Question: What was the name of the British Royal Yacht that entered service in 1953 and decommissioned on 11 December 1997?
Answer: Britannia

Question: What is the relationship between the words "bridle" and "bridal"?
Answer: Homophones

Question: In common English useage, what is Latin for doing or saying the same thing again?
Answer: Ditto

Question: In 1314, who led the Scottish forces at the Battle of Bannockburn?
Answer: Robert the Bruce

Question: A theory of the workings of the human body adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and believed until the 19th century was that it was filled with 4 basic substances (black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood). These were collectively known as what?
Answer: Humours

Question: Which New Zealand cricketer, a left-handed batsman who captained New Zealand in 4 Tests in the early 1950s, was one of Wisden's cricketers of the year for 1950?
Answer: Bert Sutcliffe

Question: The internal angles of a triangle add up to how many degrees?
Answer: 180

Question: Where and when is "Fiddler on the Roof" set?
Answer: Anatevka, 1905

Question: An election for which body, held on 29 May 2010 ended with a majority for the Best Party, whose manifesto included plans for a polar bear for the city's zoo, a local Disneyland, palm trees on the waterfront and free towels at swimming pools?
Answer: Reykjavik City Council

Question: Where would you find the river called The Ouse?
Answer: England

Question: What is a polytunnel used for?
Answer: Gardening

Question: Where are the 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, to be held?
Answer: Pyeongchang, South Korea

Question: What city, founded around 1048 by King Harald III, was largely destroyed by fire and rebuilt from 1624 by King Christian IV and named Christiania, and reverted to its original name in 1925?
Answer: Oslo

Question: Who won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: Abba

Question: A PSA test is used to detect what?
Answer: Prostate cancer

Question: Who was shot dead on 9 October 1967 while trying to organise a revolution in Bolivia?
Answer: Che Guevara

Question: What phrase refers to a deceitful or treacherous person?
Answer: Snake in the Grass

Question: Which card game, originating in Spain and introduced to England in 1861, is played between 2 persons with 2 packs of cards (with sixes and below removed) who are dealt 8 cards each?
Answer: Bezique

Question: Where is Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro" set?
Answer: Spain

Question: For what activity would one use a bunsen burner?
Answer: Chemistry

Question: A statue to which tactical commander during the Battle of Britain was unveiled in Waterloo Place, London, on 15 September 2010?
Answer: Air Vice-Marshall Keith Park

Question: According to the English nursery rhyme, what did the Grand Old Duke of York have?
Answer: 10,000 men

Question: Commander Shepard, Jacob Taylor, Miranda Lawson, Thane Krios, Grunt, Jack, Mordin Solus, Samara, Morinth, Legion, Zaeed Messani, Garrus Vakarian and Tali'Zorah Vas Neema are characters in which computer game?
Answer: Mass Effect 2

Question: From what are capers obtained?
Answer: Flower buds

Question: Where was playwright Samuel Beckett born?
Answer: Ireland

Question: What is another name for the "Aurora Borealis"?
Answer: Northern lights

Question: What numbers are on the two yellow pool balls?
Answer: 1 and 9

Question: What international consumer item does the "Economist" use to compare purchasing power between countries?
Answer: Big Mac

Question: The USA entered World War I because Germany attempted to enlist Mexico as an ally, and for what other reason?
Answer: Germany started unrestricted submarine warfare

Question: Whose 33rd album was called "In Search of the Fourth Chord"?
Answer: Status Quo

Question: What type of geographical feature is an ox-bow?
Answer: Lake

Question: Who, as US Secretary of State under President Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959, advocated an aggressive stance against communism, supported France in the war in Indochina, and played a major role in the CIA operations to overthrow democratic governments in Iran in 1953 and in Guatemala in 1954?
Answer: John Foster Dulles

Question: At which UK General Election was Helen Grant elected, the Conservative Party's first black female MP?
Answer: 2010

Question: During World War II, what was the name given to deliberately created simulations of burning towns that were constructed in Britain to decoy German night bombers away from bombing real towns?
Answer: Starfish sites

Question: The bullseye of a dart board should be how far up from the floor?
Answer: 1.73 metres (5 feet, 8 inches)

Question: What, since 1978, is the official beverage of Puerto Rico?
Answer: Pia colada

Question: According to the nursery rhyme "Polly put the kettle on", who took it off again?
Answer: Sukey

Question: Salvador Dali was a principal figure in what artistic movement?
Answer: Surrealism

Question: What does a person with narcolepsy do?
Answer: Falls asleep

Question: On what day in 1066 was William I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey?
Answer: Christmas Day

Question: It is necessary to multiply by 3.2808 to convert what to what?
Answer: Metres to feet

Question: What Texas city stands on the Rio Grande (Ro Bravo del Norte), across the border from Ciudad Jurez, Chihuahua, Mexico?
Answer: El Paso

Question: What professional golfer was known as "The Great White Shark"?
Answer: Greg Norman

Question: The metropolitan area of Ottawa is in Quebec and which other Canadian province?
Answer: Ontario

Question: Who defeated the British army in 1879 at the Battle of Isandlwana?
Answer: Zulus

Question: What name was used for two forests in J. R. R. Tolkien's "Hobbit"/ "Lord of the Rings" saga, the first under Morgoth's control, and the second under the influence of Sauron?
Answer: Mirkwood

Question: In which TV programme is it usual for a house resident to be evicted every week?
Answer: Big Brother

Question: The Safari Rally, a round of the World Rally Championship from 1973 to 2002 held in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, was first run as a commemorative event, in what year?
Answer: 1953

Question: Which war pitted anarchists, socialists, and Communists supported by the Soviets and international volunteers, against conservatives, monarchists, nationalists and fascists, with the support of Portugal, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany?
Answer: The Spanish Civil War

Question: Which country occupies the islands called Palawan, Mindoro, Marinduque, Masbate, Batanes, Bohol, Leyte and Samar?
Answer: Philippines

Question: What metal marks a 10th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Tin

Question: Claris Cliff is a famous designer of what items?
Answer: Pottery

Question: Which wonder of the ancient world was at Halicarnassus, Persia?
Answer: Mausoleum of Mausolus

Question: Who became Head of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1954 (for 22 years), and received an honorary knighthood in 1975 for his role in pioneering the exploration of space?
Answer: William (Bill) Pickering

Question: What is a lizardfish native to the waters between Mumbai and Kutch in the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the China Sea?
Answer: Bombay Duck

Question: What organisation was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1917, 1944 and 1963?
Answer: International Committee of the Red Cross

Question: With which sport is Don Bradman associated?
Answer: Cricket

Question: At the 1988 Olympics, the team from Great Britain defeated West Germany to win gold in which sport?
Answer: Field hockey

Question: If one edge of a cube is 3 metres long, what is its volume?
Answer: 27 cubic metres

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, what followed Mary everywhere?
Answer: Lamb

Question: As whom is Eunice Waymon better known?
Answer: Nina Simone