| 1 | An older woman who is attracted to, and often has sex with, much younger men is named after which member of the cat family? | Cougar |
| 2 | Serendip was an old name for which modern Asian country? | Sri Lanka |
| 3 | A spinone is what type of animal? | Dog |
| 4 | In Ian Fleming’s novel ‘Moonraker’, Sir Hugo Drax is suspected of cheating at which game in the Mayfair club ‘Blades’? | Bridge |
| 5 | David Vine, David Coleman and Sue Barker have all hosted which BBC television quiz show? | A Question of Sport |
| 6 | Which 18th Century composer wrote ‘The Four Seasons’? | Antonio Vivaldi |
| 7 | Which motorcycle stuntman set a world record in February 1971, by jumping 19 cars? | Evel Knievel |
| 8 | The US citizenship of which American Civil War General was restored in 1975? | General Robert E Lee |
| 9 | What is the title of the only ‘Dirty Harry’ film directed by Clint Eastwood? | Sudden Impact |
| 10 | Which animal is the symbol of the US Republican Political Party? | Elephant |
| 11 | How deep, in feet, is a fathom? | Six feet |
| 12 | Who is the only person with five stars, one for each category, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? | Gene Autry |
| 13 | The drug MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamin) is more commonly known by what name? | Ecstasy |
| 14 | How many Triple Letter squares are on a standard Scrabble board? | 12 |
| 15 | What colour ‘Cadillac’ did Bruce Springsteen sing about in 1984? | Pink |
| 16 | The ‘Shuttlecock Club’ is an exclusive society for anyone who has crashed and survived on which racing track? | The Cresta Run |
| 17 | Which city is known as the ‘Pearl of the Adriatic’? | Dubrovnik |
| 18 | The LED (light-emitting diode) started life in 1962 as a single illumination in which colour? | Red |
| 19 | American singer Katheryn Hudson is better known by what name? | Katy Perry |
| 20 | Which lake has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in the world? | Lake Superior |
| 21 | How many rows of whiskers, on each side, does a cat usually have? | Four |
| 22 | What was the name of the chain of women’s clothes shops which Australian singer/actress Olivia Newton-John co-founded in 1984? | Koala Blue |
| 23 | Who wrote the 1866 novel ‘Crime and Punishment’? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| 24 | What was the name of the infamous English art forger, born in 1917, who claimed to have faked more than 2,000 paintings by over 100 artists? | Tom Keating |
| 25 | Who played Bill Sykes in the 1968 film ‘Oliver’? | Oliver Reed |
| 26 | What does the statue of Eros, in Piccadilly Circus in London, hold in his left hand? | A bow |
| 27 | A souter is a maker of what? | Shoes |
| 28 | The Thatcher Ferry Bridge spans which canal? | Panama Canal |
| 29 | A throw of which number on each of a pair of dice is known as Snake Eyes? | One |
| 30 | Myology is the scientific study of which part of the human body? | Muscles |
