Question: The song ‘Scarlet’ is from which 1981 album by U2?
Answer: October

Question: Who was holding a Silver Hammer in the 1969 song from the Abbey Road Album by The Beatles?
Answer: Maxwell

Question: In October 1992, which baseball team became the first non-USA team to win the World Series?
Answer: The Toronto Blue Jays

Question: In 1932, who was the only Premier of an Australian state (New South Wales) to have been dismissed from his post by the state governor?
Answer: Jack Lang

Question: The fictional television character Lady Penelope, who appeared in ‘Thunderbirds’, was created and voiced by who in the original series?
Answer: Sylvia Anderson

Question: What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Answer: Jamestown

Question: Which element is contained in the molecules of organic compounds?
Answer: Carbon

Question: Kwaito is a music genre which originated in which country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Who wrote the 1851 novel ‘Moby Dick’?
Answer: Herman Melville

Question: What type of creature did Daisy Morris, a nine year old from the Isle of Wight, have named after her in 2013?
Answer: A dinosaur

Question: Singer Cornell Iral Haynes Jr is better known by what name?
Answer: Nelly

Question: The 1986 autobiography ‘Going Solo’ is by which British author?
Answer: Roald Dahl

Question: In food, E330 is better known by what name?
Answer: Citric acid

Question: Blue Gloss is a variety of which vegetable?
Answer: Potato

Question: Who is the husband of actress/clinical psychologist Pamela Stephenson?
Answer: Billy Connelly

Question: A silverback is what type of animal?
Answer: Gorilla

Question: Guy Fawkes night is celebrated during which month of the year?
Answer: November

Question: Which model car was launched by British Leyland in October 1980?
Answer: Austin (Mini) Metro

Question: Which late fashion designer had the middle names Henri Donat Mathieu?
Answer: Yves St Laurent

Question: What is the US state capital of Florida?
Answer: Tallahasee

Question: Who plays veteran racing driver  Joe Tanto in the 2001 film ‘Driven’?
Answer: Sylvester Stallone

Question: Toucher, Narrow and Bias are all terms used in which sport?
Answer: Bowls (lawn)

Question: In 2002 Steve Fossett became the first solo person to circumnavigate the world non-stop and single-handed in what?
Answer: Hot-air balloon

Question: What is the first name of the nephew of Ebenezer Scrooge, son of his sister Fran, in the Charles Dickens novel ‘A Christmas Carol’?
Answer: Fred

Question: Which English artist and poet was known to introduce himself as ‘Mr Abebika Kratoponoko Prizzikalo Kattefello Ablegorabalus Anleborinto Phashyph’?
Answer: Edward Lear

Question: Arancione is Italian for which colour?
Answer: Orange

Question: The 1977 autobiography ‘Tall, Dark and Gruesome’ is by which British Actor?
Answer: Christopher Lee

Question: In the US television series ‘The Sopranos’, who had to return to Italy after a flirtation with Tony Soprano’s wife Carmela?
Answer: Furio Giunta

Question: In which type of synagogue can men and women sit together?
Answer: Reform or Liberal synagogue

Question: Which country hosted the 1998 Winter Olympic Games?
Answer: Japan

Question: In November 1990 Mian Nawaz Sharif became Prime Minister of which Asian country?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: Which island is divided among Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia?
Answer: Borneo

Question: Which ‘ology’ is the search or study of animals whose existence has not been proven, such as the Yeti or Loch Ness Monster?
Answer: Cryptozoology

Question: What is the name of a triangular piece of material that is inserted in a garment to make it flared or for ornamentation?
Answer: Godet

Question: Adelost cheese is made in which European country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: Charlotte was the daughter of Caroline of Brunswick and which future British monarch?
Answer: King George IV

Question: The Amazon Rainforest is located in which continent?
Answer: South America

Question: What is the name of the plump, clumsy fairy in the children’s television series ‘Willo the Wisp’?
Answer: Mavis Cruet

Question: From which decade of the 20th Century did Wales have a capital city?
Answer: 1950’s (1955)

Question: Which fictional character was crowned as the ‘Pope of Fools’ in an 1831 novel?
Answer: Quasimodo

Question: Jaffa is an ancient port in which country?
Answer: Israel

Question: Which letter is furthest to the right on a top letter row on a computer keyboard?
Answer: P

Question: Clanger, a dish with a savoury filling at one end and a sweet filling at the other end, is from which English county?
Answer: Bedfordshire

Question: What type of flesh does a pescatarian eat?
Answer: Fish

Question: Which Asian country is known as the ‘Land of Smiles’?
Answer: Thailand

Question: What is the surname of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, in the US television series?
Answer: Summers

Question: Sitophilia is the use of what for sexual arousal?
Answer: Food

Question: A bammy (or bami) is a flatbread originating in which country?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: What shape, typically, is an ingot?
Answer: Rectangular

Question: Rothschild, Kordofan, Nubian and Rhodesian are all species of which animal?
Answer: Giraffe

Question: On a regular clockface which number lies opposite 2?
Answer: 8

Question: ET is the international vehicle registration of which country?
Answer: Egypt

Question: Robert Mitchum plays Reverend Harry Powell in which 1955 film?
Answer: The Night of the Hunter

Question: Which car has a logo shaped like a letter ‘C’ with a yellow triangle?
Answer: Smart Car

Question: The Idle Working Men’s Club is in the village of Idle in which English city suburb?
Answer: Bradford

Question: Butler, Elope, Matrix and Panama are all terms used in which card game?
Answer: Contract Bridge

Question: Who plays Calvin J Candie in the 2012 film ‘Django Unchained’?
Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio

Question: Which fruit is traditionally used in the recipe for Liverpool Tart?
Answer: Lemon

Question: After the ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ Captain Bligh and several of his crew were set afloat in a small boat in which they journeyed to which island?
Answer: Timor

Question: Lake Mamry and Lake Drawsko are in which European country?
Answer: Poland

Question: Dydd Sadwrn is Welsh for which day of the week?
Answer: Saturday

Question: ‘Waverley’ is the title of the first prose novel by which British historical novelist/poet?
Answer: Sir Walter Scott

Question: In the first Harry Potter novel who is the headmaster of Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Answer: Professor Albus Dumbledore

Question: In October 1977 three members of which US rock band died in a plane crash in Mississippi, three days after the release of their album ‘Street Survivors’?
Answer: Lynryd Skynyrd

Question: Gorgonzola cheese is from which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: What is the title of the 2001 film in which Russell Crowe plays mathematician John Nash?
Answer: A Beautiful Mind

Question: Lonicera is the Latin name for which garden plant?
Answer: Honeysuckle

Question: In nature, Greco, Ostro, Libeccio and Sirocco are all types of what?
Answer: Winds

Question: Who plays Seymour Parish in the 2001 film ‘One Hour Photo’?
Answer: Robin Williams

Question: What type of meat dish is known as ‘Savoury Ducks’?
Answer: Faggots

Question: What was the first name of the wife of US President George Washington?
Answer: Martha

Question: Dungeness is a headland on the coast of which English county?
Answer: Kent

Question: Which car manufacturer has a logo with two overlapping letter ‘R’s’
Answer: Rolls Royce

Question: A Sachertorte is a type of cake which traditionally has a layer of which flavour jam?
Answer: Apricot

Question: Which US mobster famously told police ‘I don’t even know what street Canada is on’, claiming he had never visited or knew anything about the country?
Answer: Al Capone