Question: What was the home of the gods in Norse mythology?
Answer: Asgard.

Question: What is the capital of Mali?
Answer: Bamako .

Question: Able seaman Kate Nesbitt, a medical assistant, became the first woman in the RN to receive which award in Nov. 2009?
Answer: The Military Cross

Question: The 6,700 ton St. Helena is one of only two vessels to still carry which designation?
Answer: Royal Mail Ship

Question: The national Needle Museum is to be found in which Worcestershire town?
Answer: Redditch

Question: All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The opening lines of which great novel?
Answer: Anna Karenina

Question: Which company made the 1950's car the Mayflower?
Answer: Triumph

Question: Which European capital is served by Vantaa airport?
Answer: Helsinki

Question: Who is the most infamous old boy of St. Peter's School in York?
Answer: Guy Fawkes.

Question: 'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents grumbled Jo,lying on lying on the rug.' Is the opening line of which famous novel?
Answer: Little Women

Question: Which company made a 1950's/60's car called the Magnette?
Answer: Mg

Question: In which British city is there a suburb called New Zealand?
Answer: Derby

Question: What was the name of John Cabot's ship in which he set off in 1497 to reach Asia, finishing up in Newfoundland?
Answer: Matthew

Question: Moira Cameron became the first woman in 522 years to join which body of men in 2009?
Answer: The Yeomen of the Guard

Question: Whose words are these 'Berlin is the testicle of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze Berlin?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev

Question: Who wrote The Russia House' in 1989?
Answer: John le Carre

Question: The establishment of which law officers dates from 1194?
Answer: Coroners

Question: In which US state is Biscayne Bay?
Answer: Florida

Question: Which form of sentence was introduced to the UK by the 1972 Criminal Justice Act?
Answer: Community Service

Question: Who won the Oscar for Best Director at the 2010 awards?
Answer: Kathryn Bigelow

Question: In which city did Superman work, disguised as Clark Kent?
Answer: Metropolis

Question: Who occasionally hosts BBC TV's Eggheads in the absence of Dermot Murnaghan?
Answer: Jeremy Vine

Question: What name is given to the French version of the Tote betting system?
Answer: Pari-Mutuel

Question: Danced in a style representing a bullfight, which dance takes its name from the Spanish for 'double step'?
Answer: Paso Doble

Question: In which year did the following events all take place; Church of England ordained its first female priests, the Channel Tunnel opened and the National Lottery started?
Answer: 1994

Question: In the game of bingo, what number can be called as "was she worth it"?
Answer: 76

Question: In which US state is the Big Sur coast?
Answer: California

Question: In which city did Batman live as Bruce Wayne?
Answer: Gotham City

Question: What is the name of the 'social networking' website, on which messages are restricted to 140 characters, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams in 2006?
Answer: Twitter

Question: The film 'Carrie' was based on a book by which author?
Answer: Stephen King

Question: In February 2010, who reported on an audit of MPs' expense claims?
Answer: Sir Thomas Legg

Question: Which novelty swing dance, derived from the Charleston, was named following Charles Lindberg's crossing of the Atlantic in 1927?
Answer: Lindy Hop

Question: Brandon Flowers is the singer with which group?
Answer: The Killers

Question: Who painted 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' in 1504?
Answer: Hieronymus Bosch

Question: Who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in `Precious'?
Answer: Mo'Nique

Question: Chicago has baseball teams called 'Cubs' and 'White Sox', what is the name of Milwaukee's baseball team?
Answer: Brewers

Question: Who hosts the BBC TV quiz show 'Pointless'?
Answer: Alexander Armstrong

Question: Who was the famous Scottish rugby union commentator who died in January 2010?
Answer: Bill McLaren

Question: Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades were operas by which composer?
Answer: Tchaikovsky

Question: In the game of bingo, what number can be called as "Doctor's orders"?
Answer: 9

Question: What are High Spy, Barf, Knott Rigg and Lord's Seat?
Answer: Lake District Fells

Question: Who was the winner of the 2009 X-Factor TV programme?
Answer: Joe McElderry

Question: In 2010, Carlos Slim became the first non-American since 1994 to top Forbes list of billionaires, what is his nationality?
Answer: Mexican

Question: Which English football league club are nicknamed 'the Brewers'?
Answer: Burton Albion

Question: In which year did the following events all take place; Ken Livingstone became the Mayor of London, England lost 1-0 to Germany in the last match at the old Wembley Stadium and Judith Keppel won the first £1,000,000 on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire'?
Answer: 2000

Question: Which is Britain's oldest colony, settled in 1609?
Answer: Bermuda

Question: Which car manufacturer uses the advertising slogan 'The power of dreams'?
Answer: Honda

Question: What is the name of the music website founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon and launched in 2008?
Answer: Spotify

Question: In the Stephen King book 'Christine', who or what is Christine?
Answer: A car

Question: Who led the inquiry into the war in Iraq?
Answer: John Chilcott

Question: Complete the quotation from Oscar Wilde (in Lady Windermere's Fan) "We are all in the gutter but..."?
Answer: Some of us are looking at the stars

Question: In 2002, Plantlife, a conservation charity, selected flowers or plants to represent each county. Humulus Lupulus was selected for Kent, how is it commonly known?
Answer: Hop

Question: The Lake District mountain Great Gable is connected by the pass Windy Gap to which other peak?
Answer: Green Gable

Question: Which African country is bordered by Ivory Coast to the west, Burkina Faso to the north and Togo to the east?
Answer: Ghana

Question: When he published his Theory of Special relativity in 1905, Albert Einstein was working as a patent clerk in which Swiss city?
Answer: Berne

Question: According to Kenneth Graham (in Wind in the Willows) there is "nothing - absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as ..." what?
Answer: (simply) messing about in boats

Question: Gary Lightbody is the singer with which group?
Answer: Snow Patrol

Question: Who painted 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' in 1665?
Answer: Johannes Vermeer

Question: Who served as the 19th President of the USA from 1877 to 1881 despite receiving fewer votes than his opponent in the election?
Answer: Rutherford B Hayes

Question: Who was Poet Laureate for the longest period (42 years from 1850 to 1892)?
Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question: Which South American country is bordered by Guyana to the west and French Guiana to the east?
Answer: Suriname

Question: Which river rises in the Vosges mountains on the border of Alsace and Lorraine and flows through both France and Germany into the Moselle at Konz?
Answer: Saar

Question: In 2002, Plantlife, a conservation charity, selected flowers or plants to represent each county. Viscum album was selected for Herefordshire, how is it commonly known?
Answer: Mistletoe

Question: Albert Einstein was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at which Ivy League University in 1933?
Answer: Princeton

Question: Who was Poet Laureate for 37 years, from 1930 to 1967?
Answer: John Masefield

Question: Which form of dementia is named after a German psychiatrist who first described it in 1906?
Answer: Alzheimer's Disease

Question: Two Tree Island, Frog Island and Eel Pie Island are all in which river?
Answer: Thames

Question: Who was the architect of the new Wembley stadium?
Answer: Norman Foster

Question: What make of car does Inspector Morse drive in the TV series?
Answer: Jaguar