Question: Which football league team has the nickname 'The Cherries'?
Answer: Bournemouth

Question: Which item was advertised with the slogan "Gives a Meal Man Appeal"?
Answer: Oxo

Question: 'Korma' is an Indian cooking instruction to do what?
Answer: Braise

Question: Harefield Hospital in London is Britain's leading hospital for which type of operations?
Answer: Heart/Lung

Question: How many players in a women's lacrosse team?
Answer: 12

Question: Papworth Hospital is in which county?
Answer: Cambridgeshire

Question: Who were 'Glad All Over' in their No. 1 hit of 1965?
Answer: Dave Clark Five

Question: Which detective was based in Denton Police Station?
Answer: Inspector Frost

Question: What does Henry Cooper, Carol Thatcher and Elvis Presley have in common?
Answer: They Are All Twins

Question: Which EU country has the greatest population?
Answer: Germany

Question: In 1983 Sarah Jane Hutt was the last UK winner of which title?
Answer: Miss World

Question: In which year was the National Lottery started?
Answer: 1994

Question: Snow Breweries is the biggest brewing company in which country?
Answer: China

Question: Which island separates the American and Canadian Falls at Niagara?
Answer: Goat Island

Question: Who wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?
Answer: (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge

Question: Name the actress who left Eastenders in 2011 after 25 years in the show, she played Pat Evans (also Beale, Wicks and Butcher)?
Answer: Pam St Clement

Question: Who was proclaimed Emperor of Rome whilst in York in 306AD?
Answer: Constantine

Question: Who would wear a hat known as a toque?
Answer: A Chef

Question: What is the opposite of Utopia?
Answer: Dystopia

Question: What was unique about the Grand Prix winning Tyrrell P34 Formula One car?
Answer: It had six wheels

Question: In 17th century England, what was at various times 'Addled', 'Short' and 'Useless'?
Answer: Parliament

Question: In particle physics there are six 'flavours' of quarks; up, down, top and bottom are four of them, name either of the other two.
Answer: Strange and charm

Question: In French it is Mont Cervin, how is known in English?
Answer: Matterhorn

Question: 'One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth' is a version of an old rhyme. To what do these numbers allude?
Answer: (seeing) Magpies

Question: Lincolnshire was historically divided into three parts, Lindsey was one name either of the other two?
Answer: Kesteven or Holland

Question: Who is the producer of shows including Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins and Cats?
Answer: Cameron Mackintosh

Question: Lucha Libre is a popular form of wrestling, in which country did it originate?
Answer: Mexico

Question: What is the modern name of the Turkish town Halicarnassus?
Answer: Bodrum

Question: The new Hepworth Gallery is in which town, the birthplace of sculptor Barbara Hepworth?
Answer: Wakefield

Question: Which 'day' has been celebrated as an official event on the last Saturday in June since 2009?
Answer: Annual Armed Forces Day

Question: What is the pan-European emergency telephone number?
Answer: 112

Question: Who is the former Chief Constable of Merseyside, now Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police?
Answer: Bernard Hogan-Howe

Question: Who promoted Barclaycard in a TV advert by not having one?
Answer: Rowan Atkinson

Question: By area which is the largest EU country?
Answer: France

Question: Who hosts the new (Challenge TV) version of the TV quiz show 'Blockbusters'?
Answer: Simon Mayo

Question: In which US state is Deadwood, scene of the shooting of Wild Bill Hickok?
Answer: South Dakota

Question: The 'Cambridgeshire' and which other race make up the 'Autumn Double'?
Answer: Caesarewitch

Question: The evil Mouse King features in which ballet?
Answer: Nutcracker

Question: Styria and Carinthia are states in which country?
Answer: Austria

Question: Which author's characters include Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance?
Answer: Jeffrey Deaver

Question: The London Philharmonic Orchestra is based in which venue?
Answer: Royal Festival Hall

Question: Who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961?
Answer: Peter Hall

Question: Which is the most malleable and ductile metal?
Answer: Gold

Question: Which actress appeared as a barmaid in over 2,800 episodes of 'Coronation Street' until her death in 2011?
Answer: Betty Driver

Question: According to the proverb (as in Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament) a live dog is better than what?
Answer: A dead lion

Question: What is the common name of the creature Asterias Rubens?
Answer: Starfish

Question: What name is given, particularly in USA, to a burial ground for unknown people?
Answer: Potter's Field

Question: Which woman was the singer with Jefferson Airplane?
Answer: Grace Slick

Question: What number is dialled to hear the Speaking Clock?
Answer: 123

Question: Who wrote the poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'?
Answer: (Alfred Lord) Tennyson

Question: Who won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for his book 'The Sense of an Ending'?
Answer: Julian Barnes

Question: Charlene, Princess of Monaco, was an Olympic swimmer for which country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: In which town is the Britannia Royal Naval College?
Answer: Dartmouth

Question: The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz is about which character?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Question: Who, when aged 42 years and 103 days, is the oldest footballer to play for England?
Answer: Stanley Matthews

Question: Which BBC2 TV programme is based on the Japanese 'Money No Tora' or 'Money Tiger'?
Answer: Dragon's Den

Question: In which US state is Tombstone, scene of the Gunfight at the OK Corral?
Answer: Arizona

Question: In which ancient city is the 'Street of Facades' and the 'Treasury'?
Answer: Petra

Question: Who, in an ancient myth, removed a thorn from a lion's paw?
Answer: Androcles

Question: Name either country involved in the 'Pastry War' of 1838.
Answer: France and Mexico

Question: Who sculpted 'The Angel of the North"?
Answer: Anthony Gormley

Question: What is the administrative centre for Derbyshire?
Answer: Matlock

Question: By what first name was Tiger Woods legally known until at least his 21st birthday?
Answer: Eldrick

Question: Of what is ghee a variety?
Answer: Butter

Question: What is the three digit landline telephone number available in the UK to contact the police in non-emergency situations?
Answer: 101

Question: Which South African bullion coin is named after a 19th century President of the South African Republic?
Answer: Krugerrand

Question: At the end of 2011, which Pacific island nation advanced a whole day by adjusting its time zone?
Answer: Samoa

Question: Who writes the series of novels about Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin?
Answer: M C Beaton

Question: Which Scottish king was killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513?
Answer: James IV

Question: Ancient Chinese write Sun Tzu wrote on which subject?
Answer: The Art of War/Military Strategy

Question: Sinope and Carme are two satellites of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: Germinal and Messidor are months in which calendar?
Answer: French Revolutionary Calendar

Question: Mia Farrow is the daughter of which actress?
Answer: Maureen O'Sullivan

Question: In 1949 Time magazine profile erroneously gave Louis Armstrong which middle name?
Answer: Daniel

Question: Malus sylvestris is the Latin name of which fruit?
Answer: Crab Apple

Question: Austrian born but naturalised Briton Otto Frisch 1904-1979 achieved fame in which field?
Answer: Physics

Question: What is the surname of top national hunt racehorse trainer David who took over his stables from his dad Martin in 2006?
Answer: Pipe

Question: What was discovered at Alta Mira in Northern Spain in 1879?
Answer: Cave Paintings

Question: Film director Lindsay Anderson was born in which country?
Answer: India