Question: Who created the Private Detective in Imperial Rome, Marcus Didius Falco?
Answer: Lindsey Davis

Question: Which part of England is to become a National Park in 2011?
Answer: South Downs

Question: The currency of which European country is the kuna?
Answer: Croatia

Question: Which jazz musician, he played the tenor sax and clarinet, was nicknamed 'Prez'?
Answer: Lester Young

Question: The 19th century movement for the unification of Italy was known by what name?
Answer: Risorgimento

Question: In show-jumping, how many faults does a competitor get for a refusal?
Answer: Three

Question: In which month is Martin Luther King Day celebrated in the USA?
Answer: January

Question: The angel Moroni appears in which religious book?
Answer: Book of Mormon

Question: What is the name of the country as it appears on Swedish stamps?
Answer: Sverige

Question: Who created the character 'Sam Spade'?
Answer: Dashiell Hammett

Question: The name of which Russian spacecraft means 'east"?
Answer: Vostok

Question: With which musical instrument is Vladimir Ashkenazy associated?
Answer: Piano

Question: In the Beatles film Yellow Submarine what is the name of the land taken over by the Blue Meanies?
Answer: Pepperland

Question: Which popular garden bird has the Latin name Erithacus rubecula?
Answer: Robin

Question: Which British city has cathedrals dedicated to St Philip and St Chad?
Answer: Birmingham

Question: In Greek myth, who was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who was entombed alive by her uncle for trying to bury her brother Polyneices after the civil war in Thebes?
Answer: Antigone

Question: Who was the Premier League's top goal scorer for three consecutive seasons between 2004 and 2006?
Answer: Thierry Henry

Question: Who painted 'The Laughing Cavalier' in 1624?
Answer: Frans Hals

Question: What is the name of the road/rail bridge opened in 2000 that links Copenhagen and Malmo?
Answer: Oresund

Question: Who commanded the French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805?
Answer: (Pierre) Villeneuve

Question: Who wrote the 1981 Booker Prize winning novel `Midnights Children?
Answer: Salman Rushdie

Question: In which Welsh town is the Royal Mint situated?
Answer: Llantrisant

Question: Which 1939 film features the line 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn'?
Answer: Gone With The Wind

Question: Who founded the Samaritans in 1953?
Answer: Chad Varah

Question: Where on the body, would you find the `philtrum'?
Answer: On The Upper Lip

Question: In the film 'Jason and the Argonauts', who played the title role?
Answer: Todd Armstrong

Question: In pre-decimal currency, how much in shillings and pence was 100d (not 'p')?
Answer: 8s/4d

Question: Who was the first black person to win a Wimbledon title?
Answer: Althea Gibson

Question: Which folk song has the refrain 'Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme'?
Answer: Scarborough Fair

Question: What name is given to the largest side of a right-angled triangle?
Answer: Hypotenuse

Question: Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan appears in the novels of which crime-writer?
Answer: Kathy Reichs

Question: Which city, whose name means 'Southern Capital', was the capital of China before Beijing became the capital in 1949?
Answer: Nanking

Question: What collective noun is used to denominate a group of finches or hummingbirds?
Answer: A charm

Question: Which Cole Porter musical includes the songs True Love and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Answer: High Society

Question: What is the collective noun for geese in flight?
Answer: A skein

Question: St Peter Port is the capital of which island?
Answer: Guernsey

Question: Who famously said in 1916 "History is more or less bunk"?
Answer: Henry Ford

Question: Who was the president of the USA at the time of the Wall Street Crash?
Answer: Herbert Hoover

Question: Who wrote the novel "Madame Bovary"?
Answer: Gustave Flaubert

Question: Declan MacManus is the real name of which rock star?
Answer: Elvis Costello

Question: In the Shakespeare play, who is Othello's trusted advisor, husband of Emilia?
Answer: Iago

Question: Who invented the vacuum flask, in 1892?
Answer: James Dewar

Question: From which county does Troika pottery originate?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: In a suit of armour which part of the body was protected by the 'poleyn'?
Answer: The Knee

Question: What is the capital of Burundi?
Answer: Bujumbura

Question: For which film did Oliver Stone win his second Best Director Oscar in 1989?
Answer: Born on the Fourth of July

Question: Which Liverpool street is named after a Prime Minister, who was MP for Liverpool from 1812-1820?
Answer: Canning Street

Question: In which TV 'soap' did the character Charlene Mitchell appear?
Answer: Neighbours

Question: What name is given to the Japanese dish in which fish or vegetables are deep fried in butter?
Answer: Tempura

Question: In the book 'Tom Brown's Schooldays', what is the name of the bully?
Answer: Flashman

Question: Who, at the age of 8 months and 26 days, became the youngest ever king of England?
Answer: Henry 6th

Question: Which Russian composer was also a professor of chemistry?
Answer: Borodin

Question: Which record producer of the early 1960s is the subject of the film 'Telstar'?
Answer: Joe Meek

Question: Which Russian composer was also a naval officer?
Answer: Rimsky-Korsakov

Question: Who was Home Secretary at the time of the Sidney Street Siege?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: Who won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of the structure of DNA along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins?
Answer: Francis Crick

Question: Which ancient trackway runs from St Albans to Canterbury?
Answer: Watling Street

Question: In the Bible, who was the third son of Noah along with Ham and Shem?
Answer: Japheth

Question: Which Swedish tennis player never won the men's singles title at Wimbledon, but during the 1980s won the US Open once, the French Open twice and the Australian Open three times?
Answer: Mats Wilander

Question: What name is given to the day 40 days after Easter?
Answer: Ascension Day

Question: Which metal is mainly derived from the ore "haematite"?
Answer: Iron

Question: Who is the present Poet Laureate?
Answer: Carol Ann Duffy

Question: From which English writer did Ernest Hemingway get the title for his book "For Whom the Bell Tolls"?
Answer: John Donne

Question: There's No Business like Show Business
Answer: Annie Get Your Gun

Question: Name either of the termini of the 1st commercial hovercraft service.
Answer: Wallasey or Rhyl

Question: Which London station was designed by Brunel and completed in 1854?
Answer: Paddington

Question: Whose words are used in the 1916 hymn "Jerusalem" composed by Hubert Parry?
Answer: William Blake

Question: Which French World War I general later headed the pro-German Vichy Government in World War II from 1940-1944?
Answer: Henri Petain

Question: From which country does Stein lager originate?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: In the soap opera, The Colbys, which Hollywood legend played Jason Colby?
Answer: Charlton Heston

Question: Naples is the capital of which Italian region?
Answer: Campania

Question: Which Roman poet is most renowned for his poetry about love, seduction and adultery?
Answer: Ovid

Question: Into which body of water does the River Ganges flow?
Answer: The Bay Of Bengal

Question: Who was the allied Supreme Commander in Europe from 1944 onwards?
Answer: Dwight D Eisenhower

Question: Who had a hit in 1961 with Poetry in Motion?
Answer: Johnny Tillotson

Question: In a standard game of Monopoly how much does it cost to buy Bond Street?
Answer: £320

Question: Give the year or venue of the last time a British woman won gold in a swimming event prior to the 2008 Olympics.
Answer: 1960/Rome

Question: Who painted the "Adoration of the Magi" now in the Uffizi Gallery?
Answer: Sandro Botticelli