Question: Name either of the two cities designated as European Capital of Culture in 2009.
Answer: LINZ or VILNIUS

Question: Who founded Vernon's Pools in 1925?
Answer: Vernon Sangster

Question: In the Dickens novel, "The Pickwick Papers", who is Mr Pickwick's manservant?
Answer: Sam Weller

Question: Agadir is a major city in which African country?
Answer: Morocco

Question: Which Hungarian airline, (IATA code W6), flies from Liverpool to Gdansk, Katowice, Prague and Warsaw?
Answer: Wizz

Question: The vicuna is the smallest species of which group of animals?
Answer: Camels

Question: Mostar and Banja Luka are the two largest cities in which country?
Answer: Bosnia Herzegovina

Question: Which Barbados born woman is, so far, the only woman to deliver ball-by-ball commentary on BBC's Test Match Special?
Answer: Donna Symonds

Question: """April is the cruellest month"" is the opening line of which poem by T S Eliot?"
Answer: The Wasteland-

Question: Who hosts the TV comedy panel show, "Argumental"?
Answer: John Sergeant

Question: In which 1956, film musical did Gordon MacRae sing about the attributes of "My Boy Bill"?
Answer: Carousel

Question: In 1930, who discovered the planet Pluto, now re-designated an asteroid?
Answer: Clyde Tombaugh

Question: Which Impressionist artist painted a series of pictures in the 1890's, depicting haystacks?
Answer: Claude Monet

Question: With which part of the body is the medicinal science of orthodontics concerned?
Answer: Teeth

Question: For refusing to obey the unjust laws of which King, was Daniel thrown into the lion's den?
Answer: Darius

Question: Yerba Buena, was the original Spanish name of which Major American City?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: Which American actor, who died in 2009, played the middle aged husband of teenage temptress, Carol Baker, in the 1956 film, "Lolita"?
Answer: Karl Malden

Question: """The Red Badge of Courage"", a novel by Stephen Crane is set during which war?"
Answer: American Civil War

Question: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, studied for which profession, before becoming a successful author?
Answer: Doctor Of Medicine

Question: What was the Christian name of Sherlock Holmes partner Dr. Watson?
Answer: John

Question: In which 1970 film, did Dustin Hoffman play the part of a hundred year old survivor of the Battle of The Little Big Horn?
Answer: Little Big Man

Question: Peter Stuyvesant, born in Holland, became Governor of which American city in 1647?
Answer: New York

Question: In which region of Israel, is the village of Cana, where Jesus performed his first miracle, turning water into wine?
Answer: Galilee

Question: Which particular part of the body helps one to keep ones balance?
Answer: The Inner Ear

Question: """ Venus at her Mirror"" is probably the most well known work by which 17th century artist?"
Answer: Diego Velazquez

Question: Which South American country has borders with Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina?
Answer: Paraguay

Question: In which 1950 film musical did Howard Keel and Betty Hutton argue in song, that each of them could "Do Anything Better Than You"?
Answer: Annie Get Your Gun

Question: Who succeeded Carol Vorderman on the TV quiz show, "Countdown" in 2009?
Answer: Rachel Riley

Question: Pula and Rijeka are two cities in which country?
Answer: Croatia

Question: In the popular song, what did the old lady swallow, after she swallowed a fly?
Answer: A Spider

Question: In football, what is the Italian equivalent to the English Premier League?
Answer: Serie A

Question: In which children's book would you find the Oompa-Loompas?
Answer: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Question: Which battle of the American Civil war took place in Tennessee on the 6th/7th April 1862?
Answer: Shiloh

Question: Where in Arizona is London Bridge located?
Answer: Lake Havasu

Question: What is the Hindi name for India?
Answer: Bharat

Question: Name either of Larwood's fast bowling partners on the "Bodyline" tour.
Answer: Voce or Bowes

Question: Which "battle" took place in South Dakota on 29th December 1890?
Answer: Wounded Knee

Question: Which African capital lies closest to the Greenwich Meridian?
Answer: Accra

Question: What is the Finnish name for Finland?
Answer: Suomi

Question: Who wrote, in translation, "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"?
Answer: (Jean Jacques)Rousseau

Question: In Norse mythology, what type of creature was Fenrir?
Answer: Wolf

Question: What was the name of the first nuclear powered civilian vessel, an icebreaker?
Answer: Lenin

Question: From what did Robert the Bruce die in 1329?
Answer: Leprosy

Question: Who, starting in 1962, created a series of silkscreen paintings of Marilyn Monroe?
Answer: (Andy) Warhol

Question: In the Old Testament, which of the twelve tribes of Israel, to which Moses and Aaron belonged, was not given territory in the Promised Land?
Answer: Levi

Question: In Egyptian mythology, what type of animal was Apis?
Answer: Bull

Question: Who wrote, in translation, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"?
Answer: (Karl) Marx

Question: What was the name of the first nuclear powered merchant cargo ship?
Answer: Savannah

Question: From what did Oliver Cromwell die in 1658?
Answer: Malaria

Question: In the Old Testament, to which the twelve tribes of Israel did Saul, David, and the prophesied Messiah belong?
Answer: Judah

Question: Who had a UK No. 1 hit in 1970 with "Yellow River"?
Answer: Christie

Question: What was the forename of the Czechoslovakian composer Smetana?
Answer: Bedrich

Question: Which company manufactured the WW2 plane, the B17, known as the Flying Fortress?
Answer: Boeing

Question: Which fur is traditionally used to trim the robes of peers and judges?
Answer: Ermine

Question: The main ingredients of the dish vichysoisse are potato and which other vegetable?
Answer: Leek

Question: Which King of Great Britain was succeeded by his sister-in-law?
Answer: William the Third

Question: In which country would you find the Mato Grosso plateau?
Answer: Brazil

Question: In the 1966 film "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly", who played Tuco, "the Ugly"?
Answer: Eli Wallach

Question: As what was the Isle of Wight known to the Romans?
Answer: Vectis

Question: What was the forename of the Hungarian composer Kodaly?
Answer: Zoltan

Question: What name is given in English law to a minor legally placed under the care of a guardian?
Answer: Ward

Question: Which company manufactured the RAF's first operational jet fighter the Meteor?
Answer: Gloster

Question: Which King of Great Britain was succeeded by his niece?
Answer: William the Fourth

Question: The main ingredients of the Irish dish colcannon are potato and which other vegetable?
Answer: Cabbage

Question: Who played Malcolm X in the 1992 film of the same name?
Answer: Denzel Washington

Question: Created in 1903, what became England's first 'garden city'?
Answer: Letchworth

Question: Who was the first American to win the Tour de France?
Answer: Greg LeMond

Question: Which Pulitzer Prize winning novel, by Alice Walker, was the subject of numerous attempts to have it banned, on the grounds of violence and racism?
Answer: The Color Purple

Question: What was the name of the ancient trade route between China and the eastern end of the Mediterranean?
Answer: Silk Road/Route

Question: What name is given to the arc of bright spots seen during a solar eclipse, and caused by the uneven surface of the moon?
Answer: Baily's Beads

Question: Which cathedral stands at the southern end of Red Square?
Answer: St. Basil's

Question: In which musical do the characters Rusty, Dinah, and Poppa appear?
Answer: Starlight Express

Question: Created in 1946, what became the first New Town in England?
Answer: Stevenage

Question: Which book, by former MI5 operative Peter Wright, was banned by the British government on the grounds of national security?
Answer: Spycatcher