Question: The word KOP, when used at a number of football grounds, is named after which historical event?
Answer: Boer War. (Tribute to the large numbers of men lost taking Spion kop, a hill in South Africa).

Question: Which US band named themselves after their strict gym teacher at their high school, Mr Skinner.
Answer: Lynyrd Skynyrd (Leonard Skinner).

Question: What country is home to Kenai Fjords National Park?
Answer: Usa

Question: What fruit is nicknamed the Alligator Pear?
Answer: Avocado

Question: What is the name of the clockwork device used by pianists to measure time?
Answer: Metronome

Question: When Elisha Graves Otis invented it, he called it the safety hoist. What do we call it now?
Answer: The elevator

Question: Written by Ernest Hemingway, what is the subject of the 1932 non-fiction book Death In The Afternoon?
Answer: Bull-fighting

Question: The Thirty Years' War was finally ended in 1648 with what peace treaty?
Answer: Peace of Westphalia

Question: What nationality is Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot?
Answer: Belgian

Question: Which country was the only original member of OPEC outside of the Middle East?
Answer: Venezuela

Question: Who created the literary detective Sam Spade?
Answer: Dashell Hammett

Question: Name any year that Leonardo Da Vinci was alive.
Answer: 1452 - 1519

Question: What are the two ingredients of a Black Velvet cocktail?
Answer: Sparkling Wine or Champagne and Stout

Question: Name either of the Brothers Grimm's first names.
Answer: Jacob or Wilhelm

Question: Name the five basic tastes.
Answer: Saltiness, Sweetness, Sourness, Bitterness, Umamai (pronounced oo-ma-me) a.k.a. Savourness

Question: How were Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork better known collectively on TV?
Answer: The banana splits

Question: What is the nickname of Bournemouth F.C.?
Answer: The Cherries

Question: Tom Joad was the main character in which John Steinbeck novel?
Answer: The Grapes Of Wrath

Question: What famous song is Huckleberry Hound best known for singing?
Answer: My Darling Clementine

Question: What does a silkworm feed on?
Answer: Mulberries

Question: The Smurfs are described as being how tall?
Answer: Three apples high

Question: What is the name of Liverpool's main railway station?
Answer: Lime Street

Question: What is the name of the John Lennon memorial garden in Central Park, New York?
Answer: Strawberry Fields

Question: What is the connection between the first 9 answers?
Answer: Fruit

Question: How many lions are there on the English Royal Standard?
Answer: 5 foot

Question: How tall was Queen Victoria? 5 foot, 5 foot 5 or 5 foot 10?
Answer: 5 foot

Question: In what decade did the Tower of London appoint their first female beefeater?
Answer: 2000s

Question: Who is the oldest of Prince Andrew's daughters?
Answer: Princess Beatrice

Question: Who was the last monarch of England only?
Answer: Elizabeth I

Question: Commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her husband, in which Royal park would you find the Albert Memorial?
Answer: Kensington Gardens

Question: Which royal establishment was moved from London to Llantrisant in South Wales in 1968?
Answer: The Royal Mint

Question: What event takes place on the official birthday of the sovereign?
Answer: Trooping the Colour

Question: What temperature is the same in Celsius as it is in Fahrenheit?
Answer: -40 degrees

Question: What is the name of the pigment that makes leaves green?
Answer: Chlorophyll

Question: Absolute zero is a temperature defined as 0 on what scale?
Answer: The Kelvin scale

Question: Oology is the study of what?
Answer: Eggs

Question: Nephrology is the study of which organs?
Answer: Kidneys

Question: Which famous building has the address of 1600 Pennysylvania Avenue?
Answer: The White House

Question: Which public service is located near Victoria Station in London at 10 Broadway?
Answer: New Scotland Yard

Question: Which international charity is registered at John Smith Drive, Cowley, Oxford?
Answer: Oxfam

Question: Which public service moved from Bracknell in Berkshire, to Exeter in Devon in 2003?
Answer: The met office

Question: Which historic event would you associate with Pudding Lane in London?
Answer: The Great Fire of London

Question: Which English Victorian author was born in 1812 in Old Commercial Rd, Landport, Portsmouth?
Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: The postal address of which famous building is simply, PO Box 995, Kentucky, USA?
Answer: Fort Knox

Question: Albany and Camp Hill are two of the three prisons outside Newport on the Isle of Wight. What is the third?
Answer: Parkhurst

Question: Who killed John F Kennedy?
Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald

Question: Who killed Martin Luther King?
Answer: James Earl Ray

Question: No home, no money, no job, no prospects?
Answer: Dire Straits

Question: Zak Dingle, Postman Pat, Windy Miller,Amos Brearly?
Answer: The Village People

Question: Name the follow up to the Clint Eastwood film 'Every Which Way But Loose'.
Answer: Any Which Way You Can

Question: In whch Robert Di Nero film would you hear the line You Talking To Me?
Answer: Taxi Driver

Question: Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callaghan attempted to clean up the streets of which US City?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: Dr Egon Spengler appears in which film?
Answer: Ghostbusters

Question: Richard Harris plays which charcter in the Harry Potter films?
Answer: Professor Dumbledore

Question: In which year was the film Casablanca premiered?
Answer: 1942

Question: How many ounces are there in a pound?
Answer: 16

Question: How many pints are there in a gallon?
Answer: 8

Question: How many yards are there in a mile?
Answer: 1,760

Question: How many feet are there in a fathom?
Answer: 6

Question: How many gallons are there in a firkin?
Answer: 9

Question: How many sheets of paper are there in a quire?
Answer: 24

Question: How many noggings are there in a pint?
Answer: 4

Question: Who won a Silver medal in the 1988 Olympic Games for 110m hurdles?
Answer: Colin Jackson

Question: The Neverland Ranch is in which US state?
Answer: California

Question: Which Jackson has starred in Star Wars and Pulp Fiction?
Answer: Samuel L Jackson

Question: Name the Jackson who is a judge on American Idol?
Answer: Randy

Question: In 1986 Jackson signed a $15 million deal with which company - it was the largest ever endorsement for product promotion?
Answer: Pepsi

Question: Prince & Prince Michael II are two of Jackson's children, name the third?
Answer: Paris

Question: Which artist was known as Jack the Dripper' because of his technique of dripping & pouring paint onto a canvas?
Answer: Jackson Pollock

Question: Whose 'wings are like a shield of steel'?
Answer: Batfink's

Question: Phil Collins won an Oscar for Best Original Song for which Disney film?
Answer: Tarzan

Question: Which cartoon series was retitled Donnie Murdo when it was dubbed into Scots Gaelic?
Answer: Danger Mouse (because the character had DM emblazoned on his uniform).

Question: In the Disney cartoon what was the name of The Little Mermaid?
Answer: Ariel

Question: In the Lion King, what was the name of Simba's father?
Answer: Mufasa

Question: Lion-o was the lord of the Thundercats. Name any 2 other Thundercats.
Answer: Cheetara, Panthro, Tygra, Wily-Kat and Snarf

Question: What is Paddington Bear's favourite snack?
Answer: Marmalade Sandwiches

Question: Who was described as an old, saggy cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams?
Answer: Bagpuss

Question: Which 1980s cartoon was based on a classic story written by Alexandre Dumas?
Answer: Dogtanian And The Three Muskehounds

Question: Who had Wings like a shield of steel?
Answer: Batfink

Question: Who were the two voice artists of the cartoon characters Dangermouse and his sidekick Penfold?
Answer: David Jason and Terry Scott

Question: What was the name of SuperTed's sidekick?
Answer: Spotty