Question: Whish 1996 multi Oscar winning film was based on a novel by Michael Ondaatje?
Answer: The English Patient

Question: Who wrote a novel about medieval Florence called Romola?
Answer: George Eliott

Question: Which English city has a Railway Station called Forster Square?
Answer: Bradford

Question: Who wrote the opera Wozzeck in 1922?
Answer: Alban Berg

Question: Who directed the film Picnic at flanging Rock?
Answer: Peter Weir

Question: What was the first name of notorious murderer Doctor Crippen?
Answer: Hawley

Question: Kummel is a Russian liqueur extracted from what?
Answer: Caraway Seeds

Question: Which monarch was threatened by the Rye House Plot?
Answer: Charles Ii

Question: Alex Waugh, brother of Evelyn, wrote a first novel about life at a public school, what was it?
Answer: The Loom Of Youth

Question: On which island is Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas?
Answer: New Providence

Question: Who would use a lapstone in his job?
Answer: Shoemaker

Question: Which European city was called Vindobona by the Romans?
Answer: Vienna

Question: Which Canadian/American novelist won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976?
Answer: Saul Bellow

Question: Who was the second cricketer to score 36 runs off an over in first class cricket?
Answer: Ravi Shastri

Question: What is a birds furcula?
Answer: Wishbond

Question: Who opened his first restaurant 'Harvey's' in 1987?
Answer: Marco Pierre White

Question: Which British monarch produced the most legitimate children?
Answer: Edward I

Question: Which element discovered in 1879 has the symbol Tm?
Answer: Thulium

Question: What was Spike Milligan's Christian name?
Answer: Terence

Question: Which 'media man's' sons all have middle name Paradine?
Answer: David Frost

Question: In which athletics event could you find the 'O'Brien Shift'?
Answer: Shot Putt

Question: What poet wrote this epitaph for his own grave 'Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman pass by'?
Answer: W B Yeats

Question: Who presented the first ever edition of ITV's News at Ten?
Answer: Alastair Burnet

Question: Which country has a wine growing area called O'Higgins?
Answer: Chile

Question: Which modern country was called Dacia by the Romans?
Answer: Romania

Question: Which composer wrote his first opera (Hugh the Drover) in 1914?
Answer: R Vaughan Williams

Question: What is the collective noun for lapwings?
Answer: A Deceit

Question: Where is Rick Stein's famous seafood restaurant?
Answer: Padstow

Question: Which South African writer won the Novel Prize for Literature in 1991?
Answer: Nadine Gordimer

Question: In which African country is the deep water port of Lobito?
Answer: Angola

Question: An urodele is another name for which reptile?
Answer: Salamander

Question: Which best-selling author wrote the novel 'Timeline'?
Answer: Michael Crichton

Question: Who sang the theme song for the Bond film 'Tomorrow Never Dies'?
Answer: Sheryl Crow

Question: Which was the first song played on BBC Radio One?
Answer: Flowers in the Rain

Question: What title is earned by a Moslem who makes a pilgrimage to Mecca?
Answer: Hajj

Question: Rothesay is the principal town of which island?
Answer: Bute

Question: What name was given to the regime in France from July 1940 to August 1944?
Answer: Vichy

Question: Which dish is a confection of sugar, egg yolks and Marsala wine?
Answer: Zabaglione

Question: Sir Titus Salt, the first manufacturer of alpaca fabrics in this country, built a model village to house his employees, what name did he give to it?
Answer: Saltaire

Question: Name the 6ft 5ins tall actor who achieved fame as a western lawman in a 1958-1963 TV series named after his preferred weapon?
Answer: Chuck Connors

Question: On which river does Hamburg stand?
Answer: Elbe

Question: Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'?
Answer: Dostoyevsky

Question: Pan was the Greek god of the woods and fields, who was his Roman counterpart?
Answer: Faunus or Sylvanus

Question: Cotopaxi in Ecuador and Paricutin in Mexico are examples of which geographical feature?
Answer: Volcano

Question: Of what is brontophobia the fear?
Answer: Thunder

Question: Aurora was the Roman goddess of the dawn, who was her Greek counterpart?
Answer: Eos

Question: Who wrote 'She' and 'King Solomon's Mines'?
Answer: H Rider Haggard

Question: At which port do the rivers Rhine and Maas reach the sea?
Answer: Rotterdam

Question: Which actor played character roles in films from the mid 1940s but was most famous for playing a moustachioed, overweight private detective in a 1971-1976 TV series?
Answer: William Conrad

Question: Which dish is a combination of pancakes re-heated in a sauce of sugar, oranges and Curacao or Grand Marnier?
Answer: Crepe Suzette

Question: Which is the principal town on the Isle of Skye?
Answer: Portree

Question: What title is earned by a Moslem who learns the entire Koran?
Answer: Hafiz

Question: What is the largest number on a standard backgammon doubling dice?
Answer: 64

Question: What was the title of the aptly named first song to be played on MTV in Britain?
Answer: Video Killed the Radio Star

Question: The theme to which Bond film was sung by A-Ha?
Answer: Living Daylights

Question: Which best-selling author wrote the novel 'A Painted House'?
Answer: John Grisham

Question: Which radio station became BBC Radio Two in 1967?
Answer: Light Programme

Question: Who painted 'The Bathers' and 'Umbrellas'?
Answer: Renoir

Question: In the context of law and order, for what does the C stand in the acronym ACPO?
Answer: (Association of) Chief

Question: To which family of fish does the minnow belong?
Answer: Carp

Question: Who is MP for Redditch?
Answer: Jacqui Smith

Question: Who was the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, consecrated in 1533 during the reign of Henry 8th?
Answer: Thomas Cranmer

Question: In rhyming slang what is 'bangers and mash'?
Answer: Cash

Question: Name the British swimmer who took part in his fifth Olympic Games in Beijing?
Answer: Mark Foster

Question: The process of increasing the abundance of a particular isotope in a mixture of isotopes is known by what name?
Answer: Enrichment

Question: Who had hit records with The Move, ELO and Wizzard?
Answer: Roy Wood

Question: Knightsbridge and Hyde Park Corner are stations on which London Underground line?
Answer: Piccadilly

Question: Vulcanisation involves heating rubber latex with which yellow, very brittle, fusible and inflammable non-metallic element?
Answer: Sulphur

Question: Marble Arch and St Paul's are stations on which London Underground line?
Answer: Central

Question: The change of an organic structure such as a tree into a mineral structure is known as what?
Answer: Petrification

Question: Name the British equestrian who took part in her fifth Olympic Games in Beijing?
Answer: Mary King

Question: Which religion believes in the Four Noble Truths?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: In rhyming slang what is a 'Tommy Trinder'?
Answer: Window

Question: Admiral Togo was a commander at which major battle of 1905?
Answer: Tsushima

Question: Who is the clown in Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night'?
Answer: Feste

Question: Which small fish of the herring family is prized for its flavor and used in sauces and pizza toppings?
Answer: Anchovy

Question: Which radio station became BBC Radio Four in 1967?
Answer: The Home Service

Question: Featured for the first time in 'Vogue' in 1926, which designer is famous for her 'Little black dresses?
Answer: 2 Which National Park is home to Yogi Bear?

Question: The world's first iron bridge was completed in 1781 at Coalbrookdale, which river does it span?
Answer: Severn

Question: Vladimir Ashkanazy plays which musical instrument?
Answer: Piano

Question: What was founded by the Rev. William and Catherine Booth in 1878?
Answer: Salvation Army

Question: By what name was the singer Ronnie Wycherley better known?
Answer: Billy Fury