Question: In the film "Calamity Jane" staffing Doris Day, who was the owner of the Golden Garter saloon, mentioned in the song, "The Deadwood Stage"?
Answer: Henry Miller

Question: The ore, cassiterite, is the chief source of which metal?
Answer: Tin

Question: The percheron, a breed of heavy carthorse, originated in which country?
Answer: France

Question: What is the name of the character, consisting of two dots, placed over a vowel, especially in German, which changes the sound of that vowel in pronunciation?
Answer: Umlaut

Question: On November 1st 1914, which naval battle took place in the South Atlantic, in which a squadron of British ships were routed by the Germans, under Maximilian von Spee?
Answer: Coronel

Question: In which classic novel, published in 1848, does the character Mr Rawden Crawley appear?
Answer: Vanity Fair

Question: Which of the four U.S. Presidents carved into Mt. Rushmore is wearing spectacles?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Question: The third movement of Debussy's "Suite Bergamasque" is better known by which name?
Answer: Clair De Lune

Question: In the 1997 film, "Independence Day", which actor played the part of the US President?
Answer: Bill Pullman

Question: Which group had a UK No I hit in 1967 with their song, "Massachusetts"?
Answer: The Bee Gees

Question: The Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland is made up from which type of rock?
Answer: Basalt

Question: By what name was the pop star Mark Feld better known?
Answer: Marc Bolan

Question: What was destroyed at Bamiyan on the orders of the Taliban in 2001?
Answer: Statues Of Buddha

Question: .North Yorkshire in terms of area is England's largest county. Which is the second largest?
Answer: Cumbria

Question: Who wrote Sergeant Musgrave's Dance?
Answer: John Arden

Question: Which one of Harold Wilson's peers went to jail for fraud?
Answer: Lord Kagan

Question: On which River does Pittsburgh stand?
Answer: Ohio

Question: Fritz Kreisler who died in 1962, was a virtuoso on which musical instrument?
Answer: The Violin

Question: Which TV serial of 1984 was based on the Raj Quartet novels by Paul Scott?
Answer: The Jewel In The Crown

Question: What is the full name of the Super 12 Rugby Union side, from Canterbury, New Zealand?
Answer: Crusaders

Question: In which 1950 film, did Howard Keel and Betty Hutton sing the duet, "Anything you can do"?
Answer: Annie Get Your Gun

Question: Which politician was portrayed in the satirical magazine, Private Eye, as The Vicar of St Albion?
Answer: Tony Blair

Question: Which foodstuff is made by coagulating soy milk, and pressing the resultant curd into blocks?
Answer: Tofu

Question: Tannenberg and The Masurian Lakes, were early battles in which war?
Answer: World War I

Question: Which country in S. E. Asia consists of 17,508 islands, one of the larger ones being Sulawesi?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: What type of medical instrument is a plexor?
Answer: A Rubber Headed Hammer

Question: Who composed the music for the ballet, "Petrushka"?
Answer: Igor Stravinsky

Question: A portrait of the Duke of Wellington, by which artist, was stolen from the National Gallery in London in 1961, and recovered four years later?
Answer: Francisco Goya

Question: The premiere of which ballet by Stravinsky, in Paris in 1913, provoked a riot among the audience?
Answer: The Rite Of Spring

Question: In which American, science fiction TV series of the 1990's, did Jennifer Lien play the part of Kes?
Answer: Startrek, Voyager

Question: Of which common item was a Daguerreotype an early example?
Answer: A Photograph

Question: Jean Alexander played which part in the TV series, "Last of the Summer Wine"?
Answer: Auntie Wainwright

Question: Antietam and Fredericksburg were high casualty battles in which war?
Answer: American Civil War

Question: For whose murder was James Hanratty hanged in 1962, a case which became known as the A6 murder?
Answer: Michael Gregsten

Question: What name is given to the cooked and clarified butter, much used in Indian cuisine?
Answer: Ghee

Question: In the song "Anything you can do", despite the many claims of their achievements, which task did both hero and heroine confess to be unable to do?
Answer: Bake A Pie

Question: What is the full name of the Australian National Rugby League team from Melbourne?
Answer: (Melbourne) Storm

Question: Which knighted British composer wrote the musical score for the 1957 film, "Bridge on the River Kwai"?
Answer: Malcolm Arnold

Question: Horntail, Common Green Swedish Short Snout and Chinese Fireball are all types of which fictional creature?
Answer: Dragons

Question: Measuring over 26,000 square miles in area, which is Africa's largest lake?
Answer: Lake Victoria

Question: Maureen Cox was the first wife of which famous musical personality?
Answer: Ringo Starr

Question: In Egyptian mythology, who was the God of the Sky, depicted as a man with the head of a falcon?
Answer: Horus

Question: The three Chappell brothers, who played test cricket for Australia, were the grandsons of which Australian test cricketer, who captained his country in the 1930's?
Answer: Vic Richardson

Question: Stephen Dedalus, is the main character and fictional alter ego of which author, in the 1916 book, "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"?
Answer: James Joyce

Question: Which American folk singer / songwriter, wrote the classic songs, "Where have all the flowers gone", and "Turn, Turn, Turn"?
Answer: Pete Seeger

Question: Who is the hero of the novel, "Lorna Doone", by R.D. Blackmore, who after many adventures, kills the villainous Carver Doone, and marries the eponymous heroine?
Answer: John R1Dd

Question: Which detergent is advertised as, "The soap you can believe in"?
Answer: Daz

Question: To which family of birds does the brambling belong?
Answer: Finches

Question: Which woman, who died tragically in 1999 aged 43, was the first female to present the BBC sports programme, "Grandstand"?
Answer: Helen Rollason

Question: Which music hall actor invented the character of Old Mother Riley, a part he was to play in 16 films?
Answer: Arthur Lucan

Question: What word is used to describe a small, square tile of stone or glass, used in mosaics?
Answer: Tessera

Question: What word is used to describe a text, written for and set to music, in an opera?
Answer: Libretto

Question: Part of the plot of the novel, "Lorna Doone", revolves around which famous English battle?
Answer: Battle Of Sedgemoor

Question: In flowering plants, what name is given to the terminal part of a stamen, where pollen is produced?
Answer: The Anther

Question: Peggy Seeger, half sister to the American folk singer Pete Seeger, was the third wife of which British poet, playwright and folk singer?
Answer: EWAN MacCOLL

Question: Although Stephen Dedalus is an important character in James Joyce's novel, "Ulysses", who is, in fact, the main character in the story?
Answer: Leopold Bloom

Question: When he won the US Open in 2005, which man became only the second New Zealander, after Bob Charles, to win one of golf's major championships?
Answer: Michael Campbell

Question: Which is the most popular deity in Indian culture? Known as the Lord of Obstacles, this god is depicted as having the head of an elephant?
Answer: Ganesh

Question: Lake Edward in Africa, was renamed after which tyrannical African leader in the 1970's, the lake reverting to its original name, after he was overthrown?
Answer: Idi Amin

Question: In which U.S. city is the TV comedy series, "Frazier" set?
Answer: Seattle

Question: Who is the very famous, yet estranged, actress daughter of actor, Jon Voight?
Answer: Angelina Jolie

Question: What number links the characters played by Patrick McGoohan in "The Prisoner" and Tricia Helfer in "Battlestar Galactica"?
Answer: Six

Question: Which London-born novelist/journalist, of German parentage, wrote "Everything You Know" and "Notes on a Scandal"?
Answer: Zoe Heller