Question: What was the name of the disastrous musical based on the life of Johnny Cash that ended on Broadway after only a month
Answer: Ring of Fire

Question: Which was the longest moon landing
Answer: Apollo 17

Question: What is the name given to a small hot dying star
Answer: White dwarf

Question: What were the names of the first two monkeys to return from space
Answer: Able and Baker

Question: Which planet in the Solar System has a great dark spot
Answer: Neptune

Question: What is the study of symbols and the rules for manipulating symbols in mathematics called
Answer: Algebra

Question: What is the link between Blue Peter, Pearl Diver and Sir Peter Teazle
Answer: Derby winners

Question: Which verb, meaning "to shun" was originally the name of a 19th century Irish land agent
Answer: Boycott

Question: In place names such as Coatbridge what does coat mean
Answer: Cottage

Question: Who wrote the much filmed novel The Invisible Man
Answer: H G Wells

Question: Murder on the Calais Coach was the American title of which novel
Answer: Murder on the Orient Express

Question: Who wrote the novel The Last of the Mohicans, first published in 1820
Answer: James Fenimore Cooper

Question: What was the sequel of the book The Silence of the Lambs
Answer: Hannibal

Question: Who wrote The Ipcress File
Answer: Len Deighton

Question: Near which town is the famous Stoke Mandeville hospital
Answer: Aylesbury

Question: In what part of the body would you suffer from Nystagmus
Answer: Eye

Question: What disease is known by the symptoms of a rash and a strawberry coloured tongue
Answer: Scarlet fever

Question: Whose body was found in May 2001 thirty four years after going missing
Answer: Donald Campbell

Question: What were the christian names of Gilbert and Sullivan
Answer: William and Arthur

Question: What was the name of Lulu's backing group
Answer: The Luvvers

Question: Which actor, singer and songwriter had a top ten hit in 1959 with I've Waited So Long
Answer: Anthony Newley

Question: What did McDonald's call their low fat burger
Answer: The Mclean

Question: Which famous beer brand is named after a Dutch river
Answer: Amstel

Question: Where in Berkshire were Britain's first Cruise missiles based
Answer: Greenham Common

Question: What was the first fighting vehicle
Answer: War chariot

Question: In a medieval suit of armour which part of the body was protected by a Paunce
Answer: Testicles and belly

Question: In modern warfare what type of vehicle is a CFV
Answer: Cavalry Fighting Vehicle

Question: What is the debris deposited by a glacier called
Answer: Moraine

Question: In geography what name is given to an area of sandbanks
Answer: Shoal

Question: What is the geographical term for a ring-shaped coral island
Answer: Atoll

Question: What is a narrow piece of land called that joins together two larger bodies of land
Answer: Isthmus

Question: An acronym used in the USA what is a W.A.S.P.
Answer: White Anglo Saxon Protestant

Question: In Ireland what is a Gombeen Man
Answer: Moneylender

Question: Southpaw to us means a boxer who leads with his right hand; but in which sport did the term originate
Answer: Baseball

Question: What is the seventh event in the heptathlon
Answer: Eight hundred metres

Question: In which country is the Shell Trophy played for at cricket
Answer: New Zealand

Question: In which city are the headquarters of the European Central Bank
Answer: Frankfurt

Question: How many of Shakespeare's signatures are known to exist
Answer: Six

Question: Who led Czechoslovakia before the 1968 Soviet invasion
Answer: Alexander Dubcek

Question: Tynwald Day is celebrated on which island in July
Answer: Isle of Man

Question: A modern version of the ancient Roman festival of Hilaria still occurs in Britain and other countries today, what is it known as
Answer: April Fool's Day

Question: Why are red letter days so called
Answer: Saints days in Church calendars were in red

Question: How many lives does each contestant start with in The Cube
Answer: Nine

Question: What is the name of the Hotel Inspector in the Channel 5 TV series
Answer: Alex Polizzi

Question: Seen on the credits of TV and films what is the function of a Foley Artist
Answer: Sound effects

Question: Who directed the film Hannah and her Sisters
Answer: Woody Allen

Question: What colour are the houses in a game of Monopoly
Answer: Green

Question: What score are the players in baccarat trying to get
Answer: Nine

Question: In what country did snakes and ladders originate
Answer: India

Question: Which famous building was once rudely nicknamed The Kensington Gas Works
Answer: Royal Albert Hall

Question: What is the popular nickname of the Yeomen of the Guard
Answer: Beefeaters

Question: By what nickname was American gangster Lester Gillis known
Answer: Baby Face Nelson

Question: Which English city is nicknamed The Lace City
Answer: Nottingham

Question: What is the name of the island in Poole Harbour
Answer: Brownsea Island

Question: What nationality was the pirate Captain Kidd
Answer: Scottish

Question: In waters belonging which country are the world's strongest tidal currents found
Answer: Norway

Question: What is the Flavium Amphitheatre the correct name for
Answer: The Colosseum

Question: In which Woody Allen film do a pair of burglars answer the phone and become random contestants in a phone in quiz show
Answer: Radio Days

Question: Brazilian football legend Pele always wore which number
Answer: Ten

Question: In American football, what position is LB
Answer: Linebacker

Question: What is the nickname of New Zealand's national basketball team
Answer: The Tall Blacks

Question: What sport takes place at Belmont Park in the USA
Answer: Horse Racing

Question: Which class of racing yacht has the same name as a Shakespeare play
Answer: Tempest

Question: Which novel introduced the bully Harry Flashman
Answer: Tom Brown's Schooldays

Question: Where did Philippe Cozette and Graham Fagg meet on December the first 1990
Answer: Under the English Channel

Question: What is the nationality of Chelsy Davy, former girlfriend of Prince Harry
Answer: Zimbabwean

Question: What name is given to the horizontal bar of a window
Answer: Transom

Question: What was the Roman coin that was worth a quarter of a denarius
Answer: Sesterce

Question: Who led the Iceni against the Romans
Answer: Boudicca

Question: Which major settlement was destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC
Answer: Carthage

Question: When free school milk was given out what size were the bottles
Answer: Third of a pint

Question: What are Banbury cakes filled with
Answer: Currants, peel and sugar

Question: If you ordered jambon from a French restaurant menu what would you be served with
Answer: Ham

Question: Which soft drink is made from grapes blackcurrants and raspberries
Answer: Vimto

Question: What is Romaine a variety of
Answer: Lettuce

Question: Who took Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini to number one in 1990
Answer: Bombalurina

Question: In which musical does the song The Worst Pies In London appear
Answer: Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

Question: Who wrote 'The Times They Are A Changin'
Answer: Bob Dylan

Question: Which 1981 Duran Duran music video was banned by the BBC
Answer: Girls On Film

Question: Which rapper's real name is Louise Harman
Answer: Lady Sovereign

Question: Lewis Carroll the author of the Alice stories was an Oxford don, what was his subject
Answer: Mathematics

Question: Francesco Schettino was the captain of which ship
Answer: Costa Concordia

Question: What was advertised as The doll you love to dress
Answer: Sindy

Question: What was advertised with the slogan It's slightly rippled with a flat underside
Answer: Cadbury's Boost

Question: Ophelia is a moon of which planet in the Solar System
Answer: Uranus

Question: Who were the first nation to wear wedding rings
Answer: Egyptians