Question: Which US State achieved statehood in 1858 and is known as the 'Gopher' state?
Answer: Minnesota

Question: What was the name of Captain Scott’s ship on his last Antarctic voyage 1910-1913?
Answer: Terre Nova

Question: In which country did the airship R101 crash?
Answer: France

Question: A bottle of wine originating from the Mondavi coastal vineyard is produced in which country?
Answer: Usa

Question: Which artist painted “A Bar at the Folies Bergeres” and “The Spanish Singer”?
Answer: Manet

Question: Where would an ancient Athenian actor have worn buskins?
Answer: ON HIS FEET (Boots)

Question: Which artist painted “Girl Balancing on a Ball”, “Girl with Bare Feet” and “Three Dancers”?
Answer: Picasso

Question: On what part of the body would you wear a biggin or a casque?
Answer: Head

Question: Who in the Bible was the mother in Law of Ruth?
Answer: Naomi

Question: George J Tenet was the head of which US government department from 1997 to 2004?
Answer: The Cia

Question: Pogonology is the study of what?
Answer: Beards

Question: “When the night has come and the land is dark” is the opening line of which number one hit?
Answer: Stand By Me

Question: In which year was the 50 pence piece introduced into circulation?
Answer: 1969

Question: Niklas Zennstrom was a co-founder which internet company?
Answer: Skype

Question: Originally known as the Daily Universal Register, how is it known today?
Answer: The Times

Question: Who or what was described by Ken Livingstone as “The greatest threat to life on this planet that we’ve most probably ever seen?
Answer: George W Bush

Question: Which car manufacturer produced models called ‘The Hawk’ and ‘The Super Snipe’?
Answer: Humber

Question: In which American city do the Spurs play basketball?
Answer: San Antonio

Question: Who was the last Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain (1846- 1852)?
Answer: John Russell

Question: In which American city do the Timberwolves play basketball?
Answer: Minnesota

Question: Which comedian and actor presents the Radio 4 Programme 'The Unbelievable Truth?
Answer: David Mitchell

Question: Philip Glennister played the part of DCI Gene Hunt in the series Life on Mars, who played detective sergeant Ray Carling?
Answer: Dean Andrews

Question: Of what is herpetology the study?
Answer: Snakes / Reptiles

Question: Which US State achieved statehood in 1889 and is known as the 'Evergreen' state?
Answer: Washington

Question: Gibraltar was ceded to Britain under the terms of which treaty?
Answer: Treaty Of Utrecht

Question: In which Classic book and film does the character the Michael Henchard appear?
Answer: The Mayor Of Casterbridge

Question: Which Welsh seaport is linked to London by the A40?
Answer: Fishguard

Question: Which football manager wrote the autobiography "Farewell but not Goodbye"?
Answer: Sir Bobby Robson

Question: The Order of The Elephant is an order of Knighthood in which European country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Name the South African who became the second 'space tourist'?
Answer: Mark Shuttleworth

Question: The Colossus of Rhodes is dedicated to whom?
Answer: Helios

Question: Which is the most recent of the four Presidents carved into Mount Rushmore?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Question: Which TV Chef has a seafood restaurant in Padstow, Cornwall?
Answer: Rick Stein

Question: Which musical instrument is best associated with 20th Century Musician Andres Segovia?
Answer: Guitar

Question: At which 1403 battle was Sir Henry Percy, commonly known as Hotspur, killed?
Answer: Battle Of Shrewsbury

Question: Which city, a former capital of its country, is served by Jinnah International Airport?
Answer: Karachi

Question: Which word completes the title of the 1784 portrait by Joshua Reynolds – “Mrs Siddons as the Tragic ????????”
Answer: Muse

Question: What is the first name of Mrs Brown in the sitcom Mrs Brown’s Boys?
Answer: Agnes

Question: Which record by Terry Jacks was Number One in 1974?
Answer: Seasons In The Sun

Question: Which car company manufactures the Leaf?
Answer: Nissan

Question: At which stroke did David Wilkie, Duncan Goodhew and Adrian Moorhouse win Olympic Gold medals?
Answer: Breaststroke

Question: In 1814 who completed the two paintings The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808, both now exhibited in the Prado in Madrid?
Answer: Francisco Goya

Question: Which Poet Laureate was born at Mytholmroyd in Yorkshire?
Answer: Ted Hughes

Question: How many apprentice boys shut the gates of Derry in December 1688 leading to the siege of the city?
Answer: 13

Question: Four countries elect 6 MEPs – Cyprus, Malta, Luxembourg and which other?
Answer: Estonia

Question: Seven matches in the 2014 FIFA World Cup are scheduled to be played at a stadium in Brasilia named after a former player known by what name?
Answer: (Mané) Garrincha

Question: Who played the title role in the 2004 film The Phantom of the Opera?
Answer: Gerard Butler

Question: Whose oratorio The Seasons was first performed in 1801?
Answer: Joseph Haydn

Question: Stanhope is the surname of the title character in which TV crime drama?
Answer: Vera

Question: Name any of the three chemical elements whose symbol begins with the letter E.
Answer: ERBIUM or EINSTEINIUM or EUROPIUM

Question: Which Archbishop of Canterbury compiled the first two editions (1549 and 1552) of the Book of Common Prayer?
Answer: Thomas Cranmer

Question: The US state of Georgia was named after which King?
Answer: George Ii

Question: The adjective hircine refers to which animal?
Answer: Goat

Question: Cut-Throat Jake, captain of the Flying Dustman, is the enemy of which fictional pirate?
Answer: Captain Pugwash

Question: Which town is mentioned in the first verse of the hymn O Come, All Ye Faithful?
Answer: Bethlehem

Question: Sinéad Cusack is the wife of which actor?
Answer: Jeremy Irons

Question: The Pitmen Painters is a play by Lee Hall about a group of mostly miners from which town in Northumberland?
Answer: Ashington

Question: Which author was Governor General of Canada between 1935 and 1940?
Answer: JOHN BUCHAN (accept 1st BARON TWEEDSMUIR)

Question: Which city, known as Florence on the Elbe, is home to the Semper Opera House?
Answer: Dresden

Question: Which day of the week completes the name of Detective Inspector Fred ???????? in the TV crime drama Endeavour?
Answer: Thursday

Question: Name any of the three chemical elements whose symbol begins with the letter G.
Answer: GALLIUM or GADOLINIUM or GERMANIUM

Question: Which city is the venue for the Great South Run?
Answer: Portsmouth

Question: Hildegarde Neil is the wife of which actor?
Answer: Brian Blessed

Question: The Duke of Windsor was Governor of which British colony between 1940 and 1945?
Answer: The Bahamas

Question: Daniel Barenboim is the conductor for life of the Berlin State Opera whose permanent home is on which boulevard in the Mitte district of the city?
Answer: Unter Den Linden

Question: In 1814 who wrote the poem which was originally called The Battle of Fort McHenry, now used as the words of the National Anthem of the USA?
Answer: Francis Scott Key

Question: The Brontë sisters were born in the village of Thornton, now part of which Yorkshire city?
Answer: Bradford

Question: How many theses did Martin Luther post on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg in October 1517?
Answer: 95

Question: “Multum in Parvo” or ‘much in little’ is the motto of which landlocked county in central England?
Answer: Rutland

Question: Part II of which oratorio, first performed in Dublin in 1742, concludes with the Hallelujah Chorus?
Answer: THE MESSIAH (by GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL)

Question: On which Formula 1 circuit do cars travel along Avenue d’Ostende and Avenue des Beaux Arts?
Answer: Monaco

Question: Dupond et Dupont, Professeur Tryphon Tournesol and Milou assist which character in the French version of his adventures?
Answer: Tintin