Question: In which Shakespeare play do the characters 'Hortensia', 'Bianca',and 'Baptista' appear?
Answer: 'Taming Of The Shrew'

Question: What was the first nuclear powered ship?
Answer: THE LENIN - a Soviet Icebreaker (launched two years before USS Savannah)

Question: Who wrote the 1980 Booker Prize winner 'Rites Of Passage'?
Answer: William Golding

Question: Which island in the Malay archipelago is divided politically between Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei?
Answer: Borneo

Question: In 1971, Isaac Hayes became the first black man to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song with his theme from which 1971 film?
Answer: 'Shaft'

Question: Founded by Johann Friedrich Overbeck and Franz Pforr among others, what name was adopted by a group of early 19th century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive honesty and spirituality in Christian art?
Answer: Nazerenes

Question: In which country would you find the Angkor Wat temple, the world's largest religious structure?
Answer: Cambodia

Question: With only one chapter, which is the shortest book in the Old Testament?
Answer: Obadiah

Question: Who at 21, was the youngest goal scorer in the EUFA EURO 2012 Tournament - he is English?
Answer: Danny Welbeck

Question: Name any of the three Fates of Greek myth?
Answer: CLOTHO, LACHESIS or ATROPOS

Question: Whose autobiography, completed by his wife after his death in 2004, was entitled 'Margrave of the Marshes'?
Answer: John Peel

Question: In which BBC crime drama which ran for six series, did clinical psychologist 'Dr. Tony Hill' work first with 'DI Carol Jordan' and then with 'DI Alex Fielding'?
Answer: 'Wire In The Blood'

Question: Jaroslav Drobny who won the Gentlemen's Singles at Wimbledon in 1954 won a Silver Medal for Czechoslovakia at the 1948 Winter Olympics in which sport?
Answer: Ice Hockey

Question: In which Pacific island nation was Hull Rugby League player Sam Moa born?
Answer: Tonga

Question: Give a year in the life of Henry Purcell?
Answer: 1659 - 1695

Question: Israel has two official languages. One is Hebrew. What is the other?
Answer: Arabic

Question: Which female artist recorded the album “No Angel” in 2001?
Answer: Dido

Question: Who was the famous comic book creation of Frank Hampson?
Answer: Dan Dare

Question: Which TV series made Jonathan Routh famous?
Answer: Candid Camera

Question: Give a year in the life of English printer William Caxton?
Answer: 1422 - 1491

Question: Newport in Gwent stands on which river?
Answer: Usk

Question: By what more familiar avian moniker is the H-4 Hercules aircraft known?
Answer: Spruce Goose

Question: Which style of elaborately moulded earthenware, decorated with thick vivid glazes was developed by the English firm Minton in 1850 and popularised during the great exhibition of 1851?
Answer: Majolica

Question: Raratonga is the most populous island of which group?
Answer: Cook Islands

Question: Which artist’s works include 32 Campbell’s soup cans?
Answer: (Andy) Warhol

Question: What is measured using a Whirling Psychrometer?
Answer: Air Temperature or humidity

Question: Which German battleship sank the HMS Hood on May 24th 1941?
Answer: The Bismarck

Question: What name is given to the sound hole on a violin?
Answer: F-Hole

Question: First published in 1978, the Russian Red Data Book, contains lists of what?
Answer: Endangered Species

Question: Meaning "over-eager" or "undisciplined", which phrase comes from the Chinese for "Work together"?
Answer: Gung–Ho

Question: What did British mathematician Andrew Wiles prove in 1993?
Answer: Fermat's Last Theorem

Question: Rg is the chemical symbol for which element, named after a Nobel Prize winner for Physics?
Answer: Roentgenium

Question: Name the American Political Movement which began in 2009 after Barack Obama's inauguration, it called for a reduction in the National Debt, lower taxes and opposes healthcare?
Answer: The Tea Party

Question: Which Australian golfer had his first major success when he won the US PGA title in 2015?
Answer: Jason Day

Question: """The flight of the Bumblebee"" comes from which Opera?"
Answer: The Tale of Tsar Saltan

Question: Which country is the most recent to join the United Nations - in July 2011?
Answer: South Sudan

Question: Which book of the Old Testament consists of speeches by Moses to the Israelites shortly before they enter the Promised Land?
Answer: Deuteronomy

Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for the invention of holography?
Answer: Dennis Gabor

Question: Which letter comes between rho and tau in the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Sigma

Question: Who played Old Deuteronomy and Bustopher Jones in the original London production of Cats in 1981?
Answer: Brian Blessed

Question: Which singer and actress is known as The Divine Miss M?
Answer: Bette Midler

Question: Which party did George Galloway represent as MP for Bradford West from 2012 to 2015?
Answer: Respect

Question: Who was twice married to actress Natalie Wood?
Answer: Robert Wagner

Question: Until recently Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson was the holder of which political post?
Answer: Prime Minister of Icleland

Question: Luguvalium was the Roman name for which North Western English city?
Answer: Carlisle

Question: For which formula one team was Michael Schumacher driving when he first won the drivers’ championship?
Answer: Benetton

Question: What is the scientific name for the study of fish?
Answer: Ichthyology

Question: Which French Prime Minister signed the Munich Agreement of 1938?
Answer: Edouard Deladier

Question: Finish the proverb "He is a fool who makes his doctor...."?
Answer: His Heir

Question: Anything you can do" and "There's no business like show business" are songs from which musical?
Answer: Annie Get Your Gun

Question: Who was the father of Edward the Elder, the Anglo-Saxon King from 899 to 924?
Answer: Alfred The Great

Question: North Foreland and South Foreland are chalk headlands in which English county?
Answer: Kent

Question: Who defeated Wladimir Klitschko to win the world heavyweight boxing title last November?
Answer: Tyson Fury

Question: According to the lyrics of the song "Fairytale of New York", what were 'the boys of the NYPD choir singing'?
Answer: Galway Bay

Question: A Tayberry is a hybrid of a Raspberry and which other fruit?
Answer: Blackberry

Question: Which variety of solo card game patience takes its name from a gold rush location in the Yukon Territory?
Answer: Klondike

Question: The Scottish port of Stranraer stands on which sea loch, which acts a natural harbour for shipping?
Answer: Loch Ryan

Question: The villages of Soultz-les-Bains, Eguisheim, Riquewihr & Soulzmatt are all located at the heart of which French wine region?
Answer: Alsace

Question: The Dream Warriors, The Dream Master and The Dream Child are all subtitles of instalments of which film franchise?
Answer: A Nightmare on Elm Street

Question: Asmara is the capital city of which country?
Answer: Eritrea

Question: Viracocha is the creator god in the mythology of which ancient people?
Answer: Incas

Question: Two battleships of the Bismarck class were built for the German Navy. The first was Bismarck. What was the name of the second?
Answer: Tirpitz

Question: Of which Kansas town was Tex Tucker the sheriff in a Gerry Anderson T V puppet show?
Answer: Four Feather Falls

Question: Which Belfast born comedian, resident in Blackpool for many years, had a catchphrase ‘It’s the way I tell ‘em’?
Answer: Frank Carson

Question: Which medical instrument was invented by René Laennec at the Necker Hospital in Paris in 1816?
Answer: Stethoscope

Question: The Hungarian Rhapsodies is a set of 19 piano pieces based on folk themes by which composer?
Answer: Franz Liszt

Question: Who plays both of the Kray twins in the 2015 film Legend?
Answer: Tom Hardy

Question: German engineer and architect Hermann Tilke is best known for his design of over 25 what around the world?
Answer: Motor Racing Circuits