Question: In 1973, which horse set new records at the US Kentucky Derby and a new world record at the Belmont Stakes?
Answer: Secretariat

Question: Which jockey won seven races on Champions Day at Ascot in September 1996?
Answer: Frankie Dettori

Question: In which year was the tax on betting abolished in the Britain?
Answer: 2001

Question: Famous racehorse Seabiscuit was the grandson of which racehorse?
Answer: Man O’War

Question: In the Northern Hemisphere on which date do all racehorses celebrate their birthday?
Answer: January 1st

Question: The English Grand National Steeplechase is held annually at which race course?
Answer: Aintree

Question: What is the name of the two-wheeled cart pulled by horses in harness races?
Answer: Sulky

Question: Which Australian horse race is marketed as ‘The race that stops a nation’?
Answer: The Melbourne Cup

Question: In 1983, who became the first woman to train an English Grand National winner?
Answer: Jenny Pitman

Question: Which English horse race is sometimes referred to as the ‘Blue Ribband’ of the turf?
Answer: Epsom Derby

Question: What were the first names of American novelist J D Salinger?
Answer: Jerome David

Question: 18th Century anatomist Anna Manzolini was an expert at making anatomical models from which material?
Answer: Wax

Question: How many red stripes are there on the national flag of Thailand?
Answer: Two

Question: In Januaury 1970, Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their farewell concert together at which Las Vegas hotel?
Answer: Frontier Hotel

Question: Which fish are traditionally used to make Stargazy pie?
Answer: Pilchards

Question: Alliumphobia is the fear of which herb?
Answer: Garlic

Question: In medicine, stomatitis affects which part of the body?
Answer: Mouth

Question: What is the hottest chilli in the world, said to measure over 2 million Scoville units?
Answer: Trinidad Monuga Scorpion

Question: Which English Test Cricket captain retired from professional cricket in August 2012?
Answer: Andrew Strauss

Question: Which is the youngest book in the New Testament of The Bible?
Answer: Book of Revelations

Question: Cheveux is French for which part of the body?
Answer: Hair

Question: What is the title of English author Jane Austen’s first published novel?
Answer: Sense and Sensibility

Question: Who played British television detective Jim Taggart?
Answer: Mark McManus

Question: Which London football club is the subject of the novel ‘Fever Pitch’ by Nick Hornby?
Answer: Arsenal FC

Question: In mythology, who pulled the thorn from the Lion’s paw?
Answer: Androcles

Question: Which British X-Factor judge released a 2012 single entitled ‘Young’?
Answer: Tulisa

Question: The Hawaiian phrase ‘Aloha kakahiaka’ translates to what in English?
Answer: Good morning

Question: Which was the first country to win the Six Nations Rugby Union Championship?
Answer: England

Question: Who was the first person to report seeing craters on the moon using a telescope?
Answer: Galileo

Question: In which year did British monarch Queen Victoria celebrate her Diamond Jubilee?
Answer: 1897

Question: Which line on the London Underground rail system has the longest distance between two stations?
Answer: Metropolitan Line

Question: Which bird has the poetic name ‘Halycon’?
Answer: Kingfisher

Question: How many spaces does a standard ‘Connect Four’ game have?
Answer: 42

Question: Brownsea Island is off the coast of which English county?
Answer: Dorset

Question: What is the title of the Millais painting used to advertise Pears Soap?
Answer: Bubbles

Question: Which US film director and actor said he wanted to ‘Achieve immortality through not dying’?
Answer: Woody Allen

Question: Dorothea Jordan was the mistress of which future British monarch?
Answer: William IV

Question: What was the the first name of 17th Century artist van Dyck?
Answer: Anthony

Question: A splat is a single thin, flat piece of wood, often ornamental, which forms part of which piece of furniture?
Answer: Chair

Question: ‘Spud’ is slang for which vegetable?
Answer: Potato

Question: What is the fruit of a rose bush called?
Answer: (Rose) Hip

Question: Tom Church’s statue ‘Freedom’, in Stirling, Scotland, was inspired by which 1995 film?
Answer: Braveheart

Question: Caroline, John and Patrick were the children of which US President?
Answer: John F Kennedy

Question: Late actor Larry Hagman played which character in the US television series ‘Dallas’?
Answer: J R Ewing

Question: ‘The Rumble in the ‘what’ took place between boxers George Foreman and Muhammad Ali on 30th October 1974?
Answer: Jungle

Question: Which late actor narrated the British children’s television programme ‘Willo the Wisp’?
Answer: Kenneth Williams

Question: On which part of the body would a shako be worn?
Answer: Head

Question: A gormandizer is a person who does what to excess?
Answer: Eat

Question: If something is ‘preocular’ it is situated in front of which part of the body?
Answer: Eye

Question: Scottish playwright Sharman Macdonald is the mother of which famous English actress?
Answer: Keira Knightly

Question: Who wrote the 1890 play ‘Hedda Gabler’?
Answer: Henrik Ibsen

Question: What is the name of the road which runs through the British Grand National race course at Aintree?
Answer: Melling Road

Question: Who plays alcoholic John Hancock in the 2008 film ‘Hancock’?
Answer: Will Smith

Question: ‘Alcea rosea’ is the Latin name for which common garden flower?
Answer: Hollyhock

Question: ‘The Valley of the ‘what’ is a 1966 novel by US author Jacqueline Susann?
Answer: Dolls

Question: Jess Wright, Chloe Sims, Lauren Pope and James Argent all appear in which British Television reality show?
Answer: The Only Way Is Essex

Question: Bryndza cheese is made from the milk of which animal?
Answer: Sheep

Question: Euchre, Pinochle and Skat are all games played with what?
Answer: Cards

Question: The Gordon Bennett Cup, first awarded in 1906, is a prize in which sport?
Answer: Gas Ballooning

Question: On a standard dartboard, what number lies between 8 and 14?
Answer: 11

Question: The ‘Wolf Moon’ is the name of the full moon which occurs during which month of the year?
Answer: January

Question: In which century was the office of Black Rod created for the House of Lords in England?
Answer: 14th Century

Question: ‘Rock Paper Scissors’ is the title of an exhibition which opened in London’s Waddington Custot Galleries in November 2012 in celebration of the 80th birthday of which British artist?
Answer: Sir Peter Blake

Question: Who wrote the 1932 novel ‘Tobacco Road’?
Answer: Erskine Caldwell

Question: In which year was drug testing first introduced in the Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: 1968

Question: Who became British Prime Minister on November 1990?
Answer: John Major

Question: Which country is the only one to hold a Grand Slam Tennis Tournament on clay courts?
Answer: France

Question: Jamaica Inn is in which English county?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: What is a female hedgehog called?
Answer: Sow

Question: What breed of dog is known as a ‘Sausage dog’?
Answer: Dachshund

Question: Who was the first centrefold in the December 1953 issue of Playboy magazine?
Answer: Marilyn Monroe

Question: US singer Tony Christie sang ‘Is This the Way to – ‘where’ in 1971?
Answer: Amarillo

Question: During which month of the year are the US Presidential elections held?
Answer: November

Question: What was the most common password used online in 2012?
Answer: Password

Question: What colour shirts did the Italian Fascists wear under the leadership of Benito Mussolini?
Answer: Black

Question: Pepe le Pew is what type of cartoon animal?
Answer: Skunk

Question: Which theatre opened in Norfolk Street, Sheffield, England in 1971?
Answer: Crucible Theatre

Question: Which US city was named after St Francis of Assisi?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: What was the name of the backing group of British singer Gerry Marsden?
Answer: The Pacemakers