Question: In the traditional rhyme on which day did Solomon Grundy die?
Answer: Saturday

Question: In the traditional rhyme, who killed Cock Robin?
Answer: The Sparrow

Question: What was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?
Answer: Lewis Carroll

Question: Which fictitious hall was based on Manaton Manor on Dartmoor in Devon?
Answer: Baskerville Hall

Question: Which sea creature is the world's largest invertebrate?
Answer: Giant Squid

Question: Which TV comedy series was set on Craggy Island?
Answer: Father Ted

Question: In which year did the pound note cease to be legal tender in England?
Answer: 1988

Question: The Scilly Isles are under the authority of which English county?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: At which race circuit did Ayrton Senna die, in 1994?
Answer: Imola

Question: What is the administrative centre of Cornwall?
Answer: Truro

Question: In what year did the farthing cease to be legal tender in England?
Answer: 1960

Question: Which comedian/entertainer had the catchphrase "You Lucky People"?
Answer: Tommy Trinder

Question: At which racecourse is the Eclipse Stakes run annually?
Answer: Sandown Park

Question: Which comedian/entertainer was known as Bighearted Arthur?
Answer: Arthur Askey

Question: A Sunday edition of which daily newspaper was launched in January 1990?
Answer: Independent on Sunday

Question: At which racecourse is the Royal Hunt Cup held annually?
Answer: Ascot

Question: What type of camera did Edwin Land develop?
Answer: Polaroid

Question: What type of creature is a hairstreak?
Answer: Butterfly

Question: What is the most north easterly of the contiguous US states?
Answer: Maine

Question: What was Abba's only Number One single in the USA?
Answer: Dancing Queen

Question: What constituency did John Major represent while he was Prime Minister?
Answer: Huntingdon

Question: On leaving Number 10 Margaret Thatcher became which Baroness of where?
Answer: Kesteven

Question: What was Abba's last Number One single in the UK?
Answer: Super Trouper

Question: Which legendary actress spoke for the first time on screen in the 1930 film "Anna Christie"?
Answer: Greta Garbo

Question: Which English king was threatened by the Rye House Plot?
Answer: Charles II

Question: Titan is the largest moon of which planet?
Answer: Saturn

Question: Which English king was killed by Walter Tyrell?
Answer: William II

Question: How many moons does the planet Mars have?
Answer: Two

Question: Who wrote the book "The French Lieutenant's Woman" in 1969?
Answer: John Fowles

Question: In which English city can Saint David's Railway Station be found?
Answer: Exeter

Question: How many years are there in a Platinum Anniversary?
Answer: 70

Question: The Brandy Kirsch is distilled from which fruit?
Answer: Cherries

Question: The 1956 film "Forbidden Planet" was based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Tempest

Question: If you were born between October 24th and November 218'what star sign would you come under?
Answer: Scorpio

Question: Which 1961 film musical was based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: West Side Story

Question: Which US city, originally named Fort Duquesne, is now named after a British Prime Minister?
Answer: Pittsburgh

Question: What was the surname of the only grandfather and grandson to become US President?
Answer: Harrison

Question: Which American firm manufactured the 'Dakota' transport aircraft?
Answer: Douglas

Question: The deadly poison, Ricin, is produced from which plant?
Answer: Castor Oil Plant

Question: Castor is the Latin name for which mammal?
Answer: Beaver

Question: The Aberdare mountains are in which African country?
Answer: Kenya

Question: Which architect invented the Geodesic Dome?
Answer: Buckminster Fuller

Question: Fullerite is a man-made allotrope of which chemical element?
Answer: Carbon

Question: In which building is Charles Darwin buried?
Answer: Westminster Abbey

Question: What is the most southerly country in Scotland?
Answer: Dumfries And Galloway

Question: In Greek mythology who was the mother of Achilles?
Answer: Thetis

Question: In the bible who was the sister of Moses who concealed him in the bulrushes?
Answer: Miriam

Question: Who rode Shergar to victory in the 1981 Derby?
Answer: Walter Swinburn

Question: On which horse did Lester Piggott ride his last Derby winner in 1984?
Answer: Teenoso

Question: """Suicide is Painless"" is the theme music to which film and long running TV series?"
Answer: M.A.S.H.

Question: The music of which classical composer was used as the theme of "The Lone Ranger"?
Answer: Rossini

Question: Which bird is the second tallest after the ostrich?
Answer: Emu

Question: Marie Curie discovered radium and which other element?
Answer: Polonium

Question: Roy Fitzgerald was the real name of which Hollywood actor?
Answer: Rock Hudson

Question: Captain Webb - of channel swimming fame was born in which Midlands town?
Answer: Dudley

Question: Rudolph Hess has the distinction of being the last prisoner in Spandau and which other historical prison?
Answer: The Tower Of London

Question: In which novel is the calendar altered from AD to AF (after ford)?
Answer: Brave New World

Question: """O Brave new world that has such people in it"" is from which Shakespeare play?"
Answer: The Tempest

Question: Which poet served a sentence in Reading Gaol?
Answer: Oscar Wilde

Question: What was the name of the punk character played by Kenny Everett?
Answer: Sid Snot

Question: USA - what is the state capital of Wisconsin?
Answer: Madison

Question: Which stretch of water separates Cuba and Haiti?
Answer: The Windward Passage

Question: Java and the Malayan Peninsula are separated by which stretch of water?
Answer: Strait Of Malacca

Question: The game of "conkers" goes back to Roman times, using what?
Answer: Shells

Question: The game of "ollies' or "allies" derives its name from which substance after which they were named?
Answer: Alabaster

Question: What is the state capital of Kentucky?
Answer: Frankfort

Question: A Roman Legion consisted of six units known as what?
Answer: Cohorts

Question: Pica Pica is the scientific name for which common bird?
Answer: Magpie

Question: Sternus vulgaris is the scientific name for which common bird?
Answer: Starling

Question: 'Last of the Summer Wine' is the creation of which comic writer?
Answer: Roy Clarke

Question: What was the function of an Aquilifer in the Roman Army?
Answer: Standard Bearer

Question: 'Out Of The Silent Planet' and 'The Screwtape Letters' are works of which author, better known for his children's books?
Answer: C S Lewis

Question: Frances Gumm was the real name of which famous actress?
Answer: Judy Garland

Question: 'This could be the start of a beautiful friendship' is the last line of which film?
Answer: Casablanca

Question: 'Well, nobody's prefect 'is the last line of which film?
Answer: Some Like It Hot

Question: In which country is the source of the Blue Nile?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: In which fictional land was it 'always winter but never Christmas'?
Answer: Narnia

Question: What was the first Department Store in London?
Answer: Selfridges

Question: John McEnroe was married to which film actress?
Answer: Tatum O'Neal

Question: In World War II who designed the Mosquito Fighter/Bomber?
Answer: Geoffrey De Havilland

Question: Which British athlete won the 100 m. at the 1924 Olympics?
Answer: Harold Abrahams

Question: Which palace in Spain takes its name from the colour of its sun dried red bricks?
Answer: Alhambra

Question: Who was the only British King to be crowned on the field of battle?
Answer: Henry Vii

Question: Who played 'First Voice' in the original BBC radio production of 'UnderMilk Wood' (and also in the film version)?
Answer: Richard Burton

Question: During WW2, where was the headquarters of Bomber Command?
Answer: Bentley Priory

Question: Which British Athlete won the 100 metres at the 1980 Olympics?
Answer: Alan Wells