Question: What animal is featured on the flag of Sri Lanka?
Answer: Lion *

Question: In what year did the 'Barbican' arts centre open?
Answer: 1982

Question: In which profession would you use a shearing hook and a reed leggett?
Answer: Thatching

Question: Kali is the goddess of death in who's mythology?
Answer: Hindu

Question: What is the name of the river which flows through Baghdad?
Answer: Tigris

Question: Who was the creator of the children's character 'Noddy'?
Answer: Enid Blyton

Question: How many spires does Litchfield Cathedral have?
Answer: 3

Question: Which popular TV cartoon show was created by Matt Groening?
Answer: The Simpsons

Question: What is the British bird having the Latin name 'Pica pica'?
Answer: Magpie

Question: Which novelist wrote 'Jude the Obscure'?
Answer: Thomas Hardy

Question: What kind of creature is a 'devil's coach horse'?
Answer: Beetle

Question: Montego Bay can be found on which Caribbean island?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: Who rode 'Teenoso' to victory in the 1983 Derby?
Answer: Lester Piggott

Question: To the nearest square mile, what is the area of Gibraltar?
Answer: 2Square miles

Question: By what pen name did we know Eric Blair?
Answer: George Orwell

Question: In which European country are the 'Cantabrian Mountains?
Answer: Spain

Question: Barcelona in the principle city of which autonomous region of Spain?
Answer: Catalonia

Question: Who preceded Gerald Ford as US President?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: What is surgically removed in a cholecystecomy?
Answer: Gall bladder

Question: Zagreb is the capital of which country?
Answer: Croatia

Question: What is the name of Richard Branson's private island in the British Virgin Islands?
Answer: Necker Island

Question: Which Monarch preceded Queen Victoria?
Answer: William IV

Question: In what year did Prince Charles become the 'Prince of Wales?
Answer: 1969

Question: What is the largest woodwind instrument in an orchestra?
Answer: Bassoon

Question: Name the three principle rivers of France?
Answer: Loire; Seine and Rhone.

Question: What is Hansens disease commonly known as?
Answer: Leprosy

Question: Which Israeli was famous for bending cutlery?
Answer: Uri Geller

Question: What organ stores bile produced in the liver?
Answer: The Gall Bladder

Question: From which area of France does Camembert cheese come?
Answer: Normandy

Question: The bishop of which city would sign himself by his Christian name plus the word Sarum?
Answer: Salisbury

Question: Between which two places does the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race take place?
Answer: Putney and Mortlake

Question: Which organisation is known as ROSPA?
Answer: Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents

Question: What do most humans lose 15 million of every second?
Answer: Blood Cells

Question: Who was the second wife that Henry VIII divorced?
Answer: Anne of Cleeves

Question: Who was the first Suffragette martyr?
Answer: Emily Davison

Question: In which country is the Spanish Riding School?
Answer: Austria

Question: Who hosted every second counts?
Answer: Paul Daniels

Question: Which part of the body is known as the thorax?
Answer: Chest

Question: Which insect has a lifespan of only 1 day and cannot eat because it does not have a mouth or a stomach?
Answer: Mayfly

Question: Which presenter/entertainer's real name was William White?
Answer: Larry Grayson

Question: Who was the architect of the Albert Memorial?
Answer: George Gilbert Scott

Question: Which battle saw the final defeat of the Huns?
Answer: Chalons

Question: Which 2 countries border the Yemen?
Answer: Saudi Arabia & Oman

Question: Which Egyptian god of the dead and son of Osiris had the head of a Jackal?
Answer: Anubis

Question: In which year did the dodo become extinct?
Answer: 1681

Question: The Cembalo or Clavicembalo is what type of musical instrument?
Answer: Harpsichord

Question: Which disease of childhood is characterized by defective growth of bone due to a lack of Calcium deposits?
Answer: Rickets

Question: Which acid is found in the leaves of Rhubarb?
Answer: Oxalic Acid

Question: The Star fruit is found on which tree?
Answer: Carambola Tree

Question: What name was given to the poet musicians of 12th and 13th century in Provence and Southern France?
Answer: Troubadors

Question: Which 3 gods make up the Hindu trinity?
Answer: Brahma, Shiva And Vishnu

Question: What was Elvis Presley's first British Top 10 hit?
Answer: Heartbreak Hotel

Question: The remains of which British monarch were found in a council car park in Leicester in 2012?
Answer: King Richard III

Question: What is the name of Katherine Jenkins debut album, released in 2004?
Answer: Premiere

Question: What was the full maiden name of the mother of US President Barack Obama?
Answer: Stanley Ann Dunham

Question: In which US state was the Battle of the Little Bighorn fought?
Answer: Montana

Question: Which African country brews Bati beer?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: What is the most southerly point on the British mainland?
Answer: Lizard Point, Cornwall

Question: Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th and first African American President of the United States in what year?
Answer: 2009

Question: Who was the British Prime Minister at the beginning of the year 2000?
Answer: Tony Blair

Question: What year were the Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China?
Answer: 2008

Question: In February of what year did an 8.8 earthquake strike Chile?
Answer: 2010

Question: Romania and which other country joined the EU on the 1st January 2007?
Answer: Bulgaria

Question: In 2009, an aeroplane crash landed in which river in New York?
Answer: Hudson River

Question: What year did Dennis Tito become the first space tourist, paying $19 million to board the International Space Station?
Answer: 2001

Question: David Beckham was awarded an OBE for his services to football in what year?
Answer: 2003 Â

Question: To which country do the 'Faero Islands' belong?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Which is the percussion instrument named from two Greek words meaning wood and sound?
Answer: Xylophone

Question: Gout is caused by a build-up of which acid around the joints?
Answer: Uric

Question: Marie Antoinette was born in which country?
Answer: Austria

Question: David Seaman made his league debut for which football club?
Answer: Peterborough United

Question: George Eliot was the pen-name of which author?
Answer: May Anne Evans

Question: In what year did Sir Francis Drake die?
Answer: 1596

Question: If you had owned a 'Barbie Doll' since its first year of manufacture. How old is it now (2015)?
Answer: 55 years

Question: Which African country has the capital of Gaborone?
Answer: Botswana

Question: Who was the Greek Goddess of punishment and retribution?
Answer: Nemesis

Question: How many shillings were there in a Guinea?
Answer: Twenty-One

Question: Which cathedral overlooks Red Square in Moscow?
Answer: St. Basil's

Question: Which city does the extinct volcano known as "Arthur's Seat" overlook?
Answer: Edinburgh

Question: By what name is the disease VARICELLA more known?
Answer: Chickenpox

Question: Who painted 'The Last Supper'?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Question: What is the Aborigines name for Ayers Rock?
Answer: Uluru

Question: What villain was portrayed in Batman by Jim Carrey?
Answer: The Riddler

Question: Which country is bordered by both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans?
Answer: South Africa

Question: In which year did Elvis die?
Answer: 1977

Question: Which King founded the Church of England?
Answer: Henry 8th

Question: What is the correct term to use when addressing the Pope?
Answer: Your Holiness

Question: In which book would you find the manservant Pas Partout?
Answer: Around the World in 80 Days

Question: What is the staple food of one third of the world’s population?
Answer: rice

Question: Who wrote the Harry Potter books?
Answer: J. K. Rowling

Question: Who assassinated John F. Kennedy?
Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald