Question: Who successfully skippered the English cricket team in Pakistan during 1961/62?
Answer: E. R. (Ted) Dexter

Question: In which American state would you find the Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Answer: New Mexico

Question: In which alphabet would you find letters called daleth, zayin and teth
Answer: Hebrew

Question: Who starred in the TV series "Nice Guy Eddie" as a Liverpool private eye?
Answer: Ricky Tomlinson

Question: In which county is Fotheringay Castle
Answer: Northamptonshire

Question: Which wine could be ruby, tawny or vintage?
Answer: Port

Question: In Forbes Magazine, who was the top earning author between July 2012 and August 2013?
Answer: EL James (50 Shades)

Question: In which town are Moorhouses beers brewed?
Answer: Burnley

Question: Three famous English Composers died in 1934.Gustav Holst and Edward Elgar were two - name the third?
Answer: Frederick Delius

Question: In which British city are the areas Butetown, Splott and Roath?
Answer: Cardiff

Question: In which year were the first Wimbledon Championships held? (2 years either way)
Answer: 1877 (1875-79)

Question: In which area of Paris is the Basilica of Sacre Coeur?
Answer: Montmartre

Question: Which product was advertised to the tune of Bach's "Air on a G- string"?
Answer: Hamlet Cigars

Question: Who painted "Beach at Touville" and "Towing of a Boat at Honfleur"?
Answer: Claude Monet

Question: Ergophobia is the morbid fear of what?
Answer: Work

Question: Donnie Wahlberg is/was a member of which 'Boy' band?
Answer: New Kids on the Block

Question: Of which country is Ouagadougou the capital?
Answer: Burkina Faso

Question: Who is the patron saint for soldiers?
Answer: Joan of Arc

Question: In the 1970's, the RAF had what was called the V bomber force – one plane was the Valiant. Name any of the other two
Answer: Victor or Vulcan

Question: Who played the title role in the 2005 London police series "Jericho"?
Answer: Robert Lindsay

Question: Who wrote the folk club classic 'Streets Of London'?
Answer: Ralph McTell

Question: Which famous television actress died on the same day (25th May 2009) as Michael Jackson?
Answer: Farah Fawcett

Question: Of which team was Kevin Keegan the manager before taking the England job?
Answer: Fulham

Question: Which British explorer travelled disguised as a Muslim to Mecca and Medina in 1853?
Answer: Richard Francis Burton

Question: Which 2009 film was released with the advertising tag line "Enter the World"?
Answer: Avatar

Question: Which town in the North West of England was known to the Romans as Luguvalum?
Answer: Carlisle

Question: In which German city is there a suburb called Wedding?
Answer: Berlin

Question: Which architect designed the Millennium Dome?
Answer: Richard Rodgers

Question: Three famous composers were born in 1685. Scarlatti and Bach were two, name the Third?
Answer: Handel

Question: Which men's toiletry product was advertised on TV to the music from Carl Orfe's Carmina Burana?
Answer: Old Spice

Question: In which alphabet would you find letters called shin, dhal and Jim?
Answer: Arabic

Question: In which country did the 1798 battle of Vinegar Hill take place
Answer: Ireland

Question: On the day John F Kennedy was shot, (22 November 1963) two famous British authors died name one?
Answer: C S Lewis or Aldous Huxley

Question: How is the following Roman-named English town or city known today "Portus Dubris"?
Answer: Dover

Question: Aston Merrygold is/was a member of which boy band?
Answer: Jls

Question: Who was named as the Forbes Magazine" most Powerful woman on earth between July 2012 and August 2013
Answer: Angela Merkel

Question: What was the RAF's first jet powered bomber?
Answer: (English Electric) Canberra

Question: In which war did the 1777 battle of Brandywine take place?
Answer: American War Of Independence

Question: Dipsophobia is the morbid fear of what?
Answer: Drinking

Question: Which wine can be fino' or 'Oloroso'?
Answer: Sherry

Question: Which Jane Austin novel is about the affairs of the heart of Eleanor and Marianne Daswood?
Answer: Sense and Sensibility

Question: Who wrote the plays "Jumpers", "Travesties", and "Arcadia"?
Answer: Tom Stoppard

Question: By what name is the film star Tula Elsie Finklea is better known?
Answer: Cyd Charisse

Question: What nickname was given to the original Dutch settlers of New York?
Answer: Knickerbockers

Question: The Jean Lennox Bird Trophy, the Brabazon Cup, and the 0. B. Jones Cup are competed for in which sport?
Answer: Gliding

Question: Which Briton was European Footballer of the Year in 1978?
Answer: Kevin Keegan

Question: On which English river does the city of Leicester stand?
Answer: River Soar

Question: What connects Dai Reese 1957, Henry Cooper 1967, Princess Anne in 1971 and Linford Christie in 1993?
Answer: All Won 'Bbc Sports Personality Of The Year'

Question: What was James Stewart's profession in the film 'Rear Window'?
Answer: Photo Journalist

Question: Which opera by Puccini was completed posthumously by Franco Alfano?
Answer: 'Turandot'

Question: What was the name of the Indian political party led by Mahatma Ghandi for 20 years prior to India's independence?
Answer: Indian National Congress Party

Question: In Alfred Hitchcock's film 'North By Northwest', which actress was Cary Grant saving from James Mason?
Answer: Eva Marie Saint

Question: Who was appointed the first Governor general of Pakistan after India was partitioned?
Answer: MOHAMMED ALI JINNAH (he was the first coloured man to be appointed Governor-General of a British Dominion)

Question: In the comedy series 'Rising Damp', what was 'Rigsby's' christian name?
Answer: Rupert

Question: 'Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Blood On The Tracks' were both albums released by which popular singer?
Answer: Bob Dylan

Question: Which Pete Seeger song did Marlene Dietrich record in 1962?
Answer: 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone'

Question: Which famous steam locomotive used to run between London and Edinburgh?
Answer: Flying Scotsman

Question: Which American President represented his country at the 'Yalta Summit' at the end of World War II?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question: What was the name of 'Dorien's' husband in 'Birds Of A Feather'?
Answer: Marcus

Question: Which German aircraft company invented the 'ejector seat' in 1942?
Answer: Heinkel

Question: Apart from them both having UK number ones in 1979, what links Gary Numan and Sir Cliff Richard?
Answer: They Were Both Born With The Surname Webb

Question: Which maritime attraction is anchored to the east of London Bridge and the west of Tower Bridge?
Answer: H.M.S. Belfast

Question: Which stretch of water off the southern tip of South America is the point where the South Atlantic meets the South Pacific?
Answer: Drake'S Passage

Question: Who directed the 1946 film, 'The Best Years Of Our Lives'?
Answer: William Wyler

Question: Which American newsman broke the news of JFK's death to the nation?
Answer: Walter Kronkite

Question: In what year was Monica Seles stabbed in the back during a tennis tournament in Hamburg?
Answer: 1993

Question: In mythology, why did 'Orpheus' enter 'Hades'?
Answer: To Bring Back His Wife Eurydice

Question: David Lean directed the 1945 film 'Brief Encounter', but who composed the incidental music and also produced the film?
Answer: Noel Coward

Question: In what year did Freddie Starr's horse 'Minnehoma' win the Grand national?
Answer: 1994

Question: Which Australian TV presenter has made travel documentaries in various foreign locations, the programmes being called "A Postcard From....."?
Answer: Clive James

Question: In 1993 which football team lost in both the FA Cup Final and League Cup Final?
Answer: Sheffield Wednesday

Question: Whose catchphrase was "You dirty rotten swine, you have deaded me"?
Answer: BLUEBOTTLE (Peter Sellars in the 'Goon Show')

Question: In which organ of the body are the hepatic arteries.
Answer: The Liver