Question: What colours make up the national flag of Switzerland?
Answer: Red and white

Question: Who designed the stained glass Baptistry window for Coventry cathedral?
Answer: John Piper

Question: What is the name of the pathway in the human body along which food enters and and solid wastes are expelled?
Answer: Alimentary canal

Question: In 1585, who established the first British colony in North America, which was later abandoned?
Answer: Walter Raleigh

Question: Hydref is Welsh for which month of the year?
Answer: October

Question: What is the first name of the wife of US business magnate and philanthropist Bill Gates?
Answer: Melinda

Question: What was the former name of the Willis Tower in Chicago, USA?
Answer: Sears Tower

Question: Which record label famously rejected a Beatles audition tape in 1962, saying that guitar bands were on the way out?
Answer: Decca

Question: Puffer, Angel and Dog are all types of which creature?
Answer: Fish

Question: What is a male otter called?
Answer: Dog

Question: Which flower is known as ‘The wind flower’?
Answer: Anemone

Question: Who directed the 1996 film ‘Secrets and Lies’?
Answer: Mike Leigh

Question: Classic Judaism teaches that there will be no prophet greater than who?
Answer: Moses

Question: Who won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Martin Luther King Jr

Question: The ‘what’ Cap is one of the most poisonous toadstools in the world?
Answer: Death

Question: A mynah is what type of creature?
Answer: Bird

Question: The cast of which US television show had a 2009 hit with ‘Don’t Stop Believin’?
Answer: Glee

Question: ‘Stairway to Heaven’ represents which Bingo number?
Answer: 27

Question: Which English singer released an 2004 album entitled ‘Unwritten’?
Answer: Natasha Bedingfield

Question: Actor Neil Burgess plays Barry Scott in the UK television commercial for which cleaning product?
Answer: Cillit Bang

Question: Oscar de la Hoya, Jack Dempsey and George Chuvalo are all associated with which sport?
Answer: Boxing

Question: What is a Jewish place of worship called?
Answer: Synagogue

Question: In the 2012 Olympic Games, who became Britain’s first Taekwondo Olympic medallist?
Answer: Sarah Stevenson

Question: Who played Smee in the 1991 film ‘Hook’?
Answer: Bob Hoskins

Question: What colour is Trap 5 in greyhound racing in the UK?
Answer: Orange (black number)

Question: Which French king was the husband of Marie Antoinette?
Answer: King Louis XVI

Question: Who became President of Argentina in October 1973 until his death in July 1974?
Answer: Juan Peron

Question: What is the smallest garden bird in Britain?
Answer: Goldcrest

Question: Which Prime Minister opened Britain’s first motorway?
Answer: Harold MacMillan

Question: Miranda, Ariel and Umbriel are all moons of which planet in our solar system?
Answer: Uranus

Question: How long is a volleyball court in feet?
Answer: 60 feet

Question: Which British actor/comedian is the voice of  Dr Nefario in the 2010 animated film ‘Despicable Me’?
Answer: Russell Brand

Question: Phengophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: Daylight

Question: If a gemstone is ‘cabochon cut’ what hasn’t it got?
Answer: Facets

Question: Which part of the body is on the Nokia logo?
Answer: Hands

Question: How many toes does a cat normally have on each back paw?
Answer: Four

Question: What type of animal is a Lipizzaner?
Answer: Horse

Question: Which country hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Peter Parker is the alter-ego of which fictional superhero?
Answer: Spiderman

Question: What are the native people of Australia called?
Answer: Aborigines

Question: Which domestic animal was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians?
Answer: The cat

Question: What value points is the brown ball in a game of snooker?
Answer: Four

Question: Which battle is known as ‘Custer’s Last Stand’?
Answer: Battle of the Little Bighorn

Question: What is the name of a long-bodied marine fish and a person who unscrupulously exploits or swindles others?
Answer: Shark

Question: What is the national animal of Finland?
Answer: Brown bear

Question: How many squares are on a chess board?
Answer: 64

Question: How many events make up a biathlon?
Answer: Two

Question: Which group of islands lie off the coast of Normandy, France?
Answer: Channel Islands

Question: Former British Prime minister Margaret Thatcher has what middle name?
Answer: Hilda

Question: Cross, Tail and Head are all types of which weather condition?
Answer: Wind

Question: The English resort of Clacton-on-Sea lies on which body of water?
Answer: North Sea

Question: The winner of the UK television series ‘The Apprentice’ gets the chance to work for which British businessman?
Answer: Alan Sugar

Question: On a regular clockface, which number lies opposite number one?
Answer: 7

Question: What colour is the ten Euro banknote?
Answer: Red

Question: Which English entertainer was born Thomas William Hicks in December 1936?
Answer: Tommy Steele

Question: The International Inferno Race is a four-day amateur event in which sport?
Answer: Skiing

Question: Who did Richard Nixon defeat in 1968 to become US President?
Answer: Hubert H Humphrey

Question: The famous ‘Man in the Iron Mask’ died in which prison in 1703?
Answer: The Bastille

Question: Psellismophobia is the fear of doing what?
Answer: Stuttering

Question: What was the name of the motel in Tennessee in which Martin Luther King Jr was shot dead in 1968?
Answer: Lorraine Motel

Question: How many Harry Potter books were written by J K Rowling?
Answer: Seven

Question: During which month of 1971 did Britain change its currency to decimal?
Answer: February

Question: In the novel ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte in which year was Jane born?
Answer: 1820

Question: At which English castle in Northamptonshire was King Richard III born?
Answer: Fotheringhay Castle

Question: Who was the mother of King Richard III of England?
Answer: Cecily Neville, Duchess of York

Question: Which English monarch was the elder brother of King Richard III?
Answer: King Edward IV

Question: What is the name of the battlefield where, traditionally, King Richard III of England died?
Answer: Bosworth Field

Question: Who defeated King Richard III in the last battle of the ‘Wars of the Roses’?
Answer: Henry Tudor (Henry VII)

Question: Before he became king of England, Richard III was Duke of ‘where’?
Answer: Gloucester

Question: Who was the wife of King Richard III of England?
Answer: Anne Neville

Question: Who was the only child of King Richard III of England and his queen consort?
Answer: Edward (of Middleham)

Question: The English ‘Wars of the Roses’ were fought between which two ‘Houses’?
Answer: York and Lancaster

Question: In English history what colour was the rose of the House of York?
Answer: White

Question: ‘Richard III’ is a late 16th Century play by which English playwright and poet?
Answer: William Shakespeare

Question: Middleham Castle, where Richard III spent several years of his childhood, is in which English county?
Answer: North Yorkshire

Question: Who succeeded Richard III to the English throne?
Answer: King Henry VII

Question: What was the nickname of King Richard III of England?
Answer: Crookback or Crouchback

Question: In which year did King Richard III of England die?
Answer: 1485

Question: What does the Latin phrase ‘Amor caecus est’ translate to in English?
Answer: Love is blind

Question: Who wrote the 1976 novel ‘Roots: The Saga of an American Family’?
Answer: Alex Haley

Question: How many zeros are in a US billion?
Answer: Nine

Question: Innsbruck is the capital of which Austrian state?
Answer: Tyrol

Question: Which UK retail chain sells the ‘Tu’ range of clothing?
Answer: Sainsburys

Question: In May 1973, which male tennis player challenged and defeated Margaret Court, the world’s number one women’s player in their ‘Mother’s Day’ Match?
Answer: Bobby Riggs