Question: The sweet-tasting root of which plant is sometimes known as ‘Spanish’?
Answer: Liquorice

Question: What is the title of the 45-minute extended edition of QI?
Answer: Qi Xl

Question: In 2015, who replaced Dara Ó Briain as the presenter of The Apprentice: You’re Fired?
Answer: Jack Dee

Question: The theme music to which 1960s TV series was based on the folk song Johnny Todd?
Answer: Z-Cars

Question: Which brand of spirit uses a black bat in its logo?
Answer: Bacardi

Question: Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ was the 1973 debut album of which artist?
Answer: Bruce Springsteen

Question: Which nerve is the longest and widest in the human body?
Answer: Sciatic nerve

Question: Where in the human body is the anatomical snuffbox?
Answer: Hand

Question: Who is the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football?
Answer: R. E. Foster

Question: Which chemical element can exist in white, red, violet, or black forms?
Answer: Phosphorus

Question: Which among the noble gases is the most abundant in the atmosphere?
Answer: Argon

Question: ‘What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?’ is the opening line of which poem?
Answer: Anthem for Doomed Youth

Question: Which well-known poem was written in 1750 in the village of Stoke Poges?
Answer: Grey’s Elegy/Elegy Written in a

Question: Asparagus Island lies off the coast of which English county?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: Which Australian hard-rock band was formed by Angus and Malcolm Young?
Answer: Ac/Dc

Question: The ‘two-minute hate’ is featured in which novel of the twentieth century?
Answer: 1984

Question: Who was the nemesis of farmers Boggis, Bunce, and Bean?
Answer: Fantastic Mr Fox

Question: Which is the only minor key signature that has no sharps or flats?
Answer: A minor

Question: By what name is Delores Haze known in the title of a controversial book of 1955?
Answer: Lolita

Question: How is Anne Catherick referred to in the title of a book by Wilkie Collins?
Answer: The Woman in White

Question: Who played consultant surgeon Mr Gordon Thorpe in Only When I Laugh?
Answer: Richard Wilson

Question: Who played Raquel’s former husband, ex-policeman Roy Slater in Only Fools and Horses?
Answer: Jim Broadbent

Question: Who played the mad legless Captain Rum in the second series of Blackadder?
Answer: Tom Baker

Question: The Bridal Chorus AKA ‘Here comes the Bride’ appears in which opera by Wagner?
Answer: Lohengrin

Question: On which of London’s tube lines do trains reach the greatest speeds?
Answer: Metropolitan

Question: Which saint lived on a small platform at the top of a pillar in Aleppo for 37 years?
Answer: St Simeon Stylites

Question: Officially, what is Canada’s national summer sport?
Answer: Lacrosse

Question: What is secreted by parotid glands?
Answer: Saliva

Question: Which 1985 treaty led to the abolition of border controls in much of Europe?
Answer: Schengen Agreement

Question: Who played Cilla Black in the 2014 ITV drama series Cilla?
Answer: Sheridan Smith

Question: What is the term for any playing card which can assume the value of another?
Answer: Wild card

Question: What function distinguishes a gargoyle from a grotesque?
Answer: Rainwater drainage or equiv.

Question: What is the dominant colour of New York’s Staten Island Ferries?
Answer: Orange

Question: Which body and its moons were visited and studied by the New Horizons probe in July?
Answer: Pluto

Question: What is the name of the mother craft of Philae, the probe currently sitting on Comet 67P?
Answer: Rosetta

Question: Guaranteeing $50 million, whose basic contract is the most lucrative in Formula 1?
Answer: Sebastian Vettel

Question: Part of the Pope’s regalia, what is the more common name for the Piscatory Ring?
Answer: Fisherman’s Ring

Question: Also a band, what is the vanilla-flavoured, chocolate-free equivalent of a brownie?
Answer: A Blondie

Question: Which physical quantity is calculated by multiplying a body’s mass by its velocity?
Answer: Momentum

Question: From which S.E. London open space do participants start the London Marathon?
Answer: Blackheath

Question: Which five word title is engraved on the letter box at 10 Downing Street?
Answer: First Lord of the Treasury

Question: Who led the ill-fated expedition which set sail in 1845 in HMS Erebus and HMS Terror?
Answer: Sir John Franklin

Question: Which table-top game races model horses along a vibrated fabric track?
Answer: Escalado

Question: Which of his symphonies did Beethoven originally dedicate to Napoleon?
Answer: 3rd or Eroica

Question: Which defeat of Napoleon’s navy inspired the title of Haydn’s 1798 Nelson Mass?
Answer: Btl of The Nile or Aboukir Bay

Question: Which is the only species of penguin likely to be seen in the wild north of the Equator?
Answer: Galapagos penguin

Question: What is the speciality of a funambulist?
Answer: Tight-rope or wire walking

Question: Which religious group calls its places of worship Kingdom Hall?
Answer: Jehovah’s Witnesses

Question: What is the memorable common name for the flower myosotis?
Answer: Forget-me-not

Question: In triathlon, what is the term for the transfer between disciplines?
Answer: Transition

Question: In which EU country did havarti cheese originate?
Answer: Denmark

Question: What food do American’s call “Eskimo Pie”?
Answer: Choc ice

Question: Who voiced Lady Penelope in the original Thunderbirds series?
Answer: Sylvia Anderson

Question: With eight active distilleries, which is the Hebrides’ most prolific whisky-producing island?
Answer: Islay

Question: What kind of chemical transmits social information among members of the same species?
Answer: Pheromone

Question: Which sequence of two alphanumeric characters begins the names of all Airbus civilian aircraft models?
Answer: A3…

Question: Launched in December 2014 to target a younger female audience, what is ITV’s newest channel?
Answer: ITVBe

Question: Which channel shows programmes one might recall watching on Dave one hour earlier?
Answer: Dave Ja Vu

Question: Which tube station locates and describes someone “eight stops short of Upminster”?
Answer: Barking

Question: Which number do bingo callers link with “The Brighton Line”?
Answer: 59

Question: Which Italian invented the first battery?
Answer: Alessandro Volta

Question: Which UK Prime Minister wrote 19 novels including Coningsby, Sybil and Endymion?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: What is the specific term for a female ruf?
Answer: Reeve

Question: Name a flesh-and-blood actor who has played Fred Flintstone on film?
Answer: John Goodman or Mark Addy

Question: Which Yorkshire stately home was the main location for Brideshead Revisited?
Answer: Castle Howard

Question: Which flesh-and-blood actor played Popeye the Sailor on film?
Answer: Robin Williams

Question: Which Hampshire stately home is the main location for Downton Abbey?
Answer: Highclere Castle

Question: The probability of finding what is predicted by the Drake Equation?
Answer: Extraterrestrial Civilisation

Question: Which top flight British football team only adopted team numbers in 1960?
Answer: Celtic FC

Question: Who described his troops – the British army - as ‘the scum of the earth’?
Answer: Duke of Wellington

Question: Which beautiful youth of Greek myth was killed by a boar while out hunting?
Answer: Adonis

Question: Which wading bird has varieties called ‘whooping’ and ‘demoiselle’?
Answer: Crane

Question: Which Turner Prize-winning artist has an alter-ego named Claire?
Answer: Grayson Perry

Question: In which war film did Richard Attenborough play ‘Big X’?
Answer: The Great Escape

Question: Which African capital has a name meaning ‘New Flower’?
Answer: Addis Ababa

Question: Which word now used loosely, originally described rum diluted with water?
Answer: Grog

Question: In the Bible what was the unusual physical feature of Jacob’s brother Esau?
Answer: Very Hairy