Question: From which t.v. comedy series did the catchphrase "We really want to see those fingers" come?
Answer: 'Shooting Stars'

Question: Which jockey rode 'Devon Loch' in the 1956 Grand National?
Answer: Dick Francis

Question: Who in 1830 founded the Mormon religion in the USA?
Answer: Joseph Smith

Question: 'Juice FM 107.6' broadcasts from which town/city?
Answer: Liverpool

Question: Three of the categories of the Whitbread Book Award are 'Novel Award', 'Poetry Award' and 'Children's Book Award'. Name either of the other two categories?
Answer: BIOGRAPHY or FIRST NOVEL

Question: 'Air Pacific' is the national airline of which Pacific island country?
Answer: Fiji

Question: 'Copa Airlines' is the national airline of which Central American country?
Answer: Panama

Question: About which of her fellow actresses did Bette Davis say "She's slept with every star in Hollywood except Lassie"?
Answer: Joan Crawford

Question: Who wrote the Elvis Presley hit 'Blue Suede Shoes'?
Answer: Carl Perkins

Question: Which shrub is commonly known as the 'Butterfly bush'?
Answer: Buddleia

Question: Which horse led the 1973 Grand National field for most of the race only to be beaten by 'Red Rum'?
Answer: 'Crisp'

Question: Who am I, I was born in 1936 in Czechoslovakia, was a playwright and became a politician being the last President of Czechoslovakia (1989-92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003)?
Answer: Vaclav Havel

Question: Who designed and built the 'Labyrinth' in Crete for King Minos to house the 'Monotaur'?
Answer: Daedalus

Question: What in terms of area, is the smallest county in the Irish Republic?
Answer: Louth

Question: Of which bird did Wordsworth write "While I am lying on the grass, thy two-fold shout I hear"?
Answer: Cuckoo

Question: Who is credited with inventing the Sewing Machine in 1846?
Answer: Elias Howe

Question: What kind of bread takes its name, because of its appearance from the Italian for slipper?
Answer: Ciabatta

Question: Who is credited with inventing the Cotton Gin in 1793?
Answer: Eli Whitney

Question: Which flower has types called 'Decorative', 'Ball' and 'Pompom'?
Answer: Dahlia

Question: What is the name of Albania's unit of currency?
Answer: Lek

Question: Independent radio station 'Galaxy FM 102' broadcasts from which town/city?
Answer: Manchester

Question: The presence of which vitamin in the body is necessary for blood to clot?
Answer: Vitamin K

Question: What was the name of the queen of Richard III?
Answer: Anne

Question: What was the name of the queen of King John 1199- 1216?
Answer: Isabel

Question: The Treaty of Utrecht ended which war?
Answer: The War Of Spanish Succession

Question: 'White Lipped Banded', 'Heath' and 'White Ramshorn' are varieties of what?
Answer: Snails

Question: The Persian word for bread is now used for any flat bread baked in a tandoor oven?
Answer: Naan

Question: What in Greek mythology, was designed and built by Epeius?
Answer: The Trojan Horse

Question: Is a cockney was buying some 'Tom', what would he be buying?
Answer: JEWELRY (Tomfoolery)

Question: 'Great Horned', 'Snowy' and 'Pygmy' are all species of which bird?
Answer: Owl

Question: Who am I, 1901-1994: I was an American scientist who won Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and late Peace?
Answer: Linus Pauling

Question: Who wrote the Tony Christie hit 'Is This The Way To Amarillo'?
Answer: Neil Sedaka

Question: Which bird did Wordsworth describe as "Ethereal minstrel, pilgrim of the sky"?
Answer: Skylark

Question: Which country's currency is called the Bolivar?
Answer: Venezuela

Question: What is the name of the cross-eyed Lion in 'Daktari'?
Answer: 'Clarence'

Question: What is the town called in which 'Clark Kent' grew up?
Answer: 'Smallville'

Question: What was 'Don Diego De La Vega's' secret identity?
Answer: 'Zorro'

Question: Which Nintendo arcade game first introduced the character of 'Mario'?
Answer: 'Donkey Kong'

Question: What is the London counterpart of the Grevin Museum in Paris?
Answer: Madame Tussauds

Question: Which popular confection was first launched as 'Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp' in 1935
Answer: Kit Kat

Question: In the film 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe', who is the voice of 'Aslan'?
Answer: Liam Neeson

Question: The 'Seaburn Casuals' are/were a gang of football hooligans who supported which North East club?
Answer: Sunderland

Question: What wood is traditionally used to make Rolls Royce dashboards?
Answer: Walnut

Question: Who supplied the voice for 'Zeebad' in the 'Magic Roundabout' movie?
Answer: Tom Baker

Question: What wood was traditionally used to make Chippendale furniture?
Answer: Mahogany

Question: What is the stage name of actor/singer Jim Bradford?
Answer: Jimmy Nail

Question: Which French Hussar is the hero of several short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Answer: 'Brigadier Gerard'

Question: Who was the Conservative Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1874 to 1880?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: Who was the Tory Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1809 to 1812?
Answer: Spencer Percival

Question: Which is the largest desert in South America?
Answer: Atacama

Question: Count Almasy is the name of which eponymous literary character?
Answer: The English Patient

Question: If you ordered queso in a Spanish Restaurant what would you be served?
Answer: Cheese

Question: Lisbeth Salander is the name of which eponymous literary character?
Answer: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Question: Who voiced the character of Bruce the shark in Finding Nemo?
Answer: Barry Humphries

Question: Lack of vitamin B1 causes what disease in humans?
Answer: Beri-Beri

Question: Which Australian group had a top 40 hit in Britain in 2006 with "Truly Madly Deeply"?
Answer: Savage Garden

Question: Who wrote a book about Ireland in 2003 entitled "Hope and History"?
Answer: Gerry Adams

Question: With what instrument would you associate the classical performer Murray Perahia?
Answer: Piano

Question: Until 1999 what was the trophy played for in cricket by the Australian states?
Answer: Sheffield Shield

Question: What was the first name of Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan?
Answer: Leonard

Question: Which of the Mitford sisters wrote the semi-autobiography Pursuit of Love in 1945?
Answer: Nancy

Question: In which American city do the Padres play major league baseball?
Answer: San Diego

Question: What room literally means, "exercise naked"?
Answer: Gymnasium

Question: By what name is rapper Robert De Winkle better known?
Answer: Vanilla Ice

Question: In which American city do the Wizards play major league baseball?
Answer: Washington

Question: In which sport do Scotland play Canada for the Strathcona Cup?
Answer: Curling

Question: Which mountain is nicknamed the Tiger of the Alps?
Answer: Matterhorn

Question: Which is North America's largest desert?
Answer: Sonoran

Question: ‘Ba' is the chemical symbol for which element?
Answer: Barium

Question: Which Australian group had a top 40 hit in Britain in 1992 with "Weather with You"?
Answer: Crowded House

Question: What was the first name of Tory Prime Minister Harold McMillan?
Answer: Maurice

Question: Baltimore is the largest city in which American state?
Answer: Maryland

Question: Name either of the ladies who were Prime Ministers of France and Canada, briefly, in the early 1990s?
Answer: Edith Cresson Or Kim Campbell

Question: Which album featuring 30's crooner Al Bowlly got to no 10 in the charts in 1978? (With a little help from a TV serial)
Answer: Pennies From Heaven

Question: In which capital city was nerve-gas released on the Underground in 1995?
Answer: Tokyo

Question: Down which river's valley does the mistral blow?
Answer: The Rhone

Question: Which King of England was imprisoned by Leopold of Austria in Durenstein Castle?
Answer: Richard I