Question: In Hockney’s Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy – who or what is Percy?
Answer: Cat

Question: What name is given to a depiction of Mary holding the dead body of Christ?
Answer: Pieta

Question: In which US state is Princeton University?
Answer: New Jersey

Question: Which instrument was played by jazz artist Benny Goodman?
Answer: Clarinet

Question: What seven-letter word means “A Russian tea urn”?
Answer: samovar

Question: Which of Beethoven’s symphonies was nicknamed ‘The Eroica’?
Answer: Third

Question: Which James Bond villain owns the island of Crab Key?
Answer: Dr. No

Question: Which British dramatist wrote the 1945 play ‘An Inspector Calls’?
Answer: J. B. Priestley

Question: ‘Catriona’, also known as ‘David Balfour’, was the sequel to which novel?
Answer: Kidnapped

Question: To within a year either way, in what year did Victoria’s husband Prince Albert die?
Answer: 1861

Question: In 2012, Luis Suarez twice scored hat-tricks against which Premiership side?
Answer: Norwich City

Question: It is generally agreed that the term ‘hat-trick’ was first used in 1858, in which sport?
Answer: cricket

Question: In 2000 to 2002, which Grand Prix team won a hat-trick of constructors’ titles?
Answer: Ferrari

Question: If ‘A’ is ‘alpha’ and ‘B’ is ‘beta’, what is ‘L’?
Answer: lambda

Question: To within two years either way, when did these TV adverts begin?
Answer: 1956

Question: When the ads. finished, keeper Molly Badham welcomed them back to which zoo?
Answer: Twycross

Question: What was the first name of Mark Knopfler’s brother in Dire Straits?
Answer: David

Question: Craig and Charlie Reid got together to form which band in 1983?
Answer: The Proclaimers

Question: The falcon’s dive from a height onto its prey is known as a what?
Answer: stoop

Question: What is a ‘tercel’ (‘tiercel’ in the USA)?
Answer: male falcon

Question: Who wrote the 1946 work ‘The Winslow Boy’?
Answer: Terence Rattigan

Question: Apart from her husband, who is the best friend of Elizabeth Jean Rubble?
Answer: Wilma Flintstone

Question: Which 2007 Rihanna song topped the charts in fifteen countries?
Answer: Umbrella

Question: What does the word ‘antediluvian’ mean, literally?
Answer: Before the flood

Question: In the Sherlock Holmes story, what was ‘The Speckled Band’?
Answer: snake

Question: What is the surname of Aleksandr, the chief meerkat in the comparethemarket.com ads?
Answer: Orlov

Question: What is the total if you add the number shirts of the two flankers in rugby union?
Answer: thirteen

Question: Rugby league. Which European Super League team are known as the ‘Giants’?
Answer: Huddersfield

Question: Mt. Egmont, which also goes by another name, can be found in which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Which of the four provinces of Ireland is the most populous?
Answer: Leinster

Question: What is the name of Andy Capp’s best friend?
Answer: Chalkie White

Question: Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in which city and former Republic?
Answer: Genoa

Question: What one word is the Latin for ‘for all’?
Answer: omnibus

Question: What Latin phrase refers to a vital condition, something absolutely necessary?
Answer: sine qua non

Question: What is the more common name given to the illness parotitis?
Answer: mumps

Question: Including the positives and negatives, there are eight blood groups. Which is the rarest?
Answer: AB negative

Question: In which sport might you see a Randolph and a Rudolph?
Answer: trampolining

Question: In the TV show ‘Mrs. Brown’s Boys’, what is Mrs. Brown’s first name?
Answer: Agnes

Question: Who is the first female in line of succession to the British throne?
Answer: Princess Beatrice

Question: In which year did Maggie Thatcher become Prime Minister?
Answer: 1979

Question: What is the real surname of Marty and Kim Wilde?
Answer: Smith

Question: In what year in the 50s did the crisis occur?
Answer: 1956

Question: What was the surname of the President of Egypt at the time?
Answer: Nasser

Question: Which game involves four extra or ‘boodle’ cards (three royals and an ace)?
Answer: Newmarket

Question: Degas had two favourite topics for his paintings, ballet and what else?
Answer: horse racing

Question: Which US golfer was known as ‘Long John’ for his driving distance off the tee?
Answer: John Daly

Question: In 1996, which duo got to no.11 in the UK pop charts with ‘Ocean Drive’?
Answer: Lighthouse Family

Question: In a 1908 children’s book, who gets sent to prison for 20 years for driving recklessly?
Answer: Mr. Toad

Question: Miranda Hart claims her ‘breaking of the fourth wall’ is a tribute to whom?
Answer: Eric Morecambe

Question: Nike was a Greek goddess who personified what?
Answer: victory

Question: A young man and woman sitting back-to-back is the logo of which company?
Answer: Kappa

Question: Owned by J.D. Sports, which small British firm now provides the kit for the English RFU?
Answer: Canterbury

Question: Which of the Muses was responsible for dance?
Answer: Terpsichore

Question: Born in 1911, whose real name was Virginia McMath?
Answer: Ginger Rogers

Question: Which animal is the symbol of the Argentinian rugby union team?
Answer: puma

Question: The book and the musical ‘Phantom of the Opera’ are set in which city?
Answer: Paris

Question: Which sign of the zodiac immediately follows Cancer?
Answer: Leo

Question: What was Eva Peron’s maiden name?
Answer: Duarte

Question: John Gilbert, Charles Buchel, Maurycy Gottlieb and others have all painted whom?
Answer: Shylock

Question: Who linked ‘Only When I Laugh’ and ‘The Beiderbecke Affair’?
Answer: James Bolam

Question: Who won the Best Actor Oscar in 1997 for his part in ‘Shine’?
Answer: Geoffrey Rush

Question: What is the name of the dog in the Secret Seven series of books?
Answer: Scamper

Question: Which element is third in the periodic table of the elements?
Answer: lithium

Question: Who wanted a lever that was long enough, in order to move the world?
Answer: Archimedes

Question: Where can you find the stapedius, the smallest muscle in the human body?
Answer: ear

Question: What sort of creature is a ‘taipan’?
Answer: snake

Question: In the world of clothing and fashion, what do the initials V.P.L. represent?
Answer: Visible Panty Line

Question: In geometry, what word is used for a line that touches a circle but does not cut it?
Answer: tangent

Question: ‘On Stranger Tides’ is the fourth film in which series?
Answer: Pirates of the Caribbean

Question: Dr Evil is the arch-enemy of which spoof film title character hero?
Answer: Austin Powers

Question: Sir John Oldcastle is said to be the model for which Shakespeare character?
Answer: Falstaff

Question: A ‘Weegie’ originates from which British city?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: The tarboosh is another name for which hat?
Answer: Fez

Question: Which children’s books character is known as ‘Oui Oui’ in France?
Answer: Noddy

Question: Which famous World War II British invention had the codename ‘Upkeep’?
Answer: Bouncing Bomb

Question: What term is used for the appliance of gold or silver to a surface in a fine pattern?
Answer: Filigree

Question: What was the predominant decorative style of the 1920s and 30s?
Answer: Art Deco

Question: Isobel Archer is the title character in which classic novel?
Answer: Portrait of a Lady

Question: Which anti-hero features in the Mervyn Peake novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast?
Answer: Steerpike

Question: What did the Victoria & Albert Museum decline to exhibit?
Answer: Clothes of Margaret Thatcher

Question: What is the most common type of rock formed from lava flows?
Answer: Basalt

Question: Which flat-topped upland has a name which is Spanish for table?
Answer: Mesa

Question: Who did Frank Bruno beat to win the WBC World Title in 1995?
Answer: Oliver McCall

Question: Who did England beat by two runs in a 2005 Edgbaston Test Match?
Answer: Australia

Question: Which spice should be included in a bread sauce recipe?
Answer: Cloves