Question: What is the maximum permitted length of an entry in the Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: Three Minutes

Question: What type of soup is a consommé or broth garnished with long thin strips of vegetables?
Answer: Julienne

Question: What is the name of the river on which Bakewell stands?
Answer: Wye

Question: Which river features in Jimmy Nail’s 1995 Top 20 hit, ‘Big River’?
Answer: Tyne

Question: Who wrote the novels The Sicilian and The Last Don?
Answer: Mario Puzo

Question: Harrison Schmitt was the most recent man to do what?
Answer: Walk On The Moon

Question: The St. Leger and the Lincoln Handicap are both run at which racecourse?
Answer: Doncaster

Question: Anatomy. Why is it that cartilage grows and repairs more slowly than other tissues?
Answer: Does Not Contain Blood

Question: Planktology, malacology and primatology are all branches of which science?
Answer: Zoology

Question: One meaning of ‘contubernal’ is ‘living in the same …’ what?
Answer: Tent

Question: Which sport is thought to derive its name from the French for ‘take it’ (and thus ‘play’)?
Answer: Tennis

Question: Which game gets its name from the Spanish for ‘ball’?
Answer: Pelota

Question: Which horse finished second in the Grand National?
Answer: Balthazar King

Question: In which character-based comedy sketch show did she play the part of Myfanwy?
Answer: Little Britain

Question: Who became the first Earl of Chatham in 1766?
Answer: William PITT THE ELDER

Question: In which village in north-eastern France was Joan of Arc born?
Answer: Domremy

Question: Born in 1898, which important figure did M.E. Clifton James closely resemble?
Answer: Field Marshall MONTGOMERY

Question: Who was the first British monarch to live in Buckingham Palace?
Answer: Queen VICTORIA

Question: Which bone in the human body is broken most often?
Answer: Clavicle/Collar Bone

Question: Who or what died in Jean Harlow’s arms in 1932?
Answer: Rin Tin Tin

Question: In 1984, who topped the US charts, and got to no. 9 in the UK, with ‘Missing You’?
Answer: John Waite

Question: Who topped the charts with ‘He’s Not Heavy, He’s My Brother’ in 1969?
Answer: The Hollies

Question: In which season did the Premier League begin?
Answer: 1992-3

Question: What is remarkable about the boxer dog Duncan Lou Who?
Answer: Has Only Two Legs

Question: When eating out, what French phrase is effectively the opposite of ‘a la carte’?
Answer: Table D’Hote

Question: L. B. Johnson, former president of the USA – for what did the ‘B’ stand?
Answer: Baines

Question: What sort of creature might be called a chanticleer?
Answer: Cockerel/Rooster

Question: Which King was killed by Neoptolemus at the fall of Troy?
Answer: Priam

Question: Who had sisters named Stheno and Euryale?
Answer: Medusa

Question: Born in 1941, which legendary (and now retired) squash player lives in Morwenstow?
Answer: Jonah Barrington

Question: Born in Newquay in 1911, who is the author of ‘The Spire’ and ‘Pincher Martin’?
Answer: William Golding

Question: All Scotch whisky must be aged in oak barrels for at least how many years?
Answer: Three

Question: What was the name of the prostitute in the 1986/7 Jeffrey Archer scandal?
Answer: Monica Coghlan

Question: Born in 1942, what is the forename of Welsh snooker player Mr. Mountjoy?
Answer: Doug

Question: What is the name of the only lake in the Lake District?
Answer: Bassenthwaite

Question: Just before WWI, which S. Wales town was the largest coal-exporting port in the world?
Answer: Barry

Question: What is the alternative name for Puck, in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’?
Answer: Robin Goodfellow

Question: To which minor character does Hamlet refer as a ‘waterfly’?
Answer: Osric

Question: “Snakes! Why’d it hafta be snakes?!” (1981)
Answer: Indiana Jones And The

Question: Diogenes is the name of the dog in which Dickens’ novel?
Answer: Dombey And Son

Question: What was the first name of Don Warrington’s character in ‘Rising Damp’?
Answer: Phillip

Question: In 1936, who composed ‘Carmina Burana’, the first part of a trilogy?
Answer: Carl ORFF

Question: Which opera, first performed in 1874, is set largely in a cigarette factory?
Answer: Carmen

Question: Who painted ‘Luncheon of the Boating Party’, 1880-1?
Answer: Pierre-Auguste RENOIR

Question: What is the chemical formula for the substance commonly known as ‘laughing gas’?
Answer: N2O

Question: Charles Darwin was born on Feb. 12th, 1809. Which US president was born on that day?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: Which alloy, a form of brass, resembles gold in appearance?
Answer: Pinchbeck

Question: Who took over from Jeff Stelling as the host of ‘Countdown’?
Answer: Nick Hewer

Question: Who composed the Oscar-winning song, ‘Moon River’?
Answer: Henry Mancini

Question: Which twosome were originally known as the Harper Brothers?
Answer: Cannon And Ball

Question: Khaki Campbell and Rouen are types of which farmyard creature?
Answer: Duck

Question: The Great Schism was a split within the Catholic church in what century?
Answer: 14th

Question: Francis II 1792-1835 was the last person to hold which 1000-year-old title?
Answer: Holy Roman Emperor

Question: In Italy what is ‘calcio’?
Answer: Football

Question: Which creature was used as a symbol of Christianity in the early days of persecution?
Answer: Fish

Question: Abolished in 1966 by the Catholic Church what was the Index Expergatorius?
Answer: List of banned books

Question: In which Spielberg film does an FBI agent pursue a highly talented fraudster?
Answer: Catch Me If You Can

Question: In Jaws what was the name of the shark-hunting captain of the boat Orca?
Answer: Quint

Question: Why was Doc Holliday advised to move out to the warmer climate of the West?
Answer: Suffered from TB

Question: Where did Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury and Tom McLaury die?
Answer: OK Corral, Tombstone

Question: Chalcopyrite is a major ore of which metal?
Answer: Copper

Question: Nephrite is one of the two forms of which ornamental rock?
Answer: Jade

Question: What is the scientific name for brown coal?
Answer: Lignite

Question: To which secret society did Gavrilo Princip, Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassin belong?
Answer: The Black Hand

Question: What was the name of the unsuccessful ‘war plan’ developed by the Germans in 1905?
Answer: Schlieffen Plan

Question: The kakapo is the world’s only flightless type of which bird?
Answer: Parrot

Question: Which cowboy was played by Ty Hardin?
Answer: Bronco Layne

Question: Which has been known as the ‘Horned Planet’?
Answer: Venus

Question: Who drinks poison to save Peter Pan?
Answer: Tinkerbell

Question: Who had a backing group called The Jordanaires?
Answer: Elvis Presley

Question: In which film does Meg Ryan simulate orgasm in a crowded restaurant?
Answer: When Harry Met Sally

Question: What type of creature is a bleak?
Answer: Fish

Question: What did the Romans call Mare Nostrum?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea

Question: Which operatic character has a son called Dolore?
Answer: Madame Butterfly

Question: Which Czech composer wrote The Bartered Bride?
Answer: Smetana

Question: Which is the only city on the river Wye, which follows the England/Wales border?
Answer: Hereford

Question: St Michael’s Mount is situated three miles east of which Cornish town?
Answer: Penzance

Question: High Willhays is the highest point of which county?
Answer: Devon

Question: What was initiated by Pope Urban II’s sermon at Clermont in 1095?
Answer: First Crusade

Question: What did Usain Bolt supposedly describe as ‘a bit shit’?
Answer: The Commonwealth Games

Question: Who presents the Radio 4 panel game Just A Minute?
Answer: Nicholas Parsons

Question: Which doctor is the arch-enemy of Count Dracula?
Answer: Dr Van Helsing

Question: The 2014 UK Christmas No.1 record was Something I Need – who was the performer?
Answer: Ben Haenow

Question: Who plays Mr Brown in the new Paddington Bear movie?
Answer: Hugh Bonneville