Question: Which was the first X-rated film to have won the Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: Midnight Cowboy

Question: In athletics which is always the first event in the Decathlon?
Answer: 100 metres

Question: Which was the first colour film to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: Gone With the Wind

Question: Who as at August 2007 is British Home Secretary?
Answer: Jacqui Smith

Question: In the world of entertainment who is Melvin Kaminsky better known as?
Answer: Mel Brooks

Question: Which is the densest planet in the solar system?
Answer: Earth

Question: Which prison is located in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham?
Answer: Wormwood Scrubs

Question: Which rock singer's real name is Paul Hewson?
Answer: Bono

Question: Which prison is located at Princetown in Devon?
Answer: Dartmoor

Question: Which Roman road connected London to York?
Answer: Ermine Street

Question: Which musician, 1890-1967, was known as 'The King of Jazz'?
Answer: Paul Whiteman

Question: What does a vulcanologist study?
Answer: Volcanoes

Question: Carol Hersey was once billed as the most seen person on TV - why?
Answer: She was the Test Card girl

Question: Who was known as the Railway King?
Answer: George Hudson

Question: Name one of the first presenters of the children's TV programme 'Blue Peter' in 1958.
Answer: Leila Williams/Christopher Trace

Question: What does a deltiologist collect?
Answer: Picture postcards

Question: What is the more common name for a polygraph?
Answer: Lie Detector

Question: What colour is zero on a roulette wheel?
Answer: Green

Question: In which country did Che Guevara die?
Answer: Bolivia

Question: The OSS (Office of Strategic Services) founded in 1942 was a precursor to which security organisation?
Answer: Cia

Question: With what activity do you associate the names Bernard Leach and Clarice Cliff?
Answer: Pottery

Question: What would a French musician be playing if he was using a batterie?
Answer: A drum kit

Question: What is the modern equivalent of the medieval musical instrument the sackbut?
Answer: Trombone

Question: Which British Cathedral has the highest spire?
Answer: Salisbury

Question: Which football league team's nickname is the (red) Imps?
Answer: Lincoln City

Question: FL is the international registration plate of which European country?
Answer: Liechtenstein

Question: In 1968 Gary Sobers was the first cricketer to hit six sixes in an over. Who was the bowler?
Answer: (Malcolm) Nash

Question: Which future PM was the eldest son of Lord Dunglass?
Answer: Alec Douglas Home

Question: Which car manufacturer made a model called GT4O?
Answer: Ford

Question: What nickname is given to a 2 wood in golf?
Answer: Brassie

Question: To which school of art did the painters Derain, Viamink and the young Matisse belong?
Answer: The Fauves

Question: Who was the housekeeper in Daphne du Maurier's 'Rebecca'?
Answer: Mrs Danvers

Question: Apart from the USA, Canada and British possessions, which other country from the Americas actively took part in WW2, declaring war on the Axis countries in 1942?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Which famous directors last film was 'Family Plot' in 1976?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock

Question: Which unit of measurement was originally defined as one minute of arc along a meridian of the Earth?
Answer: Nautical Mile

Question: Whose theme tune was 'Take the A Train'?
Answer: Duke Ellington

Question: What industrial process was once conducted in Bold St, Liverpool?
Answer: Rope

Question: Who wrote the book Whisky Galore in 1947?
Answer: Compton Mackenzie

Question: What does 'Carpe diem' translate as?
Answer: Seize the Day

Question: Who said 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'?
Answer: Mao-Tse-Tung

Question: Who wrote 'The Birds' in 1952, a short story on which Hitchcock based his film?
Answer: Daphne du Maurier

Question: Which Bombay-born former Daily Telegraph journalist is the BBC sports editor?
Answer: Mihir Bose

Question: In what make of aircraft did Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier in October 1947?
Answer: Bell

Question: The Seminole native tribe of Indians are indigenous to which American state?
Answer: Florida

Question: Which Labour Party leader was described as 'a desiccated adding machine' by Aneurin Bevan?
Answer: Hugh Gaitskell

Question: Which English football league team's nickname is the Millers?
Answer: Rotherham

Question: Which car company produced the Elf and Kestrel models?
Answer: Riley

Question: Which company produced the WW1 aircraft the 'Camel'?
Answer: Sopwith

Question: Which Welsh cathedral is the smallest in Great Britain?
Answer: St Asaph

Question: Which famous.cricket player was born on 7th March 1952 in St Johns, Antigua?
Answer: Sir Viv Richards

Question: What is the name of the system used to determine the winning scores, in rain-interrupted one day cricket matches?
Answer: Duckworth-Lewis

Question: Which British Prime Minister was born in Rodney Street, Liverpool?
Answer: W E Gladstone

Question: Which Shakespeare play has the stage direction 'Exit pursued by a bear'?
Answer: The Winter's Tale

Question: From which musical does the song 'Till There Was You' come?
Answer: The Music Man

Question: What was the name of the last steam locomotive to be commissioned by British Railways, in 1960?
Answer: Evening Star

Question: The arbalest was a variety of which weapon?
Answer: Crossbow

Question: What is the national currency of Paraguay?
Answer: Guarani

Question: In what year did Roald Amundsen reach the South Pole for the first time?
Answer: 1911

Question: A 9 iron is the modem equivalent of which historical golf club?
Answer: Niblick

Question: What do John Wayne, Daphne du Maurier, Frank Whittle and Laurence Olivier all have in common?
Answer: All born in 1907

Question: Mrs Fitzherbert was the mistress of which English king?
Answer: George IV

Question: Who is the patron saint of Germany?
Answer: St Boniface

Question: Of what is St Jude the patron?
Answer: Lost causes

Question: What is the appropriate nickname of the New Zealand basketball team?
Answer: The Tall Blacks

Question: What nickname is given to the Australian Association Football International team?
Answer: The Socceroos

Question: In 'FawIty Towers' Manuel claimed his pet rat was a hamster, but from where?
Answer: Siberia

Question: Which planet has moons called Triton and Nereid?
Answer: Neptune

Question: People hoping to follow which career are trained at Norland College?
Answer: Nannies

Question: In the Rupert Bear stories, what was the name of the pug dog?
Answer: Algy

Question: Which German novelist, a Nobel prize winner in 1999, wrote 'A Wide Field' and 'The Tin Drum'?
Answer: Gunther Grass

Question: Which Saint was the father of the Virgin Mary?
Answer: St Joachim

Question: Who was the first man to swim 100 metres in less than a minute?
Answer: Johnny Weissmuller

Question: What common name is given to the lowest temperature at which a material gives off enough flammable vapour for it to ignite?
Answer: Flash Point

Question: For which county did Mike Gatting play cricket?
Answer: Middlesex

Question: What was the word for an Indian soldier serving under the British in India?
Answer: Sepoy

Question: In Norse mythology, what is the name of Odin's eight-legged horse?
Answer: Sleipnir

Question: In warfare, what name is given to a hastily constructed temporary defence or a parapet a few feet high, the name deriving from the approximate height that it is built to?
Answer: Breastwork

Question: In which children's TV programme did you see Mrs Goggins and Tom Pottage?
Answer: Postman Pat

Question: In which Shakespeare play would you find the characters Gertrude, Laertes and Horatio?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: Whose wedding was the main event of the last episode of Dad's Army?
Answer: Corporal Jones

Question: Which architect worked with Sir Charles Barry on the new Palace of Westminster?
Answer: Augustus PUGIN