Question: Henry Darnley was the husband of which British monarch?
Answer: Mary Queen of Scots

Question: In what state was Jimmy Carter governor before becoming president?
Answer: Georgia

Question: In which European city is the sixteenth century limestone Bridge of Sighs?
Answer: Venice

Question: In which film does Robert De Niro play the character Rupert Pupkin?
Answer: The King of Comedy

Question: The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing was founded in 1860 at which London institution?
Answer: St Thomas' Hospital

Question: The person holding what office sits on the Woolsack in the House of Lords?
Answer: The Lord Speaker

Question: Byssinosis is a disease affecting which part of the body?
Answer: Lungs

Question: First performed in 1938, and commonly considered one of the saddest of all classical works, who composed Adagio for Strings (it was used in the 1986 film Platoon)?
Answer: Samuel Barber

Question: Which American animator created Daffy Duck and Droopy Dog?
Answer: Tex Avery

Question: What range of hills between Northumberland and the Scottish borders gave their name to a farm breed?
Answer: Cheviot

Question: In 1992 which scientist and philosopher was absolved of heresy by the Vatican?
Answer: Galileo

Question: Who is the patron saint of Portugal?
Answer: St George

Question: Who composed Maple Leaf Rag?
Answer: Scott Joplin

Question: How many pockets does a billiard table normally have?
Answer: Six

Question: Who in 1990 became the first chancellor of a united Germany?
Answer: Helmut Kohl

Question: Which country was previously called Persia?
Answer: Iran

Question: Which car manufacturer has a model called the Favorit?
Answer: Skoda

Question: Who was the wing commander who led the 'Dambusters' bomber raids in 1943?
Answer: Guy Gibson

Question: The Faroe Islands are an autonomous province of which country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: How old was Tony Blair when he became British prime minister in 1997?
Answer: Forty-three

Question: The fashionable island Martha's Vineyard is in which US state?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: In Western culture what is the birthstone for the month of May?
Answer: Emerald

Question: Fotheringhay Castle, birthplace of Richard III in 1452, and site of Mary Queen of Scots trial and execution in 1587, is in which English county?
Answer: Northamptonshire

Question: In 1844 Samuel Morse sent the first public telegraph message containing what short biblical quote (from the book of Numbers chapter 23, verse 23)?
Answer: What hath God wrought?

Question: Which American celebrity claims to have a maid called Vaginica Seaman?
Answer: David Gest

Question: What is the capital of Queensland, Australia?
Answer: Brisbane

Question: What is the 1990's cult Japanese electronic toy which is cared for as if it were a pet?
Answer: Tamagotchi

Question: What is the number of the MASH unit in the TV series?
Answer: 4077

Question: In what year was suffragette Emily Davidson killed by King George V's horse in the Epsom Derby?
Answer: 1913

Question: What is Herman Munster's twin brother called?
Answer: Charlie

Question: Which playwright was once secretary to James Joyce, 1969 Nobel prizewinner for literature, and wrote his most famous play originally in French, titled En Attendant Godot?
Answer: Samuel Beckett

Question: Who is fifth in line to the British throne (as at Aug 2007)?
Answer: Princess Beatrice

Question: What is the Latin term used in referencing which means 'in the same place' ?
Answer: Ib.

Question: What is the flap which covers the human windpipe when swallowing?
Answer: Epiglotis

Question: James Earl Ray was arrested at Heathrow airport in 1968 and subsequently convicted of whose assassination?
Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question: Who was the famous wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia?
Answer: Lady Godiva

Question: Finishing in Paris after nearly 10,000 miles, from which city did racers begin the first long distance car rally in 1907?
Answer: Peking

Question: The town of Fray Bentos, after which the meat products brand was named, is in what country?
Answer: Uruguay

Question: Cedi is the basic monetary unit of which African country?
Answer: Ghana

Question: What was the name of the ship on which Charles Darwin set sail on his voyage around the world in 1831?
Answer: HMS Beagle

Question: Graham Vivian Sutherland's official portrait of which prime minister was destroyed by the subject's wife because she hated it?
Answer: Sir Winston Churchill

Question: Who wrote the best selling book The Tipping Point?
Answer: Malcolm Gladwell

Question: What is the name of the largest island of Japan?
Answer: Honshu

Question: Harry Longbaugh was better known by what name?
Answer: The Sundance Kid

Question: Which common chemical element has the atomic number 20?
Answer: Calcium

Question: For which film did Henry Fonda win his best actor Oscar?
Answer: On Golden Pond

Question: What is the name of the carnival held in some countries on Shrove Tuesday?
Answer: Mardi Gras

Question: Who was the British nurse arrested in Brussels and shot by firing squad in 1915 on suspicion of helping Allied solders to escape?
Answer: Edith Cavell

Question: What object officially joined our solar system on 1st May 1930?
Answer: Pluto

Question: With what is a 'carpetbag steak' stuffed?
Answer: Oysters

Question: Which early Charles Dickens novel features the characters Wackford and Fanny Squeers, Smike, Newman Noggs and the Cheeryble brothers?
Answer: Nicholas Nickleby

Question: How many balls, including the white cue ball, are on a snooker table (before any are potted)?
Answer: Twenty-two

Question: In Western ecclesiastical law a diriment impediment invalidates what?
Answer: Marriage

Question: Who is generally credited with the invention of the hovercraft in 1955?
Answer: Christopher Cockerell

Question: What colour is the letter L in the standard Google logo?
Answer: Green

Question: How many stars are on the flag of the European Union?
Answer: Twelve

Question: Which English playwright and poet was stabbed in uncertain circumstances in 1593 age 29 (he penned the line 'Come live with me and be my love')?
Answer: Christopher Marlowe

Question: Who won 'The Battle of the Sexes' tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in 1973?
Answer: Billie Jean King

Question: The billionnaire Barclay twins' long-running disputes about their private island Brecqhou (or Brechou) are with which Channel Island?
Answer: Sark

Question: Which Scottish athlete refused to run on a Sunday at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games?
Answer: Eric Liddle

Question: The King and Queen of which European country narrowly escaped assassination on their wedding day in 1906?
Answer: Spain

Question: Marsh Fever is another term for which ailment?
Answer: Malaria

Question: What is the offspring of a male lion and a tigress called (apart from very dangerous)?
Answer: Liger

Question: Jazz musician Miles Davis, 1926-91, whose 1959 album Kind of Blue is generally regarded as the biggest selling jazz album of all time, played what instrument?
Answer: Trumpet

Question: The river Han flows through which capital city?
Answer: Seoul

Question: The St Leger is run at which English racecourse?
Answer: Doncaster

Question: Which popular Welsh entertainer wrote the First World War song Keep the Home Fires Burning?
Answer: Ivor Novello

Question: What is the largest island in the Mediterranean?
Answer: Sicily

Question: Yellowstone National Park is in which US state?
Answer: Wyoming

Question: Who became the chairman of Watford Football Club in 1977?
Answer: Elton John

Question: Jenards Likely Lad of Lardhams was better known as which famous animal?
Answer: The Dulux Dog

Question: What is the fourth book of the Bible's Old Testament?
Answer: Numbers

Question: Who played Elliot Ness in the 1987 film The Untouchables?
Answer: Kevin Costner

Question: What number of equal size circles (or coins) fit exactly around another of the same size so that all are touching?
Answer: Six