| 1 | Which king had a favourite called Piers Gaveston? |
|---|---|
| Edward II | |
| 2 | Which country's capital is Vientiane? |
| Laos | |
| 3 | Who directed the Nazi propaganda film "Triumph of The Will"? |
| Leni Riefenstahl | |
| 4 | Which Shakespeare play takes place in Illyria? |
| Twelfth Night | |
| 5 | Salxurois, Tarentais and Rigottes are French varieties of what? |
| Cheese | |
| 6 | Which element has the symbol K? |
| Potassium | |
| 7 | Who founded the Order of the Friars Preachers, or Blackfriars? |
| St Dominic | |
| 8 | Which British airport has the designation ABZ? |
| Aberdeen | |
| 9 | What commodity has measurements called double crown, royal, demy and large post? |
| Paper | |
| 10 | Which of the Goons played Neddie Seagoon? |
| Harry Secombe | |
| 11 | In which sport is Wayne Gretsky a famous name? |
| Ice hockey | |
| 12 | Snow Hill and New Street are railway stations in which city? |
| Birmingham | |
| 13 | Which two poets edited the anthologies "The Rattlebag" and "The Schoolbag"? |
| Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes |
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| 14 | What is the common name for the flower antirrhinum majus? |
| Snapdragon | |
| 15 | Who was the grandson of Ruth and the father of King David? |
| Jesse | |
| 16 | What is the inscription on the Victoria Cross? |
| "For Valour" | |
| 17 | In what year did Lester Piggott first win the Derby? |
| 1954 | |
| 18 | By what name was Saloth Sar better known? |
| Pol Pot | |
| 19 | Who was the original host of The Crystal Maze? |
| Richard O’Brien | |
| 20 | Who invented the whirlpool bath? |
| Candido Jacuzzi | |
| 21 | Who won the women’s singles at Wimbledon in 1998, at the third attempt? |
| Jana Novotna | |
| 22 | Who wrote the very bad novels Irene Iddlesleigh and Delina Delaney? |
| Amanda McKittrick Ros | |
| 23 | What does a numismatist collect? |
| Coins and medals | |
| 24 | Which of the Bront ë sister novelists was the youngest? |
| Anne | |
| 25 | From which language do we get the words turquoise and yoghurt? |
| Turkish | |
| 26 | Who is the patron saint of taxi drivers? |
| St Fiacre | |
| 27 | Who succeeded Ossie Ardiles as manager of Spurs? |
| Gerry Francis | |
| 28 | Lys Assia was the first winner of what? |
| Eurovision Song Contest | |
| 29 | Of what is pogonophobia the fear? |
| Beards | |
| 30 | At which Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit are the Tamburello and Acque Minerale? |
| Imola (San Marino) | |
| 31 | Who was the first Prime Minister to occupy Chequers? |
| David Lloyd George | |
| 32 | Sea fans and sea whips are types of what? |
| Coral | |
| 33 | Formigas and Terceira are in which island group? |
| Azores | |
| 34 | Cliff Barnes and Ray Krebbs were characters in which soap opera? |
| Dallas | |
| 35 | What colour are triple word scores in Scrabble? |
| Red | |
| 36 | Who designed the new Coventry Cathedral? |
| Sir Basil Spence | |
| 37 | Who is the current Poet Laureate? |
| Andrew Motion | |
| 38 | Which team does Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong ride for? |
| US Postal / Discovery Channel(either acceptable as team name changed this year) |
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| 39 | Where is the Bay of Rainbows? |
| On the Moon | |
| 40 | Which nation fought the Greeks at Thermopylae and in the sea battle of Salamis? |
| Persians | |
| 41 | Mogigraphia is the medical term for what condition? |
| Writer’s Cramp | |
| 42 | What is the collective name for a group of rhinoceros? |
| A crash | |
| 43 | Which country did the composer Sibelius come from? |
| Finland | |
| 44 | Who is the Norse goddess of the Underworld? |
| Hel | |
| 45 | What two ingredients make the drink Black Velvet? |
| Guinness & Champagne | |
| 46 | What is measured with an anemometer? |
| Wind speed | |
| 47 | What name is given to a male horse aged under 4? |
| Colt | |
| 48 | What sport do the Sacramento Kings play? |
| Basketball | |
| 49 | On which river does Warsaw stand? |
| Vistula | |
| 50 | What is the starsign of a person born on 11 November? |
| Scorpio | |
| 51 | What was the name of the dog launched into space in Sputnik II in 1957? |
| Laika | |
| 52 | On which island is the Samarian Gorge? |
| Crete | |
| 53 | Who was Richard Nixon’s first vice-president? |
| Spiro T Agnew | |
| 54 | What was Roger Moore's last film as James Bond? |
| A View to a Kill | |
| 55 | Which team were the first winners of the European Cup? |
| Real Madrid | |
| 56 | Who played "Gloria" in It Ain't Half Hot, Mum? |
| Melvyn Hayes | |
| 57 | The pineapple plant is native to which continent? |
| South America | |
| 58 | In which sport are there moves called Triffus, Rudolph and Miller? |
| Trampolining | |
| 59 | Who wrote the play Androcles and the Lion? |
| George Bernard Shaw | |
| 60 | Which real island, famed in fiction, is approximately 25 miles south of Elba? |
| Monte Cristo | |
| 61 | Which injured player did Ian Woosnam replace in the 1995 European Ryder Cup team? |
| Jose Maria Orzabel | |
| 62 | How many No 1 singles did Take That have? |
| Eight | |
| 63 | Which river was first explored by Mungo Park? |
| The Niger | |
| 64 | Which letter is one dot and one dash in Morse code? |
| A | |
| 65 | Who opened a shop called Nostalgia of Mud in 1982? |
| Vivienne Westwood | |
| 66 | How many locks are there on the Suez Canal? |
| None | |
| 67 | Which gangster put a price on Han Solo’s head? |
| Jabba The Hutt | |
| 68 | Which Mycenaean king besieged Troy after the abduction of Helen by Paris? |
| Agamemnon | |
| 69 | Who became the first prime minister of India in after the country’s independence? |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| 70 | What nationality was the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard? |
| Danish | |
| 71 | Which poet wrote "The Saltwater Ballads"? |
| John Masefield | |
| 72 | By what name was dancer Edris Stannus better known? |
| Ninette de Valois | |
| 73 | Who scored 11 goals for QPR in their first season in Europe? |
| Stan Bowles | |
| 74 | Otto Lilienthal was associated with what form of transport? |
| Gliders | |
| 75 | How many tiles are there in a game of mah-jong? |
| 144 | |
| 76 | Which member of the A Team masqueraded as film director Jerry Johnson? |
| Lt Templeton "Faceman" Peck |
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| 77 | Which subject did Gilderoy Lockhart briefly teach at Hogwarts? |
| Defence Against the Dark Arts |
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| 78 | What is the name of the opera singer who appears in many of the Tintin adventures? |
| Bianca Castafiore | |
| 79 | In the books by Franklin W Dixon, what are the first names of the Hardy boys? |
| Frank and Joe | |
| 80 | What were Esteban, Zia and Tao searching for in a TV series? |
| The Mysterious Cities of Gold |
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| 81 | Whose girlfriend was Pandora Braithwaite? |
| Adrian Mole’s | |
| 82 | Which superhero lives in a pillar box? |
| Dangermouse | |
| 83 | If your mansion house needs haunting, who should you call? |
| Rentaghost | |
| 84 | Which wizard created the Shoebox Zoo? |
| Michael Scott | |
| 85 | How are Edward, Humphrey, Edith and Alice Beverly collectively known? |
| Children of the New Forest |
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| 86 | Which singer had a hit with "Milkshake"? |
| Kelis | |
| 87 | What is the name of the tiger in The Jungle Book? |
| Shere Khan | |
| 88 | What is the Brownie Guide motto? |
| Lend A Hand | |
| 89 | How is Princess Aurora better known in the fairy tale? |
| Sleeping Beauty | |
| 90 | Who killed Cock Robin? |
| The sparrow | |
| 91 | Which group performed the official 2005 Comic Relief song? |
| McFly | |
| 92 | What is a Padawan training to be? |
| A Jedi Knight | |
| 93 | What was made by Arnold of Todi, owned by Ramon Lully (aka Cole Hawlings) and wanted by Abner Brown? |
| The Box of Delights | |
| 94 | What was the name of the rabbit in Henry’s Cat? |
| Chris Rabbit | |
| 95 | Whose vacuum cleaner is called Noo-Noo? |
| The Teletubbies' | |
| 96 | Which of the Spice Girls was Scary? |
| Mel B | |
| 97 | Who was married to Nooka, Princess of the Nooks? |
| Noggin the Nog | |
| 98 | Who does Ned Flanders live next door to? |
| The Simpsons | |
| 99 | Who laughed when the cow jumped over the Moon? |
| The little dog | |
| 100 | Where do Edie McCredie and Miss Hoolie live? |
| Balamory |