Question: In Benny Hill's 1971 hit, how old was 'Ernie, The Fastest Milkman in the West'?
Answer: 52

Question: What term is used for a fear of lightning?
Answer: Astraphobia

Question: What is the English translation of the Latin word 'Alias'?
Answer: Otherwise

Question: Which rugby Super League team play at Belle Vue Stadium?
Answer: Wakefield Wildcats

Question: In which 1980s TV sit-com did Brenda and Malcolm enjoy ornithology?
Answer: Watching

Question: I In which year was the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster?
Answer: 1988

Question: In which year was the Hungerford massacre?
Answer: 1987

Question: In the 1970s TV sit-corn Please Sir, what was the name of the caretaker?
Answer: Potter

Question: What is the English translation of the Latin word 'Alibi'?
Answer: Elsewhere

Question: The Wasp Factory, published in 1984, was the first novel by which writer?
Answer: Iain Banks

Question: What geographical feature is described as an elevated area of land, with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs?
Answer: Mesa

Question: Complete the line from this Frankie Valli hit, 'Oh what a night, last December back in '
Answer: 63

Question: How many players are there in a Gaelic Football team?
Answer: 15

Question: Which line on the London Underground map is represented in red?
Answer: Central Line

Question: What is the second largest rodent in the world after the Capybara?
Answer: Beaver

Question: The song 'You'll be in my heart', comes from which Disney film?
Answer: Tarzan

Question: Who said "I don't want to belong to any club that will have me for a member"?
Answer: Groucho Marx

Question: What was the first name of the Duke of Wellington?
Answer: Arthur

Question: In 1893, which was the first country to impose driving tests and issue driving licences?
Answer: France

Question: The commercial name of which fruit cordial is derived from the Latin for blackcurrant?
Answer: Ribena

Question: Who invented the ballbarrow and the `Airblade' hand-drier amongst many other things?
Answer: James Dyson

Question: Eleanor of Aquitaine was mother to two Kings of England, name either.
Answer: Richard or John

Question: Who played the part of 'Budgie' in the 1971/72 ITV drama series?
Answer: Adam Faith

Question: What is the capital of the Italian region of Lombardy?
Answer: Milan

Question: Pope Benedict 16th was Archbishop of which city?
Answer: Munich

Question: Which 1927 musical is set aboard the 'Cotton Blossom'?
Answer: Showboat

Question: Which aircraft was designed initially by the British Aircraft Corporation as a replacement for the Canberra but was cancelled by the Labour Government in April 1965?
Answer: Tsr 2

Question: Which car company was formed in 1908 by the merger of Buick and Oldsmobile?
Answer: General Motors

Question: Which 92 year old actor has written an autobiography entitled 'I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire, I Just Want to Keep My Nuts Warm'?
Answer: Ernest Borgnine

Question: In which modem day country is the site of the Battle of Blenheim?
Answer: Germany

Question: Which fictional character lived in the village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh?
Answer: Dr Doolittle

Question: In which Cumbrian town is the annual crab fair held, famous for its gurning competition?
Answer: Egremont

Question: Complete the next line of the song "The blushing bride she looks divine, the bridegroom he is doing fine, I'd rather have his job than mine ....."?
Answer: When I'm Cleaning Windows

Question: What would be the occupation of someone who uses 'slip' and 'grog'?
Answer: Pottery

Question: The last words of which statesman are reputed to have been "So little done, so much to do"?
Answer: Cecil Rhodes

Question: Which famous singer was once married to Renate Blauel?
Answer: Elton John

Question: From which country does the popular Christmas plant, the Poinsettia, originate?
Answer: Mexico

Question: The tune 'Johnny Todd' was the theme to which TV programme?
Answer: Z Cars

Question: Piers Morgan is a former editor of which national daily newspaper?
Answer: Daily Mirror

Question: A bipolar illness is another name for what?
Answer: (Manic) Depression

Question: A Winter Banana is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: Apple

Question: Pongo and Perdita feature in which Disney film?
Answer: 101 Dalmatians

Question: Which is the world's oldest international sporting trophy?
Answer: The Americas Cup

Question: Which is the longest river wholly in England not to empty directly into the sea?
Answer: Trent

Question: Of which Oscar Wilde play is Mrs Arbuthnot the title character?
Answer: A Woman of No Importance

Question: The pengo, subject to massive inflation, was the pre- World War 2 currency unit of which European country?
Answer: Hungary

Question: In which city is the Nobel Peace Centre?
Answer: Oslo

Question: Who released the new album 'Together through Life' and as a result has become the oldest male to have a no 1 hit album in Britain?
Answer: Bob Dylan

Question: In 1650 James Ussher calculated the date of the origin of the Earth, according to Biblical chronology, as 4004BC. Of where was Ussher the Archbishop?
Answer: Armagh

Question: Henry Spenser, Bishop of Norwich, was known during the reign of Richard II by what nickname?
Answer: The Fighting Prelate

Question: The Giotto space probe was launched in 1986 specifically to examine what?
Answer: Halley's Comet

Question: Which London museum was originally called the Museum of Ornamental Art?
Answer: Victoria & Albert

Question: An isotope of which chemical element was used to poison Alexander Litvinenko?
Answer: Polonium

Question: Which country declared itself the first atheist state when all religion was banned in 1967?
Answer: Albania

Question: What was the original name of the city of Volgograd before it was called Stalingrad?
Answer: Tsaritsyn

Question: What do the lachrymal glands produce?
Answer: Tears

Question: What was the title of the 2006 BBC TV series about a group of postmen in Manchester?
Answer: Sorted

Question: Apart from Anne Boleyn, which other wife of Henry 8th was executed?
Answer: Catherine Howard

Question: Name either James Bond film in which the villain 'Jaws' features.
Answer: The Spy Who Loved Me or Moonraker

Question: The Serengeti National Park is in which country?
Answer: Tanzania

Question: Citrus Paradisi is the Latin name for which fruit?
Answer: Grapefruit

Question: In Greek myth, what was the name of the winged horse?
Answer: Pegasus

Question: Born 1888, who composed the song "There's No Business Like Show Business"?
Answer: Irving Berlin

Question: Who presents BBC Radio Two's "Good Morning Sunday" (7 am to 9 am)?
Answer: Aled Jones

Question: The traditional beef (or hare) stifado stew originated in which country?
Answer: Greece

Question: The kissing disease (infectious mononucleosis) has what common name?
Answer: Glandular fever

Question: Which supermarket chain instituted 'Computers for Schools' in 1992?
Answer: Tesco

Question: Which US singer/record producer was shot dead by his father in 1984?
Answer: Marvin Gaye

Question: Who was the character name of the British spy/French police officer in TV's "Allo Allo"?
Answer: Officer (Capt.) Crabtree

Question: Born Michael Dumbell-Smith, which actor took his stage name from a passing biscuit lorry?
Answer: Michael Crawford

Question: Roquefort, Gorgonzola, and Stilton cheeses have what distinguishing factor?
Answer: Blue veins

Question: Which country has had the most wins in the Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: Ireland

Question: Who played the role of Philip Smith in TV's "Rising Damp"?
Answer: Don Warrington

Question: What is the heraldic name for silver?
Answer: Argent

Question: Which radioactive metallic element has the symbol Pu, atomic number 94?
Answer: Plutonium

Question: Give a year in the reign of King Henry the Fourth of England/
Answer: 1399-1413

Question: What do the opposite sides of a die (dice) always add up to?
Answer: Seven