Question: Name either of the termini of the 1st commercial passenger train.
Answer: Liverpool or Manchester

Question: In 1902 which British car manufacturer invented "disc brakes"?
Answer: Lanchester

Question: In 1915 which Dutch engineer perfected the interrupter, which allowed a machine gun to fire safely through the propellers of an aircraft?
Answer: Fokker

Question: Which specific instrument did US jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke play?
Answer: Cornet

Question: The Kalahari Desert lies mainly in which country?
Answer: Botswana

Question: Lancelot Gobbo is a servant of which major Shakespearean character?
Answer: Shylock

Question: For which specific type of painting was Nicholas Hilliard famous?
Answer: Miniatures

Question: Who succeeded the late David Vine as presenter of BBC's Ski Sunday"?
Answer: Hazel Irvine

Question: Which US president is currently featured on the $5 bill?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: Name one of the last 3 winners of the Epsom Derby.
Answer: Authorised. New Approach, Sea The Stars

Question: Which internationally known jazz singer and anti-apartheid campaigner died in November 2008?
Answer: Miriam Makeba

Question: Dayron Robles of Cuba broke which athletic world record in 2008?
Answer: 110m Hurdles

Question: Which famous European Cathedral took 632 years to compete?
Answer: Cologne

Question: What, in baseball, is the distance from pitcher's mound to batting plate?
Answer: 60ft 6ins(accept 60 ft)

Question: What decimal number is represented by the binary 101 (read as one zero one)?
Answer: Five

Question: In the TV comedy "Dad's Army", what was the name of Captain Mainwaring's wife?
Answer: Elizabeth

Question: Which Roman road ran from London to York via Lincoln?
Answer: Ermine Street

Question: Where is the largest Gothic cathedral in England?
Answer: York

Question: Which American terrorist group of the early 1970s took its name from a line in a bob Dylan song?
Answer: The Weathermen

Question: Who wrote "Little Lord Fauntleroy" in 1885?
Answer: Francis Hodgson Burnett

Question: In a film of the 1950s, what was the name of the car in which Kenneth Moore and Dinah Sheridan travelled from London to Brighton?
Answer: Genevieve

Question: Which football league club plays home games at the London Road Stadium?
Answer: Peterborough United FC

Question: In which castle was Mary Queen of Scots executed in 1587?
Answer: Fotheringay

Question: Who wrote the novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" in 1891?
Answer: Thomas Hardy

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, when did the Queen of Hearts make some tarts?
Answer: (All on a) summer's day

Question: Who is the current holder (May 2009) of the Olympic and World record for the 100 metres at 9.69 seconds?
Answer: Usain Bolt

Question: Which gemstone is also known as "The Great Star of Africa"?
Answer: Cullinen Diamond

Question: From which country does Red Stripe lager originate?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: In London, HMS Belfast is moored between Tower Bridge and which other bridge?
Answer: London Bridge

Question: In which of Grimm's fairy tales does the wicked witch end up in the oven?
Answer: Hansel and Gretel

Question: The city of Cleveland in the USA stands on which of the Great Lakes?
Answer: Lake Erie

Question: Which common fish belongs to the family gadidae?
Answer: Cod

Question: In the nursery rhyme, whose wife 'could eat no lean'?
Answer: Jack Sprat

Question: Which Indian city was devastated by a toxic gas escape in 1984?
Answer: Bhopal

Question: Which orchestral instrument is the smallest member of the flute family?
Answer: Piccolo

Question: In which card game can one score "one for his knob"?
Answer: Cribbage

Question: What is the name of the new British steam locomotive No. 60163 built in Darlington and the first mainline locomotive built in the UK since 'Evening Star'?
Answer: Tornado

Question: Which Roman road connected Lincoln and Exeter?
Answer: Fosse Way

Question: In which cathedral is King John buried?
Answer: Worcester

Question: Which rock group was founded by Lou Reed and John Cale?
Answer: Velvet Underground

Question: Which artist's name means in translation "Little Dyer"?
Answer: Tintoretto

Question: Who was the Greek goddess of Peace?
Answer: Irene

Question: In which book of 1920 did Hercule Poirot make his first appearance?
Answer: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Question: Which football league club play home games at Griffin Park?
Answer: Brentford FC

Question: Which English king was known as "Longshanks" or "The Hammer of the Scots"?
Answer: Edward I

Question: What is the small independent state in the High Pyrenees, between Spain and France?
Answer: Andorra

Question: Who wrote the play "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1947?
Answer: Tennessee Williams

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, who or what ran away with spoon?
Answer: The dish

Question: Whose first symphony of 1917 is known as "The Classical Symphony"?
Answer: Sergei Prokofiev

Question: a Which 1750 poem begins "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day"?
Answer: Gray's Elegy

Question: What kind of gemstone is the "Star of India"?
Answer: (Blue Star) Sapphire

Question: Which pedestrian bridge in London connects the Tate Modern Art Gallery and St Paul's Cathedral?
Answer: Millennium Bridge

Question: Who was brought to trial in 1962 and convicted of being the A6 murderer?
Answer: James Hanratty

Question: From which opera by Mascagni does the famous Easter Hymn come?
Answer: Cavalleria Rusticana

Question: The Hoover Dam stands on which river?
Answer: Colorado

Question: Which fish belong to the family anguillidae?
Answer: Eels

Question: Ailsa Craig is a popular variety of which fruit?
Answer: Tomato

Question: Which orchestral musical instrument had 46 or 47 strings?
Answer: Concert harp

Question: In the game of Scrabble, two letters are worth eight points. Name either.
Answer: J or X

Question: Which Israeli seaport lies below Mount Carmel?
Answer: Haifa

Question: What is the "Via Lactea" of the night sky?
Answer: Milky Way

Question: Which British king, born in 1769, was known as "The Sailor King"?
Answer: William IV

Question: What is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria?
Answer: Genoa

Question: Sandringham House, the private residence of the monarch, is in which English county?
Answer: Norfolk

Question: Which Greek mathematician claimed that the earth was a sphere, revolving on its own axis?
Answer: Pythagoras

Question: What is the name of the butler in "Upstairs Downstairs"?
Answer: Mr Hudson

Question: In fiction, at what address did housekeeper Mrs Hudson live?
Answer: 221B Baker Street

Question: On which Scottish island is the town of Stornoway?
Answer: Lewis

Question: Who wrote the operas 'The Queen of Sheba" and "Romeo and Juliet"?
Answer: Charles Gounod

Question: Give a year in the life of composer Richard Strauss?
Answer: 1864-1949

Question: What was the name of the sea nymph who imprisoned Odysseus on her island for 7 years?
Answer: Calypso

Question: In Norse mythology what name is given to the rainbow bridge that leads from the mortal realm to Asgard?
Answer: Bifrost

Question: What is the name of the skin test used to determine susceptibility to diphtheria?
Answer: The Schick Test

Question: In the drug type known as NSAID for what does the S stand?
Answer: Steroidal

Question: Which WW2 general was known as "Blood and Guts"?
Answer: General Patton

Question: How many years of marriage does a crystal anniversary represent?
Answer: Fifteen

Question: Who was the first of the Lancastrian Kings?
Answer: Henry Iv

Question: Which English King was born at Caenarvon Castle in 1284?
Answer: Edward Ii

Question: The Habanero is a variety of which vegetable?
Answer: Chilli Pepper

Question: In boxing what weight comes above Light Heavyweight?
Answer: Cruiserweight

Question: To within 4 pounds either way what is the maximum weight for the WBC straw-weight fighting class?
Answer: 105 lbs