Question: What part of the body is affected by Cholecystitis?
Answer: Gall Bladder

Question: Which birds gather in ‘Screaming Parties’ on summer evenings?
Answer: Swifts

Question: What is the poetic name for the song thrush?
Answer: Mavis

Question: What was the name of the bird killed and eaten by Captain Edmund Blackadder?
Answer: Speckled Jim

Question: In August 1969, what notable event took place on Max Yasgur’s farm?
Answer: Woodstock festival

Question: What was the name of the farmyard cock in the story of Reynard the Fox?
Answer: Chanticleer

Question: Amol Rajan is the editor of which national daily newspaper?
Answer: Independent

Question: In 1917, media baron Max Aitken took what title on his elevation to the peerage?
Answer: Beaverbrook

Question: In which publication could you read a column Called to Ordure written by Gavel Basher?
Answer: Private Eye

Question: Which pop group had a 1984 UK top ten hit record entitled ‘Master and Servant’?
Answer: Depeche Mode

Question: Which saint had a beehive as his emblem?
Answer: Ambrose

Question: Which saint, according to legend, nipped the Devil’s nose with red hot tongs?
Answer: Dunstan

Question: What is the main town of the Isle of Skye?
Answer: Portree

Question: What is the alternative six letter name for Carbolic Acid?
Answer: Phenol

Question: What type of fish is used in an Arbroath Smokie?
Answer: Haddock

Question: Which country is ruled by the House of Thani?
Answer: Qatar

Question: Which Andre Lloyd-Webber musical was banned in South Africa in the 1970’s?
Answer: Jesus Christ Superstar

Question: Which magazine features a strip entitled Sid the Sexist?
Answer: Viz

Question: Which county won the second division of the county championship?
Answer: Hampshire

Question: Of which Roman poet was Maro the family name?
Answer: Virgil

Question: Of which Roman poet was Flaccus the family name?
Answer: Horace

Question: Sand gropers traditionally hail from which Australian state?
Answer: Western Australia

Question: Which musical work is sub-titled The Newgate Festival?
Answer: Beggars Opera

Question: In which town is the San Fermin Running of the Bulls festival held annually?
Answer: Pamplona

Question: In Hinduism what name is given to the festival of Colour or Colours?
Answer: Holi

Question: A name meaning spiny skin, Starfish belong to which animal phylum?
Answer: Echinoderms

Question: Which Spanish city was the home of the artist El Greco?
Answer: Toledo

Question: What is the first of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ Five stages of grief?
Answer: Denial

Question: Which body of water is nicknamed ‘The Blue Eye Of Siberia’?
Answer: Lake Baikal

Question: What is the common English name of Mozart’s Serenade for Strings in d major?
Answer: A Little Night Music

Question: In which 1988 film did Davis play the title character with the surname Ufgood?
Answer: Willow

Question: Who was the father of Ophelia?
Answer: Polonius

Question: Who was the father of Desdemona?
Answer: Brabantio

Question: South Carolina is bordered by North Carolina and which other state?
Answer: Georgia

Question: Fougasse, associated with Provence, is what type of food?
Answer: Bread

Question: What on a French menu are Crevettes?
Answer: Prawns or Shrimps

Question: In song, what must a child do to get a ‘fishie in a little dishie’?
Answer: Dance to your Daddie

Question: What is the only English word containing three consecutive double letters?
Answer: Bookkeeper/ing

Question: Mount Botrange at 694 metres, is the highest point of which European country?
Answer: Belgium

Question: What name is shared by a crustacean and a goose of the genus Branta?
Answer: Barnacle

Question: Which city is Linked to the M4 by the M32?
Answer: Bristol

Question: In September 2001, who had a UK number one single with Mambo number 5?
Answer: Bob the Builder

Question: In which city did the 2014 Giro D’Italia cycle race begin?
Answer: Belfast

Question: The Little (Tetrax Tetrax) and Great (Otis Tarda) are which birds?
Answer: Bustards

Question: Devadatta repeatedly tried to kill which religious leader?
Answer: Buddha

Question: Which 12th century Cistercian Abbey’s remains stand just outside Ripon?
Answer: Fountains Abbey

Question: Nicknamed Napoleon, Marcus Chamat has represented Europe in which sport?
Answer: Pool

Question: Who wrote the 1904 novel The Napoleon of Notting Hill?
Answer: G.K. Chesterton

Question: What name is given to the sensitive flesh at the base of one’s fingernails?
Answer: Quick

Question: Latin for ‘put away the flesh’, what name is given to ‘a feast’ or ‘fair’?
Answer: Carnival

Question: As in the name of the Spanish clothing retailer, for what do the initials H & M stand?
Answer: Hennes and Mauritz

Question: Which US fashion retailers have the forenames David and Ezra?
Answer: Abercrombie and Fitch

Question: Who was the only canonised King of France? (name and number)
Answer: Louis IX

Question: Mary Robinson and Frances Villiers were mistresses of which 19th century King?
Answer: George IV

Question: Dushanbe is the capital city of which former Soviet republic?
Answer: Tajikistan

Question: Which work by Charles Dickens opens with the line “Now, what I want is facts”?
Answer: Hard Times

Question: Which haemorrhagic fever virus is named after a city in Hessen, Germany?
Answer: Marburg Virus

Question: Which 2010 Disney movie features the villainous Mother Gothel?
Answer: Tangled

Question: Who is Jessica’s father in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice?
Answer: Shylock

Question: Specifically, what do colombophiles fancy?
Answer: Pigeons

Question: Charlotte Beyser Bartholdi was the model for which statue?
Answer: Statue of Liberty

Question: What does a ship do when it ‘heaves to’?
Answer: It Stops

Question: Which famous fair held annually for 700 years was first held at Smithfield in 1133?
Answer: Bartholomew Fair

Question: What was won by Louisa Johnson in December 2015?
Answer: The X Factor

Question: Which BBC three-part drama was set in Pepys Rd, South London?
Answer: Capital

Question: Which part of the eye is the sclera?
Answer: White

Question: Which sculptor produced the 1934/35 work, Ecce Homo?
Answer: Jacob Epstein

Question: Which nautical measurement is 240 yards?
Answer: Cable

Question: Which weight system is used for precious metals?
Answer: Troy

Question: Which African country is entirely surrounded by Senegal?
Answer: Gambia

Question: In which country is around 85% of the Thar desert?
Answer: India

Question: Shagreen is leather made from the skin of which creatures?
Answer: Sharks

Question: What was Glenn Miller’s Pennsylvania hotel telephone number?
Answer: 6-5000

Question: What is known as India’s teardrop?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: Which kind of entertainer often makes his entrance to Julius Fucik’s Opus 68 March?
Answer: A Clown

Question: A Gibson cocktail is gin and dry Vermouth garnished with …..what?
Answer: An Onion

Question: Which inert gas is used to fill modern incandescent light bulbs?
Answer: Argon

Question: From which mineral is radium obtained?
Answer: Pitchblende

Question: Where is a fish’s caudal fin?
Answer: On the Tail

Question: If a goldfish is kept in a dark room for a length of time, what will happen?
Answer: It will turn white

Question: What is a baby cod called?
Answer: Codling

Question: Which sect publishes the journals ‘Citadel’ and ‘Monitor’?
Answer: Christian Scientists

Question: Which book is divided into 114 surahs or chapters?
Answer: Qur’an/Koran

Question: What word is used for the final unwinding of a complicated plot?
Answer: Denouement

Question: What do we call a mournful poem often lamenting death?
Answer: Elegy

Question: Rose Sayer falls for Charlie Allnut in which movie?
Answer: The African Queen

Question: What was called the Hakenkreuz by the Nazis?
Answer: The Swastika

Question: Named for its writer, what song was the Nazi anthem?
Answer: The Horst-Wessel