Question: What do 'Black Joke', 'Lads-A-Bunchem', 'Shepherds hay' and 'Constant Billie' have in common?
Answer: Morris Dancing

Question: In which US city was the 192 metre tall Gateway Arch built on the west bank of the Mississippi river in the mid-1960s?
Answer: St Louis

Question: Named after the Queen Consort of George III, which is the largest city in North Carolina?
Answer: Charlotte

Question: Espoo, (population 248,000) is the second largest city in which European country?
Answer: Finland

Question: With an urban population of about 700,000 which is the largest city that is in the EU but is not geographically in Europe?
Answer: Las Palmas

Question: The Bruce Highway, the longest in Queensland, runs for 1,700km from Brisbane to which other city?
Answer: Cairns

Question: Which 7th century daughter of a Mercian king is the patron saint of Chester?
Answer: St Werburh

Question: Which controversial lady was the first evictee in the recent Channel 5 version of Celebrity Big Brother?
Answer: Sally Bercow

Question: Who played oil baron Clayton Farlow in the 80's soap Dallas?
Answer: Howard Keel

Question: Will McKenzie, Simon Cooper, Jay Carwright and Nile Sutherland are the main characters in which C4 comedy first shown in 2008?
Answer: The Inbetweeners

Question: Who was the only Crossroads character to appear in both the first and last episodes of the original series (1964-88)?
Answer: Jill

Question: Where Everybody Knows Your Name was the title of the theme music of which long-running US sitcom?
Answer: Cheers

Question: Who won the first UK series of The X Factor in 2004?
Answer: Steve Brookstein

Question: Which couple bought no 13 Coronation Street for £565 in 1964?
Answer: Stan & Hilda OGDEN

Question: Who plays ex-Detective Sergeant Gerry Standing in the long-running BBC 1 series New Tricks?
Answer: Dennis Waterman

Question: Which former winner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Mastermind and Brain of Britain became the seventh member of the Eggheads quiz team in 2009?
Answer: Pat Gibson

Question: Which eponymous Shakespearean character was King of Scotland from 1040 until his death in 1057?
Answer: Macbeth

Question: In which year was the TUC formed at a meeting in Manchester? Was it 1868, 1889 or 1901?
Answer: 1868

Question: Which hereditary title was held by William Lamb, who was Prime Minister when Queen Victoria acceded to the throne in 1837?
Answer: LORD (or Viscount) MELBOURNE

Question: The Llanelli riots of August 1911, which left six men dead, were caused by a strike in which industry?
Answer: Railways

Question: Who reigned over England for more than half of the 13th century?
Answer: Henry Iii

Question: The real name of the actor Cary Grant and the character played by John Cleese in the film A Fish Called Wanda.
Answer: ARCHIE (Archibald) LEACH

Question: Australian classical guitarist born in 1941 and American composer who has won 5 Oscars and 7 BAFTAs.
Answer: John Williams

Question: Leader of the Virginia colony in Jamestown in the early 17th century and a post-war leader of the Labour Party.
Answer: John Smith

Question: Real name of both the rapper DJ screw and the comedian Jasper Carrott.
Answer: Robert Davies

Question: 67-year-old US comedian who was an original cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live and an old English ballad which tells the story of the Battle of Otterburn in 1388.
Answer: Chevy Chase

Question: At which ground in Auckland will the final of the Rugby Union World Cup be played on the 23rd of this month?
Answer: Eden Park

Question: In which Asian city were the 14th swimming World Championships held in July this year?
Answer: Shanghai

Question: Since 1895 the Wooden Spoon for finishing bottom of cricket's County Championship has been won most often (15 times) by which county?
Answer: Derbyshire

Question: In which event did Hannah England win a silver medal for GB at the recent Athletics World Championships in South Korea?
Answer: (Women's) 1500 METRES

Question: In inches, how high should the net be in a game of table tennis?
Answer: Six

Question: Talisker distillery, which has produced a single malt whisly of the same name since 1820, is the only distillery on which Scottish island?
Answer: Isle Of Skye

Question: What shape is the central tower of the Palace of Westminster and also the Central Lobby which is situated beneath it?
Answer: Octagonal

Question: Which comes first in an alphabetical list of the plays of William Shakespeare?
Answer: All'S Well That Ends Well

Question: What sort of creature is the Shikra. Is it a bird, an antelope or a fish?
Answer: Bird

Question: Which chemical compound is sometimes called baking soda or bread soda?
Answer: Sodium Bicarbonate

Question: Which member of the woodwind family of musical instruments, a sort of half-sized flute, gets its name from the Italian for small?
Answer: Piccolo

Question: Cliff Richard had two UK Number Ones in the 1950's. name either
Answer: LIVING DOLL and TRAVELLIN' LIGHT

Question: People travel to Goat Island in New York State, USA, to get spectacular views of which natural phenomenon?
Answer: Niagara Falls

Question: Ynys Gybi is the Welsh name for which island?
Answer: Holy Island

Question: The Torres Strait lies between Australia and which island?
Answer: New Guinea

Question: Which is the largest of the 7,107 islands that make up the Philippines?
Answer: Luzon

Question: Which Pacific Island group changed to driving on the left in 2009 and also moved to the west of the International Dateline in 2011, thereby losing a day?
Answer: Samoa

Question: Which chemical element is named after the island of Cyprus where it was extensively mined in the Roman era?
Answer: Copper

Question: Who has played Dot Cotton in Eastenders since 1985?
Answer: June Brown

Question: Which Faulty Towers character was played by Ballard Berkeley?
Answer: Major Gowen

Question: In the 2004 film Starsky and Hutch, if Ben Stiller played Starsky, who played Hutch?
Answer: Owen Wilson

Question: Which 1999 horror film tells the story of three students who disappeared in Maryland whilst making a documentary film about a local legend?
Answer: The Blair Witch Project

Question: The first episode of which sitcom sequel was broadcast on BBC2 on January 9th 1986 (NB This answer contains the connection)?
Answer: Yes, Prime Minister

Question: Which cartoon strip by Charles M Schulz first appeared in the Washington Post and New York Times on this day in 1950?
Answer: Peanuts

Question: Operation Typhoon, launched on this day in 1941, was a German strategic offensive designed to capture which capital city?
Answer: Moscow

Question: Which was the last year in which October 2nd fell on a Wednesday?
Answer: 2002

Question: Which US President suffered a massive stroke on this day in 1919 which severely incapacitated him for the remainder of his Presidency?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Question: Who led the Muslim forces who captured Jerusalem on this day in 1187, thus ending 88 years of crusader rule of the city?
Answer: Saladin

Question: Born on this day in 1951, how is the pop singer Gordon Sumner better known?
Answer: Sting

Question: Bigwig, Fiver and Hazel are the main characters in which 1972 novel?
Answer: Watership Down

Question: Who was the youngest of King Lear's three daughters?
Answer: Cordelia

Question: Which Marvel Comic's super-hero, a member of The Avengers group, is the alter ego of an originally frail young man called Steve Rogers?
Answer: Captain America

Question: Becky Sharp was the central character in which mid 19th century novel?
Answer: Vanity Fair

Question: What was the surname of the title character in H.G.Wells; novel The Invisible Man?
Answer: Griffin

Question: Which well-known fictional character, who first appeared in print in the 90's, has the rare ability to speak Parseltongue, the language of snakes?
Answer: Harry Potter