Question: Who was displaced from power by Fidel Castro?
Answer: Batista

Question: In which East European country did the 2006 Jeans revolution take place?
Answer: Belarus

Question: Which saint was born at Lourdes ?
Answer: Bernadette

Question: Papworth is in which county ?
Answer: Cambridgeshire

Question: Who topped the UK charts in 1977 with ‘Yes, Sir, I Can Boogie’?
Answer: Baccara

Question: The vegetable we call chicory is known as what in the USA?
Answer: Endive

Question: In which 1971 film did Clint Eastwood play the d.j., and Jessica Walter the disturbed fan?
Answer: Play Misty For Me

Question: TV. Which TV family lives at 0001 Cemetery Lane?
Answer: The ADDAMS FAMILY

Question: Darts. What is the lowest score not possible to score with one dart?
Answer: 23

Question: Who wrote the famous children’s book ‘Heidi’, published in 1880?
Answer: Johanna Spyri

Question: D.A.T.T. is what alternative name for bar skittles, or table skittles?
Answer: Devil Among The Tailors

Question: In 1980, who briefly joined her family band Clannad, before leaving to perform solo?
Answer: Enya

Question: Aka zinc blende, and consisting largely of zinc sulphide, what is the chief ore of zinc?
Answer: Sphalerite

Question: Which country has two stacked triangles as its flag?
Answer: Nepal

Question: In 1988, who became the first woman elected to serve a Muslim state?
Answer: Benazir Bhutto

Question: Who was sacked as Cardiff City manager on December 27th, 2013?
Answer: Malky Mackay

Question: Who played the title character in ‘Father, Dear Father’ (1968 – 1973)?
Answer: Patrick Cargill

Question: Since 2009, who has played Lee Mack’s character’s father in ‘Not Going Out’?
Answer: Bobby Ball

Question: Trains on which line were suspended in January, after wet concrete flooded a control room?
Answer: Victoria

Question: Camden Town, Edgware and Burnt Oak are all on which line?
Answer: Northern

Question: When formed in 1865, the Christian Mission was the original name of what organisation?
Answer: Salvation Army

Question: Which popular sport was once known as ‘sphairistike’?
Answer: Lawn TENNIS

Question: With which lady would you associate the act of having a cup of tea?
Answer: Rosie Lee

Question: With which 1750 poem do you associate the village of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire?
Answer: GRAY’S ‘ELEGY Written in a

Question: Other than skiing, which other sport takes place on a piste?
Answer: Fencing

Question: On February 7th, in which English town or city was a statue of Charles Dickens unveiled?
Answer: Portsmouth

Question: Which of the presidents depicted on the Mt. Rushmore Memorial was the last to be born?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Question: What sort of creature is a hoopoe?
Answer: Bird

Question: By land area, what is the largest country in Central America?
Answer: Nicaragua

Question: What is the most densely-populated country on the subcontinent?
Answer: El Salvador

Question: What was on the flipside of Jasper Carrott’s ‘Funky Moped’?
Answer: Magic Roundabout

Question: Which beast did Hera raise to kill Hercules, but ended up being slain by him?
Answer: Lernaean HYDRA

Question: What type of fruit was involved in his Twelve Labours?
Answer: Apples

Question: What relation was George III to George II?
Answer: Grandson

Question: What is unusual about Zaphod Beeblebrox, the Galactic President?
Answer: He has TWO HEADS

Question: What is the name of the central male character?
Answer: ARTHUR Philip DENT

Question: A group of which type of birds is known as an exaltation?
Answer: Larks

Question: Near which small town in Berkshire was the Royal Military Academy founded in 1799?
Answer: Sandhurst

Question: What word describes a triangle where all three sides are of different lengths?
Answer: Scalene

Question: Who sang last year’s Children in Need song?
Answer: Ellie Goulding

Question: What sort of animal was the invisible Harvey, in the 1950 film of that name?
Answer: Rabbit

Question: What famous event took place on December 16th, 1773?
Answer: Boston Tea Party

Question: Who was King George IV’s mother?
Answer: Queen CHARLOTTE

Question: What were the first names of the hugely wealthy J.P. Getty, 1932-2003?
Answer: John Paul

Question: Which English author, 1707- 1754, was also a J.P. (Justice of the Peace)?
Answer: Henry Fielding

Question: Who wrote ‘The Solitary Reaper’ (1805) and ‘The World Is Too Much With Us’ (1802)?
Answer: William WORDSWORTH

Question: What does a white number on a blue background signify?
Answer: Minimum Speed Limit

Question: Who co-starred with Eric Idle in the 1990 film ‘Nuns on the Run’?
Answer: Robbie Coltrane

Question: Who tripped as she went up to receive the Best Actress Oscar last year?
Answer: Jennifer Lawrence

Question: What is the name of Edina’s son in ‘Absolutely Fabulous’?
Answer: SERGE Turtle

Question: What is the name of Hyacinth and Richard’s son in ‘Keeping Up Appearances’?
Answer: Sheridan

Question: Which A.B. won the Best Picture Oscar at the 2000 ceremony?
Answer: American Beauty

Question: Which was the only Elvis Presley UK no. 1 to have a one-word title?
Answer: Surrender

Question: In which country are the Papal guards recruited?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Which means of execution shares its name with a piece of office equipment?
Answer: Guillotine

Question: What emblem was adopted in 1991 as a symbol of AIDS awareness? (2 word answer)
Answer: Red Ribbon

Question: In which month does St Swithin's day fall?
Answer: July

Question: The 25th January is the day of the year on which Scots celebrate which national hero?
Answer: Robert Burns

Question: In which country can you see the world famous Alhambra Palace?
Answer: Spain

Question: Which European country is 'double-landlocked' (landlocked by land-locked countries)?
Answer: Liechtenstien

Question: Rila at 2,925 m is the highest mountain range in the Balkans. It stands in which country?
Answer: Bulgaria

Question: Which lake is sometimes called Lac Leman in French?
Answer: Lake Geneva

Question: In 33 AD, who allegedly began living with his own teenage sister, Drusilla, "as his wife"?
Answer: Gaius aka/or Caligula

Question: Who designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851?
Answer: Joseph Paxton

Question: Doctor Doom is the arch-enemy of which group of Marvel superheroes?
Answer: Fantastic Four

Question: Mary Jane Watson was the principal love interest of which Superhero and his alter ego?
Answer: Superman or Peter Parker

Question: An actress, which 61 year old Dame was named the world's sexiest older woman?
Answer: Helen Mirren

Question: Who was named the new host of Channel 4's Countdown?
Answer: Des O'Connor

Question: Which of Rodin's sculptures was his first to be erected in a public place, in Paris in 1906?
Answer: The Thinker / Le Penseur

Question: Which art gallery is located at Bankside, London SE1?
Answer: Tate Modern

Question: Which Florentine painter who died in 1337 had the oft overlooked surname, di Bondone?
Answer: Giotto

Question: What familiar name is most commonly given to the fruiting body of a fungus?
Answer: Mushroom or Toadstool

Question: Which is the largest order of mammals? Over 40% of all mammalian species belong to it.
Answer: Rodentia, Acc. Rodent

Question: What is the more common name for the 'European' or 'Great' Maple?
Answer: Sycamore

Question: Which former Italian Prime Minister was kidnapped and murdered in 1978?
Answer: Aldo Moro

Question: Created by Frank Mason Robinson in 1885, what is possibly the world's best known logo?
Answer: Coca-Cola

Question: Which American was awarded a share of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973?
Answer: Henry Kissinger

Question: Which landlocked African country has a population of nearly 88 million?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: Which car company has featured in the name of cricket's 'Kennington Oval' since 2011?
Answer: Kia Oval

Question: Its driver Jules Bianchi still in intensive care; which F1 team went bust on 7th Nov 2014?
Answer: Marussia