1

Today’s starter question concerned racecourses – how many officially recognised racecourses are there in Great Britain – 5 either way?

59

2

Michael Schumacher won the Australian GP for Ferrari yesterday, but for which team does his brother Ralf drive?

Williams

3

How many capsules are there on the London Eye?

32

4

Who played The Prisoner?

Patrick McGoohan

5

Who had a 70’s hit with the song “So you win again”?

Hot Chocolate

6

Which European country is to phase out its army bicycle regiments?

Switzerland

7

In which London borough did Del Boy live?

Peckham

8

Which singer said of herself “It takes an awful lot of money to look this cheap”?

Dolly Parton

9

Is a CHAMPAC a) A sacred tree, b) a town in Normandy, c) an Mayan rucksack, or d) slang for a case of 6 bottles of champagne?

A

10

How old was Shirley Temple, when she retired as an actress?

10

11

If you subtracted the number of matches won this season by Manchester City from those won by Man Utd, what would the answer be?

14

12

Diana Prince is the alter ego of which superheroine?

Wonderwoman

13

Which famous playwright might have been stoned when he wrote his most famous works?

Shakespeare

14

If A is Alpha and B Bravo, what is P?

Papa

15

If it’s noon in Greenwich, what time is it in Panama City?

7 am

16

With which product do you associate the company de Beers?

Diamonds

17

The highest office building in the world is the Petronas Tower – in which city?

Kuala Lumpur

18

Which football team did Alf Garnett support?

West Ham

19

What could be Foolscap, Legal or Quarto?

Sheets of paper

20

How many bonus points do you get if you use all your tiles in one word in Scrabble?

50

21

Which jockey rode Troy and Henbit to Derby victory?

Willie Carson

22

From which language does the word ketchup come?

Chinese

23

In which city did the Beatles have their first success?

Hamburg

24

When and if Prince Charles becomes king, he won’t be called Charles III, but he will become what?

George VII

25

In Monopoly, what lies between the Waterworks and Go To Jail?

Piccadilly

1

When the Romans were here, they called it Eboracum – what do we call it?

York

2

Which King was reputed to have lost his jewels in the Wash?

John

3

William Caxton was the first English what?

Printer

4

After he died in battle, whose body was transported back to England in a barrel of brandy?

Nelson

5

Manchester has the oldest canal in England, what is it called?

Bridgewater Canal

6

Aero chocolate is made by which company?

Nestle

7

What was the first English product to have a trade mark?

Bass beer

8

Which brand of sportswear is named after the Greek goddess of Victory?

Nike

9

What’s the name of Woolworth’s own brand products?

Winfield

10

What car model’s name can’t be used in Spain because it means “Doesn’t Go” in Spanish?

Vauxhall Nova

11

What instrument do you associate with Ravi Shankar?

Sitar

12

Woody Allan has never been to the Oscars, preferring to play his what in a jazz club in New York?

Saxophone

13

Who was the drummer with the Carpenters?

Karen Carpenter

14

What did Louis Armstrong play?

Trumpet

15

What was Acker Bilk’s instrument?

Clarinet

16

In which country are the Angel Falls, the world’s highest waterfall?

Venezuela

17

What’s the capital of Iran?

Tehran

18

In which country is the famous volcano Popocatapetl?

Mexico

19

Which is the most southerly of the United States?

Hawaii

20

In which country is the Corinth Canal?

Greece

21

What, physically, links Sheffield and Rome?

Both built on 7 hills!

22

What are the wide open plains called in Argentina?

Pampas

23

Which country is divided into provinces called cantons?

Switzerland

24

The Russian city of Stalingrad is now called what?

Volgograd

25

The Greeks fought the Trojans for many years – but in which modern country is Troy?

Turkey