Question: Which is the traditional English dish of pork trimmings and pig’s head?
Answer: Brawn

Question: Which band’s 2007 reunion concert attracted 20 million ticket applications?
Answer: Led Zeppelin

Question: Charles Moore is whose official 2013 biographer?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Question: John ‘Swift Nick’ Nevison found notoriety as what?
Answer: Highwayman

Question: Which TV series is based on the ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ book series?
Answer: Game of Thrones

Question: The Golden Wattle is one of the national symbols of which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: For what does the acronym CAD stand?
Answer: Computer Aided Design

Question: Which tree is sometimes called the false plane?
Answer: Sycamore

Question: Dying aged 28, who is considered the first great white jazz musician?
Answer: Bix Beiderbecke

Question: Who was the leader of the famous Creole Jazz Band, which first performed in 1922?
Answer: King Oliver

Question: Which title character’s home is on the Island of Sweetwater?
Answer: Popeye the Sailor

Question: Whose mother-in-law is Pearl Slaghoople?
Answer: Fred Flintstone

Question: Which animal has species called Burchell’s and Grevy’s?
Answer: Zebra

Question: What does a racoon appear to do to its food before eating it?
Answer: Washes It

Question: Which is the only mammal able to kneel on all fours?
Answer: Elephant

Question: What will be taking place in a town called Sochi in February?
Answer: Winter Olympics

Question: Which unlikely country qualified for the 2015 Cricket World Cup Finals by beating Kenya?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: Which England football manager has the highest win percentage (67%) of all?
Answer: Fabio Capello

Question: Who became chief editor of Cosmopolitan magazine in 1965?
Answer: Helen Gurley Brown

Question: Which is the only British newspaper to publish in the Berliner format?
Answer: The Guardian acc The Observer

Question: Which phrase used in English stems from the Greek meaning ‘the many’?
Answer: Hoi Polloi

Question: Which is the USA’s Hawkeye State?
Answer: Iowa

Question: Which phrase used in English stems from the French meaning ‘already seen’?
Answer: Deja Vu

Question: Which poet wrote The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
Answer: Robert Browning

Question: Which is the USA’s Prairie State?
Answer: Illinois

Question: In which Cypriot town will you find The Tomb of the Kings?
Answer: Paphos

Question: It became known as the drawing room. What was its earlier, fuller title?
Answer: Withrawing Room

Question: Which form of textile-making uses knots rather than weaving or knitting?
Answer: Macrame

Question: 1970’s TV. What was the forename of Reggie Perrin’s incompetent brother-in-law?
Answer: Jimmy

Question: In which African country can you find Timbuktu?
Answer: Mali

Question: What was the name of the farmer on whose land it took place?
Answer: Max YASGUR

Question: What was the nationality of U Thant?
Answer: Burmese

Question: Who was the Secretary General from 1997 to 2006?
Answer: Kofi Annan

Question: To within one year, in what year of this century was it badly damaged by fire?
Answer: 2007

Question: She was built in 1869 to carry what cargo?
Answer: Tea

Question: Who was the first person to be voted off this year’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’?
Answer: Tony Jacklin

Question: What subject does Catherine Tate’s character teach in ‘Big School’?
Answer: French

Question: Who wrote the 1924 poem ‘Leda and the Swan’?
Answer: W. B. Yeats

Question: Who took over as Governor of the Bank of England on July 1st 2013?
Answer: Mark Carney

Question: How much did Royal Mail shares originally cost when they went on sale in October?
Answer: £3.30

Question: Trevor Brooking, Robert Green, or Carlton Cole, being cowardly?
Answer: Yellowhammer

Question: Born in 1937, who taught in Lancashire prior to becoming a stand-up comedian?
Answer: Jim Bowen

Question: What relation was King Stephen to William the Conqueror?
Answer: Grandson

Question: Which socialist, federal republic existed from 1943 until 1992?
Answer: Yugoslavia

Question: Who got to no.1 with ‘The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore’ in 1966?
Answer: Walker Brothers

Question: In which city will you find the Jacques Cartier Bridge?
Answer: Montreal

Question: Who or what is Brighthelmstone?
Answer: Old name for BRIGHTON

Question: Mount Narodnaya is the highest peak in which mountain range?
Answer: Urals

Question: On what date in October did the price of a National Lottery ticket rise to £2?
Answer: 5th

Question: Which Muslim free school in Derby was slated by Ofsted inspectors?
Answer: Al-Madinah

Question: Which bell might you associate with a female hobgoblin, in French folk lore?
Answer: Lutine

Question: A cordwainer used to make what sort of items?
Answer: Shoes

Question: By what more familiar name is the company of Asquith and Dairies better known?
Answer: Asda

Question: In which country can you see the ruins of Carthage?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: Which P.R. was Mitt Romney’s running mate in the 2012 Presidential election?
Answer: Paul Ryan

Question: In 1967, who got to no. 2 in the charts with ‘Excerpt from a Teenage Opera’?
Answer: Keith West

Question: Who got to no. 6 with ‘Games People Play’ in 1969?
Answer: Joe South

Question: In which sport can you hear the terms ‘edging’, ‘christies’ and ‘traversing’?
Answer: Skiing

Question: What colour is the centre square (excluding the star)?
Answer: Pink

Question: Who wrote the 1911 novel ‘The Secret Garden’?
Answer: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Question: Who was the gardener in the children’s tv series ‘The Magic Roundabout’?
Answer: MR. McHENRY

Question: ‘I See You, Baby (Shakin’ that Ass)’ is associated with which make and model of car?
Answer: Renault Megane

Question: This summer saw the appearance of which famous sportsman in Virgin Media ads?
Answer: Usain Bolt

Question: In a Beatles’ track, who is mean Mr. Mustard’s sister?
Answer: Polythene Pam

Question: Who was the last Conservative Chancellor before George Osborne?
Answer: Kenneth Clarke

Question: What is the county town of Angus?
Answer: Forfar

Question: Born in 1902, which Briton composed ‘Façade’ and ‘Belshazzar’s Feast’?
Answer: Sir WILLIAM WALTON

Question: The village of Anatevka appears in which musical?
Answer: Fiddler On The Roof

Question: Who is the mortal enemy of Captain Pugwash?
Answer: Cut-Throat Jake

Question: Whose madness presumably came about as the result of inhaling mercury fumes?
Answer: The MAD HATTER

Question: Which famous literary character said: “I am but mad north-northwest”?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: In 1984, who became the first comedian to die during a live performance on tv?
Answer: Tommy Cooper

Question: What is the two-word name of Llandudno’s large limestone headland?
Answer: Great Orme

Question: In legend, who or what were said to be incapable of crossing a stream or river?
Answer: Witches

Question: In 1985, which funny man was the first UK citizen to make a mobile phone call?
Answer: Ernie Wise

Question: Which city is at the northern end of the Suez Canal?
Answer: Port Said

Question: Which Hollywood star died of a drug overdose in June 1969, aged 47?
Answer: Judy Garland

Question: Who had a hit with ‘Raining in My Heart’ in 1959?
Answer: Buddy Holly

Question: What is the Swahili word for journey?
Answer: Safari

Question: A Cariocan is a native of which city?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro

Question: If a woman is ‘gravid’ what does this mean?
Answer: She is pregnant

Question: What state is governed by the Bishop of Urgell and the President of France?
Answer: Andorra

Question: Which musical centres around the Kit Kat Club?
Answer: Cabaret

Question: Which twice-made movie features the villain Max Cady?
Answer: Cape Fear

Question: What colour is the flesh of a cantaloupe melon?
Answer: Orange

Question: What is the Japanese dish of (usually) beef and vegetables in soy sauce?
Answer: Sukiyaki

Question: What is the more commonly used name of cornichons?
Answer: Gherkins