Question: Who was the Greek God of Rain and Cupbearer to the Gods, son of King Tros of Troy?
Answer: Ganymede

Question: How many days is the gestation period of a domestic dog (5 days either way?
Answer: 60

Question: Which modem day comedian said, 'marriage is a wonderful invention but then again so is the bicycle repair kit'?
Answer: Billy Connolly

Question: What is the symbol for the chemical element Iron?
Answer: Fe

Question: Who was on the British Throne in 1720?
Answer: George I

Question: Which Scottish league Football Team has the nickname 'The Jags'?
Answer: Partick Thistle

Question: In which TV drama series would you find the actor Graham Cole?
Answer: The Bill

Question: Give a year in the life of painter Leonardo Da Vinci?
Answer: 1452-1519

Question: In which English County is Fortheringay Castle?
Answer: Northamptonshire

Question: If you were celebrating your Sugar Wedding Anniversary for how many years would you have been married?
Answer: Six

Question: 'Up Where We Belong' was an Oscar winning song from which film?
Answer: An Officer And A Gentleman

Question: Caroline of Brunswick, a German Noblewoman was married to which British King?
Answer: George Iv

Question: Which famous cricketer had the nickname Big Bird?
Answer: Joel Garner

Question: If you suffered from gymnophobia what would your fear be?
Answer: Nudity

Question: In which war was the Battle of Castillion fought?
Answer: Hundred Year War

Question: Who composed the opera " Il Trovatore"?
Answer: Verdi

Question: Damon Alban, Graham Coton, Alex James and Dave Roundtree were members of which pop group?
Answer: Blur

Question: As at April 2008 who is the Secretary of State for Transport?
Answer: Ruth Kelly

Question: In which sport is there a cut line?
Answer: Squash

Question: What was the previous occupation of actor Clint Eastwood?
Answer: Swimming Instructor

Question: 'Neither a lender nor a borrower be' is a quotation from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: Which vegetable has varieties called Tokyo Slicer and King of the Rage?
Answer: Cucumber

Question: What is the alternative name for the Gravelly Hill interchange?
Answer: Spaghetti Junction

Question: In which year did the Boston Tea Party take place?
Answer: 1773

Question: What is the collective noun for magpies?
Answer: A Tiding

Question: What do the Americans call what we call a curriculum vitae?
Answer: Resumé

Question: Drum Majorette was until 1970 the theme tune for which long-running TV programme?
Answer: Match Of The Day

Question: Who was the Greek Goddess of the Moon, daughter of Hyperion and Thea?
Answer: Selene

Question: To whom is the following quotation attributed "A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke"?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question: What is the symbol for the chemical element copper?
Answer: Cu

Question: Who was on the British throne in 1320?
Answer: Edward Ii

Question: Which Scottish League Football Team has the nickname 'The Jam Tarts'?
Answer: Heart Of Midlothian

Question: In which TV drama/soap would you find the actress Deena Payne?
Answer: Emmerdale

Question: What was the capital of America before Washington DC?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: Give a year in the life of painter Frans Hals?
Answer: 1580-1666

Question: In which English County is Huntingdon Castle?
Answer: Cambridgeshire

Question: If you were celebrating your Steel Wedding Anniversary for how many years have you been married?
Answer: Eleven

Question: 'Take my breath away' was an Oscar winning song from which film?
Answer: Top Gun

Question: Caroline of Ansbach, a German noblewoman, was married to which British King?
Answer: George Ii

Question: Which famous golfer had the nickname Super Mex?
Answer: Lee Trevino

Question: If you suffered from peladophobia, what would be your fear?
Answer: Bald People

Question: In which war was the Battle of Austerlitz fought?
Answer: Napoleonic Wars - 1805

Question: Who composed the opera Prince Igor?
Answer: Borodin

Question: According to the TV advert what was made by robots, driven by humans?
Answer: Nissan Cars

Question: Who wrote the French Lieutenant's Woman?
Answer: John Fowles

Question: With which sport would you associate Kevin Ashurst?
Answer: Fishing

Question: Michael Pennington performs under what name?
Answer: Johnny Vegas

Question: Which actress won an Oscar for her performance in 'Two Women'?
Answer: Sophia Loren

Question: How many sides has a dodecagon?
Answer: 12

Question: In which year was the General Strike?
Answer: 1926

Question: Who wrote the TV series 'Bread' and 'Butterflies'?
Answer: Carla Lane

Question: How many squares make up a standard Sudoku grid?
Answer: 81

Question: Who played 'The Charmer' in the TV series of that name?
Answer: Nigel Havers

Question: Which Scottish poet had the middle name 'Topaz'?
Answer: William McGonagall

Question: In which year was Britain's currency decimalised?
Answer: 1971

Question: Which General took command of the French forces at Verdun at the beginning of 1916?
Answer: (Philippe) Petain

Question: Which sea lies between European and Asian Turkey and between the Bosporus and the Dardanelles?
Answer: Marmara

Question: How many squares are visible on a standard Rubik Cube?
Answer: 54

Question: Who wrote the 'Cadfael' series of novels?
Answer: Ellis Peters

Question: What was the name of the rocket launching site in Australia, used for early British space missions?
Answer: Woomera

Question: Name either of the writers of the TV series 'The Likely Lads'.
Answer: Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais

Question: Which female candidate was beaten by Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 French Presidential election?
Answer: (Segolene) Royale

Question: In which South American country is Europe's Spaceport, Kourou?
Answer: French Guiana

Question: Name the famous American pioneer who was involved in marking out the Wilderness Trail in the west and founded the first settlement in Kentucky which was named after him?
Answer: Daniel Boone

Question: Keswick stands at the northern end of which Lake District lake?
Answer: Derwent Water

Question: The Swan-Hunter Shipyard is/was on which river?
Answer: Tyne

Question: Which is the longest London Underground line?
Answer: Northern

Question: Which sea lies to the northwest of the Crimea?
Answer: Sea of Azov

Question: Which tradesman is known as a 'skib'?
Answer: Painter & decorator

Question: Which company produces the fragrances 'Opium' and 'Kouros'?
Answer: Yves St Laurent

Question: Distances from Paris are measured from Kilometre Zero, at which building is this situated?
Answer: Notre Dame

Question: In the 'Goon Show', what is the name of the blustering major?
Answer: Bloodnock

Question: For-the tax year 2008-09, the amount that can be invested in a cash ISA was increased to what figure?
Answer: £3600

Question: Which singer had a number 1 hit album in 2008 entitled 'Home Before Dark'?
Answer: Neil Diamond

Question: Glenridding stands at the southern end and Pooley Bridge at the northern end of which Lake District lake?
Answer: Ullswater

Question: Which Russian composer 1844-1908, wrote the operas 'The Snow Maiden' and 'The Golden Cockerel'?
Answer: Rimsky-Korsakov

Question: What name is given to the principal academic and administrative officer of a university?
Answer: Vice-Chancellor

Question: Name the 14 year old British girl who won the Wimbledon Girl's Championship in 2008.
Answer: Laura Robson

Question: Which Danish born physicist won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922 and devised an atomic model?
Answer: Niels Bohr

Question: From what is the Indian dish dhal made?
Answer: Lentils

Question: Which newspaper was founded in 1909, merged with the Daily Graphic and finally closed and merged with the Daily Mail in 1971?
Answer: Daily Sketch

Question: Which South American soldier and statesman was also known as 'The Liberator'?
Answer: Simon Bolivar