Question: What is the scarlet banner of Saint Dennis used by early French kings when setting out for war?
Answer: Oriflamme

Question: What is a dish sprinkled with breadcrumbs or grated cheese and browned?
Answer: Au Gratin

Question: Before the Euro, what was the basic monetary unit of Portugal?
Answer: Escudo

Question: What is the play by Shakespeare featuring the court jester Touchstone?
Answer: As You Like It

Question: What is the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Omicron

Question: What means relating to or similar to bears?
Answer: Ursine

Question: What is the final and longest section of the human small intestine?
Answer: Ileum

Question: What is the lair of a fox?
Answer: Earth

Question: What is a word made from the initials of other words in a phrase or sequence?
Answer: Acronym

Question: The Royal Navy flagship aircraft carrier, which along with its Harrier jump jets was withdrawn from service late 2010, is HMS what?
Answer: Ark Royal

Question: Which Cuban dictator was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1959?
Answer: Batista

Question: What massive effect did these countries experience in the years stated?
Answer: Economic collapse

Question: Which fruit is used in the flavouring of the cognac-based liqueur Grand Marnier?
Answer: Orange

Question: Which fashion label has a suit called 'Sterling Bilious'?
Answer: Ted Baker

Question: What colour is the cross on the national flag of Finland?
Answer: Blue

Question: A statue of which British prime minister stands outside Huddersfield railway station?
Answer: Harold Wilson

Question: After nearly 40 years of TV advertising, what Kimberly-Clark brand replaced a real animal with a CGI (computer generated imagery) in late 2010?
Answer: Andrex

Question: In November 2010 billionaire Stanly Ho paid £210,000 for two large examples of what culinary delicacy?
Answer: Truffle

Question: Controversial singer Brian Hugh Warner is better known by which name (also his band name), a combination borrowed from two iconic real American people?
Answer: Marilyn Manson

Question: Medoc is a wine region in which country?
Answer: France

Question: What geographical feature is shared by the nine nations of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana?
Answer: The Amazon Rainforest

Question: Marnie Geneva Doud was the wife of which US president, the country's 34th?
Answer: Dwight D Eisenhower

Question: What is the name of the fabric used to cover billiard tables and card tables?
Answer: Baize

Question: In June 1935, which well-known but discreet support organization was founded by William G Wilson and Dr Robert Smith in Akron, Ohio?
Answer: Alcoholics Anonymous

Question: A hazzan, or chazzan, leads the congregation in songful prayer in which religion?
Answer: Jewish

Question: French farmer's wife, Marie Harel, reputedly invented which cheese in 1791?
Answer: Camembert

Question: If an insect is micropterous it has small or reduced what?
Answer: Wings

Question: Which strait separates Wales form the island of Anglesey?
Answer: Menai Strait

Question: According to the Bible, in which river did Pharaoh's daughter find the baby Moses in a basket?
Answer: River Nile

Question: In what country, the world's seventh largest by geographical area, is Christmas known as Bada Din (the big day)?
Answer: India

Question: Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, is a territory of which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: 'Three Kings Day' is known by what numerical name (that's 'name', not 'date') in Britain?
Answer: Twelfth Night

Question: The North Pole, said to be Santa's home, is located in which ocean?
Answer: Arctic Ocean

Question: Marzipan is made (conventionally in the western world) mainly from sugar and the flour or meal of which nut?
Answer: Almond

Question: What is the technical name of Mistletoe plant genus, and also Latin for glutinous?
Answer: Viscum

Question: Which American-born English poet, having first names Thomas Stearns, wrote the poem The Cultivation Of Christmas Trees?
Answer: T S Eliot

Question: Which Christmas slogan was introduced by Clarissa Baldwin of Dogs Trust in 1978?
Answer: A Dog Is For Life, Not Just For Christmas

Question: Which British monarch (born 1865, died 1936) introduced the custom of giving thousands of Christmas puddings to staff?
Answer: King George V

Question: In the UK it is traditionally believed that eating a what each day of the twelve days of Christmas brings happiness the following year?
Answer: Mince pie

Question: What is the surname of the family in the 1989 film 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'?
Answer: Griswold

Question: Which southern central US state, whose capital city has the same name, was the last to recognize Christmas as an official holiday?
Answer: Oklahoma

Question: In which country, the largest of its continent, is it said that finding a spider web on Christmas morning brings good luck, and so Christmas trees are decorated with artificial spider webs?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: What day of the week was Christmas day in the year 2000 (in the conventional western calendar)?
Answer: Monday

Question: Under which Puritan leader did the English parliament pass a law banning Christmas in 1647?
Answer: Oliver Cromwell

Question: In which European country is it said that malicious goblins called Kallikantzoroi (or Kallikantzari - singular Kallikantzoros) play troublesome pranks at Christmas?
Answer: Greece

Question: Very loosely related to Christmas, the predatory animal 'uncia uncia' is better known by what name?
Answer: Snow Leopard

Question: In the song 'The Twelve Days Of Christmas', how many swans were a-swimming?
Answer: Seven

Question: The first singing radio commercial, which aired in the US on Christmas Eve 1926, was for which brand?
Answer: Wheaties

Question: The Latin word meaning 'coming' gave us what term which still refers to the coming Christmas period, and also to a particular tradition popular with children?
Answer: Advent

Question: In which country does Santa have his own personal postcode HOH OHO?
Answer: Canada

Question: In 2004, the post office of which country (international dialling code 49) gave away twenty million free scented stickers, to make Christmas cards smell like fir trees, cinammon, gingerbread or honey wax?
Answer: Germany

Question: 'Nadolig Llawen' means Merry Christmas in which western European language?
Answer: Welsh

Question: 'Olive the Other... (what?)', is a Christmas book by Vivian Walsh and J Otto Seibold?
Answer: Reindeer

Question: In which country, an archipelago of 6,852 islands, is it considered inappropriate to send red Christmas cards?
Answer: Japan

Question: The surname Chandler derives from the making or selling of what?
Answer: Candles

Question: Name the pin-up celebrity who appeared on a provocative poster for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) in 2010, with her body marked as if for cuts of meat?
Answer: Pamela Anderson

Question: What material invented by Marc Chavannes and Al Fielding originally as a textured wallpaper celebrated 50 years of quite different and popular use in 2010?
Answer: Bubblewrap

Question: In 2010, scenes of tobacco smoking attracted a fine for the broadcasters of what 1950-60s boy-hero cartoon series in Turkey?
Answer: Tintin

Question: With which country did France agree a 50 year treaty in November 2010 entailing joint forces, and sharing an aircraft carrier and nuclear technology?
Answer: Uk

Question: Barack Obama's 2010 meeting with what leader sparked protests from China, and the description (of the leader) as 'a wolf in monk's clothing'?
Answer: The Dalai Lama

Question: What island nation was hit by an earthquake and tsunami disaster in October 2010?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: A UK Metropolitan Firearms Policeman was removed from duty after bizarrely inserting what into his court evidence at an inquest into a fatal shooting?
Answer: Song titles