Question: What is the name of Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi's home town where he was killed in 2011?
Answer: Sirte

Question: In Edwin Landseer's 1839 painting, who or what are 'Dignity and Impudence'?
Answer: Dogs

Question: On the London Underground map what is the colour of the Jubilee Line?
Answer: Silver

Question: The Salish Sea separates which island from mainland North America?
Answer: Vancouver Island

Question: Who wrote 'Play in a Day', a guide to playing the guitar first published in 1957?
Answer: Bert Weedon

Question: What is the name of the now decommissioned nuclear power plant in Caithness?
Answer: Dounreay

Question: 'Titter ye not' was a catchphrase of which comedian?
Answer: Frankie Howerd

Question: Which woman lost in seven Wimbledon singles finals during the second half of the 20th century?
Answer: Chris Evert

Question: Scaramanga was the villain of which Bond film?
Answer: The Man With The Golden Gun

Question: Name the year; the Profumo Affair, first female astronaut and first limited overs cricket final at Lords.
Answer: 1963

Question: The Hashemite ruler Faisal 2nd was the last king of which country?
Answer: Iraq

Question: On the London Underground map what is the colour of the Hammersmith & City Line?
Answer: Pink

Question: Which president of South Africa ordered the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990?
Answer: F.W. de Klerk

Question: Which female singer had a 2008 hit with 'Warwick Avenue'?
Answer: Duffy

Question: Who was voted Footballer of the Year (both footballer writers and PFA awards) at the end of the 2011-12 season?
Answer: Robin van Persie

Question: Which famous castle in Caithness belonged to the Queen Mother?
Answer: Castle of Mey

Question: 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' was the debut album of Pink Floyd; the title came from a chapter heading in which book?
Answer: Wind in the Willows

Question: The Ivy League University 'Dartmouth College' is in which US state?
Answer: New Hampshire

Question: In which Shakespeare play does the quotation "neither a borrower nor a lender be" appear?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: Which TV series was set in Aidensfield?
Answer: Heartbeat

Question: Alec Trevelyan was the villain of which Bond film?
Answer: Golden Eye

Question: Melatonin is produced in which gland in the human body?
Answer: Pineal

Question: Name the year; first nuclear power station opened at Calder Hall, Nasser elected President of Egypt, Devon Loch falls at the end of the Grand National?
Answer: 1956

Question: Executed in 1958, Imre Nagy was Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: Hungary

Question: In book and film, which vessel was commanded by Charlie Allnut?
Answer: The African Queen

Question: Which tennis player won 11 Grand Slam titles during the second half of the 20th century, but only ever won one match at the Australian Open?
Answer: Bjorn Borg

Question: Who wrote about his life in the RAE during World War 2 under the pseudonym 'Flying Officer X'?
Answer: H.E. Bates

Question: Emma of Normandy was wife to two early Kings of England, name either,
Answer: Ethelred (the unready) or Canute

Question: What is the name of the home town of Saddam Hussein, close to where he was captured in 2003?
Answer: Tikrit

Question: A Black Russian cocktail is a mix of vodka with what?
Answer: Coffee liqueur

Question: Which house was filmed as Pemberley in the BBC TV adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Answer: Lyme Hall

Question: Who composed the opera Tancredi?
Answer: Rossini

Question: Who was the last president of Czechoslovakia before its dissolution in 1993?
Answer: Vaclav Havel

Question: Tabbouleh, a vegetarian salad based on couscous or bulgur wheat, originates in which country?
Answer: Lebanon

Question: Who is the only footballer to have scored in four FA Cup finals?
Answer: Didier Drogba

Question: What is added to a Black Russian to make it into a White Russian?
Answer: Cream

Question: 'Whatever People say I am, that's what I'm not' was the debut album of the Arctic Monkeys; the title came from which book (and film)?
Answer: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Question: The TV programme 'Downton Abbey' is filmed at which stately home?
Answer: Highclere Castle

Question: Which scientific law describes the relationship between the volume and temperature of a gas at constant pressure?
Answer: Charles's Law

Question: In a Shakespeare play, who was found "fast asleep behind the arras and snorting like a horse"?
Answer: Falstaff

Question: By what name was the artist Michaelangelo Merisi better known?
Answer: Caravaggio

Question: Which major company employ a 'Chief Doodler'?
Answer: Google

Question: The 'Loop of Henle' is found in which organ of the human body?
Answer: Kidney

Question: What was politician Mo Mowlem's real first name?
Answer: Marjorie

Question: Whose symphony No 3 in E Flat contains a funeral march?
Answer: Beethoven

Question: Which Englishman scored 766 runs in the 2010-11 Ashes series in Australia?
Answer: Alaistair Cook

Question: For what crime was Robert Hubert hanged in the 17th century?
Answer: STARTING THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON (it was a

Question: Which rock, formed by the solidification of thin layers of molten lava, comprises much of the surfaces-of Mercury, Venus, Mars and the Moon?
Answer: Basalt

Question: Which political party has ruled Syria since 1970?
Answer: Ba'Ath

Question: Shelina Permalloo won which TV show in 2012?
Answer: Masterchef

Question: Which high street chain is named after a character in Moby Dick?
Answer: Starrucks

Question: Which is the most northerly of Britain's 15 National Parks?
Answer: The Cairngorms

Question: Who became the first British cyclist since Tom Simpson in 1967 to win the classic Paris Nice 'race to the sun' in March 2012?
Answer: Bradley Wiggins

Question: What name is given to the original single continent on Earth that has split into the continents we have today?
Answer: Pangea

Question: What irrevocable step was taken by Caesar in 49I3C?
Answer: Crossing The Rubicon

Question: Name either of the team captains in the BBC comedy panel show 'Would I Lie To You'.
Answer: David Mitchell Or Lee Mack

Question: Which book is set in the 1930s and features Pinkie as the leader of a gang?
Answer: Brighton Rock

Question: Which English singer/songwriter, born in 1974, was an officer in the Life Guards regiment and served with NATO in Kosovo in 1999?
Answer: James Blunt

Question: Which national anthem features in Schumann's 'Viennese Carnival Pranks' and in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture?
Answer: La Marseillaise

Question: Who wrote 'The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner'?
Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question: Shooting, swimming, riding, cross-country running and what comprise the modem pentathlon?
Answer: Fencing

Question: Who was King of Libya when it gained independence from Italy on Christmas Eve 1951?
Answer: Idris

Question: Which substance interrupts the conduction of impulses in nerves and has the chemical formula C17 H21 NO4?
Answer: Cocaine

Question: Which leader of the British National Party appeared on Question Time in October 2009?
Answer: Nick Griffin

Question: In 2012 who became the oldest winner of an Oscar, for his role in 'Beginners'?
Answer: Christopher Plummer

Question: Which popular song did Stravinsky incorporate into 'Greetings Prelude' in 1955 unaware that he was in breach of copyright?
Answer: Happy Birthday

Question: Which female swimmer from Merseyside became the first to qualify for the 2012 Olympic games in 3 individual Olympic disciplines?
Answer: Fran Halsall

Question: Gout is caused by the crystallisation of which acid in the, body?
Answer: Uric

Question: Of which country was President Sukarno the first president? He became president on 18 August 1945?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: Which protest movement which began in 2011, had as its slogan 'We are the 99%'?
Answer: Occupy

Question: To which, position did Joachim Gauck succeed Christian Wulff in spring 2012?
Answer: President Of Germany