Question: Who took over from Gordon Burns on BBC TV's North West Tonight?
Answer: Roger Johnson

Question: Where, within the British Isles, in the world's oldest whiskey distillery?
Answer: bushmills county antrim

Question: Whose education system lays emphasis on independence, freedom within limits, and respect for a child's psychological development, etc?
Answer: (Maria) Montessori

Question: In which year did Mozart die?
Answer: 1791

Question: Jazz musician McCoy Tyner plays which instrument?
Answer: Piano

Question: Astana is the capital city of which former Soviet republic?
Answer: Kazakhstan

Question: How many checkers (pieces) does each player start with in a game of backgammon?
Answer: Fifteen

Question: Who was the first Briton to be the world Formula 1 motor racing Grand Prix champion?
Answer: Mike Hawthorne

Question: Which religious body was originally called Russelites?
Answer: Jehovah's Witnesses

Question: Which rank in the British Army was abolished in 1907?
Answer: Commander In Chief

Question: The cricketer Derek Randall had which, racehorse -related, nickname?
Answer: Arkle

Question: Aqua Fortis is another name for which liquid?
Answer: Nitric Acid

Question: Give any one of Oscar Wilde's middle names.
Answer: Fingal, O'Flaherty, Wills

Question: Which greyhound won 32 consecutive races in the 1980s?
Answer: Ballyregan Bob

Question: Valentine, Glaskins Perpetual and Hawke's Champagne are varieties of which food plant?
Answer: Rhubarb

Question: Which British city's assay office uses a castle as its hallmark for precious metals?
Answer: Edinburgh

Question: What single number is considered to be lucky in China?
Answer: Eight

Question: Who wrote the poem "Samson Agonistes"?
Answer: John Milton

Question: What is the middle name of ex-US President Jimmy Carter?
Answer: Earl

Question: In the Army, which rank comes below Major General and above Colonel?
Answer: Brigadier

Question: In "Alice in Wonderland", what type of pipe did the caterpillar smoke?
Answer: Hookah

Question: 'In truth I know not why I am so sad' is the first line of which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The MERCHANT OF VENICE

Question: Which group released the album 'Tango in the Night' in 1987?
Answer: Fleetwood Mac

Question: What do the Americans call what we call a gear lever?
Answer: Shift Stick

Question: Londonderry stands on which river?
Answer: Foyle

Question: Who, dying aged 61, in 2007, was the youngest member of the 1966 World Cup Squad?
Answer: Alan Ball

Question: Which chemical element is named after the old name for Copenhagen?
Answer: Hafnium

Question: Founded in 1999 by BBC4 TV, for what is the Samuel Johnson Prize awarded?
Answer: Non-Fiction

Question: Which artist (1518-1594), born Jacopo Comin, also known as Jacopo Robusti, is known by a nickname taken from his father's occupation as a dyer?
Answer: Tintoretto

Question: For a constituency in which town is Ed Miliband an MP?
Answer: Doncaster

Question: Which woman has won the most Oscars?
Answer: Edith Head

Question: 'E20' is an internet spinoff from which soap opera?
Answer: Eastenders

Question: Who is the only person to have won an Oscar for acting and screen writing?
Answer: Emma Thompson

Question: Which religious faith was founded in the 19th century, in what is now Iran and has its headquarters in Haifa(Israel)?
Answer: Baha'I

Question: Which group was Jimmy Page in immediately before forming Led Zeppelin?
Answer: The Yardbirds

Question: Who created the fictional TV Detective Inspector Frost?
Answer: R. D. Wingfield

Question: Whose first number one album in the UK was "Every Picture Tells a Story" in 1971?
Answer: Rod Stewart

Question: Which boxer, born 3rd May 1934, grew up on the Bellingham Estate in south east London?
Answer: Henry Cooper

Question: What was the name of the first horse to win the Derby in 1780?
Answer: Diomed

Question: Who succeeded Richard Nixon as President of the USA in 1974?
Answer: Gerald Ford

Question: Which punctuation mark, used in computing, etc., is called the 'solidus'?
Answer: Forward slash

Question: Matthew Flinders led the first circumnavigation of which land mass?
Answer: Australia

Question: Prior to Howard Webb in 2010, who was the last Englishman to referee a World Cup Final?
Answer: Jack Taylor

Question: In sport, who contests 'El Classico'?
Answer: Real Madrid & Barcelona

Question: Which Greek mythological giant had 100 eyes?
Answer: Argus

Question: Dili is the capital of which state that became independent on 20 May 2002?
Answer: East Timor

Question: What are female ferrets and polecats called?
Answer: Jill

Question: What is the state capital of Kansas?
Answer: Topeka

Question: Which author was born in 1812 in Landport, which is now part of Portsmouth?
Answer: (Charles) Dickens

Question: What is the title of Private Eye's regular page of political news?
Answer: HP Sauce

Question: Which famous American film star had the middle name DeForest?
Answer: Humphrey Bogart

Question: In Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons, what was the name of the amorous French skunk?
Answer: Pepe Le Pew

Question: Which car marque produces the 'Insignia' model?
Answer: Vauxhall

Question: Of what is ergophobia the fear?
Answer: Work

Question: According to Homer, who was Queen of Troy and mother of Paris and Hector?
Answer: Hecuba

Question: For what does the G stand in G. K. Chesterton?
Answer: Gilbert

Question: According to Muslim tradition, who revealed the Qur'an to Mohammed?
Answer: The Angel Gabriel

Question: Who plays speech therapist Lionel Logue in the hit British film "The King's Speech"?
Answer: Geoffrey Rush

Question: Who was the last reigning British monarch to marry?
Answer: Queen Victoria

Question: Whose Symphony No. 1 in D Major is sometimes known as The Titan'?
Answer: Gustav MAHLER

Question: Who wrote the music for 'Billy Elliot'?
Answer: Elton John

Question: Who writes the books on which the TV series 'Vera' is based?
Answer: Anne Cleeves

Question: Who flew the first plane to break the sound barrier?
Answer: Charles 'Chuck' Yeager

Question: In medicine, how was a tincture of opium known?
Answer: Laudanum

Question: What name is given to the region between the A and B rings of Saturn?
Answer: Cassini Dvision

Question: Who wrote the TV series 'The Wire'?
Answer: David Simon

Question: Which horse, at 100-1, won the 2009 Grand National?
Answer: Mon Mome

Question: Which airline bought both BMI and Alitalia in 2008?
Answer: Lufthansa

Question: Which of her lovers was described by Joan Collins as "not having much up top but plenty down below"?
Answer: Bill Wiggins

Question: Whose 2010 biography was called "Elephant to Hollywood"?
Answer: Michael Caine

Question: Who wrote the 1955 novel 'The Ginger Man'?
Answer: J P Donleavy

Question: In Greek Mythology what was the name of the prophetess daughter of Priam whose predictions were never believed?
Answer: Cassandra

Question: What kind of bird appears on the flag of Uganda?
Answer: (Crowned) Crane

Question: Who was British Prime Minister from 1922-23, shortly before he died?
Answer: Bonar Law

Question: In which opera does the character Lieutenant Pinkerton appear?
Answer: Madama Butterfly

Question: Who, in Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy of books, is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'?
Answer: Lisbeth Salander

Question: In which US state is the largest Kansas City?
Answer: Missouri

Question: Which is Britain's smallest songbird?
Answer: Goldcrest

Question: The CEO of which company said in 2010: 'There is no one who wants this over more than I do. I want my life back'?
Answer: Bp

Question: In which 1873 novel is the chief character pursued by a Scotland Yard detective, called Inspector Fix?
Answer: Around the World in Eighty Days

Question: Snails, squid, clams, scallops, mussels, etc., all belong to which phylum?
Answer: Molluscs

Question: What nationality was the only non-Australian, US or Swedish man to win the Wimbledon Singles title in the 1970's?
Answer: Czech