Question: What was on the banned 'B' side of Jasper Carrot's 1975 hit record Funky Moped?
Answer: Magic Roundabout

Question: In 1983, Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges described which event of the year before as "a fight between two bald men over a comb"?
Answer: Falklands Conflict/War

Question: Which character was played by Honor Blackman in the TV series The Avengers?
Answer: Kathy Gale

Question: During which crisis did the then American Secretary of State Dean Rusk make the comment "We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked"?
Answer: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Question: What role on film has been played by Colin Clive, Peter Cushing and Kenneth Branagh among others?
Answer: Dr Frankenstein

Question: The material known as scagliola has, since antiquity, been used to imitate which other material?
Answer: Marble

Question: What name is given to the type of wallpaper produced by applying wool fibres to the paper to give a velvety surface?
Answer: Flock

Question: A thick fillet steak served with a bearnaise sauce is named after which French statesman?
Answer: Chateaubriand

Question: What term used in the USA for a half-tamed horse means rough in Spanish?
Answer: Bronco

Question: Which country left the British Commonwealth for good in 1949?
Answer: Ireland/Eire

Question: Who wrote the music of the opera The Love of Three Oranges ?
Answer: Prokofiev

Question: Who was the Govenor of New South Wales in 1808 whose attempts to stop rum being used as a currency incited the Rum Rebellion?
Answer: Capt WILLIAM BLIGH

Question: Meaning 'Huntsman' in French, what name is given to a sauce made from mushrooms, shallots, tomatoes and white wine?
Answer: Chasseur

Question: Composed by Eric Coates, what is the title of the signature tune of Radio 4's Desert Island Discs?
Answer: By The Sleepy Lagoon

Question: Which stately home in Derbyshire was once described as "more glass than wall"?
Answer: Hardwick Hall

Question: What term used in the USA to describe a piebald horse means 'painted' in Spanish?
Answer: Pinto

Question: 'Sweet Caroline' and 'Forever in Blue Jeans' are among the compositions of which American singer and songwriter?
Answer: Neil Diamond

Question: It's name deriving from the Gaelic for 'large sword', which two-edged sword was traditionally used by Scottish highlanders?
Answer: Claymore

Question: In heraldry, what term describes figures standing on either side of a shield as if upholding it and guarding it?
Answer: Supporters

Question: 'The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Willem Van Ruytenburch' is the proper title of which Rembrandt painting?
Answer: The Nightwatch

Question: Eric Coates' 'Knightsbridge March', signature tune of BBC Radio's 'In Town Tonight' is from which work?
Answer: The London Suite

Question: What to a North American is a calumet?
Answer: Peace Pipe

Question: Which legendary king of the Britons is said to have founded the city of Bath?
Answer: Bladud

Question: Which word refers to a retired professor who retains his title by way of an honour?
Answer: Emeritus

Question: Which British boxer was involved in a fracas with Derek Chisora at a press conference in Munich in 2012?
Answer: David Haye

Question: With which 1960's group do you mainly associate the name of Justin Hayward?
Answer: The Moody Blues

Question: What, in American English, is the meaning of 'sophomore'?
Answer: Second

Question: Complete the line from Kipling's poem A Smugglers Song, "Five and twenty ponies, trotting through the dark, Brandy for the Parson .........."
Answer: Baccy For The Clerk

Question: Who wrote the scripts for the TV series 'One Foot in the Grave'?
Answer: David Renwick

Question: The Uffizi and the Bargello are among the museums of art in which European city?
Answer: Florence

Question: In which Yorkshire town or city was the Rugby League founded in 1895?
Answer: Huddersfield

Question: The third of her name of the annals of the Royal Navy, which aircraft carrier was sunk by a German U-Boat in the Mediterranean in November 1941?
Answer: Ark Royal

Question: In which city of South America would you find the neighbourhood of Ipanema?
Answer: Rio De Janeiro

Question: Buckland Abbey in Devon was the home of which famous 16th century English seaman?
Answer: Sir Francis Drake

Question: What was the name of the tea-lady played by Julie Walters in Victoria Wood's spoof soap opera Acorn Antiques?
Answer: Mrs Overall

Question: Which precious stone, currently housed at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington DC, is beleived to be the second most-visited artwork in the world?
Answer: The Hope Diamond

Question: What is the more common name for the Moorland shrub known as ling?
Answer: Heather

Question: Which New Zealand-born scientist is credited with being the first to 'split the atom'?
Answer: (Ernest) RUTHERFORD

Question: A glowing red lamp and a lod buzzer alerted switchboard operators to a caller's use of which telephone service when it was first introduced in 1937?
Answer: EMERGENCY or 999

Question: What's another popular name for the wood anemone?
Answer: Windflower

Question: In which part of Europe was Rugby League football banned between 1940 and 1944?
Answer: (Vichy) FRANCE

Question: What happened in an old fashioned telephone box if you pressed button B ?
Answer: You Got Your Money Back

Question: Who hosted this year's Golden Globes award ceremony for the third year in a row?
Answer: Ricky Gervais

Question: What was the name of the government payment that was replaced in 1975 by 'Child Benefit'?
Answer: Family Allowance

Question: Which gas, with the formula C2H2, is produced by the reaction of water and calcium carbide and burns with an intensely hot flame that makes it useful in lamps and torches?
Answer: ACETYLENE or ETHYNE

Question: London transport changed the name of tube station 'Gillespie Road' in the 1930's to what?
Answer: Arsenal

Question: Which international association of environmental pressure groups was founded in North America by David Brower?
Answer: Friends Of The Earth

Question: Which tax, introduced during World War II to restrict spending on non-essential goods, was relaced in 1973 by Value Added Tax?
Answer: Purchase Tax

Question: What award was won by a Lhaso Apso in 2012 ?
Answer: Best In Show At Crufts

Question: Which American-born businessman tried but failed to have Bond Street tube station renamed after his department store?
Answer: (Gordon) SELFRIDGE

Question: In chemistry, what term is used to describe a chemical reaction when heat is absorbed from the surroundings?
Answer: Endothermic

Question: Which insect is the host of the parasitic organism that causes sleeping sickness?
Answer: Tsetse Fly

Question: 'The Best Friend of Charleston', completed in 1831, was the first example of what to be built in the USA?
Answer: LOCOMOTIVE or TRAIN

Question: Louis IV and Louis V were Kings of France in which century?
Answer: 10th

Question: Which poem by Rupert Brooke begins with the line "If I should die, think only this of me ..."?
Answer: The Soldier

Question: Millefiori is a technique used to produce coulorful decorative patterns in which material?
Answer: Glassware

Question: What is the alternative title of the WH Auden poem which begins 'Stop all the clocks ....'?
Answer: Funeral Blues

Question: Brigadier Lethridge-Stewart belonged to which military organisation in the Dr Who series?
Answer: U.N.I.T.

Question: What character in radio's ITMA used to say "can i do you now sir" ?
Answer: Mrs Mop

Question: Which Dr Who actor starred with Ken Stott in the 1994 BBC Scotland drama 'Takin' Over the Asylum ?
Answer: David Tennant

Question: Which military figure lived in a house famously known as 'No 1, London' ?
Answer: Duke Of Wellington

Question: Who was the second man to walk on the moon?
Answer: EDWIN or BUZZ ALDRIN