240 Buzzer Quiz Questions

General Knowledge

Author: Steve Kidd

I would like a few of these to be a little more 'buzzerish' if you know what I mean

1	Believed to be descended from Swedish Vallhund dogs that came to the British isles with the Vikings, with Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire varieties, what breed take their name from the Welsh for ‘dwarf dog’?	Corgi
2	The last oil-fired passenger steamship to cross the Atlantic in scheduled liner service, launched in September 1967, in 2004 what became Cunard's longest serving ship?	(RMS) QE2 or Queen Elizabeth Two
3	Siobhán Donaghy met Keisha Buchanan and Mutya Buena, at a party in 1998. Name the group they formed, which had UK Number Ones with Freak Like Me, Round Round, Hole in the Head and Push the Button?	Sugababes
4	Name the market town on the River Swale in North Yorkshire that has a namesakes on the river Thames in London, and at highest navigable point of the James River at the State capital of Virginia?	Richmond
5	Lancaster was the middle name of which British Author? Born in 1908 dying in 1964, his creations included Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and even more famously, James Bond?	Ian Fleming
6	The Skywalk, a glass walkway rooted on Hulapai Indian land, protrudes some 20m from the rim of, and over one kilometre above the floor of, which US tourist attraction?	Grand Canyon
7	What generic name applies to C9H8O4, or Acetylsalicylic acid? Originally derived from the Willow Tree, this drug, used as analgesic, antipyretic and as an anti-inflammatory is arguably the most common pill.	Asprin
8	What is the fourth largest English county, and the only one to have two distictly seperate coastlines? Famous for its cream teas, it's towns include Oakhampton, Bideford, Plymouth and Exeter	Devon
9	Georges de Mestral, submitted a patent in 1951 after noticing the Burdock seeds which stuck to his dog's fur. Give the brand name of the fabric he invented incorporating hook-and-loop fasteners for connecting objects	Velcro
10	Marvin Hagler, Rod Laver, Denis Compton, Mike Wier, Jimi Hendrix, Oscar de la Hoya, Garfield Sobers, Phil Michaelson, Jimmy Connors, Paul McCartney and Pele were all what handeness?	Left (handed)
11	Davy Jones, Phil Collins and Tony Robinson all starred in which musical, which when transferred to a film starring Ron Moody and Harry Secombe won the Oscar for Best Film in 1969?	Oliver!
12	Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget is the full name for which aviation and defense company founded in 1937 in Trollhättan., Sweden, now famous for their post war Car Production?	SAAB
13	He became only the 4th batsman to score a début test century at Lord's. His 128 against Pakistan in 2006 was the highest score by a player captaining England for the first time. Name this South African born left hander	Andrew Strauss
14	Scunthorpe, Liverpool, SV Hamburg, Southampton and Newcastle were all teams for which player, voted European Footballer of the Year in 1978 and 1979?	Kevin Keegan
15	Kevin Keegan, Paul Gascgoine and perhaps most famously Henry Cooper, who advised Splash it all over, advertised which Faberge aftershave on British Television	Brut
16	What generic name applies to C9H8O4, or Acetylsalicylic acid? Originally derived from the Willow Tree, this drug, used as analgesic, antipyretic and as an anti-inflammatory is arguably the most common pill.	Asprin
17	Wham!, Snap, Clash and T'Pau are the only acts to have had number ones in the UK and have their names featured as captions during fights in which classic 60s TV series starring Burt Ward and Adam West.	Batman
18	Between 1485 to 1603, embracing two or three queens and three kings which dynastic house ruled England after the Battle of Bosworth Field?	Tudor
19	Rising in Angola, flowing along the borders of Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, to Mozambique, what is the fourth largest river in Africa, notable for the Kariba Dam and the Victoria Falls?	Zambesi
20	Who was was approached by the Philistines, to discover the secret of her lover's strength. On the fourth time of asking, Samson disclosed it was that he did not cut his hair, that lead to his betrayal by his mistress	Delilah
21	Anoushka was the first eviction from the fourth series of which immensley popular TV reality show	Big Brother
22	What is the sixteenth part of a musical whole note or semibreve	Semi-quaver
23	Born in Aldershot, Hampshire, in June 1938, dieing in May 2003, under what name did Michael Peter Hayes found the RAK record label, become a leading producer and scathing New Faces judge.	Micky Most
24	Of what have 204 been produced, no 1 featuring the Shetland Islands, 204 the Scillies, formerly 1 inch to the mile but now 1:50,000	Ordnance Survey Maps
25	Meaning 'The Books', ending with "Amen" and starting with "in the beginning", which is the most widely distributed book in the world	The Bible
26	Meaning 'five rivers' which area comprises an area of great contention in NW India and a state of Pakistan,	Punjab
27	What animal can be Screech, Churcyard, Whirligig and Stag	Beetles
28	Wings, Tom Jones, and Sting, apart from number one hit singles in the UK charts, are names shared by what award winners	Oscar Winners
29	What fish gives its name to a description of Long thin white parallel clouds	Mackrel
30	Having no letters in common with Mackrel, playing their home games at the County Ground, SN1 2ED, which Division 2 Wiltshire football side are nicknamed the Robins	Swindon Town
31	How many tanners in a guinea	42
32	Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine share what relationship	Siblings
33	Give a part played by Hugo Weaving in either Lord of the Rings or the Matrix	Mr Smith, Elrond
34	What prestigious football 'knock-out' trophy was won in 2003 by a team that lost two and drew four of it's last seven games, conceeding seven goals and scoring only five	Champions League (Milan)
35	What time barrier was broken by Mr Frisk in the 1990 Grand National	9 minutes
36	Which soap has featured Doctor D'arcy, Helen Daniels, Daphne the stripper and Charlene Mitchell	Neighbours
37	What might be placed alongside a no scoring ball, represent a multiplication in maths notation or increase a musical note's length by 50%	Dot
38	Represented by a circle with a 'plus sign' at 6 o'clock, which planet orbits immediately inside Earth	Venus
39	Containing the immortal line "Has anybody got any Veras?", which was the Shamen's only UK Number One	Ebeneezer Goode
40	As used in Ebeneezer Goode, what smoking accesories are given the the Cockney Rhyming Slang "Vera Lynn's"	Cigarette Papers (Skins)
41	Which diamond was cut to give the first and second stars of Africa	Cullinan
42	Moving clockwise on a dartboard, what number follows 15	2
43	What punctuation mark has only featured once in Best Oscar film titles, specifically in 1968's Oliver!	Punctuation Mark
44	A letter in 1932 by Sir John Hopwood's was the first recorded letter in which language	English
45	In 1674 two skeltons discovered in the Tower of London were claimed to be those of 'The Princes in the tower'. Name either	Edward V or Richard, Duke of York
46	Didus Ineptus is the Latin name for which bird from the Indian Ocean the last known example dying in 1681	Dodo
47	Who are the reigning home international soccer champions (1984)	Northern Ireland
48	What is the only racecourse in two counties, being the headquarters of British racing and the home of the Caesarawitch and the Rowley Mile	Newmarket
49	Old Rowley was a horse belonging too and giving its name to which English Monarch	Charles II (of course)
50	What does the genetically engineered Night Pearl bio-fish do to set it apart from most aquarium fish	Glow
51	Which 1970 number one song title follows the words "Once more we will meet with the best, Like before we'll be put to the test, and we'll give all we've got to give for the folks.."	Back Home
52	Tony Mortimer and Brian Harvey were members of which 1990s boy band	East 17
53	What is the capital of the Bahamas	Nassau
54	Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) is associated with which form of psychiatric medical practice	Hypnotism
55	The Old Man of Hoy is in which archepelogo north of Caithness	Orkneys
56	Taking its name from the ancient Greek and Roman name for Britain, which TV soap made by Granada was dropped in 1986 after 100 episodes	Albion market
57	What was the name of the race of midgets in the film The Wizard of Oz	Munchkins
58	Name either film for which Tom Cruise has been nominated best actor.	Jerry Maguire, Born on the 4th July
59	Picture Book on Monday, Andy Pandy on Tuesday, what was Wednesday	Bill and Ben
60	Vagina Dildo is an angram of which football player who replaced the late Lady Di as figurehead for the anti landmine campaign	David Ginola
61	In Russia the term baboushka always refers to which female blood relative	Grandmother
62	Name two Earp brothers	Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil
63	Scottorum malleus (hic est. Pactum cerva) was the inscription on the tomb of which English king who died in 1307	Edward Hammer of the Scots (lies here, RIP)
64	The River Vistula is straddled by which European Capital, that of Poland	Warsaw
65	The German town of Stief is associated with which Soft Toy	Teddy Bears
66	Which American president, after refusing to shoot a wild one, was the inspiration for the name 'Teddy Bear'	Theodore Roosevelt
67	Helvetia is a name appearing on the stamps of which country	Switzerland
68	Hasely Crawford, the 1996 olympic sprint champion represented which West-Indian country	Trinidad
69	How far is the penalty spot from the goalmouth in soccer	12 yards
70	4 pi r squared gives the surface area of what object	Sphere
71	In 1995, at which school did Dolores Umbridge start teaching, amongst her pupils being Lavendar Brown, Neville Longbottom, Ron Weasley and Harry Potter	Hogwarts
72	In which programme did the late Laura Sadler play Sandy Harper	Holby City
73	Which partnership wrote the Grammy winning song from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid "Raindrops keep falling on my head"	Bacharach/David
74	Who was lead singer for Eno, Andy MacKay and Phil Manzanera	Brian Ferry
75	Which singer duets with Busta Rhymes on 'I Know What You Want'	Mariah Carey
76	Which of the great lakes is entirely within the USA	Michigan
77	Born around 1100, what was unique about Nicholas Breakspear, who became Pope Adrian IV	Only English pope
78	FeO2 or Iron or ferric oxide is normally referred to by what name	Rust
79	Who was the wife of Epimetheus who let all kinds of misery and evil loose upon the earth	Pandora
80	It is suspected that Richard II died in which Yorkshire castle, home of a racecourse and cakes	Pontefract Castle
81	With reference to light as opposed to mixing which are the three primiary colours	Blue, red, green
82	The films Castaway, Who framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump and Back to the future were all directed by whom	Robert Zemeckis
83	Charles Lucas in 1854 was the first recipient of what primiary British Military honour	Victoria Cross
84	Edam and Gouda are cheeses from which of the Benelux countries	Holland
85	20 quires or 500 sheets make up which paper amount	Ream
86	On which course are the King Edward VII and Buckingham palace stakes run during a 'Royal' week in May	Ascot
87	In Englands RU win over Australia 21st June 2003 name one of their three try scorers	Greenwood, Tindall, Cohen
88	Drag races take place over 20 chains, what distance is this	Quarter mile
89	What number might be assigned to a 'Mashie' golf club	5
90	What is the probability of picking a domino with at least 9 spots	3 in 14
91	If Aaron Barschak had blown up Buckingham Palace, what would our monarch be	Edward IX
92	What soap, created by Phil redmond is to finish after 21 years	Brookside
93	What links song was written by The Isley Brothers, has been performed by the Beatles and Salt and Pepa, and taken to UK no 1 by the Tremeloes and Chaka Demus and Pliers	Twist and Shout
94	What was the size colour and form of transport with which Roberta Joan Anderson had her only British hit, under her married name of Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi
95	What was the snail called in the Magic Roundabout	Brian
96	How many records on 'Desert Island Discs'	8
97	Liechtenstein's national anthem is more familiar to us in a version first performed in 1745, the sixth verse ending being "Lord grant that Marshal Wade/May by thy mighty aid/Victory bring/May he sedition hush/And like a torrent rush/Rebellious Scots to crush..	God Save the King/Queen
98	Barnard's star has an "amazing speed of 10.3 arc/year", relative to what	Background stars from Earth
99	What first name was chosen by a roving researcher, nicknamed Ix at school, for being 'nicely inconspicous' when arriving on Earth, after the manufacturer of his surname, which was Prefect.	Ford
100	Mastermind was originally presented on the BBC by Magnus Magnussen, but who has taken over in 2003	John Humphries
101	Name either of Dustin Hoffman's best actor Oscar films	Kramer v Kramer, Rainman
102	If a right angled triangle has short sides of 28 and 96 how long is the hypotenuse	100
103	What nationality was olympic double 800m winner, Peter Snell	New Zealand
104	In which Afican city is there a fog referred to as 'The Table Cloth'	Cape Town
105	Davy Crockett's hat made was made from the skin of which North American mammal	Racoon
106	'The Quakers' is the nickname of which N E football team	Darlington
107	At which sport did Harry Mallin win 2 Olympic gold medals	Boxing
108	What do we call a crack in a Glacier	Crevasse
109	Called Goyathlay "The one who yawns" in his native Apache, what soubriquet was given to the last of the American Indians and is now used as a battle or jumping cry for parachutists	Geronimo
110	Who played Sally Bowles in the 1972 film, Cabaret	Liza Minelli
111	Between 1739 and 1742 Britain and Spain fought a war ostensibly over which part of Robert Jenkin's anatomy	Ear
112	Which party leader instructed Norman Scott to "Bite the Pillow"	Jeremy Thorpe
113	How many four horse accumulators in five races	5
114	What number is the per cent sign above on a keyboard	5
115	William Percy Carpmael in the late 19th century formed which rugby team drawn from many clubs	Barbarians
116	Containing such classic rounds as 'One song to the tune of another' and 'Mornington Crescent', which Radio 4 antidote to panel games is presented by Humphrey Littleton	I'm sorry I haven't a clue
117	If Maulder is Fox what is what is Scully's first name in the X files	Dana
118	What are 49 or more pages of writing as defined by UNESCO	A Book
119	The adjective 'Fascinating' is used on its own 49 times by which character in the 79 episodes and six films of Star Trek 1	Spock
120	Take the number of atoms in the universe to the nearest trillion, divide by pi. If this number is then given an exponent of log (n) (The natural logarithm) and multiplied by the number of weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq, what is the result	0
121	Give a year in the life of Spanish artist Francisco Goya	1746-1828
122	What film was Paul Walker making at the time of his death in 2013	Fast And Furious 7
123	Five words: As of 1927 what is the United Kingdom the united kingdom of	Great Britain and Northern Ireland
124	Which Womble wore a bowler hat	Tobermory
125	Oology the science or study of what	Birds' eggs
126	What country is home to pianist Claudio Arrau, tennis players Marcelo Rios and Fernando Gonzalez and footballer Javier Margas, who, when playing for West Ham United between 1998 and 2001, became it's first footballer to appear in the Premier League	Chile
127	Who was the Lord Chief Justice that led Sir William Montague, Sir Robert Wright, Sir Francis Wythens, Sir Creswell Levinz and Sir Henry Polexfen in 1685's Bloody Assizes	George Jeffreys
128	In 2004, which former member of the Happy Mondays won Celebrity Big Brother	Bez (Mark Berry)
129	From the Greek for 'a turn', which five-letter word is defined variously as a word or expression used in a figurative sense, a common or overused theme or device or cliché, a phrase or verse added as an embellishment or interpolation to the sung parts of the mass in the Middle Ages. When added as a suffix to allo a word meaning a structurally different form of an element is formed	Trope
130	Sharing their name with the candelabra in Disney's Beauty And The Beast, what was the surname of the French brothers Auguste and Louis who are credited with being the first movie-makers	Lumière
131	St. Louis's Major League Baseball team and Arizona's National Football League team share what nickname	Cardinals
132	Which word is shared by the two fastest selling UK album titles of 2013, Midnight (One Direction) and Random Access (Daft Punk)	Memories
133	T.V. presenter Lowell Bergman in the film The Insider, ruthless casino owner Willy Bank in the 2007 film Ocean’s Thirteen and the titular character in The Devil's Advocate, were all played by which Oscar winning actor	Al Pacino
134	Which law maintains 'a' multiplied by the product of 'b' and 'c' is equal to the product of 'a' and 'b' multiplied by 'c'	Associative
135	Neither crickets nor grasshoppers, the males of which long-lived insects, found mainly in tropical regions, produce a loud, almost continuous chirping by vibrating membranes in resonating cavities of their abdomens	Cicadas
136	Who won a Golden Globe for best actor for his portrayal of Matt King in The Descendants	George Clooney
137	Tears Are Not Enough, Poison Arrow, The Look of Love and All of My Heart were the first chart entries for which Sheffield band	ABC
138	Japanese inventor Pumpei Yokoi, who died in October 1997, is best remembered as the chief designer of which electronic toy. It sold 60 million units world wide and established Nintendo as the world's leading computer game developers	Game Boy
139	1983 saw the accession of which Australian Labour party leader to the post of Prime Minister	Bob Hawke
140	Who released the number one hit single Barbie Girl in October 1997	Aqua
141	Which conference held in July 1944 to plan for the restoration of economic stability in the aftermath of the war led to the establishment of the International Monetary Fund	Bretton Woods
142	Not Lennard Pearce who appeared on Blur's Parklife, played granddad Trotter in an Only Fools and Horses prequel, Jimmy in Quadrophenia and Kevin Wicks in EastEnders	Phil Daniels
143	Name two Euro zone countries that do not use the Euro in 2013	Denmark, Sweden, UK
144	In or near which modern day country are Cape Breton Island, a region called Acadia and the island territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Canada
145	In 2005 this city came top in a Channel Four's program entitled The Worst Place To Live In The UK. Which city was awarded the UK city of culture for 2017	Kingston upon Hull
146	An Italian surname, which cocktail, two parts sparkling wine to one part peach purée is named after a Venetian artist born around 1430. In turn it is a name adopted occasionally by the German Dance act Paffendorf, and is the surname of the composer of the opera Norma	Bellini
147	A 1997 Canadian science-fiction film, about six people locked in an endless maze of chambers, and a British TV game show presented by Philip Schofield take their names from which regular hexahedron	Cube
148	Static and kinetic are the two divisions of the dry type of which force, described as 'resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other'	Friction
149	The word Lumpenproletariat was introduced by which German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist In his essay The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon	Karl Marx
150	Who reached number one in the UK on 08 March 1986 with the Gibb brothers penned tune, Chain Reaction	Diana Ross
151	The Genie in Aladdin, Popeye and Peter Pan have all been played or voiced on film by which actor and comedian	Robin Williams
152	Excluding all three Back to The Futures, without any doubt the best film scene ever is: at just after ten to four AJ Halstead the butcher checks his watch in amazement to see which eponymous character bedraggled and limping to meet young Joe Carraclough from school after an improbable journey of several months and hundreds of miles, whilst meeting kindness but also dodging dog catchers and a violent storm	Lassie Come Home
153	Which reggae artist's only UK hit was Police and Thieves	Junior Murvin
154	Originally an image of a saint or other holy person, what word can apply to a much-admired person or a small picture on a computer screen	Icon
155	Which is the most southerly capital city in mainland Europe	Athens
156	What was the name of the spacecraft in which Alan Shepherd made America's first sub-orbital manned flight in May 1961, subsequently a song title for Wham, George Michael and Robbie Williams	Freedom (7)
157	Not the Missouri. What is the second largest tributary of the Mississippi, rising in the Colorado Rockies in the Collegiate Peaks, it also flows through Oklahoma and two other states whose names are contained within its eight letter name	Arkansas
158	With a neutron in its nucleus, which chemical isotope, known as heavy hydrogen is given the symbols 2H or sometimes D	Deuterium
159	What is or are the Japanese AKB48	Pop Group (with c 88 members)
160	Originally a poorly selling novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, overshadowed by the success of its various stage and film adaptations, which role has been played on film by Lon Chaney, Claude Rains and Herbert Lom and on stage by Michael Crawford	Phantom of the Opera
161	What was Ison that was in the news in late December 2013	Comet
162	Which American English loanword, whose present meaning is "a Native American Indian child" (regardless of tribe) or, even more generally, any child, usually used as a term of endearment, is commonly used to describe a carrying sac for an infant	Papoose
163	Who was the mother of Elizabeth I	Anne Boleyn
164	What is finish, if start is green, stop is red, and caution, no passing is yellow	Chequered (motor racing)
165	The illegitimate son of a wealthy farmer, who failed in an attack on the Moncada Barracks, an army facility in the city of Santiago de Cuba, on 26 July 1953 but returned from Mexico in 1959 to overthrow the government of Fulgencio Batista	Fidel Castro
166	The third largest stadium in Europe (2013), it has hosted the European Cup final on four occasions: in 1957, 1969, 1980 and 2010, the finals for the 1964 European Nations' Cup and the 1982 FIFA World Cup final. What is Real Madrid's home ground	Estadio Santiago Bernabéu
167	Simbirsk in western Russia was renamed Ulyanovsk in 1924 54 years after the birth there of which political figure	Lenin
168	Meaning 'The Books', ending with "Amen" and starting with "in the beginning", which is the most widely distributed book in the world	Bible
169	Which Manchester United and Portugal player was named FWA Footballer of the Year for consecutive seasons, starting in 2006	Cristiano Ronaldo
170	On March 3, 2012 Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhinac were arrested and charged with hooliganism. Released 21 months later, of which Russian band were they members	Pussy Riot
171	When adapted for film by Walt Disney, Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, was given which title	Frozen
172	The largest number denoted by a single morpheme in the English language and the first to have six divisors, in mythology, to atone for killing his own family, how many labours did Hercules perform	12
173	A landlocked country between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Of which country is Robert Mugabe the Prime Minister	Zimbabwe
174	What been the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire since the seventeenth century	Chatsworth
175	Taking its name from the German for goblin (or demon) what element is number 27 in the Periodic Table	Cobalt
176	What is the probability of picking up a domino with at least 9 spots	3 in 14
177	In the 1985 film Back to the Future how many miles per hour must the De Lorean car reach in order to achieve time travel, how many keys are there on a standard piano and what number did the old bingo call 'Two Fat Ladies' refer to	88
178	Ring, open, and box are all types of what tool	Spanners
179	Named after an eighteenth-century Sultan of Mysore for whom it was made, what kind of mechanical creature is Tippoo's, exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum where it is seen to be devouring a prostrate European	Tiger
180	What detection instrument would be discharged by a process named quenching, necessary owing to the radioactive nature of its targets	Geiger counter
181	What was the drummer on such hits as Goodbye To Love, We've Only Just Begun, Rainy Days And Mondays and For All We Know	Karen Carpenter
182	What five letter gangsta rap term means expensive jewellery and other accoutrements	Bling
183	What is the German term for a coat of chain-mail, applied to heavily armoured military forces or tanks	Panzer
184	What was Donovan's surname	Leitch
185	Who has won a payout from the producers of X Factor USA, after filming just one episode in 2011	Cheryl Cole
186	Trivial Pursuit geography questions, national lottery balls numbered 10 to 19 and the five point ball in snooker are all what colour	Blue
187	Who was named by her Oscar winning parents after a song co-written by her godparent Ira Gershwin subtitled All the Clouds'll Roll Away	Liza Minelli
188	Who was Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister, successively holding the posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, and finally Leader of the House of Commons, Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Council. His resignation on 1 November 1990 is widely considered to have precipitated Thatcher's own downfall three weeks later.	Geoffrey Howe
189	What did Laure Prouvost and Wantee receive in Londonderry in December 2013	The Turner Prize
190	Inquilinism is a loose form of symbiosis that involves the sharing of what	Nests
191	Which town was the home of Pebbles, Bam Bam, Betty, Wilma, Barney and Fred Flintstone	Bedrock
192	Which author wrote "May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month" as the opening line from her 1997 Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy
193	Who, in 1977, became the first woman to ride in the Grand National	Charlotte Brew
194	Which team defeated New Zealand 2–34 in the 2013 Rugby League world cup final	Australia
195	Julie Driscoll's Wheels on Fire was heard over the opening credits of which 90's sitcom	Absolutely Fabulous
196	Which children's author, born in 1926, created Olga da Polga and Monsieur Pamplemousse, but is best known for a character created in 1958, the bear from darkest Peru, Paddington	Michael Bond
197	"Ja, vi elsker dette landet or Yes We Love This Country is the de facto national anthem for which country; the second verse may give this one away: This country Harald united with his army of heroes, this country Håkon protected whilst Øyvind sung; upon the country Olav painted with his blood the cross, from its heights Sverre spoke up against Rome."	Norway
198	What is the literal translation for the Latin term antebellum	Before the war
199	The Galleries Shopping Centre, the Brabazon prototype airliner the Beaufighter aircraft, the Blenheim luxury car, Lulsgate airport and Temple Meads railway station are all associated with which English city	Bristol
200	What does the R stand for in the initials of that bureau of the Department of the Treasury, the IRS	Revenue
201	Less than what you might understandably imagine, how many sexual positions are described in Kama Sutra, what is the total number of gems in a standard Bejewelled game board and the first whole number that is both a perfect square and a perfect cube, and the number of playing squares on a chess board	64
202	Which 19th century Briton was born on 12 May 1820, and named after the European city of her birth	Florence Nightingale
203	Adopting his father's Huguenot surname instead of his double barrelled christened surname ending Smith, which British author's Latin American trilogy preceded his fourth book, later a film set on the island of Cephalonia, Captain Corelli's Mandolin	Louis de Bernieres
204	To within 5% how long was the longest ever singles final in the Open Era in tennis Grand Slam history when Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal in the 2012 Australian Open	335.35 – (353) - 370.65 minutes
205	What 1975 UK #1 did the Venga Boys change to Ibiza for a number 1999 UK #1	Barbados
206	Coast to Coast was the second studio album by which group. Released in 2000, it contained the singles What Makes a Man, I Lay My Love on You, When You're Looking Like That, My Love, Against All Odds and Uptown Girl	Westlife
207	Who played Bodie in the cult 1970s TV series The Professionals	Lewis Collins
208	In what capacity was Will Somers employed at the court of Henry VIII and Muckle John at that of Charles I	Court fool/ jester
209	Snozzcumbers, "the most disgustuous food in all the world" are the staple diet of which character created by Roald Dahl?	BFG ~ Big Friendly Giant
210	What might a gandy dancer in the United States, a traquero in Mexico or a navvy in England be associated with building	Railway
211	Subsequently awarded the George Medal, name the nursery nurse seriously injured in 1996 protecting her class from a machete-wielding attacker	Lisa Potts
212	A young pigeon or rook is described by which five letter term	Squab
213	Ivanov, first performed in Moscow in 1887, was the first full length play by which writer	Anton Chekhov
214	When Gaius Octavius became the first Roman Emperor in 27 B.C., what name did he take	Augustus (Caesar)
215	What is the second-most spoken Semitic language in the world, after Arabic, and the official working language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia	Amharic
216	After a seventeen week climb, who reached number one in the UK on 12 October 1985 with The Power Of Love	Jennifer Rush
217	Who won a best actress Oscar for her portrayal of Aileen Wuornos in the 2003 film Monster	Charlize Theron
218	How many degrees does the Earth spin in one hour	Fifteen
219	On which New York island are Broadway and Central Park	Manhattan
220	Which Southern English county has rivers called Ouse, Rother, Adur and Arun	West Sussex
221	How much are school fees in Monopoly (Chance)	£150.00
222	What, according to Wikipedia, is the collective noun for curlews, wrens, bison, boars, caribou, moose and elephants	Herd
223	Explorer and navigator Vitus Bering, golfer Thomas Bjorn and writer Hans Christian Andersen were all what nationality	Danish
224	Which fast bowler who became captain of England in 1982 beating India for his first Test in charge was probably most remembered for his 8/43 in the third test against Australia in 1980, the series known as Botham's Ashes	Bob Willis
225	What was the nationality of Georges Remi aka Hergé, the creator of Tin-Tin	Belgian
226	What, in dressmaking, is two parallel creases folded inward	Box Pleat
227	Which founder of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood buried poems with his wife, Elizabeth Siddal, but later had a change of heart and exhumed them	Dante Gabriel Rossetti
228	Making the news in 2013, Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo were aides to which female celebrity	Nigella Lawson
229	Who was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji in Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire and won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Gandhi in the 1985 film of the same name	Ben Kingsley
230	0.083 recurring, which amendment to the US constitution ratified in 1804, provides the procedure for electing the President and Vice President	Twelfth
231	What is the number of UK overseas territories, the number of lines in a sonnet and the square root of 196	Fourteen
232	Drafts and backgammon start with as many pieces as humans have ribs. How many in two dozen	24
233	"Open the pod bay doors, HAL" is said by David Bowman in which film	2001: A Space Odyssey
234	What was the nickname of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick 1428-1471	Kingmaker
235	Ossetra, sevruga and beluga are the three main varieties of what foodstuff traditionally from the river Volga	Caviar
236	Which term in zoology derives from the Greek for 'to live together', and describes a relationship between two different species where both derive benefit	Symbiosis
237	Which organization was replaced by the United Nations in 1945	League of Nations
238	Who, during the 1940's, was known as the woman with the million dollar legs	Betty Grable
239	According to a north-east folk song, what did a young member of the Lambton family catch whilst fishing on a Sunday, despite warnings that to do so was unlucky. His catch turned into a ferocious beast after he threw it into a well	Worm
240	What fell on the Clutha Bar at the end of November 2013	Helicopter