Question: Which Welsh writer's last words are said to have been " I've had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record. " ?
Answer: Dylan Thomas

Question: In the Spanish language, what sort of meat is jamon ?
Answer: Ham

Question: With whom did Karl Marx write The Communist Manifesto ?
Answer: Friedrich Engels

Question: Which European capital owes much of its layout to Baron Haussmann ?
Answer: Paris

Question: Where in London did the Rolling Stones play in 2013 for the first time since 1969 ?
Answer: Hyde Park

Question: Arreciffe is the capital of which of the Canary Islands ?
Answer: Lanzarote

Question: The Statue of Zeus, sculpted by Phidias , was located at which place in Greece ?
Answer: Olympia

Question: In what way did Lady Marjorie Bellamy make her exit from the original ITV series Upstairs , Downstairs ?
Answer: Perished In The Titanic Disaster

Question: The films of which director include Moulin Rouge and Strictly Ballroom ?
Answer: Baz Luhrmann

Question: Henrietta Maria of France was queen consort of which English monarch ?
Answer: Charles I

Question: How many cards are there in a typical tarot pack ?
Answer: 78

Question: What sort of professional person did Mark Twain define as someone who wants to lend you an umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back again when it starts to rain ?
Answer: Bank Manager

Question: Which noises did Spanish censors remove from the film Blazing Saddles ?
Answer: Breaking Wind

Question: In which year was the pound coin introduced to replace the Bank of England £1 banknote ?
Answer: 1983

Question: The spy who became known as Mata Hari was born in which European country in 1876 ?
Answer: Holland / Netherlands

Question: Who was the first British Labour Prime Minister to serve for a full parliamentary term ?
Answer: Clement Attlee

Question: Which character in the Old Testament killed one quarter of the world's population ?
Answer: Cain

Question: Who became prima ballerina at the Maryinsky Theatre in 1906 ?
Answer: (Anna) Pavlova

Question: Under the Presidential Act of 1947, who is next in line for the U.S. Presidency after the Vice-President ?
Answer: Speaker Of The House Of Representatives

Question: Cassiterite is the primary ore of which metallic element ?
Answer: Tin

Question: Experimenting on dogs in the 1660s, the physician Richard Lower conducted the first properly documented instance of which medical procedure ?
Answer: Blood Tranfusion

Question: Dubris was the Roman name for which town ?
Answer: Dover

Question: Which state is nicknamed the 'Mother of Presidents' ?
Answer: Virginia

Question: In heraldry, what shape is a lozenge ?
Answer: Doamond

Question: Which river, situated near the mouth of the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway, hosts over 5000 weddings each year ?
Answer: Gretna

Question: Which painful condition is caused by the deposition of urates or uric acid into the joints of the body, most commonly in the big toe ?
Answer: Gout

Question: A methuselah of wine holds the equivalent of how many bottles?
Answer: Eight

Question: Launched in 1960, what was the name of the first US communications satellite?
Answer: Echo 1

Question: What is the green pigment found in most plants that is responsible for absorbing light energy?
Answer: Chlorophyll

Question: In which country was cricketer Ted Dexter born?
Answer: Italy

Question: Cuisses were medieval armour worn to protect which part of the body?
Answer: Thigh

Question: Name the Danish maritime explorer who served with the Russian fleet and gave his name to a Strait, a Sea, an Island, a Glacier and Land Bridge?
Answer: Vitus Bering

Question: Spaniard Juan Antonio Samaranch, who died in April 2010, was head of which organization from 1980-2001?
Answer: The IOC

Question: Derived from the Greek word meaning perimeter, what is the text form of the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Pi

Question: Loosely translated to mean 'hollow bone' what is the Italian food made from veal shank?
Answer: Ossobucco

Question: Which phobia is colloquially associated with the disease rabies?
Answer: Hydrophobia

Question: Ehud Barak succeeded Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister of which country in 1999?
Answer: Israel

Question: What acid occurs naturally in bee and ant venom?
Answer: Formic acid

Question: What number is a hurricane-force storm on the conventional Beaufort Wind Force Scale?
Answer: 12

Question: What is the vivid blue semi-percious stone, historically mined in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province and prized by the ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Greeks and Romans?
Answer: Lapis lazuli

Question: A 'bible bump' is an old colloquial term for what medical condition?
Answer: A ganglion cyst

Question: If under consistently fair conditions, a tossed coin lands heads upwards twice in succession, what are the strict theoretical mathematical chances that the next toss will land tails upwards?
Answer: One-in-two

Question: What colourless odourless liquid, E number E422, is used in foods as a sweetener, thickener and humectant (to maintain moistness)?
Answer: Glycerol

Question: Angelos Epithemiou ex-burger-van proprietor, replaced what quirky drumming baby character on a popular UK TV comedy quiz show?
Answer: George Dawes

Question: Which type of clay takes its name from the Italian for 'baked earth'?
Answer: Terracotta

Question: Israel Zangwill wrote the 1892 novel 'Children of the ...' what, depicting Jewish life in London?
Answer: Ghetto

Question: The Alpine ski resort of St Moritz is in which country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: What is the public declaration, usually in a church, of an intended marriage?
Answer: The banns

Question: The prefix 'helio' relates to which celestial body?
Answer: The sun

Question: Which country's use of energy overtook the USA in 2010 to become the world's biggest consumer of power (from oil, coal, water, wind, etc)?
Answer: China

Question: Established 1845, during British colonial rule, the top-selling Straits Times newspaper, and a similarly named stock market index (STI) belongs to which country?
Answer: Singapore

Question: On which island was Nelson Mandela incarcerated for 27 years, from 1962-90?
Answer: Robben Island

Question: Abhorson is an executioner in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Measure For Measure

Question: Who is generally considered to have invented the first electric battery cell in 1800?
Answer: Alessandro Volta

Question: What is the main ingredient of the Italian dish frittata?
Answer: Eggs

Question: Which is the largest joint in the human body?
Answer: Knee

Question: Samite is a type of what?
Answer: Fabric

Question: The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, USA, said to be the highest-occupancy office building in the world accommodates roughly how many staff?
Answer: 26,000

Question: In which year did Morocco gain its independence from France?
Answer: 1956

Question: Lake Balaton is in which European country?
Answer: Hungary

Question: Which common material was invented by Marc Chavannes and Alfred Fielding in 1957 initially as textured wallpaper?
Answer: Bubble-wrap

Question: The number followed by .14159, fully known as pi, used to calculate the circumference and area of a circle?
Answer: 3

Question: The age that Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Kurt Kobain all died?
Answer: 27

Question: The dog Timmy made how many in Enid Blyton's 'Famous...' series of children's adventure books?
Answer: 5

Question: Which London Underground line serves Heathrow Airport?
Answer: Piccadilly

Question: Burley is which type of crop?
Answer: Tobacco

Question: Appropriately, a giant what was put temporarily onto the fourth plinth at London's Trafalgar Square in May 2010?
Answer: Ship in a bottle

Question: In March 2010 artist Spencer Tunick arranged and photographed 5,200 what in front of Sydney Opera House?
Answer: Naked people