1. After repeated failures to honour bookings for Have I Got News For You, whose place was eventually taken by a tub of lard?
2. What would you be doing if you used the well-known 4-4-4-2 guideline?
3. How many novels did Emily Brontë write?
4. Which two European countries have names that are 75% identical in English?
5. Who in a 1964 song is "all of thiry-one and he's only seventeen"?
6. What is the lightweight high-strength material developed in the 60s and used in body armour as well as racing sails and bicycle tires?
7. Which character in a famous book says "Time for a little something"?
8. Which 1979 film features the character Ellen Ripley?
9. What is a zither?
10. Who is traditionally regarded as the first pope?
11. Who were Peter Rabbit's three sisters?
12. Which fictional character is described as "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!"?
13. What was the 'pale blue dot' photographed by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990?
14. Which is the only Nordic country to use the Euro as its currency?
15. What is produced from the rubber tree and used to make rubber?
16. In which country is Sugarloaf Mountain?
17. Which footballer famously performed a robotic dance goal celebration?
18. What kind of animal is a Bombay Duck?
19. What was set at 4ft 8½in by an 1846 Act of Parliament?
20. Which geographical subregion has a name meaning many islands?
21. Which birds lay the largest eggs?
23. Who was born in 1879, and famously assassinated in 1940 with an ice axe?
24. In which city is the famous Via Dolorosa?
25. Who served four separate terms as UK Prime Minister?
26. In which country is the bolivar the unit of currency?
27. Which football team was Alf Garnett's biggest passion in life?
28. What is the SI unit of electric current?
29. In target archery what name is used for the colour of the inner rings?
31. The white cliffs of Dover get their striking colour from which sedimentary rock?
32. In which language was the Magna Carta written?
33. Who wrote the 1963 Cold War novel 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'?
34. Who wrote the 1886 gothic novella 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'?
35. What is a Blenheim Orange?
36. Which medical speciality is sometimes called snot, wax & tonsils?
37. What colour is an aeroplane's "black box" flight recorder?
38. Which European capital lies on the river Tagus?
39. Who became synonymous with the swingometer after it's reintroduction for the 1992 general election?
40. What nationality is the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro?
41. Which poet was a librarian at Hull University?
42. The cosmic microwave background radiation is critical evidence for which theory?
43. With which domestic animal is the English painter George Stubbs particularly associated?
44. From which plant is saffron obtained?
45. In Rugby Union which player normally throws the ball in at a lineout?
47. Who said “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”?
48. What is the main artery of the body called?
49. Who opened the 1936 Olympics?