Question: What is the name of the first opera in Wagner's four opera Ring Cycle?
Answer: Das Rheingold

Question: Which mammal has types called Siberian and Bengal?
Answer: Tiger

Question: In Greek mythology for what offence was Prometheus chained to a rock?
Answer: For giving humans fire

Question: Which British Prime Minister was born in Canada in 1858, the only one born outside the British Isles?
Answer: (Andrew) Bonar Law

Question: Which baseball star is mentioned in the lyrics of Simon and Garfunkel's hit "Mrs Robinson"?
Answer: Joe di Maggio

Question: In which city is New Road County Cricket Ground?
Answer: Worcester

Question: In 1969 which Irish woman became Britain's youngest ever female MP?
Answer: Bernadette Devlin

Question: What was the first Apollo mission to leave Earth orbit and orbit the moon, in 1968?
Answer: Apollo 8

Question: What is Miss Marple's first name?
Answer: Jane

Question: What is the name of Harry Potter's godfather, played on film by Gary Oldman?
Answer: Sirius Black

Question: Which US city is nicknamed 'The Big Orange'?
Answer: Los Angeles

Question: In which wine region is the Hospice de Beaune held annually where wines are auctioned in November?
Answer: Burgundy

Question: In what year did Harold Macmillan introduce Premium Bonds?
Answer: 1956

Question: Callisto and Io are moons of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: Element 101, Md, is named after which Russian chemist?
Answer: Mendeleev

Question: What is the capital of the Republic of South Sudan?
Answer: Juba

Question: The scientific suffix -ase indicates the presence of what type of protein?
Answer: Enzyme

Question: Which candidate in the 2010 Labour leadership elections is MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington?
Answer: Diane Abbott

Question: The archaeologist SirArthur Evans is most famous for his excavations concerning which civilisation?
Answer: Minoan

Question: 'Fish lizard' is the literal meaning of which extinct reptile's name?
Answer: Ichthyosaur

Question: Where did Generals Ludendorff and Hindenburg crush the Russian armies in August 1914?
Answer: Tannenberg

Question: Who was the predecessor of Cecil Day Lewis as Poet Laureate?
Answer: John Masefield

Question: Mussorgsky's opera 'Boris Godunov' was based on a play by whom?
Answer: Alexander Pushkin

Question: Which mammal has a name which means 'river horse' in Greek?
Answer: Hippopotamus

Question: In mythology how long was Troy besieged?
Answer: 10 years

Question: 'Hello darkness my old friend' are the first words of which Simon and Garfunkel song?
Answer: The Sound of Silence

Question: In the film Psycho what is the name of the deranged murderer?
Answer: Norman Bates

Question: What computer virus of the mid 1990s was named after an Italian artist?
Answer: Michelangelo

Question: Who wrote the novel 'Fahrenheit 451' in 1953?
Answer: Ray Bradbury

Question: When 19th-century gangs called 'crimps' kidnapped men to work on board ships, what city was their most frequent destination?
Answer: Shanghai

Question: What kind of animal is examining the title character in Henri Rousseau's painting, 'The Sleeping Gypsy'?
Answer: Lion

Question: In which movie does Sonny & Cher's song 'I Got You Babe' play on nine separate occasions?
Answer: Groundhog Day

Question: Which country's Prime Minister lives at 24 Sussex Drive?
Answer: Canada

Question: The Septuagint, Targum and Vulgate are all translations of what?
Answer: The Bible

Question: What connects the names of Gerald Ford, Bob Hope, Billy Ocean and Twiggy?
Answer: All Have First Name Leslie Or Lesley

Question: What disease takes its name from the same Greek root as a type of coal, due to the black lesions it produces?
Answer: Anthrax

Question: A church in Daresbury has a stained-glass window featuring a rabbit, a dodo and a lizard, because which man was born there in 1832, while his father was the parson?
Answer: Lewis Carroll

Question: The Australian species of which bird has nature's largest bill, that can hold over 3 gallons?
Answer: Pelican

Question: What singer's backing group was named after the address of keyboardist David Sancious' mother's home in Belmar, New Jersey?
Answer: Bruce Springsteen

Question: The Sahara is Africa's largest desert, what is its second largest?
Answer: Kalahari

Question: In order to use it, what would you do to a joss stick?
Answer: Set Fire To It

Question: Which part of the body does a reflexologist most commonly focus on?
Answer: Feet

Question: For what did the 'O' originally stand in the name of the breakfast cereal, Cheerios?
Answer: Oats

Question: The adjective 'vermiform' is used to describe which small bodily organ?
Answer: Appendix

Question: Which author's first novel begins; 'The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning'?
Answer: Ian Fleming

Question: What 30-part series began with 'On The Bank Crisis' in 1933 and ended with 'Opening Fifth War Loan Drive' in 1944?
Answer: Fdr'S Fireside Chats

Question: What shoulder condition, related to tennis elbow, was first diagnosed in 2007 and is one of the only words in English to contain a triple-repeated letter?
Answer: Wiiitis

Question: In Irish legend, what was a leprechaun's day job?
Answer: Shoemaker/Cobbler

Question: The 'Saladin Tithe' was a tax levied to finance the third of nine what?
Answer: Crusades

Question: In Greek myth, who led the quest to find the Chrysomallos?
Answer: Jason

Question: What section of an orchestra sits in front, closest to the conductor?
Answer: Strings/Violins

Question: With UK number one hits 'Right Round' and 'Club Can't Handle Me', what is both the stage name and home US state of rapper Tramar Dillard?
Answer: Flo Rida

Question: 'The Sons of the Desert' is the international fan club of which movie pair?
Answer: Laurel And Hardy

Question: The second largest city in Queensland and the pre-1957 name for an African nation share what name?
Answer: Gold Coast

Question: What performer's act was usually overseen by his medical adviser brother, Dr Leopold Weiss?
Answer: Harry Houdini

Question: In the combat sport MMA for what does the first M stand?
Answer: Mixed

Question: What hit 2008 film was based on the 2005 novel 'Q & A' by Vikas Swarup?
Answer: Slumdog Millionaire

Question: 'One could change the world in 140 characters' is the motto of Jack Dorsey, the founder of which website?
Answer: Twitter

Question: 'Nevermore' is the last word of the final eleven stanzas of what famous poem?
Answer: The Raven

Question: Only 69 men have ever held the top rank at sumo wrestling; by what name is that title known?
Answer: Yokozuna

Question: Manuel Quezon was a founding father and early president of what nation?
Answer: Phillipines

Question: What is the common name for a Cydia moth larva inside a seed of the Sebastiana shrub?
Answer: (Mexican) Jumping Bean

Question: What movie star was nominated for acting awards for playing Anna Christie in 1930 and Anna Karenina in 1935?
Answer: Greta Garbo

Question: Geraldine Brooks' 2005 novel 'March' is narrated by the absentee father of which classic novel?
Answer: Little Women

Question: What country's economy melted down in 2008 following the collapse of banks Glitnir, Landsbanki and Kaupthing?
Answer: Iceland

Question: Which man's 'second rebellion' was the Rum Rebellion, which deposed him as Governor of New South Wales in 1808?
Answer: William Bligh

Question: Duncan Zowie Jones, director of sci-fi films 'Moon' and 'Source Code', is the son of which musician?
Answer: David Bowie

Question: What is the world's largest nation that is all in a single time zone?
Answer: China

Question: Which moon of the solar system is named after the Greek god of fear?
Answer: Phobos

Question: Musicians Sally and Ben Taylor are the children of James Taylor, and which other singer-songwriter?
Answer: Carly Simon

Question: Who is the author of the novel 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'?
Answer: Tracy Chevalier