Question: The Fishing Fleet who migrated to Victorian India each year were hoping to catch what?
Answer: Husbands

Question: An aerodrome needs what to become an airport?
Answer: Customs

Question: Which volcano lies between Italy and Sicily?
Answer: Stromboli

Question: The Roman Via Appia ends in which modern coastal city?
Answer: Brindisi

Question: Lord Kitchener drowned when which ship hit a mine in 1916?
Answer: HMS Hampshire

Question: Selim Shah found favour with Mrs Thatcher when he launched which tabloid in 1986?
Answer: Today

Question: Robert Maxwell founded which weekly newspaper in 1990?
Answer: The European

Question: Who were Bobby 'Boris' Pickett's backing group on his hit 'Monster Mash'?
Answer: Crypt-Kickers

Question: Alban Berg's opera 'Lulu' ends with the appearance of which murderer?
Answer: Jack The Ripper

Question: Which name from Greek mythology is given to a pimp?
Answer: Pandar

Question: In July 1963 which osteopath was convicted of living off immoral earnings?
Answer: Stephen Ward

Question: Where in Paris would you find the French foreign ministry?
Answer: Quai D'Orsay

Question: The word 'refugee' first described which protestants fleeing from France to England?
Answer: Huguenots

Question: Paektu Mountain is the highest point on which Asian peninsula?
Answer: Korea

Question: In 1957 Pete Murray invited you to jive on what?
Answer: 6-5 Special

Question: Joe E Ross and Fred Gwynne starred in which comedy police series on TV?
Answer: Car 54

Question: Who was Prime Minister during the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations?
Answer: Callaghan

Question: Who was Prime Minister during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrations?
Answer: Salisbury

Question: Which revealing item of clothing was invented by Louis Reard in 1946?
Answer: Bikini

Question: Which animal is the symbol of the Rastafarian religion?
Answer: Lion

Question: What does a misanthrope dislike?
Answer: People/Human Race

Question: In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein what is Frankenstein’s first name?
Answer: Victor

Question: Which rebel was stabbed to death by the Lord Mayor of London in 1381?
Answer: Wat Tyler

Question: Kalamata is a variety of which food item?
Answer: Olive

Question: Which kiddies dolls were created by American art student Xavier Roberts in 1978?
Answer: Cabbage Patch Kids

Question: Who is the hero of the novels Greenmantle and Mr Standfast?
Answer: Richard Hannay

Question: Published in 1960, Who wrote the novel A Kind of Loving?
Answer: Stan Barstow

Question: Which English comic regularly utilised the 1963 Boots Randolf composition Yakety Sax?
Answer: Benny Hill

Question: What name is given to the flat seabed lying off a coastline?
Answer: Continental Shelf

Question: The Strait of Malacca separates the Malay Peninsula from what Indonesian island?
Answer: Sumatra

Question: On which programme is the presenter followed around by a dog called Nigel?
Answer: Gardener’s World

Question: What is the name of the Barlow’s border terrier in Coronation Street?
Answer: Eccles

Question: Who own a greyhound called Santa’s Little Helper?
Answer: The Simpsons

Question: What was the name of the first pilot to break the sound barrier?
Answer: Chuck Yeager

Question: Which entrepreneur launched Skytrain in 1977 but went bankrupt in 1982?
Answer: Freddy Laker

Question: What is the sporting interest of a ‘wet bob’ at Eton?
Answer: Rowing

Question: What is the name of Donald Duck’s girlfriend?
Answer: Daisy

Question: What kind of creature is a megrim?
Answer: Fish

Question: In which month of the year does Lammas Day fall?
Answer: August

Question: Which English racecourse has a ‘Glorious’ summer meeting?
Answer: Goodwood

Question: Which drink was once known as ‘the green fairy’?
Answer: Absinthe

Question: Which prime minister launched the ‘I’m Backing Britain’ campaign?
Answer: Harold Wilson

Question: Which annual census takes place in the third week of July on the river Thames?
Answer: Swan Upping

Question: Which tradesmen performed most of the wedding ceremonies at Gretna Green?
Answer: Blacksmiths

Question: Which Spanish city is the scene of the annual bull-running from July 6 to 14th?
Answer: Pamplona

Question: Which Oscar-winning actor pulled a man from a burning car in California, saving his life?
Answer: Jamie Foxx

Question: Who died in Antarctica only 30 miles from the finish of his heroic charity effort?
Answer: Henry Worsley

Question: Which architectural style was widely promoted by the famous Inigo Jones?
Answer: Baroque

Question: What do we call a bell-tower not attached to a church?
Answer: Campanile

Question: Which philosopher’s body was stuffed and placed in a case at University College, London?
Answer: Jeremy Bentham

Question: Whose body was preserved in a barrel of brandy for the sea journey home?
Answer: Lord Nelson

Question: Penelope was the wife of which Greek hero?
Answer: Odysseus

Question: Who was given asses’ ears by an angry Apollo?
Answer: Midas

Question: Which Neil Sedaka track was dedicated to an ex-girlfriend?
Answer: Oh Carol

Question: Which 20 century artist was famous for his ‘drip’ style of painting?
Answer: Jackson Pollack

Question: What type of person is an anchorite?
Answer: Hermit/Recluse

Question: Which fictional character’s butler is Alfred Pennyworth?
Answer: Batman/Bruce Wayne

Question: The Society of Harmonious Fists was responsible for which rebellion?
Answer: Boxer Rebellion

Question: Boris Rankov was on the winning side six times in which famous event?
Answer: University Boat Race

Question: American Greg Louganis twice won Olympic gold at which sport?
Answer: Diving

Question: What is absorbed in an endothermic reaction?
Answer: Heat

Question: What is the most malleable metal?
Answer: Gold

Question: In which Asian state do the Karen people make up 7% of the population?
Answer: Burma

Question: Which country finally joined the United Nations in 2002?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Who was President of the Screen Actor’s Guild in the 40s and 50s?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: What was the title of cult film hero James Dean’s last film?
Answer: Giant

Question: Whose first venture into ‘talkies’ was Anna Christie?
Answer: Greta Garbo

Question: Who did Jacqueline Kennedy marry on Skorpios in 1968?
Answer: Aristotle Onassis

Question: Providence is the capital of which US state?
Answer: Rhode Island

Question: The tomb of which English king is in Worcester Cathedral?
Answer: King John

Question: The adjective caprine refers to which animals?
Answer: Goats

Question: Which author created the primitive, barely human race the Yahoos?
Answer: Jonathan Swift

Question: What is the V-shaped flying formation of a flock of wild geese called?
Answer: Skein

Question: Egg; Larva; Adult – which stage of complete metamorphosis is missing?
Answer: Pupa

Question: If you cut off a cockroach’s head from what would it be likely to die?
Answer: Starvation

Question: Which wind has a name meaning ‘snow eater’ in American Indian language?
Answer: Chinook

Question: What geographical features come in types called – Continental, Mountain and Piedmont?
Answer: Glaciers

Question: Francis Walsingham was the spy-master of which monarch?
Answer: Elizabeth I

Question: Which king didn’t meet his wife until the marriage ceremony?
Answer: George III

Question: Who was the last reigning Stuart monarch?
Answer: Queen Anne

Question: Which sculptor was refused entry to the French Academy three times?
Answer: Rodin

Question: Which sculptress died in an accidental fire at her Trewyn studios in 1975?
Answer: Barbara Hepworth

Question: According to the old advert which beer ‘refreshes the parts other beers can’t reach’?
Answer: Heineken

Question: Which show jumper achieved success on Mister Softee?
Answer: David Broome

Question: Who wrote the songs Keep The Home Fires Burning and We’ll Gather Lilacs?
Answer: Ivor Novello