Question: Which heavyweight boxing World Champion was born in Brockton Massachusetts in 1923, and died in a plane crash in 1969?
Answer: Rocky Marciano

Question: What name is given to the members of the religious denomination, founded in the 17th century, who are also known as The Society of Friends?
Answer: Quakers

Question: In which country was the British Formula One racing driver Jim Clark killed in 1967?
Answer: Germany

Question: Which politician was portrayed as a bulldog by cartoonist Steve Bell?
Answer: John Prescott

Question: Where are Trinity, Michaelmas and Hilary used as divisions of time?
Answer: Oxford

Question: Who wrote the play 'The Cherry Orchard'?
Answer: Anton Chekhov

Question: In which city is the Mappin Art Gallery?
Answer: Sheffield

Question: Who was the first US astronaut to travel in space?
Answer: Alan Shepherd

Question: Which philosopher founded the Stoics?
Answer: Zeno

Question: King Gama and King Hildebrand are monarchs in which Gilbert and Sullivan opera?
Answer: Princess Ida

Question: What is the family name of the Duke of Northumberland, who resides in Alnwick Castle?
Answer: Percy

Question: The W.W.II campaign, known as, "The Battle of the Bulge", was fought in which area of Europe?
Answer: The Ardennes

Question: Which 20th century novel contains the characters Curly, Crooks and Candy?
Answer: Of Mice and Men

Question: Which British city was the first in the world to have a registered football club?
Answer: Sheffield

Question: How long ± 10 metres is the Birkenhead tunnel, according to the notice at its Wirral entrance?
Answer: 3240metres

Question: Which 20th century novel contains the characters Tom Robinson, Dill and Calpurnia?
Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

Question: Who had hits with Stepping Out and Different For Girls?
Answer: Joe Jackson

Question: Which former British boxer is known as 'Champagne Charlie"?
Answer: Charlie Magri

Question: Which National Trust property is located adjacent to Liverpool John Lennon Airport?
Answer: Speke Hall

Question: Lao Tse (or Lauzi) is a central figure of which religion?
Answer: Taoism

Question: What position did Will Sommers hold at the court of Henry VIII?
Answer: Jester

Question: Machu Picchu is a famous ruin in which South American county?
Answer: Peru

Question: Name Shirley MacLaine's actor brother.
Answer: Warren Beatty

Question: All My Sons (1947) and The Misfits (1961) are both plays written by whom?
Answer: Arthur Miller

Question: Queen Joan of Navarre was the wife of which English king?
Answer: Henry IV

Question: In the world of opera which character introduces himself as 'the general factotum'?
Answer: Barber of Seville

Question: Which strait separates Italy and Sicily?
Answer: Strait of Messina

Question: Which other city besides Liverpool was designated as European Capital of Culture for 2008?
Answer: Stavanger

Question: Which theatre is the London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company?
Answer: The Barbican

Question: Which park in Rome is situated in the palace garden of one of its most notorious families?
Answer: The Villa Borghese

Question: In which country are the world's deepest industrial mines?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Which religious figure died in the same week as Princess Diana?
Answer: Mother Teresa

Question: What is the Paris Stock Exchange called?
Answer: La Bourse

Question: Which Spanish poet and playwright was murdered by Falangist soldiers in 1936?
Answer: Frederico Garcia

Question: What was the name of the Aztec leader defeated by Cortez?
Answer: Montezuma

Question: On the London Underground map, what colour is the District Line?
Answer: Green

Question: The law of the sea divides it into three zones, internal Waters, territorial Waters and which other?
Answer: High Seas

Question: What is the nationality of former Moto GP World Champion Casey Stoner?
Answer: Australian

Question: In World War 2 what was the name of the American mass-produced prefabricated cargo ships?
Answer: Liberty Ships

Question: Whose funeral in New York in 1926 attracted 100,000 mourners?
Answer: Rudolph Valentino

Question: in which 1964 Gerry and the Pacemakers film did Cilla Black appear?
Answer: Ferry Across the Mersey

Question: In Australia what is known as "The Coathanger"?
Answer: Sydney Harbour Bridge

Question: Which element has the chemical symbol K?
Answer: Potassium

Question: Mount Kosciuszko is the highest mountain in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: What is the non-medical name given to people who suffer from kyphosis?
Answer: Hunchback

Question: Name one of the two London Underground stations connected by the longest continuous tunnel of the system (17.5 miles)?
Answer: East Finchley/Morden

Question: Who did Jenny Von Westphalen marry in 1843?
Answer: Karl Marx

Question: Valparaiso is a city and port in which South American country?
Answer: Chile

Question: Evelyn Glennie achieved musical fame as what type of musician?
Answer: Percussionist

Question: Which golf course is situated at Virginia Water?
Answer: Wentworth

Question: Who wrote the poem The Deserted Village?
Answer: Oliver Goldsmith

Question: Which rugby Super League team play at The Brewery Field?
Answer: Celtic Crusaders

Question: Which famous jazz club is in Frith Street, London?
Answer: Ronnie Scott's

Question: Which actor plays the title role in the Harry Potter films?
Answer: Daniel Radcliffe

Question: Which 60s TV sitcom featured the Rev Mervyn Noote and St Ogg's Cathedral?
Answer: All Gas and Gaiters

Question: Which is the shortest book in the Bible having only one chapter of twenty-one verses?
Answer: Obadiah

Question: Which children's character was created by Jean de Brunhoff?
Answer: Babar

Question: What was the name of the midge-borne viral infection that affected British livestock in the late summer of 2007?
Answer: Bluetongue

Question: Joey Bishop, who died in October 2007, was the last survivor of a group of people known by which name?
Answer: The 'Rat Pack'

Question: Which service area is on the M6 Toll road?
Answer: Norton Caines

Question: Which is the longest river in Northern Ireland?
Answer: Bann

Question: After whose Queen is the US state Maryland named?
Answer: Charles I

Question: Which football club effectively held the English Football League Championship throughout both World Wars?
Answer: Everton FC

Question: What was the name of "RMS Titanic's" older sister ship?
Answer: RMS Olympic

Question: Bill Shankly signed Kevin Keegan from which club in 1971?
Answer: Scunthorpe United

Question: Magellan, Galapagos, and Chinstrap are varieties of which animal?
Answer: Penguin

Question: Which incident occured near to Creddington, Buckinghamshire on 8th August 1963?
Answer: Great Train Robbery

Question: Who played the title role in the 1962 film 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'?
Answer: Tom Courtenay

Question: What type of creature is a basilisk?
Answer: Lizard

Question: Who wrote and composed the opera Oedipus Rex in 1927?
Answer: Stravinsky

Question: Which novelist created the characters of Dalziel and Pascoe?
Answer: Reginald Hill

Question: Amadeus I ruled which Country 1870-1873?
Answer: Spain

Question: From which disease did Oliver Cromwell die?
Answer: Malaria

Question: Name the painter of risqué pictures of sexy fat ladies who died in 2008?
Answer: Beryl Cook

Question: In the film "Goldfinger" what was the name of Shirley Eaton's character, fatally painted in gold?
Answer: Jill Masterson

Question: The Collegiate Church of St Peter, also known as Westminster Abbey, is an example of what type of place of worship falling under the direct jurisdiction of the British monarch?
Answer: Royal Peculiar

Question: Batemans was the house of which writer?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question: Which Shakespearian character described himself as "A man more sinned against then sinning"?
Answer: King Lear