Question: What is the correct term for an auctioneer’s hammer?
Answer: Gavel

Question: In a band or orchestra what kind of instrument is a high hat?
Answer: Cymbal

Question: Which breed of cattle is called Holstein in the USA?
Answer: Friesian

Question: The Third Foot and Mouth Regiment featured in which Carry On film?
Answer: Carry On Up The Khyber

Question: A locum is a temporary replacement for a doctor and which other profession?
Answer: Clergyman

Question: The badge of which cricket county features three pears?
Answer: Worcester

Question: Which word means ‘thing to wear’ in Japanese?
Answer: Kimono

Question: By what process do plants absorb moisture through their roots?
Answer: Osmosis

Question: Messier Numbers are allocated to what?
Answer: Groups of Stars

Question: Which creature is the emblem of St Agnes?
Answer: Lamb

Question: What name is given to the carved seashells or whalebone fashioned by sailors?
Answer: Scrimshaw

Question: Which hairdresser created the ‘wash n‘ wear bob’ in 1965?
Answer: Vidal Sassoon

Question: Used in brewing what is Humulus Lupulus?
Answer: The Hop Plant

Question: Which adventurer lived at 7 Savile Row?
Answer: Phileas Fogg

Question: Which construction was officially titled the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart?
Answer: Berlin Wall

Question: The Schlieffen Plan was enacted during which conflict?
Answer: World War I

Question: In which film did Clint Eastwood play Will Munny?
Answer: Unforgiven

Question: Which famous western takes place in fictional Hadleyville?
Answer: High Noon

Question: What name was given by the Sioux Indians to John J Dunbar?
Answer: Dances With Wolves

Question: Who had a secretary called Joan Greengross?
Answer: Reginald Perrin

Question: For which paper merchants did David Brent work in The Office?
Answer: Wernham Hogg

Question: Which cocktail is ‘The Queen of Drinks’?
Answer: Bloody Mary

Question: A ‘Boilermaker’ is whisky chased with what?
Answer: Beer

Question: Which state did JFK represent as a senator?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: Patricia Kennedy was divorced from which English actor?
Answer: Peter Lawford

Question: Which site in Montana is marked by the Battlefield National Monument?
Answer: Site of The Little Big Horn

Question: Who is commemorated by a museum at Alloway, Strathclyde?
Answer: Robbie Burns

Question: On which river does Peterborough stand?
Answer: Nene

Question: What is the army equivalent to a Royal Navy Captain?
Answer: Colonel

Question: On which river does Kidderminster stand?
Answer: Stour

Question: What is the army equivalent to a Royal Navy Commodore?
Answer: Brigadier

Question: Who painted The Light of the World?
Answer: Holman Hunt

Question: Which English town did the Romans call Camulodonum?
Answer: Colchester

Question: Which Blackadder cast member was knighted in the 2013 Birthday Honours List?
Answer: Sir Tony Robinson

Question: Which city does Islam regard as the next most holy after Mecca?
Answer: Medina

Question: Which seaside resort extends either side of the Great Orme headland?
Answer: Llandudno

Question: Which football club does Robbie Williams make much of supporting?
Answer: Port Vale

Question: For which London football club did Rod Stewart have an unsuccessful trial?
Answer: Brentford

Question: Which is the only county in the Republic of Ireland whose name begins with a vowel?
Answer: County Offaly

Question: What is the name of the Teletubbies’ vacuum cleaner-like housekeeper and guardian?
Answer: Noo-noo

Question: Which university’s architecture originally inspired the term “red-brick university”?
Answer: Liverpool University

Question: What kind of publication is the speciality of the Samuel French publishing house?
Answer: Plays or Drama or equivalent

Question: Which EU country’s national anthem, “The Royal March”, has no official words?
Answer: Spain

Question: Mercenary soldiers from which country were described as “Wild Geese”?
Answer: Ireland

Question: Found in North America, what kind of creature is a quahog?
Answer: Shellfish or Mollusc

Question: Participants in which activity would be most likely to make use of Naismith’s Rule?
Answer: Hikers or Mountaineers or

Question: Which major US city’s metropolitan area is clustered around Puget Sound?
Answer: Seattle

Question: Which material when crushed for recycling is known as “cullet”?
Answer: Glass

Question: Which country’s burgeoning film industry is nicknamed “Nollywood”?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: Give any of the three words which might follow a so-called “Oxford comma”?
Answer: and, or or nor

Question: Who, in August this year, was announced as the new “Dr Who” Doctor?
Answer: Peter Capaldi

Question: What feature of a National guitar distinguishes it from more orthodox acoustic guitars?
Answer: Metal or Steel body

Question: What visible features of a concert harp have the same function as a piano’s black keys?
Answer: Pedals

Question: Which kingdom was formed by the 7th century unification of Bernicia and Deira?
Answer: Northumbria

Question: Who was the first monarch to style himself “King of the English” and “King of All Britain”?
Answer: Æthelstan

Question: Which TV quiz show host witnessed the pendant’s burial?
Answer: Bamber Gascoigne

Question: Which baseball legend is the subject of the 2013 biopic, “42”?
Answer: Jackie Robinson

Question: Which 1989 baseball movie had the tagline “If you build it, he will come”?
Answer: Field of Dreams

Question: Also the name of the local dialect, what is the term for an inhabitant of Monaco?
Answer: Monegasque

Question: Which band’s eponymous front man is married to BAFTA-winning actress Carey Mulligan?
Answer: Mumford and Sons

Question: As well as having one of the shortest names, which is Britain’s smallest species of duck?
Answer: Teal

Question: Of which modern country does the former kingdom of Bohemia form a major part?
Answer: Czech Republic

Question: Of which longer mountain range do the Transylvanian Alps form the southern arm?
Answer: Carpathians

Question: In which field of knowledge was the 2nd century Galen of Pergamon a notable pioneer?
Answer: Medicine or Pharmacy

Question: Which participant in the Trojan Wars is credited with the idea of the Wooden Horse?
Answer: Odysseus or Ulysses

Question: Which epic poem, attributed to Homer, tells a history of the Trojan Wars?
Answer: The Iliad

Question: Which Shakespeare play has the siege of Troy as its setting?
Answer: Troilus and Cressida

Question: Which instrument accompanied “Silent Night”’s first performance?
Answer: Guitar

Question: Ultimately, which 538-strong institution votes in a new president?
Answer: The Electoral College

Question: Which five words from a nursery rhyme were the first Edison recorded on a phonograph?
Answer: Mary had a little lamb

Question: What term can be both a piece of cartilage in certain joints and a feature of a liquid?
Answer: Meniscus

Question: What term can be both a highly energised state of matter and a bodily fluid?
Answer: Plasma

Question: Which chemical acid makes up around 0.5% of what is called gastric acid?
Answer: Hydrochloric

Question: Anatomy. What can be true, false, or floating?
Answer: Ribs

Question: In the Just William stories by Richmal Crompton, what is the name of William’s gang?
Answer: Outlaws

Question: Who was President of the USA in 1976?
Answer: Gerald Ford

Question: Who was the first of the regular cast of ‘Dad’s Army’ to die?
Answer: James Beck

Question: Sax Rohmer created which notorious, fictional criminal?
Answer: Dr. FU MANCHU

Question: Angela Merkel is the leader of which political party in Germany?
Answer: Cdu

Question: Which consecutive letters of the alphabet make up the name of an airline?
Answer: Klm

Question: In 1996, which New Zealand group got to no. 5 in the UK charts with ‘How Bizarre’?
Answer: Omc

Question: Which ‘Eastenders’ character carried the Olympic torch on the programme?
Answer: Billy Mitchell