Question: Who is traditionally credited with writing most of the Psalms found in the Bible?
Answer: (King) David

Question: Which village claims that the medieval cross on its village green marks the centre of England?
Answer: Meriden

Question: Pat Murphy was the first presenter of which flagship BBC 1 current affairs programme, usually seen on Mondays since 1957?
Answer: Panorama

Question: Which British liner was torpedoed and sunk near the Old Head of Kinsale in May 1915?
Answer: (Rms) Lusitania

Question: Which figure in Welsh history led a major uprising during the early years of Henry IV's reign?
Answer: Owen Glendower/Glyndwr

Question: The ice cream known as Kulfi originated in which country?
Answer: India

Question: How did the Archer Fish get its name?
Answer: Shoots Water At Its Prey

Question: Which of H G Wells's novels ends with the hero settled down with 'The Fat Woman at the Potwell Inn'?
Answer: The History Of Mr Polly

Question: Which is the only radioactive element which occurs naturally as a gas?
Answer: Radon

Question: What was dropped from the British Driving Test in 1975?
Answer: Hand Signals

Question: Specifically, for what purpose would a gardener use a Dibber or Dible?
Answer: To Make Holes In Soil For Seeds

Question: How does the Puffer Fish defend itself against predators?
Answer: Puffs Itself Up Into A Ball

Question: What type of professional person did Mark Twain describe , but wants it back again when it starts to rain"?
Answer: Banker

Question: What new feature was added to the MOT roadworthiness test in 1991?
Answer: Content Of Exhaust Emissions

Question: What term for the final date or time when a task must be completed originated at a Confederate prisoner of war camp in the 1860's?
Answer: Deadline

Question: In which film was Marilyn Monroe's skirt seen billowing in the air over a subway vent?
Answer: The Seven Year Itch

Question: Which of his twelve labours did Hercules resolve by diverting two rivers?
Answer: Cleaning Of The Augean Stables

Question: Which glucose drink was invented by a Newcastle chemist, William Walker Hunt, to aid his daughter's recovery from jaundice?
Answer: Lucozade

Question: Which element is present in all acids?
Answer: Hydrogen

Question: In the Lake District, which pass joins Windemere to Ullswater?
Answer: Kirkstone Pass

Question: Which Texan cattle baron gained a certain immortality in the English language through the policy of not branding his cattle?
Answer: (Samuel) MAVERICK

Question: Which engineer first used the term Horsepower?
Answer: (James) WATT

Question: In which film did Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr have a passionate clinch on a beach?
Answer: From Here To Eternity

Question: What soluble form of Aspirin was invented during World War II?
Answer: Disprin

Question: Which isolated British island is half way between Easter Island and Tahiti?
Answer: Pitcairn Island

Question: In Italian cooking, what kind of food is spiced to make Pancetta?
Answer: Pork

Question: Which political leader, who came to a sticky end last year, set out his 'Third Universal Theory of Governing' in his so-called 'Little Green Book'?
Answer: (Colonel) GADAFFI

Question: Which Oasis album became a million seller within days of its release in 1997?
Answer: Be Here Now

Question: The City of London Police are the reigning Olympic Champions in which sport, although the sport hasn't been held at the games since 1920?
Answer: Tug-Of-War

Question: What feature of London's Downing Street were erected in 1990?
Answer: Entrance Gates

Question: The films The Spy with the Green Hat and The Spy with my Face were big-screen spin-offs from which popular TV series of the 1960s?
Answer: The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Question: Who is said to have been reading a book entitled "Sex and Psychic Energy" at the time of his death in 1977?
Answer: Elvis Presley

Question: What was the name of the cruise liner that capsized off the coast of Tuscany in January 2012?
Answer: Costa Concordia

Question: Which London building admitted paying visitors for the first time during the summer of 1993?
Answer: Buckingham Palace

Question: Which popular TV series of the 1960s and 1970s developed from an earlier programme called Police Surgeon?
Answer: The Avengers

Question: The Marlowe Theatre, recently refurbished, can be found in which English town or city?
Answer: Canterbury

Question: Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger is said to have been the last book read by whose assassin around the time of his murder?
Answer: John Lennon

Question: Which was the only track from Michael Jackson's Thriller album to top the UK singles charts?
Answer: Billie Jean

Question: In the Christian Calendar what name is given to the Sunday which follows Whit Sunday?
Answer: Trinity Sunday

Question: Lord Randolph Churchill suggested that Gladstone's nickname of GOM (Grand Old Man) should be changed to MOG - meaning what?
Answer: Murderer Of Gordon

Question: Which ballet caused a riot when first staged in Paris in 1913?
Answer: The Rite Of Spring

Question: What name for a short haircut came from its popularity among the rowing teams of Harvard and Yale in the 50s?
Answer: Crewcut

Question: Which famous trademark can be seen on one of the bottles featured in Manet's canvas The Bar at the Folies-Bergere?
Answer: Bass Red Triangle

Question: What phrase is derived from the promotion by the Prime-Minister, Lord Salisbury, of his nephew A.J.Balfour to the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland?
Answer: Bob'S Your Uncle

Question: What is the name of the theatre in Scarborough which has staged the premieres of Alan Ayckbourn's plays?
Answer: Stephen Joseph

Question: Which multi-coloured hairstyle is one of the most recognisable attributes of Rastafarian men?
Answer: Dreadlocks

Question: Which country are the reigning Olympic Rugby Union champions, the sport last being part of the official programme in 1924?
Answer: Usa

Question: The addition of what turns a Welsh Rarebit into a Buck Rarebit?
Answer: (Poached) EGG

Question: Which drug was first isolated in 1921, by Sir Frederick Banting and Dr C H Best, and first synthesised in 1964?
Answer: Insulin

Question: The holder of which post gets the biggest salary in the British Cabinet?
Answer: THE LORD CHANCELLOR or SECRETARY OF STATE FOR JUSTICE

Question: In which city could you visit the Anne Frank House?
Answer: Amsterdam

Question: With which other shipping line did Cunard merge in 1934?
Answer: White Star

Question: Which magazine, founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in 1991, has been promoted with the slogan "Helping the homeless help themselves"?
Answer: The Big Issue

Question: What is celebrated in Dublin every year on June 16th?
Answer: Bloomsday

Question: The name of which moist Welsh Bread literally means "speckled bread" referring to the fruit it contains?
Answer: Bara Brith

Question: Which creature has varieties called Berchell's, Greevy's and Mountain?
Answer: Zebra

Question: What name is given to the group of drugs which stimulate urine production, commonly known as water tablets?
Answer: Diuretics

Question: Which measurement of length in the UK can be defined as a tenth of a nautical mile?
Answer: Cable

Question: In Greek mythology, which favourite of Aphrodite became a hunter and died after being gored by a boar?
Answer: Adonis

Question: The Swaythling Cup for men and the Corbillon Cup for women are the World Team Championships in which racket sport?
Answer: Table Tennis

Question: Which Scottish monarch was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513?
Answer: James Iv

Question: There is one family of mammals that contains only two species: the Okapi and which other?
Answer: Giraffe

Question: Described in some versions of the myth as the daughter of Nyx, goddess of the night, who was the Greek goddess of divine retribution?
Answer: Nemesis

Question: Meaning 'car track' what is the Spanish word for a motorway?
Answer: Autopista