Question: How many balls are on the table (including the cue ball) at the start of a snooker game?
Answer: 22

Question: What are the 'Society of Friends' commonly called?
Answer: Quakers

Question: In racing, who rode the winner of the 1951 'Derby'?
Answer: Lester Piggott

Question: Which was the first English football club to win the European Cup?
Answer: Manchester United

Question: Name the two tiles with the highest score in Scrabble?
Answer: Q and Z

Question: The Pindus is the main mountain range in what country?
Answer: Greece

Question: What animal always gives birth to same sex twins?
Answer: Armadillo

Question: Joe Yule Jr born 1920 became famous as who?
Answer: Mickey Rooney

Question: Albert Finney turned down which role that won Peter O Toole an Oscar?
Answer: Laurence of Arabia

Question: Hans Christian Andersen had what job before writing?
Answer: Actor

Question: In Scotland what was the tawse?
Answer: Teachers Strap or belt

Question: Which authors books are most borrowed from libraries?
Answer: Catherine Cookson

Question: What do you add to vegetables to make the dish salmagundi?
Answer: Duck or Chicken

Question: What is unusual about the nobody crab?
Answer: It's transparent

Question: The 1960 Summer Olympic Games were held in which city?
Answer: Rome

Question: Which 19 year old actress made her debut with Humphrey Bogart in the film 'To Have and Have Not'?
Answer: Lauren Bacall

Question: What is the Hebrew word meaning 'So be it'?
Answer: Amen

Question: What stone is used to make the flat bed of a snooker table?
Answer: Slate

Question: If a cricket umpire raises both arms above his head, what is he signalling?
Answer: A six has been scored

Question: What is the largest state in the USA?
Answer: Alaska

Question: What is the name of Mickey Mouse's dog?
Answer: Pluto

Question: Who was beaten by Bjorn Borg in his first Wimbledon title?
Answer: Ilie Nastase

Question: Who was Elizabeth the first's mother?
Answer: Anne Boleyn

Question: What colour dust do you get from diamonds?
Answer: Black

Question: How many players are there in a game of water polo?
Answer: 14

Question: John McEnroe was born in which country?
Answer: Germany

Question: If an octagon has eight sides, what name is given to something with 9 sides?
Answer: Nonagon

Question: Who patented the 'Zip fastener' in 1893?
Answer: Whitcomb Judson

Question: Who was America's 'Time Magazine Man of the Year' in 1952?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth 2nd!

Question: Who became the youngest ever 'Amateur World Snooker Champion in 1980?
Answer: Jimmy White

Question: Can you name the 'Seven Dwarfs' from the 1937 Disney film of that name?
Answer: Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, Dopey

Question: Which Dickens novel features the character 'Uriah Heep'?
Answer: David Copperfield

Question: What is wrapped around a fillet steak to make 'Beef Wellington'?
Answer: Pastry

Question: What is the largest city on the Mississippi?
Answer: St Louis

Question: What was the subject of Bob Hope's book 'Confessions of a Hooker'?
Answer: Golf

Question: How long was the opening episode of 'Dynasty'?
Answer: 3 hours

Question: Who directed the movie 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'?
Answer: Mike Newell

Question: Which motor car company produced the first front wheel drive car in 1934?
Answer: Citroen

Question: Who wrote the best selling book 'The Thorn Birds'?
Answer: Colleen McCullough

Question: Which county's flag is the only square flag in the world?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Who compiled the first complete version of the Bible to be printed in English in 1535?
Answer: Myles Coverdale

Question: Who wrote the following books: 'Peter Pan, The Little Minister and Window in Thrums'?
Answer: J.M Barrie

Question: Who was the first ever Labour Party Prime Minister in the UK. For a bonus point what was the year?
Answer: James Ramsay MacDonald, in 1924

Question: Which English county lies to the west of Devon?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: Who wrote the children's book 'George's Marvellous Medicine'?
Answer: Roald Dahl

Question: General Elections are traditionally held on which day of the week in Britain?
Answer: Thursday

Question: Dupion, Habotai and Noil are three types of what fabric?
Answer: Silk

Question: Who was the author of the novel 'Doctor Zhivago'?
Answer: Boris Pasternak

Question: Who's famous (reputed) last words were 'I told you I was ill'?
Answer: Spike Milligan

Question: In what year was the World Snooker Championship first televised?
Answer: 1973

Question: The oil of which spice is traditionally used to ease the pain of toothache?
Answer: Cloves

Question: Which New Zealand city is known as the windy city?
Answer: Wellington

Question: Which nations flag features on more country's flags than any other?
Answer: Great Britain - Union flag

Question: In which sport could a competitor perform a 'Hiplock' or a 'Flying Mare'?
Answer: Wrestling

Question: In what year did Indira Gandhi become Prime Minister of India?
Answer: 1966

Question: Which city is the birthplace of US TV presenter 'Jerry Springer'?
Answer: London

Question: Complete this English proverb, 'A volunteer is worth'?
Answer: 'twenty pressed men'

Question: Which 2006 animated Disney film featured the characters 'Lightning McQueen, Doc Hudson and Fillmore'?
Answer: Cars

Question: In what sport is a stimpmeter used?
Answer: Golf - To measure greens pace

Question: What two colours make up the national flag of Singapore?
Answer: Red and white.

Question: Capers are pickled seeds of what plant?
Answer: Nasturtium

Question: What is the worlds largest sand island northeast of Brisbane?
Answer: Fraser island

Question: FT (London) Dow Jones (USA) what is Japans Share Index called?
Answer: Nikkei

Question: Who was the leader of the wolf pack in The Jungle Book?
Answer: Akala

Question: What pop group had a "Message in a Bottle"?
Answer: Police

Question: Nobody Does it Better was sung in which Bond film?
Answer: The Spy Who Loved Me

Question: Halcyon is the poetic name for which bird?
Answer: Kingfisher

Question: Who had a hit with Sylvia's Mother?
Answer: Dr Hook

Question: Who composed the music for the opera The Tales of Hoffman?
Answer: Jacques Offenbach

Question: In Shakespeare what do Antony, Romeo and Othello -have in common?
Answer: They all committed suicide

Question: What instrument is sometimes called the clown of the orchestra?
Answer: Bassoon

Question: Franz Kafka wrote in German what nationality was he?
Answer: Czech

Question: Who produced the Tom and Jerry cartoons until 1956?
Answer: Fred Quimby

Question: The name of which countries capital means good air?
Answer: Argentina Buenos Aires

Question: The sackbut developed into which modern instrument?
Answer: Trombone

Question: The GRA govern which sport?
Answer: Greyhound Racing

Question: Which record label signed the Rolling Stones in 1991?
Answer: Virgin

Question: Reginald Truscott-Jones became famous as who?
Answer: Ray Miland

Question: What is the food of the secretary bird?
Answer: Snakes

Question: The African and French marigolds are native to what country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Who is the Patron Saint of Grave diggers?
Answer: St Anthony

Question: George Simenon created Maigret - what nationality was he?
Answer: Belgian

Question: Mary Read and Anne Boney had what job in common?
Answer: Pirates

Question: Short actors stand on what wooden object - to appear bigger?
Answer: Pancake

Question: What is the commonest name for a pub in Britain?
Answer: The Red Lion

Question: A lepidopterist studies what kind of creatures?
Answer: Butterflies and moths

Question: What did Scotland acquire from Norway in 1290?
Answer: Hebrides

Question: In the group 'Derek and the Dominoes' who was Derek?
Answer: Eric Clapton

Question: In which country was the World War 2 'Battle of El Alamein' fought?
Answer: Egypt

Question: What are you being tested for when having an 'Isihara' test?
Answer: Colour blindness