Question: What turns a Croque Monsieur into a Croque Madame and a Welsh Rarebit into a Buck Rabbit?
Answer: (Poached/Fried) Egg

Question: Which seeds are used to make tahini paste?
Answer: Sesame

Question: In 1797 Horatio Nelson lost his right arm during a battle for which island?
Answer: Tenerife

Question: Which 1924 Sigmund Romberg operetta features the Drinking Song?
Answer: The Student Prince

Question: As in the name of the New South Wales rugby team, what is a Waratah??
Answer: (It's the state) Flower

Question: What was the first name of the silent film comedian Fatty'Arbuckle?
Answer: Roscoe

Question: The WH Auden poem commonly known as 'Stop All The Clocks', is more properly known by what title?
Answer: Funeral Blues

Question: Who was the first American to go into space twice?
Answer: Gus Grissom

Question: The Red River forms the boundary between Texas and which other US State?
Answer: Oklahoma

Question: Who created the children's book character the Gruffalo?
Answer: Julia Donaldson

Question: Apple pips contain which toxic substance?
Answer: Cyanide

Question: Which US state was the first to give women the vote?
Answer: Wyoming

Question: How many symphonies did the composer Sir Edward Elgar complete?
Answer: 2

Question: In which Sherlock Holmes story do the 'Baker Street Irregulars' first appear?
Answer: A Study in Scarlet

Question: What is the male voice range immediately above bass?
Answer: Bass baritone

Question: In the West Indies, which fruit is known as a penguin?
Answer: Pineapple

Question: The cachelot is an alternative name for which mammal?
Answer: Sperm Whale

Question: Which US comedienne is known for husbands, face lifts and jewellery?
Answer: Joan Rivers

Question: Which is the largest of Greece's Ionian Islands?
Answer: Kefalonia

Question: Where were the 1968 Winter Olympic Games held?
Answer: Grenoble

Question: In which Shakespeare play does the clown, Feste appear?
Answer: Twelfth Night

Question: Which Commission was set up to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy?
Answer: Warren Commission

Question: Who played the adult Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?
Answer: Ralph Fiennes

Question: Which word for a thug, coined in San Francisco in the 19th century, comes from the German word for ragamuffin?
Answer: Hoodlum

Question: Which Impressionist artist painted The Card Players circa 1892-4?
Answer: Paul Cezanne

Question: The game Mah Jong takes its name from the Chinese for which small bird?
Answer: Sparrow

Question: Which painter said "I am a simple man, and I use simple materials"?
Answer: L S Lowry

Question: What is added to brandy to make a Sidecar cocktail?
Answer: Cointreau

Question: Which country won the William Webb Ellis Rugby Union Cup in 1995?
Answer: South Africa

Question: From which country does the food dish tamale originate?
Answer: Mexico

Question: In which English county is Dunmow of Flitch fame?
Answer: Essex

Question: Who wrote the Mother Goose Suite?
Answer: Maurice Ravel

Question: Name the metal pin used in mountaineering as a support or belaying pin?
Answer: Piton

Question: In 1803, which European country was the first to outlaw slavery?
Answer: Denmark

Question: What is the common name for a cavy?
Answer: Guinea Pig

Question: Who writes the Elvis Cole crime novels?
Answer: Robert Crais

Question: Which UK actress gave an acclaimed performance as a ballet teacher in the film Billy Elliott?
Answer: Julie Walters

Question: By what collective name are the North Sea islands of Hauptinsel and Dune better known?
Answer: Heligoland

Question: Mercutio and Tybalt appear in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet

Question: Who provided the voice of Mr Fox in the animated film The Fantastic Mr Fox?
Answer: George Clooney

Question: In which decade were the first oil fields discovered in Saudi Arabia?
Answer: 1930's

Question: The phrase from pillar to post originated with which medieval game?
Answer: Real Tennis

Question: Which Sousa march forms the basis of the football song Here we go, here vw go, here we go?
Answer: Star and Stripes Forever

Question: From which language do we get the word palaver?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: Which golf club can be referred to as a 'Texas wedge'?
Answer: Putter

Question: Stella Rimington was the first female Director General of MI5, but who was the 2nd woman to head MI5 from 2002 until 2007?
Answer: Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller

Question: Who had a hit albums in 1970s with Teaser and the Firecat and Tea for the Tillerman?
Answer: Cat Stevens

Question: The name of which dessert means 'cooked cream' in Italian?
Answer: Pannecotta

Question: In which English county is Tolpuddle - famous for the martyrs?
Answer: Dorset

Question: In Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf which instrument represents the wolf?
Answer: (3) French Horns

Question: In Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure, which city did he call Christminster?
Answer: Oxford

Question: What are Islamic saints or hermits called?
Answer: Marabouts

Question: A 1954 expedition funded by the Daily Mail set out to find what?
Answer: Yeti

Question: In which US state is the TV hospital series House set?
Answer: New Jersey

Question: What was the name of the devastating hurricane that hit New York and the North Eastern USA in October 2012?
Answer: Sandy

Question: Which name is shared by the governor of the Bank of England from 2003-2013 and a current top British Darts player born in Ipswich?
Answer: Mervyn King

Question: Nick Matthew and Laura Massaro are current British World champions in which sport?
Answer: Squash

Question: Ketevan 'Katie' Melua was bom in 1984 in which Soviet Socialist Republic, now an independent country?
Answer: Georgia

Question: The CCGT super car is made by which manufacturer?
Answer: Koenigsegg

Question: Who was the architect of The Shard building in Southwark London?
Answer: Renzo Piano

Question: In botany, what name is given to a plant that grows on another plant non-parasitically?
Answer: An Epiphyte

Question: An oophorectomy is an operation to remove which part of the body?
Answer: Ovary

Question: Which Australian city is served by Tullamarine Airport?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: Which film director won the Oscar for Best Picture for the film 12 Years a Slave in 2013?
Answer: Steve McQueen

Question: Bradley Walsh plays Detective Sergeant Ronnie Brooks in which TV series?
Answer: Law and Order: UK

Question: Valerie Trierweiler was the partner for some years of which politician?
Answer: Francois Hollande

Question: What is featured in the centre of the flag of Uganda?
Answer: A Bird

Question: Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and which other metal?
Answer: Silver

Question: In which British Overseas Territory does a Ceremony of the Keys take place every year?
Answer: Gibraltar

Question: Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and which other actor starred in both The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape films?
Answer: James Coburn

Question: Which actor starred in both The Magnificent Seven and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly films?
Answer: Eli Wallach

Question: The MP4-12c super car is made by which manufacturer?
Answer: McLaren

Question: Who was the wife of Richard III?
Answer: Anne

Question: What was Britain's first designated New Town, established by the New Towns Act 1945?
Answer: Stevenage

Question: What is the common name of the plant hedera helix?
Answer: Ivy

Question: Who is the only man to win both a Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw

Question: Who was the Swedish scientist 1814-1874 who has a unit of length named after him?
Answer: Anders Jonas Angstrom

Question: Which comedienne and TV actress's 2008 autobiography is entitled Dear Fatty?
Answer: Dawn French

Question: During the Wars of the Roses, Richard Duke of York (father of Richard III) was killed at which battle of 1460?
Answer: Wakefield