Question: The novel 'Dead Souls' and the play 'The Government Inspector' are two of the best known works of which Russian author?
Answer: Nikolai Gogol

Question: Which English city shares its name with the state capital of Nebraska?
Answer: Lincoln

Question: 'Grenade' was a 2011 UK number one hit for which singer?
Answer: Bruno Mars

Question: Which English town shares its name with the state capital of Delaware?
Answer: Dover

Question: Who was the President of France at the time of the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
Answer: Charles De Gaulle

Question: The novels 'The Gulag Archipelago' and 'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich' are two of the best known works of which Russian author?
Answer: Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn

Question: After the city of Valencia, which tourist resort on the Costa Blanca is the next largest city in the Spanish autonomous region of Valencia?
Answer: Alicante

Question: Named after a German inventor, what is the SI unit of electrical conductance?
Answer: Siemens

Question: After Seville, which tourist resort on the Costa Del Sol is the next largest city in the Spanish autonomous region of Andalusia?
Answer: Malaga

Question: Named after a French physicist, what is the SI unit of electrical charge?
Answer: Coulomb

Question: Which god of embalming in Egyptian mythology is usually portrayed with the head of a Jackal?
Answer: Anubis

Question: Which American actor and singer has joined Amanda Holden as one of the judges on the current series of 'Britain's Got Talent'?
Answer: David Hasselhoff

Question: Who was the King of Persia who led the armies that triumphed over the Greeks at the battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium?
Answer: Xerxes

Question: Also found in Spinach and similar plants, which organic acid is the primary acid found in Rhubarb leaves?
Answer: Oxalic Acid

Question: Who was the King of Epirus who defeated the Romans at the Battle of Asculum in 279 BC at the cost of his army being almost entirely destroyed?
Answer: Pyrrus

Question: Which English comedian has joined Amanda Holden as one of the judges on the current series of 'Britain's Got Talent'?
Answer: MICHAEL McINTYRE

Question: Which English king was born in Le Mans in 1133?
Answer: Henry Ii

Question: Chad shares the vast majority of its eastern border with which country?
Answer: Sudan

Question: Which Caribbean island nation is thought to take its name from the Spanish for "shallow seas"?
Answer: Bahamas

Question: In the King James Version, which eponymous book of the Old Testament follows 'Isaiah' and precedes 'Lamentations'?
Answer: 'Jeremiah'

Question: Nigeria shares the vast majority of its eastern border with which country?
Answer: Cameroon

Question: Which Caribbean island nation is thought to take its name from the Spanish for 'ancient and bearded'?
Answer: Antigua & Barbuda

Question: Which English king was born in Bordeaux in 1367?
Answer: Richard Ii

Question: Which are the only two colours to appear on the flags of Bahrain and Indonesia?
Answer: Red & White

Question: To within two years either way, which year saw the death of Charles Dickens and the birth of Hilaire Belloc?
Answer: 1870 (accept 1868 - 1872)

Question: Finishing tied for 4th with a score of 10 under par, who was the highest placed British golfer at this month's US Masters?
Answer: Luke Donald

Question: Which Rolf Harris song was the last UK number one hit of the 1960's?
Answer: 'Two Little Boys'

Question: Named after a French author and statesman, what name is given to a thick steak, cut from a grilled fillet of beef that is regularly served with mushrooms and potatoes?
Answer: Chateaubriand

Question: Sold for $106.5 million in 2010, 'Nude, Green Leaves and Bust' is which artist's most expensive painting?
Answer: Pablo Picasso

Question: Sold for $100 million in 2008, 'Eight Elvises' is which artist's most expensive painting?
Answer: Andy Warhol

Question: Which Pink Floyd song was the last UK number one hit of the 1970's?
Answer: 'ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (Part II)' (prompt for 'Part II' as it was the only one of three parts released as a single)

Question: In which US city do the American Football team known as the 'Browns' play their home games?
Answer: Cleveland

Question: In which American state are the headquarters of the fast- food chain McDonalds located?
Answer: Illinois

Question: Which author's works feature 'Blandings Castle' and 'The Drones Club'?
Answer: P.G. Wodehouse

Question: Who was President of France between Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Jacques Chirac?
Answer: Francois Mitterand

Question: 'One O'Clock Jump' was the theme song fro which jazz musician and his orchestra?
Answer: 'Count Basie'

Question: Which band are photographed outside Salford Lads Club on the inside cover of their album 'The Queen Is Dead'?
Answer: The Smiths

Question: The name of which former US Treasury Secretary completes this banking corporation 'J P Morgan ......'?
Answer: 'Chase'

Question: Which actor, most famous for the TV series 'Spooks' was the first to play the 17-year-old 'Alan Strang' in the play 'Equus' in 1973?
Answer: Peter Firth

Question: Who plays 'Ian Fletcher' 'Head of Deliverance of the Olympic Deliverance Commission' in the BBC TV comedy 'Twenty Twelve'?
Answer: Hugh Bonneville

Question: Which US Senator who ran for the White House in 2008 was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936?
Answer: JOHN McCAIN

Question: Which team won the FA Cup in 1975 - Alan Taylor scoring two goals in the final, as he had in the quarter- final and semi-final replay?
Answer: West Ham United

Question: Name either actor who has won a best Actor 'Oscar' for playing an English king?
Answer: CHARLES LAUGHTON or COLIN FIRTH

Question: Who said in a 1981 speech "I grew up in the 30's with an unemployed father. He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work"?
Answer: Norman Tebbit

Question: Which logistics company is the 2012 sponsor of the Rugby League Super League?
Answer: Stobart

Question: Which pieces begin in the corner squares at the start of a game of Chess?
Answer: ROOK or CASTLE

Question: Which river flows through Worcester and Gloucester?
Answer: River Severn

Question: How many strings are there on a Viola?
Answer: Four

Question: Which musician and actor, who was in 'Eastenders' for four months last year has written a recent autobiography entitled 'Over The Moon'?
Answer: David Essex

Question: Which sign of the zodiac comes between Leo and Libra?
Answer: Virgo

Question: Whose resignation speech to the House of Commons in 1988 included "It is rather like sending your opening batsman to the crease, only for them to find, as the first balls are being bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain"?
Answer: Geoffrey Howe

Question: Which drinks company is the sponsor of the Grand National at Aintree?
Answer: John Smith'S

Question: Which is the largest country in Africa, by area?
Answer: Algeria

Question: Which actress, who appeared in 'Emmerdale' for just over a year until January, has written a memoir of a year in her life called 'Where Have I Gone'?
Answer: Pauline Quirke

Question: Which sign of the zodiac comes between Scorpio and Capricorn?
Answer: Sagittarius

Question: In which year did the 'Easter Rising' in Dublin begin on Easter Monday, April 24th?
Answer: 1916

Question: Following the awarding of city status to St. Asaph earlier this year, there are now six cities in Wales. Which city is first alphabetically?
Answer: Bangor

Question: The SI unit of Magnetic Flux is named after which German who lived from 1804 to 1891?
Answer: Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Question: Which symbol on a musical score raises the pitch by one semitone?
Answer: Sharp

Question: Which river can be crossed using the Scotswood Bridge or the Shields Ferry?
Answer: River Tyne

Question: French actress Catherine Deneuve was the second wife of which photographer?
Answer: David Bailey