Question: Which male tennis player appeared in the final of the US Open singles for eight consecutive years between 1982 and 1989?
Answer: Ivan Lendl

Question: Which specific creatures are collectively called an 'unkindness'?
Answer: Ravens

Question: Usually held on the second Thursday in August, the annual carnival 'The Battle of the Flowers' takes place in which British dependency?
Answer: Jersey

Question: Who sang the theme song to the 1966 film 'Alfie', starring Michael Caine?
Answer: Cilla Black

Question: The Oval Portrait in 1842, The Masque of the Red Death in 1842 and The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841, were all works by which famous American author and poet?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: Which motorway in England, just over 11 miles in length connects the seaside resort of Blackpool to the M6 near Preston?
Answer: M55

Question: Who sang the theme song to the 1966 film 'Georgy Girl'?
Answer: The Seekers

Question: Which music festival that has been annually contested since 1994 and named after its main sponsor was originally held at Strathclyde Park in Scotland but since 1997 has used a disused airfield in Balado near Kincross in Perth and Kincross?
Answer: T In The Park

Question: Which specific creatures are collectively known as a 'Parliament'?
Answer: Owls

Question: Which male tennis player appeared in the final of the US Open for five consecutive years between 1974 and 1978?
Answer: Jimmy Connors

Question: Now the national dish of Switzerland, what type of food is Cervelat?
Answer: Sausage

Question: Now the national dish of Georgia, what type of food is Khachapuri?
Answer: Bread

Question: Containing the name of a US state capital, which female sang the very first record on 'Top of the Pops' back in 1964?
Answer: Dusty Springfield

Question: Deriving its name from an Icelandic word meaning erupt, what name is given to a natural hot spring that intermittently ejects a column of water and steam into the air?
Answer: Geyser

Question: Living from 1537 to 1608, Mary Arden (her maiden name) was the mother of which famous British playwright?
Answer: William Shakespeare

Question: Which word is used to describe any rock or soil material that has remained below zero degrees centigrade continuously for more than two years?
Answer: Permafrost

Question: Containing the name of a US state capital, which male singer who died on October 12th 1997 had a UK number 1 single in 1974?
Answer: John Denver

Question: In which range of mountains are the two highest peaks Aconcagua and Ojos Del Salado?
Answer: The Andes

Question: Which British author, born in Torquay on September 15th 1890 married her first husband Archibald who she divorced in 1928? She married her second husband Max Mallowan in 1930, a partnership that was to last for 46 years.
Answer: Agatha Christie

Question: A controversial figure who lived from 1905 to 2001, what was the much more famous name of Francis Aungier Pakenham?
Answer: Lord Longford

Question: Famed for her role in politics and born in 1921, what is the much more famous name of Anne Francis Robbins?
Answer: Nancy Reagan

Question: What five letter name was given to the implement of corporal punishment used mainly in Scottish schools that consisted of a strap of leather with one end split into a number of tails?
Answer: Tawse

Question: What nine letter name is commonly used to describe the form of punishmnet whereby the soles of the feet of an offender are beaten with an object usually consisting of a cane or rod?
Answer: Bastinado

Question: What is the current daily cost to purchase the local daily newspaper 'The Leader'?
Answer: 48p

Question: On a standard Monopoly board, which property makes up the orange set along with Vine Street and Marlborough Street?
Answer: Bow Street

Question: Which British Prime Minister was born on January 17th 1863 and is the only British Prime Minister to be born in Manchester?
Answer: David LLOYD GEORGE

Question: Which jockey rode L'Escargot to victory in the 1975 Grand National?
Answer: Tommy Carberry

Question: Which common six letter word takes its name from the Greek meaning circle of animals?
Answer: Zodiac

Question: Which Thames attraction shares its name with a brand of Scotch Whisky that was introduced in 1923?
Answer: Cutty Sark

Question: Which British Prime Minister was born on December 29th 1809 and is the only British Prime Minister to be born in Liverpool?
Answer: William GLADSTONE

Question: On a standard Monopoly board which property makes up the light blue set along with Euston Raod and Pentonville Road?
Answer: The Angel Islington

Question: What is the current daily cost of 'The Sun' newspaper from Monday to Saturday?
Answer: 30p

Question: Which common four letter word takes its name from the Greek meaning 'sound returned'?
Answer: Echo

Question: Which jockey rode Red Alligator to victory in the 1968 Grand National?
Answer: Brian Fletcher

Question: In which book of the New Testament does the parable of the good samaritan occur?
Answer: Luke

Question: Which ex-politician who lived from 1910 to 2002 had the nickname 'The Baroness of Blackburn'?
Answer: Barbara Castle

Question: Which ex Eastenders star won the award for the annually contested female 'Rear of the Year' in 1987?
Answer: Anita Dobson

Question: In which Midlands town can you find a large shopping centre called Westfield Merry Hill?
Answer: Dudley

Question: Which modern day country was known as Northern Rhodesia until 1964?
Answer: Zambia

Question: Which ex Coronation Street star won the award for the annually contested female 'Rear of the Year' award in 1996?
Answer: Tracy Shaw

Question: Which chemical element, listed as number 77 in the periodic table takes its name from the Latin for the rainbow?
Answer: Iridium

Question: Which chemical element, listed as number 28 in the periodic table takes its name from a Swedish word meaning copper-coloured ore?
Answer: Nickel

Question: Played by Brian Hall, what was the name of the chef in TV's 'Faulty Towers'?
Answer: Terry

Question: In which English county are the towns of Kidderminster and Evesham?
Answer: Worcester

Question: Herbert Pocket and Bentley Drummle are characters that appear in which book by Charles Dickens?
Answer: Great Expectations

Question: Which brand of soap was advertised on TV as giving you 'that schoolgirl complexion'?
Answer: Palmolive

Question: First performed at the La Scala opera house in Milan in 1817, which peice of music by Rossini translates as La Gazza Ladra?
Answer: Thieving Magpie

Question: Give any year in the life of St Francis of Assisi.
Answer: 1181 - 1226

Question: Which brand of bread was advertised with the slogan 'Bread with nowt taken out'?
Answer: Allinson'S

Question: James Steerforth and Wilkins Macawber are characters from which book by Charles Dickens?
Answer: David Copperfield

Question: Give any year in the life of British chemist and physicist Michael Faraday?
Answer: 1791 - 1867

Question: Who, in 1934, was responsible for the creation of the children's book 'Mary Poppins'?
Answer: P L Travers

Question: Which golfer won the British Open Championship in 1975, 1977, 1980, 1982 and 1983?
Answer: Tom Watson

Question: Which piece of classical music by Richard Strauss is famous for being the soundtrack to the 1969 film '2001 A Space Odyssey'?
Answer: Also Sprach Zarathustra

Question: Helena is the captal of which US state?
Answer: Montana

Question: Lansing is the capital of which US state?
Answer: Michigan

Question: In Greek mythology what was the name of the winged creatures famous for stealing all the food from the blind man Phineas?
Answer: Harpies

Question: What ten letter word is given to the fish of the Goby family which frequently leave the water to jump on land using their adapted front fins to do so?
Answer: Mudskipper

Question: Richard Wayne Penniman is the real name of which famous singer who was born on December 5th 1932?
Answer: Little Richard