Question: Three new cities were created in the UK in 2000, Brighton, Wolverhampton, and which other?
Answer: Inverness

Question: In which English county is Castle Howard?
Answer: North Yorkshire

Question: Which soft drink was invented by the Nicholls family of Wythenshawe during the 1900's, and is sold in both still and sparkling forms?
Answer: 'Vimto'

Question: What name is given to a barrel that has the capacity to hold 54 gallons of beer?
Answer: Hogshead

Question: On 31st. May 2009 Millvina Dean died aged 97. Why was her death notable?
Answer: She Was The Last Living Survivor Of The Titanic

Question: How is ham and cheese on toast, known to the French?
Answer: 'Croque Monsieur'

Question: In which country would you find the Angostura Suspension Bridge?
Answer: Venezuela

Question: At which battle of May 878 AD did King Alfred the Great defeat the Vikings' Great Heathen Army led by Guthrun?
Answer: BATTLE OF EDINGTON or ETHANDUN

Question: What name is given to the mass killing of Danes in England that was ordered by King Ethelred the Unready and occurred on 13th November 1002?
Answer: St. Brice'S Day Massacre

Question: Which god of wisdom in Egyptian mythology is usually portrayed with the head of a Falcon?
Answer: Horus

Question: What is the nationality of Manchester City's £24 million midfielder Yaya Toure?
Answer: IVORIAN (accept Ivory Coast or Cote d'Ivoire)

Question: Which South African golfer won this month's US Masters tournament with a score of 14 under par?
Answer: Charl Schwartzel

Question: Dilma Rousseff was elected as the first female President of which South American country, in 2011?
Answer: Brazil

Question: What is the medical name for the allergy of the skin known commonly as nettle rash or hives?
Answer: Urticaria

Question: Formerly the capital, which is the largest city in Tanzania?
Answer: Dar Es Salaam

Question: Moving to Australia when he was 4, in which country was Russell Crowe born?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: By which single name is photographer John Waddell known?
Answer: RANKIN (this is his is middle name)

Question: The SI unit of Inductance is named after which American who lived from 1797 to 1878?
Answer: Joseph Henry

Question: In music, which note is equal to two crotchets?
Answer: Minim

Question: In which ITV comedy do Steve Pemberton and Siobhan Finneran play 'Mick' and 'Janice Garvey'?
Answer: 'Benidorm'

Question: Which Manchester band formed in 1976 by Mark E Smith and three others was named after the English title of a novel by Albert Camus?
Answer: 'The Fall'.

Question: How are Oldham born comedy duo Thomas Derbyshire and Robert Harper known professionally?
Answer: 'Cannon & Ball'

Question: Who co-wrote and directed the 2011 film ‘W E’?
Answer: Madonna

Question: What is the original title of the book translated into Spanish as ‘Harry Potter y el Cáliz de Fuego’?
Answer: (Harry Potter And) The Goblet Of Fire

Question: What is the result of multiplying 112 by 4 and then finding 25% of the answer?
Answer: 112

Question: In Formula 1 Stirling Moss was runner-up in four consecutive years. Name either of the drivers who won the title in those years.
Answer: JUAN MANUEL FANGIO (3) or MIKE HAWTHORN

Question: There are four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Temperance, Justice and which other?
Answer: Fortitude

Question: Who created the newspaper strip cartoon “The Perishers”?
Answer: Maurice Dodd

Question: Which household product “cleaned a big, big carpet for less than half a crown”?
Answer: 1001 (One thousand and one)

Question: What name is given to the notoriously steep railway gradient south of Birmingham between Barnt Green and Bromsgrove?
Answer: The Lickey (Incline)

Question: Which type of spaniel takes its name from a stately home in Nottinghamshire?
Answer: Clumber

Question: In literature, who sped across the Atlantic in the SS Henrietta?
Answer: Phileas Fogg

Question: The original line-up of which girl band included Kerry Katona and Liz McClarnon?
Answer: Atomic Kitten

Question: Who was King of Italy from 1900 until 1946 - regnal number not required?
Answer: Victor Emmanuel (Iii)

Question: Who was the wife of the Professor of Literature, John Bayley?
Answer: Iris Murdock

Question: Which Paris landmark has 282 steps, and was planned as a monument to the military success of Napoleon I?
Answer: Arc De Triomphe

Question: Whose distillery produces 'Glenlivet' Malt Whisky?
Answer: George Smith & Son

Question: The principle that "the volume of a given quantity of gas varies inversely with the pressure when the temperature is constant", is whose law?
Answer: Boyle'S Law

Question: What is a computer that links one network to another, called?
Answer: ROUTER or BRIDGE or GATEWAY

Question: In which Paris landmark is the tomb of Napoleon I?
Answer: Les Invalides

Question: Which actor was Nicole Kidman's co-star in 'Moulin Rouge'?
Answer: EWAN McGREGOR

Question: 'Grant's' and 'Thompson's' are two of the sixteen speciesof which animal?
Answer: Gazelle

Question: Whitchurch, Ludlow,Bridgenorth and Market Drayton, are towns in which English county?
Answer: Shropshire

Question: Where on the night of November 12th 1940, was the Italian fleet attacked and badly damaged, whilst atanchor?
Answer: Taranto

Question: Which 'Pet Shop Boys' song went to number one for two weeks in January 1988?
Answer: 'Always On My Mind'

Question: The North Yorkshire Moorsrailway runs from Grosmont to where?
Answer: Pickering

Question: Starring Johnny Depp, which was the highest grossing film worldwide in 2007?
Answer: 'Pirates Of The Caribbean : At World'S End'

Question: Which creature is the subject of Edwin Landseer's painting 'The Monarch Of The Glen'?
Answer: STAG (accept Deer)

Question: The 'Mosquito Coast'is shared between two countries in the Americas. Name either?
Answer: NICARAGUA or HONDURAS

Question: What is the name of the alcoholic, chain-smoking robot in the television series 'Futurama'?
Answer: 'Bender'

Question: In terms of population, which is the largest American state capital?
Answer: PHOENIX, Arizona

Question: Despite having the sixth smallest population, which is the largest American state capital in terms of area?
Answer: JUNEAU, Alaska

Question: Evelyn Waugh's novel 'Black Mischief' was a satirical description of which 20th century Emperor?
Answer: Haile Selassie

Question: In which American state does the McDonald's fast food chain have its headquarters?
Answer: Illinois

Question: Which American criminal was shot and killed by the FBI in 1934 after being betrayed by 'The Lady In Red'?
Answer: John Dillinger

Question: Which English 'Indie' rock group had a top ten hit in April 2008 with 'Always Where I Need To Be'?
Answer: 'The Kooks'

Question: Which Northampton-born actor will replace David Tennant as the eleventh 'Dr. Who', in 2010?
Answer: Matt Smith

Question: What is the name of the dragon who gnaws at the roots of 'Yggrasil', the world tree of Norse mythology?
Answer: 'Nidhogg'

Question: This TV sit-com character had a sex change in Morocco during the 1960's and briefly lived as a man prior to her penis falling off. She now lives in a storeroom above 'Oddbins' in London. Who is she?
Answer: 'PATSY STONE' (from 'Absolutely Fabulous' - accept either name)

Question: Two European countries have flags which are blue and yellow. Name either?
Answer: SWEDEN or UKRAINE

Question: Which future Prime Minister first entered Parliament as MP for Ormskirk in 1945?
Answer: Harold Wilson

Question: In athletics, which is the tenth and final event of the Decathlon?
Answer: 1500 Metres

Question: What was the name of the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave who died in 2009?
Answer: NATASHA (Richardson)

Question: In the 1978 film 'International Velvet', who plays the character 'Velvet Brown'?
Answer: Nanette Newman

Question: On which river, a tributary of the Avon, does the town of Leamington Spa stand?
Answer: Leam