Question: Which heavenly body was Giotto sent to photograph in 1986?`
Answer: Halley’s Comet

Question: Who usually perform a ‘Helix’ and a ‘Corkscrew’ and finish with a ‘Vixen Break’?
Answer: The Red Arrows

Question: The extinct Moa is believed to be the largest ever ………what?
Answer: Bird

Question: Who was the ‘gentleman burglar’ created by E W Hornung?
Answer: Raffles

Question: Nelson is a famous wine producing area in which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: The sangiovese grape is chiefly used in the production of which Italian wine?
Answer: Chianti

Question: Which sparkling wine is made chiefly in the Penedes region near Barcelona?
Answer: Cava

Question: The winner of which famous race traditionally swigs milk from the bottle?
Answer: Indianapolis 500

Question: In which sport is the term ‘bonk’ used meaning tiredness from lack of food?
Answer: Cycling

Question: A French court banned parents from calling their daughter ……what?
Answer: Nutella

Question: In which famous film was Frank Miller coming to kill Will Kane?
Answer: High Noon

Question: A Lucy Stoner is a married woman who retains …….what?
Answer: Her Maiden Surname

Question: Who succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelites?
Answer: Joshua

Question: A bonspiel is a tournament in which winter sport?
Answer: Curling

Question: Prior to 1979 which country, other than India, was ruled from the Peacock Throne?
Answer: Iran acc Persia

Question: Who committed what became known as the West Port murders in Edinburgh in 1828?
Answer: Burke & Hare

Question: What profession was followed by Grace O’Malley, Mary Read and Anne Bonny?
Answer: Piracy

Question: For which organisation did the camp Jason King work?
Answer: Department S

Question: Who played Harry Rule in The Protectors?
Answer: Robert Vaughan

Question: Tasseomancy is the reading of what, to determine a person’s future?
Answer: Tea Leaves

Question: By what name was the architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret better known?
Answer: Le Corbusier

Question: Who plays Alfred Hitchcock’s wife Alma in the movie Hitchcock?
Answer: Helen Mirren

Question: With 19 so far who is by far the most Oscar nominated actress in history?
Answer: Meryl Streep

Question: Who seized the throne in 1135 on the death of Henry I?
Answer: Stephen

Question: Which famous fair was held for the first time at Smithfield in 1133?
Answer: St Bartholomew’s Fair

Question: Which famous food item is nickname an ‘oggy’ in its area of origin?
Answer: Cornish Pasty

Question: Everyone knows about the Liverpool stew called ‘scouse’ – but what is ‘blind scouse’?
Answer: Meat-Free Version

Question: Which US Trade Union was led by the notorious Jimmy Hoffa?
Answer: Teamsters

Question: What official position is currently held by Martin Rees?
Answer: Astronomer Royal

Question: On a graph the abscissa is paired with what?
Answer: Ordinate

Question: Which fictional pair vie for social supremacy in Tilling?
Answer: Mapp & Lucia

Question: What is the lightest solid element?
Answer: Lithium

Question: Helen Gurley Brown was editor of which magazine for 32 years?
Answer: Cosmopolitan

Question: Which magazine has the slogan ‘Buy it before you snuff it’?
Answer: The Oldie

Question: Who sold his wedding photos to Viz for a pound in 2002?
Answer: Johnny Vegas

Question: The buccinator muscle aids in which essential bodily function?
Answer: Chewing/Eating/smiling

Question: What are characterised by patterns such as loops, whorls and arches?
Answer: Fingerprints

Question: Which novel tells the tragic story of displaced migrants George Milton and Lennie Small?
Answer: Of Mice and Men

Question: What is the subject of Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon?
Answer: Bull Fighting

Question: In tennis what is a ‘bagel’?
Answer: Winning or Losing a set 6-0

Question: In which sport might a contestant ‘dump the laundry’?
Answer: Drag Racing

Question: Which part of a flower is responsible for the production of pollen grains?
Answer: Anther

Question: What kind of footwear did Jimmy Nail have in 1994?
Answer: Crocodile Shoes

Question: Which film star began life as Michel Shalhoub?
Answer: Omar Sharif

Question: Who composed the To October Symphony?
Answer: Shostakovich

Question: Which character was once played by Peter Dean in Eastenders?
Answer: Pete Beale

Question: Which film star began life as Issur Danielovitch?
Answer: Kirk Douglas

Question: Who composed the Tragic Symphomy?
Answer: Schubert or Mahler

Question: Which character was once played by Ken Morley in Coronation Street?
Answer: Reg Holdsworth

Question: What was the name of the princess in The Sleeping Beauty?
Answer: Aurora

Question: Who was the compere for the first National Lottery draw in 1994?
Answer: Noel Edmunds

Question: From which part of the pig are Bath Chaps made?
Answer: Cheeks

Question: What does the expression cap-a-pie mean?
Answer: From head to toe

Question: What are Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff?
Answer: The Four Houses at Hogwarts

Question: What are you doing if you open with a Ruy Lopez?
Answer: Playing Chess

Question: What kind of bird is a marabou?
Answer: Stork

Question: What name do Salvation Army members give to their places of worship?
Answer: Citadels

Question: Who shaves with a blowtorch?
Answer: Desperate Dan

Question: What are formed by the process of ‘orogeny’?
Answer: Mountains

Question: What do we call the elongated hill in the shape of a half-buried egg formed by glacial ice?
Answer: Drumlin

Question: What was the name of the local coffee shop in Friends?
Answer: Central Perk

Question: What is the capital of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region of France?
Answer: Marseilles

Question: Graz is the second-largest city in which country?
Answer: Austria

Question: Ian Gillan, Graham Bonnet and David Coverdale sang for which band?
Answer: Deep Purple

Question: What is Ozzy Osbourne’s real first name?
Answer: John

Question: Who were the twin sons of Zeus and Leda?
Answer: Castor & Pollux

Question: Who compared television to a ‘penny Punch and Judy show’?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: Which part of New York was named after the Dutch word for rabbit?
Answer: Coney Island

Question: With what is Cornish Yarg cheese usually wrapped?
Answer: Nettles

Question: Which inlet of the Irish Sea separates Cumbria from Dumfries & Galloway?
Answer: Solway Firth

Question: The Tay Bridge runs south from which city?
Answer: Dundee

Question: What is Britain’s most southerly National Park?
Answer: Dartmoor

Question: The support about which a lever pivots?
Answer: Fulcrum

Question: Which iconic gangster film begins with a Tony Bennett rendition of Rags To Riches?
Answer: Goodfellas

Question: Where did Gabriel Byrne pretend to execute John Turturro?
Answer: Miller’s Crossing

Question: Who composed the opera Cavalleria Rusticana?
Answer: Mascagni

Question: Mimi is the heroine of which opera?
Answer: La Boheme

Question: Which famous brewery is situated in Banbury, Oxfordshire?
Answer: Hook Norton

Question: Who was America’s ‘Public Enemy No.1’ in the 1920s and 30s?
Answer: John Dillinger

Question: What is carrageen or Irish Moss?
Answer: Seaweed

Question: What is the general term for a three-panelled altar piece?
Answer: Triptych

Question: Richard Ashcroft fronted which 1990’s band from Wigan?
Answer: The Verve

Question: The French town of Montelimar is famous for the production of which confection?
Answer: Nougat

Question: Which pop star was depicted as Christ crucified at Marylebone parish church London?
Answer: Pete Doherty

Question: What was the name of the bear in Rainbow?
Answer: Bungle

Question: A cat called Carwash appeared in which programme?
Answer: Willo the Wisp

Question: Which creature has a symbiotic relationship with the Egyptian plover?
Answer: Crocodile

Question: Which play begins ‘Now fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace’?
Answer: A Midsummer Night’s Dream