Question: There are just two towns in Rutland - Oakham, the county town and which other, best known for its 428 year old public school ?
Answer: Uppingham

Question: Cleeve Hill, at 330m, is the highest point in which range of hills in south-western and west central England ?
Answer: Cotswolds

Question: Which state has the longest coastline and 75% of the active volcanoes in the USA?
Answer: Alaska

Question: In 2002, which Secretary of Defence explained about "known knowns", "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns" in a speech referring to terrorism?
Answer: Donald Rumsfeld

Question: Which ballet by Aaron Copeland, first performed in 1944, contains a mountain range and a season in its name. It tells the story of a celebration of the building of a Pennsylvanian farmhouse?
Answer: Appalachian Spring

Question: In 1851 a club team led by John Cox Stevens won the world's oldest active sporting trophy. It was not until 1983 that an Australian team won the trophy thus ending a 132 year winning streak. What was the sport?
Answer: Yachting

Question: 999 is the number for Police, Ambulance, Fire Service, Coast Guard, Mountain Rescue and which other emergency service?
Answer: Cave Rescue

Question: In which decade was the telephone invented?
Answer: 1870's

Question: 0800 1111 is the number of a helpline founded in 1986 by a TV personality. In the 2009 General election she lost her deposit fighting the Luton South seat, after campaigning against corruption by MPs over their expenses. Who is she?
Answer: Esther Rantzen

Question: Give any year in the life of Owain Glyndwr.
Answer: 1346 -1416

Question: Lesley Griffiths, Wrexham's Assembly Member, holds which Welsh Cabinet post?
Answer: Health

Question: At 536 metres Foel Cymcerwyn is the highest poin of which range of Welsh hills?
Answer: Prescelli

Question: Brian Josephson (1973), Clive Grainger (2003) and John Houghton (2007) are Welsh winners of the Nobel Prize. Who was the first Welshman to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950? Born in Monmouthshire in 1872 and living for almost 100 years he was a philosopher, championing humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.
Answer: Bertrand Russell

Question: Who was the leader of the forces defeated in the Battle of Watling Street in 61 AD?
Answer: Boudicca

Question: Which two A roads now follow the vast majority of the old Watling Street, running from Dover to Wroxeter?
Answer: A2 and A5

Question: At the southern end of Watling Street lies Dover Castle. Operation Dynamo was masterminded from here in May/June 1940. How is Operation Dynamo better known?
Answer: Dunkirk Evacuations

Question: Which other 230 mile pre-Roman road crosses Watling Street at a point called High Cross in Warwickshire?
Answer: Fosse Way

Question: Standing side by side in Stony Stratford on Watling Street are two ancient coaching inns. In the 18th century travellers tales became embellished as they passed between the two establishments, and the emanating tales began to be called after them, a pracitce continued to this day. What are the two inns called?
Answer: COCK and BULL

Question: Which former England Cricket Captain of the 60's and 70's who played in six unbeaten test series with a batting average of 45 is a vice president of Wolverhampton Wanderers football club?
Answer: Rachel Heyhoe-Flint

Question: In the 1990 Oscar winning film "Dances with wolves", John Dunbar befriends Indians calling themselves Lakota. To which tribe of plains Indians did Lakota belong?
Answer: Sioux

Question: """The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack"" is a quotation from Kipling's ""Jungle Book"". What was the name of the leader of the Seeonee wolf pack that adopted Mowgli, after which cub scout leaders have been named?"
Answer: Akele

Question: In the 70's Robert Lindsay played Citizen Wolfie Smith, the leader of the Tooting Popular Front. What was his four word catchphrase shouted out defiantly at the start of each programme?
Answer: Power To The People

Question: The Libyan flag had been green under Colonel Gadaffis rule. A flag of which three colours was first flown by the rebels and has now been adopted by the nation?
Answer: Red Black Green

Question: What is the name of the so called God Particle that the Hadron Collider scientists claim to have found evidence of in December 2011?
Answer: Higgs Boson

Question: According to the Daily Mail last week, Greece currently owes approximately 340 billion euros. This means that the debt per head of population in Greece is now approximately which one of the following - 13,000 23,000 33,000 or 43,000 euros?
Answer: 33,000 euros

Question: Which colour was the title of Coldplay's first top 5 hit in 2000 and the flag used in Formula 1 racing to indicate a hazard, slow down and not overtake?
Answer: Yellow

Question: The title of Adam Ant's 3rd and last No 1 hit in 1982 and the title of John Newbery's children's story published in 1765 contain the same three words. It is now used as a derisory term about an excessively virtous or conformist person. What is it?
Answer: Goody Two Shoes

Question: Derided by Simply Red in their first hit single, "Money too tight to mention", what was the monetary policy, akin to Thatcherism, followed by America in the 1980's?
Answer: Reaganomics

Question: At 26 miles 385 yards, the marathon is the longest Olympic running race. What is its distance to the nearest kilometre?
Answer: 42km

Question: The 1981 film "Chariots of Fire" featured the achievements of Harold Abrahams and which Scottish missionary who refused to run in the 100m heats on a Sunday and instead won the 400m Gold Medal in the 1924 Olympics?
Answer: Eric Liddle

Question: In the 1960's, in the pavement of the market square of her home city Wells, a memorial, 22 feet 2 and 1/4 inches long was placed, commemorating the achievement of the first British woman to win olympic Gold in an athletic event. Who was she?
Answer: Mary Rand

Question: In 1980 the Olympics were boycotted by countries led by the USA protesting against the Afghan war. In 1984 they were boycotted by countries led by the USSR protesting about America's attitude towards them. Only one country, which underwent a revolution in 1979 boycotted both years. Which country was this?
Answer: Iran

Question: In which card game is the 5th card often called the River?
Answer: Poker

Question: """The Haywain"" and ""Dedham Valley"" are paintings by Constable both feature which river that forms much of the border between Essex and Suffolk?"
Answer: Stour

Question: The cyclepath/footpath in Devon which follows the Rivers Taw and Torridge is named after which eponymous persecuted animal in the 1926 book by Henry Williamson, made into a film in 1979?
Answer: Tarka The Otter

Question: The Mekong river is the border between Laos and which other Asian country for about 1000km of its length?
Answer: Thailand

Question: The song "Ol' Man River" from the 1927 musical "Showboat" was sung most famously by Paul Robeson. To which river does it refer?
Answer: Mississippi

Question: Brittany ferries operate a direct service for Irish passengers from Cork to which French port in the Finisterre department?
Answer: Roscoff

Question: Literally meaning three planks, what is the six letter name of the flat bottom boats, generally about four metres long, used in Asia for inshore transport and fishing?
Answer: Sampan

Question: What is the name of the Derby based firm which recently won a £180 million contract to build rail carriages for Southern Rail after losing out on a larger contract earlier in the year to build carriages for Thames line?
Answer: Bombardier

Question: What was the name of the aircraft flown on Amy Johnson's solo flight from England to Australia and the Yacht sailed by Sir Francis Chochester in his round the world voyage?
Answer: Gypsy Moth