Question: What is the name of the French style soup made with pureed leeks, onions and potatoes, chicken stock and cream and traditionally served cold?
Answer: Vichyssoise

Question: What was the title of the TV series, which starred Jasper Carrott as Bob Louis and Robert Powell as Dave Briggs?
Answer: The Detectives

Question: Victoria is the capital of which group of islands in the Indian Ocean?
Answer: The Seychelles

Question: Who described a second marriage as "The triumph of hope over experience"?
Answer: Samuel Johnson

Question: Who directed the films, "Bugsy Malone" (1976) and Midnight Express (1978)?
Answer: Alan Parker

Question: What is the name of the ground, in Belfast, on which the Ulster Rugby Union team play their home matches?
Answer: Ravenhill

Question: Who directed the films, "The Terminator" (1984) and "Titanic" (1997)?
Answer: James Cameron

Question: Which politician, in a famous speech, quoted Euripides, by saying, "Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad"?
Answer: Enoch Powell

Question: What is the capital and largest city of the Fijian Islands?
Answer: Suva

Question: What was the title of the 1960's American TV series, which starred Richard Boone as a gentleman turned gunfighter named Paladin?
Answer: Have Gun, Will Travel

Question: What is the flavour of the Spanish soups Gazpacho and Salmorejo, which are traditionally served chilled?
Answer: Tomato

Question: Which popular garden flower has classes which include regular and irregular incurves, reflex, decorative and pompon?
Answer: Chrysanthemums

Question: Wigan Rugby League player Chris Mather and management consultant, Patrick King, were both, at one time or another, married to which TV personality?
Answer: Carol Vorderman

Question: Who is currently the Prime Minister of Australia?
Answer: Kevin Rudd

Question: Valeria Messalina was the third wife of which Roman emperor?
Answer: Claudius

Question: Which moon of Jupiter is the most volcanic body in our Solar System?
Answer: Io

Question: Who scored 206 in the 2"d test v Australia at Adelaide in December, 2006, the first English cricketer to score a double century in Australia, for over 70 years?
Answer: Paul Colling Wood

Question: Which city in the U.S.A. is served by McCarron International airport?
Answer: Las Vegas

Question: Which was the first royal event to be celebrated with an issue of British commemorative stamps?
Answer: SILVER JUBILEE OF GEORGE V (1935) Victoria's Diamond Jubilee issue of 1897are classed as definitives.

Question: Which Oswaldtwistle born weaver and carpenter invented the Spinning Jenny in the 18th century?
Answer: James Hargreaves

Question: Which part of the human body is referred to by the adjective, renal?
Answer: The Kidneys

Question: In Greek mythology, who was, tragically, both the mother and wife of Oedipus?
Answer: Jocasta

Question: In which year did the demolition of the Berlin Wall begin?
Answer: 1989

Question: What was the nickname of President Duvalier of Haiti who died in 1971?
Answer: Papa Doc

Question: What was the name of the holiday camp in the TV series Maplin's
Answer: """Hi-De-Hi""?"

Question: Who wrote "The Hunt for Red October"?
Answer: Tom Clancy

Question: Which rock star is nicknamed "Slowhand"?
Answer: Eric Clapton

Question: There is only one railway station in the UK which has the name of a contagious disease. What is its name?
Answer: (Oldham) Mumps

Question: Which current Broadway musical has a Japanese therapist character called Christmas Eve?
Answer: Avenue Q

Question: In which country was the dance the Polka invented?
Answer: Poland

Question: Hollyoaks is set in a fictional suburb of which British city?
Answer: Chester

Question: Which was the only group to have a number written in Roman numerals in its name when they topped the British charts?
Answer: Lord Rockingham's XI

Question: What military term is derived from the youths who worked as pages to mounted knights?
Answer: Infantry

Question: Which word is used for the traditional Mafia code of silence in Sicily?
Answer: Omertà

Question: Who founded the Salvation Army?
Answer: William Booth

Question: Which Egyptian president ordered the seizure of the Suez Canal in 1956?
Answer: Nasser

Question: Who was the "Last King of Scotland" in the film of that name?
Answer: Idi Amin

Question: Which church festival is celebrated on 2nd February?
Answer: Candlemas

Question: What was the surname of Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses?
Answer: Trotter

Question: What are candle wicks most commonly made from?
Answer: Cotton

Question: In which island group is the oil terminal of Sullom Voe?
Answer: Shetlands

Question: Photophobia is a fear of what?
Answer: Light

Question: Who played the outlaw Josey Wales in the 1976 film?
Answer: Clint Eastwood

Question: In 1979 which English art historian was exposed as a one-time Soviet spy?
Answer: Anthony Blunt

Question: Which Irish boxer was nicknamed the Clones Cyclone?
Answer: Barry McGuigan

Question: Who scored the most tries in the 2007 Rugby World Cup?
Answer: Brian Habana

Question: Which Wild West legend was born Henry McCarty?
Answer: Billy The Kid

Question: Social reformer Frank Pakenham was better known as whom?
Answer: Lord Longford

Question: In which city did Richard Wagner die in 1883?
Answer: Venice

Question: Which widely known song was composed by one-time docker Jim Connell in 1889 on a No 28 London bus?
Answer: The Red Flag

Question: Name either of the only two full sisters who have been queens of England.
Answer: Mary II / Anne

Question: In Australia and New Zealand, what would you have needed if you were calling for a 'zambuck'?
Answer: A St John's Ambulance attendant

Question: Who sang the theme song of the film High Noon?
Answer: Tex Ritter

Question: What gives Earl Grey tea its distinctive flavour?
Answer: Oil of bergamot

Question: Which Wirral plant was the first in Europe to produce enriched uranium?
Answer: Capenhurst

Question: Which is the only bird in the UK to assume an all-white plumage?
Answer: Ptarmigan

Question: In which country does football team Penarol play?
Answer: Uruguay

Question: What was pasteurisation first used to process?
Answer: Wine

Question: Who wrote the screenplay of Chariots of Fire?
Answer: Colin Welland

Question: What is the nearest football league ground to the River Thames?
Answer: Craven Cottage

Question: What was the occupation of The Admiral's Men?
Answer: Actors

Question: With Sellers, Seacombe and Milligan, who was generally thought of as 'the fourth Goon'?
Answer: Michael Bentine

Question: Which was the most successful racehorse of the 18th century?
Answer: Eclipse

Question: Who regularly delivered the monologue 'Albert and the Lion'?
Answer: Stanley Holloway

Question: Tom Quad is part of which Oxford college?
Answer: Christ Church

Question: What is does a stegophilist do?
Answer: Climbs towers, statues, steeples and other inaccessible places.

Question: Who played John Wilder in TV's The Plane Makers?
Answer: Patrick Wymark

Question: Which popular liqueur was named after the London pub in which it was first envisaged?
Answer: Bailey's

Question: How many gates are there on the Thames Barrier?
Answer: Ten

Question: Which sport is called the fastest ball game?
Answer: Pelota Or Jai Alai

Question: What was Alan Sugar's catchphrase during the TV series The Apprentice?
Answer: You'Re Fired

Question: Who has the nickname of the thinking man's crumpet?
Answer: Joan Bakewell

Question: In which country will the 2010 FIFA World Cup be held?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Which luxury car manufacturer produces the Vantage?
Answer: Aston Martin

Question: From which Shakespeare play does the line "The course of true love never did run smooth" come?
Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Question: Give a year in the reign of Queen Anne.
Answer: 1702-1714