Question: Who wrote 'Earthly Powers', a long and ambitious first- person novel, narrated by an octogenarian homosexual?
Answer: Anthony Burgess

Question: After whom is the international airport at Pisa in Italy, named?
Answer: Galileo

Question: Who played the leading roles in both 'Rebel Without A Cause' and 'West Side Story'?
Answer: Natalie Wood

Question: Which greenish-yellow gas was discovered by Humphry Davy in 1810?
Answer: Chlorine

Question: 'The Sea, The Sea' a 1978 novel about a theatre director and his childhood love, was by which authoress
Answer: Iris Murdoch

Question: Which colourless and odourless gas was discovered by Daniel Rutherford in 1772?
Answer: Nitrogen

Question: Whose only UK chart-topping single was called 'Don't You Want Me'?
Answer: Human League

Question: In football's European Championships, which was the first country to appear in two successive finals?
Answer: Ussr

Question: 'School's Out' was the only UK number one single for whom?
Answer: Alice Cooper

Question: Which of Dicken's' novels features 'Sir John and Edward Chester'?
Answer: 'Barnaby Rudge'

Question: What large, South American rodent is sometimes known as the 'water hog'?
Answer: Capybara

Question: Which huge seabird of the 'Tropics' is also known as the 'man-o-war bird'?
Answer: Frigate Bird

Question: What nationality is reigning Olympic decathlon champion, Erki Nool?
Answer: Estonian

Question: The reigning Olympic 5000 metres champion is Mamo Wolde. What nationality is he?
Answer: Ethiopian

Question: Which is the most northerly of America's "Great Lakes"?
Answer: Superior

Question: Which of America's "Great Lakes" has the smallest surface area?
Answer: Ontario

Question: Which sit-com starred Belinda Lang and Gary Olsen as 'Bill and Ben Porter'?
Answer: 'Two Point Four Children'

Question: What is the main ingredient of Duxelles sauce or Duxelles stuffing?
Answer: Mushrooms

Question: William, Duke of Gloucester, was the only one of which monarch's twelve children to survive infancy?
Answer: Queen Anne

Question: 'Masala Chai' is an Indian tea flavoured with which sweet spice?
Answer: Cinnamon

Question: On the death of Horatio Nelson, who assumed command at the 'Battle of Trafalgar'?
Answer: Lord Collingwood

Question: Which daughter of Laban and first wife of Jacob, bore him twelve sons?
Answer: Leah

Question: Which sister of Lazarus and Mary gave Jesus hospitality at her home in Bethany?
Answer: Martha

Question: Who was the last British king to lead an army into battle?
Answer: George Ii

Question: In 1542, whose last words were supposedly, "I die a queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpepper"?
Answer: Catherine Howard

Question: If the currency is the Peso, copper the major export and Valparaiso the major port, what is the country?
Answer: Chile

Question: What name is given to the first, horseshoe-shaped section of the human intestine?
Answer: Duodenum

Question: Which area of the human tongue is sensitive to sweet taste?
Answer: The Tip

Question: Spoken in 1883, "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough" were the final words of which philosopher?
Answer: Karl Marx

Question: In the film 'Die Hard', the last view of which actor, was of him falling from a tower block with a gun in his hand?
Answer: Alan Rickman

Question: How many lumber vertebrae are there in the human spine?
Answer: 5

Question: On her abortion, which American writer once said "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard"?
Answer: Dorothy Parker

Question: The human spine includes how many cervical vertebrae?
Answer: 7

Question: Which world leader was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990?
Answer: Mikhael Gorbachev

Question: Which company's advert, shot from the air in Utah, USA, starred 6300 people in coloured tracksuits?
Answer: British Airways

Question: Who notched up his 4000th winner in Britain, by winning the 1997 St. Leger on a horse named 'Silver Patriach'?
Answer: Pat Eddery

Question: Much in the news during the 'Falklands Crisis', on which island is Wideawake Airfield?
Answer: South Georgia

Question: What is meant by the suffix "-algia", as in neuralgia?
Answer: Pain

Question: In dating advertisements, what does the 'H' in the initials 'S.O.H.' represent?
Answer: (Sense Of) HUMOUR

Question: Which branch of the arts was Barbara Hepworth famous for?
Answer: Sculpture

Question: Which is the ninth sign of the Zodiac?
Answer: Sagittarius

Question: Which male film star was charged in New York with assault in June 2005, having thrown a telephone at a member of hotel staff?
Answer: Russell Crowe

Question: 'Chantrelle' and 'Porcini' are both well-known varieties of which foodstuff?
Answer: Mushroom

Question: Who played 'Olive Oyl' in the 1980 film 'Popeye'?
Answer: Shelley Duvall

Question: What two letters make up the Internet Country Code for Denmark?
Answer: dk

Question: Which Africancapital city is served by 'Bole Airport'?
Answer: ADDIS ABABA (Ethiopia)

Question: In 'Monopoly', what is situated between 'Old Kent Road'and 'Whitechapel Road'?
Answer: Community Chest

Question: Scarborough is the capital of which West Indian island?
Answer: Tobago

Question: Which was the only 'Live 8' venue that was in the southern hemisphere?
Answer: Johannesburg

Question: 'Meniere's Disease' affects which part of the human body?
Answer: The Ear

Question: What was the christian name of the classical composer Rachmaninov?
Answer: Sergei

Question: Name the country is Asia which is double landlocked (surrounded by landlocked countries)?
Answer: Uzbekistan

Question: Who wrote the bestseller 'The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time'?
Answer: Mark Haddon

Question: In which musical does the song 'Bless Your Beautiful Hide', appear?
Answer: 'Seven Brides For Seven Brothers'

Question: Which fire-breathing monster in Greek mythology was killed by Bellerophon?
Answer: The Chimera

Question: The Great Yorkshire Show has been held where since 1952?
Answer: Harrogate

Question: In France, which food is 'Marrons Glaces'?
Answer: Chestnuts

Question: Which American singer-songwriter's only British hit was in 1965 with the song'Eve Of Destruction'?
Answer: BARRY McGUIRE

Question: Who was the first cricketer to play 100 ''Test Matches' for England?
Answer: Colin Cowdrey

Question: In which county is Bisley, home of the National Shooting Centre?
Answer: Surrey

Question: In 'Doctor Who', who came from the planet 'Mondas'?
Answer: Cybermen

Question: In which English county is the resort of Skegness?
Answer: Lincolnshire

Question: The US University of Yale is in which state?
Answer: Connecticut

Question: Who was the first man to be general Secretary and President of the USSR?
Answer: Leonid Brezhnev

Question: Who wrote the best seller 'The Lovely Bones'?
Answer: Alice Sebold

Question: What is the French for Wednesday?
Answer: Mercredi

Question: How is novelist Patricia Plangman better known?
Answer: Patricia Highsmith

Question: What is the correct way of addressing a Duke?
Answer: """Your Grace"""

Question: What two letters make up the Internet Country Code for Pakistan?
Answer: pk

Question: After Manchester United in 1968, which was the next English club to lay in the European Cup Final?
Answer: Leeds United (1975)

Question: What is the christian name of the classical composer Dvorak?
Answer: Antonin

Question: In 'Monopoly', what is situated between 'Whitechapel Road' and 'Kings Cross Station'?
Answer: INCOME TAX (notSuper Tax)

Question: Name the country in Europe which is double landlocked (surrounded by landlocked countries)?
Answer: Liechtenstein

Question: Which was the only 'Live 8' venue that was in Asia?
Answer: Tokyo

Question: Which European country's national flag is a horizontal tricolour: Red, White and Green?
Answer: Hungary

Question: Which mythical creature had the head of an Eagle and the bodyand legs of a Lion?
Answer: Griffin