Question: What does a craniometer measure?
Answer: (The Bones Of) The Skull

Question: Raita is an Indian sauce or dip, what is always used as a base?
Answer: Yoghurt

Question: Chris Haney who died in June 2010 aged 59 was co-creator of which board game?
Answer: Trivial Pursuit

Question: Which actress star of the film Georgy Girl died in May 2010?
Answer: Lynn Redgrave

Question: Who became the first Chancellor of the reunited Germany in 1990?
Answer: Helmut Kohl

Question: What is the name of the mausoleum near Windsor where Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are buried?
Answer: Frogmore

Question: Which horse won the 2010 Aintree Grand National?
Answer: Don't Push It

Question: 'Zorro' is the Spanish word for which animal?
Answer: Fox

Question: Which character did Julia Roberts play in the Steven Spielberg film 'Hook'?
Answer: Tinkerbell

Question: Which US company has recently taken over Cadbury's?
Answer: Kraft

Question: What was the name of the boat on which newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell was last seen alive?
Answer: Lady Ghislaine

Question: Which of the British pre-decimalisation coins portrayed a portcullis on its reverse side?
Answer: Threepenny piece

Question: On which radio programme has Evan Davis been a regular presenter since April 2008?
Answer: Today

Question: Which entertainer was originally billed, as a child, as 'The Mighty Atom'?
Answer: Bruce Forsyth

Question: Who launched the SkyTrain air service on 26 September 1977?
Answer: Freddie Laker

Question: Which famous biblical character was born in Gath, according to the Book of Samuel?
Answer: Goliath

Question: Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the UK, but which mountain comes next in height?
Answer: Ben MacDhui

Question: Which online bank was established by the Prudential in 1998?
Answer: Egg

Question: Who won the 2010 World Professional Snooker Championship?
Answer: Neil Robertson

Question: Which Benjamin Britten opera was composed to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second?
Answer: Gloriana

Question: Which type of pasta literally takes its name from the Italian for 'butterfly'?
Answer: Farfalle

Question: What is a Suffolk Punch?
Answer: A breed of (draught) horse

Question: What was the name of the world's first nuclear powered submarine?
Answer: Nautilus

Question: Which car company produces a model called the Yeti?
Answer: Skoda

Question: By what name is the medical condition Pertussis more commonly known?
Answer: Whooping Cough

Question: Bathsheba Everdene is the female protagonist of which Thomas Hardy novel?
Answer: Far From the Madding Crowd

Question: Which daughter of Minos of Crete gave Theseus the thread which enabled him to find his way out of the labyrinth?
Answer: Ariadne

Question: Which flag is flown by a vessel about to leave port?
Answer: Blue Peter

Question: Who wrote the opera 'The Girl of the Golden West'?
Answer: Giacomo Puccini

Question: What is the most northerly motorway in Britain?
Answer: M90

Question: Which country's national airline is called Garuda?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: According to the nursery rhyme who 'kissed the girls and made them cry'?
Answer: Georgie Porgie

Question: Which musical features the song 'The Rhythm of Life'?
Answer: Sweet Charity

Question: Which championship golf course has holes named 'Flowering Crab Apple', 'Firethorn' and 'Azalea'?
Answer: Augusta

Question: Who wrote "He who can does. He who cannot, teaches"?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw

Question: By what name is vitamin B2 also known?
Answer: Riboflavin

Question: What is the name of the largest of Jupiter's moons?
Answer: Ganymede

Question: In which James Bond film does Britt Ekland appear?
Answer: The Man with the Golden Gun

Question: Klagenfurt International Airport is located in which country?
Answer: Austria

Question: What is the French equivalent of the London Stock Exchange?
Answer: The Bourse

Question: In which country did the Velvet Revolution of November 1989 take place?
Answer: Czechoslovakia

Question: Which pop group had a number one hit record in the 1990s with 'Don't Look Back in Anger'?
Answer: Oasis

Question: In which sport did Scot Graeme Obree twice become World Champion?
Answer: Cycling

Question: What is the mascot for the 2012 London Paralympic Games called?
Answer: Mandeville

Question: In the Bible, on the road to where did Cleopas encounter Jesus?
Answer: Emmaus

Question: Who is the fictional detective, known as the female James Bond, created by Peter O'Donnell?
Answer: Modesty Blaise

Question: Which comedian's catchphrases included "Shut that door"?
Answer: Larry Grayson

Question: In which country did General Jaruzelski impose martial law in 1981?
Answer: Poland

Question: What is the opposite of the word 'nadir'?
Answer: Zenith

Question: What kind of acid is normally used in a car battery?
Answer: Sulphuric Acid

Question: Which composer's oratorios include 'The Kingdom' and 'The Dream of Gerontius'?
Answer: Edward Elgar

Question: Which Rugby League team is nicknamed 'The Wildcats'?
Answer: Wakefield Trinity

Question: What is the Spanish word for the colour yellow?
Answer: Amarillo

Question: Who chaired the 2010 Iraq Inquiry?
Answer: Sir John Chilcot

Question: Which newspaper did Piers Morgan edit from 1995 to 2004?
Answer: Daily Mirror

Question: Which author created the character Simon Templar?
Answer: Leslie Charteris

Question: Who in 2007 was appointed Britain's first ever female Home Secretary?
Answer: Jacqui Smith

Question: In which Asian country is the resort of Pattaya?
Answer: Thailand

Question: Which TV series features the Sterling Cooper advertising agency?
Answer: Mad Men

Question: What does the acronym SWALK on an envelope mean?
Answer: Sealed with a loving kiss

Question: Which TV character is the British equivalent of Michael Scott played by Steve Carell on US television?
Answer: David Brent

Question: What does the word 'erstwhile' mean?
Answer: Former, formerly

Question: Hydrargyrum is another name for which chemical element?
Answer: Mercury

Question: Which football team was founded in 2002 and, after four promotions, started the 2009-10 season in the Blue Square Conference Premier, one step from the Football League?
Answer: (AFC) Wimbledon

Question: Guy Garvey is the lead vocalist of which award-winning Bury-based band?
Answer: Elbow

Question: Politician George Osborne stands to inherit a substantial share of his father's companv Osborne and Little. What do they make?
Answer: (Luxury) wallpaper

Question: Name the unseeded tennis player who won the 2009 US Open in only her third tournament since coming out of retirement.
Answer: Kim Clijsters

Question: In which town or city does the Rugby Union team Ospreys play its home games?
Answer: Swansea

Question: Which politician said in 2000, 'I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.'?
Answer: George W Bush

Question: Name the Dubai tower officially opened in 2010 which is now the world's tallest building.
Answer: Burj Khalifa

Question: What 9-letter word beginning with G means a local official in the German Nazi Party?
Answer: Gauleiter

Question: PH Newby was the winner of the first what in 1969?
Answer: Booker Prize

Question: Who was the Greek god of the winds?
Answer: Aeolus

Question: Name the police officer who commanded the operation leading to the shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes and who has since been promoted to Deputy Assistant Commissioner.
Answer: Cressida Dick

Question: Who deposed Richard II in 1399, succeeding him as King of England?
Answer: Henry IV

Question: Which religion has holy books called the Vedas?
Answer: Hinduism

Question: Who in 2002 was the youngest man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Answer: Adrien Brody

Question: Actor Gary Webster took over as an eponymous character in which TV series of the 70s and 80s?
Answer: Minder