Question: In the 'Archers' which character fell off a roof and died while trying to take down a Happy New Year banner in January 2011?
Answer: Nigel Pargetter

Question: Which singer's real name is Arnold George Dorsey?
Answer: Engelbert Humperdinck

Question: Pashtu and Dari are the official languages of which country?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: In which English City is Robert Adam's celebrated Pulteney Bridge?
Answer: Bath

Question: Which country's royal family can trade its ancestry to 960 AD making it the oldest in the world?
Answer: Denmark

Question: What name, referring to a fluid or membrane, is given to joints that are freely movable?
Answer: Synovial

Question: Steve Delaney created and plays the role of which former variety star who makes malapropisms and has delusions of grandeur?
Answer: Count Arthur Strong

Question: Who is the President of Ireland as at April 2012?
Answer: Michael D Higgins

Question: Patsy Kline, Kenny Rogers, Sea, Eternal and Gnarls Barkley all had hits with which song title?
Answer: Crazy

Question: Which chain of volcanic islands is the westernmost part of the USA and is in the northern end of the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'?
Answer: Aleutian Islands

Question: Which sport has the highest ratio and officials to players?
Answer: (Lawn) Tennis

Question: Which English King had nicknames of 'Lackland' and 'Softsword'?
Answer: John

Question: Which variety of tea is known as 'the champagne of tea'?
Answer: Darjeeling

Question: Who founded the penny post?
Answer: Sir Rowland Hill

Question: What is the maximum number of characters in a single SMS (text) message?
Answer: 160

Question: How-many possible moves can be chosen from to start a game of chess?
Answer: 20

Question: The groundhog celebration in America has its origins with settlers from which country?
Answer: Germany

Question: 2009 saw the death of Omar Bongo, Africa's longest serving leader. Of which oil rich nation had he been President for over four decades?
Answer: Gabon

Question: Born in 1813 which philosopher is widely considered to be the progenitor of modern existentialism, most notably expounded in his work 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the
Answer: Philosophical Fragments'?

Question: Which member of the cat family shares its name with a unit of weight?
Answer: Ounce

Question: A tangelo is the result of crossing a tangerine and with other fruit?
Answer: Grapefruit

Question: Sometimes known as 'kasha' which flour is used in North America and Eastern Europe for making pancakes?
Answer: Buckwheat

Question: The internet craze of taking pictures of yourself lying face down in unusual locations is known by what name?
Answer: Planking

Question: In classical history what number was indicated by the word 'myriad'?
Answer: Ten Thousand

Question: Which former national leader held the following titles 'Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea', 'Conqueror of the British Empire' and the 'Last King of Scotland'?
Answer: Idi Amin

Question: What movie's tagline was "They'll never get caught. They're on a mission from God"?
Answer: The Blues Brothers

Question: Which brewery-recreated Higsons Best Bitter in 2011?
Answer: Liverpool Organic

Question: What horse race is known as 'The Run For The Roses'?
Answer: Kentucky Derby

Question: Silkworms feed on the leaves of which plant?
Answer: Mulberry

Question: In the police acronym SOCO, for what does the letter C stand?
Answer: (Scenes Of) Crime

Question: Axilla is the medical name for which part of the human body?
Answer: Armpit

Question: Which long-serving Radio 1 DJ is known as 'The Big Dog'?
Answer: Tim Westwood

Question: Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman became an 'item' following their roles in which 1990 film?
Answer: Days Of Thunder

Question: What horse race is known as 'The Race That Stops a Nation'?
Answer: Melbourne Cup

Question: Glenmorangie whisky is produced by 16 men known as the 'Sixteen men of .. where'?
Answer: Tain

Question: Taking its name from a range of local hills, which National Trail runs for 102 miles between Bath and Chipping Campden?
Answer: Cotswold Way

Question: In the police acronym PNC, for what does the letter C stand?
Answer: (Police National) Computer

Question: Whose long-running Radio 2 programme is known as 'The Big Show'?
Answer: Steve Wright

Question: 'Well, Did You Evah!' and 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?' are songs in which 1956 film musical?
Answer: High Society

Question: What one word links a 1974 album by Sparks and the group who had hits in 1984-5 with 'Duel' and 'Dr Mabuse'?
Answer: Propaganda

Question: The daughter of one half of a famous double-act, who has been the BBC economics editor since 2008?
Answer: Stephanie Flanders

Question: Which Wiltshire town officially added the prefix 'Royal' to its name in October 2011?
Answer: (Royal) Wootton Bassett

Question: Sharing its name with one in Venice, what is the covered bridge in Cambridge's St. John's College called?
Answer: Bridge Of Sighs

Question: Who composed the 1880 symphonic poem 'In The Steppes of Central Asia'?
Answer: Alexander Borodin

Question: 'Embraceable You' and 'I Got Rhythm' are songs in which 1951 film musical?
Answer: An American In Paris

Question: A presenter of Radio 4's 'Today' since 2009, whose biological father was 1970's newsreader Peter Woods?
Answer: Justin Webb

Question: In August 1944, German General von Choltitz surrendered Paris to French forces in what railway station?
Answer: (Gare) Montparnasse

Question: Which Surrey town officially added the suffix '-upon-Thames' to its name in May 2012?
Answer: Staines

Question: Officially known as the Wooden Bridge, what is the popular name of the wooden footbridge linking two halves of Queens' College, Cambridge?
Answer: Mathematical Bridge

Question: The Dukedom of Marlborough takes its title from a town in what county?
Answer: Wiltshire

Question: Robert Gordon University is situated in which city?
Answer: Aberdeen

Question: Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo are cities in which Australian state?
Answer: Victoria

Question: Also the host of a much better-known quiz, who has hosted TV quizzes 'The Colour of Money', 'It's Not What You Know' and 'Everybody's Equal'?
Answer: Chris Tarrant

Question: Which American President organised the Louisiana Purchase in 1803?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Question: The University of Warwick is situated in which city?
Answer: Coventry

Question: The Dukedom of Wellington takes its title from a town in what county?
Answer: Somerset

Question: What character was played first by Ursula Andress in a 1967 film, and by Eva Green in a 2006 remake?
Answer: Vesper Lynd

Question: Made in Scotland, Caboc cheese is coated in what?
Answer: Oatmeal

Question: What music festival is held each July at a disused airfield in Balado, Kinross-shire?
Answer: T In The Park

Question: Which 'handyman' has hosted TV quizzes 'Secret Fortune', 'Who Dares Wins' and 'Perfection'?
Answer: Nick Knowles

Question: Translating as `skewer', what Greek dish consists of small pieces of pork, tomatoes, onions and tzatziki wrapped in pita bread?
Answer: Souvlaki

Question: The name of what woodwind instrument is also that of a quarter-bottle of champagne?
Answer: Piccolo

Question: The 1999 film '10 Things I Hate About You', starring Heath Ledger, is based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Taming Of The Shrew

Question: In what TV game show do players not want to join the '1p Club'?
Answer: Deal Or No Deal

Question: Situated on the River Wyre, what Lancashire town became the world's first Fairtrade town in 2000?
Answer: Garstang

Question: What Japanese term, translating as 'pleasant savoury taste', is one of the five basic tastes?
Answer: Umami

Question: Rothesay is the largest town on which Scottish island?
Answer: Bute

Question: Which UK newspaper produces an annual Rich List of the thousand wealthiest people in the country?
Answer: Sunday Times