Question: A bergamot is known as what type of fruit?
Answer: Orange

Question: In humans, citguatera is an illness caused by eating contaminated what?
Answer: Fish

Question: Which is the only planet in our solar system to have water in three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas?
Answer: Earth

Question: Hals is German for which part of the body?
Answer: Neck

Question: Lester and Carolyn Burnham are characters in which 1999 film?
Answer: American Beauty

Question: What is the width of a full size regulation snooker table in feet?
Answer: 6 feet (5’10

Question: The majority of the Amazon Rainforest is contained within which country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: What is the name of the US electric car manufacturer, founded in 2003, whose cars include the Model S and the Model X?
Answer: Tesla Motors Inc

Question: The English city of Sheffield lies on which river?
Answer: River Sheaf

Question: Which Chinese dish is traditionally used in a St Paul Sandwich, which originated in a Chinese restaurant in Missouri?
Answer: Egg foo yung

Question: Who conducted interviews lying on a bed in the UK television show ‘The Big Breakfast’?
Answer: Paula Yates

Question: What is the capital of Kuwait?
Answer: Kuwait City

Question: Galanthus nivalis is the Latin Name for which garden flower?
Answer: Snowdrop

Question: People born on April 17th have which sign of the Zodiac?
Answer: Aries

Question: ‘Balls of ‘what’ is a UK television comedy series hosted by Mark Dolan?
Answer: Steel

Question: Siderodromophobia is the irrational fear of which mode of transport?
Answer: Trains

Question: Who was US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: John F Kennedy

Question: A titi is what type of animal?
Answer: Monkey

Question: Pieter, Griet, Maria Thins and Cornelia Vermeer are all characters in which 2008 play?
Answer: Girl With a Pearl Earring

Question: A ‘classical’ guitar is popularly referred to as what nationality?
Answer: Spanish

Question: Who sang with James Taylor on hits Mockingbird and How Sweet It Is?
Answer: Carly Simon

Question: At which ‘Field’ was Richard III’s final battle?
Answer: Bosworth

Question: Name the USSR world-beating 1959-76 Moon program/craft?
Answer: Luna

Question: What was S Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City called before 1976?
Answer: Saigon

Question: The moss Sphagnum produces what traditional ancient fuel?
Answer: Peat

Question: The Mossbauer effect refers to which sort of radiation?
Answer: Gamma

Question: The mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, and its berry is called what?
Answer: Rowan

Question: Which country originated the motor scooter?
Answer: Italy

Question: A mouflon is a Coriscan wild species of what domesticated creature?
Answer: Sheep

Question: The nymph Daphne became a laurel tree escaping which Greek god?
Answer: Apollo

Question: Rene Descartes’ quote ‘Cogito ergo sum’ means what in English?
Answer: I think therefore I am

Question: The removal of salt from brine to produce fresh water is commonly named what?
Answer: Desalination

Question: To what colour is the human eye most sensitive?
Answer: Green

Question: St Moritz in Switzerland has what famous Bobsled track?
Answer: Cresta Run

Question: What marten, Martes zibellina, was a prized fur and erroneously a fine paintbrush?
Answer: Sable

Question: What orange black and white creature is Vanessa cardui?
Answer: Painted Lady (butterfly)

Question: Galilean, Keplerian, Newtonian and Conde are types of what instrument?
Answer: Telescope

Question: What type of lens bends parallel rays inwards: convex or concave?
Answer: Convex

Question: The arbalest/arblast is a medieval more powerful developed version of which weapon?
Answer: Crossbow

Question: What mineral caused the founding of S Africaâs Johannesburg in 1886?
Answer: Gold

Question: In the greeenhouse effect ultraviolet light is reradiated and absorbed as what invisible energy?
Answer: Infrared

Question: What obscure metal element (Hf) is named from Latin for Copenhagen, where it was discovered?
Answer: Hafnium (from Hafnia)

Question: The Cyclades are an eastern island group of which nation?
Answer: Greece

Question: Which band headlined the opening/rebranding of the London Dome/O2, June 2007?
Answer: Bon Jovi

Question: What part of Manhattan is named after a Dutch city famous for its bulb trade?
Answer: Harlem (after Haarlem)

Question: What chemical element (Cu) is named after Cyprus?
Answer: Copper

Question: Insurgents of what nation took part in the Easter Rising of 1916?
Answer: Ireland

Question: A red giant star typically evolves when its central hydrogen has converted to what gas?
Answer: Helium

Question: Refraction concerns a changed direction of sound, radiation, a river or a missile?
Answer: radiation

Question: The 2005 US film ‘Fever Pitch’, starring Drew Barrymore, is about which sport?
Answer: Baseball

Question: In Europe, which colour denotes the easiest ski slope for skiers?
Answer: Green

Question: What was the first name of Irish author Bram Stoker?
Answer: Abraham

Question: Templeton Peck is a character in which US television series?
Answer: The A Team

Question: Who plays Winston Wolf in the Direct Line Insurance television advertisements?
Answer: Harvey Keitel

Question: Which British politician was dubbed ‘Big Beast’ by the press, and was also known for his fondness for Hush Puppies’?
Answer: Kenneth Clarke

Question: What is the name of the paranoid android in the novel ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams?
Answer: Marvin

Question: Who designed the wedding dress worn by Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge?
Answer: Sarah Burton

Question: ‘A ‘what’ in the Sun’ is a 1959 play by Lorraine Hansbury?
Answer: Raisin

Question: Who plays Edward Cullen in the ‘Twilight’ film series?
Answer: Robert Pattinson

Question: Used in church advent services, a Christingle is made using which fruit?
Answer: Orange

Question: What is the title of the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle?
Answer: The Sign of Four

Question: Comedian Larry David starred in the US television show ‘Curb Your ‘what’?
Answer: Enthusiasm

Question: In the novel ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’ by Charles Dickens, what is the name of the inn run by Mrs Lupin?
Answer: The Blue Dragon Inn

Question: What type of animal is a macaque?
Answer: Monkey

Question: In the US television show ‘The Sopranos’, what is the first name of Salvatore Bonpensiero’s (Big Pussy) wife?
Answer: Angie

Question: The Frog Cake was created in 1922 by Balfours Bakery in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Saga and Stichelton are types of which foodstuff?
Answer: Cheese

Question: In the theatre, topophobia is commonly known as what?
Answer: Stage fright

Question: Gunnersaurus Rex is the mascot of which English football club?
Answer: Arsenal FC

Question: Who became the presenter of the UK television show ‘Antiques Roadshow’ in 2008?
Answer: Fiona Bruce

Question: Gabel is German for which item of cutlery?
Answer: Fork

Question: ‘Blue Monday’, said to be the most depressing day of the year, falls during which month?
Answer: January

Question: Former Formula One racing driver Nelson Piquet was born in which country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: What is the highest straight flush in a game of poker?
Answer: Royal Flush

Question: The resort island of Boracay forms part of which country?
Answer: Philippines

Question: What is the name of the medal known internationally as the animals Victoria Cross?
Answer: The (PDSA) Dickin Medal

Question: Aurora, Chandler, Legacy and Reka are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Blueberry

Question: Hombro is Spanish for which part of the body?
Answer: Shoulder

Question: Which US boxer was born Joseph Barrow?
Answer: Joe Louis

Question: ‘Take Me Home’ is a 1995 autobiography by which late US singer?
Answer: John Denver

Question: Which English city is known as ‘The Faithful City’?
Answer: Worcester