Question: Biltong is a cured meat from which country ?
Answer: South Africa

Question: What is the name of the European Space Agency satellite launched in November 2013 as an early warning system for asteroids ?Before entering government, Neville Chamberlain was lord mayor of which city ?
Answer: Gaia

Question: Before entering government, Neville Chamberlain was lord mayor of which city ?
Answer: Birmingham

Question: In which country did wafu salad dressing originate ?
Answer: Japan

Question: Americans call them thumbtacks; what do we call them ?
Answer: Drawing Pins

Question: What was the name of Scooby Doo's nephew, whose catchphrase was 'Puppy Power' ?
Answer: Scrappy Doo

Question: What is the more familiar name of the object once known as the Pluto Platter?
Answer: Frisbee

Question: Which city hosted the 1976 Summer Olympic Games ?
Answer: Montreal

Question: The ballet Pineapple Poll features music by which composer ?
Answer: Arthur Sullivan

Question: What item of playground equipment is known in North America as a teeter-totter ?
Answer: See-Saw

Question: Tower Bridge in London is an example of what kind of bridge ?
Answer: Bascule

Question: What drink, a type of fortified wine, was a favourite tipple of Shakespeare's Falstaff ?
Answer: Sack

Question: The Australian kookaburra is one of the largest species of which bird ?
Answer: Kingfisher

Question: What's the name of Postman Pat's cat ?
Answer: Jess

Question: Which fastening system was developed by Swiss inventor George de Mestral?
Answer: Velcro

Question: How many masts does the vessel known as a Ketch have ?
Answer: Two

Question: Who became the 120th Briton to win a Nobel Prize by winning this year's prize for physics ?
Answer: Peter Higgs

Question: Which British Prime Minister was nicknamed 'The Grocer' by Private Eye magazine ?
Answer: Edward Heath

Question: The birth of which Roman goddess is famously the subject of a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli ?
Answer: Venus

Question: How many pockets are there on a standard snooker table ?
Answer: Six

Question: In which city was the International Committee of the Red Cross founded in 1863 ?
Answer: Geneva

Question: In which novel by Mark Haddon does the narrator suffer from Asperger's Syndrome ?
Answer: The Curious Incident Of Thedog In The Nightime

Question: A tiger called Richard Parker appears in which novel by Yann Martel ?
Answer: Life Of Pi

Question: Which was the second James Bond film to star Daniel Craig in the title role ?
Answer: Quantum Of Solace

Question: Who was Britain's first female Foreign Secretary and the first female leader of the Labour Party ?
Answer: Margaret Becket

Question: In Virgil's Aeneid, who was the Queen of Carthage who fell in love with Aeneas?
Answer: Dido

Question: The radio programme Desert Island Discs, first broadcast in 1942, was devised and originally presented by whom ?
Answer: Roy Plumley

Question: What nickname were the British Parachute Regiment given by the Germans during the Second World War ?
Answer: The Red Devils

Question: Telly Savalas played the role of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in which James Bond film?
Answer: On Her Majesty'S Secret Service

Question: Which capital city was planned by Pierre l'Enfant in the 1790s ?
Answer: Washington Dc

Question: Which geological era, spanning the massive time-period between 245 million and 65 million years ago, is divided into three periods named the Triassic, the Jurassic and the Cretaceous ?
Answer: The Mesozoic Era

Question: Which historic event took place on July 31st 1910 in Quebec harbour as the SS Montrose docked ?
Answer: Dr Crippen Was Arrested

Question: When measured in metres per second, in a vacuum, what's the speed of light to the nearest million ?
Answer: 300 Million

Question: Where would you find the hardest substance in the human body ?
Answer: Teeth

Question: Which Radio 2 programme was presented for many years by Alan Keith ?
Answer: Your Hundred Best Tunes

Question: The giant Jurassic plant-eating dinosaur now known as the Apatosaurus was formerly known by what name ?
Answer: Brontosaurus

Question: What feature of Japanese life is the Shinkansen ?
Answer: The Bullet Train

Question: Which country is home to a train service known as the Ghan ?
Answer: Australia

Question: At what temperature do the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales both give the same reading ?
Answer: Minus 40 Degrees

Question: In literature, what was Lady Chatterley's first name ?
Answer: Constance

Question: Which American guitar-maker, who died in 1991, introduced models known as the Telecaster, and the Stratocaster, favoured by many rock guitarists since the 1950s ?
Answer: (Leo) Fender

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

Question: What was Mr Darcy's first name in Pride and Prejudice ?
Answer: Fitzwilliam

Question: Once known as 'the Jerusalem of the North', which city is the capital of Lithuania ?
Answer: Vilnius

Question: Which cake was supposedly named in honour of the marriage in 1884 of a grandaughter of Queen Victoria to the German Prince Louis, son of the Grand Duke of Hess-Darmstadt ?
Answer: Battenburg

Question: Who replaced Hilary Clinton as US Secretary of State in 2013 ?
Answer: John (Forbes) Kerry

Question: The beggar at the gate of the rich man's house is the only character in any of Jesus's parables to be given a proper name. What name ?
Answer: Lazarus

Question: What new name was given to the Chinese Gooseberry by farmers from New Zealand when they started exporting it to the USA in the 1960's ?
Answer: Kiwi Fruit

Question: Films. Give the next title in the following sequence: East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause - ?
Answer: Giant

Question: The line "Off with his head ! So much for Buckingham" was added by Colly Cibber in the eighteenth century to which Shakespeare play ?
Answer: Richard Iii

Question: The character of Beryl the Peril originally appeared in which comic ?
Answer: Topper

Question: The main square in Venice is named after which saint ?
Answer: St Mark

Question: According to a 16th-century law, what colour must all Venetian gondolas be painted ?
Answer: Black

Question: Which is the only creature that is capable of turning its stomach inside out ?
Answer: Starfish

Question: Achieving fame in the late 19th century , who was the first actor to be knighted?
Answer: Sir Henry Irving

Question: Who left the country disguised as Betty Burke in 1746 ?
Answer: Bonnie Prince Charlie / The Young Pretender

Question: The famous tree inside the boundary at Canterbury cricket ground was blown down in a gale in 2005. What kind of tree was it ?
Answer: A Lime Tree

Question: A type of foodstuff, what can be either blanket or honeycomb ?
Answer: Tripe

Question: Films. At which educational establishment, in the 1950s and 1960s was there blue murder , pure hell and a train robbery ?
Answer: St Trinian'S

Question: Which is the largest mammal to build a nest ?
Answer: Gorilla

Question: Which children's comic was named after the son of Andy Capp ?
Answer: Buster

Question: The verbal exchange "Papa! Nicole!" was associated with TV advertisements for which make and model of car ?
Answer: Renault Clio

Question: Which scientist became Master of the Royal Mint in 1699 ?
Answer: (Sir) Isaac Newton

Question: This word was on all decimal coins when they were introduced in 1971, and was removed from all decimal coins in 1982. What word ?
Answer: New

Question: What do cruciverbalists like doing ?
Answer: Crosswords

Question: Who was Britain's first Christian martyr ?
Answer: St Alban

Question: What title is given to the wife of an Earl ?
Answer: Countess

Question: Which classic film ends with the line "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" ?
Answer: Casablanca

Question: Which classic film ends with the line " .... After all, tomorrow is another day."?
Answer: Gone With The Wind

Question: A seleonograph is a scientific map of what ?
Answer: The Moon