Question: Income tax was first levied in the UK to pay for which conflicts?
Answer: Napoleonic Wars

Question: Which currently running London musical holds the West End record for the longest continuous run?
Answer: Les Miserables

Question: Who played the parts of the twins in the 1998 remake of the film 'The Parent Trap'?
Answer: Lindsay Lohan

Question: Who captained the US team in the 2012 Ryder Cup?
Answer: Davis Love

Question: What is the more common name of the wild hyacinth?
Answer: Bluebell

Question: Who wrote the "Beggars Opera" in 1728?
Answer: John Gay

Question: Which composer had the first name Modest?
Answer: Mussorgsky

Question: Ramsay McDonald was the first Labour Prime Minister of the UK. Who was the second?
Answer: Clement Atlee

Question: Which island, a former Dutch colony with its capital at Orangestad, continues to move slowly towards complete independence?
Answer: Aruba

Question: Which subspecies of tiger is the largest member of the cat family?
Answer: Siberian tiger

Question: Which musical features the song 'Getting to know you'?
Answer: The King and I

Question: Which Shakespeare play is set during the Trojan War?
Answer: Troilus and Cressida

Question: In the Bible who became leader of the Israelites after the death of Moses?
Answer: Joshua

Question: What is Papageno's occupation in the Mozart opera The Magic Flute'?
Answer: A Birdcatcher

Question: Who provided the voice of Charlie Townsend in TV's "Charlie's Angels"?
Answer: John Forsyth

Question: Of what is a carrick bend a type?
Answer: A knot

Question: The culinary term 'en brochette' means what?
Answer: Cooked on a skewer

Question: Roller (Inline) hockey comprises of how many members per team?
Answer: Five

Question: The entertainment company, Cirque de Soleil, has its HQ in which city?
Answer: Montreal

Question: Puffins are any of three small species of which seabird family?
Answer: Auks

Question: In which part of the body would someone with proctalgia be feeling pain?
Answer: ANUS or RECTUM

Question: Who was elected President of Ireland in November 2011?
Answer: Michael D. Higgins

Question: Which space shuttle, it touched down in July 2011, brought NASA's shuttle programme to an end?
Answer: Atlantis

Question: Who has played Jack Worthing and Lord Henry Wotton in films by Oscar Wilde?
Answer: Colin Firth

Question: Malawi is bordered by Zambia, Mozambique, and which other country?
Answer: Tanzania

Question: Which of Mahler's symphonies is entitled 'The Resurrection'?
Answer: Second

Question: Vocalist Roland Orzabal had the 1985 hit "Everybody Wants to Rule the World' with which band?
Answer: Tears For Fears

Question: Which left-handed golfer won the US Masters three times, in 2004, 2006, and 2010?
Answer: Phil Mickelson

Question: Who designed the Team GB uniforms for the 2012 Olympic Games?
Answer: Stella McCartney

Question: What type of which fish is an albacore?
Answer: Tuna

Question: Margrethe II is currently queen of which country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: What country moved west of the International Date Line in and dropped a day from the calendar in 2011?
Answer: Samoa

Question: What type of creature is a lumpsucker?
Answer: Fish

Question: Which is the only independent African country to have Spanish as an official language?
Answer: Equatorial Guinea

Question: The2012 London Olympic Games were officially known as the games of what number Olympiad?
Answer: 30th

Question: Who was second oldest man in Bible living to the age of 962?
Answer: Jarred

Question: 'Who was appointed Secretary of State for Work and Pensions after the 2010 General Election?
Answer: Iain Duncan Smith

Question: Which American painter and illustrator born in 1894, was famous for scenes of everyday life that appeared in Saturday Post magazine?
Answer: Norman Rockwell

Question: Which cut of steak is named after a man who once served as an ambassador to Napoleon Bonaparte?
Answer: Chateaubriand

Question: Which British person has won the most Olympic Gold medals?
Answer: Sir Chris Hoy

Question: What is the name of the famous Swannery in Dorset?
Answer: Abbotsbury

Question: Who was the first man to drive a car at over 200mph; he set his final land speed record in Golden Arrow in 1929. He died on Lake Windermere in 1930 in an attempt to break the water speed record?
Answer: Sir Henry Segrave

Question: In which film did George Lazenby star as James Bond?
Answer: On Her Majesty'S Secret Service

Question: What is another name for the plant Deadly Nightshade?
Answer: Belladonna

Question: Under what name were the cloth dolls designed in 1976 by Xavier Roberts as 'Little People' marketed?
Answer: Cabbage Patch Kids

Question: Which cyclist won the first medal for Team GB at the 2012 Olympic Games?
Answer: Lizzie Armitstead

Question: Who carried the British flag at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games?
Answer: Ben Ainslie

Question: Which blood group is known as the 'universal donor', because it can be given to all blood groups?
Answer: Group O

Question: Which actor plays Detective Inspector Alan Banks in the ITV series 'DCI Banks'?
Answer: Stephen Tompkinson

Question: Which hero of science fiction was created by Alex Raymond?
Answer: Flash Gordon

Question: In which Puccini opera does Minnie own a saloon called The Polka?
Answer: The Girl Of The Golden West

Question: Which Rugby League player has appeared in a record 10 Super League Grand Finals?
Answer: Jamie Peacock

Question: What does a lithologist study?
Answer: Rocks And Stones

Question: What series name is given to the trilogy of novels by Stieg Larsson which feature the character Lisbeth Salander?
Answer: Millennium

Question: In which year was the Panama Canal opened?
Answer: 1914

Question: Of which sport is F.I.A. the ruling body?
Answer: Motor racing

Question: In ballet which position has the whole of the body supported on one leg, and the other leg and arms extended outwards?
Answer: Arabesque

Question: During the Trojan War, who was killed by the Trojans whilst wearing Achilles' armour?
Answer: Patroclus

Question: Who, in 1989, replaced Robin Day as presenter of BBC TV's Question Time?
Answer: Peter Sissons

Question: Give a year in the life of English engineer George Stephenson.
Answer: 1803 - 1859

Question: What is the capital of Honduras?
Answer: Tegucigalpa

Question: At the 2012 London Olympics, who won the first ever Women's Boxing Gold medal?
Answer: Nicola Adams

Question: Which Russian city reverted to its former name, Nizhniy Novgorod, in 1990?
Answer: Gorky

Question: Off which island is there a group of rocks known as the Needles?
Answer: Isle of Wight

Question: Which novel begins with the line "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there"?
Answer: The Go-Between

Question: What is the name of the monster killed by Beowolf in the Anglo Saxon poem?
Answer: Grendel

Question: On which river does Fleetwood stand?
Answer: Wyre

Question: Who was the second athlete to run a mile in under 4 minutes?
Answer: John Landy

Question: The Kingdom of Dahomey became which modem African republic?
Answer: Benin

Question: What was Cliff Richard's first UK top ten hit?
Answer: Move It

Question: In Greek mythology, who killed Medusa while looking at her in a mirror-like shield?
Answer: Perseus

Question: Which musical instrument did Tommy Dorsey play?
Answer: Trombone

Question: In The Pickwick Papers, what is the name of Pickwick's landlady who sues him for breach of promise?
Answer: Mrs Bardell

Question: According to Greek mythology who killed Achilles by shooting him in the heel with a poisoned arrow?
Answer: Paris

Question: What type of exhibits can be seen in the museum at Crich in Derbyshire?
Answer: Trams

Question: After how many years of marriage is an emerald anniversary celebrated?
Answer: 1810-1865

Question: Which musical instrument did Bix Beiderbecke play?
Answer: Cornet