Question: On TV and in film who are Neil, Simon, Will and Jay?
Answer: The Inbetweeners

Question: Which drama is set in fictional Llaregub?
Answer: Under Milk Wood

Question: In which layer of the atmosphere does the ‘ozone layer’ occur?
Answer: Stratosphere

Question: Which Mediterranean island is divided by the Attila Line?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: Which story is about the torments endured by a prisoner during the Spanish Inquisition?
Answer: The Pit and the Pendulum

Question: After whose execution in 1794 was the apparatus of ‘The Terror’ in France dismantled?
Answer: Robespierre

Question: Which vegetable is the chief ingredient in a Spanish Omelette?
Answer: Potato

Question: What name was given to the code of the Samurai?
Answer: Bushido

Question: Which footwear is also a venomous snake?
Answer: Moccasin

Question: What lies roughly along 180 degrees longitude?
Answer: The International Date Line

Question: In 1838 Mexican general Santa Anna held a funeral with full military honours for what?
Answer: His Amputated Leg

Question: The mastodon was an early relative of which modern creature?
Answer: Elephant

Question: Which castle is known as ‘The Key of England’?
Answer: Dover Castle

Question: Which castle is the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports?
Answer: Walmer Castle

Question: What contribution to the underground did Harry Beck make in 1931?
Answer: Created the Map

Question: Crohn’s Disease affects which part of the body?
Answer: Intestines

Question: What medical term is used for an extreme life-threatening allergic reaction?
Answer: Anaphylaxis

Question: Which physical disability is called medically ‘talipes’?
Answer: Club Foot

Question: World Championships in which sport took place at Frimley Green recently?
Answer: Darts

Question: We call it grilling – what do Americans call it?
Answer: Broiling

Question: Raclette is a mild cheese – what is its country of origin?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Which radioactive isotope is used to date archaeological samples?
Answer: Carbon 14

Question: Vitamin B2 has what medical name?
Answer: Riboflavin

Question: What do we call a quadrilateral with just two sides parallel?
Answer: Trapezium

Question: Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek Goddess Artemis?
Answer: Diana

Question: On the Beaufort Scale which number is registered as Fresh Breeze?
Answer: 5

Question: Who painted The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Tulp?
Answer: Rembrandt

Question: Which famous retreat was formerly called Shangri-La?
Answer: Camp David

Question: Which is the only city in the county of Cornwall?
Answer: Truro

Question: Who did Marcel Duchamp paint complete with a moustache?
Answer: The Mona Lisa

Question: A rat called Splinter trained which quartet?
Answer: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Question: What connects – James Joyce, Danger Mouse, Moshe Dayan and Gabrielle?
Answer: Wearing an Eyepatch

Question: Who was the apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot?
Answer: Matthias

Question: What was the site of Jesus’ ascension into heaven 40 days after the resurrection?
Answer: Mount of Olives

Question: What is Coronation Street’s local newspaper?
Answer: Weatherfield Gazette

Question: Madrid stands on which river?
Answer: Manzanares

Question: Which are the two prominent colours on the Spanish flag?
Answer: Red & Yellow

Question: Ray Parker Jnr sang the theme song to which famous 1984 movie?
Answer: Ghostbusters

Question: In which capital city is the stadium nicknamed ‘The Birds Nest’?
Answer: Beijing

Question: Which famous athletics venue is in Oslo, Norway?
Answer: Bislett Sadium

Question: Which palindrome means a principle of belief?
Answer: Tenet

Question: On which US state’s flag can the Union Jack be seen?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: Which steak is cut from between the ribs?
Answer: Entrecote

Question: What did Sherlock Holmes keep in the toe of a Persian slipper?
Answer: Tobacco

Question: Which Lord of the Rings character was played by Andy Serkis?
Answer: Gollum acc Smeagol

Question: What is the title of the French National Anthem?
Answer: The Marseillaise

Question: Who wrote ‘Not Waving But Drowning’?
Answer: Stevie Smith

Question: In bridge what jargon word is used for the condition of holding no trumps?
Answer: Chicane

Question: Performing which move can a chess player move two pieces at the same time?
Answer: Castling

Question: Which vertical take-off jet made its first flight in 1966?
Answer: Harrier

Question: Which year was renowned as ‘The Year of Revolutions’?
Answer: 1848

Question: The original ‘Gang of Four’ was a political group in which country?
Answer: China

Question: Which famous building was burned down by British forces in 1812?
Answer: The Whitehouse

Question: Trinidad sits only 6.8 miles from the coast of which South American country?
Answer: Venezuela

Question: What is a hen party called in the USA?
Answer: Bachelorette Party

Question: In Scottish courts three verdicts are allowed – guilty, not guilty and which other?
Answer: Not Proven

Question: Which Old Testament character died at the age of 950?
Answer: Noah

Question: Henry VIII had six wives, but which of his wives had four husbands?
Answer: Catherine Parr

Question: Hatha, Jnana and Karma are all forms of which activity?
Answer: Yoga

Question: We call it jam – what does an American call it?
Answer: Jelly

Question: Who traded places with Eddie Murphy in the film Trading Places?
Answer: Dan Akroyd

Question: In Indian cuisine which vegetable is ‘aloo’?
Answer: Potato

Question: What is the capital of Latvia?
Answer: Riga

Question: What sort of cheese was that?
Answer: Specsavers

Question: Which carnivore’s liver is so packed with Vitamin A it would kill you if you ate it?
Answer: Polar Bear

Question: In 1972 Mother and Child Reunion was the first solo UK hit for which artist?
Answer: Paul Simon

Question: Who topped the charts in 1996 with Breathe and Firestarter?
Answer: The Prodigy

Question: What is the only New Testament Gospel that is not synoptic?
Answer: John

Question: To which of the tribes of Israel did Samson belong?
Answer: Dan

Question: What shape is rigatoni pasta?
Answer: Tubes

Question: Softly scrambled egg spread on toast and coated in anchovy paste is called what?
Answer: Scotch Woodcock

Question: Jana Gana Mana is the National Anthem of which country?
Answer: India

Question: What is the total cost of buying all four stations on the traditional UK Monopoly board?
Answer: £800

Question: A pangram is a sentence containing what?
Answer: All the letters of the alphabet

Question: In which novel was Aunt Ada Doom shocked by something nasty in the woodshed?
Answer: Cold Comfort Farm

Question: What is the name of France’s equivalent to our own Britannia?
Answer: Marianne

Question: The Folketing is the parliament of which country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: What is the common name for the Earth’s lithosphere?
Answer: Crust

Question: Ben’s first success as a writer was in co-writing which 1980s TV comedy?
Answer: The Young Ones

Question: His novel Dead Famous is a parody of which TV programme?
Answer: Big Brother

Question: Which musical has characters Columbia, Magenta and Dr Everett Scott?
Answer: Rocky Horror Picture Show

Question: In which musical did Michael Ball play Edna Turnblad in the West End?
Answer: Hairspray

Question: What is the occupation of Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady?
Answer: Dustman

Question: ‘We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologist are at work upon it now’ – which book?
Answer: 1984

Question: Which character said ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk’?
Answer: The Mad Hatter

Question: Which solid has the biggest volume for a given surface area?
Answer: Sphere

Question: Which type of rock is formed by heat or pressure?
Answer: Metamorphic

Question: Who is the current Shadow Home Secretary?
Answer: Yvette Cooper

Question: Who won the African Cup of Nations recently?
Answer: Ivory Coast