Question: A system known as SCOOT (Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique) is used to control our travel movements in what way?
Answer: Traffic Lights

Question: Who was Britain's longest-serving Foreign Secretary, being in office from December 1905 to December 1916?
Answer: (Sir Edward) Grey

Question: 'Rotten Boroughs' is a regular feature of which magazine?
Answer: Private Eye

Question: In the Roy Grace series of novels by Peter James, which word is common to all of the titles?
Answer: Dead

Question: In which city was Terry Wogan born?
Answer: Limerick

Question: In a nursery rhyme who 'kissed the girls and made them cry'?
Answer: GEORGIE PORGiE

Question: Which singer created the alter egos Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane?
Answer: David Bowie

Question: On which river does the city of Worcester stand?
Answer: River Severn

Question: What is the better known trade name of the drug fluoxetine?
Answer: Prozac

Question: An ampersand is a symbol used in printing to replace which word?
Answer: And

Question: Which literary character was described by the author as 'The Napoleon of Crime'?
Answer: Professor James Moriarty

Question: Who is the only British Prime Minister to serve under 3 monarchs?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin

Question: In which novel is the world divided into Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia?
Answer: 1984

Question: Galena is an ore of which metal?
Answer: Lead

Question: Who was US President at the time of the Wall Street crash?
Answer: Herbert Hoover

Question: Nicknamed the City of Pearls, what is the capital of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh?
Answer: Hyderabad

Question: Which TV sitcom about a branch line station took its name from a former chairman of British Railways?
Answer: Oh, Doctor Beeching!

Question: Which vegetable has varieties Ailsa Craig, Bedfordshire Champion and Express Yellow?
Answer: Onion

Question: Bartolomeo Cristofori is regarded as the inventor of which musical instrument?
Answer: Piano

Question: What is the scientific name for short-sightedness?-
Answer: Myopia

Question: Who captained England when they won the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup?
Answer: Martin Johnson

Question: Which 1991 film won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress?
Answer: The Silence Of The Lambs

Question: On which London thoroughfare are the Lyric, Apollo, Gielgud and Queen's theatres?
Answer: Shaftesbury Avenue

Question: What is the number of the Olympiad to be held in Rio in 2016?
Answer: XXXI or 31

Question: Which edible fruit contains the most calories?
Answer: Avocado

Question: Which is the largest country in the world, by area, that uses only one time zone?
Answer: China

Question: On which Beatles album in the UK does the song 'Doctor Robert' appear?
Answer: Revolver

Question: Whose 2008 autobiography was titled 'Last Chorus: An Autobiographical Medley'?
Answer: Humphrey Lyttelton

Question: On a computer keyboard the £ sign shares a key with which number?
Answer: 3

Question: What was the name of Sherlock Holmes' older and smarter brother'?
Answer: Mycroft

Question: Name either of the British Prime Ministers born in 1916.
Answer: EDWARD HEATH or HAROLD WILSON

Question: Sphalerite is an ore of which metal?
Answer: Zinc

Question: In which city was Kenneth Branagh born?
Answer: Belfast

Question: What sort of creature was Jeremy Fisher in the works of Beatrix Potter?
Answer: A Frog

Question: What is the name of the main French stock market index?
Answer: Cac

Question: Which band returned to the top of the charts in 1999 with 'Maria', more than 18 years after their previous chart-topper, 'The Tide is High'?
Answer: Blondie

Question: The city of Sunderland stands at the mouth of which river?
Answer: River Wear

Question: In the book of Kings in the Old Testament what is the name of the priest who anoints Solomon with oil?
Answer: Zadok

Question: Which bitter extract from the leaves of the plant Artemisia Absinthium is an important flavouring ingredient of absinthe?
Answer: (Oil Of) Wormwood

Question: Where in 2000 did Charles Darwin succeed Charles Dickens?
Answer: On The Back Of A Ten Pound Note

Question: What is secreted by the lachrymal glands?
Answer: Tears

Question: Which was the first film in colour to win an Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: Gone With The Wind

Question: On which London thoroughfare are Fortnum & Mason, the Ritz Hotel and the Royal Academy?
Answer: Piccadilly

Question: Which branded drink contains the combined juices of grape, raspberry and blackcurrant?
Answer: Vimto

Question: What is the official name of the award for bravery given by the charity PDSA and popularly known as the animals' Victoria Cross?
Answer: The Dickin Medal

Question: Which writer had a haddock omelette named after him?
Answer: Arnold Bennett

Question: What is the name of the Prince of Wales' Gloucestershire residence?
Answer: Highgrove House

Question: Which hero of several Arthur Conan Doyle stories was first introduced in the novel 'The Lost World' in 1912?
Answer: Professor Challenger

Question: Who had a 1974 UK/US hit record with 'Midnight at the Oasis'?
Answer: Maria Muldaur

Question: On which racecourse is the Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe run?
Answer: Longchamps

Question: What is the name of the small island that lies off the southwest coast of the Isle of Man?
Answer: Calf of Man

Question: The kakapo or owl parrot is a near extinct bird living in which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Which company produces the perfume Opium?
Answer: Yves St Laurent

Question: In which English town is 'The Hat Works', the only museum of hats and headwear in the country?
Answer: Stockport

Question: In which English county are the Peckforton Hills?
Answer: Cheshire

Question: Who wrote the 1947 play 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?
Answer: Tennessee Williams

Question: Athene is the Greek goddess of wisdom; who is her Roman equivalent?
Answer: Minerva

Question: What is the name of the play within a play in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'?
Answer: Pyramus and Thisbe

Question: How many gold medals did Mark Spitz win at the 1972 Olympic Games?
Answer: 7

Question: In the game of Poker what is a run of five cards in sequence, irrespective of suit, called?
Answer: A Straight

Question: Which big band leader and clarinettist (1909-1986) was known as the King of Swing'?
Answer: Benny Goodman

Question: b Charles and Philip are two of the Prince of Wales's names; give either of the other two.
Answer: Arthur or George

Question: Name the major Japanese Stock Exchange Index.
Answer: Nikkei

Question: The old boys of which public school are known as Old Carthusians?
Answer: Charterhouse

Question: Which architect designed the present Royal Pavilion in Brighton, built between 1815 and 1820?
Answer: John Nash

Question: Name one of the Earth signs of the Zodiac.
Answer: Taurus, Virgo or Capricorn

Question: In which series of films would you find a hairless cat called Mr Bigglesworth?
Answer: Austin Powers

Question: Which fruit, in pureed form, is added to sparkling wine to make a Bellini cocktail?
Answer: Peach

Question: Who wrote the lyrical drama 'Prometheus Unbound' in 1820?
Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question: Who had a 1979 UK hit with the song 'Ring My Bell'?
Answer: Anita Ward

Question: The Thylacine, thought to be extinct, was a carnivorous marsupial last sighted on which island?
Answer: Tasmania

Question: When in 2000 a poster advertising the perfume Opium was banned, which model appeared nearly naked on it?
Answer: Sophie Dahl

Question: In which English town is the British Lawnmower Museum?
Answer: Southport

Question: Who is the actress daughter of Tippi Hedren?
Answer: Melanie Griffith

Question: A dish cooked "a la Crecy" would be garnished or prepared with which ingredient?
Answer: Carrots

Question: How is the common shrub Ligustrum more commonly known?
Answer: Privet