Question: Malin Head, the most northerly point in Ireland is in which county?
Answer: Donegal

Question: From which ballet company did Rudolph Nuryev defect to the west?
Answer: Kirov

Question: Which TV comic series featured the character Cupid Stunt?
Answer: The Kenny Everett Show

Question: What is the name of the mongoose in Rudyard Kipling' s 'The Jungle Book'?
Answer: Rikki Tikki Tavi

Question: Where, on the Baltic coast, was the German missile site where V1rockets were designed and built?
Answer: Peenemunde

Question: What is the more common name for the landrail?
Answer: Corncrake

Question: Which British chemist/inventor first isolated the chemical element sodium?
Answer: Humphrey Davy

Question: Who wrote "Elegy in a Country Churchyard?
Answer: Thomas Gray

Question: In which constellation is the Great Nebula?
Answer: Orion

Question: Which word for a non-Christian or heathen is derived from the Latin for peasant or rustic?
Answer: Pagan

Question: What are Duke of Burgundy, White Admiral and Essex Skipper?
Answer: Butterflies

Question: Who won the 2011 Booker Prize for 'The Sense of an Ending'?
Answer: Julian Barnes

Question: How old was the Queen Mother when she died in March 2002?
Answer: 101

Question: There are 2 letters of the alphabet which are not the initial letter of chemical elements. One is Q. Name the other.
Answer: J

Question: In the children's TV show 'Trumpton', Captain Flack's firemen were Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and who else?
Answer: Grubb

Question: Why was the entire French Rugby Union team fined after the 2011 World Cup Final?
Answer: For Their Response To The Haka

Question: Which novel opens with the following words 'The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon'?
Answer: Lord Of The Flies

Question: Kelly Sotherton won an Olympic bronze medal in which athletics event in the 2004 games?
Answer: Heptathlon

Question: Before petroleum was first commercialized in 1859, which oil was most commonly used for lubrication and lighting?
Answer: Whale Oil

Question: Which is the national flower of Mexico?
Answer: Dahlia

Question: In the children's song Nellie the Elephant. the head of the herd was met one night on which road?
Answer: (to) Mandalay

Question: Which motorway connects Bristol to the M4?
Answer: M32

Question: Vermilion is a shade of which primary colour?
Answer: Red

Question: Fuggles and goldings are varieties of which edible plant?
Answer: Hops

Question: Which breed of dog has varieties called Welsh, Scottish and Irish?
Answer: Terriers

Question: In an Italian restaurant during which course would you normally eat cannoli?
Answer: The Sweet Or Dessert Course

Question: In which year in the 1950'S did the UK Top 20 see hits like 'Volare' by Dean Martin, 'Stupid Cupid' by Connie Francis and 'Hello my Darlings' by Charlie Drake?
Answer: 1958

Question: Haliaeetus albicilla is the Latin name for the largest bird of prey in the UK. By what name is it normally known?
Answer: (White Tailed) Sea Eagle

Question: Which of the saints was martyred by being stoned to death?
Answer: St Stephen

Question: What personal trophy/keepsake is awarded to every member of an American Football Superbowl winning team?
Answer: A Ring

Question: Name either of the horses that beat Red Rum into second place in the Grand National?
Answer: Rag Trade, L'Escargot

Question: Treaty of Rome signed, establishing the EEC.
Answer: 1957

Question: In which country was actor Basil Rathbone born?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Which is the largest US state by size (area)?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Which is the lightest metallic element with Atomic Number 3?
Answer: Lithium

Question: Which product was advertised on TV using the phrase 'Any time, any place, anywhere'?
Answer: Martini

Question: Which Salford landmark appeared as a backdrop for the Smiths 1986 album cover 'The Queen is Dead'?
Answer: Salford Lads Club

Question: Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' is in a church in which city?
Answer: Milan

Question: Which 'major-winning' golfer has the real first names Lodewicus Theodorus?
Answer: Louis Oosthuizen

Question: The intensity of what is measured on the Saffir-Simpson scale?
Answer: Hurricanes

Question: The Middleton in West Yorkshire and the Swanage in Dorset are examples of what?
Answer: (Privately run, heritage,) Railway Lines

Question: What should have been launched on April 20th 1964, but was delayed until the following day because of an fire at Battersea power station?
Answer: Bbc2

Question: Who was the only man to serve as Chancellor of the Exchequer under both Harold Wilson and James Callaghan?
Answer: Dennis Healey

Question: What was Coco Chanel's real first name?
Answer: Gabrielle

Question: What kind of bird is a kakapo, which is endemic to New Zealand?
Answer: Parrot

Question: In Thai cuisine kapi is a paste made up of what?
Answer: Shrimps

Question: Which chemical element takes its name from the Greek for 'inactive'?
Answer: Argon

Question: In which year did the Battle of Vitoria take place during the Peninsular War?
Answer: 1813

Question: Which fruit has varieties named Czar, Kirke's Blue and Marjorie's Seedling?
Answer: Plum

Question: Which Npower Football League Division 2 club plays at home at the Kassam Stadium?
Answer: Oxford United

Question: Which pop group had a hit in 1970 with 'Lola'?
Answer: The Kinks

Question: In New Zealand Aoraki is the native name for which natural feature?
Answer: Mount Cook

Question: Which hit record of the 1960s includes the line 'Sixteen vestal virgins who are leaving for the coast'?
Answer: A Whiter Shade Of Pale

Question: In the cult Danish TV series 'The Killing' Sofie Grabol plays which leading character?
Answer: Sarah Lund

Question: Which island lies off the coast of South Wales opposite Tenby?
Answer: Caldey

Question: 'Look into my face Marie-Claire and remember just who you are' is a line from which 1969 hit record?
Answer: Where Do You Go To

Question: Which hit song by Roy Orbison begins "A candy coloured clown they call the sandman"?
Answer: In Dreams

Question: What is the smallest breed of ape?
Answer: Gibbon

Question: What word is used to identify the young of a grouse?
Answer: Poult

Question: Which group released the album 'Zooropa' in 1993?
Answer: U2

Question: Lawrence Olivier won only one Oscar, for which film in 1948?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: What common name is given to Chopin's 'Waltz in D Minor'?
Answer: Minute Waltz

Question: Claire Skinner plays a wife and mother in which TV comedy?
Answer: Outnumbered

Question: Which post in Gordon Brown's government was held by David Miliband?
Answer: Foreign Secretary

Question: Carmen Polo was the wife of which dictator?
Answer: Gen. Francisco Franco

Question: Peter Adamson played which character in Coronation Street?
Answer: Len Fairclough

Question: In which year was the Lusitania sunk?
Answer: 1915

Question: Who played the female lead in Howard Hawks' 1959 film 'Rio Bravo'?
Answer: Angie Dickinson

Question: Who was the first poet laureate of the 20th century?
Answer: Alfred Austin

Question: Which French word- derived from an old French word for "paw"-means dialect?
Answer: Patois

Question: In Britain a joint of beef comprising two sirloins joined at the backbone is known as what?
Answer: Baron of Beef

Question: 'Bring It All Back' was the debut single for which group in 1999?
Answer: S Club 7

Question: In which USA city was Jimi Hendrix born?
Answer: Seattle

Question: If you serve on a jury how soon is it before you can be legally called upon to serve again?
Answer: 2 Years

Question: Which sitcom starred Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox?
Answer: The Lovers

Question: During which decade was the Hollywood Walk of Fame established?
Answer: 1950's

Question: The 1916 Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Somme offensive, saw the first use of which weapon?
Answer: Tanks