Question: What is the name of the male, well-muscled, blond, swimming trunk wearing, gel-filled rubber action figure, first introduced in 1976 by Kenner?
Answer: Stretch Armstrong

Question: The construction toy ‘Lego’ was originally designed in which European country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Which Denys Fisher geometric, plastic drawing toy produces mathematical curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids?
Answer: Spirograph

Question: Which line of dolls, created by American art student Xavier Roberts in 1978, was originally called ‘Little People’?
Answer: Cabbage Patch Kids

Question: Which executive toy, named after an English physicist and mathematician, demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy via a series of swinging spheres?
Answer: Newton’s Cradle

Question: How many circles, on which players have to put their hand or foot, are on the mat in a game of ‘Twister’?
Answer: 24

Question: What is the name of the perpetual murder victim in the English version of ‘Cleudo’?
Answer: Dr Black

Question: What is the name of the British board game which has Treasure Island in the centre of the board, upon which is placed realistic looking treasure, such as diamonds, rubies and pearls?
Answer: Buccaneer

Question: How many squares are on an official ‘Scrabble’ board?
Answer: 225

Question: How many wooden blocks are in a traditional game of ‘Jenga’?
Answer: 54

Question: A score of 4 is for which part of the body in a game of ‘Beetle’?
Answer: Wing

Question: What is the name of the electronic game which has four coloured buttons, which light up in random order, each producing it’s own tune when pressed, or activated by the device?
Answer: Simon

Question: A frying pan, a bed-roll, a cowboy hat and a shovel are all items which must be placed on the mule’s back in which children’s game?
Answer: Buckaroo?

Question: What is the title of the 1971 film in which Clint Eastwood plays DJ Dave Garver?
Answer: Play Misty For Me

Question: Who wrote the poem ‘Funeral Blues’ (Stop All the Clocks)?
Answer: W.H.Auden

Question: Phan Xi Pang is the highest mountain in which country?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: Red Connors is the sidekick of which fictional Wild West hero?
Answer: Hopalong Cassidy

Question: On a standard dartboard, what number lies between 2 and 10?
Answer: 15

Question: What relation was German-born British painter Lucian Freud to Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud?
Answer: Grandson

Question: Saqqara is an ancient burial site in which country?
Answer: Egypt

Question: What is the medical term for the condition in which one or both of the testes fail to descend from the abdomen to the scrotum?
Answer: Cryptorchidism

Question: Which English model was married to musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton?
Answer: Pattie Boyd

Question: A sallet, part of Medieval armour, was worn on which part of the body?
Answer: Head

Question: ‘What a gentleman, a scholar, what an acrobat’ describes which cartoon character?
Answer: Pink Panther

Question: Banana cut, Dingle and Swingman are terms used in which sport?
Answer: Basketball

Question: Which bank had the first ATM machine in Britain?
Answer: Barclays (Enfield)

Question: A ‘Scouser’ is a native of which English city?
Answer: Liverpool

Question: The volcanic rock Kimberlite is best known for sometimes containing which gemstone?
Answer: Diamond

Question: Perkin, Posie and Pootle were characters in which children’s tv programme?
Answer: The Flumps

Question: Logan International Airport serves which US city?
Answer: Boston

Question: What type of animal is a karakul?
Answer: Sheep

Question: Who developed bifocal spectacles in 1784?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Question: Myelitis is the inflammation of which part of the human body?
Answer: Spinal cord

Question: In the 1994 film ‘Speed’ starring Keanu Reeves, what speed must the bus not fall below?
Answer: 50 Miles per hour

Question: Which British singer released a 1972 album entitled ‘Blondes Have More Fun’?
Answer: Rod Stewart

Question: In horse racing, during which month is the Cheltenham Cup run?
Answer: March

Question: Which British explorer arrived in Tahiti in 1769?
Answer: Captain James Cook

Question: Who played the title role in the 1975 film ‘Barry Lyndon’?
Answer: Ryan O’Neal

Question: NaCl is the chemical compound of which common substance?
Answer: Salt (Sodium Chloride)

Question: Which actress played the role of identical twins, Susan and Sharon, in the 1961 film ‘The Parent Trap’?
Answer: Hayley Mills

Question: The Big Muddy River in Southern Illinois joins which other river?
Answer: Mississippi River

Question: Marie Antoinette was married to which French King?
Answer: Louis XVI

Question: The drug ‘Reyataz’ is used for treating which medical condition?
Answer: Hiv

Question: Who was replaced by Sid Vicious as bassist in the punk rock band The Sex Pistols?
Answer: Glen Matlock

Question: In Greek mythology, what is the name of the nymph who was pursued by Apollo and transformed by the gods into a laurel bush?
Answer: Daphne

Question: In botany, what is the decay-resistant outer coating of a pollen grain or spore called?
Answer: Exine

Question: Actor Nicholas Cage plays gun-runner Yuri Orlov in which 2005 film?
Answer: Lord of War

Question: The first Stock-Exchange in America was founded in which city?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: To the nearest month, what is the gestation period of a horse?
Answer: Eleven months

Question: Which 18th Century scientist and politician invented a glass harmonica (or ‘armonica) in 1761?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Question: Which two mainland European countries compete in the Six Nations Rugby Tournament?
Answer: France and Italy

Question: Who invented the Mercury Thermometer in 1714?
Answer: Daniel Farenheit

Question: Which US city is the setting for the 1987 film ‘Robocop’?
Answer: Detroit

Question: The Karoo is a semi-desert region of which country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Liberation Day is celebrated in Italy during which month of the year?
Answer: April – 25th

Question: In the human body, the pollex is which part of the hand?
Answer: Thumb

Question: Which Austrian composer wrote the music for the German National Anthem?
Answer: Franz Joseph Haydn

Question: A Scotch Argus is what type of creature?
Answer: Butterfly

Question: How many edges does a cube have?
Answer: 12

Question: According to the Bible, Ham was the second son of who?
Answer: Noah

Question: Oscar Wilde wrote about which English prison?
Answer: Reading

Question: What is the national summer sport of Canada?
Answer: Lacrosse

Question: Stone Mountain Park is in which US state?
Answer: Georgia

Question: The substance propolis is also known as ‘what’ glue?
Answer: Bee

Question: Which German-born physicist was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: Which river in Australia does the Narrows Bridge cross?
Answer: The Swan River

Question: Los Pumas is the nickname of which country’s national rugby union team?
Answer: Argentina

Question: What were the first names of 19th Century architect A.G.Eiffel who designed the Eiffel Tower in Paris?
Answer: Alexandre Gustave

Question: Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta played gangsters in which 1990 film?
Answer: Goodfellas

Question: The resort town of Whistler is in which Canadian province?
Answer: British Columbia

Question: Which member of The Beatles appeared in a Japanese TV commercial for an apple drink?
Answer: Ringo Starr

Question: Who played Bubble in the UK tv comedy series ‘Absolutely Fabulous’?
Answer: Jane Horrocks

Question: Who invented the Miner’s Safety Lamp?
Answer: Humphry Davy

Question: Markswoman and entertainer Phoebe Anne Mozee (or Moses) was better known by what name?
Answer: Annie Oakley

Question: In which African country is Lake George?
Answer: Uganda

Question: What is the name of the colliery in the 1939 film ‘The Stars Look Down’?
Answer: Neptune Colliery