Question: Who was the longest-serving Australian Prime Minister?
Answer: Sir Robert Menzies

Question: What is the name of Peter Perfect’s car in the children’s tv cartoon series ‘Wacky Races’?
Answer: Turbo Terrific

Question: What was the former name of the Vietnamese city of Ho Chi Min?
Answer: Saigon

Question: ‘Do not go gentle into that good night…..Rage, rage against the dying of the light’  is from a poem by which British poet?
Answer: Dylan Thomas

Question: In Greek mythology, who unwittingly became the wife of her son Oedipus, and hanged herself when the relationship was discovered?
Answer: Jocasta

Question: Who wrote the thriller novel ‘Birds of Prey’?
Answer: Wilbur Smith

Question: The 1999 film ’10 Things I Hate About You’ is based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Taming of the Shrew

Question: Which American comedian always ended his CBS variety show with the phrase ‘Say goodnight, Gracie’?
Answer: George Burns

Question: Eisoptrophobia is the irrational fear of which household items?
Answer: Mirrors

Question: Who played Mike Young in the Australian tv soap ‘Neighbours’?
Answer: Guy Pearce

Question: The plant ‘Helianthus Annuus’ is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: Sunflower

Question: A probang is used to remove an object from, or apply medication to, which part of the body?
Answer: Throat

Question: In religion, which King is referred to as the ‘Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah’?
Answer: Haile Selassie I

Question: In Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’, what is the name of Othello’s wife?
Answer: Desdemona

Question: The Manacle Rocks lie off the coast of which English county?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: The Forint is the basic monetary unit of which European country?
Answer: Hungary

Question: Abuja is the capital of which West African republic?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: What type of bird is a pochard?
Answer: Duck

Question: Who wrote the children’s novel ‘Mary Poppins’?
Answer: P.L. Travers

Question: What was English author Graham Greene’s first name?
Answer: Henry

Question: ‘Pap’ is the town’s vagrant drunkard father of which fictional character created by Mark Twain?
Answer: Huckleberry Finn

Question: ‘Brick Lane’ by Monica Ali is set in which London borough?
Answer: Tower Hamlets

Question: Which British illustrator who illustrated the gift book of Peter Pan, was known for her cute drawings of children based on her daughter Peggy?
Answer: Mabel Lucie Atwell

Question: In the Paddington Bear books by Michael Bond, Mr. Gruber owns an antique shop in which London road?
Answer: Portobello Road

Question: Which female, London-born author has younger brothers, rapper and comedian Doc Brown and rapper Luc Skyz?
Answer: Zadie Smith

Question: ‘The Boarding House’, ‘Two Gallants’ and ‘Eveline’ are short stories from which James Joyce novel?
Answer: Dubliners

Question: Thomas Keneally, author of ‘Schindler’s Ark’ was born in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: What were the first names of dramatist, poet and literary critic T.S.Eliot?
Answer: Thomas Stearns

Question: Which US author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962?
Answer: John Steinbeck

Question: Eveline Hanska was married to which French novelist?
Answer: Honore de Balzac

Question: Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin was created by which author?
Answer: Fydor Dostoyevsky

Question: Which American author, born in 1892, whose novels include ‘The Good Earth’, is also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu?
Answer: Pearl S. Buck

Question: Doramania is an obsession with what?
Answer: Fur

Question: Who won the 2008 Men’s Singles Final at Wimbledon?
Answer: Rafael Nadal

Question: Silviculture is the growing and cultivation of what?
Answer: Forests/trees

Question: What is the name of the blind beggar in the novel ‘Treasure Island’ by Robert Louis Stevenson?
Answer: Pew

Question: Which modern-day country was previously known as Mesopotamia?
Answer: Iraq

Question: Ovine relates to which animal?
Answer: Sheep

Question: What is golfer Tiger Woods first name?
Answer: Eldrick

Question: Which chess piece is in the shape of a horse’s head?
Answer: Knight

Question: If something is ‘septennial’, it lasts or recurs every how many years?
Answer: Seven

Question: ‘The fault…….is not in our stars, but in ourselves…’ is a quote from which play by William Shakespeare?
Answer: Julius Caesar

Question: What is the official language of Austria?
Answer: German

Question: Who became governor of The Bank of England in July 2003?
Answer: Sir Mervyn King

Question: James Bond is sent to which island at the beginning of the film ‘Dr No’?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: What is the colour of the rose that is the historic symbol of the House of York?
Answer: White

Question: What is the collective name for a group of trout?
Answer: Hover

Question: Actor Russelll Crowe was born in which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: In the Bible, which modern-day country is referred to as ‘The land of milk and honey’?
Answer: Israel

Question: ‘The Harlot’s Progress’ is a series of paintings and engravings by which 18th Century English painter?
Answer: William Hogarth

Question: ‘Gooners’ are supporters of which London football club?
Answer: Arsenal

Question: ‘Moab is My Washpot’ is an autobiography by which British actor and television presenter?
Answer: Stephen Fry

Question: Which British Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced a Supertax (or Surtax) for the very rich?
Answer: David Lloyd George

Question: Who became quizmaster of the BBC’s ‘University Challenge’ in 1994?
Answer: Jeremy Paxman

Question: What is the name of the girlfriend of cartoon character Donald Duck?
Answer: Daisy Duck

Question: What was the name of the horse on which jockey Richard Dunwoody won the 1986 Grand National?
Answer: West Tip

Question: Which spirit is traditionally used to make a Sazarac cocktail?
Answer: Rye Whiskey

Question: In human anatomy, the ‘sinciput’ forms which part of the body?
Answer: Skull

Question: Which cathedral contains the tomb of English monarch Edward II?
Answer: Gloucester Cathedral

Question: Poland, Russia, Sweden, Latvia, Germany and Finland all have a border on which body of water?
Answer: Baltic Sea

Question: Poet Wendy Cope wrote ‘Making Cocoa For……’who’?
Answer: Kingsley Amis

Question: The ‘Osborne Bull’ is the unofficial national symbol of which European country?
Answer: Spain

Question: In French cookery, what is the main ingredient of an ‘Amandine’ sauce?
Answer: Almonds

Question: What is the surname of the family in the tv series ‘Bonanza’?
Answer: Cartwright

Question: How many ounces in a UK (long) ton?
Answer: 35840

Question: In Greek mythology, sisters Stheno, Euryale and Medusa were the three what?
Answer: Gorgons

Question: Where is the UK’s annual four-day Bestival Music Festival held?
Answer: Isle of Wight – Robin Hill Country Park

Question: Rhythm and Blues musician and vocalist Ellas Otha Bates was better known by what name?
Answer: Bo Diddley

Question: In the game of Bingo, ‘Dirty Knees’ represents which number?
Answer: 33

Question: William the Conqueror was Duke of which region of France from 1035 until his death?
Answer: Normandy

Question: In Irish mythology, what is a ‘Pooka’ (or Puca)?
Answer: Goblin

Question: Who plays Malcolm Tucker in the BBC comedy series ‘The Thick Of It’, which satirises the British modern government?
Answer: Peter Capaldi

Question: Phobos and Diemos are the moons of which planet in our solar system?
Answer: Mars

Question: Which English author wrote the ‘Swallows and Amazons’ series of children’s books?
Answer: Arthur Ransome

Question: Cynology is the study of which animals?
Answer: Dogs

Question: What is a ‘billets-doux’ in Engllish?
Answer: Love letter

Question: In the human body, which bone connects the humerus with the clavicle?
Answer: Scapula (shoulder blade)

Question: The Flinders Mountain Range is in which country?
Answer: Australia