Question: The Barbary Partridge is the national bird of which British Overseas Territory?
Answer: Gibraltar

Question: Which English king was known as ‘The Confessor’?
Answer: Edward

Question: What is the nickname of the London building at 30, St Mary Axe?
Answer: The Gherkin

Question: The River Cafe Restaurant in London specialises in the cuisine of which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: ‘Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingt Jours’ is the French title if which novel?
Answer: Around the World in Eighty Days

Question: Carving, Herringbone, Runout and Tail are all terms used in which sport?
Answer: Skiing

Question: The Sylvian Fissure is found in which organ of the human body?
Answer: Brain

Question: Which English professional footballer has the tattoo ‘Just Enough Education To Perform’ on his right arm?
Answer: Wayne Rooney

Question: The Five Sisters of ‘where’ appear in a story told in the novel ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ by Charles Dickens?
Answer: York

Question: Which US city hosted the 2002 Winter Olympic Games?
Answer: Salt Lake City

Question: Howard and Hilda Hughes are characters in which 1980’s BBC television series?
Answer: Ever Decreasing Circles

Question: ‘The Cloud Club’, which closed in 1979,  occupied the 66th, 67th and 68th floors of which New York building?
Answer: The Chrysler Building

Question: Which British boxer is known as ‘A-Force’?
Answer: Audley Harrison

Question: Which UK comedy drama was set mostly in the fictional Lancashire mining town of Utterley in the 1930’s?
Answer: Brass

Question: Which US President was born William Jefferson Blythe III?
Answer: Bill Clinton

Question: The Straddle Technique was a style performed in which athletics event?
Answer: High Jump

Question: British television puppet Lenny the Lion belonged to which ventriloquist?
Answer: Terry Hall

Question: In the game of bridge, which card is known as the Beer Card?
Answer: Seven of Diamonds

Question: In an Edward Lear poem, who has a Luminous Nose?
Answer: The Dong

Question: What is the maximum length, in metres, of a bowling green?
Answer: 40 metres

Question: ‘Dundermusen’ is the Swedish version of which UK television cartoon hero?
Answer: Danger Mouse

Question: A Sachertorte is a type of chocolate cake which originated in which country?
Answer: Austria

Question: Which army rank does actor Windsor Davies play in the UK television series ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’?
Answer: Battery Sergeant Major

Question: Stringhalt is a nervous disorder which affects the legs of which animal?
Answer: Horse

Question: What was the family name of the famous British aristocratic sisters Unity, Jessica, Nancy, Diana, Pamela and Deborah?
Answer: Mitford

Question: Tennis player Yannick Noah was born in which country?
Answer: France

Question: Who wrote the 19th Century ‘The Palliser’ series of novels?
Answer: Anthony Trollope

Question: In the UK television series ‘Absolutely Fabulous’, what is Patsy’s surname?
Answer: Stone

Question: In the human body, sudorific relates to or causes what?
Answer: Sweating

Question: Barouche, Phaeton, Surrey and Curnicle are all types of what?
Answer: Horse-drawn carriage

Question: Which modern-day country was once known as Zipangu?
Answer: Japan

Question: What is a male honey bee called?
Answer: Drone

Question: What was the name of the Greek musician who rescued his wife Eurydice from the underworld, but lost her again when he turned back to look at her before they reached the upperworld?
Answer: Orpheus

Question: The city of New York was named after the brother of which English monarch?
Answer: King Charles II

Question: Who wrote the 19th Century book ‘Notes on Nursing. What It is and What It Is Not’?
Answer: Florence Nightingale

Question: The Scottish dish Kilted Sausages is sausages wrapped in what?
Answer: Bacon

Question: Film actor Jeanne Claud van Dam is nicknamed The ‘what’ From Brussels?
Answer: Muscles

Question: Which British television chef uses the phrase ‘Lovely Jubbly’?
Answer: Jamie Oliver

Question: Egyptian actor Michel Demitri Chalhoub is better known by what name?
Answer: Omar Sharif

Question: Which US space probe completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter?
Answer: Pioneer 10

Question: Dupion, Habotai and Noil are all types of which fabric?
Answer: Silk

Question: Not including the centre square, how many Double Word squares are there on a standard Scrabble board?
Answer: 16

Question: What does the Latin phrase ‘Suum cuique’ translate to in English?
Answer: To each his own

Question: Spessartine (or Spessartite) is what type of gemstone?
Answer: Garnet

Question: A logophile is a lover of what?
Answer: Words

Question: Which is the only US state to have two rivers both with the same name?
Answer: Florida

Question: What is the title of Charlie Chaplin’s first full-length feature film?
Answer: The Kid

Question: What role did Vivien Leigh play in the 1939 film ‘Gone With the Wind’?
Answer: Scarlett O’Hara

Question: Who played Captain Teague, Jack’s father, in the 2007 film ‘Pirates of the Caribbean:At World’s End’?
Answer: Keith Richards

Question: Who directed the ‘Indiana Jones’ series of films?
Answer: Steven Spielberg

Question: What is the title of the 1999 film, starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, which was adapted from Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel?
Answer: Fight Club

Question: Which song from the 1934 film ‘The Gay Divorcee’, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song?
Answer: The Continental

Question: The 1982 film ‘The Executioner’s Song’ is about the final nine months of the life of which US convicted murderer who demanded the fulfilment of his own death sentence for two murders he committed?
Answer: Gary Gilmore

Question: Who played US Marshall Reuben J ‘Rooster’ Cogburn in the 2010 film ‘True Grit’?
Answer: Jeff Bridges

Question: The plot to which 2001 film opens in the year 1900, as a depressed writer named Christian sits at his desk and begins to type to the song ‘Nature Boy’?
Answer: Moulin Rouge

Question: What is the famous last line of the 1959 comedy film ‘Some Like it Hot’?
Answer: ‘Well, nobody’s perfect’

Question: What is the name of Thomas Anderson’s (played by Keanu Reeves) alter ego in the 1999 film ‘The Matrix’?
Answer: Neo

Question: Which Disney film, released in 1994, is the highest-grossing hand-drawn film in history?
Answer: The Lion King

Question: What is the surname of Carlito, played by Al Pacino, in the 1993 crime drama film ‘Carlito’s Way’?
Answer: Brigante

Question: Which vowel is on the middle letter row on a computer keyboard?
Answer: A

Question: What process was banned temporarily in Blackpool after is was blamed for causing two earth tremors in 2011?
Answer: Fracking

Question: What is the name of the fictional strip club in the US television series ‘The Sopranos’?
Answer: Bada Bing

Question: What is the national animal of Singapore?
Answer: Lion

Question: In nature, what are active, dormant and extinct?
Answer: Volcanoes

Question: Dipsophobia is the abnormal fear of doing what?
Answer: Drinking alcohol

Question: The Georgian colonnaded walks of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent are known as The ‘what’?
Answer: Pantiles

Question: Which English county is known as the ‘Heart of England’?
Answer: Leicestershire

Question: Which inventor was known as ‘The Wizard of Menlo Park’?
Answer: Thomas Edison

Question: Which fashion designer was responsible for the opening-ceremony outfits for Team USA at the 2008 Olympic Games?
Answer: Ralph Lauren

Question: What is the name of the robot in the UK television commercials for ‘confused.com’?
Answer: Brian

Question: In the UK which three classic horse races make up the Triple Crown?
Answer: 2000 Guineas, Derby, St Leger

Question: Which is the only London Underground station to be named after a football team?
Answer: Arsenal

Question: Gainsboro is a pale shade of which colour?
Answer: Grey