Question: Which Victorian painter, noted for his pictures of fairies and other supernatural creatures, murdered his father in 1843 and was committed to a lunatic asylum for the remaining 43 years of his life?
Answer: Richard Dadd

Question: The East River separates Long Island from which New York borough?
Answer: Manhattan

Question: Which ecumenical Christian community was founded by the Scottish clergyman Reverend George MacLeod in 1938?
Answer: Iona Community

Question: To what did the Gilbert Islands change its name after gaining independence from Britain in 1979?
Answer: Kiribati

Question: Jeff Bridges won this years 'Oscar' for Best Actor for his role as 'Otis Blake', in which film?
Answer: 'Crazy Heart'

Question: What term describes the point at which a celestial object in orbit around the Earth, such as the Moon, makes its closest approach to Earth?
Answer: Perigee

Question: Which Liberal Democrat has been appointed Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, in David Cameron's first Cabinet?
Answer: Chris Huhne

Question: To what did the New Hebrides change its name after gaining independence from France and Britain in 1980?
Answer: Vanuatu

Question: In which country is the popular coffee-flavoured liqueur 'Tia Maria' produced?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: In terms of area, which is the world's largest landlocked country?
Answer: Kazakhstan

Question: What is the name of the special agent played by Keifer Sutherland in the drama series '24'?
Answer: 'Jack Bauer'

Question: Which English cricketer scored a then world record 364 runs against Australia at the Oval in 1938?
Answer: Len Hutton

Question: Prior to the break-up of the Soviet Union, which was the world's largest landlocked country in terms of area?
Answer: Mongolia

Question: In 1990, which New Zealand bowler became the first cricketer to take 400 wickets in Test Cricket?
Answer: Richard Hadlee

Question: The explorer Mungo Park died whilst exploring which African river?
Answer: Niger

Question: 'Dookie' and '21st. Century Breakdown' are albums by which American rock band?
Answer: 'Green Day'

Question: In which country was former England footballer Terry Butcher born?
Answer: Singapore

Question: Which of the Romantic Poets wrote 'The Revolt Of Islam'?
Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question: If you ordered "cuisses de grenouilles" in an upmarket restaurant, what would you be getting?
Answer: Frogs' Legs

Question: Which legislation, passed in 1701, banned Roman Catholics from the British throne?
Answer: Act Of Settlement

Question: Who was the first player to score seven hundred centuries in Snooker?
Answer: Stephen Hendry

Question: From which Disney animated picture does the song 'Go The Distance' come?
Answer: 'Hercules'

Question: In the magazine 'Private Eye', on which subject is 'Lunchtime O'Boulez' a regular columnist?
Answer: MUSIC (classical)

Question: Of which Pacific country is Papeete the capital?
Answer: Tahiti

Question: In which Charles dickens novel does the character 'Esther Summerson' appear?
Answer: 'Bleak House'

Question: This is the only medieval English cathedral to preserve the original traditional English arrangement of two western spires and one central spire. Where is it?
Answer: Lichfield

Question: Which chemical element, atomic number 71, takes its name from the Latin for Paris?
Answer: LUTETIUM (Lutetia)

Question: Who directed the 2008 film 'The Hurt Locker'?
Answer: Katheryn Bigelow

Question: The 'Oregon Trail' finished in the Columbia River area of Oregon, where did it start?
Answer: INDEPENDENCE, Missouri

Question: Name the form of projectile consisting of cast-iron balls packed in a gun between iron plates?
Answer: Grapeshot

Question: Who directed the 1957 film 'The Bridge On The River Kwai'?
Answer: David Lean

Question: In which of Dickens' novels does 'Jerry Cruncher' appear?
Answer: 'A Tale Of Two Cities'

Question: Who in a novel, first published in 1848 was 'Mrs. Helen Graham'?
Answer: 'The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall'

Question: Which legislation, passed in 1534 declared Henry VIII the Head of the Church of England?
Answer: Act Of Supremacy

Question: Which river rises in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, flows south and southeast to its delta on the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: Rio Grande / Rio Bravo

Question: With which art movement was Georges Braque associated?
Answer: Cubism

Question: Who wrote the Whitney Huston number one hit 'I Will Always Love You'?
Answer: Dolly Parton

Question: Who was the first player to score one thousand points in International Rugby Union matches?
Answer: Neil Jenkins

Question: Four Irishmen have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yeats, Shaw and Becket are three, name the other?
Answer: Heaney

Question: Which British writer's epitaph ends, "Home is the sailor, home from the sea. And the hunter home from the hill"?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

Question: Which novel is said to be the bestseller of all time?
Answer: 'VALLEY OF THE DOLLS' (by Jacqueline Susann)

Question: Which French artist, 1848 - 1903, painted 'The Yellow Christ' and 'Two Women On A Beach'?
Answer: Paul Gaugin

Question: What is the capital of Tuvalu?
Answer: Funafuti

Question: Which American poet's epitaph is "Quotes The Raven Nevermore"?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: Who in a novel, first published in 1897 was 'Doctor Giffen'?
Answer: 'The Invisible Man'

Question: From which film, for which Chaplin wrote the music, did Petula Clark have a number one with 'This Is My Song'?
Answer: 'Countess From Hong Kong'

Question: Name the type of illumination originally developed for lighthouses in 1826 and used in theatres of the day?
Answer: Limelight

Question: Which river rises on the Tibetan Plateau, flows northwest and then south and southwest to enter the Arabian Gulf in the Seven Rivers area south of Karachi?
Answer: Indus

Question: In which Dickens novel does 'Eugene Wrayburn' marry 'Lizzy Hexam'?
Answer: 'Our Mutual Friend'

Question: Who wrote the 'Roxy Music' number one hit 'Jealous Guy'?
Answer: John Lennon

Question: Which ruler's name translates from the Egyptian for 'Great House'?
Answer: Pharaoh

Question: What in World War II was 'Operation Torch'?
Answer: Allied Invasion Of North Africa

Question: 'Will's Neck' is the highest point in which range of English hills?
Answer: Quantocks

Question: Which publishing firm did Carmen Calill found in 1973 to promote female writers?
Answer: Virago

Question: If you were landing at an airport with the international airport code of VIE, in which European city would you be in?
Answer: Vienna

Question: Her 2009 album is called 'Quiet Nights', so which Canadian jazz singer and pianist is married to Elvis Costello?
Answer: Diana Krall

Question: According to 'Acts', what peak was the location of the 'Ascension of Jesus'?
Answer: Mount Of Olives

Question: At 1309 metres high, which Scottish mountain is the second highest mountain in Great Britain?
Answer: Ben Macdui

Question: Which writer created the character of 'Detective Inspector Jack Frost'?
Answer: R.D. Wingfield

Question: Which French footballer was World Footballer of the Year in 1998 and 2000?
Answer: Zinadine Zidane

Question: Near which town or city is the 'Legoland' theme park?
Answer: Windsor

Question: Who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela in 1993?
Answer: Frederick Willem DE KLERK

Question: The character 'James Bond' was created by Ian Fleming, but who wrote the book 'Carte Blanche' featuring 'James Bond'?
Answer: Jeffery Deaver

Question: Who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with John Hulme in 1998?
Answer: David Trimble

Question: 'Charolais' and 'Semental' are both breeds of what?
Answer: Cattle

Question: In the English judiciary system, what position is ranked immediately below the Lord Chief Justice?
Answer: Master Of The Rolls

Question: If you were born on St. Valentine's Day, what star sign are you?
Answer: Aquarius