Question: Who is the patron saint of dentists?
Answer: St.APOLLONIA

Question: What is the SI unit of conductance?
Answer: Siemens

Question: Jamaican born nurse Mary Seacole was a heroine of what war?
Answer: Crimean

Question: Who painted "The Light of the World" and "The Lady of Shallot"?
Answer: (William Holman) HUNT

Question: Known as their Oscars, the Carl Allen Awards are given in which field?
Answer: Dance

Question: What was the Bronze Age civilisation based on Crete?
Answer: Minoan

Question: What, according to the alchemists, was capable of turning base metal into gold?
Answer: Philosopher'S Stone

Question: A "Tom Collins" cocktail consists of gin, soda water, sugar and what other ingredient?
Answer: Lemon Juice

Question: Who is the patron saint of radio workers?
Answer: St. Gabriel

Question: Cusco was the capital city of what civilisation?
Answer: Inca

Question: Regarded as their Nobel Prize the Pritzker Prize is awarded in what field?
Answer: Architecture

Question: The serial killer Albert de Salvo was given what nickname?
Answer: Boston Strangler

Question: Who created the "New Look" in 1947?
Answer: (Christian) DIOR

Question: Who played Sheriff Sam McCloud in the 1970s TV series "McCloud"?
Answer: (Dennis) WEAVER

Question: Which jazz musician had the forenames Leon Bismark?
Answer: Bix BEIDERBECK

Question: Where, in 1977, did a KLM 747 collide with a Pan Am 747 resulting in nearly six hundred fatalities?
Answer: Tenerife

Question: Sacha is a diminutive form of what name?
Answer: Alexander

Question: The serial killer David Berkowitz was given what nickname?
Answer: SON of SAM

Question: Who played Christ in the 1977 TV drama "Jesus of Nazareth"?
Answer: (Robert) POWELL

Question: On the death of Christian Dior in 1957, who succeeded him as head of the House of Dior?
Answer: (Yves) ST. LAURENT

Question: Sharing its name with a European capital, with which ship did the Italian liner Andrea Doria collide in 1956 with the loss of forty six lives?
Answer: Stockholm

Question: Which Football League team plays its home games at Huish Park?
Answer: Yeovil Town

Question: Which retailer produces and markets the Kindle eBook?
Answer: Amazon

Question: With what is Beurre Noisette flavoured?
Answer: Hazelnuts

Question: Who captained HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's voyage, and is remembered in the name of a shipping forecast area?
Answer: (Robert) FITZROY

Question: Who composed, in 1909, "A Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis"?
Answer: (Ralph) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Question: Who is the Roman goddess of flowers?
Answer: Flora

Question: Which company makes the Wii games console?
Answer: Nintendo

Question: Which rugby union club play their home games at Adams Park?
Answer: (London) WASPS

Question: Following the 1420 Treaty of Troyes, which king became Regent of France and successor to the French throne?
Answer: HENRY the FIFTH

Question: What fruit is the main ingredient of Cumberland sauce?
Answer: Redcurrants

Question: Who, in 1831, composed "Symphonie Fantastique"?
Answer: (Hector) BERLIOZ

Question: Which actress played the victim in the shower scene in the 1960 film "Psycho"?
Answer: (Janet) LEIGH

Question: Because of its location in Washington DC which US government department is nicknamed "Foggy Bottom"?
Answer: State Department

Question: Liam Gallagher is the lead singer of which group?
Answer: Beady Eye

Question: On what London thoroughfare is the finish of the London marathon?
Answer: The Mall

Question: In Arthurian legend, which knight accepts a challenge from the Green Knight?
Answer: Gawain

Question: Who is the mother of Finty Williams, the actress who provides the voice of the cartoon character 'Angelina Ballerina'?
Answer: Judi Dench

Question: Which Hindu deity has the head of an elephant?
Answer: Ganesha

Question: Comic schoolboy Billy Bunter was a pupil at which school?
Answer: Greyfriars

Question: In the UK, what is the naval rank equivalent to an Army General?
Answer: Admiral

Question: Who was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy in December 2011?
Answer: Tracey Emin

Question: What was first framed in 1864 and ratified in 1906 concerning the conduct of warfare?
Answer: Geneva Convention

Question: In Britain, what was the name of the cartoon character of WWII who peered over a wall and usually said something beginning with "Wot, no .. "?
Answer: (Mr) Chad

Question: What was the first name of the boy who had an unfortunate encounter with Panthera Leo in a famous monologue of 1930?
Answer: Albert

Question: Who had the original 1958 hit with the song 'Magic Moments'?
Answer: Perry Como

Question: What specially adapted item was used to deliver a lethal injection to the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in 1978?
Answer: Umbrella

Question: In which US city did the Beatles perform their last live concert, in August 1966?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: Which American soul singer had a backing group called the Famous Flames?
Answer: James Brown

Question: 'Aquatint' is a process of etching which alloying metal with acid?
Answer: Copper

Question: Blubberhouses is a town in which county?
Answer: North Yorkshire

Question: Which vitamin is also known as Calciferol?
Answer: Vitamin D

Question: Brooke Magnante wrote a blog and book entitled 'Diary of a Call Girl' under which pseudonym?
Answer: Belle de Jour

Question: What colour is the right hand vertical band on the flag of Afghanistan?
Answer: Green

Question: Tony Manero was the lead character in which 1977 musical/ film?
Answer: Saturday Night Fever

Question: In the UK game of Monopoly, what colour card is the property Pentonville Road?
Answer: (Light) Blue

Question: In Arthurian legend, who was Arthur's father?
Answer: Uther (or Uffa) Pendragon

Question: Who is the mother of Samuel West, the actor whose film roles include Leonard Bast in Howard's End?
Answer: Prunella Scales

Question: In what animal form is the Hindu god Hanuman normally depicted?
Answer: Monkey

Question: For which team did Roy of the Rovers play?
Answer: Melchester Rovers

Question: In the Gerry Anderson TV series, who piloted Fireball XL5?
Answer: (Colonel) Steve Zodiac

Question: Which artist's real name was Andrej Varchola Junior?
Answer: Andy Warhol

Question: Which tartan is the personal one of the Queen?
Answer: (Royal) Stewart

Question: What name is shared by cities in Ontario and Bermuda as well as a town near Glasgow?
Answer: Hamilton

Question: 32 cards are used in Euchre, Skat and which other popular card game?
Answer: Piquet

Question: Who was the defeated French commander at Trafalgar?
Answer: (Admiral Pierre Charles Jean Baptiste Silvestre De) Villeneuve

Question: Which actor played the part of Mike Gambit in the ITV TV series, The New Avengers?
Answer: (Gareth) Hunt

Question: In September 2012, which Nobel prizewinner seriously proposed that Tony Blair and George W Bush should be tried in the International Court of Justice for their role in the Iraq war?
Answer: Desmond Tutu

Question: A radioactive form of which element was responsible for the death of the former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko in 2006?
Answer: Polonium

Question: Who is the principal host of the BBC TV quiz 'Pointless'?
Answer: Alexander Armstrong

Question: Teddy Pendergrass was the lead singer of which soul group?
Answer: (Harold Melvin and the) Bluenotes

Question: Which is third most abundant element and most abundant metal in the earth's crust?
Answer: Aluminium

Question: Seahouses is a town in which county?
Answer: Northumberland

Question: Mekele and Adama are the 2nd/3rd most populous cities in which African country?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: Give the full name of either of the Hairy Bikers.
Answer: Dave Myers or Simon King

Question: Which vitamin is also known as Retinol?
Answer: Vitamin A

Question: What is the most successful literary work to date of the writer E L James?
Answer: Fifty Shades of Grey