1. Who had trouble with their O-ring in January 1986?
2. Where would you find an F-hole?
3. In which country might you get a stifado?
4. An 'aficionado' originally referred to a fan of which sport?
5. According to the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Immaculated Conception who was born without original sin?
6. What is the name of the infamous herbicide and defoliant used by US forces in the Vietnam War?
7. Which bone connects the scapula to the sternum?
8. In which game might an American use a bit of English?
9. Which multi-award winning university campus was designed in the 60s by Sir Basil Spense, and includes Falmer House which is now a Grade I listed building?
10. In insects, what are elytra?
11. What name is prophesied in the Old Testament for the Messiah?
13. In which 1974 film about a New York subway hostage ransom, does the police lieutenant say "The guy who's talking's got a heavy English accent. He could be a fruitcake"?
15. Why weren't the Duke of Edinburgh's three surviving sisters at his wedding in 1947?
16. Which African coutry consists of one single land mass with two distinct Atlantic coastlines?
17. Who was the Irish-born C20th British figurative painter who produced nightmarish reworkings of Velázquez's 'Portrait of Pope Innocent X'?
18. The colours of the Indian flag were unofficially patterned on which other country's flag?
19. The character Sweeney, representing materialism and shallowness, appears several times in which C20th poet's works?
22. What do we call a virus that attacks bacteria?
23. Which 1973 hit was inspired by Don McLean's American Pie?
24. Santa Claus refers to Saint Nicholas who was a celebrated bishop in which modern day country?
25. Which food crop is currently being severly affected by the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa in South-East Italy?
26. Bourbon whiskey is required to be made from a grain mixture that is at least 51% what?
27. Which piece of DNA does a man always inherit from his father, making it important in anthropological research?
28. Who believe that God's throne is near a heavenly body called Kolob?
29. Cahors, the capital of the Lot department, is the French spiritual home of which grape variety, now more associated with South America?
30. Who did River Song shoot three times on the shores of Lake Silencio?
31. What hill does St Paul's cathedral stand on?
33. What was the name of the British airship that crashed on its maiden overseas voyage in 1930?
34. How is "young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann" described in the title of a well known song?
35. Which British New Wave band formed in 1977 was named after characters from Hergé's Adventures of Tintin?
36. Which pairs of ligaments in the body are named after the cross shape they form?
37. What kind of confectionary is known in Yorkshire and Lancashire as 'Spanish'?
38. Which legendary English folk musician is Eliza Carthy's mother?
39. What is the popular name for the dance near the climax of Richard Strauss' opera Salome?
40. Which disease became known in France as 'la maladie de Bradford', in reference to the West Yorkshire town?
41. Who wrote the narrative poems known collectively as the Lays of Ancient Rome, which were standard reading in British public schools for more than a century?
42. What was the capital of Scotland until the mid 15th century?
43. In which famous book is Private Major Major Major promoted to Major Major Major Major?
44. Which chemical element derives its name from the Spanish word for silver?
45. What caused the British car ferry Herald of Free Enterprise to sink off Zeebrugge in March 1987 with 193 deaths?
47. Which grass has a tensile strength similar to that of mild steel?
48. What did the ancient Greeks call the vast dark void before existence?
49. In Tennyson's Lady of Shalott, what does the lady do to unleash the curse upon herself?
50. What is usually quoted in kilometers per second per megaparsec?