Question: What was the surname of father Pierre Auguste, a painter, and his film director son, Jean?
Answer: Renoir

Question: Who composed the music for the 2011 ballet 'Ocean's Kingdom'?
Answer: Paul McCartney

Question: Which Soviet politician was known by a pseudonym meaning `The Hammer'?
Answer: Molotov

Question: Of which uniformed group are St Genevieve and St Sebastian the patron saints?
Answer: Police

Question: Which family were grand dukes of Tuscany from 1569 to 1737?
Answer: (Di) Medici

Question: In which present day country is the Biblical land of Sheba?
Answer: Yemen

Question: Frenchman Robert Hubert was executed in England during the latter part of the 17th century after he falsely confessed to have committed which crime?
Answer: Starting the Great Fire of London

Question: Which hat is named after an 1894 novel by George du Maurier?
Answer: Trilby

Question: Clifford's Tower is all that remains of the castle in which British town or city?
Answer: York

Question: Nureyev, Makarova and Baryshnikov all defected from which ballet company?
Answer: Kirov

Question: 'Closing Time' published in 1994 was a sequel to which 1961 novel?
Answer: Catch 22

Question: Who succeeded Richard Nixon as US President?
Answer: Gerald Ford

Question: The coral island of Niue is a self-governing state in free association with which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Which Benedictine monk wrote 'Chronica Majora', a history of the world from the creation to 1959?
Answer: Matthew Paris

Question: Who wrote 'The Hunting of the Snark'?
Answer: Lewis Carroll

Question: What sort of a creature is a drongo?
Answer: A Bird

Question: Which 1957 treaty paved the way for the European Union?
Answer: The Treaty Of Rome

Question: What is the staple diet of the leopard seal?
Answer: Penguins

Question: What was the first battle in the American Revolution?
Answer: Battle Of Lexington And Concord

Question: What was the profession of Louis Le Vau?
Answer: Architect

Question: What sort of a creature is a pinto?
Answer: A Horse

Question: Which Greek village was the principal sanctuary and oracle of Apollo?
Answer: Delphi

Question: Which Indian novelist wrote 'The Man-Eater of Malgudi'?
Answer: R. K. Narayan

Question: Founded in 1636 which university claims to be the oldest in the USA?
Answer: Harvard

Question: Who was King of England from 1272 to 1307?
Answer: Edward I

Question: Which US actor starred in the film 'The Public Enemy' and 'The Roaring Twenties'?
Answer: James Cagney

Question: Which US President pursued a programme of social reform called the 'Fair Deal'?
Answer: Harry S Truman

Question: In which state of the USA can the city of Omaha be found?
Answer: Nebraska

Question: What is the smallest of the Greater Sunda Islands?
Answer: Java

Question: Which film musical starred Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood and Jean Seberg?
Answer: Paint Your Wagon

Question: Which legendary King of Mycenae was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus?
Answer: Agamemnon

Question: After which Austrian physicist is the ratio of the velocity of a body in a medium to the velocity of sound in that medium named?
Answer: Ernst Mach

Question: Who was the King of Albania from 1928 to 1939?
Answer: Zog I

Question: Which British composer wrote the opera Troilus and Cressida?
Answer: Sir William Walton

Question: Which sugary solution produced by flowers attracts insects, birds or bats and encourages pollination?
Answer: Nectar

Question: Which US novelist wrote 'Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings'?
Answer: Joel Chandler Harris

Question: Which scientist half-cousin of Charles Darwin coined the term 'eugenics'?
Answer: Sir Francis Galton

Question: Which Royal Gardens near Richmond were established in the 18th Century?
Answer: Kew Gardens

Question: On which tributary of the Great Ouse does Cambridge lie?
Answer: The River Cam

Question: Which US novelist wrote 'Big Sur'?
Answer: Jack Kerouac

Question: Which Argentinean motor-racing driver was World Champion a record five times during the 1950's?
Answer: Juan Manuel Fangio

Question: Of which state of the USA is Dover the capital?
Answer: Delaware

Question: Which Jewish religious movement was founded by Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov?
Answer: Hasidism

Question: Which avant-garde US composer wrote the piece 4'33"?
Answer: John Cage

Question: Which king of England married Isabella of France?
Answer: Edward Ii

Question: Of which Caribbean country is Castries the capital?
Answer: St Lucia

Question: What was Capability Brown's first name?
Answer: Lancelot

Question: Where was the eventual destination of the borrowed London bus in the UK film 'Summer Holiday'?
Answer: Athens

Question: How is milk sugar otherwise known?
Answer: Lactose

Question: Which incompetent police force featured in the silent film comedies produced by Mack Sennett?
Answer: The Keystone Cops

Question: Which unit of power is represented by the symbol W?
Answer: Watt

Question: According to Greek legend, who was the father of Telemachus?
Answer: Odysseus

Question: Which Swiss resort is famous for its Cresta Run?
Answer: St Moritz

Question: Which actress starred in the films Cabaret and Arthur?
Answer: Liza Minnelli

Question: Which British novelist wrote 'Brideshead Revisited'?
Answer: Evelyn Waugh

Question: What is the largest lake in the British Isles?
Answer: Lough Neagh

Question: Which British scientist discovered benzene?
Answer: Michael Faraday

Question: Which British novelist wrote 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'?
Answer: Baroness Orczy

Question: Which Armenian composer wrote the ballets Gayaneh and Spartacus?
Answer: Khachaturian

Question: Of which country is the Glomma the longest river?
Answer: Norway

Question: The characters Dame Caruthers and Jack Point appear in which Gilbert & Sullivan opera?
Answer: Yeomen of the Guard

Question: In 2013 the drinks brands Lucozade and Ribena were bought by which Japanese company?
Answer: Suntory

Question: Who, in 2013, became King of Belgium on the abdication of his father King Albert II?
Answer: Philippe

Question: Who, in 2013, became King of the Netherlands on the abdication of his mother Queen Beatrix?
Answer: Willem-Alexander

Question: Which company bought Cadbury's in 2012?
Answer: Kraft

Question: The characters Mad Margaret and Robin Oakapple appear in which Gilbert & Sullivan opera?
Answer: Ruddigore

Question: Who painted 'The Adoration of the Magi' and 'The Last Supper'?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Question: Who, between 1032 and 1048, became the only man to become Pope more than once and also the only one to sell the papacy? (name only required)
Answer: Benedict

Question: How many carbon atoms make up a benzene molecule?
Answer: Six

Question: Which former Test cricketer presented the 1970s TV show 'Indoor League'?
Answer: Fred Trueman

Question: During the summer of 2013 what was raised from the sea-bed off the Kent and Sussex coast?
Answer: Aeroplane

Question: Which former snooker player was a co-presenter on the TV show 'Big Break'?
Answer: John Virgo

Question: How many hydrogen atoms make up a methane molecule?
Answer: Four

Question: The last Pope prior to Benedict 16th to resign did so in 1415, what was his name? (name only required)
Answer: Gregory

Question: Which singer released the album 'Closer to the Truth' in 2013, twelve years after her previous album 'Living Proof?
Answer: Cher

Question: Which country re-united in 1990?
Answer: Germany

Question: Who wrote the novel 'The White Queen', on which the BBC TV series is based?
Answer: Philippa Gregory

Question: What name is given to the 'almost flat' part of a ship's bottom and the filth that gathers there?
Answer: Bilge

Question: Which country re-united in 1976?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: Who released an album in 2013 called simply 'New'?
Answer: Paul McCartney

Question: In the nursery rhyme 'Sing a Song of Sixpence', what was the queen eating?
Answer: Bread and honey