I love quizzes, but am certainly no genius, although I hope this guide will be! Watching TV quiz shows (and frequently in pub quizzes) I think it would be handy to have many of the most frequently asked questions and answers in one place to revise the ones I know I'm weak on beforehand. Quiz shows are myriad* on TV now, and if you watch enough you realise that some subjects are recurring favourites with the question setters. How many times do you think "they should have known US Presidents would be likely to come up on this show?" or whatever.
Some subjects are easier than others to confine to lists (with helpful hints for remembering them). The aforementioned American Presidents only number 45 at the time of writing (Trump) and will not be too onerous to keep updated (usually every 8 years), whereas there have been over 17,000 songs in the British Pop Charts since their inception. Please feel free to comment if you find any errors in my lists, or have suggestions for things I haven't covered.
I am witing this from the point of view of British TV quiz shows (as that's where I live) and while the names of English Prime Ministers will not vary, overseas readers may find my choice of favourite Children's TV characters from the 60s a bit idiosyncratity for that reason.
* Myriad is a curious word, generally used to many 'a great many' but it does have a literal meaning of 10,000
