Question: There are 296 steps from where to where?
Answer: To the top of the Leaning Tower, Pisa, Italy from ground level

Question: Originally a UK TV series using string puppets it first aired in 1952 with an idiosyncratic version of English called Oddle Poddle; what was the series?
Answer: Flower Pot Men

Question: What name was given to a series of treaties between Scotland and France, aimed specifically against England, that began in 1295 and lasted until 1560?
Answer: The Auld Alliance

Question: What is the word for an asexual form of reproduction found in females where growth and development of embryos occurs without fertilisation by a male?
Answer: Parthenogenesis

Question: Who was the British Leader of the Opposition during the Abdication Crisis?
Answer: Clement Attlee

Question: What tool contains a bubble to show accurate horizontal and vertical settings?
Answer: Spirit level

Question: What is the nickname of Apsley House, the former London residence of the Dukes of Wellington, that stands alone at Hyde Park Corner on the south-east corner of Hyde Park?
Answer: Number One, London

Question: In the 1980s one of the matches between Australia and New Zealand in One Day International cricket was infamous for what?
Answer: The Australian bowler sent the last ball of the final over underarm

Question: In the music industry, what does an A & R man do?
Answer: Looks after artists and repertoire

Question: The character names Purdey and Ducky are indirectly linked by which UK TV scifi series?
Answer: Sapphire and Steel

Question: What game, whose players use a squidger, aim to squop their opponents, occasionally to boondock them, and in a variant play a jeu de puces, held a Royal Match in 2008 to commemorate a 50th anniversary?
Answer: Tiddliwinks

Question: What does the River Tyne empty into?
Answer: North Sea

Question: What was the name of Amy Johnson's plane in which she flew solo from Britain to Australia in 1930?
Answer: Jason

Question: What was a major significance in Europe and the western world of the book the "Liber Abaci" (1202)?
Answer: It convincingly advocated the use of Arabic numerals in european mathematical notation

Question: Above the confluence of the Rio Negro the Amazon River is known by another name in Brazil, which is...?
Answer: Solimes

Question: What is the most frequent definition in mathematics of a straight line?
Answer: None - it is considered a primitive (undefined) concept

Question: How many years is Methuselah recorded as having lived?
Answer: 969

Question: What country, including land from subtropical plains to sub-alpine peaks of over 7,000m (23,000 ft), and currently a monarchy, was rated in 2006 as the eighth happiest country in the world?
Answer: Bhutan

Question: The Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch painted his works in which centuries AD?
Answer: 15th and 16th

Question: Which poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and inspired by Gray's thoughts following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742, was so popular in London literary circles that Gray was forced to publish the work on 15 February 1751 to pre-empt a magazine publisher from printing an unlicensed copy?
Answer: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Question: Who wrote "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"?
Answer: Lawrence of Arabia

Question: A quote from Samuel Johnson is that "when a man is tired of London he is tired of ..." what?
Answer: Life

Question: Who sang with Barbra Streisand on "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)"?
Answer: Donna Summer

Question: What is an important Jewish religious site located in the Old City of Jerusalem which dates from the end of the Second Temple period, being constructed around 19 BCE by Herod the Great?
Answer: The Wailing Wall

Question: Who or what was the plant, the dahlia, named after?
Answer: Anders Dahl, student of botanist Carl Linnaeus

Question: The fossilised remains of a member of which extinct paleolithic race with heavy brow ridges and receding forehead were discovered in 1856?
Answer: Neanderthal

Question: What word would you use to describe someone who sees sound?
Answer: Synaesthesia

Question: Three immense carved images destroyed in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, by the Taleban in 2001 related to what faith?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: Where was the playwright August Strindberg born?
Answer: Sweden

Question: From which country is it currently thought that we get chicken tikka masala?
Answer: Uk

Question: What is the word for a textual expression representing the face of a writer's mood or facial expression, such as :-), :-(, and :-D, used in e-mails and text messages?
Answer: Emoticon

Question: Which 20th century English author wrote "Ruined City", "A Town Like Alice" and "On The Beach"?
Answer: Nevil Shute

Question: The "Libro de los Juegos", completed in Castilian in 1278 AD, contained texts, illustrations and miniatures describing and discussing the games of chess, dice and which other game?
Answer: Backgammon

Question: Who wrote "Devil May Care", a James Bond novel, at the request of the trustees of the estate of original 007 author Ian Fleming?
Answer: Sebastian Faulks

Question: In 1980 Lech Walesa co-founded what trade union in Poland?
Answer: Solidarity

Question: What was the surname of Marie, double Nobel laureate, and Pierre, also Nobel laureate?
Answer: Curie

Question: On 3 June 2010, an episode of which British soap opera, which featured a hostage situation involving guns, was postponed after it was due to air on the same day as a a man shot 12 people dead and injured several more in Cumbria, England?
Answer: Coronation Street

Question: Which NASA space shuttle was lost after exploding 73 seconds after lift off in 1986?
Answer: Challenger

Question: Who released an album in October 2010 called "Teenage Dream"?
Answer: Katie Perry

Question: The modern Olympic Games are named after games held originally in what country?
Answer: Greece

Question: Jill Munroe, Sabrina Duncan, Kelly Garrett, Kris Munroe, Tiffany Welles and Julie Rogers were characters in which US TV series?
Answer: Charlie's Angels

Question: LeBron James has won how many Olympic medals in basketball?
Answer: 3

Question: From Hainan in the north to and including Singapore in the south, and including the Gulf of Thailand, how many countries have coasts on the South China Sea?
Answer: 9

Question: Harry Webb, who performs under the name of Cliff Richard, was born where?
Answer: India

Question: If you suffered from androphobia what would you be afraid of?
Answer: Men

Question: Who is the 2014 World Snooker Champion?
Answer: Mark Selby

Question: The annual international cheese-rolling contest at the steep Cooper's Hill in England involves rolling downhill what kind and size of cheese?
Answer: Double Gloucester, 9 lb round

Question: What relationship are actors John and David Carradine?
Answer: Father and son

Question: What town is the setting for the film "It's a Wonderful Life"?
Answer: Bedford Falls

Question: An isotherm is a line denoting equal what?
Answer: Temperature

Question: December 31 1960 was the last day for which coin, first minted in England in the 13th century, to be legal tender in the United Kingdom?
Answer: Farthing

Question: Who destroyed the Temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem?
Answer: Nebuchadnezzar

Question: What leaves relieve pain caused by stinging nettle?
Answer: Dock

Question: William Saville-Kent, an English naturalist in Australia in the 1880s and 1890s, studied and photographed marine life and the Great Barrier Reef in detail in order to provide what?
Answer: A benchmark for study of the health of Australian fish stocks and potential for development

Question: A kukri is a crooked knife traditionally used by which regiment in the British army?
Answer: Brigade of Gurkhas

Question: Who was Governor of South Australia 1841-1845, Governor of New Zealand 1845-1854 & 1861-1868, Governor of Cape Colony 1854-1861 and Premier of New Zealand 1877-1879?
Answer: George Grey