Question: From which Cole Porter musical do the songs Wunderbar and Too Darn Hot come?
Answer: Kiss Me Kate

Question: In which 1974 blockbuster movie did O J Simpson play a security guard?
Answer: The Towering Inferno

Question: Who helped Theseus escape from the Labyrinth?
Answer: Ariadne

Question: The island of Rapa Nui is better known as what?
Answer: Easter Island

Question: Who supposedly bought the Grail to Britain and founded Glastonbury Abbey?
Answer: St Joseph of Arimathea

Question: In which decade of the nineteenth century were both Lancashire and Yorkshire County Cricket Clubs formed?
Answer: The 1860's

Question: In the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October in which city were the Russian Embassy scenes shot?
Answer: Liverpool

Question: What did every new recruit into the British Army receive until 1879?
Answer: The King's (or Queen's) shilling

Question: Near which village in Lincolnshire is the Royal Air Force College?
Answer: Cranwell

Question: What is the name of the spicy, curry-flavoured soup the name of which when translated from Tamil means 'pepper water'?
Answer: Mulligatawny

Question: The Reverend Alan Buddle (1660-1715) gave his name to what?
Answer: The genus Buddleia

Question: Legend suggests that which infamous woman proposed the foundation of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea?
Answer: Nell Gwynn

Question: In which piste sport did Mussolini, Oswald Mosley, Juan Peron and Himmler all participate -(not necessarily with each other!)?
Answer: Fencing

Question: Images of which east coast town have become widely known through the photographs of Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941)?
Answer: Whitby

Question: Where in the UK was the Mars Bar invented?
Answer: Slough

Question: Who was Muffin the Mule's human sidekick on TV in the 1950s?
Answer: Annette Mills

Question: In which TV establishment were Miss Gatsby and Miss 'Tibbs residents?
Answer: Fawlty Towers

Question: How many syllables are there in a traditional Japanese 'haiku?
Answer: Seventeen

Question: In which county, relatively locally, were General Patton's WW2 headquarters?
Answer: Cheshire

Question: What temperature is the same on both Celsius and Fahrenheit scales?
Answer: -40°

Question: Who said "I hate nobody except Hitler - and that is professional'?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: What do these activities have in common - Rope Climbing, Club Swinging, Live Pigeon Shooting and Tug of War?
Answer: They have all been Olympic sports

Question: Who wrote a series of novels which all had 'Rabbit' in the title?
Answer: John Updike

Question: Who is the patron saint of grocers?
Answer: St Michael

Question: Atlas, Imperial and Elephant are all what?
Answer: Paper sizes

Question: In which county do Woodforde's brew Nelson's Revenge?
Answer: Norfolk

Question: The Simon and Garfunkel song Mrs Robinson makes reference to which famous American sportsman?
Answer: Joe Di Maggio

Question: From which Shakespeare play does the line 'Now is the winter of our discontent' come?
Answer: Richard III

Question: In which Lincolnshire town did the BBC film Middlemarch in the early 1990s?
Answer: Stamford

Question: What name is given to the Japanese art of paper-folding?
Answer: Origami

Question: What was the name of the Cuban dictator overthrown by Fidel Castro?
Answer: (Fulgencio) Batista

Question: Who played General George Custer in the film They Died with Their Boots On?
Answer: Errol Flynn

Question: Which French town is famous for its mustard?
Answer: Dijon

Question: How many red balls are on the table at the start of a game of snooker?
Answer: Fifteen

Question: Which office was Nicolas Breakspear the first Englishman to hold, in the twelfth century?
Answer: Pope

Question: What was the surname of the London gangster known as Jack The Hat?
Answer: McVitie

Question: Which once-successful hosiery company was set up by Asil Nadir?
Answer: Polly Peck

Question: Which part did Honor Blackman play in the film Goldfinger?
Answer: Pussy Galore

Question: In which Irish park was Lord Cavendish assassinated in 1882?
Answer: Phoenix

Question: On which scale is the intensity of an earthquake measured?
Answer: Mercalli Scale

Question: Which local group included a track called `99% Of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd' on their 1985 album 'Back in the DHSS'?
Answer: Half Man Half Biscuit

Question: I am the egg man' is a line from which Beatles song?
Answer: I am the Walrus

Question: Which egg was described as being 'good in parts'?
Answer: The curate's egg

Question: What, according to popular saying, is 'the thief of time?
Answer: Procrastination

Question: What is the capital city of Azerbaijan?
Answer: Baku

Question: At what battle was the Mexican general Santa Anna defeated by Sam Houston in 1836?
Answer: San Jacinto

Question: In the human body what name is given collectively to the five long bones of the foot?
Answer: Metatarsus

Question: What name is given to the vertical bars dividing the panes of a window?
Answer: Mullions

Question: Who painted the Rake's Progress series of paintings, in 1721/1723?
Answer: William Hogarth

Question: What name is given to the arc of brilliant points seen round the moon after a total solar eclipse, named after an English astronomer?
Answer: Bailey's Beads

Question: At what battle did Hannibal defeat the Romans in 216 BC?
Answer: Cannae

Question: What nationality are the rock band The Cardigans?
Answer: Swedish

Question: Who painted "A Bar at the Folies Bergeres" in 1882?
Answer: Edouard Manet

Question: Tommy Lee, who was formerly married to Pamela Anderson, was the drummer in which successful 1980s heavy metal band?
Answer: Motley Crue

Question: In Roman mythology who was the god of gates, doors and entrances?
Answer: Janu

Question: What was the last battle fought on English soil?
Answer: Sedgemoor

Question: In cricket what is a ball called that is bowled by a left-handed bowler to a right-handed batsman that spins from off to leg?
Answer: A Chinaman

Question: What is the capital of Madagascar?
Answer: Antananarivo

Question: What Spanish name is given to a spicy pork sausage seasoned with garlic?
Answer: Chorizo

Question: With which planet do you associate Cassini's Division?
Answer: Saturn

Question: What was the Beatles' first chart single success, released in October 1962?
Answer: Love Me Do

Question: Which American actor starred in the film 'The Magnificent Seven' and on TV in 'The Man From Uncle'?
Answer: Robert Vaughn

Question: Which animal derives its name from the native word for `no drink'?
Answer: Koala

Question: Which actor's autobiography is entitled "Blessings in Disguise"?
Answer: Alec Guinness

Question: What name is given to the physiological condition where abducted hostages bond to their captors?
Answer: Stockholm Syndrome

Question: Who was the first person to be officially called British Prime Minister, 5 days after he took office in 1905?
Answer: Henry Campbell Bannerman

Question: Who provided the voice for the Genie of the Lamp in the 1992 Disney film 'Aladdin'?
Answer: Robin Williams

Question: What is divided into 114 suras?
Answer: The Koran

Question: What type of military weapon was the MGR-1, known as Honest John?
Answer: A (surface to surface) Missile

Question: What type of creature is a skink?
Answer: A lizard

Question: Who was the Greek God of fire?
Answer: Hephaestus

Question: What is the highest peak on Dartmoor?
Answer: (High) Willhays

Question: What is the main ingredient of Laverbread?
Answer: Seaweed

Question: What is the young of a pigeon called?
Answer: Squab

Question: Who directed the 1954 film 'On the Waterfront'?
Answer: Elia Kazan

Question: Adjutant birds are members of which family of birds?
Answer: Storks

Question: Who was the first presenter of 'Ready Steady Go', in August 1963?
Answer: Keith Fordyce

Question: Who wrote the 1964 play 'Entertaining Mr Sloane'?
Answer: Joe Orton