Question: Named after the Greek words for good and sound, what is the valved brass tenor instrument resembling a small tuba?
Answer: Euphonium

Question: Car exhaust fumes contain mainly what poisonous gas?
Answer: Carbon monoxide

Question: How many imperial gallons are in an imperial peck?
Answer: Two

Question: David Low created what pompous British cartoon officer character, first appearing in London's Evening standard in the 1930s?
Answer: Colonel Blimp

Question: 20-year old criminology undergraduate Marisol Valles Garcia became police chief of drug-war-torn town Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero in what country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: What are the basic three 'alter ego' states (of a person) identified and used within Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis theory?
Answer: Parent Adult Child

Question: In which country was ex-England cricket captain Tony Greig born?
Answer: South Africa

Question: What was Tom Jones' first UK number one single?
Answer: It's Not Unusual

Question: Which artist is famous for painting a portrait of his mother?
Answer: James Whistler

Question: What does a lepidopterist collect?
Answer: Butterflies

Question: What was Genevieve in the 1953 film of the same name?
Answer: A classic car

Question: In which UK cathedral is the Whispering Gallery?
Answer: St Pauls

Question: What are Blue Mountain, Caturra, and Mocca types of?
Answer: Coffee

Question: What is the monkey species on the Rock of Gibraltar commonly called?
Answer: Barbary Ape

Question: In the human body what is the Trachea?
Answer: Windpipe

Question: What does an acrophobic fear?
Answer: Heights

Question: In which UK county is Hever Castle?
Answer: Kent

Question: What colours are the flowers of the flax plant?
Answer: Blue

Question: When is St Patrick's Day celebrated?
Answer: 17th March

Question: What is a village without a church called?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: In what year were dog licences abolished in England?
Answer: 1987

Question: What type of leaves does a silkworm feed on?
Answer: Mulberry

Question: Which UK newspaper had the first colour supplement?
Answer: Sunday Times

Question: What type of creature is a mouthbrooder?
Answer: Fish

Question: Which group had three consecutive UK Christmas number ones in 1996, 97 and 98?
Answer: Spice Girls

Question: In which sport do Great Britain and the USA compete for the Westchester Cup?
Answer: Polo

Question: In which war was the Battle of Bosworth Field?
Answer: Wars of the Roses

Question: Who wrote the opera Cosi fan Tutte?
Answer: Mozart

Question: Who is generally credited with having invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

Question: What is the US state capital of Arizona?
Answer: Phoenix

Question: In which century was the first recorded Viking raid on England?
Answer: 8th century

Question: Olfactory relates to which of the senses?
Answer: Smell

Question: What was the name of the bottled water launched by Coca-Cola and then withdrawn?
Answer: Dasani

Question: Which side of a coin is obverse, heads or tails?
Answer: Heads

Question: What word represents the letter K in radio communications?
Answer: Kilo

Question: Who was the first Plantagenet King of England?
Answer: Henry the Second

Question: Which mountain was known as Peak XV until 1865?
Answer: Mount Everest

Question: Who was the Prime Minister of Britain at the start of the First World War?
Answer: Herbert Asquith

Question: How many players does an American Football team normally have on the field at one time?
Answer: Eleven

Question: What are the two ingredients of a screwdriver cocktail?
Answer: Vodka and orange juice

Question: In February 1967, Ronald Ryan became the last man to be hanged in which country, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in 1965?
Answer: Australia

Question: What was the nickname of the largest fixed-wing flying boat ever built, the Hughes H-4 Hercules, flown by Howard Hughes in November 1947, for just eight minutes, its only ever flight?
Answer: The Spruce Goose

Question: Who was the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California?
Answer: Amelia Earhart

Question: In May 1941, who parachuted into Scotland from Germany claiming to be on a peace mission?
Answer: Rudolph Hess

Question: What was the small British militant group responsible for a series of letter bomb attacks between 1970 and 1972, whose targets included banks, embassies and the homes of Conservative MPs?
Answer: The Angry Brigade

Question: Which American expatriate poet and author was arrested by American soldiers in Italy in May 1945 for treason?
Answer: Ezra Pound

Question: In June 1952, a nuclear test was held in which US desert?
Answer: Nevada Desert

Question: In March 1971, who defeated boxer Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden?
Answer: Joe Frazier

Question: What was Thornton Wilder's play performed for the first time ever in 1938 in Princeton, New Jersey?
Answer: Our Town

Question: Who made the 'I Am Prepared to Die' speech at the opening of the Rivonia Trial in April 1964?
Answer: Nelson Mandela

Question: In October 1973, who resigned as Vice President of the US, and then pleaded no contest to the charges of income tax evasion in a federal court in Baltimore?
Answer: Spiro T Agnew

Question: In April 1946, Derby County beat which football team in the first FA Cup final since the end of the war?
Answer: Charlton Athletic

Question: What became the name of the crime in which eleven thieves stole more than $2 million in a heist in Boston, Massachusetts, in January 1950?
Answer: Great Brinks Robbery

Question: Who did Marilyn Monroe marry in January 1954?
Answer: Joe Dimaggio

Question: In 1974, what was the title of Stephen King's first published novel?
Answer: Carrie

Question: Name Britain's Minister of War, dismissed from the War Office in January 1940?
Answer: Isaac Leslie Hore-Belisha

Question: Who founded Tamla Motown Records in January 1959?
Answer: Berry Gordy Jr

Question: In Britain, the Education Act of March 1944 provided free what in schools to all children in the UK under the age of 18?
Answer: Milk

Question: In March 1951, which comic strip by Hank Ketcham appeared in newspapers accross the US for the first time?
Answer: Dennis the Menace

Question: The Treaty of where established the European Economic Community in March 1957?
Answer: Rome

Question: What was the name of the Coca-Cola Company's first diet drink, launched in 1963?
Answer: TaB

Question: In a Los Angeles court, in March 1969, who admitted killing presidential candidate Robert Kennedy?
Answer: Sirhan Sirhan

Question: On the 15th March 1949, the rationing of what ended in Britain?
Answer: Clothes and textiles

Question: Published in August 1953, what is the name of the Report on 'Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female'?
Answer: The Kinsey Report

Question: Who became Prime Minister of Britain in April 1955?
Answer: Anthony Eden

Question: Women compete for the Corbillon Cup in which sport?
Answer: Table Tennis

Question: What is the colouring agent E102 also known as?
Answer: Tartrazine

Question: David Balfour is the hero of which Robert Louis Stevenson novel?
Answer: Kidnapped

Question: Malpensa Airport serves which European city?
Answer: Milan

Question: Its name shared by a species of goose, what are the marine crustaceans which live attached to submerged surfaces, such as the bottoms of boats?
Answer: Barnacles

Question: A lachrymator is a substance that irritates which part of the body?
Answer: Eyes

Question: The European city of Brussels lies on which river?
Answer: River Zenne

Question: Mutter is the Indian term for which type of foodstuff?
Answer: Peas

Question: The Abominable Snowman is said to inhabit which mountain range?
Answer: Himalayas

Question: How many square yards in a UK acre?
Answer: 4,840

Question: An aileron is found on which part of an aircraft?
Answer: Wing