Question: What was the name of the horse that highwayman, Dick Turpin, was reputed to have ridden?
Answer: Black Bess

Question: The family seat of which English Duke is at Bradley House in Wiltshire, with a secondary estate at Berry Pomeroy in Totnes?
Answer: Duke Of Somerset

Question: Whereabouts in Scotland, is the ancestral home of the Duke of Argyll?
Answer: Inverary Castle

Question: Which literary character rode a horse named Dapple?
Answer: Sancho Panza

Question: """Lark Rise to Candleford"" is a popular BBC TV series. Which authoress wrote the books on which it is based?"
Answer: Flora Thompson

Question: Which Championship football league team is based at the Keepmoat Stadium?
Answer: Doncaster Rovers

Question: Complete the name of the Caribbean island group, "St Vincent and..."
Answer: The Grenadines

Question: In Japanese cooking, what kind of food is Nori?
Answer: Seaweed

Question: Which book of the Bible recounts Paul's missionary travels?
Answer: Acts Of The Apostles

Question: In hich constellation can the star Antares be found?
Answer: Scorpius

Question: Millvina Dean, who died in May 2009, was the last living participant of which major event?
Answer: She Was The Last Survivor Of The Sinking Of The Titanic

Question: Walvis Bay is the chief port of which African country?
Answer: Namibia

Question: Which position is currently held by Liam Donaldson?
Answer: Chief Medical Officer Of England

Question: Which British group was formed in the late 1980's by ex-members of The Housemartins, Paul Heaton and David Hemingway?
Answer: The Beautiful South

Question: In Gustav Holst's work "The Planets Suite" which planet is termed "The Mystic"?
Answer: Neptune

Question: Millport, home to the smallest cathedral in the British Isles, is the main community on which island, in the Firth of Clyde?
Answer: Great Cumbrae

Question: Russell Harty was an English teacher and Richard Whiteley his pupil at which public school?
Answer: Giggleswick

Question: Tavel and Hermitage wines are produced in which French wine growing area?
Answer: Rhone Valley

Question: In which western town, in South Dakota, did Jack McCall shoot and kill Wild Bill Hickok in 1876?
Answer: Deadwood

Question: As what is an anti-pruritic drug used to act against?
Answer: Itching

Question: In 2009, who became only the second woman to train a Grand National winning horse?
Answer: Venetia Williams

Question: In TV's, "Coronation Street", which comic actor played the role of the amorous undertaker, Archie Shuttleworth?
Answer: Roy Hudd

Question: Which Dutch Renaissance artist painted "The Hunters in the Snow", in 1565?
Answer: Peter Bruegel

Question: Captain Dobbin and Amelia Sedley are characters from which 19th century novel?
Answer: Vanity Fair

Question: England's highest sea cliff, Great Hangman, is in which county?
Answer: Devon

Question: Who is the male star of the 2009 film, "The Invention of Lying"?
Answer: Ricky Gervais

Question: In which city, then in Poland, but now in Belarus, did Germany and Russia sign a peace treaty in 1918?
Answer: Brest Litovsk

Question: Under the recent vehicle registration plate nomenclature, cars beginning with the letter H, come from which area of the UK?
Answer: Hampshire

Question: In a railway carriage near which city in Northern France did the allies and the Germans sign the Armistice which ended WWI?
Answer: Compiegne

Question: Which actor played the title role in the 2009 film, "Bruno"?
Answer: Sacha Baron Cohen

Question: """Somebody Stole My Gal"", was the theme tune of which band leader?"
Answer: Billy Cotton

Question: Leith Hill is the highest point in which county in Southern England?
Answer: Surrey

Question: The characters, General Woundwart and Hazel , appear in which 20th century literary work?
Answer: Watership Down

Question: Which French neoclassical artist painted "The Death of Marat" in 1793?
Answer: Jacques Louis David

Question: In the TV series "The Vicar of Dibley" who played the role of the verger, Alice Tinker?
Answer: Emma Chambers

Question: The BCG vaccine gives immunity against which disease?
Answer: Tuberculosis

Question: Who, in 1882 shot and killed Jesse James in St Joseph, Missouri?
Answer: Robert Ford

Question: Vouvray and Sancerre wines come from which wine region of France?
Answer: Loire Valley

Question: Which boarding school, near Tunbridge Wells, was attended by both Princess Anne, and the actress Rachel Weisz?
Answer: Benenden

Question: The port of Ullapool, in the Scottish highlands, lies on which loch?
Answer: Loch Broom

Question: In Gustav Hoist's work, "The Planet Suite", which planet is known as "The Magician"?
Answer: Uranus

Question: Who is the American financier, who is nicknamed "The Sage of Omaha"?
Answer: Warren Buffet

Question: In the stories by Michael Bond, which family finds Paddington Bear, and adopts him?
Answer: The Browns

Question: In which English county is the town of Market Harborough?
Answer: Leicestershire

Question: """Mama, just killed a man"", is the opening line of which hit song by Queen?"
Answer: Bohemian Rhapsody

Question: Who is the writer and star of the BBC TV comedy series, "Not Going Out"?
Answer: Lee Mack

Question: Which instrument is used to examine the interior of the human eye?
Answer: An Ophthalmoscope

Question: Who is the only African footballer, to have won the FIFA World Player of the Year award?
Answer: George Weah

Question: Which former college of the University of London became independent in July 2007?
Answer: Imperial College

Question: Colonel Nicholson is one of the main characters in which famous 1957 war film?
Answer: Bridge On The River Kwai

Question: Which actress and singer is known as J Lo?
Answer: Jennifer Lopez

Question: What is the name of the Huron chief, villain in the novel, "Last of the Mohicans" by James Fennimore Cooper?
Answer: Magwa

Question: What is the better known name of St Sylvester's Day?
Answer: New Year'S Eve

Question: Which cyclist won Gt. Britain's first gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
Answer: Nicole Cooke

Question: Who became the first English swimmer for 100 years to win two Olympic gold medals, when she won both the 400m and 800m freestyle events in Beijing?
Answer: Rebecca Adlington

Question: In which month of the year is Walpurgis Night celebrated in Europe and Scandinavia?
Answer: April

Question: What is the name of the convict in Charles Dickens novel, "Great Expectations"?
Answer: Magwitch

Question: Which composer, born in Pesaro, in Italy, in 1792, was known by the nickname, Monsieur Crescendo?
Answer: Rossini

Question: At which sport did Theodore "Ted" Kennedy, who died aged 83 in 2009, play fourteen seasons for the Toronto Maple Leafs?
Answer: Ice Hockey

Question: In which town is the Devonshire Royal Hospital, now the Devonshire campus of the University of Derby?
Answer: Buxton

Question: Which vessel, loaded with new cars, sank, after a collision, in the English Channel, in 2002?
Answer: The Tricolore

Question: In 1967, French Somaliland became the French Territory of the Afars and Issas. To what did the country change its name on gaining independence in 1977?
Answer: Djibouti

Question: Which musician and actor played the part of Wayne Norris in the TV series, "Auf Wiedersehen Pet"?
Answer: Gary Holton

Question: In the hit record "Bohemian Rhapsody", by Queen, who is asked to do the fandango?
Answer: Scaramouche

Question: With which antique dealer did Paddington Bear have his elevenses each day?
Answer: Mr Gruber

Question: In October 1870, Britain issued its smallest ever (in size), postage stamp. It is known in philatelic circles as a bantam. How much did it cost?
Answer: A Halfpenny

Question: Which Canadian singer was born, Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943?
Answer: Joni Mitchell

Question: In the poem, "The Owl and the Pussycat", by Edward Lear, how much was paid to the pig for the ring at the end of its nose?
Answer: One Shilling