Question: The Costa Smerelda is on which Mediterranean island?
Answer: Sardinia

Question: In a famous book who lived in Victory Mansions?
Answer: Winston Smith

Question: In which Verdi opera is 'Gilda' the jester's daughter?
Answer: Rigoletto

Question: Which mountain pass, from Innsbruck to Bolzano, is the lowest Alpine pass and is usually open all year?
Answer: Brenner Pass

Question: Which was Scotland's first university, founded in 1411?
Answer: St Andrews

Question: Which English King was married to Edith Swan-Neck, also known as Edith the Fair?
Answer: Harold Ii

Question: What was the name of William the Conqueror's eldest son, who, on his father's death, became Duke of Normandy?
Answer: Robert

Question: In which sport would you find a tin, a service box and a telltale?
Answer: Squash

Question: The fleet of which nation sailed up the Thames, and then the Medway in 1667, successfully attacking and burning English ships, laid up in Chatham naval base?
Answer: Holland

Question: What name is given to the character, not unlike a comma, which is placed underneath the letter C in French to denote its pronunciation as an S and not a K?
Answer: A Cedilla

Question: What is the traditional source of the dark brown pigment, sepia?
Answer: Cuttlefish Ink

Question: Which country lies between Zaire to the north and Namibia to the South?
Answer: Angola

Question: Name either of the rivers used as a basis for redrawing the boundary between Germany and Poland after World War II?
Answer: THE ODER or THE NEISSE

Question: In which year did Fidel Castro come to power in Cuba?
Answer: 1959

Question: General Manuel Noriega, was overthrown in 1989, as leader of which Central American country?
Answer: Panama

Question: The regime of which family was overthrown in Nicaragua, in 1979, by the Sandinista National Liberation Front?
Answer: The Somosas

Question: What alcoholic spirit is made from at least 90% of the Ugni Blanc grape?
Answer: Cognac

Question: Vermiculture is the farming of what?
Answer: Worms

Question: Name either city in the English county of Somerset.
Answer: Bath or Wells

Question: Which British writer, of Bangladeshi origin, wrote "Brick Lane", and "Alentejo Blue"?
Answer: Monica Ali

Question: In the Beverly Hillbillies what is the name of Milburn Drysdale's Secretary?
Answer: Jane Hathaway

Question: Name the 1956 film, in which Kirk Douglas portrayed the artist Vincent Van Gogh.
Answer: Lust For Life

Question: What name is given to the particle in an atom which carries a negative charge?
Answer: An Electron

Question: What was the nationality of aircraft designer Anthony Fokker?
Answer: Dutch

Question: Which biblical city was the capital of Assyria and was sacked by the Babylonians and the Medes in 612BC?
Answer: Nineveh

Question: In Italian, the word Duomo means which building?
Answer: Cathedral

Question: Who directed the film version of the musical Hair?
Answer: Milos Forman

Question: Who was the last king of ancient Rome?
Answer: Tarquin the Proud

Question: In Geography, one time zone usually represents how many degrees of longitude?
Answer: 15

Question: Who won the FA Cup in 1923, the year it was first played at Wembley?
Answer: Bolton Wanderers

Question: Which TV comic character worked for Radio Norwich?
Answer: Alan Partridge

Question: Which video game involves the main character in a search for 3 'Scions' with the final action taking place in the great pyramid of Atlantis?
Answer: Tomb Raider

Question: Many betting odds have nicknames e.g. 5/1 is a 'handful', what odds are known as 'cockle'?
Answer: 10/1

Question: In which English county is Framlingham Castle?
Answer: Suffolk

Question: The site of the Battle of Flodden Field is in which county?
Answer: Northumberland

Question: Which rock 'n roll icon had a US and UK hit in 1956 with 'Long Tall Sally'?
Answer: Little Richard

Question: The site of the Battle of Naseby is in which county?
Answer: Northamptonshire

Question: From which type of animal did the mythical Cornucopia, or Horn of Plenty come?
Answer: A Goat

Question: On radio, whose voice was used for the character "Hercules Grytpipe-Thynne"?
Answer: Peter Sellers

Question: Which model of Rolls-Royce motor car has the same name as a bomber aircraft?
Answer: Phantom

Question: Which Belgian city hosted the 1920 summer Olympics?
Answer: Antwerp

Question: Which Mayor of New York (1934/45) was honoured by having the local airport named after him?
Answer: Fiorello La Guardia

Question: Who is, "rather appropriately", the patron saint of thieves?
Answer: St Nicholas

Question: Who is the only British monarch to have had an Epsom Derbywinner during his/her reign?
Answer: Edward Vii

Question: Which lake was created by the building of the Aswan High Dam on the Nile in the 1960s?
Answer: Lake Nasser

Question: Which lake was formed by the building of the Hoover Dam?
Answer: Mead

Question: Which four letters are added to the end of another word to mean inflammation?
Answer: -itis

Question: 2007 was the 75th anniversary of the mass trespass on which Peak District hill, an action that led to the formation of the Rambler's Association?
Answer: Kinder Scout

Question: The horse races, "The Cambridgeshire" and "The Cesarewitch" are grouped together under which title?
Answer: The Autumn Double

Question: Genuine Moroccan leather is made from the hide of which animal?
Answer: The Goat

Question: The cartoon character, Glenda Slagg, the First Lady of Fleet St., appeared in which satirical magazine?
Answer: Private Eye

Question: It is illegal in England to eat what on Christmas Day?
Answer: Mince pies

Question: What was the name of the store in "Are You Being Served?"?
Answer: Grace Brothers

Question: Which UK football team plays home games at the Stadium of Light?
Answer: Sunderland

Question: Who designed London's Regents Park in 1811?
Answer: John Nash

Question: In which country was Trivial Pursuit invented?
Answer: Canada

Question: Who were Babs, Joy and Teddie?
Answer: The Beverley Sisters

Question: In which Shakespeare play does Caliban appear?
Answer: The Tempest

Question: What musical instrument does jazz musician Courtney Pine primarily play?
Answer: Saxophone

Question: Who, in Greek myth, was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, sacrificed at Aulis by her father to ensure a safe passage to Troy?
Answer: Iphigenia

Question: Which chemical element (atomic number 15) derives its name from the Greek for "light bearing"?
Answer: Phosphorus

Question: Which comedian was born Chris Collins?
Answer: Frank Skinner

Question: The Battle of Blenheim was fought during which war?
Answer: War of the Spanish Succession

Question: The Supper at Emmaus, painted in 1601 and now part of the National Gallery's collection, is by whom?
Answer: (Michelangelo Merisi da) Caravaggio

Question: Which director won his first Oscar in 2007, after five previous nominations in the best director category, for The Departed?
Answer: Martin Scorsese

Question: The Claret Jug is awarded to the winner of which competition?
Answer: The Open Championship

Question: I Which ocean liner rescued the majority of the Titanic's survivors?
Answer: The Carpathia

Question: Which British athlete broke the 5,000 metres world record in 1982?
Answer: David Moorcroft

Question: Who wrote the opera 'Boris Godunov' in 1874?
Answer: (Modest) Mussorgsky

Question: Who was the last British Governor of Hong Kong?
Answer: Chris Patten

Question: The flag of which country depicts an eagle devouring a snake?
Answer: Mexico

Question: In fiction who was Don Diego de la Vega?
Answer: Zorro

Question: With which sport would you principally associate the commentator Ted Lowe?
Answer: Snooker

Question: How many people take part in the dance of a quadrille?
Answer: 8

Question: In Australia what is nicknamed the Coathanger?
Answer: Sydney Harbour Bridge

Question: How many players make up a baseball team?
Answer: 9