Question: What is the name of the shallow circular transparent dish with a flat lid, used for the culture of micro-organisms?
Answer: Petri dish

Question: Selhurst Park is the home ground of which English football club?
Answer: Crystal Palace

Question: What is the name of the substance obtained from the dried swim bladders of fish, used in brewing and winemaking?
Answer: Isinglass

Question: Which US state is known as the Sunflower State?
Answer: Kansas

Question: Heliotherapy is the therapeutic use of what?
Answer: Sunlight

Question: What Latin term is used to mean 'word for word', or 'exactly the same words'?
Answer: Verbatim

Question: What memorable song line from American Pie by Don McLean refers to the day a plane crash killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper?
Answer: The Day the Music Died

Question: Michelle Robinson is the maiden name of which famous wife?
Answer: Michelle Obama

Question: Offaly, Westmeath, Carlow and Cavan are counties of which country?
Answer: Ireland

Question: The Shore Durometer devised by Albert Shore in the 1920s measures what quality of materials such as rubber and plastics?
Answer: Hardness

Question: Who was the next president of the USA after Gerald Ford?
Answer: Jimmy Carter

Question: Ichthyology is the study of what?
Answer: Fish

Question: What country has the largest forested area?
Answer: Russia

Question: What element has the highest melting point of any metal - symbol W, otherwise known as wolfram?
Answer: Tungsten

Question: The expression of high quality 'blue ribbon' or 'blue ribband' equates to what French term?
Answer: Cordon Bleu

Question: Arthur Wellesley (1769-1845) is better known by what title?
Answer: The Duke of Wellington

Question: In what state is the highest mountain in the USA?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas are traditional English (and Welsh) seasonal names in what?
Answer: Law courts

Question: Which painting was stolen from the Louvre in Paris in 1911 and kept for two years by museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia?
Answer: Mona Lisa

Question: Which British prime minister wrote History of the English Speaking Peoples?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: Loperamide is used to treat what medical condition?
Answer: Diarrhoea

Question: St James's Palace in London was commissioned by which British monarch?
Answer: Henry the Eighth

Question: Technically a berry or fruit, brinjal is the Indian name for which 'vegetable'?
Answer: Aubergine

Question: The Irish Derby is held at which racecourse?
Answer: The Curragh

Question: Born Betty Joan Perske, which actress starred in The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not?
Answer: Lauren Bacall

Question: In which European city is the Charles Bridge?
Answer: Prague

Question: What nation won the European Football Championship after first failing to qualify for the finals tournament?
Answer: Denmark

Question: US Aviator Lawrence Burst Sperry (1892-1923) has attracted suggestions of being the founder of the 'Mile High Club' due to his invention of which flight aid?
Answer: Autopilot

Question: Who wrote the novel The French Lieutenant's Woman?
Answer: John Fowles

Question: Which is the only Charles Dickens novel with a female narrator?
Answer: Bleak House

Question: Copoclephily is the collecting of what?
Answer: Keyrings

Question: Budapest lies on which river?
Answer: Danube

Question: Who was the 20th US president, the second to be assassinated, and the second shortest serving?
Answer: James Garfield

Question: Which animal represents the Chinese year 2010?
Answer: Tiger

Question: What same three words are in the titles of biographical books about Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Ben Hogan, Benjamin Franklin, Condoleeza Rice and Dr Spock?
Answer: An American Life

Question: A Gibus or Chapeau Claque is what sort of top hat, originally popular at the opera?
Answer: Collapsible

Question: By what name is footballer Edison Arantes do Nascimento better known?
Answer: Pelé

Question: In 1725 King George the First created what British chivalric honour, whose original ceremony entailed bodily cleansing?
Answer: Order of Bath

Question: In astrology the constellation Leo represents the Lion slain by whom?
Answer: Hercules

Question: Whom did Pat Cash defeat in the 1987 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final?
Answer: Ivan Lendl

Question: Ergophobia is the irrational fear or what?
Answer: Working

Question: Donatello's 15th century bronze statue of David, at the Bergello Museum in Florence, Italy, has what significantly at his feet?
Answer: Goliath's severed head

Question: What spirit usually goes into the making of a mint julep?
Answer: Bourbon

Question: What is the chemical name for Laughing Gas?
Answer: Nitrous oxide

Question: The Great Train Robbery of 1963 was close to what Buckinghamshire county town, which later hosted its criminal trial?
Answer: Aylesbury

Question: The cauliflower was first cultivated on or in the region of what island?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: On 1st April 1980 a 25-day riot and siege began at what UK prison?
Answer: Strangeways

Question: What Munich festival, claimed to be world's largest Volksfest (People's Fair), attracts over six million visitors each year?
Answer: Oktoberfest

Question: Which musician called his children Moon Unit and Dweezil?
Answer: Frank Zappa

Question: The 'Reign of Terror', 1793-94, was a particularly violent political period in which country?
Answer: France

Question: What York-based Quaker family created several substantial social reform trusts as a legacy of its chocolate business?
Answer: Rowntree

Question: The original Greek meaning of the word Hippodrome was what?
Answer: Horse race

Question: What does a cruciverbalist make?
Answer: Crossword puzzles

Question: The Holy See is the highest earthly authority of what religion?
Answer: Roman Catholic

Question: An expanded and renamed Schonefeld airport is a replacement for Tegel airport in which European city?
Answer: Berlin

Question: What car maker's name means 'roll' in Latin?
Answer: Volvo

Question: Whom did Maragaret Thatcher describe as "...The man who paints those dreadful pictures..."?
Answer: Francis Bacon

Question: In which large gland of the human body where are the Islets of Langerhans?
Answer: Pancreas

Question: Which actor was born Issur Danielovitch?
Answer: Kirk Douglas

Question: Au Poivre describes a dish involving what spice in its cooking or sauce?
Answer: Pepper

Question: The Gaudi designed Sagrada Familia church, whose construction began in 1882 and is unlikely to finish before 2026, is in which European city?
Answer: Barcelona

Question: Brian Mulroney was the prime minister of which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: Giles Andreae created which popular greeting card character, also used in a Vimto advertising campaign?
Answer: Purple Ronnie

Question: What is the two-handled curved blade used for mincing herbs and vegetables, which in Italian means 'half-moon'?
Answer: Mezzaluna

Question: A mohel is a Jewish man trained in the practice of what?
Answer: Circumcision

Question: Who carried the British flag at the closing ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: Kelly Holmes

Question: How many degrees is each angle in an equilateral triangle?
Answer: Sixty

Question: Keflavik International Airport is in which country?
Answer: Iceland

Question: Which politician, buried in Westminster Abbey in 1833, campaigned for more than 50 years against British slavery?
Answer: William Wilberforce

Question: Cambridge Late Pine, Redgauntlet and Elsanta are varieties of what fruit?
Answer: Strawberry

Question: Who wrote the lines, "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night..." ?
Answer: William Blake

Question: What word, meaning 'crown' in Latin, refers to a visible electrical discharge and a planetary halo?
Answer: Corona