Question: In Australia, what sort of creature is a yabby?
Answer: Crustacean or Crayfish

Question: In Australia, what sort of creature is a goanna?
Answer: Monitor lizard

Question: What would you expect to get if you ordered a Berliner in northern Germany?
Answer: Doughnut

Question: Tom Lehrer’s Elements Song is sung to which tune from a Gilbert and Sullivan opera?
Answer: I am the Very Model of a

Question: What sort of creature is an Alewife?
Answer: A Fish

Question: Which singer had a backing group called the Pips?
Answer: Gladys Knight

Question: Who was the only female competitor not to be given a sex test at the 1976 Olympics?
Answer: Princess Anne

Question: Who co-produced the album Thriller with Michael Jackson?
Answer: Quincy Jones

Question: In 1918, who wrote the song God Bless America?
Answer: Irving Berlin

Question: In which opera does Lily the Strawberry Woman appear?
Answer: Porgy and Bess

Question: The Great Bell of Dhammazedi was cast in which country?
Answer: Myanmar or Burma

Question: What is the world’s single largest solid gold statue?
Answer: The Golden Buddha

Question: Who was the first woman to complete the English Grand National horse race?
Answer: Geraldine Rees

Question: Heather Mackay was British Open Champion 16 times at which sport?
Answer: Squash

Question: Who was the son of Duke Robert the Devil (and Magnificent) and Herleva?
Answer: William I / The Conqueror

Question: What relation was William III to Charles I?
Answer: Grandson

Question: Which country owns the Queen Elizabeth islands?
Answer: Canada

Question: Marilyn Monroe played the character Sugar Kane in which film?
Answer: Some Like It Hot

Question: The role of Madam Hooch in Harry Potter The Philosophers Stone was played by who?
Answer: Zoe Wannamaker

Question: Leonard Alfred Schneider is best remembered by what stage name?
Answer: Lenny Bruce

Question: Alvin Stardust first found fame under what name?
Answer: Shane Fenton

Question: Which king was the first English Prince of Wales?
Answer: Edward II

Question: In which film did a Rolls Royce have the number plate AU 1?
Answer: Goldfinger

Question: In 20,000 leagues Under the Sea, what was the name Captain Nemo’s submarine?
Answer: The Nautilus

Question: What glands are inflamed if you have acne?
Answer: Sebaecous glands

Question: Who wrote the 1949 play Death of a Salesman?
Answer: Arthur Miller

Question: Who did Pontius Pilate release in place of Jesus?
Answer: Barrabas

Question: Who was the first celebrity to be eliminated?
Answer: Tony Jacklin

Question: Who partnered Flavia Cacace to win the Xmas Special?
Answer: Rufus Hound

Question: Under whose reign did England lose its last possession on mainland France?
Answer: Mary I

Question: Which French Monarch was known as the Citizen King?
Answer: Louis-Philippe

Question: In which book do the Ten Commandments first appear?
Answer: Exodus

Question: Who did Lord Peter Wimsey marry in the novel Busman’s Honeymoon?
Answer: Harriet Vane

Question: To which club did Mycroft Holmes belong?
Answer: The Diogenes Club

Question: Which drink did J.S. Bach like so much that he wrote a cantata for it?
Answer: Coffee

Question: Who wrote The Symphony of a Thousand?
Answer: Mahler

Question: What kind of flower is a Tequila Sunrise?
Answer: Rose

Question: What is the alternative name for an Aspidistra?
Answer: Cast-Iron Plant or Bar Room

Question: In which Australian state is the city of Newcastle?
Answer: New South Wales

Question: Allegedly this city got its name from a great number of bears being killed there, where?
Answer: Berne

Question: Who is the oldest man to win Olympic Gold at 100 metres?
Answer: Linford Christie

Question: Alison Fisher was a champion in which sport?
Answer: Snooker or Pool

Question: What, associated with the word, does a Galactophagist drink?
Answer: Milk

Question: Who was known as the Scourge of God?
Answer: Attila the Hun

Question: In which county is Saffron Walden?
Answer: Essex

Question: For which king was the Palace at Versailles built?
Answer: Louis XIV

Question: Which fictional character tilted at windmills?
Answer: Don Quixote

Question: Born 384 BCE, which philosopher was a tutor to Alexander the Great?
Answer: Aristotle

Question: Whose preserved head can be seen in a large glass case at University College London?
Answer: Jeremy Bentham

Question: In which Australian state did a gold rush begin in July 1851?
Answer: Victoria

Question: Which Malaysian port is associated with a walking stick?
Answer: Malacca

Question: In which town was a public supply of electricity first made available in the UK?
Answer: Godalming

Question: What is the main difference between a Hot Air Balloon and a Dirigible?
Answer: A Dirigible is steerable

Question: Who was the first to put steam engines in ships and build the first practical submarine?
Answer: Robert Fulton

Question: Who is the Wizard of Wishaw?
Answer: John Higgins

Question: What was Charles Dickens final completed novel?
Answer: Our Mutual Friend

Question: Written by William Boyd what was the last James Bond novel to be published?
Answer: Solo

Question: Which WWII song is heard at the end of Dr Srangelove?
Answer: We’ll Meet Again

Question: The Doors song The End is heard at the end of which war film?
Answer: Apocalypse Now

Question: Which cartoon character is mentioned Bowie’s song Life on Mars?
Answer: Mickey Mouse

Question: According to the children’s rhyme, What is Tuesday’s Child?
Answer: Full of Grace

Question: Which North African dish consists of semolina granules cooked by steaming?
Answer: Couscous

Question: Who starred as Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the US TV series?
Answer: Sarah Michelle Gellar

Question: Who directed the 1975 film Lisztomania?
Answer: Ken Russell

Question: Rudolphe Raspe is best known for writing about whom?
Answer: Baron Munchausen

Question: The characters Captain Cuttle and Mrs MacStinger appear in which Dickins novel?
Answer: Dombey & Son

Question: The doomed Royal Navy ship HMS Thunder Child appeared in which Sci Fi classic?
Answer: The War of the Worlds

Question: Who topped the UK singles charts with the song Colourblind?
Answer: Darius Danesh

Question: By population what is the second city of Belgium?
Answer: Antwerp

Question: By population what is the second city of Canada?
Answer: Montreal

Question: Whales can be divided into two types Toothed and what?
Answer: Baleen

Question: Which whale has the largest brain of any creature on Earth?
Answer: The Sperm Whale

Question: What was the Northern most slave state of the US Civil War?
Answer: Delaware

Question: Who immediately succeeded Abraham Lincoln as President?
Answer: Andrew Johnson

Question: Prior to Sochi which country has won the most Winter Olympic medals?
Answer: Norway

Question: In 2008 which male golfer was the last to win 2 majors in the same year?
Answer: Padraig Harrington

Question: Who was the only boxer to win a world title without ever having a manager?
Answer: Jake La Motta

Question: Which Soap screened the first transsexual character?
Answer: Coronation Street

Question: Brearley, Appleton and Wilks share what connection in Emmerdale?
Answer: Landlords of the Woolpack Inn

Question: When she arrived in Eastenders, who was Binnie Roberts’ girlfriend?
Answer: Della Alexander

Question: WWII, in which year did the Battle of Kursk occur ?
Answer: 1943

Question: Gorbachev became Soviet Premier in which year ?
Answer: 1985

Question: WWII, in which year did the Battle of Stalingrad take place ?
Answer: 1943

Question: Which actress provided the love interest in the film High Noon ?
Answer: Grace Kelly

Question: To which union do the acting profession belong to ?
Answer: Equity

Question: Also a colour shade, which creature is associated with the Babycham bottle label?
Answer: Fawn

Question: First appearing in 1572, which country’s flag is the oldest tricolour in the world?
Answer: Netherlands