Question: What traditional profession specialises in the assessment of costs and tenders for materials and contracts within building and construction projects?
Answer: Quantity Surveyor

Question: Nottingham Castle museum displays what exhibit from the world of international sporting competition?
Answer: Torvill and Dean's Olympic 'Bolero' costumes

Question: Name the 1890-founded Scottish manufacturer of much-loved traditional caramel wafers, teacakes and snowball cakes, which experienced a staff pay dispute in Autumn 2010?
Answer: Tunnock's

Question: Who invented roll camera film, thereby popularizing photography, and founded the Kodak company, whose full title also bears his name?
Answer: George Eastman

Question: The Pacific Ocean covers approximately what percentage of the Earth's surface?
Answer: 30%

Question: Saint Pega is said to be England's first female?
Answer: Hermit

Question: Tahiti is the largest of which group of islands?
Answer: Society

Question: In the TV series Thunderbirds, what is Parker's first name?
Answer: Aloysius

Question: Permanent software programmed into a read-only memory is generally called what ' ...ware'?
Answer: Firmware

Question: A traditional weapon of the Sicilian mafia, what is a lupara?
Answer: Shotgun

Question: Iapetus (or Japetus) is a satellite of which planet?
Answer: Saturn

Question: A muumuu is a brightly coloured dress traditionally worn by women on which island?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: Who wrote the novel, Treasure Island?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

Question: What flavour is the liqueur cassis?
Answer: Blackcurrant

Question: What product was the first to appear in a UK TV commercial (in 1955)?
Answer: Toothpaste

Question: Which singer was known as the 'Forces' Sweetheart'?
Answer: Vera Lynn

Question: In German mythology what is the name of the siren who lived on a rock and lured boatmen to their deaths?
Answer: Lorelei

Question: In February 1942, Antonio Oscar Carmona was re-elected as president of which European country?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Norman Rockwell's illustration of which US iconic World War II heroine appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in May 1943?
Answer: Rosie the Riveter

Question: In October 1960, Dr Michael Woodruff carried out the first successful transplant of what at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in the UK?
Answer: Kidney

Question: What is the name of Israel's secret intelligence agency?
Answer: Mossad

Question: What was the name of the judge, known as 'The Hanging Judge', in the Bloody Assizes of 1685?
Answer: Judge Jeffreys

Question: The Maskelyne Award is associated with which branch of entertainment?
Answer: Magic

Question: Forbes Magazine reported in 2010 the most expensive (real estate) US zip code to be 91008 Duarte, in which US state?
Answer: California

Question: What US state has the longest coastline?
Answer: Alaska

Question: A 2010 space survey by astronomers using the Keck telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, found a likelihood of how many Earth-like planets in the universe?
Answer: 50 Billion

Question: What is the name of the small arrangement of flowers worn on the bodice of a dress or on the wrist?
Answer: Corsage

Question: In tennis, what is the term for an untouchable and unreturnable legal point-scoring serve?
Answer: Ace

Question: In the UK, who was elected president of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1981?
Answer: Arthur Scargill

Question: What is the Roman numeral LXXXVIII?
Answer: Eighty-eight

Question: Which artist's studio was known as The Factory?
Answer: Andy Warhol

Question: Who wrote the 1899 poem/song lyrics 'The Absented-Minded Beggar', set to music and used to raise money for British Boer War soldiers?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question: Driving Home For Christmas was a 1988 hit single for which singer?
Answer: Chris Rea

Question: Name the long-standing Rwanda president in the news during 2010 after human rights criticisms?
Answer: Paul Kagame

Question: What state in Mexico was hit by a devastating mudslide in September 2010?
Answer: Oaxaca

Question: According to official figures released in 2010, what country originated the most refugees during the previous 30 years?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: The US Navy announced in 2010 moderately successful testing of boat fuel containing what 'renewable' ingredient?
Answer: Seaweed

Question: Who in 2010 won Great Britain's first individual Winter Olympics female gold medal since 1952?
Answer: Amy Williams

Question: Name the popular writer, who died in 2010, and who rode the Queen Mother's horse Devon Loch when it inexplicably belly-flopped out of contention in the 1956 Grand National?
Answer: Dick Francis

Question: Which environmental campaigner, whose band's 2010 European tour required 120 lorries to transport it, pulled out of the 2010 Glastonbury headline spot due to a back injury?
Answer: Bono

Question: What Danish discount grocer did Walmart's Asda buy for £778m in 2010?
Answer: Netto

Question: Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Crick and Watson (DNA discoverers), the economist John Maynard Keynes, and the comedian John Cleese are among the notable alumni of which university?
Answer: Cambridge

Question: What is the full name of the football organization usually abbreviated to UEFA?
Answer: Union of European Football Associations

Question: Named after its inventor, what is the signal lamp used to transmit Morse Code, devised in the late 1800s and still used today on naval ships?
Answer: Aldis Lamp

Question: In the Contract Bridge card game what are used to denote the four players' positions?
Answer: Compass Points

Question: Who was the first British-born chef, and at the time the youngest ever, to win three Michelin Stars?
Answer: Marco Pierre White

Question: Which Australian city is nicknamed The Big Smoke?
Answer: Sydney

Question: Name the Scottish singer-songwriter (notably of Baker Street and as co-writer of Stuck in the Middle with You) who died early in 2011 age 63?
Answer: Gerry Rafferty

Question: Which musical note has the same value as half a semibreve or two crochets?
Answer: Minim

Question: Brabantio is whose father in Shakespeare's play Othello?
Answer: Desdemona

Question: Algeria became independent from which European country in 1962 after over 100 years of rule?
Answer: France

Question: In Greek mythology, Algaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne are the three what?
Answer: Graces

Question: The only Swiss guard still in existence serve in which European city?
Answer: Vatican City

Question: What flowers prompted William Wordsworth write (and title) a poem about after seeing them at Lake Ullswater in 1802?
Answer: Daffodils

Question: Claret wine comes from which wine region of France?
Answer: Bordeaux

Question: What type of building is a picture palace?
Answer: Cinema

Question: What type of insect is a Spanish fly?
Answer: Beetle

Question: By what name is Siddartha Guatama better known?
Answer: Buddha

Question: In which African country is the town of Lassa, where Lassa fever was first identified?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: What does the cockney rhyming slang, Butcher's, traditionally mean?
Answer: Look

Question: Born in 1678, which Italian composer of choral works, over forty operas, and notably The Four Seasons violin concertos, was known as The Red Priest because of his auburn hair?
Answer: Antonio Vivaldi

Question: Named after chairs found at the Bargello Palace in Florence, Italy, what type of handicraft is Bargello?
Answer: Embroidery

Question: Name the excessively cheerful optimistic heroine created by American author Eleanor H Porter in the famous 1913 eponymously titled book, and subsequent series, which became a term for someone of such attitude?
Answer: Pollyanna

Question: Which US president in office 1945-53, is said to have coined the phrase 'If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen' ?
Answer: Harry S Truman