Question: Which salad dressing is named after an archipelago in the St Lawrence seaway?
Answer: Thousand Island

Question: With which sport are/were Patrick Head, Ross Brawn and Adrian Newey associated?
Answer: (Formula 1) motor racing

Question: Whose first chip shop was opened in Guiseley, Yorkshire?
Answer: Harry Ramsden

Question: Herod the Great was from 37 to 34BC the Roman appointed king of which province?
Answer: Judaea

Question: Which British Prime Minister signed the 'Entente Cordiale' in 1904?
Answer: Arthur Balfour

Question: In which craft might you use a crewel and a chenille?
Answer: Embroidery

Question: What would be the length of the sides of a square, the area of which was one hectare?
Answer: 100 metres

Question: Which hobby requires the use of 'heelball'?
Answer: Brass-rubbing

Question: In what year did Winston Churchill become Prime Minister for the first time?
Answer: 1940

Question: The song 'The Rain In Spain' comes from which Lerner & Loewe musical?
Answer: My Fair Lady

Question: Which group recorded the 70s and 80s albums 'Street Life' and 'Avalon'?
Answer: Roxy Music

Question: With which sport are/were Liam Tancock, Gemma Spofforth and Missy Franklin associated?
Answer: Swimming

Question: On which TV programme do Kelly Hoppen and Piers Linney appear?
Answer: Dragon's Den

Question: Which guitar company make the Stratocaster?
Answer: Fender

Question: Who was the chairman of the Banco Ambrosiano, found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge, London in 1982?
Answer: Roberto Calvi

Question: Which lake, the largest by volume in the USA after the Great Lakes, lies on the border of California and Nevada?
Answer: Lake Tahoe

Question: Who writes novels about Botswanan detective Precious Ramotswe?
Answer: Alexander McCall Smith

Question: In 1942, which producer and director was the first member of the film industry to be knighted?
Answer: Alexander Korda

Question: In which city is the Trinity Shopping Centre?
Answer: Leeds

Question: The equipment used by which member of a musical group (particularly pop/rock or jazz) might be broken down into 'breakables', 'shells', extensions' and 'hardware'?
Answer: Drummer

Question: Which British mountain has the remains of an observatory at its summit?
Answer: Ben Nevis

Question: Who wrote the book 'A Song of Ice and Fire', adapted for TV as 'Game of Thrones'?
Answer: George RR Martin

Question: Complete the proverb 'Better pay the butcher than the .......'?
Answer: Doctor

Question: Founded in 1838, which Edinburgh store was the oldest independent department store in the world until it became part of House of Fraser in 2005?
Answer: Jenners

Question: Alexandra, the Queen of Edward VII, was the daughter of the king of which country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Of what is 'fescue' an example?
Answer: Grass

Question: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced 'Cheek to Cheek' in which musical?
Answer: Top Hat

Question: The melon flavoured liqueur 'Midori' originated in which country?
Answer: Japan

Question: According to Longfellow's poem what stood 'underneath a spreading chestnut tree'?
Answer: The Village Smithy

Question: Which scientist appeared on British £20 notes issued between 1991 and 2001?
Answer: Michael Faraday

Question: The aniseed flavoured liqueur 'Sambuca' originated in which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: Opened in 1790, which Scottish canal was the world's first sea to sea ship canal?
Answer: Forth & Clyde Canal

Question: Mt Baker, the snowiest place on Earth, is in which mountain range?
Answer: The Cascades

Question: The area with the world's lowest rainfall (less than 0.2mm per year is the Antofagasta region, of which country?
Answer: Chile

Question: Debrecen is the second largest city and a former capital of which European country?
Answer: Hungary

Question: Which engineer appeared on British £5 notes issued between 1990 and 2003?
Answer: George Stephenson

Question: In which book would you find this line; 'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'?
Answer: 1984

Question: Richard Neville (Warwick the Kingmaker) died at which battle of 1471?
Answer: Barnet

Question: Of what is 'gingko' an example?
Answer: A Tree

Question: Opened in 2002, the world's only rotating boat lift is on the Forth & Clyde Canal; what is its name?
Answer: Falkirk Wheel

Question: Complete the proverb 'Children are poor men's .......'?
Answer: Riches

Question: Anne of Cleves was a wife of Henry 8th, in which country is Cleves?
Answer: Germany

Question: Tartu is the second largest city of which European country?
Answer: Estonia

Question: Menieres syndrome affects which part of the body?
Answer: Ears

Question: In 2012, Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in jail for war crimes, of which country had he been president?
Answer: Liberia

Question: Who wrote the operas Salome and Elektra?
Answer: Richard Strauss

Question: Who was on the throne of England in 1400?
Answer: Henry IV

Question: What is the name of the family in the TV sit-com Outnumbered?
Answer: Brockman

Question: During WW II what was Operation Pied Piper?
Answer: Evacuation of British children

Question: Which US President coined the phrase "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"?
Answer: F D Roosevelt

Question: Who was on the throne of England in 1200?
Answer: John

Question: The painters Filippo Marinetti and Umberto Boccioni were leading figures of which early 20th century art movement?
Answer: Futurism

Question: Rhode Island in the USA borders two states, Massachusetts and which other?
Answer: Connecticut

Question: Sometimes known as the true bugs, which order of insects includes the cicadas, aphids and leafhoppers?
Answer: Hemiptera

Question: Which English Prime Minister coined the phrase "the unacceptable face of capitalism"?
Answer: Edward Heath

Question: Which Greek philosopher was appointed as tutor to Alexander the Great?
Answer: Aristotle

Question: Who won the Oscar for best actress for her role in the film Boys Don't Cry in 1999?
Answer: Hilary Swank

Question: Icthyphobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Fish

Question: Washington State in the USA borders two states, Oregon and which other?
Answer: Idaho

Question: The painters Henri Matisse and Andre Derain were leaders of which early 20th century art movement?
Answer: Fauvism

Question: Who was the first British female singer to have a UK No.1 hit in the 1950's?
Answer: Lita Roza

Question: The Oil Drop experiment which led to the determination of the charge on an electron was first performed by which scientist?
Answer: Robert Millican

Question: Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol were founder members of which English folk-rock group?
Answer: Fairport Convention

Question: Which Roman philosopher and statesman was tutor to the Emperor Nero?
Answer: Seneca

Question: Who won the Oscar for best actress for her role in The Hours in 2003?
Answer: Nicole Kidman

Question: What is the name of the family in the long running TV sitcom My Family?
Answer: Harper

Question: The scientific principle which explains that in fluid flow an increase in velocity is associated with a decrease in pressure is named after which family of mathematicians and physicists?
Answer: Bernoulli

Question: An Arundel Tomb; the inspiration for Philip Larkin's poem of the same name is in which English cathedral?
Answer: Chichester

Question: Robin Williamson and Mike Heron were founder members of which influential, but commercially unsuccessful, 1960's/70's band?
Answer: The Incredible String Band

Question: To which family of fish does the goldfish belong?
Answer: Carp

Question: What is the capital of the Caucasian state of Chechnya?
Answer: Grozny

Question: Give a year in the reign of Peter the Great of Russia?
Answer: 1682 - 1725

Question: Which river enters the Irish Sea at Drogheda?
Answer: Boyne

Question: What spirit is added to white creme de menthe to make a stinger cocktail?
Answer: Brandy