Question: Which square is diagonally opposite 'Go' on a standard Monopoly board?
Answer: Free Parking

Question: On which river does the Kariba Dam stand?
Answer: Zambezi

Question: Historically which royal figure was known as Farmer George?
Answer: King George III

Question: By what name is the steam locomotive wheel arrangement of 4-6-2 known?
Answer: Pacific

Question: Name the chief town on the Isle of Skye.
Answer: Portree

Question: What does Russian, Aleksandr Orlov, do on British television?
Answer: Advertises the Compare the Market website - he's the meerkat

Question: Port Ellen is the chief town on which Scottish island, the most southern of the Inner Hebrides?
Answer: Islay

Question: Name the Swedish tennis player who in recent years has ended long unbeaten records by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
Answer: Robin Soderling

Question: Who drew the cartoon strip The Fosdyke Saga?
Answer: Bill Tidy

Question: In June 2010, Daniel Westling married Crown Princess Victoria of which country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: What name, that of a German soldier born at Rostock in 1742, has been given since the early 19th century to a style of strong leather half-boot?
Answer: Blucher

Question: How many countries were founder members of the EEC in 1957?
Answer: Six

Question: What does Al Jazeera (the TV Station) mean in English?
Answer: The Peninsula

Question: Which river flows through Shrewsbury?
Answer: Severn

Question: Sturnus Vulgaris is the scientific name for which common bird?
Answer: Starling

Question: In which sport are penalties awarded to the opposing team for clipping, holding and hooking?
Answer: Ice Hockey

Question: What is the name of the rod on a sundial which indicates the time?
Answer: Gnomon

Question: Who composed the opera 'Emilia di Liverpool' in 1824?
Answer: Gaetano Donizetti

Question: What is the state capital of Alaska?
Answer: Juneau

Question: Who composed the oratorio 'Carmina Burana' in 1935?
Answer: Carl Orff

Question: What is the oldest structure within the Tower of London, built by William the Conqueror in 1086?
Answer: White Tower

Question: Which Charlie Chaplin film satirized Adolf Hitler?
Answer: The Great Dictator

Question: In which harbour did the Mary Rose sink in 1545?
Answer: Portsmouth

Question: What is the former name of Cape of Good Hope?
Answer: The Cape Of Storms

Question: Which waterproof material was produced by Joseph Kagan in the 1950's?
Answer: Gannex

Question: Which river runs through the Vale of Evesham?
Answer: River Avon

Question: Which island, home to a monastery, lies off the coast of South Wales opposite Tenby?
Answer: Caldey

Question: William Lamb was the family name of which 19th century titled British Prime Minister?
Answer: Lord Melbourne

Question: In which present day country did the Etruscan civilisation exist?
Answer: Italy

Question: Which English King was imprisoned and died in Pontefract Castle?
Answer: Richard Ii

Question: What is the surname of Florence of the pop group Florence and the Machine?
Answer: Welch

Question: Which is the oldest of London's present Football League and Premiership clubs?
Answer: Fulham

Question: Who was the trainer of the 2010 Grand National winning horse Don't Push It?
Answer: Jonjo O'Neill

Question: Held during the Boer War, what nickname was given to the UK General Election of 1900?
Answer: The Khaki Election

Question: Who will appear on the new £50 bank note along with his business partner James Watt?
Answer: Matthew Boulton

Question: Which manufacturing industry is featured on the current £20 note?
Answer: Pin

Question: Fort Zinderneuf is the place where the hero dies in which famous book and film?
Answer: Beau Geste

Question: Which comedian and panel game member wrote the 2007 book 'Silent Comedy' about Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and others?
Answer: Paul Merton

Question: On which date in 1952 did the Queen ascend to the throne?
Answer: 6Th February

Question: More famous in another field, who wrote the 2007 book, 'More than a Game', on the early history of cricket?
Answer: John Major

Question: Which acid found in wood sorrel and rhubarb leaves is traditionally used in dyeing and bleaching?
Answer: Oxalic

Question: By what name has the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal been known since 1948?
Answer: Kiel Canal

Question: Which was Alfred Hitchcock's last film made in 1976?
Answer: Family Plot

Question: Who plays Sergeant Hathaway in the television series Lewis?
Answer: Lawrence Fox

Question: In which British city is there a district called The Jericho?
Answer: Oxford.

Question: What were once known as 'the third university of England?
Answer: The Inns of Court and Chancery

Question: Which composer's A minor piano concerto was premiered in 1846 with his wife as soloist?
Answer: Schumann

Question: Stockport in Greater Manchester has a museum dedicated to what item of clothing?
Answer: Hats

Question: Who was the Test Match Special scorer who died in January 2009?
Answer: Bill Frindall

Question: Who served as the 29th President of the USA from 1921 to 1923 with the largest popular vote in any Presidential election?
Answer: Warren Harding

Question: Who wrote the book "Stalky and Co"?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question: In which play does the character Jimmy Porter appear?
Answer: Look Back In Anger

Question: In geography what is an arrete?
Answer: A Thin Ridge Or Crest Separating Two Valleys

Question: Whose musical career began in 1964 as singer with pop group Them?
Answer: Van Morrison

Question: Which English king was married to Isabella of Angouleme?
Answer: King John

Question: What unit of measurement is equal to 1,852 meters or 6,076 feet?
Answer: A Nautical Mile

Question: Who won the 1997 British Open?
Answer: Justin Leonard

Question: In which town are the administrative headquarters of North Yorkshire?
Answer: Northallerton

Question: In law what name is given to a written voluntary statement given under oath?
Answer: Affidavit

Question: Which instrument is most closely associated with jazz musician Charlie Mingus?
Answer: Double Bass

Question: In which Charles Dickens novel do we meet the minor characters: Tom Pinch, Mark Tapley and Paul Sweedlepipe?
Answer: Martin Chuzzlewit

Question: Who was the Danish philosopher (1813-1855), who was both a theologian and social critic, he is chiefly remembered today for the primary influence which he exerted upon the philosophical ideas of Existentialism?
Answer: (Soren) Kierkegaard

Question: What are the irregularly-shaped, colourless bodies present in blood whose sticky surface lets them, along with other substances, form clots to stop bleeding when exposed to air?
Answer: Platelet(s)

Question: """The Last Man In Europe"" was the working title of which novel?"
Answer: 1984

Question: Which bird was the subject of an ode by John Keats?
Answer: Nightingale

Question: According to the Bible who was the mother of Esau and Jacob?
Answer: Rebekah

Question: In which British town or city is the National Media Museum?
Answer: Bradford

Question: What was the name of Benjamin Britten's opera about a lonely, isolated fisherman?
Answer: Peter Grimes

Question: A ratel is what type of animal?
Answer: Badger

Question: What is the capital of Fiji?
Answer: Suva

Question: What dynastic family name of Cleopatra?
Answer: Ptolemy

Question: Edward Heath was MP for which constituency?
Answer: Bexley

Question: The winner of which major sporting event is presented with a green jacket?
Answer: US Masters Golf

Question: What name is given to the tail of a rabbit or hare?
Answer: Scut

Question: Who introduces the weekly jazz music show on Radio 2 every Tuesday evening at 7.00pm?
Answer: Jamie Cullum

Question: Birchfield Harriers Athletics Club is based in which English city?
Answer: Birmingham

Question: A classical piano trio is a group of instruments - piano (obviously). Name one of the other two
Answer: Violin or Cello