Question: Which actor, comedian, writer and musician rowed for Cambridge in the 1980 Boat Race?
Answer: Hugh Laurie

Question: """An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!"" is the last line of the chorus of which of Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads?"
Answer: Mandalay

Question: Which word that begins 'sol' is a coil of wire that acts as a magnet when an electric current flows through it?
Answer: Solenoid

Question: What name is given to a resident of Colchester?
Answer: Colcestrian

Question: In which novel did James Hilton describe the 'mystical, harmonious valley' of Shangri-La?
Answer: Lost Horizon

Question: Three of the Galilean moons of Jupiter are Io, Europa and Callisto. Which is the fourth?
Answer: Ganymede

Question: The Allied forces at the 1704 Battle of Blenheim were led by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of where?
Answer: Savoy

Question: """Can't Sing!"" - a musical comedy written by Harry Hill that lasted 6 weeks and 3 days in London last year, was based on which TV reality show?"
Answer: The X Factor

Question: In which BBC TV drama is Doctor Thomas Chamberlain the Head of the Lyell Centre supported by pathologist Nikki Alexander and forensic scientist Jack Hodgson?
Answer: Silent Witness

Question: Wyndham Lewis was a major figure in which short-lived British avant-garde Art movement which had its only exhibition in 1915?
Answer: Vorticism

Question: Which US state lies immediately to the north of North Carolina?
Answer: Virginia

Question: In the Hall of the Mountain King was composed by Edvard Grieg as part of which play by Henrik Ibsen?
Answer: Peer Gynt

Question: Which newspaper editor was played by Peter Capaldi in the film The Fifth Estate?
Answer: Alan Rusbridger

Question: Brooks's dyak, Keast's tube-nosed and Sulawesi naked-backed are fruit bats native to which country, an archipelago of thousands of islands?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: .is is the internet code for which country?
Answer: Iceland

Question: Name either of the football clubs to have remained in the Premier League since their first promotion.
Answer: STOKE CITY or SWANSEA CITY

Question: What is the surname of sisters Elinor, Margaret and Marianne in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility?
Answer: Dashwood

Question: Two twentieth century Prime Ministers were Home Secretary before they were Premier. One was Winston Churchill. Who was the other?
Answer: James Callaghan

Question: In the Bible what relation was Lot to Abraham?
Answer: Nephew

Question: Three African countries have a shoreline on Lake Malawi - Tanzania, Malawi and which other?
Answer: Mozambique

Question: Atomic Kitten's second Number One was Eternal Flame, a cover of the 1989 Number One by which band?
Answer: The Bangles

Question: Who joined the cast of East Enders last year playing Stan Carter?
Answer: Timothy West

Question: In which county is Borstal which gave its name to a youth prison?
Answer: Kent

Question: What is the capital of the former Russian state of Georgia?
Answer: Tbilisi

Question: Who was the manager of 'The Sex Pistols'?
Answer: Malcolm Mclaren

Question: What is a computer called that controls access to a network, as well as acting as a file storage device?
Answer: Server

Question: In 1958, "Graham's Continental Lager" was launched in Britain, by what shorter name do we know it today?
Answer: Skol

Question: Castleford Rugby League team are known by the name of which animal?
Answer: Tigers

Question: Which animal has the scientific name 'dama dama'?
Answer: Fallow Deer

Question: Which English city has districts called Manningham, Horton and Heaton?
Answer: Bradford

Question: Who won the 2001 Turner Prize for his exhibit of empty gallery space with lights turned on and off?
Answer: Martin Creed

Question: Which classic poem's first line is "I met a traveler from an antique land"?
Answer: OZYMANDIUS OF EGYPT (Shelley)

Question: Which town was the Roman soldier in the Victorian painting "Faithful Unto Death", guarding?
Answer: Pompeii

Question: Which newspaper does the cartoonist 'Matt' work for?
Answer: The Daily Telegraph

Question: Who was pardoned 12 years after his execution for murders carried out by John Christie?
Answer: Timothy Evans

Question: Which film director fist applied the word 'Paparazzi' to persistent newsmen?
Answer: Federico Fellini

Question: The 1970's slogan, "Nice one, Cyril" advertised which loaf of bread?
Answer: Wonderloaf

Question: Who was hanged for the murder of a policeman because his cry of "Let him have it" was ambiguous?
Answer: Derek Bentley

Question: In architecture, what is the name given to a column in the form of a female figure?
Answer: Caryatid

Question: Who won Best Actress 'Oscar' for the 1962 film "The Miracle Worker"?
Answer: Anne Bancroft

Question: Tom Paton was the manager of which famous Scottish teeny-bop group in the 1970's?
Answer: Bay City Rollers

Question: Which Belgian, in 1969, became the first man to win all three major prizes in the 'Tour de France'?
Answer: MERCXX (Eddy)

Question: Which historical event is illustrated by the Victorian painting "And When Did You Last See Your Father"?
Answer: The English Civil War

Question: The 'Nimrod' used by the RAF for search and early warning purposes, was developed from which airliner?
Answer: De Havilland 'Comet'

Question: Which athlete won Olympic gold medals in both the 5000 metres and 10000 metres in 1972 and 1976?
Answer: Lasse Viren

Question: Which politician famously admitted to having smoked a joint but not having inhaled?
Answer: Bill Clinton

Question: Who co-presents BBC TV's "Home Front" with Diarmuid Gavin?
Answer: Lawrence Llewellyn- Bowen

Question: An excess of which acid in the body causes 'gout'?
Answer: Uric Acid

Question: Whose law states that "the volume of a gas varies in proportion to its (Kelvin) temperature at a constant pressure?
Answer: Charles' Law

Question: Who won the 'Helen Rollason Award' at the 2001 BBC Sports Personality Awards?
Answer: ELLEN McARTHUR

Question: Which animal has the scientific name 'Sciurus carolinensis'?
Answer: Grey Squirrel

Question: Who is the wife of retired footballer Lee Chapman?
Answer: Lesley Ash

Question: Which English city has districts named Belgrave, Stoneygate and Aylestone?
Answer: Leicester

Question: Which Rugby League Team are known as the 'Bulldogs'?
Answer: Batley

Question: In the cartoon, what is the name of 'Calvin's' friend and confidante?
Answer: 'Hobbes'

Question: Which car manufacturer produces a model called then 'Forester'?
Answer: Subaru

Question: The 'Lancaster' bomber of World War II was developed from which other aircraft?
Answer: Avro Manchester

Question: Who won Best Actor 'Oscar' for the 1963 film "Lilies Of The Field"?
Answer: Sidney Poitier

Question: After whom is the international airport at Venice named?
Answer: Marco Polo

Question: Which brand of cigarette had the slogan, "cool as a mountain stream"?
Answer: Consulate

Question: In the Bible, who was asked to interpret the 'writing on the wall'?
Answer: Daniel

Question: What is the architectural term for a carved screen behind an altar?
Answer: Reredos

Question: Who succeeded Anne Robinson as presenter of BBC TV's "Watchdog"?
Answer: Nicky Campbell

Question: What is the food of the Silkworm?
Answer: Mulberry

Question: What breed of dog was Supreme Champion at Cruft's 2001?
Answer: Basenji

Question: Who directed the film 'Gladiator'?
Answer: Ridley Scott

Question: Which group recorded the song 'It's A Sin', which was number one for three weeks in July 1987?
Answer: Pet Shop Boys

Question: What was the nationality of the racing driver Mario Andretti, who was World Champion in 1978?
Answer: American

Question: Trowbridge, Marlborough and Warminster, are three towns in which English county?
Answer: Wiltshire

Question: In which Shakespeare play does 'Constable Dull' appear?
Answer: 'Love'S Labourslost'