Question: What is the title of the Band Aid charity single, released in December 1984?
Answer: Do They Know It’s Christmas

Question: The 1908 Summer Olympic Games were hosted by which European city?
Answer: London

Question: Which American soccer team is known as the ‘Quakes’?
Answer: San Jose Earthquakes

Question: Who was the only US President not to live at the Whitehouse?
Answer: George Washington

Question: What was the first name of 19th Century British explorer Stanley, who searched for David Livingstone in Africa?
Answer: Henry

Question: Doris Day plays which 1920’s and 30’s singer and actress in the 1955 film ‘Love Me or Leave Me’?
Answer: Ruth Etting

Question: ‘Trelawny’ is the ‘national anthem’ of which English county?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: Who won the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest for the UK with their song ‘Save Your Kisses For Me’?
Answer: Brotherhood of Man

Question: Who wrote the Athenian tragedy ‘Oedipus Rex’?
Answer: Sophocles

Question: Who was the last boxer to fight and defeat Muhammad Ali, in December 1981?
Answer: Trevor Berbick

Question: Which former British MP was the first contestant to be eliminated from the 2011 UK television show ‘Strictly Come Dancing’?
Answer: Edwina Currie

Question: How many points is a ‘T’ tile worth in a game of Scrabble?
Answer: One point

Question: The Kodkod is what type of animal?
Answer: Cat

Question: Who plays Freddie Krueger in the 1984 film ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’?
Answer: Robert Englund

Question: Mount Nanga Parbat is in which country?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: The Allan Border medal is awarded annually for which sport?
Answer: Cricket

Question: Whiteford, Stewart and Brabham are all corners on the Formula One Grand Prix circuit in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Who hold the Guinness World Record for survivor of the most broken bones in a lifetime?
Answer: Evel Knievel

Question: Which British bank began trading on 1st January 1970?
Answer: National Westminster Bank

Question: What was the first name of 18th Century English cabinet maker and furniture designer Chippendale?
Answer: Thomas

Question: How many gold medals did Britain win in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: 29

Question: The RAF flew 1 million Euros from the UK to which country in March 2013, as a contingency measure ‘to provide military personnel with loans’?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: In January 2013, the London Underground rail system celebrated which anniversary?
Answer: 150th

Question: Which Oscar-winning director staged the West End musical ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, which opened in London in June 2013?
Answer: Sam Mendes

Question: Which Greek goddess featured on the new five-euro banknote in 2013?
Answer: Europa

Question: Which French city was was the 2013 European Capital of Culture?
Answer: Marseilles

Question: Which British footballer signed a 5 month contract with Paris St-Germain in January 2013, donating his salary to charity?
Answer: David Beckham

Question: Which creature represented the year 2013 in the Chinese calendar?
Answer: Snake

Question: Who won the 2013 Tour de France?
Answer: Chris Froome

Question: In 2013, Japanese scientists cloned what type of creature from a single drop of blood?
Answer: Mouse

Question: How old was British monarch Queen Elizabeth II on her birthday in April 2013?
Answer: 87

Question: Which actor, who played Tony Soprano on the US television series ‘The Sopranos’, died in June 2013?
Answer: James Gandolfini

Question: What is written on the sign on the mural by graffiti artist Banksy that was cut out of a wall in Tottenham, London in July 2013?
Answer: No Ball Games

Question: In July 2013, the Archbishop of Canterbury said he was ’embarrassed and irritated’ that the Church of England invested indirectly in which online company?
Answer: Wonga

Question: In August 2013, scientists in Florence, Italy opened a tomb in order to extract DNA, hoping to identify the model for which painting?
Answer: Mona Lisa

Question: In the 2011 film , Captain America is ‘The First ‘what’?
Answer: Avenger

Question: Hellophobia is the fear of which country and its culture?
Answer: Greece

Question: Who was the last UK Labour Prime Minister before Tony Blair?
Answer: James Callaghan

Question: 11, Mafeking Parade is the address of the two main characters in which British television comedy series?
Answer: Bottom

Question: A group of which birds is known as a ‘Tidings’?
Answer: Magpies

Question: Extinct volcano Hallasan is the highest point in which Asian country?
Answer: South Korea

Question: The 1992 Summer Olympic Games were hosted by which European city?
Answer: Barcelona

Question: In the US animated television show ‘The Simpsons’ which actress voiced Maggie’s first word, which was ‘Daddy’?
Answer: Elizabeth Taylor

Question: Which British monarch founded The Order of Merit?
Answer: King Edward VII

Question: What is the name of the boy in Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’?
Answer: Mowgli

Question: Who was the first female US Attorney General?
Answer: Janet Reno

Question: Who directed the 2001 remake of the film ‘Planet of the Apes’?
Answer: Tim Burton

Question: In 2012, who became the first German driver, since Hermann Lang in 1939, to win a Formula One Grand Prix in a German car?
Answer: Nico Rosberg

Question: On 1st April 1977, bookseller Richard Booth declared which Welsh town to be an independent kingdom, with himself as monarch?
Answer: Hay-on Wye

Question: What is the surname of brother and sister Samson and Sally in the novel ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’ by Charles Dickens?
Answer: Brass

Question: If something is ‘aestival’ it belongs to or appears in which season of the year?
Answer: Summer

Question: Venerdi is Italian for which day of week?
Answer: Friday

Question: ‘Never Have Your Dog Stuffed and Other Things I’ve Learned’ is a 2005 autobiography by which US actor?
Answer: Alan Alda

Question: What is the US state capital of Oklahoma?
Answer: Oklahoma City

Question: ‘The Motherland Calls’ which commemorates the Battle of Stalingrad, is a statue in which Russian city?
Answer: Volgograd

Question: Rivella is a soft drink which originated in which European country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: A bonxie is what type of creature?
Answer: Bird

Question: Eddie Valiant, Judge Doom and Dolores are all characters in which Disney film?
Answer: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Question: Where are the ossicones situated on the body of a giraffe?
Answer: Head

Question: The Oahe Dam is located in which US state?
Answer: South Dakota

Question: In which English city was singer Robbie Williams born in February 1974?
Answer: Stoke-on-Trent

Question: ‘Through Thick and Thin’ is a 2011 autobiography by which UK television presenter?
Answer: Gok Wan

Question: In March 1977, India’s Missionaries of Charity chose Sister Nirmala to succeed who as its leader?
Answer: Mother Teresa

Question: Who was US Secretary of State between 1997 and 2001?
Answer: Madeleine Albright

Question: Thailand is divided into how many provinces?
Answer: 76

Question: The sphenoid bone is situated in which part of the body?
Answer: Skull/cranium

Question: Which is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees?
Answer: Praying mantis

Question: Who was the longest serving BBC Radio One Breakfast Show presenter?
Answer: Chris Moyles

Question: A surcingle is a belt or girth used on which animal?
Answer: Horse

Question: Bada, Bing, Lambert and Tartarian are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Cherry

Question: Which playing card is known as ‘The Devil’s Bedpost’?
Answer: Four of Clubs

Question: What is the name of the Towers in which Doctor Who villain Kroagnon (The Great Architect) existed as a disembodied intelligence stored in a tank?
Answer: Paradise Towers

Question: What is the surname of Norm in the US television series ‘Cheers’?
Answer: Peterson

Question: Mole Valley is in which English county?
Answer: Surrey