Question: What is the surname of the fire brigade captain?
Answer: Flack

Question: What major thoroughfare was known as Tyburn Road until the 18th century?
Answer: Oxford Street

Question: What is the county town of Essex?
Answer: Chelmsford

Question: Who was the sporting superstar who was married to Tatum O’Neal from 1986 to 1994?
Answer: JOHN McENROE

Question: Which book by Gaston Leroux tells the story of a young composer named Eric?
Answer: Phantom of the Opera

Question: Tintagel in Cornwall is considered one of the main possible sites for which court?
Answer: Camelot

Question: Which thoroughfare connects with Broadway at Times Square in New York?
Answer: 42nd Street

Question: In a famous children’s book who promised to stop until the wind changed?
Answer: Mary Poppins

Question: Abyssinian, British Longhair and German Rex are all breeds of what?
Answer: Cats

Question: “The Sound of Laughter” is the best-selling autobiography of which singer?
Answer: Peter Kaye

Question: Who led the charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba in 1898?
Answer: Teddy Roosevelt

Question: At which battle did the bloody action of “Pickett’s Charge” take place?
Answer: Gettysburg

Question: On a standard European roulette wheel what colour is the zero?
Answer: Green

Question: In which gambling game is double six known as boxcars?
Answer: Craps

Question: What is the highest value of a hand in baccarat?
Answer: Nine

Question: In which capital city are Luxembourg gardens?
Answer: Paris

Question: In which state is the geographical centre of the USA?
Answer: South Dakota

Question: Which pair of time travellers declared Joan of Arc was the wife of Noah?
Answer: Bill and Ted

Question: Which title character was again involved in time travel last year after beginning in 1984?
Answer: The Terminator

Question: What are the smallest blood vessels of a body called?
Answer: Capillary

Question: What general term is used for the contents of a living cell?
Answer: Protoplasm

Question: According to mythology which ship rolled off its timbers killing Jason?
Answer: Argo

Question: Who became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1912?
Answer: Gandhi

Question: The name of which African city translates into English as White House?
Answer: Casablanca

Question: In which novel does the valet Passerpartout appear?
Answer: Around the World in 80 days

Question: Which group from Liverpool had a hit single with “Hello Little Girl”?
Answer: The Fourmost

Question: What was the second UK Number 1 from Gerry and the Pacemakers?
Answer: I like it

Question: Which of Brian Epstein’s recording artists was born William Howard Ashton?
Answer: Billy J. Kramer

Question: What was the name of Bernie Winters’ St. Bernard?
Answer: Schnorbitz

Question: What was the name of the dog in Hart to Hart?
Answer: Freeway

Question: An Alsatian named Rebel had which bigger more famous animal companion?
Answer: Champion the Wonder Horse

Question: Which Moroccan port lies on the Western entrance to the Straits of Gibraltar?
Answer: Tangier

Question: Due to the number of its population which country is known as the “Giant of Africa”?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: Madagascar declared its independence from which country in 1960?
Answer: France

Question: What did Richard Sharpe capture at the battle of Talavera?
Answer: French Eagle

Question: In which conflict are the Starbuck novels set?
Answer: American Civil War

Question: “Harlequin” is the first book in a series about a quest for which item?
Answer: Holy Grail

Question: Which car company currently sponsors the Kennington Oval?
Answer: Kia

Question: What is the name of Cambridge University’s regular ground?
Answer: Fenner’s

Question: Which singing legend died in a plane crash in Montana in 1967?
Answer: Otis Redding

Question: Which railroad legend died in Mississippi as the result of a train crash in 1900?
Answer: Casey Jones

Question: In which pantomime do the broker’s men traditionally appear?
Answer: Cinderella

Question: Which traditional pantomime is based on a work first published in 1719?
Answer: Robinson Crusoe

Question: In which pantomime does Robin Hood normally appear?
Answer: Babes in the Wood

Question: Which boat made a famous crossing from Peru to Polynesia in 1947?
Answer: Kon Tiki

Question: Which film featured the villainous Blue Meanies?
Answer: Yellow Submarine

Question: Bridgetown is the capital of which island?
Answer: Barbados

Question: What is the European term of a golf score known in the USA as a double eagle?
Answer: Albatross

Question: Boston lies in which state of the USA?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: Geronimo was a leader of which Native American tribe?
Answer: Apache

Question: What did bluesman B.B. King name his first guitar?
Answer: Lucille

Question: What was the original name of Leicester City F.C.?
Answer: Leicester Fosse

Question: In “Open All hours” which actress delivered the milk?
Answer: Barbara Flynn

Question: In “Porridge” which warder was played by Brian Wilde?
Answer: Mr. Barraclough

Question: Which character was Charlie Farley’s partner in” the Two Ronnies”?
Answer: Piggy Malone

Question: Which Shakespeare play has the subtitle ‘What you will’?
Answer: Twelfth Night

Question: Edinburgh university lecturer Joseph Bell was the inspiration for which character?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Question: “The Man of Property” is the first book in which series?
Answer: The Forsythe Sage

Question: What information did members of the Waffen S.S. have tattooed on their arms?
Answer: Blood group

Question: What was the Monkees’ second UK hit single?
Answer: Last train to Clarksville

Question: In 1957 who took “Last train to San Fernando” into the UK charts?
Answer: Johnny Duncan

Question: Which is the smallest true thrush normally seen in Britain?
Answer: Redwing

Question: What is the correct term for a female bear?
Answer: Sow

Question: Which is the largest type of kangaroo?
Answer: Red Kangaroo

Question: In the legends of Robin Hood what was the profession of Mutch’s father?
Answer: Miller

Question: The Cape of Storms was the original name of which cape?
Answer: Cape of Good Hope

Question: In which film does Will Smith play a superhero with a drink problem?
Answer: Hancock

Question: In 2014 and 2015 for which Formula 1 team did Felipe Massa drive?
Answer: Williams

Question: Who wrote the Savoy Operas?
Answer: Gilbert and Sullivan

Question: Which handicap did Sid Halley have to overcome in the books of Dick Francis?
Answer: Missing hand

Question: What was the controversial intended title of D.W.Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation”?
Answer: The Klansman

Question: Who played the title role in “the Black Pirate”?
Answer: Douglas Fairbanks

Question: If travelling at 30m.p.h. in a car what is the overall stopping distance in feet?
Answer: 75

Question: What used to clean a big big carpet for less than half a crown?
Answer: 1001

Question: The Test Acts of the 17th. Century imposed civil disabilities on who?
Answer: Catholics or Nonconformists

Question: The Stamp Act of the 18th. Century imposed taxes on which area under British rule?
Answer: Americas

Question: Which acts affected the ownership of almost 11,000 square miles of common land?
Answer: Enclosure Acts

Question: Who was the first U.S. President to wear a full beard in office?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: Which highly poisonous substance was once known as prussic acid?
Answer: Hydrogen Cyanide

Question: Under what name was nitric acid known to alchemists?
Answer: Aqua Fortis

Question: Which acid received its name from its ability to dissolve gold and silver?
Answer: Aqua Regia or Royal Water

Question: In which year was Hong Kong handed back to the Chinese government?
Answer: 1997

Question: At which institute was Dolly the Sheep cloned?
Answer: Roslin Institute

Question: Which was the first film directed by Tim Burton to star Johnny Depp?
Answer: Edward Scissorhands