Question: Having lived in exile for three years at Chiselhurst in Kent, who died in 1873?
Answer: Napoleon Iii

Question: Fernando Alonso drives for which F1 team?
Answer: Scuderia FERRARI

Question: In the TV series 'Lost', who played a rock musician from Manchester called Charlie Pace?
Answer: Dominic MONAGHAN

Question: The signature tune of which TV show is entitled 'Barnacle Bill'?
Answer: Blue Peter

Question: Which English spa town hosts an annual International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival?
Answer: Buxton

Question: Which place did Freddy Mercury & Montserrat Caballë sing about in 1987?
Answer: Barcelona

Question: Which pair made the films 'Heat and Dust', 'A Room With A View', and 'Howard's End'?
Answer: Merchant & Ivory

Question: Which male star played the title role in the 2004 film 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'?
Answer: Bill MURRAY

Question: In which city are the districts of Didsbury and Moston?
Answer: Manchester

Question: Inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell died and was buried in which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: Which was the first country to establish a permanent airport on Antarctica?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Mt Elbrus, Europe's highest, is in which country?
Answer: Russia

Question: Kigali is the capital of which African country?
Answer: Rwanda

Question: Ultimately, which Middle Eastern country was the origin of all the UK’s Golden Hamsters?
Answer: Syria

Question: If you had rubella what would you have caught?
Answer: German Measles

Question: What is the German name for Lake Constance?
Answer: Bodensee

Question: The Robert Gordon University is located in which Scottish city?
Answer: Aberdeen

Question: The 1898 'Battle of Santiago' on the island of Cuba brought an end to which war?
Answer: SPANISH-AMERICAN War

Question: Which was the first of Jane Austen's novels completed for publication?
Answer: Northanger Abbey

Question: A Dzo is an Asian cross between which 'wild' and which domesticated animal?
Answer: Yak And Cow

Question: Who was the female lead in John Wayne's last film, 'The Shootist'?
Answer: Lauren BACALL

Question: Which actress was the FIRST wife of Ronald Reagan?
Answer: Jayne WYMAN

Question: Who sang the theme song to the film '9 to 5'?
Answer: Dolly PARTON

Question: If, as is almost impossible now, you had variola, which disease would you have?
Answer: Smallpox

Question: In Japan which colour shade of car is reserved for members of the royal family only?
Answer: Maroon

Question: What flower was traditionally the symbol of secrecy?
Answer: Rose

Question: Which herb did the Romans eat with the intention of preventing drunkenness?
Answer: Parsley

Question: In Western tradition, Emerald is a birth stone for which month?
Answer: May

Question: In 1969, which Brit was the first person without doubt to reach the North Pole on foot?
Answer: Sir Wally HERBERT

Question: What collective description is used by most of the people we mistakenly call 'Eskimos'?
Answer: Inuit

Question: If a Kayak is used by men, which open craft is typically used by women and children?
Answer: Umiak

Question: Which savage European war was ended by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648?
Answer: THIRTY YEARS war

Question: Angela Ahrendts is CEO of which UK outfitter and clothing manufacturer loved by 'Chavs'?
Answer: Burberry

Question: Which late Englishman has most often won the accolade 'British Designer of the Year'?
Answer: Alexander McQUEEN

Question: Besides Uranium, which extremely radioactive element is extracted from Pitchblende?
Answer: Radium

Question: Along with pure gold, which parts of your body rate 2.5 on the Mohs scale of hardness?
Answer: FINGERNAILS or TOENAILS

Question: What is the SI unit of electrical current?
Answer: Ampere

Question: What building was home to novelist Mary Fisher in 'The Life and Loves of a She-Devil'?
Answer: Lighthouse

Question: Which drama featured Michael Pallin, Robert Lindsay, & Julie Walters as Lindsay's mum?
Answer: Gbh

Question: What term is given to a buyer of new shares expecting the market will push the price up?
Answer: Stag

Question: What does the Latin 'Caveat Emptor' mean?
Answer: Let the BUYER BEWARE

Question: What can be an agreement, packing things close together, or a US term for a small car?
Answer: Compact

Question: Which world famous beer originated in the Philippines - not Spain as you might expect?
Answer: San Miguel

Question: Responsible for 1/3 of all tonnage; which country produces more olives than any other?
Answer: Spain

Question: Which legendary race horse was the subject of a major feature film in 2003?
Answer: Seabiscuit

Question: In which Winter Olympics city did John Curry win gold in 1976?
Answer: Innsbruck

Question: What was the gangster George Nelson's best known nickname?
Answer: Baby Face

Question: Which American owned a yacht called 'Honey Fitz'?
Answer: John F KENNEDY

Question: Which god in Greek myth, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, is messenger of the sea?
Answer: Triton

Question: Which American state produces the most potatoes?
Answer: Idaho

Question: On which Island did many of the mutineers from HMS Bounty famously settle?
Answer: Pitcairn

Question: Who wrote the music for the ballets 'The Firebird' and 'The Rite of Spring'?
Answer: Igor STRAVINSKY

Question: Who composed the 'Brandenburg Concertos'?
Answer: Johann Sebastian BACH

Question: Which classical composer wrote the 19 'Hungarian Rhapsodies' for piano?
Answer: Franz LISZT

Question: What was invented by James Dewer in 1872?
Answer: VACUUM or THERMOS FLASK

Question: In 1871, Whitcome Judson created what - originally used for fastening shoes?
Answer: Zipper

Question: Which country contains provinces called Bihar and Kerela?
Answer: India

Question: What is the capitol of Morocco?
Answer: Rabat

Question: Which 2 surnames are linked to a ‘60s terrorist group that became the Red Army Faction?
Answer: Baader-Meinhof

Question: In which region of Germany was the notorious Dachau concentration camp?
Answer: Bavaria

Question: Which European country introduced the world's first diesel locomotive in 1912?
Answer: Germany

Question: Nicknamed 'Scarlet Speedster', Barry Allen was the alter ego of which comic superhero?
Answer: The Flash

Question: Who, as you might expect, is the patron Saint of Boy Scouts?
Answer: Saint George

Question: Which often embattled city is the supposed resting place of OT patriarch Abraham?
Answer: Hebron

Question: Which other English club did David Moyes manage before he was at Everton?
Answer: PRESTON North End

Question: Galway is a county within which Irish province?
Answer: Connacht

Question: A two-pronged fitting to which one would attach a (ship's) line or rope?
Answer: Cleat

Question: Which future Prime Minister was appointed UK chancellor of the exchequer in 1924?
Answer: Winston CHURCHILL

Question: In 1991, which basketball player famously announced he'd tested positive for HIV?
Answer: Michael 'Magic' JOHNSON

Question: Which black American singer was known as 'The Hi De Ho Man'?
Answer: Cab CALLOWAY

Question: Which former home of the Earl of Shrewsbury is now an amusement park?
Answer: Alton Towers

Question: Who upset Elizabeth I by secretly marrying Elizabeth Throckmorton?
Answer: Walter Raleigh

Question: Which style of acting was founded by Konstantin Stanislavsky?
Answer: The Method

Question: Which country star wrote the Patsy Cline hit Crazy?
Answer: Willie Nelson

Question: What is the name of the famous game reserve on the Serengeti Plain in Kenya?
Answer: Masai Mara

Question: From which country did Rwanda obtain independence in 1962?
Answer: Belgium

Question: The ancient town of Timbuktu is in which country?
Answer: Mali

Question: Which poet’s love is like a red, red, rose that’s newly sprung in June?
Answer: Robbie Burns

Question: Who were married in Canada in 1964 and again in Botswana in 1975?
Answer: Elizabeth Taylor & Richard