Question: Which American Football player, who played for the 'Chicago Bears' between 1985 and 1993, was nicknamed 'The Refrigerator'?
Answer: William Perry

Question: Which chemical element is named after the Scottish village in which it was discovered in 1787?
Answer: Strontium

Question: Which American statesman and scientist almost killed himself whilst demonstrating the electrical nature of lightening by flying a kite in a thunderstorm?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Question: In which country would you find the ruins of the ancient Inca city known as Machu Picchu?
Answer: Peru

Question: In 1844, Samuel Morse used which four-word Biblical quote when he sent the world's first public telegraph message?
Answer: """What Hath God Wrought"""

Question: First climbed by Chris Bonnington in 1966, what is the name of the 449ft. high sea stack off the coast of the Orkney Islands?
Answer: Old Man Of Hoy

Question: Named after a character appearing in Acts of the Apostles, what name is given is given to the act of paying for sacraments and consequently for holy offices or positions in the hierarchy of a church?
Answer: Simony

Question: Named after a completely fictional English village, which Dairy Crest soft blue cheese was launched amid a blaze of publicity in 1982 only to cease production ten years later, largely because it was terrible?
Answer: 'Lymeswold'

Question: Born and raised in Honolulu, by what name is the American singer-songwriter Peter Gene Hernandez better known?
Answer: Bruno Mars

Question: She is the mother of Morgan le Fay by her first husband Gorlois and mother of King Arthur by her second husband Uther Pendragon. What is her name?
Answer: Igraine

Question: Which American Vice-President killed his political rival, Alexander Hamilton. in a duel in 1804?
Answer: Aaron Burr

Question: Today a senior Police rank in both Italy and Romania, what name was given to the public official in the Roman Republic's Cursus honorum system, who supervised financial affairs?
Answer: Quaestor

Question: Who was the King of Bulgaria who, during World War II, declared a symbolic war against the UK and the USA but, much to Hitler's annoyance, refused to declare war against the Soviet Union?
Answer: Boris Iii

Question: A distant relative of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was the American boarding house owner who became the first woman executed by the United States federal government after her conviction for taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln?
Answer: Mary Surrat

Question: Which American singer, songwriter and actress was born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson in Santa Barbara, California in 1984?
Answer: Katy Perry

Question: What was the name of the Royal Navy submarine responsible for the sinking of the General Belgrano during the Falklands War?
Answer: H.M.S. Conqueror

Question: Which castle is the official residence of the Duke of Northumberland?
Answer: Alnwick Castle

Question: What is the name of the Chief Executive of RBS who turned down his controversial £1million bonus in January 2012?
Answer: Stephen Hester

Question: What is the name, after its chairman, of the ongoing public enquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press following the News International phone hacking scandal?
Answer: Leveson Enquiry

Question: In which city did Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff launch the unsuccessful 'Beer Hall Putsch' in 1923?
Answer: Munich

Question: The periodontal ligaments are the supporting tissue for which parts of the human body?
Answer: Teeth

Question: Which famous Roman was assassinated in 48 BC by two men named Achillas and Septimus who were acting upon the orders of King Ptolemy XIII's chief eunuch Pothinus?
Answer: Pompey

Question: From the 14th to the 19th centuries, the 'Janissaries' were the infantry units that formed the household troops and bodyguards of the Sultans of which Empire?
Answer: Ottoman Empire

Question: In which country was the 2012 World Indoor Athletics Championships held in March?
Answer: Turkey

Question: The third largest town in the Scottish Highlands, which burgh on the Isle of Lewis is also home to one third of the population of the Western Isles?
Answer: Stornoway

Question: Which actor and comedian played 'Phileas Fogg' in the 2004 film 'Around The World In Eighty Days'?
Answer: Steve Coogan

Question: Which Scottish chemist and physicist invented the vacuum flask?
Answer: James Dewar

Question: Which poet wrote “A little learning is a dangerous thing”?
Answer: Alexander Pope

Question: Which 1997 film starred Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave and Jennifer Ehle?
Answer: Wilde

Question: Which song was a top 40 hit for both Nina Simone in 1974 and Muse in 2001?
Answer: Feeling Good

Question: In which English county are the Quantock Hills?
Answer: Somerset

Question: Which chemical element is named after the Greek word for the sun?
Answer: Helium

Question: In which classic book and film does the character of Mrs Danvers appear?
Answer: Rebecca

Question: In which country did the Battle of Majuba Hill take place in 1881?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Fallopia japonica is a pernicious weed spreading through roots and tubers found in various wild places, particularly damp ones, in the UK. What is its more common name?
Answer: Japanese Knotweed

Question: The charity “Bliss” supports who or what?
Answer: Premature babies

Question: To highlight global warming, which country held a cabinet meeting up a mountain in 2009?
Answer: Nepal

Question: Heraclium mantegazzianum is a weed thought to be the largest in western Europe. What is its common name?
Answer: Giant Hogweed

Question: Which novel by Peter Carey won the Booker Prize in 1988?
Answer: Oscar and Lucinda

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

Question: Which London underground station was gutted by fire in 1987?
Answer: Kings Cross

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

Question: By what name is the actor born John Carter better known?
Answer: Charlton Heston

Question: Who, in 1863, invented barbed wire?
Answer: Joseph E Glidden

Question: In which hills are the Cheddar Caves?
Answer: Mendips

Question: What is Nyctophobia the fear of?
Answer: Darkness

Question: Give any year in which Beatrix Potter and Lewis Carroll were both alive.
Answer: 1866-1989 (Carroll 1832-1898, Potter 1866- 1943)

Question: Which book by Phillip Pullman was awarded the 2001 Whitbread Prize for Literature?
Answer: The Amber Spyglass

Question: In the TV series Red Dwarf, one character was called Arnold J Rimmer. For what did the “J” stand?
Answer: Judas

Question: In which country did the Battle of Vinegar Hill take place in 1798?
Answer: Ireland

Question: Which US state is known as the “Tar-heel” state?
Answer: North Carolina

Question: Why was Lance Corporal Christopher Finney in the news in 2003?
Answer: He was awarded the George Cross (the youngest recipient)

Question: Which group of the 1970’s featured Tony Iommi on guitar, “Geezer” Butler on bass and Bill Ward on drums?
Answer: Black Sabbath

Question: What do we call the item the Germans call a “briefmarke”?
Answer: Postage Stamp

Question: Who was the muse who provided the inspiration for Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl”?
Answer: Christine Brinkley

Question: Which group of the 1970-80’s featured Mick Jones on guitar, Paul Simonon on bass and Nicky “Topper” Headon on drums?
Answer: The Clash

Question: What do we call what the Germans call a “fernsehen”?
Answer: TV set

Question: In which Australian state is the town of Wagga Wagga?
Answer: New South Wales

Question: Where did the worst rail disaster in British history occur in November 1952, when 112 people lost their lives?
Answer: Harrow & Wealdstone

Question: In which classic book and film does the character Miss Trunchbull appear?
Answer: Matilda

Question: Who, in 1884, invented the flexible film roll for cameras?
Answer: George Eastman