1. Name the actor and actress who starred in the TV series ‘Edward and Mrs. Simpson’.
  2. What type of fruit is a bullace?
  3. From which country did Indonesia gain independence in 1949?
  4. What is the real name of London’s Petticoat Lane?
  5. Who were the first-ever Scottish Rugby Union Champions?
  6. The dance the Rumba originated in which country?
  7. Norman Mailer’s novel ‘The Naked and the Dead’ was set during which war?
  8. Which Egyptian President was assassinated in 1981?
  9. Which Scottish football team were originally nicknamed ‘Wee Alpha’? Motherwell F. C.
  10. In which month is St. Swithun’s Day?
  11. What are the two smallest U. S. states in terms of area?
  12. Who wrote the songs ‘Keep Right on to the End of the Road’ and ‘Roaming in the Gloaming’?
  13. What type of creature is a Sooty Mangabey?
  14. Kilmarnock stands on which river?
  15. What roles did Polly James and Nerys Hughes play on TV?
  16. What term is given to vegetables cut thinly and slowly cooked in butter?
  17. Which English city has rail stations called Oxford Road, Victoria and Piccadilly?
  18. In which war were the Battles of Agincourt and Crecy?
  19. Which guitarist joined the Rolling Stones after Rod Stewart and the Faces?
  20. Which country was the location for the second series of ‘Auf Wiedersehen Pet’?
  21. Name the year: two planes crash into the World Trade Centre, Celtic win the Scottish F. A. Cup defeating Hibernian 3-0 and Westlife have a U. K. No.1 single with ‘Uptown Girl’.
  22. Apart from Annan Athletic and Elgin City, name two of the three teams Raith Rovers have not played in the Scottish F. A. Cup.
  23. Which pop singer played the Acid Queen in the rock opera ‘Tommy’?
  24. What is the capital city of Costa Rica?
  25. Which Scottish king succeeded Alexander I?
  26. Which Rogers and Hammerstein musical begins in heaven?
  27. To 2009, how many times has Michael Schumacher won the Formula One championship?
  28. ‘E. R.’ was set in which U. S. state?
  29. Name both the Greek and Roman goddesses of wisdom.
  30. Belgium has land borders with France, the Netherlands and which two other countries?
  31. Which British author has published over seven hundred books and sold more than sixty million copies about the same character?
  32. The ‘malleus’ is in what part of the human body?
  33. Now berthed in Leith, what three letters did Britannia have before her name?
  34. Anubis was the Egyptian god of what?
  35. In which American state is Dodge City?
  36. In music, what note is written above the bottom line in a stave?
  37. What is the capital city of Libya?
  38. What is photophobia a fear of?
  39. What credit card was advertised as ‘your flexible friend’?
  40. Name Helen Shapiro’s two U. K. No.1 singles of 1961.