Question: Which constellation contains the bright start Arcturus and is known as “The Herdsman”?
Answer: Bootes

Question: Which UK instrumental group had top 20 hit singles in the 1960’s with “Globetrotter” and “Robot”?
Answer: The Tornados

Question: Which award bears the inscription “For Bravery in the Field”?
Answer: Military Medal

Question: Professional, Garden, Indoor and display are the four official categories of what?
Answer: Fireworks

Question: In which horserace did Lester Piggott ride his last English Classic winner?
Answer: 2000 Guineas

Question: Which European city lies on the river Aare?
Answer: Bern

Question: Which actor played the villainous swordsman Archie Cunningham in the 1995 film “Rob Roy”?
Answer: Tim Roth

Question: In World War Two, which aircraft company manufactured the Stuka?
Answer: Junkers

Question: Who was the Greek equivalent of the Roman goddess Victoria?
Answer: Nike

Question: What two colours are used on semaphore flags?
Answer: Red and Yellow

Question: During World War Two, Operation Upkeep was the codename given by the Allies to the trials and testing of which weapon?
Answer: Bouncing Bomb

Question: Which Australian tennis player twice partnered Britain’s John Lloyd to win the mixed doubles at Wimbledon/
Answer: Wendy Turnbull

Question: Which Christian name is the criminal slang for a safe?
Answer: Peter

Question: Which carpet company’s advertising jingle proudly announced “This is luxury you can afford”?
Answer: Cyril Lord

Question: Capnomancy is an attempt to foretell future events by studying the patterns made by what?
Answer: Smoke

Question: In literature, where did the cows Aimless, Feckless, Graceless and Pointless live?
Answer: Cold Comfort Farm

Question: Seymour is the family name of which English duke?
Answer: Duke of Somerset

Question: Besides Sandy Lyle, which other European golfer won a first ever major in 1985?
Answer: Bernard Langer

Question: Containing the bright star Capella, which constellation is known as “The Charioteer”?
Answer: Auriga

Question: Meaning “cluster of eight” in the local language, what did the Ellice Islands change their name to upon gaining independence?
Answer: Tuvalu

Question: Which American instrumental group had top 20 hit singles in the 60’s with “Perfidia” and “Walk Don’t Run”?
Answer: The Ventures

Question: What name is given to the upturning of a boat for cleaning and repair purposes?
Answer: Careening

Question: Which word can mean a deception of a small cliff?
Answer: Bluff

Question: Which African animal has types called Kordofan, Nubian and Reticulated?
Answer: Giraffe

Question: Who created the newspaper strip cartoon The Gambols?
Answer: Barry Appleby

Question: Which English football league club were once known as Pine Villa?
Answer: Oldham

Question: In which 1986 film did John Cleese play a schoolteacher anxiously trying to get to Norwich?
Answer: Clockwise

Question: In the passing of a government bill, which stage follows the third reading?
Answer: Royal Assent

Question: What name is given to the full moon after a Harvest Moon?
Answer: Hunter’s Moon

Question: Working for the Los Angeles Tribune, who played Lou Grant in the TV series of the same name?
Answer: Ed Asner

Question: What nationality was 16th century astrologer Nostradamus?
Answer: French

Question: What is the main alcoholic ingredient of a Sidecar cocktail?
Answer: Brandy

Question: What name is given to the treatment of cotton or linen to give it the appearance of silk?
Answer: Mercerisation

Question: The battle of Plassey, the Black Hole of Calcutta incident and the Lisbon earthquake all took place in which decade?
Answer: 1750’s

Question: Which dance has a name meaning “new trend”?
Answer: Bossa Nova

Question: Eliza Caird is the real name of which modern day pop singer?
Answer: Eliza Doolittle

Question: The Scottish coastal town of Stranraer stands at the head of which loch?
Answer: Loch Ryan

Question: Which English football league team have a fanzine called “The Hatchet”?
Answer: Bury FC

Question: How many players are there on a Shinty team?
Answer: 12

Question: Which Nobel Peace Prize winner is carved on the face of Mt Rushmore?
Answer: Theodore Roosvelt

Question: Who was appointed manager of West Bromwich Albion FC in January?
Answer: Tony Pulis

Question: What sort of creature was Lonesome George who died on Pinta Island in the Galapagos in 2012?
Answer: Tortoise

Question: Who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from March 1974 until May 1979?
Answer: Denis Healey

Question: In the Bible whose sons were Ham, Japheth and Shem?
Answer: Noah

Question: In which African country are Serengeti and Kilimanjaro National Parks?
Answer: Tanzania

Question: Who plays Michael Rodwell in Coronation Street?
Answer: Les Dennis

Question: What seven-letter word can be a gold coin, a forward slash, or the line between the numerator and denominator of a fraction?
Answer: Solidus

Question: What name is given to a resident of Exeter?
Answer: Exonian

Question: How many Brandenburg Concertos did Johann Sebastian Bach compose?
Answer: Six

Question: By what first name was the actress sister of John and Lionel Barrymore known?
Answer: Ethel

Question: The Red Wings play in the National Hockey League at the Joe Louis Arena in which city?
Answer: Detroit

Question: What is the name of the perfect city built in the sky in the play The Birds by Aristophanes?
Answer: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Question: Titania is the largest moon of Uranus by diameter. Which is the second largest?
Answer: Oberon

Question: Who did Queen Anne appoint as Master-General of the Ordnance and Captain-General of her armies at home and abroad in 1702?
Answer: JOHN CHURCHILL (accept DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH)

Question: What is the name of the loyalty card launched by Boots in 1997?
Answer: Advantage

Question: Give a year in the life of Henry VIII when he was NOT King of England.
Answer: 1491 - 1508

Question: Which rugby league club has been coached by Ces Mountford, Alex Murphy and Brian Johnson?
Answer: Warrington

Question: Who wrote the collections of poems When We Were Very Young (1924) and Now We Are Six (1927)?
Answer: A A Milne

Question: Which composer's Piano Concerto was famously conducted by Andre Previn on the 1971 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show?
Answer: Edvard Grieg

Question: In which recent film does Benedict Cumberbatch play Alan Turing?
Answer: The Imitation Game

Question: The aye-aye, a small mammal with a thin extended middle finger used to find food, is a native of which island country?
Answer: Madagascar

Question: .za is the internet code for which country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Rita O'Grady is the leading character in which film, made into a musical that opened in London last year starring Gemma Arterton?
Answer: Made In Dagenham

Question: Which recent BBC TV drama set in Pagford opens with the death of a parish councillor?
Answer: The Casual Vacancy

Question: Which US state lies immediately to the south of South Dakota?
Answer: Nebraska

Question: By what one-word name is the Lockheed SR-71 aircraft known?
Answer: Blackbird

Question: The king of which country lived in London from 1910 when the monarchy was abolished until his death in 1932?
Answer: A Portugal

Question: In which sport did Benjamin Spock win a Gold Medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics?
Answer: Rowing (Men'S Eight)

Question: Who is the subject of the poem The Widow at Windsor, part of the Barrack-Room Ballads, by Rudyard Kipling published in 1892?
Answer: Queen Victoria

Question: Which supermarket issues the Match & More card?
Answer: Morrisons

Question: The Battle of Flodden took place in September 1513 in which English county?
Answer: Northumberland

Question: Which county cricket club has been captained by Percy Fender, Peter May and Micky Stewart?
Answer: Surrey

Question: By what two-word name was the Boeing B-17 aircraft known?
Answer: Flying Fortress