Question: The lascivious bespectacled Cosmo Smallpiece was the creation of which late comedian?
Answer: Les Dawson

Question: In what capacity has Hermann Tilke frequently contributed to Formula 1 since 1995?
Answer: Circuit or Track Design

Question: What post does Welshman Mark Sampson hold in English football?
Answer: England Women’s

Question: Which cathedral is known locally as “The Ship of the Fens”?
Answer: Ely

Question: Which cathedral’s spires have earned it the name, “The Ladies of the Vale”?
Answer: Lichfield

Question: Which King of England died after falling from his horse, Sorrel?
Answer: William III

Question: Around which major inlet of the British coastline do Europe’s greatest tidal ranges occur?
Answer: Bristol Channel

Question: Which feature on the River Thames marks the upper limit of its tidal waters?
Answer: Teddington Lock

Question: In ecology, which Q is a rectangular frame laid on the ground to define an area for study?
Answer: Quadrat

Question: Of what geographical feature is a growler a miniature version?
Answer: Iceberg or Ice floe

Question: Which organisation occupies Vauxhall Cross (aka Legoland) on the Thames’ South Bank?
Answer: MI6 or SIS

Question: What is the term describing the type of art which depicts scenes from everyday life?
Answer: Genre painting or art

Question: What is the extramarital dating website whose subscription list was hacked in July 2015?
Answer: Ashley Madison

Question: What is the term in India for one who drives and keeps a working elephant?
Answer: Mahout

Question: … and in Canada for one who drives a dog sled?
Answer: Musher

Question: Which Northern English city incorporates five river valleys and by tradition seven hills?
Answer: Sheffield

Question: Which annual awards celebrate the “worst in film”?
Answer: Golden Raspberry or Razzies

Question: Which prizes does Harvard award annually for trivial achievements in scientific research?
Answer: Ig Nobel Prizes

Question: In cricket, if a batsman had been victim to a Mankad, as what would his dismissal be recorded?
Answer: Run out

Question: Of which 1969 film was 15-year-old Billy Casper the central character?
Answer: Kes

Question: What name specifically describes an inhabitant of Galway?
Answer: Galwegian

Question: Which language gave English the word kahuna as in “the big kahuna”?
Answer: Hawaiian

Question: Which publication for young people was known by the initials BOP?
Answer: Boys’ Own Paper

Question: Which metallic element is the essential additive to steel when making stainless steel?
Answer: Chromium

Question: The Appalachian and Hammered are two types of which traditional musical instrument?
Answer: Dulcimer

Question: Name either of the British cities which boasts both a Central and a Queen Street Station?
Answer: Glasgow or Cardiff

Question: What do the Argentinians call what we call the Falkland Islands?
Answer: Las MALVINAS

Question: What is the most common alternative name for the gnu?
Answer: Wildebeeste

Question: What is the maximum number of players in a rounders team?
Answer: Nine

Question: In card games such as Whist and Bridge, what word is used for just one card in a suit?
Answer: Singleton

Question: Both of Art Garfunkel’s no. 1 UK hits contained which word in the title?
Answer: Eyes

Question: What word was common to three of the titles of the Beatles’ first six Top 20 hits?
Answer: Love

Question: At which Park did Yeats feel moved to write a poem about the wild swans?
Answer: Coole

Question: Who wrote the 1969 novel ‘The Godfather’?
Answer: Mario Puzo

Question: Why are the acoustics so good in the Sutton-in-Ashfield Wetherspoon’s?
Answer: Former Cinema

Question: In ‘Treasure Island’, what is the name of Long John Silver’s parrot?
Answer: Captain Flint

Question: What was the highest-grossing film worldwide of 2013?
Answer: Iron Man 3

Question: ‘Please, Sir’ (1968-72) was set in which fictional school?
Answer: Fenn Street

Question: At which racecourse is the Irish Grand National run?
Answer: Fairyhouse

Question: Which English Premiership rugby club play home games at The Twickenham Stoop?
Answer: Harlequins

Question: Which phrase meaning ‘very drunk’ has its origins in nautical terminology?
Answer: Three Sheets To The Wind

Question: What is the third sign of the zodiac?
Answer: Gemini

Question: In 1979, where in Pennsylvania was there a partial nuclear meltdown accident?
Answer: Three Mile Island

Question: What element is third in the periodic table of the elements, after hydrogen and helium?
Answer: Lithium

Question: In 1973, Britain joined at the same time as Ireland and which other country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: In which year was the Maastricht treaty signed? (It came into force a year later.)
Answer: 1992

Question: Frederick Delius was born in 1862 in which country?
Answer: England / U.K.

Question: Who composed ‘Finlandia’ (1899) and the ‘Karelia Suite’ (c 1893)?
Answer: Jean Sibelius

Question: Bedrich was the first name of which Czech composer, 1824 to 1884?
Answer: Smetana

Question: In which month did Browning long to be in England, in ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’?
Answer: April

Question: In the name of the unpleasant bacterium c. difficile, what does the ‘C’ represent?
Answer: Clostridium

Question: What colour are viagra tablets (apparently)?
Answer: Blue

Question: The character Robinson Crusoe was almost certainly based on whom?
Answer: Alexander Selkirk

Question: Which ten-letter word means ‘cave dweller’?
Answer: Troglodyte

Question: Which scientist was offered the Presidency of Israel?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: Somaliland and Eritrea were both colonized by which European nation?
Answer: Italy

Question: Lemurs in the wild are unique to which country?
Answer: Madagascar

Question: To within one year either way, when was the last judicial hanging in Great Britain?
Answer: 1964

Question: Sport and leisure – what sporting equipment is 17.75 inches in diameter?
Answer: Dartboard

Question: The coypu, or nutria, was originally native to which continent?
Answer: South America

Question: Sometimes called a beaver dam, what is the more customary name for a beaver’s home?
Answer: Lodge

Question: Music. In which country is the song ‘Dominick the Donkey’ set?
Answer: Italy

Question: In the ‘Star Wars’ films, what sort of creature is Chewbacca?
Answer: Wookiee

Question: Who starred as Vera Drake on TV, and as Professor Umbridge in the Harry Potter films?
Answer: Imelda Staunton

Question: In which decade of the 20th C. did the first Oscar ceremonies take place?
Answer: 1920s

Question: What was Harry Hill’s occupation before he moved into comedy?
Answer: Doctor

Question: Which of the seven actors who have played James Bond once polished coffins for a job?
Answer: Sean Connery

Question: Born in 1955, who wrote ‘The Firm’, ‘The Client’ and ‘The Chamber’?
Answer: John Grisham

Question: In 1520, what was the name given to the meeting held between Henry VIII and Francis I?
Answer: The FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF

Question: By what title was British Prime Minister Robert Banks Jenkinson otherwise known?
Answer: Earl of LIVERPOOL

Question: In which European country does/did the late Norman Wisdom have a huge cult status?
Answer: Albania

Question: ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ was published in 1922. Who was the author?
Answer: T.E. Lawrence / Lawrence

Question: What is missing from this list of ingredients for Hollandaise sauce? Egg yolks, butter,
Answer: Lemon Juice

Question: What was the first name of Dick Van Dyke’s Cockney character in ‘Mary Poppins’?
Answer: Bert

Question: What is the capital of Malawi?
Answer: Lilongwe

Question: The drink known as ‘Ice pick’ consists of cold tea, lemon juice, and which spirit?
Answer: Vodka

Question: In the late 70s, which Cockney played the male lead in the tv programme ‘Yus, My Dear’?
Answer: Arthur Mullard

Question: What is the capital city of Gambia?
Answer: Banjul