Question: Which Greek philosopher is popularly known as 'The Weeping Philosopher' because of his melancholy nature?
Answer: Heraclitus

Question: In which 1993 film does John Goodman star as the fictional schlock-horror director Lawrence Woolsey?
Answer: 'Matinee'

Question: Named after two bodies of water, what name was given to the provisional border between Poland and East Germany that was agreed at the Potsdam Conference following World War II?
Answer: Oder-Neisse Line

Question: Who won a Middleweight Boxing gold medal for Great Britain at the Beijing Olympics?
Answer: JAMES DeGALE

Question: Who won a gold medal for Great Britain in the Men's 1000k K-1 canoeing event at the Beijing Olympics?
Answer: Tim Brabants

Question: Which is the heaviest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: Which religious founder rode a horse called 'Kantaka'?
Answer: Buddha

Question: Who wrote the music for the ballet 'The Three-Cornered Hat'?
Answer: MANUEL de FALLA

Question: What papal name was taken by Nicholas Breakspear, the only English Pope?
Answer: Adrian Iv

Question: Which opera by Sergei Prokofiev is based on a novel by Leo Tolstoy?
Answer: 'War And Peace'

Question: Which county shares borders with Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire?
Answer: Dorset

Question: Which hit for 'The Fugees' was the biggest-selling single in Britain in 1996?
Answer: 'Killing Me Softly'

Question: Who is the Eternal President of North Korea?
Answer: KIM IL-SUNG (not Kim Jong-Il who is simply the President)

Question: Which team defeated the Indianapolis Colts to win the 2010 Super Bowl?
Answer: New Orleans Saints

Question: Which French physicist gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, now known as his namesake cycle, thereby laying the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics?
Answer: Sadi Carnot

Question: What is the name and regnal number of the reigning King of Sweden?
Answer: CARL XVI GUSTAF (accept Carl Gustav XVI as the word ordering is simply due to protocol)

Question: Name either of the teams taking part in the NBA final this month?
Answer: BOSTON CELTICS or LOS ANGELES LAKERS

Question: Housed in the Louvre in Paris, which enormous oil on canvas painted by Paolo Veronese depicts the moment when Jesus turned the water into wine?
Answer: 'The Wedding At Cana'

Question: Which 1991 Disney movie was the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Answer: 'Beauty And The Beast'

Question: Which year saw the end of the Korean War, the death of Josef Stalin and the first televised Academy Awards Ceremony?
Answer: 1953

Question: The fashion designer John Galliano was born in which British overseas territory?
Answer: Gibraltar

Question: Which year saw the resignation of John Profumo, the Great Train Robbery and the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
Answer: 1963

Question: Which fashion designer, known for his space age designs, introduced the 'bubble dress' in 1954?
Answer: Pierre Cardin

Question: Released in 1995, which was the first fully computer- animated feature film?
Answer: 'Toy Story'

Question: What is the name of the central character, a Harvard professor of religious iconology and symbology, in Dan Brown's novels 'Angels And Demons' and 'The Da Vinci Code'?
Answer: Robert Langdon

Question: Who had a number one hit in May 2010 with 'Once'?
Answer: Diana Vickers

Question: Who was the Commander of the Luftwaffe who avoided execution by committing suicide by cyanide ingestion the night before he was due to be hanged in October 1946?
Answer: Hermann Goering

Question: What is the name of the capital and largest city in Brunei?
Answer: Bandar Seri Begawan

Question: Who had a number one hit in June 2010 with 'Dirtee Disco'?
Answer: Dizzee Rascal

Question: 'Operation Anthropoid' was the codename given to the successful plot to assassinate which senior Nazi?
Answer: Reinhard Heydrich

Question: Located in Kanagawa Prefecture on Honshu, which is Japan's second largest city by population?
Answer: Yokohama

Question: What was the disorder afflicting the protagonist in Mark Haddon's 'The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time'?
Answer: Asperger'S Syndrome

Question: Killikrates and Iktinos were the architects of which building completed on the 5th century BC?
Answer: Parthenon

Question: An aria sung by the unknown prince 'Calaf' in Puccini's 'Turandot', how does 'Nessum Dorma' translate into English?
Answer: 'None Shall Sleep'

Question: Made up of the top members of the Central Committee, what was the name of the elected body that functioned as the central policymaking body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Politburo

Question: How does Rossini's opera 'La Gazza Ladra' translate into English?
Answer: 'The Thieving Magpie'

Question: Which great modernist architect designed the Seagram Building in New York in collaboration with Philip Johnson?
Answer: Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Question: Which football team have recently been crowned Portuguese League Champions?
Answer: Benfica

Question: Which Portuguese navigator is widely regarded as the first European to discoverer of Brazil?
Answer: Pedro Alvares Cabral

Question: Which is the largest lake in South America in terms of volume?
Answer: TITICACA (not Maracaibo, which is largest in area only)

Question: What is the name of the cooking technique used in Japanese cuisine, in which foods are broiled or grilled in a sweet soy sauce marinade?
Answer: Teriyaki

Question: Which American adventurer, the first man to fly non-stop around the world in a balloon, died in 2007 after the plane he was flying crashed in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California?
Answer: Steve Fossett

Question: Known affectionately as 'The Hungarian Sea' and one of the country's major tourist attractions, which is the largest lake in Central Europe?
Answer: Lake Balaton

Question: Often used in sushi, which Japanese delicacy consists of very fresh raw seafood, sliced into thin pieces and served with a dipping sauce?
Answer: Sashimi

Question: Which dog that was originally bred in the Congo, is sometimes known as 'The Barkless Dog' as it produces an unusual yodel-like sound due to its unusually shaped larynx?
Answer: Basenji

Question: What was the first name of Mr. Diesel, the inventor of the Diesel engine?
Answer: Rudolf

Question: What is the name of the Italian tennis player who defeated Samantha Stosur to win the Women's French Open title earlier this month?
Answer: Francesca Schiavone

Question: Which English monarch wrestled with Francis I of France at 'The Field of the Cloth of Gold'?
Answer: Henry Viii

Question: What was the first name of Mr. Braille, who devised a system allowing blind people to read and write?
Answer: Louis

Question: Which English king was overthrown after 'The Glorious Revolution'?
Answer: James Ii

Question: Thought to be the strongest of all dog breeds and certainly the strongest swimmer, which dog, originally bred in Canada, is noteable for its waterproof coat and webbed feet?
Answer: Newfoundland

Question: The name of which chemical element is derived from the Greek for 'colour'?
Answer: Chromium

Question: Also the name of a popular TV character, who was the father of the apostles John the Evangelist and James the Greater?
Answer: Zebedee

Question: Colin Firth was nominated for an 'Oscar' for Best Actor this year for his role as 'George Falconer' in which film?
Answer: 'A Single Man'

Question: Living to an age of 962 years, who was the second oldest person in the Bible?
Answer: Jared

Question: Mount Logan is the highest point in which Commonwealth country?
Answer: Canada

Question: The 2001 film 'Blackhawk Down' told the story of a US
Answer: Somalia

Question: Which future American President was imprisoned by the British during the American War of Independence?
Answer: Andrew Jackson

Question: Which British architect designed the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg?
Answer: Richard Rogers