Question: Who played both Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers on film in the 1930s?
Answer: Buster Crabbe

Question: Covering some 30 acres, which is the largest castle in Wales?
Answer: Caerphilly

Question: Which mineral, whose principal use is for tobacco pipes, takes its popular name from the German for 'Sea Foam'?
Answer: Meerschaum

Question: Who composed the music of the opera Moses and Aaron ?
Answer: Schoenberg

Question: In which country was former Essex and England bowler Derek Pringle born?
Answer: Kenya

Question: Which American model's ten year old daughter has made her own modelling debut recently for Young Versace?
Answer: Cindy Crawford

Question: The Pleasure Garden, The Lodger and Blackmail are among the films of which British director?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock

Question: Which British composer was working on an operetta called The Emerald Isle at the time of his death in 1900?
Answer: Arthur Sullivan

Question: What is the name of the eastern part of the Sahara Desert, lying between the Nile and the Red Sea in north-eastern Sudan?
Answer: Nubian Desert

Question: Popular among East Europeans, which beetroot soup can be served either hot or cold?
Answer: Borsch

Question: Which U.S. state is abbreviated to NE ?
Answer: Nebraska

Question: In Japanese homes what is a Shoji ?
Answer: A SCREEN or SLIDING DOOR

Question: Which vitamin is produced by the body when it is exposed to sunlight?
Answer: D

Question: Famous for its military marches, in which English county is the town of Wooton Bassett?
Answer: Wiltshire

Question: Appointed on February 4th 2011, who is the current manager of Sheffield Wednesday FC?
Answer: Gary Megson

Question: Which popular stage show, now showing in the West End of London is described as a jukebox musical featuring rock 'n' roll songs from the 1950's and 60's and tells the story of a national youth club song competition of 1961?
Answer: Dreamcoats And Petticoats

Question: I wondered lonely as a cloud (also known as 'Daffodils') in 1807 and 'Lucy Gray' in 1798 are works by which British poet?
Answer: William WORDSWORTH

Question: What was the name of the British Army officer who, in 1953, gained recognition as the leader of the successful British expedition to Mount Everest?
Answer: John Hunt

Question: From which musical does the song On The Street Where You live come?
Answer: My Fair Lady

Question: Which veteran performer in rock music began his hit-making career in the mid 1960's with the Belfast quartet named 'Them'?
Answer: Van Morrison

Question: At which hotel in Los Angeles was Robert Kennedy assassinated in 1968?
Answer: Ambassador

Question: Edward Fairfax Rochester is a character in which 19th century novel?
Answer: Jane Eyre

Question: Who wrote the play Arms and the Man?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw

Question: Who was the lead singer with the pop group The Mindbenders?
Answer: Wayne Fontana

Question: Which supermarket chain has its headquarters in Bradford?
Answer: Morrisons

Question: Which company owns the Waitrose chain of supermarkets?
Answer: John Lewis

Question: Which of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, when first presented at the Savoy Theatre in 1887, was billed as 'A New and Original Supernatural Opera in Two Acts'?
Answer: Ruddigore

Question: A 'cordwainer' is an archaic term for an artisan who manufactured what type of goods?
Answer: SHOES, BOOTS etc

Question: Which is the only country in the world that bans women from driving?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: Which British comedian, now aged 53, played the role of a headmaster named Ian George in a BBC1 series called "Hope and Glory" in 1999 and 2000?
Answer: Lenny Henry

Question: Which is the only venue to have hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales whose name begins with the letter T, the year in question being 1928?
Answer: Treorchy

Question: In Greek mythology, what was the name of the giant with 100 eyes who was slain by Hermes?
Answer: Argus

Question: The flag of Haiti consists of which two colours?
Answer: Blue And Red

Question: Which nine letter word, taken from the Aboriginal language is used by Australians for an oxbow lake or stagnant pond?
Answer: Billabong

Question: Which lavender-like colour takes its name from the French for mallow?
Answer: Mauve

Question: I APE IN EAGLE is an anagram of which famous singer?
Answer: Elaine Paige

Question: Which product was advertised on TV as "it spreads straight from the fridge"?
Answer: Blue Band

Question: Which landlocked country in West Africa had previous names "French Upper Volta" and from 1958 to 1984 "Republic of Upper Volta"?
Answer: Burkino Faso

Question: Designed in the USA and first created by knife maker James Black, which large knife, 6 to 24 inches in length frist became famous in an 1827 brawl that was entitled "The Sandbar Fight"?
Answer: Bowie Knife

Question: Now aged 44 and taking office on October 14th 2010 Mark Rutter is the current Prime Minister of which European country?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: Which royal park in London shares its name with a brand of popular sausages that were introduced by a man names Louis Moore in 1889?
Answer: Richmond

Question: Which is England's most southerly mainland city?
Answer: Truro

Question: In which English county are the towns of Bridgewater and Glastonbury?
Answer: Somerset

Question: Although it can come in colourless varieties what is the usual colour of the drink Absinthe?
Answer: Green

Question: Who was the creator of the character Bob the Builder?
Answer: Keith Chapman

Question: For which 1980 biographical film did Sissy Spacek win the Best Actress Oscar for her role as country singer Loretta Lynn?
Answer: Coalminer'S Daughter

Question: Walden Robert Cassotto was the real name of which famous singer who died in December 1973 aged 37?
Answer: Bobby Darin

Question: Four letters of the Greek alphabet have a two letter name, Mu, Nu, Xi and which other, the 16th?
Answer: Pi

Question: The name of which Spanish newspaper translates as The Country?
Answer: El Pais

Question: Which American film actress, born in 1947, had a 14 year relationship with Clint Eastwood, starring with him in several films before splitting up in 1989?
Answer: Sondra Locke

Question: Which disease is also known as Variola?
Answer: Small Pox

Question: Kampala is the capital of which country?
Answer: Uganda

Question: What is the name of the National Lottery draw where players pick five numbers from a range of 1 to 39 and one number from a range of 1 to 14?
Answer: Thunderball

Question: Which famous fictional girl who first appeared in literature in 1991 and on TV in 2002, attended a children's residential care home nicknamed The Dumping Ground along with her rival, a girl named Justine Littlewood?
Answer: Tracy Beaker

Question: What was the surname of the East London gangsters, whose christian names were Charles and Eddie, who in the 1960's ran their own scrapyard business and were seen as the main rivals to the Kray twins?
Answer: Richardson

Question: Dubris is the Roman name for which coastal town in England?
Answer: Dover

Question: """The Camels are Coming"" published in 1932 was the first book that featured which popular children's hero created by W.E.Johns?"
Answer: Biggles

Question: Which film starring Dustin Hoffman won the award for Best Picture Oscar for 1969?
Answer: Midnight Cowboy

Question: Which film starring Robert De Niro won the Best Picture Oscar for 1978?
Answer: The Deerhunter

Question: The A12 road connects London to which coastal resort in Norfolk?
Answer: Great Yarmouth

Question: Near which local village does the river Alyn rise?
Answer: Llandegla

Question: Ian Huntley was convicted of the murders of two schoolgirls in 2002. In waht village did the murders take place?
Answer: Soham