Question: Which landlocked Asian country has a name that means 'Land of the Thunder Dragon'?
Answer: Bhutan

Question: Off the coast of which English county is the Bronze Age monument known as 'Seahenge'?
Answer: Norfolk

Question: Who composed the operas 'La Cenerentola' and 'The Barber of Seville'?
Answer: Gioacchino Rossini

Question: Yaounde is the capital and second largest city of which country?
Answer: Cameroon

Question: Which comedian won the first UK series of 'Celebrity Big Brother'?
Answer: Jack Dee

Question: Which English king was the father of Edward the Confessor?
Answer: Ethelred The Unready

Question: Who painted 'The Last Supper' on the back wall of the
Answer: LEONARDO da VINCI

Question: What is the nationality of the Tennis player Ivo Karlovic?
Answer: Croatian

Question: Which body of water separates East Malaysia from West Malaysia?
Answer: South China Sea

Question: Who was the American serial killer, nicknamed 'The Green River Killer', who at his trial in 2003, confessed to the murders of 48 women in Washington state?
Answer: Gary Ridgway

Question: From which African country does Cap Bon wine come?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: In terms of population, which is the largest city in Pennsylvania?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: Which American sprinter broke the 100m World Record in 1968 and held that record for the next fifteen years?
Answer: Jim Hines

Question: What was the name of the 6/7th century Welsh-language poet who wrote 'The Gododdin'?
Answer: Aneirin

Question: Which 1968 film, starring Meryl Streep, told the true story of Lindy Chamberlain, a mother, convicted of killing her baby, who maintained that a Dingo had killed it?
Answer: 'A Cry In The Dark'

Question: What name is given to the bone and cartilage partition that separates right and left nostrils?
Answer: Septum

Question: Which famous Hollywood actor was used as the narrator on Michael Jackson's 1982 number one single 'Thriller'?
Answer: Vincent Price

Question: In which Spanish city would you find the Giralda Tower and the Alcazar Palace?
Answer: Seville

Question: Which famously misogynistic Roman satiric poet of the first and second centuries wrote 'The Woes Of A Gigolo' and 'Roman Wives'?
Answer: Juvenal

Question: In which river was Rasputin drowned in 1916?
Answer: Neva

Question: In 1919, which French artist created his own version of the 'Mona Lisa', on which he drew a goatee and a moustache?
Answer: Marcel Duchamp

Question: Although it had been absent from the Western Hemisphere for seventy years, there was a major outbreak of which disease in Peru in 1991?
Answer: Cholera

Question: Which mountain in the Sequoia National Park is the highest peak in the contiguous states of the USA (ie. excluding Alaska & Hawaii)?
Answer: Mount Whitney

Question: The 1980 film 'Coal Miner's Daughter', starring Sissy Spacek. portrayed which country singer's rise to fame?
Answer: Loretta Lynn

Question: What was the name of the nineteenth century American saloon keeper and judge who called himself 'The Law West Of The Pecos'?
Answer: Roy Bean

Question: Who was the Colombian footballer who was murdered after scoring an own goal whilst playing for his country during the 1994 World Cup?
Answer: Andres Escobar

Question: The original Route 66 highway ran from Los Angeles to which city?
Answer: Chicago

Question: Which Scottish castle, near Dundee, is thought to have been the setting for Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'?
Answer: Glamis Castle

Question: The 2001 film 'Black Hawk Down' told the story of a US military campaign in which country?
Answer: Somalia

Question: According to folklore, what was the name of the monster slain by 'Beowulf'?
Answer: 'Grendel'

Question: Who was the Augustinian monk who is known as 'The Father Of Modern Genetics' because of his study of inheritance in peas?
Answer: Gregor Mendel

Question: In 1969, the 'Football War' was fought between Honduras and which neighbouring country?
Answer: El Salvador

Question: Who was the American writer and counterculture icon who coined the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out"?
Answer: Timothy Leary

Question: What is the name of the inn owned by the parents of 'Jim Hawkins' featured in Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Treasure Island'?
Answer: Admiral Benbow

Question: In 1968, which American artist was shot and wounded by Valerie Solanis, an actress in one of his films?
Answer: Andy Warhol

Question: In which country is 'Waitangi Day' celebrated as a public holiday on 6th February each year?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: In which of the Marx Brothers' films did Groucho Marx play the character 'Rufus T. Firefly, Prime Minister of Freedonia'?
Answer: 'Duck Soup'

Question: Its name deriving from the Sinhalese for 'I cannot, I cannot', which disease, caused by a deficiency of Thiamine induces in the sufferer terrible symptoms including weight loss, emotional disturbance, an irregular heartbeat and, in advance cases, death?
Answer: Beriberi

Question: Which Spanish poet and playwright, who was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War, wrote 'Blood Wedding' and 'The Curse Of The Butterflies'?
Answer: Federico Garcia Lorca

Question: In the poem 'The Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe, which word is repeatedly spoken by the titular bird?
Answer: """Nevermore"""

Question: Which title, deriving from the Latin word for 'leader', was given to the elected chief of state in the historical city- states of Venice and Genoa between the eighth and eighteenth centuries?
Answer: Doge

Question: Rudy Hartono won the All England Open Championship seven years in a row from 1968 to 1974, in which sport?
Answer: Badminton

Question: What was the name of the ferry that capsized in Zeebrugge harbour in 1987, killing 186 people?
Answer: Herald Of Free Enterprise

Question: Reaching a height of 8ft 11.1inches, which American, who died in 1940, is the tallest person ever to have lived, for which there is medical evidence?
Answer: Robert Pershing Wadlow

Question: Which Roman Emperor was married to Livia Drusilla for 51 years?
Answer: Augustus

Question: On which instrument was Django Reinhardt considered a virtuoso performer?
Answer: Guitar

Question: The Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea are both arms of which larger sea?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea

Question: From which country does 'Limburger' cheese come?
Answer: Belgium

Question: In which city does the Jacques Cartier Bridge span the St. Lawrence River?
Answer: Montreal

Question: Which cross was the symbol of both Joan of Arc and of the Free French Forces during World War II?
Answer: Cross Of Lorraine

Question: What type of creature was Amaltheia, who suckled the infant Zeus in a cave on Crete?
Answer: Goat

Question: Which Soviet politician and diplomat was the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939?
Answer: Vyacheslav Molotov

Question: Nutria is the name given to the sought-after fur of which rodent?
Answer: Coypu

Question: Which was the last football club from outside Western Europe top win the European Cup?
Answer: Red Star Belgrade

Question: The actress Isabella Rossellini, who appeared in the 2006 films 'The Architect' and 'Infamous', is the daughter of which famous actress?
Answer: Ingrid Bergman

Question: The name of which famous opera house is Italian for 'The Staircase'?
Answer: La Scala

Question: Which French soldier was the Supreme Allied Commander at the end of World War I?
Answer: Ferdinand Foch

Question: Bon Scott was the lead singer of which rock group until his death in 1980?
Answer: 'Ac/Dc'

Question: What was the name of the secret police force run by former Haitian President Papa Doc Duvalier?
Answer: Tonton Macoutes

Question: Who patented the electric, or dry razor in 1928?
Answer: Jacob Schick

Question: Which Frenchman was Formula One World Champion three times in the 1980's?
Answer: Alain Prost

Question: Which author created the characters 'Veruca Salt', 'Augustus Sloop' and 'Arthur Slugworth'?
Answer: Roald Dahl