Question: Whose operatic works include Lucia di Lammermoor and Ann Boleyn?
Answer: Gaetano Donizetti

Question: Who is the patron saint of tax collectors?
Answer: Matthew

Question: State of Israel is proclaimed.
Answer: 1948

Question: Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Answer: 1989

Question: Who referred to the House of Lords as "Mr Balfour's Poodle"?
Answer: David Lloyd George

Question: In Greek mythology, what was the name of the winged horse which sprang from the dead body of Medusa?
Answer: Pegasus

Question: Which new state officially came into being in July 2011?
Answer: South Sudan

Question: The film Throne of Blood (1957) was based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Macbeth

Question: Who said, "I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother in law"?
Answer: Martin Luther King

Question: According to Greek mythology, what was the name of the three headed dog which guarded the entrance to the underworld?
Answer: Cerberus

Question: In which town was Colonel Gaddafi killed in 2011?
Answer: Sirte

Question: Which team was led to victory by Ritchie McCall in 2011?
Answer: New Zealand Rugby Union

Question: Which county cricket team were the first winners of the Sunday League in 1969?
Answer: Lancashire

Question: Which county cricket team were the first winners of the Gillette Cup in 1963?
Answer: Sussex

Question: Which Sam rode the winner of the 2011 Cheltenham Gold Cup, Long Run?
Answer: Sam Waley Cohen

Question: The winners of which competition receive the Henri Delaunay trophy?
Answer: European Nations Football Championships

Question: The flight of which space shuttle in 2011 successfully concluded Nasa's space shuttle programme?
Answer: Atlantis

Question: Which European country's flag is a vertical tricolour of black, gold (yellow) and red?
Answer: Belgium

Question: After how many years of marriage do you celebrate a wood anniversary?
Answer: 5

Question: Which artist's work includes The Merry Drinker and The Laughing Cavalier?
Answer: Franz Hals

Question: Which country moved from east to west on the international date line in 2011 to align its time zone better with its main trading partners?
Answer: Samoa

Question: In which country was the film director Roman Polanski born?
Answer: France

Question: For which US President did Richard Nixon serve as Vice President?
Answer: Dwight Eisenhower

Question: Which is the oldest college of Cambridge University?
Answer: Peterhouse

Question: For which US President did Hubert Humphrey serve as Vice-President?
Answer: L B Johnson

Question: Which is the longest established college of Oxford University?
Answer: University

Question: Which is the largest US state, in terms of population?
Answer: California

Question: In literature, whose servant was Passepartout?
Answer: Phileas Fogg

Question: In which Pakistan city was Osama Bin Laden killed in 2011?
Answer: Abbottabad

Question: At which Japanese power plant was a state of emergency declared after an earthquake in 2011?
Answer: Fukushima

Question: In literature, whose servant was Sancho Panza?
Answer: Don Quixote

Question: Who wrote the play Chips with Everything?
Answer: Arnold Wesker

Question: In which decade was the driving test introduced in the UK and L plates issued?
Answer: 1930s

Question: In which decade were parking meters and traffic wardens introduced in the UK?
Answer: 1950s

Question: Name either of the British entertainers who had leading roles in the film 'That Riviera Touch'.
Answer: Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise

Question: How is the Sunday before Easter known in the Western Christian Church?
Answer: Palm Sunday

Question: In which game are there variations such as 'Honest John', 'Into the Woods' and 'Fives and Threes'?
Answer: Dominoes

Question: Which product was advertised on TV using the phrase 'buy some for Lulu'?
Answer: Smarties

Question: Which UK shipping forecast area is named after the founder of the Meteorological Office?
Answer: Fitzroy

Question: In 1842, which German socialist came to work in one of his father's mills, where sewing threads were made, in Weaste, Salford?
Answer: Friedrich Engels

Question: Travelling on the M40 between Oxford and London, you would pass through which range of hills?
Answer: Chilterns

Question: The first woman to win an Olympic gold medal was Charlotte Cooper in Paris in 1900, in which sport?
Answer: Tennis

Question: Amiens is the largest city and capital of which region of France?
Answer: Picardy

Question: Who was Britain's first female Foreign Secretary?
Answer: Margaret Beckett

Question: Michelangelo's statue 'David' is in the Galleria dell'Accademia in which city?
Answer: Florence

Question: Who is currently Queen of the Netherlands?
Answer: Beatrix

Question: Which US state is named after Queen Elizabeth I?
Answer: Virginia

Question: Which religion has Five Pillars (the Shadahad, Salah, Zakah, Sawma and Hajj)?
Answer: Islam

Question: Which gaseous element has the lowest melting and boiling points of all the elements?
Answer: Helium

Question: Hans Lansdorf was the captain of which World War 2 German battleship?
Answer: Graf Spee

Question: Complete the name of the album 'Noel Gallagher's '?
Answer: High Flying Birds

Question: The museum at Avebury Stone Circle was established by an archaeologist who was the heir to which marmalade company (the original commercial brand of marmalade)?
Answer: Keiller

Question: Who painted the self portrait; 'Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of a Painter'?
Answer: Whistler

Question: Who starred as Matt Dillon in the TV programme 'Gunsmoke'?
Answer: James Arness

Question: James Arness had a brother Peter who starred in the TV series 'Mission Impossible', under what surname did he act?
Answer: Graves

Question: Who was British Prime Minister at the outbreak of the First World War?
Answer: Asquith

Question: In which opera does a hunchback jester help his master, the Duke of Mantua, to seduce the daughter of a courtier?
Answer: Rigoletto

Question: What is the name of the main character in John Osborne's 'Look Back In Anger'?
Answer: Jimmy Porter

Question: Which 'major-winning' golfer has the real first names Gerry Lester?
Answer: Bubba Watson

Question: Clock, Klondike and Aces Up are variations of which group of card games?
Answer: Patience

Question: Which football team, newcomers to League 2, play home games at Highbury?
Answer: Fleetwood Town

Question: Name either of the entertainers who played the roles of two Britons accused of faking a documentary in the film 'Alien Autopsy'?
Answer: Ant & Dec

Question: The trophy awarded to the winner of the Ladies Singles at the French Open tennis championships is named after which famous player?
Answer: Suzanne Lenglen

Question: A Tequila Sunrise is made with tequila, orange and which other fruit ingredient?
Answer: Grenadine

Question: How is the seventh Sunday after Easter known in the Western Christian Church?
Answer: Whitsuntide or Pentecost

Question: Which-singer's voice was of the leading actress in the films 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', 'The King and I', 'West Side Story' and 'My Fair Lady'?
Answer: Marni Nixon

Question: Who was the son of Mani Nixon who died in 2011, his hits include 'Lonely Boy', How Can This Be Love' and 'Never Let Her Slip Away'?
Answer: Andrew Gold

Question: What is the title of Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 Booker Prize winning novel which was made into a 1993 film of the same name starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson?
Answer: The Remains of the Day

Question: Which religion has Five K's (Kesh, Kangha, Kachera, Kara and Kirpan)?
Answer: Sikh(ism)

Question: Which range of hills lie at the northern end of the Pennine Way?
Answer: Cheviots

Question: Which King of England was the son of Edward the Black Prince?
Answer: Richard 2nd

Question: What is the name of the group formed by Liam Gallagher after the break-up of Oasis?
Answer: Beady Eye