Question: Hirudin is a naturally occurring peptide in the salivary glands of which creatures used in medicine?
Answer: Leeches

Question: Which rugby union team play their home games at Salford City Stadium?
Answer: Sale Sharks

Question: In the animal kingdom, what is the world’s largest land predator?
Answer: Polar Bear

Question: Who played James Bond in the 1977 film ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’?
Answer: Roger Moore

Question: Blunging, Fettling, Saggar and Wedging are all terms used in which craft?
Answer: Pottery

Question: The Cowal Highland Gathering (the Cowal Games) are held every August in which Scottish town?
Answer: Dunoon

Question: In which US state is Lower Lake?
Answer: California

Question: ‘Triticum’ is the Latin name for which cereal crop?
Answer: Wheat

Question: Jemima Goldsmith married which famous cricketer in 1995?
Answer: Imran Khan

Question: Who composed the opera ‘The Marriage of Figaro’?
Answer: Mozart

Question: What is the young of a shark called?
Answer: Pup

Question: In art, the Dada movement (Dadaism) originated in which European country during World War I?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Which English football club is nicknamed ‘The Red Devils’?
Answer: Manchester United

Question: Who was the first Polish Pope in history?
Answer: Pope John Paul II

Question: The island of St Helena lies in which body of water?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: A sorel is which male animal in its third year?
Answer: Fallow deer

Question: Drugs baron Franz Sanchez is a character in which 1989 James Bond film?
Answer: Licence to Kill

Question: In Judaism, what is the name of the period of seven days of formal mourning for the dead, which begins immediately after the funeral?
Answer: Shiva

Question: 18th Century philosopher, writer and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in which European city?
Answer: Geneva

Question: Galle, Le Vernier, Lassell, Arago and Adams are all rings round which planet?
Answer: Neptune

Question: ‘Ik hou van jou’ is Dutch for what?
Answer: I love you

Question: The novels ‘The Tropic of Cancer’ and ‘The Tropic of Capricorn’ were written by which author?
Answer: Henry Miller

Question: How many emirates make up the Untied Arab Emirates?
Answer: Seven

Question: ‘The Adventure Home’ is the sequel to which 1993 film?
Answer: Free Willy

Question: Baldy Mountain is the highest peak in which range of mountains in New Mexico?
Answer: Cimarron Range

Question: Attributed to Julius Caesar, what does the phrase ‘Alea iacta est’ translate to in English?
Answer: The die has been cast

Question: In which year was the first FA Cup Final played?
Answer: 1872

Question: In August 1960 Chad, in Central Africa, became independent from which country?
Answer: France

Question: Who plays Bob Barnes in the 2005 film ‘Syriana’?
Answer: George Clooney

Question: Haw’s Syndrome is a common disease in which animal?
Answer: Cat

Question: Who wrote the 1939 novel ‘The Grapes of Wrath’?
Answer: John Steinbeck

Question: Sharm-el-Sheikh, Dahab and Taba are all resorts in which country?
Answer: Egypt

Question: A pompano is what type of creature?
Answer: Fish

Question: What is the US state capital of South Carolina?
Answer: Columbia

Question: What is the currency of Turkey?
Answer: Turkish lira

Question: Sebastiano Carezo is credited with inventing which Spanish dance in 1780?
Answer: The Bolero

Question: Who was the first US President to appear on colour television?
Answer: Dwight D Eisenhower

Question: In 1963, in which country did operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti make his first appearance outside Italy?
Answer: Ireland

Question: What is the name of Mrs Pumphrey’s dog in the television series ‘All Creatures Great and Small’?
Answer: Tricki-Woo

Question: Which video game series follows the adventures of Sackboy?
Answer: LittleBigPlanet

Question: Which is the largest city in Canada by population?
Answer: Toronto

Question: In June 1988, which British jockey was stripped of his OBE after he was jailed for tax evasion?
Answer: Lester Piggott

Question: Which country hosted the 1988 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: South Korea

Question: Who succeeded Ronald Reagan as President of the US?
Answer: George H W Bush

Question: In December 1989 which Romanian dictator and his wife were executed after being found guilty for crimes against humanity?
Answer: Nicolae Ceausescu

Question: Which classic arcade game was released in Japan on 22nd May 1980?
Answer: Pac-Man

Question: English musician Ian Curtis, who died on 18th May 1980, was best known as lead singer of which post-punk band?
Answer: Joy Division

Question: In November 1986, who won their first world boxing title by defeating Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas?
Answer: Mike Tyson

Question: What was the name of the 13 year old who achieved a Starred First in Mathematics at Oxford University in 1985, becoming the youngest British person ever to gain a First Class degree?
Answer: Ruth Lawrence

Question: Who was elected leader of the British Social Democratic Party in July 1982?
Answer: Roy Jenkins

Question: On 1st March 1981, which Provisional Irish Republican Army member began a hunger strike for political status in Long Kesh prison, resulting in his death on May 5th?
Answer: Bobby Sands

Question: Which Roman numerals depict the year 1988?
Answer: Mcmlxxxviii

Question: Which British comedian suffered a heart attack on live television, and soon after died, in April 1984?
Answer: Tommy Cooper

Question: Which former Gestapo boss was sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1987 for crimes against humanity during World War II
Answer: Klaus Barbie

Question: Which London-based independent airline went bankrupt in February 1982, leaving 6,000 stranded passengers?
Answer: Laker Airways

Question: Which former US pop singer was elected Mayor of Palm Springs, California, in April 1988?
Answer: Sonny Bono

Question: In 1935, which was the first American beer to be sold in a can?
Answer: Krueger’s Beer

Question: How many people are in a curling team?
Answer: Four

Question: A sea nettle is what type of creature?
Answer: Jellyfish

Question: Which country hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Canada

Question: ‘Good to the last drop’ is the advertising slogan for which brand of beverage?
Answer: Maxwell House

Question: American criminal Albert Henry DeSalvo was better  known by what nickname in the 1960’s?
Answer: The Boston Strangler

Question: How many nights are in the novel ‘Arabian Nights’?
Answer: 1,001

Question: English singer/songwriter Paloma Faith was born with which surname?
Answer: Blomfield

Question: American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls and Horseshoe Falls are all part of which waterfall?
Answer: Niagara Falls

Question: Which English football club is nicknamed The Rams?
Answer: Derby County FC

Question: The Welsh town of Aberystwyth lies on which bay?
Answer: Cardigan Bay

Question: In which year did Prince Andrew marry Sarah Ferguson?
Answer: 1986

Question: The ‘Goose Fair’ is held annually in which English city?
Answer: Nottingham

Question: Which circle of latitude on the Earth is also known as the Northern Tropic?
Answer: Tropic of Cancer

Question: English statesman Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, was executed during the reign of which English monarch?
Answer: King Henry VIII

Question: Dipsophobia is the irrational fear of doing what?
Answer: Drinking alcohol

Question: The world’s first vacuum bottling factory was opened in which European country in 1804?
Answer: France

Question: What is the tradition in Greece and Cyprus in which people eat fasting foods, such as vegetables and seafood, on the first day of Lent?
Answer: Green Monday or Clean Monday

Question: The AK Parti (the Justice and Development Party) is a political party in which country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: In which year was the Bank of England entirely nationalised?
Answer: 1946

Question: Apart from English, what is the official language of Pakistan?
Answer: Urdu