Question: Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands and West Germany were five of the original members of the European Economic Community. Name the sixth.
Answer: Luxembourg

Question: Which country was the birthplace of Mo Farah, Olympic and World Champion over 5,000 and 10,000 metres?
Answer: Somalia

Question: Which part of the body is affected by the disease trachoma?
Answer: The Eye

Question: Which country has the two letters internet domain code MD?
Answer: Moldova

Question: From which language do we get the words 'apartheid' and 'yacht'?
Answer: Dutch

Question: Which novel of 1813 begins 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife'?
Answer: Pride And Prejudice

Question: In 1990, which male runner held world records simultaneously at 1500, 2000, 3000, 5000 metres?
Answer: Said Aouita

Question: Who is the only American to be honoured in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey?
Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question: In the human body, what is produced by the islets of langerhans in the pancreas?
Answer: Insulin

Question: What is the name of the 2002 film directed by Steven Spielberg in which Leonardo DiCaprio starred as real life con man Frank Abagnale?
Answer: Catch Me If You Can

Question: Baklava, a pastry sweetened with honey, originated in which country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Which was the first US City to host the Summer Olympics?
Answer: St Louis

Question: In 2005, who became the youngest person ever to be made a Dame of the British Empire?
Answer: Ellen Macarthur

Question: What is the modern name of the island group which were known to the ancient Romans as 'The Fortune Islands'?
Answer: The Canary Islands

Question: In a standard pack of playing cards what does each of the four queens hold in her hand?
Answer: Flowers

Question: Which British male athlete won a gold medal in each of the four events he competed in at the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
Answer: David Weir

Question: How many Tour de France titles did Lance Armstrong "win" only to be stripped of them again in August 2012?
Answer: Seven

Question: Who became acting leader of the Labour Party following the death of John Smith in 1994?
Answer: Margaret Becket

Question: What is the name of the American composer whose work includes the film scores for 'Jaws", "E.T.' and the first three in the 'Harry Potter' series?
Answer: John Williams

Question: Born Jack Hoggan in Fife in 1951, what is the professional name of the self-taught artist, prints of whose works outsell Dali, Monet, and Van Gogh?
Answer: Jack Vettriano

Question: What is the name of the lighthouse situated four miles south east of the Scilly Islands?
Answer: Bishop'S Rock

Question: In which English Cathedral is the Mappa Mundi kept?
Answer: Hereford

Question: How many Gold Medals did the Great British team win at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Answer: 29

Question: Who replaced Barbara Castle as MP for Blackburn in 1979?
Answer: Jack Straw

Question: What was the name given to the 'Missing Link' which Charles Dawson claimed to have discovered in a gravel pit in Sussex in 1912?
Answer: Piltdown Man

Question: Who was the Irish Premier at the time of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998?
Answer: Bertie Ahern

Question: What is the name of Israel's secret service?
Answer: Mossad

Question: Inaugurated in 1990, what name is given to the annual awards recognising the achievements of jockeys from both flat and jump racing?
Answer: The Lester Awards

Question: In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus had to sail between a monster and a whirlpool. The monster was called Scylla. What was the name of the whirlpool?
Answer: Charybdis

Question: In which county is Greenham Common, scene of the peace camp from 1981 to 2001?
Answer: Berkshire

Question: What is the name of the American former stockbroker and financial advisor who created a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, considered to be the largest financial fraud in US history?
Answer: Bernie Madoff

Question: What was the name of the British art forger who claimed to have faked more than 2,000 paintings by over 100 different artists? He died in 1984.
Answer: Tom Keating

Question: What is the maximum score possible in a game of ten pin bowling?
Answer: 300

Question: What was the name of the single issue political party founded by Sir James Goldsmith to fight the 1997 General Election?
Answer: The Referendum Party

Question: What collective name is applied to the biblical characters Eliphas, Bildad and Zophor?
Answer: Job'S Comforters

Question: Which French phrase means 'required by etiquette'?
Answer: De Rigeur

Question: In which cathedral were all but six of the Kings of France crowned?
Answer: Rheims

Question: Which children's author created the character Tracy Beaker?
Answer: Jacqueline Wilson

Question: If the US states were listed in alphabetical order, which would be last?
Answer: Wyoming

Question: In the TV series "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perin' what was Reggie's middle name?
Answer: Iolanthe

Question: Which fictional detective made a first appearance in the 1916 novel 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles'?
Answer: Hercule Poirot

Question: In the Jewish religion what is the Day of Atonement called?
Answer: Yom Kippur

Question: Who directed the 1963 film The Birds?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock

Question: What is the state capital of Vermont?
Answer: Montpelier

Question: Which English rugby union club play home matches at Sandy Park?
Answer: Exeter Chiefs

Question: Which monarch wrote A Counterblast to Tobacco?
Answer: James I

Question: The island of Trinidad lies off which country?
Answer: Venezuela

Question: The Marina Bay Street Circuit, used in Formula 1 for the first time in 2008, is the venue for which Grand Prix?
Answer: Singapore

Question: Name either of the first two elements to be-named after persons.
Answer: Samarium/Gadolinium

Question: What was Rasputin's first name?
Answer: Grigory

Question: What is added to whisky to make a whisky mac?
Answer: Ginger wine

Question: Who replaced Judas Iscariot as the twelfth disciple?
Answer: Matthias

Question: What is the study of fungi called?
Answer: Mycology

Question: Superintendent Mullet, played by Bruce Alexander, was the boss of which 'TV detective?
Answer: Frost

Question: Where are the benthic regions?
Answer: At the bottom of the oceans

Question: According to the Jockey Club rules what is the maximum length of a race-horse's name?
Answer: 8 characters including spaces

Question: What is cynophobia a fear of?
Answer: Dogs

Question: Who invented the hovercraft in 1959?
Answer: Christopher Cockerell.

Question: How many strings are there on a normal sized ukulele?
Answer: 4

Question: Which edible element has the E number E175?
Answer: Gold

Question: On the 2014 Winter Olympic Games who did the British men's curling team play in the final?
Answer: Canada

Question: Masala wine is produced on which European island?
Answer: Sicily

Question: In which country did actor Clive Dunn die in 2012?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Shinto is the main religion in which country?
Answer: Japan

Question: Who directed the 1986 film The Fly?
Answer: David Cronenberg

Question: Which English rugby union club plays its home matches at Kingston Park?
Answer: Newcastle Falcons

Question: Who wrote the series of 21 historical novels featuring Richard Sharpe?
Answer: Bernard Cornwell

Question: Which monarch wrote A Defence of the Seven Sacraments?
Answer: Henry VIII

Question: The island of Madeira lies off which country?
Answer: Morocco

Question: ln Greek myth who is the muse of love poetry?
Answer: Erato

Question: What is the only country named after an element?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Give either of Lawrence of Arabia's Christian names.
Answer: Thomas Edward

Question: In the Bible, who was the father of Seth?
Answer: Adam

Question: Which Labour Party shadow cabinet member is married to fellow MP Ed Balls?
Answer: Yvette Cooper