Question: Which muralist was married to fellow Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo?
Answer: Diego RIVERA

Question: The souls of heroes and good men went to which 'Islands of the Blessed' in Greek myth?
Answer: ELYSIUM accept HESPERIDES

Question: 40 days after Easter, by what name is ‘Holy Thursday’ also known to Christians?
Answer: ASCENSION Day

Question: Who was the rather appropriately named Roman god of land boundaries?
Answer: Terminus

Question: In 1998, whose widow became Nelson Mandela's third wife?
Answer: Samora MACHEL

Question: Ashanti, referring to both a region and its peoples, is found in which African country?
Answer: Ghana

Question: Which lake was formed when the Hoover Dam was built on the Colorado River?
Answer: Lake MEADE

Question: Whose face appeared with the word “Hope” on a poster created by Shepard Fairey?
Answer: Barack OBAMA

Question: Which glassy, dark volcanic rock was used by some to make edged tools and arrowheads?
Answer: Obsidian

Question: Which pioneering Swiss psychologist proposed the theory of the collective unconscious?
Answer: Carl JUNG

Question: Which solid can be generated by rotating an isosceles triangle about its line of symmetry?
Answer: Cone

Question: Which German engineer gives his name to the four-stroke cycle of a petrol engine?
Answer: Nikolaus OTTO

Question: What was the 33 metre brigantine ‘Amazon’ famously renamed in 1869?
Answer: The MARY CELESTE

Question: Which New Zealand born actress and model was the second wife of Rod Stewart?
Answer: Rachel HUNTER

Question: What was the 40 metre trawler ‘Sir William Hardy’ famously renamed in 1978?
Answer: Rainbow Warrior

Question: Which American actress and former model was the first wife of singer Rod Stewart?
Answer: Alana HAMILTON

Question: Who painted ‘The Card Players’, one version of his selling for £154 million in 2011?
Answer: Paul CEZANNE

Question: Which Russian playwright wrote ‘Uncle Vanya’ and ‘The Cherry Orchard’?
Answer: Anton CHECKOV

Question: What was the name of the artist who died in French Polynesia in 1903, aged 54?
Answer: Paul GAUGUIN

Question: In physics, the pivot about which a lever turns is generally known as a what?
Answer: Fulcrum

Question: If you had queso in a Spanish restaurant, what would you be eating?
Answer: Cheese

Question: Katherina is the headstrong leading female character in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The TAMING OF THE SHREW

Question: What was the name of Little Orphan Annie’s dog?
Answer: Sandy

Question: Why is 6th of April 2016 a significant date for dog lovers and owners?
Answer: Compulsory MICROCHIPPING

Question: A player on the ‘Go’ square has thrown what score, if he/she has to pay £200 income tax?
Answer: Four

Question: Who won the Best Director Oscar for the 2008 film, ‘Slumdog Millionaire’?
Answer: Danny Boyle

Question: What does the word ‘pulchritude’ mean?
Answer: Beauty

Question: Fingermouse’s head, ears and whiskers were made of what?
Answer: Paper

Question: Who was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the USA?
Answer: Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL

Question: Which Portuguese province borders both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic?
Answer: The ALGARVE

Question: What is the correct name for the bone commonly known as the breastbone?
Answer: Sternum

Question: What did an animal called Diomed achieve on 4th May, 1780?
Answer: Won First Derby

Question: What was Bangladesh called between 1947 and 1971?
Answer: East Pakistan

Question: The wife of an earl has what equivalent female title?
Answer: Countess

Question: Who was the father of English King, Henry III?
Answer: King JOHN

Question: To which year in the 90s did the Queen refer as her annus horribilis?
Answer: 1992

Question: What ‘B’ was Daisy’s surname in ‘The Great Gatsby’?
Answer: Buchanan

Question: What is the name of the character who is the protagonist in the ‘Die Hard’ film series?
Answer: JOHN McCLANE

Question: Who played Stephen Hawking in the 2014 film, ‘The Theory of Everything’?
Answer: Eddie Redmayne

Question: Which English rugby club are the current Aviva champions?
Answer: Northampton

Question: In honour of Bobby Moore, what shirt number was retired by West Ham in 2008?
Answer: Six

Question: What is the currency of both the Yemen and Oman?
Answer: Rial/Riyal

Question: Which is the largest of the Baltic States by land area?
Answer: Lithuania

Question: In terms of shoreline, rather than area, what is the largest bay in the world?
Answer: Hudson Bay

Question: What was snooker player Cliff Thorburn’s nickname?
Answer: The Grinder

Question: What was Sir Malcolm Sargent’s nickname?
Answer: Flash Harry

Question: How many number one UK hit singles did The Who have?
Answer: None

Question: Who is the only one of his gang of human helpers to wear glasses?
Answer: Velma

Question: Which prominent anti-war activist was born in Monmouthshire in 1872?
Answer: Bertrand Russell

Question: In the Royal Navy, what is the only rank higher than that of admiral?
Answer: Admiral Of The Fleet

Question: Who composed the 1870 ballet ‘Coppelia’?
Answer: Leo DELIBES

Question: What is the capital and largest city of the Seychelles?
Answer: Victoria

Question: What do the initials represent in the name of the HSBC bank?
Answer: HONG KONG and SHANGHAI

Question: From 2005 to 2007, Shane Warne captained which English county side?
Answer: Hampshire

Question: Why did the cranes of the Port of London lower their jibs on January 30th, 1965?
Answer: SALUTING CHURCHILL’s coffin

Question: Which jockey won the English Derby four times between 1979 and 1994?
Answer: Willie Carson

Question: What word connects a parrot with voting in an election?
Answer: Poll

Question: What illness is an inflammation of the larynx and trachea, causing breathing difficulties?
Answer: Croup

Question: With what invention do you associate the name of Mr. Whitcomb Judson?
Answer: ZIP fastener

Question: In which tv programme, 1986-96, did the contestants often encounter ‘Hot spots’?
Answer: Strike It Lucky

Question: ‘Shamela’ (1741) was a parody of ‘Pamela’ (1740). Who wrote the latter?
Answer: Samuel RICHARDSON

Question: In ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’, who “told his tale”?
Answer: The MILLER

Question: In skiing, what colour diamond denotes an expert trail on signs and trail maps?
Answer: Black

Question: Who played the male lead in the Bond film ‘Never Say Never Again’?
Answer: Sean Connery

Question: Selenology is the study of what?
Answer: The Moon

Question: Which non-alcoholic drink often consists of 50% orange juice and 50% lemonade?
Answer: St Clements

Question: Which TV family lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace?
Answer: The Simpsons

Question: Ranked lower than a gladiator what did venatores do in the arena?
Answer: Fought Animals

Question: Which famous river was discovered and first crossed by Spaniard Hernando de Soto?
Answer: Mississippi

Question: Robert Burke and William Wills were 19th century explorers of which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Which fruity title from their album Islands was a 1983 top ten hit for Kajagoogoo?
Answer: Big Apple

Question: Where did Fats Domino find his thrill in 1956?
Answer: Blueberry Hill

Question: Which fish uses a ‘beard’ to track down its meal?
Answer: Barbel

Question: Which fish is often mistakenly called the ‘pike-perch’?
Answer: Zander

Question: Which fish, Tinca tinca, do anglers call the ‘doctor fish’?
Answer: Tench

Question: After Dublin which is Ireland’s most populous city?
Answer: Cork

Question: Where is the volcano Olympus Mons?
Answer: On Mars

Question: Which musical instrument did Karen Carpenter normally play?
Answer: Drums

Question: Kingsford Smith airport serves which major city?
Answer: Sydney

Question: Which song from Mary Poppins won the Academy Award for Best Song?
Answer: Chim Chim Cher-ee

Question: Whose first words are ‘How are you’? ‘You have been in Afghanistan I perceive’?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes