Question: Who is generally credited with building the first reflecting telescope?
Answer: Isaac Newton

Question: Persephone is the Greek goddess of which season?
Answer: Spring

Question: The Prince Edward Islands in the Indian ocean are part of which country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Steve Halliwell plays which character in the UK television soap ‘Emmerdale’?
Answer: Zak Dingle

Question: In which country were the first Olympic Games held in the Southern Hemisphere?
Answer: Australia

Question: How many players are on the field in a rugby union team?
Answer: 15

Question: Mittwoch is German for which day of the week?
Answer: Wednesday

Question: What is the name of the Indian python in Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Jungle Book’?
Answer: Kaa

Question: What is the lowest vocal range in females?
Answer: Contralto/alto

Question: Which magazine is known as ‘The International Magazine for Men’?
Answer: Penthouse

Question: Which word is used for the score of zero in a game of tennis?
Answer: Love

Question: How many months of the year have only 30 days?
Answer: Four

Question: Who played Fred Flinstone in the 1994 film ‘The Flintstones’?
Answer: John Goodman

Question: Dr Robert Langdon is a fictional character in a series of novels by which author?
Answer: Dan Brown

Question: Ombrophobia is an irrational fear of which weather condition?
Answer: Rain

Question: The Brix Scale is a system used in the US to measure the content of what in grapes and wine?
Answer: Sugar

Question: The Painted Desert is in which US state?
Answer: Arizona

Question: In religion, according to Islam, who was the last of the prophets?
Answer: Muhammed

Question: British actor Henry Cavill has been chosen to play which superhero in a film due to be released in 2013?
Answer: Superman

Question: The full moon seen closest to the time of the Autumn Equinox is commonly known as what?
Answer: Harvest Moon

Question: Which English football club won the FA Cup in 2009?
Answer: Chelsea

Question: Which notorious murderer is depicted in the 2001 film ‘From Hell’?
Answer: Jack the Ripper

Question: A grunion is what type of creature?
Answer: Fish

Question: Which 1997 film, directed by Quentin Tarantino, is based on Elmore Leonard’s novel ‘Rum Punch’?
Answer: Jackie Brown

Question: The crab represents which sign of the Zodiac?
Answer: Cancer

Question: The sclera is the white outer layer of which part of the human body?
Answer: Eyeball

Question: Barry Butler, who was killed in a car accident in 1966, was the captain of which English football team?
Answer: Norwich City FC

Question: Which soft drink ‘Gives you wings’?
Answer: Red Bull

Question: Ann Davison became the first woman to single-handedly sail which body of water in 1952?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: What is the title of the Arthur Conan Doyle novel in which Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance?
Answer: A Study in Scarlet

Question: The Java Trench (or Sunda Trench) is the deepest part of which ocean?
Answer: Indian Ocean?

Question: Who did Ringo Starr replace as the Beatles drummer in August 1962?
Answer: Pete Best

Question: Lachanophobia is the irrational fear of which food items?
Answer: Vegetables

Question: What were said to have been built at the orders of Nebuchadnezzar II in order to stop his wife feeling homesick?
Answer: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Question: What type of root does a dandelion have?
Answer: Taproot

Question: What was the name of England’s first offshore Pirate Radio station?
Answer: Radio Caroline

Question: Who was the trainer of three-times English Grand National winner Red Rum?
Answer: Donald ‘Ginger’ McCain

Question: In the nursery rhyme who cut off the ‘Three Blind Mice’ tails?
Answer: The Farmer’s Wife

Question: Which band released a 2003 album entitled ‘Youth and Young Manhood’?
Answer: Kings of Leon

Question: What colour is the dragon on the national flag of Wales?
Answer: Red

Question: The coastline of Kenya lies on which ocean?
Answer: Indian Ocean?

Question: Which opera by Verdi is based on the Alexander Dumas book ‘La Dame aux Camelias’?
Answer: La Traviata

Question: Which Apollo spacecraft landed on the Moon in February 1971?
Answer: Apollo 14

Question: The Northwest Passage connects which two oceans?
Answer: Pacific and Atlantic

Question: Which letter of the alphabet is represented by one dot in the International Morse Code?
Answer: E

Question: ‘Parky’ is the nickname of which former British talk show host?
Answer: Michael Parkinson

Question: Which British darts player is known by the nickname ‘Mr Glitter’?
Answer: Bobby George

Question: A portiere is a heavy curtain which is hung across what?
Answer: Door or doorway

Question: What does a cerophilist collect?
Answer: Candles

Question: How many paintings make up William Hogarth’s ‘A Rake’s Progress’?
Answer: Eight

Question: According to the Bible, Jesus was at a wedding in Cana when he turned water into what?
Answer: Wine

Question: Political Aide Alastair Campbell was best known as Director of Communications and Strategy for which British Prime Minister?
Answer: Tony Blair

Question: The headquarters of UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is in which country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: In Greek mythology Eurystheus imposed twelve labours on which of his cousins?
Answer: Hercules (Heracles)

Question: Mora-Siljan Airport is in which European country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: ‘Canard’ is French for which creature?
Answer: Duck

Question: Which former US President is often referred to as LBJ?
Answer: Lyndon Baines Johnson

Question: Ursula, Sebastian and Flounder are all characters in which Disney film?
Answer: The Little Mermaid

Question: Fragrant essential oil Attar is typically made from the petals of which flower?
Answer: Rose

Question: Who directed the 1988 film ‘Beetle Juice’?
Answer: Tim Burton

Question: The Jet d’Eau Fountain is in which European city?
Answer: Geneva

Question: In London, the Lord Mayor’s Show takes place on the second Saturday of which month?
Answer: November

Question: Which month of the Gregorian calendar was originally the first month of the Roman calendar?
Answer: March

Question: What was the first name of the wife of late singer/musician Marc Bolan?
Answer: June

Question: All Hallows’ Eve is celebrated on the last day of which month?
Answer: October

Question: Valentine’s Day falls during which month of the year?
Answer: February

Question: Which month is mentioned in the Four Seasons song ‘Oh What A Night’?
Answer: December

Question: In Scotland, Burns Night is celebrated during which month of the year?
Answer: January

Question: In Britain, which month sees the start of The Grouse Season?
Answer: August

Question: During which month in 1912 did RMS Titanic strike an iceberg and sink?
Answer: April

Question: Author H E Bates wrote the novel ‘The Darling Buds of….when’?
Answer: May

Question: During which month of 1533 was Queen Elizabeth I of England born?
Answer: September

Question: St Nicholas Day (the Patron Saint of Children) is traditionally celebrated on the 6th of which month?
Answer: December

Question: During which month is the Men’s Tennis Championship final held at Wimbledon?
Answer: July

Question: Which chemical element has the symbol Ba?
Answer: Barium

Question: Which British television series was first broadcast in 1983 as a single drama called ‘Woodentop’?
Answer: The Bill

Question: French actress Dany Robin made her only ‘Carry On’ appearance in which 1966 film?
Answer: Don’t Lose Your Head

Question: Heritage Day is celebrated in South Africa during which month of the year?
Answer: September – 24th

Question: Where is US sculptor Gutzon Borglum’s largest and most famous work?
Answer: Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

Question: Who’s autobiography is entitled ‘The Naked Civil Servant’?
Answer: Quentin Crisp

Question: Which former US President was given the nickname ‘Dubya’?
Answer: George W Bush