VE day
Big Bertha was a nickname for what huge piece of equipment?
Gun (aka Howitzer)
What name is given to a substance with no active therapeutic effect that is given in order to deceive the recipient into thinking that it is an active treatment?
Placebo
Who is the current President of France?
Emmanuel Macron
Which tiny country does Belgium, France and Germany border?
Luxembourg
Who wrote Dracula?
Bram Stoker
Who was oldest: Hitler, Stalin, Churchill or Roosevelt?
Churchill (born 1874)
Which legendary British physicist wrote A Brief History of Time?
Stephen Hawking
How many MPs are there?
650
Which American city was once called New Amsterdam?
New York
How many ghosts appear to Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?
4 - Jacob Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come
Which comedian starred in the wartime comedy propaganda film He Snoops To Conquer?
George Formby
Out of the seven colours of the rainbow, which one is in the middle?
Green
Who was the last British Prime Minister who did not attend Oxford or Cambridge?
Gordon Brown
How many lines are there on the London Underground?
11 (Bakerloo, Central, Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee, Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria and Waterloo & City)
Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities. What are the two cities?
London and Paris
Who was on the UK throne on VE Day 1945?
George VI
In September 1975, when the magazine New Scientist asked its readers to name the best-known scientist, which British scientist came third after Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein? (Clue: He was often on the TV!)
Magnus Pike
What is Keir Starmer's constituency?
Holborn and St Pancras
Which sea in Northern Europe is bounded by several countries including Sweden, Finland, Poland and Germany?
The Baltic Sea
What is the name of Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale?
The Testaments
What heroic figure of the merchant navy shares his name with a brand of alcoholic drink?
Johnny Walker
At which temperature does water boil on the Fahrenheit scale?
212 degrees
How old do you have to be to stand for US president?
35 years old
Which country has the longest coastline in the world?
Canada
What is the name of the final book in the Harry Potter series?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows