Question: The first Wendy’s restaurant was opened in 1969 in which US state?
Answer: Ohio

Question: Who won the 2003 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award?
Answer: Jonny Wilkinson

Question: In 1497, John ‘who’ was said to have been the first European to have landed on mainland North America?
Answer: Cabot

Question: With which song did Swedish pop group Abba win the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: Waterloo

Question: In the game of English billiards, how many points does a cannon score?
Answer: Two

Question: In which part of an animal is the cannon bone?
Answer: Leg

Question: In medicine, a spirograph is an instrument used for recording what?
Answer: Breathing movements

Question: What is the title of singer Celine Dion’s first UK number one hit single?
Answer: Think Twice

Question: ‘Dog and Bone’ is Cockney rhyming slang for what?
Answer: Phone

Question: Who wrote the trilogy of plays ‘The Norman Conquests’?
Answer: Alan Ayckbourn

Question: Heteropoda davidbowie is the name given to which rare yellow creature in 2009?
Answer: Spider

Question: The 2008 film ‘Valkyrie’ depicts the 1944 plot to assassinate which political figure?
Answer: Adolph Hitler

Question: Tansu Ciller was the first woman Prime Minister of which European country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Which London Underground station has the longest escalator?
Answer: Angel

Question: Elizabeth Anne Everest was the childhood nanny of which British Prime Minister?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: In which country was the 2010 golf Ryder Cup competition held?
Answer: Wales

Question: In 1999, who became the first female President of Switzerland?
Answer: Ruth Dreifuss

Question: Who wrote the 1902 autobiography ‘The Story of My Life’?
Answer: Helen Keller

Question: What was the name of Peter the Great’s daughter who became Empress of Russia in 1741?
Answer: Elizabeth (Elizaveta Petrovna)

Question: The John Bunn Lifetime Achievement is an annual prize given in which sport?
Answer: Basketball

Question: US investigative reporter and author Clifford Irving is best known for his 1971 hoax autobiography of which reclusive businessman?
Answer: Howard Hughes

Question: Quercus is the Latin name for which tree?
Answer: Oak

Question: The Watford Gap service station is on which British motorway?
Answer: M1

Question: Dactylonomy is counting using what?
Answer: Fingers

Question: The story of the New York gang ‘The Dead Rabbits’ is told in which 2002 film?
Answer: Gangs of New York

Question: In mythology, who is the Roman god of fire?
Answer: Vulcan

Question: Who was the last person to leave the house in the first UK television show of Celebrity Big Brother in 2001?
Answer: Jack Dee

Question: What is the first name of Halley, after who the famous comet is named?
Answer: Edmond

Question: Completed in 1923, which famous steam locomotive was noted for the London to Edinburgh service?
Answer: Flying Scotsman

Question: The Shinkansen, a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan is also known as the ‘what’ Train?
Answer: Bullet

Question: The SNCF is the state-owned railway company in which country?
Answer: France

Question: In May 1994, the Channel Tunnel was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II and which French President?
Answer: Francois Mitterrand

Question: In June 1883, the ‘Orient Express’ left Paris for which other European city?
Answer: Vienna

Question: What was the name of the famous steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson and Company in 1829?
Answer: Rocket

Question: Wootten and Belpaire are types of ‘what’ found in steam locomotives?
Answer: Firebox

Question: Of the four London stations on a Monopoly board, which was first to open?
Answer: Fenchurch Street Station

Question: What is the name of the house to which the family move in the novel ‘The Railway Children’ by Edith Nesbit?
Answer: Three Chimneys

Question: Grand Central Terminal (or Grand Central Station) is located at 42nd Street and which Avenue in Midtown Manhatten in New York?
Answer: Park Avenue

Question: Who was the first British monarch to travel by train?
Answer: Queen Victoria

Question: Which US President nationalized American railways in 1917 under the Federal Possession and Control Act?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Question: The Bluebell Railway is a heritage line which runs in which English county?
Answer: Sussex (East and West)

Question: Which 1945 film, starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, was shot mostly at Carnforth Station in Lancashire?
Answer: Brief Encounter

Question: Who was named the Greatest Briton of All Time in a 2002 poll?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: Which is the northernmost and westernmost station on the London Underground rail system?
Answer: Chesham

Question: In which European city was Crimean War nurse Florence Nightingale born?
Answer: Florence

Question: Nancy Astley and Kitty Butler are the main characters in which historical novel by Sarah Waters?
Answer: Tipping the Velvet

Question: English architect Sir Horace Jones designed which London bridge?
Answer: Tower Bridge

Question: A group of which birds is known as a ‘Charm’?
Answer: Finches

Question: On which island is the former royal residence Osborne House, built for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert?
Answer: Isle of Wight

Question: In the children’s fairytale, what was transformed into a carriage for Cinderella?
Answer: Pumpkin

Question: How many pins are in the back row in ten-pin bowling?
Answer: Four

Question: In which year was gender testing introduced in the Olympic Games?
Answer: 1968

Question: The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is named after the Roman goddess of what?
Answer: The Dawn

Question: Tracey Thorn was the lead singer in which English pop duo?
Answer: Everything but the Girl

Question: Which opera by Mozart is also known as ‘The Day of Madness’?
Answer: The Marriage of Figaro

Question: What colour is the cross on the national flag of Tonga?
Answer: Red

Question: Which London retailer had the telephone number ‘1’ as its own number in the early 20th Century?
Answer: Selfridge & Co

Question: What is the name of the island which lies in the middle of the Niagara Falls?
Answer: Goat Island

Question: Which grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II was the first to marry?
Answer: Peter Phillips

Question: Melanophobia is the irrational fear of which colour?
Answer: Black

Question: Holly Golightly is the heroine of which novel by Truman Capote?
Answer: Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Question: Balham, Clapham and Peckham are districts of which British city?
Answer: London

Question: According to the Bible, who did the Queen of Sheba test the wisdom of?
Answer: Solomon

Question: Who was the father of English monarch King Edward I?
Answer: King Henry III

Question: Which country won the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest with the song ‘Danesvise’?
Answer: Denmark

Question: In sport, how many parries are there in the classical systems of epee and foil fencing?
Answer: Nine

Question: Who played the title role in the 1985 film ‘Red Sonja’?
Answer: Brigitte Nielsen

Question: Cheryl Crane, aged 14, the daughter of which US actress, fatally stabbed her mother’s boyfriend, Johnny Stampano in 1958, while defending her mother?
Answer: Lana Turner

Question: Ernesto Geisel became President of which South American country in 1974?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Who played Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson in the 1957 film ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’?
Answer: Alec Guinness

Question: Which tennis player beat Rafael Nadal to win his first US Open title in 2011?
Answer: Novak Djokovic

Question: US comedian Joan Alexandra Molinsky is better known by what name?
Answer: Joan Rivers

Question: What is the national flower of Nepal?
Answer: Rhododendron

Question: Poet Elizabeth Barrett married which poet and playwright on 1846?
Answer: Robert Browning

Question: Which car manufacturer has a logo featuring a red cross and a green snake?
Answer: Alfa Romeo