Question: What was the name of the sheepdog in the Perishers cartoon strip?
Answer: Boot

Question: Which baseball team took bribes to lose the 1919 World series?
Answer: Chicago Whitesocks

Question: What name is given to a circle with a line through it on a ship’s side?
Answer: Plimsoll Line

Question: Around which city did Charles I make his H.Q. during the Civil War?
Answer: Oxford

Question: What became the world’s tallest building in 1311 A.D.?
Answer: Lincoln Cathedral

Question: In which British city can you find the Spinnaker Tower?
Answer: Portsmouth

Question: Odette is the central character of which ballet?
Answer: Swan Lake

Question: Which ballet is sub-titled the Girl with the Enamel Eyes?
Answer: Coppelia

Question: What forced Nijinsky to retire at a comparatively young age from ballet?
Answer: Mental illness

Question: In the Universal films what was the name of Frankenstein’s hunchback?
Answer: Igor

Question: Who played Professor Fate’s assistant, Max, in the Great Escape?
Answer: Peter Falk

Question: Which river did the English cross to fight the Battle of Agincourt 700 years ago?
Answer: Somme

Question: Which month of 2015 saw the 900th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta?
Answer: June

Question: By population which is the largest island on Earth?
Answer: Java

Question: By population which is the largest island outside Asia?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: By population which is the largest island in the Americas?
Answer: Hispaniola

Question: In season 2014/15 whose 48 goals won him the European Golden shoe?
Answer: Ronaldo

Question: In season 2014/15 whose 26 goals won him the Premiership Golden boot?
Answer: Aguero

Question: What is Britain’s bestselling brand of biscuits?
Answer: McVities Digestives

Question: Which is Britain’s bestselling brand of bread?
Answer: Warburtons

Question: Who were the puppets from Zog who were on the Big Breakfast?
Answer: Zig and Zag

Question: Frank Beard is the only clean shaven member of which group?
Answer: Z.Z.Top

Question: Which hero took his name from the Spanish word for fox?
Answer: Zorro

Question: For which major film of the sixties were some extras paid in cattle?
Answer: Zulu

Question: Whose catchphrase was “Time for Bed”?
Answer: Zebedee

Question: What type of transport was patented in 1893 but fell into disuse after 1937?
Answer: Zeppelin

Question: Which vegetable is present in a DuBarry soup?
Answer: Cauliflower

Question: What pulse is used in an Indian dish Dhansak?
Answer: Lentils

Question: Which type of peas are generally used for canning and freezing?
Answer: Marrowfat

Question: Egyptian, banded and King are all types of which snake?
Answer: Cobra

Question: Which type of bats generally do not use echolocation to find food?
Answer: Fruit bats

Question: In 1941 Josef Jakobs was the last spy to be executed where?
Answer: Tower of London

Question: In 1830 William Watts and George Davis were the last pirates to be hanged where?
Answer: Execution Dock

Question: In 1783 John Austin was the last highwayman to be hung where?
Answer: Tyburn

Question: Members of which family won five Nobel prizes?
Answer: Curie

Question: In 1802 which President of the Royal Society produced a crude electric light?
Answer: Davy

Question: Which four words appeared under Dan Dare on the Eagle front page?
Answer: Pilot of the Future

Question: Which pilot first appeared when he agreed to make the risky Alderaan run?
Answer: Han Solo

Question: What was the name of the evil robotic race in Transformers?
Answer: Decepticons

Question: Who tried to destroy He Man from his base in Castle Greyskull?
Answer: Skeletor

Question: Which organisation were the sworn enemies of G.I.Joe/Action Man?
Answer: Cobra

Question: Which actress has starred opposite Tom Hanks in three films?
Answer: Meg Ryan

Question: Which river flows through Rochester and Maidstone?
Answer: Medway

Question: For which club did Roy of the Rovers play?
Answer: Melchester Rovers

Question: In terms of population which is the largest city in North America?
Answer: Mexico City

Question: Which composer wrote the Hebrides Overture?
Answer: Mendelssohn

Question: Who was the Roman god of trickery and thieves?
Answer: Mercury

Question: Which bird is known in the USA as a pigeon hawk?
Answer: Merlin

Question: Which General did Steven Fry play in the last series of Blackadder?
Answer: Melchit

Question: “Murder she said” is based on which story by Agatha Christie?
Answer: 4.50 from Paddington

Question: Which film took its name from a Turkish slang word for an attempted escape from prison?
Answer: Midnight Express

Question: Who had their twelfth UK No. 1 single with their cover of Mandy?
Answer: Westlife

Question: Which girl did Hot Chocolate take to No.3 in the UK charts in 1973?
Answer: Emma

Question: What nationality is the US Open 2013 winner Martin Kaymer?
Answer: German

Question: What is the current name for what used to be the Indian city of Madras?
Answer: Chennai

Question: Which city was previously called Leopoldville?
Answer: Kinshasa

Question: Which country was once called Upper Peru?
Answer: Bolivia

Question: An annual festival in Bayreuth in Germany celebrates which composer?
Answer: Wagner

Question: Which unsuccessful model of car was named after Henry Ford’s son?
Answer: Edsel

Question: Which company made a model called the Boxer?
Answer: Ferrari

Question: What name is given to a tall thin glass intended for champagne?
Answer: Flute

Question: Which TV spy, who first became famous in the 60’s, did Henry Cavill play In a 2015 film?
Answer: Napoleon Solo

Question: What is the state capital of Louisiana?
Answer: Baton Rouge

Question: Who played Rose Tyler on Doctor Who?
Answer: Billy Piper

Question: Which BL car launched in 1983 was notorious for its voice synthesizer?
Answer: Maestro

Question: What is the biggest breed of setter?
Answer: Airedale

Question: The Malinois, the Tevuren and the Talbot all come from which country?
Answer: Belgium

Question: Which model was known as Lucky to her friends but the Face to the public?
Answer: Jean Shrimpton

Question: Which gangster Meyer Lansky founded Murder Incorporated?
Answer: Lucky Luciano

Question: Which cartoon gunfighter was so fast he could outdraw his shadow?
Answer: Lucky Luke

Question: What is the World’s largest bird of prey?
Answer: Andean Condor

Question: Which is the fastest running British bird?
Answer: Pheasant

Question: Which birds are classed as strigiformes?
Answer: Owls

Question: Who were the two brothers of Zeus?
Answer: Poseidon and Hades

Question: In Germanic mythology what sort of monster was Fafnir?
Answer: Dragon

Question: Which hero saved Andromeda from the sea monster Celus?
Answer: Perseus

Question: Who played both the Kray twins in the film Legend?
Answer: Tom Hardy

Question: Which song did the robot villain continuously sing in Avengers: Age of Ultron?
Answer: No strings on me

Question: Who lived with his aunt in Bunkerton Towers?
Answer: Lord Snooty

Question: Who was the stupidest member of the Bash Street Kids?
Answer: Smiffy

Question: “Make me” is the twentieth bestselling book in which series?
Answer: Jack Reacher

Question: Which Formula 1 Grand Prix takes place on the Marina Bay circuit?
Answer: Singapore

Question: Which Formula 1 circuit takes place on the Yas Marina circuit?
Answer: Abu Dhabi

Question: Who said “Love laughs at locksmiths”?
Answer: Houdini

Question: Which secret establishment was known ‘Station X’ during the Second World War?
Answer: Bletchley Park

Question: What is the area of a right-angle triangle whose sides measure 3, 4, and 5 centimetres?
Answer: 6 square centimetres

Question: What colour overalls are worn by caddies during the US Masters golf tournament?
Answer: White

Question: Which Asian nation was the first to make it illegal to smoke in public or to sell tobacco?
Answer: Bhutan