Question: In which county of Ireland would you find Blarney Castle, home of the Blarney Stone?
Answer: County Cork

Question: What weighs 116 pounds is 19 feet long and must land as close to 12 o’ clock as possible?
Answer: Caber

Question: At which establishment, famous in literature, was Benjamin a very sceptical donkey?
Answer: Animal Farm

Question: Which game show presenter was deputy headmaster of Caton School near Lancaster?
Answer: Jim Bowen

Question: Who wrote the 1516 work of fiction and political philosophy ‘Utopia’?
Answer: Sir THOMAS MORE

Question: On which Scottish island will you find Fingal’s Cave?
Answer: Staffa

Question: In 1969, who became Israel’s first woman Prime Minister?
Answer: Golda Meir

Question: What is the highest mountain in the UK outside Scotland?
Answer: Snowdon

Question: What is the official currency of Bulgaria?
Answer: Lev

Question: What is the currency of Iceland?
Answer: Krona

Question: In which cycling event did Victoria Pendleton win gold at the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: Keirin

Question: The last pair of which extinct flightless birds were killed in 1844? (Two words.)
Answer: Great Auks

Question: Which type of birds have the genus name of ‘Halcyon’?
Answer: Kingfishers

Question: Zelda was the wife of which writer, born in Minnesota in 1896?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question: Fanny Brawne was engaged to which noted British poet?
Answer: John KEATS

Question: Who played the part of Sybil Fawlty?
Answer: Prunella Scales

Question: What was the name of Sigourney Weaver’s character in the ‘Alien’ films?
Answer: Ellen RIPLEY

Question: The tv series ‘Matlock’ was also a film. What genre of drama were both?
Answer: Legal / Courtroom

Question: What was the code name for the Normandy landings?
Answer: Operation Overlord

Question: What was the exact date in 1944 in which they took place?
Answer: 6th JUNE

Question: Lionel Blair was one of the captains on the old show ‘Give Us a Clue’. Who was the other?
Answer: UNA STUBBS acc Liza Goddard

Question: What was the two-word title of Dawn French’s 2007 autobiography?
Answer: Dear Fatty

Question: Who was the author of the 1996 work, ‘Angela’a Ashes’?
Answer: FRANK McCOURT

Question: In Chesterfield, the crooked spire is that of St. who, and All the Saints?
Answer: Mary

Question: In the USA, Martin Luther King Day is observed on the 3rd Monday of which month?
Answer: January

Question: Who wrote the play ‘Waiting For Godot’, which premiered in 1953?
Answer: Samuel BECKETT

Question: The Egyptian god Anubis had the head of which animal?
Answer: Jackal

Question: Edward Bear is the alternative name for which character from children’s literature?
Answer: Winnie The Pooh

Question: What term of endearment do Andy and Flo Capp use, when not arguing?
Answer: Pet

Question: Which five-star luxury hotel on Park Lane has 250 rooms and 49 suites?
Answer: Dorchester

Question: Organ Morgan is a character in which famous literary work?
Answer: Under Milk Wood

Question: Which ‘ology’ is the study of sexually transmitted diseases?
Answer: Venereology

Question: Who painted the portrait of Anne of Cleves that so impressed Henry VIII?
Answer: Hans Holbein

Question: Who played the male human lead in the 1951 film, ‘Bedtime for Bonzo’?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: Na2SO4 is the chemical formula for what compound?
Answer: Sodium Sulphate

Question: What is the name of the professor of phonetics in G.B. Shaw’s play ‘Pygmalion’?
Answer: Henry Higgins

Question: What would a scientist understand by EMF?
Answer: Electromotive Force

Question: What were the first two names of ‘Scott of the Antarctic’?
Answer: Robert Falcon

Question: When Bill Bailey was evicted from the domestic abode, what was his sole possession?
Answer: A Fine Tooth Comb

Question: How old was Nelson Mandela, when he passed away on the 5th?
Answer: 95

Question: Which British-American Oscar-winning actress died on the 15th, aged 96?
Answer: Joan Fontaine

Question: Which British broadcaster and OBE departed on the 21st, aged 87?
Answer: David Coleman

Question: Cancer and Scorpio are two of the water signs. What is the third?
Answer: Pisces

Question: Which date in March is generally the first day of Aries, and the zodiacal year?
Answer: 21st

Question: What was the name of the girl that Tom Sawyer loved?
Answer: Becky Thatcher

Question: Who has a wife named Mildew and a son called Mold?
Answer: Fungus The Bogeyman

Question: Whom did Colin Firth play when he won the Best Actor Oscar in 2011?
Answer: King GEORGE VI

Question: ‘Everybody’s Talkin’ featured prominently in the music for which 1969 film?
Answer: Midnight Cowboy

Question: Which genus of 422 species of flowering plants are often known as cranesbills?
Answer: Geraniums

Question: Who was only 19 when he became the Stones’ manager and producer?
Answer: ANDREW Loog OLDHAM

Question: The Jagger-Richard song ‘As Tears Go By’ was the first hit for whom?
Answer: Marianne Faithfull

Question: Which actress played the lead role in the 1988 film ‘Gorillas in the Mist’?
Answer: Sigourney Weaver

Question: Which of the Canary Islands has the nickname ‘windy island’?
Answer: Fuerteventura

Question: The extinct Moa was the largest ever what …. to live on Earth?
Answer: Bird

Question: Which failed venture was led by the Duke of Medina Sidonia?
Answer: Spanish Armada

Question: Formed in October 2013, where is St Peter’s Cricket Club based?
Answer: The Vatican

Question: Which Italian dish has a name meaning ‘pick-me-up’?
Answer: Tiramasu

Question: According to superstition what happens if you uproot a mandrake plant?
Answer: It Screams

Question: Ergophobia is an inordinate fear of what?
Answer: Work

Question: Ivy League member Brown University is situated in which US state?
Answer: Rhode Island

Question: Premiered in 1834, Who composed Harold In Italy?
Answer: Berlioz

Question: Whose patron was Ludwig II of Bavaria?
Answer: Wagner

Question: The villain Emilio Largo features in which film?
Answer: Thunderball

Question: Who made a cameo appearance in Die Another Day as Verity a fencing instructor?
Answer: Madonna

Question: The third day of the Hindu festival of Diwali honours which Goddess of Fortune?
Answer: Lakshmi

Question: In Islam what does the Hijrat commemorate?
Answer: Muhammad’s flight from

Question: In which month does Rio’s Mardi Gras nearly always take place?
Answer: February

Question: Which gland produces the hormones that control the body’s metabolism?
Answer: Thyroid

Question: The condition Ketosis would result from an inadequacy of what in the diet?
Answer: Carbohydrates

Question: In Germany it is Landwein what is the French equivalent?
Answer: Vin de Pays

Question: Amarone is one of the great wines of which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: What is the job title of the statistician employed to assess risks for insurance companies?
Answer: Actuary

Question: Which colour gets its name from the Persian word for dust?
Answer: Khaki

Question: Who was recorded having a scorpion tattoo for a TV series recently?
Answer: David Dimbleby

Question: In heraldry what is the name for the colour black?
Answer: Sable

Question: Which official announces the result of a Parliamentary election?
Answer: Returning Officer

Question: In South Africa and Cape Town in particular, what do locals call a Cape Doctor?
Answer: A Wind

Question: Who is lead singer with the band Wet Wet Wet?
Answer: Marty Pellow

Question: James Brindley is chiefly remembered for building what?
Answer: Canals

Question: Published in 1928, Who wrote the novel Point Counter Point?
Answer: Aldous Huxley

Question: What did scientist Wayne Szalinski do in a 1989 Disney movie?
Answer: Shrunk the Kids

Question: In Robin Hood the title character was portrayed as which animal?
Answer: Fox

Question: Which vegetable is found in abundance in an Indian dopiaza?
Answer: Onions

Question: In French cuisine what is the term for a baby chicken?
Answer: Poussin