Question: Which actor played the title character in the films 'Ed Wood', 'Donnie Brasco' and 'Edward Scissorhands'?
Answer: Johnny Depp

Question: Located at the southern end of the Mariana Trench, what is the name given to the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: Challenger Deep

Question: 'Nude Descending A Staircase' is perhaps the most famous painting by which 20th century artist?
Answer: Marcel Duchamp

Question: The 'RMS Titanic' was built at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard, in which city?
Answer: Belfast

Question: Milwaukee Deep is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean and is located in which oceanic trench?
Answer: Puerto Rico Trench

Question: 'View Of Delft' is one of the best known works of which 17th century artist?
Answer: Jan Vermeer

Question: From which English city did the 'RMS Titanic' set sail on its ill-fated voyage to New York?
Answer: Southampton

Question: Which actor played the title character in the films 'Johnny Suede', 'Meet Joe Black' and 'The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button'?
Answer: Brad Pitt

Question: Which county shares borders with Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire?
Answer: Cambridgeshire

Question: Which 20th century novel is subtitled 'The Sacred And Profound Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder'?
Answer: 'Brideshead Revisited'

Question: Which country was created from the counties of Schellenberg and Vaduz in 1699?
Answer: Liechtenstein

Question: Which singer had a number one hit in August 2010 with 'Beautiful Monster'?
Answer: Ne-Yo

Question: Which 17th century allegorical novel is subtitled 'From This World To That Which Is To Come'?
Answer: 'The Pilgrim'S Progress'

Question: Which African capital city was formerly known as Christopolis?
Answer: Monrovia

Question: In which country is the Rugby Union World Cup due to be held in 2011?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: In which country is the Rugby League World Cup due to be held in 2013?
Answer: England

Question: In astronomy, what term describes the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is farthest from the Sun?
Answer: Aphelion

Question: In which town in Greater Manchester is the TV series 'Waterloo Road' set?
Answer: Rochdale

Question: In which part of a flower, found on top of a filament, is pollen contained?
Answer: Anther

Question: In which English city is the TV series 'Being Human' set?
Answer: Bristol

Question: Which English explorer was responsible for establishing the first English colony in the 'New World', in 1584 at Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina?
Answer: Walter Raleigh

Question: Sugar Loaf Mountain overlooks which city?
Answer: RIO de JANEIRO

Question: Which American invented the computer mouse whilst working at the Stamford Research Institute in 1964?
Answer: Douglas Englebart

Question: What name is given to the short bands of tough fibrous connective tissue composed mainly of long, stringy collagen fibres that connect bones to one another?
Answer: Ligaments

Question: Table Mountain overlooks which city?
Answer: Cape Town

Question: Which 17th century Italian scientist is best remembered for inventing the Mercury Barometer?
Answer: Evangelista Torricelli

Question: What name is given to the cord of strong fibrous tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone?
Answer: Tendon

Question: Which English navigator, who dies in 1596, was buried at sea in a lead coffin off the coast of Panama?
Answer: Francis Drake

Question: Traditionally, what objects were made by a 'Gleave'?
Answer: Swords

Question: At which stadium did Derby County play their home games prior to moving to Pride Park?
Answer: Baseball Ground

Question: From which fruit is the Balkan brandy Slivovitz made?
Answer: Plum

Question: In 'Star Wars', what was 'Darth Vader's' name before he was seduced by the 'Dark Side of the Force'?
Answer: 'Anakin Skywalker'

Question: What is the name of the Parisian cemetery at which Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde and Edith Piaf are buried?
Answer: Pere Lachaise

Question: What was the Japanese name, meaning 'divine wind', that was given to the tornadoes of 1274 and 1281 that destroyed the Mongol fleets carrying Kublai Khan's invasion armies?
Answer: Kamikaze

Question: In the animated TV show 'The Simpsons', what was 'Marge Simpson's' maiden name?
Answer: 'Bouvier'

Question: Geoffrey Rush won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a mentally handicapped piano player in which film?
Answer: 'Shine'

Question: In C.S. Lewis' 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', what is the name of the faun who befriends 'Lucy' when she first enters 'Narnia'?
Answer: 'Mr. Tumnus'

Question: Which Belgian city is known as the 'diamond cutting capital of the world'?
Answer: Antwerp

Question: On which planet in our solar system would you find the Maxwell Montes mountains?
Answer: Venus

Question: According to Greek mythology, who was the woman who fell in love with Theseus and supplied him with the ball of thread by which he found his way out of the Labyrinth?
Answer: Ariadne

Question: Which lake and UNESCO World Heritage Site straddles the border between Macedonia and Albania?
Answer: Lake Ohrid

Question: Who was the wife of the Greek hero Agamemnon who murdered him on his return from Troy?
Answer: Clytemnestra

Question: In which Central American country is Derian, the oldest European colony on the American continent?
Answer: Panama

Question: 'Tom and Maggie Tulliver' are the central characters in which of George Eliot's novels?
Answer: 'The Mill On The Floss'

Question: What name is given to the point on the celestial sphere, directly below the observer, opposite the zenith?
Answer: Nadir

Question: Which Spanish city in Castile-La Mancha has been renowned since the Middle Ages for its production of swords?
Answer: Toledo

Question: Which influential writer of the French Renaissance, who helped to popularise the essay as a literary form , is perhaps best remembered for his 'Apology For Raymond Sebond'?
Answer: MICHEL de MONTAIGNE

Question: Who was the American engine driver and folk hero on the Cannonball Express who died in 1900 trying to prevent his train from crashing into a freight train?
Answer: Casey Jones

Question: What was the name of the fictional paper company whose offices provide the setting for the British sit-com 'The Office'?
Answer: 'Wernham Hogg'

Question: The musical play 'The Mother Of All The Peoples' dramatised the life of which female Scottish missionary to Nigeria?
Answer: Mary Slessor

Question: Which former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion won his first 48 fights before losing to Michael Spinks in 1985?
Answer: Larry Holmes

Question: With the scientific name Taurotragus oryx, which is the largest species of antelope?
Answer: Eland

Question: Which American rock star survived the car crash that killed Eddie Cochran in April 1960?
Answer: Gene Vincent

Question: What was the name of the real-life castaway upon whom Daniel Defoe based 'Robinson Crusoe'?
Answer: Alexander Selkirk

Question: Which philosopher was Dean of Notre Dame in Paris in 1115 but became a monk after a scandal that led to his castration?
Answer: Peter Abelard

Question: Who was the Iranian Ayatollah who sentenced Salman Rushdie to death in absentia after the publication of the novelist's 'Satanic Verses'?
Answer: Ayatollah Khomeini

Question: In which US city doe the American Football team known as the 'Raiders' play their home games?
Answer: Oakland

Question: Who was both the last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech republic?
Answer: Vaclav Havel

Question: What was the name of the American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1994 debut album 'Grace', who drowned whilst swimming in a tributary of the Mississippi River in 1997?
Answer: Jeff Buckley

Question: In which 20th century novel do many of the central characters speak a teenage slang called 'Nadsat'?
Answer: 'A Clockwork Orange'