Question: Which 17th century explorer was buried with a pipe and a box of tobacco?
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh

Question: Which Latin term, usually applied to legal evidence, means 'at first sight'?
Answer: Prima Facie

Question: In literature, who was the best known pupil of Greyfriar's School?
Answer: Billy Bunter

Question: What is the alternative common name for a Black Leopard?
Answer: Panther

Question: Which actor appeared in Papillion and The Great Escape and died in 1980?
Answer: Steve Mcqueen

Question: What do the British call the vegetables that Americans call zucchini?
Answer: Courgettes

Question: In which bay is Alcatraz?
Answer: San Francisco Bay

Question: Which British general was killed at Khartoum?
Answer: Charles Gordon

Question: KAR120C was the registration of a yellow Lotus 7, in which 1960s cult UK TV series?
Answer: The Prisoner

Question: In which Dickens novel was Miss Havisham jilted on her wedding day?
Answer: Great Expectations

Question: What is an otter's home called?
Answer: Holt

Question: Who had a 1985 hit with Saving All My Love For You?
Answer: Whitney Houston

Question: Which actor appeared to have a wooden leg in the 1956 film Moby Dick?
Answer: Gregory Peck

Question: How have vegetables been cut which are served Julienne?
Answer: Thin Strips

Question: In Roman mythology, Neptune is the equivalent to which Greek god?
Answer: Poseidon

Question: What is the only English language single word anagram of the word crouton?
Answer: Contour

Question: Which TV character said, 'Live long and prosper'?
Answer: Mr Spock

Question: Which playwright wrote The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, and The Cherry Orchard?
Answer: Anton Chekov

Question: What is the other name for Wildebeest?
Answer: Gnu

Question: Which school featured in UK TV's 'Please Sir'?
Answer: Fenn Street

Question: Robin Hood & Friar Tuck appear in which well-known novel, by Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: Ivanhoe

Question: Which is the smallest member of the flute family?
Answer: Piccolo

Question: 'Mace is one of the spices obtained from the tree Myristica Fragrams - what is the other?
Answer: Nutmeg

Question: Which hills divide England from Scotland?
Answer: Cheviots

Question: Who hosted UK TV's 'Family Fortunes' after Bob Monkhouse and before Les Dennis?
Answer: Max Bygraves

Question: Which Dickens' character was always 'expecting something to turn up'?
Answer: Mr Micawber

Question: A palmiped's feet are more commonly called what?
Answer: Webbed

Question: Which musical featured the song They Called The Wind Mariah?
Answer: Paint Your Wagon

Question: The headquarters of Greenpeace is in which European city?
Answer: Amsterdam

Question: In what year did Mother Teresa of Calcutta win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: 1979

Question: Which was the first European country to give all women the vote?
Answer: Finland

Question: What colour is the gemstone garnet?
Answer: Red

Question: Which sign of the Zodiac are people born on 30th October?
Answer: Scorpio

Question: What type of weapon is a Falchion?
Answer: A sword

Question: Which pub in Nottingham claims to be the oldest in Britain?
Answer: The Trip To Jerusalem

Question: Mount Elbert is the highest peak in which mountain range?
Answer: The Rockies

Question: Edward II was murdered in Berkeley Castle in 1327, in which county is Berkeley Castle?
Answer: Gloucestershire

Question: Which American horse race is run at Churchill Downs?
Answer: The Kentucky Derby

Question: What type of food is Quark?
Answer: Cheese

Question: Which Alex Graham cartoon appears in the Daily Mail newspaper?
Answer: Fred Basset

Question: Who discovered the smallpox vaccination?
Answer: Edward Jenner

Question: What did Harry Beck design in 1931 and is still used in London today?
Answer: The map of the London Tube system

Question: What is the chemical symbol for the element Potassium?
Answer: K

Question: Who plays Lynette Scavo in the TV series Desperate Housewives?
Answer: Felicity Huffman

Question: How many finger holes does a tin whistle (pennywhistle) have?
Answer: Six

Question: What famous London building is officially called 1 Canada Square?
Answer: Canary Wharf Tower

Question: Which tennis player was stabbed by a Steffi Graf fan while playing in Hamburg 1993?
Answer: Monica Seles

Question: What was the nuclear power station Sellafield previously known as?
Answer: Windscale

Question: Swansea is situated on which river?
Answer: The Tawe

Question: In what year did Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister?
Answer: 1979

Question: Who shot Martin Luther King in 1968?
Answer: James Earl Ray

Question: What is the person called who leads prayers in a mosque?
Answer: The Imam

Question: Which British organisation was founded by Octavia Hill in 1895?
Answer: The National Trust

Question: What number did motorcycle racer Barry Sheen have on his bike?
Answer: 190 feet

Question: How tall is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
Answer: 190 feet

Question: What was the name of the Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico in 1519?
Answer: Hernando Cortez

Question: When is St Andrew's Day?
Answer: 30th November

Question: What type of game is Faro?
Answer: A card game

Question: Which US state is named on the label of a Jack Daniels bottle?
Answer: Tennessee

Question: A phlebotomist extracts what from the human body?
Answer: Blood

Question: Granadilla is another name for which fruit?
Answer: Passion-fruit

Question: Nariyal is the Indian term for which nut?
Answer: Coconut

Question: Who was president of Vietnam from 1945-54?
Answer: Ho Chi Min

Question: In which county of the UK is Bramber Castle?
Answer: West Sussex

Question: What type of animal was inside Sputnik 2 when launched into orbit in 1957?
Answer: Dog

Question: Who was the eldest of the Marx Brothers?
Answer: Chico

Question: What type of creature is a dugite?
Answer: Snake

Question: What are the first names of English novelist G K Chesterton?
Answer: Gilbert Keith

Question: Who painted The Water Lily Pool?
Answer: Claude Monet

Question: Which vitamin is also known as pantothenic acid?
Answer: B5

Question: A couple celebrating their crystal wedding anniversary have been married for how many years?
Answer: 15 (fifteen)

Question: The song Luck be a Lady features in which musical?
Answer: Guys and Dolls

Question: In the city of Manchester (England) the Irk and Medlock join which river?
Answer: Irwell

Question: What type of animal is a Kolinsky?
Answer: Weasel

Question: Who wrote the book Catch-22?
Answer: Joseph Heller

Question: Kodiak Island is in which US state?
Answer: Alaska

Question: In the human body what is the hallux?
Answer: Big toe

Question: In which year did Henry VIII become King of England?
Answer: 1509

Question: The 1999 film Tea with Mussolini is based on whose autobiography?
Answer: Franco Zeffirelli

Question: Port Said is in which North African country?
Answer: Egypt

Question: In which year were premium bonds first issued in Britain?
Answer: 1956

Question: Who designed the Beatles Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover?
Answer: Peter Blake

Question: Madame de Pompadour was the mistress of which French King?
Answer: Louis XV (fifteenth)

Question: What is the name of Moe's pet cat in the cartoon show The Simpsons?
Answer: Mr Snookums

Question: Which country is known as the Pearl of Africa?
Answer: Uganda

Question: What is the theme tune of the US basketball team, the Harlem Globetrotters?
Answer: Sweet Georgia Brown

Question: Which UK supermaket chain launched a controversial carrier bag with the maxim 'Take an Old Bag Shopping'?
Answer: Sainsbury's

Question: Which British comedian features in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV?
Answer: Ricky Gervais

Question: Who was the first British Prime Minister not to have been privately educated?
Answer: David Lloyd George

Question: Black Dog and Blind Pew are characters in which novel?
Answer: Treasure Island

Question: A veronique dish is garnished with which fruit?
Answer: Grapes