1. Which U. S. talk-show host has had a musical written about him? Jerry Springer
  2. Which Asian region, comprising areas of Northern India and Eastern Pakistan has a name meaning “Land of the Five Rivers? Punjab
  3. Name two of the four types of vertebrae in the human spine? Cervical, coccygial or sacral, lumbar, thoracic
  4. In which sci-fi series was Earth embattled with an alien race called the Cylons? Battlestar Galactica
  5. Which Libyan port was the setting for a two hundred and forty one day siege in 1941 during World War II? Tobruk
  6. Which Turner Prize-winning ceramic artist, recently awarded the C. B. E., has an alter-ego named Claire? Grayson Perry
  7. Wladimir Klitschko is the second longest reigning heavyweight world champion boxer. Who is No. 1? Joe Louis
  8. The extinct dodo was indigenous to which island? Mauritius
  9. Which of Jupiter’s moons, the largest in the solar system, is named after ‘the cup-holder of the gods” in Greek mythology? Ganymede
  10. John McIntyre, Benjamin Franklin Pierce, Walter O’Reilly and Charles Winchester. Name the TV comedy series? M*A*S*H
  11. ‘Dizzy’ and the ‘Grand Old Man’ were nicknames given to which two nineteenthcentury British Prime Ministers? Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone
  12. Who wrote the best-selling novel ‘A Woman of Substance’? Barbara Taylor Bradford
  13. Which famous horse race is run at Churchill Downs? Kentucky Derby
  14. San Juan is the capital of which Caribbean island? Puerto Rico
  15. What name is given to mashed chickpeas rolled into balls and deep fried? Falafel
  16. Name Princess Anne’s two husbands. Mark Phillips and Tim Laurence
  17. The site of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus is in which country? Turkey
  18. Which musical gave Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice their only Oscar for the song ‘You Must Love Me”? Evita
  19. Khmer is the official language of which country? Cambodia
  20. Marlee Martin is the only deaf actress to have won the Best Actress Oscar. In which 1986 movie? Children of a Lesser God (the name of the actress is Marlee Matlin)
  21. What butterfly was named after King William of Orange? Monarch butterfly (no conclusive proof)
  22. What name was given to the practice of drilling holes in the skull to alleviate pain? Trepanning (or trephining)
  23. Which German kingdom had its monarchy abolished in 1918 and was, itself, officially abolished in 1947? Prussia
  24. What name is given to the area surrounding a black hole which is the “point of no return”? Event horizon
  25. Located in the West Wing of the White House, what name is given to the President’s Office? Oval Office
  26. If the Timberwolves are playing the Jazz and the 76ers are playing the Pistons, what sport is being played? Basketball
  27. Who was the N. Y. P. D. detective played by Gene Hackman in the movie “French Connection”? Jimmy ‘Popeye’ Doyle
  28. What word links an Alaskan port and an oil tanker disaster? Valdez
  29. Which architect designed London building ‘The Gherkin’? Norman Foster
  30. Which showjumper infamously celebrated by flicking a ‘V’ sign to the crowd? Harvey Smith
  31. Joanne Catherall and Sue Ann Sulley were backing vocalists for which eighties synthpop outfit? Human League
  32. Air Force One is the name of the U. S.Presidential plane. What is his helicopter called? Marine One
  33. What are the smallest of the body’s blood vessels called? Capillaries
  34. Which river, the fifth longest in the U. K., forms part of the border between England and Wales before emptying into the Severn Estuary? River Wye
  35. Football. If the ‘Monkey Hangers’ were playing the ‘Railwaymen’, which two teams would be on the field? Hartlepool United and Crewe Alexandria
  36. Operation Deadlight was the codename for the scuttling of which type of vessel after World War II? German U-boats
  37. Lime Street Railway station serves which U. K. city? Liverpool
  38. George Best Airport serves which U. K. city? Belfast
  39. The subject of which Buddy Holly song ‘got married’ in a 1988 Francis Ford Coppola film? Peggy Sue
  40. India, Socks, Tom Kitten and Misty Malarkey Ying Yang have all been housecats in which famous abode? The White House (George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, and Jimmy Carter)