Question: Roger Mellie, Finbarr Saunders & Buster Gonad are all regular comic strip characters appearing in which publication?
Answer: Viz

Question: Crown and Anchor, a gambling game traditionally played by sailors, is played using what equipment?
Answer: Dice

Question: What is the capital city of Afghanistan?
Answer: Kabul

Question: Which strait in north-west Scotland separates the north-west Highlands and the northern Inner Hebrides, from Lewis and Harris in the Outer 1 Hebrides?
Answer: The Minch

Question: Together the holders of the posts of President of France and Bishop of Urgel become the co-princes of where?
Answer: Andorra

Question: Which composer wrote the opera Falstaff which premiered in 1893 just before their 70th birthday?
Answer: (Giuseppe) Verdi

Question: Which boxer did Mike Tyson defeat in 1986 to win his first professional world title?
Answer: (Trevor) Berbick

Question: Theravada and Malayana are the 2 main schools of which religion?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: Today is the birthday of the current Chief Scout, born in 1974, who is he?
Answer: (Bear) Grylls

Question: What is the real first name of current Chief Scout, Bear Grylls?
Answer: Edward

Question: The 1856 Treaty of Paris brought an end to which conflict?
Answer: Crimean War

Question: What is the stage name of US comedian Louis Szekely?
Answer: Louis CK

Question: The electronics and white goods brand Beko originated, and is still based in which country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: In a suit of armour what body part do pieces called poleyns protect?
Answer: The Knees

Question: Who wrote Nausea, Troubled Sleep and The Age of Reason?
Answer: (Jean-Paul) Sartre

Question: A blepharoplasty is a cosmetic surgical procedure to remove skin from where?
Answer: Eyelids

Question: Which Actress was the mother of the actress Janette Scott?
Answer: (Thora) Hird

Question: The mythological Cyclops Polyphemus was blinded by which hero?
Answer: Odysseus

Question: In geometry what name is given to an angle between 180 and 360 degrees?
Answer: Reflex

Question: What name links: an old time parish official, actor William Holden's real surname and a 1980's and 90's TV practical joker?
Answer: Beadle

Question: Who is the regular panellist on the TV show "QI"?
Answer: Alan Davis

Question: The Minack is an open air theatre carved out of the cliffs in which county?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: """The Chocolate Soldier"" an operetta by Oscar Straus was based on which play by George Bernard Shaw?"
Answer: Arms and the Man

Question: In which American city zoo was a gorilla named Harambe shot and killed when a four year old fell into his enclosure on 28th May (2016)?
Answer: Cincinatti

Question: What does a Calorimeter measure?
Answer: Heat

Question: In "Silence of the Lambs" what did Hannibal Lector drink with his Fava Beans and Liver?
Answer: Chianti

Question: Only two Australians have won the World Formula One motor racing championship, Jack Brabham was one who was the other?
Answer: Alan Jones (1980)

Question: Who was the last jockey to win The Grand National in two consecutive years?
Answer: Leighton Aspell (Pineau De Re 2014 & Many Clouds 2015)

Question: Name the year: Lawrence of Arabia wins Oscar for best picture; Harold Wilson becomes Leader of the Labour Party and writer C.S. Lewis dies?
Answer: 1963

Question: On which Premier League football clubs badge would you find Prince Rupert's Tower?
Answer: Everton

Question: How was Charles Ogier De Batz better known in an Alexandre Dumas novel of 1844?
Answer: D'Artagnan

Question: Whose "Carry On" film roles include Bungdit Din, Gripper Burke and Abdul Abulbul?
Answer: Bernard Bresslaw

Question: American architect Walter Burley Griffin won a completion in 1912 to build which Capitol City?
Answer: Canberra

Question: Who is the Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police Force?
Answer: Ian Hopkins

Question: Which company made the World War Two Zero fighter plane?
Answer: Mitsubishi

Question: In which US State are the cities of Chattanooga, Lynchburg and Shelbyville?
Answer: Tennessee

Question: Usually on metal or wood, what term is used for the ageing process on an Antique?
Answer: Patina

Question: In the kitchen, for what would you use a Mezzaluna?
Answer: Chopping herbs (curved blade with two handles)

Question: What is the nickname of Vaughan-Williams' symphony number 1?
Answer: The Sea Symphony

Question: Sb is the symbol for which chemical element?
Answer: Antimony

Question: Born in 1919, he has been First Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of State for Energy, Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Secretary General of NATO and is now Father of the House of Lords. Who is he?
Answer: Lord Carrington

Question: Which country's flag has a Condor and Llama on it?
Answer: Bolivia

Question: Which coin ceased to be legal tender in 1984?
Answer: New Halfpenny

Question: In Rene Magritte's painting "The Son of Man", what is obscuring the man's face?
Answer: A Green Apple

Question: Elliott Gould and James Brolin have both been married to which singer and actress?
Answer: Barbara Streisand

Question: Which bird (Turdus viscivorus) has the alternate name the Stormcock?
Answer: Mistle Thrush

Question: In the prohibition era, who was gangster Lester Gillis better known as?
Answer: Baby Face Nelson

Question: When Nigel Farage started his Brexit bus tour in Hull his choice of music was the theme to which classic 1963 film?
Answer: The Great Escape

Question: Papershell, Wonderful and Spanish Ruby, are all types of which fruit?
Answer: Pomegranate

Question: Currently on channel 4, "Great Canal Journeys", is presented by which husband and wife?
Answer: Timothy West and Prunella Scales

Question: In which county is Walmer Castle?
Answer: Kent

Question: First published in 1989, who wrote "The Lady in the Van"?
Answer: Alan Bennett

Question: In the Bible, who was the first wife of Jacob and had twelve sons?
Answer: Leah

Question: Which company produced the first mail order catalogue?
Answer: Sears and Roebuck

Question: Name the Oscar winning actor who is the voice of King Louie in the 2016 version of the "Jungle Book"?
Answer: Christopher Walken

Question: In a game of 20/20 cricket, what is the maximum number of overs per bowler?
Answer: Four (4)

Question: Which Premier League football team has a colliery wheel on its badge?
Answer: Sunderland

Question: J.K Rowling used the pen name Newt Scamander for which book published in 2001?
Answer: Fantastic Beasts and where to find them

Question: Who is Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Force?
Answer: Bernard Hogan- Howe

Question: Which Public School was founded by John Lyon in 1572?
Answer: Harrow

Question: Whose "Carry on" film roles include the Duc De Pomfrit, Jimmy Riddle and Big Heap?
Answer: Charles Hawtrey

Question: 2016 is the Chinese New Year of which creature?
Answer: Monkey

Question: Name the year: Rosa Parks takes a seat at the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Hugh Gaitskell becomes leader of the Labour Party and Albert Einstein dies?
Answer: 1955

Question: Which Amendment to the US Constitution gives the right to bear arms?
Answer: Second (2nd)

Question: Antares is the brightest star in which constellation?
Answer: Scorpio

Question: What bad habit does an Onychophagist have?
Answer: Biting their fingernails

Question: To which race of people did Goliath belong?
Answer: The Philistines

Question: Which animal native to Southern Africa suffers from turning sickness?
Answer: Wildebeest or Gnu

Question: From the Latin for "What Now", what type of person is a Quidnunc?
Answer: A Gossip

Question: Francis Galton pioneered which aid to crime detection?
Answer: Fingerprints

Question: Which body of water separates Cuba from Haiti?
Answer: Windward Passage

Question: What name is given to the Fourth (4th) movement in Beethoven's / Ninth (9th) Symphony?
Answer: Ode to Joy

Question: Which islands lie off the Northwest coast of Anglesey?
Answer: The Skerries