Question: What is considered the "king of herbs" by many cookery authors
Answer: Basil

Question: What is the spice, the oil of which is used to treat toothache
Answer: Cloves

Question: With over 150 varieties, which common herb is said to provide relief from an upset stomach
Answer: Mint

Question: How many spices are combined in allspice
Answer: Only one it is the name given to the pimento

Question: Which herb whose leaves and blue flowers are both edible, is used in drinks such as 'Pimms'
Answer: Borage

Question: If a dish is cooked a la hongroise it is cooked in cream and which spice
Answer: Paprika

Question: What is the most widely used herb in the world
Answer: Parsley

Question: Which actor played the President of the United States in the film Nixon
Answer: Anthony Hopkins

Question: Which actor had a seventies number one with If
Answer: Telly Savalas - See below

Question: What is Triskaidekaphobia the fear of
Answer: Number thirteen

Question: On a Monopoly board what colour is Coventry Street
Answer: Yellow

Question: Which car manufacturer made the Popular in the fifties and sixties
Answer: Ford

Question: Where in the body is the scaphoid bone
Answer: Wrist

Question: What was the surname of the main character in the novel Catch-22
Answer: Yosarian

Question: You have heard of the Queen of Sheba, in which modern country is Sheba now situated
Answer: Yemen

Question: What word can be a piece of thread or a long story
Answer: Yarn

Question: What was the nature of the event at which Jesus turned water into wine
Answer: Wedding

Question: What are young oysters called
Answer: Spats

Question: What name was used by duo Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell
Answer: Air Supply

Question: From which film does the following quote come: I love the smell of napalm in the morning
Answer: Apocalypse Now

Question: What is the record winning margin in an English football league game
Answer: Thirteen

Question: In which children's comic did Keyhole Kate originally appear
Answer: Dandy

Question: What is the name of Martha Reeves backing group
Answer: The Vandellas

Question: The headquarters of the International Ice Hockey Federation is in which European city
Answer: Zurich

Question: What is the term used for someone who marries for a second time
Answer: Digamist

Question: Who was Arthur Scargill's predecessor as President of the NUM
Answer: Joe Gormley

Question: How many species of tarantula actually possess bites which are fatal to humans
Answer: None

Question: Where do Prince William and his wife now live
Answer: Anmer Hall on the Sandringham estate

Question: How does the Bishop of Winchester sign his name
Answer: Winton

Question: The traditional Queen of Puddings dessert typically comprises a bread/egg/jam base topped with what
Answer: Meringue

Question: In Greek mythology what was Hebe the goddess of
Answer: Youth

Question: Who wrote The Swiss Family Robinson
Answer: Johan Wyss

Question: Which singer/actresso played Karen Silkwood's lesbian lodger in the film Silkwood
Answer: Cher

Question: Who was kidnapped from the Colby's by a UFO and later turned up in Dynasty
Answer: Fallon

Question: What colour does copper give to a firework
Answer: Green

Question: What do gibbons, foxes and swans have in common
Answer: They all mate for life

Question: Soul Patch, Reed, Lincoln and Monkey Tail
Answer: Beards

Question: Brad, Finish, Clout, Casing and Horseshoe
Answer: Nails

Question: What are Grapnel, Bruce, Kedge, and Plough
Answer: Anchors

Question: Golf, Cocktail, Beach and Bubble
Answer: Umbrella

Question: Eurogliders, Happy Faces and Billy Boys
Answer: Condoms

Question: Mould, Board, Disc and Rotary
Answer: Plough

Question: Pooler Jones, Lazy Plate, Jayne Hill, Buckthorn
Answer: Barbed Wire

Question: Abloy, dimple, skeleton, Zeiss, master, and DND
Answer: Keys

Question: Blinker, Fountain, Banger, Rocket, Candle and Cake
Answer: Fireworks

Question: Bead, Ball, Ribbon, Staccato and Sheet
Answer: Lightning

Question: Limerick, Round Bend, Aberdeen and Octopus
Answer: Fishing hooks

Question: Which three footballers were BBC Sports Personality of the Year during the 20th Century
Answer: Paul Gascoigne, Michael Owen and Bobby Moore

Question: What are the three indigenous British mammals that hibernate
Answer: Bats, dormice and hedgehogs

Question: What are the three universities in Edinburgh called
Answer: Edinburgh, Napier and Herriott-Watt

Question: What three English resorts are known collectively as Torbay
Answer: Torquay, Paignton and Brixham

Question: What are the three National parks located within Wales
Answer: Brecon Beacons, Pembrokeshire Coast and Snowdonia

Question: Can you name three American state capitals that begin with the letter D
Answer: Dover, Denver and Des Moines

Question: What were the names of the Three Musketeers
Answer: Porthos, Athos and Aramis

Question: Which three counties adjoin Devon
Answer: Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset

Question: What were the names of the three ships that sailed with Columbus on his first voyage to America
Answer: Pinta, Nina, and the Santa Maria

Question: Who, are known as the three B’s of classical music
Answer: Beethoven, Bach and Brahms

Question: Who were the three players that defeated Tim Henman in his four Wimbledon semi-final appearances
Answer: Pete Sampras, Goran Ivanisevic Lleyton Hewitt

Question: Which three creatures were the first ever live passengers in a hot air balloon
Answer: Cockerel, duck and a sheep

Question: Aqua had three number ones, can you name them
Answer: Barbie Girl, Doctor Jones and Turn Back Time

Question: What are the main three ingredients in the Chinese dish kais am yang which means three kinds of chicken
Answer: Peanuts, salted shrimps and lemon grass

Question: Which three gods make up the Hindu Trinity
Answer: Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu

Question: Whose first novel, A Woman of Substance, became a best seller
Answer: Barbara Taylor Bradford

Question: Who scored Arsenal's last minute winner in the 1979 FA Cup Final
Answer: Alan Sunderland

Question: In which London thoroughfare was the first Virgin record shop opened
Answer: Oxford Street

Question: Who was the first governor-general of India
Answer: Warren Hastings

Question: Who had a top album in 1990 with his first album Soul Provider
Answer: Michael Bolton

Question: Which company is famous for making the trouser presses that you find in the bedrooms of most decent hotels
Answer: Corby

Question: What shade of cloth was Robin Hood supposed to favour
Answer: Lincoln Green

Question: Which shoe company used the strap line Let's face the music and dance.
Answer: Allied Dunbar

Question: In Alice in Wonderland who put butter in the Mad Hatter's watch
Answer: The March Hare

Question: By what title was Thomas Patrick John Anson better known
Answer: Lord Lichfield

Question: The Royal Mews are part of which London building
Answer: Buckingham Palace

Question: Who was once described in Blackwell's worst dressed list as the bare toed terror of London town
Answer: Duchess of York

Question: Which drink was advertised by Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor
Answer: Buxton Spring Water

Question: Who was the nurse convicted of murdering four children at a Grantham hospital in 1993
Answer: Beverley

Question: What star sign is Harry Potter?
Answer: Leo

Question: In the USA it's the Oscars what is it in France?
Answer: Caesars

Question: In the USA what is Marine One?
Answer: Presidents Helicopter

Question: Where could you spend your Gourde?
Answer: Haiti

Question: What does a cadastral map show?
Answer: Large scale individual properties

Question: In what area of France is champagne made?
Answer: Reims

Question: The longest recorded one lasted 51.5 minutes - what?
Answer: Tennis rally 1029 strokes

Question: Who was the first British Royal to become a motorist?
Answer: Prince of Wales Edward VII

Question: What makes Argon, Neon and Helium unique in chemistry?
Answer: No compounds