Question: What vehicle was driven by Starsky and Hutch in the US TV programme?
Answer: Ford Torino

Question: Who won an Oscar for her portrayal in a 1985 film of a woman who goes back to the town of her childhood?
Answer: Geraldine Page

Question: When are the reigning Princes of the newly formed principality of Liechtenstein, created by the Holy Roman Emperor in 1719, recorded as first visiting their lands?
Answer: Nearly 100 years later

Question: Started as early as 1888, professional competitions offering trophies testing and displaying cowboy and vaquero skills are called what?
Answer: Rodeo

Question: Which son of a king of Kent, chosen king of the West Saxons, conquered Mercia and other parts of England and is generally accepted as the first King to be recognised by all England?
Answer: Egbert of the House of Cerdic

Question: Palinka, made from various kinds of fruit, most commonly plums, pears, apricot, or peaches, is a traditional type of what?
Answer: Brandy

Question: Who was the wife of Richard I of England (the Lionheart)?
Answer: Berengaria of Navarre

Question: When was the Indian National Calendar first used?
Answer: 22 March 1957

Question: John Mills won an Oscar in 1970 for his role in which film?
Answer: Ryan's Daughter

Question: If The Beatles were listed in a 1969 telephone book, who would be the last to be listed?
Answer: Ringo

Question: The 1996 Port Arthur massacre, carried out by a single gunman, took place where?
Answer: Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia

Question: When was the last year in which the Summer and Winter Olympics were held in the same country and in the same year?
Answer: 1936

Question: Who is the king of the title of "The Return of the King"?
Answer: Aragorn

Question: What is the German equivalent of the word "mister"?
Answer: Herr

Question: What similarity was there in the 19th century between Valentia Island in Ireland, Darwin in Australia, Heart's Content in Newfoundland, and Cap Gris-Nez in France?
Answer: They were some of the earliest terminals for commercial submarine telegraph cables

Question: When the orf virus affects humans what is often one unusual characteristic of the damage it causes?
Answer: The damage heals without scarring

Question: When did freestyle skiing first became a sport contested at the World Olympics?
Answer: 1992

Question: Which British comic strip character who appeared from September 1954 as a feature in "Tiger" magazine, had his own weekly comic from September 1976, which ran for 853 issues until March 1993?
Answer: Roy of the Rovers

Question: In Jules Verne's book "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", who captained the submarine the "Nautilus"?
Answer: Captain Nemo

Question: In 1979 Briton Anthony Blunt was exposed as a Soviet spy. What was his area of interest?
Answer: Art

Question: Since the start of the present ice age about 2.5 million years ago at least how many severe glacial periods have there been?
Answer: 17

Question: Who entitled his autobiography "My Wicked, Wicked Ways"?
Answer: Errol Flynn

Question: After Mao Zedong's death his wife, together with others of the Gang of Four, was put on trial and sentenced to death; when did she die?
Answer: 1991

Question: Who composed "The Ride of the Valkyrie" which premired in Munich in 1870?
Answer: Richard Wagner

Question: A red snapper is a type of what?
Answer: Fish

Question: The Republic of Chad is predominantly what type of land?
Answer: Desert

Question: Who was the guitarist for David Bowie's recording and performing band from 1970 to 1974?
Answer: Mick Ronson

Question: What word is used to describe the repetition of vowel sounds in words?
Answer: Assonance

Question: Who sings the theme song for the UK TV series "New Tricks"?
Answer: Dennis Waterman

Question: Which country contains the most large lakes in the world?
Answer: Canada

Question: Who was the main character in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels "A Study In Scarlet", "The Sign of Four" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles"?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Question: Flowers of papilionaceous plants resemble what?
Answer: Butterflies

Question: Who played the character of Alex P. Keaton in all seven series of a 1980s sitcom?
Answer: Michael J Fox

Question: What is the main feature of the design of a "Riparium"?
Answer: Circulating current through different-levelled pools

Question: What links a 1999 version of Richard Adams's work "Watership Down" and a 1984 version of Lewis Carroll's work "The Hunting of the Snark"?
Answer: Mike Batt, composer of the sound track

Question: King William III of England was a prince of what European house?
Answer: Orange

Question: Strictly speaking what does the word "alibi" mean?
Answer: Elsewhere

Question: If you travelled due west from Seattle, USA where would you make landfall?
Answer: Russia

Question: The phrase to be in the "limelight" refers to burning of what as a brilliant light source in old theatre and music hall performances?
Answer: Quicklime

Question: What is an American food made from small pieces of cornmeal bread that are deep fried or baked, the ingredients of which include cornmeal, flour, eggs, salt, baking soda, milk, and water, and sometimes kernel corn, onion, spring onion and peppers?
Answer: Hushpuppies

Question: """The Miracles"" backed which singer?"
Answer: Smokey Robinson

Question: Chris O'Dowd plays the imaginary friend of a young boy in rural Ireland in which TV series?
Answer: Moone Boy

Question: Where is the Dune of Pilat found?
Answer: West coast of France

Question: A truant is someone who stays away from what?
Answer: School

Question: What was the most famous work of writer L. Frank Baum, who wrote from 1897 to 1912?
Answer: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Question: Who wrote the story on which Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film "The Birds" was based?
Answer: Daphne du Maurier

Question: Which episode of Star Wars is being filmed 2014-15?
Answer: Seven

Question: What is the name for a type of man-made well where the water is raised by natural pressure rather than pumping?
Answer: Artesian

Question: Which American country music singer-songwriter, born in 1934, won two Grammy Awards of 2005, (Best Country Album and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals) for her album "Van Lear Rose", which was produced by Jack White of the White Stripes?
Answer: Loretta Lynn

Question: In what field would the terms Nikkei, Dow, and DAX be used?
Answer: Financial

Question: What are the missing words in this phrase from the UK TV series starting in 1952 "Bill and Ben, the .... Men"?
Answer: Flower Pot

Question: What sort of animal is a salamander?
Answer: Amphibian

Question: The cedilla appears under what letter in some French words?
Answer: C

Question: The characters of Doris Schwartz and Leroy Johnson appeared in what 1980s TV series?
Answer: Fame

Question: What river falls over the Angel Falls, Venezuela, the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall?
Answer: Gauja River

Question: The first Sovereign to reign over England, Scotland, and Ireland simultaneously was James who ruled in Scotland as James VI from the age of 18 months, and in England and Ireland as James I from 1603. He was the first King of England of which Royal House?
Answer: Stuart

Question: What is the main ingredient in biriani?
Answer: Rice

Question: What breed of dog was the film star "Lassie"?
Answer: Collie

Question: In 1974 many ranks of life-size models were discovered buried in China; they are known as...?
Answer: The Terracotta Army

Question: What type of creature is a salamander?
Answer: Amphibian

Question: Who wrote the 6 "Brandenburg Concertos"?
Answer: Bach

Question: Who is referred to by the "Ig" in Ig Nobel prizes?
Answer: No-one, it is a pun to parody the more famous Nobel prize

Question: In a coup in 2006, who seized power in Fiji?
Answer: Frank Bainimarama