Question: Which six letter word is the alternative name for the European bison?
Answer: Wisent

Question: What is the largest island crossed by the Arctic Circle?
Answer: Greenland

Question: Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced a death sentence in 1989 on Salman Rushdie as a result of what book, published the previous year?
Answer: 'The Satanic Verses'

Question: Which study in magic and religion by James George Frazer took its name from an incident in 'The Aeneid'?
Answer: 'The Golden Bough'

Question: In Australian Rules Football, what shape is the field of play, convenient for another sport that is popular in Australia?
Answer: OVAL (convenient for Cricket)

Question: What name is given to the apparent change of frequency in a soundwave perceived by an observer as the source as the sound passes?
Answer: Doppler Effect

Question: Historically known as 'Spirit of Amber', which acid is procured from Amber by pulverising and distilling it?
Answer: Succinic Acid

Question: What was the name used by the aircraft hijacker who, in 1971, leapt from the back of a Boeing 727 over the American Pacific Northwest, after collecting a $200,000 ransom, and was never seen again?
Answer: D.B. Cooper

Question: What is the SI unit of force, equal to one kilogram metre per second squared?
Answer: Newton

Question: In which US city do the American Football team known as the 'Falcons' play their home games?
Answer: Atlanta

Question: In Roman Catholicism, what name is given to the transportation of the Virgin Mary's body and soul to heaven?
Answer: Assumption

Question: Who was awarded the 100m Olympic Gold Medal at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 after the disqualification of Ben Johnson?
Answer: Carl Lewis

Question: Which country declared independence from France after the 'August Revolution' of 1945?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: From which country did the USA purchase Nebraska in 1803?
Answer: France

Question: In which American city was the sit-com 'Happy Days' set?
Answer: Milwaukee

Question: In 1937, Salvador Dali designed a sofa in the shape of the lips of which famous Hollywood actress?
Answer: Mae West

Question: On which course is the 'Irish Oaks' horse race run?
Answer: The Curragh

Question: What was the signature song of Edith Piaf - she wrote the lyrics - and the title of a 207 film about her?
Answer: 'La Vie En Rose'

Question: Who presents the BBC arts series 'Imagine'?
Answer: Alan Yentob

Question: Guillermo is the Spanish for which male name?
Answer: William

Question: """She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalot"" is spoken by which Arthurian Knight at the end of Tennyson's poem?"
Answer: 'Lancelot'

Question: What is the more familiar English title for the film that is called in French 'L'Homme qui murmurait a L'oreille des Chevaux'?
Answer: 'The Horse Whisperer'

Question: What is the common name for the laryngeal prominence in the body?
Answer: Adam’s Apple

Question: Which Book of the Bible follows Job alphabetically?
Answer: Joel

Question: In which US city do the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers join to form the Ohio River?
Answer: Pittsburgh

Question: Hans Holbein the Younger was court painter to which King?
Answer: Henry VIII

Question: Following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon surrendered to the British aboard which warship?
Answer: H.M.S. Bellerophon

Question: Which word, often used to describe an element of a car's performance, also means a twisted necklace of gold or other material?
Answer: Torque

Question: In which TV programme did Bruce Forsyth take over from Leonard Rossiter as a supermarket manager?
Answer: 'SINGERS DAY' accept 'Trippers Day'

Question: Which saint, whose feast day is on October 25th., was made even more famous in a speech by Shakespeare's king 'Henry V'?
Answer: St. Crispin

Question: 'Art - vorticism' was an English movement led by Percy Wyndham Lewis. In which century did this movement begin?
Answer: TWENTIETH (20th)

Question: Similarly, what position is currently held by Peter Maxwell Davis?
Answer: Master Of The Queen'S Music

Question: What courtesy title is given to the sons and daughters of the peerage?
Answer: Honourable

Question: The Battle of Naseby took place in which English county?
Answer: Northamptonshire

Question: 'Liberty Airport' serves which American city?
Answer: NEWARK (New Jersey)

Question: Who directed thee 1982 film 'Tootsie'?
Answer: Sydney Pollack

Question: In which Shakespeare play do the characters 'Beatrice' and 'Benedick' appear?
Answer: 'Much Ado About Nothing'

Question: After St. Paul's and York Minster which is the third largest cathedral in England?
Answer: Lincoln

Question: What is the capital of Zambia?
Answer: Lusaka

Question: Which of the Romantic poets wrote the epic semi- autobiographical poem 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'?
Answer: Lord Byron

Question: Which Russian composer wrote the opera 'Prince Igor'?
Answer: Alexander Borodin

Question: Which German writer completed his magisterial final novel 'Austerlitz' just weeks prior to his death in a car crash in 2001?
Answer: W.G. Sebald

Question: In the English translations of the 'Asterix' comics, what is the name of the village Druid with a white gown and red cloak, usually seen carrying a golden sickle?
Answer: 'Getafix'

Question: Who is the patron saint of doctors?
Answer: St. Luke

Question: Which legendary winged monster of Greek mythology, who perched on a high rock near Thebes, had the body of a lion and the head and breasts of a woman?
Answer: Sphinx

Question: Which Bridge in Central London, completed in 1945, is often referred to as 'The Ladies' Bridge'
Answer: Waterloo

Question: Who wrote the three plays known as the Eugene Trilogy - Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound?
Answer: Neil Simon

Question: Which British driver has 31 Formula One victories, the most by a Briton?
Answer: Nigel Mansell

Question: On which day of the week did Mo Farah win both of his gold medals at the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: Saturday

Question: What is the highest value Euro banknote?
Answer: €500

Question: The logo of Cancer Research UK has a pattern of dots in the shape of a triangle. How many dots are there?
Answer: 10

Question: Who played computer expert 'Professor Simon Peach' in the 1969 film 'The Italian Job'?
Answer: Benny Hill

Question: In which TV series did cousins 'Bo' and 'Luke' drive a car called the 'General Lee'?
Answer: 'The Dukes Of Hazzard'

Question: Who wrote the children's book 'Heidi'?
Answer: Johanna Spyri

Question: The city of Kolkata lies on which river?
Answer: Hooghly

Question: At which major battle in 216 BC did the army of Carthage under Hannibal defeat the Romans under the command of consuls Varro and Paullus?
Answer: Cannae

Question: In 2002 'Miss Hissy' a snake, 'Tiffo' a dog, 'Bilbo' a sailor, and 'Orbie' a yellow-and-blue ball joined the original three characters in which children's TV series originally made in the 1950's?
Answer: 'Andy Pandy'

Question: Which Rugby Union team plays home games at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea?
Answer: Ospreys

Question: Which product is advertised on television as "smooth enough to sell itself"?
Answer: John Smith'S Beer

Question: Which airport serves the Leeds/Bradford area?
Answer: Yeadon

Question: In which opera do the brothers 'Fernando' and 'Guglielmo' appear?
Answer: 'Cosi Fan Tuti'

Question: Which former Beirut hostage wrote 'An Evil Cradeling'?
Answer: Brian Keenan

Question: What was the name of the fictional pair of old men who answered readers letters in the Daily Mirror for 54 years from 1936 to 1990?
Answer: 'The Old Codgers'

Question: Which band, who had two number one hits in the 1980's, were formerly called 'In Praise Of Lemmings'?
Answer: 'Culture Club'

Question: Which African capital city is named after an American President?
Answer: MONROVIA, Liberia

Question: The Treaty of Westphalia ended which European war?
Answer: The Thirty Year War