Question: Which Roman road ran from Rome to Brindisi?
Answer: Appian Way

Question: Which US state is known as the Keystone State?
Answer: Pennsylvania

Question: Coulrophobia is the fear of what type of entertainers?
Answer: Clowns

Question: Which car company makes the model 'Zafira'?
Answer: Vauxhall

Question: A 'Royal Sovereign' is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: Strawberry

Question: How many fluid ounces are there in a US pint?
Answer: Sixteen

Question: Who directed the 2011 film "The King's Speech"?
Answer: Tom Hooper

Question: Where would you apply to become a lighthouse keeper in England and Wales?
Answer: Trinity House

Question: Who was England's last Plantagenet monarch?
Answer: King Richard the Third

Question: Which Greek word meaning 'hidden writings' first appeared in the Luther Bible of 1534?
Answer: Apocrypha

Question: John Maus died in May 2011, of which pop group had he been a member?
Answer: The Walker Brothers

Question: Which novelist is known as 'The Queen of the Aga saga'?
Answer: Joanna Trollope

Question: Teddy Bears with a trademark button in the ear are made by which company?
Answer: Steiff

Question: Which French General and statesman took part in the Battle of Yorktown?
Answer: Lafayette

Question: What type of bird is a gadwall?
Answer: Duck

Question: Which power station building was adapted to become the Tate Modern Art Gallery?
Answer: Bankside

Question: What is the name of the straight line joining any two points on the circumference of a circle?
Answer: A Chord

Question: In which modern Olympic Games were women allowed to compete for the first time? (Date or venue)
Answer: Paris 1900

Question: What title is held by the heir to the Spanish throne?
Answer: PRINCE of ASTURIAS

Question: Who, better known as an actor and comedian, released his debut blues album in 2011 called 'Let Them Talk'?
Answer: Hugh Laurie

Question: In Shakespeare's 'As you like It', what name does Rosalind take when she poses as a boy?
Answer: Ganymede

Question: Which author writes about the Italian policeman Aurelio Zen?
Answer: Michael DIBDIN

Question: 'Someone like You is a 2011 song on whose 2nd studio album?
Answer: Adele

Question: To which bird family does a puffin belong?
Answer: Auk

Question: Differentiation and what are the two main operations of calculus?
Answer: Integration

Question: To whom was Catherine of Aragon married before she married Henry 8th?
Answer: Prince Arthur

Question: 'Leave it to luck' or 'leave luck to heaven' is the translation from Japanese of which company's name?
Answer: Nintendo

Question: What is the final event of the women's heptathlon?
Answer: 800 metres

Question: Who was the mother of twins, Apollo and Artemis?
Answer: Leto

Question: Which element is the final result of the radioactive decay of uranium?
Answer: Lead

Question: Belvoir Castle is the home of which dukedom?
Answer: Rutland

Question: In 'Dads Army' what did Hodges call Captain Mainwaring?
Answer: Napoleon

Question: In July 2011, the world's193rd state came into being. What is it called?
Answer: South Sudan

Question: In Australia what is a corroboree?
Answer: An ABORIGINAL GATHERING

Question: According to the rhyme, what is a 'swarm of bees in June' worth?
Answer: A Silver Spoon

Question: What do the Americans call what we call a coffin?
Answer: A Casket

Question: On which flag would you find an armoured triskillion?
Answer: ISLE of MAN

Question: Where was the armistice which halted the Korean War signed in 1953?
Answer: Panmunjon

Question: Which current Premier League football club are the only club to have won all four top divisions and both major cups in English football?
Answer: Wolverhampton Wanderers

Question: What festival is celebrated with bread baked from the first grains of wheat harvested?
Answer: Lammas

Question: In 'Last of the Summer Wine' what character did Brian Wilde play?
Answer: Foggy

Question: Who did Brendan Barber succeed as General Secretary of the TUC?
Answer: John Monks

Question: Opened in 1914, what is Edinburgh's main concert hall?
Answer: Usher Hall

Question: A 'Loiner' comes from which city?
Answer: Leeds

Question: Stoke City FC now play their home games at the Britannia Stadium. What was the name of their previous stadium?
Answer: Victoria Ground

Question: Often mentioned, but never seen, what is the name of Hyacinth Bucket's son in TV's
Answer: 'Keeping Up Appearances'?

Question: Who presents the TV series 'Extreme Fishing'?
Answer: Robson Green

Question: Who is the Chief of Police in Puccini's opera 'Tosca'?
Answer: Baron Scarpia

Question: Who is the wife of King Cepheus, found opposite to him in the night sky?
Answer: Cassiopeia

Question: The states of Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae in the Western Pacific are collectively known as the Federated States of ................. where?
Answer: Micronesia

Question: Which country do the Germans call Weißrussland (pronounced Vice - russ - lant)?
Answer: Belarus

Question: What decoration, a Cross, was instituted on 1st July 2009 to commemorate UK armed forces personnel who have died on operations or as a result of an act of terrorism?
Answer: Elizabeth

Question: What two word term has been applied to the genre of women's fiction which addresses issues of modern women, often humorously and lightheartedly?
Answer: Chick Lit

Question: Give a year in the life of Marco Polo.
Answer: 1254 to 1324

Question: Derived from the Etruscan calendar and persisting for around 500 years, into how many days was the Roman week divided prior to the adoption of the Julian calendar?
Answer: Eight

Question: Which 1926 record by Charles Penrose became a cult classic on BBC 'Children's Favourites' from the 1950s to the 1970s?
Answer: The Laughing Policeman

Question: 'Saint-Cyr' is a French educational establishment. What is its British equivalent?
Answer: Sandhurst

Question: Which poet wrote the line 'T'is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all'?
Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question: What nationality is Petra Kvitova the 2011 Ladies Singles winner at Wimbledon?
Answer: Czech

Question: Which US state capital is only accessible by sea and air?
Answer: Juneau

Question: Who in 1912, after not being invited to perform in the first Royal Command Performance, staged a rival show advertised 'by command of the British public'?
Answer: Marie Lloyd

Question: In the Hellenistic system the weekdays were named after the 7 classical planets (Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars etc), which planet is commemorated by the day we call Friday?
Answer: Venus

Question: Which song, recorded by Mandy Miller, a regular request on 'Children's Favourites', begins 'To Bombay a travelling circus came'?
Answer: Nellie The Elephant

Question: What is the American equivalent to Britain's Dartmouth Naval College?
Answer: Annapolis

Question: Which poet wrote the line 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know'?
Answer: John Keats

Question: Which member of the Cabinet has been the MP for Maidenhead since 1997?
Answer: Theresa May

Question: On which racecourse is the King George VI Chase run?
Answer: Kempton

Question: How are the states of Ajman, al-Fujairah, Ras-al Khaimah, Sharjah, Umm al-Quwain and two others collectively known?
Answer: United Arab Emirates

Question: Who together with Nicholas Crane has been the main presenter of 'Coast'?
Answer: Neil Oliver

Question: What is the real first name of the singer Lulu?
Answer: Marie

Question: Give a year in the life of Henry the Navigator.
Answer: 1394 to 1460

Question: Who is the author of the 'Shopaholic' series of 'Chick Lit' books?
Answer: Sophie Kinsella

Question: Swansea City FC now play their home games at the Liberty Stadium. What was the name of their previous stadium?
Answer: Vetch Field

Question: Often mentioned but never seen, what is the name of Captain Mainwaring's wife in TV's
Answer: 'Dad's Army'?