Question: What is the title of the 2006 follow-up novel to ‘The Queen and I’ by British author Sue Townsend?
Answer: Queen Camilla

Question: What is the name of the drunken tinker in and for who the play ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, by William Shakespeare, is performed?
Answer: Christopher Sly

Question: Lady Rosaline, Lady Maria and Lady Katherine are all characters in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Love’s Labour’s Lost

Question: In the opening scene of which Shakespeare play does Hermia refuse to marry Demetrius, who her father has chosen for her, because she wishes to marry Lysander?
Answer: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Question: In the Shakespeare play ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ what is the name of Sir John Falstaff’s page?
Answer: Robin

Question: Which Shakespeare play is set in the port of Messina, on the island of Sicily?
Answer: Much Ado About Nothing

Question: What is the name of Hamlet’s best friend in the Shakespeare play ‘Hamlet’?
Answer: Horatio

Question: Which Shakespeare play is also known under the title ‘What You Will’?
Answer: Twelfth Night

Question: In the Shakespeare play ‘Othello’, what was Othello’s first gift to Desdemona?
Answer: A handkerchief

Question: In the Shakespeare play ‘Macbeth’, which character carries Macbeth’s head on stage?
Answer: Macduff

Question: The plot of Robert Greene’s prose romance ‘Pandosto: The Triumph of Time’ is said to be the inspiration for which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Winter’s Tale

Question: Who wrote the majority of the books of the New Testament of the Bible?
Answer: Paul

Question: After how many games in a professional tennis match are the balls first replaced?
Answer: Seven

Question: What is the title of the first feature film directed by Sam Mendes?
Answer: American Beauty

Question: What is the title of Abba’s last UK number one hit single?
Answer: Super Trouper

Question: Ian Botham played his last professional cricket match for which English team?
Answer: Durham

Question: What was the first name of famous German scientist Einstein?
Answer: Albert

Question: ‘Taim I’ngra leat’ is Irish for what?
Answer: I love you

Question: Acute viral nasopharyngitis is a medical term for which common ailment?
Answer: The common cold

Question: At the age of 22 years and 47 days who was the youngest captain of the England football team?
Answer: Bobby Moore

Question: Which is the largest city in Asia by population?
Answer: Shanghai

Question: What colour is a fifty ‘pounds’ Monopoly bank note?
Answer: Blue

Question: Which is the only state in the US that commercially grows coffee?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: ‘The ‘what’ Tree’ is a 1987 album by U2?
Answer: Joshua

Question: In the UK in pre-decimal currency how many farthings were in a shilling?
Answer: 48

Question: Harrisburg is the capital of which US state?
Answer: Pennsylvania

Question: The 2009 album ‘Journal for Plague Lovers’ was released by which band?
Answer: Manic Street Preachers

Question: A group of which animals is known as an ‘Array’?
Answer: Hedgehogs

Question: Challis, Loden and Cheviot are all types of which fabric?
Answer: Wool

Question: The headquarters of IT company Viglen double up as one of the filming locations of which British reality television show?
Answer: The Apprentice

Question: Which element changes a person’s voice when inhaled, making it sound much higher?
Answer: Helium

Question: The first US execution by lethal injection was carried out in December 1982 in which state?
Answer: Texas

Question: Which English author drowned in 1941, after filling her pockets with stones and walking into the River Ouse?
Answer: Virginia Woolf

Question: Which cartoon character owns a dog called Dogmatix?
Answer: Obelix

Question: Which UK television game show is the setting for the novel ‘Starter For 10’ by David Nicholls?
Answer: University Challenge

Question: Hipolito Yrigoyen was the President of which South American country from 1928 to 1930?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Teri Hatcher played Paris Carver in which James Bond film?
Answer: Tomorrow Never Dies

Question: Who succeeded Peter III of Russia in 1762?
Answer: Catherine II (The Great)

Question: Cee Lo Green is one half of which US soul duo?
Answer: Gnarls Barkley

Question: In February 1938, what was the first commercial product to be made with nylon yarn?
Answer: Toothbrush

Question: The Harry Potter series of books was published by which British publisher?
Answer: Bloomsbury

Question: In Greek mythology, one of the 12 Labours of Hercules was to defeat the man-eating Stymphalian ‘what’?
Answer: Birds

Question: Samedi is French for which day of the week?
Answer: Saturday

Question: The Scottish village of Ullapool lies on which loch?
Answer: Loch Broom

Question: In May 1990 ‘Portrait of Dr Gachet’ by which artist was sold at auction for a record 82.5 Million US dollars?
Answer: Vincent van Gough

Question: ‘Welcome to Joyville’ is an advertising slogan for which confectionery brand?
Answer: Cadbury

Question: Which British television chef was reported as saying ‘For any chef, supermarkets are like a factory.  I buy from specialist growers, organic suppliers and farmers’?
Answer: Jamie Oliver

Question: What does the Latin phrase ‘Vestis virum reddit’ translate to in English?
Answer: Clothes make the man

Question: Who wrote the 1869 novel ‘War and Peace’?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy

Question: What is the name of a small curve over a vowel which symbolises a short sound?
Answer: Breve

Question: What type of creature is a dragonet?
Answer: Fish

Question: The Cathar Castles are in which European country?
Answer: France

Question: What is the official language of the Canadian province Quebec?
Answer: French

Question: British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan was the leader of which political party?
Answer: Conservative Party

Question: The Calcutta Cup is played for in Rugby union between which two nations?
Answer: England and Scotland

Question: The Biskupin Open Air Museum is a life-size model of a prehistoric settlement in which European country?
Answer: Poland

Question: In Judaism, what is the collective name for the ten people required to be present in order to for a communal religious service to be conducted?
Answer: Minyan

Question: The dish Kinchi (or Ginchi) is a traditional vegetable side-dish of which country?
Answer: Korea

Question: What is the title of the first-person shooter science fiction video game, released by id Software in 1993?
Answer: Doom

Question: Who won the 1994 Formula One Grand Prix World Championships?
Answer: Michael Schumacher

Question: On 31st March 1990, The Second Battle of Trafalgar was the largest protest in England against what?
Answer: Poll Tax (Community Charge)

Question: Who was Bill Clinton’s running mate in the 1992 US Presidential election?
Answer: Al Gore

Question: In August 1990, which late American composer and conductor had his final concert at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra?
Answer: Leonard Bernstein

Question: In April 1993, the World Health Organisation declared which disease ‘A global health emergency’?
Answer: Tuberculosis

Question: Who won the World Chess Championship in December 1990, holding his title?
Answer: Garry Kasparov

Question: In May 1998, which future UK television presenter, at age 27, became one of the youngest climbers to scale Mount Everest?
Answer: Bear Grylls

Question: Which country won the 1996 Cricket World Cup?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: What was the call sign of the eight-man British Army SAS patrol deployed into Iraq during the first Gulf War in January 1991?
Answer: Bravo Two Zero

Question: In November 1990, British Satellite Broadcasting merged with which television service?
Answer: Sky (Television plc)

Question: In October 1992, which singer ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, after performing a song protesting alleged child abuse by the Catholic Church?
Answer: Sinead O’Connor