Question: Paula Dobriansky, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, coined the phrase "Cedar Revolution" to describe events in 2005 in which country?
Answer: Lebanon

Question: In which soap opera did Summer Strallen appear, before playing Maria in "The Sound of Music" in the West End?
Answer: Hollyoaks

Question: Victor Yushchenko was elected President of which country in 2005, mainly due to a series of protests known as the Orange Revolution?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: A theatre in Sale, Greater Manchester, his birthplace, is named after which Robert, a two- time Oscar winning screenwriter?
Answer: Robert Bolt

Question: Which members of the aristocracy reside at Arundel Castle in Sussex?
Answer: Duke Of Norfolk

Question: The Pacific Islands nation of Tuvalu was known by which name until becoming independent in 1974?
Answer: The Ellice Islands

Question: What is the name of the bakery, run by Wallace and Gromit in the 2008 film, "A Matter of Loaf and Death"?
Answer: Top Bun

Question: Ben Macdui, at 1309m, is the highest mountain in which Scottish range?
Answer: The Cairngorms

Question: Which Italian region is the setting for the Inspector Montalban novels by Andrea Camilleri?
Answer: Sicily

Question: First premiered in 1786, who wrote the music for the opera, "The Marriage of Figaro"?
Answer: Mozart

Question: To which political party does Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd belong?
Answer: The Labour Party

Question: At which London railway station is there a statue of Sir John Betjeman?
Answer: St Pancras

Question: What name is given to the cask, which holds a quarter of a barrel of beer?
Answer: A Firkin

Question: In 2007, Lee Mead won a BBC reality contest to play which role?
Answer: Joseph

Question: Which is the most recent country to change its currency to the Euro, doing so in January 2009?
Answer: Slovakia

Question: """If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia"", is the first line of which Shakespeare play?"
Answer: The Winter'S Tale

Question: In which country are the archaeological sites of Tikal and Yaxha?
Answer: Guatemala

Question: In which country are the archaeological sites of Sipan and Ollantaytambo?
Answer: Peru

Question: Burins, bifaces and scrapers are ancient artefacts made of what?
Answer: Stone

Question: What can be Moss, Blackberry and Seed?
Answer: Knitting stitches

Question: The prefix 'sarco' refers to which type of animal tissue?
Answer: Flesh

Question: In what type of animal cell would you find the Nodes of Ranvier?
Answer: Nerve cell / neuron

Question: Who was the first signatory of the American declaration of Independence?
Answer: John Hancock

Question: Nelson's tomb stands in St Paul's Cathedral but for whom was it originally made although this person never occupied it?
Answer: Cardinal Wolsey

Question: In which cathedral is William the Conqueror buried?
Answer: Caen

Question: Which type of bird can be Long-toed, Spur-winged, Crowned or Caspian?
Answer: Plover

Question: Which type of bird can be Lappet-faced, White-headed, Hooded or Egyptian?
Answer: Vulture

Question: Who wrote the following lyrics in 1978 for another artiste and later recorded: 'And where are you now / Now that I need you / Tears on my pillow / Wherever you go / Cry me a river that leads to your oceans / You'll never see me fall apart'?
Answer: Bee Gees

Question: Who, in 1977 sang: The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling / Way down in the valley tonight / There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye / And a blade shining oh so bright'
Answer: Meatloaf

Question: Longyearbyen is the main town on which island?
Answer: Spitsbergen

Question: Iqaluit is the main town on which island?
Answer: Baffin Island

Question: What can be measured with a Bell Beehive gauge?
Answer: (the size of) Knitting needles

Question: In which country are the majority of the Tolpuddle Martyrs buried?
Answer: Canada

Question: Which domestic paper products were made by Simplicity, Butterick, McCall and Vogue?
Answer: Dressmaking patterns

Question: Which breed of dog won Supreme Champion at Crufts in 2008?
Answer: (Giant) Schnauzer

Question: Precisely, which creature features on Preston North End's badge?
Answer: Lamb

Question: Which British town was invaded by the French in 1797?
Answer: Fishguard

Question: Which organisation is nicknamed the 'Grey Funnel Line'?
Answer: Royal Navy

Question: What are duck, lawn and sarsanet?
Answer: Fabrics

Question: Natives of which town are known as 'Monkeyhangers'?
Answer: Hartlepool

Question: In 1992, Margaret Thatcher was made Baroness Thatcher of where?
Answer: Kesteven

Question: The Egyptian god Bastet had the head of which animal?
Answer: Cat

Question: The Hindu god Hanuman has the form of which animal?
Answer: Monkey

Question: Who was the queen of the Brigantes who handed Caractacus over to the Romans?
Answer: Cartimandua

Question: Who was the 3ra century AD queen of Palmyra who led her people to war against Rome?
Answer: Zenobia

Question: Which island lies between, and is connected by causeways to, North Uist and South Uist?
Answer: Benbecula

Question: On which Hebridean island was the BBC programme 'Castaway 2000' set?
Answer: Taransay

Question: By what name is Margaretha Geertruida Macleod (nee Zelle) better known?
Answer: Mata Hari

Question: 'Carve her name with pride' is a book (and film) about which World War II heroine?
Answer: Violette Szabo

Question: Which cartoon character had friends called Velma Dinidey and Daphne Blake?
Answer: Scooby Doo

Question: Which supermodel wrote the book Swan?
Answer: Naomi Campbell

Question: Which horse won the 2007 Grand National?
Answer: Silver Birch

Question: Who rides the three day eventer, Toytown?
Answer: Zara Phillips

Question: What is the name of the highest point on the Isle of Man?
Answer: Snaefell

Question: Which celebrity won Strictly Come Dancing in December 2007?
Answer: Alesha Dixon

Question: In which town did both Jeffrey Archer and John Cleese grow up?
Answer: Weston Super Mare

Question: Which Jane Austen novel features Mr Knightley and Frank Churchill?
Answer: Emma

Question: Name the son of Charles and Carrie Pooter.
Answer: Lupin Pooter

Question: What type of animal is a coney?
Answer: Rabbit

Question: Who was the principal architect of Liverpool's St George's Hall?
Answer: Harvey Lonsdale Elmes

Question: What is the main ingredient of tofu?
Answer: Soya beans

Question: For which Rolling Stones hit did David Bowie sing the backing vocal chorus "I like it"?
Answer: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

Question: Which historical event of 1819 is commemorated by a plaque on Manchester's Radisson hotel?
Answer: Peterloo Massacre

Question: Of which country is the Quetzal the unit of currency?
Answer: Guatemala

Question: Sorex Minutus is the Latin name for which British mammal?
Answer: Pygmy Shrew

Question: The Dagmoush Clan run all criminal activities in which Middle East gity?
Answer: Gaza

Question: Which South American country's national airline is called Pluna?
Answer: Uruguay

Question: Which motor cycle company made a model called the Electra Glide?
Answer: Harley Davidson

Question: Give a year in the life of Bram Stoker.
Answer: 1847-1912

Question: What is the name of the teacher imprisoned in the Sudan for calling a teddy bear Mohammed?
Answer: Gillian Gibbons

Question: What do Australian aborigines call Ayers Rock?
Answer: Uluru

Question: Lexico was the original name for which board game?
Answer: Scrabble

Question: Malcolm Morley was the first winner of what in 1984?
Answer: Turner Prize

Question: In which year were women given the vote in the USA?
Answer: 1920

Question: What is the name of the French rogue trader who lost £3.6billion on the stock market?
Answer: Jerome Kerviel

Question: What does an Alliphage eat lots of?
Answer: Garlic

Question: What is the capital of the Yemeni Republic?
Answer: Sana

Question: What is the oldest living species of tree?
Answer: Bristlecone Pine