Question: By which name does the oil company, Esso, trade as in America?
Answer: Exxon Mobil

Question: The Palace of Versailles was built for which French king?
Answer: LOUIS XIV (fourteenth)

Question: On which ship did Price Andrew serve during the Falklands War?
Answer: H.M.S. Invincible

Question: What was the name of the horse that was made a Consul by Caligula when he was Emperor of Rome?
Answer: Incitatus

Question: Which sport is played under the 'Harvard Rules'?
Answer: American Football

Question: What is the correct name for Birmingham's 'Spagheti Junction'?
Answer: Gravelly Hill Interchange

Question: Which organisation was founded by Reverend Chad Varah in 1953?
Answer: The Samaritans

Question: Which is the only remaining women's college in Oxford University?
Answer: St. Hilda'S

Question: What is the bonus for placing a letter of a word on a red square in a game of 'Scrabble'?
Answer: Triple Word Score

Question: Who did Charles Darwin replace on the reverse of Bank of England £10 notes?
Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: When asked why he wanted to climb Everest, which famous mountaineer replied. "Because it' there"?
Answer: George Mallory

Question: What was the pseudonym of the Swiss born architect, Charles Edouard Jeanneret?
Answer: Le Corbusier

Question: What was the name of the Los Angeles nightclub that is recognised as being the world's first 'discotheque'?
Answer: Whisky-A-Go-Go

Question: The first five books of the Bible, the Five Books of Moses, are known by which name in the Jewish religion?
Answer: The Torah

Question: Which computer programming language was named after Charles Babbadge's assistant, Lady Lovelace?
Answer: Ada

Question: Who became the First Minister of Scotland when the Scottish Parliament was established in 1999?
Answer: Donald Dewar

Question: Who was the founder of Harrow Public School?
Answer: John Lyon

Question: Spurn Point Lighthouse is situated at the mouth of which river estuary?
Answer: Humber

Question: Which was the first British postage stamp to be issued with perforations?
Answer: Penny Red

Question: Which amendment to the American Constitution abolished slavery?
Answer: Thirteenth

Question: Which Japanese mountaineer was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
Answer: Junko Tabei

Question: Who was the first Briton to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: Sir Ronald Ross

Question: Which vegetable was the first commercially available frozen food in Great Britain?
Answer: Asparagus

Question: Britain's first credit card was issued by which bank?
Answer: Barclays Bank

Question: Who is the only U.S. President to have held a patent?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: Which lingerie and hosiery makers were named after a horse that won the Oaks, St. Leger and the 1000 Guineas?
Answer: Pretty Polly

Question: What is the correct verbal title used when addressing a Baron?
Answer: """My Lord"""

Question: Which member of the 'The Spice Girls' released the 2001 single, 'Lullaby'?
Answer: Mel B

Question: Which actress plays 'Lynn Bracken' in the 1997 film, 'L.A. Confidential'?
Answer: Kim Bassinger

Question: Which female singer was once in a band called 'Spit and Snot'?
Answer: Bjork

Question: What is the correct verbal title used when addressing a Cardinal?
Answer: """Your Eminence"""

Question: October 4th 1910, which European monarch was deposed and fled on the Royal Yacht 'Amelia' to Gibraltar?
Answer: King Manuel Of Portugal

Question: On which holiday island are the peaks of 'Ruivo' and 'Arieiro', and the airport of 'Santa Cruz'?
Answer: Madeira

Question: Who was US Ambassadorto the UN from 1970 - 71?
Answer: GEORGE BUSH(Snr.). (Snr.)

Question: On June 11th 1903, King Alexander and Queen Draga were murdered in their bedroom. Of which European country were they the reigning monarchs?
Answer: Serbia

Question: On which Mediterranean island is the World Heritage Site of 'Dalt Vila'?
Answer: Ibiza

Question: The 'Balfour Declaration' of December 1917 set out the British government's full support fora permanent homeland, for who?
Answer: The Jewish People

Question: In which television 'soap' would you once have found the character 'Darcy Tyler'?
Answer: 'Neighbours'

Question: What colour is the central stripe on the flag of Chad?
Answer: YELLOW (vertical tricolour blue, yellow & red)

Question: Of what is 'Ekistics' the study?
Answer: Human Settlements

Question: Which British city was known to the Romans as Magnus Portus?
Answer: Portsmouth

Question: What colour is the triangle on the 'hoist' side of the flag of Sudan?
Answer: GREEN (horizontal tricolour red, white&black, with isosceles triangle at hoistside)

Question: By what more familiar name are Leucocytes known?
Answer: White Blood Cells

Question: Which town and moor in Yorkshire was known to the Romans as Olicana?
Answer: Ilkley

Question: In which opera by Rimsky-Korsakov does 'King Dodon' appear?
Answer: 'The Golden Cockerel'

Question: Who rode the 1978 Derby winner 'Shirley Heights'?
Answer: Greville Starkey

Question: On which holiday island will you find the towns of Maliaand Sitia?
Answer: Crete

Question: Which author wrote 'A Town Like Alice'?
Answer: Neville Shute

Question: Which classic horserace, run annually at Epsom, was won by 'Love Divine' in 2000?
Answer: The Oaks

Question: Lake Balaton is the largest lake in central Europe, in which country is it?
Answer: Hungary

Question: Whose stories include 'The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow'?
Answer: Washington Irving

Question: What is the title of the opera by Wagner, that makes up the third part of the 'Ring Cycle'?
Answer: 'Siegfreid'

Question: Which symbol denotes a 'battlefield' on an Ordnance Survey Map?
Answer: Crossed Swords

Question: Who was the faithful wife of Odysseus in Homer's 'Odyssey'?
Answer: Penelope

Question: On a standard typewriter keyboard, which is the only vowel that does not appear on the top row?
Answer: The Letter 'A'

Question: What sort of guides were published by George Bradshaw?
Answer: Railway Guides

Question: In mythology, who was poisoned by the blood from Nessus tainted with toxin from Hydra?
Answer: Hercules

Question: On a standard typewriter keyboard, what is the last letter on the right of the middle row?
Answer: The Letter 'L'

Question: Which actor starred with Sigorney Weaver and Melanie Griffithsin 'Working Girl'?
Answer: Harrison Ford

Question: Give a year in the life of French military leader and saint,Joan-of-Arc?
Answer: 1412 - 1431

Question: Who won the Booker Prize for 'The Old Devils'?
Answer: Kingsley Amis

Question: In which English county is the Isle of Purbeck?
Answer: Dorset

Question: Who wrote 'Sexus', 'Nexus'and 'Plexus' that collectively make up 'The Rosy Crucifixion'?
Answer: Henry Miller

Question: What was the name ofthe character played by Richard Griffiths in the TV series 'Pie In The Sky'?
Answer: Henry Crabbe

Question: Which pioneer of paperback publishing, founded Penguin Books?
Answer: Sir Allan Lane

Question: Which Tennis player beat Serena and Venus Williams inconsecutive matches at the 2001 Australian Open?
Answer: Martina Hingis

Question: Which carbohydrate is also called 'milk sugar'?
Answer: Lactose

Question: Who was the Greek goddess of the Moon?
Answer: Selene

Question: Which British philosopher's books include, 'Principles Of Mathematics'?
Answer: Bertrand Russell

Question: What was the name of the underground movement in rural France that fought against the Germans in WW II?
Answer: 'The Maquis'

Question: What colour is the cheek-patch of the European Goldfinch?
Answer: Red

Question: A 'Knab' or 'Knot' is the collective noun for which amphibious creatures?
Answer: Toads

Question: Who was the secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 1975 - 97?
Answer: Sonny Ramphal

Question: Who was the Secretary of State for Defence from 1995 - 97?
Answer: Michael Portillo

Question: A 'Tiding' or 'Tittering'is the collective noun for which type of birds?
Answer: Magpies