Question: How many countries make up Europe?
Answer: 48

Question: What is the smallest country in Europe?
Answer: Vatican (or Holy See)

Question: What is the name of the ‘Checkpoint’ in Berlin which served as a symbol of the Iron Curtain?
Answer: Checkpoint Charlie

Question: Which year saw the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
Answer: 1991

Question: Which country is bordered by Belarus in the north and Moldova in the south?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: The 1957 Treaty of Rome established which organisation?
Answer: European Economic Community (EEC)

Question: What is the second-longest mountain range in Europe?
Answer: The Carpathian Mountains

Question: In which European country did the Industrial Revolution begin in the 18th Century?
Answer: United Kingdom

Question: What is the smallest capital city in the European Union?
Answer: Valletta (Malta)

Question: Ned Madrell, who died in 1974, was the last surviving native speaker of which European language?
Answer: Manx (or Manx Gaelic)

Question: Wizz Air is a low-cost airline with headquarters in which European country?
Answer: Hungary

Question: In which country was the historical television drama series ‘Vikings’ filmed?
Answer: Ireland

Question: England and Surrey cricketing twins Alec and Eric had what surname?
Answer: Bedser

Question: Which cartoon Colonel was created by Sir David Law?
Answer: Colonel Blimp

Question: Brombeere is German for which fruit?
Answer: Blackberry

Question: In the children’s television series ‘The Muppets’ what colour is Grover?
Answer: Blue

Question: A group of which birds is known as a ‘Watch’?
Answer: Nightingales

Question: The Heidelberg School was a 19th Century Impressionist art movement in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: A Chiliad is a term for which number?
Answer: One thousand

Question: Great Slave Lake is in which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: In food, ‘E’ numbers 110 – 119 are which colour?
Answer: Orange

Question: What part of the body does an insect finally have to grow to become an imago?
Answer: Wings

Question: Which Cornish castle is said to be the place of conception of legendary King Arthur?
Answer: Tintagel Castle

Question: Nashville is the state capital of which US state?
Answer: Tennessee

Question: Meroledi is Italian for which day of the week?
Answer: Wednesday

Question: What type of animal is an Affenpinscher?
Answer: Dog

Question: In the novel ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens what is the name of Herbert Pocket’s fiancee, who he later marries?
Answer: Clara Barley

Question: Blue ‘what’ was the former operator of the Watford Gap Services in Northamptonshire?
Answer: Boar

Question: What is the name of the fictional women’s prison in the UK television series ‘Bad Girls’?
Answer: Larkhall

Question: Which British cyclist won the 2012 Tour de France?
Answer: Bradley Wiggins

Question: In the US television series ‘Cheers’ which character has the middle names Huckleberry Tiberius?
Answer: Woody (Woodrow) Boyd

Question: The Opera Cake, made with layers of almond sponge cake soaked in coffee syrup, originated in which country?
Answer: France

Question: Which film won ‘Best Film’ at the 2013 Empire Awards?
Answer: Skyfall

Question: Which country has a Formula One Grand Prix Circuit named ‘Gilles Villeneuve’?
Answer: Canada

Question: Athlete Germaine Mason won a silver medal in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in which event?
Answer: High jump

Question: Who wrote the 2008 novel ‘Duma Key’?
Answer: Stephen King

Question: In the game of Scrabble how many points is a letter ‘H’ tile worth?
Answer: Four

Question: What is the title of the first feature film in which Tom Hanks appeared with Meg Ryan?
Answer: Joe Versus the Volcano

Question: The title of the 1987 film ‘The Lost Boys’ was borrowed from which novel?
Answer: Peter Pan

Question: Ewart was the middle name of which British Prime Minister?
Answer: William Gladstone

Question: British MP Edwina Currie wrote the novel ‘Chasing ‘what’?
Answer: Men

Question: In which direction can a bishop move on the board during a game of chess?
Answer: Diagonally

Question: In mobile phone use, what is ‘app’ short for?
Answer: Application

Question: In the UK television game show ‘Tipping Point’ how many counters does each contestant have at the start of the game?
Answer: Three

Question: What is the title of the 1996 film in which George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer play single parents Alex and Mae?
Answer: One Fine Day

Question: What is the minimum age a person can legally get married in the US state of Oregon?
Answer: 17 years

Question: Who was the first Manchester United FC captain from outside the UK or the Republic of Ireland?
Answer: Eric Cantona

Question: In 2009, which UK television presenter was appointed Chief Scout, at the age of 35, by the Scout Association?
Answer: Bear Grylls

Question: Which British city is known as the ‘City of Arcades’?
Answer: Cardiff

Question: In cooking, what is the term for plunging vegetables into boiling water for a short time, and then plunging them into cold water until they are cold?
Answer: Blanching

Question: Lythari, Avariel, Drow and Snow are all types of which mythical creature?
Answer: Elf

Question: In many Spanish-speaking countries which day of the week is considered unlucky if it falls on the 13th of the month?
Answer: Tuesday

Question: Which US actor and comedian is the voice of Bernard in the 1977 Disney film ‘The Rescuers’?
Answer: Bob Newhart

Question: Dementophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: Insanity

Question: What was the nickname of the legendary 17th Century highwaywoman Katherine Ferrers?
Answer: The Wicked Lady

Question: The 1998 autobiography ‘The Devil Rides Out’ is by which UK comedian and television presenter?
Answer: Paul O’Grady

Question: Which English county is known as ‘God’s Own County’?
Answer: Yorkshire

Question: Which English singer/songwriter, born in 1950, was labelled ‘Looney de Small’ by the late Spike Milligan  because of her sharp sense of humour?
Answer: Lynsey de Paul

Question: What was the only UK number one hit single for rock band Foreigner?
Answer: I Want To Know What Love Is

Question: What colour is powdered sulphur?
Answer: Yellow

Question: In 2013 which British politician was challenged to fulfil his claim that he could live on 53 pounds sterling a week?
Answer: Ian Duncan Smith

Question: Tobomory is the capital of which Scottish island?
Answer: Isle of Mull

Question: Who is the lead singer of British rock band the Stone Roses?
Answer: Ian Brown

Question: Which US television drama series is based on chemistry teacher Walter White, who turns to making and selling crystal meth after finding out he has lung cancer?
Answer: Breaking Bad

Question: In the Shakespeare play ‘Hamlet’ the skull of which character is held by Hamlet?
Answer: Yorick

Question: Who did the late Princess Diana famously dance with on stage at the Royal Opera House in London in 1985?
Answer: Wayne Sleep

Question: The residents of which German town put on a world-famous Passion Play every ten years?
Answer: Oberammergau

Question: Which US singer/actress produced the Broadway production of ‘Priscilla Queen of the Dessert’?
Answer: Bette Midler

Question: Which US President had a cloakroom converted into a movie theatre in the White House?
Answer: Franklin D Roosevelt

Question: The Pomegranate Theatre is in which English town?
Answer: Chesterfield

Question: Which English playwright was the first person to use the word ‘bloody’ over the air at the BBC in his song ‘Let’s Not Be Beastly to the Germans’?
Answer: Noel Coward

Question: Which actress, while dressed as the queen, left the Guilgud Theatre in London to shout at drummers outside who were disturbing the play?
Answer: Helen Mirren

Question: Playwright Alan Bennett taught medieval history at which university?
Answer: Oxford University