Question: Which lake has the largest volume of fresh water in Great Britain?
Answer: Loch Ness

Question: Which was the first British club to win a European football trophy?
Answer: Tottenham Hotspur

Question: Who played Jim Hacker in the TV series 'Yes Minister'?
Answer: Paul Eddington

Question: What was the name of The Lone Ranger's horse?
Answer: Silver

Question: Which four words precede 'Late December back in 63' in a line from a famous song?
Answer: Oh What A Night

Question: Which comedian used the catchphrase it's the way I tell 'em'?
Answer: Frank Carson

Question: Which European capital was known to the Romans as Lutetia?
Answer: Paris

Question: Which Welsh town was granted city status in 2012?
Answer: St Asaph

Question: A Tagine, a slow-cooked stew named after the pot in which it is cooked, originates from which country?
Answer: Morocco

Question: What is the date of St Andrew's Day?
Answer: 30th November

Question: Which motorway links the M4 to central Bristol?
Answer: M32

Question: Which TV medical drama series was set in Elsinby?
Answer: The Royal

Question: How is French Somaliland now known?
Answer: Djibouti

Question: Which vegetable has varieties including 'Prince Albert, Champagne and Victoria'?
Answer: Rhubarb

Question: The Gaelic translation of 'Valley of the Deer' gives its name to which Scotch single malt whisky?
Answer: Glenfiddich

Question: What character was played first by John Wayne in a 1969 film, and by Jeff Bridges in a 2010 remake?
Answer: Rooster Cogburn

Question: What US state was purchased by Secretary of State William H. Seward from Russia in 1867 for 7.2 million dollars?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Which US magazine produces an annual '500' list of biggest US companies based on gross revenue?
Answer: Fortune

Question: Dying in a car crash in 1974, who was the original lead singer with The Wurzels?
Answer: Adge Cutler

Question: Who is Nicolas Cage's famous film-world uncle?
Answer: Francis Ford Coppola

Question: Which European sports stadium is named after a World War One flying ace?
Answer: Roland Garros

Question: Who was the first man to circumnavigate Australia?
Answer: Matthew Flinders

Question: Kolinsky sable is used principally to make high quality what?
Answer: (Artists') Paintbrushes

Question: By what two-word title is a member of the first degree of Freemasonry known?
Answer: Entered Apprentice

Question: Which line is marked with the letters TF, F, T, S, A and WNA?
Answer: Plimsoll Line

Question: Where are the administrative headquarters of the East Riding of Yorkshire?
Answer: Beverley

Question: Titania and Oberon are moons of which planet?
Answer: Uranus

Question: In which city is the Newlands cricket ground situated?
Answer: Cape Town

Question: Of what orchestral instrument is Anne-Sophie Mutter a virtuoso?
Answer: Violin

Question: In the Bible, who was the mother of Solomon?
Answer: Bathsheba

Question: What name is given to divination by summoning the spirits of the dead?
Answer: Necromancy

Question: Irish singer Enya began her career as a member of which band?
Answer: Clannad

Question: Which poet composed a sonnet 'Upon Westminster Bridge'?
Answer: William Wordsworth

Question: Who wrote the self-help book 'How to win Friends and Influence People' in 1936?
Answer: Dale Carnegie

Question: Which poet wrote a sonnet 'On first looking into Chapman's Homer'?
Answer: John Keats

Question: Who, with Steve Jobs, founded Apple Computers?
Answer: Steve Wozniak

Question: Who is the only MP of the Green Party, representing Brighton Pavilion?
Answer: Caroline Lucas

Question: 'Poison', 'Dune' and `J'Adore' are all fragrances from which perfume house?
Answer: (Christian) Dior

Question: Which is the deepest lake in Great Britain?
Answer: Loch Morar

Question: Who was the 'one-man band' who had hits in the 1960s with 'Rosie' and 'Blue Eyes'?
Answer: Don Partridge

Question: Who was captain of the British brig 'Rebecca' in 1731 when it was boarded by the Spanish coastguard 'La Isabela' so starting an international incident?
Answer: Robert Jenkins

Question: Which company, best-known as a manufacturer of luxury cars, also made buses, such as the Freeline and Fleetline models?
Answer: Daimler

Question: Which Shakespeare play takes place in the Forest of Arden?
Answer: As You Like It

Question: Which vegetable used in one form in salads and in another in cooking is from the apium genus of plants?
Answer: Celery/Celeriac

Question: Upon which river does Leicester stand?
Answer: The Soar

Question: Which composer is best known for his works Requiem in D minor and Pavane in F sharp minor?
Answer: Gabriel Fauré

Question: How is the Chilean Pine or auricaria known more familiarly in the UK?
Answer: Monkey Puzzle Tree

Question: Of what is autophobia the fear?
Answer: Loneliness / Being Alone

Question: Passer is a genus of small passerine birds in which bird family?
Answer: Sparrow

Question: If you were in Japan eating simeji, what would you be eating?
Answer: Mushrooms

Question: A duathlon consists of two sports -name one.
Answer: Cycling And Running

Question: The Democratic Republic of the Congo was previously known as what?
Answer: Zaire

Question: What is the informal name for the southern stares of the USA?
Answer: DIXIE(Land)

Question: A scream is a collective name for a group of which birds?
Answer: Swifts

Question: Which tree does quince come from?
Answer: Cydonia (Oblonga) Tree

Question: In which European City is the "Monument of Light" spire?
Answer: Dublin

Question: What is the two piece costume worn in judo called?
Answer: Judogi

Question: Which 1957 treaty created the European Economic Community?
Answer: TREATY of ROME

Question: Who, in a poem, wrote "Beauty is truth, truth is beauty"?
Answer: (John) KEATS

Question: According to Exodus, which migrating flocks of birds supplied food for the lsraelites in the wilderness?
Answer: Quails

Question: In the film 'The Wizard of Oz', what is Dorothy's surname?
Answer: Gale

Question: Which former transatlantic liner was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong in 1972?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth

Question: Whose epitaph on his tombstone reads "That's All Folks"?
Answer: Mel Blanc

Question: Who led his followers on a 'Long March' in 1934?
Answer: Mao Tse Tung

Question: Which biscuit has the same name as Queen Victoria's house on the Isle of Wight?
Answer: Osborne

Question: In which war was the Battle of Antietam fought?
Answer: American Civil War

Question: In what year did Concorde commence commercial service?
Answer: 1976

Question: In which US state is Dodge City, the famous frontier town of the wild west?
Answer: Kansas

Question: Little Rock is the capital of which state of USA?
Answer: Arkansas

Question: In which American state is the animated TV series King of the Hill set?
Answer: Texas

Question: What is the name of the current Attorney General for England and Wales?
Answer: Dominic Grieve

Question: What was the name of the wife of Edward II?
Answer: Isabella

Question: In which sport do players compete for the Calcutta Cup?
Answer: Rugbv Union

Question: What was the name of the first space shuttle?
Answer: Columbia

Question: Who is the patron saint of shoemakers?
Answer: St Crispin

Question: Monica Rose was a hostess of which 1960s TV quiz show?
Answer: Double Your Money

Question: Name the French artist (1798-1863) whose painting 'Liberty Leading The People' is in the Louvre?
Answer: Eugène Delacroix

Question: Which Briton won the Men's Triathlon at the 2012 London Olympics?
Answer: Alistair Brownlee

Question: What is the common name for the garden flower whose botanical name is hemerocallis?
Answer: Daylily

Question: In what year did the Relief of Mafeking take place during the Boer War?
Answer: 1900

Question: In shipping weather forecasting regarding wind direction, what is the opposite term to 'veering'?
Answer: Backing