Question: The novel ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’, by Arthur Conan Doyle, is set on which English moor?
Answer: Dartmoor

Question: Which electronics company has the motto ‘make.believe’?
Answer: Sony

Question: In Norse mythology, what type of creature did the dwarf king’s son Fafnir become?
Answer: Dragon

Question: Joseph S. Blatter became president of which organisation in June 1998?
Answer: FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association)

Question: In which US state is Cape Cod?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: In the rhyme ‘Rub-a-dub-dub’, what are the occupations of the ‘three men in a tub’?
Answer: Butcher, baker, candlestick maker

Question: What is the acidic juice called of crab apples or other sour fruit, such as grapes?
Answer: Verjuice

Question: Which forest features in the Shakespeare play ‘As You Like It’?
Answer: Forest of Arden

Question: Brooklyn, Graveyard and Turkey are terms used in which sport?
Answer: Ten pin bowling

Question: In 1982, Irishman Michael Fagan broke into the bedroom of which member of the British royal family?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth ll

Question: In Russia, what is a kazachok?
Answer: Folk dance

Question: What does the Latin phrase ‘ab initio’ translate to in English?
Answer: From the beginning

Question: The former gold-mining region of Cariboo is in which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: Which is the only planet in our solar system to rotate clockwise?
Answer: Venus

Question: Who won the 2011 Spanish Formula One Grand Prix?
Answer: Sebastian Vettel

Question: A millipede has how many legs on each segment of its body?
Answer: Four

Question: Julia and Alfred were the names of parents of which member of British pop band The Beatles?
Answer: John Lennon

Question: In humans, madarosis is the loss of what?
Answer: Eyelashes

Question: Which land animal is known as an urchin?
Answer: Hedgehog

Question: Under what names were Janet and John books sold in the US?
Answer: Alice and Jerry

Question: Which is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the states of America?
Answer: Q

Question: According to the Bible, Jesus was baptised in which river?
Answer: River Jordan

Question: In the the tv cartoon series ‘The Simpsons’ what is Grandpa Simpson’s first name?
Answer: Abraham

Question: The world’s first tilting bridge straddles which English river?
Answer: River Tyne – Gateshead

Question: In Greek mythology, what is the name of the giant watchman with 100 eyes, also adopted as the name of a UK retail chain?
Answer: Argos

Question: Which UK tv series set in a hospital, which first aired in 1979, had the theme tune ‘H.A.P.P.Y’?
Answer: Only When I Laugh

Question: Mizaru, Mikazaru and Iwazaru are the names of the three what?
Answer: Wise Monkeys

Question: ‘The Heater from Van Meter’ was the nickname of which American Major League Baseball pitcher?
Answer: Bob Feller

Question: Googol is a number written as the numeral 1 followed by how many zeros?
Answer: 100 (one hundred)

Question: In December 2007, The Empire State Building in New York was illuminated yellow to promote which film?
Answer: ‘The Simpsons Movie’

Question: Which is the only bird that can swim but can’t fly?
Answer: Penguin

Question: Which famous singer died of a heart attack on a Spanish golf course in October 1977?
Answer: Bing Crosby

Question: According to the bible, what was the name of the murderer who was released by Pontius Pilate in preference to Jesus?
Answer: Barabbas

Question: What is the name of the last Beatles album to be recorded before the band split up?
Answer: Abbey Road

Question: What is the name of a community of ants?
Answer: Colony

Question: What disability did the wife and mother of inventor Alexander Graham Bell both suffer?
Answer: Deafness

Question: The Lady Lever Art Gallery is in which English city?
Answer: Liverpool

Question: The symbol ‘£’ in British currency derives from the first letter of which Latin word for pound?
Answer: Librum

Question: Pink Fairy and Nine Banded are species of which animal?
Answer: Armadillo

Question: Which politician formed the French National Front in 1972?
Answer: Jean-Marine Le Pen

Question: What were the first names of English novelist R.D.Blackmore?
Answer: Richard Doddridge

Question: The Iroquois Cup is competed for in which sport?
Answer: Lacrosse

Question: Don Diego de la Vega is the secret name of which Spanish fictional character?
Answer: Zorro

Question: The Sipi Tau is performed by which national rugby union team before each of their international matches?
Answer: Tonga

Question: ‘Piapa’ is the alphabet of which US state?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: Which English Premier League football club has the motto ‘Audere est Facere’ (To Dare is to Do)?
Answer: Tottenham Hotspur

Question: Which 1930’s US gangster, upon being admitted to Indiana State Prison, is quoted as saying ‘I will be the meanest bastard you ever saw when I get out of here’?
Answer: John Dillinger

Question: ‘Shazam’ is the favourite word of which comic book hero?
Answer: Captain Marvel

Question: Which wife of English monarch King Henry Vlll was imprisoned in the Tower of London in May 1536?
Answer: Anne Boleyn

Question: In 1954, who was the first Australian to win the British Open Golf Championship?
Answer: Peter Thomson

Question: Which British Prime Minister negotiated the Munich Agreement with Hitler, Mussolini and Daladier?
Answer: Neville Chamberlain

Question: The Solovetsky Islands lie in which body of water?
Answer: The White Sea

Question: What nationality is football referee Massimo Busacca?
Answer: Swiss

Question: Mageirocophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: Cooking

Question: The Fynbos, an area of grassland and thicket, lies in which African country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: What was the name of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s envoy, who was taken hostage in Lebanon in 1987?
Answer: Terry Waite

Question: John Dryden became the first official British what during the reign of King Charles ll?
Answer: Poet Laureate

Question: What does ‘Na’ represent in the periodic table?
Answer: Sodium

Question: Which British female singer released a double A-side, featuring ‘Footprints in the Sand’ and ‘Better in Time’, in aid of Sport Relief?
Answer: Leona Lewis

Question: Universal Product Codes are more commonly known by what name?
Answer: Bar codes

Question: Which country hosted the 2007 Rugby Union World Cup?
Answer: France

Question: Which US actor is the voice of Mr Fox in the 2009 animated film ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’?
Answer: George Clooney

Question: The 2016 Summer Olympics will be held in which country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Which English King was known as ‘The Hammer of the Scots’?
Answer: Edward l

Question: Oscine relates to what type of creatures?
Answer: Birds

Question: In the Harry Potter novels, what is the name of Neville Longbottom’s toad?
Answer: Trevor

Question: If a person is born on 10th January, what zodiac sign do they have?
Answer: Capricorn

Question: Which famous racehorse is buried next to the finishing post of the Aintree Racecourse?
Answer: Red Rum

Question: In which European country is the Great Belt Bridge?
Answer: Denmark

Question: The Clarin is the best-selling daily newspaper in which South American country?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Winston Churchill’s tribute ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few’, was paid to which of the UK’s armed forces?
Answer: Royal Air Force

Question: The painting, La Jaconde, is better known by what name?
Answer: Mona Lisa

Question: Sandra Bullock played FBI agent Gracie Hart in which 2000 film?
Answer: Miss Congeniality

Question: The Sonoran Desert is part of the border between which two countries?
Answer: United States and Mexico

Question: Gloucester Old Spot is a breed of which animal?
Answer: Pig

Question: A lumpectomy is the surgical removal of a lump from which part of the body?
Answer: Breast