Question: Following the overthrow of the monarchy, who in 1953, became the first President of the Republic of Egypt?
Answer: (Gen. Muhammad) Naguib

Question: What, in 1985, was Madonna's first UK No. 1?
Answer: Into the Groove

Question: What were invented by English chemist John Walker in 1826, and cost one shilling per hundred?
Answer: (Friction) Matches

Question: What is, or was, a Cape Triangle?
Answer: (Postage) Stamp

Question: Whose 2010 autobiography, is called "Decision Points"?
Answer: George W Bush

Question: What type of rocket was used to launch the Apollo spacecraft?
Answer: Saturn

Question: Who was the first British footballer to win the Europen Golden Boot, (now called the Golden Shoe)?
Answer: Ian Rush

Question: What, medically, was invented by Rene Laennec in 1816?
Answer: Stethoscope

Question: The name of which unit of measurement is taken from the Greek meaning universal measure?
Answer: Metre

Question: In the British Police Force, what rank is indicated by a crown on each shoulder?
Answer: Superintendent

Question: What was the nationality of the team that first conquered K2 in 1954?
Answer: Italian

Question: Which fictional detective lived at 56b Whitehaven Mansions?
Answer: Hercule Poirot

Question: Which Shakespeare play opens with the words "Now is the winter of our discontent"?
Answer: Richard Iii

Question: Which comedian of the Music Halls finished his act playing a violin and saying "Aye, Aye that's your lot"?
Answer: Jimmy Wheeler

Question: In the world of antiques what is majolica?
Answer: (Glazed) Pottery

Question: Oscar Wilde describes the English Country Gentleman as the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable in which of his works?
Answer: A Woman On No Importance

Question: Which comedian, a director of Fulham FC, had the catch phrase "You Lucky People'?
Answer: Tommy Trinder

Question: In Green Mythology which god gave Perseus his winged sandals?
Answer: Hermes

Question: On a Monopoly board how many property groups consist of only two properties?
Answer: Two

Question: In "Lady Windermere's Fan" who or what did Oscar Wilde describe as "A Man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing"?
Answer: A Cynic

Question: What is the Basque national sport?
Answer: Jai Alai

Question: The writer of the book "The Cruel Sea" was born in Rodney Street, Liverpool. What was his name?
Answer: Nicholas Monsarrat

Question: In what county is the most northerly point in the island of Ireland?
Answer: Donegal

Question: In which sport do you have a York Round and a Hereford Round?
Answer: Archery

Question: Which British politician is credited with originating the expression 'Playing the Orange Card"?
Answer: Joseph Chamberlain

Question: What was the nationality of Adolphus Sachs, the inventor of the Saxophone?
Answer: Belgian

Question: Of what country is the chrysanthemum the national flower?
Answer: Japan

Question: In which book does Chief White Half Oat appear?
Answer: Catch 22

Question: On which river does Harwich stand?
Answer: Stour

Question: In which century was the printing press established in Britain?
Answer: 15th

Question: What brewery produces the beer called Old Speckled Hen?
Answer: Morlands

Question: Who wrote the novels 'A Passage to India' and 'A Room with a View'?
Answer: E M Forster

Question: Which proponent of Method acting directed the films 'On the Waterfront' and 'East of Eden'?
Answer: Elia Kazan

Question: In Greek mythology, how are Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos better known?
Answer: The Fates

Question: What is the unrhymed iambic pentameter style used by Milton in `Paradise Lost' and 'Wordsworth in 'The Prelude' better known?
Answer: Blank Verse

Question: Which butterfly gets its name from the large purple eyespots on its wings?
Answer: Peacock Butterfly

Question: Of which US State is Lansing the capital?
Answer: Michigan

Question: Which heavy metal has the chemical symbol Mo?
Answer: Molybdenum

Question: Which English Protestant produced the first English translation of the Bible in 1535?
Answer: Miles Coverdale

Question: What is the longest continuous footpath in the world - it is in the USA?
Answer: The Appalachian Trail

Question: What sort of creature is a nyala?
Answer: An Antelope

Question: Who lost his world heavyweight boxing title to Gene Tunney in 1926?
Answer: Jack Dempsey

Question: Which figures in Greek mythology were also called the Erinyes?
Answer: Furies

Question: Which Australian city is capital of the Northern Territory?
Answer: Darwin

Question: By what name was the Russian city of St Petersburg known from 1924 to 1991?
Answer: Leningrad

Question: What is the clown in the Simpson called?
Answer: Crusty

Question: In which country was the actor and director Mel Gibson born?
Answer: Usa

Question: Which organ of the body contains the tricuspid valve?
Answer: The Heart

Question: In which year did the Peterloo Massacre take place?
Answer: 1819

Question: In which war was the Battle of Marston Moor fought?
Answer: English Civil War

Question: Which American artist and photographer associated with the Dada and Surrealist movements, worked in Paris from 1921?
Answer: Man Ray( Emmanuel Radnitzky)

Question: Which English Benedictine monk and missionary is known as the Apostle of Germany?
Answer: St Boniface

Question: Which parliamentarian soldier in the Civil War became Cromwell's son-in-law?
Answer: Henry Ireton

Question: Who drove the car 'Thrust SSC' that first broke the land speed record in September 1997?
Answer: Andy Green

Question: Who wrote the 1997 Number One Song 'A Perfect Day'?
Answer: Lou Reed

Question: Which of the apostles was the brother of St Peter?
Answer: St Andrew

Question: Which illustrator and watercolourist is best known for his children's book illustrations such as Peter Pan in, 1906?
Answer: Arthur Rackham

Question: Which band had a hit with the song 'Brown Girl in the Ring'?
Answer: Boney M

Question: Who played Grant Mitchell in 'EastEnders'?
Answer: Ross Kemp

Question: Kings Oak was the location for which TV soap opera?
Answer: Crossroads

Question: For which disease is morbilli the Latin name?
Answer: Measles

Question: The Erskine Bridge carries the A898 over which river?
Answer: Clyde

Question: In which play does Lady Bracknell memorably say 'A handbag'?
Answer: The Importance Of Being Earnest

Question: What has been made at the Black Friars distillery in Devon since 1793 and has EU geographical protected status?
Answer: Plymouth Gin

Question: Who painted a number of paintings of water lilies in his garden at Giverny?
Answer: Claude Monet

Question: Launched in 1989 the MX-5 is a car made by which company?
Answer: Mazda

Question: In the book 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', what is Charlie's surname?
Answer: Bucket

Question: Which African country was formerly called Bechuanaland?
Answer: Botswana

Question: Who painted his grandson in the famous work, `Bubbles'?
Answer: John Everett Millais

Question: 'London Pride' and 'Chiswick Bitter' are beers from which brewery?
Answer: Fuller'S

Question: Nouakchott is the capital of which African country?
Answer: Mauritania

Question: Heather Small was lead singer with which successful Manchester band?
Answer: M People

Question: Who followed Roy Plomley as presenter of 'Desert Island Discs'?
Answer: Michael Parkinson

Question: Which woman tennis player has won the most grand slam titles with 62?
Answer: Margaret Court

Question: What is the more common name for the zygomatic bone?
Answer: Cheekbone

Question: Which actress is the mother of actresses Joely and the late Natasha Richardson?
Answer: Vanessa Redgrave

Question: Who was the first artiste from Liverpool to have a number one hit in Britain?
Answer: Lita Roza

Question: Who in 1948 became the first American born poet to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Ts Eliot

Question: Who composed the oratorio Carmina Burana?
Answer: Carl Orff