Question: Which official is responsible for security in the House of Commons?
Answer: Sergeant-at-Arms

Question: Which group had a 1978 UK No. 1 hit with "Dreadlock Holiday"?
Answer: 10cc

Question: In TV's "Last of the Summer Wine" Frank Thornton plays which character?
Answer: Truly

Question: Which sporting figure wrote the novel "On the Edge"?
Answer: Jenny Pitman

Question: In Italian cuisine what type of foodstuff are pomodori?
Answer: Tomatoes

Question: Which British car manufacturer produced the Regal, Rebel, and Kitten?
Answer: Reliant

Question: Lord Wakeham resigned from which public body in January 2003?
Answer: Press Complaints Commission

Question: What nationality is tennis player Gustavo Kuerten?
Answer: Brazilian

Question: Which of the towns in North Yorkshire has the largest population?
Answer: Harrogate

Question: Which pop musician wrote the music for the 1984 film "The Killing Fields"?
Answer: Mike Oldfield

Question: The butcher bird is an alternative name for which bird of prey?
Answer: The Shrike

Question: Which Cheshire town has the motto 'Sal est Vita' (salt is life) on its coat of arms?
Answer: Northwich

Question: Who (January 2008) is Director General of the CBI?
Answer: Richard Lambert

Question: The dabchick is an alternative name for which diving bird?
Answer: Little Grebe

Question: The airport that serves which US city now handles the most passenger traffic per year?
Answer: Atlanta

Question: Which pop musician wrote the music for the 1983 film "Local Hero"?
Answer: Mark Knopfler

Question: Who published his broadcasting memoirs entitled "Life on Air"?
Answer: David Attenborough

Question: In which town is the University of Surrey?
Answer: Guildford

Question: Where is the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television?
Answer: Bradford

Question: What is the Scottish name for a semicircular hollow on a hillside, formedby a glacier?
Answer: Corrie

Question: What are 'Old Speckled Hen', 'Black Douglas' and 'Zebedee'?
Answer: Ales

Question: In which city is the sporting venue Croke Park (after Archbishop Croke)?
Answer: Dublin, Eire

Question: Which of the UK armed forces has the motto "Per Mare Per Terram"?
Answer: Royal Marines

Question: What type of pregnancy is developed outside of the womb?
Answer: Ectopic

Question: Which Puccini opera is set in the court of the Chinese emperor?
Answer: Turandot

Question: What is a lion called in Swahili?
Answer: Simba

Question: Who was in the films "Zelig", "Stardust Memories", and "Broadway Danny Rose"?
Answer: Woody Allen

Question: Which comedian's real name is Jim Moir?
Answer: Vic Reeves

Question: In which sport would you aim for 'house', the centre being the 'tee'?
Answer: Curling

Question: Which Coronation Street character has the middle name Sibelius?
Answer: Ashley 'Sibelius' Peacock

Question: Which comedian's real name is Chris Collins?
Answer: Frank Skinner

Question: Which central character of a classic comedy series had the title of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera for his middle name?
Answer: Reginld 'Iolanthe' Perrin

Question: In which town is the University of Warwick?
Answer: Coventry

Question: Which Verdi opera opens with a banquet in the palace of the Duke of Mantua?
Answer: Rigoletto

Question: Who starred in the films "Perfect World", "No Way Out", and "Tin Cup"?
Answer: Kevin Costner

Question: Which animal's name is also a term for a junior member of the St. John Ambulance Brigade?
Answer: Badger

Question: Which company makes 'Budweiser' beer?
Answer: Anheuser-Busch

Question: Which Government department is responsible for the Meteorological Office?
Answer: Ministry of Defence

Question: Which North Yorkshire seaside resort is the starting point for the Cleveland Way long-distance walk?
Answer: Filey

Question: As at November 2006, who is the coach of St Helens Rugby League team?
Answer: Daniel Anderson

Question: Which BBC TV programme traces the family trees of celebrities?
Answer: Who Do You Think You Are

Question: Pop star Madonna adopted a child from which country in October 2006?
Answer: Malawi

Question: How many member states are there in the British Commonwealth of Nations?
Answer: Fifty-three

Question: How many Cinque Ports are there on the south coast of England?
Answer: Seven

Question: The now defunct food hamper firm Farepak was based in which city?
Answer: Swindon

Question: Who is the host of the TV show "In the Grid"?
Answer: Les Dennis

Question: Which team ended Aston Villa's unbeaten start to the 2006/07 season?
Answer: Liverpool FC

Question: What colour is the ribbon on the Victoria Cross?
Answer: Crimson

Question: The city of Cork, Ireland, lies on which river?
Answer: River Lee

Question: Who described life in the Royal Navy as: 'rum sodomy, and the lash'?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: What is the capital of the Republic of Sudan?
Answer: Khartoum

Question: What colour in the intense pigment in cadmium sulphide?
Answer: Yellow

Question: In which decade was Beatrix Potter born; Atlantic Cable completed; Seward purchases Alaska from Russia?
Answer: 1860's

Question: Herdwick and Swaledale are breeds of which animal?
Answer: Sheep

Question: Which group had a 1982 No. 1 hit with "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me"?
Answer: Culture Club

Question: Who presents the 'graveyard shift', midnight to 3 pm, on BBC Radio 2?
Answer: Janice Long

Question: Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins died with which other country music star in a 1963 plane crash?
Answer: Patsy Cline

Question: Scurvy is a disease resulting from deficiency of which vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin C

Question: Which is the oldest of the English classic horse races?
Answer: St. Leger

Question: St Helens RLFC won all three trophies in Super League 2006. Which is the only other club ever to do this?
Answer: Bradford Bulls

Question: What is the name of Dangermouse's amphibious nemesis?
Answer: Baron Greenback

Question: Britney Spears was married for two days to who?
Answer: Jason Alexander

Question: Which bird is the symbol of the RSPB?
Answer: Avocet

Question: What is the celestial visible light spectrum better known as?
Answer: A rainbow

Question: What size are the internal angles of an equilateral triangle?
Answer: Sixty degrees

Question: Who, in the OT of the Bible, was the sister of Moses and Aaron?
Answer: Miriam

Question: Which comedian swam the English Channel for charity in 2006?
Answer: David Walliams

Question: Which team defeated Manchester United in the 2006 Carling Cup?
Answer: Southend United

Question: The group 'Abba' was formed in which European capital city in 1971?
Answer: Stockholm

Question: An oenophilist is a connoisseur of what?
Answer: Wine

Question: For what purpose is ethylene glycol used in a car?
Answer: Prevent freezing

Question: Who presents the football fans' forum on BBC Radio Merseyside on Mondays and Tuesdays at 7 pm?
Answer: Alan Jackson

Question: What is the chief port of Iraq?
Answer: Basra

Question: Deva is the Roman name for which English city?
Answer: Chester

Question: What type of bird is a ptarmigan?
Answer: Grouse

Question: Which French king, known as 'the well-beloved', acceded to the throne aged five years, in 1715?
Answer: King Louis the Fifteenth

Question: Which song opened the 1985 Live Aid concert?
Answer: Rocking All Over the World

Question: What weapon is used the Japanese art of kendo?
Answer: Bamboo staves

Question: Who wrote the novel The Virgin and the Gypsy"?
Answer: D. H. Lawrence

Question: Which gem is associated with a 60th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Diamond

Question: In which decade was the Suez Canal opened; Abrahan Lincioln elected American President; Prince Albert died of typhoid?
Answer: 1860's

Question: The adjective Cestrian is associated with which English city?
Answer: Chester

Question: Name either rock and roll star who died in the Buddy Holly plane crash.
Answer: Big Bopper (J. P. Richardson) / Ricky Valens