Question: Which computer company was founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation?
Answer: Aol

Question: Who made his ‘I Am Prepared to Die’ speech in 1964 at the opening of the Rivonia Trial in South Africa?
Answer: Nelson Mandela

Question: In March 1975, which silent movie star was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: Charlie Chaplin

Question: In the late 19th Century, who brought a libel action against the Marquess of Queensbury who won a counterclaim?
Answer: Oscar Wilde

Question: How many ribs does a human have?
Answer: 24

Question: US singer/songwriter Richard Wayne Penniman is better known by what name?
Answer: Little Richard

Question: In the nursery rhyme, who was unable to be put together again by all the kings men?
Answer: Humpty Dumpty

Question: Which country’s football team was runner up in the 1970 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Italy

Question: Which actress played ‘Bond girl’ Honey Ryder?
Answer: Ursula Andress

Question: Which year saw the first ‘space tourist’ Dennis Tito, who paid a reported 20 million dollars to board the International Space Station?
Answer: 2001

Question: What is the name of the male character in French pantomime who usually wears a loose white costume and a pointed hat and has a sad white-painted face?
Answer: Pierrot

Question: Swedish actress Greta Gustafsson was better known by what name?
Answer: Greta Garbo

Question: Swiss National Day is celebrated during which month of the year?
Answer: August

Question: Sam Walton founded which famous US retail chain in 1962?
Answer: Walmart

Question: In the game of Bingo, ‘Knock at the door’ is the nickname of which number?
Answer: Four

Question: Who was the only US President not to be elected to office?
Answer: Gerald Ford

Question: Which English author wrote the 1928 novel ‘Orlando: A Biography’?
Answer: Virginia Woolf

Question: Which 1956 film starring Burt Lancaster was shot in Paris, including at the Cirque d’hiver?
Answer: Trapeze

Question: In which year was the Oxford English Dictionary first published in ten volumes?
Answer: 1928

Question: First broadcast in the UK 1958, what is the world’s longest running children’s television programme?
Answer: Blue Peter

Question: Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney play brothers Seth and Richard Gecko in which 1996 film?
Answer: From Dusk Till Dawn

Question: King John of England was the youngest son of which English monarch?
Answer: King Henry II

Question: Pinkie, Cubitt and Ida Arnold are all characters in which Graham Green novel?
Answer: Brighton Rock

Question: Which British island group was hit by an egg shortage in February 2012?
Answer: Falkland Islands

Question: How many suicides are recorded in the Bible?
Answer: Seven

Question: In which country was actor Yul Brynner born?
Answer: Russia

Question: Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz was the first Arabic language writer to win which Nobel Prize?
Answer: Literature

Question: Which Looney Tunes cartoon character made their debut in April 1937?
Answer: Daffy Duck

Question: Microphobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: Small or microscopic things such as germs

Question: In 1987, which airline was said to have made a saving of 40,000 dollars by omitting an olive from each salad served in first class?
Answer: American Airlines

Question: In humans, pericarditis affects which part of the body?
Answer: Heart

Question: In the childrenâs fairy tale, for how many years did Sleeping Beauty sleep after she pricked her finger on a spinning wheel?
Answer: 100 years

Question: What is the highest mountain in Australia?
Answer: Mount Kosciuszko

Question: What colours are on the national flag of Thailand?
Answer: Red, white, blue

Question: In May 1950, Celal Bayar became the third President of which European country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Who came to the British throne in January 1936?
Answer: King Edward VIII

Question: The mounted hide of which race horse is displayed at the Melbourne Museum in Australia?
Answer: Phar Lap

Question: What is the largest cell in the human body?
Answer: Female ovum

Question: In humans, steatopygia is a high degree of fat accumulation in and around which part of the body?
Answer: Buttocks

Question: What type of creature is a mannikin?
Answer: Bird

Question: Which word can go after Leg, Ball and Bath to make three other words?
Answer: Room

Question: Which word can go after Black, Hard and Star to make three other words?
Answer: Board

Question: Which word can go before Out, Age and Man to make three other words?
Answer: Line

Question: Which word can go before Power, Hole and Date to make three other words?
Answer: Man

Question: Which word can go before Box, Press and Head to make three other words?
Answer: Letter

Question: Which word can go after Cast, Throw and Stow to make three other words?
Answer: Away

Question: Which word can go before Down, Jaw and Step to make three other words?
Answer: Lock

Question: Which word can go before Star, Axe and Cat to make three other words?
Answer: Pole

Question: Which word can go before Plant, Guest and Boat to make three other words?
Answer: House

Question: Which word can go after Door, Side and Dub to make three other words?
Answer: Step

Question: Which word can go before Ache, Mug and Pick to make three other words?
Answer: Tooth

Question: Which word can go before Force, Day and Load to make three other words?
Answer: Work

Question: Which chemical element is represented by ‘Se’?
Answer: Selenium

Question: In 1773, who became the first known person to cross the Antarctic Circle?
Answer: Captain James Cook

Question: Which French football team won the 1993 European Cup?
Answer: Marseille

Question: If a creature is lapidicolous it lives under what?
Answer: Stones

Question: Which month in 1985 saw the Live Aid concert, organised by Bob Geldof?
Answer: July

Question: Who did the Green Bay Packers defeat in the first Super Bowl in 1967?
Answer: Kansas City Chiefs

Question: What make and model car did Steve McQueen drive in a car chase through the streets of San Francisco in the film Bullitt?
Answer: Ford Mustang

Question: Rhagfyr is Welsh for which month of the year?
Answer: December

Question: Who plays The Joker in the 2008 film ‘The Dark Knight’?
Answer: Heath Ledger

Question: Chinaman, Flipper and Leg-Break are all terms used in which sport?
Answer: Cricket

Question: How many stations are on the London Underground Central Line?
Answer: 49

Question: Which cheese is known as ‘The King of English Cheeses’?
Answer: Stilton

Question: Actor and singer David Essex played Jesus Christ in which 1970’s London stage musical in?
Answer: Godspell

Question: What colour is the sofa on BBC television Breakfast Show?
Answer: Red

Question: Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Savarin are two of the creators of which social networking service, launched in February 2004?
Answer: Facebook

Question: In which US city is was the first skyscraper said to have been built in 1885?
Answer: Chicago

Question: In which country is Dal Lake?
Answer: India

Question: Michelle Pfeiffer plays teacher LouAnne Johnson in which 1995 film?
Answer: Dangerous Minds

Question: In humans, the right lung is divided into how many lobes?
Answer: Three

Question: Which English rugby union team play their home games at The Recreation Ground?
Answer: Bath

Question: What flavour is the liqueur Creme de Noyaux?
Answer: Almond

Question: The medical condition ‘Gingivitis’ affects which part of the body?
Answer: Gums

Question: Actor Pierce Brosnan made his screen  debut in which British gangster film?
Answer: The Long Good Friday

Question: What did English naturalist Charles Darwin study at Edinburgh University?
Answer: Medicine

Question: Who became British Prime Minister in June 1935?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin

Question: The Dukes of Beaufort are associated with which sport?
Answer: Badminton

Question: In which UK city is the television series ‘Hollyoaks’ set?
Answer: Chester