Question: Which elite car company manufacture the Carrera GT model of car?
Answer: Porsche

Question: What colour is a UK domestic 5 amp electrical appliance fuse?
Answer: Black

Question: Which female singer, in 2008, topped the UK and US album charts with the album 'Spirit'?
Answer: Leona Lewis

Question: Which elite car company manufacture the Europa model of car?
Answer: Lotus

Question: Who was the last man to have set foot on the moon?
Answer: Eugene Cernan

Question: In the drink Gin and 'It' - what is 'It'?
Answer: Italian Vermouth

Question: Which radio station is transmitted on 1089 and 1053 kilohertz on the medium wave across the UK?
Answer: Talksport

Question: Which American football team won the first Superbowl in 1967?
Answer: Green Bay Packers

Question: In which city is the HQ of Unesco?
Answer: Paris

Question: In which religion is the Torah a sacred text?
Answer: Judaism

Question: What would the main interest of a philumenist be?
Answer: Match boxes/labels

Question: Who was the father of Romulus and Remus?
Answer: Mars

Question: Who played the Waco Kid in the spoof Western "Blazing Saddles"?
Answer: Gene Wilder

Question: Sheerness is the main town on which island in the Thames estuary?
Answer: Sheppey

Question: In the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons', which bells sing 'I owe you five farthings'?
Answer: St Martins

Question: Which tree is highly valued for gunstocks and decorative veneers for furniture?
Answer: Walnut

Question: Which SS commander died as a result of an assassination attempt in Prague in 1942?
Answer: (Reinhard) Heydrich

Question: Which motorway runs from the M5 near Bromsgrove to a junction with the A44 and A42 near Burton-on-Trent?
Answer: M42

Question: Christopher Jones was captain of which famous ship?
Answer: Mayflower

Question: An island in the Bristol Channel gives its name to which shipping area?
Answer: Lundy

Question: Why is a small sachet of silica gel often used in packaging?
Answer: To absorb moisture

Question: What, in physics, is defined as 'the amount of electrical charge stored for a given electrical potential'?
Answer: Capacitance

Question: The Cumberland Gap is a pass in which US mountain range?
Answer: Appalachians

Question: Cinnabar is the chief ore of which metallic element?
Answer: Mercury

Question: Of which constellation is Deneb the brightest star?
Answer: Cygnus

Question: Which Roman road ran from Lincoln to Exeter?
Answer: Fosse Way

Question: Apart from the Sun, which is the nearest star to our planet?
Answer: Proxima Centauri

Question: In which month do the London Promenade Concerts start?
Answer: July

Question: Licence plates from which U.S. state, include the phrase, "Great Faces, Great Places"?
Answer: South Dakota

Question: In which U.S. TV series did Alison Janney play the part of C.J. Cregg, a press secretary?
Answer: The West Wing

Question: Which 18th century English artist and engraver painted "The Shrimp Girl", held in The National Gallery in London?
Answer: William Hogarth

Question: Britain, France and which other country were the main opponents of Russia in the Crimean War?
Answer: Turkey

Question: In the opera, "Tosca", by Puccini, what is the name of the heroine's beloved, who is executed by firing squad in the final scenes?
Answer: (Mario) Cavaradossi

Question: Who wore two shirts on his execution day?
Answer: Charles I

Question: Which Olympic city had the animal mascot called Amik the Beaver?
Answer: Montreal

Question: Prior to Zinedine Zidane being sent off in the world cup final of 2006 which other French player was also sent off in a World Cup Final (1998)?
Answer: Marcel Desailly

Question: Who is awarded the Borg Warner Trophy?
Answer: Winner of the Indianapolis 500 motor race

Question: Whose official residence is Number One Observatory Circle?
Answer: US Vice President

Question: Which sport requires a round ball and 'H'- goalposts with a net across their lower half?
Answer: Gaelic Football

Question: What is the nickname of new Premiership football team Stoke City?
Answer: The Potters

Question: Which breed of moth has the same name as a type of servant?
Answer: Footman

Question: What is combined with potato to create the dish 'Pommes Dauphine'?
Answer: Choux Pastry

Question: What type of product was sold under the brand name 'Abdulla'?
Answer: Cigarettes

Question: Who is Katharina's younger sister in Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew'?
Answer: Bianca

Question: How many public companies comprise the Dow Jones Index?
Answer: 30

Question: Which British actress was married to the actor Rod Steiger from 1959 until 1969?
Answer: Claire Bloom

Question: Born in Argentina in 1942, which pianist and conductor has been has been music director of the Berlin State Opera since 1992, and was music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1991 to 2006?
Answer: Daniel Barenboim

Question: Which artist used a terrace at St Thomas' Hospital as a vantage point for his series of paintings of the Houses of Parliament?
Answer: Claude Monet

Question: In which year in the 20th Century were there three Popes?
Answer: 1978

Question: Who is the only Croatian to win men's singles at Wimbledon?
Answer: Goran Ivanisevic

Question: Pheidippides reportedly ran the first marathon during the war between Greece and which other country?
Answer: Persia

Question: Who composed the opera La Traviata?
Answer: Verdi

Question: Which statesman made the quotation "Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate?
Answer: J F Kennedy

Question: In which year was the Prime Minister Spencer Percival shot on entering the House of Commons?
Answer: 1812

Question: Two books of the Old Testament are named after women. Name one.
Answer: Ruth Or Esther

Question: On which island was the singer Freddy Mercury born?
Answer: Zanzibar

Question: Which Cherokee Indian gave his name to a tree?
Answer: Sequoia

Question: The ITN News at Ten team won a 2009 BAFTA for news coverage of which major news story in 2008?
Answer: Chinese Earthquake

Question: From which musical does the song "The Impossible Dream" come from?
Answer: Man Of La Mancha

Question: The city of Split lies on the coast of which country?
Answer: Croatia

Question: Muscat is the capital of which country?
Answer: Oman

Question: Which river is crossed by the bridge Ponte Vasco de Gama?
Answer: Tagus

Question: Which politician wrote the book 'The Storm' about the economic crisis?
Answer: Vince Cable

Question: Who in the 2005 film "Alexander" played Alexander the Great?
Answer: Colin Farrell

Question: As at June 2009 who is the first Minister of Northern Ireland?
Answer: Peter Robinson

Question: What name is given to the stomach lining of various domesticated animals prepared and used for food?
Answer: Tripe

Question: In which US State did the Gunfight at the OK Corral take place?
Answer: Arizona

Question: The first number 1 of the 1960s was called "Starry Eyed", who sang it?
Answer: Michael Holliday

Question: Who plays Chief Inspector George Gently on television?
Answer: Martin Shaw

Question: The dance known as the lambada originates from which country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: In which US city was Motown Records founded?
Answer: Detroit

Question: Which Shakespeare play contains the line 'Get thee to a nunnery'?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: Who was world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1950?
Answer: Joe Louis

Question: What is the better known name for the confectionary Rahat Lokum?
Answer: Turkish Delight

Question: Who became Canada's first woman Prime Minister in 1993?
Answer: Kim Campbell

Question: What is the name for the study of hormones?
Answer: Endocrinology

Question: Which musical instrument does President Bill Clinton play? He played this instrument in the Arkansas State Band.
Answer: Saxophone

Question: In which atmospheric city was the Daphne du Maurier short story 'Don't Look Now' set? It was later filmed in 1973.
Answer: Venice