Question: If you were landing at an airport with the international airport code EDI in which British city would you be in?
Answer: Edinburgh

Question: Which US Secretary of State resigned from Jimmy Carter's administration in 1980 over the failed attempt to rescue the US hostages in Iran?
Answer: Cyrus Vance

Question: In which country did Mikheil Saakashvili and his supporters enter the parliament building and demand the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze in 2003?
Answer: Georgia

Question: Which country saw the 'Orange Revolution' of 2004, in which protestors successfully challenged a Presidential run-off election that had given victory to the pro-Russian Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovych?
Answer: Ukriane

Question: Which country issues a 1 Euro coin showing an owl?
Answer: Greece

Question: Which term is used for any common language used as a means of communication between peoples of different tongues?
Answer: Lingua Franca.

Question: Which painting was sold in May 2004 at Sotheby's for a sum in the region of £60 million, a new record for a painting sold at auction?
Answer: 'BOY WITH PIPE' (by Picasso)

Question: In which English town or city is Her Majesty's Prison 'Buckley Hall'?
Answer: Rochdale

Question: Which Welsh town was designated a city in March 2012?
Answer: St. Asaph

Question: Which of Henry VIII wives haunts Hever Castle?
Answer: Anne Boleyn

Question: Barry Pinkus achieved showbusiness fame under which name?
Answer: Barry Manilow

Question: Eden Park staged some of the 2011 Rugby World Cup matches, in which city can it be found?
Answer: Auckland

Question: Which book of the Bible, a collection of sayings about righteousness, follows Psalms?
Answer: Proverbs

Question: If you landed at 'Reina Sofia Airport' which island would you be holidaying on?
Answer: Tenerife

Question: Which class of birds are classed as 'raptors'?
Answer: Birds Of Prey

Question: Which book of the Bible has only on chapter?
Answer: Obadiah

Question: In which year was the Russian space station 'Mir' launched?
Answer: 1986 (February)

Question: What type of animal is a guanaco?
Answer: Llama

Question: The film which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1942 also featured an Academy Award winning performance from Greer Garson. What was its title?
Answer: Mrs Miniver

Question: After the overthrow of the Manchu emperors in 1911, who became China’s first President?
Answer: Sun Yat Sen

Question: Which garden plant has the Latin name Lathyrus Odoratus?
Answer: Sweet Pea

Question: If you ordered “cuisses de grenouilles” in a French restaurant, what would you be getting?
Answer: Frogs’ Legs

Question: Which song contains the lines "Oh yeah, I'll tell you something, I think you'll understand"?
Answer: """I Want To Hold Your Hand"" (The Beatles)"

Question: Nanninga was the first substitute to score in a Football World Cup Final. For which country?
Answer: Netherlands (1978)

Question: In what US state is Death Valley?
Answer: California

Question: Where would you find Concorde, Emile Zola, Danube, Rome, Franklin D Roosevelt and Stalingrad in close proximity?
Answer: (Paris) METRO (Stations)

Question: Which novel of 1874 opens with the words: “When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance from his ears.....”?
Answer: Far From The Madding Crowd

Question: Which novelist and playwright is commemorated by the Rodin sculpture which stands in the Boulevard Raspail in Paris?
Answer: Balzac

Question: The leaves of which plant were used for the winners wreaths in the ancient Greek games?
Answer: BAY Errata: Laurel is equally acceptable

Question: Who was the President of the USA when Hawaii became a state?
Answer: Dwight D Eisenhower

Question: What is the name of the highest caste in Hindu society?
Answer: Brahmin

Question: How are fish, shellfish or vegetables, cooked in the Japanese dish known as tempura?
Answer: Fried In Batter

Question: In which capital city are the Vondelpark gardens?
Answer: Amsterdam

Question: In which business did millionaire J D Rockefeller make most of his money?
Answer: Oil

Question: Which Shiite honorific title means ‘miraculous son of God’?
Answer: Ayatollah

Question: Who designed the Crystal Palace, the Great Exhibition building of 1851?
Answer: (Joseph) PAXTON

Question: It’s an old joke that “a man is only as the woman he feels” but who said it first?
Answer: Groucho Marx

Question: Which garden plant has the Latin name, Galanthus Nivalis?
Answer: Snowdrop

Question: What was the name of Josiah Wedgwood's factory near Hanley?
Answer: Etruria

Question: Which of Rodin's sculptures originally called The Poet, stands as the headstone for his grave in Meudon Cemetery?
Answer: The Thinker

Question: In the Bible, which general led 300 men against the Midianites?
Answer: Gideon

Question: In August 2004 a re-enactment was staged in the Ukraine to mark the 150th anniversary of what?
Answer: Charge Of The Light Brigade

Question: Who became the first prime minister of Israel in 1948?
Answer: David Ben-Gurion

Question: Four Irishmen have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, three are Shaw, Becket, Heaney who is the forth?
Answer: Yeats

Question: By what name was Botswana known before 1967?
Answer: Bechuanaland

Question: Which Irish group had hits in the 1980s with the theme songs from the television programmes ‘Harry’s Game’ and ‘Robin of Sherwood’?
Answer: Clannad

Question: Who was the wife of Akenhaten and mother of Tutankhamen?
Answer: Nefertiti

Question: For which pharaoh was the Great Pyramid of Giza built?
Answer: Khufu / Cheops

Question: Who composed the Manfred overture?
Answer: Robert Schumann

Question: Of what is pterononphobia the fear?
Answer: Feathers

Question: Which group’s first 3 albums were: Outlandos D’amour, Regatta de Blanc and Zenyatta Mondatta?
Answer: The Police

Question: Which spirit forms the basis of a Tom Collins cocktail?
Answer: Gin

Question: Who played Michael Collins in the film of the same name?
Answer: Liam Neeson

Question: Which pop singer born on the 2nd March 1942 in Brooklyn died on 27th October 2013 in Southampton, New York?
Answer: Lou Reed

Question: Which Jewish female demon was reputedly the first wife of Adam?
Answer: Lilith

Question: By what name was Zambia known before independence?
Answer: Northern Rhodesia

Question: Which is the only country to have played qualifying matches for the football World Cup on 5 different continents?
Answer: Israel

Question: If Louis Armstrong’s answer was “Man, if you gotta ask, you’ll never know”, what was the question?
Answer: “What Is Jazz?”

Question: What type of animal is a quagga?
Answer: ZEBRA Errata: The Quagga became extinct in the 1880’s

Question: Who was born Roberta Joan Anderson in November 1943?
Answer: Joni Mitchell

Question: Which song contains the lines "I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window"?
Answer: """DELILAH"" (Tom Jones)"

Question: For which Queen did Josiah Wedgwood, in 1765 create cream coloured earthernware known as Queensware?
Answer: Queen Charlotte

Question: Which leaves adorn the coronets of dukes and earls?
Answer: Strawberry

Question: Who designed St Pancras Station?
Answer: (George Gilbert) SCOTT

Question: Which US state was named after the wife of Charles I?
Answer: MARYLAND (Henrietta Maria)

Question: The 2001 Hindu festival of Kumbha Mela was held in which Indian city?
Answer: Allahabad

Question: In which winter resort were the 1928 Winter Olympics held?
Answer: St. Moritz

Question: Where did Queen Victoria die?
Answer: Osbourne House (Iow)

Question: In the days when telephone exchanges were known by names, what was the number of Scotland Yard (Metropolitan Police)?
Answer: Whitehall 1212

Question: The East German secret police were known by what name?
Answer: STASI (Staatssicherheit State Security)

Question: Where was the British Empire Exhibition held in 1924?
Answer: Wembley, London