1. Who played Batman in The Dark Knight trilogy?

2. Which of these programmes has been running the longest in the UK?

a) Blue Peter

b) Coronation street

c) Songs of Praise

3. Last week, which Star Wars film celebrated 40 years since release?

4. Which British TV show recorded the largest audience for a single episode with over 30 million viewers? For an extra point, what year was it broadcast?

5. How many episodes of Game of Thrones are there?

6. What was Quentin Tarantino’s first film and most recent film?

7. Name the top five highest grossing films ever (as of 12th August 2022)?

8. What was the name of the second Indiana Jones movie, released in 1984?

9. In which decade were the Academy Awards, or Oscars, first presented?

10. “Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrival’s gate at Heathrow airport” is the opening line of which 2003 movie?

11. Who sang the theme song to the 2012 James Bond movie, Skyfall?

12. Which member of the Beatles made a cameo appearance in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (or Salazar’s Revenge)?

13. Who directed Pulp Fiction?

14. What colour were the slippers in the original Wizard of Oz in 1939?

15. Rami Malek won best actor for his portrayal of which performer?

16. Which supervillain did Arnold Schwarzenegger play in the 1997 Batman and Robin movie?

17. How many contestants are on each team in ‘University Challenge’?

18. Who is the alter ego of Scott Lang, who has appeared in three Marvel films?

19. In which English seaside town was ‘Fawlty Towers’ set?

20. Who hosted the 2019 Oscar ceremony?

21. Which actor links the films, The Da Vinci Code, X-Men, and the TV soap Coronation Street?

22. In the film Mamma Mia, who plays Sophie who, after finding her mother's diary, tries to find which of three men is her father?

23. Which 2008 film starring Chritian Bale has the quote “I believe whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you…stranger."?

24. Which US actor who once played Johnny Cash appears as the Joker in the 2019 film directed by Todd Phillips?

25. Directed by Guy Ritchie, who plays the Genie in the 2019 adaptation of Aladdin?

26. Which 1990 film sees Arnold Schwarzenegger play both Douglas Quaid and his alter-ego Carl Hauser in a sci-fi thriller about espionage on Mars?

27. To the nearest 10, how many episodes of the SImpsons are there?

28. True or false; Romesh Ranganathan's first name is Jonathan?

29. What is the name of Jon Snow's Direwolf in ‘Game of Thrones’?

30. Which former Doctor Who actress plays Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

31. In the 1994 movie True Lies, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Harry Tasker. Who plays his wife Helen?

1. What F1 team does Lewis Hamilton currently drive for?

2. Which country did England beat in the 1966 football world cup final?

3. In tennis, who has won more Women’s Singles Grand Slam titles – Martina Navratilova or Serena Williams?

4. How many horses are on each team in a polo match?

5. Name the four golf Majors? For an extra point, what is considered the fifth major?

6. Name four former English Cricket Captains that all have the same first name?

7. Which nation won all of the speed skating titles at the last Winter Olympics in 2018?

8. The eagles are an American football team for which US city?

9. Bob and Mike Bryan are well known brothers in which sport?

10. Which British Athlete won gold in both the 5000 and 10,000m at the 2016 Summer Olympics?

11. Which Asian nation has qualified for the football world cup on only two occasions, in 1966 and 2010?

12. How many red balls are used in a game of snooker?

13. What is the national sport of Japan?

14. Where will the 2028 Summer Olympics be held?

15. Who won the 2019 Masters Tournament in golf?

16. How many players are there on a netball court during a game?

17. Which jockey won all seven races in one day at Ascot racecourse, in September 1996?

18. In tennis, what is the score immediately after deuce?

19. In which decade did Roger Bannister run the world’s first recorded four minute mile?

20. The Hawthorns is home to which English football club?

21. 'The Wall' was a nickname given to which cricketer?

22. Which American city is home to the following sports teams: Rockets, Astros, Texans and Dynamo?

23. In which British city would you find the Alexander Stadium athletics track at Perry Barr?

24. The Duckworth-Lewis method of calculating the score required to win in a rain affected game of cricket was renamed as what in 2014?

25. Macclesfield Town has played their home fixtures since 1891 at which ground?

26. In the years 2014 to 2019 the London Marathon has been won in 4 of the five races by which African runner?

27. How old was Cori Gauff when she played at Wimbledon in 2019?

28. Which English footballer was a member of the 1958, 1962, 1966 and 1970 England World Cup Finals squads?

29. In August 2017, French football club Paris St-Germain broke the world record fee for which player signed from Barcelona?

1. What is the longest beach in Britain?

2. How many countries does Russia share a land border with?

3. Which lake holds the largest volume of water in the UK?

4. What is the address of the White House?

5. The M1 motorway is how many miles long?

a) 175

b) 186

c) 193

6. Which major tourist attraction is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice?

7. Which Australian state has the highest population?

8. More than half of the United States coastline is situated in which state?

9. How many national parks are there in Wales?

10. Which city is the only city in the world to be located on two separate continents?

11. The supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground on the coast of which county in 1967, causing the worst oil spill in UK history?

12. The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, spans the gorge valley of the river Tarn near Millau, in which country?

13. What is the capital city of Columbia?

14. The UK towns of Bootle and Birkenhead sit on which river?

15. Baku is the capital city of which eastern European country?

16. Which national park became Britain’s first in 1951?

a) Cairngorms

b) Peak District

c) South Downs

17. The Danube flows into what body of water?

18. The two highest waterfalls in europe are both in which country?

19. The Caspian Sea is bordered by 5 countries. Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan and which other 2?

20. Which river rises in the Himalayas in India and drains into the Bay of Bengal?

21. Haweswater was built from 1929 to supply water to which city?

22. What is the regional capital of Tuscany in Italy?

23. What is the Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge?

1. What ingredients do you need to make BBC Good Food’s homemade custard?

2. How long has Gregg Wallace been on Masterchef?

3. How many years has restaurant Gordon Ramsay held three michelin stars?

4. What vitamin would you be deficient in if you have night blindness, a weaker immune system and stunted growth?

5. Name three raising agents?

6. What temperature does food have to be heated to for at least two minutes?

7. When did ‘The Great British Bake Off’ first air?

8. “What’s the worst that could happen” is a slogan used to advertise which drink?

9. What is the main seasoning in Goulash?

10. In which country is the wine making region of the Yarra Valley?

11. What is a bisque?

12. An Indian meal which includes masoor would have what ingredient?

13. If you saw chou-fleur on a French menu, which vegetable would the dish include?

14. From which type of flower does the vanilla pod come from?

15. Which drink “Gives you wings” according to the slogan?

16. Claret is a dry red wine from which region of France?

17. Which came first, McDonald’s or KFC?

18. Give an example of a monosaccharide?

1. Who was the first chancellor of Germany and what decade did they come to power?

2. In 1886, the prime minister of which European country was assassinated on his way home from the cinema with his wife?

3. Who discovered the vaccination against smallpox in 1796?

4. In which month and year did the Titanic sink?

5. In which century did 10 Downing Street become the official residence for the Prime Minister of Great Britain?

6. In 1970, Venera 7 became the first spacecraft to successfully land on another planet to transmit data back to Earth. Which planet did it land on?

7. How many British monarchs were crowned during the 20th Century?

8. Which two of Henry VIII’s wives were executed?

9. Boudicca was queen of which historic tribe in eastern Britain?

10. In which battle was Richard III killed?

11. What was the name of the baker in whose bakery the Great Fire of London is said to have started?

12. In 1991, Uzbekistan declared independence from which state?

13. The scientist Michael Faraday was born in which century?

14. Who found the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Nov 1922?

15. What happened for the first time at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967?

16. What was the name of the first edition of the world’s first Sunday Newspaper that was published in 1791?

a) The Times

b) The Guardian

c) The Observer

17. The maiden journey of the USS Shenandoah took place in 1923. What was special about this?

18. Which two students founded Google in 1998?

19. Born in 1792 which great and influential English Romantic poet wrote "To a Skylark" and "Ozymandias"?

20. Which war began in 1853 when the Ottoman Empire declared war on the Russian Empire?

21. Who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea in 1953?

22. Which state was admitted as the 49th US State in January 1959?

23. Longacre Square in Manhattan changed its name in 1904 to what?

24. In 1797, who was inaugurated as the second President of the United States?

25. In 1918 Finland declared its independence from which country?

26. Alexander Dubcek came to power in January 1968 in which country?

27. What was abolished in the State of New York in July 1827?

1. How many kilogrammes are in a stone?

2. Mass x Gravitational Field Strength will work out what?

3. Based on a study carried out between 2002 and 2006, rank these countries from highest to lowest by their IQ: Italy, Sweden and the UK?

4. At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal?

5. What is Pythagoras’ Theorem?

6. Which is stronger: spider silk or kevlar?

7. What is the rarest naturally occurring element?

a) Oganesson

b) Francium

c) Astatine

8. What is the rarest blood type?

9. What is the Haber Process formula?

10. In a plug, which colours relate to the three wires, live, neutral and earth?

11. Which triangle would you use Pythagoras’ Theorem for?

12. What are the products of photosynthesis?

13. The human eye can distinguish how many different colours?

a) 100,000

b) 1 million

c) 10 million

14. In which part of the body would you find papillae?

15. The vena cava vein carries deoxygenated blood into which upper chamber of the heart?

16. At what speed does light travel?

17. Charles Darwin is remembered for his theory of evolution, the data of which he gathered whilst on a 5 year expedition aboard which ship?

18. What is the largest moon of Saturn called?

19. Much revered for his ethical standards in medical practice, which ancient Greek physician was born on the island of Cos in 460 BC?

20. Which animal has a Spanish name which when translated to English means 'little armoured one'?

21. Who developed the modern periodic table?

22. How many particles are in 1 mol?

23. Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic are all types of what?