Question: How many cards are in each suit in a standard deck of cards?
Answer: 13

Question: What is the name of cartoon character Mickey Mouse’s pet dog?
Answer: Pluto

Question: Who sang the 1964 hit single ‘Chapel of Love’?
Answer: The Dixie Cups

Question: Who played the chimney sweep Bert in the 1964 film ‘Mary Poppins’?
Answer: Dick Van Dyke

Question: Harry Redknapp is associated with which British sport?
Answer: Football

Question: How many events make up a pentathlon?
Answer: Five

Question: In art, what are the three primary colours?
Answer: Red, Yellow, Blue

Question: In the children’s novel ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll, which birds are used as croquet mallets?
Answer: Flamingoes

Question: What is the boiling point of water in degrees Celsius?
Answer: 100 (99.98)

Question: Who plays the role of James ‘Clubber’ Lang in the 1982 film ‘Rocky III’?
Answer: Mr T (Laurence Tureaud)

Question: Which is the only bird in the Chinese Zodiac?
Answer: Rooster

Question: How many ‘Steps’ are there in the novel by John Buchan?
Answer: Thirty-nine

Question: What is the cube root of 1,000?
Answer: 10

Question: What was the name of the twin brother of notorious London gangster Ronnie Kray?
Answer: Reggie (Reginald)

Question: By what name is British DJ Norman Cook better known?
Answer: Fatboy Slim

Question: Who plays Stephen in the 2012 film ‘Django Unchained’?
Answer: Samuel L Jackson

Question: An Austringer is a person who hunts with which creature?
Answer: Hawks

Question: What is the surname of Roger Daltry’s character Tommy in the 1975 film ‘Tommy’?
Answer: Walker

Question: Which 1975 Judith Rossner novel is based on the events surrounding the brutal murder of 28 year old New York school teacher Roseann Quinn?
Answer: Looking For Mr Goodbar

Question: Which animal is known as River Horse?
Answer: Hippopotamus

Question: In the Painting ‘The Last Supper’ by Leonardo Da Vinci, who is said to be seated on the right-hand side of Jesus?
Answer: Judas Escariot

Question: Which US fashion designer directed the 2009 film ‘A Single Man’?
Answer: Tom Ford

Question: ‘El Draque’ was the Spanish nickname of which English sea captain and privateer?
Answer: Francis Drake

Question: In the Jewish calendar, what is the third month of the religious year called?
Answer: Sivan

Question: During which year did the first RHS Chelsea Flower Show take place?
Answer: 1913

Question: Who played George Russell in the 1960’s UK television series ‘George and the Dragon’?
Answer: Sid James

Question: Pearl Jem is a tribute band to which well known band?
Answer: Pearl Jam

Question: In which year was British monarch Queen Victoria born?
Answer: 1819

Question: Thermophobia is the abnormal fear of what?
Answer: Heat

Question: What was the middle name of late US author Truman Capote?
Answer: Streckfus

Question: The Stotinka is a unit of currency of which European country?
Answer: Bulgaria

Question: A Spartan is what type of fruit?
Answer: Apple

Question: Bee, Giant and Broad-tailed are all species of which bird?
Answer: Hummingbird

Question: Who founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870?
Answer: J D Rockefeller

Question: Athlete Usain Bolt advertised which media company’s products in 2012?
Answer: Virgin

Question: Siderodromophilia is the sexual arousal caused by which means of transport?
Answer: Trains

Question: What is the surname of the siblings Harriet, James and John in the Charles Dickens novel ‘Dombey and Son’?
Answer: Carker

Question: Bara Brith is a fruit bread originating in which country?
Answer: Wales

Question: English singer/songwriter Lynsey Monckton Rubin is better known by what name?
Answer: Lynsey De Paul

Question: Zimt is German for which spice?
Answer: Cinnamon

Question: Ambergris is a waxy substance used in perfumery and is believed to originate in the intestines of which creatures?
Answer: Sperm whales

Question: Which planet in our solar system was discovered by Johann Galle and Heinrich D’Arrest in 1846?
Answer: Neptune

Question: What is the US state capital of Maine?
Answer: Augusta

Question: Late US singer/songwriter Jiles Perry Richardson Jr, born October 1930, was better known by what name?
Answer: The Big Bopper

Question: The Polar Music Prize is an annual award in which country for significant achievements in music?
Answer: Sweden

Question: Which British monarch was born Albert Frederick Arthur George?
Answer: King George VI

Question: American real estate developer and rancher Mary Anderson is credited with inventing which operational part of a car in 1903?
Answer: Windscreen wiper

Question: The Hilsa is the national fish of which Asian country?
Answer: Bangladesh

Question: Which creature represents the Deadly Sin of pride?
Answer: Peacock

Question: During 1897, the World’s first radio station was set up by Marconi at the Needles Battery at the western tip of which European island?
Answer: Isle of Wight

Question: A silkie is what type of bird?
Answer: Chicken

Question: What is the title of Timothy Dalton’s first James Bond film?
Answer: The Living Daylights

Question: Which British city was European Capital of Culture in 1990?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: On which island is the 2001 film ‘The Others’ set?
Answer: Jersey

Question: Selenophobia is the abnormal fear of which celestial body?
Answer: The moon

Question: Composer Edvard Grieg was born in which country?
Answer: Norway

Question: Billy the Badger is the mascot of which English football club?
Answer: Fulham FC

Question: Robin and Giles are the sons of which British Prime Minister?
Answer: Harold Wilson

Question: Where on the face is the Darwin Grieg Muscle?
Answer: Between the eyebrows/forehead

Question: What is the name of the fictional Italian tenor in the UK ‘Go Compare’ television adverts?
Answer: Gio Compario

Question: How many points are there on a compass?
Answer: 32

Question: Which late actor/comedian is credited with saying ‘A day without laughter is a day wasted’?
Answer: Charlie Chaplin

Question: What was the nickname of late US boxer Michael Dokes?
Answer: Dynamite

Question: Poet W H Auden died in which European city in 1973?
Answer: Vienna

Question: Which London performing arts centre, the largest in Europe, opened on 3rd March 1982?
Answer: Barbican Centre

Question: Which US actor did Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie, marry in 2002?
Answer: Nicholas Cage

Question: Which former footballer and manager co-wrote the UK television series ‘Hazell’?
Answer: Terry Venables

Question: Basil, Fidget and Hiram Flaversham are all characters in which 1986 Disney film?
Answer: The Great Mouse Detrective

Question: Who is the patron saint of Winchester Cathedral in England?
Answer: Saint Swithun

Question: During which year was the ‘Red Card’ introduced in the game of football in England?
Answer: 1976

Question: English singer David Bowie was born with which surname?
Answer: Jones

Question: Which disease acquired its name in 1976 when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among people attending a convention of the American Legion in Philadelphia?
Answer: Legionnaires Disease

Question: Which African country is known as the ‘Great Red Island’?
Answer: Madagascar

Question: Alana Hamilton, Penny Lancaster and Rachel Hunter have all been married to which British singer?
Answer: Rod Stewart

Question: The aria ‘Un bel di vedremo’ (One fine day) is from which opera by Giacomo Puccini?
Answer: Madame Butterfly

Question: The one-act comic opera ‘Bastien und Bastienne’ was the first by which composer aged 12?
Answer: Mozart

Question: Which piece of music by Richard Wagner is played in the 1979 film ‘Apocalypse Now’ on helicopter-mounted speakers?
Answer: Ride of the Valkyries (Walkurenrit)

Question: The first public opera house opened in 1637 in which European city?
Answer: Venice

Question: Gioachino Rossini wrote the opera ‘The ‘what’ of Seville’?
Answer: Barber