Question: Lake Chrissie is in which African country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Which Austrian Formula One racing driver was killed while qualifying for the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix?
Answer: Roland Ratzenberger

Question: In humans, Polydactyl is the condition of having more than the normal number of what?
Answer: Digits

Question: Which actors play the blind man and the deaf man in the 1989 film ‘See No Evil, Hear No Evil’?
Answer: Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder

Question: ‘The Picture of….’who’? Is a novel by Oscar Wilde?
Answer: Dorian Grey

Question: What is the name of Mildred’s brother-in-law in the UK television series ‘George and Mildred’?
Answer: Humphrey Pumphrey

Question: Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus is better known by what name?
Answer: Caligula

Question: Which British fashion designer died at his London home in February 2010, aged 40?
Answer: Alexander McQueen

Question: Thathanka Iyotake was the native name for which American tribal chief?
Answer: Sitting Bull

Question: ‘Going Straight’ was the sequel to which British television series?
Answer: Porridge

Question: Which singer/actress attacked Russell Harty on his 1980 British television chat show?
Answer: Grace Jones

Question: How many fluid ounces in half an Imperial pint?
Answer: 10

Question: Aggie, China, Onionskin and Cats Eyes are all types of which toy?
Answer: Marbles

Question: A rollmop is what type of uncooked pickled fish?
Answer: Herring

Question: What is the medical name for the shin bone?
Answer: Tibia

Question: According to the Bible, what was the name of Jesus maternal grandfather?
Answer: Heli

Question: Which country won the 1978 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Argentina

Question: From which country did Russia finally withdraw its troops in 1989, after an unsuccessful campaign that lasted nearly ten years?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: Which author uses the pen name Barbara Vine?
Answer: Ruth Rendell

Question: In the game of Bingo, ‘Tickle Me’ represents which number?
Answer: 63

Question: The song ‘Lambeth Walk’ is from which musical?
Answer: Me and My Girl

Question: Lopburi, Phichit and Ang Thong are provinces in which Asian country?
Answer: Thailand

Question: Who play the pair of dead soldiers whose bodies are frozen and re-animated years later in the 1992 film ‘Universal Soldier’?
Answer: Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lungren

Question: The unification of the crowns of Aragon and Castile laid the basis of which modern-day European country?
Answer: Spain

Question: Prathiba Patil was the first woman President of which country?
Answer: Republic of India

Question: Rarotonga is the most populous island of which group of islands?
Answer: Cook Islands

Question: British author Vyvyan Holland was the son of which writer and poet?
Answer: Oscar Wilde

Question: The wife of which English historical figure was said to have carried his head around in a velvet bag for nearly 30 years?
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh

Question: The 2005 film ‘Wolf Creek’ is set in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Neville Chamberlain was British Prime Minister during the reign of which monarch?
Answer: King George VI

Question: Acorthosis is a medical condition where a person has too many what?
Answer: Erections

Question: Lightning McQueen, Doc Hudson and Fillmore are all characters in which 2006 animated Disney film?
Answer: Cars

Question: What is the name of the three-eyed fish in the US animated television series ‘The Simpsons’?
Answer: Blinky

Question: A ‘Yarborough’ is a hand in which card game?
Answer: Bridge

Question: What kind of performer is an ecdysiast?
Answer: Striptease artist

Question: Who wrote the music for the American musical ‘West Side Story’?
Answer: Leonard Bernstein

Question: The Hajj is a pilgrimage to which city?
Answer: Mecca

Question: RSM is the international vehicle regristration for which republic?
Answer: San Marino

Question: Shaun the Sheep first appeared in which 1995 UK animated television film?
Answer: A Close Shave

Question: Which infamous monk was murdered in Petrograd (St Petersburg) in 1916?
Answer: Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin

Question: Which poet and garden designer was dubbed ‘The Bard of Twickenham’?
Answer: Alexander Pope

Question: Ninety per cent of the world’s rubies are mined in which Asian country?
Answer: Burma (Myanmar)

Question: Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman play husband and wife in which 1979 film?
Answer: Kramer vs Kramer

Question: Roman Numerals CD represent which number?
Answer: 400

Question: During which month of the year does the Summer Solstice occur in the Northern Hemisphere?
Answer: June

Question: In which US state did singer Elvis Presley perform his last concert?
Answer: Indiana

Question: An abecedarian is a person who is learning what?
Answer: The alphabet

Question: Entertainer Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou is better known by what name?
Answer: George Michael

Question: In Greek mythology, who was condemned to hold the ‘world’ on his shoulders for all eternity as punishment for warring against Zeus?
Answer: Atlas

Question: Which future British monarch ‘married’ Maria Fitzherbert in 1785?
Answer: King George IV

Question: Corktip, Zig-Zag and Captain Bagshaw are all characters in which ‘Carry On’ film?
Answer: Follow That Camel

Question: Which birds traditionally inhabit the Tower of London?
Answer: Ravens

Question: ‘Where Everybody Knows Your Name’ is the theme tune to which US television series?
Answer: Cheers

Question: Who is the megalomaniac leader of the Urbankans in the British television series Doctor Who?
Answer: Monarch

Question: Who invented smokeless powder Ballistite in 1887?
Answer: Alfred Nobel

Question: ‘The Jerilderie Letter’ was dictated by which notorious Australian to Joe Byrne in 1879?
Answer: Ned Kelly

Question: In Indian cookery, what is gingili otherwise called?
Answer: Sesame

Question: What was the name of the British Royal navy research vessel, commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his 1769 voyage of discovery to Australia and new Zealand?
Answer: HMS Endeavour (or Bark Endeavour)

Question: In 1973, Patrick White became the first Australian to win a Nobel Prize in what?
Answer: Literature

Question: The seaside resort of New Brighton is on the North eastern tip of which English peninsula?
Answer: Wirral Peninsula

Question: Which British singer released a 2009 album entitled ‘Echo’?
Answer: Leona Lewis

Question: Cynomania is the intense enthusiasm or obsession for which type of animal?
Answer: Dog

Question: ‘Acer’ is the Latin name for which tree?
Answer: Maple

Question: Which English world championship darts player walks onto the stage to the tune of ‘Rock and Roll’ by Led Zeppelin?
Answer: John Lowe

Question: A savarin is what type of foodstuff?
Answer: Cake

Question: ‘A Study In Scarlet’ by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring Sherlock Holmes, was the first work of fiction to incorporate which item as an investigative tool?
Answer: Magnifying glass

Question: In which US state the the first Walmart store open, in July 1962?
Answer: Arkansas

Question: ‘Tages-Anzeiger’ is a daily newspaper published in which European country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: The past-time ‘Omphalopsychism’ is better known by what name?
Answer: Naval-gazing

Question: In which Oscar-winning 1964 film did actress Julie Andrews make her feature film debut?
Answer: Mary Poppins

Question: In January 1994, which member of the British royal family was the first senior royal to publicly convert to Catholicism, the first for more than 300 years?
Answer: Katharine, Duchess of Kent

Question: In the nursery rhyme, who ‘called for his fiddlers three’?
Answer: Old King Cole

Question: Which former actor was elected Governor of California in 1966?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: What is the official language of Tunisia?
Answer: Arabic

Question: In which English city is Meadowhall Railway Station?
Answer: Sheffield