US spacecraft was launched from Cape Kennedy in October 1968?
Answer: Apollo Seven

Question: Which British singer's real name is Thomas Woodward?
Answer: Tom Jones

Question: Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win a Nobel Prize for what subject?
Answer: Literature

Question: What is the legislative assembly of Spain called?
Answer: Cortes

Question: Who painted The Rake's Progress?
Answer: William Hogarth

Question: A pelisse is what type of garment?
Answer: Cloak

Question: What are the five events of the modern pentathlon?
Answer: Fencing, shooting, swimming riding and cross-country running.

Question: The Taj Mahal is on the bank of which river?
Answer: Jumna

Question: What was the pseudonym of French dramatist Jean-Baptiste Poqueline?
Answer: Moliere

Question: What connects Elizabeth Fry, Sir John Houblon, Adam Smith, George Stephenson, and Sir Edward Elgar?
Answer: Appeared on Bank of England banknotes

Question: Which murderer lived at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Kentish Town, North London?
Answer: Dr Crippen

Question: What is the prehistoric fish considered extinct until found living off the African coast in the 20th century?
Answer: Coelocanth

Question: What water birds and their cries are associated with madness?
Answer: Loons

Question: The wood sorrel plant is more commonly known as what?
Answer: Shamrock

Question: What was Pamela Anderson's character in the TV series Baywatch?
Answer: C J Parker

Question: The gerbil is native to which two continents?
Answer: Africa and Asia

Question: What fruity four-letter acronym is used to identify the traditional main foreign (non-English) languages of the European market?
Answer: Figs

Question: What company started as 'Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web'?
Answer: Yahoo

Question: On UK roads the triangular warning sign for ice shows what symbol?
Answer: Snowflake

Question: What is the word for maze taken from Greek legend?
Answer: Labyrinth

Question: What is a word puzzle comprising a picture or symbol plus individual letter or letters - and also the name of a UK TV detective?
Answer: Rebus

Question: What word in English is the definite article?
Answer: The

Question: What piece of sports equipment conforms to these dimensions?
Answer: Cricket bail

Question: 'Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared' equates to what health indicator?
Answer: Body mass index

Question: In which century did Cleopatra VII (lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony) rule Egypt?
Answer: First century BC

Question: In the Bible who was Noah's grandfather?
Answer: Methuselah

Question: What is the word for the upright shadow-casting part of a sundial?
Answer: Gnomon

Question: Ireland's first ever all weather horse race meeting took place on 26 August 2007 on which racecourse?
Answer: Dundalk

Question: Who was the leader of the Trojans in the Trojan war?
Answer: Hector

Question: In which US state were the Salem witch trials held?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: What metallic element typically makes up between 10% and 25% of stainless steel?
Answer: Chromium

Question: What Cape is Great Britain's most North Westerly point?
Answer: Cape Wrath

Question: Who was the prolific writer of theme music for 1960s TV shows including Steptoe and Son, Dr Who, The Prisoner, Dangerman and Tales of the Unexpected?
Answer: Ron Grainer

Question: Which cricket commentator, who mistakenly called Monty Panesar 'Monty Python', was awarded an OBE in 2003?
Answer: Henry Blofeld

Question: Apia is the capital of which independent island nation in the South Pacific?
Answer: Samoa

Question: Nob Hill is an affluent area in which city in the United States?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: Which American female soul singer made the 1996 hit song Un-break My Heart?
Answer: Toni Braxton

Question: Name London Zoo's Giant Panda from 1958 until her death in 1972?
Answer: Chi Chi

Question: Who became president of Egypt following the assassination of Anwar El Sadat in 1981?
Answer: Hosni Mubarak

Question: Of which 19th century movement were William Lovett and Feargus O'Connor leading figures?
Answer: Chartism

Question: What creature was introduced into MSN's logo on 14 February 2000?
Answer: Butterfly

Question: What international standard paper size (denoted by the letter A plus a number) has the dimensions of 297 x 420mm?
Answer: A3

Question: How many farthings were in a British guinea?
Answer: 1,008

Question: Libraries, schools, writing, the wheel, the aqueduct and alcoholic beer are inventions generally credited to which country?
Answer: Iraq

Question: Who played female agent Cinnamon Carter in the 1960s TV series Mission Impossible?
Answer: Barbara Bain

Question: What was the name of shark-hunter Quint's boat in the novel and film Jaws?
Answer: Orca

Question: As at 2008 which corporation owns the brands Duracell, Braun and Gillette?
Answer: Procter & Gamble

Question: Who was the first artist to appear at the new Wembley Stadium?
Answer: George Michael

Question: In which country was Imry Nagy twice Prime Minister, executed for treason in 1958 and reburied as a hero in 1989?
Answer: Hungary

Question: A boomslang is what type of creature?
Answer: Snake