Question: Which Dickens novel starts with a Thames boatman and his daughter 'Lizzie' searching for bodies in the river?
Answer: 'Our Mutual Friend'

Question: What type of creature is a 'Fennec', which is native to North Africa and Arabia, and which has large pointed ears?
Answer: Fox

Question: In which Dickens novel does the action start with the Dover mail coach being stopped on Shooters Hill with a message for a passenger - lawyer 'Jarvis Lorry'?
Answer: 'Tale Of Two Cities'

Question: What name links a woman who died in childbirth in 1537, and the role of 'Solitaire' in a 1973 film?
Answer: Jane Seymour

Question: 'Dead Mans Fingers' is a variety of which plant?
Answer: Orchid

Question: What was the middle name of the character 'Arthur Fonzarelli' from the t.v. series 'Happy Days'?
Answer: 'Herbert'

Question: Who wrote the biography 'Billy' about her husband that was top of the best selling hardback non-fiction book list in 2002?
Answer: PAMELA STEPHENSON (about Billy Connolly)

Question: Which country issues a 1Euro coin showing the famous drawing 'The Vitruvian Man'?
Answer: Italy

Question: For her role in which film did Jane Darwell win the 'Oscar' for Best Supporting Actress in 1940 when aged 61?
Answer: 'The Grapes Of Wrath'

Question: Which English queen was described by Charles Dickens in his 'Child's History Of England' as: "Thirty seven, short and thin and greatly wrinkled in the face"?
Answer: Mary Tudor

Question: Which country issues 1 and 2 Euro coins showing a tree, drawn by artist Joaquim Jiminez, symbolising life, continuity and growth?
Answer: France

Question: Which hymn, written by Eleanor Farjeon, 1881-1965, was the inspiration for a 'top ten' hit of 1972?
Answer: 'Morning Has Broken'

Question: Which British 'queen' was described as being: "Cunning, covetous, wasteful, idle, drunken, greedy, dirty, and goggle-eyed. He would loll on the necks of his favourite courtiers and slobber their faces and kiss and pinch them"?
Answer: JAMES VI & I (who was said to have been homosexual)

Question: Who won an 'Oscar' for Best Supporting Actor in 1967 for his role as a convict known to his fellow inmates as 'Dragline'?
Answer: GEORGE KENNEDY (in 'Cool Hand Luke')

Question: St. John's, the oldest city of English-speaking North America, is the capital of which Canadian province?
Answer: Newfoundland

Question: Which motor cycle company made the 'Daytona' model?
Answer: Triumph

Question: The bacterium Bordetella pertussis is the causative agent for which childhood disease?
Answer: Whooping Cough

Question: Which book of the Old Testament follows the Pentateuch (ie. is the sixth)?
Answer: Joshua

Question: What word is used in betting slang for odds of 2/1 (two to one)?
Answer: Bottle

Question: In which country is Cabo (Cape) Verde (now Cap Vert)?
Answer: Senegal

Question: Which 20th century artist's works include 'Christ Of St. John Of The Cross' and 'Metamorphosis Of Narcissus'?
Answer: Salvador Dali

Question: In which country in 2004 was the 'Orange Revolution'?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: Which European city is served by 'Arlanda Airport'?
Answer: Stockholm

Question: Which childhood disease commonly presents with painful enlargement of the parotid salivary glands?
Answer: Mumps

Question: Which Irish folk band had UK 'top twenty' hits in 1967 with 'Seven Drunken Nights' and 'Black Velvet Band'?
Answer: 'The Dubliners'

Question: The 'Compass Rose' is a ship prominent in which 20th century novel?
Answer: 'The Cruel Sea'

Question: What disease was declared extinct by the World Health Organisation in 1980?
Answer: Smallpox

Question: 'Russell Hybrids' are a type of which common garden flower?
Answer: Lupins

Question: On board a sailing vessel, what are 'sheets'?
Answer: Ropes

Question: Which family of birds has species called Little, Caspian and Fairy?
Answer: Tern

Question: Which famous architect designed Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral?
Answer: Giles Gilbert Scott

Question: Which Stockport brewery produces Hatters Mild, Old Stockport Bitter, Frederic’s and Old Tom?
Answer: Robinsons

Question: Which car manufacturer produced models called the Laurel, Maxima and Scarab?
Answer: Datsun

Question: Which perfume company produces the fragrance Angel?
Answer: Thierry Mugler

Question: In which film did Jane Fonda play a hooker to win the 1971 Best Actress Oscar?
Answer: Klute

Question: Astrakhan is a port in the delta of which river?
Answer: The Volga

Question: While working for an advertising agency, which famous author was part of a team that devised the advertising slogan “My Goodness – My Guinness”?
Answer: Dorothy L Sayers

Question: In which sport are the Subaltern’s Cup and the Tyro Cup awarded?
Answer: Polo

Question: Which country, with an eastern Mediterranean coastline, produces the red win Chateau Musar?
Answer: Lebanon

Question: Which town is the administrative headquarters of Clackmannanshire District Council?
Answer: Alloa

Question: Which country, a member of the EU, produces the rich dessert wine Commandaria?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: In which sport are the Corbel Cup and Prince Ranier Cup awarded?
Answer: Fencing

Question: Which town is the administrative headquarters of Angus District Council?
Answer: Forfar

Question: Berengaria, the wife of Richard I of England, came from which European Kingdom, now part of Spain?
Answer: Navarre

Question: In which city is the opera Turandot set?
Answer: Peking

Question: Which Persian tentmaker, astronomer, calendar reformer and poet lived from about 1050 to about 1123?
Answer: Omar Khayyam

Question: Which perfume company make the fragrance Nu?
Answer: Yves St Laurent

Question: Which organisation was founded by British lawyer Peter Benenson in 1961?
Answer: Amnesty International

Question: Which French monk, doctor, plant collector and ribald satirist lived from about 1494 to about 1553?
Answer: Rabelais

Question: Which former leader of the Conservative party was MP for Folkestone and Hythe?
Answer: Michael Howard

Question: Which song was a top 40 hit for both the Bee Gees in 1979 and Steps in 1998?
Answer: Tragedy

Question: According to Oscar Wilde, what was the second biggest disappointment of the average American honeymoon?
Answer: Niagara Falls

Question: Catherine, wife of King Charles II of England, came from which Portuguese royal house?
Answer: Braganza

Question: Which song was a top 40 hit for both The Pretenders in 1994 and Girls Aloud in 2004?
Answer: I’ll Stand By You

Question: In which city is the opera Tosca set?
Answer: Rome

Question: Who played the part of Budgie in the 1970’s drama series?
Answer: Adam Faith

Question: Who carved the tomb of Oscar Wilde at the Pere Lachaise cemetery?
Answer: Jacob Epstein

Question: In 1979 Jerry Rawlings led the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council which took control of which African country/
Answer: Ghana

Question: Which 19th century artist illustrated Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” and Pope’s “Rape of the Lock”?
Answer: Aubrey Beardsley

Question: Which British Prime Minister was born in 1897 and first entered Parliament in 1923 as MP for Warwick and Leamington?
Answer: Anthony Eden

Question: Between 1963 and 1975, FRELIMO, a nationalist group, fought for the independence of which African country?
Answer: Mozambique

Question: Who was commander in chief of the American Expeditionary Force I n WWI?
Answer: John (Jack) Pershing

Question: Which Lerner and Leowe musical of 1958 features the songs “The Night They Invented Champagne” and “I Remember It Well”?
Answer: Gigi

Question: In which film did Rod Steiger play a sheriff to win the 1967 Best Actor Oscar?
Answer: In the Heat of the Night

Question: Which former leader of the Conservative party was MP for Chingford & Woodford Green?
Answer: Ian Duncan Smith

Question: Which family of birds has species called Little, Common and Glaucous?
Answer: Gull

Question: Who commanded the German forces at the Battle of Stalingrad
Answer: Friedrich Paulus