Question: Who was the last Englishman before Lewis Hamilton to win the Formula One World Championship?
Answer: Damon Hill

Question: Comedian Charles Springall (1925-2006) was better known by which name?
Answer: Charlie Drake

Question: In the 2004 film of the same name who played the part of 'Vera Drake'?
Answer: Imelda Staunton

Question: If you had a postcode starting with ZE5 where would you live?
Answer: Shetland

Question: What hardly ever happens in "Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire"?
Answer: Hurricanes

Question: Which car company make a model called the 'Yeti'?
Answer: Skoda

Question: Who presents the TV programme 'Caribbean Food Made Easy'?
Answer: Levi Roots

Question: In which town is St Magnus' Cathedral, the most northerly in Britain?
Answer: Kirkwall

Question: Name any one of Europe's three Capitals of Culture, 2010.
Answer: Istanbul, Pecs, Essen

Question: Who was the heroine of Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey?
Answer: Catherine Morland

Question: Water is taken from several lakes in the Lake District, but there are only two reservoirs among the lakes. Name either of them.
Answer: Thirlmere or Haweswater

Question: Which supermodel was discovered at the age of 17 in a Dusseldorf night club?
Answer: Claudia Schiffer

Question: John Landis directed a famous video for which of Michael Jackson's hits?
Answer: Thriller

Question: Which is the most northerly racecourse in Great Britain?
Answer: Perth

Question: Complete the title of this 1960's Group - 'Bachman Turner ....'
Answer: Overdrive

Question: What name was given to the 17th Century chair with shafts, borne by two servants?
Answer: A Sedan

Question: Who was the Prime Minister of WW2 Japan?
Answer: Tojo

Question: What nationality is the keyboard player Vangelis?
Answer: Greek

Question: When 'Titanic' left Southampton in April 1912, where was her first port of call?
Answer: Cherbourg

Question: Whish gas forms bubbles in the bloodstream when someone gets the bends?
Answer: Nitrogen

Question: In which Welsh Town is the Royal Mint?
Answer: Llantrisant

Question: Which King had Daniel thrown into the lions' den?
Answer: Darius

Question: Which museum stands on the site of the Royal Bethlehem, (or Bedlam), hospital in London?
Answer: Imperial War Museum

Question: As a teenager, Manchester United footballer, Ryan Giggs adopted his mother's maiden surname as his own. What had been his birth surname?
Answer: Wilson

Question: What name is given to the small plastic, or metal sheath found at each end of a shoelace?
Answer: An Aglet

Question: In September 1950,where, in Korea, did UN troops land, prior to the recapture of Seoul?
Answer: Inchon

Question: What is the name of the cooking utensil, popular on the Algarve in Portugal, used to cook a seafood stew, of the same name?
Answer: A Cataplana

Question: Which Shakespeare play opens with the line, "If music be the food of love, play on"?
Answer: Twelfth Night

Question: Who sang the theme tune, "My Heart Will Go On", in the 1997 film, "Titanic"?
Answer: Celine Dion

Question: In a 1965 film, by what name is Eric Stoner better known?
Answer: The Cincinnati Kid

Question: Which famous baseball player had the forenames George Herman?
Answer: """Babe"" Ruth"

Question: In which Shakespeare play does Prospero, Duke of Milan, appear?
Answer: The Tempest

Question: How many surfaces does a cone have?
Answer: Two

Question: In which town or city is the University of Abertay?
Answer: Dundee

Question: Which American vocal group was made up of Tim Hauser, Laurel Masse, Alan Paul and Janis Siegel?
Answer: Manhattan Transfer

Question: Which big band leader used, as his signature tune, "One O'clock Jump"?
Answer: Count Basie

Question: How many contestants are there in Channel 4's TV game show, "Deal or No Deal"?
Answer: 22

Question: Under the recent vehicle registration plate nomenclature, cars beginning with the letter C come from which area of the UK?
Answer: Wales

Question: In 1967, the Republic of Biafra declared independence from which country?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: In which English county is the town of Chipping Norton?
Answer: Oxfordshire

Question: Who became the first President of the newly formed Republic of Tanzania in 1964, a position he held until his retirement in 1985?
Answer: Julius Nyerere

Question: Who was the Greek God of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, his Roman equivalent being Bacchus?
Answer: Dionysus

Question: Which 1962 film, starring Robert Mitchum in the role of Max Cady, was remade in 1991, with the part being played by Robert de Nero?
Answer: Cape Fear

Question: Who, in 1936, said, "Guns will make us powerful. Butter will only make us fat"?
Answer: Hermann Goering

Question: In the Sherlock Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", what was the Blue Carbuncle?
Answer: A Precious Stone

Question: Goitre, or enlarged thyroid gland, is caused by a deficiency of which trace element in the human body?
Answer: Iodine

Question: Who beat Walter Mondale in the U.S. Presidential election in 1984?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: In the Oscar acting categories, which actor has received the most nominations?
Answer: Jack Nicholson

Question: What is the name of the Swedish policeman in the series of novels by Henning Mankel?
Answer: (Kurt) WALLANDER

Question: Which of the United States is known as the 'Badger State'?
Answer: Wisconsin

Question: Which poet, killed in World War One, wrote the poems 'Adlestrop' and 'Celandine?
Answer: Edward Thomas

Question: The Braemar Gathering is the most famous event of what type?
Answer: Highland Games

Question: What was the name of the record label founded by Frank Sinatra in 1960?
Answer: Reprise

Question: Who was acting leader of the Lib Dems after the resignation of Sir Menzies Campbell?
Answer: Vince Cable

Question: Which composer (1874 - 1951) first used the Dodecaphonic Scale in his later works?
Answer: Arnold Schoenberg

Question: Flores and Corvo are islands in which group?
Answer: Azores

Question: What was the surname of the British father and son who shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1915?
Answer: Bragg

Question: Which Impressionist painted 'The Card Players'?
Answer: Cezanne

Question: Defeat at which battle caused the French to leave Vietnam in the 1960's?
Answer: Dien Bien Phu

Question: Who made his last film appearance in Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets?
Answer: Richard Harris

Question: Which famous US actor made his last film appearance in the film Solyent Green?
Answer: Edward G Robinson

Question: Who is the only 20th century president to be carved onto Mount Rushmore?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Question: In which English city would you find a district called Portishead?
Answer: Bristol

Question: In which modern day country is the site of the 1704 Battle of Blenheim?
Answer: Germany

Question: Which John Masefield poem begins, "Quinquereme of Nineveh, from distant Ophir"?
Answer: Cargoes

Question: Presbyopia is a degeneration in vision as a result of what?
Answer: Ageing

Question: Which architect, with various partners, designed London's Millennium Bridge?
Answer: (Norman) Foster

Question: Which flower takes its name from the Greek meaning 'gold flower'?
Answer: Chrysanthemum

Question: Which musical of 1927, with music by Jerome Kern, was based on an Edna Ferber novel of the same name?
Answer: Showboat

Question: Which Greek word meaning "curdling" is used in medicine for the formation of a blood clot?
Answer: Thrombosis

Question: In heraldry, what is a Talbot?
Answer: A (hunting) dog

Question: Which English king married the sister of the "Princes in the Tower"?
Answer: Henry VII

Question: A4 paper measures 297 millimetres by 210 millimetres. But what is the basic size of paper that covers 1 square metre?
Answer: Ao

Question: In literature, who has an enemy called Erich von Stalhein?
Answer: Biggles