Question: 'The Monkey Bread tree' is another name for which African tree?
Answer: Baobab

Question: Musician Evelyn Rothwell (Lady Barbirolli) died in January 2008, what instrument did she play?
Answer: Oboe

Question: In the title of the detective story by Dorothy L Sayers, what are the 'Nine Tailors'?
Answer: Church Bells

Question: Which team was the first to win football's first division 3 times in succession, doing so in the 1920's?
Answer: Huddersfield Town

Question: 'Behind the Shades' is the autobiography of which controversial sports coach?
Answer: Duncan Fletcher

Question: In 1922, who replied 'Wonderful Things', when asked what he could see through a-hole in a wall?
Answer: Howard Carter

Question: In which children's TV programme, narrated by Derek Jacobi, would you see Iggle-Piggle and Upsy-Daisy?
Answer: In The Night Garden

Question: What is name of the piece of leather on which a barber sharpens a cut throat razor?
Answer: Strop

Question: 'Winning is not Enough' is the autobiography of which British three-time world champion?
Answer: Sir JACKIE STEWART

Question: What word for a straw or wicker basket was used as a unit of measurement, and in the north for a coal-scuttle or a beehive?
Answer: Skep

Question: Who is reputed to have said, 'Today, I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon'? after discoveries at Mycenae?
Answer: Heinrich SCHLIEMANN

Question: Whom did St Paul describe as 'his beloved physician'?
Answer: St. LUKE

Question: Which American Indian Lakota chief is the subject of a monument, begun in 1948, in the Black Hills of South Dakota?
Answer: Crazy Horse

Question: Which country is bordered by Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Ukraine?
Answer: Romania

Question: Which is the smallest US state capital with a population of less than 8,000 (name either the capital or the state)?
Answer: Montpelier, Vermont

Question: Tempranillo is the main grape used in which Spanish wine?
Answer: Rioja

Question: Where does Marsala wine come from?
Answer: Sicily

Question: Who played Aragorn in the film "Lord of the Rings"?
Answer: Viggo Mortensen

Question: What is the name of Heston Blumenthal's restaurant in Bray, Berkshire?
Answer: The Fat Duck

Question: Which newspaper was once called the "Daily Herald"?
Answer: The Sun

Question: The "Daily Sketch" merged with which newspaper in 1971?
Answer: Daily Mail

Question: Which Englishman is credited with the discovery of oxygen?
Answer: Joseph Priestley

Question: Who is the Greek muse of history?
Answer: Clio

Question: The Egyptian god Anubis has the head of which creature?
Answer: Jackal

Question: The Hindu god Ganesh(a) or Ganapati has the head of which creature?
Answer: Elephant

Question: Tolpuddle is in which English county?
Answer: Dorset

Question: In which city did the Peterloo Massacre occur?
Answer: Manchester

Question: Which Scottish-born physician and author wrote "A Study in Scarlet"?
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Question: Which French author wrote "The Black Tulip"?
Answer: Alexandre Dumas

Question: Who wrote "Our Man in Havana"?
Answer: Graham Greene

Question: A word spelt the same backwards and forwards is called what?
Answer: Palindrome

Question: Frederick Delius was born where?
Answer: Bradford

Question: In which city was L S. Lowry born?
Answer: Salford

Question: Which English city was called Deva by the Romans?
Answer: Chester

Question: Eboracum is the Roman name for which city?
Answer: York

Question: Who played country singer Johnny Cash in the film "Walk the Line"?
Answer: Joaquin Phoenix

Question: Who played President Richard Nixon in the film "Nixon"?
Answer: Anthony Hopkins

Question: In which African country is the city of Fez?
Answer: Morocco

Question: In which Asian country is the city of Haifa?
Answer: Israel

Question: Which Italian composed the opera "La Traviata"?
Answer: Verdi

Question: Which Austrian composed the opera "The Magic Flute"?
Answer: Mozart

Question: What would one do with a dhoti?
Answer: Wear it

Question: What is the occupation of a dhobi?
Answer: Clothes washing

Question: Who was the son of Philip II of Macedon?
Answer: Alexander the Great

Question: Who was the husband of Helen of Troy (or Sparta)?
Answer: Menelaus

Question: Which English playwright wrote "Loot"?
Answer: Joe Orton

Question: Which American playwright/screenwriter wrote "The Odd Couple"?
Answer: Neil Simon

Question: Who won the 2010 Open Golf Championship at St. Andrews?
Answer: Louis Oosthuizen

Question: Who won the 2010 World Snooker championship in Glasgow?
Answer: Neil Robertson

Question: How many players are there per side in a GAA hurling team?
Answer: Fifteen

Question: How many players of each side are on the field of Australian Rules football?
Answer: Eighteen

Question: What is the capital city of the Dominican Republic?
Answer: San(to) Domingo

Question: In which English city is De Montfort University?
Answer: Leicester

Question: The city of Belfast stands on which river?
Answer: Lagan

Question: Who is the Patron Saint of musicians?
Answer: St. Cecilia

Question: Who is the Patron Saint of lost or hopeless causes?
Answer: St. Jude

Question: A Mobius strip (or band) has how many sides?
Answer: One

Question: 'Parting is such sweet sorrow' is said by which Shakespearian character?
Answer: Juliet

Question: Who won the 2011 Best Actor Oscar Award?
Answer: Colin Firth

Question: Which American author wrote the 2011 novel "The Corrections"?
Answer: Jonathan Franzen

Question: What is the value of the pink ball in the game of snooker?
Answer: Six points

Question: What is the state capital of Delaware?
Answer: Dover

Question: Who is the voice of Po in the Kung Fu Panda films?
Answer: Jack Black

Question: Give the common name for the plant `Kniphofia'.
Answer: Red Hot Poker

Question: Which is the only chemical element whose name begins with the letter V?
Answer: Vanadium

Question: Who had a hit in 1966 with 'Pretty Flamingo'?
Answer: Manfred Mann

Question: Who was the only Englishman actually on the pitch in the FIFA World Cup Final of 2010?
Answer: Howard Webb

Question: In which novel does Charles Smithson fall in love with Sarah Woodruff?
Answer: The French Lieutenant'S Woman

Question: The Greenwich meridian crosses the Mediterranean coast of which African country?
Answer: Algeria

Question: Knothead and Splinter are the nephew and niece of which cartoon character?
Answer: Woody Woodpecker

Question: Give a year in the life of painter Francisco Goya.
Answer: 1746 to 1828

Question: In a song, who is discovered in a club 'in old Soho where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola'?
Answer: Lola

Question: In which musical do three dance girls sing 'There's gotta be something better than this'?
Answer: Sweet Charity

Question: Which tennis player was stabbed hi the back in Hamburg in 1993?
Answer: Monica Seles

Question: Who wrote 'The Allegory of Love' and 'Mere Christianity' in the 20th century?
Answer: C S Lewis

Question: Who was the first female president of the Irish Republic?
Answer: Mary Robinson

Question: Cowcaddens and Hillhead are underground stations in which city?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: What number is on the film star Beetle car, Herbie?
Answer: 53

Question: Who played the character Nellie Harvey in Coronation Street?
Answer: Mollie Sugden

Question: What breed of dog is known as the carriage dog?
Answer: Dalmatian

Question: Who produces the 'Cube' car model?
Answer: Nissan

Question: 'La donna e mobile' is from which Verdi opera?
Answer: Rigoletto

Question: Gordon Beckham plays which sport for the Chicago White Sox?
Answer: Baseball

Question: What was Sir John Franklin searching for when he died?
Answer: The Northwest Passage

Question: Kingsford Smith Airport serves which city?
Answer: Sydney

Question: Travis Beckum plays American Football for the New York Giants in which position, denoted by the letters T E?
Answer: Tight End