Question: In which year did play first take place on the middle Sunday at Wimbledon?
Answer: 1991

Question: Who wrote the children’s book ‘The Snowman’?
Answer: Raymond Briggs

Question: The annual Latitude Music Festival takes place in which English county?
Answer: Suffolk

Question: What is the tune hummed by David Brent during his infamous dance routine in the UK tv series ‘The Office’?
Answer: Disco Inferno

Question: The islands of Bass and Pelee lie in which of North America’s Great Lakes?
Answer: Lake Erie

Question: Guadalupe Island, in the Pacific Ocean, belongs to which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Kitten, Spool, Wedge and Cone are all types of what?
Answer: Heel

Question: Edeomania is an abnormal interest in which part of the body?
Answer: Genitals

Question: Which US actor’s film company founded the Sundance Film Festival?
Answer: Robert Redford

Question: Who was the first unseeded tennis player to win the Wimbledon Men’s Finals?
Answer: Boris Becker

Question: In which year was live television coverage of the Olympic Games available internationally for the first time?
Answer: 1956

Question: How many metres are in a nautical mile?
Answer: 1852

Question: What is the cube root of 512?
Answer: 8

Question: How many players, in one team, are in the water at the same time in a game of water polo?
Answer: 7 (including the goalkeeper)

Question: Which famous British author used the pen name Mary Westmacott?
Answer: Agatha Christie

Question: What is the title of the film in which Joaquin Phoenix plays country music legend Johnny Cash?
Answer: Walk the Line

Question: The Sheffield Shield is competed for in which sport?
Answer: Cricket

Question: Which English monarch was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485?
Answer: Richard III

Question: Which date is Groundhog Day in the USA?
Answer: February 2nd

Question: What is the sediment at the bottom of a wine barrel called after fermentation?
Answer: Lees

Question: Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud was the first king of which Asian state?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: Which English sailor made the first solo voyage around the world by the clipper route?
Answer: Sir Francis Chichester

Question: What was the first product sold by Heinz in 1869?
Answer: Horseradish

Question: Equinophobia is the abnormal fear of which animals?
Answer: Horses

Question: Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond and Lady Margaret Beaufort were the parents of which Engllish monarch?
Answer: Henry VII

Question: Incheon International Airport serves which Asian city?
Answer: Seoul

Question: What is name of cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants pet snail?
Answer: Gary

Question: British athlete Jonathan Edwards competed in which event?
Answer: Triple jump

Question: Pico da Neblina is the highest mountain in which South American country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Which chemical element does ‘Li’ represent in the Periodic Table?
Answer: Lithium

Question: Which Asian city was previously known as Edo?
Answer: Tokyo

Question: Which musical instrument does Kermit the Frog play?
Answer: Banjo

Question: What was the first name of Paddy Maguire’s wife in the UK tv series ‘Shameless’?
Answer: Mimi

Question: What are the patterns called which are applied to the hands of Indian women using Henna?
Answer: Mehndi

Question: What was the name of the airship that burst into flames at Lakenhurst Naval Station, New Jersey in 1937?
Answer: Hindenburg

Question: The process of ‘remuage’ is used in the production of what?
Answer: Champagne/sparkling wine

Question: The perfume L’Interdit by Givenchy was created in 1957 for which actress?
Answer: Audrey Hepburn

Question: ‘Viernes’ is Spanish for which day of the week?
Answer: Friday

Question: Who starred as mathematician John Nash in the 2001 film ‘A Beautiful Mind’?
Answer: Russell Crowe

Question: Traditionally made in Mexico, ‘bolillo’ is a type of what?
Answer: Bread

Question: What was the name of English comedian Jimmy Carr’s flavour crisp, produced by Walkers for Red Nose Day 2011?
Answer: Jimmy con Carne (Chilli con carne)

Question: ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ is the 1900 work of which English composer?
Answer: Edward Elgar

Question: In 1951, Jean Lee was the last woman to be executed in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Which part of the body does a cariogenic affect?
Answer: Teeth

Question: How many stars are on the national flag of Turkey?
Answer: One

Question: What is the national flower of South Africa?
Answer: Protea

Question: What is the US state capital of Illinois?
Answer: Springfield

Question: Who led the 1381 Peasants Revolt in the UK, with Jack Straw, John Ball and others, and was stabbed to death by the Lord Mayor of London?
Answer: Wat Tyler

Question: What is the last note on a standard keyboard?
Answer: C

Question: What is the first part of the Jewish Bible called, which refers to the first five books of Moses?
Answer: The Torah

Question: What is a baby skunk called?
Answer: A kit

Question: ‘Coach’ is a brand name for which fashion items?
Answer: Handbags

Question: A moa was what type of creature?
Answer: Bird

Question: Who became the first female muslim cabinet minister in the British government?
Answer: Baroness Sayeeda Warsi

Question: How much, in British pounds sterling, did the Sinclair C5 electric vehicle sell for in the UK when it was launched in 1985?
Answer: 399 + 29 delivery

Question: Who is the Greek God of wine?
Answer: Dionysus

Question: What is the capital of Hungary?
Answer: Budapest

Question: The UK’s first mobile phone call, in 1985, was across which network?
Answer: Vodaphone

Question: Who was the first British reigning monarch to visit Australia?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth II

Question: The ‘Autobots’ and the ‘Decepticons’ are the main factions of which toy line?
Answer: Transformers

Question: What is the name of the 1995 film about a supernatural board game, starring Robin Williams and Kirsten Dunst?
Answer: Jumanji

Question: In the game of Scrabble, the ‘M’ tile is worth how many points?
Answer: 3

Question: Which film won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 2011 Academy Awards?
Answer: The King’s Speech

Question: In which part of the human body would you find the obturator muscles?
Answer: Pelvis

Question: In 1907, which ill-fated liner of the Cunard Line made its maiden voyage?
Answer: RMS Lusitania

Question: Aravind Adiga’s novel ‘The White Tiger’ won which prestigious award in 2008?
Answer: The Man Booker Prize

Question: Which singer released the single ‘Lonely’ in 2005?
Answer: Akon

Question: British tv ‘Dragon’ Theo Paphitis was the chairman of which London football club for eight years until 2006?
Answer: Millwall

Question: Muharram is the first month in which religious calender?
Answer: Islamic

Question: What was the name of the clothes shop opened by Mary Quant on London’s King’s Road in 1955?
Answer: Bazaar

Question: In 1958, who became the youngest footballer, at age 17, to play in a World Cup?
Answer: Pele

Question: Who wrote the children’s series of ‘Mr Men’ books?
Answer: Roger Hargreaves

Question: ‘Albrecht Discount’ supermarket is better known by what name?
Answer: Aldi

Question: Who wrote ‘The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’?
Answer: Douglas Adams

Question: Which South African author, born in 1905, was a reporter for London’s Daily Express, a World War II BBC broadcaster and wife of a British Admiral?
Answer: Joy Packer

Question: Catherine Barkley, Helen Ferguson and Rinaldi are all characters in which World War I novel by Ernest Hemingway?
Answer: A Farewell to Arms

Question: The 2010 charity single ‘Helping Haiti’ is a cover of which REM song?
Answer: Everybody Hurts

Question: Which British Prime Minister was famous for playing the organ?
Answer: Edward Heath

Question: Which religious reformer and theologian appeared before the ‘Diet of Worms’ in Germany in 1521?
Answer: Martin Luther

Question: The Cordoba is the basic monetary unit of which country?
Answer: Nicaragua