Question: In Greek mythology , who was the god of flocks and herds ?
Answer: Pan

Question: Varicella is the technical term for which disease ?
Answer: Chicken Pox

Question: Who wrote the music of the German national anthem ?
Answer: Haydn

Question: In which US state is Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport ?
Answer: Arkansas

Question: What sort of animal is sometimes called a 'coney' ?
Answer: Rabbit

Question: What did a chandler originally make ?
Answer: Candles

Question: In American football, who won the most Super Bowls in the 1980's ?
Answer: San Francisco 49Ers

Question: In Greek mythology, which nine-headed monster grew two for every one that was chopped off ?
Answer: Hydra

Question: Which American statesman appears on the US $100 bill ?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Question: A mercer would have dealt in what commodity ?
Answer: Textiles

Question: By what name is acetylsalicylic acid more commonly known when kept in the medicine cupboard ?
Answer: Aspirin

Question: What kind of animal is a Peruvian cavy ?
Answer: Guinea Pig

Question: Which Italian city is served by Gallileo Galilei airport ?
Answer: Pisa

Question: How many players are there in a Canadian football team ?
Answer: Twelve

Question: In which Dickens novel do the Cheeryble Brothers appear ?
Answer: Nicholas Nickleby

Question: Who was British Prime Minister when Captain Scott reached the South Pole?
Answer: Asquith

Question: Who was British Prime Minister when Stanley met Livingstone ?
Answer: Gladstone

Question: What name for a short haircut came from its popularity among the rowing teams of Harvard and Yale in the 1940s and 50s ?
Answer: Crewcut

Question: Karl Landsteiner won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of what ?
Answer: Blood Groups

Question: What kind of bridge is the Golden Gate Bridge ?
Answer: Suspension

Question: The city of Carrara, in the Italian region of Tuscany, is most famous for the production of what ?
Answer: Marble

Question: Wykehamists are pupils of which public school ?
Answer: Winchester

Question: Give the name of the room where the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919.
Answer: Hall Of Mirrors

Question: Who wrote the lyrics for the musical Starlight Express ?
Answer: Richard Stilgoe

Question: Which author created the character Hannibal Lecter ?
Answer: Thomas Harris

Question: What was the Roman name for York ?
Answer: Eboracum

Question: Which Oxford college was founded in 1899 to provide education specifically for working people ?
Answer: Ruskin

Question: Which famous actor played the killer of PC Dixon in the film The Blue Lamp?
Answer: Dirk Bogarde

Question: What name did the artist Michelangelo Merisi adopt ?
Answer: Caravaggio

Question: In the 1960's, which designer created the 'Space Age' collection ?
Answer: Pierre Cardin

Question: In which British city is St Mungo's Cathedral ?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: Which English king was known as 'Old Rowley' ?
Answer: Charles Ii

Question: What name is usually given to the larva of a click beetle ?
Answer: Wireworm

Question: On which US navy vessel did Japanese forces make their official surrender in 1945 ?
Answer: Missouri

Question: Who wrote the novel To Kill a Mocking-bird ?
Answer: Harper Lee

Question: Which city is home to the 8th century 'Book of Kells' ?
Answer: Dublin

Question: Which firth separates Orkney from the Scottish mainland ?
Answer: The Pentland Firth

Question: On what would you see a 'gnomon' ?
Answer: Sundial

Question: In Norse mythology, what is the hall of the slain known as ?
Answer: Valhalla

Question: Y Gogarth (or Pen Y Gogarth) is the welsh name for which prominent geographic feature in North Wales ?
Answer: Great Orme

Question: Which are of Tokyo, famous for its department stores, boutiques and restaurants, is one of the most luxurious shopping districts in the world ?
Answer: Ginza

Question: Which town in Northern Spain, once the seat of the Basque Parliament, was bombed bt German planes in 1937a and immortalised by a famous Picasso painting ?
Answer: Guernica

Question: Which Lincolnshire town on the River Trent was at one time England's most inland port being over 55 miles from the North Sea ?
Answer: Gainsborough

Question: Libreville is the capital of which African country ?
Answer: Gabon

Question: In which 2006 film did Tom Hanks play a character called Robert Langdon, a professor of religous iconography ?
Answer: The Da Vinci Code

Question: In which 1959 film did an opera singer called Claude Heater play Jesus Christ, but was not creedited as his face was never shown ?
Answer: Ben Hur

Question: Maddox, Zahara and Pax (adopted) and Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne (natural) are the children of which Hollywood actress ?
Answer: Angelina Jolie

Question: Which 1988 action movie - the first in a series of five - was based on a novel called Nothing lasts forever by Roderick Thorpe ?
Answer: Die Hard

Question: Name either of the two US film stars, now in thier forties, who founded the production companies Live Planet and Pearl Street Films together ?
Answer: MATT DAMON or BEN AFFLECK

Question: Which fairytale character did the Spanish actor Antonio Banderas voice in the Shrek sequels ?
Answer: Puss In Boots

Question: Of the five Marx brothers who appeared on film, who was the oldest ?
Answer: Chico

Question: Who was crowned Queen of England at Westminister Abbey on this day in 1553 ?
Answer: Mary I

Question: In which modern day country is the Sudetenlan, annexed by Nazi Germany on this day in 1938 ?
Answer: Czech Republic

Question: Which former US President will be celebrating his 89th birthday today ?
Answer: Jimmy Carter

Question: On October 1st of which year did Ford put its first Model T on sale ? Was it 1898, 1908 or 1918 ?
Answer: 1908

Question: The first Japanese bullettrain ran on October 1st 1964 between Tokyo and which other city ?
Answer: Osaka

Question: Which organisation was founded on the 1st October 1946 at Lincoln College, Oxford by Ronald Berrill and Dr Lancelot Ware ? The first of its three declared purposes being "to identify and to foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity" ?
Answer: Mensa

Question: Keith Duffy, who celebrates his 39th birthday today, was a founder ember of which band in 1994 ?
Answer: Boyzone

Question: Which Briton led the Arab forces that captured the city of Damascus on this day in 1918 ?
Answer: (Te) Lawrence (Or Arabia)

Question: Which chemical element, Atomic Number 17, gets its name from the Greek word for green ?
Answer: Chlorine

Question: Name a year in the life of Sir Humphrey Davy ?
Answer: 1778 - 1829

Question: Which geological epoch started about 12,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene, and continues to this day ?
Answer: Holocene

Question: In geometry, which unit is defined as being equal to the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc equal in length to the radius ?
Answer: Radian

Question: Which unit of length is equal to 1.8288 metres ?
Answer: Fathom

Question: Which city was awarded the 2020 Summer Olympics last month, beating Istanbul and Madrid ?
Answer: Tokyo

Question: Who did Wigan beat 16 - 0 to win the 2013 RL Challenge Cup at Wembley?
Answer: Hull Fc

Question: Bill Hoskyns, who died in August, was the first Briton to compete at six Olympic Games - 1956 to 1976 inclusive. He won the team bronze in Rome and an individual silver in Tokyo, in which sport ?
Answer: Fencing

Question: The highest partnership for England in a test match for any wicket is 411 at Edgbaston against the West Indies in 1957. Name either of the batsmen involved.
Answer: COLIN COWDREY and PETER MAY

Question: Which Aviva Premiership Rugby Union side play their home games at Adams Park, High Wycombe ?
Answer: (London) Wasps

Question: Which swimmer, who never won an Olympic medal in his career, carried the flag for the United Kingdom at the opening ceremony at Beijing in 2008 ?
Answer: Mark Foster