Question: What was Commonwealth Day called prior to 1958
Answer: Empire Day

Question: Orangeman’s day in Northern Ireland celebrates victory in which battle
Answer: Battle of the Boyne

Question: Shrove Tuesday is so called because of the tradition that on that day people would be shriven what did shriven mean
Answer: Absolved of their sins

Question: Which Wild West legend was fired as sheriff of Wichita for pocketing fines he'd collected
Answer: Wyatt Earp

Question: Xylography is the art of engraving on which natural substance
Answer: Wood

Question: What was Anne of Cleves home town
Answer: Dusseldorf

Question: Who wrote the novel A Ruthless Need (1995)
Answer: Catherine Cookson

Question: Who was the first person to be buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer

Question: Which British motor cycle manufacturer made the C15
Answer: Bsa

Question: What motorway crosses the Pennines linking the A1 with Manchester
Answer: M62

Question: VH is the international aircraft registration for which country
Answer: Australia

Question: What's the name given to the seat on the back of an elephant
Answer: Howdah

Question: Which British singer was invited to sing at the White House on Millennium Eve
Answer: Tom Jones

Question: Which female artist sold the most albums worldwide in 2009
Answer: Susan Boyle

Question: What was the first UK number one for Jimmy Nail
Answer: Ain't No Doubt

Question: Can you tell the game show from the consolation prize. A toy, a tankard or BFH
Answer: Bullseye

Question: Who hosted the Channel 4 quiz show Codex
Answer: Tony Robinson

Question: Who was the first man to captain coach and manage the England cricket team and also serve on the board of selectors
Answer: Ray Illingworth

Question: Who was the first American to play in the Italian Serie A league
Answer: Alexei Lalas

Question: Where is the US Masters Golf tournament always held
Answer: Augusta

Question: Where is the Horse of the Year show staged
Answer: Wembley Arena

Question: In which area of France is The Camargue
Answer: Provence

Question: You have all eaten Fray Bentos products but in which country is Fray Bentos
Answer: Uruguay

Question: What is the largest city in Canada
Answer: Toronto

Question: Who was the town drunk in Tom Sawyer
Answer: Muff Potter

Question: What would a herpetologist study
Answer: Reptiles

Question: Maledictology is the study of what
Answer: Swear words

Question: Selenology is the study of what
Answer: The Moon

Question: What is the study of using the bumps on one's head to deduce character and intelligence called
Answer: Phrenology

Question: In which form of music might you hear a paper and comb or a washboard being played
Answer: Skiffle

Question: What was the first UK number one to have a number two in the title
Answer: Two Little Boys

Question: In what year was Blackberry Way by The Move and Albatross by Fleetwood Mac UK number ones
Answer: Nineteen sixty nine

Question: What is the theme song from Absolutely Fabulous
Answer: This Wheel's On Fire

Question: Name the Glasgow-born guitar virtuoso and 1960s founder of the band Pentangle who died age 67 in 2011
Answer: Bert Jansch

Question: In America if both the President and Vice President are killed who takes over
Answer: The Speaker of the House of Representatives

Question: Which US government dept. did Eliott Ness work for
Answer: The Treasury Dept

Question: What are curtains called in America
Answer: Drapes

Question: The 'Canyon of Heroes' is in New York but what happens there
Answer: Ticker tape parades are held there

Question: Which American state has the motto Gold and Silver
Answer: Montana

Question: Why were the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships cancelled
Answer: The American team were killed in a plane crash

Question: Who was Bjorn Borg's opponent when he won his fourth Wimbledon singles title
Answer: Roscoe Tanner

Question: In which Italian town is the San Marino Grand Prix held
Answer: Imola

Question: With which sport is Liz Edgar associated
Answer: Equestrianism

Question: Who played Jerry Lee Lewis in the biopic of his life called Great Balls of Fire
Answer: Dennis Quaid

Question: In the 2004 film biopic Beyond the Sea, Kevin Spacey plays which 1960s singer
Answer: Bobby Darin

Question: Who played Tina Turner in the 1993 biopic What's Love Got to Do with It
Answer: Angela Bassett

Question: Who played boxer James Braddock in the 2005 biopic Cinderella Man
Answer: Russell Crowe

Question: What nationality was Charles 11's wife Catherine of Braganza
Answer: Portuguese

Question: Who did David Cameron succeed as leader of the Conservative Party
Answer: Michael Howard

Question: Cressida is a moon of which planet in the Solar System
Answer: Uranus

Question: In which American state capital is The National Cowboy Hall of Fame
Answer: Oklahoma City

Question: What is a Penang lawyer
Answer: Walking stick

Question: Which film was based on Gone to Texas by Forest Parker
Answer: The Outlaw Josey Wales

Question: What was the first name of the philosopher Heidegger
Answer: Martin

Question: Who played the vet who hated animals in the 2000/2001 TV sitcom Beast
Answer: Alexander Armstrong

Question: Who played Councillor David Horton in the TV sitcom The Vicar of Dibley
Answer: Gary Waldhorn

Question: In One Foot In The Grave, what is the Meldrew's telephone number
Answer: 4291

Question: Who played Fliss Hawthorne in the TV sitcom The Cuckoo Waltz
Answer: Diane Keen

Question: What is the largest instrument in the violin family
Answer: Double bass

Question: What is the smallest instrument in an orchestra
Answer: Triangle

Question: On what musical instrument would you play a rappel
Answer: Drum

Question: What musical instrument was invented by Johann Christophe Denner
Answer: Clarinet

Question: How many strings are there on a viola
Answer: Four

Question: Who was the lead singer with Cream
Answer: Jack Bruce

Question: Who boasted of having a widget in his beer in the advert
Answer: Jack Dee

Question: Who was the British war hero who was seized in Beirut in 1989 at the age of 74
Answer: Jackie Mann

Question: Besides Wembley which other London venue was used in the 1966 World Cup finals
Answer: White City

Question: Which motor racing track is east of Chester
Answer: Oulton Park

Question: Which sport is played at The Guards Club
Answer: Polo

Question: Which European city has an underground station called George V
Answer: Paris

Question: Which motor manufacturer make the Qashqai
Answer: Nissan

Question: What type of transport is an abra used in Dubai
Answer: Water bus

Question: What road safety item was introduced into the UK on 31 October 1951
Answer: Zebra Crossings

Question: What was advertised with the strap line I dreamed I had a swinging time in my
Answer: Maidenform Bra

Question: What is the oldest known alloy
Answer: Bronze

Question: How many barrels did the original Gatling gun have
Answer: Six

Question: What are the two moons of Mars called
Answer: Phobos and Deimos

Question: Actor Norman Lumsden's most famous role was in an advert, who did he play
Answer: JR Hartley

Question: What is Russian billionaire industrialist Roman Abramovich's investment corporation called
Answer: Millhouse Capital

Question: A melcryptovestimentaphiliac compulsively steals what
Answer: Knickers

Question: What is the second event in the heptathlon
Answer: High jump

Question: Which county cricket club has a rearing white horse on its crest
Answer: Kent

Question: Colonel Gaddafi was one linked to buying which England football league team
Answer: Crystal Palace

Question: What was the nickname of boxer Marvin Hagler
Answer: Marvellous

Question: Which super group were originally called the 'New Yardbirds'
Answer: Led Zeppelin

Question: Which former soap star had a hit in 1993 with This Is It
Answer: Dannii Minogue

Question: What is the capital of the Maldive islands
Answer: Male