If you have this book and would like it in electronic format, here it is. I have posted it because I have not found an electronic version, Do not rip it unless you have it already.
I quite like this book as the pitch seems about right, not impossible, nor insulting, and a pretty even standard throughout
Question | Answer | Page# |
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What is the chemical symbol for copper | Cu | 004 01 |
Who became King of England in 1327 | Edward 3 | 004 02 |
Which movie actor starred in From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry and Birdmon of Alcatraz | Burt Lancaster | 004 03 |
Which is the third highest mountain in the world | Kangchenjunga | 004 04 |
Which country’s football team won the 1978 World Cup | Argentina | 004 05 |
Who was the last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland before the Stormont Parliament was suspended in 1972 | Brian Faulkner | 004 06 |
In which song did 10cc say they’d ‘had an eyeful of the tower in France’ | ‘Life Is A Minestrone | 004 07 |
What is the state capital of Pennsylvania | Harrisburg | 004 08 |
Which enduring character was created by Bob Clampett for the 1938 cartoon Panky’s Hare Hunt | Bugs Bunny | 004 09 |
What nationality was the artist Goya | Spanish | 004 10 |
What is a kinkajou | An animal | 004 11 |
What job links Julian Clary, Carol Smillie and Chris Evans | They all once worked as singing telegrams I | 004 12 |
Which is the largest county in Ireland | Cork | 004 13 |
Which of these is not one of The Corrs —Andrea, Colleen, Sharon | Colleen | 004 14 |
Who played the ‘Man With No Name’ in the 1964 film A Fistful of Dollars | Clint Eastwood | 004 15 |
What are the only two poisonous lizards in the world | Gila monster and the beaded lizard | 004 16 |
Which English monarch lost the Crown jewels in The Wash | King John | 005 01 |
Which sport has a lane 60 ft tong from the foul line to the centre of the head pin | Tenpin Bowling | 005 02 |
In which village does Postman Pat live | Greendale | 005 03 |
What was the name of the eagle that famously escaped from London Zoo in 1965 | Goldie | 005 04 |
Who preceded John Paul II as Pope | John Paul I | 005 05 |
Which bird has the largest wingspan | The wandering albatross | 005 06 |
What date is St George’s Day | 23 April | 005 07 |
The Lempira is the national currency of which country | Honduras | 005 08 |
Which composer wrote ‘The Damnation Of Faust’ | Berlioz | 005 09 |
Who won the County Cricket Championship in 2001 | Yorkshire | 005 10 |
Cranesbill is the wild form of which garden flower | Geranium | 005 11 |
Which Hollywood director made a cameo appearance as the clerk who received Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi’s money at the end of The Blues Brothers | Steven Spielberg | 005 12 |
In which year did Sir Alec Douglas-Home become British Prime Minister | 1963 | 005 13 |
What is the process by which green plants trap light energy and use it to form carbohydrates | Photosynthesis | 005 14 |
Which band backed singer Jimmy James | The Vagabonds | 005 15 |
In which English city did Roger Bannister become the first athlete to run a mile in under four minutes | Oxford | 005 16 |
Which band’s 1986 album was titled ‘London 0 Hull 4’ | The Housemartins | 006 01 |
Which plumber’s mare was discovered by Hollywood after being called out to unblock producer Mack Sennett’s pipes | ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle | 006 02 |
Which is the largest English county | North Yorkshire | 006 03 |
Who wrote The Birthday Party | Harold Pinter | 006 04 |
Which river flows through Vienna, Bratislava and Belgrade | The Danube | 006 05 |
What was the name of Steptoe and Son’s horse | Hercules | 006 06 |
What is the only bird that can fly backwards | The hummingbird | 006 07 |
Whose last words were: ‘I shall hear in heaven! | Beethoven | 006 08 |
What did Kenneth Williams, William Wordsworth and Napoleon all suffer from | Piles | 006 09 |
What was Jane Russell’s real first name | Ernestine | 006 10 |
Tallinn is the capital of which country | Estonia | 006 11 |
Which massacre took place on 24 August 1572 | The Massacre of St. Bartholomew | 006 12 |
Which Premiership club moved to a new ground at the start of the 2001-2 season | Southampton | 006 13 |
Which comedian rowed for the defeated Cambridge crew in the 1980 University Boat Race | Hugh Laurie | 006 14 |
Which London Underground station had its name changed to Barbican in 1968 | Aldersgate | 006 15 |
What item of office equipment did American George C. Beidler invent in 1903 | Photocopier | 006 16 |
Otto Stich was President of which country in 1988 and 1994 | Switzerland | 007 01 |
What is foil brand name Alcan an abbreviation of | Aluminium of Canada | 007 02 |
Which actor played seven different characters in the 1965 film The Family Jewels | Jerry Lewis | 007 03 |
Which group had a number one hit with ‘Tiger Feet’ | Mud | 007 04 |
In which century was Sir Isaac Newton born | 17th | 007 05 |
Which tree has the Latin name Fagus pupurea | Copper beech | 007 06 |
In which country is the Itatinga waterfall | Brazil | 007 07 |
Which phrase is taken from the French meaning ‘blank sheet of paper’ | Carte blanche | 007 08 |
Which horse won the Grand National in 2000 | Papillon | 007 09 |
Which architect designed Brighton Pavilion | John Nash | 007 10 |
Who was King of France from breakfast until tea-time on 2 August | Louis XIX | 007 11 |
Which legendary American golfer was played by Glenn Ford in the 195 I movie Follow the Sun | Ben Hogan | 007 12 |
Which of these is not a prime number — 5, 7, 9, II | 9 | 007 13 |
Which English chemist discovered oxygen | Joseph Priestley | 007 14 |
Who wrote Swallows and Amazons | Arthur Ransome | 007 15 |
Which wars featured the Battle of Quatre Bras | The Napoleonic Wars | 007 16 |
Which Alastair is a member of the Channel 4 horse racing team | Alastair Down | 008 01 |
The larva of which insect is known as a leatherjacket | Crane-fly | 008 02 |
Tyre is a port in which country | Lebanon | 008 03 |
Who directed the 1978 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Philip Kaufman | 008 04 |
In which month of the year does the Le Mans 24-Hour Race traditionally take place | June | 008 05 |
Which nation has Dzongkha as its official language | Bhutan | 008 06 |
Who was the Roman God of war | Mars | 008 07 |
Which football club used to be called Thames Ironworks | West Ham United | 008 08 |
In which country is Cluedo’s Colonel Mustard known as Madame Curry | Switzerland | 008 09 |
The first sets of dentures were used in which century | 16th | 008 10 |
Which is the second-longest river in the world | Amazon | 008 11 |
Who turned down the Oliver Reed role in the 1969 film Women in Love because of the nude wrestling scene with Alan Bates | Michael Caine | 008 12 |
What species of animal is a vicuna | Llama | 008 13 |
Who became US President in 1928 | Herbert Hoover | 008 14 |
Allium cepa is the Latin name for which vegetable | Onion | 008 15 |
Who had Sixties hits with ‘Zabadak’ and ‘The Legend Of Xanadu’ | Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich | 008 16 |
What bird is also known as the ‘butcher-bird’ | Shrike | 009 01 |
Which town is the administrative headquarters of Shropshire | Shrewsbury | 009 02 |
At which battle was James, Duke of Monmouth, defeated in 1685 as he tried to seize the English throne | Sedgemoor | 009 03 |
What was the Christian name of the newspaper cartoonist Lancaster | Osbert | 009 04 |
Which Hollywood actor was born Roy Scherer Jnr | Rock Hudson | 009 05 |
What did Alfred Cruickshank claim to have seen in 1923 | Loch Ness Monster | 009 06 |
What do Jim Bowen and Franz Schubert have in common | They were both schoolteachers | 009 07 |
Who became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1990 | Norman Lamont | 009 08 |
What nationality was naturalist Carolus Linnaeus | Swedish | 009 09 |
HKJ is the international index mark for vehicles in which country | Jordan | 009 10 |
Which girl’s name means ‘serpent’ | Linda | 009 11 |
Who was President of France from 1981 to 1995 | François Mitterand | 009 12 |
Which Sixties pop star played Len Fairciough’s son Stanley in Coronation Street | Peter Noone (Herman’s Hermits) | 009 13 |
In Argentine currency, how many australes are there in a peso | I 0,000 | 009 14 |
Which country ‘s national anthem is ‘Inno di Mameli’ | Italy | 009 15 |
What was 19 October 1987 otherwise known as in financial circles | Black Monday | 009 16 |
In which Carry On film did Richard O’Brien (of Rocky Horror Show fame) appear as an extra | Carry On Cowboy | 010 01 |
Which Fifties singer changed his name from Harold Jenkins | Conway Twitty | 010 02 |
Who painted The Hay Wain | john Constable | 010 03 |
What material did Frenchman Pierre Carpentier invent in I 853 | Corrugated iron | 010 04 |
In which year did Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space | 1961 | 010 05 |
On which island is the volcanic mountain Big Ben | Heard Island | 010 06 |
In which city were the 1956 Olympic Games staged | Melbourne | 010 07 |
In which century did Marco Polo first travel to China | 13th | 010 08 |
In Greek mythology, who was the twin brother of Castor | PolIux | 010 09 |
Who lived in Ivor the Engin&s boiler | Idris the dragon | 010 10 |
Who said of Margaret Thatcher: ‘I wouldn’t say she is open-minded on the Middle East, so much as empty-headed. She probably thinks Sinai is the plural of sinus’ | Jonathan Aitken | 010 11 |
Where was the Grand National run between 1916 and 1918 | Gatwick | 010 12 |
What nationality was the artist Magritte | Belgian | 010 13 |
Who starred in Bad Day at Black Rock and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner | Spencer Tracy | 010 14 |
Which title was John Flamsteed the first to hold, in 1675 | Astronomer Royal | 010 15 |
What was the Christian name of the furniture designer Chippendale | Thomas | 010 16 |
Which singer released a 1974 album titled ‘Caribou’ | Elton John | 011 01 |
Who won the 1968 FA Cup Final | West Bromwich Albion | 011 02 |
Which religious group whipped themselves into a frenzy in the Middle Ages | The Flagellants | 011 03 |
What fraction of an ounce is equal to a dram | One sixteenth | 011 04 |
Who originally presented the TV quiz Take Your Pick | Michael Miles | 011 05 |
Who called Billy Idol ‘the Perry Como of punk’ | Johnny Rotten | 011 06 |
Which Hollywood actor was born Stephen Burton | Burt Lancaster | 011 07 |
Which capital city means ‘black pool’ | Dublin | 011 08 |
At which battle of 15 13 was King James IV of Scotland killed | Flodden | 011 09 |
In pre-decimalisation currency, how much was a form worth | Two shillings | 011 10 |
In which year did India achieve independence from Britain | 1947 | 011 11 |
In Greek mythology, who was the sorceress daughter of the King of Colchis | Medea | 011 12 |
In which English county is Thetford | Norfolk | 011 13 |
Which female icon was created by Ruth Handler in 1959 | Barbie | 011 14 |
Who was known as ‘The Flanders Mare’ | Anne of Cleves | 011 15 |
Which Austrian-born composer, who was superstitious about the number 13, died on Friday the I 3th at 13 minutes to midnight | Arnold Schonberg | 011 16 |
What is the state capital of Delaware | Dover | 012 01 |
What bird is the symbol of the United States | Eagle | 012 02 |
Which sitcom starred Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox as Geoffrey and Beryl | The Lovers | 012 03 |
What is an animal without a backbone called | An invertebrate | 012 04 |
Which explorer has the middle name Twistleton-Wykeham | Sir Ranulph Fiennes | 012 05 |
Which style of architecture is distinguished by vertical lines of tall pillars, and by pointed arches | Gothic | 012 06 |
How many gold medals did swimmer Mark Spitz win at the 1972 Olympics | Seven | 012 07 |
In which year did Sir Winston Churchill die | 1965 | 012 08 |
Who was Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1968 | John Masefleld | 012 09 |
Who was the last King of Austria | Karl I | 012 10 |
Which children’s TV presenter released records as Bombalurina | Timmy Mallett | 012 11 |
In which country does the Henley-on-Todd Regatta take place | Australia | 012 12 |
With which football team did Angus Deayton have trials | Crystal Palace | 012 13 |
What is rolled down Cooper’s Hill in Gloucestershire | Cheese | 012 14 |
Where are your metatarsals | In your feet | 012 15 |
In which play did Mrs Malaprop first appear | The Rivals | 012 16 |
What nationality is the film director Milos Forman | Czech | 013 01 |
In which county did the north-bound M I end when it opened in 1959 | Northamptonshire | 013 02 |
Which former member of The Shadows was electrocuted by his guitar | John Rostill | 013 03 |
Which country are the reigning Olympic rugby union champions | USA (they took gold in 1924 when rugby union was last an Olympic sport) | 013 04 |
Roughly how many islands make up the Hebrides — 100, 300, 500 | 500 | 013 05 |
Which three countries make up Benelux | Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg | 013 06 |
Who did Jimmy Carter defeat in the 1976 US Presidential election | Gerald Ford | 013 07 |
What is the Chilean pine tree commonly known as | Monkey puzzle | 013 08 |
What was the name of the British policewoman killed in the 1984 Libyan embassy protest | Yvonne Fletcher | 013 09 |
Which TV sitcom originated from a stage play called The Banana Box | Rising Damp | 013 10 |
Which poet and garden designer was married to Harold Nicolson | Vita Sackville-West | 013 11 |
In which year was the General Strike | 1926 | 013 12 |
What is the world’s oldest classic horse race | St Leger | 013 13 |
What links Cliff Richard and Vivien Leigh | Both were born in India | 013 14 |
What is a common spadefoot | A European toad | 013 15 |
Which Irish novelist won the 1993 Booker Prize | Roddy Doyle | 013 16 |
Which star died during filming of his movie, Game of Death, _J in 1973 | Bruce Lee | 014 01 |
For which constituency is Tony Blair the MP | Sedgefield | 014 02 |
Which three colours are in Germany’s national flag | Black, red and gold | 014 03 |
During which battle did the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade take place | Balaclava | 014 04 |
What was Debussy’s Christian name | Claude | 014 05 |
Which edifice was built on the orders of Shih HuangTi | Great Wall of China | 014 06 |
Libreville is the capital of which African country | Gabon | 014 07 |
In which city is the Lion’s Gate Bridge | Vancouver | 014 08 |
What does Spam stand for | Shoulder Pork and hAM | 014 09 |
Which boxer starred as prizefighter John Gully in the 1975 film Royal flash | Henry Cooper | 014 10 |
Which bird, one of the commonest in the world in 1814, became extinct a century later | Passenger pigeon | 014 11 |
What is the nickname of the American state of Ohio | Buckeye State | 014 12 |
In which continent is Mt. Erebus | Antarctica | 014 13 |
Which yuppie banker did Rodney marry in Only Fools And Horses | Cassandra | 014 14 |
Who told electors in 1959: ‘You’ve never had it so good’ | Harold Macmillan | 014 15 |
Who composed ‘The Firebird’ | Stravinsky | 014 16 |
Which was Britain’s first pirate radio station | Radio Caroline | 015 01 |
Who broke into the Queen’s bedroom in 1982 | Michael Fagan | 015 02 |
What is the staple diet of the koala bear | Eucalyptus shoots | 015 03 |
Whatwas signed on l5June 1215 | Magna Carta | 015 04 |
Which Irish adventurer attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London in 1671 | Colonel Blood | 015 05 |
Which resort is located at the north-eastern edge of Exmoor | Minehead | 015 06 |
Which group had a number one hit in 1966 with ‘Keep On Running’ | Spencer Davis Group | 015 07 |
Which Brazilian footballer was nicknamed ‘Little Bird’ | Garrincha | 015 08 |
Which plant has the Latin name Centaurea cyanus | Cornflower | 015 09 |
Which art movement originated in Paris in 1905 with the founding of the Salon d’Automne | Fauvism | 015 10 |
In which year did the UK join the European Union | 1973 | 015 11 |
April 25 is which national holiday in Australia and New Zealand | Anzac Day | 015 12 |
What is Gregory Peck’s first name | Eldred | 015 13 |
As whom was TV fitness expert Derrick Evans better known | Mr Motivator | 015 14 |
Which football club plays at Spotland | Rochdale | 015 15 |
Which novelist wrote The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra and Where Eagles Dare | Alistair MacLean | 015 16 |
Which is the only ten-letter word that can be spelt just using the top row of letters of a keyboard | Typewriter | 016 01 |
In which state is Detroit | Michigan | 016 02 |
Who was the first English King from the House of Lancaster | Henry IV | 016 03 |
The okapi is a member of which animal family | Giraffe | 016 04 |
Which were the five original Cinque Ports | Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, Romney and Hastings | 016 05 |
In which country could you buy a chocolate bar called Plopp | Sweden | 016 06 |
The isis is the upper stretch of which English river | Thames | 016 07 |
Which Spanish rider won the Tour de France five years in a row from 1991.5 | Miguel Indurain | 016 08 |
Which knight of the stage played his last-ever role, as a pub landlord in Paul McCartney’s film Give My Regards to Broad Street | Sir Ralph Richardson | 016 09 |
As whom is Marvin Lee Aday better known | Meat Loaf | 016 10 |
Which football club held the FA Cup for eight years even though they won it only once | Portsmouth (who won the Cup in 1939, the competition not resuming until after the war) | 016 11 |
What is a dugong | A marine mammal | 016 12 |
Which Chinese dynasty began mAD 618 and ended in 907 | Tang | 016 13 |
In which English county is Gotham | Nottinghamshire | 016 14 |
How many points are scored by kicking the ball into the net in Gaelic football | Three | 016 15 |
Who was the subject of the Neil Sedaka song ‘Oh Carol’ | Carole King | 016 16 |
In which English county is Biggin Hill airport | Kent | 017 01 |
What is the international vehicle index mark for Israel | IL | 017 02 |
Who said: ‘Hey, don’t knock masturbation! It’s sex with someone I love! | Woody Allen in Annie HaIl | 017 03 |
Which law enforcers made their first appearance in London in 1960 | Traffic wardens | 017 04 |
What was Bodie’s first name in The Professionals | William | 017 05 |
Which letter do more capital cities start with than any other | B | 017 06 |
Approximately how many years ago did heated rollers first come into use for hair.styling | 4000 (the ancient Egyptians used them) | 017 07 |
Which Welsh town means ‘Vale of the Crow’ | Cymbran | 017 08 |
What colour are the flowers of the lily of the valley | White | 017 09 |
Of which political party was Benjamin Disraeli the leader | The Tories | 017 10 |
What is 44 in Roman numerals | XLIV | 017 11 |
What is the official language of Surinam | Dutch | 017 12 |
Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys made up which Eighties band | OMD | 017 13 |
Who created the priestly detective Father Brown | G.K. Chesterton | 017 14 |
Who was Henry VIll’s fifth wife | Catherine Howard | 017 15 |
How did the Roman Emperor Clauclius die | He choked to death on a feather put down his throat by doctors to make him vomit | 017 16 |
In which country is the Atacama Desert | Chile | 018 01 |
What name links a London football ground with an 11th century battle on English soil | Stamford Bridge | 018 02 |
Which silent movie star was insured for $100,000 against the possibility of his eyes ever becoming normal again | Ben Turpin | 018 03 |
Who wrote Lady Windermere’s Fan | Oscar Wilde | 018 04 |
ABC and Va are national newspapers published in which European city | Madrid | 018 05 |
Who discovered penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 018 06 |
In which country was gin first produced | Holland | 018 07 |
Who was the first female presenter of Blue Peter | Leila Williams | 018 08 |
What was the title of Oasis’s first UK. number one single | ‘Some Might Say | 018 09 |
Which notorious killer had the first names Hawley Harvey | Crippen | 018 10 |
Which country owns the Galapagos Islands | Ecuador | 018 11 |
What did a Bolton Wanderers fan throw in front of Wolves manager Graham Taylor in 1995 to incur a £60 fine | A turnip | 018 12 |
In which English county is the Forest of Dean | Gloucestershire | 018 13 |
What did Ahmed Zewail win in 1999 | The Nobel Prize for Chemistry | 018 14 |
Which Scandinavian country is not a member of the European Union | Norway | 018 15 |
In which year was the Falklands conflict | I 982 | 018 16 |
Whose black bra fetched £4,600 at auction in 1997 | Madonna | 019 01 |
2002 is the year of which animal in the Chinese calendar | Horse | 019 02 |
Which is the largest state in Australia | Western Australia | 019 03 |
What is a bushbuck | An antelope | 019 04 |
Who wrote Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 019 05 |
At which important event did Mr S.R. Bastard officiate in 1878 | The FA Cup Final | 019 06 |
What was the name of the girlfriend that The Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious was charged with murdering | Nancy Spungen | 019 07 |
Which Hollywood star got his big break when, working as a telephone repair man, he went to mend the phone of drama coach Josephine Dillon who promptly took him under her wing | Clark Gable | 019 08 |
What is ‘Flymo’ an abbreviation of | Flying mower | 019 09 |
Which safety device was invented by Edwin I Holmes in 1858 | Burglar alarm | 019 10 |
Who won Britain’s only athletics gold medal at the 1960 Olympics | Don Thompson (50km Walk) | 019 11 |
Which tanker spilt over 200,000 tons of oil into the English Channel after drifting onto rocks off the coast of Brittany in 1978 | Amoco Cadiz | 019 12 |
Who composed the ‘New World Symphony’ | Dvorak | 019 13 |
Which actress was born Frances Gumm | Judy Garland | 019 14 |
Vilnius is the capital of which country | Lithuania | 019 15 |
Who was the last Hanoverian monarch to rule England | Queen Victoria | 019 16 |
After running out of ammunition at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, with what did the Turks pelt Austrian soldiers | Oranges and lemons | 020 01 |
Who were the first British group to top the US singles chart | The Tornados (‘Telstar’) | 020 02 |
Which US presidential candidate went on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In to say ‘Sock it to me’ | Richard Nixon | 020 03 |
Behind Greenland, what is the second largest island in the world | New Guinea | 020 04 |
Malaria is caused by which insect | Mosquito | 020 05 |
Tresco Airport is on which islands7 | Scilly Isles | 020 06 |
Which actor’s films have included Ricochet; Crimson Tide and Courage Under Fire | Denzel Washington | 020 07 |
Who was the last British golfer to win the Open | Paul Lawrie | 020 08 |
What does the surname of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl mean in English | Cabbage | 020 09 |
Whom did John Hinckley attempt to assassinate in 1981 | Ronald Reagan | 020 10 |
What type of commercials did ITV bàn in 1965 | Cigarette commercials | 020 11 |
What metric unit of area is equal to 100 acres or 10,000 square metres | Hectare | 020 12 |
Who wrote Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen | 020 13 |
What is a teasel | A prickly herb | 020 14 |
What links Prince Andrew and Leslie Ash | Both were born on 19 February 1960 | 020 15 |
Which TV crimebuster used to sign off with the words ‘Keep ‘em peeled’ | Shaw Taylor (Police 5) | 020 16 |
In which country is the Vestre Mardola waterfall | Norway | 021 01 |
The name of which European capital city means ‘merchants’ harbour’ | Copenhagen | 021 02 |
Of which co-star did Tony Curtis say: ‘It’s like kissing Hitler’ | Marilyn Monroe | 021 03 |
Aaron Kosminski, James Maybrick and Dr Francis Tumblety were all suspected of what | Being Jack the Ripper | 021 04 |
Which King of England died after eating a surfeit of lampreys at a banquet in France | Henry I | 021 05 |
Who is the patron saint of laundry workers | St Veronica | 021 06 |
Which guitarist is known as ‘Old Slow Hand’ | Eric Clapton | 021 07 |
Who was the first foreign football manager to win the Premiership | Ars(neWenger (1998) | 021 08 |
What was the name of the bear in Rainbow | Bungle | 021 09 |
Whom did James Callaghan defeat in the 1976 Labour leadership contest | Michael Foot | 021 10 |
Which show opened in London in 1970, promising ‘an evening of elegant erotica’ | Oh Calcutta! | 021 11 |
Which spy escaped from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966 | George Blake | 021 12 |
Which town is the administrative headquarters of Dyfed | Carmarthen | 021 13 |
Which game was invented in 1875 by British army officers serving with the Devonshire Regiment in India | Snooker | 021 14 |
Which resort was the setting for the first Butlin’s holiday camp | Skegness | 021 15 |
What is a sirocco | A wind | 021 16 |
Which Hollywood star was once employed as a rat catcher by a theatre in Washington D.C. | Warren Beatty | 022 01 |
What was invented by King Camp Gillette in 1895 | Safety razor | 022 02 |
What are inhabitants of Indiana known as | Hoosiers | 022 03 |
Which Australian port is located at the mouth of the Swan River | Fremantle | 022 04 |
What does BAFTA stand for | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | 022 05 |
What is the capital of Bahrain | Manama | 022 06 |
To which World War Two device did Donald Coleman Bailey end his name | Bailey bridge | 022 07 |
What did Peter the Hermit lead in 1095 | The First Crusade | 022 08 |
Crabs, lobsters and shrimps are all members of which class of creatures | Crustacean | 022 09 |
In which field event does Jan Zelezny specialise | Javelin | 022 10 |
Which building worker from AufWiedersehen, Pet used to be a stalwart of the West Bromwich and District Table Tennis League | Barry | 022 11 |
In which year was the Berlin Wall dismantled | 1989 | 022 12 |
What is the chemical symbol for sulphuric acid | H2S04 | 022 13 |
Which British Prime Minister resigned following the Suez crisis | Anthony Eden | 022 14 |
Who were the Knickerbocker School | Group of I 9th century US writers from New York State | 022 15 |
In which war was the Battle of Marston Moor | English Civil War | 022 16 |
Of whom did Cybill Shepherd say: ‘His idea of a romantic kiss was to go “blaaah” and gag me with his tongue’ | Bruce Willis | 023 01 |
Which Football League club are nicknamed ‘The Grecians’1 | Exeter City | 023 02 |
In which year did Brotherhood of Man win the Eurovision Song Contest | 1976 | 023 03 |
What is the surname of Handy Andy from Changing Rooms | Kane | 023 04 |
Who wrote Ivanhoe | Sir Walter Scott | 023 05 |
Who was the first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope | Bartholomew Diaz | 023 06 |
What is the Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the United Kingdom more commonly known as | Burke’s Peerage | 023 07 |
What is a ‘willy-willy’ to Australians1 | Hurricane | 023 08 |
How many events are there in the heptathlon | Seven | 023 09 |
Which is America’s Bluegrass State | Kentucky | 023 10 |
What breed of animal did the extinct quagga most resemble | Zebra | 023 11 |
In which sport do participants compete for Doggett’s Coat and Badge | Rowing | 023 12 |
Which long-running British TV sci-fi series began in 1963 the day after President Kennedy’s assassination | Doctor Who | 023 13 |
Jaffna, Galle and Negombo are ports in which country | Sri Lanka | 023 14 |
What colour are the flowers of the saffron | Purp[e | 023 15 |
Which river does Canada’s Victoria jubilee Bridge cross | St Lawrence River | 023 16 |
What colours feature on the national flag of El Salvador | Sky blue and white | 024 01 |
What was introduced to Britain on 15 February 1971 | Decimalisation | 024 02 |
What did Norway’s Johann Vaaler invent in 1900 | Paper clip | 024 03 |
In which year did Shergar win The Derby | 1981 | 024 04 |
The clarinet belongs to which group of musical instruments | Woodwind | 024 05 |
Which 17th century judge conducted the ‘bloody assizes’ | Judge Jeifreys | 024 06 |
Brian Connolly was the singer with which Seventies band | Sweet | 024 07 |
What colour does jaundice make the skin | Yellow | 024 08 |
The Battle of Inkerman took place during which war | Crimean War | 024 09 |
Who played Elizabeth R on TV | Glenda Jackson | 024 10 |
What nationality was Henry the Navigator | Portuguese | 024 11 |
Who was Lenny the Lion’s human partner | Terry Hall | 024 12 |
Which is the only creature where the male becomes pregnant | Seahorse | 024 13 |
Which is the only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible | Cat | 024 14 |
Which future Hollywood tough-guy had to wear his sister’s hand-me- down dresses to school because his miIy were so poor | Charles Bronson | 024 15 |
Which Cherokee Indian had a UK number one hit in 1958 | Marvin Rainwater | 024 16 |
Who became President of France following the resignation of Charles de Gaulle | Georges Pompidou | 025 01 |
Which two artists had UK number ones with ‘Everything I Own’ | Ken Boothe and Boy George | 025 02 |
Of whom did Fanny Brice say: ‘Wet she’s a star. Dry, she ain’t’ | Esther Williams | 025 03 |
Which American singer was once ranked joint 85th in the world for the high jump | johnny Mathis | 025 04 |
What was the name of golfer Peter Alliss’s father who played in three Ryder Cups for Britain | Percy Alliss | 025 05 |
Ponce is an industrial port in which country | Puerto Rico | 025 06 |
Peace, Just Joey and Whisky Mac are all varieties of what | Rose | 025 07 |
Michael Savage was Prime Minister of which country from 1935-40 | New Zealand | 025 08 |
Which BBC newsreader sat on a protesting lesbian during a 1988 invasion of the Six O’Clock News studio | Nicholas Witchell | 025 09 |
What was the name of the mistress who caused Cecil Parkinson’s downfall | Sarah Keays | 025 10 |
In which decade was the first series of The House of Eliott set | I 920s | 025 11 |
Which channel separates Sicily from Italy | Strait of Messina | 025 12 |
Which actress spent a month in a Rome prison in 1982 over income tax irregularities | Sophia Loren | 025 13 |
Which is the only bird with nostrils at the tip of its beak | Kiwi | 025 14 |
Which poet wrote The Song of Hiawatha | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 025 15 |
Which phrase means ‘it does not follow’ in Latin | Non sequitur | 025 16 |
Which former child star was working as a painter and decorator ten years after being nominated for an Oscar for his role in Kramer vs Kramer | justin Henry | 026 01 |
What nationality was Laszlo Biro, inventor of the ball-point pen | Hungarian | 026 02 |
Which German driver raced for Sauber in the 2001 Formula One World Championship | Nick Heidfeld | 026 03 |
On which lake was Donald Campbell killed in Bluebird while attempting to break the World Water Speed Record | Coniston Water | 026 04 |
Who played Rowdy Yates in the TV Western Rawhide before moving on to Hollywood stardom | Clint Eastwood | 026 05 |
Who was President of the Soviet Union from 1977-82 | Leonid Brezhnev | 026 06 |
Who was the second person to set foot on the Moon | Buzz AIdrin | 026 07 |
What Duke was James l’s favourite, George Villiers | Duke of Buckingham | 026 08 |
Which poet wrote Kubla Khan and The Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 026 09 |
Which Sixties band used to be called Dean Ford and the Gaylords | Marmalade | 026 10 |
For which country’s football team did a son replace his father’ during a 1996 international | Iceland (Eidur Gudjohnsen came on for father Arnor) | 026 11 |
What was Bonnie Prince Charlie’s full name | Charles Edward Stuart | 026 12 |
What is the largest wild mammal native to Britain | Red deer | 026 13 |
In which hemisphere is the Tropic of Capricorn | Southern | 026 14 |
Which trade name is derived from the Latin hominis vis, meaning ‘strength of man’ | Hovis | 026 15 |
In which English county is Sir Thomas Tresham’s Triangular Lodge | Northamptonshire | 026 16 |
Which TV programme celebrated only its 13th edition in 2001 even though it began in I 977 | It’ll Be Alright on the Night | 027 01 |
In which decade did the Charleston become a popular dance | I 920s | 027 02 |
Fuad I became King of which country from 1922 | Egypt | 027 03 |
What is a grayling | A freshwater fish | 027 04 |
Which former British Prime Minister once played first-class cricket for Middlesex | Sir Alec Douglas-Home | 027 05 |
In which English county is Jodrell Bank | Cheshire | 027 06 |
What colour was Roobarb the dog in Roobarb and Custard | Green | 027 07 |
Which county cricket club have their headquarters at New Road | Worcestershire | 027 08 |
Which is the second largest of the Great Lakes of North America | Huron | 027 09 |
Who published On the Origin of Species in 1859 | Charles Darwin | 027 10 |
In which century did Samuel Pepys die | 18th | 027 11 |
Which boy’s name means ‘javelin’ | Barry | 027 12 |
Which country stages an annual Grandmothers’ Festival at Bodo in July | Norway | 027 13 |
Which singer didn’t believe in miracles in 1972 | Cohn Blunstone | 027 14 |
Who directed The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola | 027 15 |
Which country’s football teams play in the Bundesliga | Germany | 027 16 |
The first pair of what brand of boots were made from tyres | Doc Martens | 028 01 |
What is the capital of Chile | Santiago | 028 02 |
Which insect can spend over a year in its larval stage yet only lives for a day as an adult | Mayfly | 028 03 |
How many species of bat are there approximately — 500, 800, 1000 | 1000 | 028 04 |
Where on the human body is the femur | The thigh | 028 05 |
The Bessemer process was the first economical method of making which product | Steel | 028 06 |
Which card game originated in 1925 ona steamer travelling from Los Angeles to Havana | Contract bridge | 028 07 |
In which country is the town of Coober Pedy | Australia | 028 08 |
In which county is Blenheim Palace | Oxfordshire | 028 09 |
Which city will stage the 2006 Commonwealth Games | Melbourne | 028 10 |
In which year was the breathalyser first introduced to the UK | 1967 | 028 11 |
Which TV show was first broadcast on New Year’s Day 1964 from a converted Manchester church | TopofthePops | 028 12 |
Tony Hadley was the lead singer with which Eighties band | Spandau Ballet | 028 13 |
Who was found dead in the opening episode of EastEnders | RegCox | 028 14 |
What nationality was the Renaissance scholar Erasmus | Dutch | 028 15 |
Who broke Pete Sampras’s run of Wimbledon tennis victories by winning the 1996 men’s singles title | Richard Krajicek | 028 16 |
Which astronaut’s mother’s maiden name was Moon | Buzz Aldrin | 029 01 |
Which country has a town called A | Norway | 029 02 |
In the TV series, which Batman villain was played by Cesar Romero | The Joker | 029 03 |
For which county cricket team did David Gower play from 1975-89 | Leicestershire | 029 04 |
Who was the god of wine in Roman mythology | Bacchus | 029 05 |
How many players are there in a women’s lacrosse team | 12 | 029 06 |
Who composed ‘The Entertainer’, used as the theme tune for the film The Sting | Scott Joplin | 029 07 |
What is a joule | A unit of work or energy | 029 08 |
Who won the Men’s World Squash Championships six times in the I 980s | Jahangir Khan | 029 09 |
Which battle took place south of Calais on 25 October 1415 | Agincourt | 029 10 |
Where is the administrative centre of Cornwall | Truro | 029 11 |
What does the CIA stand for | Central Intelligence Agency | 029 12 |
Who was the baker in Combe,wick Green | Mickey Murphy | 029 13 |
Which Hollywood actress was born Shirley Schrift before borrowing part of her new name from a poet | Shelley Winters | 029 14 |
What is a dhole | An Asian wild dog | 029 15 |
In which American state is Las Vegas | Nevada | 029 16 |
Which Italian motorcyclist won a record 122 Grands Prix and 15 world titles | Giacomo Agostini | 030 01 |
Which Hollywood actress was nicknamed ‘The Brazilian Bombshell’ | Carmen Miranda | 030 02 |
Which is the world’s most widely-eaten fish | Herring | 030 03 |
In 1995 a carving of John Smith was removed from Labour Party HQ when passers-by mistook it for a statue of which comedian | Eric Morecambe | 030 04 |
What colour are the flowers of agrimony | Yellow | 030 05 |
In which century did the Baroque style dominate European art | 17th | 030 06 |
What is the state capital of Maine | Augusta | 030 07 |
Which architect designed the Royal Greenwich Observatory | Sir Christopher Wren | 030 08 |
Which American novelist wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 030 09 |
Whose only UK hit was the 1979 number one ‘Ring My Bell’ | Anita Ward | 030 10 |
Who were the first British football club to install undersoil heating | Everton | 030 11 |
Which TV cop’s dog was named after a former Canadian Prime Minister | Benton Fraser (Due South): dog Diefenbaker | 030 12 |
What did Jesse W. Reno invent in 1892 | Escalator | 030 13 |
Which Beatle sang backing vocals on David Bowie’s ‘Fame’ | John Lennon | 030 14 |
Tegucigalpa is the capital of which Central American country | Honduras | 030 15 |
What is the governing body of English horse racing | The Jockey Club | 030 16 |
In which year did ITV start | 1955 | 031 01 |
Which Eighties band took their name from Mr Spock’s Vulcan friend in Star Trek | T’Pau | 031 02 |
For which county did former England cricket captain Graham Gooch play | Essex | 031 03 |
On which river does Durham stand | Wear | 031 04 |
What is another name for the marsh marigold | Kingcup | 031 05 |
In which county is Leeds Castle | Kent | 031 06 |
Who was the first British Prime Minister | Sir Robert Walpole | 031 07 |
How many hearts does an octopus have | Three | 031 08 |
Salamanca and Vittoria were battles in which war | The Peninsular War | 031 09 |
Who was the firstTudor King of England | Henry VII | 031 10 |
Who won the long jump at the 1968 Mexico Olympics | Bob Beamon | 031 11 |
Which golfer won his fifth British Open in 1983 | Tom Watson | 031 12 |
Who was defeated at the Battle of Pinkie | Scotland | 031 13 |
In which American state is the San Andreas fault | California | 031 14 |
Which is the highest mountain in North America | Mount McKinley | 031 15 |
In which city were the 1912 Olympic Games staged | Stockholm | 031 16 |
Who wrote The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams | 032 01 |
Which Hollywood beauty used to work as a weather-girl on Sun Lip, a San Diego breakfast show | Raquel Welch | 032 02 |
What nationality is Placido Domingo | Spanish | 032 03 |
In which year did Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister | 1979 | 032 04 |
Which Scottish football team play in Kirkcaldy | Raith Rovers | 032 05 |
Which band were Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart in before The Eurythmics | The Tourists | 032 06 |
Which actress won an Oscar for her role in The Accused | Jodie Foster | 032 07 |
Which country is also known as the Friendly Islands | Tonga | 032 08 |
The Tonton Macoutes were sinister death squads operating on which island | Haiti | 032 09 |
What is a tog | A unit of measure of thermal insulation | 032 10 |
On which continent is Lake Titicaca | South America | 032 11 |
Who lost the Conservative Party leadership contest in 2001 | Kenneth Clarke | 032 12 |
Who was the first British driver to become Formula One World Champion | Mike Hawthorn | 032 13 |
Which American band’s albums include ‘More Songs About Buildings And Food’ and ‘Little Creatures’ | Talking Heads | 032 14 |
In which county is Bosworth Field where Richard Ill met his death | Leicestershire | 032 15 |
What is a Takahe | A flightless bird from New Zealand | 032 16 |
Which club are the only founder members of the Football League still in existence never to have won the FA Cup | Stoke City | 033 01 |
What is the world’s only poisonous bird | The pitohui | 033 02 |
Which country has a brand of soft drink called Pshitt | France | 033 03 |
What is the Welsh for Wales | Cymru | 033 04 |
Of which trade union organisation was Lech Walesa the leader | Solidarity | 033 05 |
Stromboli was a villain in which Disney film | Pinocchio | 033 06 |
Which American singer was born Leslie Charles | Billy Ocean | 033 07 |
Who won Best Actor Oscars in both 1993 and 1994 | Tom Hanks | 033 08 |
What was invented by the mother of Monkee Michael Nesmith | Correction fluid | 033 09 |
What links Jim Reeves, Eddie Cochran and Laurel and Hardy | In each case, their biggest hit was achieved posthumously | 033 10 |
Who was principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra 1968.79 | André Previn | 033 11 |
What was April Dancer otherwise known as | The Girl From UNCLE | 033 12 |
What is the world’s largest rodent | Capybara | 033 13 |
What is a pochard | A type of duck | 033 14 |
On which river does Preston stand | Ribble | 033 15 |
Furze is another name for which bush | Gorse | 033 16 |
Over which helicopter company’s future did Cabinet ministers Michael Heseltine and Leon Brittan resign in 1986 | Westland | 034 01 |
Who were the most successful chart act of 1974 | The Wombles | 034 02 |
What is the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba | Winnipeg | 034 03 |
What is the official language of Togo | French | 034 04 |
Which two university graduates played for Liverpool FC in the I 970s | Steve Heighway and Brian Hall | 034 05 |
Which former Coronation Street actress appeared on the same bill as both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in her days as a club singer | Lynne Perrie | 034 06 |
What put Big Ben back by five minutes in 1945 | A flock of starlings landed on the minute hand | 034 07 |
The New Kip is the currency in which country | Laos | 034 08 |
What was the nickname of King William II of England | ’Rufus | 034 09 |
What was the fictional setting of Howords’Way | Tarrant | 034 10 |
What is the name of the strait between Alaska and Siberia | Bering Strait | 034 11 |
Which of the Teletubbies is yellow | Laa-Laa | 034 12 |
How many times did Bjorn Borg win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon | Five | 034 13 |
What nationality was the inventor of the Bunsen burner | German | 034 14 |
What is the third largest of the Channel Islands | Alderney | 034 15 |
What dog’s name means ‘badger-hound’ | Dachshund | 034 16 |
Which keyboard wizard played synthesiser on David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ | Rick Wakeman | 035 01 |
How many players are there in a netball team | Seven | 035 02 |
Enschede is a town in which country | The Netherlands | 035 03 |
Who became King of Spain in 1975 | Juan Carlos | 035 04 |
Riga is the capital of which country | Latvia | 035 05 |
What kind of animal is a fennec | A desert fox | 035 06 |
Where did The Flowerpot Men suggest going in their 1967 hit | San Francisco | 035 07 |
Which English King was murdered while sitting on the toilet | Edmund Ironside | 035 08 |
What profession did Harry Hill and Anton Chekhov once share | Doctors | 035 09 |
What was Steve McQueen’s first name | Terence | 035 10 |
Which Football League club plays at Roots Hall | Southend United | 035 11 |
What is Rod Stewart’s nickname for Elton John | ‘Sharon | 035 12 |
Which Hollywood actress, who had a morbid fear of water, drowned in 1981 | Natalie Wood | 035 13 |
What did the initials ‘PG.’ in PG. Wodehouse stand for | Pelham Grenville | 035 14 |
In which country are the Angel Falls | Venezuela | 035 15 |
What is a torong | A Vietnamese musical instrument | 035 16 |
Which international singing star failed the audition for Opportunity Knocks | Engelbert Humperdinck | 036 01 |
Which sporting contest is named after an English seed merchant | Ryder Cup | 036 02 |
What is the name of Jim Royle’s wife in The Royle Family | Barbara | 036 03 |
What animals did Dian Fossey study in Rwanda from 1975 | Gorillas | 036 04 |
In which county are the Quantock hills | Somerset | 036 05 |
Which British jockey won the Epsom Derby six times between 1915 and 1925 | Steve Donoghue | 036 06 |
Forget-me-nots belong to which genus | Myosotis | 036 07 |
In which year did the Russian Revolution take place | 1917 | 036 08 |
What nationality was the poet Robert Frost | American | 036 09 |
Which young singer confessed in 1972 that he had no idea where Liverpool was | Little Jim my Osmond | 036 10 |
Which country consumes more Coca-Cola per head than any other | Iceland | 036 11 |
What was Chad capital Ndjamena formerly known as | Fort Lamy | 036 12 |
Which two South American countries fought the Chaco War in the 1930s | Bolivia and Paraguay | 036 13 |
Brass is an alloy of which two metals | Copper and zinc | 036 14 |
Which is the smallest state in the USA | District of Columbia | 036 15 |
‘Charisma’,’Bayleaf’ and ‘Vaseline’ were all characters in which TV series | London’s Burning | 036 16 |
In 1990, which then Football League club were banned from wearing shirts advertising Black Death vodka on the grounds of bad taste | Scarborough | 037 01 |
What was the name of the dog in The Herbs | Dill | 037 02 |
Who penned Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Thomas Gray | 037 03 |
Which English King was known as the ‘Sailor King’ | William IV | 037 04 |
In which Northern Ireland county is the town of Enniskillen | Fermanagh | 037 05 |
Who broke Jackie Stewart’s record of 27 Formula One Grand Prix wins | Alain Prost | 037 06 |
Who starred in On the Waterfront and In the Heat of the Night | Rod Steiger | 037 07 |
Where did Fiddler’s Dram go for a day trip in I 979 | Bangor | 037 08 |
Which American President was cruelly nicknamed ‘The Illinois Baboon’ on account of his appearance | Abraham Lincoln | 037 09 |
Which golfer missed a three-foot putt to win the 1970 British Open and then lost the play-off to fellow countryman Jack Nicklaus | Doug Sanders | 037 10 |
In which US state is the port of Charleston | South Carolina | 037 11 |
What is the chemical symbol for potassium | K | 037 12 |
Which baseball player was nicknamed ‘The Georgia Peach’ | Ty Cobb | 037 13 |
What was the Christian name of the German motor manufacturer Daimler | Gottlieb | 037 14 |
What is the southernmost point of the English mainland | The Lizard | 037 15 |
In which century was the okapi first discovered | 20th | 037 16 |
Who were the first female group to top the UK singles charts | The Supremes | 038 01 |
What is diplopia | Double vision | 038 02 |
In Greek mythoIog> who was the wife of Orpheus | Eurydice | 038 03 |
Which bird is also known as the laughing jackass | Kookaburra | 038 04 |
What colours are the three horizontal stripes on the national flag of Kuwait | Green, white and red | 038 05 |
Who wrote Cider with Rosie | Laurie Lee | 038 06 |
Which county cricket club’s Norwich Union League team are known as the Foxes | Leicestershire | 038 07 |
Which American comedy actress changed her name from Jane Alice Peters | Carole Lombard | 038 08 |
Which TV sitcom character owned a cat called Vienna | Rigsby (Rising Damp) | 038 09 |
How many books are there in the Old Testament | 39 | 038 10 |
Which is the smallest state in the world | Vatican City | 038 11 |
What is the capital of Uganda | Kampala | 038 12 |
Which unit of currency was finally phased out in 1980 | Sixpence | 038 13 |
What was the name of the cook in Upstairs, Downstairs | Mrs Bridges | 038 14 |
Which landmark was dismantled and taken to Arizona in 1968 | London Bridge | 038 15 |
For how many years did Rip Van Winkle sleep | 20 | 038 16 |
Which walkway opened and closed within two days in the summer of 2000 | The Millennium Bridge | 039 01 |
What is the name of the lines drawn on weather maps linking places with the same atmospheric pressure | Isobars | 039 02 |
In which county is the Isle Of Ely | Cambridgeshire | 039 03 |
Which tennis pairing were known as the ‘Woodies’ | Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde | 039 04 |
Who directed The Maltese Falcon and The African Queen | John Huston | 039 05 |
What was Jayne Mansfield’s real name | Vera Palmer | 039 06 |
The female of which insect frequently bites off the head of the male during reproduction | Praying mantis | 039 07 |
To which genus does the maple tree belong | Acer | 039 08 |
The Battle of Anzio took place during which war | Second World War | 039 09 |
Which capital city’s name means ‘good winds’ | Buenos Aires | 039 10 |
What vehicle did Penelope Pitstop drive in Wacky Races | The Compact Pussycat | 039 11 |
Which actor was known as ‘The Man of a Thousand Faces’ | Lon Chaney Snr | 039 12 |
Who was the subject of Roberta Flack’s ‘Killing Me Softly With His Song’ | Don McLean | 039 13 |
How many innings are there in a game of baseball | Nine | 039 14 |
Which country used to be known as British Honduras | Belize | 039 15 |
In which year did Adamski have a UK number one with ‘Killer’ | 1990 | 039 16 |
Which footballer was known as ‘Duncan Disorderly’ north of the border because of his poor disciplinary record | Duncan Ferguson | 040 01 |
Which squat Cockney actor used to work as a fire-eater in a circus | Bob Hoskins | 040 02 |
Which playwright penned Absent Friends and Way Upstream | Sir Alan Ayckbourn | 040 03 |
Which mode of transport was invented by Christopher Cockerell | Hovercraft | 040 04 |
On which islands are the Old Man of Hoy | The Orkneys | 040 05 |
Which girl’s name means ‘female sheep’ in Hebrew | Rachel | 040 06 |
What is the state capital of South Australia | Adelaide | 040 07 |
What was the name of Billy j. Kramer’s backing group | The Dakotas | 040 08 |
What is a shaggy ink cap | Fungus | 040 09 |
Which corrupt architect was jailed for seven years in 1974 | John Poulson | 040 10 |
Which actress switched from running a hairdressing salon in Coronation Street to working as a nurse at Holby Cii,,’ | Angela Griffin | 040 11 |
Who launched Skytrain | Freddie Laker | 040 12 |
What event shook the music world on 16 August 1977 | The death of Elvis Presley | 040 13 |
Who became Soviet leader in 1985 | Mikhail Gorbachev | 040 14 |
In which country is Lake Garda | Italy | 040 15 |
About whom was Stewart Granger talking in 984 when he said: ‘She’s common, she can’t act — yet she’s the hottest female property around these days’ | Joan Collins | 040 16 |
Which American band used to be known as The Stilettos | Blondie | 041 01 |
Which was the first garden city in Britain | Letchworth | 041 02 |
Who were the Gang of Four who left the Labour Party in 1981 to form the SDP | Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and William Rodgers | 041 03 |
What instrument did George Formby play | Ukelele | 041 04 |
Who played ‘Popeye’ Doyle in The French Connection | Gene Hackman | 041 05 |
In which country is the Indre river | France | 041 06 |
Who designed the Mini car | Alec Issigonis | 041 07 |
Who was known as the ‘Sun King’ | Louis XIV | 041 08 |
Helena is the capital of which American state | Montana | 041 09 |
What is an oxlip | A plant, related to the cowslip | 041 10 |
Which Scottish King was killed when one of his own cannon exploded | James 2 | 041 11 |
What was the nickname of Howard Hughes’s giant flying-boat which flew only once | Spruce Goose | 041 12 |
Which horse won the 1999 Epsom Derby | Oath | 041 13 |
Animal was the drummer with which band on The Muppet Show | Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem | 041 14 |
The Plough is part of which constellation | Ursa Major | 041 15 |
Who wrote Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 041 16 |
Which country boasts the oldest parliament in the world | Iceland | 042 01 |
Who was the last King of Italy | Umberto II | 042 02 |
What is the only octopus known to have killed humans | Blue-ringed octopus | 042 03 |
Which TV presenter started her career as one third of the group Faith, Hope and Charity | Dani Behr | 042 04 |
Which former England international footballer once appeared on a national stamp of Gambia | Gary Lineker | 042 05 |
Where was Bob Hope born | Eltham, South-East London | 042 06 |
Across which river was the Hoover Dam built | Colorado River | 042 07 |
Which novelist created the detective Reg Wexford | Ruth Rendell | 042 08 |
In which country is the Sauber Formula One motor racing team based | Switzerland | 042 09 |
What is Patricia Bredin’s role in the history of music | She was the first UK entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest | 042 10 |
Which Beach Boy has been married nine times (at the latest count) | Mike Love | 042 11 |
Where is Wast Water | Lake District | 042 12 |
Which woman was secretary to Harold Wilson from 1956 | Marcia Ealkender | 042 13 |
Which species of fish was believed to be extinct until one was caught off Madagascar in 1938 | Coelacanth | 042 14 |
Which Cuban bay was the site of an unsuccessful invasion by US forces in 1961 | Bay of Pigs | 042 15 |
In which country is Bayreuth | Germany | 042 16 |
In which fictitious prison was Porridge set | Slade | 043 01 |
In Bulgarian currency, how many stotinki are there in a 1ev | I 00 | 043 02 |
Heraklion and Canea are the major cities on which island | Crete | 043 03 |
Which singer’s real name is Michael Barrett | Shakin’ Stevens | 043 04 |
In which 1949 film did Alec Guinness play eight different roles | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 043 05 |
Which King of Greece died in 1920 from blood poisoning after being bitten by his pet monkey | Alexandros I | 043 06 |
Who composed the opera Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky | 043 07 |
Who completed the first solo flight across the Atlantic | Charles Lindbergh | 043 08 |
Which Second World War traitor was born William Joyce | Lord Haw Haw | 043 09 |
Which was the only Eastern bloc country to take part in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics | Romania | 043 10 |
Which widow toppled Ferdinand Marcos from power in the Philippines in 1986 | Mrs Corazon Aquino | 043 11 |
How many humps does a dromedary have | One | 043 12 |
To which genus do foxgloves belong | Digitalis | 043 13 |
Which Scottish League team plays at Glebe Park | Brechin City | 043 14 |
Who was the Greek god of the sea | Poseidon | 043 15 |
Which architect was immortalised on Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water album | Frank Lloyd Wright | 043 16 |
Which fake was ‘discovered’ by Charles Dawson in East Sussex in 1913 | Putdown man | 044 01 |
Which horror movie actor’s real name was William Pratt | Boris Karloff | 044 02 |
The tiny rock hyrax — a rat-like creature from central Africa -- is the closest living relative of which mammal | Elephant | 044 03 |
Which nation’s people eat more bread per person than anyone else in the world | Greece | 044 04 |
Which series was the successor to That Was The Week That Was | Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life | 044 05 |
Which New Zealand-born scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908 | Ernest Rutherford | 044 06 |
About which cathedral did The New Vaudeville Band sing in 1966 | Winchester | 044 07 |
What was the name of the woodpecker in Bagpuss | Professor Yaffle | 044 08 |
Which capital city means ‘elephant’s trunk’ | Khartoum | 044 09 |
The Rye House Plot was a conspiracy against which English monarch | Charles 2 | 044 10 |
Who led the Sioux onslaught against General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn | Sitting Bull | 044 11 |
What was U2’s first UK number one single | ‘Desire | 044 12 |
Which flowers have varieties called hybrid teas and floribundas | Roses | 044 13 |
What is the connection between dynamite and the Nobel Peace Prize | Dynamite was first devised by Alfred Nobel | 044 14 |
What is the spiny anteater otherwise known as | Echidna | 044 15 |
Which country owns Easter Island | Chile | 044 16 |
What was the name of Jed Clampett’s daughter in The Beverly Hillbillies | Etly May | 045 01 |
What wrecked the opening night of BBC2 in 1964 | A power cut | 045 02 |
In which year did Muhammad Au first become World Heavyweight Boxing Champion | 1964 | 045 03 |
Which novelist created detective Albert Campion | Margery Allingham | 045 04 |
The name of which Sixties pop group means afar from these things’ | Procul Harum | 045 05 |
What does the computer programme language BASIC stand for | Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code | 045 06 |
Of which family of freshwater fish is the chub a member | Carp | 045 07 |
In soccer, which country staged the 1982 World Cup finals | Spain | 045 08 |
Which famous playboy was seen as a pipe-smoking ancient Roman in Mel Brooks’ History of the World — Part I | Hugh Hefner | 045 09 |
Who invented the electric light bulb | Thomas Edison | 045 10 |
Who scored against his namesake in the 200 1-2 Merseyside derby at Goodison Park | Steven Gerrard (against Paul Gerard) | 045 11 |
Which American politician has a wife called Tipper | Al Gore | 045 12 |
Which spirit is the basic ingredient in the liqueur benedictine | Brandy | 045 13 |
Which former TV weathergirl presented the game show Dog Eat Dog in | Ulrika Jonsson | 045 14 |
Which London building housed the Great Exhibition of 1851 | Crystal Palace | 045 15 |
In which century did Cyrano de Bergerac live | 17th | 045 16 |
What breed of bird led zoo keepers a merry dance in Norfolk in 2001 | Vulture | 046 01 |
Who was executed for the Oklahoma City bombing | Timothy McVeigh | 046 02 |
Which state capital of Delaware shares its name with a Kentish port | Dover | 046 03 |
Which Spice Girl recorded ‘When You’re Gone’ with Bryan Adams | Melanie Chisholm | 046 04 |
Which liberalising Czechoslovak leader was arrested by Soviet troops during the 1968 invasion and subsequently expelled from the Communist Party | Alexander Dubcek | 046 05 |
Adam Gilchrist is a Test cricketer for which country | Australia | 046 06 |
Which river flows through the towns of Chatham, Gillingham and Rochester | Medway | 046 07 |
What do Murray Walker, Elizabeth Taylor and Jimmy Young have in common | They’ve all had hp replacementS | 046 08 |
Which Hollywood legend once said: ‘I acted vulgar, Madonna IS vulgar’ | Marlene Dietrich | 046 09 |
In which country is the town of Oudenaarde | Belgium | 046 10 |
How many gold medals did Jesse Owens win at the 1936 Berlin Olympics | Four | 046 11 |
Which Emmerdale headmistress was killed by a car in September 2001 | Mrs Strkkland | 046 12 |
What nationality is the singer Joni Mitchell | Canadian | 046 13 |
In which ocean is the island of Nauru | Pacific | 046 14 |
According to Greek mythology, who oened her | Pandora | 046 15 |
What is a pronghorn | An antelope-like mammal of the USA | 046 16 |
Who starred in Trainspotting and A Life Less Ordinary | Ewan McGregor | 047 01 |
Which footballer scored a hat-trick for England against Germany in | Michael Owen | 047 02 |
What is singer Derek Dick otherwise known as | Fish | 047 03 |
What is geniophobia | A fear of chins | 047 04 |
In which country is Strasbourg | France | 047 05 |
Which British politician became Lord Hailsham | Quintin Hogg | 047 06 |
The jay is a member of which family of birds | Crow | 047 07 |
Which actor sang on Blur’s ‘Parklife’ single | Phil Daniels | 047 08 |
Which Portuguese navigator discovered the Philippines in 1521, only to be killed by natives | Ferdinand Magellan | 047 09 |
What nationality is Whigfield | Danish | 047 10 |
To the nearest 100 miles, how far is Perth,Australia, from London | 9000 | 047 11 |
Which three colours feature on the national flag of Estonia | Blue, black and white | 047 12 |
At which sport was actor Paul Shane a junior champion | Table tennis | 047 13 |
What is a noctule | A bat | 047 14 |
Which Friend inspired a hair craze in 1994 | Jennifer Aniston | 047 15 |
Who painted Women of Tahiti | Paul Gauguin | 047 16 |
Who wrote the screenplay of Four Weddings and a Funeral | Richard Curtis | 048 01 |
Who was the only man who could ever reach Dusty Springfield | ‘Son Of A Preacher Man | 048 02 |
Which Liverpool couple had sextuplets in 1983 | The Waltons | 048 03 |
Which Beatle played a lavatory attendant in a sketch on Not Only... But Also With Peter Cook and Dudley Moore | John Lennon | 048 04 |
Which Football League club left the Manor Ground for good in 2001 | Oxford United | 048 05 |
Jonathan and Jennifer were which Seventies crime-fighting husband-and- wife team | Hart to Hart | 048 06 |
On which of the Great Lakes is Chicago a port | Michigan | 048 07 |
In Greek legend, which king was granted the gift of converting all he touched to gold | Midas | 048 08 |
Which planet is closest to the Sun | Mercury | 048 09 |
Who went from drinking Gold Blend to starring in &ff’ the Vampire Slayer | Anthony Head | 048 10 |
Paul Jones was replaced by Mike D’Abo as singer with which Sixties band | Manfred Mann | 048 11 |
What is the capital of Saxony | Dresden | 048 12 |
Which city used to be called Constantinople | Istanbul | 048 13 |
In 2001, which country won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time | Estonia | 048 14 |
Which James Bond used to work as a French rolisher for | Sean Connery | 048 15 |
What were the names of aviation pioneers the Wright brothers | Orville and Wilbur | 048 16 |
Which US President was known as ‘The Bull Moose’ | Theodore Roosevelt | 049 01 |
Which Miss Teenage Memphis 1966 went on to star in her own TV sitcom | Cybill Shepherd | 049 02 |
Which Hollywood heartthrob of the I 930s was listed on his birth certificate as a girl | Clark Gable | 049 03 |
In which country is the Tysee waterfall | Norway | 049 04 |
Where will the 2004 Olympic Games be held | Athens | 049 05 |
Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | 049 06 |
Which US actor was born Bernard Schwarz | Tony Curtis | 049 07 |
What did Kim Cotton become in 1985 | Britain’s first commercial surrogate mother | 049 08 |
Which band used to be called Seymour | Blur | 049 09 |
As whom is Edson Arantes do Nascimento better known | Pele | 049 10 |
Who was known as the Iron Duke | The Duke of Wellington | 049 11 |
Who won Celebrity Big Brother in 2001 | jack Dee | 049 12 |
What is the currency of Thailand | Baht | 049 13 |
What is Margaret Thatcher’s middle name | Hilda | 049 14 |
Who became US President following the assassination of Kennedy | Lyndon B. Johnson | 049 15 |
In which car did Damon Hill win the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship | Williams | 049 16 |
Who promised: ‘The world is your lobster’ | Arthur Daley | 050 01 |
The owner of Harrods is also the chairman of which Premiership football club | Fulham | 050 02 |
Who wrote The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth | 050 03 |
What is a dunnock | A small bird | 050 04 |
Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon are collectively known as what | The inert gases | 050 05 |
Which Hollywood star of the I 940s was born Margarita Carmen Cansino | Rita Hayworth | 050 06 |
Wendy, Scoop, Muck and Dizzy are friends of whom | Bob the Builder | 050 07 |
Who was the first Stuart King of England | james I | 050 08 |
Which boy’s name is derived from Dionysus, the Greek god of wine | Dennis | 050 09 |
DZ is the international vehicle index mark for which country | Algeria | 050 10 |
Don Powell was the drummer with which Seventies band | Slade | 050 11 |
Which kitchen appliance was invented by the American Charles Strite in 1927 | Toaster | 050 12 |
In which city would you cross the Verrazano Narrows Suspension Bridge | New York | 050 13 |
What colour are the flowers of a forsythia | Yellow | 050 14 |
What nationality was the footballer Eusebio | Portuguese | 050 15 |
With what musical instrument is Stephane Grappelli primarily associated | Violin | 050 16 |
In which year was the Grand National first run | 1839 | 051 01 |
In which county is Hemel Hempstead | Hertfordshire | 051 02 |
What were introduced for the first time by Scotland Yard in 1961 | Identikits | 051 03 |
Which of Steed’s sidekicks in The Avengers was played by Linda Thorson | Tara King | 051 04 |
Who said: ‘The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane’ | Bette Davis | 051 05 |
What is henbane | A poisonous plant | 051 06 |
Which English king was murdered in Berkeley Castle | Edward II | 051 07 |
Which British couple were at the centre of a storm in 2000 over their attempts to procure a baby over the Internet | The Kilshaws | 051 08 |
Of which country did Haile Selassie become emperor in 1930 | Ethiopia | 051 09 |
Which band released the album ‘The Man Who’ | Travis | 051 10 |
What is the capital of the Republic of Fiji | Suva | 051 11 |
Which English novelist’s best-known work was Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | 051 12 |
According to Dutch superstition, people with what colour hair bring bad luck | Red | 051 13 |
Which animals move so slowly that algae grow in their hair | Sloths | 051 14 |
The onion is a member of which family | Lily | 051 15 |
The Niagara Falls are located in which Canadian province | Ontario | 051 16 |
What is an oryx | A large antelope | 052 01 |
Which composition by Ravel was performed on ice by Torvill and Dean | Bolero | 052 02 |
As whom was Grigory Efimovich better known in early 20th century Russia | Rasp utin | 052 03 |
Which TV soap is set in Charnham | Family Affairs | 052 04 |
Which band released the Seventies albums ‘A Question Of Balance’, ‘Every Good Boy Deserves Favour’ and ‘Seventh Sojourn’ | The Moody Blues | 052 05 |
Which film studios in West London were renowned for their post-war comedies, often starring Alec Guinness | Ealing | 052 06 |
On which racecourse is the St Leger run | Doncaster | 052 07 |
What unit is used to measure the fineness of yarns, as in nylon stockings | Denier | 052 08 |
Which English king was known as ‘the Unready’ | Ethelred | 052 09 |
Which star of Red River and From Here to Eternity was disfigured in a car crash in 1957 | Montgomery Clift | 052 10 |
Which 14-year-old Romanian gymnast won three gold medals at the 1976 Montreal Olympics | Nadia Comaneci | 052 11 |
Which former British Prime Minister died on 29 December 1986 | Harold Macmillan | 052 12 |
The theme from which TV series gave Nick Berry a number two hit in | Heartbeat | 052 13 |
Which actress won the Miss Italy title in 1946 | Gina Lollobrigida | 052 14 |
Which brothers played for Australia’s victorious cricketers against England in the summer of 2001 | Steve and Mark Waugh | 052 15 |
Which American state is nicknamed ‘the Sooner State’ | Oklahoma | 052 16 |
What word featured in both of Art Garfunkel’s solo number ones | ‘Eyes’ (‘I Only Have Eyes For You’ and ‘Bright Eyes’) | 053 01 |
Which continent does the fierce snake come from | Australia | 053 02 |
Which actor, born Michael Dumble-Smith, took his stage name from a passing biscuit lorry | Michael Crawford | 053 03 |
Which antiseptic takes its name from trichiorophenol | TCP | 053 04 |
Which board game was invented by solicitor’s clerk Anthony E. Pratt | Cluedo | 053 05 |
Which artist appeared in a crowd scene in Jean Cocteau’s 1962 film The Testament of Orpheus | Pablo Picasso | 053 06 |
Which was the 50th state to join the United States | Hawaii | 053 07 |
What was the name of the cow in The Woodentops | Buttercup | 053 08 |
Brian Horton managed which Football League club at the start of season 2001-2 | Port Vale | 053 09 |
What is another name for the clavicle | Collar bone | 053 10 |
The gharial is a species of which reptile | Crocodile | 053 11 |
In which country is Krakow | Poland | 053 12 |
What is the largest island in the Caribbean | Cuba | 053 13 |
What is the second book in the Old Testament | Exodus | 053 14 |
What is the name for a plant which completes its life cycle in two years | Biennial | 053 15 |
What was first erected in 1961 | The Berlin Wall | 053 16 |
Who links Bob the Builder with The Texas Rangers | Neil Morrissey (the voice of Bob the Builder played Texas Ranger Rocky in the TV series Boon) | 054 01 |
Who was the first substitute to score in an FA Cup Final | Eddie Kelly (for Arsenal in 1971) | 054 02 |
How many countries border France | Six — Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Spain | 054 03 |
Which Australian soap returned to Britain on Channel 5 in 2001 | Home and Away | 054 04 |
On which river does High Wycombe stand | Wye | 054 05 |
What was Sherpa Tenzing’s surname | Norgay | 054 06 |
Who starred in The Tall Guy and Jurassic Park | jeff Goldblum | 054 07 |
Which Patricia wrote The Talented Mr Ripley | Patricia Highsmith | 054 08 |
Which comedian’s 1975 single ‘The Magic Roundabout’ was banned by the BBC over its sexual content | jasper Carrott | 054 09 |
Pediophobia is a fear of what | Dolls | 054 10 |
Which American President had a wife named Ladybird | Lyndon B. Johnson | 054 11 |
Which veteran golfer is known as ‘the man in black’ | Gary Player | 054 12 |
Pasadena is a city in which American state | California | 054 13 |
Which band’s best-selling album of the I 980s was titled ‘Brothers In Arms’ | Dire Straits | 054 14 |
Which two rock stars died separately in the same London apartment owned by Harry Nilsson | Mama Cass Elliott and Keith Moon | 054 15 |
Which horror movie actor co-starred with Elvis Presley in The Trouble With Girls | Vincent Price | 054 16 |
What is the nickname of Nottinghamshire’s Norwich Union League cricket team | The Outlaws | 055 01 |
In which country is Passchendaele | Belgium | 055 02 |
What date is St Patrick’s Day | 17 March | 055 03 |
At which battle was Admiral Nelson mortally wounded | Trafalgar | 055 04 |
In which field did John Tradescant make his name | Gardener! botanist | 055 05 |
Who shaved his head for the film Twelve Monkeys | Bruce Willis | 055 06 |
Which married couple had a hit with ‘Do That To Me One More Time’ | Captain and Tennille | 055 07 |
What incident marred the 1913 Epsom Derby | Suffragette Emily Davison died after throwing herself in front of the king’s horse | 055 08 |
Which tennis player was known as ‘Little Mo’ | Maureen Connolly | 055 09 |
Which North Devon town was devastated by a freak flood in August | Lynmouth | 055 10 |
Which commercial plastic was invented by Leo Baekeland | Bakelite | 055 11 |
Who made the first flight across the English Channel | Louis Blériot | 055 12 |
In which county is Corfe Castle | Dorset | 055 13 |
What is a chough | A bird | 055 14 |
In Arthurian legend, who was the son of Sir Lancelot | Sir Galahad | 055 15 |
How many stomachs does a cow have | Four | 055 16 |
Which English city had the Roman name ‘Aquae Sulis | Bath | 056 01 |
Which Il-year-old qualified for the National Chess Championships in 1977 | Nigel Short | 056 02 |
Which European country held its first democratic election for 41 years in June 1977 | Spain | 056 03 |
What was the name of Regan and Carter’s boss in The Sweeney | Frank Haskins | 056 04 |
Which US sitcom star provided the voice of Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons | Kelsey Grammer | 056 05 |
Who said: ‘I think for the life span he’s lasted, Chuck Berry’s productivity has been nil, more or less’ | Sir Elton John | 056 06 |
Who was the first British footballer to be paid £100 a week | johnny Haynes | 056 07 |
What is 5 squared | 225 | 056 08 |
Why were parts of Britain temporarily plunged into darkness on I August 1999 | Total solar eclipse | 056 09 |
Gomera and Hierro are part of which group of islands | Canary Islands | 056 10 |
How many hours are New Zealand ahead of Britain | 12 | 056 11 |
What colour are the flowers of the dogwood | White | 056 12 |
What animal lives in a lodge | Beaver | 056 13 |
Which mountain did Horace Saussure make the first ascent of in 1787 | Mont Blanc | 056 14 |
William the Silent was the ruler of which country from 1572-84 | The Netherlands | 056 15 |
Who gave thanks for the Aintree Iron | Scaffold | 056 16 |
Who sang about ‘Sunshine On A Rainy Day’ in 1991 | Zoe | 057 01 |
Under which pseudonym did French architect Charles Edouard Jeanneret work | Le Corbusier | 057 02 |
In which city were the 1996 Olympics held | Atlanta | 057 03 |
Who discovered the mouth of the River Amazon in 1499 | Amerigo Vespucci | 057 04 |
Barbara Windsor succeeded Jo Warne in which role | EostEnders’ Peggy Mitchell | 057 05 |
What is Bono’s real name | Paul Hewson | 057 06 |
Which actor’s contract with MGM in the I 920s forbade him from smiling on screen | Buster Keaton | 057 07 |
The Maledicta Society caters for people who like to do what | Swear | 057 08 |
Who directed Gregory’s Girl | Bill Forsyth | 057 09 |
In which year did Concorde make its first flight | 1969 | 057 10 |
The Dalai Lama is the spiritual head of which country | Tibet | 057 11 |
What is the nickname of Leicester’s rugby team | Tigers | 057 12 |
On which river does Derby stand | Derwent | 057 13 |
Who wrote the spy thriller The lpcress File | Len Deighton | 057 14 |
Who was the first golfer to win two successive US Masters titles | Jack Nicklaus | 057 15 |
What was the Christian name of the English scientist Faraday | Michael | 057 16 |
Which was the first Football League club to be relegated to the Conference | Lincoln City | 058 01 |
Which junior health minister resigned in 1988 following a row about the presence of salmonella in eggs | Edwina Currie | 058 02 |
What did Mao Tse-Tung, Casanova and Anthea Turner have in common | They were all once librarians | 058 03 |
Who ordered the building of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton | The Prince Regent | 058 04 |
Which optical aid was invented by the German Adolph E. Fick in 1887 | Contact lens | 058 05 |
Who has a dog named Spit | Bob Carolgees | 058 06 |
Who released the album ‘White Ladder’ | David Gray | 058 07 |
What are Dogger, Fastnet and German Bight | Shipping areas | 058 08 |
Which leader of a popular Eighties band has the middle name Freuder | Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) | 058 09 |
Which Guy Madden movie won an Oscar for Best Film in 1998 | Shakespeare In Love | 058 10 |
What was Laika’s claim to fame in the story of space travel | It was the first dog in space | 058 11 |
In which country was the writer Albert Camus born | Algeria | 058 12 |
In 1986, which boxer became the youngest World Heavyweight Champion | Mike Tyson | 058 13 |
Which Rhodesian leader declared his country’s unilateral independence from Britain in 1965 | Ian Smith | 058 14 |
In which county is Bury St Edmunds | Suffolk | 058 15 |
What nationality is tennis player Gabriela Sabatini | Argentine | 058 16 |
What is the name for the dot over the letter ‘I’ | A tittle | 059 01 |
What is the chemical symbol for silver | Ag | 059 02 |
Who succeeded Boris Yeltsin as Russian President | Vladimir Putin | 059 03 |
What was The Beatles’ last UK number one single | ‘The Ballad Of John And Yoko | 059 04 |
Which English king was beheaded in 1649 | Charles I | 059 05 |
BeIIis perennis is more commonly known as which wild flower | Daisy | 059 06 |
What colour jersey is worn by the leader in the Tour de France cycle race | Yellow | 059 07 |
For which food manufacturing company did Reggie Perrin work | Sunshine Desserts | 059 08 |
What is the name of the green pigment that is present in most plants | Chlorophyll | 059 09 |
Rhodes and Kos are part of which group of islands | Dodecanese | 059 10 |
To whom was the poem The Fcierie Queene dedicated | Elizabeth 1 | 059 11 |
What sport do the Atlanta Braves play | Baseball | 059 12 |
In which century did the dodo become extinct | 17th | 059 13 |
Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek are characters in which Shakespearean play | Twelfth Night | 059 14 |
In 1988 which American became the first boxer to win world titles at five different weight classes in five separate fights | Thomas Hearns | 059 15 |
Which range of mountains separates the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland | Grampians | 059 16 |
Which former England football manager was born on the same day asYoko Ono — 18 February 1933 | Bobby Robson | 060 01 |
Which American state is nicknamed the ‘Wolverine State’ | Michigan | 060 02 |
Which French playwright died on stage while playing a hypochondriac in his own play Le Malade Imaginaire | Moliere | 060 03 |
Which TV detective had the Christian name ‘Endeavour’ | Inspector Morse | 060 04 |
Who had a number one album in 2001 titled ‘A Funk Odyssey’ | Jamiroquai | 060 05 |
What was the first James Bond film | Dr No | 060 06 |
What took place in Londonderry on 30 January 1972 | Bloody Sunday | 060 07 |
At the 1980 Olympics, who became the first Briton since Harold Abrahams to win the men’s 100 metres | Allan Wells | 060 08 |
Which acid is contained in vinegar | Acetic acid | 060 09 |
Who was President of Ireland between 1959 and 1973 | Eamon de Valera | 060 10 |
Who was the Roman goddess of the Moon | Luna | 060 11 |
In which country is the Chihuahuan Desert | Mexico | 060 12 |
Which planet is furthest from the Sun | Pluto | 060 13 |
What is the golfing term for a score of three under par at a hole | Albatross | 060 14 |
What was the name of the bridge in Buckinghamshire where the Great Train Robbery took place | Bridego Bridge | 060 15 |
In which ship did the Pilgrim Fathers sail | Mayflower | 060 16 |
Which Spice Girl was once an extra in Emmerdale | Melanie Brown | 061 01 |
Who played Fred Flintstone in the movie version of The Flintstones | John Goodman | 061 02 |
Which swimmer was the first woman to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award | Anita Lonsborough | 061 03 |
Who was found dead in her bed on 5 August 1962 | Marilyn Monroe | 061 04 |
Why were Donald Duck comics once banned in Finland | Because he doesn’t wear pants | 061 05 |
What nationality was the composer Grieg | Norwegian | 061 06 |
Warkworth Castle is situated in which English county | Northumberland | 061 07 |
Sharleen Spiteri is the singer with which band | Texas | 061 08 |
What was sent to attack England in 1588 | Spanish Armada | 061 09 |
Who retained the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship in 2001 | Michael Schumacher | 061 10 |
What is the name given to the side opposite the right angle of a triangle | Hypotenuse | 061 11 |
The Phantom Flan Flinger wreaked havoc on which Saturday morning TV show | Tiswas | 061 12 |
Who wrote King Solomon’s Mines | Rider Haggard | 061 13 |
Which football team are nicknamed the Baggies | West Bromwich Albion | 061 14 |
Which BBC reporter ousted Neil Hamilton as MP for Tatton at the 1997 General Election | Martin Bell | 061 15 |
Who stuck to his principles at the Diet of Worms | Martin Luther | 061 16 |
Which player scored the last Football League goal of the 20th century | David Livermore (Millwall) | 062 01 |
In which American city was Cheers set | Boston | 062 02 |
What kind of musical instrument is a lute | Stringed | 062 03 |
What parts of the rhubarb plant are poisonous | The leaves | 062 04 |
On which river is the city of Hamburg | Elbe | 062 05 |
What national holiday do Americans celebrate on the fourth Thursday in November | Thanksgiving | 062 06 |
Who did Michael Aspel replace as presenter of Antiques Roodshow | Hugh Scully | 062 07 |
Which Hollywood tough guy of the I 930s was born Emanuel Golden berg | Edward G. Robinson | 062 08 |
Who wrote Uncle Vanya and The Three Sisters | Anton Chekhov | 062 09 |
What do John Travolta, Gary Numan and Nicholas Lyndhurst have in common | All are qualified pilots | 062 10 |
What was the first solid-body electric guitar | Fender Broadcaster | 062 11 |
What was the Christian name of the English landscape painter Gainsborough | Thomas | 062 12 |
Which horse — bearing the name of an Italian city — won the 2001 St Leger | Milan | 062 13 |
Which former British Prime Minister became the first Earl of Stockton | Harold Macmillan | 062 14 |
Which band released the album ‘Reggatta de Blanc’ | The Police | 062 15 |
Which unit of power is named after the Scottish engineer who developed early models of the steam engine | The watt (James Watt) | 062 16 |
Who was the most famous goalkeeper in the history of Polish amateur club Wotsyla | Pope John Paul II | 063 01 |
The Gulf of Carpentaria lies off the coast of which country | Australia | 063 02 |
What is the capital of the Channel Island of Alderney | St Anne’s | 063 03 |
Who were the first Merseybeat group to have a UK number one single | Gerry and The Pacemakers | 063 04 |
Which model was named Woman of the Year for 1966 | Twiggy | 063 05 |
What was Lady Penelope’s surname in Thunderbirds | Creighton-Ward | 063 06 |
Who turned down the role of Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind because he was convinced it would be a flop | Gary Cooper | 063 07 |
Who was the longest reigning King of England | George III | 063 08 |
What do Sir Isaac Newton, Kenny Everett and Annie Lennox have in common | All were born on Christmas Day | 063 09 |
Who was sacked from his job as assistant to a Paris art dealer for sneaking off to Holland at Christmas and for being rude to customers | Vincent Van Gogh | 063 10 |
Which comedian owned the 1994 Grand National winner, Minnehoma | Freddie Starr | 063 11 |
Who composed the operas Rigoletto and La Traviata | Verdi | 063 12 |
What was Groucho Marx’s real name | Julius | 063 13 |
What is the state capital of Maryland | Annapolis | 063 14 |
The forint is the standard currency of which country | Hungary | 063 15 |
On which fictitious island does Thomas the Tank Engine operate | Sodor | 063 16 |
Who starred opposite Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter | Celia Johnson | 064 01 |
What are hertz | Units of frequency | 064 02 |
Which musical instrument takes its name from its almond-shaped body | Mandolin | 064 03 |
Who took over as manager of Middlesbrough FC in summer 2001 | Steve McLaren | 064 04 |
Which statesman was released from jail in 1990, ending 27 years of imprisonment | Nelson Mandela | 064 05 |
Which is the only seaport in Alabama | Mobile | 064 06 |
Whereabouts on the human body is the mandible | Jaw | 064 07 |
About which American river did Pussycat sing in 1976 | ‘Mississippi | 064 08 |
Which racing driver was killed in a plane crash on a Hertfordshire golf course in 1975 | Graham Hill | 064 09 |
Which London football club used to be called Dial Square | Arsenal | 064 10 |
Who was Baroness Orczy’s most famous literary creation | The Scarlet Pimpernel | 064 11 |
How old was Mary Shelley when she wrote Frankenstein | 19 | 064 12 |
As whom was Haitian dictator Francois Duvalier better known | Papa Doc | 064 13 |
In which year were the Olympic Games first held in London | 1908 | 064 14 |
What was the name of Tintin’s dog | Snowy | 064 15 |
Which novelist was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire | D.H. Lawrence | 064 16 |
A dab is a member of which family of fish | Flounder | 065 01 |
The sloe is the fruit of which shrub | Blackthorn | 065 02 |
What does R.E.M. stand for | Rapid Eye Movement | 065 03 |
Koper is the chief port of which country | Slovenia | 065 04 |
Which United Kingdom singer was involved in a four-way tie for first place at the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest | Lulu | 065 05 |
Which short-lived TV soap of 1992 was set in Spain | Eldorado | 065 06 |
Which political party did Jimmy Carter represent in the White House | Democrat | 065 07 |
Which three disciplines make up a triathlon | Swimming, cycling and running | 065 08 |
What did the Greek army leave outside the gates of the city during the siege of Troy | Large wooden horse | 065 09 |
What is the name of the channel between mainland England and the Isle of Wight | The Solent | 065 10 |
What is a dirk | A dagger | 065 11 |
Which guitarist released ‘Layla’ under the name Derek and the Dominos | Eric Clapton | 065 12 |
According to Shakespeare’s Richard III, who was drowned in a butt of Maimsey wine | Duke of Clarence | 065 13 |
What was the former name of Ethiopia | Abyssinia | 065 14 |
Which American novelist wrote The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 065 15 |
On which continent is the Limpopo river | Africa | 065 16 |
Which actor started life as Nicholas Coppola but changed it to distance himself from his uncle, director Francis Ford Coppola | Nicolas Cage | 066 01 |
Which two cricketers were the heroes of the 1981 Headingley Test where England recovered from a seemingly impossible position to defeat Australia | Ian Botham and Bob Willis | 066 02 |
Burgas and Varna are ports on which sea | Black Sea | 066 03 |
What is a bugloss | A plant | 066 04 |
Who was the first tennis player to perform the Grand Slam | Donald Budge | 066 05 |
What is the unit for measuring purity in gold | Carat | 066 06 |
What I 870s innovations from Thomas Cook were originally called ‘circular notes’ | Travellers’ cheques | 066 07 |
Which Football League club plays at Blundell Park | Grimsby Town | 066 08 |
What is the highest headland on the south coast of England | Beachy Head | 066 09 |
In Greek mythology, who was the nymph who pined away after being rejected by Narcissus until only her voice remained | Echo | 066 10 |
What killed about 30 per cent of the population of England in 1348-9 | Black Death | 066 11 |
What nationality is TV snake-hunter Steve Irwin | Australian | 066 12 |
Who are the Fang | A West African tribe | 066 13 |
In physics, what is FM short for | Frequency modulation | 066 14 |
Which musical instrument does James Galway play | Flute | 066 15 |
In which year did Jimi Hendrix die | 1970 | 066 16 |
Which actress split up from a Bratt in 2001 | Julia Roberts (Benjamin Bratt) | 067 01 |
What blue flower is also the name of a brass musical instrument | Bugle | 067 02 |
Bucharest is the capital of which European country | Romania | 067 03 |
What is a dotterel | A bird | 067 04 |
In which city is the Elysee Palace | Paris | 067 05 |
What was Madonna’s first UK number one single | ‘Into The Groove | 067 06 |
Who played Elaine Benes in Seinfeld | Julia Louls-Dreyfus | 067 07 |
Who was the subject of the Oasis hit Wonderwall | Meg Matthews | 067 08 |
Which English city was the Roman Verulamium | St Albans | 067 09 |
Where did Dr Foster go in a shower of rain | Gloucester | 067 10 |
In what branch of the arts was Donatello versed | Sculpture | 067 11 |
In music, what is half of a semibreve | A minim | 067 12 |
What nationality is the athlete Cathy Freeman | Australian | 067 13 |
In which year was Prince Harry born | 1984 | 067 14 |
What was Il-year-old Terry Brooks the first in a long line of in the world of TV commercials | The Milky Bar Kid | 067 15 |
In which country is the River Gers | France | 067 16 |
In which US sitcom is a dog played by a Moose | Frasier (Eddie the dog’s real name is Moose) | 068 01 |
Who tripped over Zola Budd’s heel at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics | Mary Decker | 068 02 |
Who invited us to do the ‘Funky Gibbon’ | The Goodies | 068 03 |
Where would you find the Giant’s Causeway | On the north coast of Antrim, Northern Ireland | 068 04 |
Who preceded Harold II as King of England | Edward the Confessor | 068 05 |
On the shore of which lake is the Ugandan town of Entebbe | Lake Victoria | 068 06 |
What is a nibIick | A golf club | 068 07 |
How many players are there on each side in a game of Australian Rules football | 18 | 068 08 |
Which two American states border Chesapeake Bay | Maryland and Virginia | 068 09 |
Andy Partridge was the singer with which Eighties band | XTC | 068 10 |
Which star of The Odd Couple died in 2000 | Walter Matthau | 068 11 |
What are missing from dalmatians when they are born | Spots | 068 12 |
On which river does Damascus stand | Barada | 068 13 |
Which football club won the French League title in 2000-I | Nantes | 068 14 |
Where would you find the Sea of Tranquility | On the Moon | 068 15 |
Jim Bolger was Prime Minister of which country from 1990-7 | New Zealand | 068 16 |
Who was famously called up for American military service in 1958 | Elvis Presley | 069 01 |
Who were beaten in the Battle of Dettingen in 1743 | The French | 069 02 |
Puck and Bottom appear in which Shakespeare play | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 069 03 |
What is a devil’s coach horse | A beetle | 069 04 |
What are dried in oast-houses | Hops | 069 05 |
Which element was the atomic number I | Hydrogen | 069 06 |
What can be a blue-flowered trailing plant or a marine snail | Periwinkle | 069 07 |
For which home international country did Gavin Hastings play rugby union | Scotland | 069 08 |
Geoffrey of Anlou’s habit of wearing a sprig of broom in his hat gave the name to which English royal house | Plantagenet (from the Latin plonta genista) | 069 09 |
As whom is cleric Geraldine Granger better known | The Vicar of Dibley | 069 10 |
What is the highest adult male voice | Alto | 069 11 |
In which year did Take That have a UK number one single with ‘Pray’ | 1993 | 069 12 |
The tugrik is the unit of currency in which country | Mongolia | 069 13 |
Which three countries border Paraguay | Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina | 069 14 |
Who wrote Madame &vary | Gustave Flaubert | 069 15 |
Who invented the C5 | Sir Clive Sinclair | 069 16 |
How many sheets of writing-paper are there in a quire | 24 | 070 01 |
In which Italian region is Lake Como | Lombardy | 070 02 |
Which Irish racehorse trainer has stables at Ballydoyle | Aidan O’Brien | 070 03 |
In which county was the Battle of Culloden fought | Inverness-shire | 070 04 |
What did Sir Cliff Richard,William G. Stewart and Michael Barrymore all start out as | Butlin’s Redcoats | 070 05 |
Which Beatle directed the 1972 film Born To Boogie | Ringo Starr | 070 06 |
For which radio station did Eddie Shoestring work | Radio West | 070 07 |
Who was the last British tennis player to win the men’s singles at Wimbledon | Fred Perry | 070 08 |
What creature can be fairy or three-banded | Armadillo | 070 09 |
What did NAAFI stand for | Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes | 070 10 |
What is the term for an animal that feeds on both vegetation and meat | Omnivore | 070 11 |
What colour is sulphur | Yellow | 070 12 |
Near which city is the port of Dun Laoghaire | Dublin | 070 13 |
What is paraquat | Weedkiller | 070 14 |
What were the surnames of Bonnie and Clyde | Parker and Barrow | 070 15 |
Which jockey was known as the ‘long fellow’ | Lester Piggott | 070 16 |
What is 30 degrees Centigrade in Fahrenheit | 86 degrees | 071 01 |
What gardening aid did James Edward Ransome invent in 1902 | Lawnmower | 071 02 |
Who was the Roman god of honesty | Fides | 071 03 |
Which city is served by Turnhouse Airport | Edinburgh | 071 04 |
What is Louise Brown’s claim to fame | She was the world’s first test-tube baby | 071 05 |
Gripper Stebson was the school bully of which establishment | Grange Hill | 071 06 |
Which French World Cup winner signed for Manchester United to replace Jaap Stam | Laurent Blanc | 071 07 |
What is a flying fox | A bat | 071 08 |
Which is the northernmost of the Great Lakes | Lake Superior | 071 09 |
Which former motel was rebuilt as a four-star hotel in 2001? | Crossroads | 071 10 |
Jean-jacques Burnel was a guitarist with which punk band | The Stranglers | 071 11 |
What flows from the Gulf of Mexico to keep Britain warm | The Gulf Stream | 071 12 |
In which athletics event does Jonathan Edwards compete | Triple jump | 071 13 |
According to Greek mythology, who stole the Golden Fleece | Jason and the Argonauts | 071 14 |
In which city is the Golden Gate bridge | San Francisco | 071 15 |
What was Dorothy’s job in Men Behaving Badly | Nurse | 071 16 |
What musical instrument did Benny Goodman play | Clarinet | 072 01 |
Which Football League club are nicknamed the ‘Quakers’ | Darlington | 072 02 |
In which Carry On film did Sid James play The Rumpo Kid | Carry On Cowboy | 072 03 |
Which singer was found hanging in a Sydney hotel room in 1997 | Michael Hutchence | 072 04 |
Which King of Norway died after slipping on the soap in his bath and banging his head on one of the taps | Haakon VII | 072 05 |
From which country does the kiwi fruit originate | China | 072 06 |
Which shipping forecast area covers the coastline from Scarborough to GreatYarmouth | Humber | 072 07 |
Which planet was first located in 1846 | Neptune | 072 08 |
Who lived at 52 Festive Road, London, and made daily visits to a local fancy-dress shop | Mr Benn | 072 09 |
In which city is Temple Meads railway station | Bristol | 072 10 |
Which type of water lathers easily with soap — soft or hard | Soft | 072 11 |
Who released the 1995 album ‘Crazysexycool’ | TLC | 072 12 |
In which sport do teams compete for the Super Bowl | American Football | 072 13 |
TB is an abbreviation for which disease | Tuberculosis | 072 14 |
From which country does the singer Dame Kin Te Kanawa come | New Zealand | 072 15 |
What is the longest river in Scotland | Tay | 072 16 |
In which year was the Wall Street crash | 1929 | 073 01 |
Where do the England rugby union team play home matches | Twickenham | 073 02 |
In which county is Melton Mowbray | Leicestershire | 073 03 |
What method of weaponry was first used at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 | Tank | 073 04 |
Which of the Lipari Islands has an active volcano | Stromboli | 073 05 |
Who starred in Patriot Games and The Fugitive | Harrison Ford | 073 06 |
What is the name of Michael Schumacher’s younger brother who is also a Formula One driver | RaIf | 073 07 |
Who was US Vice-President from 1989-93 | Dan Quayle | 073 08 |
To what did Isaac Pitman lend his name | A form of shorthand | 073 09 |
Which girl group backed Martha Reeves | The Vandellas | 073 10 |
In which American state is the industrial city of Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 073 11 |
From 1899, who painted a series of water lilies in the garden of his house at Giverny, Normandy | Claude Monet | 073 12 |
Which brother of Martha was raised by Jesus from the dead | Lazarus | 073 13 |
Which English horse race starts in Cambridgeshire and ends in Suffolk | The Cesarewitch | 073 14 |
Which Western hero was ‘king of the wild frontier’ | Davy Crockett | 073 15 |
How many pints are there in a quart | Two | 073 16 |
What did the Lone Ranger never remove in pubtic | His mask | 074 01 |
What is the name for a ship’s kitchen | Galley | 074 02 |
Of whom did Joan Rivers once say: ‘If I found her floating in my pool, I’d punish my dog’ | Yoko Ono | 074 03 |
What did Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel and Sir Winston Churchill all have to: overcome | Stammers | 074 04 |
Which Spanish duo sang:’Yes Sir,l Can Boogie’ | Baccara | 074 05 |
Who wrote The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | 074 06 |
What chemical element has the symbol Co | Cobalt | 074 07 |
Colwyn Bay is situated in which county of North Wales | Clwyd | 074 08 |
On which river does Londonderry stand | Foyle | 074 09 |
What new experiment brought misery to London motorists in 1983 | Wheel-clamping | 074 10 |
Which member of Boyzone has two sisters in BVitched | Shane Lynch | 074 11 |
What nationality was the composer Sibelius | Finnish | 074 12 |
Who wrote the novels Call of the Wild and White Fang | jack London | 074 13 |
Which legal term means ‘you may have the body’ in Latin | Habeas corpus | 074 14 |
Who won Academy Awards for his performances in Kramer vs Kramer and Rain Man | Dustin Hoffman | 074 15 |
Who became director of the FBI in 1924 | J. Edgar Hoover | 074 16 |
James Dean Bradfield is the lead singer with which band | Manic Street Preachers | 075 01 |
Which member of the royal family was married on 14 November 1973 | Princess Anne (to Capt. Mark Phillips) | 075 02 |
Who was former Liberal leader JeremyThorpe accused of conspiring to murder | Norman Scott | 075 03 |
In Dickensian London, what was a gamp | Umbrella | 075 04 |
St David’s railway station serves which west country city | Exeter | 075 05 |
What was the nickname of Russian ruler Ivan IV | ‘The Terrible | 075 06 |
Which lost city of the Incas was rediscovered in the Peruvian Andes by Hiram Bingham in 1911 | Machu Picchu | 075 07 |
Which TV character referred to his wife as she who must be obeyed’ | Rumpole of the Bailey | 075 08 |
What musical instrument did Shirley Abicair play | Zither | 075 09 |
Headingley cricket ground is located in which city | Leeds | 075 10 |
Which 19th century Scottish poet was renowned for his appalling verse | William McGonagall | 075 11 |
What kind of cocktail was popular with Resistance groups during the Second World War | Molotov cocktail | 075 12 |
What was the name of the ship abandoned by Ernest Shackleton during his 1914-16 Antarctic expedition | Endurance | 075 13 |
Mogadishu is the capital of which African nation | Somalia | 075 14 |
The estuaries of which two rivers form the Solway Firth | Eden and Esk | 075 15 |
For what is quango an acronym | QuasiA utonomous Non-Governmental Organisation | 075 16 |
What was Richard Burton’s last film | 1984 | 076 01 |
Which poet wrote A Shropshire Lad | A.E. Housman | 076 02 |
What is the state capital of Queensland | Brisbane | 076 03 |
At what time of year does Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby investigate cases of foul play | Midsomer (Murders) | 076 04 |
What is an oleander | An evergreen shrub | 076 05 |
What is the Christian name of the fashion designer Oldfield | Bruce | 076 06 |
Which singer was the subject of Don McLean’s ‘American Pie’ | Buddy Holly | 076 07 |
Scar was the villain in which Disney film | The Lion King | 076 08 |
In which year was the Gulf War | 1991 | 076 09 |
With which musical instrument was Duke EI)ington associated | Piano | 076 10 |
Who scored Germany’s golden goal winner in the final of Euro 96 | Oliver Sierhoff | 076 11 |
Which nuclear power station changed its name to Sellafield in 1971 | Windscale | 076 12 |
Which town in Kent got its name from its septet of fine trees | Sevenoaks | 076 13 |
Who did the Princess of Wales come to know as ‘Squidgy’ | ‘ames Hewitt | 076 14 |
With which country was Greece at war between 499 and 449BC | Persia | 076 15 |
Which TV presenters were once known as PJ and Duncan | Ant and Dec | 076 16 |
In which county of England is Fountains Abbey | North Yorkshire | 077 01 |
What is Jodie Foster’s real first name | Alicia | 077 02 |
What does NASA stand for | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 077 03 |
What was the name of Scooby-Doo’s pup nephew | Scrappy-Doo | 077 04 |
Who won the 2001 FA Cup Final | Liverpool | 077 05 |
What is a narwhal | A small whale | 077 06 |
What do Scotsmen like to toss at the Highland Games | Caber | 077 07 |
As whom was Martha Jane Burke better known in 19th century South Dakota | Calamity Jane | 077 08 |
Who created the private detective Philip Marlowe | Raymond Chandler | 077 09 |
Which animals are vulnerable to the disease myxomatosis | Rabbits | 077 10 |
On whose head couldn’t you see the join | Ernie Wise | 077 11 |
Who was the Roman goddess of love | Venus | 077 12 |
What do ‘StairwayTo Heaven’ and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ have in common | Both have been covered by RoIf Harris | 077 13 |
On what racecourse is the 1,000 Guineas run | Newmarket | 077 14 |
Who composed the opera Porgy and Bess | George Gershwin | 077 15 |
What is the official language of Belize | English | 077 16 |
What football landmark took place at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, in 1878 | The first floodlit match | 078 01 |
Who ran rings around the Watford Long John Silver Impersonators in a football match on Monty Python’s Flying Circus | Bournemouth Gynaecologists | 078 02 |
Conjunctivitis affects which part of the body | The eye | 078 03 |
Who directed King of Kings and The Ten Commandments | Cecil B. de MilIe | 078 04 |
The Skaggerak is the strip of water on the north side of which country | Denmark | 078 05 |
Which African country was formerly known as Basutoland | Lesotho | 078 06 |
Which comic-strip hero was created by Bob Kane | Batman | 078 07 |
Who changed his name from Stuart Goddard to become ‘Prince Charming’ | Adam Ant | 078 08 |
The last specimen of which breed of lion was killed in the Great Atlas Mountains in 1922 | Barbary lion | 078 09 |
What links C.B. Fry,Arthur Milton and Willie Watson | Each represented England at both cricket and soccer | 078 10 |
What animal lives in a drey | Squirrel | 078 11 |
Who starred as Magnum P1 | Tom Selleck | 078 12 |
Which Irish novelist could only type with the toes of one foot | Christy Brown | 078 13 |
What was sunk in 1545 and took 437 years to re-surface | The Mary Rose | 078 14 |
A bolt of lightning devastated which cathedral in 1984 | York Minster | 078 15 |
What was invented by Norweigan Eric Rotheim in 1926 | The aerosol | 078 16 |
Where in the human body is the ulna | Forearm | 079 01 |
Brechou,Jethou and Lihou can be found in which group of islands | Channel Islands | 079 02 |
Which Ukraine-born novelist wrote Lord Jim | joseph Conrad | 079 03 |
Which Sixties group used to be called Carl and the Passions | The Beach Boys | 079 04 |
Who won the Wimbledon ladies’ singles title in the Queen’s Silver Jubilee year | Virginia Wade | 079 05 |
Which three countries border Lake Constance | Germany, Austria and Switzerland | 079 06 |
Which TV policeman owned a dog called Wee Jock | Homish Macbeth | 079 07 |
Who won the Men’s World Squash Championships seven years out of eight between 1989 and 1996 | Jansher Khan | 079 08 |
What is unique about the palm nut vulture of West Africa | It is the world’s only vegetarian bird of prey | 079 09 |
In which country were Venetian blinds invented | Japan | 079 10 |
Which is the only country in the world that doesn’t have its name on its postage stamps | Britain | 079 11 |
At which sport did Gillian Gilks represent England | Badminton | 079 12 |
In which county is Herstmonceux Castle | East Sussex | 079 13 |
Douala is the chief port of which African country | Cameroon | 079 14 |
Which French singer said ‘thank ‘eavens for leetle girls’ | Maurice Chevalier | 079 15 |
Which is the last book of the New Testament | Revelation | 079 16 |
‘Goat’s Head Soup’ was a 1973 album by which band | The Rolling Stones | 080 01 |
What is clubroot | A disease affecting cabbages and turnips | 080 02 |
In which century was Don Juan supposed to have lived | 14th | 080 03 |
Who resigned as manager of the England football team in 2000 | Kevin Keegan | 080 04 |
Which former England cricket captain shares a name with a Welsh peninsula | Gower | 080 05 |
What is the state capital of Florida | Tallahassee | 080 06 |
Who was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australlia | Amy Johnson | 080 07 |
Which Hollywood actress was born Natasha Gurdin | Natalie Wood | 080 08 |
What did America’s Lucien B. Smith invent in 1867 | Barbed wire | 080 09 |
RA is the international vehicle index mark for which country | Argentina | 080 10 |
Translated literally, which phrase means ‘blow of mercy’ in French | Coup de grace | 080 11 |
Who completed the first British cicumnavigation of the globe | Sir Francis Drake | 080 12 |
Who was in charge of the Trumpton fire brigade | Captain Flack | 080 13 |
What do the D’Oyly Carte Company produce | Operas | 080 14 |
Which line of hills stretches from Bristol to Chipping Camden | Cotswolds | 080 15 |
The cougar is another name for which North American cat | Puma | 080 16 |
Which British Prime Minister became the first Earl of Avon | Anthony Eden | 081 01 |
How many points is a touchdown worth in American football | Six | 081 02 |
To which group of musical instruments does the glockenspiel belong | Percussion | 081 03 |
What number is used to classify book titles | ISBN | 081 04 |
What variety of lettuce takes its name from a Greek island | Cos | 081 05 |
Which singer could only be filmed from the waist up on The Ed Sullivan Show because his act was considered so overtly sexual | Elvis Presley | 081 06 |
Which city did the very first Cook’s overseas tour visit in 1855 | Paris | 081 07 |
In which country is the Cleve-Garth waterfall | New Zealand | 081 08 |
A young Jeffrey Archer was once employed doing which job on the sands at Weston-super-Mare | Deckchair attendant | 081 09 |
Odontophobia is a fear of what | Teeth | 081 10 |
To which century does the umbrella date back | Second century BC | 081 11 |
What was the Fonz’s Christian name | Arthur | 081 12 |
Which Football League club plays at Plainmoor | Torquay United | 081 13 |
Which group backed Gary Puckett | The Union Gap | 081 14 |
Chris Norman was the lead singer with which Seventies band | Smokie | 081 15 |
Den Haag is the Dutch form of which town in the Netherlands | The Hague | 081 16 |
Which comedy actor starred in Oh Mr Porter and L i Ask a Policeman | Will Hay | 082 01 |
In which stretch of water is I(harg Island | Persian Gulf | 082 02 |
Who composed ‘The Planets’ suite | Gustav HoIst | 082 03 |
Who was known as the ‘forces sweetheart’ during the Second World War | Vera Lynn | 082 04 |
In which English county is Burghley House | Lincolnshire | 082 05 |
Which Spice Girl once played a teenage mugger in EastEnders | Emma Bunton | 082 06 |
From which wood are cricket bats traditionally made | Willow | 082 07 |
Which Uncle is the nickname for the US government | Sam | 082 08 |
What fooled the Sunday Times and historian Hugh Trevor-Roper in 1983 | The fake Hitler diaries | 082 09 |
A kiss-and-tell barmaid brought about the downfall of which England cricket captain | Mike Gatting | 082 10 |
From which city did Manuel come in Fowity Towers | Barcelona | 082 11 |
Who was the first black men’s singles champion at Wimbledon | Arthur Ashe | 082 12 |
In which year did ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ first reach number one | 1975 | 082 13 |
What speed limit was introduced on British roads in 1965 | 70mph | 082 14 |
Titan is the largest moon of which planet | Saturn | 082 15 |
What was Thailand formerly known as | Siam | 082 16 |
Which card game was invented in the 17th century by English poet John Suckling | Cribbage | 083 01 |
Who was the first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan | Benazir Bhutto | 083 02 |
Which boxer was nicknamed ‘the Manassa Mauler’ | Jack Dempsey | 083 03 |
In which country was fingerprinting first used to identify crime suspects | India | 083 04 |
Which sea separates Egypt and Sudan from Saudi Arabia | Red Sea | 083 05 |
In which ocean are the Maldives | Indian Ocean | 083 06 |
Who was the Ebony to Paul McCartney’s Ivory | StevieWonder | 083 07 |
Which popular salad ingredient was thought to be poisonous until 1830 | Tomato | 083 08 |
Which is the first female in the line of succession to the British monarchy | Princess Beatrice | 083 09 |
Which ballet dancer changed her name from Margaret Hookham | Margot Fonteyn | 083 10 |
What is ikebana | The Japanese art of flower arrangement | 083 11 |
Who was stripped of his 100 metres gold medal at the 1988 Olympics after testing positive for drugs | Ben Johnson | 083 12 |
In 1985, which 22-year-old Russian became the youngest chess player to win the world title | Gary Kasparov | 083 13 |
What crime did Kristin Shepard commit in 1980 | She shot J.R. Ewing in Dallas | 083 14 |
Which English King had a secret wife named Mrs Fitzherbert | George IV | 083 15 |
Which compulsive dish-washer is Emma Forbes’s mother | Nanette Newman | 083 16 |
Slide Mountain is the highest peak in which US mountain range | The Catskills | 084 01 |
Which river flows through Chester | Dee | 084 02 |
What did Charlie Chan call his eldest offspring, Barry | ‘Number One Son | 084 03 |
In 1967, which golfer made the first televised hole-in-one | Tony Jacklin | 084 04 |
Which is the smallest native British deer | Roe deer | 084 05 |
Which monster in Greek mythology had nine heads | Hydra | 084 06 |
Jomo Kenyatta became the first President of which country in 1964 | Kenya | 084 07 |
What was Edwin Lutyens by profession | Architect | 084 08 |
Who released the 1997 album ‘OK Computer’ | Radiohead | 084 09 |
What was significant about footballer Mo Johnston’s transfer to Rangers in 1989 | He was Rangers’ first Catholic signing | 084 10 |
Who directed Women in Love and The Devils | Ken Russell | 084 11 |
Which Hollywood actress was born Caryn Johnson | Whoopi Goldberg | 084 12 |
Who designed the Clifton Suspension Bridge | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | 084 13 |
What colour are the flowers of a celandine | Yellow | 084 14 |
Who was the first English printer | William Caxton | 084 15 |
Who was the commander of Stingray | Troy Tempest | 084 16 |
From which country did the chow dog originate | China | 085 01 |
What is the name of the area of low atmospheric pressure along the equator where calm winds can suddenly produce storms | Doldrums | 085 02 |
What two colours make up the flag of Portugal | Green and red | 085 03 |
What was the Christian name of the German car designer Porsche | Ferdinand | 085 04 |
On which ground do the Scotland rugby union team play home matches | Murrayfleld | 085 05 |
As which Sixties pop star did Reg Balls re-invent himself | Reg Presley | 085 06 |
Muskie and Vince assisted which law enforcer | Deputy Dawg | 085 07 |
Eboracum was the Roman name for which city | York | 085 08 |
What piece of furniture is a chesterfield | Sofa | 085 09 |
Scottish blackface and cheviot are breeds of which animal | Sheep | 085 10 |
Chesil Beach is in which English county | Dorset | 085 11 |
Who went from playing a brickie to wearing ‘Crocodile Shoes | Jimmy Nail | 085 12 |
Which south coast resort is host to a pre-Wimbledon tennis tournament | Eastbourne | 085 13 |
What was the middle name of the poet Percy Shelley | Bysshe | 085 14 |
Which Independent candidate fought unsuccessfully against Bill Clinton in the 1992 US Presidential campaign | Ross Perot | 085 15 |
Who is Wayne Slob’s wife | Waynetta | 085 16 |
Which former Radio I disc jockey is a descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson | David ‘Kid’ Jensen | 086 01 |
Who wrote Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | 086 02 |
Which US state is known as the ‘Magnolia State’ | Mississippi | 086 03 |
Who lived in Ten Acre field at Scatterbrook Farm | Worzel Gummidge | 086 04 |
In 1985, what did Europe regain for the first time in 28 years | Ryder Cup | 086 05 |
Who withdrew from the 1988 US Presidential race following newspaper revelations about his relationship with model Donna Rice | Gary Hart | 086 06 |
Where would you find your hammer, anvil and stirrup | In your ear | 086 07 |
What is the smallest British bird | Goldcrest | 086 08 |
In which country is the Gibson Desert | Australia | 086 09 |
Whose daughters were Goneril and Regan | King Lear | 086 10 |
Which English football team achieved a European and domestic treble in 2001 | Liverpool | 086 11 |
How many lines are there in a limerick | Five | 086 12 |
According to 10cc, who gets more fan mail than the Pope | Mickey Mouse (‘Life Is A Minestrone’) | 086 13 |
Which 15th century Italian artist’s name means ‘little barrel’ | Botticelli | 086 14 |
Which former England international footballer was known as the ‘Preston plumber’ | Tom Finney | 086 15 |
On which island of New Zealand is the city of Christchurch | South Island | 086 16 |
What nationality was Christopher Columbus | Italian | 087 01 |
In the currency of which country do 100 qindarka make a lek | Albania | 087 02 |
What is comfrey | A hairy-leaved plant | 087 03 |
On which racecourse is the Whitbread Gold Cup run | Sandown Park | 087 04 |
Which band took their name from the villain in the film Borbarello | Duran Duran | 087 05 |
Which actor took his stage name from a Humphrey Bogart movie | Michael Caine (The Caine Mutiny) | 087 06 |
Which Spanish King despatched the Armada | Philip II | 087 07 |
Who lived at 24 Sebastopol Terrace,Acton | Sykes | 087 08 |
Which Formula One team sacked driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen halfw ay through the 2001 season | Jordan | 087 09 |
Who formed the National Teenage Party in 1963 | Screaming Lord Sutch | 087 10 |
In which continent does the wombat live | Australasia | 087 11 |
Who wrote the novel The Bonfire of the Vanities | Tom Wolfe | 087 12 |
Who plays Ally McBeal | Calista Flockhart | 087 13 |
Who was the first British golfer to win the US Open | Harry Vardon | 087 14 |
Who was the last Tudor monarch | Elizabeth 1 | 087 15 |
Which band had hits with ‘Yellow’ and ‘Trouble’ | Cold play | 087 16 |
Who pioneered birth control in London in the I 920s | Marie Stopes | 088 01 |
What do Vanessa Feltz and Tony Curtis have in common | Both have a daughter named Allegra | 088 02 |
Which singer had a Bionic Woman as babysitter for his children | Glen Campbell (Lindsay Wagner) | 088 03 |
What is a stonechat | A bird | 088 04 |
In which county is Stilton cheese traditionally made | Leicestershire | 088 05 |
Which cathedral has the tallest spire in England | Salisbury | 088 06 |
Which Russian city had three different names in the course of the 20th century | St Petersburg — formerly Petrograd and Leningrad | 088 07 |
What took place in Chicago on 14 February 1929 | St Valentine’s Day Massacre | 088 08 |
With what instrument was jazz musician Sonny Rollins associated | Tenor saxophone | 088 09 |
Soling, Finn and Tornado are categories in which sport | Yachting | 088 10 |
Who sprinkled oofle dust | Sooty | 088 11 |
As whom was Lev Davidovjtch Bronstein better known | Trotsky | 088 12 |
When did Carole King decide it might as well rain until | September | 088 13 |
In which country is the fishing port ofTrondheim | Norway | 088 14 |
Waverley Station is located in which British city | Edinburgh | 088 15 |
What disease can the tsetse fly transmit to humans | Sleeping sickness | 088 16 |
What did Barbie’s boyfriend Ken originally lack which other boys had | Genitals | 089 01 |
Which board game was devised by unemployed heating engineer Clarence B. Darrow | Monopoly | 089 02 |
What is the chemical term for chalk | Calcium carbonate | 089 03 |
Which Benedictine monk invented champagne | Dom Perignon | 089 04 |
At which Olympic event did David Hemery win a gold medal | 400 metres hurdles | 089 05 |
What was Diana Prince’s alter ego | Wonder Woman | 089 06 |
Which band’s best-selling album was titled Urban Hymns’ | The Verve | 089 07 |
Which writer of The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy died in 2001 | Douglas Adams | 089 08 |
What is the name for a word that reads the same backwards as forwards | Palindrome | 089 09 |
What was the name of the lioness in Born Free | Elsa | 089 10 |
In which English town is there a street called The Pantiles | Tunbridge Wells | 089 11 |
What do you call an angle which measures between 90 and 180 degrees | Obtuse | 089 12 |
In which forest was William II of England killed | New Forest | 089 13 |
What did WatTyler lead in 1381 | Peasants’ Revolt | 089 14 |
On which river is Shrewsbury | Severn | 089 15 |
Who was banned from international football for a year in 1990 for insulting the French national team manager Henri Michel | Eric Cantona | 089 16 |
Which British field marshal in the Crimean War gave his name to a type of sleeve | Lord Raglan | 090 01 |
Which golf trophy did Britain and Ireland retain at Sea Island, Georgia, in August 2001 | Walker Cup | 090 02 |
Which musical features ‘The Lambeth Walk’ | Me and My Girl | 090 03 |
What sort of beer takes its name from the German for ‘store’ | Lager | 090 04 |
What is the name of the bone on the thumb side of the forearm | Radius | 090 05 |
What did the council tax replace in 1993 | Poll tax | 090 06 |
In which century were the first reports of a Loch Ness monster | 15th | 090 07 |
Which actress split from husband Jim Threapleton in August 2001 | Kate Winslet | 090 08 |
What links Pete Shelley and Mark Lamarr | Pete Shelley was singer with The Buzzcocks and Mark Lamarr presents Never Mind the Buzzcocks | 090 09 |
What was first achieved by Captain Matthew Webb in 1875 | Cross-Channel swim | 090 10 |
Which fashion designer created the ‘little black dress’ | Coco Chanel | 090 11 |
Who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahi | 090 12 |
Which British painter murdered his father in 1843 and was committed to an asylum | Richard Dadd | 090 13 |
For which country did Neil Harvey play Test cricket | Australia | 090 14 |
Dakar is the capital of which African country | Senegal | 090 15 |
In which county would you find the villages of Great Snoring and Little Snoring | Norfolk | 090 16 |
Which Russian runner was booed as she won the women’s 5000 metres at the 2001 World Athletics Championships | Olga Yegorova | 091 01 |
Which Coronation Street barmaid was played by Tina Hobley | Samantha Failsworth | 091 02 |
What is the lowest prime number over 1,000 | 1,009 | 091 03 |
Which city was the capital of Nigeria until 1991 | Lagos | 091 04 |
Who directed Platoon and JFK | Oliver Stone | 091 05 |
In Arthurian legend, what was the name of King Arthur’s wife | Guinevere | 091 06 |
What is the highest mountain in England | Scafell Pike | 091 07 |
Which singer split up from Puff Daddy in 2001 | jennifer Lopez | 091 08 |
Which Scottish League football team were deducted IS points in 2000 for refusing to fulfil a fixture at Stenhousemuir | Hamilton Academicals | 091 09 |
Albion was the ancient name for which country | Britain | 091 10 |
What is the Alexander technique said to improve | Posture | 091 11 |
What does Bisto stand for | Browns, Seasons,Thickens-in-One | 091 12 |
Where in Britain is Ugley | Essex | 091 13 |
Who popularised the history of art through the TV series Civilisation | Kenneth Clark | 091 14 |
In which decade was the American Civil War | I 860s | 091 15 |
Which member of Pink Floyd played guitar on Kate Bush’s ‘WUthering Heights’ | Dave Gilmour | 091 16 |
Which famous thespian is the mother of actress Joely Richardson | Vanessa Redgrave | 092 01 |
Lake Tiberias is the modern name for which Biblical sea | Sea of Galilee | 092 02 |
Cape Horn is at the southern tip of which group of islands | Tierra del Fuego | 092 03 |
What does ‘ergo’ mean in Latin | Therefore | 092 04 |
What is a fieldfare | Bird | 092 05 |
Who was Queen of England for nine days in 1553 | Lady Jane Grey | 092 06 |
Which spa town at the foot of the Taunus Mountains in Germany gave its name to a soft felt hat for men | Homburg | 092 07 |
Action Man was the British version of which American toy doll | G.I. Joe | 092 08 |
According to medieval Christian legend, what did Jesus drink from at the Last Supper | The Holy Grail | 092 09 |
What is a koto | A Japanese musical instrument | 092 10 |
Which cat was tormented by Pixie and Dixie | Mr Jinks | 092 11 |
Why did the BBC ban Ricky Valance’s 1960 hit ‘Tell Laura I Love Her’ | It was about death — a taboo subject | 092 12 |
Which Football League club used to be called New Bromptori | Gillingham | 092 13 |
What are kurdaitcha shoes — worn by Australian Aborigines — traditionally made from | Emu feathers | 092 14 |
Leith is the port of which city | Edinburgh | 092 15 |
How did Herbert Marx get his nickname of ‘Zeppo’ | He was born at the time of the first zeppelins | 092 16 |
What do Ronnie O’Sullivan, Keanu Reeves and Woody Harrelson have in | Their fathers have all served jail sentences | 093 01 |
Edgbaston cricket ground is in which city | Birmingham | 093 02 |
On which island did Steve McGarrett operate | Hawaii (Hawaii Five-O) | 093 03 |
Who wanted to know: ‘What’s The Frequency Kenneth’ | R.E.M. | 093 04 |
In 1953, which jockey finally won his first Epsom Derby at the age of 49 | Sir Gordon Richards | 093 05 |
What was installed for the first time at Barclays Bank, Enfield, on 27 June 1967 | Cash dispenser | 093 06 |
Richard Hadlee played Test cricket for which country | New Zealand | 093 07 |
Which Hollywood actor changed his name from William Franklin Beedle Jnr | William Holden | 093 08 |
What can be the position of a note in the musical scale or a sticky black substance | Pitch | 093 09 |
In which county is the cathedral city of Wells | Somerset | 093 10 |
In which country was the conductor Georg Solti born | Hungary | 093 11 |
Who was the Greek god of dreams | Morpheus | 093 12 |
Which British golfer won the US Masters in 1988 | Sandy Lyle | 093 13 |
Which channel divides Anglesey from the Welsh mainland | Menai Strait | 093 14 |
Edward Whymper was the first person to climb which Alpine peak | Matterhorn | 093 15 |
For what is laser an acronym | Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation | 093 16 |
Which planet was discovered by William Herschel in 1781 | Uranus | 094 01 |
How many weeks did Bryan Adams stay at number one in the UK in 1991 with ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’ | 16 | 094 02 |
Which of The Monkees once starred in Circus Boy | Mickey Dolenz | 094 03 |
What nationality is former speedway champion Ivan Mauger | New Zealander | 094 04 |
Who was said to have fiddled while Rome burned | Nero | 094 05 |
Who composed ‘Transcendental Studies’ | Liszt | 094 06 |
What is the state capital of Arkansas | Little Rock | 094 07 |
What do Roger Moore,Terry Waite and Julian Clary have in common | Their fathers were policemen | 094 08 |
What colour does litmus paper turn in the presence of alkali | Blue | 094 09 |
In which county is Bamburgh Castle | Northumberland | 094 10 |
Which wine bar did James Willmott-Brown run in EastEnders | The Dagmar | 094 11 |
Which river flows through Northampton | Nene | 094 12 |
In which country is the Kakadu National Park | Australia | 094 13 |
Which rock star famously challenged Liam Gallagher to a fight | Robbie Williams | 094 14 |
The Weimar Republic was established in which country in 1918 | Germany | 094 15 |
In which year did Chris Evert win her first Wimbledon title | 1974 | 094 16 |
Which comedian’s catchphrase was ‘You lucky people’ | Tommy Trinder | 095 01 |
To what did Puff Daddy change his name in 2001 | P. Diddy | 095 02 |
What was the name of Hyacinth Bucket’s long-suffering husband in Keeping Up Appearances | Richard | 095 03 |
Which city is the capital of the Tuscany region of Italy | Florence | 095 04 |
Which of the Wombles takes his name from a city in Siberia | Tomsk | 095 05 |
Who was the Glamorgan bowler when Nottinghamshire’s Gary Sobers established a world record by hitting six sixes in one over at Swansea in 1968 | Malcolm Nash | 095 06 |
In which county is the resort of Ingoidmells | Lincolnshire | 095 07 |
Which seat of learning links Mick Jagger and John F. Kennedy | Both attended the London School of Economics | 095 08 |
Who wrote Arms and the Man and Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw | 095 09 |
What colour beak does a shelduck have | Red | 095 10 |
What is the national sport of Japan | Sumo wrestling | 095 11 |
Which movie star was the subject of a 1986 song by Suzanne Vega | Marlene Djetrich (‘Marlene On The Wall’) | 095 12 |
What garment did Mary Phelps Jacob (aka Mrs Caresse Crosby) perfect in 1913 | The bra | 095 13 |
Which flashing road safety innovation of 1934 was named after the Minister of Transport at the time | Belisha beacon (Sir Leslie Hore-Belisha) | 095 14 |
What was the family surname in Roseanne | Conner | 095 15 |
Steve Bruce was appointed manager of which London football club in the summer of 2001 | Crystal Palace | 095 16 |
Which British motor-racing team was launched by Tony Vandervell | Vanwall | 096 01 |
Which communications satellite was launched in 1962 to provide the first live TV transmissions between the USA and Europe | Telstar | 096 02 |
Which T is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland | Tyrone | 096 03 |
What type of geographical feature is Skiddaw | A mountain (in the Lake district) | 096 04 |
Which movie star, who separated in 2001 from his wife, was once voted Least Likely To Succeed by his classmates | Tom Cruise | 096 05 |
Which board game was the brainchild of Chris and John Haney and Scott Abbott | Trivial Pursuit | 096 06 |
What is a siskin | A bird | 096 07 |
Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant starred in which Helen Fielding adaptation | Bridget Jones’s Diary | 096 08 |
Which Quasimodo won the Nobel Prize for Literature in I 959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | 096 09 |
In 1986, 13-year-old Sandra Kim won the Eurovision Song Contest for which country | Belgium | 096 10 |
In football, which country staged the 1958 World Cup finals | Sweden | 096 11 |
Au is the chemical symbol for which element | Gold | 096 12 |
What does ‘décolleté’ mean in the fashion world | Low cut | 096 13 |
Who is the chief god in Scandinavian mythology | Odin | 096 14 |
At which London railway station would you arrive if travelling from Swindon | PaddingtOfl | 096 15 |
What was special about the televised football match between Liverpool and West Ham on 15 November 1969 | It was the firstTV game in colour | 096 16 |
Justin Frischmann, Janet Street-Porter and Queen Noor of Jordan all studied to be what | Architects | 097 01 |
What was the name of Boycie’s wife in Only Fools And Horses | Marlene | 097 02 |
Which Football League club started the 2001-2 season playing home matches at Dorchester Town | Bournemouth | 097 03 |
Which pen name did R.C. Lamburn use to create the adventures of a mischievous schoolboy | Richmal Crompton (just William) | 097 04 |
Which duo were first to utter the corny line: ‘If I Said You Have A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me’ | Bellamy Brothers | 097 05 |
What flower is ling more commonly known as | Heather | 097 06 |
For which country does footballer Dan Petrescu play | Romania | 097 07 |
What is the female singer’s equivalent of an alto voice | Contralto | 097 08 |
Ownership of Jutland is divided between which two countries | Denmark and Germany | 097 09 |
Arthur Stanley Jefferson achieved fame as which half of a comic duo | Stan Laurel | 097 10 |
AscunciOn is the capital of which South American country | Paraguay | 097 11 |
Which bubble threatened to destroy the British economy in the century | South Sea Bubble | 097 12 |
Racehorse No Bombs was disqualified after winning a race at Ascot for eating what on the way to the races | Mars Bar | 097 13 |
In which country was Lego invented | Denmark | 097 14 |
What foodstuff was originally called an Eskimo Pie | Choc ice | 097 15 |
What is a liger | The offspring of a lion and tigress | 097 16 |
What is Edina’s surname in Absolutely Fabulous | Monsoon | 098 01 |
Who was Prime Minister of Australia from 1983-91 | Bob Hawke | 098 02 |
Which Scandinavian country’s flag is a yellow cross on a blue background | Sweden | 098 03 |
Which town is the administrative centre of Northumberland | Morpeth | 098 04 |
What is 80 in Roman numerals | LXXX | 098 05 |
How many pounds are there in a stone | 14 | 098 06 |
Which city houses the two Petronas skyscrapers, currently the tallest buildings in the world | Kuala Lumpur | 098 07 |
Which African country used to be called Nyasaland | Malawi | 098 08 |
Which physical trait is shared by Jane Seymour and David Bowie | Each have eyes of different colours | 098 09 |
Which US group took their name from a fire engine | REO Speedwagon | 098 10 |
Which country’s rugby union team plays at Lansdowne Road | Ireland | 098 11 |
Which port did the French regain from English control in I 558 | Calais | 098 12 |
On which river does Calcutta stand | Hooghly | 098 13 |
Which police officer did Helen Mirren play in Prime Suspect | Jane Tennison | 098 14 |
Who was the Antipodean star of the movie Gladiator | Russell Crowe | 098 15 |
The sister of which actress was the subject of The Beatles’ ‘Dear Prudence’ | Mia Farrow | 098 16 |
Who loaded the crossbows on The Golden Shot | Bernie the Bolt | 099 01 |
Which Foreign Office clerk was jailed in 1984 for passing Cruise missile documents to the Guardian | Sarah Tisdall | 099 02 |
Which son of Oliver Cromwell succeeded him as Lord Protector | Richard | 099 03 |
Which four counties border Nottinghamshire | Derbyshire, South Yorkshire, Lincoinshire and Leicestershire | 099 04 |
Gaz Coombes is the singer with which band | Supergrass | 099 05 |
In which country are the ruins of Persepolis | Iran | 099 06 |
Which country has won most Commonwealth Games gold medals | Australia | 099 07 |
What was invented byWhitcomb L.Judson in 1893 | The zip | 099 08 |
Which is the longest river in the world | The Nile | 099 09 |
The name of which South American capital city means ‘I see the mountain’ | Montevideo | 099 10 |
Which British comedian and chat show host had ‘No Entry’ tattooed on his bottom | Brian Conley | 099 11 |
Quark is which country’s most popular cheese | Germany | 099 12 |
Who led a revolt against the Normans in 1070 from his stronghold on the Isle of Ely | Hereward the Wake | 099 13 |
Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 099 14 |
Where is the Metropolitan Police Training School | Hendon | 099 15 |
What is burned gypsum otherwise known as | Plaster of Paris | 099 16 |
Which Platters song was covered by Freddie Mercury in 1987 | ‘The Great Pretender | 100 01 |
On which racecourse is the Royal Hunt Cup run | Ascot | 100 02 |
What did Adam push up his bottom to woo Rachel in Cold Feet | A rose | 100 03 |
lpswich is located at the estuary of which river | Orwell | 100 04 |
Who played The Joker in the 1989 Botmon movie | Jack Nicholson | 100 05 |
Which flower is the national emblem of Japan | Chrysanthemum | 100 06 |
Which Archbishop of Canterbury declared Henry Vill’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon null and void | Thomas Cranmer | 100 07 |
Which Liverpool footballer was nicknamed ‘Crazy Horse’ | Emlyn Hughes | 100 08 |
Corfu is an island in which sea | lonian Sea | 100 09 |
The dong is the currency of which country | Vietnam | 100 10 |
In which American state is Key West | Florida | 100 11 |
Which singer with The Moody Blues later joined Wings | Denny Lame | 100 12 |
Choo Choo and Spook were members of whose gang | Top Cat | 100 13 |
What do you fear if you suffer from linonophobia | String | 100 14 |
Which British comedian used to drive a hearse for Co-op Funerals | Russ Abbot | 100 15 |
Which 1980 TV programme caused diplomatic relations to be broken off between Britain and Saudi Arabia | Death of a Princess | 100 16 |
What is the connection between Winnie the Pooh and The Rolling Stones | Brian Jones bought A.A. Milne’s old house | 101 01 |
What is the sign of Sagittarius | The archer | 101 02 |
Between which two towns did the world’s first railway run | Stockton and Darlington | 101 03 |
What type of musical instrument is a triangle | Percussion | 101 04 |
For what crime was Al Capone eventually brought to justice | Tax evasian | 101 05 |
Who did Muhammad AN beat in the ‘thriller in Manila’ to retain his World Heavyweight title | joe Frazier | 101 06 |
Which river does Balmoral Castle overlook | Dee | 101 07 |
Which golfer won the British Open in 1979, 1984 and 1988 | Severiano Ballesteros | 101 08 |
Who was Lucille Ball’s husband on and off screen in the I 950s | Desi Arnez | 101 09 |
What does PLO stand for | Palestinian Liberation Organisation | 101 10 |
And what did ELO stand for | Electric Light Orchestra | 101 11 |
In which sea are the Aland Islands | Baltic | 101 12 |
What is the capital of NewYork state | Albany | 101 13 |
Who solved crimes in St Mary Mead | Miss Morple | 101 14 |
Which playwright wrote Entertaining Mr Sloone and Loot | Joe Orton | 101 15 |
Who was the Roman goddess of chastity and hunting | Diana | 101 16 |
Which fellow actor said: ‘A Steve McQueen performance just naturally lends itself to monotony. Steve doesn’t bring much to the party’ | Robert Mitchum | 102 01 |
Who sang about ‘Creeque Alley’ | The Mamas and The Papas | 102 02 |
What is a dhow | A ship | 102 03 |
Jamie Cox was the captain of which county cricket team in 2001 | Somerset | 102 04 |
Which cartoon hero was created by Chester Gould | Dick Tracy | 102 05 |
Who wrote Of Human Bondage and The Moon and Sixpence | Somerset Maugham | 102 06 |
Which Sixties singer was born Mary O’Brien | Dusty Springfield | 102 07 |
In 1956, who was voted the first European Footballer of the Year | Stanley Matthews | 102 08 |
Port Louis is the capital of which Indian ocean island | Mauritius | 102 09 |
Which medical drama is set in Chicago’s Cook County General Hospital | ER | 102 10 |
Which British Prime Minister is said to have died from a heart attack while having sex with a parlour maid on his private billiard table | Viscount Palmerston | 102 11 |
Which movie director changed his name from Melvin Kaminsky | Mel Brooks | 102 12 |
What colours are the three stripes on the Belgian national flag | Black, yellow and red | 102 13 |
‘Fast Car’ was a 1988 hit for which artist | Tracy Chapman | 102 14 |
Which sport was invented by schoolboy William Webb Ellis | Rugby | 102 15 |
On the face of which mountain are carved giant portrait heads of four former US Presidents | Mount Rushmore | 102 16 |
What nationality was the artist Rubens | Flemish | 103 01 |
What colour is azure | Blue | 103 02 |
Which English football team plays atCarrow Road | Norwich City | 103 03 |
Which boy band topped the charts with a basketball term | Five (‘Slam Dunk (Da Funk)’) | 103 04 |
On which horse did 18-year-old Lester Piggott become the youngest jockey to win the Epsom Derby | Never Say Die | 103 05 |
What links Batman and Catherine Zeta-Jones | Michael Keaton (who played Batman in the original movie) was born Michael Douglas | 103 06 |
Which former world motor-racing champion’s middle names are Ernest Deveraux | Damon Hill | 103 07 |
Through which English city did Lady Godiva ride naked | Coventry | 103 08 |
What date is St Swithin’s Day | 15 July | 103 09 |
Why do Wallace & Gromit owe their lives to William Harbutt | He invented plasticine | 103 10 |
In which city were parking meters first introduced | Oklahoma City | 103 11 |
Who is Sindy’s boyfriend | Paul | 103 12 |
Which American state did The Bee Gees sing about in 1967 | ‘Massachusetts | 103 13 |
What is unique — and unfortunate — about the male swamp antechinus, a mouse-like marsupial from Australia | It is the only mammal which dies automatically after mating | 103 14 |
Which actress left Rudolph Valentino on their wedding night | Jean Acker | 103 15 |
Which singer was sacked from her job as a waitress at New York fast- food restaurant Dunk’ Donuts for squirting jam at a customer | Madonna | 103 16 |
Who were the first club to score 1.000 Football League goals | Aston Villa | 104 01 |
Who starred in Breakfast at Tiffany’s and My Fair Lady | Audrey Hepburn | 104 02 |
What nationality was playwright Samuel Beckett | Irish | 104 03 |
Which foodstuff was invented by Frenchman Hippolyte Mège-Mouries in 1868 | Margarine | 104 04 |
What is the chemical symbol for iron | Fe | 104 05 |
Which European country has the international vehicle index mark CH | Switzerland | 104 06 |
Which boy’s name means ‘small’ in Latin | Paul | 104 07 |
What is the capital of Uzbekistan | Tashkent | 104 08 |
Who sang about a’Stupid Girl’ in 1996 | Garbage | 104 09 |
And who did Captain Mainwaring think was a ‘stupid boy’ | Pike | 104 10 |
Which town is the administrative centre of Essex | Chelmsford | 104 11 |
What is the name of an otter’s home | Holt | 104 12 |
Which camp TV presenter was named after the tough-guy actor who starred in Tales of Wells Fargo | Dale Winton (named after Dale Robertson) | 104 13 |
Dar es Salaam is the chief seaport in which country | Tanzania | 104 14 |
Which Australian golfer won the British Open in 1991 | lan Baker-Finch | 104 15 |
Which is the world’s largest inland sea | Caspian Sea | 104 16 |
Which former England football manager was named after an lI-fated bandleader | Glenn Hoddle (after Glenn Miller) | 105 01 |
Britney Spears appeared in which TV series about a girl with supernatural powers | Sabrina the Teenage Witch | 105 02 |
Saintpaulia is the Latin name for which popular house plant | African violet | 105 03 |
Which musical instrument was invented by Cyrill Damien in 1829 | Accordion | 105 04 |
Who directed Dances With Wolves | Kevin Costner | 105 05 |
Which country used to be called Kampuchea | Cambodia | 105 06 |
Georgetown is the capital of which South American country | Guyana | 105 07 |
In which year was the Gunpowder Plot | 1605 | 105 08 |
Who was head of the Gestapo from 1936 | Heinrich Himmler | 105 09 |
For which county did Len Hutton play cricket | Yorkshire | 105 10 |
A gumtree is the common name for which tree | Eucalyptus | 105 11 |
In which county is Caernarvon | Gwynedd | 105 12 |
What is the state capital of Idaho | Boise | 105 13 |
Which Belgian punk had a 1978 hit with ‘Ca Plane Pour Moi’ | Plastic Bertrand | 105 14 |
With what physical handicap was Dudley Moore born | A club foot | 105 15 |
Which comedian’s real name is Jim Moir | Vic Reeves | 105 16 |
For which film did Paul Newman win an Oscar for Best Actor in 1986 | The Color of Money | 106 01 |
What is the name of Batman’s butler | Alfred | 106 02 |
Which tapestry gives a vivid pictorial record of the Norman Conquest | Bayeux Tapestry | 106 03 |
Which Scottish League football team are nicknamed the ‘Gable Endies’ | Montrose | 106 04 |
What type of flask was originally called a Dewar Vessel in honour of its inventor | Thermos flask | 106 05 |
The Dogger Bank is a submerged sandbank in which sea | North Sea | 106 06 |
Which city were both Katrina and The Waves and The Bangles going down to | Liverpool | 106 07 |
Which country was formerly known as East Pakistan | Bangladesh | 106 08 |
Which Irish jockey recorded a hat-trick of wins in the Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe from 1985-7 | Pat Eddery | 106 09 |
Who was the second USPresident after George Washington | John Adams | 106 10 |
An early example of what was called a ‘Piggly Wiggly’ | Supermarket | 106 11 |
What is an eddy | A small whirlpool | 106 12 |
What are the flowers of willows, poplars and birches called | Catkins | 106 13 |
Which actor went from straight man to a puppet fox to a job as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister | Derek Fowlds (The Basil Brush Show to Yes, Minister) | 106 14 |
What is Gregory Peck’s real Christian name | Eldred | 106 15 |
Which two British athletes won long jump gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics | Lynn Davies and Mary Rand | 106 16 |
What is the colour of mourning in Turkey | Violet | 107 01 |
What three colours are on the flag of the Republic of Ireland | Green, white and orange | 107 02 |
How many countries border Belgium | Four — France,The Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg | 107 03 |
Who was the first presenter of Grandstand | Peter Dimmock | 107 04 |
Which singerlactor was born Paul Beuselinck | Paul Nicholas | 107 05 |
Which game takes its name from the Latin for a bird of prey | Subbuteo (Falco subbuteo is the Latin name for the hobby) | 107 06 |
The gourde is the currency of which country | Haiti | 107 07 |
Whose companion was Captain Hastings | Hercule Poirot | 107 08 |
Which Eighties band took their name from two bowler-hatted secret service agents in Herge’s Adventures of Tintin | The Thompson Twins | 107 09 |
Which star of Gandhi once chatted up Irma Barlow in Coronation Street | Ben Kingsley | 107 10 |
In horse racing, what is the fillies’ version of the Derby | The Oaks | 107 11 |
What was Shakespeare’s last play | Henry VIII | 107 12 |
Which actor suffered such bad stage fright during a production of Cell Mates that he left the country | Stephen Fry | 107 13 |
Foil, épee and sabre are the three types of weapon used in which sport | Fencing | 107 14 |
What kind of musical instrument is a fife | A small flute | 107 15 |
What nationality was the physician Galen | Greek | 107 16 |
Who searched for the one-armed man in The Fugitive | Dr Richard Kimble | 108 01 |
Mike Barson was the chief songwriter with which Eighties band | Madness | 108 02 |
What does EMU stand for | European Monetary Union | 108 03 |
What is a smolt | A young salmon | 108 04 |
What is the Japanese wine sake made from | Rice | 108 05 |
Which Fulke was a well-known racehorse trainer | Fulke Walwyn | 108 06 |
What was the name of Perry Mason’s secretary | Della Street | 108 07 |
Which group backed Johnny Kidd | The Pirates | 108 08 |
What was St Vitus the patron saint of | Dancers | 108 09 |
The London Promenade Concerts are named after which conductor | Henry Wood | 108 10 |
For which film did Emma Thompson win an Oscar for Best Actress in 1992 | Howard’s End | 108 11 |
Which Formula One Grand Prix takes place at interlagos | Brazilian | 108 12 |
A bombardon is a member of which group of musical instruments | Brass | 108 13 |
What was the first name of the German dramatist Brecht | Bertolt | 108 14 |
Who was the youngest of the three Brontë sisters | Anne | 108 15 |
Who wrote Hotel du bc | Anita Brookner | 108 16 |
Which hero of spaghetti Westerns is allergic to horses | Clint Eastwood | 109 01 |
What did Arsenal and Chelsea have on 25 August 1928 that no other team did | Numbered shirts | 109 02 |
Who was the first woman in space | ValentinaTereshkova | 109 03 |
What were the young men of Britain no longer required to perform after 1960 | National service | 109 04 |
Whose 1995 album was ‘Different Class’ | Pulp | 109 05 |
In which Irish county is Connemara | Galway | 109 06 |
Who announced that he was going to leave old Durham town | Roger Whittaker | 109 07 |
Who composed the ‘Brandenburg Concertos’ | Bach | 109 08 |
What animal lives in a sett | Badger | 109 09 |
To what family of birds does the blackcap belong | Warbler | 109 10 |
What were followers of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists commonly known as | Blackshirts | 109 11 |
Which romantic novelist’s first book was Jigsaw, published in 1921 | Dame Barbara Cartland | 109 12 |
In which Dublin park were two prominent members of the British government murdered in 1882 | Phoenix Park | 109 13 |
Who was Starsky and Hutch’s jive-talking informant | Huggy Bear | 109 14 |
Who invented the Polaroid camera | Dr Edwin Land | 109 15 |
In which US state does the Rio Grande river rise | South Colorado | 109 16 |
Whose only UK number one single was ‘Tears On My Pillow | Johnny Nash | 110 01 |
Which Scottish international footballer was sent home in disgrace from the 1978 World Cup finals after testing positive for drugs that were contained in a cold remedy | Willie Johnston | 110 02 |
In which country is the resort of Rimini | Italy | 110 03 |
Who was the last Stuart sovereign of England | Queen Anne | 110 04 |
Where did Tony Hancock live in Hancock’s Half-Hour | 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam | 110 05 |
Which country rules the Faeroe Islands | Denmark | 110 06 |
Which American space mission took Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aidrin to the Moon | Apollo XI | 110 07 |
What was the surname of’Hawkeye’ in M*A*S*H | Pierce | 110 08 |
Who had five hits in the Top Twenty at the same time in 1955 | Ruby Murray | 110 09 |
On which film did Clint Eastwood make his debut as a director | Play Misty For Me | 110 10 |
Which Rolling Stone once worked as a porter at a mental hospital | Mick Jagger | 110 11 |
From which continent does the potato originate | South America | 110 12 |
Which London Underground station was called Walham Green until 1952 | Fulham Broadway | 110 13 |
Which London railway terminus is at the end of the Chiltern Line | Marylebone | 110 14 |
Which country uses more condoms than any other | japan | 110 15 |
What pastime did Arthur Wynne invent in 1913 | Crossword puzzle | 110 16 |
In which century did the first known dictionary appear | 6th century BC | 111 01 |
What is Disprin short for | Dissolvable aspirin | 111 02 |
Who is the perpetual victim in Cluedo | Mr Black | 111 03 |
Which country used to be known as Bechuanaland | Botswana | 111 04 |
Which Oriental capital city means ‘wild plum village’ | Bangkok | 111 05 |
Alektorophobiajs a fear of what | Chickens | 111 06 |
According to medieval beliefs, what was urinating on an open grave supposed to cure | Incontinence | 111 07 |
In which country do they celebrate the Day of the Dead on 2 November | Mexico | 111 08 |
For what does the Cheirological Society cater | Those fascinated by handwriting | 111 09 |
Who was TV’s first blind detective | Longstreet | 111 10 |
Which Football League team are nicknamed the ‘Cobblers’ | Northampton Town | 111 11 |
What perfectly natural word was Lucille Ball banned from saying in I Love Lucy | Pregnant | 111 12 |
Which future landlady of the Queen Vic appeared on Play Away | Anita Dobson | 111 13 |
Who was the only human to appear on Spitting Image | Denis Healey | 111 14 |
Which member of the Monty Python team once appeared as a surfer on Home and Away | Michael Palm | 111 15 |
Which country achieved independence from France in 1962 | Algeria | 111 16 |
Which jockey won all seven races on the card at Ascot in 1996 | Frankie Dettori | 112 01 |
With which style of music is Scott Joplin associated | Ragtime | 112 02 |
How many points is the green ball worth in snooker | Three | 112 03 |
In which county is Canyon Bay where Tony Blair and his family went on holiday in 2001 | Cornwall | 112 04 |
Which animal symbolises the zodiac sign Capricorn | Goat | 112 05 |
Which Swedish novelist was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature | Selma Lagerlof | 112 06 |
What nationality are rock band The Cardigans | Swedish | 112 07 |
What is the name of Frosier’s father | Martin | 112 08 |
Which country inflicted Sven Goran Eriksson’s first defeat as England football manager | Holland | 112 09 |
In which city was actress Angela Lansbury born | London | 112 10 |
Who was Britain’s first Labour Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald | 112 11 |
What is a prickly pear | Cactus | 112 12 |
Where is Prince William Sound | The Gulf of Alaska | 112 13 |
What were Vince and Penny in John Sullivan’s sitcom | Just Good Friends | 112 14 |
Who wrote The Railway Children | E. Nesbit | 112 15 |
What are the names of Thomas the Tank Engine’s two carriages | Annie and Clarabel | 112 16 |
In Coronation Street, which Battersby daughter was briefly married to Nick Tilsley | Leanne | 113 01 |
Which heavy metal band took a ride on a ‘Silver Machine’ | Hawkwind | 113 02 |
Which English city was called Glevum by the Romans | Gloucester | 113 03 |
Who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1996 for the film Shine | Geoffrey Rush | 113 04 |
In cricket, is the fielding position of extra cover situated on the off or the on side of the wicket | 0ff | 113 05 |
Which is the smallest but most densely populated Central American country | El Salvador | 113 06 |
Ray Alan put words into the mouth of which mischievous schoolboy | Tich | 113 07 |
What type of bird is a pintail | Duck | 113 08 |
In which city would you find the Clifton Suspension Bridge | Bristol | 113 09 |
Which wild flower has the Latin name digitalis | Foxglove | 113 10 |
What does the fourth estate refer to | The press | 113 11 |
Who succeeded Stephen as King of England in 1154 | Henry 11 | 113 12 |
What was Buddy Holly’s real Christian name | Charles | 113 13 |
In which country does the Indus river rise | Tibet | 113 14 |
What nationality is athlete Eunice Barber | French | 113 15 |
With which sport is Dennis Rodman associated | Basketball | 113 16 |
What is a natterjack | Species of toad | 114 01 |
How many Popes have been called Gregory | 16 | 114 02 |
Heading west, what is the next London bridge after Westminster Bridge | Lambeth Bridge | 114 03 |
What is footballer Dennis Bergkamp afraid of | Flying | 114 04 |
Which singer used to be the goalkeeper for Real Madrid’s reserve team | Julio lglesias | 114 05 |
Which band had a number one hit in 1996 with ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ | Deep Blue Something | 114 06 |
Where are the Mumbles | South Wales | 114 07 |
Which town in the Netherlands is famous for its pottery and porcelain | Delft | 114 08 |
Who starred in Remains of the Day and Shadowlands | Anthony Hopkins | 114 09 |
Which playwright’s last TV dramas were Karaoke and Cold Lazarus | Dennis Potter | 114 10 |
Which actor was born Issur Danielovitch Demsky | Kirk Douglas | 114 11 |
What is the capital of the Isle of Man | Douglas | 114 12 |
Nutria is the fur of which animal | Coypu | 114 13 |
What is the popular name for the constellation Ursa Major | Great Bear | 114 14 |
What is a Gloucester Old Spot | Breed of pig | 114 15 |
Who wrote the science fiction novel Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 114 16 |
Which uprising led to the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689 | Jacobite | 115 01 |
Vincent Price has appeared in which British soap | Brookside (an actor named Vincent Price played Jason Shadwick) | 115 02 |
What nationality was St Bruno | German | 115 03 |
What was the title of Queen’s first hit | ‘Seven Seas Of Rhye | 115 04 |
Sofia is the capital of which European country | Bulgaria | 115 05 |
Who did England’s footballers beat in another World Cup qualifier four days after trouncing Germany in September 2001 | Albania | 115 06 |
Who provided the voice of Bugs Bunny but was allergic to carrots | Mel Blanc | 115 07 |
Larnaca and Kyrenia are ports on which island | Cyprus | 115 08 |
What is a dik-dik | A small antelope | 115 09 |
At which sport did Gareth Edwards excel for Wales | Rugby union | 115 10 |
Whose catchphrase was ‘Who loves ya, baby’ | Kojok | 115 11 |
Who succeeded Winston Churchill as British Prime Minister in 1945 | Clement Attlee | 115 12 |
In which country is Cape Finisterre | Spain | 115 13 |
Which profession takes the Hippocratic Oath | Medical | 115 14 |
The Colorado Beetle preys on which plant in particular | Potato | 115 15 |
Which country were world ice hockey champions in 1999 and 2000 | Czech Republic | 115 16 |
Which US comedy actor was once offered a trial with the Green Bay Packers American Football team | Bill Cosby | 116 01 |
What links Sharon Stone, Nigel Mansell and John Fashanu | All are black belts at karate | 116 02 |
What was the Manic Street Preachers’ first UK number one | ‘If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next | 116 03 |
In which year did the state of Israel come into being | 1948 | 116 04 |
Which Beach Boy drowned in a boating accident off California in 1983 | Dennis Wilson | 116 05 |
What was the name of the Monty Ptthon character who had a knotted handkerchief on his head | Mr Gumby | 116 06 |
Who resigned as West German Chancellor in 1974 after an East German spy was discovered working in his office | Willy Brandt | 116 07 |
Which is the most recent county to ‘oin the County Cricket Championship | Durham | 116 08 |
What is a mistral | A wind | 116 09 |
What colour are the flowers of mimosa | Yellow | 116 10 |
Mahon and Ciudadela are towns on which Mediterranean island | Menorca | 116 11 |
The monstera is better known as which indoor climbing plant | Swiss cheese plant | 116 12 |
What form of gambling was introduced to Britain in 1922 | Football pools | 116 13 |
On which racecourse is the Welsh Grand National run | Chepstow | 116 14 |
What was Susan Brown’s claim to fame in the world of rowing | She was the first woman cox in the University Boat Race | 116 15 |
What was the Christian name of TV detective Cannon | Frank | 116 16 |
In 1978, which woman was accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing a Mormon | Joyce McKinney | 117 01 |
Whose motto was ‘spend, spend, spend’ | Viv Nicholson | 117 02 |
Which boy band’s 1993 album was titled ‘Walthamstow’ | East 17 | 117 03 |
For which country does Jason McAteer play international football | Republic of Ireland | 117 04 |
Who was named Best Actress at the 1999 Academy Awards for Boys Don’t Cry | Hilary Swank | 117 05 |
A convalescent visit by which king gave Bognor its suffix of Regis | George V | 117 06 |
Who directed Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 117 07 |
On which English moor would you come across Brown Willy | Bodmin Moor | 117 08 |
Who was defeated by Ronald Reagan in the 1980 US Presidential election | Jimmy Carter | 117 09 |
Which US secretary of state won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 | Henry Kissinger | 117 10 |
Who did Robson Green play in Soldier, Soldier | Dave Tucker | 117 11 |
On which river does Mainz stand | Rhine | 117 12 |
Who were the two principal families in Soap | The Tates and the Campbells | 117 13 |
Which football team plays at Pittodrie | Aberdeen | 117 14 |
Who composed the operas Manor, and Le Cid | jules Massenet | 117 15 |
What is an orfe | A fish | 117 16 |
Who was the first person to be named BBC Sports Personality of the Year twice | Henry Cooper | 118 01 |
Which 1976 Olympic gold medallist went on to star in CHiPS | Bruce Jenner | 118 02 |
Whose poems included ‘The Ancient Mariner’ and ‘Kubla Khan’ | Coleridge | 118 03 |
Camulodunum was the Roman name for which English town | Colchester | 118 04 |
What is the capital of Sierra Leone | Freetown | 118 05 |
Which superhero was created by Jerome Siegel and Joseph Shuster | Superman | 118 06 |
Which group had hits with ‘Sorry Suzanne’ and ‘I Can’t Tell The Bottom From The Top’ | The Hollies | 118 07 |
What can be common,Arctic or sooty | Terns | 118 08 |
To what group of musical instruments does the vibraphone belong | Percussion | 118 09 |
At which sport was Englishman Tommy Simpson a champion | Cycling | 118 10 |
In which county is Whitehaven | Cumbria | 118 11 |
Which sitcom character had a son called Garthy | racey in Birds of a Feather | 118 12 |
Who was the Roman god of the sun | Apollo | 118 13 |
When is the next Chinese year of the monkey | 2004 | 118 14 |
Which American state is known as the Gopher State | Minnesota | 118 15 |
Whey is the watery by-product of which process | Cheesemaking | 118 16 |
What was invented by Georges de Mestral after taking his dog for a walk in the woods | Velcro | 119 01 |
Which two months did Barbara Dickson sing about in 1980 | ‘January February | 119 02 |
Which was the first horse to win the Grand National twice in the 20th century | Poethlyn (1918, 1919) | 119 03 |
What was the name of Mr Magoo’s nephew | Waldo | 119 04 |
From which fruit is the spirit kirsch made | Cherries | 119 05 |
On which island did Napoleon die | St Helena | 119 06 |
Which Spanish city was the birthplace of the artists Murillo and Velazquez | Seville | 119 07 |
In which Norwegian town were the 1994 Winter Olympics held | Lillehammer | 119 08 |
What is an onager | Wild ass | 119 09 |
Which Parker was an American writer and wit1 | Dorothy Parker | 119 10 |
Which 52-year-old topped the singles charts in 1998 | Cher | 119 11 |
What is Miss Piggy’s surname | Lee | 119 12 |
On which racecourse is the Scottish Grand National run | Ayr | 119 13 |
About whom was Sharon Stone speaking when she said: ‘She lives in rarefied air that’s a little thin. It’s like she’s not getting quite enough oxygen’ | Gwyneth Paltrow | 119 14 |
What pseudonym was used by novelist Francis Kane | Harold Robbins | 119 15 |
On which river does Elgin stand | River Lossie | 119 16 |
For which Jersey police department did Jim Bergerac work | Bureau des Etrangers | 120 01 |
Which acid occurs in stinging ants | Formic acid | 120 02 |
Which Seventies rock star was born Vince Fumier | Alice Cooper | 120 03 |
What was the name of the milkman in Camberwick Green | Thomas Tripp | 120 04 |
Which West End musical star once played Caroline Winthrop in Crossroads | Elaine Paige | 120 05 |
How many yards are there in a furlong | 220 | 120 06 |
What are Razor strop and Jew’s ear types of | Fungi | 120 07 |
Which music-hall comedian made famous the song ‘I Belong To Glasgow” | Will Fyffe | 120 08 |
Which one-hit wonder had a 1980 chart-topper with ‘Together We Are Beautiful’ | Fern Kinney | 120 09 |
In which year did British wartime rationing end on butter, bacon and meat | 1954 | 120 10 |
What do gibbons, foxes and swans have in common | They all mate for life | 120 11 |
Which venomous spider gets its name from a town in Italy | Tarantula (Taranto) | 120 12 |
What is Rupert Murdoch’s first name | Keith | 120 13 |
Which US President was known as ‘The Accidental President’ | John Tyler | 120 14 |
Which Australian Prime Minister played himself in Barry Humphries’ 1974 film Barry McKenzie Holds His Own | Gough Whitlam | 120 15 |
Which country’s rugby union team are called the Springboks | South Africa | 120 16 |
Who wrote Hay Fever and Private Lives | Noel Coward | 121 01 |
Who had a 1998 number one with ‘Brimful Of Asha’ | Cornershop | 121 02 |
What is a cowrie | A marine snail | 121 03 |
From what were London, Durham and Winchester omitted in 1086 | The Domesday Book | 121 04 |
Which author of a book of British battleaxes is married to the former MP for Tatton | Christine Hamilton | 121 05 |
What does ‘Dodecanese’ mean, as in the group of Greek islands | ‘Twelve islands | 121 06 |
What is the chemical symbol for carbon dioxide | CO2 | 121 07 |
In which county is Wookey Hole | Somerset | 121 08 |
What was the name of the poet William Wordsworth’s sister | Dorothy | 121 09 |
What is the name of the pub in Emmerdole | The Woolpack | 121 10 |
Which Football League team plays at Sincil Bank | Lincoln City | 121 11 |
Who founded the Amstrad electronics company | Alan Sugar | 121 12 |
Which British acting knight was born Lewis Ernest Watts | Sir John Mills | 121 13 |
Which blockbuster won the Oscar for Best Film in 1997 | Titanic | 121 14 |
In which book did Ian Fleming introduce James Bond | Casino Royale | 121 15 |
What did Hugh Hefner launch in 1953 | Playboy | 121 16 |
What term in physics was first coined by Frederick Soddy | Isotope | 122 01 |
Which TV medical drama is set in Cardale | Peak Practice | 122 02 |
In Formula One, on which circuit is the Belgian Grand Prix staged | Spa-Francorchamps | 122 03 |
Which group of islands are known as the lies du Vent’ by the French | Windward Islands | 122 04 |
Which group backed Cliff Bennett in the I 960s | The Rebel Rousers | 122 05 |
What is the capital of Sri Lanka | Colombo | 122 06 |
What is the official language of Brazil | Portuguese | 122 07 |
What do Kermit, Orville and Dipsy have in common | They’re all green | 122 08 |
Which three generations of the Scudamore family have become National Hunt jockeys | Michael, Peter and Tom | 122 09 |
Which creature in Greek mythology was half-human and half-horse | Centaur | 122 10 |
Whose tomb was opened in 1922 | Tutankhamen | 122 11 |
Who shouted ‘Eureka’ over what he had discovered in the bath | Archimedes | 122 12 |
Who defeated Russian Tsar Alexander I at Austerljtz in 1805 | Napoleon | 122 13 |
What is a barbel | A freshwater fish | 122 14 |
Which is the largest of the Isles of Scilly | St Mary’s | 122 15 |
Which band were ‘Too Shy’ in 1983 | Kajagoogoo | 122 16 |
In which country was the world’s first motorway | Germany | 123 01 |
What does MFI stand for | Mullard Furniture Industries | 123 02 |
Of which US comedian did Fred Allen once say: ‘He couldn’t ad-lib a belch after a goulash’ | jack Benny | 123 03 |
Which TV detective had a manservant by the name of Magersfontein Lugg | Campion | 123 04 |
What landmark was created by Charlton Athletic footballer Keith Peacock on 21 August 1965 | He was the first substitute to be used in a Football League game | 123 05 |
Texel is the largest of which group of islands | Frisian Islands | 123 06 |
What is a frogmouth | A nocturnal bird | 123 07 |
What do the bladderwort, sundew and pitcher plant have in common | They’re all carnivorous plants | 123 08 |
In which country is Sun City | South Africa | 123 09 |
Which band took their name from a cramped apartment they once shared | Crowded House | 123 10 |
Which 1919 peace treaty between the Allies and Germany officially ended the First World War | Treaty of Versailles | 123 11 |
What is the capital of Canada’s Yukon territory | Whitehorse | 123 12 |
What is a coccyx | A small, triangular bone at the base of the human spine | 123 13 |
Which New Zealand driver was Formula One World Champion in 1967 | Denny Hulme | 123 14 |
Which poet wrote ‘Endymion’ | Keats | 123 15 |
In which century did Sir Isaac Newton formulate his theory of gravitation | 17th | 123 16 |
Which TV detective kept a pet alligator named Elvis | ‘Sonny’ Crockett (Miami Vice) | 124 01 |
What can be a colour or a loud cry in pursuit of a criminal | Hue | 124 02 |
In which county is Aylesbury | Buckinghamshire | 124 03 |
Who was the only English monarch to be a member of the House of Saxe-Coburg | Edward VII | 124 04 |
What was the Christian name of the British sculptor Moore | Henry | 124 05 |
Which was the first product to be advertised on the opening night of ITV in September 1955 | Gibbs’ SR toothpaste | 124 06 |
Which grand old soldier had 10,000 men | Duke of York | 124 07 |
On which island is Mount Etna | Sicily | 124 08 |
What is the capital of the Falkland Islands | Stanley | 124 09 |
Which Australian golfer is nicknamed the ‘Great White Shark’ | Greg Norman | 124 10 |
Which Dutch artist once taught languages and maths at a school in Ramsgate | Van Gogh | 124 11 |
Cornish Yarg cheese is traditionally served coated in what | Nettles | 124 12 |
In which national park did Yogi Bear live | Yellowstone | 124 13 |
Which football club won the Danish League title in 2001 | FC Copenhagen | 124 14 |
Of what musical instrument are you afraid if you suffer from aulophobia | Flute | 124 15 |
Who played the second Doctor Who | Patrick Troughton | 124 16 |
Which former Radio I disc jockey was named Pipe Smoker of the Year in 1982 | Dave Lee Travis | 125 01 |
What did George Burns, Irving Berlin and Hal Roach have in common | They all lived to be 100 | 125 02 |
Which English comedian was awarded the freedom of the capital city of Albania | Norman Wisdom | 125 03 |
Who shot Phil Mitchell in EostEnders in 2001 | Lisa Shaw | 125 04 |
If something is cerebral, to what part of the body does it pertain | Brain | 125 05 |
Who was the singer with Frankie Goes to Hollywood | Holly Johnson | 125 06 |
What is unusual about the populations of Australia, Mongolia and New Zealand | There are more sheep than humans | 125 07 |
Which footballer was known as ‘The Black Panther’ | Eusebio | 125 08 |
What was the biggest-selling toy of 1957 | The hula hoop | 125 09 |
In which country was the artist Chagall born | Russia | 125 10 |
Who traditionally lives at II Downing Street | Chancellor of the Exchequer | 125 11 |
Which actress won a 1972 Academy Award for Best Actress for Cabaret | Liza Minnelli | 125 12 |
Who was Gary’s first flatmate in Men Behaving Badly | Dermot | 125 13 |
Where is the volcano Olympus Mons | Mars | 125 14 |
Which Prime Minister’s father-in-law used to be a ‘randy Scouse git’ | Tony Blair (father-in.law Tony Booth played Liverpudlian Mike in Till Death Us Do Port) | 125 15 |
Which is the world’s second smallest state | Monaco | 125 16 |
What can a mudskipper do that other fish can’t | Walk on dry land | 126 01 |
In which year was the Battle of El Alamein | 1942 | 126 02 |
In the Old Testament, who was the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth | Noah | 126 03 |
Which singer maintained that he did what he did for Maria | Tony Christie | 126 04 |
Which member of The Young Ones had a hit with ‘Hole In My Shoe | Neil | 126 05 |
In January 1992, who became the first team finishing bottom of the Football League the previous season to knock the reigning champions out of the FA Cup | Wrexham (v Arsenal) | 126 06 |
Who were the first American sitcom couple to be seen regularly sharing a bed on TV | Herman and Lily Munster | 126 07 |
Which boxer was known as ‘The Brown Bomber’ | Joe Louis | 126 08 |
Which Panama ruler was arrested in 1989 following an American invasion of the country | Manuel Noriega | 126 09 |
Where is the Northwest Passage | Around the north of Canada | 126 10 |
Who was the first British monarch from the House of Windsor | George 5 | 126 11 |
Which Bedfordshire town used to be synonymous with hat-making | Luton | 126 12 |
How many points is the pink ball in snooker worth | Six | 126 13 |
Who wrote the lyrics of West Side Story | Stephen Sondheim | 126 14 |
Who was the lead singer with Bronski Beat on ‘Smalitown Boy’ | Jimmy Somerville | 126 15 |
Which county cricket club have their headquarters at The Oval | Surrey | 126 16 |
John Schlesinger won a 1969 Academy Award for directing which movie | Midnight Cowboy | 127 01 |
In which town do Scottish football team Ross County play their home matches | Dingwall | 127 02 |
Coney is the fur of which animal | Rabbit | 127 03 |
Who was the first host of A Question of Sport | David Vine | 127 04 |
Who were the two main male actors in Midnight Cowboy | Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight | 127 05 |
What was Billy Ray Cyrus suffering from in 1992 | ‘Achy Breaky Heart | 127 06 |
Who became King of Spain in 1975 | Juan Carlos | 127 07 |
What nationality was the psychiatrist Carl Jung | Swiss | 127 08 |
The July Conspiracy was an unsuccessful plot to assassinate which dictator | Hitler | 127 09 |
Which is the largest breed of penguin | The emperor | 127 10 |
According to Greek legend, who was the wife of Odysseus | Penelope | 127 11 |
At which hospital did Dr Kildare work | Blair General | 127 12 |
Which Dr Hook song did 911 take to number one in the singles charts in 1999 | ‘A Little Bit More | 127 13 |
Who was BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2000 | Steve Redgrave | 127 14 |
What is the capital of Newfoundland | St John’s | 127 15 |
Crested, smooth and palmate are all types of what | Newt —125— | 127 16 |
What is Muckle Flugga’s geographical significance | It is the most northerly island in the British Isles | 128 01 |
Who was the winged horse in Greek mythology | Pegasus | 128 02 |
Which 20th century playwright penned Equus and Amadeus | Peter Shaffer | 128 03 |
How many England caps did goalkeeper Peter Shilton win | 125 | 128 04 |
Which American jockey was nicknamed ‘The Shoe’ | Willie Shoemaker | 128 05 |
Which US record producer created the ‘wall of sound’ | Phil Spector | 128 06 |
Who longed to become aYellowcoat in Hi-De-Hi! | Peggy | 128 07 |
In which country is Spitsbergen | Norway | 128 08 |
Which American paediatrician wrote The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care | Dr Spock | 128 09 |
Which singer wanted to ‘Fly Away’ in 1999 | Lenny Kravitz | 128 10 |
In which century did the Chinese Ming dynasty start | 14th | 128 11 |
Who was Pope during the Second World War | Pius XII | 128 12 |
What is the state capital of New Jersey | Trenton | 128 13 |
What takes place at Cadwell Park and Mallory Park | Motor-cycle racing | 128 14 |
Which TV sports presenter married a Scottish rugby international in | Gabby Logan (flee Yorath) | 128 15 |
Which two acts topped the UK singles charts with ‘Mary’s Boy Child’ | Harry Belafonte and Boney M | 128 16 |
Which King of England employed a groom whose job it was to wipe the royal bottom | Henry VIII | 129 01 |
Which former England rugby captain famously split up with Gary Lineker’s sister-in-law | Will Carling | 129 02 |
Which actress won an Oscar at the age of 80 in 1989 for Driving Miss Daisy | Jessica Tandy | 129 03 |
Who hosts They Think It’s All Over | Nick Hancock | 129 04 |
In which county is Chepstow | Gwent | 129 05 |
How many square yards are there in an acre | 4,840 | 129 06 |
What is the fifth book of the New Testament | The Acts | 129 07 |
Which singer’s real name is Richard Melville Hall | Moby | 129 08 |
Who played Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files | James Garner | 129 09 |
Septicaemia is the technical term for what | Blood poisoning | 129 10 |
Who won the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship in 1988, 1990 and 1991 | Ayrton Senna | 129 11 |
What is the minimum number of games needed to win a set of tennis | Six | 129 12 |
In which London park is the Serpentine | Hyde Park | 129 13 |
Which is the only Australian state to have borders with five others | South Australia | 129 14 |
The name of which English county is sometimes abbreviated to Salop | Shropshire | 129 15 |
What is a sidewinder | A rattlesnake | 129 16 |
What part of the human body is the scapula | Shoulder-blade | 130 01 |
Which girl band, who spilt up shortly after a 1989 number one, reformed in 2001 | The Bangles | 130 02 |
Elinor Dashwood was a heroine in which Jane Austen novel | Sense and Sensibility | 130 03 |
What was the name of the prison governor in Porridge | Mr Venables | 130 04 |
Fort Wayne and Gary are towns in which American state | Indiana | 130 05 |
The Okavango is the only permanent river in which southern African desert | Kalahari | 130 06 |
Which club staged the first Football League game on artificial turf | Queens Park Rangers | 130 07 |
What is the capital of Afghanistan | Kabul | 130 08 |
Which political rival called former British Prime Minister Edward Heath ‘a shiver looking for a spine to run up’ | Harold Wilson | 130 09 |
What nationality is ex-Formula One World Champion Niki Lauda | Austrian | 130 10 |
Which two countries signed the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 | Greece and Turkey | 130 11 |
How many degrees do the hands of a clock pass through to travel from three o’clock to nine o’clock | 180 | 130 12 |
In which continent is the Okefenokee swamp | North America | 130 13 |
What was the name of the family in Bread | The Boswells | 130 14 |
Who are the only American group to have had UK number one hits in the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties | Blondie | 130 15 |
Which Spanish golfer’s nickname is ‘Oily’ | Jose Maria Olaiabal | 130 16 |
Who played harmonica on Chaka Khan’s ‘I Feel For You’ | Stevie Wonder | 131 01 |
Which Mel Gibson movie won the 1995 Academy Award for Best Picture | Braveheart | 131 02 |
Who was the first British athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in a throwing event | Tessa Sanderson | 131 03 |
Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby were resident guests at which establishment | Fawlty Towers | 131 04 |
Which 19th century British Prime Minister became the Earl of Beaconsfield | Benjamin Disraeli | 131 05 |
Which member of a famous acting family starred in Cat &illou and &irbarella | Jane Fonda | 131 06 |
In poetic terms, how many syllables are there in an Alexandrine | 12 | 131 07 |
With which band did Ian Anderson play the flute and sing | jethro TuIl | 131 08 |
From which club did Liverpool sign footballer Emile Heskey | Leicester City | 131 09 |
In which English county is Alnwick | Northumberland | 131 10 |
Which is the biggest sea in the world | Coral Sea | 131 11 |
Who composed ‘Pictures From An Exhibition’ | Mussorgsky | 131 12 |
What do Cannon and Ball, Samantha Fox and Glenn Hoddle have in common | All are born- again Christians | 131 13 |
What was the title of ABC’s tribute to Smokey Robinson | ‘When Smokey Sings | 131 14 |
What can be a male swan or a bread roll | Cob | 131 15 |
Who does Gordon Clapp play in NYPD Blue | Greg Medavoy | 131 16 |
Which is the second largest planet in the solar system | Saturn | 132 01 |
Philip Pirrip is the central character in which Dickens novel | Great Expectations | 132 02 |
Which four countries share borders with Italy | France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia | 132 03 |
Which sea separates Vietnam from the Philippines | South China Sea | 132 04 |
What nationality is Peter Andre | British | 132 05 |
Which two Davids led the Liberal-SDP alliance of the I 980s | Steel and Owen | 132 06 |
What is the trade name for polytetrafluoroethene | Teflon | 132 07 |
Which Israeli city gives its name to a type of orange | Jaffa | 132 08 |
Which football club played at Anfield before Liverpool | Everton | 132 09 |
Who directed This Is Spinal Tap and When Harry Met Sally | Rob Reiner | 132 10 |
In which year was ‘Love Me For A Reason’ a UK number one for The Osmonds | 1974 | 132 11 |
Who did Billy Wilder say had ‘breasts like granite and a brain like Swiss cheese’ | Marilyn Monroe | 132 12 |
Who played the title role in the film Shirley Valentine | Pauline Collins | 132 13 |
Which French jockey won the 1998 Epsom Derby on High Rise | Olivier Peslier | 132 14 |
What is a whippoorwill | A bird | 132 15 |
From which Yorkshire port did Captain Cook sail in the Resolution on his 1768 voyage to the Pacific | Whitby | 132 16 |
Who wrote Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | 133 01 |
Which stretch of water separates Edinburgh from Fife | Firth of Forth | 133 02 |
Boavista play their football in which country | Portugal | 133 03 |
As whom was William Simmonite better known in a long-running BBC sitcom | ‘Compo | 133 04 |
Findus is an abbreviation of the name of which Swedish company | Fruit Industries | 133 05 |
The name of which Central American capital city means ‘holy saviour’ | San Salvador | 133 06 |
In which cathedral was Thomas a Becket murdered | Canterbury | 133 07 |
In which ship did Francis Drake sail around the world | Golden Hind | 133 08 |
Dresden is the capital of which German state | Saxony | 133 09 |
On which race track is the Champion Hurdle run | Cheltenham | 133 10 |
What is a female rabbit called | Doe | 133 11 |
Who wrote the stories of Thomas the Tank Engine | Rev WAwdry | 133 12 |
What is a merganser | A type of duck | 133 13 |
Where were The Police walking in 1979 | On the moon | 133 14 |
In 1993, which horse won the Grand National that never was | Esha Ness | 133 15 |
Nancy Wilkinson was the first winner of which TV title in 1972 | Mastermind | 133 16 |
Which record did Sir David Frost, Geoffrey Boycott and Johnny Speight all choose on Desert Island Discs | ‘My Way | 134 01 |
Which racehorse trainer used to be a drummer with The Troggs | Richard Hannon | 134 02 |
Edward Rochester featured in which Charlotte Brontë novel | Jane Eyre | 134 03 |
What did Slough acquire in 1956 that no other British town had | Yellow no-parking lines | 134 04 |
In which year was Prince William born | 1982 | 134 05 |
What were introduced to the British currency in 1983 | One-pound coins | 134 06 |
What kind of animal was Gentle Ben | Bear | 134 07 |
What sequence was broken by Oxford in the 2000 University Boat Race | Cambridge’s run of seven wins in a row | 134 08 |
Which internationally successful pop brothers were born on the Isle of Man | The Bee Gees | 134 09 |
What is the currency of Denmark | Kroner | 134 10 |
What is a derrick | Lifting machinery on a ship | 134 11 |
What was the pen name of author Mary Ann Evans | George Eliot | 134 12 |
In whose shop window did Bagpuss sit | Emily’s | 134 13 |
Whose 1995 album was titled ‘Stanley Road’ | Paul Weller | 134 14 |
For which film did Glenda Jackson win an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1970 | Women in Love | 134 15 |
What colour is emerald | Green | 134 16 |
Which Hampshire town is famous for its air show | Farnborough | 135 01 |
What was the maiden name of British three-day eventer Lucinda Green | Lucinda Prior-Palmer | 135 02 |
What nationality is feminist Germaine Greer | Australian | 135 03 |
Who did Penelope Keith play in To The Manor 8orn | Audrey fforbes-Hamilton | 135 04 |
Whose mule was a key invention during the Industrial Revolution | Samuel Crompton | 135 05 |
Which river is straddled by the Bendorf Bridge at Coblenz | Rhine | 135 06 |
What are inhabitants of Connecticut known as | Nutmeggers | 135 07 |
Who were the first non-British football nation to defeat England at Wembley | Hungary | 135 08 |
Who reached number one in 1997 with ‘Men In Black’ | Will Smith | 135 09 |
In which year was James Dean killed in a car crash | 1955 | 135 10 |
Monrovia is the capital of which country | Liberia | 135 11 |
In which county is Stonehenge | Wiltshire | 135 12 |
Who succeeded Henry VIII as King of England | Edward VI | 135 13 |
Who had the first-ever UK number one single | Al Martino | 135 14 |
Which football club plays at the Reebok Stadium | Bolton Wanderers | 135 15 |
What was Edmund’s title in the first series of Blackadder | Duke of Edinburgh | 135 16 |
On which TV show did music-hall comedian Arthur Atkinson appear | The Fast Show | 136 01 |
Which nun won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 | Mother Teresa | 136 02 |
Which former boxer made a citizen’s arrest at Gatwick Airport in August 2001 | Nigel Benn | 136 03 |
Which dog is sometimes called a bobtail | Old English sheepdog | 136 04 |
Which French composer is best-known for his ‘Symphonie Espagnole’ | Edouard Lab | 136 05 |
Which space-age hero was created by Kenny Everett | Captain Kremmen | 136 06 |
Aboard which ship did Captain Scott sail to the Antarctic in 1901 | The Discovery | 136 07 |
Who was Othello’s wife | Desdemona | 136 08 |
How many sides are there to an octagon | Eight | 136 09 |
What was the title of All Saints’ first UK number one single | ‘Never Ever | 136 10 |
Gibraltar Point is situated to the south of which east-coast resort | Skegness | 136 11 |
At which sport do Neil Hodgson and John Reynolds compete | Motorcycle racing | 136 12 |
Which explorer introduced the potato and tobacco to Europe | Sir Walter Raleigh | 136 13 |
What does a phonophobe fear | Noise | 136 14 |
Who was Britain’s first Christian martyr | St Alban | 136 15 |
The resort of Biarritz is on which coast of France | West | 136 16 |
Which lead singer with university band The Ugly Rumours has gone on to achieve fame in a different field | Tony Blair | 137 01 |
Which cartoon lion’s catchphrase was ‘Heavens to Murgatroyd’ | Snagglepuss | 137 02 |
What is the term for an over in cricket where no runs are scored | Maiden | 137 03 |
What bodily function can exceed a speed of 200mph | A sneeze | 137 04 |
In which country’s currency do 100 centavos make a sucre | Ecuador | 137 05 |
For which film did Kevin Spacey win an Oscar for Best Actor in 1999 | American Beauty | 137 06 |
Who wrote Tess of the D’Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | 137 07 |
Immortalised by the rhyme, the bridge of Avignon in France crosses which river | Rhone | 137 08 |
Mn is the chemical symbol for which element | Manganese | 137 09 |
As whom is Princess Aurora better known | Sleeping Beauty | 137 10 |
What is Spencer Perceval’s unfortunate claim to fame | He is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated | 137 11 |
Which band frequently supported Bob Dylan | The Band | 137 12 |
In which English city would you find The Shambles | York | 137 13 |
How long did the Hundred Years War last | 116 years | 137 14 |
Which German composer, whose name was adopted by a 20th century singer, wrote the fairy opera Hansel and Gretel | Engelbert Humperdinck | 137 15 |
Which house on the Isle of Wight was one of Queen Victoria’s homes | Osborne House | 137 16 |
Of which footballer did Brian Clough remark: ‘Floats like a butterfly, and stings like one’ | Trevor Brooking | 138 01 |
Who played guitar under the name of L’Angelo Mysterioso on Cream’s ‘Badge’ | George Harrison | 138 02 |
Which vaudeville comedian had his bulbous nose insured for $100,000 | Jimmy ‘Schnozzle’ Durante | 138 03 |
Who spoke the only word in Mel Brooks’ Silent Movie | Marcel Marceau | 138 04 |
Which singer pleaded ‘Look At Me’ in 1999 | Geri Halliwell | 138 05 |
What is the capital of Turkey | Ankara | 138 06 |
What is the square root of a quarter | A half | 138 07 |
Which Dutchman became King of England in I 688 | William of Orange | 138 08 |
Which port in Delaware was formerly known as Fort Christina | WilmingtOn | 138 09 |
Betsey Trotwood is a character in which Dickens novel | David Copperfield | 138 10 |
Where is the Marsh of Decay | On the moon | 138 11 |
Who put butter in the Mad Hatter’s watch | The March Hare | 138 12 |
The film Cool Runnings was based on the true story of which country’s bobsled team at the 1998 Winter Olympics | Jamaica | 138 13 |
What is the name of Adrian Mole’s mother | Pauline | 138 14 |
Who wrote Sinead O’Connor’s hit ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ | Prince | 138 15 |
Which county won all three one-day cricket titles in 2000 | Gloucestershire | 138 16 |
What is a cachalot | A sperm whale | 139 01 |
Which Football League team plays at Field Mill | Mansfield Town | 139 02 |
What can be part of the large intestine or a punctuation mark | Colon | 139 03 |
Which lighthouse was one of the Seven Wonders of the World | The Pharos | 139 04 |
Which two countries fought the Seven Weeks’ War in 1866 | Austria and Prussia | 139 05 |
Dan McCafferty was lead singer with which Seventies band | Nazareth | 139 06 |
The Brenner Pass links which two countries | Austria and Italy | 139 07 |
In which English seaside resort are The Lanes | Brighton | 139 08 |
In boxing which is heavier — featherweight or flyweight | Featherweight | 139 09 |
Which Welsh snooker player is the namesake of a member of The Fast Show team | Mark Williams | 139 10 |
Which zodiac sign has the symbol of a crab | Cancer | 139 11 |
What was the name of the fairy in Peter Pan | Tinkerbell | 139 12 |
What is a dried plum called | Prune | 139 13 |
Which Hollywood actor served 59 days in a California jail in 1948 for possessing narcotics | Robert Mitchum | 139 14 |
Which tennis ace was the subject of Elton John’s ‘Philadelphia Freedom’ | Billie Jean King | 139 15 |
Which literary detective makes great use of his ‘little grey cells’ | Hercule Poirot | 139 16 |
Who was the first driver to win the Formula One World Championship in his own make of car | jack Brabham | 140 01 |
At which Irish battle in 1690 was James II defeated by William III | Battle of the Boyne | 140 02 |
On a compass, which point is directly opposite south south-west | North north-east | 140 03 |
What is the main prey of the monkey-eating eagle | Flying lemurs | 140 04 |
The Tyrrehenian Sea is situated to the west of which country | Italy | 140 05 |
What Oscar Wilde character possessed a supernatural picture | Dorian Gray | 140 06 |
Who survived 24 years of the old Crossroads, but was killed off three months after the return of the new series | Jill Richardson/Harvey/Chance | 140 07 |
Relating to the time of day, what does pm stand for | Post meridiem | 140 08 |
What is the capital of Tasmania | Hobart | 140 09 |
Eddie Butler and Nigel Starmer-Smith are TV commentators on which sport | Rugby union | 140 10 |
Which country resigned from the Commonwealth in 1949 | Republic of Ireland | 140 11 |
Which entertainer was born Priscilla White | CilIa Black | 140 12 |
Who became leader of the Labour Party in 1992 | John Smith | 140 13 |
When does an ounce have four legs | When it’s another name for a snow leopard | 140 14 |
In what type of bowling did West Indies cricketer Lance Gibbs specialise | Off-spin | 140 15 |
Which American Indian chief was killed at Wounded Knee | Sitting Bull | 140 16 |
Andorra lies between which two countries7 | France and Spain | 141 01 |
What did the Knave of Hearts steal | Tarts | 141 02 |
Formentera is part of which group of islands | Balearic | 141 03 |
As what did Sir John Barbirolli make his name | Conductor | 141 04 |
Which author’s real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson | Lewis Carroll | 141 05 |
Which Michael Cimino film starring Robert DeNiro won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1978 | The Deer Hunter | 141 06 |
Which Great Dane joined Aston Villa in 2001 | Peter Schmeichel | 141 07 |
Who presents Big Brother | Davina McCall | 141 08 |
The entire population of which country were sentenced to death in their absence by the Spanish Inquisition | The Netherlands | 141 09 |
What is the name for a female swan | Pen | 141 10 |
Of which Prime Minister did Malcolm Muggeridge once say: ‘He is not only a bore, but he bores for England’ | Anthony Eden | 141 11 |
Who was non-playing captain of Europe’s triumphant 1985 Ryder Cup golf team | Tony Jacklin | 141 12 |
Which ISO-I outsider became World Snooker Champion in 1986 | Joe Johnson | 141 13 |
Under which name did Sister Luc-Gabrielle have a surprise 1963 hit | The Singing Nun | 141 14 |
In which century did brown bears become extinct in the UK | 11th | 141 15 |
Which Victorian murderer was known as ‘The Staffordshire Poisoner’ | William Palmer | 141 16 |
Lazio Football Club play their home games in which city | Rome | 142 01 |
What is a mangelwurzel | Vegetable | 142 02 |
Navarre is a mountain region of which country | Spain | 142 03 |
In which harbour did the Queen Elizabeth liner sink in 1972 | Hong Kong | 142 04 |
What were the names of the opposing families in Romeo and Juliet | Montague and Capu let | 142 05 |
What does an ophthalmologist study | The eye | 142 06 |
Who said: ‘I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back’ | Zsa Zsa Gabor | 142 07 |
Luke, So and Daisy were cousins in which TV series | The Dukes of Hazzard | 142 08 |
What does an oscilloscope measure | Electrical voltage | 142 09 |
What is the New Zealand town of Rotorua renowned for | Its hot springs | 142 10 |
Where is the human skin least sensitive | The heel | 142 11 |
What was the first US consumer product to be sold in the Soviet Union | Pepsi-Cola | 142 12 |
What is ‘ockey Frankie Dettori’s full Christian name | Lanfranco | 142 13 |
Which Dutch port provided The Beautiful South with a 1996 hit | ‘Rotterdam | 142 14 |
What nationality was the artist Magritte | Belgian | 142 15 |
Which American novelist wrote The Executioner’s Song | Norman Mailer | 142 16 |
What do the numbers go up to on a roulette wheei | 360 | 143 01 |
What is the name for the visual signalling code conducted with flags | Semaphore | 143 02 |
If you ordered polio in an Italian restaurant, what would you be served | Chicken | 143 03 |
Which four counties border | Devon,Avon, Dorset and Wiltshire | 143 04 |
What is an | A wading bird | 143 05 |
In which mountain range is the town of Aviemore | Cairngorms | 143 06 |
Who rode a clear round on Foxhunter to give Britain an equestrian gold medal at the 1952 Olympics | Colonel Harry Llewellyn | 143 07 |
Who wrote Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 143 08 |
In which yacht did Sir Francis Chichester sail solo around the world | Gipsy Moth IV | 143 09 |
What was the name of the friendly neighbourhood policeman in Sykes | Corky | 143 10 |
Which band were feeling ‘Lonely This Christmas’ in 1974 | Mud | 143 11 |
Who was the demon barber of Fleet Street | Sweeney Todd | 143 12 |
In football, what was unusual about the 1934 Welsh Cup final | It was contested by two English teams — Bristol City and Tranmere Rovers | 143 13 |
What is the name for the outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere | Corona | 143 14 |
Who owned the talking horse Mister Ed | Wilpur Post | 143 15 |
Where are adolphs, randolphs and rudolphs performed | On a trampoline | 143 16 |
In which county is Beamish open-air industrial museum | Durham | 144 01 |
Who rode Shergar to victory in the Epsom Derby | Walter Swinburn | 144 02 |
Which city is the administrative headquarters of Tayside | Dundee | 144 03 |
Who recorded ‘Earth Song’ | Michael Jackson | 144 04 |
What nationality is tennis player Ivan Lendl | Czech | 144 05 |
Which creatures sometimes hurl themselves to their deaths over cliffs during mass migrations | Lemmings | 144 06 |
Who are the team captains on Never Mind the Buzzcocks | Sean Hughes and Phill Jupitus | 144 07 |
What is the first day of Lent | Ash Wednesday | 144 08 |
Who starred in Hudson Hawk and The Last Boy Scout | Bruce Willis | 144 09 |
What is the state capital of New Mexico | Santa Fe | 144 10 |
According to the Irish proverb, what do bare walls make | Giddy housekeepers | 144 11 |
What is nephelophobia | Fear of clouds | 144 12 |
Which model starred in the film The Boyfriend | Twiggy | 144 13 |
The quetzal is the currency of which country | Guatemala | 144 14 |
In Greek mythology, who was the mother of Artemis and Apollo | Leto | 144 15 |
David Bryant was an English champion at which sport | Bowls | 144 16 |
Which playing card was a hit with Moorhead | Ace Of Spades | 145 01 |
What string of beads is used in a Catholic prayer | Rosary | 145 02 |
Salvia officianalis is better known as which herb | Sage | 145 03 |
Who was Noggin the Nog’s wicked uncle | Nogbad the Bad | 145 04 |
Where do barnacles have their ovaries | in their heads | 145 05 |
In 1984, who called the National Gallery extension a ‘monstrous carbuncle’ | Prince Charles | 145 06 |
Which human organ contains the smallest bones | The ear | 145 07 |
By what colour is the District Line depicted on London Underground maps | Green | 145 08 |
SirWalterTyrrel inadvertently killed which English king | William Rufus | 145 09 |
Which Hollywood entertainer was born Frederick Austerlitz | Fred Astaire | 145 10 |
Who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 | Cecil Day Lewis | 145 11 |
What does ‘scherzo’ mean in music | Lively | 145 12 |
Where is Cape Wrath | Scotland | 145 13 |
Which controversial product went on sale in Britain for the first time in 1961 although it was not available on prescription for another two years | The Pill | 145 14 |
What nationality is tennis player Martina Hingis | Swiss | 145 15 |
Which Big Breakfast presenter appeared in Byker Gmve | Donna Air | 145 16 |
What failure links Charles Manson and Stephen Stills | Both auditioned unsuccessfully for The Monkees | 146 01 |
Who was the subject of Sting’s song ‘An Englishman In New York’ | Quentin Crisp | 146 02 |
Who is the only person to have won world titles on two and four wheels | john Surtees | 146 03 |
How many nights are there in the Arabian Nights | I ,00 I | 146 04 |
Swansea is situated at the mouth of which river | Tawe | 146 05 |
Tahiti is the largest of which group of islands | Society Islands | 146 06 |
At which sport do countries compete for the Davis Cup | Tennis | 146 07 |
What are the three air signs of the zodiac | Libra, Aquarius and Gemini | 146 08 |
A shag is a small species of which sea bird | Cormorant | 146 09 |
What date is Independence Day in the USA | 4 July | 146 10 |
Which racehorse was affectionately known as ‘Dessie’ | Desert Orchid | 146 11 |
Which two months have equinoxes | March and September | 146 12 |
Which river rises in Aragon, Spain, and reaches the Atlantic at Lisbon, Portugal | Tagus | 146 13 |
Orange-seller Nell Gwynne was a mistress of which English monarch | Charles II | 146 14 |
Which country forms the southern border of Taikistan | Afghanistan | 146 15 |
In which film did ShirleyTemple sing ‘On The Good Ship Lollipop’ | Bright Eyes | 146 16 |
Which poet kept a pet bear at Cambridge University because dogs weren’t allowed | Lord Byron | 147 01 |
Fanny Price was a character in which jane Austen novel | Mansfield Park | 147 02 |
What colour is a lobster’s blood | Blue | 147 03 |
Who were Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck | Pretenders to the throne in the reign of Henry VII | 147 04 |
The Strait of Otranto separates which two countries | Albania and Italy | 147 05 |
What bird lays the largest egg | Ostrich | 147 06 |
Who sang about a ‘Town Called Malice’ | The Jam | 147 07 |
Who was buried under the patio of tO Brookside Close | Trevor Jordache | 147 08 |
Which actress called Elizabeth Taylor ‘a spoiled, indulgent child, a blemish on public decency’ | Joan Crawford | 147 09 |
The name of which capital city means ‘new flower’ | Addis Ababa | 147 10 |
Which British referee awarded a penalty inside the first minute of the 1974 World Cup Final | Jack Taylor | 147 11 |
Tim Booth is the singer with which band | James | 147 12 |
Which is the only one of the Seven Dwarfs without a beard | Dopey | 147 13 |
Where would you find tramlines on grass | On a tennis court | 147 14 |
Cairn, Sealyham and Bedlington are all types of what | Terrier | 147 15 |
Whose shoulder did Captain Flint perch on | Long John Silver’s | 147 16 |
What stage name did Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens adopt | TerrYThoma5 | 148 01 |
How many faces does a tetrahedron have | Four | 148 02 |
The Jumna is a tributary of which Indian river | GangeS | 148 03 |
Alex Kingston, Patsy Palmer and Letitia Dean have all appeared in which TV series | Grange Hill | 148 04 |
Alec Stewart and Mark Butcher played cricket for which English county in 2001 | Surrey | 148 05 |
What would Alan Titchmarsh do if confronted with a red-hot poker | Grow it (it’s a perennial plant) | 148 06 |
Who weren’t afraid of the Big Bad Wolf | The Three Little Pigs | 148 07 |
What is the oldest known vegetable | The pea | 148 08 |
Which American singer took a ‘Walk On The Wild Side’ in 1973 | Lou Reed | 148 09 |
Who is St Elmo the patron saint of | Sailors | 148 10 |
What is the only mammal with four knees | Elephant | 148 11 |
The San Andreas fault runs through which American state | California | 148 12 |
What is another name for potassium nitrate | Saltpetre | 148 13 |
Which ball game occupies the largest playing area | Polo | 148 14 |
Which city is the administrative capital of South Africa | Pretoria | 148 15 |
Who starred opposite Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs Kramer | Meryl Streep | 148 16 |
What is the name for the male reproductive organ of a flower | Stamen | 149 01 |
Which band’s 1998 album was titled ‘This Is Hardcore” | Pulp | 149 02 |
Whereabouts on a cricket pitch would you find a chain | Between the wickets (a chain equals 22 yards) | 149 03 |
What letter is at the bottom right end of a standard keyboard | M | 149 04 |
Cannock Chase is in which English county | Staffordshire | 149 05 |
Who appeared as King Arthur in the film Camelot with a piece of Elastoplast visible on his neck | Richard Harris | 149 06 |
Which Cornish detective was created by WJ. Burley | Wycliffe | 149 07 |
When was the only time all four home international football countries qualified for the World Cup finals | 1958 | 149 08 |
Which American novelist wrote Of Mice and Men | john Steinbeck | 149 09 |
What is the Taoiseach | The Gaelic name for the Prime Minister of the Irish Republic | 149 10 |
What colour are the flowers of wild garlic | White | 149 11 |
The Aleutian Islands are part of which American state | Alaska | 149 12 |
Which Formula One team are based at Maranello | Ferrari | 149 13 |
What was the name of the romantic car salesman on The Fast Show | Swiss Toni | 149 14 |
In which century did theThirtyYears’ War take place in Europe | 17th | 149 15 |
Which plant is sometimes known as thrift | Sea pink | 149 16 |
Who wrote Under Milk Wood | Dylan Thomas | 150 01 |
Who was Herr Flick’s right-hand woman in ‘Allo ‘Ailo | Helga | 150 02 |
What constellation depicts a hunter with club and shield | Orion | 150 03 |
Which Oliver Stone movie won an Oscar for Best Picture in 1986 | Platoon | 150 04 |
Who was the Greek god of love | Eros | 150 05 |
Which German won the men’s singles at Wimbledon in 1991 | Michael Stich | 150 06 |
In which country is Dallol, the hottest place in the world | Ethiopia | 150 07 |
How many dots are there on a pair of dice | 42 | 150 08 |
Which band asked: ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go’ | The Clash | 150 09 |
Inspired by a photo of a pair of swimming trunks on the French Riviera, what did underwear manufacturers Coopers introduce to the market in 1934 | Y-fronts | 150 10 |
Which vegetable was used as a windscreen wiper in the early days of motoring | Potato | 150 11 |
Where might you find a Beauty of Bath at the supermarket | On the fruit counter — it’s a variety of apple | 150 12 |
Which town was destroyed byVesuvius in 79BC | Pompeii | 150 13 |
What nationality was the painter Vermeer | Dutch | 150 14 |
Which Coronation Street hairdresser cheated on her husband with the local doctor in 2001 | Maxine Peacock | 150 15 |
Under what name did Billie Jean King first compete at Wimbledon? | Billie Jean Moffitt | 150 16 |
Who played the title role in the film Popeye | Robin Williams | 151 01 |
George Clooney, the Duchess of York and June Whitfield have all guested on which sitcom | Friends | 151 02 |
Who was the first teddy bear named after | Theodore Roosevelt | 151 03 |
Which European city did Danny Kaye think was wonderful, wonderful’ | Copenhagen | 151 04 |
How many times a year does a penguin mate | Once | 151 05 |
The ancient Egyptians believed that mixing half of what with beer foam would ward off death | An onion | 151 06 |
Which American state supplies over a third of the world’s commercial pineapples | Hawaii | 151 07 |
Which sea creature sometimes eats itself if it becomes unduly stressed | Octopus | 151 08 |
In which Scottish county is Troon golf course | Strathclyde | 151 09 |
Who created The Saint | Leslie Charteris | 151 10 |
What is a chaulmoogra | An Indian tree | 151 11 |
Which comedian’s characters included Lampwick, College arid Hetty | Dick Emery | 151 12 |
What is the capital of the Philippines | Manila | 151 13 |
Which programme did President Franklin Roosevelt introduce in 1933 to counter the depression | New Deal | 151 14 |
A pollack is a member of which family of fish | Cod | 151 15 |
Which British film director married Madonna | Guy Ritchie | 151 16 |
How much of an iceberg is visible above water | One ninth | 152 01 |
Who was manager of Whitbury Newtown leisure centre | Gordon Brittas | 152 02 |
What sort of drum is a tympanum | Ear-drum | 152 03 |
What is a twite | A bird | 152 04 |
Which Michael was thwarted in his attempts to become Conservative Party leader in 2001 | Michael Portillo | 152 05 |
What nationality is the soprano Joan Sutherland | Australian | 152 06 |
Which Shakespeare play featured Banquo | Macbeth | 152 07 |
What is the capital of Syria | Damascus | 152 08 |
How many points are needed to win a game of table tennis | 21 | 152 09 |
What essential item was invented by Joseph Gayetty in 1857 | Toilet paper | 152 10 |
Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie were members of which Eighties band | The Thompson Twins | 152 11 |
What does a tachometer record | A vehicle’s speed | 152 12 |
What is vestiphobia a fear of | Wearing clothes | 152 13 |
Who wrote The Chronicles of Narnio | C.S. Lewis | 152 14 |
In which American state is Tampa | Florida | 152 15 |
Which county cricket team’s home ground is Trent Bridge | Nottinghamshire | 152 16 |
Which character was the lovesick young hero of Titanic | Jack Dawson | 153 01 |
Which golfing accessory was patented by George Grant in 1899 | The tee | 153 02 |
The Great Barrier Reef ies off the coast of which Australian state | Queensland | 153 03 |
In which war was the Battle of the Bulge | World War Two | 153 04 |
In which year did Simple Minds top the UK singles chart with ‘Belfast Child’ | 1989 | 153 05 |
What is worsted | A stiff woollen fabric | 153 06 |
What colour is amethyst | Violet | 153 07 |
What did Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar do to any of her subjects who appeared in her dreams | She executed them | 153 08 |
How many letters are there in the Hawaiian alphabet | 12 | 153 09 |
Which port is opposite Harwich on the Suffolk side of the Stour estuary | Felixstowe | 153 10 |
What was the name of the dinosaur on Multi-Coloured Swap Shop | Posh Paws | 153 11 |
Who released the album ‘Tuesday Night Music Club’ | Sheryl Crow | 153 12 |
Who won the County Cricket Championship in 1996 and 1998 | Leicestershire | 153 13 |
Of whom did Howard Hughes say: ‘His ears make him look like a taxic ab with both doors open’ | Clark Gable | 153 14 |
What was the name of the schooner in the TV series The Onedin Line | Charlotte Rhodes | 153 15 |
Who wrote Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis | 153 16 |
In which French resort is an international film festival held annually | Cannes | 154 01 |
Conference is a type of which fruit | Pear | 154 02 |
For which country does Ryan Giggs play international football | Wales | 154 03 |
What is located on Merritt Island near Florida | The Kennedy Space Center | 154 04 |
Which ancient scholar wrote A History of Rome | Livy | 154 05 |
In what bay is Alcatraz Island | San Francisco Bay | 154 06 |
And who starred as the Birdman of Alcatraz | Burt Lancaster | 154 07 |
What was the name of the dog that found the Jules Rimet Trophy in 1966 | Pickles | 154 08 |
Who built the first steam engine to run on rails | Richard Trevithick | 154 09 |
What colour blood do insects have | Yellow | 154 10 |
What did Pope Urban VIII threaten to excommunicate in 1924 | Snuff users | 154 11 |
How long is the memory span of a goldfish | Three seconds | 154 12 |
Tony Stamp and Reg Hollis are characters in which TV series | The Bill | 154 13 |
Which Bee Gees song gave Steps a number one in 1998 | ‘Tragedy | 154 14 |
Which zodiac sign has the symbol of the ram | Aries | 154 15 |
What does 1.76 pints equal | A litre | 154 16 |
Whose name led to policemen being christened ‘bobbies’ | Sir Robert Peel | 155 01 |
Who became President of the United States in 1945 | Harry S.Truman | 155 02 |
Who was the first substitute to score in an FA Cup Final | Eddie Kelly (Arsenal, 1971) | 155 03 |
Which airport did Cats U.K. sing about in 1979 | ‘Luton Airport | 155 04 |
Who was nicknamed ‘The Bouncing Czech’ | Robert Maxwell | 155 05 |
What boxing aid was invented by Jack Marks in 1902 | Gumshield | 155 06 |
How many Robinsons have presented Points of View | Four — Robert, Kenneth, Anne and Tony | 155 07 |
What do ‘Brown Sugar’, ‘Heartbreak Hotel’, ‘Let It Be’ and ‘Vienna’ have in common | They all only reached number two in the UK singles chart | 155 08 |
What is the state capital of Wyoming | Cheyenne | 155 09 |
In which country is the Great Appenine railway tunnel | Italy | 155 10 |
What is the Argentine name for the Falklands | The Malvinas | 155 11 |
Which horse owned by the Duchess of Westminster won the 1985 Grand National | Last Suspect | 155 12 |
Which London boxer became World Welterweight Champion in September 1986 | Lloyd Honeyghan | 155 13 |
Robin’s Nest was a spin-off from which TV sitcom | Man About the House | 155 14 |
Who topped the charts in 1998 with ‘Doctor Jones’ | Aqua | 155 15 |
What is a rhinoceros horn made of | Hair | 155 16 |
What are the only two countries whose names start with an ‘A’ but don’t end with an ‘A’ | Afghanistan and Azerbaian | 156 01 |
In which Australian city are there more Maltese people than in Malta itself | Melbourne | 156 02 |
Which is India’s largest city | Bombay | 156 03 |
Which singer had a’Perfect Moment’ in 1999 | Martine McCutcheon | 156 04 |
Who preceded Bobby Robson as manager of the England football team | Ron Greenwood | 156 05 |
What games room features on a Cluedo board | Billiard room | 156 06 |
In which county would you find Looe | Cornwall | 156 07 |
Patrick and Pippa lived next door to which sitcom couple | The Meldrews (One Foot in the Grave) | 156 08 |
Which swimmer is nicknamed ‘Thorpedo’ | lan Thorpe | 156 09 |
Which animal’s fur is brown in summer and white in winter | Stoat | 156 10 |
Which young actor died while shooting the 1993 film Dark Blood | River Phoenix | 156 11 |
In Greek mythology, who was carried off to the underworld as the bride of Pluto | Persephone | 156 12 |
Who were Huey, Dewey and Louie | Donald Duck’s nephews | 156 13 |
Which table sets out the classification of chemical elements | Periodic table | 156 14 |
Which Football League club are nicknamed ‘The Tigers’ | Hull City | 156 15 |
Which English town is known to the locals as ‘Pompey’ | Portsmouth | 156 16 |
What is the most common name in the world | Mohammed | 157 01 |
Who was President of France from I 969- 74 | Georges Pompidou | 157 02 |
What day of the week did Chairmen of the Board say everything was in 1971 | Tuesday | 157 03 |
Over how many holes are most championship golf tournaments contested | 72 | 157 04 |
Which Welsh long-jumper was known as ‘Lynn the leap’ | Lynn Davies | 157 05 |
What colour cats are always female except for the occasional sterile male | Tortoiseshell | 157 06 |
What drink consists of pineapple, rum and coconut milk | Pina colada | 157 07 |
Zanzibar is an island region of which mainland country | Tanzania | 157 08 |
Which US actor was nicknamed ‘Duke’ | John Wayne | 157 09 |
Who did Nicholas Lyndhurst play in Goodnight Sweetheart | Gary Sparrow | 157 10 |
In what does an archer carry his arrows | A quiver | 157 11 |
What is the name for an auctioneer’s hammer | Gavel | 157 12 |
Who composed the ‘Four Seasons’ | Vivaldi | 157 13 |
Who was the falsetto singer with the Four Seasons | Frankie VaIli | 157 14 |
Which is the longest river in Europe | Volga | 157 15 |
What colour is the gem peridot | Pale green | 157 16 |
What was Craig Evans’s contribution to the 2001 General Election | He threw an egg at John Prescott and was punched for his pains | 158 01 |
As whom are Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe better known | The Pet Shop Boys | 158 02 |
Which German city is famous for its Oktoberfest | Munich | 158 03 |
Who declared Britain a republic in 1649 | Oliver Cromwell | 158 04 |
What is the most common surname in Sweden | Johansson | 158 05 |
Sir John Cohen founded which chain of supermarkets | Tesco | 158 06 |
What policy of minimal governmental interference takes its name from the French for ‘allow to do’ | Laissez-faire | 158 07 |
Who was appointed manager of West Ham United in summer 2001 | Glenn Roeder | 158 08 |
What can be a large receptacle for builders’ rubble or the captain of a bowls foursome | Skip | 158 09 |
Which comedian played Lesley Sharp’s gay boyfriend in the TV series Bob and Rose | Alan Davies | 158 10 |
What did A.I. stand for in the title of a Steven Spielberg film | Artificial Intelligence | 158 11 |
What is the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch | A small-scale railway | 158 12 |
What is the royal dog of China | Pekingese | 158 13 |
Who did Manchester United sign from Lazio for £28.1 million in 2001 | Juan Veron | 158 14 |
Muscadet,Vouvray and Sancerre are all wines from which region of France | Loire | 158 15 |
Danny Wilde and Lord Brett Sinclair formed which pair of TV crime- fighters | The Persuaders | 158 16 |
What technique revolutionised high jumping following the 1968 Olympics | The Fosbury Flop | 159 01 |
Which marine mammal had a 1990 hit with ‘Crazy’ | Seal | 159 02 |
Barbara Hepworth practised in which field of the arts | Sculpture | 159 03 |
What is a sickle | A harvesting tool | 159 04 |
On what line were British women jokingly asked to hang out their washing during the Second World War | The Siegfried Line | 159 05 |
For which security organisation did Captain Scarlet work | Spectrum | 159 06 |
What are the four London stations on a Monopoly board | Fenchurch Street, Kings Cross, Liverpool Street and Marylebone | 159 07 |
Which bird gave Fleetwood Mac a number one hit | ‘Albatross | 159 08 |
Which actress called her mother ‘the real-life Wicked Witch of the West’ | Liza Minnelli (Judy Garland) | 159 09 |
What is the score 40-40 called in tennis | Deuce | 159 10 |
In which English county is the world’s first iron bridge | Shropshire | 159 11 |
In which year did Kylie and Jason reach number one with ‘Especially For You’ | I 988 | 159 12 |
What colour was Coca-Cola originally | Green | 159 13 |
What does ‘fortissimo’ mean in music | Very loud | 159 14 |
What is philology | The science of language | 159 15 |
Which river flows into the sea at Whitby | Esk | 159 16 |
In which country was St Patrick born | Wales | 160 01 |
Old Father Time perches above which English cricket ground | Lord’s | 160 02 |
‘And’ or ‘but’ are examples of which type of word | Conjunction | 160 03 |
Milly and Egg were characters in which TV series | This LIfe | 160 04 |
What did Darius Perkins do before Jason Donovan | Play Scott Robinson in Neighbours | 160 05 |
Which actor played three roles in the 1959 film The Mouse That Roared | Peter Sellers | 160 06 |
What are Euroglider, Happy Face and Billy Boy | Brands of condom | 160 07 |
Which London Underground station was called Enfield West until 1934 | Oakwood | 160 08 |
From which continent does the banana originate | Asia | 160 09 |
Which girl’s name means ‘hay-meadow’ | Hayley | 160 10 |
‘Me Duck’ is a term of endearment in which part of England | East Midlands | 160 11 |
Who wore a ‘Bullet Bra’ on tour in 1990 | Madonna | 160 12 |
What is triskaidekaphobia | Fear of the number 13 | 160 13 |
What number is at six o’clock on a dartboard | Three | 160 14 |
Which jockey completed a hat-trick of wins in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe 1996-8 | Olivier Peslier | 160 15 |
The Pas-de-Calais is the French name for which stretch of water | Strait of Dover | 160 16 |
Who bought the car numberplate COM IC | Jimmy Tarbuck | 161 01 |
To which family of birds would something ‘corvine’ be related | Crow | 161 02 |
Which Superman committed suicide | George Reeves | 161 03 |
Which city staged the 1980 Olympic Games | Moscow | 161 04 |
Who created master-thief Raffles | E.W. Hornung | 161 05 |
Curt Smith and Roland Orzabel made up which musical duo | Tears For Fears | 161 06 |
Which Steven Spielberg film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1993 | Schindler’s list | 161 07 |
Which treaty ended the War of Spanish Succession | Treaty of Utrecht | 161 08 |
Which capital city stands where the rivers Sava and Danube meet | Belgrade | 161 09 |
How many months does it take the Moon to revolve around the Earth | One | 161 10 |
In physics, what is UV an abbreviation for | Ultraviolet | 161 11 |
On which Dutch football club’s ground did the final of Euro 2000 take place | Feyenoord | 161 12 |
Which Jane Austen novel featured Captain Wentworth | Persuasion | 161 13 |
Who was the first Prime Minister of India | Nehru | 161 14 |
What three colour bands make up the flag of Ethiopia | Green, yellow and red | 161 15 |
In which year did Queen Victoria die | 1901 | 161 16 |
In which year did The Beatles break up | 1970 | 162 01 |
Whose 1969 trial lasted nine months | The Kray twins | 162 02 |
In which county is Newark | Nottinghamshire | 162 03 |
What is the name of the traditional Welsh arts gathering | Eisteddfod | 162 04 |
Against which nation did England concede their first goal at the 1966 World Cup finals | Portugal | 162 05 |
Which Eleanor was wife of Henry II | Eleanor of Aquitaine | 162 06 |
Who wrote Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford | 162 07 |
The Khyber Pass links which two countries | Pakistan and Afghanistan | 162 08 |
What is the name of the international register of shipping | Lloyd’s | 162 09 |
Who had a hit in the Seventies with ‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’ | Middle of the Road | 162 10 |
Which probable myth is worth some £30 million a year to Scottish tourism | Loch Ness Monster | 162 11 |
What does a Manx cat lack | A tail | 162 12 |
Which 19th century French poet, who used to walk a pet lobster on a lead, eventually took his own life by hanging himself from a lamp-post | Gerard de Nerval | 162 13 |
Who owned Spotty Dog | The Woodentops | 162 14 |
In which country was Aristotle Onassis born | Turkey | 162 15 |
What animals live in a warren | Rabbits | 162 16 |
Why did the Chevrolet Nova fail to sell well in Spain | In Spanish ‘no va’ means ‘doesn’t go | 163 01 |
A lack of which vitamin can cause scurvy | Vitamin C | 163 02 |
In which sport do you need a hooker and a prop | Rugby | 163 03 |
In 1987 who sang about ‘A Little Boogie Woogie In The Back Of My Mind’ | Shakin’ Stevens | 163 04 |
Who was Sherlock Holmes’s arch enemy | Professor Moriarty | 163 05 |
Who did Elizabeth Hurley play in Austin Powers: International Man Of / Mystery | Vanessa Kensington | 163 06 |
What does CBS stand for | Columbia Broadcasting System | 163 07 |
On which sketch show did Rab C. Nesbitt first appear | Naked Video | 163 08 |
Lindum was the Roman name for which British city | Lincoln | 163 09 |
Which Coronation Street actress, whose character met an untimely end in 2001, was born Shirley Ann Broadbent | Amanda Barrie | 163 10 |
What breed of animal is a moufflon | A wild sheep | 163 11 |
What is a filibeg another name for in Scotland | Kilt | 163 12 |
Which English king burnt the cakes | King Alfred | 163 13 |
How many points is a letter ‘V’ worth in Scrabble | Four | 163 14 |
Where do vehicles bearing the international index mark GBZ come from | Gibraltar | 163 15 |
Which singer was barely 20 when he acquired a Pacemaker | Gerry Marsden (Gerry and The Pacemakers) | 163 16 |
With which football team was Des O’Connor once a lively winger | Northampton Town | 164 01 |
Which chat show host had a cameo role as a postman in Neighbours | Clive James | 164 02 |
What does herbicide destroy | Plants | 164 03 |
What was the nickname of 11th century English rebel Hereward | ‘The Wake | 164 04 |
What does a udometer measure | Rain | 164 05 |
Who sang about the ‘Best Years Of Our Lives’ in 1982 | Modern Romance | 164 06 |
What does a hermaphrodite possess | Both male and female sex organs | 164 07 |
The Baider-Meinhof gang were a group of terrorists from which country | Germany | 164 08 |
Which is the largest Mediterranean island | Sicily | 164 09 |
How many wooden pins are arranged in a game of skittles | Nine | 164 10 |
What is the chemical name for quicklime | Calcium oxide | 164 11 |
In which English county are Slapton Sands | Devon | 164 12 |
What is the capital of the United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi | 164 13 |
From which country does snooker player James Wattana come | Thailand | 164 14 |
Who directed the film Gandhi | Sir Richard Attenborough | 164 15 |
Which couple warbled ‘Sing Little Birdie’ for the UK in the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest | Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr | 164 16 |
Which I 970s TV comedy series was originally going to be called Super-Chaps Three | The Goodies | 165 01 |
What was John Merrick otherwise known as | The Elephant Man | 165 02 |
What is a zinnia | A flower | 165 03 |
In which county is Kenilworth Castle | Warwickshire | 165 04 |
On which English river is Washington | Wear | 165 05 |
Which group of Pacific islands used to be known as the Sandwich Islands | Hawaii | 165 06 |
Who was deputy leader of the Labour Party from 1983-92 | Roy Hattersley | 165 07 |
According to Greek mythology, drinking from which underworld river made you forget the past | Lethe | 165 08 |
Which Yorkshire village was home to the Bronte family | Haworth | 165 09 |
Margaret Thatcher was MP for which constituency | Finchley | 165 10 |
Kyalami is a motor-racing circuit in which country | South Africa | 165 11 |
Who had a number one hit in 1995 with ‘Fairground’ | Simply Red | 165 12 |
Who composed The Barber of Seville | Rossini | 165 13 |
In which century was rounders first played | 18th | 165 14 |
What does RSPB stand for | Royal Society for the Protection of Birds | 165 15 |
Solanum tuberosum is more commonly known as which vegetable | Potato | 165 16 |
What was the longest running race for women at the 1980 Olympic Games | 1,500 metres | 166 01 |
Which cricketer’s inclusion in the MCC party to tour South Africa in 1968 led to the tour being cancelled | Basil d’Oliveira | 166 02 |
What do frogs have in their mouths that toads don’t | Teeth | 166 03 |
What was the name of the sports teacher in Please, Sir! | Pricey | 166 04 |
What nationality was the artist Paul Gauguin | French | 166 05 |
A gnu is another name for which animal | Wdebeest | 166 06 |
In which year did war break out between Iran and Iraq | 1980 | 166 07 |
What did Elton John have to wait until 1990 to achieve | His first solo UK number one hit | 166 08 |
Which food product takes its name from the French for cooking pot | Marmite | 166 09 |
In 1961 George Chakiris and Rita Moreno won Oscars for Best Supporting Actor and Actress for their roles in which musical film | West Side Story | 166 10 |
Which city is home to the Copacabana Beach | Rio de Janeiro | 166 11 |
What does a cooper make | Barrels | 166 12 |
Which number was a French footballer | Didier Six | 166 13 |
Magyars come from which country | Hungary | 166 14 |
What type of sea bird is sometimes called a mew | Gull | 166 15 |
Captain Larry Dart was the hero of which TV series | Space Patrol | 166 16 |
On which river does Maidstone stand | Medway | 167 01 |
Who rode Dr Devious to victory in the 1992 Epsom Derby | John Reid | 167 02 |
Where would you find the remains of Offa ‘s Dyke | Along the Welsh border | 167 03 |
‘Bittersweet’ and ‘cruel to be kind’ are examples of what | Oxymorons | 167 04 |
In which county is Pickering | North Yorkshire | 167 05 |
Who replaced Mr Lucas in Are You Being Served | Mr Spooner | 167 06 |
What happens to the rock ptarmigan’s plumage in winter | It turns white | 167 07 |
Brett Anderson is the singer with which band | Suede | 167 08 |
What is the crystalline form of silica | Quartz | 167 09 |
Which police force did Mack Sennett create | The Keystone Cops | 167 10 |
What is particularly long about the male quetzal bird of Central America | Its tail | 167 11 |
What was notable about Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1960 | She was the world’s first female Prime Minister | 167 12 |
What does a chronometer measure | Time | 167 13 |
Elba is an island in which sea | Mediterranean | 167 14 |
TV detective Van Der Valk solved crimes in which city | Amsterdam | 167 15 |
Which monument was designed for the Paris Exhibition of 1889 | Eiffel Tower | 167 16 |
Who asked: ‘Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On The Bedpost Overnight)’ | Lonnie Donegan | 168 01 |
How many Epsom Derby winners did Lester Piggott ride | Nine | 168 02 |
Which 11th century wizard became stranded in the 20th century | Catweazle | 168 03 |
lago featured in which Shakespeare play | Othello | 168 04 |
Which trainer’s daughter presents the BBC’s horse racing coverage | Clare Balding | 168 05 |
How maiy court cards are there in a pack of cards | 12 | 168 06 |
Which legislation banned alcohol in the United States during the I 920s | Prohibition | 168 07 |
Which sound indicated a Rank Organisation film | Gong | 168 08 |
What did the sisters Stheno, Euryale and Medusa have for hair | Snakes | 168 09 |
Who painted The Supper at Emmaus | Caravaggio | 168 10 |
Which phrase means ‘through my fault’ in Latin | Mea culpa | 168 11 |
Which TV medical series is a spin-off from Casualty | Holby City | 168 12 |
Which band a 1978 hit with ‘Airport’ | The Motors | 168 13 |
How many points are there on a backgammon board | 24 | 168 14 |
Which county’s coastline includes Pegwell Bay | Kent | 168 15 |
Which club were promoted to the Football League in 2001 | Rushden and Diamonds | 168 16 |
Which is the deepest canyon in North America | Hell’s Canyon | 169 01 |
Which religious order was founded by Ignatius Loyola | The Jesuits | 169 02 |
Septime is a position in which sport | Fencing | 169 03 |
What is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago | Port of Spain | 169 04 |
Which is the second largest English county | Cumbria | 169 05 |
Which island is also known as Lindifarne | Holy Island | 169 06 |
Which girl band had three UK number one singles in 1998 | B*Witched | 169 07 |
Juneau is the capital of which American state | Alaska | 169 08 |
What links William Sheakespare, Ingrid Bergman and former England football manager Joe Mercer | All died on their birthdays | 169 09 |
Who was the local butcher in Dad’s Army | Corporal Jones | 169 10 |
Which horse won the Grand National for the third time in 1977 | Red Rum | 169 11 |
Who played Himmier in the film The Eagle Has Landed | Donald Pleasence | 169 12 |
Which title did Austria’s Eva Rueber-Staier win in 1969 | Miss World | 169 13 |
Which brand of disinfectant took its name from London sanitary engineer Harry Pickup | Harpic | 169 14 |
Which English king reigned from 1272 to 1307 | Edward | 169 15 |
Which much-married American actor’s real name is Joe Yule Jnr | Mickey Rooney | 169 16 |
Which city was sacked in 410 | Rome | 170 01 |
What is the birthstone for the month of june | Agate | 170 02 |
What was the codename for the D-Day landings | Operation Overlord | 170 03 |
Which requires the use of more facial muscles — a smile or a frown | Frown | 170 04 |
What colour is yak’s milk | Pink | 170 05 |
What is a gemsbok | A type of antelope | 170 06 |
Which D.H. Lawrence novel was banned until November 1960 | Lady Chatterley’s Lover | 170 07 |
In which American state is Mount St Helens | Washington | 170 08 |
Which TV news programme began in 1967 | News at Ten | 170 09 |
What was the Christian name of the French President Giscard d’Estaing | Valery | 170 10 |
Which newspaper cartoonist created a family built around the formidable Grandma | Giles | 170 11 |
Which singer’s 1992 album was titled ‘Diva’ | Annie Lennox | 170 12 |
Which Hollywood actress was Miss Greenwich Village of 1942 | Lauren Bacall | 170 13 |
Which fruit did Roger Miller sing about in 1968 | ‘Little Green Apples | 170 14 |
In which century did beavers become extinct in the UK | 12th | 170 15 |
Which Scottish poet wrote two poems about his pet ewe called Poor Mailie | Robert Burns | 170 16 |
Which planet has the longest day | Venus | 171 01 |
What job links Christopher Dean, Geoff Capes and Dave Dee | All are former policemen | 171 02 |
What does TGWU stand for | Transport and General Workers’ Union | 171 03 |
Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt both won Oscars in 1997 for their performances in which film | As Good as It Gets | 171 04 |
Which model presents Fort &yard | Melinda Messenger | 171 05 |
In which sport do countries compete for the America’s Cup | Yachting | 171 06 |
Which food of the Greek gods was supposed to confer eternal life upon all who ate it | Ambrosia | 171 07 |
Who wrote the novel of Jaws | Peter Benchley | 171 08 |
Which flagship of Nelson’s sits in dock at Portsmouth | HMS Victory | 171 09 |
Which group often backed Elvis Costello | The Attractions | 171 10 |
Vigo is a port in which country | Spain | 171 11 |
What would you do with a besom | Sweep with it — it’s a kind of broom | 171 12 |
Which fruits used to be known as ‘love apples’ | Tomatoes | 171 13 |
Which English king abdicated in 1936 | Edward VIII | 171 14 |
Which creature has sex up to 122 times per hour | Desert rat | 171 15 |
What was the name of the dog in Enid Blyton’s Famous Five books | Timmy | 171 16 |
Who lampooned Dickens with the words: ‘One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing’ | Oscar Wilde | 172 01 |
In which city is the newspaper Dagbladet published | Oslo | 172 02 |
How many points are scored for a field goal in American football | Three | 172 03 |
What is South Africa’s unit of decimal currency | Rand | 172 04 |
What was the title of Sherlock Holmes’ first adventure | A Study in Scarlet | 172 05 |
Which London department store first opened its doors to the public in 1909 | Selfridges | 172 06 |
Who played The Scarlet Pimpernel in the 1998 TV adaptation | Richard E. Grant | 172 07 |
Which American state is known as the Garden State | New Jersey | 172 08 |
What is the official language of Argentina | Spanish | 172 09 |
Which team are the only non-English winners of the FA Cup | Cardiff City | 172 10 |
Who was ‘French Kissin’ In The USA’ in 1986 | Debbie Harry | 172 11 |
Which magazine introduced Billy the Fish | Viz | 172 12 |
Which British cathedral has three spires | Lichfield | 172 13 |
Which projectile was originally called Morrison’s Flyin’ Saucer | Frisbee | 172 14 |
Which sport is played with a shuttlecock | Badminton | 172 15 |
Which high-kicking girls stepped to fame on Sunday Night at the London Palladium | The Tiller Girls | 172 16 |
In an average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of how many times around the equator | Five | 173 01 |
From which London station would you catch a direct train to Doncaster | King’s Cross | 173 02 |
Which puppet owl created havoc on Five O’Clock aub | Ollie Beak | 173 03 |
What does Goat Island separate | The two halves of the Niagara FaIls | 173 04 |
What nationality was Marshal Ney | French | 173 05 |
Whose first UK number one single was ‘The Most Beautiful Girl In The World’ | Prince | 173 06 |
Which is the largest planet in the solar system | Jupiter | 173 07 |
Which Shakespeare play begins: ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ | Twelfth Night | 173 08 |
What type of tree is a linden | Lime tree | 173 09 |
What is a hinny | The offspring of a female ass by a stallion | 173 10 |
In which county was artist John Constable born | Suffolk | 173 11 |
Which athletics competition was first held in Helsinki in 1983 | World Championships | 173 12 |
Which British-born director was responsible for Alien | Ridley Scott | 173 13 |
Which actress of Straw Dogs fame appeared in EostEnders in 2001 | Susan George | 173 14 |
St Agnes and Bryher are islands in which group | Isles of Scilly | 173 15 |
Which crime writer created Mike Hammer | Mickey Spillane | 173 16 |
What is the key number in the card game pontoon | 21 | 174 01 |
Who wrote the Doctor books | Richard Gordon | 174 02 |
Who was Yogi Bear’s southern sweetheart | Cindy Bear | 174 03 |
What is the final event in the decathlon | 1,500 metres | 174 04 |
Which two countries are linked by the Simplon Pass | Switzerland and Italy | 174 05 |
Which Motown artist was shot dead by his father during a row in | Marvin Gaye | 174 06 |
Jafar was the villain in which Disney film | Aladdin | 174 07 |
In football, which French defender moved from Chelsea to Marseille in July 2001 | Frank Leboeuf | 174 08 |
Which is the largest city in Switzerland | Zurich | 174 09 |
In which county isWeymouth | Dorset | 174 10 |
Which is the biggest lizard in the world | Komodo dragon | 174 11 |
What are missing from a navel orange | Pips | 174 12 |
Who did Brazil’s footballers beat in the 1962 World Cup Final | Czechoslovakia | 174 13 |
Which heiress turned bank robber in 1974 | Patty Hearst | 174 14 |
Which American singer was ‘Right Here Waiting’ in 1989 | Richard Marx | 174 15 |
What is an ekka | An Indian cart | 174 16 |
Which Jane Austen novel revolved around the Bennet | Pride and Prejudice | 175 01 |
The dirham is the currency of which African country | Morocco | 175 02 |
What is a baidric | A belt | 175 03 |
Which husband and wife left This Morning in 2001 | Richard and Judy | 175 04 |
Who starred in the movie Liar Liar | Jim Carrey | 175 05 |
Which English city houses the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television | Bradford | 175 06 |
In the Old Testament, who was the third king of Israel | Solomon | 175 07 |
What does HMSO stand for | Her Majesty’s Stationery Office | 175 08 |
Who starred in and directed Vend | Barbra Streisand | 175 09 |
What is a tamarin | A marmoset | 175 10 |
In which country is Lake Tana | Ethiopia | 175 11 |
In 1996, which band reckoned that the female of the species was more deadly than the male | Space | 175 12 |
Which Swedish boxer fought for the World Heavyweight title in the early I 960s | Ingemar Johansson | 175 13 |
Primula veris is the Latin name for which plant | Cowslip | 175 14 |
What nationality is Samantha Mumba | Irish | 175 15 |
Which English novelist had the middle name Makepeace | William Thackeray | 175 16 |
What song has been notably recorded by Bruce Channel and DJ Otzi | Hey Baby | 176 01 |
Which national newspaper replaced the Daily Herald | The Sun | 176 02 |
In which year was Prince Edward born | 1964 | 176 03 |
Which animal is the national emblem of Canada | Beaver | 176 04 |
Which country’s inclusion in 2000 turned the Five Nations’ Rugby Championship into the Six Nations | Italy | 176 05 |
Who composed the Ring cycle | Richard Wagner | 176 06 |
Which is the second-longest river in Africa | The Zaire | 176 07 |
What are you afraid of if you suffer from ichthyophobia | Fish | 176 08 |
Who brought the teas in Acorn Antiques | Mrs Overall | 176 09 |
On which river does Toulouse stand | Garonne | 176 10 |
Who was married to Michael in thirtysomething | Hope | 176 11 |
Lake Maracaibo is the largest lake on which continent | South America | 176 12 |
What is the common abbreviation for deoxyribononucleic acid | DNA | 176 13 |
What is fumitory | A plant | 176 14 |
Fatima Whitbread was a champion at which athletics field event | Javelin | 176 15 |
Which gardens adjoin Hyde Park | Kensington Gardens —178— | 176 16 |
Who beat Steffi Graf in 1987 to win her sixth Wimbledon women’s singles title in a row | Martina Navratilova | 177 01 |
At whom did Marcus Sargeant fire blank shots on 30 June 981 | The Queen | 177 02 |
In which stadium did Liverpool’s footballers retain the European Cup in | Wembley | 177 03 |
In which city is the Doge’s Palace | Venice | 177 04 |
lo, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are moons of which planet | Jupiter | 177 05 |
In which room in the house did Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley and Judy Garland all die | The bathroom | 177 06 |
In Roman mythology, who was Jupiter’s wife | Juno | 177 07 |
What did two women claim to have seen in the Irish village of Knock in 1897 | A vision of the virgin with two saints | 177 08 |
Who played Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in Heartbeat | Bill Maynard | 177 09 |
Who was the first man to appear on the cover of Playboy | Peter Sellers | 177 10 |
What does ‘karaoke’ mean literally | ‘Empty orchestra | 177 11 |
In Australia, what is the state capital of Victoria | Melbourne | 177 12 |
Who succeeded Zoe Ball as the female presenter of Live and Kicking | Emma Ledden | 177 13 |
Which American state is known as the ‘Peach State’ | Georgia | 177 14 |
Which musical duo took their name from a David Lynch film | Erasure (Erasethead) | 177 15 |
What pre-fame job linked MarIon Brando and Dr David Owen | Sewage worker | 177 16 |
What is a brassie | An old-fashioned name for a golf club | 178 01 |
In the Christian Church, what is the name given to the Thursday before Easter | Maundy Thursday | 178 02 |
On which show might you have met the 13th Duke of Wymbourne | The Fast Show | 178 03 |
Which club were the first winners of the Football League Cup | Aston Villa | 178 04 |
Where was Britain’s first motorway restaurant | Newport Pagnell | 178 05 |
How many were present at the Last Supper | 13 | 178 06 |
What is the Roman numeral for 500 | D | 178 07 |
What town is the administrative centre of County Louth | Dundalk | 178 08 |
Which Helmut became Chancellor of Germany in 1974 | Helmut Schmidt | 178 09 |
On which river in Africa are the Victoria Falls | Zambezi | 178 10 |
Which species of whale has a distinctive single tusk which can reach up to three metres long | Narwhal | 178 11 |
Which fruit is sometimes called ugh | Tangelo | 178 12 |
What nationality was Marie Curie | Polish | 178 13 |
From which fruit is the liqueur Curacao made | Orange | 178 14 |
Who was Steve McGarrett’s arch enemy on Hawaii Five-O | Wo Fat | 178 15 |
Which American singer changed his name from Charles Westover | Del Shannon | 178 16 |
What is bouillabaisse primarily made from | Fish | 179 01 |
What does the Beaufort scale measure | Wind | 179 02 |
What do Tommy Cooper, Sid James and Leonard Ross iter have in common | They died on stage | 179 03 |
Which TV presenter once carried the title of Miss Parallei Bars | Carol Smillie | 179 04 |
Which American novelist wrote Rabbit is Rich and The Witches of Eastwick | john Updike | 179 05 |
Which eminent 17th century scientist died of a chill after trying to stuff a chicken with snowy | Francis Bacon | 179 06 |
Anthony Babington hatched a plot to assassinate which queen of England | Elizabeth I | 179 07 |
What nationality is golfer Viay Singh | Fijian | 179 08 |
Which American city was named after St Francis of Assisi | San Francisco | 179 09 |
Who was world heavyweight boxing champion from 1919 to 1926 | Jack Dempsey | 179 10 |
What was the codename of the military operation to eject the Iraqi army from Kuwait in 1991 | Desert Storm | 179 11 |
Which title of the peerage is below a duke but above an earl | Marquess | 179 12 |
Where did The Monkees catch the last train to | Clarksville | 179 13 |
What is a pekan | A North American mammal | 179 14 |
What change was made to the Football League points system in 1981 | Three points were awarded for a win instead of two | 179 15 |
Who waved about Loadsamoney | Harry Enfield | 179 16 |
What is Reuters | An international news agency | 180 01 |
Which flowers did Queen Elizabeth I have a phobia about | Roses | 180 02 |
Which actor was born Michael Shalboub | Omar Sharif | 180 03 |
Which American state is called the Show Me State | Missouri | 180 04 |
Which country conceded 57 goals in their four qualifying matches for the 2002 World Cup | American Samoa | 180 05 |
Which Dutch artist painted no fewer than 64 self-portraits | Rembrandt | 180 06 |
What could be spotted on the ground in the Western Stagecoach | Tyre tracks | 180 07 |
Who drove the Varoom Roadster in Wacky Races | Peter Perfect | 180 08 |
How old was Drew Barrymore when she starred in E.T | Eight | 180 09 |
What four tournaments comprise the Grand Slam in tennis | Wimbledon, US Open, French Championships and Australian Championships | 180 10 |
Which doll brought Aqua a number one single in 1997 | ‘Barbie Girl | 180 11 |
What did the Queen launch at Clydebank on 20 September 1967 | The QE2 | 180 12 |
Who was King of France at the outbreak of the French Revolution | Louis XVI | 180 13 |
Who created Yogi Bear | William Hanna and Joseph Barbera | 180 14 |
In which country are the Trossachs | Scotland | 180 15 |
What was the world’s first theme park | Disneyland | 180 16 |
What did Oscar Wilde, Peter O’Toole and General Douglas MacArthur have in common as children | They were all dressed as girls in their early years | 181 01 |
From what country does the word ‘sauna’ originate | Finland | 181 02 |
Which boxer was nicknamed the ‘Ambling Alp’ | Primo Camera | 181 03 |
Which actress starred in Platinum Blonde and Bombshell | jean Harlow | 181 04 |
Which Sixties group sang about a ‘Dedicated Follower Of Fashion’ | The Kinks | 181 05 |
What is the capital of Slovakia | Bratislava | 181 06 |
Who wrote the play Waiting For Godot | Samuel Beckett | 181 07 |
Which sign of the zodiac covers the period from 23 September to 23 October | Libra | 181 08 |
In Dallas, what was Sue Ellen’s favourite tipple | Vodka | 181 09 |
On which street in London is Ham ley’s toy shop | Regent Street | 181 10 |
For how long can an ant survive underwater | Two weeks | 181 11 |
On which day of the week do nearly half of all American bank robberies take place | Friday | 181 12 |
What nationality are the band Ace of Base | Swedish | 181 13 |
What is the common name for rubella | German measles | 181 14 |
Which member of the Brontë family wrote Agnes Grey | Anne Brontë | 181 15 |
In TV commercials, what were Humphreys likely to steal | Milk | 181 16 |
Calvados brandy is distilled from which fruit | Apples | 182 01 |
What nationality is racing driver Jean Alesi | French | 182 02 |
In which street did the Great Fire of London start | Pudding Lane | 182 03 |
Fern Britton is married to which TV cook | Phil Vickery | 182 04 |
Which James Dickey novel about a tragic canoe trip was turned into a chilling movie starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight | Deliverance | 182 05 |
Where in the human body are the semi-circular canals | Ear | 182 06 |
What was the nickname of Coivnation Street pub landlord Duggie Ferguson in his Rugby League-playing days | ‘Crusher | 182 07 |
Which city is served by Lindbergh Airport | San Diego | 182 08 |
Which band released the 1987 album ‘Bridge Of Spies’ | T’Pau | 182 09 |
Which board game was devised by unemployed New York architect Alfred Butts | Scrabble | 182 10 |
Which artist was the subject of Brian and Michael’s ‘Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs’ | LS. Lowry | 182 11 |
In which English city is Clifford’s Tower | York | 182 12 |
What was Harold Wilson’s Parliamentary constituency | Huyton | 182 13 |
How many of Henry VIll’s wives were beheaded | Two | 182 14 |
Who was the original presenter of Stars in Their Eyes | Leslie Crowther | 182 15 |
Which British boxer fought Muhammad All for the world heavyweight title in 1966 | Henry Cooper | 182 16 |
Which satirical revue featured Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Ian Bennett and Jonathan Miller | Beyond the Fringe | 183 01 |
What colour beak does a moorhen have | Red | 183 02 |
At which battle did Nelson defeat the Danish fleet in 1801 | Battle of Copenhagen | 183 03 |
Who wrote Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe | 183 04 |
In which American state is Dodge City | Kansas | 183 05 |
How many human teeth are there in a permanent full set | 32 | 183 06 |
In which country is the Algarve | Portugal | 183 07 |
On which racecourse is the Prix de l’Arc deTriomphe run | Longchamp | 183 08 |
What is baked Alaska | An ice cream dessert | 183 09 |
Why don’t polar bears hunt penguins | Polar bears live at the north pole, penguins at the south | 183 10 |
Which actor from the US sitcom Taxi was the subject of an R.E.M. song | Andy Kaufman (‘Man On The Moon’) | 183 11 |
How many reindeer pull Santa’s sleigh | Eight | 183 12 |
Which former world leader once worked as a pastry assistant in the kitchens of London’s Carlton Hotel | Ho Chi Minh | 183 13 |
What is a luge | A small bobsled | 183 14 |
Albert Dock is a renovated area of which English city | Liverpool | 183 15 |
What is the name of the New York Stock Exchange index | Dow Jones average | 183 16 |
How many players from each team are allowed on the ice at the same time in a game of ice hockey | Six | 184 01 |
In which year did Annie Hall pick up a hatful of Oscars | 1977 | 184 02 |
What is petit point | An embroidery stitch | 184 03 |
What are petits pois | Peas | 184 04 |
What do the five Olympic rings represent | Continents of the world | 184 05 |
Which character was nicknamed ‘Lofty’ in It Ain’t Half Hot Mum | Gunner Sugden | 184 06 |
Who lost her head at Fotheringay Castle in 1587 | Mary Queen of Scots | 184 07 |
The children of which family did Mary Pop pins look after | The Banks family | 184 08 |
Why would your moggy like nepeto | It’s the Latin name for catmint | 184 09 |
Which woman was Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974 | Golda Meir | 184 10 |
Who was the Roman goddess of intelligence and handicrafts | Minerva | 184 11 |
What is the common name for pertussis | Whooping cough | 184 12 |
Duluth, Bloomington and Rochester are towns in which American state | Minnesota | 184 13 |
From which film did the Madonna hit ‘Beautiful Stranger’ come | Austin Powers — The Spy Who Shagged Me | 184 14 |
What is the Duke of Bedford’s stately home | Woburn | 184 15 |
Which sport played on sand made its Olympic debut at the Sydney Games in 2000 | Beach volleyball | 184 16 |
Brighton Belles was the UK version of which US sitcom | The Golden Girls | 185 01 |
Which Welsh singer witnessed a ‘Total Eclipse Of The Heart’ in 1983 | Bonnie Tyler | 185 02 |
Who rode the show-jumping horse Doublet | Princess Anne | 185 03 |
Frank Worrell played Test cricket for which country | West Indies | 185 04 |
Which item of confectionery did a young Emma Bunton advertise on TV | Milky Bar | 185 05 |
Which country produces the wine Hock | Germany | 185 06 |
Which group of rioters wrecked machinery in northern England in the 181 Os | The Luddites | 185 07 |
What can a polyglot do | Speak or write in many languages | 185 08 |
With what was Trotsky butchered | An ice pick | 185 09 |
How many American colonies signed the Declaration of Independence from Britain in 17761 | 13 | 185 10 |
What is the capital of Ukraine | Kiev | 185 11 |
Which TV police series started out on the beat as Woodentop | The Bill | 185 12 |
The Gulf ofTonkin is part of which sea | South China Sea | 185 13 |
The Basque Separatist movement operates in which country | Spain | 185 14 |
Who wrote the novel Gone With The Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 185 15 |
Which Scottish football ground name means ‘dung heap’ | Pittodrie (Aberdeen) | 185 16 |
What isaskua | A sea bird | 186 01 |
Which Paul McCartney song of 1972 was banned by the BBC for being too political | ‘Give Ireland BackToThe Irish | 186 02 |
How many teats does the female multimammate rat have | 24 | 186 03 |
In which century did wolves become extinct in the UK | 18th | 186 04 |
Who is the female face of SM:TV Live | Cat Deeley | 186 05 |
Which band backed Steve Harley | Cockney Rebel | 186 06 |
Which football team used to be called Newton Heath | Manchester United | 186 07 |
In which city is Hollyoaks set | Chester | 186 08 |
Who won the Wimbledon men’s singles title in 2001 | Goran Ivanesevic | 186 09 |
What is tattooed on Popeye’s forearm | An anchor | 186 10 |
Which religious sect originally expected the second coming in 1844 | The Seventh Day Adventists | 186 11 |
Who was manager of The Sex Pistols | Malcolm McLaren I | 186 12 |
The remains of which two 16th-century theatres were discovered in London in 1989 | The Rose and The Globe | 186 13 |
Who did George Bush defeat in the 1988 US Presidential election | Michael Dukakis | 186 14 |
In which sport can you catch a Boston crab | Wrestling | 186 15 |
What name is given to the four pointed teeth between incisors and molars | Canine teeth | 186 16 |
Who was ‘Not Such An Innocent Girl’ in 2001 | Victoria Beckham | 187 01 |
What is the nickname of the Australian rugby union | ‘The Wallabies | 187 02 |
Which TV weather forecaster used to describe clouds as ‘fluffy bits’ | Francis Wilson | 187 03 |
Which Anthony Minghella film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1996 | The English Patient | 187 04 |
How many moons does Mercury have | None | 187 05 |
Which emblem was adopted by the Free French forces in World War Two | Cross of Lorraine | 187 06 |
Who founded the Lotus motor car company | Cohn Chapman | 187 07 |
Which Hollywood actress was born Betty Joan Perske | Lauren BacalI | 187 08 |
How many pennies were there in an old pound | 240 | 187 09 |
What is a merengue | A Latin American dance | 187 10 |
From whom did Shylock demand a pound of flesh in The Merchant of Venice | Antonio | 187 11 |
Who were the ‘Sultans Of Swing’ in 1979 | Dire Straits | 187 12 |
What is the Derbyshire home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire | Chatsworth | 187 13 |
Who was the gardener on The Herbs | Mr Bayleaf | 187 14 |
Which British athlete won the women’s pentathlon at the 1972 Olympics | Mary Peters | 187 15 |
What TV channel first aired on 2 November 1982 | Channel 4 | 187 16 |
Where in the human body is the eustachian tube | The ear | 188 01 |
In which ocean is Christmas Island situated | Indian Ocean | 188 02 |
Which bird won an Academy Award with the 1942 film Der Fuhrer’s Face | Donald Duck | 188 03 |
Which film was the musical version of Pygmalion | My Fair Lady | 188 04 |
If you have myopia, what do you suffer from | Short-sightedfless | 188 05 |
Which mountain was revered by the ancient Greeks as the home of Apollo and the Muses | Mount Parnassus | 188 06 |
Przhevalsky’s is a wild breed of which animal | Horse | 188 07 |
What did Red Riding Hood take to her sick grandmother | Cakes | 188 08 |
What nationality was the polar explorer Robert Peary | American | 188 09 |
Which season begins with the vernal equinox | Spring | 188 10 |
Who had a 1964 number one single with ‘DoWah Diddy Diddy’ | Manfred Mann | 188 11 |
In whose company was Hugh Grant when he was arrested in 1995 | Divine Brown | 188 12 |
What does a pedometer count | Walking steps | 188 13 |
What is a peccary | A pigl ike mammal | 188 14 |
What sport did Canadian Wayne Gretzky play | Ice hockey | 188 15 |
Whose final TV series before his retirement was the sitcom Clarence | Ronnie Barker | 188 16 |
Which actor was the target of Carly Simon’s ‘You’re So Vain’ | Warren Beatty | 189 01 |
Who said: ‘It’s not that I’m afraid to die, just don’t want to be there when it happens’ | Woody AlIen | 189 02 |
What mode of transport have Olivia Newton-John, Eric Clapton and Don Johnson all owned | Harley-Davidsons | 189 03 |
Which American form of croquet was one of the sports in the 1904 Olympics | Roque | 189 04 |
What household convenience item was invented by Mrs WA. Cochran in 1889 | Automatic dishwasher | 189 05 |
Maritimo are a football team from which country | Portugal | 189 06 |
‘Encephalic’ refers to which part of the body | The brain | 189 07 |
On which river does Monmouth stand | Wye | 189 08 |
Where does Rupert Bear live | Nut Wood | 189 09 |
Wizzard and ELO were splinters groups from which band | The Move | 189 10 |
Which Premiership football club had an Angel playing for them in 2001 | Aston Villa | 189 11 |
Which Shakespeare play was said to have been written at the request of Elizabeth I | The Merry Wives of Windsor | 189 12 |
In which American state is the Sierra Nevada mountain range | California | 189 13 |
Which of the Friends composed ‘Smelly Cat’ | Phoebe | 189 14 |
Who wrote Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Alan Sillitoe | 189 15 |
What does a spa town have | A spring | 189 16 |
Who split from husband Dennis Quaid in 2001 after having a fling with a Gladiator | Meg Ryan | 190 01 |
Who was the villain in Supergran | The Scunner Campbell | 190 02 |
Who were the first British football club to convert their ground to an all-seater stadium | Aberdeen | 190 03 |
What can be whale fat or to weep uncontrollably | Blubber | 190 04 |
Which famous old motor-racing circuit was built near Weybridge | Brooklands | 190 05 |
In which US city was Dynasty set | Denver | 190 06 |
What is the name for a limestone deposit which hangs from the roof of a cave | Stalactite | 190 07 |
Which Merseybeat artist turned down ‘Yesterday’ | Billy J. Kramer | 190 08 |
What is genealogy the study of | Family histories | 190 09 |
Mr Murdstone is a character in which Dickens novel | David Copperfield | 190 10 |
Where in the human body is the iris | The eye | 190 11 |
Where is Davy Jones’s Locker | At sea | 190 12 |
Which former girlfriend of Ryan Giggs was one of the presenters on The Word | Dani Behr | 190 13 |
What nationality is tennis player Goran lvanesevic | Croatian | 190 14 |
Which is the largest island in Japan | Honshu | 190 15 |
Which wild flower is also known as cuckoo-pint or lords-and-ladies | Wild arum | 190 16 |
Who united the English and Scottish crowns in 1603 | James I | 191 01 |
Which number cannot be expressed in Roman figures | Zero | 191 02 |
Which famous album cover was designed by Peter Blake | ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | 191 03 |
What did Cynthia Fellatio almost have on TV in 1969 | A Flying Circus (it was one of the names rejected before Monty Python) | 191 04 |
How many Tarot cards are there | 78 | 191 05 |
Which US general was nicknamed ‘Vinegar Joe’ | Joseph Warren StiIweIl | 191 06 |
Who composed the ballet Sleeping Beauty | Tchaikovsky | 191 07 |
In the Old Testament, who was the first King of Israel | Saul | 191 08 |
What sport do the Dallas Cowboys play | American football | 191 09 |
Which American actress starred in Rear Window and High Society | Grace Kelly | 191 10 |
At what sport was New Zealander Barry Briggs a world champion | Speedway | 191 11 |
What is brill in the sea | A flatflsh | 191 12 |
Carl XVI Gustav became king of which country in 1973 | Sweden | 191 13 |
Soave and Frascati are wines from which country | Italy | 191 14 |
What blew up at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on 6 May 1937 | The Hindenburg | 191 15 |
What was Britain’s last colony in Africa | Rhodesia | 191 16 |
What was Corporal O’Reilly’s nickname in M*A*S*H | ‘Radar | 192 01 |
Which stretch of water separates mainland Scotland from the Orkneys | Pentland Firth | 192 02 |
Who lamented about a ‘Ghost Town’ in 1981 | The Specials | 192 03 |
What colour are Bond Street, Regent Street and Oxford Street on a Monopoly board | Green | 192 04 |
Who won a Best Actress Oscar for Terms of Endearment in 1983 | Shirley Maclame | 192 05 |
Who rebuilt Steve Austin as The Six Million Dollar Man | Dr Rudy Wells | 192 06 |
In what sport may a crewman perform a trapeze | Sailing | 192 07 |
Which European country is made up of around 500 islands | Denmark | 192 08 |
What is the wild dog of Australia | Dingo | 192 09 |
Who was George Gershwin’s lyricist brother | Ira | 192 10 |
As what were the infamous Geheirne Staatspolizei better known | Gestapo | 192 11 |
What does ‘sotto voce’ mean | As an aside | 192 12 |
Which was ‘the quiz of the week, from Norwich’ | Sale of the Century | 192 13 |
After Old Etonians lifted the FA Cup in 1882, it was a further 19 years before which club became the next southern team to win the trophy | Tottenham Hotspur | 192 14 |
Who wrote the Ballad of Reading Gaol from bitter personal experience | Oscar Wilde | 192 15 |
In which country is Lake Neuchâtel | Switzerland | 192 16 |
What caused the Six Nations’ Rugby Championship to be carried over into autumn 2001 | Foot and mouth disease | 193 01 |
Which Morgan starred in the movie Along Come a Spider | Morgan Freeman | 193 02 |
‘Spinning Around’ enabled which singer to have number ones in three consecutive decades | Kylie Minogue | 193 03 |
Who was Dick Turpin’s sidekick | Swiftnick | 193 04 |
What does the horned toad squirt from its eyes to deter attackers | Blood | 193 05 |
Who designed the ‘bouncing bomb’ | Barnes Wallis | 193 06 |
Who was christened Manchester United’s ‘baby-faced assassin’ | Ole Gunnar Solskjaer | 193 07 |
In which county is Alton Towers theme park | Staffordshire | 193 08 |
What is the common name for tetanus | Lockjaw | 193 09 |
What is a grackle | A bird | 193 10 |
The Reign of Terror was a period in which historical rebellion | French Revolution | 193 11 |
In television terms, what was the only case of a rat rescuing a sinking ship | Roland Rat saving TV-am | 193 12 |
What kind of vegetable is a shallot | A small onion | 193 13 |
Which comedian’s real name is Bob Davis | jasper Carrott | 193 14 |
What number relates to the San Francisco American football team | 49 (San Francisco 49ers) | 193 15 |
Whose 2001 album was titled ‘No More Drama” | Mary J. Bilge | 193 16 |
Who wrote Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton | 194 01 |
In which newspaper did the cartoon strip Andy Capp first appear | Daifr Mirror | 194 02 |
In which English county is the market town of Shaftesbury | Dorset | 194 03 |
What is Roquefort | A cheese | 194 04 |
Which band featured Robert Palmer and Elkie Brooks | Vinegar Joe | 194 05 |
Who was the nasty green witch in Emu’s World | Grotbags | 194 06 |
In 2001-2, which club played in the bottom division of the Football League for the first time since 1968 | Luton Town | 194 07 |
Queen Maud Land is a region of which continent | Antarctica | 194 08 |
Cobweb and Mustardseed appeared in which Shakeapeare play | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 194 09 |
Which Egyptian astronomer’s Almagest developed the theory that the Earth is the centre of the universe | Ptolemy | 194 10 |
Which sporting event did Lance Armstrong win for the third consecutive year in 2001 | Tour de France | 194 11 |
Who was the voice of Princess Baia in the movie Anti | Sharon Stone | 194 12 |
On which mountain did George Mallory die in 1924 | Everest | 194 13 |
Which Terry became world middleweight boxing champion in 1961 | Terry Downes | 194 14 |
At which Common did CND supporters protest in the I 980s | Greenham Common | 194 15 |
In a series of TV commercials, which cockney actor said: ‘It’s good to talk’ | Bob Hoskins | 194 16 |
In 1857, which title was conferred upon Queen Victoria’s husband | Prince Consort | 195 01 |
Which animals was Napoleon frightened of | Cats | 195 02 |
Which city is home to the world’s oldest marathon | Boston | 195 03 |
Which film starred Jennifer Lopez and Jeremy Sisto | Angel Eyes | 195 04 |
Who was US President at the time of the Moon landings | Richard Nixon | 195 05 |
Who presents the radio programme In The Psychiatrist’s Chair | Anthony Clare | 195 06 |
In which English city is Roundhay Park | Leeds | 195 07 |
Which duo had a 1976 hit with ‘Heart On My Sleeve’ | Gallagher and Lyle | 195 08 |
Which English king hid in a tree to escape capture following defeat at the Battle of Worcester | Charles II | 195 09 |
Where was Britain’s Unknown Soldier of the First World War buried | Westminster Abbey | 195 10 |
What was the name of Captain Mainwaring’s unseen wife in Dad’s Army | Elizabeth | 195 11 |
Which adjoining country forms the eastern border of Guyana | Surinam | 195 12 |
What nationality is the distance runner | Ethiopian | 195 13 |
Whose catchphrase was ‘Gissa job’ | Yosser Hughes | 195 14 |
Who framed Arthur Fowler | Willy Roper | 195 15 |
Who was the last Viceroy of India | Lord Mountbatten | 195 16 |
Who laid out his BBC boss with a turkey | Alan Partridge | 196 01 |
What has 336 dimples | A golf ball | 196 02 |
What is a cupel used for | Assaying gold | 196 03 |
Whose 2001 album was titled ‘Fever’ | Kylie Minogue | 196 04 |
Jennifer Ehie is the daughter of which actress | Rosemary Harris | 196 05 |
On which river does Newbury stand | River Kennet | 196 06 |
Which band’s first hit was ‘Pictures Of Matchstick Men’ | Status Quo | 196 07 |
How many players are there on a basketball team | Five | 196 08 |
Who was the original choice to play Frank Spencer | Norman Wisdom | 196 09 |
Who was Britain’s only Conservative Prime Minister between 1964 and 1979 | Edward Heath | 196 10 |
In which country is Odense | Denmark | 196 11 |
Who was always coming up with ‘cunning plans’ | Baldrick | 196 12 |
Which actor’s real name was Walter Matuschanskavasky | Walter Matthau | 196 13 |
Which African country was ruled by Idi Amin in the I 970s | Uganda | 196 14 |
Which jockey beat cancer to win the 1981 Grand National on Aldaniti | Bob Champion | 196 15 |
One of which composer’s notebooks fetched £2.3 million in auction at Sotheby’s in May 1987 | Mozart | 196 16 |
What job did RickyTomlinson’s Mike Bassett hold in a 2001 film | England football manager | 197 01 |
What is the name for a female calf | Heifer | 197 02 |
Which mallet-wielding TV presenter gave Chris Evans his big break | Timmy Mallett | 197 03 |
In which year did Creedence Clearwater Revival have a UK number one hit with ‘Bad Moon Rising’ | 1969 | 197 04 |
Bismarck is the capital of which American state | North Dakota | 197 05 |
What did former Manchester United goalkeeper Alex Stepney’ once do while shouting at a team-mate | Dislocated his jaw | 197 06 |
Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper and Sandra Bullock starred in which 1994 thriller movie | Speed | 197 07 |
Whereabouts in the human body is the lacrimal gland | The eye | 197 08 |
Helen Burns is a character in which Charlotte Brontë novel | Jane Eyre | 197 09 |
Which country marks the western border of Oman | Yemen | 197 10 |
The Needles can be found on which island | Isle of Wight | 197 11 |
Who composed the opera The Rake’s Progress | Stravinsky | 197 12 |
Norman Greenbaum and Doctor and the Medics had UK number one hits at 16-year intervals with which song | ‘Spirit In The Sky | 197 13 |
Which town in North Yorkshire is famous for its annual bed race | Knaresborough | 197 14 |
Which artificial stimulant was banned from the World Worm- Charming Championships | Washing-up liquid | 197 15 |
The treacherous Goodwin Sands are situated off the coast of which English county | Kent | 197 16 |
Which singer did Lord Snowdon call the rudest woman he’d ever photographed | Macy Gray | 198 01 |
Which former Big Breakfast presenter was in something ‘Orrible in | Johnny Vaughan | 198 02 |
Which US band on the road to nowhere were originally called The Artistics | Talking Heads | 198 03 |
With what country was Berwick-upon-Tweed officially at war for 110 years until 1966 | Russia | 198 04 |
At which sport could you fall victim to a flying mare or a half Nelson | Wrestling | 198 05 |
The Chatham Islands belong to which country | New Zealand | 198 06 |
What is a kudu | A large antelope | 198 07 |
Canada’s Kurt Browning was a world champion at which sport | Ice skating | 198 08 |
Whereabouts in Australia did Captain Cook land in 1770 | Botany Bay | 198 09 |
What is the Greek name for Greece | HelIas | 198 10 |
Whose TV characters included Mr Angry of Mayfair and Marcel Wave | Kenny Everett | 198 11 |
Which family ruled Florence from 1434 to 1737 | Medici | 198 12 |
Of what sport is Sergio Garcia a leading exponent | Golf | 198 13 |
Which group had ‘That Same Old Feeling’ in 1970 | Pickettywitch | 198 14 |
In which city is the Crucible Theatre, venue for the World Snooker Championships | Sheffield | 198 15 |
What was the name of Hopalong Cassidy’s horse | Topper | 198 16 |
Who plays Ling in Ally McBeal and Alex in Charlie’s Angels: The Movie | Lucy Liu | 199 01 |
What does the name of the Russian newspaper Pravda mean | Truth | 199 02 |
Which common garden creature is really a crustacean | Woodlouse | 199 03 |
At what sport does Greg Louganis participate | Diving | 199 04 |
What animal has a gestation period of 21 months | Elephant | 199 05 |
Which four former Football League clubs played in the Unibond League Premier Division in 200 1-2 | Accrington, Barrow, Gateshead and Bradford Park Avenue | 199 06 |
Which member of the Dad’s Army cast was actually in the Home Guard during World War Two | John Laurie (Frazer) | 199 07 |
Which is the brightest star in the sky | Sirius (Dog Star) | 199 08 |
Where is the Sistine Chapel | The Vatican | 199 09 |
How many frames are there in a game of tenpin bowling | Ten | 199 10 |
Which is the largest of the Canary Islands | Tenerife | 199 11 |
Which band couldn’t let Maggie go in 1968 | Honeybus | 199 12 |
Nashville is the capital of which American state | Tennessee | 199 13 |
What colour are the flowers of a tansy | Yellow | 199 14 |
What age followed the Bronze Age | The Iron Age | 199 15 |
In which country is the port of Tangier | Morocco | 199 16 |
Which building on the river Jumna near Agra was constructed by 20,000 workmen | Taj Mahal | 200 01 |
Which actress starred in There’s Something About Mary and Being John Malkovich | Cameron Diaz | 200 02 |
What nationality is James Last | German | 200 03 |
What is special about the echidna and the duck-billed platypus | They are the world’s only egg-laying mammals | 200 04 |
Where did Rosie and Jim live | On a canal boat | 200 05 |
Where would you find futtock plates | On a ship | 200 06 |
Qantas is the national airline of which country | Australia | 200 07 |
Which French oceanographer commanded the boat Calypso | Jacques Cousteau | 200 08 |
Which Belgian tennis player got to the final of the Wimbledon ladies’ singles in 2001 | Justine Henin | 200 09 |
Which actor, famous for playing a TV soap thug, was voted Rector of Glasgow University in 1999 | Ross Kemp (Grant Mitchell) | 200 10 |
In which African country is the city of COnstantine | Algeria | 200 11 |
Who wrote Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen | 200 12 |
Which Australian squash player won the British Women’s Open title a record 16 years in succession from 1962-77 | Heather McKay | 200 13 |
Which Premiership football club plays at the Riverside Stadium | Middlesbrough | 200 14 |
Francisco Lopez was a 19th century dictator of which South American country | Paraguay | 200 15 |
How many points is the letter ‘X’ worth in Scrabble | Eight | 200 16 |
Birmingham Bullets and Leicester Riders are teams in which sport | Basketball | 201 01 |
Shirley Manson is the singer with which band | Garbage | 201 02 |
Which cricketer was dropped after flying a Tiger Moth during a match on the 1991 tour of Australia | David Gower | 201 03 |
What is the name of the clown on The Simpsons | Krusty | 201 04 |
Which country makes Nokia mobile phones | Finland | 201 05 |
Which animated children’s TV series featured the Hemulen | The Moomins | 201 06 |
Which former chairman of British Rail is the namesake of Spidermon’s alter-ego | Peter Parker | 201 07 |
Which is the oldest bridge across the River Seine in Paris | Pont Neuf | 201 08 |
What pen name was used by writer Eric Arthur Blair | George Orwell | 201 09 |
What does UNESCO stand for | United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation | 201 10 |
What is a sequoia | A redwood tree | 201 11 |
Aurora borealis are otherwise known as what | The northern lights | 201 12 |
Who plays Waynetta Slob to Harry Enfield’s Wayne | Kathy Burke | 201 13 |
What did Englishman Harry Brearley invent in 1913 | Stainless steel | 201 14 |
Which car manufacturing company was named after the ten-year-old daughter of Austrian financier and motor-racing enthusiast Emil Jellinek | Mercedes | 201 15 |
Which boxer was nicknamed ‘The Louisville Lip’ | Muhammad Ali | 201 16 |
How many squares are there on a draughts board | 64 | 202 01 |
Which Austrian physician pioneered the study of the unconscious mind | Sigmund Freud | 202 02 |
Which Essex resort is ‘on the Naze’ | Walton | 202 03 |
Of what is SERPS an acronym | State Earnings-Related Pension Schemes | 202 04 |
On which British comedy actor was Basil Brush’s voice based | Terry-Thomas | 202 05 |
Which child’s game was developed from a Filipino weapon | Yo-yo | 202 06 |
What is special about a 19th-century fisherman’s cottage on the quay at Conwy, North Wales | It is the smallest house in Britain | 202 07 |
Which country has the highest percentage of female heads of household in the world | Botswana | 202 08 |
Who were the first Third Division club to reach the semi-finals of the FA Cup | MilIwall | 202 09 |
In which year did George Michael reach number one in the UK with ‘Careless Whisper’ | 1984 | 202 10 |
What is a dulcimer | A musical instrument | 202 11 |
What nationality was the playwright August Strindberg | Swedish | 202 12 |
To what did US film director and writer Edrnond Biden change his name | Preston Sturges | 202 13 |
In Greek mythology, which river surrounded the underworld | Styx | 202 14 |
Which sea did the Romans refer to as mare nostrum | The Mediterranean | 202 15 |
Which band sang about their ‘Favourite Shirts’ in 1981 | Haircut 100 | 202 16 |
Which extinct bird’s name is Dutch for ‘fat bum” | Dodo | 203 01 |
Whose first UK hit was ‘I’m Every Woman’ | Chaka Khan | 203 02 |
On which racecourse is the One Thousand Guineas run | Newmarket | 203 03 |
What was Roald Amundsen the first person to reach | South Pole | 203 04 |
Harry Hill was distraught to see which parade repeatedly cancelled | The badger parade | 203 05 |
What is another name for a woodbine when it grows in your garden | Honeysuckle | 203 06 |
According to the TV commercials, which cigarette were you never alone with | Strand | 203 07 |
Which footballing country won the 1982 World Cup | Italy | 203 08 |
In which English county is Ashdown Forest | East Sussex | 203 09 |
Which Eighties band released the album ‘Seven And The Ragged Tiger’ | Duran Duran | 203 10 |
Which Japanese military word means ‘divine wind’ | Kamikaze | 203 11 |
Hg is the chemical symbol for which element | Mercury | 203 12 |
What is the capital of Zambia | Lusaka | 203 13 |
At which sport did Richard Meade represent his country | Show-jumping | 203 14 |
Which damsel-in-distress has vital statistics of 19-19-19 | Olive Oyl | 203 15 |
Cumulus and cirrus are types of what | Cloud | 203 16 |
From which fruit is guacamole made | Avocado | 204 01 |
Which jockey served a year in prison for tax evasion in 1987 | Lester Piggott | 204 02 |
What is the collective noun for a group of geese in flight | Skein | 204 03 |
To what part of the body does the word ‘phrenic’ refer | Diaphragm | 204 04 |
Bootsie and Snudge was a spin-off from which series1 | The Army Game | 204 05 |
Who designed the Church of the Holy Family in Barcelona | Antonio Gaudi | 204 06 |
In which castle is St George’s Chapel | Windsor Castle | 204 07 |
Which British racing driver retired from Formula One in 2000 | Johnny Herbert | 204 08 |
Who painted his mother in 1871 | James Whistler | 204 09 |
What is vellum | A type of parchment | 204 10 |
Which rock ‘n’ roller was the title of a 1995 hit for Weezer1 | ‘Buddy Holly | 204 11 |
What was American Sally Ride’s claim to fame in 1983 | She was the first American woman in space | 204 12 |
Under what name did Archie Leach become famous | Cary Grant | 204 13 |
In which sport do countries compete for the Swaythling Cup | Table tennis | 204 14 |
Which Football League team plays at the Bescot Stadium | Walsall | 204 15 |
What links the mammal Odobenus rosmarus to The Beatles | It’s the Latin name for the walrus, as in The Beatles’ song ‘I Am The Walrus | 204 16 |
To which member of the royal family was Bette Midler referring when she said: ‘She loves nature in spite of what it did to her’ | Princess Anne | 205 01 |
Who recorded the album ‘Tubular Bells’ | Mike Oldfield | 205 02 |
In which country is Lake Bala | Wales | 205 03 |
With which film studios was producer Michael Balcon associated | Ealing | 205 04 |
At which castle did the investiture of the Prince of Wales take place | Caernarvon | 205 05 |
Which ITV barrister first appeared in a BBC Ploy for Today | Rumpole of the Bailey | 205 06 |
What is the only native North American marsupial | The opossum | 205 07 |
Which city stands at the mouth of the Hudson river | New York | 205 08 |
Who was allegedly responsible for the Massacre of the Innocents | King Herod | 205 09 |
What does RNLI stand for | Royal National Lifeboat Institution | 205 10 |
Who ran through the town in his nightgown | Wee Willie Winkle | 205 11 |
Which bird gets its name from a quill-like protrusion of feathers behind its ear | Secretary bird | 205 12 |
Which novel was based on the adventures of Alexander Selkirk | Robinson Crusoe | 205 13 |
As whom was Scottish outlaw Robert MacGregor known to friend and foe | Rob Roy | 205 14 |
At which sport was Beryl Burton a national champion | Cycling | 205 15 |
Which BBC horse-racing presenter played Statto in Fantasy Foothall League | Angus Lough ran | 205 16 |
Who owned a silver hammer in a Beatles track | Maxwell | 206 01 |
Where in England would you find Wool | Dorset | 206 02 |
Who became a screen sex symbol after changing her surname from Fluck | Diana Dors | 206 03 |
What sea separates New Zealand and Australia | Tasman Sea | 206 04 |
If you sailed due east from New York, which land would you encounter next | Portugal | 206 05 |
In what way was German international footballer Matthias Sammer a trailblazer in 1990 | He was the first East German to play for the new unified Germany | 206 06 |
Who showed her flair for figures by wearing a low-cut turquoise mini dress to the 2000 BAFTA Awards | Carol Vorderman | 206 07 |
What is the main ingredient of borscht | Beetroot | 206 08 |
Which rodent made his debut in the 1928 film Plane Crazy | Mickey Mouse | 206 09 |
What does a seismologist study | Earthquakes | 206 10 |
Which environmental phrase was first coined by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius | ‘Greenhouse effect | 206 11 |
How many are there in a gross | 144 | 206 12 |
Which Shakespeare play opens with three witches | Macbeth | 206 13 |
Which colour provided a hit for Eiffel 65 in 1999 | ‘Blue | 206 14 |
How many times did Stephen Hendry win the World Snooker Championships in the l990s | Seven | 206 15 |
Which English king married Mary of Teck | GeorgeV | 206 16 |
Which secret agent did Michael Caine play in The Ipcress File | Harry Palmer | 207 01 |
Which British Prime Minister’s father was once a circus trapeze artist | John Major | 207 02 |
Which US rock star served two years in jail in 1962 for taking a girl across State borders for ‘immoral purposes’ | Chuck Berry | 207 03 |
In which country do 100 tetri make a Ian | Georgia | 207 04 |
Which river has some 1100 tributaries | Amazon | 207 05 |
Whose tribute band are Bjorn Again | Abba | 207 06 |
What are the only mammals that can’t jump | Elephants | 207 07 |
What can a jellyfish still do when it’s dead | Sting | 207 08 |
Which creature was said to be half bull half man | Minotaur | 207 09 |
What was the name of Crystal Tipps’ dog | Alistair | 207 10 |
What is Australia’s largest salt lake | Lake Eyre | 207 11 |
Who created Perry Mason | ErIe Stanley Gardner | 207 12 |
Which animal takes its name from the Greek for ‘river horse’ | Hippopotamus | 207 13 |
Who wrote Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | 207 14 |
What is ikebana the Japanese art of | Flower arranging | 207 15 |
The Forest of Bowland is in which English county | Lancashire | 207 16 |
What was wrong with the film title Krakatoa East of Java | Krakatoa is west of Java | 208 01 |
Which golfer’s chances of winning the 2001 British Open vanished when he was penalised for carrying too many clubs in his bag | lan Woosnam | 208 02 |
Dublin is the capital of which Irish province | Leinster | 208 03 |
Which French town has a reputation for miraculous cures | Lourdes | 208 04 |
Eternal’s 1996 hit ‘Someday’ was taken from which film | The Hunchback of Notre Dome | 208 05 |
Which footballer was the first person to refuse to be the subject of This Is Your Life | Danny Blanchflower | 208 06 |
What breed of dog is a dumber | Spaniel | 208 07 |
Who contributed guest vocals on UB4O’s version of’l Got You Babe’ | Chrissie Hynde | 208 08 |
If you ordered ‘moules’ in a French restaurant, what would you expect to be served | Mussels | 208 09 |
According to Scottish superstition, which two colours should never be worn together | Red and green | 208 10 |
Which crime has a potential 324 different combinations | The murder in Cluedo | 208 11 |
The name of which Indonesian city means ‘place of victory’ | Jakarta | 208 12 |
According to Alaskan state law, what is it illegal to look at from the window of an aircraft | A moose | 208 13 |
Which European city staged the 1928 Olympics | Amsterdam | 208 14 |
What is the common name for the plant Impatiens | Bizzy Lizzy | 208 15 |
Who rowed through a storm with her father one night in 1838 to save nine shipwrecked souls off the Farne Islands | Grace Darling | 208 16 |
In music, what is meant by the term ‘legato’ | Smoothly | 209 01 |
Why is a cheetah unlike other cats | It can’t retract its claws | 209 02 |
What is pumpernickel | A type of bread | 209 03 |
n 1983, what became the first a cappella song to top the UK singles chart | ‘Only You’ by The Flying Pickets | 209 04 |
Which South African golfer won the US Open twice in the 19905 | Ernie Els | 209 05 |
Who was the Roman god of fire | Vulcan | 209 06 |
Which Spaniard conquered the Aztec empire in the 16th century | Hern(n Cort(s | 209 07 |
What kind of hopefuls attend RADA | Actors | 209 08 |
In which continent is the River Plate | South America | 209 09 |
In motor-racing, who was the first winner of the World Drivers’ Championship | Dr Giuseppe Farina | 209 10 |
The thylacine is another name for which carnivorous marsupial | Tasmanian wolf | 209 11 |
Who took ‘Ma Baker’ to number two in the charts in 1977 | Boney M | 209 12 |
What is the national emblem of Canada | Maple leaf | 209 13 |
Who was known as ‘The Girl With The Million Dollar Legs’ | Betty Grable | 209 14 |
Ed Koch, the Mayor of New York in 1984, played himself in which Muppet movie | The Muppets Take Manhattan | 209 15 |
About which London street did Gerry Rafferty sing in 1978 | ‘Baker Street | 209 16 |
Which lake is the source of the White Nile | Lake Victoria | 210 01 |
Which animal has been responsible for more human deaths than any other | Hippopotamus | 210 02 |
What is the chemical symbol for tin | Sn | 210 03 |
Which playwright penned The Way of the World in 1700 | William Congreve | 210 04 |
How many sides does a trapezium have | Four | 210 05 |
Who starred in the original version of The Nutty Professor | Jerry Lewis | 210 06 |
Which Spanish football team won the European Champions’ League in 1998 and 2000 | Real Madrid | 210 07 |
What did Coronation Street’s Don Brennan do for a living | Mini cab driver | 210 08 |
Which former milkman had a number one hit with ‘Only Sixteen’ | Craig Douglas | 210 09 |
Of which fellow politician did Denis Healey say: ‘Being attacked in the House by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep’ | Sir Geoffrey Howe | 210 10 |
What was the nickname of agricultural reformer Charles Townshend | ‘Turnip | 210 11 |
Which river — the third longest in England — rises in the South Pennines and flows through the Midlands to the Humber | Trent | 210 12 |
What is the name for a triangle where two sides and two angles are the same | Isosceles triangle | 210 13 |
What is gazpacho | A cold soup | 210 14 |
Whose parliament is called the Tynwald | Isle of Man | 210 15 |
Brer Rabbit was a character in which series of talk tales by Joel Chandler Harris | Uncle Remus | 210 16 |
Who is known as ‘The Muscles From Brussels | Jean-Claude Van Damme | 211 01 |
Which product takes its name from its three prime requisites — durability, reliabilit> and excellence | Durex | 211 02 |
The Electronic Secretary was the prototype of which device | The telephone answering machine | 211 03 |
For which movie did Charlton Heston win a Best Actor Oscar in 1959 | Ben-Hur | 211 04 |
London building contractor John J. Rawlings was responsible for which 20th century invention | Rawlplug | 211 05 |
Which Miss India won the Miss World contest in 1966 | Reita Faria | 211 06 |
Which actress left The Liver Birds after just five episodes | Pauline Collins | 211 07 |
Which Scandinavian country extends the farthest north | Norway | 211 08 |
Whose 1999 album was titled ‘The Hush’ | Texas | 211 09 |
What are you doing if you are sniggling | Fishing (for eels) | 211 10 |
Which god was Hymen in Greek mythology | God of marriage | 211 11 |
Which country won the 1999 Cricket World Cup | Australia | 211 12 |
Who was John Drake otherwise known as on Tv | Danger Man | 211 13 |
What was the name of the Earl of Leicester who was a prominent member of the court of Elizabeth I | Robert Dudley | 211 14 |
Anything ‘sinister’ refers to which side | Left | 211 15 |
Which Hollywood actor was born John Ubler Ill | Jack Lemmon | 211 16 |
What is the Italian dish zuppa inglese | Trifle | 212 01 |
What type of animals did ALF most enjoy eating | Cats | 212 02 |
What colour is the leather on the seats in the House of Commons | Green | 212 03 |
Which ship sank in the film A Night to Remember | The Titanic | 212 04 |
What action causes all your bodily functions to stop momentarily | Sneezing | 212 05 |
Which country produces the cheese Gaperon | France | 212 06 |
On this earth, what outnumber humans by approximately 100 million to one | Insects | 212 07 |
How long are baby kangaroos at birth | An inch | 212 08 |
What carnivores can smell humans up to 20 miles away | Polar bears | 212 09 |
Who released the best-selling UK album of 1999, ‘Come On Over’ | Shania Twain | 212 10 |
The Road Hole is part of which championship golf course | St Andrews | 212 11 |
Jason King was a spin-off from which TV series | Department S | 212 12 |
In which country is Eindhoven | The Netherlands | 212 13 |
Which mountain in Alaska was named after a former US President | Mount McKinley | 212 14 |
What is London’s Central Criminal Court more commonly known as | Old Bailey | 212 15 |
How many lines are there in a sonnet | 14 | 212 16 |
At which 2001 Grand Prix did Michael Schumacher secure his fourth Formula One World Drivers’ Championship | Hungarian | 213 01 |
Which poet laureate wrote detective novels under the name Nicholas Blake | Cecil Day-Lewis | 213 02 |
What year followed I BC | AD I | 213 03 |
What is the national anthem of Australia | ‘Advance Australia Fair | 213 04 |
Where is the Old Man of Coniston | In the Lake District | 213 05 |
Which puppet is known in Germany is Balduin Schwupp | Basil Brush | 213 06 |
Which British boxing hero from the 2000 Sydney Olympics turned professional shortly afterwards | Audley Harrison | 213 07 |
Flashman was the school bully in which novel | Tom Brown’s Schooldays | 213 08 |
Which footballer teamed up with Lindisfarne for a 1990 re-make of ‘Fog On The Tyne’ | Paul Gascoigne | 213 09 |
In which country is the Po River | Italy | 213 10 |
Which actress was known as ‘America’s Sweetheart’ | Mary Pickford | 213 11 |
What is Monday’s child said to be | Fair of face | 213 12 |
Which Hollywood dancer was born Eugene Curran | Gene Kelly | 213 13 |
Ratabaga is another name for which vegetable | Swede | 213 14 |
In which century was the Book of Kells produced | 8th | 213 15 |
The capital of which country switched from Alma-Ata to Astana in 1997 | Kazakhstan | 213 16 |
What is the second highest mountain range in the world | The Andes | 214 01 |
Which British athlete took silver in the 800 metres and gold in the 1.500 metres at both the 1980 and 1984 Olympics | Sebastian Coe | 214 02 |
Who bought the Mirror newspaper group in 1984 | Robert Maxwell | 214 03 |
What are you supposed to feel if you see two magpies | Joy | 214 04 |
Who was the Paranoid Android in The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Marvin | 214 05 |
Which country’s national emblem depicts an eagle on a cactus devouring a snake | Mexico | 214 06 |
What do Americans call a ‘sidewalk’ | Pavement | 214 07 |
An ennead is a set of how many | Nine | 214 08 |
Which former Prime Minister wrote the four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples | Winston Churchill | 214 09 |
In the nursery rhyme ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’, which animal laughed to see such fun | The little dog | 214 10 |
How many pillars of Islam are there | Five | 214 11 |
In which continent is the Great Dividing Range of mountains | Australia | 214 12 |
Which U2 song was a tribute to singer Billie Holliday | ‘Angel Of Harlem | 214 13 |
Which city lies at the mouth of the River Taff | Cardiff | 214 14 |
On children’s TV, who was Simon Bodger’s puppet pet | Badger | 214 15 |
Which creature mates in mid-air, hanging from a rope of slime | Great grey slug | 214 16 |
In which American state are the Everglades | Florida | 215 01 |
Which are the only animals born with horns | Giraffes | 215 02 |
Who spread herself across a piano in The Fabulous Baker Boys | Michelle Pfeiffer | 215 03 |
What nationality was the artist Degas | French | 215 04 |
What name indicating cookery of a high standard is also given to a dish made with ham and cheese and a white sauce | Cordon bleu | 215 05 |
Which band had a 1983 hit with ‘The Love Cats’ | The Cure | 215 06 |
Which was run first —The Derby or The Oaks | The Oaks | 215 07 |
Braganza was the royal house of which European country from 1640- 1910 | Portugal | 215 08 |
Which actor’s portrayal of biker Johnny in The Wild One created a rebel image | MarIon Brando | 215 09 |
In which year was the Munich Agreement | 1938 | 215 10 |
What system of mail-carrying by relays of horse-riders was employed in parts of the USA in the 19th century | The Pony Express | 215 11 |
Of which influential band was Lou Reed a member before going solo | The Velvet Underground | 215 12 |
Which football club manager left Coventry City after just a few weeks of the 200 1-2 season | Gordon Strachan | 215 13 |
Which music style was pioneered by Lonnie Donegan | Skiffle | 215 14 |
Which Worn ble wore a black bowler hat | Tobermory | 215 15 |
What is the state capital of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan | Regina | 215 16 |
Which animal has no vocal | Giraffe | 216 01 |
Which actor who starred in Edward Scissorhands has a phobia about clowns | Johnny Depp | 216 02 |
Which are the only birds that can see the colour blue | Owls | 216 03 |
Which band had a 1982 hit with ‘Abracadabra’ | The Steve Miller Band | 216 04 |
Which world motor-racing champion was killed in a car crash on the Guildford by-pass in 1959 | Mike Hawthorn | 216 05 |
Who is leader of the Staines Massive | Au G | 216 06 |
Which one-time resident of Gravesend was the subject of a 1995 Disney film | Pocahontas | 216 07 |
On which gulf is the town of Sorrento | Gulf of Salerno | 216 08 |
Who had his own Velvet Opera | Elmer Gantry | 216 09 |
What is the American term for grilling food | Broiling | 216 10 |
Scrooge featured in which Dickens novel | A Christmas Carol | 216 11 |
Which tea party was the topic of a 1976 song by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band | ‘The Boston Tea Party | 216 12 |
Who was ‘The It Girl’ | Clara Bow | 216 13 |
Who created the detective Jemima Shore | Antonia Fraser | 216 14 |
Which country’s currency is the tenge | Kazakhstan | 216 15 |
What was the name of Hector Heathcote’s faithful dog | Winston | 216 16 |
What stretches from West Gansu to the Gulf of Liaodong | Great Wall of China | 217 01 |
Which bridge in eastern England was the longest in the world when it was completed in 1980 | Humber Bridge | 217 02 |
The poisonous plant deadly nightshade belongs to the same family as which vegetable | The potato | 217 03 |
What is the name for a pregnant goldfish | Twit | 217 04 |
In which group of islands is Martinique | West Indies | 217 05 |
What canal, spelled backwards, is the name of a Greek god | Suez | 217 06 |
What was Grace in her US sitcom | Under Fire | 217 07 |
What are the Christian names of tennis’s Williams sisters | Venus and Serena | 217 08 |
Which English city has a Hoe and a Sound | Plymouth | 217 09 |
Which politician was labelled ‘Attila the Hen’ | Margaret Thatcher | 217 10 |
Who played Yosser Hughes in Boys From the Blockstuff | Bernard Hill | 217 11 |
What is ‘Buzz’ Aidrin’s real first name | Edwin | 217 12 |
What nationality was the author Hilaire Belloc | English | 217 13 |
What is campanology | Bell-ringing | 217 14 |
A sousaphone is a large bass version of which musical instrument | Tuba | 217 15 |
Who was quite contrary | Mary | 217 16 |
Where do swifts mate? IIIIJ | On the wing | 218 01 |
What is the University of Paris commonly known as | The Sorbonne | 218 02 |
Which collection of synonyms was first published in 1852 | Roget’s Thesaurus | 218 03 |
Along which line of latitude is the border between North and South Korea based | 38th parallel | 218 04 |
What was the name of the cow in The Magic Roundabout | Ermintrude | 218 05 |
In which season did Liverpool Football Club last win the League title | 1989—90 | 218 06 |
Who were ‘Deeply Dippy’ in 1992 | Right Said Fred | 218 07 |
Which 18th century agriculturist was not living in the past when he wrote Horse-Hoeing Husbandry | Jethro Tull | 218 08 |
Which Calvin became US President in 1923 | Calvin Coolidge | 218 09 |
What was Herbert von Karajan | Conductor | 218 10 |
Which TV soap is set in Summer Bay | Home and Away | 218 11 |
Which sport does Lee Westwood play | Golf | 218 12 |
Which martial art takes its name from the Japanese for ‘empty hand’ | Karate | 218 13 |
Who was governor of the Falklands at the time of the Argentine invasion? - | Rex Hunt | 218 14 |
What was the speckled band in the Sherlock Holmes story of that title | A venomous snake | 218 15 |
Whose 1987 album was ‘Bad’ | Michael Jackson | 218 16 |
What do oysters change depending on the temperature of the water around them | Sex | 219 01 |
What are the two main ingredients of zabaglione | Egg yolks and wine | 219 02 |
Who was Anastasia and Drizella’s stepsister | Cinderella | 219 03 |
What is the highest mountain outside Asia | Aconcagua (in Argentina) | 219 04 |
What is the second largest desert in the world | Gobi Desert | 219 05 |
Who wrote A Woman of Substance and Hold the Dream | Barbara Taylor Bradford | 219 06 |
In which sport do teams compete for the Stanley Cup | Ice hockey | 219 07 |
In The Bill, which is the nearest station to Sun Hill | Barton Street | 219 08 |
In which century did Ivan the Terrible reign | 16th | 219 09 |
Which boy’s name is sweet when applied to a member of the Dianthus family | William | 219 10 |
For which organ isation did The Champions work | Nemesis | 219 11 |
In which year was Damon Hill Formula One World Champion | 1996 | 219 12 |
Who was ‘Gonna Make You A Star’ in 1974 | David Essex | 219 13 |
Who was the first Blue Peter pet | Petra | 219 14 |
Which TV presenter conducts Weird Weekends | Louis Theroux | 219 15 |
In which city is the Rialto bridge | Venice | 219 16 |
Which planet has a pink sky | Mars | 220 01 |
According to old British legend, with which knight did Queen Guinevere have an affair | Sir Lancelot | 220 02 |
Which sport — played only in the USA — boasts a World Series | Baseball | 220 03 |
In which mountain country do yak live | Tibet | 220 04 |
Who was Callan’s smelly sidekick | Lonely | 220 05 |
Which Righteous Brothers song was used in the 1990 film Ghost | ‘Unchained Melody | 220 06 |
Which fashion designer co-owned a shop with Malcolm McLaren | VivienneWestwood | 220 07 |
Which envoy to the Archbishop of Canterbury was kidnapped in Beirut in 1987 | Terry Waite | 220 08 |
What colour are the stripes on the flag of Uruguay | Blue and white | 220 09 |
What unwanted distinction did Manchester United’s Kevin Moran achieve in the 1985 FA Cup Final | He was the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup Final | 220 10 |
Stewart Copeland was the drummer with which successful trio | The Police | 220 11 |
Who was the unseen doorman in the US sitcom Rhoda | Carlton | 220 12 |
Which capital city’s pride is a form of saxifrage | London (London pride) | 220 13 |
The Battle of St Albans was the first round in which conflict | The Wars of the Roses | 220 14 |
What is a cricket umpire signalling when he raises both arms aloft | A six | 220 15 |
What is a jarrah | A type of eucalyptus tree from Australia | 220 16 |
Which bird features on the coat of arms of the state of Louisiana | Pelican | 221 01 |
What colour is the circle on the Japanese national flag | Red | 221 02 |
Which adjoining country forms Moldova’s western border | Romania | 221 03 |
Who dedicated his 1998 hit ‘Just The Two Of Us’ to his son Tre | Will Smith | 221 04 |
Which king’s appendix caused his coronation to be delayed for six weeks | Edward VII | 221 05 |
Which comedian presided over the Daz Doorstep Challenge | Shane Richie | 221 06 |
What nationality was jockey Scobie Breasley | Australian | 221 07 |
Who was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948-80 | Juliana | 221 08 |
Which singer’s biggest hit, ‘Me And Bobby McGee’, was not released until after her death | Janis Joplin | 221 09 |
Which Gertrude was a noted English landscape gardener | Gertrude Jekyll | 221 10 |
Which novelist died from typhoid two months after drinking a glass of tap water in a Paris hotel to prove that it was safe | Arnold Bennett | 221 11 |
Which insect can live for over a week with its head cut off | Cockroach | 221 12 |
Which writer disappeared following The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie | 221 13 |
Which Football League team had to apologise to their local rivals in September 2001 after calling them ‘Scum’ on an electronic scoreboard | Norwich City (apologised to lpswich Town) | 221 14 |
What is ‘indie’ short for in music | Independent | 221 15 |
In which county is Stowonthe.Wold | Gloucestershire | 221 16 |
Who preceded Lily Savage as host of Blonkety Blank | Les Dawson | 222 01 |
What does the Japanese word ‘shogun’ mean | Leader of the army | 222 02 |
Who took their ‘Abba-Esque’ EP to number one in 1992 | Erasure | 222 03 |
Who were the first winners of the Rugby League Challenge Cup | Batley | 222 04 |
Who composed the opera The Snow Maiden | Rimsky-Korsakov | 222 05 |
In which country was actress Liv Ullmann born | Japan | 222 06 |
What was the name of Tonto’s horse | Scout | 222 07 |
In which century did reindeer become extinct in the wild in the UK | 9th | 222 08 |
To which family of birds does the Iapwing belong | Plover | 222 09 |
Which is the only swimming stroke not started by a dive | Backstroke | 222 10 |
Who starred opposite Claire Danes in the 1996 movie Romeo & Juliet | Leonardo DiCaprio | 222 11 |
Who was the first managing director of the BBC | Lord Reith | 222 12 |
Who was head of communications on the starship Enterprise | Lt Uhura | 222 13 |
Which is the only bird that walks upright | Penguin | 222 14 |
Who did West Germany beat in the semi-finals of the 1966 World Cup | USSR | 222 15 |
What is the Celsius temperature scale otherwise known as | Centigrade | 222 16 |
What was William Frederick Cody’s alter ego? ‘4 | ‘Buffalo Bill | 223 01 |
In which year was the Princess Royal born | 1950 | 223 02 |
In which county might you come face to face with the Long Man of Wilmington | East Sussex | 223 03 |
What are ramekins | Small circular dishes | 223 04 |
What is ECG an abbreviation for | Electrocardiogram | 223 05 |
What was Dr Glover’s first name in Peak Practice | Beth | 223 06 |
The Day of the Jackal was a novel about the attempted assassination of which world leader | President de Gaulle | 223 07 |
Who won cricket’s first World Cup | West Indies | 223 08 |
Whose appointment as Minister for Drought in 1976 coincided with the sudden end to the summer-long heatwave | Denis Howell | 223 09 |
Who refused to accept his Best Actor Oscar for 1972 in protest over the plight of American Indians | MarIon Brando (The God ftither) | 223 10 |
In which city’s cathedral is El Cid buried | Burgos | 223 11 |
What did Cyrano de Bergerac have that was longer than most men’s | Nose | 223 12 |
Viti Levu is the largest of which group of is lands | Fiji | 223 13 |
What is a fouetté | A ballet movement | 223 14 |
Which nation’s post-war constitution was known as the Fourth Republic | France | 223 15 |
Which band backed Geno Washington | The Ram Jam Band | 223 16 |
Which work of art was originally bought by King Francis I of France to hang in his bathroom | Mona Lisa | 224 01 |
Who put in his thumb and pulled out a plum and said ‘what a good boy am I’ | Little Jack Homer | 224 02 |
What fraction of Finland is within the Arctic Circle | One third | 224 03 |
Which actor quit the movie 10 early in filming, enabling Dudley Moore to make his Hollywood breakthrough | George Segal | 224 04 |
In which country is the Ormeli waterfall | Norway | 224 05 |
Which first permanent British settlement in North America was named after the king of the time | Jamestown | 224 06 |
The knesset is which country’s parliament | Israel | 224 07 |
Who was the quack doctor in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin | Doc Morrissey | 224 08 |
Which Ruby was the winning jockey in the 2000 Grand National | Ruby Walsh — | 224 09 |
Who commanded the Bounty | Captain Bligh | 224 10 |
What is the Koh-i-noor | A diamond | 224 11 |
Which singer was known as the ‘Big 0’ | Roy Orbison | 224 12 |
Which magazine was founded by DeWitt Wallace in 1922 | Reader’s Digest | 224 13 |
Which Middlesex and England cricketer was the face of Brylcreem in the early Fifties | Denis Compton | 224 14 |
Which TV cop’s sidekick was Bobby Crocker | Kojak | 224 15 |
Which American state is known as the ‘Tar Heel State’ | North Carolina | 224 16 |
Who did Prince Rainier of Monaco marry in 1956 | Grace Kelly | 225 01 |
In which African country is the port of Mombasa | Kenya | 225 02 |
From which country did Iceland achieve total independence in 1944 | Denmark | 225 03 |
Cerys Matthews is the singer with which band | Catatonia | 225 04 |
Who were the first London club to win the Football League Championship | Arsenal (1931) | 225 05 |
Which is the highest capital city in the world | La Paz | 225 06 |
What duck is a fish | Bombay duck | 225 07 |
Who is Emmerdale’s lesbian vet | Zoe Tate | 225 08 |
Who painted The Blue Boy | Thomas Gainsborough | 225 09 |
Which county cricket team have played at Sophia Gardens | Glamorgan | 225 10 |
In which southern hemisphere country are the Southern Alps | New Zealand | 225 11 |
The daddy-longlegs is the popular name for which insect | Crane fly | 225 12 |
What is the national flower of Wales | Daffodil | 225 13 |
Which Dad’s Army actor was married to Hattie Jacques | John Le Mesurier | 225 14 |
Which fastening product takes its name from ‘velvet’ and ‘crochet’ | Velcro | 225 15 |
As whom is guitarist Dave Evans better known | The Edge | 225 16 |
What is the American name for jam | Jelly | 226 01 |
In 1919, which two cities were linked by the world’s first air service | London and Paris | 226 02 |
In which country is the Great Slave Lake | Canada | 226 03 |
Which Rider was an English novelist | Rider Haggard | 226 04 |
Which Englishman won nine world motorcycling titles between 1961 and 1967 | Mike Hailwood | 226 05 |
In which American city did house music originate | Chicago | 226 06 |
What used to take place in Aries but has now moved into Pisces | Spring equinox | 226 07 |
Armagnac is a type of which spirit | Brandy | 226 08 |
Off which country’s northern coastline is the Gulf of Carpentaria | Australia | 226 09 |
What month of the year shared its name with a TV detective played by Burt Reynolds | August (Don August) | 226 10 |
Which English racecourse is situated on the Roodee | Chester | 226 11 |
Who shot Billy the Kid | Pat Garrett | 226 12 |
What is Suggs’ real name | Graham McPherson | 226 13 |
Which British actor began as Michael Johnson until taking his stage name from a brand of cigarettes | Michael York | 226 14 |
Which band’s 1996 album was ‘ExpectingTo Fly’ | The Bluetones | 226 15 |
Warrior,Trojan and Lightning all featured on which TV contest | Gladiators | 226 16 |
Which horse won a third Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1966 | Arkle | 227 01 |
Who wrote the theme music to Miami Vice | Jan Hammer | 227 02 |
For which movie did Robert de Niro win a Best Actor Oscar in 1980 | Raging Bull | 227 03 |
On which racecourse is the Lincoln run | Doncaster | 227 04 |
Who was Hollywood’s ‘Oomph Girl’ | Ann Sheridan | 227 05 |
Which King of England succeeded Charles II | James II | 227 06 |
Who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams | 227 07 |
Milwaukee, Green Bay and Racine are towns in which American state | Wisconsin | 227 08 |
What is China’s Huang He river otherwise known as in the west | Yellow River | 227 09 |
The Westman Islands are situated off the coast of which country | Iceland | 227 10 |
Who was eating curds and whey when disturbed by an arachnid | Little Miss Muffet | 227 11 |
What was Dr Quinn in the title of her TV series1 | Medicine Woman | 227 12 |
MA is the vehicle index mark for which country | Morocco | 227 13 |
Who had a 1987 UK number one with ‘It’s A Sin’1 | The Pet Shop Boys | 227 14 |
Which amateur soccer team reached the 2001 German Cup final | Union Berlin | 227 15 |
In which village did Miss Marple live | St Mary Mead | 227 16 |
Which country used to be called the Dutch East Indies | Indonesia | 228 01 |
What is a yellowhammer | A bird | 228 02 |
What time was it for James L. Herlihy’s cowboy | Midnight | 228 03 |
How many players are there in a polo team | Four | 228 04 |
What nationality was the painter Jackson Pollock | American | 228 05 |
Who celebrated their 1983 number one with ‘Red Red Wine’ | UB4O | 228 06 |
Which former ‘Rear of the Year’ presents Changing Rooms | Carol Smillie | 228 07 |
Which international band were formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 | R.E.M. | 228 08 |
How old is a nonagenarian | In his or her nineties | 228 09 |
Which brand of furniture polish means ‘piss’ in the Netherlands | Pledge | 228 10 |
Which folk singer wrote ‘Where Have All The Flowers Gone’ and ‘If I Had A Hammer’ | Pete Seeger | 228 11 |
Which are the only cats to live in organised social groups | Lions | 228 12 |
From which country does the drink Ouzo come | Greece | 228 13 |
Which errant schoolgirls were created by Ronald Searle | St Trinian’s | 228 14 |
In Roman mythology, who was the goddess of fruit trees | Pomona | 228 15 |
Which TV policeman/restaurateur was played by Richard Griffiths in Pie in the Sky | Henry Crabbe | 228 16 |
Which channel of water lies between Fishguard and Wexford | St George’s Channel | 229 01 |
Which boxer was known as ‘The Brockton Blockbuster’ | Rocky Marciano | 229 02 |
Which singer’s first hit was ‘Nothing Rhymed’ | Gilbert O’Sullivan | 229 03 |
Zucchini are more commonly known as which vegetables | Courgettes | 229 04 |
Which war was started in Morocco in july 1936 | Spanish Civil War | 229 05 |
In which year were the Commonwealth Games held in Wales | 1958 | 229 06 |
What can be a punctuation mark or a type of butterfly | Comma | 229 07 |
Which TV family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane | The Munsters | 229 08 |
Which gas makes up 95 per cent of the atmosphere on Mars | Carbon dioxide | 229 09 |
Michaelmas daisy is a member of which species of plants | Aster | 229 10 |
WhichAmerican tennis player won the ladies’ singles at Wimbledon in 1999 | Lindsay Davenport | 229 11 |
Which movie star was a former Miss Deepfreeze of 1953 | Kim Novak | 229 12 |
Who played piano on The Hollies’ ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’ | Elton John | 229 13 |
Which was Leonard Rossiter’s last sitcom | Tripper’s Day | 229 14 |
Which product confusingly used to be called Durex in Australia | Scotch tape | 229 15 |
Which English king kept the hundreds of clocks at Sandringham 30 minutes fast so that he would never be late for an appointment | George V | 229 16 |
Over a quarter of the world’s forests are in which region of Russia | Slberia | 230 01 |
Which Irishman was World Snooker Champion in 1997 | Ken Doherty | 230 02 |
Who made a Big Impression onTV in 2001 | Alistair McGowan | 230 03 |
What name is given to the day before the start of Lent | Shrove Tuesday | 230 04 |
Which Hampshire town provides a ferry link to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight | Lymingtofl | 230 05 |
Who was the Roman goddess of agriculture | Ceres | 230 06 |
Buster Bloodvessel was the larger-than-life singer with which group | Bad Manners | 230 07 |
What was the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 known as | The Six Day War | 230 08 |
Which darts player was nicknamed the ‘Crafty Cockney’ | Eric Bristow | 230 09 |
Who had a 1997 number one with ‘Don’t Speak’ | No Doubt | 230 10 |
Which American President did Gore Vidal describe as ‘a triumph of the embalmer’s art’ | Ronald Reagan | 230 11 |
What is clinophobia | A fear of going to bed | 230 12 |
Which comedian is known as the ‘BigYin’ | Billy Connolly | 230 13 |
Which London Underground station was called Gillespie Road until its name was changed to reflect the nearby football club | Arsenal | 230 14 |
The footballers of Servette defeated Yverdon in which country’s 2001 cup final | Switzerland | 230 15 |
What is the skin disorder urticaria more commonly called | Nettle rash | 230 16 |
Which 1979 craze was the invention of a Hungarian lecturer in architectural design | Rubik’s Cube | 231 01 |
Which singer was ‘Running Up That Hill’ in 1985 | Kate Bush | 231 02 |
What is a phalanger | A marsupial | 231 03 |
How many sides does a snowflake have | Six | 231 04 |
What nationality is the golfer Bernhard Langer | German | 231 05 |
What did Bizzy Lizzy touch to make her dreams come true | The wishing flower on her dress | 231 06 |
In which country is Mount Ararat | Turkey | 231 07 |
Who built the suspension bridge connecting Anglesey to the Welsh mainland | Thomas Telford | 231 08 |
What is the capital of the Alsace region of France | Strasbourg | 231 09 |
In musical terms, what does ‘allegro’ mean | ‘Merry or lively | 231 10 |
Which Derbyshire town hosts an annual Shrovetide football game | Ashbourne | 231 11 |
What creatures live in an apiary | Bees | 231 12 |
What colour is calamine powder | Pink | 231 13 |
Alvin, Simon and Theodore are the names of which singing trio | The Chipmunks | 231 14 |
Which former England international footballer — famous for a missed penalty — used to work in a factory making the seasoning for sausages | Chris Waddle | 231 15 |
In which county is Middlesbrough | Cleveland | 231 16 |
Which singer decided ‘Heaven Is A Place On Earth’ | Belinda Carlisle | 232 01 |
In which year did Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing climb to the summit of Mount Everest | 1953 | 232 02 |
Which British athlete won gold in the 3,000 metres steeplechase at the 1956 Olympics | Chris Brasher | 232 03 |
Which Cold Feet actor starred as an undercover cop in 2001 in the BBC film Murphy’s Law | James Nesbitt | 232 04 |
Which former Italian Prime Minister was murdered in 1978 | Aldo Moro | 232 05 |
Which country was the first to take the America’s Cup for yachting outside the United States | Australia | 232 06 |
Agatha Christie’s novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduced which character | Hercule Poirot | 232 07 |
In which country is Flushing | The Netherlands | 232 08 |
Line back and quarterback are positions in which game | American football | 232 09 |
What was Sally Webster’s maiden name in Coronation Street | Seddon | 232 10 |
Which artist worked as a labourer on the building of the Panama Canal | Paul Gauguin | 232 11 |
Which Indie band used to be called On A Friday | Radiohead | 232 12 |
What was the name of The Cisco Kid’s horse | Diablo | 232 13 |
Which singer turned down the chance to play a waiter in an episode of Miami Vice | George Michael | 232 14 |
Which artist sold just one painting in his lifetime — Red Vineyard at Aries | Vincent van 3ogh | 232 15 |
Which Geordie actor has the middle name Golightly | Robson Green | 232 16 |
Which two countries fought the War of Jenkins’ Ear | Britain and Spain | 233 01 |
Who was Dr David Banner transformed into | The Incredible Hulk | 233 02 |
What colour is a giraffe’s tongue | Blue | 233 03 |
Transylvania is a part of which country | Romaiia | 233 04 |
Which band had ‘A Glass Of Champagne’ in 1975 | Sailor | 233 05 |
Which UK entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest said afterwards that he would rather stick needles in his eyes than compete again | Michael Ball | 233 06 |
Which landlord of the Queen Vic was murdered in 1991 | Eddie Royle | 233 07 |
What is the largest island in Europe | Britain | 233 08 |
Which group of London writers and artists included Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey | The Bloomsbury Group | 233 09 |
Which Frenchman crossed the Niagara Falls on a tightrope in 1859 | Charles Blondin | 233 10 |
In which country are the Blue Mountains | Australia | 233 11 |
What was the fighting name of German aviator Manfred von Richthofen | ‘The Red Baron | 233 12 |
Who wrote The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | 233 13 |
What colour is the Circle Line on a London Underground map | Yellow | 233 14 |
In which month is the Indianapolis 500 motor race run each year | May | 233 15 |
What mathematical aids were invented by John Napier | Logarithms | 233 16 |
What is the state capital of Rhode Island | Providence | 234 01 |
In which nation’s currency do 100 sents make a kroon | Estonia | 234 02 |
Which Cockney actor who thought it was good to talk was actually born in rural Bury St Edmunds | Bob Hoskins | 234 03 |
Into which sea does the Mississippi flow | Gulf of Mexico | 234 04 |
Who was the lead singer with Ultravox | Midge Ure | 234 05 |
Which is the largest bird of prey in the world | Andean condor | 234 06 |
What was the name of Sherlock Holmes’ housekeeper | Mrs Hudson | 234 07 |
What nationality is golfer Steve Elkington | Australian | 234 08 |
In the geological time scale, which period preceded the Jurassic | Triassic | 234 09 |
Which country owns Madeira | Portugal | 234 10 |
Who were Georgie Fame’s backing band | The Blue Flames | 234 11 |
Which nation’s flag consists of a gold star on a red background | Vietnam | 234 12 |
Dodoma is the capital of which African country | Tanzania | 234 13 |
Which Hollywood actress was known as ‘The Blonde Bombshell’ | Betty Hutton | 234 14 |
Which Football League club plays at Priestfield Stadium | Gillingham | 234 15 |
Which is further north — Paris, Stuttgart or Prague | Prague | 234 16 |
At what score does a tie-break come into force in tennis | 6-6 | 235 01 |
Who went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat | The owl and the pussycat | 235 02 |
Which Football League club were once called the Black Arabs | Bristol Rovers | 235 03 |
Which legend of Victorian London was famed for his ability to breathe fire and jump great heights | Spring- Heeled Jack | 235 04 |
Who was the Welsh housemate in This Life | Warren | 235 05 |
Which boy’s name means ‘fond of horses | Philip | 235 06 |
What connects the Roman Apicius and Delia Smith | Apicius published the first known volume of recipes, in AD 62 | 235 07 |
Which Cluedo suspect is known as DonaVioleta in Brazil | Mrs Peacock | 235 08 |
The name of which eastern city means ‘muddy estuary’ | K.uala Lumpur | 235 09 |
Which band backed Desmond Dekker | The Aces | 235 10 |
Who won a Best Actress Academy Award in 1993 for her role in The Piano | Holly Hunter | 235 11 |
Which comedy duo starred on TV in The Picnic | The Two Ronnies | 235 12 |
Which novel by Gustave Flaubert caused a stir over its tale of a country doctor’s wife being driven to suicide by a string of affairs | Madame Bovary | 235 13 |
Michael Manley was Prime Minister of which Caribbean country | Jamaica | 235 14 |
Whose 1999 album was titled ‘Talk On Corners’ | The Corrs | 235 15 |
What is a mangabey | A monkey | 235 16 |
Which daughter of a former Blue Peter presenter sang on a number one hit in 2000 | Sophie Ellis-Bextor (daughter of Janet Ellis) | 236 01 |
In Greek mythology, which beautiful youth was the favourite of the goddess Aphrodite | Adonis | 236 02 |
Which cord connects a foetus to the placenta | Umbilical cord | 236 03 |
What colour is the lignite Jet | Black | 236 04 |
Which TV inquisitor described herself as an ‘ageing ex-drunk with bad ankles’ | Anne Robinson | 236 05 |
How many world championship points are awarded to the driver who comes second in a Formula One Grand Prix | Six | 236 06 |
Where on your body might you wear puttees | On your legs | 236 07 |
Which Spice Girl teamed up with Truesteppers and Dane Bowers for the 2000 single ‘Out Of Your Mind’ | Victoria Beckham | 236 08 |
Who was known as ‘The Virgin Queen’ | Elizabeth 1 | 236 09 |
What is the cube of four | 64 | 236 10 |
Who wrote the fantasy novel The Colour of Magic | Terry Pratchett | 236 11 |
Which English actor played law firm boss Ed Masry in the movie Erin Brockovich | Albert Finney | 236 12 |
The US city of Cleveland is on the shores of which Great Lake | Lake Erie | 236 13 |
Which two colours feature in the Spanish national flag | Red and yellow | 236 14 |
In which sport did teams contest the Regal Trophy between 1971 and | Rugby League | 236 15 |
The Amazon flows into the sea in which country | Brazil | 236 16 |
What colour is given to the name of the room at a studios where actors rest | Green | 237 01 |
Who was the first Tory Prime Minister of Britain | Earl of Bute | 237 02 |
What is a native of Manchester called | Mancunian | 237 03 |
Bernadotte is the family name of which country’s royal | Sweden | 237 04 |
Where would you find a Bezier curve | On a graph | 237 05 |
Which Football League manager parted company with his club in September 2001 after nearly 12 years in charge | Brian Flynn (Wrexham) | 237 06 |
Which Pakistan premier was the first female leader of a Muslim state | Benazir Bhutto | 237 07 |
What does BFI stand for | British Film Institute | 237 08 |
The dace is a member of which family of freshwater fish | Carp | 237 09 |
Which sports presenter was the subject of an expensive transfer from BBC to ITV in 1999 | Des Lynam | 237 10 |
‘Peaches’ was the first UK top ten hit for which punk rockers | The Stranglers | 237 11 |
Which Jonathan Kaplan film earned Jodie Foster an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1988 | The Accused | 237 12 |
In which city do visitors land at Marco Polo airport | Venice | 237 13 |
Which countries form the Iberian Peninsula | Spain and Portugal | 237 14 |
Which Brookside character was gunned down by Ron Dixon in 2001 | Clint Moffat | 237 15 |
Who romanced Renee Zellweger in the film Jerry Maguire | Tom Cruise | 237 16 |
Which singer’s baby son could be heard on her 2001 album | Victoria Beckham (Brooklyn) | 238 01 |
In Greek mythology, who plunged to his death after flying too close to the Sun | Icarus | 238 02 |
Who was ‘Makin’ Whoopee’ in The Fabulous Baker Bays | Michelle Pfeiffer | 238 03 |
In which continent is the Weddell Sea | Antarctica | 238 04 |
The town of Newcastle is in which Australian state | New South Wales | 238 05 |
Before 2001, when was the last time that Fulbam’s footballers were in the top division | 1968 | 238 06 |
In which county is Bracknell | Berkshire | 238 07 |
Which outdoor game is played on a grass area known as a rink | Bowls | 238 08 |
What was the name of the priest played by Stephen Tompkinson in Ballykissan gel | Father Peter Clifford | 238 09 |
Who was the first professional footballer to score 100 goals in both Scotland and England | Kenny Dalglish | 238 10 |
After how many games in a lawn tennis match are the players given new balls | Seven | 238 11 |
Which plant’s leaves cure nettle stings | Dock | 238 12 |
Which TV chief said of his forthcoming production Moses the Lawgiver ‘It looks good in the rushes’ | Lord Grade | 238 13 |
What do you suffer from if you have diplopia | Double vision | 238 14 |
What title was Edward VIII given following his abdication | Duke of Windsor | 238 15 |
Which novelist revived the term ‘Wessex’ to describe the south-west counties of England | Thomas Hardy | 238 16 |
In which year was Wembley Stadium first opened | 1923 | 239 01 |
Who played the troubled playwright in the 1997 biopic of Oscar Wilde | Stephen Fry | 239 02 |
How many times has Steve Davis been World Snooker Champion | Six | 239 03 |
The death cap is the most poisonous type of what | Mushroom | 239 04 |
Whose first UK hit was ‘Encore Une Fois’ in 1997 | Sash! | 239 05 |
Leighton Rees and Bobby George are practitioners of which sport | Darts | 239 06 |
Helvetia is another name for which country | Switzerland | 239 07 |
Slash is the guitarist with which heavy rock band | Guns N’ Roses | 239 08 |
Which plant’s proper name is belladonna | Deadly nightshade | 239 09 |
Which Nazi was executed after being tried in Israel in 1961 for war crimes | Adolf Eichmann | 239 10 |
Eric the Red is said to have been the first European to discover which land | Greenland | 239 11 |
Which daughter of a famous footballer has been a weather forecaster for the BBC | Suzanne Charlton | 239 12 |
Which international language was devised by Ludwig L. Zamenhof | Esperanto | 239 13 |
What musical medium is 400 in Roman numerals | CD | 239 14 |
In which English city is the district of Byker | Newcastieu pon-Tyne | 239 15 |
What is the capital of Armenia | Yerevan | 239 16 |
In cookery what is cayenne | Pepper | 240 01 |
In which American state is the town of Cedar Rapids | Iowa | 240 02 |
Which English king’s lover was Piers Gaveston | Edward II | 240 03 |
What is an epigram | A short, witty saying | 240 04 |
Which 1998 film about a shy girl who can sing like her showbiz idols starred Jane Horrocks and Michael Caine | Little Voice | 240 05 |
At which sport do England and Scotland compete for the Calcutta Cup | Rugby union | 240 06 |
Which is the world’s oldest football knockout competition | FA Cup | 240 07 |
In which year did Abba reach number one in the UK with ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’ | 1977 | 240 08 |
Where in the world has the busiest roads | Hong Kong | 240 09 |
Which country lies immediately to the south of Belarus | Ukraine | 240 10 |
Which TV magician gave Basil Brush his big break | David Nixon | 240 11 |
Which Argentinian cruiser was controversially sunk by British forces during the Falkiands conflict with the loss of nearly 400 men | General Belgrano | 240 12 |
In May 1982, what happened in Britain for the first time for 450 years | The Pope visited Britain | 240 13 |
Which former dress-wearing member of Mud has co-written number one hits for Spiller and Kylie Minogue | Rob Davis | 240 14 |
Which bird is noted for its boom | Bittern | 240 15 |
In France, what would you buy from a boulangerie | Cakes or bread | 240 16 |
Whose short story The Birds was made into a Hitchcock thriller | Daphne du Maurier | 241 01 |
Which Shakespeare play begins: ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’ | Richard III | 241 02 |
What is a horsetail | A plant | 241 03 |
In the Old Testament, which daughter of the King of Sidon married King Ahab of Israel | Jezebel | 241 04 |
Which boy band had the first new UK number one single of the I 990s | New Kids on the Block | 241 05 |
Zealand, Fyn, Lolland, Faister and Bornholm are the principal islands of which country | Denmark | 241 06 |
Which American city has hit by an earthquake in 1994, killing 61 people | Los Angeles | 241 07 |
Who starred with Tom Cruise in the 1983 comedy Risky Business | Rebecca De Mornay | 241 08 |
On a golf course, what is the name of the close-cut grass around the edge of the green | Apron | 241 09 |
Which decade in the USA is commonly referred to as the Jazz Age | I 920s | 241 10 |
Which popular grey horse won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1989 | Desert Orchid | 241 11 |
What is the term for the sensation that something encountered for the first time has actually been seen before | Déjà vu | 241 12 |
Which boxer succeeded Henry Cooper as British heavyweight champion | Joe Bugner | 241 13 |
What three colours appear on the flag of Bulgaria | White, green and red | 241 14 |
Which country has the busiest rail network in the world | Japan | 241 15 |
What did Lovejoy deal in | Antiques | 241 16 |
Who played London crime lord Harold Shand in The Long Good Friday | Bob Hoskins | 242 01 |
The Man of Property was the first part of which series of novels | The Forsyte Saga | 242 02 |
In which year did Bros reach number one with ‘I Owe You Nothing’ | 1988 | 242 03 |
Where is the only place in the world that you can see the sun rise over the Pacific and set over the Atlantic | Panama Canal | 242 04 |
Estoril is the venue of which Formula One Grand Prix | Portuguese | 242 05 |
Neil Hannon took his band name from which epic poem by Dante Alighieri | ’The Divine Comedy | 242 06 |
For which football club did Roy Race play for many years | Melchester Rovers | 242 07 |
Who committed the murders on which the film 10 Rillingtan Place was based | John Reginald Christie | 242 08 |
What breed of dog was Beethoven in the film of the same name | St Bernard | 242 09 |
Which country’s national dish is puffin stuffed with rhubarb | The Faeroe Islands | 242 10 |
The Porcupine river is in which continent | North America | 242 11 |
On which island is the town of Cagliari | Sardinia | 242 12 |
Who did Liverpool defeat in the 2001 FA Cup Final | Arsenal | 242 13 |
Which game starts with a bully | Field hockey | 242 14 |
What was Ernie’s occupation in the Benny Hill number one hit | Milkman | 242 15 |
Who returned to EastEnders as co-owner of the Queen Vic in 2001 | Sharon Watts | 242 16 |
Coimbra and Setubal are towns in which European country | Portugal | 243 01 |
In which month of the year is the St Leger run | September | 243 02 |
Kingston is the capital of which island | Jamaica | 243 03 |
Which former footballer played Big Chris in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Vinnie Jones | 243 04 |
In which English county is Crewe | Cheshire | 243 05 |
What is a twitcher | Birdwatcher | 243 06 |
Who plays Rachel in Cold Feet | Helen Baxendale | 243 07 |
What is the Flemish name for Bruges | Brugge | 243 08 |
In which Canadian province is Calgary | Alberta | 243 09 |
Which French motor company was bought by Peugeot in 1974 | Citroën | 243 10 |
Who was arrested in the cellar beneath the Houses of Parliament on 4 November 1605 | Guy Fawkes | 243 11 |
A ribbon, ball or hoop are accessories in which sporting floor exercise | Rhythmic gymnastics | 243 12 |
How many wheels does a hansom cab have | Two | 243 13 |
Where is Arthur’s Seat | Edinburgh | 243 14 |
Who was British Prime Minister at the outbreak of the First World War | Herbert Asquith | 243 15 |
Whose debut solo album was titled ‘Faith’ | George Michael | 243 16 |
Which Second Division football club paid £1.7 million for Stoke City striker Peter Thorne in 2001 | Cardiff City | 244 01 |
Which TV series featured a computer-generated dancing baby named Mr Huggy | Ally McBeaI | 244 02 |
On which river does the Argentine city of Corrientes stand | Parana | 244 03 |
Which island is situated due north of Sardinia | Corsica | 244 04 |
What sport takes place at the Daytona circuit in the USA | Motor-racing | 244 05 |
Paul Keating was Prime Minister of which country from 1991-6 | Australia | 244 06 |
Which bird had a UK number one hit in 1972 | Lieutenant Pigeon | 244 07 |
Which was the first frozen food to go on sale in Britain | Asparagus | 244 08 |
Which prototype took 12 minutes to boil | The electric kettle | 244 09 |
What can be a colourful crow or a decorating tool | Roller | 244 10 |
A scene showing which naked area of Sylvia Sidney’s body when she embraced Cary Grant was cut by the Japanese from the 1932 movie Madame Butterfly | Her left elbow | 244 11 |
Which actor was born Coy Luther Perry Ill but chose his stage name from his favourite movie, Cool Hand Luke | Luke Perry | 244 12 |
Which venomous snake is thought to be responsible for more human deaths than any other | Carpet viper | 244 13 |
Which world championships take place each year at the Corner Pin public house at Ramsbottom near Manchester | The World Black Pudding Knocking Championships | 244 14 |
How manr derees are there in a circle | 360 | 244 15 |
What nationality was the composer Delius | English | 244 16 |
The town of Llanberis is at the foot of which mountain | Snowdon | 245 01 |
In This Sporting Life, Richard Harris played a miner convinced that his future lay in which sport | Rugby League | 245 02 |
What is the opposite of an anode | Cathode | 245 03 |
Cauliflower is a variety of which vegetable | Cabbage | 245 04 |
Which wild Northumberland family were distinguishable by the grey streak in their hair | The Mollens | 245 05 |
What is the capital of Brazil | Brasilia | 245 06 |
Which progressive rock band released the albums ‘Fragile’ and ‘Close To The Edge’ | Yes | 245 07 |
As what is sodium hydroxide otherwise known | Caustic soda | 245 08 |
In which American state is Sacramento | California | 245 09 |
Which TV show features ‘Dictionary Corner’ | Countdown | 245 10 |
Which French engineer was responsible for the construction of the Suez Canal | Ferdinand de Lesseps | 245 11 |
Former Olympic marathon champion Abebe Bikila represented which country | Ethiopia | 245 12 |
In 1997, which band appealed ‘HelpThe Aged’ | Pulp | 245 13 |
Which Hollywood star changed his name from John Carter | Charlton Heston | 245 14 |
Which Argentine golfer lost out on the 1968 US Masters after his playing partner accidentally put down the wrong score for a hole | Roberto DeVicenzo | 245 15 |
Which card game was first played among members of the Indian Civil Service around 1900 | Bridge | 245 16 |
What was remarkable about the team fielded by Accrington Stanley for a 1955 Football League match | It was composed entirely of Scois | 246 01 |
What is bougainvillea | A tropical vine | 246 02 |
Who was Dr Samuel Johnson’s biographer | James Boswell | 246 03 |
What was Richard Ill’s title before he became king | Duke of Gloucester | 246 04 |
What is a booby | A seabird | 246 05 |
What wouldn’t come back for Charlie Drake | His boomerang | 246 06 |
John Deacon and Roger Taylor were members of which band | Queen | 246 07 |
Which fruit is named after an American judge who crossed a wild blackberry with a cultivated raspberry | Loganberry | 246 08 |
What is Chris Bonington’s favourite pursuit | Mountaineering | 246 09 |
Who was berserker | A fearless Viking warrior | 246 10 |
At which battle was Davy Crockett killed | The Alamo | 246 11 |
Who wrote the Iliad | Homer | 246 12 |
Which former Conservative minister was jailed for 18 months in 1999 for perjury and perverting the course of justice | Jonathan Aitken | 246 13 |
Which Briton won gold at the 1964 Olympics in the 20km walk | Ken Matthews | 246 14 |
Who starred in the film of The Elephant Man | John Hurt | 246 15 |
Which sitcom starred John Thaw as Henry Willows | Home to Roost | 246 16 |
Which station stands at the northern end of London Underground’s Piccadilly Line | Cockfosters | 247 01 |
The 1999 movie 10 Things I Hate About You was an update of which Shakespeare play | The Taming of the Shrew | 247 02 |
For which country does Brian Lara play Test cricket | West Indies | 247 03 |
Which record producer shot himself dead on 3 February 1967, the anniversary of the death of his hero, Buddy Holly | Joe Meek | 247 04 |
Which Scottish football club used to be known as Excelsior FC | Airdrie | 247 05 |
Which TV detective was confined to a wheelchair | Chief RobertT. Ironside | 247 06 |
What two colours feature on the Greek national flag | Blue and white | 247 07 |
Which country is the most popular destination with foreign tourists | France | 247 08 |
In which country is Mount Everest | Nepal | 247 09 |
What is the Christian name of the singer Roachford | Andrew | 247 10 |
In which game would you use a ‘spider’ | Snooker | 247 11 |
The River Tamar flows into the sea at which port | Plymouth | 247 12 |
At what sport was Babe Ruth a national hero | Baseball | 247 13 |
Aalborg is a port in which country | Denmark | 247 14 |
Bartholomew and Wiseman became better known as which duo | Morecambe and Wise | 247 15 |
What is the largest town in Alaska | Anchorage | 247 16 |
A quarter of the bones in the human body are located in which area | Feet | 248 01 |
Who is Steve Coogan’s Portuguese crooner | Tony Ferrino | 248 02 |
Who wrote Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine | Willy Russell | 248 03 |
What is a cotoneaster | A shrub | 248 04 |
Blondel was a minstrel friend of which English king | Richard I | 248 05 |
Which English city did the Romans call Venta Bulgarum | Winchester | 248 06 |
How many dogs take part in a greyhound race | Six | 248 07 |
A man with what appendage was hired in 1911 to assure passengers that the new escalators on the London Underground were safe to use | A wooden leg | 248 08 |
Which English monarch reputedly shook hands with the branches of an oak tree in the belief that it was the King of Prussia | George III | 248 09 |
What is pogonophobia | Fear of beards | 248 10 |
Which US state is nicknamed the ‘Bear State’ | Arkansas | 248 11 |
Who were the first father and daughter to sing together on a UK number one | Frank and Nancy Sinatra | 248 12 |
Which war was the backdrop for Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 movie Full Metal Jacket | Vietnam War | 248 13 |
In music, how many quavers equal a crotchet | Two | 248 14 |
In which sport do some participants wear sheepskin nosebands | Horse racing | 248 15 |
Who has featured in Fawlty Towers and adverts for Tesco | Prunella Scales | 248 16 |
Which member of Emerson, Lake and Palmer went solo for a 1975 Christmas hit | Greg Lake | 249 01 |
What was the pseudonym of playwright Jean-Baptiste Poquelin | Moliere | 249 02 |
In Brookside, who married Emily Shadwick in 2001 | Timothy O’Leary | 249 03 |
Which Bulgarian was named European Footballer of the Year in 1994 | Hristo Stoichkov | 249 04 |
In which country is Belo Horizonte | Brazil | 249 05 |
Which country’s flag features a white crescent and star on a red background | Turkey | 249 06 |
Which is the first classic horse race of the British flat season | One Thousand Guineas | 249 07 |
Which animal produces 200 times more wind per day than the average human | Cow | 249 08 |
Which city’s branch of Alcoholics Anonymous boasted just two members when it started up in 1948 | Luxembourg | 249 09 |
What followed Mary to school one day | Her little lamb | 249 10 |
As whom was Julius Marx better known | Groucho Marx | 249 11 |
What mark indicates that a product has been approved by the British Standards Institute | Kite mark | 249 12 |
What nationality was suspected spy Mata Han | Dutch | 249 13 |
Ulan Bator is the capital of which country | Mongolia | 249 14 |
Which US President issued a detailed foreign policy doctrine in 1823 | James Monroe | 249 15 |
Who had a hit with the theme song from Friends | The Rembrandts | 249 16 |
What book was Mark Chapman carrying when he shot John Lennon | The Catcher in the Rye | 250 01 |
What colour Smartie replaced the light brown in 1989 | Blue | 250 02 |
Which female icon didn’t own a bath until 1972 | Sindy | 250 03 |
What was the job of Cheers regular Cliff Clavin | Postman | 250 04 |
Through which part of their bodies do butterflies taste | Feet | 250 05 |
What nationality was tennis player llie Nastase | Romanian | 250 06 |
What type of creature is a clam | Mollusc | 250 07 |
Nefertiti was queen of which country in the 14th century BC | Egypt | 250 08 |
Which male TV presenter’s middle name is Primrose | Bob Wilson | 250 09 |
In which make of car did Alain Prost achieve his first Grand Prix win | Renault | 250 10 |
Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing and Jeremy Brett have all played which character | Sherlock Holmes | 250 11 |
Which religion was originally based on the ideas of Marcus Garvey | Rastafarianism | 250 12 |
Which English king was the son of Edward, the Black Prince | Richard 2 | 250 13 |
Which American singer had his first UK hit for 23 years in 1999 | Andy Williams | 250 14 |
Which TV cowboy had his horse Trigger stuffed and mounted after it died | Roy Rogers | 250 15 |
What animal is Andre in the 1994 film of that name | Sea lion | 250 16 |
Who was Britain’s first Christian martyr | St Alban | 251 01 |
In Greek mythology, who rescued and married Andromeda | Perseus | 251 02 |
What nationality is the distance runner Said Aouita | Moroccan | 251 03 |
Which Hollywood actress was known as ‘The Mexican Spitfire’ | Lupe Velez | 251 04 |
Which innovation was originally called the ‘drunkometer’ | Breathalyser | 251 05 |
In ‘Allo ‘Allo, who painted The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies | Van Clomp | 251 06 |
What is the state capital of Texas | Austin | 251 07 |
Which country has a toe and a heel | Italy | 251 08 |
Heading due south along the meridian from Greenwich, what is the first town of any note outside Greater London | East Grinstead | 251 09 |
Cheddar Gorge cuts a swathe through which hills | The Mendips | 251 10 |
Which Football League club used to play at Plough Lane | Wimbledon | 251 11 |
If something is ‘caprine’, it is like which animal | Goat | 251 12 |
What is the difference between libel and slander | Libel is written defamation, slander is spoken | 251 13 |
In which year did Tom Jones reach number one with ‘It’s Not Unusual’ | 1965 | 251 14 |
In which city is the Holland road tunnel | NewYork | 251 15 |
Fiorentina are a football team from which city | Florence | 251 16 |
Who hit The Big Time after changing her name from Shirley Orr | Sheena Easton | 252 01 |
Which planet was first located in 1930 | Pluto | 252 02 |
Jacob’s Creek is a brand name of wine from which country | Australia | 252 03 |
Which university did Prince William enrol at in 2001 | St Andrews | 252 04 |
What is a satsuma | A fruit | 252 05 |
Who won the Mr Universe contest in 1969 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | 252 06 |
Which church was founded in 1955 by L. Ron Hubbard | Church of Scientology | 252 07 |
Which sport has periods of play called chukkas | Polo | 252 08 |
The Tokens and Tight Fit both had hits with which tribal song | ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight | 252 09 |
In which fictitious village is the TV series Peak Practice set | Cardale | 252 10 |
Of which fellow actor did Helena Bonham Carter say: ‘His mouth is a no-go area. It’s like kissing the Berlin Wall’ | Woody Allen | 252 11 |
Which is further east, Crete or Cyprus | Cyprus | 252 12 |
The town of Cairns is in which Australian state | Queensland | 252 13 |
Where did Twizzle live | Stray Town | 252 14 |
Which group of birds collect in a charm | Goldfinches | 252 15 |
Whose album was titled ‘I’ve Been Expecting You’ | Robbie Williams | 252 16 |
The Lancet is the journal of which profession? * | Medical | 253 01 |
An appearance in which TV soap was the prize awaiting the winners in Soapstars | Emmerdale | 253 02 |
At the 1984 Olympics which athlete took gold in the 100 and 200 metres, the long jump and the sprint relay | Carl Lewis | 253 03 |
In which English city is the Walker Art Gallery | Liverpool | 253 04 |
Which disco diva had a 1977 number one with ‘I Feel Love’ | Donna Summer | 253 05 |
Who wrote Watership Down | Richard Adams | 253 06 |
The Cambrian mountains are a range in which country | Wales | 253 07 |
In which sport is a drive prone to a shank or a slice | Golf | 253 08 |
Which city stages an annual Goose Fair | Nottingham | 253 09 |
What do Sandra Bullock, Bill Cosby and Bruce Willis have in common | All used to work as bartenders | 253 10 |
Which singer’s 2001 album was titled ‘No Angel’ | Dido | 253 11 |
In which continent is Eritrea | Africa | 253 12 |
Which American state is immediately south of South Dakota | Nebraska | 253 13 |
What are the administrative districts in France called | Cantons | 253 14 |
Rockhopper and jackass are species of which bird | Penguin | 253 15 |
What is a saluki | A breed of dog | 253 16 |
Spithead is a safe anchorage between the coast of England and which island | Isle of Wight | 254 01 |
What can be a pick-me-up or the key note of music scale | Tonic | 254 02 |
In which sport would you use an Eskimo roll | Canoeing | 254 03 |
Which two artists had UK top ten hits with songs titled ‘Bang Bang’ | Cher and B.A. Robertson | 254 04 |
Which diminutive actor was nicknamed the ‘Sex Thimble’ | Dudley Moore | 254 05 |
Which is the lowest rank of the British peerage | Baron | 254 06 |
Which island off Dorset is one of the last British refuges of the red squirrel | Brownsea Island | 254 07 |
Who was Tweety Pie’s arch enemy | Sylvester | 254 08 |
Who met his death by being impaled on one of his own javelins in The Grimleys | Doug Digby | 254 09 |
The Jerusalem artichoke is a native of which continent | North America | 254 10 |
How many times more sensitive are dogs’ noses than humans’ | 20 | 254 11 |
Which is the highest mountain in Australia | Mount Kosciusko | 254 12 |
Who wrote The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark | 254 13 |
Who keeps order in the House of Commons | The Speaker | 254 14 |
Which club won the FA Cup in 1997 and 2000 | Chelsea | 254 15 |
Which capital city is nearest to the Equator | Quito (Ecuador) | 254 16 |
Who was the only English pope | Nicholas Breakspear (Adrian IV) | 255 01 |
Which singer was sent to prison in 1998 after getting an impostor to do his community service | Mark Morrison | 255 02 |
What sort of animal was the star of My Friend Flicka | Horse | 255 03 |
Which Latin phrase literally means ‘from favour’ | Ex gratia | 255 04 |
Which sequel to Porridge saw Fletcher released from prison | Going Straight | 255 05 |
Bombay is on which coast of India | West | 255 06 |
Which West German swimmer won four gold medals at the 976 Olympics | Kornelia Ender | 255 07 |
What is an erg | Unit of work | 255 08 |
Which Australian Prime Minister was nicknamed ‘The Prefect’ | Malcolm Fraser | 255 09 |
What can be black-headed, herring or common | Gulls | 255 10 |
On which river does the city of Indianapolis stand | White River | 255 11 |
Who kissed the girls and made them cry | Georgy Porgy | 255 12 |
Who created The X Files | Chris Carter | 255 13 |
What is the name of the white ball in bowls | Jack | 255 14 |
Who directed Interview with the Vampire and Michael Collins | Neil Jordan | 255 15 |
Who is TV’s ‘Naked Chef’ | Jamie Oliver | 255 16 |
On which island of New Zealand is Wellington | North Island | 256 01 |
Which Swedish footballer won the Golden Shoe for 2001 after scoring 35 goals in Scotland | Henrik Larsson | 256 02 |
On which river does Rome stand | Tiber | 256 03 |
Who was the Maid of Orleans1 | Joan of Arc | 256 04 |
What was the Christian name of the 18th century satirical poet Pope | Alexander | 256 05 |
What was AlfWight’s pen name as an author | James Herriot | 256 06 |
Which colony reverted to Chinese control in 1997 | Hong Kong | 256 07 |
Which group backed Gladys Knight | The Pips | 256 08 |
Who failed to heed the warning: ‘Beware the Ides of March’ | Julius Caesar | 256 09 |
What happens when you cross the International Date Line going east | The date is put back a day | 256 10 |
Where do the lnuit people live | In northern Canada and the Arctic | 256 11 |
In what car did Michael Schumacher win the World Drivers’ Championship in 1994 and 1995 | Benetton | 256 12 |
In which countries is the Gobi Desert | Mongolia and China | 256 13 |
Whose debut solo album was the 1997 release ‘Open Road’ | Gary Barlow | 256 14 |
Which TV series was inspired by the Clint Eastwood movie Coogan’s Bluff | McCloud | 256 15 |
As what was Jacobite leader James Edward Stuart popularly known | ‘The Old Pretender | 256 16 |
Which two cities in Japan are anagrams of each other | Tokyo and Kyoto | 257 01 |
From what figure does a championship game of darts start | 501 | 257 02 |
Which island in the western Pacific is the world’s smallest republic | Nauru | 257 03 |
On which Sixties TV series were Edward G. Robinson, George Raft and Sammy Davis mr all seen peering from windows | Batman | 257 04 |
In 2001, it was announced that Liverpool airport would be renamed in honour of whom | John Lennon | 257 05 |
Which future Coronation Street star appeared in Carry On Cabbie | Amanda Barrie | 257 06 |
What garment did designer André Van Pier create that was adorned with 3,250 diamonds and cost £641,000 | A bra | 257 07 |
In which island group is lona | Inner Hebrides | 257 08 |
Which sport was invented by James Naismith in 1892 by nailing two peach baskets to a balcony at a Massachusetts YMCA | Basketball | 257 09 |
Who had a 1982 number one with ‘Fame’ | Irene Cara | 257 10 |
Who was having a fling with Lilo Lil | Freddie Boswell in Bread | 257 11 |
Which is the oldest university in Scotland | St Andrews | 257 12 |
The disease herpes zoster is more usually known as what | Shingles | 257 13 |
In which national park is Dovedale | Peak District | 257 14 |
Which Doctor was the title of a novel by Boris Pasternak | Doctor Zhivago | 257 15 |
Which fruit has the Latin name Citrus sinensis | Orange | 257 16 |
Which band were ‘In It ForThe Money’ in 1997 | Supergrass | 258 01 |
Who were the sworn enemies of UNCLE | THRUSH | 258 02 |
Who were the Italian castrat, | Singers castrated as boys to preserve their soprano voices | 258 03 |
In Greek mythoIogc who was carried off by Zeus in the form of a bull | Europa | 258 04 |
What is actress Faye Dunaway’s real first name | Dorothy | 258 05 |
Which British Prime Minister’s last words were: ‘Die, my dear doctor? That’s the last thing I shall do’ | Viscount Palmerston | 258 06 |
What did Norman Tebbit and Tony Hancock have in common | Both once worked as assistants in menswear shops | 258 07 |
Which French king hated washing so much that he took only three baths in his entire life | Louis XIV | 258 08 |
Which Southport golf course has frequently staged the British Open | Royal Birkdale | 258 09 |
In which Beijing square were over 1,000 protesters killed by government troops in 1989 | Tianenmen Square | 258 10 |
In which country isTimbuktu | Mali | 258 11 |
Which veteran performer entered the UK album charts in 2001 with ‘Love And Theft’ | Bob Dylan | 258 12 |
Which US singer of the Sixties was nicknamed ‘Little Miss Dynamite’ | Brenda Lee | 258 13 |
Who is the patron saint of venereal disease and taxi drivers | St Fiacre | 258 14 |
Who sets off around Britain in search of Local Heroes | Adam Hart.Davis | 258 15 |
Where is Ware | Hertfordshire | 258 16 |
Triton is the largest of which planet’s moons | Neptune | 259 01 |
What is a troglodyte | Cave-dweller | 259 02 |
In which country are the Trossachs | Scotland | 259 03 |
Who said: ‘There’s A Guy Works Down The Chipshop Swears He’s Elvis’ | Kirsty MacCoIl | 259 04 |
Which American pop group starred in the film Head | The Monkees | 259 05 |
Who starred in The Maftese Falcon | Humphrey Bogart | 259 06 |
What was motorcycle ace Barry Sheene’s lucky number | Seven | 259 07 |
Which sea is situated off the east coast of Italy | Adriatic | 259 08 |
What did American William Burt invent in 1829 | Typewriter | 259 09 |
Which future movie star made an early appearance as a convict in an episode of the TV series The Adventures of William Tell | Michael Caine | 259 10 |
Which former Manchester United striker was nicknamed ‘Sparky’ | Mark Hughes | 259 11 |
In which film did George Lazenby make his only appearance as James Bond | On Her Majesty’s Secret Service | 259 12 |
Who wrote She Stoops To Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith | 259 13 |
Who designed the first steamship to cross the Atlantic | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | 259 14 |
In which country was the sitcom Duty Free set | Spain | 259 15 |
Which is the longest river in Ireland | Shannon | 259 16 |
Which TV presenter is married to Pet Rescue’s Matthew Robertson | Davina McCall | 260 01 |
Where is Britain’s first Champ Car track | Rockingham | 260 02 |
What was the name of Rocky Balboa’s girlfriend played by Talia Shire in te IIm Rocky | Adrian | 260 03 |
Which former US President survived an assassination attempt outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in 1981 | Ronald Reagan | 260 04 |
Which Scottish city is nicknamed ‘Auld Reekie” | Edinburgh | 260 05 |
At which sporting venue did Erika Roe streak | Twickenham | 260 06 |
The Maginot line was designed to protect which country | France | 260 07 |
The House of Grimaldi has ruled which state since 1297 | Monaco | 260 08 |
Which English king was the subject of a TV series by historian David Starkey in 2001 | Henry VIII | 260 09 |
Feargal Sharkey sang with which band before going solo | The Undertones | 260 10 |
On which island is the city of Jakarta | Java | 260 11 |
What did black nationalist leader Malcolm Little call himself | Malcolm X | 260 12 |
Who directed the films Twelve Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon | Sidney Lumet | 260 13 |
Which city was besieged for over four months in I 857 at the height of the Indian Mutiny | Lucknow | 260 14 |
Which English county disappeared in 1974 to become part of Cambridgeshire | Huntingdonshire | 260 15 |
Which Hollywood actor was born William Franklin Beedle | William Holden | 260 16 |
In 2001, which symbol was removed from jars of Robertson’s jams after 91 years | The golly | 261 01 |
Which sailing trophy was established in 1957 by the Royal Ocean Racing Club | Admiral’s Cup | 261 02 |
Which comedy duo were arrested while dressed as chickens in the film Stir Crazy | Richard Prior and Gene Wilder | 261 03 |
Which cowboy was shot in the back by Bob Ford while hanging a picture | Jesse James | 261 04 |
What name is given to a region of total shadow during an eclipse | Umbra | 261 05 |
In September 2001, which actress skipped the premiere of her new film Enigma | Kate Winslet | 261 06 |
What name for a day nursery is derived from the French for ‘manger’ | Crèche | 261 07 |
How many points is the black ball worth at snooker | Seven | 261 08 |
Which novelist created Brother Cadfael | Ellis Peters | 261 09 |
What is the opposite of a spring tide | A neap tide | 261 10 |
Which Bevan introduced the National Health Service | Aneurin Bevan | 261 11 |
The Black Prince was the eldest son of which King of England | Edward Ill | 261 12 |
Who had a 1993 number one with ‘Oh Carolina’ | Shaggy | 261 13 |
Who ran around in tight jumpsuits on Treasure Hunt | Anneka Rice | 261 14 |
Which rock star’s stage personae have included Aladdin Sane and Ziggy Stardust | David Bowie | 261 15 |
In fencing, which is lighter — the foil or the épée | Foil | 261 16 |
Which British publication carried the comic strip The Adventures of Barry McKenzie | Private Eye | 262 01 |
Who presented the TV game show 3-2-I | Ted Rogers | 262 02 |
Which band released a 2001 album titled ‘Wonderland’ | The Charlatans | 262 03 |
Who was burned at the stake in Rouen on 30 May 1431 | joan of Arc | 262 04 |
Which Indian city gave its name to a style of riding breeches | Jodhpur | 262 05 |
Which three countries border Lake Malawi | Malawi,Tanzania and Mozambique | 262 06 |
Which biennial sporting contest was postponed in 2001 following the II September terrorist attack on New York | Ryder Cup | 262 07 |
In which country is the industrial city of Mons | Belgium | 262 08 |
Who played private eye Philip Marlowe in the 1973 movie The Long Goodbye | Elliott Gould | 262 09 |
Which old county formed the bulk of the new county of Gwent | Monmouthshire | 262 10 |
What does OXFAM stand for | Oxford Committee for Famine Relief | 262 11 |
Who plays DC Jack Mowbray in the TV series Without Mozive | Ross Kemp | 262 12 |
What does an oxpecker feed on | Insects | 262 13 |
What is the herb Mentha piperita more commonly known as | Peppermint | 262 14 |
‘ln’,’on’ and ‘under’ are all examples of what type of word | Preposition | 262 15 |
For which international rugby team did Andy Irvine play | Scotland | 262 16 |
Who was a cross-dresser in M*A*S*H | Corporal Klinger | 263 01 |
What was Charles Conrad the third person to do | Walk on the Moon | 263 02 |
According to a 2001 survey, which city was named the least âesirable place to live in Britain | Stoke-on-Trent | 263 03 |
Who retired from boxing in 1996 after being warned by doctors that one more punch on the head could leave him blind | Frank Bruno | 263 04 |
What is the state capital of California | Sacramento | 263 05 |
Which country has the international vehicle index mark ET | Egypt | 263 06 |
In which country was religious reformer John Calvin born | France | 263 07 |
Which football club plays at the Vetch Field | Swansea City | 263 08 |
Callisto is the second largest moon of which planet | Jupiter | 263 09 |
Which singer starred with Alain Delon in the cult movie The Girl on a Motorcycle | Marianne Faithfull | 263 10 |
What type of hat takes its name from a city in Morocco | Fez | 263 11 |
How many players are there in a hurling team | 15 | 263 12 |
Which British make of car won the Le Mans 24-Hour Race five times between 1951 and 1958 | Jaguar | 263 13 |
What was the middle name of US President Richard Nixon | Milhous | 263 14 |
Which cartoon strip was created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in 1984 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 263 15 |
What is the name of the wife of disgraced peer Lord Archer | Mary | 263 16 |
What is the name for the end of a glacier | Snout | 264 01 |
What do bats use to stop them flying into things in the dark | Sonar | 264 02 |
Don King is a leading promoter in which sport | Boxing | 264 03 |
Who had a 1981 chart-topper with ‘Japanese Boy’ | Aneka | 264 04 |
What was used for the first time at the Nevada State Prison, Carson Ci on 8 February 1924 | Gas chamber | 264 05 |
Which was Britain’s first national park | Peak District | 264 06 |
In which continent is Graham Land? - | Antarctica | 264 07 |
At what sport did Walter Hagen win I I major championships between 1914 and 1929 | Golf | 264 08 |
At which London railway station would you arrive if you caught a direct train from Nottingham | St Pancras | 264 09 |
Why might Charlie Dimmock have a ha-ha | It is the term for a sunken boundary wall in landscape gardening | 264 10 |
Which animals conduct ‘boxing matches’ during the breeding season | Hares | 264 11 |
What is Karl Kennedy’s profession in Neighbours | Doctor | 264 12 |
Port Moresby is the capital of which country | Papua New Guinea | 264 13 |
Which Welsh actor rejected the role of Gandhi | Anthony Hopkins | 264 14 |
What does a misogynist hate | Women | 264 15 |
In which ocean are the Pitcairn Islands | Pacific | 264 16 |
In which city do Linfield Football Club play | Belfast | 265 01 |
What was Lady Chatterley’s first name | Constance | 265 02 |
Which TV personality used to advertise Rice Krispies as a boy | Jonathan Ross | 265 03 |
Which US Marine colonel was the central figure in the Irangate scandal | Oliver North | 265 04 |
Which city staged the Olympic Games in 1900 and 1924 | Paris | 265 05 |
What did Levi Strauss make the first pair of | Jeans | 265 06 |
Which country knocked England’s footballers out of the 1998 World Cup | Argentina | 265 07 |
What is the capital of the Lombardy region of Italy | Milan | 265 08 |
What does a manometer measure | The pressure of liquids or gases | 265 09 |
Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye | j.D. Salinger | 265 10 |
Which Danny starred in the Lethal Weapon series films | Danny Glover | 265 11 |
What was Norwich the first British city to establish in 1608 | Public library | 265 12 |
Which TV quiz was inspired by the Gestapo’s grilling of prisoners-of- war | Mastermind | 265 13 |
Berlin’s number one ‘Take My Breath Away’ came from which film | Top Gun | 265 14 |
Which horse profited from Devon Loch’s misfortune at the 1956 Grand National | ESB | 265 15 |
What is a dunlin | A bird | 265 16 |
Which of the Sunda Islands is the third largest island in the world | Borneo | 266 01 |
How many fiddlers did Old King Cole have | Three | 266 02 |
Who wrote the novel A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 266 03 |
‘Baby Come On Over’ was a 2001 hit for which singer | Samantha Mumba | 266 04 |
What nationality was the 19th century novelist Balzac | French | 266 05 |
Chesney Hawkes’ father was singer with which Sixties pop group | The Tremeloes | 266 06 |
In which sport do competitors battle for the Breeders’ Cup | Horse racing | 266 07 |
Which author was imprisoned in Bedford lail for 12 years from 1660 for unlicensed preaching | John Bunyan | 266 08 |
In which city is Carnegie Hall | NewYork | 266 09 |
Which ventriloquist partnered Charlie McCarthy | Edgar Bergen | 266 10 |
Gabriela Kerner was the singer with which German band who enjoyed a UK number one in 1984 | Nena | 266 11 |
Procyon is the brightest star of which constellation | Canis minor | 266 12 |
Who became King of England in 1016, Denmark in 1018 and Norway in 1028 | Canute | 266 13 |
In which century were The Canterbury Tales written | 14th | 266 14 |
In 1986, which boxer became the youngest ever World Heavyweight Champion | Mike Tyson | 266 15 |
Which horse racin trainer had a winner at Royal Ascot for 17 years in succession, from 1960—I 976 | Noel Murless | 266 16 |
In which year did Foinavon win the Grand National at l00I | 1967 | 267 01 |
What mode of transport did instrument-maker Joseph Merlin invent in 1760 | Roller skates | 267 02 |
Which BBC sitcom returned in 2001 after a five-year break | Absolutely Fabulous | 267 03 |
How many are there in a baker’s dozen | 13 | 267 04 |
What did Robert Baden-Powell hold for the first time at Brownsea Island in August 1907 | Boy Scouts’ camp | 267 05 |
What is the highest mountain in Europe | Mont Blanc | 267 06 |
What two colours feature on the flag of Ukraine | Blue and yellow | 267 07 |
Which song originally recorded by Betty Hutton in 1948 gave Bjork a 1995 hit | ‘It’s Oh So Quiet | 267 08 |
Which tennis player did Clive James call ‘as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread’ | John McEnroe | 267 09 |
What was the professional name of wrestler Shirley Crabtree | Big Daddy | 267 10 |
What is the opposite of evergreen | Deciduous | 267 11 |
On which island does a deemster hold jurisdiction | Isle of Man | 267 12 |
Veronica is the cultivated name for which wild flower | Speedwell | 267 13 |
Who did close friends get to call TC | Top Cot | 267 14 |
Which American state is called the ‘Green Mountain State’ | Vermont | 267 15 |
In which film did James Dean have his first starring role | East of Eden | 267 16 |
What does Volkswagen mean | ‘People’s car | 268 01 |
What part did Matthew Simmonds play in the history of Manchester United | He was the Crystal Palace fan at whom Eric Cantona launched his infamous flying kick in 1995 | 268 02 |
Into which sea does the River Jordan flow | The Dead Sea | 268 03 |
Which golfer completed the Grand Slam of the amateur and professional Opens of both the USA and Britain in 1930 | Bobby Jones | 268 04 |
Which singer was ‘Moonlighting’ in 1975 | Leo Sayer | 268 05 |
What is thezodiac symbol for Gemini | Twins | 268 06 |
Which town on the south coast of England became a city as part of the Millennium celebrations | Brighton | 268 07 |
Which newsreader presented the first series of The People Versus | Kirsty Young | 268 08 |
Which Scottish rugby player married a TV sports presenter in 2001 | Kenny Logan | 268 09 |
What is a garganey | A teal-like bird | 268 10 |
Which boxer was banned for taking a bite out of Evander Holyfield’s ear in 1997 | Mike Tyson | 268 11 |
In which English county would you find St Michael’s Mount | Cornwall | 268 12 |
Whose wife was turned into a pillar of salt | Lot | 268 13 |
Which novelist is credited with the introduction of pillar boxes | Anthony Trollope | 268 14 |
Who directed the film B’ow-Up | Michelangelo Antonioni | 268 15 |
What was th maiden name of Jane Austen’s heroine Emma | Woodhouse | 268 16 |
Who is the brains behind the band Gorillaz? L i | Damon Albarn | 269 01 |
What is a pangolin also known as | Scaly anteater | 269 02 |
From which country does the lambada dance originate | Brazil | 269 03 |
Where is the Kuril Trench | In the Pacific Ocean | 269 04 |
The Murray-Darling is the longest river in which country | Australia | 269 05 |
Which building is the principal residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury | Lambeth Palace | 269 06 |
Which golfer lost a six-shot lead in the final round of the 1996 US Masters | Greg Norman | 269 07 |
What size paper is half of an A4 sheet | A5 | 269 08 |
Who was Luke Skywalker’s father | Darth Vader | 269 09 |
What is a jansky a unit of | Radiation | 269 10 |
Brian Bennett was the drummer with which instrumental group | The Shadows | 269 11 |
Who owned a dog called Cracker in Braokside | Jimmy Corkhill | 269 12 |
Which American ice skater was accused of plotting to break her rival’s legs | Tonya Harding | 269 13 |
Who would have been called the Biblical ‘Orpah’ had the midwife not spelt the name wrongly on the birth certificate | Oprah Winfrey | 269 14 |
Which South American country was named after an Italian city | Venezuela (Venice) | 269 15 |
Who wrote Treasure Island and Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson | 269 16 |
Which cricketer broke the world record for the highest individual Test score with 375 for West Indies against England in 1994 | Brian Lara | 270 01 |
What does TARDIS stand for | Time And Relative Dimension In Space | 270 02 |
Which sea is nearly I ,300ft. below sea level | Dead Sea | 270 03 |
Who won an Oscar for his direction of Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | 270 04 |
In which national park is Yes Tori | Dartmoor | 270 05 |
With which King of England did Caroline of Brunswick endure a loveless marriage | George IV | 270 06 |
Which TV soap is set in Glendarroch | High Road | 270 07 |
What nationality were Teach-In, winners of the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest | Holland | 270 08 |
In 1993, which two men took part in the first 20th century World Heavyweight Championship fight between two British boxers | Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno | 270 09 |
The Isle of Sheppey is part of which English county | Kent | 270 10 |
Which Grace Metalious novel became a successful TV series starring Mia Farrow and Ryan O’NeaI | Peyton Place | 270 11 |
Who played TV detective Hamish Macbeth | Robert Carlyle | 270 12 |
Which constellation is represented as a ship’s keel | Carina | 270 13 |
What part of the human body is the pate ha | Kneecap | 270 14 |
Which American animator was a member of the Monty Python team | Terry Gilliam | 270 15 |
Which English swimmer won the 100 metres breaststroke at the 1988 Seoul Olympics | Adrian Moorhouse | 270 16 |
Who created Dracula | Bram Stoker | 271 01 |
In 1778, which country introduced the first state-controlled brothels | France | 271 02 |
Who was the first replacement for Brian Jones in The Rolling Stones | Mick Taylor | 271 03 |
Which two South American countries have borders with Ecuador | Colombia and Peru | 271 04 |
Which Br,tish Prime Minister returned from Munich in 1938 clutching a piece of paper and a promise of ‘peace in our time’ | Neville Chamberlain | 271 05 |
Which Irish actor played Oliver Cromwell in the 1970 film | Richard Harris | 271 06 |
Which boy’s name means ‘handsome at birth’ | Kevin | 271 07 |
A Roman mixture of vinegar, honey and salt was the first known example of what | Toothpaste | 271 08 |
For what was Quink an abbreviation | Quick drying ink | 271 09 |
Which former Neighbours actress was ‘Torn’ in 1997 | Natalie Imbruglia | 271 10 |
Portland Bill is connected by road to which resort | Weymouth | 271 11 |
Which British ski jumper was ironically nicknamed ‘The Eagle’ | Eddie Edwards | 271 12 |
Which TV series featured the Dove from Above | Shooting Stars | 271 13 |
Who was married to Hiawatha | Minnehaha | 271 14 |
How high is a basketball hoop from the floor | I Oft. | 271 15 |
Who are the actor sons of Lloyd Bridges | Beau and Jeff | 271 16 |
How many property squares are there on a Monopoly board | 22 | 272 01 |
Which singer/actress has been married to Jim Kerr and Lam Gallagher | Patsy Kensit | 272 02 |
Which English actress played Ross’s wife in Friends | Helen Baxendale | 272 03 |
Which I 7-year-old American became the youngest winner of a Grand Slam tennis title when he captured the 1989 French Open | Michael Chang | 272 04 |
What is the name for a ring-shaped coral reef enclosing a lagoon | Atoll | 272 05 |
What did Aesop write | Fables | 272 06 |
Which mythical monster has the body, tail and hind legs of a lion and the head, forelegs and wings of an eagle | Griffin | 272 07 |
Which country created the first national netball association | New Zealand | 272 08 |
Shere Khan was the villain in which Disney film | The Jungle Book | 272 09 |
Which GreatTrain Robber played himself in The Sex Pistols’ film The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle | Ronnie Biggs | 272 10 |
Which actor!singer was plain David Cook before joining the county set | David Essex | 272 11 |
The name of which city in the Middle East means ‘warm place’ | Teheran | 272 12 |
In which country are the Slieve Bloom mountains | Ireland | 272 13 |
What was Burke and Hare’s gruesome pursuit | Body-snatching | 272 14 |
Who did Brazil’s footballers beat 4-I in the 1970 World Cup Final | Italy | 272 15 |
What did Beryt call sex in the TV sitcom The Lovers | ‘Percy Filth | 272 16 |
Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis played which 1991 fugitives | Thelma and Louise | 273 01 |
With what sport was David Broome associated | Show-jumping | 273 02 |
The island of Capri is situated at the southern entrance to which bay1 | Bay of Naples | 273 03 |
Who performed a concert in the park at the end of each episode of Trumpton | The fire brigade band | 273 04 |
Which British political party was founded in 1934 | Scottish National Party | 273 05 |
What name is given to the white ball in snooker | Cue ball | 273 06 |
What country produces the wine Valpolicella | Italy | 273 07 |
In which city is the Wailing Wall | Jerusalem | 273 08 |
What bird can be marsh, coal or crested1 | Tit | 273 09 |
What name is given to the President’s study in the White House | The Oval Office | 273 10 |
What is the name of the Marquess of Bath’s stately home1 | Longleat House | 273 11 |
Who was the donkey in Winnie-the-Pooh | Eeyore | 273 12 |
Cheyenne is the capital of which American state | Wyoming | 273 13 |
Which group were in the ‘Car Wash’ in 1976 | Rose Royce | 273 14 |
Who made snooker’s first televised maximum break | Steve Davis | 273 15 |
What is the favourite coffee shop of the Crane brothers in Frasier | Café Nervosa | 273 16 |
What do the words ‘month’, ‘orange’, ‘silver’ and ‘purple’ have common | No word in the English language rhymes with them | 274 01 |
Whose car goes ‘parp parp’ | Noddy | 274 02 |
From which country does the wine Marsala come | Sicily | 274 03 |
What is a skillet | Cooking pot | 274 04 |
In what make of car did Graham Hill become Formula One World Champion in 1962 | BRM | 274 05 |
In which English county is the Fylde peninsula | Lancashire | 274 06 |
Which band were originally known as The High Numbers | The Who | 274 07 |
Who is the patron saint of comedians and mental illness | StVitus | 274 08 |
Why did Catherine the Great of Russia have her hairdresser imprisoned in an iron cage for three years | Catherine contracted dandruff and didn’t want the news to spread | 274 09 |
Who played the fast-talking DJ in Good Morning Vietnam | Robin Williams | 274 10 |
Which sports commentator described his last race in September 2001 | Murray Walker | 274 11 |
Which two colours feature on the Austrian flag | Red and white | 274 12 |
Which band sang about ‘Whisky In The Jar’ in 1973 | Thin Lizzy | 274 13 |
How many Duncans were Kings of Scotland | Two | 274 14 |
Who is the ‘showbiz kitten’ from Goodness Gracious Me | Smeeta Smitten | 274 15 |
Who was the first foreign manager to lift the FA Cup | Ruud Gullit | 274 16 |
Which sum is an anagram of ‘Eleven plus two | ‘Twelve plus one | 275 01 |
What is the capital of Cuba | Havana | 275 02 |
Which heavyweight American singer choked to death on a sandwich in 1974 | ‘Mama’ Cass Elliot | 275 03 |
Who became King of England in 1422 at the age of eight months | Henry VI | 275 04 |
Of all the words in the English language, which has the most definitions | Set | 275 05 |
Which comedy actor’s last words, after flicking through the Bible on his deathbed, were: ‘I’m looking for a loophole” | WC. Fields | 275 06 |
How many times did the superstitious Charles Dickens touch everything for luck | Three | 275 07 |
Which model had a stint presenting This Morning in 2001 | Twiggy | 275 08 |
The lotus flower is the national symbol of which country | India | 275 09 |
In 1992, which athlete became the first British woman to win an Olympic track gold medal for 28 years | Sally Gunnell | 275 10 |
From what was Luke Skywalker’s surname in Star Wars changed at the last minute because the original sounded too violent | Starkiller | 275 11 |
Which movie star, who died in 1990, left her pet corgi Morgan a monthly salary plus his own limo and maid | Ava Gardner | 275 12 |
One in every 5000 North Atlantic lobsters is born what colour | Bright blue | 275 13 |
What number did Paul Hardcasde take to the top of the charts in 1985 | ‘19 | 275 14 |
In which English county is Louth | Lincolnshire | 275 15 |
How many points are scored for knocking the ball over the crossbar in hurling | One | 275 16 |
Which letter of the English alphabet hasn’t changed shape since its introduction around l30BC | 0 | 276 01 |
The pips of which fruit contain a minute measure of cyarnde | Apples | 276 02 |
Why don’t bulls see red | They’re colour-blind | 276 03 |
Which former member of the band was the subject of Pink Floyd’s ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ | Syd BarrEtt | 276 04 |
What is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet | Delta | 276 05 |
What is the highest that can be scored with a single dart | 60 | 276 06 |
What was the name of Lenny Henry’s Chef | Gareth Blackstock | 276 07 |
What was the first name of the French philosopher and mathematician Descartes | René | 276 08 |
Who once wrote three symphonies in the space of six weeks | Mozart | 276 09 |
Whose run of three successive UK number one singles was interrupted by St Winifred’s School Choir with ‘There’s No One Quite Like Grandma’ | John Lennon | 276 10 |
Which football manager tried to lead his team off the pitch before a penalty shoot-out in a play-off match at the end of the 2000-I season | Trevor Francis (Birmingham City) | 276 11 |
What is the state capital of Australia’s Northern Territory | Darwin | 276 12 |
Who wrote the Barchester series of novels | Anthony Trollope | 276 13 |
Which musical instrument has an inner sliding tube | Trombone | 276 14 |
TB is an abbreviation for which disease | Tuberculosis | 276 15 |
Who did Mordred call ‘uncle Arthur’ | King Arthur | 276 16 |
Whose film crew were accused of harassing Prince William at the start of his first university term | Prince Edward | 277 01 |
What is the American equivalent of British Summer Time | Daylight SavingTime | 277 02 |
Which American golfer won the 2001 USPGA tournament | David Toms | 277 03 |
Which English aircraft designer and manufacturer produced the Tiger Moth and the Mosquito | Geoffrey de Havilland | 277 04 |
From which continent do piranha fish come | South America | 277 05 |
Which insect saw Cock Robin die | The fly | 277 06 |
Who started his acting career as The Fresh Prince of BeI-Air | Will Smith | 277 07 |
Which small stringed instrument takes its name from the Hawaiian for ‘jumping flea’ | Ukelele | 277 08 |
Which is the only Great Lake situated entirely within the United States | Lake Michigan | 277 09 |
Which song links Millie and Bad Manners | ‘My Boy Lollipop | 277 10 |
In which English county is Launceston | Cornwall | 277 11 |
As whom is Steve land Judkins better known | Stevie Wonder | 277 12 |
Which soldier, who conquered Sicily and Naples in 1860, gave his name to a type of biscuit1 | Garibaldi | 277 13 |
What part of the body is affected by periodontal disease | Gums | 277 14 |
The Green Goblin is the arch enemy of which superhero | Spiderman | 277 15 |
Which Austrian skier won a record 25 World Cup downhill events from l97484 | Franz Klammer | 277 16 |
What was the name of Dave Berry’s backing group | The Cruisers | 278 01 |
In which English county is the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst | Berkshire | 278 02 |
Which currency is used by Jordan, Iraq and Libya | Dinar | 278 03 |
What is the name for a line drawn from the centre of a circle to the circumference | . Radius | 278 04 |
Who visited Lilliput and Brobdingnag | Gulliver | 278 05 |
According to legend, for how many days is the weather on St Swithun’s Day set to continue | 40 | 278 06 |
Which five countries border Switzerland | Germany, Austria, Liectenstein, Italy and France | 278 07 |
In 1985, who became the first British golfer to win the Open for 16 years | Sandy Lyle | 278 08 |
What was the name of the holiday camp in Hi-De-Hi | Maplins | 278 09 |
Who fronted a band called Camel | Peter Frampton | 278 10 |
Which Hollywood star is known as the ‘Italian Stallion’ | Sylvester Stallone | 278 11 |
Aleppo and Horns are towns in which Middle East country | Syria | 278 12 |
Major Charles Ingram’s jackpot win on which TV quiz was investigated by the police | Who Wants To Be A Millionaire | 278 13 |
What is the name for two words with the same meaning | Synonym | 278 14 |
Which sweetly-scented tree has the Latin name Syringa vulgaris | Lilac | 278 15 |
What is the geographical significance of Dunnet Head in Scotland | It is the most northerly point on the British mainland | 278 16 |
What is Blue Vinny | A type of cheese | 279 01 |
What can robber crabs do that other crabs can’t | Climb trees | 279 02 |
Which artist painted a picture a day for the last 70 days of his life | Van Gogh | 279 03 |
What do the words ‘abstemious’, ‘abstentious’, ‘arsenious’, ‘arteriosus’ and ‘facetious’ have in common | They are the only words in the English language where the five vowels are in alphabetical order | 279 04 |
Who gave away a late penalty to put England out of the 2000 European Championship finals | Phil Neville | 279 05 |
l(eith Reif was lead singer with which Sixties band | The Yardbirds | 279 06 |
Which country publishes more books per head than any other in the world | Iceland | 279 07 |
What role was Elmo Lincoln playing when he stabbed his co-star to death while filming a 1918 movie | Tarzan (Lincoln stabbed a lion that attacked him) | 279 08 |
In which country is Mount Fuji | Japan | 279 09 |
Which game uses a curved stick called a caman | Shinty | 279 10 |
Which French city stands on the River Ill | Strasbourg | 279 11 |
Which stretch of water used to be called the Gulf of Gascony | Bay of Biscay | 279 12 |
Which Crossroads character was unmasked as an impostor in 2001 | Sarah-Jane Harvey | 279 13 |
Who walked out on the 1985 movie Beverly Hills Cop after his demand for more action scenes was rejected | Sylvester Stallone | 279 14 |
What job links Abraham Lincoln and Rock Hudson | Both were once postmen | 279 15 |
What was the title of the 1998 number one for Run-DMC vs Jason Nevins | ‘It’s Like That | 279 16 |
Which long-serving tennis commentator died in 1992 | Dan Maskell | 280 01 |
If you were to spell out numbers (omitting the ‘and’), what number would you have to go to before finding the letter ‘a’ | One thousand | 280 02 |
In which country was Chris De Burgh born | Argentina | 280 03 |
The anagram of which actress’s name is ‘evil lass in erotica’ | Alicia Silverstone | 280 04 |
What pseudonym is used by author David Cornwell | John Le Carré | 280 05 |
What is the name for an alloy of copper and tin | Bronze | 280 06 |
Who founded Habitat | Terence Conran | 280 07 |
What colours are the numbers on a roulette wheel | Red and black | 280 08 |
In which English county is Althorp House | Northamptonshire | 280 09 |
Who played Dr Andrew Attwood in Peak Practice | Gary Mavers | 280 10 |
Who was sent off as England’s footballers went out of the 1998 World Cup | David Beckham | 280 11 |
Donald McGill created I 2,000 examples of what type of artwork | Saucy seaside postcards | 280 12 |
Which band are led by Ian Broudie | The Lightning Seeds | 280 13 |
What does the Venus de MiIo lack | Arms | 280 14 |
How many chambers are there in the human heart | Four | 280 15 |
How many Football League teams are there in Kent | One (Gillingham) | 280 16 |
How many hearts does an earthworm have | Ten | 281 01 |
Which superstar sang backing vocals on Rockwell’s ‘Somebody’s Watching You’ | Michael Jackson | 281 02 |
Which Blue Peter presenter played one of Doctor Who’s assistants | Peter Purves | 281 03 |
A crop of which fruit dropped from the sky onto a Louisiana building- site in 1961 | Peaches | 281 04 |
The Flathead Lake Monster is said to exist in which American state | Montana | 281 05 |
Which racehorse named after a Russian dancer won the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby and St Leger in 1970 | Nijinsky | 281 06 |
Which swashbuckling trio were created by Alexandre Dumas | The Three Musketeers | 281 07 |
Who played Crêpe Suzette in the film Absolute Beginners | Patsy Kensit | 281 08 |
Durrës is the chief port of which country | Albania | 281 09 |
Which battle on British soil took place on 9 September 1513 | Battle of Flodden | 281 10 |
Who was the original presenter of the TV talent show New Faces | Derek Hobson | 281 11 |
What speed can a dragonfly reach | 25mph | 281 12 |
What is unique about the Book of Esther in the Bible | It is the only book of the Bible that doesn’t mention God by name | 281 13 |
Which Thursday precipitated the worldwide Depression in 1929 | Black Thursday | 281 14 |
Who duetted with Peter Gabriel on ‘Don’t Give Up’ | Kate Bush | 281 15 |
Who composed the ballet Swan Lake | Tchaikovsky | 281 16 |
Which is farthest west — Bristol, Liverpool or | Liverpool | 282 01 |
Which is the smallest planet | Pluto | 282 02 |
What does the term gibbous describe | A phase of the Moon | 282 03 |
Where is Queen Maud Land | Antarctica | 282 04 |
Who is the ‘Mike’ of Mike and the Mechanics | Mike Rutherford | 282 05 |
Who was the first black player to appear for England in a full international | Viv Anderson | 282 06 |
Who lived on Berrydown Farm | Pingwings | 282 07 |
Although he had one himself, which movie studio boss refused to allow any of his employees to grow a moustache | WaIt Disney | 282 08 |
Which country hosts an annual mass tomato fight | Spain | 282 09 |
What is levophobia | Fear of the left side | 282 10 |
Which American state is nicknamed the ‘Granite State” | New Hampshire | 282 11 |
What is the national currency of Thailand | The baht | 282 12 |
What does an invertebrate lack | A backbone | 282 13 |
What was Margaret Thatcher’s maiden name | Roberts | 282 14 |
In which month of the year is the British Open golf tournament held | July | 282 15 |
What is a septum | Partition between the nostrils | 282 16 |
Which football manager retired after leading Nottingham Forest to relegation in 1993 | Brian dough | 283 01 |
Which two English counties border Scotland | Cumbria and Northumberland | 283 02 |
Which veteran Irish rock star used to be one of Them | Van Morrison | 283 03 |
Which animated protagonists were condemned in the 1970s for their ‘mindless violence’ | Tom and Jerry | 283 04 |
Who was translated as Donald Anus by the Vatican newspaper | Donald Duck | 283 05 |
Angel Clare appeared in which Thomas Hardy novel | Tess of the D’Urbervilles | 283 06 |
Blandford Forum is in which county | Dorset | 283 07 |
On which coast of France is Deauville | North | 283 08 |
In which sport do competitors go earholing | Motorcycle racing | 283 09 |
Which are the two cities in A Tale of Two Cities | London and Paris | 283 10 |
Which Cluedo suspect is known as Fröken Rod in Scandinavia | Miss Scarlett | 283 11 |
Leary Constantine played Test cricket for which country | West Indies | 283 12 |
Which order of monks maintain a vow of silence | Trappist | 283 13 |
Which two fruits are anagrams of each other | Lemon and melon | 283 14 |
What does Sir Michael Stoute train | Racehorses | 283 15 |
In which country were the Triads founded | China | 283 16 |
What happened if suspects drowned during trial by ordeal | They were found innocent | 284 01 |
What was Napoleon in a George Orwell novel | A pig | 284 02 |
What do actors Anthony Newley, James Booth,Terence Stamp and Laurence Harvey have in common | They all turned down Michael Caine’s role in AIfie | 284 03 |
Which band was formed in 1989 by Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner | Electronic | 284 04 |
Who was Benton Fraser’s first partner in Due South | Ray Vecchio | 284 05 |
What type of creature is a painted lady | Butterfly | 284 06 |
Which actor’s first name means ‘cool breeze over the mountains’ in Hawaiian | Keanu Reeves | 284 07 |
Who succeeded Ruud Gullit as manager of Chelsea | Gianluca Vialli | 284 08 |
Of whom did Irving Layton once say: ‘At last Canada has produced a political leader worthy of assassination’ | Pierre Trudeau | 284 09 |
Who was England’s goalkeeper in the 1966 World Cup Final | Gordon Banks | 284 10 |
Which boy band had a hit in 2001 with ‘Let’s Dance’ | Five | 284 11 |
Sarah Lancashire and Pam Ferris starred as nurses in which drama series | Where The Heart Is | 284 12 |
Cirrhosis particularly attacks which organ of the body | Liver | 284 13 |
What can be electric or jellied | Eels | 284 14 |
May Hardman was the first death in which TV soap | Coronation Street | 284 15 |
The lines of which army were drawn up by William Booth | The Salvation Army | 284 16 |
Who played a character ageing from 17 to 121 in Little Big Man | Dustin Hoffman | 285 01 |
What was the sequel to Naked Gun 2 :The Smell of Fear | Naked Gun 33’/j:The Final Insult | 285 02 |
As whom was Francis Morgan Thompson better known | Daley Thompson | 285 03 |
With which band was Lionel Richie the lead singer before embarking on a solo career | The Commodores | 285 04 |
How many years are celebrated by a ruby anniversary | 40 | 285 05 |
Where in Britain would you find Robin Hood’s Bay | North Yorkshire | 285 06 |
At what temperature Fahrenheit does water boil | 212 degrees | 285 07 |
What does QC stand for | Queen’s Counsel | 285 08 |
Which planet was first located in 1846 | Neptune | 285 09 |
In Great Expectations, whose room had remained untouched for decades | Miss Havisham | 285 10 |
Maastricht is a town in which European country | The Netherlands | 285 11 |
What shape is something that is falcate | Hooked | 285 12 |
In what type of bowling does cricketer Shane Warne specialise | Leg spin | 285 13 |
What is the principal ingredient in a guacamole dip | Avocado | 285 14 |
Which duck was guarded by Chopper the bulldog | Yakky Doodle | 285 15 |
Which French couturier pioneered the mini skirt with Britain’s Mary Quant | André Courreges | 285 16 |
Who created Horatio Hornblower’ L2__J | C.S. Forester | 286 01 |
What is the capital of Finland | Helsinki | 286 02 |
In which country was the 1993 film The Piano set7 | New Zealand | 286 03 |
As whom did rapper Sean Combs find fame | Puff Daddy | 286 04 |
In which sport might you perform a double axel and a lutz | Ice skating | 286 05 |
Who said to The Sex Pistols: ‘Go on, you’ve got another ten seconds. Say something outrageous’ | Bill Grundy | 286 06 |
What was Captain Edward Smith’s principal role in nautical history | He was captain of the Titanic | 286 07 |
What two colours feature on the Swiss national flag | Red and white | 286 08 |
Who was Gordon Bennett | A US newspaper publisher | 286 09 |
Which London Underground station was called Westminster Bridge Road until 1917 | Lambeth North | 286 10 |
Which Enzo founded one of the world’s leading car manufacturers | Enzo Ferrari | 286 11 |
Brylcreem is an amalgamation of which two ingredients | Brilliantine and cream | 286 12 |
The name of which Middle East capital means ‘God’s gift’ | Baghdad | 286 13 |
Who was invariably ‘very, very drunk’ on The Fast Show | Rowley Birkin QC | 286 14 |
The dressage is part of which Olympic event | Equestrian three-day event | 286 15 |
lronbridge is in which English county | Shropshire | 286 16 |
In which 1959 film did Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon appear in drag | Some Like It Hot | 287 01 |
How many points is the letter K’ worth in Scrabble | Five | 287 02 |
Which comedian was born Alfred Hawthorne Hill | Benny Hill | 287 03 |
Which is Sweden’s most southerly city | Malmö | 287 04 |
Which sporting event of 1985 attracted 18.6 million viewers in the early hours of the morning | World Snooker final | 287 05 |
Which small car created a motoring revolution when it was introduced in 1959 | The Mini | 287 06 |
Which type of lorry is named after a Hindu god | Juggernaut | 287 07 |
8 Who came out with the immortal line: Let them eat cake’ | Marie Antoinette | 287 08 |
Which Neighbours stalwart died in 2001 | Madge Bishop | 287 09 |
Who wrote The War of the Worlds | H. G.Wells | 287 10 |
The Simplon tunnel runs beneath which range of mountains | The Alps | 287 11 |
In which country is the Wood Buffalo national park | Canada | 287 12 |
Which English poet became a Greek national hero | Lord Byron | 287 13 |
Which British father-and-son each held the world land and water speed records | Malcolm and Donald Campbell | 287 14 |
Who created the detective Adam Daigliesh | RD. James | 287 15 |
With which musical instrument is Duane Eddy associated | Electric guitar | 287 16 |
What happened in 1971 while Calgary’s KFSM radio station was playing Carole King’s ‘I Feel The Earth Move’7 | The studio collapsed | 288 01 |
In which English county is the Isle of Purbeck | Dorset | 288 02 |
Who wrote the children’s story The Old Man of Lochnagar | Prince Charles | 288 03 |
In which year did Cliff Richard reach number one in the UK with ‘We Don’t Talk Anymore” | 1979 | 288 04 |
Who was joint manager of Charlton Athletic with Alan Curbishley | Steve Gritt | 288 05 |
Which is the most easterly of the Balearic Islands | Minorca | 288 06 |
Which river links St. Etienne and Nantes | Loire | 288 07 |
Charity Dingle is a character in which soap | Emmerdale | 288 08 |
Fort Worth is a region of which American city | Dallas | 288 09 |
According to legend, who saw above his head a sword suspended by a single hair | Damocles | 288 10 |
What nationality was distance runner Emil Zatopek | Czech | 288 11 |
What is the term for the season when male deer become sexually aroused | Rutting | 288 12 |
Who presents Streetmote | Davina McCall | 288 13 |
Who is the builder on Ground Force | Tommy Walsh | 288 14 |
Which is further north — Madrid,Valencia or Barcelona | Barcelona | 288 15 |
Who went solo after appearing in The Partridge Family | David Cassidy | 288 16 |
Which awards were made of wood to conserve metal during World War Two | The Oscars | 289 01 |
William Peter Blatty wrote which supernatural novel that became a 1973 box-office smash in the cinema | The Exorcist | 289 02 |
In which year did Charles I become King of England | 1625 | 289 03 |
Which new town in Buckinghamshire was created in 1967 | Milton Keynes | 289 04 |
What were Bingo, Crossbow and Horlicks | Operation code names from World WarTwo | 289 05 |
Which London racecourse closed in 1979 | Alexandra Park | 289 06 |
What part of the body does a genuphobic fear | Knees | 289 07 |
How many hours are China ahead of the UK | Eight | 289 08 |
Which country was ruled by the House of Vasa from 1523-1654 | Sweden | 289 09 |
Who was Jimmy Carter’s Vice-President | Walter Mondale | 289 10 |
What is the chemical symbol for aluminium | Al | 289 11 |
What Latin phrase means time flies’ | Tempus fugit | 289 12 |
What was Maigret’s Christian name | Jules | 289 13 |
Who wrote Volpone and The Alchemist | Ben Jonson | 289 14 |
What country has the international vehicle index ROU | Uruguay | 289 15 |
What did Casey Jones drive | A railroad locomotive | 289 16 |
In 1997, who became the first British man to reach the world’s top ten tennis rankings | Greg Rusedski | 290 01 |
In which city is the Trevi fountain | Rome | 290 02 |
What was the pen name of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupiri | George Sand | 290 03 |
Which tiny European country is divided up into nine castles | San Marino | 290 04 |
What type of dancer is Lynn Seymour | Ballet | 290 05 |
In which country is Santander | Spain | 290 06 |
Which indie band took their name from a character in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird | The Boo Radleys | 290 07 |
In which year was football ‘coming home’ to England | 1996 | 290 08 |
In which city is the Bull Ring Shopping Centre | Birmingham | 290 09 |
What is the hardest bone in the human body | The jawbone | 290 10 |
In which country was Keanu Reeves born | Lebanon | 290 11 |
What name is given to one-hundredth of a second | A jiffr | 290 12 |
What is a lory | A parrot-like bird | 290 13 |
What can be spectacled, sun or black | Bears | 290 14 |
Carol I became the first king of which country in 1881 | Romania | 290 15 |
Eton College is in which county | Berkshire | 290 16 |
Which motorcycle gangs divide themselves into chapters | Hell’s Angels | 291 01 |
In which soap did the pub owner marry the vicar in 2001 | Emmerdole | 291 02 |
Who is the patron saint of travellers | St Christopher | 291 03 |
What town name has a castle in North Yorkshire and a park near London | Richmond | 291 04 |
Who sang about the morning DJ from ‘W-O-L-D’ | Harry Chapin | 291 05 |
Which Midlands football club are nicknamed the ‘Rams’ | Derby County | 291 06 |
Which English cricket ground has the Kirkstall Lane end | Headingley | 291 07 |
In which country is the Nullarbor Plain | Australia | 291 08 |
What is significant about the words ‘stewardesses’ and ‘reverberated’ | They are the longest words that can be typed with only the left hand | 291 09 |
How many living descendants does Shakespeare have | None | 291 10 |
Which Muppet was banned from Turkish TV during religious festivals so that viewers wouldn’t be offended by the sight of an ‘unclean’ animal | Miss Piggy | 291 11 |
On which river does Turin stand | Po | 291 12 |
What is Joey’s surname in Friends | Tribbiani | 291 13 |
Which England cricket captain was forced to apologise to umpire Shakoor Rana after a row that halted play for a day in Pakistan | Mike Gatting | 291 14 |
Which ‘Wonder Horse’ had his own TV series | Champion | 291 15 |
Who did Chris Patten call ‘a kind of walking obituary for the Labour Party’ | Michael Foot | 291 16 |
On which island is Ronaldsway airport | Isle of Man | 292 01 |
Who was Gerald Ford’s Vice-President | Nelson Rockefeller | 292 02 |
At what age does a filly become a mare | Four | 292 03 |
From which country are the band Midnight Oil | Australia | 292 04 |
What is the US equivalent of a post code | Zip code | 292 05 |
Who directed Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Guy Ritchie | 292 06 |
In the NATO phonetic alphabet, which word represents the letter ‘G’ | Golf | 292 07 |
In A Tale of Two Cities, who was Sidney Carton’s doppelganger | Charles Darnay | 292 08 |
Which bird was on the reverse side of the last farthing | Wren | 292 09 |
Who wrote Brighton Rock and Monsignor Quixote | Graham Greene | 292 10 |
Who played Cruella deVil in 101 Dalmations | Glenn Close | 292 11 |
Who captained the British Lions rugby team on their triumphant tour to South Africa in 1974 | Willie John McBride | 292 12 |
Which early film comedian was noted for his trademark horn-rimmed glasses and straw hat | Harold Lloyd | 292 13 |
Llandrindod Wells is the administrative headquarters of which county | Powys | 292 14 |
In which ocean is the Sargasso Sea | Atlantic | 292 15 |
What name is given to the widow of a king | Dowager | 292 16 |
What is the equivalent of the Red Cross in Muslim countries | The Red Crescent | 293 01 |
In which country is Linate airport | Italy | 293 02 |
Mrs Danvers is the sinister housekeeper in which novel | Rebecca | 293 03 |
What did Trevor Chappell do in 1980 to prevent New Zealand winning a Test match against Australia | He bowled underarm along the ground | 293 04 |
Which zoo is situated north-east of Tamworth | Twycross | 293 05 |
What is the name of Prince Edward’s TV production company | Ardent | 293 06 |
Hamlet was the prince of which country | Denmark | 293 07 |
Who played Queen Elizabeth I in Blackadder II | Miranda Ric:hardson | 293 08 |
The Heartbreakers.backed which American singer | Tom Petty | 293 09 |
Which Nightingale reads the ITV news | Mary Nightingale | 293 10 |
St Peter Port is the capital of which of the Channel Islands | Guernsey | 293 11 |
Which British national newspaper folded in 1971 | Daily Sketch | 293 12 |
Which minister earned the nickname ‘Milk Snatcher’ after abolishing free milk for schoolchildren | Margaret Thatcher | 293 13 |
Which African country’s national coach was banned from football for life by the king after the team were eliminated from the 1998 World Cup qualifiers by Kenya | Algeria | 293 14 |
What is the capital of Belarus | Minsk | 293 15 |
Which movie directed by Robert Redford won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1980 | Ordinary People | 293 16 |
How many legs do spiders have | Eight | 294 01 |
With which food is London’s Billingsgate Market associated | Fish | 294 02 |
What is a spoonbill | A bird | 294 03 |
Which TV agent had a thing about cherry pie | Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks | 294 04 |
In horse racing, which of the Guineas is for fillies only | One Thousand Guineas | 294 05 |
What nickname did TV executive Nigel Lythgoe earn after his appearances as a judge on Popstars | ‘Nasty Nigel | 294 06 |
In which city is Murrayfield Stadium | Edinburgh | 294 07 |
What name is given to a wine bottle four times the ordinary size | Jeroboam | 294 08 |
In military parlance, what does SAS stand for | Special Air Service | 294 09 |
Which two football clubs were elected to the Scottish League in 2000 | Elgin City and Peterhead | 294 10 |
Whereabouts in the human body is the maxilla | Jaw | 294 11 |
Which bird gets its name from the frill of feathers around the neck of the male | Ruff | 294 12 |
Which European city is famous for its Latin quarter | Paris | 294 13 |
Which animal can eat almost I OOlb of bamboo shoots in a single day | Giant panda | 294 14 |
Which Australian was Formula One World Champion in 1980 | Alan Jones | 294 15 |
Which house plant was the Latin name Ficus eiastica | Rubber plant | 294 16 |
Don Henley is the drummer with which band | The Eagles | 295 01 |
Katy Cropper was the first woman to win which TV competition | One Man and His Dog | 295 02 |
Which chirpy cricket umpire retired from the game in 1998 | Dickie Bird | 295 03 |
What do Yvonne De Carlo, Michael J. Fox and Barbara Parkins have in common | All three were Hollywood actors born in Vancouver, Canada | 295 04 |
Who said of death: ‘There is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it’s being held’ | Woody Allen | 295 05 |
Which actress chose her first name from a character in the novel The Great Gatsby | Sigourney Weaver | 295 06 |
Which 1983 song shot to the top of the charts after Radio I Dj Mike Read announced that he was refusing to play it because of its sexual content | ‘Relax | 295 07 |
Which English king was known as ‘The Turnip-Hoer’ | George I | 295 08 |
In which American state is Fort Knox | Kentucky | 295 09 |
Which cartoon cat was created by Pat Sullivan in 1919 | Felix | 295 10 |
Peter Taylor managed which Premiership football club at the start of the 2001-2 season | Leicester City | 295 11 |
Who was Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959-90 | Lee Kuan Yew | 295 12 |
Wattle is the national flower of which country | Australia | 295 13 |
Which former Tranmere Rovers full-back is part of the BBC’s soccer team | Ray Stubbs | 295 14 |
Which three countries border Vietnam | China, Laos and Cambodia | 295 15 |
What was the former name of Ho Chi Minh City | Saigon | 295 16 |
Which country is immediately to the north of Belize | Mexico | 296 01 |
What nationality were the band Golden Earring who had a Seventies hit with ‘Radar Love’ | Dutch | 296 02 |
Which is the nearest Communist country to the United States | Cuba | 296 03 |
What is the average duration of sexual intercourse for humans | Two minutes | 296 04 |
Who blink more — men or women | Women | 296 05 |
Where is a shrimp’s heart | In its head | 296 06 |
What were Cinderella’s slippers originally made out of before the story was changed by a 17th-century translator | Fur | 296 07 |
What happened to Ronald Reagan’s chimpanzee co-star the day before the premiere of Bedtime for Bonzo | It died | 296 08 |
At which cricket ground do bowlers come in from the Radcliffe Road end | Trent Bridge | 296 09 |
Who was Warren’s despatch rider lover on This Life | Ferdy | 296 10 |
What are auctioned at Tattersalls | Racehorses | 296 11 |
Which member of the Royal Family joined the Navy in 1971 | Prince Charles | 296 12 |
Lauryn Hill was singer with which Nineties band | The Fugees | 296 13 |
What materials did the three little pigs use to build their houses | Straw, sticks and bricks | 296 14 |
What was Stephanie Rahn’s claim to fame in 1970 | She was the first topless newspaper pinup | 296 15 |
What creature is sometimes called an eft | Newt | 296 16 |
Who scored a hat-trick in the Matthews’ Cup Final | Stan Mortensen | 297 01 |
Who starred in Roxanne and My Blue Heaven | Steve Martin | 297 02 |
Which were the first Olympic Games to be televised live in Britain | The 1948 Olympics | 297 03 |
Which is the most easterly state in the USA | Maine | 297 04 |
Which English town is famous for its crooked spire | Chesterfield | 297 05 |
In which county is the Prime Minister’s country home, Chequers | Buckinghamshire | 297 06 |
Who had a number one album in 2001 with ‘A Funk Odyssey’ | Jamiroquai | 297 07 |
Where does a cow have its sweat glands | In its nose | 297 08 |
At what age can a female lemming first become pregnant | 14 days old | 297 09 |
Who invented the motorists’ aid, the cat’s eye | Percy Shaw | 297 10 |
Which Dorset town is also the name of a city on the South Island of New Zealand | Christchurch | 297 11 |
What went down on 15 April 1912 | The Titanic | 297 12 |
Which Seventies band were formed at Charterhouse School | Genesis | 297 13 |
Who was the Roman god of the underworld | Pluto | 297 14 |
Nuuk is the capital of which country | Greenland | 297 15 |
Who wrote Circle of Friends and The Glass Lake | Maeve Binchy | 297 16 |
Which novel by Mark Twain was the first to be written on a typewriter | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 298 01 |
In which English city is the Meadowhall Shopping Centre | Sheffield | 298 02 |
What is a wampee | A fruit | 298 03 |
For which football club did 1966 World Cup hero George Cohen play | Fulham | 298 04 |
What is Morrissey’s first name | Steven | 298 05 |
Tirol is a province of which country | Austria | 298 06 |
Which Fiona co-presents Crimewatch UK | Fiona Bruce | 298 07 |
The Torres Strait separates which country from Australia | New Guinea | 298 08 |
The controversial 1932 Test series between the cricketers of Australia and England became known as which series | The Bodyline series | 298 09 |
In which year did the charity single ‘Perfect Day’ reach number one | 1997 | 298 10 |
Which American state is known as the ‘Land of Enchantment’ | New Mexico | 298 11 |
General Franco was dictator of which country from 1939 | Spain | 298 12 |
Which Hollywood actress was nicknamed ‘The Professional Virgin’ | Doris Day | 298 13 |
The name of which Australian city means ‘meeting-place’ | Canberra | 298 14 |
Which Olympic 100 metres champion was the subject of the film Chariots of Fire | Harold Abrahams | 298 15 |
Who said: ‘I came, I saw,l conquered’ | julius Caesar | 298 16 |
Which Dutchman managed Rangers Football Club in 2001-2 | Dick Advocaat | 299 01 |
Where would you find vitreous humour | In your eye | 299 02 |
How old was Arran Fernandez when he sat a maths GCSE examination in 2001 | Five | 299 03 |
The Canadian city of Dawson lies at the confluence of which two rivers | Klondike and Yukon | 299 04 |
Which Swedish actress starred in Casablanca | Ingrid Bergman | 299 05 |
Saanen, Hongtong and Toggenburg are all breeds of which animal | Goat | 299 06 |
Which two countries are separated by the Rio Grande | USA and Mexico | 299 07 |
What was the name of the officious ARP warden in Dad’s Army | Mr Hodges | 299 08 |
What is the plural of mongoose | Mongooses | 299 09 |
On what day of the week must a month start in order for there to be a Friday the 13th | Sunday | 299 10 |
Hayling Island is part of which English county | Hampshire | 299 11 |
What brought Bugs Bunny and basketball star Michael Jordan together in 1996 | The movie Space Jam | 299 12 |
Dolores O’Riordan is the singer with which band | The Cranberries | 299 13 |
What is the principal colour of the Moroccan flag | Red | 299 14 |
The thistle is the emblem of which country | Scotland | 299 15 |
What was Babe Ruth’s real Christian name | George | 299 16 |
In which continent are the Atlas Mountains | Africa | 300 01 |
Which punk band were ‘Turning japanese’ in 1980 | The Vapors | 300 02 |
Which was the chosen event of British athlete Roger Black | 400 metres | 300 03 |
What colour were post boxes originally | Green | 300 04 |
What form of transport was pioneered by lgor Sikorsky | Helicopter | 300 05 |
Which Russian novelist wrote Crime and Punishment | Dostoevsky | 300 06 |
What was Victoria Beckham’s maiden name | Adams | 300 07 |
What product was Henry Doulton’s speciality | Pottery | 300 08 |
Jason Durr took over from Nick Berry in which TV series | Heartbeat | 300 09 |
What did my true love give to me on the third day of Christmas | Three French hens | 300 10 |
As which Sixties band were Scott Engel,John Maus and Gary Leeds better known | The Walker Brothers | 300 11 |
For what is ENT an abbreviation in medicine | Ear, nose and throat | 300 12 |
Who makes ‘exceedingly good cakes’ | Mr Kipling | 300 13 |
In what form of theatre did Ben Travers specialise | Farce | 300 14 |
What is a fata morgana | mirage | 300 15 |
Which Hollywood comic was born Joseph Levitch | Jerry Lewis | 300 16 |
Some 60,000 men were killed on the first day of which World War One battle | Battle of the Somme | 301 01 |
Which actor’s middle name is Columcille | Mel Gibson | 301 02 |
What number on the Beaufort Scale indicates a gale | Eight | 301 03 |
Varna is a port on which sea | Black Sea | 301 04 |
Which James Bond once advertised Big Fry chocolate bars | George Lazenby | 301 05 |
Who was the Greek goddess of the Earth | Gaia | 301 06 |
Who wrote The Darling Buds of May | HE. Bates | 301 07 |
Which Football League team are nicknamed the ‘Chairboys’ | Wycombe Wanderers | 301 08 |
Which Post Office executive invented adhesive stamps in the I 9th century | Rowland Hill | 301 09 |
In which year did the Easter Rising take place in Dublin | 1916 | 301 10 |
Which band released the album ‘Automatic ForThe People’ | R.E.M. | 301 11 |
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern featured in which Shakespeare play | Hamlet | 301 12 |
Who painted The Laughing Cavalier | Frans Hals | 301 13 |
Which English cricketer took a world record 19 wickets in a Test match against Australia in 1956 | Jim Laker | 301 14 |
The Barras is a market in which British city | Glasgow | 301 15 |
Who was Richie Rich’s agent | Ralph Filthy | 301 16 |
Which novel was set in a house called Manderley | Rebecca | 302 01 |
What is the name for the stretch of coastline which connects StT ropez, Cannes and Nice | Côte d’Azur | 302 02 |
In 1964, which English cricketer became the first bowler to take 300 Test wickets | Fred Trueman | 302 03 |
Which Hollywood star enrolled to become a priest at 14, but dropped out after a year | Tom Cruise | 302 04 |
What are red admirals and swallow tails | Butterflies | 302 05 |
Who adopted Bamm Bamm | Barney and Betty Rubble | 302 06 |
Which city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire | Constantinople | 302 07 |
Astrakhan and Baku are the chief ports on which inland sea | Caspian Sea | 302 08 |
What is the most commonly-used word in written English | ‘The | 302 09 |
Which explorer gave his name to America | Amerigo Vespucci | 302 10 |
Which American was UK champion jockey in 1984, 1985 and 1987 | Steve Cauthen | 302 11 |
Thereze Bazaar and David Van Day made up which singing duo | Dollar | 302 12 |
The Great Orme is near which Welsh resort | Llandudno | 302 13 |
What is a scallion | A type of onion | 302 14 |
Which American state wanted R. Dean Taylor in the title of a 1971 hit | Indiana | 302 15 |
What was first tested by Brian Trubshaw | Concorde | 302 16 |
Which prison is located at Princetown | Dartmoor | 303 01 |
In which city is the Millennium Stadium | Cardiff | 303 02 |
In which city do Juventus Football Club play | Turin | 303 03 |
Which comedy actor’s middle name is Marwood | John Cleese | 303 04 |
Which Coronation Street character finally acquired a new pair of glasses in 2001 | Deirdre Rachid | 303 05 |
Michael Flatley was associated with which Irish dance show | Riverdance | 303 06 |
Who wrote 2001;A Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke | 303 07 |
In which country is the Great Slave Lake | Canada | 303 08 |
Which planet is farthest from the Sun | Pluto | 303 09 |
What percentage of air is oxygen | 21% | 303 10 |
In which country is the Uluru national park | Australia | 303 11 |
Which man of many guises had a 1999 number one with ‘Praise You’ | Fatboy Slim | 303 12 |
What did Hoss Cartwright have in common with the Stewart from 10cc | Both were called Eric | 303 13 |
What is a baby kangaroo called | A joey | 303 14 |
In which city was Michael Owen born | Chester | 303 15 |
In which country is the ski resort of Sapporo | Japan | 303 16 |
Which actor quit.making films with Francis the Talking Mule after learning that the mule received more fan mail than him | Donald O’Connor | 304 01 |
Which birds are trained to catch and retrieve fish in China | Cormorants | 304 02 |
What can’t an owl parrot do that other owls and parrots can | Fly | 304 03 |
Which grow faster — fingernails or toenails | Fingernails | 304 04 |
Which planet has daytime temperatures as high as 800 degrees Fahrenheit but has ice at its poles | Mercury | 304 05 |
Which rap artist was born Robert Van Winkle | Vanilla Ice | 304 06 |
In which country was Mel Gibson born | USA | 304 07 |
What sport is played by the Sheffield Steelers and the Nottingham Panthers | Ice hockey | 304 08 |
Which country boasts a Gold Coast | Australia | 304 09 |
In which city do The Royle Family live | Manchester | 304 10 |
According to Ibiza superstition, it is bad luck to allow what on a fishing boat | A priest | 304 11 |
The Rye House Plot was a conspiracy against which English monarch | Charles 11 | 304 12 |
What is siderophobia | A fear of the stars | 304 13 |
Which boxer was nicknamed ‘Gentleman Jim’ | James J. Corbett | 304 14 |
What was 8 May 1945 otherwise known as | V-E Day | 304 15 |
In which sport do European club sides play for the Heineken Cup | Rugby Union | 304 16 |
Which Scottish island was evacuated on 29 August 1930 | St. Kilda | 305 01 |
Where did both Maria Muldaur and the Brand New Heavies spend Midnight | At The Oasis | 305 02 |
What is the birthstone for November | Topaz | 305 03 |
What sport do the Chicago Bulls play | Basketball | 305 04 |
Who discovered the Victoria Falls | David Livingstone | 305 05 |
Which comedians revived Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | Reeves and Mortimer | 305 06 |
Who cut off Samson’s hair | Delilah | 305 07 |
Which American city is headquarters of the Mormon church | Salt Lake City | 305 08 |
On which golf course is the World Matchplay Championship held | Wentworth | 305 09 |
From which Dumfries and Galloway port would you catch a ferry to Lame in Northern Ireland | Stranraer | 305 10 |
In 1985, which two clubs became the first to share a ground in the history of the Football League | Crystal Palace and Charlton | 305 11 |
People with what colour hair have more hairs on their head than any other | Blonde | 305 12 |
In which European country was cheese a form of currency in the 16th century | Denmark | 305 13 |
How many brains does a leech have | 32 | 305 14 |
Who starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in Frankie and Johnny | Al Pacino | 305 15 |
Who wrote The Shining and Pet Sematary | Stephen King | 305 16 |
Who is Sacha Baron Cohen’s first famous creation | Ali G | 306 01 |
In which sea is the island of Ithaca | lonian | 306 02 |
What league was originally made up of the American universities of Harvard,Yale, Columbia and Brown | The Ivy League | 306 03 |
Who declared in 1543 that the Sun was at the centre of the Univers& | Copernicus | 306 04 |
Which novelist wrote Tilly Tmtter and The Gloss Virgin | Catherine Cookson | 306 05 |
What is the cube of 20 | 8,000 | 306 06 |
Paddy McAloon is the singer with which band | Prefab Sprout | 306 07 |
What is the Roman number for 65 | LXV | 306 08 |
Annapolis is the capital of which American state | Maryland | 306 09 |
Who was Jim Bergerac’s father-in-law | Charlie Hungerford | 306 10 |
Which golfer won the 1997 US Masters by a record 12 shots | Tiger Woods | 306 11 |
Hickstead is synonymous with which sport | Show-jumping | 306 12 |
Which city was the birthplace of Muhammad | Mecca | 306 13 |
What is the name of the Welsh nationalist party | Plaid Cymru | 306 14 |
Which Irish singer had a 1988 number one with ‘Orinoco Flow’ | Enya | 306 15 |
Which star sign follows Aquarius | Pisces | 306 16 |
In which Australian state is the town of Albany | Western Australia | 307 01 |
What nationality were the group Black Box who had a UK number one with ‘Ride On Time’ | Italian | 307 02 |
What nuts are used to make marzipan | Almond | 307 03 |
What can be a large vessel, a carnivorous plant or a baseball thrower | Pitcher | 307 04 |
What part of Rex Harrison’s anatomy was made of glass | One eye | 307 05 |
If there were French nuts in your lounge, what would you have | A coal fire | 307 06 |
In which Scottish town do the football team Albion Rovers play | Coatbridge | 307 07 |
Which toad was the arch enemy of Dongermouse | Baron Greenback | 307 08 |
Which London theatre was home to the National Theatre from 1963- 76 | The Old Vic | 307 09 |
On which river does Omaha stand | Missouri | 307 10 |
Which British driver drove for Jaguar in Formula One in 2001 | Eddie Irvine | 307 11 |
Which body was previously known as the Trigonometrical Survey | Ordnance Survey | 307 12 |
Which Dutch royal family took their name from a small principality in southern France | House of Orange | 307 13 |
Which English king was faced with the Peasants’ Revolt | Richard II | 307 14 |
Who starred in Mutiny on the Bounty and The Hunchback of Notre Dome | Charles Laughton | 307 15 |
In which street is the café in EostEnders | Bridge Street | 307 16 |
Which is the only breed of dog that can contract gout | Dalmatian | 308 01 |
How many letters are there in the Cambodian alphabet | 74 | 308 02 |
In which English county is the seaside town of Hunstanton | Norfolk | 308 03 |
Which Radio I DJ married Fatboy Slim | Zoe BaIl | 308 04 |
Who received an unprecedented nine sixes at the 1984 Winter Olympics | Torvill and Dean | 308 05 |
What species of bird can be Dartford, grasshopper or reed | Warbler | 308 06 |
Which EostEnders actress was one of The Hello Girls | Letitia Dean | 308 07 |
Which Spanish artist painted The Transformation of Narcissus | Salvador Dali | 308 08 |
What was the Mashed Potato | A dance | 308 09 |
Which London Underground line serves Heathrow Airport | Piccadilly Line | 308 10 |
On which island is Las Palmas | Gran Canaria | 308 11 |
Which two English football clubs are nicknamed the Magpies’ | Newcastle United and Notts County | 308 12 |
Which American state is immediately to the west of New Mexico | Arizona | 308 13 |
Which soap celebrates its 30th birthday in 2002 | Emmerdale | 308 14 |
Which Julie Andrews film won the Best Picture Oscar for 1965 | The Sound of Music | 308 15 |
Who wrote The Camomile Lawn | Mary Wesley | 308 16 |
Which duo comprised Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet | Yazoo | 309 01 |
Which Chris Morris TV programme landed in hot water in 2001 | Brass Eye | 309 02 |
According to a recent survey, seven per cent of Americans think who is still alive | Elvis Presley | 309 03 |
Which is the most westerly city on the African mainland | Dakar | 309 04 |
Which Scottish football club plays in Cumbernauld | Clyde | 309 05 |
Who had a US number one in 1974 with ‘I Can Help’ | Billy Swan | 309 06 |
What is the world’s best-selling book | The Bible | 309 07 |
In which country is the Hekla volcano | Iceland | 309 08 |
Who won a Best Actress Oscar in 1999 for Boys Don’t Cry | Hilary Swank | 309 09 |
Who announced at the end of each episode of The Magic Roundabout that it was ‘Time for bed’ | Zebedee | 309 10 |
On which Mediterranean island is the port of Famagusta | Cyprus | 309 11 |
What does an aurist study | Ears | 309 12 |
On which sport is Alex Hay a TV commentator | Golf | 309 13 |
Whose 2001 album was titled ‘Whoa Nelly’ | Nelly Furtado | 309 14 |
Fiver and Hazel were characters in which novel | Wotership Down | 309 15 |
What in Britain are fallow, roe or red | Deer | 309 16 |
What is the name for a communal settlement in Israel | Kibbutz | 310 01 |
Who wrote Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | Jeanette Winterson | 310 02 |
The Stewards’ Cup is run on which racecourse | Goodwood | 310 03 |
On which day of the week do British elections take place | Thursday | 310 04 |
Which TV actress of Polish descent was born Roza Maria Lubienska | Rula Lenska | 310 05 |
Which Hollywood swashbuckler once worked as a sheep-castrator | Errol Flynn | 310 06 |
What phobia did Sigmund Freud suffer from | Fear of train travel (siderodromophobia) | 310 07 |
Which veteran DJ is known as ‘Fluff’ | Alan Freeman | 310 08 |
Which composer used to hold his chin with his left hand and conduct with his right because he was afraid his head would roll off his shoulders | Tchaikovsky | 310 09 |
What is Paul McCartney’s first name | james | 310 10 |
As whom did Anna Anderson pass herself off | Anastasia, daughter Of Russian Czar Nicholas 11 | 310 11 |
Which French monarch reigned for 72 years | Louis XIV | 310 12 |
Which island is on the opposite side of the Thames from Greenwich Pier | Isle of Dogs | 310 13 |
Which country owns the island of Socotra | Yemen | 310 14 |
Which rap artist was born Tracy Marrow | Ice.T | 310 15 |
Which horse did Alan Munro ride to victory in the 1991 Derby | Generous | 310 16 |
What pet was re-named ‘Wheely’ after being fitted with a Lego leg in 1994 | A tortoise | 311 01 |
Which ideal commonwealth was invented by Sir Thomas More | Utopia | 311 02 |
Which is the third longest river in Africa | Niger | 311 03 |
Who ruled in Nineteen Eighty-Four | Big Brother | 311 04 |
In what formation did the animals enter Noah’s Ark | Two by two | 311 05 |
In which county in England would you find the Broads | Norfolk | 311 06 |
Which Coronation Street actor was a helper on Cheggers Plays Pop | Kevin Kennedy (Curly Watts) | 311 07 |
What instrument did Charlie Parker play | Saxophone | 311 08 |
Which Scotsman won the first World Professional Darts Championship | Jocky Wilson | 311 09 |
Lydd airport is in which English county | Kent | 311 10 |
Kinder Scout is the highest point of which national park | Peak District | 311 11 |
What links the authors Harry Patterson and Jack Higgins | They are the same person | 311 12 |
For which county cricket team did Ted Dexter play | Sussex | 311 13 |
What is the name of the nuclear power station in Suffolk | Sizewell | 311 14 |
Whose biggest-selling album was ‘Bat Out Of Hell’ | Meat Loaf | 311 15 |
Who played Toggart | Mark McManus | 311 16 |
In which city is the University of East Anglia | Norwich | 312 01 |
Which culinary term, popular in the late I 980s, means ‘new cooking’ | Nouvelle cuisine | 312 02 |
Which wild flower is also known as heartsease | Wild pansy | 312 03 |
Perez de Cuéllar was secretary general of which body from 1982-91 | United Nations | 312 04 |
Which band wanted to ‘Keep The Faith’ in 1992 | Bon Jovi | 312 05 |
What was Paddington Bear’s favourite food | Marmalade sandwiches | 312 06 |
Which planet has a moon named Charor, | Pluto | 312 07 |
How many playing cards are there in a standard pack | 52 | 312 08 |
Which American state is known as the ‘Flickertail State’ | North Dakota | 312 09 |
In which English county is Kettering | Northamptonshire | 312 10 |
How many celebrity panellists are there on each edition of Blankety Blank | Six | 312 11 |
North Brabant is a province of which country | Netherlands | 312 12 |
Who sang about a ‘Cornflake Girl’ | Tori Amos | 312 13 |
What is the singular of ‘graffiti’ | Graffito | 312 14 |
What is unusual about Jane Austen’s novel Lady Susan | It is written in the form of letters | 312 15 |
What is the name for a military morning wake-up call | Reveille | 312 16 |
What is Jude’s surname in Thomas Hardy’s novel Jude the Obscure | Fawley | 313 01 |
Which Football League club plays at Sixfields Stadium | Northampton Town | 313 02 |
In which TV drama series did Nigel Havers succeed Nigel LeVaillant | Dangerfield | 313 03 |
Which bird took Manfred Mann to number one in 1966 | ‘Pretty Flamingo | 313 04 |
Which country lies immediately to the south of Angola | Namibia | 313 05 |
Since 1066, which two English kings have been the only monarchs of that name | Stephen and John | 313 06 |
Which chat show host is All Talk | Clive Anderson | 313 07 |
What statue stands in London’s Piccadilly Circus | Eros | 313 08 |
What name is given to an area of open space surrounding a city | Green belt | 313 09 |
In Greek mythology, what sprang up on the spot where Narcissus died | A flower | 313 10 |
In which American city does hip-hop music have its origins | New York | 313 11 |
Opium is extracted from the unripe seeds of which plant | Opium poppy | 313 12 |
In which century was Charlotte Brontë born | 19th | 313 13 |
Of which footballer did Sir Alex Ferguson say: ‘He could start a row in an empty house’ | Dennis Wise | 313 14 |
What were the followers of I 4th-century religious reformer John Wycliffe known as | Lollards | 313 15 |
In which other country does London stand on the River Thames | Canada | 313 16 |
In which county was the Battle of Naseby fought in 1645 | Northamptonshire | 314 01 |
Which footballing Steve moved from Liverpool to Real Madrid | Steve McManaman | 314 02 |
How many kings of Sweden were called Charles | 15 | 314 03 |
How many goals did Bobby Chariton score for England | 49 | 314 04 |
Off which country does Devil’s Island lie | French Guiana | 314 05 |
In which English city is St. Katherine’s Dock | London | 314 06 |
In which field of the arts did Anton Dolin make his name | Dance | 314 07 |
What were the chief magistrates called in ancient Venice and Genoa | Doges | 314 08 |
Who starred in the musicals Follow the Fleet and Pin Up Girl | Betty Grable | 314 09 |
What is the name of the royal residence in Edinburgh | Holyrood House | 314 10 |
What nationality was the artist Hans Holbein | German | 314 11 |
What name is given to the counties closest to London | Home Counties | 314 12 |
Pol Pot was the leader of which guerrilla movement | Khmer Rouge | 314 13 |
In which country is the River Liffey | Ireland | 314 14 |
Which actress is the sister of Warren Beatty | Shirley MacLame | 314 15 |
What does Madonna mean | ’My lady | 314 16 |
The ouguiya is the currency of which country | Mauritania | 315 01 |
What percentage of a melon is water | 95% | 315 02 |
Which Leicestershire town is renowned for its pork pies | Melton Mowbray | 315 03 |
A phon is a unit of what | Loudness | 315 04 |
Which Irish nationalist leader was assassinated on 22 August 1922 | Michael Collins | 315 05 |
In which month is Remembrance Day | November | 315 06 |
What is a ring ouzel | Bird | 315 07 |
In Roman legend, who was Romulus’s twin brother | Remus | 315 08 |
In 1990, which tennis player became the youngest winner of theUS Open | Pete Sampras | 315 09 |
Who won an Academy Award for her role in The Prime of Miss Jean B,vdie | Maggie Smith | 315 10 |
In which English county isThetford | Norfolk | 315 11 |
Which naturalist founded Jersey Zoo | Gerald Durrell | 315 12 |
Who was the Roman god of doorways and passageways | Janus | 315 13 |
What are The De’il Among The Tailors, Maxwell’s Rant and Petronella | Scottish country dances | 315 14 |
As whom was the actress Lillian de Guiche better known | Lillian Gish | 315 15 |
What is the capital of Sierra Leone | Freetown | 315 16 |
Which continent was explored by English navigator Matthew Flinders | Australia | 316 01 |
What nationality was the jeweller Faberge | Russian | 316 02 |
Who invented the Kodak box camera | George Eastman | 316 03 |
Who was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic | Amelia Earhart | 316 04 |
Which Hindu festival means ‘garland of lamps’ | Diwali | 316 05 |
A dab is a member of which family of fish | Flounder | 316 06 |
Which city is located at the Western end of Hadrian’s Wall | Carlisle | 316 07 |
Which fashion designer created the ‘Space Age Collection’ in the I 960s | Pierre Cardin | 316 08 |
Who-holds the record for the most tries scored in international rugby | David Campese | 316 09 |
What type of insect does &ddleio davidi attract | Butterflies | 316 10 |
Who played the king in The King and I | Yul Brynner | 316 11 |
In which Australian state is the town of Ballarat | Victoria | 316 12 |
What is an auricula | A species of primrose | 316 13 |
Who wrote ‘Au Id Lang Syne’ | Robert Burns | 316 14 |
In 1960’s music what were Unit Four Plus | Two | 316 15 |
Which celebrated cook was born Isabella Mary Mayson | Mrs Beeton | 316 16 |
The cane toad was introduced into Australia to eradicate which creature | The cane beetle | 317 01 |
Fredericton is the capital of which Canadian province | New Brunswick | 317 02 |
Which famous footballer was uncle to Jack and Bobby Charlton | Jackie Milburn | 317 03 |
Which band recorded the album ‘Together Alone’ | Crowded House | 317 04 |
In music, what is the term for a group of three or more notes sounded together | Chord | 317 05 |
In Greek mythology, which nymph was changed into a laurel tree | Daphne | 317 06 |
Which tunnel, built in 1963, runs under the River Thames to Purfleet | Dartford Tunnel | 317 07 |
What does ‘Duce’ mean in Italian | Leader | 317 08 |
What is a duiker | A small antelope | 317 09 |
Which US actress made her first starring appearance in the movie Bonnie and Clyde and later won an Oscar for Network | Faye Dunaway | 317 10 |
In which country is The Curragh racecourse | Ireland | 317 11 |
What can be gold, green or zebra | Finches | 317 12 |
Rustavi and Batumi are towns in which country | Georgia | 317 13 |
Who won his first Formula One Grand Prix in Hungary in 1993 | Damon Hill | 317 14 |
In which country is the Lena river | Russia | 317 15 |
What did Walter Matuschanskavasky choose as his stage name | Walter Matthau | 317 16 |
On which island is Canary Wharf | Isle of Dogs | 318 01 |
Who changed his name to Muhammad All | Cassius Clay | 318 02 |
Edgehill was the opening battle in which war | English Civil War | 318 03 |
What was the nickname of Spanish soldier Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar | El Cid | 318 04 |
What is Cucciocavallo | A cheese | 318 05 |
Which range of hills in Northumberland gave their name to a breed of sheep | Cheviot | 318 06 |
Who preceded AIf Ramsey as England football manager | Walter Winterbottom | 318 07 |
What is the name of the boundary line between Maryland and Pennsylvania | Mason-Dixon Line | 318 08 |
Which Spanish conquistador conquered Peru | Francisco Pizarro | 318 09 |
What is the mountainous plateau region of southern central France | Massif Central | 318 10 |
What is the narrow opening at the upper end of the larynx that contains the vocal cords | Glottis | 318 11 |
Which London theatre was burned down in 1613 after a fired cannon set light to the thatch during a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII | Globe Theatre | 318 12 |
Which Gobbi was an Italian baritone | Tito Gobbi | 318 13 |
Which music-hall artist was born Matilda Alice Victoria Wood | Marie Lloyd | 318 14 |
Which magician is Victoria Wood’s husband | Geoffrey Durham | 318 15 |
Which country is immediately to the east of Libya | Egypt | 318 16 |
Which painting is also known as La Giocondo | Mona Lisa | 319 01 |
Who is Kevin the teenager’s best friend | Perry | 319 02 |
Which baseball star was Marilyn Monroe’s second husband | Joe DiMaggio | 319 03 |
What sort of orange is a shrub with white scented flowers | Mock Orange | 319 04 |
What does the Latin ‘modus vivendi’ mean | Way of living | 319 05 |
Which 400 metres hurdler went 122 races unbeaten from 1977-87 | Ed Moses | 319 06 |
Who recorded the 1972 album ‘Catch A Fire’ | Bob Marley | 319 07 |
Who beat Martina Navratilova in the 1994 Wimbledon ladies’ singles final | Conchita MartInez | 319 08 |
In which country is the Var river | France | 319 09 |
Who wrote The Corn pleat Angler | lzaak Walton | 319 10 |
What is a wapiti | Type of deer | 319 11 |
On which river does the Lincolnshire town of Boston stand | Witham | 319 12 |
As in the breed of dog, what does the Russian word ‘borzoi’ mean | Swift | 319 13 |
What can be a flowering shrub or an implement for sweeping | Broom | 319 14 |
What does CD-ROM stand for | Compact Disc Read-Only Memory | 319 15 |
What is the highest fence in the Grand National | The Chair | 319 16 |
Which son of aYorkshire Test cricketer made his England debut in 2001 | Ryan Sidebottom (son of Arnie) | 320 01 |
‘Someday My Prince Will Come’ is a song from which Disney film | Snow White | 320 02 |
Which radio show celebrated its 50th birthday on I January 2001 | The Archers | 320 03 |
What was King Arthur’s legendary seat | Camelot | 320 04 |
What unit of work and energy has replaced the calorie | Joule | 320 05 |
What is the common name for | Bindweed | 320 06 |
In which county is Silverstone motor-racing circuit | Northamptonshire | 320 07 |
Meg Richardson ran which TV establishment | Crossroads Motel | 320 08 |
With which musical instrument waas John William Coltrane associated | Saxophone | 320 09 |
Which of the Seven Wonders of the World fell victim to an earthquake in 224BC | Colossus of Rhodes | 320 10 |
Who starred in Beau Geste and The Prisoner of Zenda | Ronald Colman | 320 11 |
Which French philosopher said: ‘I think, therefore I am’ | René Descartes | 320 12 |
Which 1965 ballad was covered by 1,186 different performers in the first ten years | ‘Yesterday | 320 13 |
Which is the largest moon in the solar system | Ganymede | 320 14 |
What is the capital of Bermuda | Hamilton | 320 15 |
Who played the drunken baseball coach in the 1992 movie A League of their Own | Tom Hanks | 320 16 |
On which river does Hanoi stand | Red River | 321 01 |
Who cut off the tails of the Three Blind Mice | The farmer’s wife | 321 02 |
Which rugby team won the Heineken Cup in 2000-I | Leicester Tigers | 321 03 |
Which singer starred in Memphis Belle | Harry Connick Jnr | 321 04 |
In Greek mythology, who was the daughter of Zeus and Leda | Helen | 321 05 |
What nationality was Henry the Navigator | Portuguese | 321 06 |
With what branch of music is John Lee Hooker associated | Blues | 321 07 |
Which English town has a tall church tower called a ‘stump’ | Boston | 321 08 |
Who was captain of Australia’s cricket team from 1985-94 | Allan Border | 321 09 |
Who was the subject of the film ‘Thai Hamilton Woman’ - Emma Hamilton or Christine Hamilton | Emma Hamilton | 321 10 |
Who does Amanda Burton play in Silent Witness | Sam Ryan | 321 11 |
Which Jesse founded a pharmacy chain | Jesse Boot | 321 12 |
Which English river has a bore | Severn | 321 13 |
Which jockey, who rode 21 classic winners, shot himself in a fit of depression in 1886 | Fred Archer | 321 14 |
For what was Anzac an acronym | Australian and New Zealand Army Corps | 321 15 |
Which is the most northerly of the major Greek islands | Corfu | 321 16 |
What was Oliver Hardy’s name | Norvell | 322 01 |
Whose first album for almost a decade was the 2001 release ‘Sex,Age And Death’ | Bob Geldof | 322 02 |
What sport do the Harlem Globetrotters play | Basketball | 322 03 |
Which musical instrument was invented by Charles Wheatstone | Concertina | 322 04 |
What is the national currency of Poland | Zloty | 322 05 |
Which motor manufacturing company was founded by the brothers Louis, Fernand and Marcel | Renault | 322 06 |
Who directed Rosemary’s Baby and Bitter Moon | Roman Polanski | 322 07 |
Which of the Friends was ‘worth it’ | Jennifer Aniston | 322 08 |
Which ground was the venue for the Test match between England and Australia in 1880 | The Oval | 322 09 |
What can be barn, snowy or tawny | Owls | 322 10 |
In which county is the fishing port of Newlyn | Cornwall | 322 11 |
Who disappeared on a flight between England and France in 1944 | Glenn Miller | 322 12 |
Who was the most famous orange-seller at London’s Drury Lane Theatre | Nell Gwynn | 322 13 |
Who was known as the ‘King of Swing’ | Benny Goodman | 322 14 |
Whose diary was finally published in full in 1989 | Anne Frank | 322 15 |
Which flower is also called a flag | Iris | 322 16 |
What Surrey town gives its name to the common form of hydrated magnesium sulphate | Epsom (salts) | 323 01 |
In which film did Tom Cruise play a slick bartender | Cocktail | 323 02 |
Chris Boardman won an Olympic gold medal in 1992 at which sport | Cycling | 323 03 |
Dave Rowntree is the drummer with which band | Blur | 323 04 |
Who succeeded John Birt as director-general of the BBC | Greg Dyke | 323 05 |
What did Clarence Birdseye pioneer | Frozen food | 323 06 |
Which mountains extend from West Virginia to Georgia and were immortalised in a Laurel and Hardy song | Blue Ridge Mountains | 323 07 |
Bohemia is an area of which country | Czech Republic | 323 08 |
What is a bleak | Freshwater fish | 323 09 |
Stuart Gray managed which Premiership football club at the start of season 200 1—2 | Southampton | 323 10 |
What nationality was the painter Thomas Eakins | American | 323 11 |
Which 1989 movie starred Christian Slater and Winona Ryder as a pair of teenage murderers | Heathers | 323 12 |
What is another name for the marsh marigold | Kingcup | 323 13 |
Which footballer moved to Japan in 1993 to play for Nagoya Grampus Eight | Gary Lineker | 323 14 |
Which harvest festival is celebrated on I August | Lammas | 323 15 |
Which US state is nicknamed the Land of Lincoln’ | Illinois | 323 16 |
What Beverly Hills number was the title of a TV series. | 90210 | 324 01 |
Which Tomb Raider won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the film Girl, Interrupted | Angelina Jolie | 324 02 |
Which motor-racing circuit has a corner called Bus Stop | Spa | 324 03 |
Which country was controlled by the fascist Iron Guard in the 1930s | Romania | 324 04 |
What is hyperbole | Exaggeration | 324 05 |
In military terms, what is the opposite of a hawk | Dove | 324 06 |
What was Louis Balfour’s favourite type of music in The Fast Show | Jazz | 324 07 |
Where in Britain would you find Lewis with Harris | Outer Hebrides | 324 08 |
What is the next prime number after 37 | 41 | 324 09 |
In which country is the Snake river | USA | 324 10 |
Which city in the world has the largest population | Tokyo | 324 11 |
Where was the Store Baet suspension bridge opened in 1997 | Denmark | 324 12 |
What is Australia’s equivalent of the County Cricket Championship | Sheffield Shield | 324 13 |
What animals are affected by scrapie | Sheep and goats | 324 14 |
Who was elected President of the NUM in 1981 | Arthur Scargill | 324 15 |
joshua Reynolds was an English painter in which century | 18th | 324 16 |
Who won the first of his five Olympic gold medals in the coxed fours in 1984 | Steve Redgrave | 325 01 |
What was the first name of the French novelist Proust | Marcel | 325 02 |
Which Pound was a US poet | Ezra Pound | 325 03 |
Which Irish athlete won a gold at 5,000 and 10,000 metres at the 1998 European Championships | Sonia O’Sullivan | 325 04 |
Which English artist exhibited a shark preserved in a tank of formaldehyde | Damien Hirst | 325 05 |
In which year did Abba have a worldwide hit with ‘Dancing Queen’ | 1976 | 325 06 |
Who wrote The Madness of King George | Alan Bennett | 325 07 |
Which residential district of west London was laid out in squares by Thomas Cubitt | Belgravia | 325 08 |
In which country isArnhem Land | Australia | 325 09 |
In which city is the Ashton Gate football ground | Bristol | 325 10 |
On which river is the Kariba Dam | Zambezi | 325 11 |
Which band released the album ‘jollification’ | Lightning Seeds | 325 12 |
Which Formula One team was founded in 1966 by a New Zealand driver | McLaren | 325 13 |
Oakland is linked by bridge to which Californian city | San Francisco | 325 14 |
Which journalist was editor of Punch from 1953-7 | Malcom Muggeridge | 325 15 |
What is the name of the loading mark painted on the hull of merchant ships | Plimsoll line | 325 16 |
Which member of the New Kids on the Bock appeared in the 1999 movie The Sixth Sense | Donnie Wahlberg | 326 01 |
Which lighthouse is situated 14 miles south of Plymouth | Eddystone | 326 02 |
Which two countries have mountain ranges called Sierra Nevada | Spain and USA | 326 03 |
What can be pygmy, elephant or hero | Shrews | 326 04 |
What was the Rump in the I 7th century | English parliament | 326 05 |
Which English film star made her debut in Heavenly Creatures | Kate Winslet | 326 06 |
A wisent is another name for which animal | European bison | 326 07 |
What nationality was racing driver Nelson Piquet | Brazilian | 326 08 |
What was supposedly first spotted in the Himalayas in 1832 | Abominable Snowman | 326 09 |
The anaconda is a species of which snake | Boa | 326 10 |
Which David Copperfield character is thought to be based on Dickens’ own father | Mr Micawber | 326 11 |
Who wrote The Millstone and The Gates of Ivory | Margaret Drabble | 326 12 |
What is a dory | A fish | 326 13 |
What symbol indicates the current entry position on a computer screen | Cursor | 326 14 |
Fairfield Halls are in which London borough | Croydon | 326 15 |
Which former Emmerdale actress stars in Bad Girls | Claire King | 326 16 |
What is a computerised axial tomography scan better known as | CAT scan | 327 01 |
What is the official country home of US Presidents | Camp David | 327 02 |
Which American swimmer won eight Olympic gold medals between 1984 and 1992 | Matt Biondi | 327 03 |
What is the name given to the month of Muslim fasting | Ramadan | 327 04 |
With which sea food is Whitstable associated | Oysters | 327 05 |
Which Congress agreed the settlement of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars | Congress of Vienna | 327 06 |
Which band released the 1991 album Achtung Baby’ | U2 | 327 07 |
Which two countries own regions of Tierra del Fuego | Chile and Argentina | 327 08 |
Diana Dors and Melinda Messenger both hailed from which town | Swindon | 327 09 |
Which native British rodent has the Latin name Sciurus | Red squirrel | 327 10 |
On which river does Ripon stand | Ure | 327 11 |
What was the popular name for Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative | Star Wars | 327 12 |
Which actor played a former tobacco company executive who blew the whistle on the industry in the 1999 movie The Insider | Russell Crowe | 327 13 |
What does PIN stand for | Personal identification number | 327 14 |
What kind of geographical feature is an oxbow | Lake | 327 15 |
What musical instrument does Julian Lloyd Webber play | Cello | 327 16 |
What is a cockchafer | A beetle | 328 01 |
What nationahty is author J. M. Coetzee | South African | 328 02 |
The Arc de Triomphe stands at the head of which Paris thoroughfare | Champs Elysees | 328 03 |
Which is the second largest city in the Czech Republic | Brno | 328 04 |
Who wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 328 05 |
What do cricketers Tony Pigott, Mike Smith and James Whitaker have in common | All played just one Test for England | 328 06 |
What appeared for only the third time on British soil in September | An American green heron | 328 07 |
Who sang ‘You Only Get WhatYou Give’ in 1999 | New Radicals | 328 08 |
What is the smallest member of the flute family | Piccolo | 328 09 |
What is another name for the rowan tree | Mountain Ash | 328 10 |
What was Mick Dundee’s nickname | ‘Crocodile | 328 11 |
Who are the team captains on They Think It’s All Over | David Gower and Gary Lineker | 328 12 |
What is the name for the central part of the church | Nave | 328 13 |
Which US R&B group have the same name as a pair of Manchester United footballers | The Neville Brothers | 328 14 |
Which sports manufacturing company is named after the Greek goddess of victory | Nike | 328 15 |
Which sports commentator was once responsible for the advertising Answers to page 330 | Murray Walker — 330 — | 328 16 |
Which otter was the subject of a Henry Williamson book | Tarka | 329 01 |
Which British driver raced for the Benetton Formula One team in 2001 | Jenson Button | 329 02 |
In which English county is llkley Moor | West Yorkshire | 329 03 |
Between 901 and 1016 which was the only King of England whose name did not begin with an | Athelstan | 329 04 |
What nickname was given to the British 8th Army in North Africa during World War Two | Desert Rats | 329 05 |
What game is played on ice with stones | Curling | 329 06 |
Who used to be backed by a band called the Revolution | Prince | 329 07 |
What is a pistil | The female part of a flower | 329 08 |
Which Scottish League football team plays in Perth | St Johnstone | 329 09 |
What was the name of Frank Spencer’s wife in Some Mothers D.o ‘Ave Em | Betty | 329 10 |
What is Denmark’s currency | Krone | 329 11 |
Which country has the highest density of population | Monaco | 329 12 |
Which British movie won the BAFTA award for Best Film in 1998 | The Full Monty | 329 13 |
Which writer immortalised Wigan Pier | George Orwell | 329 14 |
At which sport do players compete for the Wightman Cup | Tennis | 329 15 |
Which London museum was originally called the Museum of Ornamental Art | Victoria and Albert Museum | 329 16 |
Which three countries formed the Triple Entente of 1907—17 | Britain, France and Russia | 330 01 |
On which river does Stirling stand | Forth | 330 02 |
Whose 1993 album was titled ‘Ten Summoner’s Tales’ | Sting | 330 03 |
In old money, how many farthings were there to a shilling | 48 | 330 04 |
Which TV character had a wife called Margaret and neighbours named Patrick and Pippa | Victor Meldrew | 330 05 |
Which potato can burrow in sand | Sea Potato | 330 06 |
In motor-racing where was the 2001 United States Grand Prix held | Indianapolis | 330 07 |
Which fruit has the Latin name Anonas comosus | Pineapple | 330 08 |
To two decimal places, what is the value of pi | 3.14 | 330 09 |
Which range of mountains is known as the ‘backbone of England’ | Pennines | 330 10 |
Which Ashley starred with Morgan Freeman in the 1997 movie Kiss the Girls | Ashley Judd | 330 11 |
In which continent is Patagonia | South America | 330 12 |
Which garment was produced originally for the US Navy | T-shirt | 330 13 |
In which year was the National Lottery launched | 1994 | 330 14 |
Whose 1995 TV series was called The Private Life of Plants | David Attenborough | 330 15 |
Who saved a penalty in the 1988 FA Cup Final | Dave Beasant | 330 16 |
Albert Reynolds became Prime Minister of which country in 1992 | Ireland | 331 01 |
Which harmonica maestro died in 2001 | Larry Adler | 331 02 |
In which country was tennis player Greg Rusedski born | Canada | 331 03 |
Which annual garden show is held on the grounds of the Royal Hospital, London | Chelsea Flower Show | 331 04 |
Who died on French soil on 31 August 1997 | Diana, Princess of Wales | 331 05 |
Who wrote Room at the Top | john Braine | 331 06 |
Which club side was managed by former England football boss Ron Greenwood | West Ham United | 331 07 |
Which Roman city stands on the River Ver | St Albans | 331 08 |
What is the common name for the plant aquilegia | Columbine | 331 09 |
In which English county is Maiden Castle | Dorset | 331 10 |
What bird has the Latin name Pica pica | Magpie | 331 11 |
On which racecourse is the Melbourne Cup run | Flemington Park | 331 12 |
On which planet is the Caloris Basin | Mercury | 331 13 |
The merino isa breed of which animal | Sheep | 331 14 |
Which former jockey shared the same name as a caretaker manager of the England soccer team | joe Mercer | 331 15 |
Who are the two actress daughters of Sir John Mills | Hayley and Juliet Mills | 331 16 |
Which distance runner was known as the ‘Flying ‘Finn | Paavo Nurmi | 332 01 |
Whose 2001 album was titled ‘Songs From The West Coast’ | Elton John | 332 02 |
Which rival TV cook labelled Jamie Oliver’s shows ‘tacky and gimmicky’ | Antonio Carlucci | 332 03 |
What is the nickname of Northampton rugby club | ‘The Saints | 332 04 |
Who played showgirl Satine in the 2001 movie Moulin Rouge | Nicole Kidman | 332 05 |
In which ocean is the Gulf of Ob | Arctic Ocean | 332 06 |
Who starred as Lawrence of Arabia in the 1962 film of that title | Peter O’Toole | 332 07 |
Who got in a basket with Teddy and Andy Pandy | Looby Loo | 332 08 |
In which town is the ground of Grimsby Town Football Club | Cleethorpes | 332 09 |
In which city did the Peterloo massacre take place | Manchester | 332 10 |
The ringgit is the currency of which country | Malaysia | 332 11 |
What number American President is George W. Bush | 43rd | 332 12 |
Who played the devil in the remake of the film Bedazzled | Liz Hurley | 332 13 |
In 1996, who became the first British tennis player for 23 years to reach the quarter-finals of the men’s singles at Wimbledon | Tim Henman | 332 14 |
On which river does the Yorkshire town of Halifax stand | Calder | 332 15 |
Which Hollywood beauty made her film debut in The Mask | Cameron Diaz | 332 16 |
Which singer married choreographer Cris Judd in 2001 | jennifer Lopez | 333 01 |
Which country borders Kenya to the south | Tanzania | 333 02 |
In 1994, who was sworn in as the first black President of South Africa | Nelson Mandela | 333 03 |
Which Lancashire cricketer was appointed England captain in 1993 | Mike Atherton | 333 04 |
Who did Boy George become on Stars in Their Eyes in 2001 | David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust | 333 05 |
Which race traditionally ends at Mortlake | The Boat Race | 333 06 |
Who created the Secret Seven | Enid Blyton | 333 07 |
Which actor wrote A Short Walk From Harrods in 1993 | Dirk Bogarde | 333 08 |
Pablo Casals became famous for playing which musical instrument | Cello | 333 09 |
Who was ‘Livin’ LaVida Loca’ | Ricky Martin | 333 10 |
In which country did the Boxer Rebellion take place | China | 333 11 |
What did Dick Whittington achieve that Jeffrey Archer didn’t | Lord Mayor of London | 333 12 |
Which flower became a craze in 17th-century Holland | Tulip | 333 13 |
Which town provides the Scottish mainland terminus for the steamer service to the Orkneys | Thurso | 333 14 |
Which river forms a long stretch of the border between Devon and Cornwall | Tamar | 333 15 |
The Gulf of San Matias is off the coast of which country | Argentina | 333 16 |
Sealyham is a breed of which type of dog | Terrier | 334 01 |
Which singer was born Annie Mae Bullock | Tina Turner | 334 02 |
What is the common name for aurora australis | Southern lights | 334 03 |
Which Football League club plays at Highfield Road | Coventry City | 334 04 |
What is the home town of playwright Alan Ayckbourn | Scarborough | 334 05 |
Which series of concerts were founded by Henry Wood | The Proms | 334 06 |
What game was Sir Francis Drake playing as the Spanish Armada approached | Bowls | 334 07 |
What was the name of Dave Tucker’s feisty wife in Soldier, Soldier | Donna | 334 08 |
‘Rock DJ’ was a huge hit for which singer | Robbie Williams | 334 09 |
Which US general was known as ‘Old Blood and Guts’ | George Patton | 334 10 |
What does PAYE stand for | Pay-As-You-Earn | 334 11 |
Who starred in Vampire in Brooklyn and The Nutty Professor | Eddie Murphy | 334 12 |
Whose solo albums have included ‘Viva Hate’ and ‘Your Arsenal’ | Morrissey | 334 13 |
Marble Arch was constructed originally as a ceremonial entrance to which building | Buckingham Palace | 334 14 |
What was the name of Ron Dixon’s mobile shop in Brookside | The Moby | 334 15 |
Which treaty was drawn up by European Community heads in 1991 | Maastricht Treaty | 334 16 |
In which county are Warrington and Widnes | Cheshire | 335 01 |
What were made compulsory on cars in Britain in 1954 | Flashing directional indicator lights | 335 02 |
Which was the first country to introduce VAT | Denmark | 335 03 |
How many Epsom Derby winners did Willie Carson ride | Four | 335 04 |
Which singer was born Maria Kalogeropoulos | Maria CaIlas | 335 05 |
Who played Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown | Charles Dance | 335 06 |
Who wrote The Decomeron | Boccaccio | 335 07 |
Which actor made his movie debut as Tobias Wolff in This 8oy’s Life | Leonardo DiCaprio | 335 08 |
‘Who Let The Dogs Out’ in 2000 | Baha Men | 335 09 |
What is another name for solid carbon dioxide , often used in stage shows | Dry ice | 335 10 |
Where are London’s Royal Botanic Gardens | Kew | 335 11 |
Whose 1986 recording of Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ sold over a million copies | Nigel Kennedy | 335 12 |
What is used in place of a ball in ice hockey | Puck | 335 13 |
Where was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in 1914 - the event which sparked the First World War | Sarajevo | 335 14 |
What nationality is tennis player Mats Wilander | Swedish | 335 15 |
Who succeeded Bruce Forsyth in the Seventies as host of The Generation Game | Larry Grayson | 335 16 |
How many tusks does an adult wart hog have | Four | 336 01 |
Which American state is known as the ‘Pine Tree State’ | Maine | 336 02 |
How many jumps does each competitor have in an Olympic long jump final | Six | 336 03 |
Which two Northern Ireland politicians won the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize | John Hume and David Trimble | 336 04 |
Which Sydney landmark was opened in 1973 | Opera House | 336 05 |
Which pungent creature has the Latin name Mephitis mephitis | Skunk | 336 06 |
Which footballer was transferred to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £15 million in 1996 | Alan Shearer | 336 07 |
What can be standard, miniature or toy | Poodle | 336 08 |
Which band released the best-selling album ‘Rumours’ | Fleetwood Mac | 336 09 |
As whom was jazz pianist Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton better known | Jelly Roll Morton | 336 10 |
What nationality was cyclist Eddie Merckx | Belgian | 336 11 |
In which English county is Mablethorpe | Lincolnshire | 336 12 |
Which Filipino politician was known as the ‘Iron Butterfly’ | Imelda Marcos | 336 13 |
Which novelist wrote Small World and Nice Work | David Lodge | 336 14 |
Who succeeded Michael Foot as leader of tJie Labour Party | Neil Kinnock | 336 15 |
In which country is the port of Jedda | Saudi Arabia | 336 16 |
What does Interpol stand for | International Criminal Police Organisation | 337 01 |
Which League was formed by the trading cities of northern Europe in the 12th century | Hanseatic League | 337 02 |
Which movie sex symbol of the 1930s changed her name from Harlean Carpentier | Jean Harlow | 337 03 |
Which mythological creatures had women’s faces and vultures’ bodies | Harpies | 337 04 |
From which country do freesia plants originate | South Africa | 337 05 |
Which actress split fron) Woody Allen in 1992 | Mia Farrow | 337 06 |
What was launched in II EU states in 1999 | The Euro | 337 07 |
In which field event did American athlete Randy Barnes specialise | Shot put | 337 08 |
Which weasel has dark brown fur and two yellow face patches | Arum lily | 337 09 |
Susan Stranks, Mick Robertson and Tommy Boyd all presented which children’s TV show | Magpie | 337 10 |
Which band is fronted by the grandson of Sir John Mills | Kula Shaker | 337 11 |
What instrument did Mrs Mills play | Piano | 337 12 |
Which boxer took the World Heavyweight title from Lennox Lewis in 1994 | Oliver McCall | 337 13 |
How many feet are there in a fathom | Six | 337 14 |
Which French royal house gave its name to a biscuit | Bourbon | 337 15 |
Which athletic competition combines cross-country skiing with rifle shooting | Biathlon | 337 16 |
Which British home secretary of 1967—70 went on to become Prime Minister | James Callaghan | 338 01 |
Which star of Happy Days has become a successful movie director | Ron Howard | 338 02 |
Which 1976 movie starring Michael Caine, Donald Suthedand and Robert Duvall was based on a jack Higgins best seller | The Eagle Has Landed | 338 03 |
Michael Stipe is the singer with which band | R.E.M. | 338 04 |
Who wrote Hotel du Lad | Anita Brookner | 338 05 |
Near which London railway station is the British Library | St Pancras | 338 06 |
Which New Zealander recorded a hat-trick of world squash titles from 1990-2 | Sue Devoy | 338 07 |
Which actor directed the 1981 Oscar-winning movie Reds | Warren Beatty | 338 08 |
Which footballer joined Chelsea from Parma in 1996 | Gianfranco Zola | 338 09 |
In which Australian state is Wagga Wagga | New South Wales | 338 10 |
Which mammal was thought to be a fake when first discovered | Platypus | 338 11 |
What two colours feature on the flag of Peru | Red and white | 338 12 |
From which Puccini opera does Nessun Dorma’ come | Turandot | 338 13 |
Who wrote Paradise Lost | john Milton | 338 14 |
The cream of which country’s footballers play in the Primera Liga | Spain | 338 15 |
What is a yapok | A marsupial | 338 16 |
Which TV cook is the daughter of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer | Nigella Lawson | 339 01 |
Which capital city was seized byTutsi rebels in 1997 | Kinshasa (Zaire) | 339 02 |
Where is the Ross Sea | Antarctica | 339 03 |
Who rode Benny the Dip to victory in the 1997 Epsom Derby | Willie Ryan | 339 04 |
Which screen idol’s first starring role was in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Rudolph Valentino | 339 05 |
Which U was secretary general of the United Nations | U Thant | 339 06 |
On what does a gnomon cast a shadow | Sundial | 339 07 |
Which Tina had a Seventies hit with ‘I Love To Love’ | Tina Charles | 339 08 |
What did Thomas Sheraton design | Furniture | 339 09 |
In which year was the Queen Mother born | I 900 | 339 10 |
Who played boxer Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter in the 1999 movie The Hurricane | Denzel Washington | 339 11 |
In which county is Brands Hatch motor-racing circuit | Kent | 339 12 |
What nationality was the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | American | 339 13 |
Which country forms the western border of the Czech Republic | Germany | 339 14 |
Who starred in Billy Liar, Darling and Dr Zhivogo | Julie Christie | 339 15 |
What were Iron City Beer of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the first to produce in 1962 | An aluminium can with a ring-pull | 339 16 |
Which W pundit played a womanising footballer in the 2001 film A Shot at Glory at the same time that revelations emerged about his own private life | Ally McCoist | 340 01 |
Which horse race was temporarily switched to Ayr in 1989 - the first time Scotland had staged a classic | St Leger | 340 02 |
What were Parliamentary followers known as during the English Civil War | Roundheads | 340 03 |
What was the Roman symbol for 1,000 | M | 340 04 |
What is the common name for the pyrite iron sulphide | Fool’s gold | 340 05 |
What is the currency of Austria | Schilling | 340 06 |
Which Czech tennis playeer won the 1998 Wimbledon women’s singles title | Jana Novotna | 340 07 |
Who wanted to buy a copy of his book Fly Fishing | J. R. Hartley | 340 08 |
Where did William the Conqueror land in England in 1066 | Pevensey | 340 09 |
What is a harvestman | An arachnid | 340 10 |
Who wrote A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | 340 11 |
What was the chosen stage name of Margarita Carmen Cansino, a star of I 940s musicals | Rita Hayworth | 340 12 |
Which Leicester City football manager was sacked in October 2001 | Peter Taylor | 340 13 |
At which athletic event was singer Johnny Mathis once ranked joint 85th in the world | High jump | 340 14 |
What is a baobab | A species of tree | 340 15 |
4\\c\ rts\ Oyrvp atete was not aowed to run as a schoooy because of a heart defect | Roger Black | 340 16 |
Barrow is the most northerly town in which country | USA | 341 01 |
In 1999, which American fulfilled her classmates’ prediction that she would be ‘The Girl Most LikelyTo Get Her Name in Lights’ | Monica Lewinsky | 341 02 |
Which 15th-century English monarch was king for such a short time that nobody had a chance to paint his portrait | Edward V | 341 03 |
Which TV soap did Patrick Mower join in 2001 | Emmerdale | 341 04 |
In which 1996 movie did Demi Moore play a stripper | Striptease | 341 05 |
Who was King of England at the time of the Gunpowder Plot | james I | 341 06 |
What don’t women in Iceland do when they get married | Change their surname | 341 07 |
Which English football club won the 1998 European Cup Winners’ Cup | Chelsea | 341 08 |
Who had a number on with ‘Shaddap You Face’ | Joe Dolce | 341 09 |
American Greg LeMond was a champion at which sport | Cycling | 341 10 |
Which Jane Austen adaptation won the BAFTA Best Film Award for 1996 | Sense and Sensibility | 341 11 |
When do all racehorses have their birthday | I January | 341 12 |
Which national anthem has 158 verses | Greek | 341 13 |
Who is the question-master on University Challenge | Jeremy Paxman | 341 14 |
Of what was Hecate a Greek goddess | The underworld and magic | 341 15 |
Which comedian had a 1960’s hit with ‘Happiness’ | Ken Dodd | 341 16 |
What animal features in the state flag of California | Bear | 342 01 |
Which guitar legend’s first album was titled ‘Are You Experienced” | Jimi Hendrix | 342 02 |
Which actress was fired from the set of her 1962 film Something’s Got To Give shortly before her death | Marilyn Monroe | 342 03 |
Whom did Thomas More replace as Henry Viii’s Lord Chancellor | Cardinal Wolsey | 342 04 |
In the world of TV commercials, what was the name of the hofmeister bear | George | 342 05 |
How long is each half in a game of hockey | 35 minutes | 342 06 |
Who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape | Leonardo Di Caprio | 342 07 |
Which computer network was launched in 1984 | The Internet | 342 08 |
What is an integer | Any whole number | 342 09 |
What name is given to an animal that feeds on green plants or their products | Herbivore | 342 10 |
Bishop’s Stortford is in which English county | Hertfordshire | 342 11 |
Herb Robert is a wild form of which garden plant | Geranium | 342 12 |
Which bird eats with its bill upside down | Flamingo | 342 13 |
What does the name of the political party ‘Fine GaeI’ mean in Gaelic | Tribe of Gaels | 342 14 |
Of which country’s rugby team was Nick Farr-Jones a captain | Australia | 342 15 |
In which month of the year is Father’s Day | June | 342 16 |
How many women named Catherine (with a ‘C’) did Henry VIII marry | Two (Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Howard) | 343 01 |
In which country is Faisalabad | Pakistan | 343 02 |
What is the name of the airport on the Falkiand Islands | Mount Pleasant | 343 03 |
Who presented the TV series ‘A History of Britain’ in 2000 | Simon Schama | 343 04 |
Which London landmark took its name from Works Commissioner Benjamin Hall | Big Ben | 343 05 |
In which ocean is Bikini atoll | Pacific | 343 06 |
Which club were relegated from the Football League in 2001 | Barnet | 343 07 |
What is a solution of sodium chloride in water commonly known as | Brine | 343 08 |
Which fruit-eating finch has the Latin name Pyrthula pyrthula | Bullfinch | 343 09 |
Which country were Burke and Wills the first to cross from south to north | Australia | 343 10 |
What does CNN stand for | Cable News Network | 343 11 |
Which nurse of a Brussels Red Cross hospital was executed by the Germans in 1915 for helping allied soldiers to escape | Edith Cavell | 343 12 |
In which year did Eurostar begin operations | 1994 | 343 13 |
Coombe Hill, near Wendover, is the highest point of which range of hills | Chilterns | 343 14 |
Which Eighties duo had hits with ‘Pale Shelter’ and ‘Shout’ | Tears for Fears | 343 15 |
Peter Glaze was resident comic on which children’s TV show | Crackerjack | 343 16 |
Which actor wore nothing but black for the last 45 years of his life | Yul Brynner | 344 01 |
Who won a Grammy award for Best New Artist in 1999 | Lauryn Hill | 344 02 |
Whom did Anthony Eden succeed as British Prime Minister | Sir Winston Churchill | 344 03 |
In which country is the Simpson Desert | Australia | 344 04 |
On which surface is the French Open tennis championship played | Clay | 344 05 |
Which Irish poet had the initialsWB. | Yeats | 344 06 |
Which Goodie ‘Goes Wild’ | Bill Oddie | 344 07 |
Which rugby team shared Queens Park Rangers’ ground in 2001 | Wasps | 344 08 |
Phil Oakey is the singer with which band | Human League | 344 09 |
Who wrote Chips with Everything | Arnold Wesker | 344 10 |
What bird can be yellow, grey or pied | Wagtail | 344 11 |
Who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972—81 | Kurt Waldheim | 344 12 |
Woodcote is a corner on which Grand Prix Circuit | Silverstone | 344 13 |
Which sport was played to train cavalrymen in ancient Persia | Polo | 344 14 |
To which city was the capital of Portugal moved between 1807 and 1821 while the country was at war with France | Rio de Janeiro | 344 15 |
What was Rigsby’s first name in Rising Damp | Rupert | 344 16 |
What does the Russian word ‘glasnost’ mean | ‘Openness | 345 01 |
Whose funeral was the biggest British televised event in history | Diana, Princess of Wales | 345 02 |
Which comedian’s 2001 autobiography was titled Close to the Edge | Jim Davidson | 345 03 |
Which Dutch electronics company launched the compact cassette in Britain | Philips | 345 04 |
What were introduced to supermarkets in 1974 | Bar codes | 345 05 |
Which Premiership club chairman is nicknamed ‘Deadly Doug’ | Doug Ellis (Aston Villa) | 345 06 |
What is a balalaika | Russian musical instrument | 345 07 |
Shaun Ryder fronted which Manchester band | The Happy Mondays | 345 08 |
What was the catchphrase of Janice Nicholls on the TV pop show Thank Your Lucky Stars | ‘Oi’ll give it foive | 345 09 |
In which English county is Belper | Derbyshire | 345 10 |
Brother and sister Richard and Karen made up which Seventies singing duo | The Carpenters | 345 11 |
Who starred in the 1998 movie The Truman Show | Jim Carrey | 345 12 |
What is 6 June 1944 popularly known as | D-Day | 345 13 |
Who wrote the controversial book Spycatcher | Peter Wright | 345 14 |
Casper and Laramie are towns in which US state | Wyoming | 345 15 |
Who was the first Briton to fly in space | Helen Sharman | 345 16 |
Which sporting contest was first played in 1900 for a trophy donated by Dwight Filley Davis | Davis Cup | 346 01 |
What type of books did Elizabeth David write | Cookery | 346 02 |
Who was the Roman goddess of the dawn | Aurora | 346 03 |
In what job did Casanova spend the last 13 years of his life | Librarian | 346 04 |
Holby City is a spin-off from which TV series | Casualty | 346 05 |
What instrument did Dizzy Gillespie play | Trumpet | 346 06 |
Whose characters included Sid Snot and Gizzard Puke | Kenny Everett | 346 07 |
In which county of Scotland is Gleneagles golf course | Perthshire | 346 08 |
Who starred in Strange Days and The English Patient | Ralph Fiennes | 346 09 |
Which Football League club has a home ground in the town of Burslem | Port Vale | 346 10 |
The Longmuir brothers were members of which teenybop band | The Bay City Rollers | 346 11 |
Which British driver won his second Formula One World Championship in 1968 | Graham Hill | 346 12 |
Ives and Lukewarm were characters in which classic TV sitcom | Porridge | 346 13 |
As whom did Erich Weiss find fame | Harry Houdini | 346 14 |
Which Scottish town is positioned at the head of the Moray Firth | Inverness | 346 15 |
Where would you find aJ-curve | On an economics chart | 346 16 |
In which town do The Simpsons live | Springfield | 347 01 |
Which German-based footballer played for England in 2001 | Owen Hargreaves | 347 02 |
Which TV series set in New York stars Sarah Jessica Parker | Sex and the City | 347 03 |
Which artist’s real name is Marshall Mathers Ill | Eminem | 347 04 |
What does the Russian ‘bolshoi’ mean, as in the Bolshoi Ballet | ‘Great | 347 05 |
Which Seventies band recorded the album ‘Breakfast in America’ | Supertramp | 347 06 |
Which Hollywood star was born Frederick Austerlitz | Fred Astaire | 347 07 |
Melbourne is the capital of which Australian state | Victoria | 347 08 |
Oceania is the name for a group of islands in which ocean | Pacific | 347 09 |
Where in the human body are the lumbar bones | Spine | 347 10 |
Which Yorkshire town was named after the number of beavers that once lived in the area | Beverley | 347 11 |
Lord Nuffield was the driving force behind which English motor car | Morris | 347 12 |
Who was voted Golfer of the Century in 1988 | Jack Nicklaus | 347 13 |
How many boroughs are there in New York City | Five | 347 14 |
In which country is the Murrumbidgee river | Australia | 347 15 |
What can be the cap of a tooth or a coin worth 25p | Crown | 347 16 |
Which river forms the boundary between New South Wales and Victoria | Murray | 348 01 |
Which quintessential British actor made his film debut as a Mexican in a Hopalong Cassidy movie | David Niven | 348 02 |
Murcia is a region of which country | Spain | 348 03 |
Which former England football captain died in 1993 | Bobby Moore | 348 04 |
What does the London tower Monument commemorate | Great Fire of London | 348 05 |
What don’t Mercury and Venus have that all other planets do | Moons | 348 06 |
What instrument did Glenn Miller used to play | Trombone | 348 07 |
Richard O’Sullivan and Tessa Wyatt starred on which Seventies sitcom | Robin’s Nest | 348 08 |
Who earned his big break as Han Solo in Star Wars | Harrison Ford | 348 09 |
Which 45-year-old became the oldest boxer ever to win a world championship when he knocked out Michael Moorer in 1994 | George Foreman | 348 10 |
Which Florida city is the oldest in the USA | St. Augustine | 348 11 |
What feat did Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand accomplish in 1987 | The first transatlantic crossing by hot-air balloon | 348 12 |
Who got married in a Berlin air-raid shelter on 29 April 1945 and committed suicide together the next day | Hitler and Eva Braun | 348 13 |
Who was married to Olive in On the Buses | Arthur | 348 14 |
Which US space shuttle exploded on take-off in 1986 | Challenger | 348 15 |
What is Tiger Woods’ real first name | Eldrick | 348 16 |
Who defeated Charles II at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 | Oliver Cromwell | 349 01 |
Which Beatle nearly died at the age of six after his appendix bursst | Ringo Starr | 349 02 |
Which American state forms the southern border of Missouri | Arkansas | 349 03 |
Which English county has its own parliament, the Stannary | Cornwall | 349 04 |
What was the maiden name of Australian tennis player Margaret Court | Margaret Smith | 349 05 |
Whose 1992 book was titled Sex | Madonna | 349 06 |
Which impressionist made his debut on TV’s Junior Showtime | joe Longthorne | 349 07 |
What does ‘leprechaun’ mean in old Irish | ‘Small body | 349 08 |
On which river does Leicester stand | Soar | 349 09 |
What stage name was adopted by Lee Yuen Kam | Bruce Lee | 349 10 |
According to the Old Testament, which city’s wall crumbled to the blast of Joshua’s trumpets | Jericho | 349 11 |
What was the name of the cross-eyed lion in Doktari | Clarence | 349 12 |
On what date is the festival of Epiphany | 6 january | 349 13 |
Which football club were later disqualified after winning the 1993 European Champions’ Cup | Marseilles | 349 14 |
Whose funeral did Prince Philip controversially attend in 1989 | Emperor Hirohito of Japan | 349 15 |
What was the name of the band in the TV series Tutti Frutti | The Malestics | 349 16 |
In which year did George VI become King of England | 1936 | 350 01 |
What are the Magi more generally known as | Three Wise Men | 350 02 |
Which unseeded player won the men’s singles at Wimbledon in 1985 | Boris Becker | 350 03 |
Who sang about MrWu’ | George Formby | 350 04 |
Oz. Dennis and Moxey were characters in which TV series | AufWieder5e Pet | 350 05 |
Who starred in Sophie’s Choice, Out ofAfrica and Death Becomes Her | Meryl Streep | 350 06 |
What is the currency of Saudi Arabia | Riyal | 350 07 |
Sinai is a peninsula in which country | Egypt | 350 08 |
What nickname was given to the army assembled by Italian patriot Garibaldi | ‘Redshirts | 350 09 |
Who is the heroine in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey | Catherine Morland | 350 10 |
What are fluorescent and filament | Types of light bulb | 350 11 |
In 1985, which company had to re-introduce its old product when customers complained about the taste of the new one | Coca-Cola | 350 12 |
Who was nicknamed the Poison Dwarf’ in Dallas | Lucy Ewing | 350 13 |
Which rap artist starred in the 1999 movie Deep Blue Sea | LL Cool J | 350 14 |
In which English county is Avebury | Wiltshire | 350 15 |
Which sextet were released in 1991 after the Court of Appeal quashed their convictions | The Birmingham Six | 350 16 |
Which Scottish football club plays at Tannadice Park | Dundee United | 351 01 |
What can be a man’s overcoat or a sofa | A chesterfield | 351 02 |
Which American-born travel writer sent Notes from a Small Island | Bill Bryson | 351 03 |
Which England fast bowler is nicknamed ‘Dazzler’ | Darren Gough | 351 04 |
Who did Paul Shane play in Hi-De-Hi | Ted Bovis | 351 05 |
Which Australian city is named after William lV’s queen | Adelaide | 351 06 |
What does the Greek word ‘antipodes’ mean | ‘Opposite feet | 351 07 |
Who wrote Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less | Jeffrey Archer | 351 08 |
The badger is a member of which family of animals | Weasel | 351 09 |
Who appears on TV with a dog called Spit | Bob Carolgees | 351 10 |
What name was shared by an English philosopher and an Irish painter | Francis Bacon | 351 11 |
Who won an Oscar for his portrayal of a tough businessman in the movie Wall Street | Michael Douglas | 351 12 |
What was the Christian name of Sherlock Holmes’ companion Dr Watson | John | 351 13 |
Guy Chambers writes songs with which artist | Robbie Williams | 351 14 |
Which Grand Prix circuit features the Lesmo curves | Monza | 351 15 |
Which town is overlooked byTable Mountain | Cape Town | 351 16 |
How high is the net in a game of table tennis | Six inches | 352 01 |
Who played the Duke of Edinburgh as a cowardly swine on TV in I 98Y | Rowan Atkinson (the first Edmund Blackadder’s title was Duke of Edinburgh) | 352 02 |
Which band was fronted by David Byrne | Talking Heads | 352 03 |
Tahiti is the largest of which group of Islands | Society Islands | 352 04 |
What was the name of the shaggy, piano-playing dog in The Muppet Show | Rowlf | 352 05 |
In which year did Bob Marley release ‘No Woman No Cry’ | 1974 | 352 06 |
On which island is Margate | Isle of Thanet | 352 07 |
What was the title of James Mason’s final film | The Shooting Pan,,, | 352 08 |
Which judge looks after the baps | Master of the Rolls | 352 09 |
What is the name of the chalk hill figure on the South Downs at Wilmington | The ‘Long Man | 352 10 |
Which radio show featured Mm and Henry Crun | The Goon Show | 352 11 |
Which primrose opens at night | Evening primrosc | 352 12 |
Who won the 1995 Booker Prize with The Ghost Rood | Pat Barker | 352 13 |
What are roller, roman and venetian | Types of window blind | 352 14 |
Which English explorer had the middle name Falcon | Captain Scott | 352 15 |
Which river forms the eastern border between England and Scotland | Tweed | 352 16 |
How many days of Christmas are there | 12 | 353 01 |
What was the surname of the Bros boys | Goss | 353 02 |
What can be a ballet dancer’s skirt or the name of a South African cleric | Tutu | 353 03 |
What was the pen name of author Samuel Langhorne Clemens | Mark Twain | 353 04 |
Which policy of Mikhail Gorbachev meant literally ‘reconstruction’ | Perestroika | 353 05 |
As what was Percy Toplis better known | ‘The Monocled Mutineer | 353 06 |
What is the capital of the Congo | Brazzaville | 353 07 |
Which poet did Elizabeth Barrett marry | Robert Browning | 353 08 |
What sporting activity takes place at Fairyhouse | Horse racing | 353 09 |
Which company was formed by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W Griffith to distribute their films | United Artists | 353 10 |
What is gneiss | A type of rock | 353 11 |
Who did the All Blacks play in a Monty Python rugby sketch | Derby City Council | 353 12 |
Which English town houses the government surveillance centre, GCHQ | Cheltenham | 353 13 |
Which boxer told his wife after losing his world heavyweight title in 1926: ‘Honey, I just forgot to duck’ | Jack Dempsey | 353 14 |
Which French actor starred in the 1990 movie Green Card | Gerard Depardieu | 353 15 |
Which American state is known as the ‘Centennial State’ | Colorado | 353 16 |
Which flower is also known as the calla lily | Arum lily | 354 01 |
What is cryogenics the science of | Very low temperatures | 354 02 |
What bird lays its eggs in the nests of other birds | Cuckoo | 354 03 |
In which century did Saladin conquer Egypt | 12th | 354 04 |
What did George Bernard Shaw say was the only sport more boring than cricket | Football | 354 05 |
Which TV superhero was played by Gerald Harper | Adam Adamant | 354 06 |
Westbury Down is the highest point of which stretch of English landscape | Salisbury Plain | 354 07 |
The Ruhr Valley is a region of which country | Germany | 354 08 |
Whose car was found in Newhaven following his disappearance | Lord Lucan | 354 09 |
In which part of London did Del Boy and Rodney live | Peckham | 354 10 |
Who wrote the 1964 poetry collection The Whitsun Weddings | Philip Larkin | 354 11 |
Which comet was discovered in 1995 by two American astronomers | Hale-Bopp comet | 354 12 |
Which Shakespeare play was the title of a Dire Straits song | Romeo And Juliet | 354 13 |
Which tinned meat celebrated its 50th birthday in 1987 | Spam | 354 14 |
Which TV show was created by Peter Fluck and Roger Law | Spitting Image | 354 15 |
What is an aye-aye | A lemur-like creature | 354 16 |
What does GCHQ stand for | Government Communications Headquarters | 355 01 |
What was said to be Hitler’s favourite film | King Kong | 355 02 |
In which country might you be entertained by a geisha | Japan | 355 03 |
Which two English towns give their names to types of carpet | Axminster and Wilton | 355 04 |
Whom did Gruff Rhys Jones replace in the Not the Nine o’Clock News team | Chris Langham | 355 05 |
In which month does the Monte Carlo Rally traditionally take place | January | 355 06 |
In the reign of which King of England were the American colonies lost | George Ill | 355 07 |
Who played the embittered mistress in Fatal Attraction | Glenn Close | 355 08 |
Pete Callan is the resident villain in which TV soap | Family Affairs | 355 09 |
In tennis, what is the women’s equivalent of the Davis Cup | Federation Cup | 355 10 |
What is Spike Milligan’s real first name | Terence | 355 11 |
What is the first sign of the zodiac | Aries | 355 12 |
What is the bottlebrush | A type of tree | 355 13 |
In Greek mythology, what was the name of the three-headed dog guarding the entrance to the underworld | Cerberus | 355 14 |
Which Australian cricketer had a batting average of 99.94 from 52 Test matches | Donald Bradman | 355 15 |
Which singer had a cousin who scored an FA Cup final goal | Elton John (Roy Dwight) | 355 16 |
What was the stage name of singer AsaYoelson | Al Jolson | 356 01 |
What did women in America start burning in 1970 | Their bras | 356 02 |
In which city is the Bosporus suspension bridge | Istanbul | 356 03 |
What nationality was skier Alberto Tomba | Italian | 356 04 |
Cathy McGowan made her name on which TV show | Ready, Stead>c Go! | 356 05 |
What residents of Trafalgar Square were created by Edwin Landseer | The lions at the foot of Nelson’s Column | 356 06 |
Who directed the 1999 movie Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | 356 07 |
Which food is traditionally used to ward off vampires | Garlic | 356 08 |
Which former Big Breakfast presenter is the daughter of a comedian | LizaTarbuck (daughter of Jimmy) | 356 09 |
With which country is the fondue most associated | Switzerland | 356 10 |
What is the capital of Croatia | Zagreb | 356 11 |
Who directed the 1993 film A BrnxTale | Robert De Niro | 356 12 |
What does a postilion ride | A horse | 356 13 |
Which European landmark has 1,792 steps | Eiffel Tower | 356 14 |
Which band urged you to ‘Sit Down’ | James | 356 15 |
The Kattegat lies to the east of which country | Denmark | 356 16 |
What is dulse | An edible seaweed | 357 01 |
Which breed of dog shares its name with a coastal region of Canada | Labrador | 357 02 |
Which bear celebrated his 70th birthday in 1996 | Winnie the Pooh | 357 03 |
Which country’s currency is the real | Brazil | 357 04 |
On which island is the Mauna Loa volcano | Hawaii | 357 05 |
In Chinese theory, what is the opposite of yin | Yang | 357 06 |
How many questions must be answered correctly to win the jackpot on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire | 15 | 357 07 |
Who composed the Fingal’s Cave overture | Mendelssohn | 357 08 |
Which American driver won the Formula One World Championship in 1978 | Mario Andretti | 357 09 |
Which animal strolled down the street at the start of each episode of Northern Exposure | Moose | 357 10 |
In what field of photography did Eric Hosking specialise | Wildlife | 357 11 |
What figure is Cerne Abbas famous for | Giant | 357 12 |
Which university crew has clocked up the most wins in the Boat Race | Cambridge | 357 13 |
Which footballing nation won the 1976 European Championship | Czechoslovakia | 357 14 |
In which book does The Wife of Bath’s Tale appear | Canterbury Tales | 357 15 |
What are dolly, dimmer and rocker | Types of light switches | 357 16 |
Which former member of the royal family designed an aviary at London Zoo | Lord Snowdon | 358 01 |
What are there ten of in a kilometre | Hectometres | 358 02 |
Who was the shabby private detective hero in the TV series Public Eye | Frank Marker | 358 03 |
What colour was Sheb Wooley’s Flying People Eater | Purple | 358 04 |
Morden is at the southern end of which London Underground line | Northern Line | 358 05 |
In which city was the royal standard raised at the start of the English Civil War | Nottingham | 358 06 |
Which city had the world’s largest population in 1900 | London | 358 07 |
What was abolished in Britain in December 1969 | Hanging | 358 08 |
Who directed Carrie and The Untouchables | Brian de Palma | 358 09 |
In which century was curling first played | 16th | 358 10 |
‘Suicide Is Painless’ was the theme song to which TV series | M*A*S*H | 358 11 |
In what position did Rob Andrew play rugby for England | Fly-half | 358 12 |
Which insect can jump 200 times its own height | Flea | 358 13 |
What is another name for the windflower | Anemone | 358 14 |
Who wrote The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid | Hans Christian Andersen | 358 15 |
What is an argali | Wild sheep | 358 16 |
What stage name was used by choreographer William Berkeley Enos | Busby Berkeley | 359 01 |
What was the American TV game show Card Sharks called when it moved to the UK | PlayYour Cards Right | 359 02 |
In which ocean is the Bismarck Archipelago | Pacific | 359 03 |
What is a blackcock | A large grouse | 359 04 |
The Black Country is in which area of England | West Midlands | 359 05 |
What can be an echo form in music or a type of priest | Canon | 359 06 |
In which century was Canterbury Cathedral begun | 11th | 359 07 |
In the European Union, what does CAP stand for | Common Agricultural Policy | 359 08 |
Which Tom Waits’ song was a hit for Rod Stewart | ‘Downtown Train | 359 09 |
At what sport was Peter Qosterhuis a professional | Golf | 359 10 |
What country boasts the highest and lowest spots in South America | Argentina | 359 11 |
What is dermatology the treatment of | Skin disorders | 359 12 |
Who were the original team captains on Give Us a Clue | Una Stubbs and Lionel Blair | 359 13 |
Which actor’s films included On the Waterfront and The Pawnbroker | Rod Steiger | 359 14 |
Where is the plain of Sharon | Israel | 359 15 |
How many popes have been Innocent | 13 | 359 16 |
What is receding from the Earth by an inch and a half per year | The Moon | 360 01 |
What are wood mosaic and wood parquet | Types of hardwood flooring | 360 02 |
In which Foothall League fixture would the Lions play the Tigers | MilIwall v Hull | 360 03 |
I-low many mountains in the world are over 2&000ft | Three | 360 04 |
In which country is the Mojave Desert | USA | 360 05 |
Which team currently playing in the Scottish First Division won the Scottish FA Cup in 1987 | St Mirren | 360 06 |
Which racecourse hosts a July meeting that is always described as ‘glorious’ | Goodwood | 360 07 |
At what age did Robbie Williams join Take That | 16 | 360 08 |
What does the Russian word ‘soyuz’ mean, as in the series of spacecraft | ‘Union | 360 09 |
In which country is the port ofVeracruz | Mexico | 360 10 |
Who wrote Cot on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams | 360 11 |
On which island is Carisbrooke Castle | Isle ofWight | 360 12 |
Which English king was the illegitimate son of Duke Robert the Devil | William the Conqueror | 360 13 |
Who played the AIDS-stricken lawyer in the movie Philadelphia | Tom Hanks | 360 14 |
Which nationalist assumed the title ‘governor of Scotland’ in 1297 | William Wallace | 360 15 |
Which EastEnders character is played by Charlie Brooks | Janine Butcher | 360 16 |
In which city was the first Guggenheim Museum established | NewYork | 361 01 |
Who wrote Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 361 02 |
Which TV soap celebrated its 40th birthday in 2000 | Coronation Street | 361 03 |
Which French river has the same name as an evergreen US female singer | Cher | 361 04 |
Which is colder - minus 5 degrees Centigrade or minus 5 degrees Fahrenheit | Fahrenheit | 361 05 |
At sea, what do 6,080ft equal | One nautical mile | 361 06 |
Which Russian woman won gold medals in the 800 and 1.500 metres at the 1996 Olympics | Svetlana Masterkova | 361 07 |
In which English county isTewkesbury | Gloucestershire | 361 08 |
In which century was golf first played | 15th | 361 09 |
Who was the Nazi minister of propaganda | Joseph Goebbels | 361 10 |
What are the factors of 8 | I, 8,2,4 | 361 11 |
In which year was archery reintroduced to the Olympics | 1972 | 361 12 |
Which state forms the northern border of North Carolina | Virginia | 361 13 |
Which two brothers were members of Spandau Ballet | Gary and Martin Kemp | 361 14 |
Bob Hoskins played sheet music salesman Arthur Parker in which TV series by Dennis Potter | Pennies From Heaven | 361 15 |
Which other Briton beat Christine Truman in the 1961 Wimbledon women's singles final | Angela Mortimer | 361 16 |
Which star of Little Man Tate became a mother for the second time in October 2001 | Jodie Foster | 362 01 |
For which bank did ‘rogue trader’ Nick Leeson work | Barings | 362 02 |
Which TV cook was embarrassed when a 12-year-old girl spat out his food in front of 3,000 people | Jamie Oliver | 362 03 |
Which ITV series of 2001 was billed as a British version of the US sitcom Will and Grace | Bob and Rose | 362 04 |
What part of an Irish castle do visitors kiss for good luck | Blarney Stone (Blarney Castle) | 362 05 |
Which English king was married to Margaret of Anjou | Henry VI | 362 06 |
Which TV chat show host celebrated the 30th anniversary of his programme in 2001 | Michael Parkinson | 362 07 |
What is shiatsu | Japanese method of massage | 362 08 |
Where does the Boat Race start | Putney | 362 09 |
For what is the Turner Prize awarded | Art | 362 10 |
Who has children named Lourdes and Rocco | Madonna | 362 11 |
With what did Dick Whittington hope to find the streets of Lo,jdon paved | Gold | 362 12 |
What is shepherd’s purse | A plant | 362 13 |
On what surface is the US Open tennis championship played | Concrete | 362 14 |
Who wrote Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 362 15 |
Greco-Roman is a style of which sport | Wrestling | 362 16 |
Which story of the Foreign Legion was written by P. C. Wren | Beau Geste | 363 01 |
In which country was the Duke of Wellington born | Ireland | 363 02 |
Which Dickens character was ‘ever so ‘umble’ | Uriah Heep | 363 03 |
Which Alfred was an author of walkers’ guidebooks | Alfred Wainwright | 363 04 |
In which country is there a rugby club called Garryowen | Ireland | 363 05 |
Which Englishman directed Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger | 363 06 |
on a dart board, what is the value of the outer ring of the bullseye | 25 | 363 07 |
What can be horned, carpet or gaboon | Vipers | 363 08 |
In which country is Lake Van | Turkey | 363 09 |
Which organisation’s headquarters were behind Del Floria’s tailor shop in Manhattan | UNCLE | 363 10 |
Which baseball player featured in the lyrics of Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘Mrs Robinson’ | Joe Di Maggio | 363 11 |
Which two British boxers won gold medals at the 1956 Olympics | Terry Spinks and Dick McTaggart | 363 12 |
Which news reached London on the day of Elizabeth Ii’s coronation | That a British expedition had become the first to conquer Everest | 363 13 |
What was the Tour of Britain cycling race previously known as | The Milk Race | 363 14 |
Which European capital stands on the River Vltava | Prague | 363 15 |
Who played Smashey and Nicey | Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse | 363 16 |
What is the area around Stoke-on Trent known as | The Potteries | 364 01 |
Which was the first London Underground line to be opened | Metropolitan | 364 02 |
What game is also called pocket billiards | Pool | 364 03 |
For whom were XTC making plans | Nigel | 364 04 |
What nationality is the racing driver Jamb Trulli | Italian | 364 05 |
Which Yorkshire town is famous for its liquorice cakes | Pontefract | 364 06 |
General Pinochet seized power in which country in 1973 | Chile | 364 07 |
Which star is at the centre of the Solar System | The Sun | 364 08 |
Which England cricketer is ironically nicknamed ‘The Cat’ | Phil Tufnell | 364 09 |
What name was adopted by Joseph Vissarionivich Djugashviti | Stalin | 364 10 |
Who created Grange Hill and Brookside | Phil Redmond | 364 11 |
What can be simultaneous or quadratic | Equations | 364 12 |
From which country does the plastic explosive Semtex originate | Czech Republic | 364 13 |
What is a samoyed | Breed of dog | 364 14 |
What sport was played by Joe Montana | American football | 364 15 |
David Ben-Gurion was the first Prime Minister of which country | Israel | 364 16 |
Who was A Suitable Case for Treatment in a 1966 film | Morgan | 365 01 |
What nationality is the tennis player Pat Rafter | Australian | 365 02 |
Which actress gave her name to a life jacket | Mae West | 365 03 |
What do four pecks make | A bushel | 365 04 |
Sfax and Sousse are ports in which country | Tunisia | 365 05 |
What was restored to English life in 1660 | The monarchy | 365 06 |
What is the name of the thick, embossed wallpaper that is usually painted over and became popular in the I 970s | Anaglypta | 365 07 |
Which writer/performer used the pen name Gerald Wiley | Ronnie Barker | 365 08 |
With what musical instrument was Jacqueline Du Pré associated | Cello | 365 09 |
Who wrote My Family and OtherAnimals | Gerald Durrell | 365 10 |
In which city is the mansion Dumbarton Oaks | Washington DC | 365 11 |
In which English county is the Isle of Grain | Kent | 365 12 |
Kenneth II became king of which country in 971 | Scotland | 365 13 |
How many squares are there on a Snakes and Ladders board | 100 | 365 14 |
Who shot Lee Harvey Oswald | Jack Ruby | 365 15 |
Which goalkeeper won 119 caps for Northern Ireland | Pat Jennings | 365 16 |
Where did John Thaw and Lindsey Duncan spend a year | Provence | 366 01 |
Who provided the voice of Mr Magoo | Jim Backus | 366 02 |
Which 1957 treaty established the EEC | Treaty of Rome | 366 03 |
Which phone number was introduced in the UK in 1937 | 999 | 366 04 |
What did Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli invent in 1866 | Fax machine | 366 05 |
Who released the 1968 album Lady Soul | Aretha Franklin | 366 06 |
In what car did Damon Hill become Formula One world champion | Williams | 366 07 |
Which bar owner fell in love with Father Peter Clifford in Ballykissangel | Assumpta Fitzgerald | 366 08 |
Which French couturier pioneered the ‘New Look’ | Christian Dior | 366 09 |
In which century was Hadrian’s Wall built | 2nd | 366 10 |
Castle Howard is a stately home in which English county | North Yorkshire | 366 11 |
Which planet has the shortest year | Mercury | 366 12 |
Which band has a member called ‘Left eye’ | TLC | 366 13 |
Who played the ‘man with no name’ in A Fistful of Dollars | Clint Eastwood | 366 14 |
Which Mediterranean country shows a map of itself on its flag | Cyprus | 366 15 |
Which London football club’s ground is sometimes known as the Boleyn Ground | West Ham United | 366 16 |
Which long-running TV series was conceived by John Hunter Blair | Blue Peter | 367 01 |
Which bank was the first to introduce cheque cards to the UK | Midland | 367 02 |
Who walked out of Scott’s tent, saying he might be some time | Captain Oates | 367 03 |
Which Steven Spielberg film was based on a novel by Thomas Keneally | Schindler’s List | 367 04 |
In which field event did Balazs Kiss win a gold at the 1996 Olympics | Hammer | 367 05 |
How many gills make a pint | Four | 367 06 |
Who was the Roman god of fire and destruction | Vulcan | 367 07 |
What is a hawser | A thick rope for tying ships | 367 08 |
The veldt is a subtropical grassland in which country | South Africa | 367 09 |
Who died at Osborne House on 22 January 1901 | Queen Victoria | 367 10 |
Who created Paul Temple | Francis Durbridge | 367 11 |
Which French Christian name is the capital of South Dakota | Pierre | 367 12 |
What is a young pigeon called | Squab | 367 13 |
Which vegetable has the Latin name Brassica ropo | Turnip | 367 14 |
Turku is a port in which country | Finland | 367 15 |
Which are the two cheapest streets to live in Monopoly | Whitechapel and Old Kent Road | 367 16 |
In which song was Noel Gallagher ‘gonna start a revolution from my bed’ | ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger | 368 01 |
Which MP was killed at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway | William Huskisson | 368 02 |
Which future World Champion’s first Formula One victory was at the 1975 Dutch Grand Prix | James Hunt | 368 03 |
Whose guide dog was the first to attend a State Opening of Parliament | David Blunkett’s | 368 04 |
In which year. was the jarrow Crusade | 1936 | 368 05 |
Which is Europe’s largest inland port | Hamburg | 368 06 |
Who sang about the ‘Year of the Cat’ | Al Stewart | 368 07 |
At what number Sunset Strip did Stu Bailey work | 77 | 368 08 |
Which types of cloud are found higher in the sky — altostratus or cirrus | Cirrus | 368 09 |
What is a coati | A South American animal | 368 10 |
Who was the first track athlete to hold World, Olympic, European and Commonwealth titles simultaneously | Linford Christie | 368 11 |
Who composed ‘Stardust’ and ‘Lazy River’ | Hoagy Carmichael | 368 12 |
Who signs himself ‘Ebor’ | Archbishop ofYork | 368 13 |
Which IBM computer defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1996 | Deep Blue | 368 14 |
What is the Decalogue more commonly known as | The Ten Commandments | 368 15 |
In which county is Broadmoor Hospital | Berkshire | 368 16 |
Which borough of New York City is named after Dutch settler James Bronck | The Bronx | 369 01 |
Who created Rikki-Tikki.Tavi | Rudyard Kipling | 369 02 |
Which sportsman was the first person to be voted off Celebrity Big Brother in 2001 | Chris Eubank | 369 03 |
What is a bromeliad | Tropical plant | 369 04 |
Which instrument is also known as the English horn | Cor anglais | 369 05 |
Which city hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics | Nagano | 369 06 |
Which football club did Aif Garnett support | West Ham United | 369 07 |
Who stoked Ivor the Engine | Jones the Steam | 369 08 |
On which island are the TT races run | Isle of Man | 369 09 |
Who was killed on his yacht by an IRA bomb in 1979 | Earl Mountbatten | 369 10 |
Where did Anthony work in a Billy Joel song | Grocery store | 369 11 |
How old was Jodie Foster when she starred in Taxi Driver | 14 | 369 12 |
Which Italian football club did Paul Gascoigne join in 1992 | Lazio | 369 13 |
Which star of the movie Strike Up the Bond died in 1969 | Judy Garland | 369 14 |
Which record company was founded by Berry Gordy Jnr | Tamla Motown | 369 15 |
The Nottinghamshire town of Eastwood is associated with which author | D. H. Lawrence | 369 16 |
What nationality is Olympic sprinter Donovan Bailey | Canadian | 370 01 |
Which state forms the western border of Pennsylvania | Ohio | 370 02 |
What dissolves in a solvent | Solute | 370 03 |
Which singer was nicknamed ‘The Empress of the Blues’ | Bessie Smith | 370 04 |
What was the first name of Egyptian politician Sadat | Anwar | 370 05 |
In 1986, who became the youngest Wimbledon semi-finalist for 99 years | Gabriela Sabatini | 370 06 |
Who directed Tommy and Lisztomonia | Ken Russell | 370 07 |
Which sport operates under the Queensberry Rules | Boxing | 370 08 |
What were the Pre-Raphaelites | A group of painters | 370 09 |
In which county is Chessington World of Adventure | Surrey | 370 10 |
Which Conservative politician was portrayed as a slug on Spitting Image | Kenneth Baker | 370 11 |
Who was the first DJ to be heard on Radio I | Tony Blackburn | 370 12 |
Which 16th-century Danish astronomer wore a silver nose after his own was cut off in a duel | Tycho Brake | 370 13 |
Which female singer had hits with ‘Dreams’ and ‘Rise’ | Gabrielle | 370 14 |
What was TV fitness guru Diana Moran also known as | ‘The Green Goddess | 370 15 |
Pointing forward, what side of a ship is the starboard | Right | 370 16 |
What is a shoveler | Duck | 371 01 |
Which tennis player was stabbed by a fan of her rival, Seffi Graf, on a court during the 1993 Hamburg Open | Monica Seles | 371 02 |
Harriet Vane featured in the stories of which aristocratic detective | Lord Peter Wimsey | 371 03 |
Which Sixties pop group leader sported an eye-patch | Johnny Kidd | 371 04 |
What disease devastated Ireland in the I 840s | Potato blight | 371 05 |
What was the name of the chambermaid in Fowlty Towers | PoIly | 371 06 |
Which alcoholic drink, popular among ancient Britons, was made from honey and water fermented with yeast | Mead | 371 07 |
What is the maximum score in a game of tenpin bowling | 300 | 371 08 |
Which English character actor won an Oscar for the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai | Alec Guinness | 371 09 |
What do cartographers make | Maps | 371 10 |
What was Arthur Daley’s favourite watering hole | The Winchester | 371 11 |
Over what distance is the One Thousand Guineas horse race run | One mile | 371 12 |
Whose 1989 solo album was titled Journeyman | Eric Clapton | 371 13 |
Which former world champion racing driver was killed in a crash at Hockenheim in 1968 | Jim Clark | 371 14 |
What must players keep on the floor during a game of snooker | One foot | 371 15 |
Which member of The Clash was born John Mellors | Joe Strummer | 371 16 |
What did Tim Berners-Lee invent in 1990 | World Wide Web | 372 01 |
What did General Karl Weidling surrender on 2 May 1945 | Berlin | 372 02 |
Who composed the score for West Side Story | Leonard Bernstein | 372 03 |
Which Test cricketer was nicknamed ‘Bees” | Ian Botham | 372 04 |
Gaborone is the capital of which African country | Botswana | 372 05 |
Who explored America’s Wilderness Road in 1775 | Daniel Boone | 372 06 |
What does Mark Fowler sell on his EastEnders market stall | Fruit and veg | 372 07 |
What can be a school of whales or a home for peas | Pod | 372 08 |
Which game did Mark Twain call ‘a good walk spoiled’ | Golf• | 372 09 |
Dondra Head is the most southerly point of which island | Sri Lanka | 372 10 |
What is hyssop | A herb | 372 11 |
The Olive Tree Alliance won a 1996 general election in which European country | Italy | 372 12 |
What sport did Gordie Howe play professionally | Ice Hockey | 372 13 |
How many lanes are there in an Olympic swimming pool | Eight | 372 14 |
Which Spice Girl recorded a duet with Bryan Adams | Melanie Chisholm | 372 15 |
Who played Elliot Ness in the 1987 movie The Untouchables | Kevin Costner | 372 16 |
What is the stage name of musician Declan McManus | Elvis Costello | 373 01 |
What item of clothing took its name from a suburb of Bombay | Dungarees | 373 02 |
What does Costa Brava mean literally | ‘Wild Coast | 373 03 |
OTT was the short-lived, adult version of which TV show | Tiswas | 373 04 |
How many consecutive failures mean elimination from a high jump competition | Three | 373 05 |
In which American state was Elvis Presley born | Mississippi | 373 06 |
How many players are there in a Rugby League team | 13 | 373 07 |
Which island is home to the ayeaye | Madagascar | 373 08 |
Who was the Roman god of agricUlture | Saturn | 373 09 |
Which Prince album contained ‘Little Red Corvette’ | ‘1999 | 373 10 |
What title was Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I, the first person to hold | Princess Royal | 373 11 |
What did M*A*S*H stand for | Mobile Army Surgical Hospital | 373 12 |
What dog is another name for a marmot | Prairie dog | 373 13 |
What was Enoch Powell’s first name | John | 373 14 |
The edelweiss is the national flower of which country | Austria | 373 15 |
What was discovered at Sutton Hoo in 1939 | A Saxon ship | 373 16 |
In which English county is the Porton Down Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment | Wiltshire | 374 01 |
The Power Game was the sequel to which TV series | The Plane Makers | 374 02 |
Which actor directed the 1980 film Stir Crazy | Scottish | 374 03 |
In which city do Sampdoria play home football matches | Genoa | 374 04 |
What nationality is film director Wim Wenders | German | 374 05 |
Which sitcom was set in Chigwell | Birds of a Feather | 374 06 |
What is the name of the technique for hardening rubber through heat and the addition of sulphur | Vulcanisation | 374 07 |
What is the musical term for a rapid fluctuation of pitch | Vibrato | 374 08 |
Who played Clyde Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde | Warren Beatty | 374 09 |
In which century was Cambridge University founded | 12th | 374 10 |
Which month of the year is named after a Roman festival of purification | February | 374 11 |
Which Football League club moved its home from Loakes Park to Adams Park | Wycombe Wanderers | 374 12 |
Which cricketer scored a record 1,710 Test runs in 1976 | Viv Richards | 374 13 |
Who was the third US President | Thomas Jefferson | 374 14 |
Which Zimbabwe golfer won the British Open in 1994 | Nick Price | 374 15 |
The first of which female gathering was founded in 1897 at Stoney ui or | Women’s Institute | 374 16 |
Andy Mackay and Brian Eno were members of which Seventies band | Roxy Music | 375 01 |
Of whose murder was James Earl Ray convicted | Martin Luther l(ing | 375 02 |
What nationality was the pirate Captain Kidd | Scottish | 375 03 |
Which Red Dwarf actor presents Robot Wars | Craig Charles | 375 04 |
What can be hermit, horseshoe or edible | Crab | 375 05 |
Which are the only two South American countries that do not border Brazil | Chile and Ecuador | 375 06 |
What is a colonnade | A row of columns which support arches | 375 07 |
Count Fosco was the rotund villain of which Wilkie Collins novel | The Woman in White | 375 08 |
In which year did The Mousetrap open | 1952 | 375 09 |
In which English county is Bodiam Castle | East Sussex | 375 10 |
Who sang ‘I WalkThe Line’ in 1956 | Johnny Cash | 375 11 |
Gamla Stan is the old quarter of which city | Stockholm | 375 12 |
Which actress married producer Carlo Ponti | Sophia Loren | 375 13 |
Which waterway do the rivers Tame and Goyt join to form at Stockport | Mersey | 375 14 |
Which ‘madame’ popularised Luncheon Vouchers in the I 980s | Cynthia Payne | 375 15 |
What did Isaac Singer invent | Sewing machine | 375 16 |
Where did Moses receive the Ten Commandments | Mount Sinai | 376 01 |
Whose 1983 album was titled ‘Hearts And Bones’ | Paul Simon | 376 02 |
In which US state are the Black Hills | South Dakota | 376 03 |
Whose best-selling album was ‘Jagged Little Pill’ | Alanis Morissette | 376 04 |
Which two actresses created Upstairs Downstairs | Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins | 376 05 |
Which is the nearest seaside resort to London | Southend | 376 06 |
In which country is Hockenheim motor racing circuit | Germany | 376 07 |
How many shillings were there in a guinea | 21 | 376 08 |
What squat sea bird has the Latin name Fratercula orctica | Puffin | 376 09 |
Which sporting event was inspired by the exploits of Pheidippides | Marathon | 376 10 |
What name was given to England’s boundary areas with Wales and Scotland | The Marches | 376 11 |
‘Logo’ is derived from the Greek word for what | ‘Word | 376 12 |
What has been the official spoken language of China since 1917 | Mandarin | 376 13 |
What is a runnel | A small stream | 376 14 |
What is a unit for measuring the warmth of fabrics and clothes | Tog | 376 15 |
The House of Keys is part of the government of which island | Isle of Man | 376 16 |
What colour was Roy Orbison’s Bayou | Blue | 377 01 |
Who was appointed manager of Coventry City FC in October 2001 | Roland Nilsson | 377 02 |
According to Blackadder, who had the brain the size of ‘a weasel’s wedding tackle’ | Prince Regent | 377 03 |
In what sport did Britain’s Jason Queally win a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics | Cycling | 377 04 |
Who was Noah’s niggly wife in the children’s TV series | Nellie | 377 05 |
The North Foreland is a promontory in which county of England | Kent | 377 06 |
What are natives of Kazakhstan called | Kazakhs | 377 07 |
What colour is umber | Yellow/brown | 377 08 |
What does a trichologist study | Hair | 377 09 |
For which international rugby team does Keith Wood play | Ireland | 377 10 |
Which singer/songwriter had a hit in 2000 with ‘Babylon’ | David Gray | 377 11 |
Who played TV cop TJ. Hooker | William Shatner | 377 12 |
What did officials at Ascot consider banning from the Royal Enclosure in 1971 | Hot pants | 377 13 |
Which slender eating implements can be made from wood, plastic or ivory | Chopsticks | 377 14 |
What are chitterlings | Animal intestines, prepared as a food | 377 15 |
Which 2001 film starred John Cleese and Woody Harrelson | Scorched | 377 16 |
What can be an expression of indignation or a deep frill on a dress | Flounce | 378 01 |
Which 2001 film starred Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins as part of a gang of drinking buddies who scatter their friend’s ashes off Margate Pier | Last Orders | 378 02 |
In chess, which piece can only move diagonally | Bishop | 378 03 |
What is a native of Manchester called | Mancuriian | 378 04 |
What does the musical term ‘largo’ mean | Slowly | 378 05 |
At what sport did Britain’s Judy Grinham win gold in the I 956 Olympics | Swimming | 378 06 |
Who was ‘mummy’s little soldier’ in Please, Sir! | Frankie Abbott | 378 07 |
Who played Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in the l997 movie Seven Years in Tibet | Brad Pitt | 378 08 |
Which island was the setting for Magnum P1 | Hawaii | 378 09 |
Who directed Trains potting and The Beach | Danny Boyle | 378 10 |
Which band longed to go to ‘Echo Beach’ | Martha and the Muffins | 378 11 |
What can be a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage or a pop concert | Gig | 378 12 |
Which band recorded the album ‘Parachutes’ | Co?dplay | 378 13 |
To whom is actress Prunella Scales married | Timothy West | 378 14 |
What would you do with a sackbut | Play it (it’s a musical intrument) | 378 15 |
In the imperial system of weight, how many pounds are there in a quarter | 28 | 378 16 |
Caledonia was the Roman name for which country | Scotland | 379 01 |
Vancouver stands at the mouth of which river | Fraser River | 379 02 |
What nationality were the original Vandals | German | 379 03 |
Which Shetland island gives its name to a type of knitting pattern | Fair Isle | 379 04 |
How long is a microsecond | A millionth of a second | 379 05 |
Where does your pancreas lie | Behind your stomach | 379 06 |
Which TV presenter made her name on Braden’s Week | Esther Rantzen | 379 07 |
Who released the album ‘Synkronized’ | jamiroquai | 379 08 |
Who starred in The Matrix, Sweet November and Hardball | Keanu Reeves | 379 09 |
Mike, Matt and Pete were better known as which Eighties hitmakers | Stock, Aitken and Waterman | 379 10 |
What does Isobel Lang present on the BBC | Weather forecast | 379 11 |
Who wrote My Uncle Silas | H. E. Bates | 379 12 |
In which country was golfer Retief Goosen born | South Africa | 379 13 |
What does CAMRA stand for | Campaign for Real Ale | 379 14 |
What would you do with a kina in Papua New Guinea | Spend it | 379 15 |
Which US theatre awards are named after actress Antoinette Perry | Tony awards | 379 16 |
What name is given to a horse with black and white patches | Piebald | 380 01 |
What is the only breed of dog that doesn’t have a pink tongue | Chow | 380 02 |
Which show featured ‘Q’,Anna and Dee as the Little Ladies | Rock Follies | 380 03 |
Which part of South Carolina lent its name to a dance craze | Charleston | 380 04 |
What sport do the Florida Marlins play | Baseball | 380 05 |
What colour is the fur of a chinchilla | Grey | 380 06 |
What is a white dwarf | A star | 380 07 |
Which musician was Halfway Between The Gutter’ | Fatboy Slim | 380 08 |
Which snooker player was given the nickname ‘Interesting’ by Spitting Image | Steve Davis | 380 09 |
Roger II was king of which country from 1130 | Sicily | 380 10 |
Which two cities fought the Punic Wars | Rome and Carthage | 380 11 |
What can be a joint on the back leg of an animal or a German white wine | Hock | 380 12 |
What are Cannon and Ball’s first names | Tommy and Bobby | 380 13 |
Which are the nearest islands to Rockall | Outer Hebrides | 380 14 |
What is the capital of Mali | Bamako | 380 15 |
Who founded the Body Shop | Anita Roddick | 380 16 |
What are the two basic ingredients of cock-a-leekie soup | Chicken and leek | 381 01 |
What is a julep | An iced drink | 381 02 |
What was the name of Reg Holdsworth’s mother-in-law in Coronation Street | Maud Grimes | 381 03 |
Which Welsh town means ‘Vale of the Crow’ | Cwmbran | 381 04 |
Who had a manservant named Cato | Inspector Clouseau | 381 05 |
Which was the only major sea battle to be fought during the First World War | Battle of jutland | 381 06 |
Which country won the first Women’s World Cup in football | USA | 381 07 |
Wallachia is part of which European country | Romania | 381 08 |
Which motor manufacturer takes its name from the Latin for ‘I roll’ | Volvo | 381 09 |
Who was US secretary of state from 1977-80 | Cyrus Vance | 381 10 |
In 1992, which city reintroduced trams to the UK after an absence of 40 years | Manchester | 381 11 |
What can be a pivot or a small freshwater fish | Gudgeon | 381 12 |
What is the opposite of the Orient | Occident | 381 13 |
Moony and Sunshine were axed from which children’s TV show | Rainbow | 381 14 |
Which country boasts the world’s longest coastline | Canada | 381 15 |
Which cardinal was chief minister to Louis XIII of France | Cardinal Richelieu | 381 16 |
What would you do with a palliasse | Lie on it (it’s a straw mattress) | 382 01 |
Which famous five released the album ‘Buzz’ | Steps | 382 02 |
Which slip of the tongue takes its name from a former warden of New College, Oxford | Spoonerism (William Spooner) | 382 03 |
Which Moroccan port means ‘white house’ in Spanish | Casablanca | 382 04 |
Where would you find the Carolines | In the Pacific Ocean | 382 05 |
How many strings does a violin have | Four | 382 06 |
Who was the first Canadian to become Formula One World Champion | Jacques Villeneuve | 382 07 |
Who was Thora Hird’s husband in the sitcom Meet the Wife | Freddie Frinton | 382 08 |
How old was Elvis Presley when he died | 42 | 382 09 |
From which country does moselle wine come | Germany | 382 10 |
Which dessert consisting of meringue topped with fruit and whipped cream is named after a Russian ballerina | Pavlova | 382 11 |
Of what was Pax the Roman goddess | Peace | 382 12 |
For which film did Henry Fonda win a BestActor Oscar in 1981 | On Golden Pond | 382 13 |
What is a native of the Seychelles called | Seychellois | 382 14 |
Which ‘brothers’ released the album ‘Surrender’ | Chemical Brothers | 382 15 |
What year followed 66BC | 65BC | 382 16 |
About whom does a hagiographer write | The saints | 383 01 |
Who played TV dropout Shelley | Hywel Bennett | 383 02 |
What is the second-largest city in Wales | Swansea | 383 03 |
With what was Kevin Costner dancing in 1990 | Wolves | 383 04 |
What colour are the flowers of a coltsfoot | Yellow | 383 05 |
In which English city would you find medieval covered arcades called ‘The Rows’ | Chester | 383 06 |
In which year did the Queen marry Prince Philip | 1947 | 383 07 |
What is lanolin obtained from | Sheep’s wool | 383 08 |
What did UNCLE stand for | United Network Command for Law Enforcement | 383 09 |
Whose feast day falls on I March | St David | 383 10 |
Whose 1995 album was titled ‘History’ | Michael Jackson | 383 11 |
Which club, playing in the bottom division of the Football League in 2001—2, won the League Cup in 1988 | Luton Town | 383 12 |
What name is given to a comic character from traditional Italian plays who wears a black mask and a colourful costume | Harlequin | 383 13 |
Who is the only US president to have been re-elected more than once | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 383 14 |
What three colours appear on the flag of Bulgaria | White, green and red | 383 15 |
In which continent is the mountain range, the Appalachians | North America | 383 16 |