Question: Which vessel was the first to reach the disaster scene and pick up survivors?
Answer: The Carpathia

Question: What is special about the species of mammal called monotremes?
Answer: They Lay Eggs

Question: Why did Alf Common make news in 1905?
Answer: First £1000 Transfer

Question: In 1956 who became the first European Footballer of the Year?
Answer: Stanley Matthews

Question: Which hero of mythology killed the Chimera?
Answer: Bellerophon

Question: Who were Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone?
Answer: The Furies acc Erinyes or Dirae

Question: What was the collective name of the children of Uranus and Gaea?
Answer: Titans

Question: Who plays Lee Mack’s father in Not Going Out?
Answer: Bobby Ball

Question: Who plays Miranda Hart’s mother in her comedy series Miranda?
Answer: Patricia Hodge

Question: Who plays Vic Reeves aka Jim Moir’s wife in the comedy Hebburn?
Answer: Gina McKee

Question: What is the common name of the carambola?
Answer: Star Fruit

Question: Which exotic fruit is known as ‘the King of Fruits’?
Answer: Mango acc Durien

Question: Which fruit is a cross between a blackberry and a raspberry?
Answer: Loganberry acc Tayberry

Question: Whose charity work featured in the book Something Beautiful For God?
Answer: Mother Teresa

Question: Which fictional sleuth made his debut in Pietr The Latvian?
Answer: Maigret

Question: After World War II, what was a DP?
Answer: Displaced Person

Question: Which digital currency debuted in 2009?
Answer: Bitcoin

Question: Snape Maltings Hall is home to which annual festival, first held in 1948?
Answer: Aldeburgh Festival

Question: Jason Voorhees features in which film series?
Answer: Friday The 13th

Question: Which football team has lost its last seven European finals?
Answer: Benfica

Question: Karl Elsener invented which multitool in 1894?
Answer: Swiss Army Knife

Question: What are the single most identifiable symbols in masonry?
Answer: The Square & Compasses

Question: Which Biblical story provides the basic theme for Masonic allegorical rituals?
Answer: Building of Solomon’s Temple

Question: Which peak is the second-highest in Britain?
Answer: Ben Macdhui

Question: Which is England’s southernmost National Park?
Answer: Dartmoor

Question: Which composer attempted suicide by throwing himself into the river Rhine?
Answer: Schuman

Question: Which composer of the Baroque period had 20 children?
Answer: Bach

Question: What is produced by the reaction of mercury with another metal?
Answer: Amalgam

Question: Bronze is an alloy of which two main metals?
Answer: Tin & Copper

Question: Who was the only American to star in a Carry On movie?
Answer: Phil Silvers

Question: In the movie Carry On Dick – who was the Dick referred to?
Answer: Dick Turpin

Question: Zen is which country’s form of Buddhism?
Answer: Japan

Question: Chiroptera is the scientific name for what creatures?
Answer: Bats

Question: Which island group was once called the Somers Islands?
Answer: Bermuda

Question: Lamaism is which country’s form of Buddhism?
Answer: Tibet

Question: Which island group was once called the Spanish East Indies?
Answer: Philippines

Question: Which wine glass has the name of a flower?
Answer: Tulip

Question: What is the young of a turkey called?
Answer: Poult

Question: What is the middle name of Ex-President Jimmy Carter?
Answer: Earl

Question: Who was the bass player and youngest member of the original line-up of Queen?
Answer: John Deacon

Question: Which leading conductor of classical music was nicknamed Flash Harry?
Answer: Sir Malcolm Sergeant

Question: In 1948, which Vickers aircraft became the first turboprop airliner to enter active service?
Answer: Vickers Viscount

Question: Red Hot and Pocket Money were among the sections of which show?
Answer: Big Break

Question: Which Channel Four game show was remade in the USA under the title Junkyard Wars?
Answer: Scrapheap Challenge

Question: Ellis Achong’s style of left-arm wrist spin gave rise to what term in the cricket vocabulary?
Answer: Chinaman

Question: Which poet was shot in the wrist by his lover, fellow poet Paul Verlaine?
Answer: Arthur Rimbaud

Question: Voiced by Steve Carell, Gru is the supervillain in which animated film and its sequel?
Answer: Despicable Me

Question: Which city hosted the first stage of the 2014 Giro d’Italia?
Answer: Belfast

Question: Which moorland plateau is the highest point in Derbyshire?
Answer: Kinder Scout

Question: Who played the title role in the recent ITV biographical drama Cilla?
Answer: Sheridan Smith

Question: Which film had the tag line ‘One dream. Four Jamaicans. Twenty below zero’?
Answer: Cool Runnings

Question: Who had ‘flaming locks of auburn hair, with ivory skin and eyes of emerald green’?
Answer: Jolene

Question: In July 2014, Judith Weir became the first woman to be appointed to which post?
Answer: Master of the Queen’s Music

Question: Which English chemist published the first scientific study on colour blindness?
Answer: John Dalton

Question: Which defect of the eye is known as strabismus or heterotropia?
Answer: Squint/Cross-eyes

Question: According to Shakespeare, who was drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine?
Answer: The Duke of Clarence

Question: What is the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick?
Answer: Fredericton

Question: Voiced by Nicholas Parsons, Tex Tucker was the hero of which Supermarionation series?
Answer: Four Feather Falls

Question: The Cathy and Claire problem page was a popular feature of which weekly for girls?
Answer: Jackie

Question: Who acted as coach to Jermain Jackson, the 2014 winner of The Voice UK?
Answer: Will.i.am

Question: Who was the President of the USA at the start of the 20th Century?
Answer: William McKinley

Question: Who played Ensign Wesley Crusher in Star Trek, The Next Generation?
Answer: Wil Wheaton

Question: For which film of 1948 did father and son Walter and John Huston both win Oscars?
Answer: Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Question: Who wrote the 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s?
Answer: Truman Capote

Question: Who wrote the 1957 poem Not Waving but Drowning?
Answer: Stevie Smith

Question: In which children’s series did the character Zoonie the Lazoon appear?
Answer: Fireball XL5

Question: Who wrote and starred in the comedy series It’s A Square World?
Answer: Michael Bentine

Question: Who released the critically acclaimed albums Blue and Court and Spark?
Answer: Joni Mitchell

Question: What was the B-side of Gloria Gaynor’s 1978 single Substitute?
Answer: I Will Survive

Question: Who was the principal female figure in the scandal that became known as ‘Zippergate’?
Answer: Monica Lewinsky

Question: Which BP rig sank in April 2010, causing a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: Deepwater Horizon

Question: Which superhero was raised by his Aunty May and Uncle Ben?
Answer: Spider-Man or Peter Parker

Question: In the world of Private Eye, Ron Knee is the manager of which football club?
Answer: Neasden FC

Question: What is the minimum period for which scotch whisky can be aged?
Answer: Three Years

Question: In the Loop was a film spin-off from which satirical television series?
Answer: The Thick of It

Question: Which date has been unofficially designated “Star Wars Day”?
Answer: May the Fourth

Question: Played by Laila Rouass, Amber Gates was a major character in which ITV drama series?
Answer: Footballer’s Wives

Question: Who designed the PGA Centenary Course at Gleneagles on which the match was played?
Answer: Jack Nicklaus

Question: Who played the U-boat commander in the ‘Don’t tell him, Pike’ scene from Dad’s Army?
Answer: Philip Madoc

Question: Which musical-hall trio of the mid-20th century were known for their sand dance?
Answer: Wilson, Keppel and Betty

Question: The holder of which post is also the Minister for the Civil Service?
Answer: Prime Minister

Question: Count Duckula was a spinoff from which other children’s animated series?
Answer: Danger Mouse