1.

Which actor used to advertise Mackeson Stout on TV in the 50s and 60s with the slogan: “Looks good, tastes good and by golly it does you good”?

Bernard Miles

2.

Who is the Chief Executive of Marks and Spencer who recently dismissed most of the senior management team of the company?

Stuart Rose

3.

What is the name of Tom Clancy’s hero, who was a CIA agent and ultimately became President, and featured in books (and films) such as Patriot Games and The Sum of all Fears?

Jack Ryan

4.

I Will Always Love You was a hit in 2002; but who originally wrote the song?

Dolly Parton

5.

How many nibbles are there in one byte?

2

6.

Who usually reads the news on the TV series The Simpsons?

Kent Brockman

7.

What is the longest race in men’s athletics?

50km Walk

8.

In terms of area, what is the largest Australian state?

Western Australia

9.

In Friends who played the English character Emily who married Ross?

Helen Baxendale

10.

Name the rock band, initially from Devon, fronted by Matt Bellamy, whose most recent album was called Absolution.

Muse

11.

Name the rock band, featuring guitarist John Frusciante and bassist Flea, whose albums include Californication?

Red Hot Chili Peppers

12.

Who played Daphne in Frasier?

Jane Leeves

13.

Why was Louis Armstrong nicknamed Satchmo?

From his ‘satchel mouth’

14.

Which element is the best electrical conductor?

Silver

15.

Which UK chemical factory disaster in 1974 led to major changes in health and safety law?

Flixborough

16.

What unusual behaviour of water occurs between 0°C and 4°C?

It contracts on heating

17.

In which country is The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency and the follow up novels set?

Botswana

18.

What modern popular thriller writer is actually a husband and wife team?

Nicci French (Sean French & Nicci Gerrard)

19.

In the bible, π (pi) is assumed to be 3, in which structure?

King Solomon’s Temple

20.

Stuffed prunes wrapped in bacon are commonly known by which name?          

Devils on Horseback

21.

The sales of which item slumped dramatically after Clark Gable appeared without one in the film It Happened One Night?

Vests

22.

What are lazy dazy, outline and buttonhole examples of?

Embroidery Stitches

23.

With what did Samson kill the Philistines?

The jawbone of an ass

24.

Which poet was charged with treason for supporting Mussolini?

Ezra Pound

25.

In literature who were Dmitri, Alyosha and Ivan?          

The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevskv)

26.

Supposedly, what’s the only way to kill a werewolf?

Shoot it with a silver bullet

27.

Which campaigner turned politician wrote Unsafe at Any Speed?

Ralph Nader

28.

What’s the surname of the jazz musician brothers Wynton and Branford?

Marsalis

29.

What element has the symbol W?

Tungsten

30.

What was the name of the Blue Peter baby, who Peter Purves originally refused to have anything to do with bringing up, because “It’s not a bloody man’s job”?

Daniel

31.

Which body in the solar system will the probe Huygens descend onto in January 2005?

Titan (in case anyone says the name of the probe should be Cassini – that’s the name of the spacecraft carrying Huygens, which will itself not descend)

32.

What did billionaire Dennis Tito become the first to do in April 2001?

He was the first paying passenger to go to outer space (he spent 8 days on the International Space Station)

33.

European spacecraft, Smart 1, is currently en route to a planetary satellite.  Which one?

The moon

34.

What is the name of the spacecraft that is currently en route to rendezvous with, and land on, a comet?

Rosetta

35.

Which are the only three films to have won 11 Oscars each?

Ben-Hur, Titanic and Return of the King

36.

Who directed the films Breaking the Sound Barrier (1952) and Summertime (1955)?

David Lean

37.

In the Chinese Zodiac, 2004 is the Year of the Monkey.  What animal was last year named after?

Year of the Goat

38.

In the Chinese Zodiac, 2004 is the Year of the Monkey.  What animal will next year be named after?

Year of the Rooster

39.

In what US state is Death Valley?

California

40.

In what US state is Mount Rushmore?

South Dakota

41.

What DJ has taken over John Peel’s slot on Radio 1?

Robert Gorham (alias Rob Da Bank - accept this)

42.

What premiere did the Queen attend on 8th November?

Ladies in Lavender

43.

Jennie Jerome invented the Manhattan cocktail.  What was her other claim to fame?

She was Winston Churchill’s mother

44.

The Harvey Wallbanger cocktail is named after Tom Harvey.  For what aquatic sporting activity was he well known?

Surfing

45.

What is the architectural term for a bell tower detached from a church (commonly found in Italy)?

Campanile

46.

What are the three Greek orders of architecture?

Doric, Ionic and Corinthian

47.

Kedleston Hall, Admiralty Arch Whitehall, Luton Hoo and Culzean Castle were all designed by which architect?

Robert Adam

48.

Who invented the geodesic dome?

Buckminster Fuller

49.

Orcinus Orca is the Latin name for what sea creature?

Killer Whale

50.

In which year was the first manned space flight?

1961

51.

Juneau is the capital of which US state?

Alaska

52.

Which band had a hit with Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll?

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

53.

Which actor was Passenger 57?

Wesley Snipes

54.

Name the creature described by Lewis Caroll as having “jaws that bite and claws that catch”?

Jabberwocky

55.

What is the largest lake in Italy?

Lake Garda

56.

What career did John Keats abandon for poetry?

Medicine

57.

Which American artist painted Blue Poles in 1952?

Jackson Pollock

58.

What is the generic name for the stages of the combustion cycle in an internal combustion engine?

Strokes

59.

What word is used to describe a group of ants?

Colony

60.

Who is the voice of Homer Simpson?

Dan Castellaneta

61.

What was Sergeant Bilko’s first name

Ernest

62.

Which Queen song was featured in a video of Freddie Mercury vacuuming his living room whilst dressed in a black leather mini skirt?

I want to break free

63.

On a ship what is kept in a binnacle?

A compass

64.

Name the world’s second largest French-speaking city?

Montreal

65.

Marble is formed by the metamorphosis of which rock?

Limestone

66.

To within 3 years either way, in which year did Arthur Conan Doyle publish the first of his Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?

1891

67.

Which playwright wrote Happy Days?

Samuel Becket

68.

In tennis, at what score was the tie-break used, when it was first introduced at Wimbledon in 1971?

8 games all

69.

What was the title of Dick Francis’s first horse-racing thriller?

Dead Cert

70.

What is the maximum age for a horse to be classed as a filly?

4