Question: Emetophobia is the irrational fear of which bodily function?
Answer: Vomiting

Question: Suzy and the Red Stripes was a pseudonym used by which English band for the release of the 1977 single ‘Seaside Woman’?
Answer: Wings

Question: Who won a gold medal in the women’s 400m hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona?
Answer: Sally Gunnell

Question: Spokes, Ribs, Rim Row and Lashing are all terms used in which handicraft?
Answer: Basket weaving

Question: The cultivation of which crop was banned in France in 1748 because it was thought to cause leprosy?
Answer: Potato

Question: The Dally M Awards are held annually for players of which sport?
Answer: Rugby League

Question: Who played the title role in the 1996 film ‘The English Patient’?
Answer: Ralph Fiennes

Question: In the Scottish expression ‘Lang may yer lum reek’, what is a ‘lum’?
Answer: Chimney

Question: With whom are pirates having an adventure in the title of a 2012 animated film?
Answer: Scientists

Question: Politics. Who was Leader of the Opposition in the U.K. from 1994 to 1997?
Answer: Tony Blair

Question: Ayrton Senna’s nephew is himself a famous Formula 1 driver. What is his first name?
Answer: Bruno

Question: Which team in the English Soccer Premiership is furthest to the west?
Answer: SWANSEA City

Question: What is the name of the national airline of Spain?
Answer: Iberia

Question: What word in our language comes from the Icelandic word for ‘to gush’?
Answer: Geyser

Question: In which English county will you find Wisbech?
Answer: Cambridgeshire

Question: What is the first name of Bill Gates’s wife?
Answer: Melinda

Question: In the UK these books are called ‘Where’s Wally?’ What is his name in the USA?
Answer: Waldo

Question: What was the name of the dwarf who is a chief character in ‘Lord of the Rings’?
Answer: Gimli

Question: What bird is mentioned in the lyrics of ‘My Old Man (Said Follow the Van)’?
Answer: Linnet

Question: Which mountain range is often described as “the backbone of England”?
Answer: The PENNINES

Question: Born 1899, died 1947 (cardiac arrest). Indicted for tax evasion in 1931. Who was he?
Answer: Al Capone

Question: Which jockey won the Derby in 1979, 1980, 1989 and 1994?
Answer: Willie Carson

Question: Who was the creator of the St. Trinian’s schoolgirls?
Answer: Ronald Searle

Question: American E.F.Blackwood gave his name to a common tactic used in which game?
Answer: Bridge

Question: What is the proper scientific name for table sugar?
Answer: Sucrose

Question: Which band was Up The Junction in 1979?
Answer: Squeeze

Question: A Shavian is a big fan and aficionado of which famous playwright?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw

Question: What sport is contested in the Vuelta a Espana?
Answer: Cycling

Question: Which modern musical instrument used to be called the 'sackbut'?
Answer: Trombone

Question: Between 1901 and 1906 he had two artistic ‘periods’ both defined by colours – which two?
Answer: Blue & Rose

Question: Which political party did Picasso join in 1944?
Answer: Communist

Question: In which novel does William Dobbin finally win the hand of Amelia Sedley?
Answer: Vanity Fair

Question: The word ‘haptic’ relates to which of the five senses?
Answer: Touch

Question: What name is given to the negative electrode of an electrolytic cell?
Answer: Cathode

Question: Which substance is also known as ‘woolly rock’?
Answer: Asbestos

Question: Of whom did Princess Diana say ‘Yes I adored him’. ‘Yes I was in love with him’?
Answer: James Hewitt

Question: Which member of the royal family is often referred to as ‘Princess Pushy’?
Answer: Princess Michael of Kent

Question: Which baronet had an eight-year affair with Princess Margaret in the 1970s?
Answer: Roddy Llewellyn

Question: A boomer is a large male ...............what?
Answer: Kangaroo

Question: Which is the smallest ape?
Answer: Gibbon

Question: What is the name for snow overhanging the edge of a mountain ridge?
Answer: Cornice

Question: Which two ladies played Adrian Mole’s mother?
Answer: Julie Walters & Lulu

Question: What was Miss Piggy’s surname on the Muppet Show?
Answer: Lee

Question: Which American detective series featured a hip kid called Kookie?
Answer: Seventy-Seven Sunset Strip

Question: What term is used for the vast plains of Northern Asia?
Answer: Steppes

Question: Which branch of medicine is concerned with providing artificial limbs for the human body?
Answer: Prosthetics

Question: Which 60s chart-topping band were originally called The Alan Price Combo?
Answer: The Animals

Question: Who has the Jack Regan role in the new movie version of The Sweeney?
Answer: Ray Winstone

Question: Who won the first ever women’s boxing gold at any Olympics?
Answer: Nicola Adams

Question: Natalie Bennett was announced as the new leader of what?
Answer: The Green Party

Question: Which famous song was composed by Claude Roget de Lisle?
Answer: Le Marseillaise

Question: Who wrote the words to Jerusalem?
Answer: William Blake

Question: Which authority looks after Britain’s lighthouses?
Answer: Trinity House

Question: At what time does the first dog watch begin?
Answer: 4 p.m

Question: What was the pair’s signature tune?
Answer: Bring Me Sunshine

Question: Which king was the target of the Popish Plot and the Rye House Plot?
Answer: Charles II

Question: Who was the last Roman Catholic king of England?
Answer: James II

Question: On which river does Preston stand?
Answer: Ribble

Question: Which comedian co-stars with fellow comic Lee Mack in TV’s Not Going Out?
Answer: Tim Vine

Question: What distinction has (Henry) Pu Yi?
Answer: Last Emperor of China

Question: Which creature has a variety known as the 'Bottlenosed'?
Answer: Dolphin

Question: What does a flag signify on an Ordnance Survey map?
Answer: Golf Course

Question: Which early calculating device has a name meaning ‘a flat surface’?
Answer: Abacus

Question: What is the correct name for the lie detector?
Answer: Polygraph

Question: Which seasonal song was written by Robbie Burns?
Answer: Auld Lang Syne

Question: In World War Two Operation Avalanche was the Allied Invasion of which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: Who famously left from Scampton?
Answer: The Dam Busters

Question: Which football club’s ground was used as a prisoner of war camp until May 1945?
Answer: Swindon Town

Question: In The Good Life what was Lenin?
Answer: A Cockerel

Question: In which sitcom did Dorien Green appear?
Answer: Birds of a Feather

Question: Who was Edina’s PA in Absolutely Fabulous?
Answer: Bubble

Question: Who is admitted annually in The Silent Change?
Answer: The new Lord Mayor

Question: What opened in 1958 in Marylebone Rd next to Madame Tussauds?
Answer: The Planetarium

Question: What is computer assisted in the acronym CAD?
Answer: Design

Question: What is a line that joins two points of a circle?
Answer: Chord

Question: What distinction is held by Lord Lovatt dating from the year 1747?
Answer: The UK’s Last Beheading

Question: What was pioneered by scientist Francis Galton?
Answer: Fingerprints in detection

Question: Which son of King David was caught by his hair in a tree while fleeing on a mule?
Answer: Absalom

Question: Of which race was Delilah a member?
Answer: Philistine

Question: Lake Vanern is the largest lake in which country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: What is the capital of Sardinia?
Answer: Cagliari

Question: What name is given to the young of beavers and rabbits?
Answer: Kits/Kittens

Question: King Michael abdicated in 1947 from which throne?
Answer: Romania

Question: Whose forthcoming musical is entitled Viva Forever?
Answer: The Spice Girls

Question: Tasseomancy is the reading of what?
Answer: Tea Leaves

Question: Who plays the chief villain in the new James Bond film Skyfall?
Answer: Javier Bardem

Question: Which city state led the beaten Greek forces at the Battle of Thermopylae?
Answer: Sparta

Question: In which city is the Topkapi Palace?
Answer: Istanbul