Question: What is the title of the BBC sitcom starring Mathew Horne and Joanna Page, written by and co-starring Ruth Jones and James Corden?
Answer: Gavin & Stacey

Question: What modern-day country was ruled between 1902 and 1964 by Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud and his son, Emir Saud?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: George Harrison was deported from which city where the early Beatles had long term engagements, because of his youth?
Answer: Hamburg

Question: What is the name of the French national flag adopted during during the French Revolution, consisting of three equal vertical bands of red, white and blue?
Answer: Tricolor

Question: What is the name for the massacre of the French ruling class while in church by local people at Palermo in 1282 that started a revolution that spread to other parts of the country?
Answer: Sicilian Vespers

Question: On the table for which gambling game would you see the words Passe, Pair, Manque, Impair and pictures of black and red diamonds?
Answer: Roulette

Question: What does the Japanese word "Kamikaze" mean?
Answer: Divine wind

Question: When is a barium meal given to someone?
Answer: Before an X Ray examination of the digestive system

Question: Which Greek philosopher was accused by the Sophists of corrupting the youth of Athens and was condemned to death by drinking hemlock?
Answer: Socrates

Question: Which white metal that burns in air forms more of the earth's crust than carbon, sulphur, copper or lead?
Answer: Titanium

Question: What estate, presented to the British nation in 1917, is the official residence of the Prime Minister?
Answer: Chequers

Question: Where was the World Netball Series held in October 2009?
Answer: Manchester, England

Question: What trophy, designed by the Italian designer Silvio Gazzaniga, is 36 cm (14.2 in) high, made of solid 18 carat (75%) gold and weighs 6.175 kg (13.6 lb), with a base containing two layers of semi-precious malachite?
Answer: FIFA World Cup Trophy

Question: What nationality is tennis player Roger Federer?
Answer: Swiss

Question: Which volcano buried the Italian city of Pompeii?
Answer: Vesuvius

Question: The Russo Japanese War of 1904-1905 ended when the Russian Fleet under Rozhdestvensky was defeated at the Battle of Tsushima by a fleet led by whom?
Answer: Admiral Togo Heihachir

Question: By which name was boxer Walter Smith better known?
Answer: Sugar Ray Robinson

Question: In "Coronation Street", what did Tracey Barlow name her daughter, born in 2004?
Answer: Amy

Question: To end The War of 1812, the USA and Great Britain signed which treaty on 24 December 1814?
Answer: Treaty of Ghent

Question: Why was the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania founded by William Penn?
Answer: As a safe place for Quakers to live and practise their faith

Question: Who discovered the moons of Saturn called Mimas and Enceladus between 1781 and 1789?
Answer: Herschel

Question: How many players from each team usually make up a rugby union scrum?
Answer: 8

Question: What architectural term was applied by the Romans to any public building built in a rectangle twice as long as it was broad with an internal 2 storied colonnade?
Answer: Basilica

Question: In 1695, John Trevor was forced to stand down as Speaker of the British House of Commons. Who was the next Speaker to be ousted?
Answer: Michael Martin

Question: Wilberforce, Clarkson, Zachary, Macauley and Brougham were instrumental in ending what practice in the British Empire from 1807?
Answer: The slave trade

Question: The "seven Champions of Christendom" were St George, St Andrew, St David, St Patrick, St Denys, St James and which other?
Answer: St Anthony

Question: By what name is the modern game that was published by Milton Bradley Company in 1943 as the pad-and-pencil game "Broadsides, the Game of Naval Strategy"?
Answer: Battleships

Question: What is the name for the phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere?
Answer: Rainbow

Question: With what activity is Russian Marc Chagall associated?
Answer: Painting

Question: From which sport do we get the expression "step up to the plate"?
Answer: Baseball

Question: What is the silt-formed delta of the River Rhone?
Answer: Camargue

Question: What is the first line of the speech by the 3 witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth that ends "toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble"?
Answer: Double double

Question: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are the moons of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: Who had his first prize fight in 1914, became world heavyweight champion at Toledo in 1919 and was champion until defeated in 1926?
Answer: Jack Dempsey

Question: Whose adopted children are David Banha and Chifundo "Mercy" James?
Answer: Madonna

Question: David McTaggart co-founded which organisation?
Answer: Greenpeace

Question: If the length of two sides of a right angled triangle measured in inches are prime numbers, and it has two adjacent sides of 12 and 13 inches long, how long must the third side be?
Answer: 5

Question: What was the title of John Wayne's last movie, made in 1976?
Answer: The Shootist

Question: Which establishment owes much to the offer by Sir Hans Sloane in 1758 for England to purchase his collections?
Answer: British Museum

Question: In Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and among Persian-speaking populations of Central Asia, what is the sport called that involves two teams of horse riders, a dead goat and few rules?
Answer: Buzkashi

Question: What card game, played usually between 2 players or teams who try to build up collections of cards of the same value, uses 2 packs with 2 additional jokers?
Answer: Canasta

Question: Which country, the capital of which is Asmara, had the King of Ethiopia as its king from 1952?
Answer: Eritrea

Question: Singer Katie Melua is a naturalised British subject. Where was she born?
Answer: Republic of Georgia

Question: What type of animal is the world's largest reptile?
Answer: Crocodile

Question: What part of mainland Europe was English territory for 200 years from the mid 14th century?
Answer: Calais

Question: Ex-US President Richard Nixon was disqualified from what in 1976?
Answer: Practising law

Question: Which river runs through the city of London, England?
Answer: Thames

Question: Since 2002, the awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have been broadcast from which venue?
Answer: The Kodak Theatre

Question: The naval battle fought on 2 April 1801 known as the Battle of Copenhagen was fought between Denmark and a navy from where?
Answer: Britain

Question: The object of which card game is to make, for example, pairs, sequences, and 15 and 31 points, where scores are marked by means of pegs in a board?
Answer: Cribbage

Question: What was the Japanese name for Manchuria after they occupied it in 1931?
Answer: Manchukuo

Question: The initials "FDC" are connected with what activity?
Answer: Philately

Question: In which country, which was neutral in World War II, was there a revolution which deposed the monarchy in 1910, then a military coup d'tat in 1926, followed by a right-wing dictatorship?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Who, we are led to believe, is Dr. Gregory Houses only true friend?
Answer: Dr. James Wilson

Question: What is the name given to copper bars arranged in a cylinder, insulated from each other which rotates to connect each section of the armature in turn (in a motor) or to the external current (in a dynamo)?
Answer: Commutator

Question: According to the proverb, people who sup with whom should use a long spoon?
Answer: The devil

Question: Whose career was re-ignited with the release of his album "American Recordings", which included songs writen by Tom Waits, Nick Lowe and Leonard Cohen, when it won the 1994 Contemporary Folk Album Grammy Award?
Answer: Johnny Cash