Question: What is always on the label of a bottle of the green liqueur "Benedictine"?
Answer: D. O. M.

Question: Which space age sit-com starred a black East-Ender, a computer, a robot and a hologram?
Answer: Red Dwarf

Question: Who became Roman emperor after the murder of Caligula, and, after the death of his wife, married his niece Agrippina, who poisoned him?
Answer: Claudius

Question: Swiss legendary hero William Tell was instrumental in rescuing his land from the tyranny of which country in 1307?
Answer: Austria

Question: What word or phrase originates from the practice on the classical stage of introducing a god from above to effect a speedy denouement?
Answer: Deus ex machina

Question: What is the southernmost point in all U.S. territory?
Answer: Rose Atoll, American Samoa

Question: Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian-born American sports coach and innovator, invented which sport in 1891?
Answer: Basketball

Question: The Empire State Building has how many stories above ground?
Answer: 102

Question: Which female impersonator, Daniel Carroll, whose career began in 1945 and whose most famous role was in the lead of a major production of "Hello Dolly!", died in June 2009?
Answer: Danny La Rue

Question: Who led the first expedition that reached the South Pole?
Answer: Roald Amundsen

Question: Where is the lowest point in the USA?
Answer: Death Valley

Question: What is an alternative name for Belladonna?
Answer: Deadly Nightshade

Question: Who instigated the first complete translation of the Bible into English?
Answer: John Wycliffe

Question: Andreas Thorkildsen set a new Olympic record at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing for throwing what?
Answer: Javelin

Question: What is wrong with someone who suffers from anaemia?
Answer: Their red blood cell count is low

Question: What peninsula on the north coast of the Black Sea is connected to the mainland by the isthmus of Perekop?
Answer: Crimea

Question: In the USA it is called a bathrobe. What do the British call it?
Answer: Dressing gown

Question: A New Zealand squash player who dominated the sport in the late 1980s and early 1990s, winning the World Open 4 times, is Susan who?
Answer: Devoy

Question: The first high speed impact crash of two intact space spacecraft in February 2009 was between a Russian satellite (launched 1993) that was out of control and what other?
Answer: Iridium commercial satellite launched 1997

Question: Who, in 1949, became Premier and Foreign Minister of the first all-China Communist government?
Answer: Zhou En-Lai

Question: The episodes of which TV series ended with the family saying goodnight to each other?
Answer: The Waltons

Question: Which London landmark was designed by Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate the Great Fire of London?
Answer: The Monument

Question: What changed its name as a result of the Treaty of Maastricht in 1991?
Answer: European Community

Question: What do members of the Gideon Society leave in hotel bedrooms?
Answer: Bibles

Question: Which infectious disease is characterised by ulceration and inflammation of the bowel with generalised toxaemia and "wasting", usually caused via infection of food contaminated by flies?
Answer: Typhoid fever

Question: Who is the heir to the British throne?
Answer: Prince Charles

Question: What is the name for the circle that describes the most northerly point at which the sun appears directly overhead at noon?
Answer: Tropic of Cancer

Question: For which sport, now banned in Britain by the Hunting Act 2004, was the "Waterloo Cup" 3 day event run annually at Great Altcar in Lancashire, England from 1836 to 2005?
Answer: Hare coursing

Question: What kind of object is "tansy"?
Answer: Plant

Question: Which heavenly body was discovered by astronomer Clyde W Tombaugh on 18 February 1930?
Answer: Pluto

Question: Racing on ordinary roads from town to town was banned in France from 1903 when a number of people, spectators and drivers (including Marcel Renault) were killed during a race between which two cities?
Answer: Paris and Madrid

Question: What is the base of the cocktail Margarita?
Answer: Tequila

Question: What type of battle was the Battle of Trafalgar?
Answer: Sea battle

Question: """The Blockheads"" released a new album in 2009 after nine years' silence. Who used to be their frontman?"
Answer: Ian Drury

Question: Which film that won an Oscar for Best Picture, explores prejudice against Jews and Afro-Americans over the period 1948 to 1973?
Answer: Driving Miss Daisy

Question: Which 18th century German composer wrote over 40 operas including "Orfeo" and "Alceste", comic operas and instrumental music?
Answer: Christoph Willibald Gluck

Question: What is the symbol for a 35th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Coral

Question: The men travelling as whose crew were the first known humans to reach and cross the Antarctic Circle in 1773?
Answer: Captain James Cook

Question: What form of art is characterised by depicting objects by a rectangular or geometric treatment of their forms?
Answer: Cubsim

Question: What is another word for "Endomorphic"?
Answer: Plump

Question: Which singer and songwriter of the 1970s and 1980s was the first to have three consecutive double albums hit #1 on the Billboard charts, and was the first female artist to have four number-one singles in a thirteen-month period?
Answer: Donna Summer

Question: Where are the most famous examples of "cliff-dwellings", habitats of primitive peoples constructed of lime and stone in the hollow surface of cliffs?
Answer: Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA

Question: What relish originating in the Far East, is prepared from sweet fruits, to which acidulous flavours, hot seasoning, peppers and spices are added?
Answer: Chutney

Question: In Britain, by an act of 1541 (repealed in 1845) artificers, labourers, apprentices and servants were forbidden to play which sport at any time except Christmas, and then only in their master's house and presence, or be fined 6s. 8d?
Answer: Bowls

Question: With what art form is Frenchman Paul Czanne associated?
Answer: Painting

Question: Which family includes Louis, a television journalist, his father Paul, a travel writer and novelist, his elder brother Marcel, a writer and television presenter and his cousin Justin, an American actor?
Answer: Theroux

Question: What word is used to describe how to remove rubber from trees?
Answer: Tap

Question: According to the saying, what "never boils"?
Answer: Watched pot

Question: Historically, ringing bells were the way of telling time on ships. "8 bells" was rung every how many hours?
Answer: 4

Question: When Edward the Confessor ruled over England, royal petitions became so frequent that they were referred to the Chancellor. Which special court was set up to hear them?
Answer: Chancery

Question: Rickets is caused by a deficiency in which vitamin?
Answer: D

Question: Who was elected president of the southern states of the USA when they seceded from the Union in 1861?
Answer: Jefferson Davis

Question: Which team was the runner-up at the 3rd American Football World Cup in Kawasaki, Japan, in 2007?
Answer: Japan

Question: What is the name for a method of enamel decoration where the design is outlined with soldered metal fillets which are filled with enamel paste or powder, which is vitrified and ground smooth?
Answer: Cloisonn

Question: Plato and Xenophon are the most famous pupils of which Greek philosopher?
Answer: Socrates

Question: The Tarantella, from Southern Italy, is a type of what?
Answer: A dance characterized by a fast upbeat tempo

Question: What island was occupied by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Goths, Saracens, Normans, and the Angevin, Hapsburg and Bourbon dynasties until it became part of United Italy in 1861?
Answer: Sicily

Question: What is a nickname for Australia?
Answer: Down under

Question: Where was gold discovered by James Wilson Marshall on January 24, 1848, that led to the California Gold Rush (18481855)?
Answer: Sutter's Mill