Question: In poetry, a tercet is a stanza in a poem made up of how many lines?
Answer: Three

Question: William Pitt the Elder and William Pitt the Younger were British Prime Ministers during the reign of which monarch?
Answer: King George III

Question: Who was the first Children’s Laureate?
Answer: Quentin Blake

Question: In Greek mythology, what is the name of the many-headed monster slain by Heracles?
Answer: Hydra

Question: A shepherd’s pie is traditionally made with which meat?
Answer: Lamb

Question: French playwright Jean-Baptiste Poquelin was better known by what name?
Answer: Moliere

Question: The ceibo is the national flower and tree of which South American country?
Answer: Argentina

Question: The 1963 film ‘The Birds’ is based on a story by which novelist?
Answer: Daphne du Maurier

Question: In card games, a prial is a set of how many cards of the same value?
Answer: Three

Question: What is the name of the punctuation mark that is represented by a comma under a dot?
Answer: Semicolon

Question: A silver medal is traditionally awarded for which place in a race or competition?
Answer: Second

Question: Who captained the England football team at the 1958 World Cup Finals?
Answer: Billy Wright

Question: Which actor was singer Madonna’s first husband?
Answer: Sean Penn

Question: What are the first names of Eric Feeble’s son and daughter in the animated television series ‘Stressed Eric’?
Answer: Claire and Brian

Question: Which footballer claimed that his hand-ball goal against England in 1986 was ‘The hand of God’?
Answer: Diego Maradona

Question: Juliette Norton married which British television chef in 2000?
Answer: Jamie Oliver

Question: Rozencrantz and Gildenstern are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: In the human body, toxaemia is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: Blood poisoning

Question: Which British politician introduced the expression ‘Terminological inexactitude’, a euphemism for a lie or untruth?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: Who is the host of British television panel show ‘Eight Out of Ten Cats’?
Answer: Jimmy Carr

Question: What type of creature is a tarantula?
Answer: Spider/arachnid

Question: Lipshen is the name of the cat in which Roald Dahl book?
Answer: The Witches

Question: Which famous race horse was stolen from the Ballymany Stud in Ireland in February 1983?
Answer: Shergar

Question: Mount Huascaran is in which South American country?
Answer: Peru

Question: Shiitake is what type of foodstuff?
Answer: Mushroom

Question: Romansh is an official language of which European country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Who was the first British footballer to play 100 Champions League matches?
Answer: David Beckham

Question: The Bossa Nova dance originated in which country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: David Evans is the real name of which Irish musician?
Answer: The Edge

Question: What was the first game show to be broadcast on commercially-licenced television in the US in 1941?
Answer: Truth or Consequence

Question: What is the name of the Japanese form of therapy that uses simple hands-on, no touch, and visualisation techniques, with the goal of improving the flow of life energy in a person?
Answer: Reiki

Question: Lynn Reid Banks debut novel was entitled ‘The…’what’-Shaped Room’?
Answer: L

Question: Which band released a 2007 album entitled ‘Myths of the Near Future’?
Answer: The Klaxons

Question: What was the pen name of US crime writer Frederic Dannay?
Answer: Ellery Queen

Question: The TWIF is the governing body for which sport
Answer: Tug of War (Tug of War International Federation)

Question: Which fruit is the main ingredient of the liqueur Quetsch?
Answer: Plum

Question: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox play four friends in which 1972 film?
Answer: Deliverance

Question: Which make of car has the advertising slogan ‘Zoom, Zoom’?
Answer: Mazda

Question: How many coloured rings are on the Olympic flag?
Answer: Five

Question: Who was the founder of the modern Olympic Games?
Answer: Pierre de Coubertin

Question: The Olympic Torch is lit at which ancient site?
Answer: Olympia

Question: In which US state were the 1960 Winter Olympic Games held?
Answer: California

Question: An Olympiad is a period of how many successive years?
Answer: Four

Question: The decathlon is contested over how many days?
Answer: Two

Question: The Olympic Marathon is held in commemoration of which ancient Greek soldier who ran from Marathon to Athens?
Answer: Pheidippides

Question: Which country has won the most medals in total at the Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: United States of America

Question: Which event is sometimes referred to as the ‘Hop, step and jump’?
Answer: Triple jump

Question: Which US retired speed skater has won five gold medals at the Winter Olympic Games?
Answer: Bonnie Blair

Question: Who was the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 seven times in a row, at the 1976 Montreal Games?
Answer: Nadia Comaneci

Question: During which three years were the modern Summer Olympic Games cancelled?
Answer: 1916, 1940, 1944

Question: The distance of the Olympic marathon is 26 miles and how many yards?
Answer: 385 yards

Question: Which European city hosted the first Olympic Games in which women were allowed to participate?
Answer: Paris – 1900

Question: At the 1896 Athens Summer Olympic Games, the winners were given a silver medal and a branch from which type of tree?
Answer: Olive

Question: Who was the only Olympic medallist to have won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Philip Noel-Baker

Question: The length of the Olympic marathon was extended for which British monarch, so that the competitors finished in front of where the monarch was seated?
Answer: King Edward VII

Question: What are the names of the two 2012 London Olympic Games mascots?
Answer: Wenlock and Mandeville

Question: Which British female swimmer won a silver medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games for the 400 metre medley?
Answer: Sharron Davies

Question: Which European city hosted the 2004 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: Athens

Question: Which gymnast has won the most gold medals, nine in total, in Olympic history?
Answer: Larrisa Latynina

Question: The men’s football team from which country won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Argentina

Question: What was the name of the horse that Zara Phillips (Tindall) should have ridden at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but had to pull out because of an injury to the horse?
Answer: Toytown

Question: Which British rower won five gold medals in five consecutive Olympic Games?
Answer: Steve Redgrave

Question: In which European city was the first opening ceremony of the Olympic Games held?
Answer: London

Question: Which country’s team always leads the procession of athletes during the Olympic Opening Ceremony?
Answer: Greece

Question: The heptathlon is made up of how many events?
Answer: Seven

Question: In 1924, which country hosted the first Winter Olympic Games?
Answer: France

Question: How many chances in each round do high-jumpers get to clear the bar?
Answer: Three

Question: In ancient Olympic Games, some men wore a ‘kynodesme’ to restrain which part of their body?
Answer: Penis

Question: In 1960, who became the first Sub-Saharan African to win an Olympic Gold Medal?
Answer: Abebe Bikila

Question: The ‘J’ approach and the ‘Flared’ approach are associated with which event?
Answer: High Jump

Question: Who won the Eurovison Song Contest for the United Kingdom in 1967?
Answer: Sandie Shaw

Question: Which US author committed suicide with a shotgun in 1961?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Question: On which Greek island did Jacqueline Kennedy marry shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis in October 1968?
Answer: Skorpios

Question: Which Arthur Miller play aroused controversy over his portrayal of his failed marriage to actress Marilyn Monroe?
Answer: After the Fall