Question: Who became President of the USA after the assassination of President McKinley?
Answer: Theodore Rooseveldt

Question: Who captained the first 'rebel' cricket tour of South Africa?
Answer: Graham Gooch

Question: What was the name given to the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki in 1945?
Answer: Fat Man

Question: Which artist painted Bubbles in 1886?
Answer: John Everett Millais

Question: Give a year in the life of John Constable?
Answer: 1776- 1837

Question: Name the straits which separate Italy and Sicily?
Answer: Messina

Question: The Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland took place in which year?
Answer: 1916

Question: Easter Island is a territory of its nearest mainland neighbour, which country is that?
Answer: Chile

Question: Standing for words meaning "The Senate and people of Rome", which 4 letters appeared on standards carried by Roman soldiers?
Answer: Spqr

Question: Standing for words meaning "which is what was to be proved", which 3 letters appear at the end of a mathematical theorem?
Answer: Qed

Question: Which shellfish is sometimes called a queenie?
Answer: Scallop

Question: Theodore Roosevelt was the first US President to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, who was the second?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Question: Which singer, who had four no.1 hits in the UK, was shot dead by a Los Angeles hotel manageress in 1964?
Answer: Sam Cooke

Question: In which country did the failed Decembrist uprising take place in 1825?
Answer: Russia

Question: In what year did Doctor Who start on television?
Answer: 1963

Question: Sandwich, Little Whiskered and Arctic are all types of which bird?
Answer: Tern

Question: Which author wrote the lines, "Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter, home from the hill"?
Answer: R.L. Stevenson

Question: Which treaty ended the Franco-Prussian war in 1871?
Answer: Treaty Of Frankfurt

Question: In which city was the congress held in 1814-15, which agreed the settlement of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars?
Answer: Vienna

Question: A plant described as etoliated has been grown lacking what?
Answer: Light

Question: The Great Land Rush of 1889 took place in which state of the USA?
Answer: Oklahoma

Question: Ceratopsian dinosaurs are so named because they had what physical feature?
Answer: A Horn

Question: The Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean are a territory of which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Which former PM wrote the memoirs "The Downing Street Years" and "The Path to Power"?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Question: The wife of which former PM has written books on the soprano Joan Sutherland and the PM's country house, Chequers?
Answer: John Major

Question: Which one-man band had two top ten hits, both in 1968, with "Rosie" and "Blue Eyes"?
Answer: Don Partridge

Question: Who was the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor posthumously?
Answer: Peter Finch

Question: In 1994, Sannie Carlson became the first ever non-British singer to make a chart debut at number one - under what one word name?
Answer: Whigfield

Question: From the Arabic for "path", what is the name given to Islamic law?
Answer: Sharia

Question: On which river does St Petersburg stand?
Answer: Neva

Question: How was Lev Davidovitch Bronstein better known?
Answer: Leon Trotsky

Question: Who was named European Football Player of the Century in 1999?
Answer: Johan Cruyff

Question: Which UK group's fourth and final number one was 'Beat Surrender' in 1982?
Answer: The Jam

Question: Who is the oldest male actor to have won the Best Actor Oscar?
Answer: Henry Fonda

Question: In 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II was exiled to which country?
Answer: The Netherlands

Question: In which city is the Roslin Institute, the location of the cloning of 'Dolly the Sheep'?
Answer: Edinburgh

Question: """The course of true love never did run smooth"" is a quotation from which Shakespeare play?"
Answer: A Midsummer Nights Dream

Question: On which River does Newport, Isle of Wight stand?
Answer: Medina

Question: In which US State is the highest mountain in America?
Answer: Alaska

Question: From which country does the wine Tokay come?
Answer: Hungary

Question: According to the TV advert what prevented that sinking feeling?
Answer: Bovril

Question: How many days is the gestation period of a domestic cat (5 days either way)?
Answer: 52

Question: In which sport is there a hog line?
Answer: Curling

Question: What was the previous occupation of the novelist George Orwell?
Answer: Policeman

Question: Who was Walter Mondale's female running mate in the 1984 US Presidential election?
Answer: (Geraldine) Ferraro

Question: Which Russian composer 1882-1971, wrote the ballets 'Firebird' and 'Petrushka'?
Answer: (Igor) Stravinsky

Question: Which general defended Moscow from the Germans in 1941?
Answer: Zhukov

Question: Which river forms part of the border between Namibia and South Africa?
Answer: Orange

Question: For the tax year 2008-09, in an effort to resolve the problems caused by scrapping the 10p Income Tax band, by how much were Personal Allowance raised over and above the normal
Answer: increase?

Question: Which weekly newspaper was founded by Robert Maxwell in 1990 and folded in 1998 when owned by the Barclay brothers?
Answer: The European

Question: At which Olympics, city or year, did Eddie the Eagle take part?
Answer: Calgary

Question: Which American comic book hero was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and first appeared in Marvel Comics in 1962?
Answer: Spiderman

Question: Who seized power from King Idris in a military coup in 1969?
Answer: Gaddaffi

Question: In which US city is MacArthur Park?
Answer: Los Angeles

Question: Who preceded Robert the Bruce as King of Scotland?
Answer: John Balliol

Question: Which British women achieved gold in the 400 metres at the 2007 World Athletics Championships?
Answer: Christine Ohuruogu

Question: Which American State is known as the 'Garden State'?
Answer: New Jersey

Question: In which constellation is the star Rigel?
Answer: Orion

Question: Who sang the theme tune to the James Bond film 'Goldeneye'?
Answer: Tina Turner

Question: Sir Joseph Bazalgette contributed to the better health of Londoners by building what?
Answer: The SEWER SYSTEM

Question: Which number when squared equals half of it cube?
Answer: Two

Question: In mathematics, what is the correct term for the answer to a multiplication calculation?
Answer: Product

Question: Which group had a hit in the 1970's with 'Love Grows Like My Rosemary Grows'?
Answer: Edison Lighthouse

Question: On which island of the Philippines is Manila?
Answer: Luzon

Question: In which Shakespeare play do we find Touchstone, a jester?
Answer: As You Like It

Question: Which element discovered in 1782 has the symbol Te?
Answer: Tellurium

Question: Who won the Best Director Oscar for the film 'Out of Africa'?
Answer: Sydney Pollack

Question: Which vitamin is also called tocopherol?
Answer: Vitamin E

Question: Kerry McCarthy, Doug Naysmith, Dawn Primarolo and Stephen Williams are MPs representing constituencies in which city?
Answer: Bristol

Question: Jenny Willott, Julie Morgan, Alun Michael and Kevin Brennan are MPs representing constituencies in which city?
Answer: Cardiff

Question: Which building stands at 350, Fifth Avenue, New York?
Answer: Empire State

Question: In which Shakespeare play does Sir Lancelot Gobbo appear?
Answer: Merchant of Venice

Question: Smithsonite is a carbonate of zinc, by what name is it commonly known?
Answer: Calamine

Question: What is/was a seller of Papal indulgences called?
Answer: A Pardoner

Question: What was the first planet to be discovered with a telescope?
Answer: Uranus

Question: In science, what is the S.I unit of energy?
Answer: Joule

Question: On which island did the Dodo become extinct in about 1681?
Answer: Mauritius

Question: Who was the US Ambassador to Britain from 1938-1940?
Answer: Joseph Kennedy