Question: How many pounds are there in a hundredweight?
Answer: 112

Question: Which film starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson is about a lawyer defending two Marines on a charge of murder?
Answer: 'A Few Good Men'

Question: """I will put my pyjamas in the drawer marked pyjamas, I will take my balsam which is good for me"", is a line from which play?"
Answer: 'Under Milk Wood'

Question: Art - in which century was the style known as 'Romanticism' introduced?
Answer: NINETEENTH (19th)

Question: Who created the 'Daleks' in 'Dr. Who' as well as the science fiction series 'Blakes's Seven'? He died in 1997.
Answer: Terry Nation

Question: Dr. Buck Ruxton, who distributed the body parts of his murdered victims throughout Scotland, practiced in which city?
Answer: Lancaster

Question: Traveling due north from the island of Madeira, which country would be reached first?
Answer: Iceland

Question: Yerevan is the capital of which country?
Answer: Armenia

Question: In astronomy, what sort of object is a 'Bolide'?
Answer: An Exploding Meteor

Question: Which new racecourse in Wales opened in June 2009?
Answer: Ffos Las

Question: What nationality is fashion designer Raf Simons?
Answer: Belgian

Question: What sort of creatures may be described as 'Caprine'?
Answer: Goats

Question: Henry John Temple was better known as which Prime Minister?
Answer: Lord Palmerston

Question: Which comedian, whose real name is Bob Davis, reached number five in the charts in 1975 with 'Funky Moped'?
Answer: Jasper Carrot

Question: What type of plants are 'Scandents'?
Answer: Climbing Plants

Question: Which member of the Royal Family has the title 'Earl of Inverness'?
Answer: Prince Andrew

Question: Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain at the start of the first Boer War?
Answer: W.E. Gladstone

Question: What position is currently held by Martin Lees, Baron Lees of Ludlow?
Answer: Astronomer Royal

Question: Alphabetically, which is the last book of the New Testament?
Answer: Titus

Question: Who had a number one hit 2001 with 'Queen Of My Heart'?
Answer: 'Westlife'

Question: Which 20th century artist has the same name as a European country?
Answer: Roy Lichtenstein

Question: How many feet are there in a 'Furlong'?
Answer: 660

Question: Following the Battle of the River Plate, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles blockaded the estuary of the river. Which Royal Navy warship subsequently joined them?
Answer: H.M.S. Cumberland

Question: Stanley Baldwin made the statement "There are three groups that no British Prime Minister should pardon, The Vatican, The Treasury, and.." which other?
Answer: """..The Miners"""

Question: In total, how many toes do most cats have?
Answer: 18

Question: Brezhnev and Kosygin take over from Kruschev, Southern Rhodesia becomes Zambia, Roger Emerson wins the Men's Singles at Wimbledon. Which year?
Answer: 1964

Question: What was the name of the second 'Harry Potter' film?
Answer: 'Harry Potter & The Chamber Of Secrets'

Question: What is common to the 'Pitcher' and the 'Sundew' plants?
Answer: They Are Carniverous

Question: What colour of flowers does the 'Fennel' plant have?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Seven crew are killed when the space shuttle Challenger explodes, US Air Force bombers attack Libya, Castleford win the Rugby League Challenge Cup. Which year?
Answer: 1986

Question: The pheasant shooting season finishes on the first of which month?
Answer: February

Question: What sort of creature is a 'Gadwall'?
Answer: A Duck

Question: Give any year in the life of the painter 'Tintoretto'?
Answer: 1573 - 1652

Question: Give any year in the life of architect Inigo Jones?
Answer: 1573 - 1652

Question: What was founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879?
Answer: Christian Scientists

Question: In which sport is the Londonderry Cup awarded to the winners?
Answer: Squash

Question: In which country is Tampere?
Answer: Finland

Question: Girton College is part of which University?
Answer: Cambridge

Question: For advertising which product on ITV was Carol Vorderman sacked by BBC TV's 'Tomorrow's World'?
Answer: Ariel Washing Powder

Question: What is the literal meaning of "pot pourri"?
Answer: Rotten Pot

Question: Two giant cranes in Harland and Woolf shipyard in Belfast, N.I., have biblical names. Name one of them?
Answer: Samson & Goliath

Question: Which group had a UK hit in August 1966 with the song 'With A Girl Like You'?
Answer: 'The Troggs'

Question: What is the capital of Zimbabwe?
Answer: Harare

Question: In which country are the Taurus Mountains?
Answer: Turkey

Question: In architecture what name is given to an open sided tower, designed for enjoying a view, at the top of a building?
Answer: Belvedere

Question: Who composed the music for the opera 'Parsifal'?
Answer: Wagner

Question: What was the name of the craft in which John Glenn first orbited the Earth in 1962?
Answer: Friendship 7

Question: What type of creature is a 'Kildeer'?
Answer: A BIRD ( a Plover)

Question: In which country is the mountain range, the Western Ghats?
Answer: India

Question: Who devised the TV series 'Citizen Smith'?
Answer: John Sullivan

Question: Which American city is home to the Baseball side 'The Orioles'?
Answer: Baltimore

Question: What was the real first name of comedian Bud Flanagan?
Answer: William

Question: Cars from which country have the registration 'EAK'?
Answer: Kenya

Question: Cars from which country have the registration 'IS'?
Answer: Iceland

Question: What was the real first name of Mother Teresa?
Answer: Agnes

Question: Who directed the 1997 film 'Titanic'?
Answer: James Cameron

Question: The Chaco War of 1932-1935 was between two South American countries. Name either?
Answer: BOLIVIA or PARAGUAY

Question: From what work of literature did Huxley get the title for his book 'Brave New World'?
Answer: 'THE TEMPEST' (by William Shakespeare)

Question: Who devised the TV series 'Last Of The Summer Wine'?
Answer: Roy Clarke

Question: 'Launcelot Gobbo', the clown, features in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: 'The Merchant Of Venice'

Question: 'Lindberg International Airport' serves which American city?
Answer: San Diego

Question: Who composed the music for the opera 'Lucia di Lammermoor'?
Answer: Donizetti

Question: From what work of literature did Thomas Hardy get the title for his book 'Far From The Madding Crowd'?
Answer: 'ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD' by Thomas Gray

Question: Where in Merseyside would you find two large Yew trees nicknamed 'Adam & Eve'?
Answer: Speke Hall

Question: What was the name of the last manned mission to the Moon?
Answer: Apollo 17

Question: Which stretch of water joins the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmera?
Answer: The Dardanelles

Question: Who directed the 1982 film 'E.T.'?
Answer: Steven Speilberg

Question: Who directed the 1995 film 'Braveheart'?
Answer: Mel Gibson

Question: Which film actor once proclaimed "Prohibition was so bad, I was once forced to live for days on nothing but food and water"?
Answer: W.C. Fields

Question: What is/was being advertised on TV by the following phrase, "It's not Terry's, its mine"?
Answer: Terry's CHOCOLATE ORANGE

Question: Which singer first came to public notice when she won 'The X Factor' in 2006?
Answer: Leona Lewis

Question: Which city did Delhi replace as capital of India in 1912?
Answer: Calcutta

Question: Which singer first came to public notice when she won 'The X Factor' in 2008?
Answer: Alexandra Burke

Question: What is/was being advertised on TV by the following phrase, "Get your own, you cheeky cow"?
Answer: Boddington'S Bitter

Question: At which sporting venue would you find the 'Radcliffe Road End'?
Answer: TRENT BRIDGE (Notts.C.C.C. ground)

Question: Which playwright wrote the screenplay for the 1982 film 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'?
Answer: Harold Pinter

Question: What does the name of the art group 'Les Fauves' translate into English?
Answer: The Wild Beasts