Question: After the suicide of Ian Curtis his band Joy Division played on under which name?
Answer: New Order

Question: Who told us to Rock The Casbah in 1982?
Answer: Clash

Question: An IRA car bomb in 1973 damaged which famous London building?
Answer: The Old Bailey

Question: What do we call the sweetmeat Rahat Lokum?
Answer: Turkish Delight

Question: What did VAT replace in 1973?
Answer: Purchase Tax

Question: Which common scientific term has the meaning indivisible?
Answer: Atom

Question: Which Shakespearean character has a wife called Desdemona?
Answer: Othello

Question: What is the study of medicines?
Answer: Pharmacology

Question: In which American sitcom did English actress Jane Leeves play a major character?
Answer: Frasier

Question: The Fossdyke was possibly the first to be built in Britain – what was it?
Answer: Canal

Question: In which country is the holiday resort of Sousse?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: Which peninsula lies to the east of the Suez Canal?
Answer: Sinai Peninsula

Question: Which North African country has Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines?
Answer: Morocco

Question: What is the Southern equivalent of the Aurora Borealis?
Answer: Aurora Australis

Question: What term is used for the agreement of two or more persons to commit an illegal act?
Answer: Conspiracy

Question: What is a writ directed at an individual requiring him or her to attend and give evidence?
Answer: Subpoena

Question: A French meat stew in a white sauce is called what?
Answer: Fricassee or Blanquette

Question: What is the Italian dessert of egg yolks whipped with Marsala and sugar?
Answer: Zabaglione

Question: Who did Jose Mourinho call ‘A specialist in failure’ because of an 8 year trophy drought?
Answer: Arsene Wenger

Question: Which club sacked its manager after only 75 days in the job?
Answer: Fulham

Question: On which river does the city of Leeds stand?
Answer: Aire

Question: What is the singular form of the word candelabra?
Answer: Candelabrum

Question: What do native Cornish residents call Penwith?
Answer: Land’s End

Question: On a Monopoly board what makes up the set with Coventry Street and Leicester Square?
Answer: Piccadilly

Question: Where in the body is the pineal gland?
Answer: Brain

Question: Pregnant women might often experience ‘pica’ – what is this?
Answer: Craving for strange foods

Question: Who played Bond Girl Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again?
Answer: Kim Basinger

Question: Which band sang the title song to The World Is Not Enough?
Answer: Garbage

Question: In which movie did Bond first drive an Aston Martin DB5?
Answer: Goldfinger

Question: What happens when ‘the ghost walks’?
Answer: The Actors Get Paid

Question: Which chef is the presenter of the BBC2’s revamped Food and Drink?
Answer: Michel Roux Jnr

Question: Who plays the Duke of Dunstable in the new series of Blandings on BBC1?
Answer: Harry Enfield

Question: Which Roman God was the father of Romulus and Remus?
Answer: Mars

Question: What is the most common element in the human body after oxygen?
Answer: Carbon

Question: Which type of thermometer is used for measuring very high temperatures?
Answer: Pyrometer

Question: Which Elgar piece is dedicated ‘ to my friends pictured within’?
Answer: Enigma Variations

Question: Which couple met at law firm Sidley Austin in Chicago?
Answer: Barack & Michelle Obama

Question: Who did Squeaky Fromme try to assassinate?
Answer: Gerald Ford

Question: Which song started out as Good Morning To All?
Answer: Happy Birthday To You

Question: Who wrote The Quare Fellow and Borstal Boy?
Answer: Brendan Behan

Question: What did the 1701 Act of Settlement establish?
Answer: Protestant Succession to the

Question: Which king died in 1760 and was succeeded by his grandson?
Answer: George II

Question: Sorted for Es and Whizz?
Answer: Pulp

Question: What is stolen in over half of the UK’s robberies?
Answer: Mobile Phone

Question: Which great historical warrior had a dog called Peritas?
Answer: Alexander the Great

Question: What is the name of the dog in Jerome K Jerome’s novel Three Men In A Boat?
Answer: Montmorency

Question: Which country is currently suspended from The Commonwealth?
Answer: Fiji

Question: Which country withdrew from the Commonwealth in 2003?
Answer: Zimbabwe

Question: What is the study of the meaning of words?
Answer: Semantics

Question: What kind of creatures are jacamars and barbets?
Answer: Birds

Question: What is the study of the history and derivation of words?
Answer: Etymology

Question: What kind of creatures are loggerheads and hawksbills?
Answer: Turtles

Question: Bryher is part of which island group?
Answer: Scillies

Question: Which is the most malleable of all metals?
Answer: Gold

Question: Which world-famous song was originally entitled ‘Good Morning To All’?
Answer: Happy Birthday to You

Question: Which legendary figure refused to bow to a hat in Burglen marketplace?
Answer: William Tell

Question: According to the old saying what is a ‘dish best eaten cold’?
Answer: Revenge

Question: Which city is the setting for the TV crime series Scott & Bailey?
Answer: Manchester

Question: Which light spongy dish has a name stemming from the French meaning ‘blown’?
Answer: Souffle

Question: A babirusa is wild variety of which animal?
Answer: Pig

Question: Where in the British Isles can the Laxey Wheel aka Lady Isabella be seen?
Answer: Isle of Man

Question: Which town on the Isle of Mull was also the name of a Womble?
Answer: Tobermory

Question: What is the subject of Lorraine Pascale’s BBC2 programmes?
Answer: Cooking

Question: Which band was formed in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith?
Answer: Tears For Fears

Question: Which war ended with the treaty of Panmunjom?
Answer: Korean War

Question: What is Rupert Murdoch’s real first name?
Answer: Keith

Question: By what name is Aragorn first known to the hobbits when they meet him in Bree?
Answer: Strider

Question: The fishing boat Orca appeared in which film?
Answer: Jaws

Question: Which cabinet member is heir to a wallpaper fortune?
Answer: George Osborne

Question: Who was the target of Operation Neptune Spear?
Answer: Osama Bin Laden

Question: At Westminster what is a spad?
Answer: Special Advisor

Question: Which comedians conducted the Dagenham Dialogues?
Answer: Peter Cook & Dudley Moore

Question: Which member of Take That announced that he is to leave the group last month?
Answer: Jason Orange

Question: What is the Australian National Anthem?
Answer: Advance Australia Fair

Question: Which Cape is at the northernmost tip of the country in Queensland?
Answer: Cape York

Question: Which creature features on the flag of Western Australia?
Answer: Black Swan

Question: Who founded and conducted The London Symphony Orchestra?
Answer: Sir Thomas Beecham

Question: Peter Pears was the life-long partner of which composer?
Answer: Benjamin Britten

Question: Which Italian violinist was believed to be in league with the devil?
Answer: Paganini

Question: Which flag was nicknamed The Stars and Bars?
Answer: Confederate Flag

Question: Which political retreat began as Shangri-La?
Answer: Camp David

Question: Which action painter was Jack the Dripper?
Answer: Jackson Pollock

Question: On a computer keyboard the character that resembles an inverted V is called what?
Answer: Caret

Question: The Gasworks Gang were which comic paper character’s sworn enemies?
Answer: Lord Snooty

Question: Who fronted The Paramount Jazz Band?
Answer: Acker Bilk

Question: Whose effigy was vandalised with a saw?
Answer: Eric Morecambe

Question: Who rode a horse called Binky in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels?
Answer: Death

Question: What was Napoleon’s horse that he named after one of his victories?
Answer: Marengo

Question: Which prophet rode a horse called Al Borak?
Answer: Mohammed

Question: Who did William Hamilton try to assassinate in 1849?
Answer: Queen Victoria