Question: In which country is the Dong the main unit of currency?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: How many tiles are there in a standard Mah Jong set?
Answer: 144

Question: Who released the 1970 album called Atom Heart Mother?
Answer: Pink Floyd

Question: Which Star Wars actress was the daughter of Debbie Reynolds?
Answer: Carrie Fisher

Question: Which instrument did Charlie 'Bird' Parker play?
Answer: Saxophone

Question: What is the state capital of Queensland?
Answer: Brisbane

Question: In which religion is the Tibetan Book of the Dead a revered text?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: What was the name of Wellington's horse at Waterloo?
Answer: Copenhagen

Question: Which perfume house produces Opium and Rive Gauche?
Answer: Yves St Laurent

Question: Which two cities are connected by the M11?
Answer: London and Cambridge

Question: What was the name of the dog that in 1957 became the first mammal in space?
Answer: Laika

Question: What was the name of Sharpe's Sergeant (and later Sergeant Major) in the Bernard Cornwell novels?
Answer: Patrick Harper

Question: Who succeeded Christopher Eccleston as the new Dr Who?
Answer: David Tennant

Question: Who was England's football manager from 1947 to 1963?
Answer: Walter Winterbottom

Question: Who was known as the A6 murderer?
Answer: John James Hanratty

Question: In which city is the University of Aston situated?
Answer: Birmingham

Question: Who is the main male character of the musical Carousel?
Answer: Billy Bigelow

Question: To which family of birds does the fieldfare belong?
Answer: Thrush

Question: What is the dominant flavour of the drink Curacao?
Answer: Orange

Question: Which prison is guarded by the Dementors in the Harry Potter books?
Answer: Azkaban

Question: What is the administrative centre of Wiltshire?
Answer: Trowbridge

Question: What nationality are the pop group Rush?
Answer: Canadian

Question: In what year was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Answer: 1876

Question: In which novel is the character Alan Breck a fugitive from the English?
Answer: Kidnapped

Question: What was the given name of the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson?
Answer: Mary

Question: Members of the Irish Parliament have which two letters after their names?
Answer: Td

Question: Who plays the part of Jessica Fletcher in the TV series 'Murder She Wrote'?
Answer: Angela Lansbury

Question: Who wrote the 'Just William' books?
Answer: Richmal Crompton

Question: What was the given name of the wife of Prime Minister James Callaghan?
Answer: Audrey

Question: Bundesliga football team Schalke 04 plays home games in which German town or city?
Answer: Gelsenkirchen

Question: Edward John Smith was captain of which famous ship?
Answer: Titanic

Question: The discount supermarket chain, Aldi, has its HQ in which country?
Answer: Germany

Question: Which composer, born in 1862, resisted joining the family wool business and went off to run an orange plantation in Floridabefore his family relented and paid for him to study music?
Answer: Frederick Delius

Question: 'Good Wives' and 'Jo's Boys' were sequels to whose most famous novel?
Answer: Louisa May Alcott

Question: In the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons', which bells sing 'When I am rich'?
Answer: Shoreditch

Question: Which island in New York harbour was the processing centre for immigrants in the first half of the twentieth century?
Answer: Ellis Island

Question: Which actor played 'Old Mother Riley'?
Answer: Arthur Lucan

Question: Which manufacturer makes a small car called the 'Note'?
Answer: Nissan

Question: What is the name of the TV detective played by Tony Shaloub?
Answer: Monk

Question: 'One Night in Bangkok' and 'I Know Him So Well' are songs from which musical?
Answer: Chess

Question: La Liga football team Real Sociedad plays home games in which Spanish town or city?
Answer: San Sebastian

Question: In the Bible who is the father of John the Baptist?
Answer: Zacharias

Question: Who was the mountaineer who in 1970, together with Don Whillans, was the first person to scale the south face of Annapurna?
Answer: Dougal Haston

Question: Which actor played 'Mr Pastry' on children's TV?
Answer: Richard Hearne

Question: Which religious sect was founded by Ann Lee in Manchester in 1747?
Answer: The Shakers

Question: The discount supermarket chain Netto has its HQ in which country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Which composer's first job on leaving school at the age of 15 in 1872, was in a solicitor's office before he joined his father in his music shop in Worcester?
Answer: Sir Edward Elgar

Question: Who wrote the poem 'A Subaltern's Love Song' about Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, "Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun"?
Answer: John Betjeman

Question: Georgetown is the capital of which Caribbean country?
Answer: Guyana

Question: Members of the Welsh Assembly have which two letters after their name?
Answer: Am

Question: On which famous motor racing track is the Mulsanne Straight?
Answer: Le Mans

Question: What is the main ingredient of the drink 'Lassi'?
Answer: Yoghourt

Question: England's first road congestion charge was introduced in 2002, in which city?
Answer: Durham

Question: In 1975, which was the first city in the world to introduce congestion charges?
Answer: Singapore

Question: The famous bridge at Avignon spans which river?
Answer: Rhone

Question: Which British dependency has a capital called Georgetown?
Answer: Ascension Islands

Question: The Barry Burn is on which famous Scottish golf course?
Answer: Carnoustie

Question: What is lacking by definition in an anhydrous substance?
Answer: Water

Question: Cape Trafalgar is situated in which Spanish province?
Answer: Cadiz

Question: In 1986 which mountaineer became the first to climb all 14 peaks over 8000 metre above sea level?
Answer: Reinhold Messner

Question: George Wigram, Benjamin Wills Newton and John Nelson Darby were three of the founders of which religious sect founded in south-west England in 1831?
Answer: Plymouth Brethren

Question: In the Bible who was the father of the disciples James and John?
Answer: Zebedee

Question: Which SS officer was nicknamed 'the Angel of Death'?
Answer: Josef Mengele

Question: Who wrote the song 'Moon River'?
Answer: Henry Mancini

Question: Where in the human body are the deltoid muscles?
Answer: Shoulder

Question: In which country was the West Indian cricket captain Sir Vivian Richards born?
Answer: Antigua

Question: In Britain, what is the difference between a hamlet and a village?
Answer: A hamlet has no church

Question: Which famous comic was first issued in Britain on 14 April 1950?
Answer: Eagle

Question: The character Rick Blaine appears in which film?
Answer: Casablanca

Question: In which American state is Edwards Air Force Base?
Answer: California

Question: Which canal connects Inverness and Fort William?
Answer: Caledonian Canal

Question: What is the anatomical name for the armpit?
Answer: Axilla

Question: Which poet wrote 'The Lady of Shalott' in 1833?
Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question: Who was the singer who gave up his seat on the plane that crashed, killing Buddy Holly?
Answer: Waylon Jennings

Question: Who was the leader of the conspirators involved in the Gunpowder Plot in 1605?
Answer: Robert Catesby

Question: What is the name of the central keep of the Tower of London?
Answer: White Tower

Question: Of which band was guitarist Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs a founder member?
Answer: Oasis

Question: Which brand of coffee is named after a hotel in Nashville, Tennessee?
Answer: Maxwell House

Question: A sleuth is the group name for what type of mammal?
Answer: Bear

Question: Which US swimmer won 8 medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 6 of which were gold?
Answer: Michael Phelps

Question: Which king had daughters named Cordelia, Regan and Goneril?
Answer: King Lear

Question: What was Beethoven's only opera?
Answer: Fidelio