Question: What was the popular name of the prison, close in 2000, that was situated in the former Royal Air Force station of Long Kesh, on the outskirts of Lisburn?
Answer: The Maze

Question: Ted Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 on the refusal of which prominent poet?
Answer: Philip Larkin

Question: In the human body, what do the lachrymal glands produce?
Answer: Tears

Question: Prior to gaining enormous success in his own right, which comedian played 'George Dawes', the scorekeeping baby, in the t.v. comedy series 'Shooting Stars'?
Answer: Matt Lucas

Question: Which legendary hero of Medieval English legend, first appearing in the 12th century, fell in love with the 'Lady Felice' and battled many fierce creatures, perhaps most famously slaying 'The Dun Cow'?
Answer: Guy Of Warwick

Question: In terms of population, Oslo is the largest city in Norway. Which is the second largest?
Answer: Bergen

Question: To highlight global warming, which country held a cabinet meeting underwater in 2009?
Answer: The Maldives

Question: The heist in the 2003 remake of “The Italian Job” takes place in which US City?
Answer: Los Angeles

Question: Who wrote the song “Where have all the flowers gone”?
Answer: Pete Seeger

Question: Which Middle Eastern city is served by Queen Alia airport?
Answer: Amman (Jordan)

Question: Which 1998 film, starring Lynn Redgrave, Ian McKellan and Brendan Fraser centred on the life of film director James Whale?
Answer: Gods and Monsters

Question: Give any year in which polar explorers Sir John Franklin and Sir James Clark Ross wre both alive.
Answer: 1800-1847 (Franklin 1786-1847, Ross 1800- 1898)

Question: Who wrote “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”?
Answer: Robert Browning

Question: Which is the largest of the Italian lakes?
Answer: Lake Garda

Question: The smallest ground in the Football League Championship Huish Park is home to which club?
Answer: Yeovil Town

Question: What is the English name of Tintin’s dog?
Answer: Snowy

Question: The Russian port of Murmansk lies on Kola Bay, an inlet of which sea?
Answer: Barents Sea

Question: The largest ground in the Championship, and largest outside the FA Premier League is in which city?
Answer: Sheffield (Hillsborough)

Question: Give either of the anglicised forenames of the artists the Chapman Brothers.
Answer: JAKE or DINOS

Question: In which Australian state is one of the southern hemisphere's most remarkable sites, Ayers Rock?
Answer: Northern Territory

Question: In which year did France withdraw from NATO, and Indira Ghandi become Prime Minister of India?
Answer: 1966

Question: Which European country's national flag is a horizontal tricolour: Blue, Black and White?
Answer: Estonia

Question: How was musician Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe better known?
Answer: 'Jelly Roll' Morton

Question: Which County Cricket Club plays some of its home matches at 'Clarence Park'?
Answer: SOMERSET, Weston- Super-Mare

Question: Which musician was charged in October 2005 with possessing cocaine at his home in New York?
Answer: Boy George

Question: Which African capital city is served by 'Kotoka Airport'?
Answer: ACCRA , Ghana

Question: In 'Scrabble', how many 'D' tiles are there?
Answer: Four

Question: Near which English city is the Lightwater Valley theme park to be found?
Answer: Ripon

Question: Who was the Leader of the Labour Party from 1931 to 1935, when he resigned because of his pacifist views?
Answer: George Lansbury

Question: Near which English town is the 'Legoland theme park' to be found?
Answer: Windsor

Question: Collectively, for which publication did Terry Venables, Graham Taylor, and Brian Robson appear in a TV advert?
Answer: Yellow Pages

Question: Who composed the oratorio entitled, 'The Dream of Gerontius'?
Answer: Edward Elgar

Question: 'Jayne Eyre' is the best-known of Charlotte Bronte's four completed works. Name one of the other three?
Answer: 'Villette' / 'Shirley' / 'The Professor'

Question: Sold in 2006 for $87.9 million, the most expensive painting ever sold by Christie's was Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II. Who painted it?
Answer: Gustav Klimt

Question: The constellation 'Draco' is said to represent which mythical creature?
Answer: Dragon

Question: Which former MI5 secret service agent wrote the controversial book 'Spycatcher'?
Answer: Peter Wright

Question: Which title, referring to a story from Greek mythology, is shared by paintings by Bouguereau, Cabanel and Botticelli?
Answer: The Birth Of Venus

Question: Which element takes its name from the Greek word for 'light bearer'?
Answer: Phosphorus

Question: Which BAFTA Award winning TV series stars Peter Firth as the head of MI5's counter-intelligence unit?
Answer: 'Spooks'

Question: Bishopthorpe Palace is the official residence of the holder of which position?
Answer: Archbishop Of York

Question: What was the first name of Mr. Celsius, after whom the temperature scale was named?
Answer: Anders

Question: Which famous poem by Allen Ginsberg begins with the line "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"?
Answer: 'Howl'

Question: Which famous poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson begins with the lines, "On either side the river lie, long fields of barley and rye"?
Answer: 'The Lady Of Shalot'

Question: Which best-selling American author created the fictional American President 'Jack Ryan'?
Answer: Tom Clancy

Question: What was the name of Ernest Shackleton's famous ship that was crushed by ice in the Antarctic in 1915?
Answer: H.M.S. Endurance

Question: Which British heavyweight boxing champion died on 1st. May 2011 at the age of 76?
Answer: Henry Cooper

Question: 'Germinal' and 'Nana' are literary works by which 19th century French author?
Answer: Emile Zola

Question: Which of Jane Austen's heroines marries the wealthy 'George Knightley'?
Answer: 'EMMA WOODHOUSE' (accept either fore or surname)

Question: Which American car make, owned by General Motors, took its name from the Native American chief who led a rebellion against English rule in 1763?
Answer: Pontiac

Question: The character 'James Bond' was created by Ian Fleming, but who wrote the book 'Devil May Care' featuring 'James Bond'?
Answer: Sebastian Faulks

Question: Who had hits with the songs, 'Lonely Boy' in 1976 and 'Never Let Her Slip Away' in 1978?
Answer: Andrew Gold

Question: Assassinated along with several members of his family in 2001 by the heir to his throne, of which country was Birendra the king?
Answer: Nepal

Question: Which name is hsared by a US state capital and a British shipping forecast area?
Answer: Dover

Question: In film making what name is given to the chief technician who builds and arranges the film set?
Answer: Key Grip

Question: Which American band leader who first formed a band in 1940 had the signature tune “Artistry in Rhythym” and died in 1979?
Answer: Stan Kenton

Question: Who is the West Indies most capped cricketer with 153 test appearances?
Answer: Shiv Chanderpaul

Question: In film making what name is given to the assistant chief lighting technician?
Answer: Best Boy

Question: In which country do the Hinter Rhine and Vorder Rhine unite to form the River Rhine?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: In which Charles Dickens Novel does Esther Summerson appear?
Answer: Bleak house

Question: In which film does Sean Connery sing "A Pretty Irish Girl"?
Answer: Darby O'gill & the Little People

Question: Who was Al Gore's running mate in their bid for the 2000 US Presidency?
Answer: Joseph Lieberman

Question: Whose voice was used for the character Mufasa in the film "The Lion King"?
Answer: James Earl Jones

Question: Herpetology is the study of what?
Answer: Reptiles

Question: On the banks of which river does the north Wales town of Mold stand?
Answer: River Alyn

Question: At which venue in the USA did Malcolm Campbell break the land speed record in 1935?
Answer: Daytona Beach