Question: How many gold rings, altogether, did ‘My True Love give to me’ over the Twelve Days of Christmas?
Answer: 40

Question: 1960’s British singer Allan Smethurst was better known as ‘The Singing _ ‘what’?
Answer: Postman

Question: Sable is the heraldic term for which colour?
Answer: Black

Question: The Kodiak bear is native to which US state?
Answer: Alaska

Question: The theme song to children’s television series ‘Fireball XL5’ was sung on karaoke by which actor in the 2000 London gangster film ‘Love, Honour and Obey’?
Answer: Sean Pertwee

Question: Which sport in Britain is regulated by the GBGB?
Answer: Greyhound racing

Question: Who became the manager of (Glasgow) Rangers Football Club in May 2011?
Answer: Ally McCoist

Question: Which fictional villain has the real name Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot?
Answer: The Penguin

Question: How high, in inches, are the hurdles in a men’s 110 metre Olympic hurdle race?
Answer: 42 inches

Question: Formerly called ‘Scrabulous’, what is the name of the online word game based on Scrabble?
Answer: Lexulous

Question: In which year was the Bank of France (Banque de France) established?
Answer: 1800

Question: What is the title of the 2004 film which stars Imelda Staunton as a back-street abortionist?
Answer: Vera Drake

Question: Plutophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: Wealth

Question: Who was said to have ridden naked through the streets of Coventry in the 11th Century?
Answer: Lady Godiva

Question: Which country’s football team won the 1986 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Martedi is Italian for which day of the week?
Answer: Tuesday

Question: In the 1965 film ‘The Great Race’, starring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, the race is from New York to which city?
Answer: Paris

Question: What was the name of the pet Shitzu/Bichon frise owned by English television presenter Paul O’Grady?
Answer: Buster

Question: What value is an ‘L’ tile in the game of Scrabble?
Answer: 1 point

Question: What is the US state capital of Tennessee?
Answer: Nashville

Question: In the novel ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte, what is the first name of Mr Rochester’s French ward?
Answer: Adele

Question: Which US band released a 2007 album entitled ‘The Long Road Out of Eden’?
Answer: The Eagles

Question: A roc is what type of giant mythological creature, mentioned in the Arabian Nights?
Answer: Bird

Question: Which author wrote the 1886 novel ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

Question: What is the name for the bending of light as it passes from one medium to another?
Answer: Refraction

Question: ‘The Stonewall Riots’ took place in which US city in June 1969?
Answer: New York

Question: Which real-life couple played the parents in the 1996 film ‘Matilda’?
Answer: Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman

Question: Who plays Huggy Bear Brown in the 2004 film ‘Starsky and Hutch’?
Answer: Snoop Dogg

Question: Which English monarch formed The Yeomen of the Guard?
Answer: Henry VII

Question: A durian is what type of foodstuff?
Answer: Fruit

Question: In the UK, ‘An Act for the better securing the Liberty of the Subject, and for the Prevention of Imprisonment beyond the seas’ is commonly known by what name?
Answer: The Habeas Corpus Act

Question: Which singer released a 1993 album entitled ‘Music Box’?
Answer: Mariah Carey

Question: US President Herbert Hoover belonged to which political party?
Answer: Republican Party

Question: George Burns and Walter Matthau starred in which 1975 film about two ageing vaudevillains?
Answer: The Sunshine Boys

Question: Which country hosted the 2010 FIBA World Championship international basketball tournament?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Mamucium was the Roman name for which English city?
Answer: Manchester

Question: Who was the captain of the English cricket team which won the 2005 Ashes victory over Australia?
Answer: Michael Vaughan

Question: Roman numerals MCMLXXIV represent which year?
Answer: 1974

Question: How many points are scored for a dropped goal in rugby league?
Answer: One

Question: ‘The Persistence of ‘what’ is a 1931 painting by Salvador Dali?
Answer: Memory

Question: Constanze Weber married which composer in 1782?
Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question: St Patrick’s Day falls during which month of the year?
Answer: March

Question: Pan Troglodytes is the scientific name for which animal?
Answer: Chimpanzee

Question: The former Malagasy Republic is now known by what name?
Answer: Madagascar

Question: Pyongyang is the capital of which country?
Answer: North Korea

Question: A hammerkop is what type of creature?
Answer: Bird

Question: Ballet dancers Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev first danced together at the 1962 Royal Ballet performance of which ballet?
Answer: Giselle

Question: What is the title of the 1995 film in which Robin Williams is trapped in a board game for 26 years?
Answer: Jumanji

Question: In the human body, what does the disease leukaemia affect?
Answer: The blood

Question: What is phonetics the study of?
Answer: Speech sounds

Question: How many dots are on a pair of regular dice?
Answer: 42

Question: The Aleutian Islands are part of which US state?
Answer: Alaska

Question: In 1930 in the UK, a speed limit of how many miles per hour was imposed on motorists in built up areas?
Answer: 30 mph

Question: Which actress sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to US President John F Kennedy on his 45th birthday?
Answer: Marilyn Monroe

Question: A muselet is the wire which holds ‘what’ in a bottle of champagne?
Answer: Cork

Question: Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in which European country?
Answer: England

Question: Isaac Singer obtained a US patent in August 1851 for his improvements of which type of machine?
Answer: Sewing machine

Question: Which is the third largest political party in the US?
Answer: Libertarian Party

Question: Who played Bernardo O’Reilly in the 1960 film ‘The Magnificent Seven’?
Answer: Charles Bronson

Question: In 2008, US actress/tv show host Ellen DeGeneres married which Ali McBeal actress?
Answer: Portia de Rossi

Question: The Star of ‘who’ appears on the National flag of Israel?
Answer: David

Question: What was the name of the ‘St Trinians’ cartoonist?
Answer: Ronald Searle

Question: What does the Latin phrase ‘De die in diem’ translate to in English?
Answer: From day to day

Question: Crimp, Raven and Elmsley Count are all terms used in what?
Answer: Magic/card tricks

Question: In medicine, dysphagia is difficulty in doing what?
Answer: Swallowing

Question: The town of Crotch Lake is in which Canadian province?
Answer: Ontario

Question: A ‘Singing Hinny’ is what type of foodstuff’?
Answer: Cake

Question: Claudia was the first name of the wife of which US President?
Answer: Lyndon B Johnson

Question: What is the cube root of 912,673?
Answer: 97

Question: Which South American country has the International Vehicle Registration RCH?
Answer: Chile

Question: Notorious British peer Richard John Bingham is better known by what name?
Answer: Lord Lucan

Question: Who plays Jack’s mother in the 1995 film ‘Jack and Sarah’?
Answer: Judi Dench

Question: In which decade of the 20th Century did the Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary close?
Answer: 1960’s

Question: What is the official language of Liechtenstein?
Answer: German

Question: US television presenter Jerry Springer was born in which city?
Answer: London

Question: Tony Lumpkin, Constance Neville and George Hastings are all characters in which play by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith?
Answer: She Stoops to Conquer

Question: Which mother and son were both Prime Ministers of India?
Answer: Indira and Rajiv Gandhi

Question: What is the largest brass section instrument in an orchestra?
Answer: Tuba

Question: In cooking, what is the main ingredient of a pongal dish?
Answer: Rice

Question: Who wrote the ‘Winnie the Pooh’ books?
Answer: A A Milne