Question: """This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries..."" is attributed to which historical figure as he was about to be executed, in 1618?"
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh

Question: Which English poet is associated with Dove Cottage in Grasmere?
Answer: William Wordsworth

Question: What does the well known Latin phrase 'cogito, ergo sum', commonly attributed to René Descartes, translate as in English?
Answer: I think, therefore I am

Question: In which country was astronomer and scientist Nicolaus Copernicus born?
Answer: Poland

Question: Which country is referred to as 'The Land of the Long White Cloud'?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Astigmatism affects which part of the human body?
Answer: Eye

Question: Who would use a maulstick, or mahlstick?
Answer: Artist/painter

Question: The Capuchin Catacombs are on which Mediterranean island?
Answer: Sicily

Question: Who, having a name which brings to mind a children's game played all around the world, was appointed Home Secretary in Britain in May 1997?
Answer: Jack Straw

Question: Which English king, who lived from about 988-993 to 1016, was nicknamed Ironside?
Answer: Edmund II

Question: Glyptogography, or glyptics, is the art of carving or engraving on what?
Answer: Gemstones

Question: Which artist painted the 'Man in a Red Turban'?
Answer: Jan van Eyck

Question: 'The Landlord's Game', patented in the US by Elizabeth Magie in 1904, was a form of which now popular board game?
Answer: Monopoly

Question: Which sportswear company was founded as 'Blue Ribbon Sports' by Bill Bowerman and Philip Knight in 1964?
Answer: Nike

Question: What type of insect is a devil's coach horse?
Answer: Beetle

Question: In which controversial novel and film does the Korova Milk Bar appear?
Answer: A Clockwork Orange

Question: What is the term for a word formed from the initial letters of other words, such as NATO?
Answer: Acronym

Question: What is the ancient axe-like hand tool used for shaping wood, especially in boat-building, with a curved blade at right angles to the line of the handle (unlike a conventional axe whose blade is in line with the handle)?
Answer: Adze

Question: The England footballer Nat Lofthouse, who died age 85 in 2011, earned what nickname (an animal of a city) after his courageous match-winning performance against Austria in 1952?
Answer: The Lion of Vienna

Question: In April 1940, author and political leader Booker T Washington became the first African American to be depicted on an American what?
Answer: Postage stamp

Question: What does a phillumenist collect?
Answer: Matchboxes and/or matchbook labels

Question: Name the four presenters assembled in 2011 to front the innovative UK Channel 4 TV news series, 10 O'Clock Live?
Answer: David Mitchell, Charlie Brooker, Lauren Laverne, Jimmy Carr

Question: The village of Tolpuddle, the home of the 19th century Tolpuddle Martyrs, is in which English county?
Answer: Dorset

Question: Aside from being a 'nuisance' if one gets into your garden, what is an animal called that feeds only on plants?
Answer: Herbivore

Question: In England, celebrating the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, on which date was Oak Apple Day celebrated?
Answer: 29th May

Question: The Pictish language was spoken in which nation in early medieval times?
Answer: Scotland

Question: In Norse mythology, from which type of tree was the first man created?
Answer: Ash

Question: What is the name of the Japanese plant, used as a condiment in cooking, with a thick green root which tastes like strong horseradish?
Answer: Wasabi

Question: In 2011 the notorious ex-dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier returned to and was arrested in which country?
Answer: Haiti

Question: What was the name of the American pioneer whose son was killed when a party of pioneers was led into Kentucky in 1773?
Answer: Daniel Boone

Question: What long-running UK children's TV show has an emblem of a blue galleon on a white shield?
Answer: Blue Peter

Question: Reportedly written by Julius Caesar in 47BC, what do the words 'Veni, vidi, vici,' translate to in English?
Answer: I came, I saw, I conquered

Question: Lee Hsien Loong was reportedly the highest paid what, globally, in 2010?
Answer: National leader

Question: Hezbollah is a political/terrorist organization in which country?
Answer: Lebanon

Question: Relating to the sea, what are spring and neap?
Answer: Tides

Question: Apron, Borrow and Line are terms associated with which sport?
Answer: Golf

Question: Jutland is part of which European country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: In heraldry, what is a wyvern?
Answer: Dragon

Question: In January 2011 British government sports minister Hugh Roberts asserted what to be the "...worst governed sport in the country.."?
Answer: Football

Question: What is the descriptively named painting technique where tiny dots blend to form a picture?
Answer: Pointillism

Question: Which fish is known in the British fishing industry as 'Silver Darlings'?
Answer: Herring

Question: What is the basic monetary unit of Iceland?
Answer: Krona

Question: What was poet Lord Byron's first name?
Answer: George

Question: Eric Schmidt announced in 2011 stepping down from CEO to Executive Chairman of what corporation, whose vast growth in the 2000s he oversaw?
Answer: Google

Question: Jazz musician Gene Krupa was famous for playing which musical instrument?
Answer: Drums

Question: 'Dancer' was the American Secret Service code name for the wife of which US president?
Answer: Jimmy Carter

Question: On which of the Great Lakes does the city of Milwaukee lie?
Answer: Michigan

Question: What farming disease was reported in 2011 to have virtually disappeared, 25 years after its emergence and scary projection?
Answer: Bse

Question: In certain species of birds, what is the name of the pouch used for temporarily storing food?
Answer: Crop

Question: In 1135 Henry I of England died from food poisoning related to eating 'a surfeit of lampreys' - what are lampreys?
Answer: Jawless eel-like fish

Question: Buried in Highgate in London and subsequently immortalised in economic and social theory, who wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848?
Answer: Karl Marx

Question: Name the fantasy North Wales village used in film and TV (notably the 1960s 'The Prisoner' series), at one time directly related to a porcelain company of the same name which now owns the Spode and Royal Worcester brands?
Answer: Portmeirion

Question: In which year was the first British vehicle registration issued?
Answer: 1903

Question: Which UK football team is nicknamed 'The Posh'?
Answer: Peterborough United

Question: Jamaica Inn, made famous by writer Daphne du Maurier, lies on which moor?
Answer: Bodmin

Question: The 'Hogarth' or 'S Shape' is an arrangement of what?
Answer: Flowers

Question: Wendy Deng are the first names of what famous media mogul's wife?
Answer: Rupert Murdoch

Question: What is the longest side of a right-angled triangle called?
Answer: Hypotenuse

Question: Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of what?
Answer: Fungi

Question: Who was British ex-prime minister Tony Blair's press secretary and influential strategist?
Answer: Alistair Campbell

Question: In 1869, Frenchman Eugene Meyer invented a wheel for which mode of transport, and became regarded as a father of the 'high' version of the machine?
Answer: Bicycle

Question: What Swiss Alpine town hosts the annual World Economic Forum gathering of international leaders, financiers and business chiefs?
Answer: Davos

Question: Name the only G8 nation whose law, subject to challenge in 2011, requires a married couple to adopt only one surname?
Answer: Japan

Question: What is the term, of French origin, loosely translated 'into mouth', for using facial muscles and shaping the lips for the mouthpiece to play a woodwind or brass musical instrument?
Answer: Embouchure