Question: What is the largest port city in Japan?
Answer: Yokohama

Question: Which canal connects Antwerp with Liege?
Answer: Albert Canal

Question: ‘It’s Toasted’ was the advertising slogan for which cigarette brand?
Answer: Lucky Strike

Question: In film and TV the term ‘gaffer’ is used for the chief …….what?
Answer: Electrician

Question: Malia and Natasha are the daughters of which famous man?
Answer: Barack Obama

Question: Whose portrait appeared on the back of the last one pound note?
Answer: Isaac Newton

Question: Which country is the nearest neighbour of Australia?
Answer: Papua New Guinea

Question: In which language does ‘Proost’ mean ‘Cheers’?
Answer: Dutch

Question: In which county are the towns of Malmesbury, Melksham and Chippenham?
Answer: Wiltshire

Question: The waterfalls Cauldron Snout and High Force lie on which major river?
Answer: Tees

Question: Bentley Drummle is a villainous character in which novel?
Answer: Great Expectations

Question: What was the stage-name of Oasis guitarist Paul Arthurs?
Answer: Bonehead

Question: Which chart-topping band of the 90s had Professor Brian Cox as a member?
Answer: D-Ream

Question: In which film is the murder of Miriam Haines seen reflected in her (dropped) spectacles?
Answer: Strangers On A Train

Question: In The Trouble With Harry – what was Harry?
Answer: A Corpse

Question: Which desert runs along the border between India and Pakistan?
Answer: Thar Desert

Question: In which country are the Cameron Highlands?
Answer: Malaysia

Question: Which country is bordered by Laos, Vietnam and Thailand?
Answer: Cambodia

Question: What is the most notable invention of Dennis Gabor?
Answer: The Hologram/Holography

Question: Who sang improvised calypsos on That Was The Week That Was?
Answer: Lance Percival

Question: Which music star married Frances Tomelty in 1976?
Answer: Sting

Question: What is the most notable invention of Hippolyte Mege-Mouries?
Answer: Margarine

Question: What kind of food is Bel Paese?
Answer: Cheese

Question: At whose funeral in the 90s did the Brazilian air force draw a heart in the sky?
Answer: Ayrton Senna

Question: Which comic once called Prince Charles a ‘grovelling little bastard’ on live TV?
Answer: Spike Milligan

Question: The name of which fish means to struggle?
Answer: Flounder

Question: Who is the patron saint of mountaineers?
Answer: Saint Bernard

Question: What do the firms Redwood, Wormwood and Gunn and Moore aii make?
Answer: Cricket bats

Question: What name is given to the soft V shaped part of a horse’s hoof?
Answer: Frog

Question: In world War II what term was used to describe a group of German U-boats?
Answer: Wolf Pack

Question: In which battle of May 1982 did Colonel H. Jones win his posthumous V.C.?
Answer: Goose Green

Question: Which name was shared by 11 Pharoahs?
Answer: Rameses

Question: In the Fellowship of the ring at which inn did the hobbits meet strider?
Answer: Prancing Pony

Question: Which is the oldest university in the English speaking world?
Answer: Oxford

Question: Which was the second “Carry on” film?
Answer: Carry on Nurse

Question: Which gas is the principal gas in the atmosphere of Venus?
Answer: Carbon dioxide

Question: Who was the victorious general at the battle of Cannae in 216 BC.?
Answer: Hannibal

Question: Who became known as the boy General in the American Civil War?
Answer: Custer

Question: Which fruit native to Malaysia is notorious because of its smell?
Answer: Durian

Question: From which country did apricots originate?
Answer: China

Question: Which popular holiday destination has a name which means the West in Arabic?
Answer: Algarve

Question: In which major film of 2014 did Henry Cavill play the title character?
Answer: Man of Steel

Question: Which theatre stands on Argyll street in London?
Answer: Palladium

Question: Which word from the admission cost was used for the first cinemas?
Answer: Nickelodeon

Question: In the words of a music hall song what couldn’t you trust a special like?
Answer: An Old Time Copper

Question: For what purpose were Mesopotamian ziggurats built?
Answer: Temples

Question: Elephant’s ear, leather, cabbage and Worm Brain are all types of what?
Answer: Coral

Question: The Megalodon is the largest ever known type of which sea creature?
Answer: Shark

Question: Giant squid reach 14 metres. What are their bigger cousins called?
Answer: Colossal squid

Question: Which brand of cigarettes takes its name from a Virginia county?
Answer: Chesterfields

Question: In which Australian state can you find the Derwent river?
Answer: Tasmania

Question: Which two continents are separated by the Drake Passage?
Answer: South America, Antarctica

Question: Which strait separates Taiwan from mainland China?
Answer: Strait of Formosa

Question: By which name were the Dardanelles originally known?
Answer: Hellespont

Question: Which craft takes its name from the French for cutting out?
Answer: Decoupage

Question: Which spa town outside Derbyshire has an annual well dressing weekend?
Answer: Malvern

Question: Which is Europe’s smallest state?
Answer: Vatican state

Question: Malta and Gozo are two of the main three islands of Malta. What is the third?
Answer: Comino

Question: What is the nearest state, dependency or principality to the UK not in the EU?
Answer: Isle of Man

Question: Moore Marriot and Graham Moffat made eight films with which comedian?
Answer: Will Hay

Question: Who played Rambling Sid Rumpo on radio?
Answer: Kenneth Williams

Question: Ni is the chemical symbol for which element?
Answer: Nickel

Question: What does a welsh rarebit become with an egg on top?
Answer: Buck rarebit

Question: Who won the Wimbledon’s Men’s singles in 1987?
Answer: Pat Cash

Question: Who won the second series of Strictly Come Dancing?
Answer: Jill Halfpenny

Question: “Who were you with In the moonlight” was a hit for which duo?
Answer: Dollar

Question: In Blackadder II what alias was used by his fiancée when they met?
Answer: Bob

Question: What was the original UK name of the chocolate bar which de-anglicised its name in 2006?
Answer: Dime

Question: Who was known as the Father of the Symphony?
Answer: Haydn

Question: Who wrote the Goldberg variations?
Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Question: Which Italian had Beethoven, Liszt and Schubert as pupils?
Answer: Salieri

Question: Who was Lovejoy’s barker and chief assistant?
Answer: Tinker

Question: Which of Arthur’s nephews replaced Terry in Minder?
Answer: Ray

Question: Who played Raffles in four series on TV?
Answer: Anthony Valentine

Question: Which is the northernmost English county town?
Answer: Morpeth

Question: What is the county town of Anglesey?
Answer: Beaumaris

Question: Which English county town comes last alphabetically?
Answer: Worcester

Question: Who lived at Three Chimneys in Derbyshire?
Answer: The Railway Children

Question: Where did Bilbo Baggins live in the Shire in the Hobbit?
Answer: Bag End

Question: Who lived in a home called the Burrow in Harry Potter?
Answer: Weasleys

Question: Which country has the world’s highest railway system?
Answer: Peru

Question: Between which two cities does the Blue Train run in South Africa?
Answer: Capetown and Pretoria

Question: What is Canada’s newest biggest territory?
Answer: Nunavut

Question: Who set the record for most singles in the Top 20 in 1955?
Answer: Ruby Murray

Question: Who was the last driver to die during a Formula 1 championship race?
Answer: Ayrton Senna

Question: What was the first naval battle of world war II?
Answer: Battle of the River Plate

Question: In which event is Middlesex the North station and Surrey the South?
Answer: Boat Race

Question: Which classical composer wrote “The Hungarian Dances”?
Answer: Brahms

Question: Traditionally what sort of gifts should be given on a 20th. Anniversary?
Answer: China

Question: What kind of creature is an akita?
Answer: Dog