Question: Who is the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, who was also Minister for Food in the Thatcher cabinet?
Answer: Nicholas Soames

Question: In which town or city is Sha Tin airport?
Answer: Hong Kong

Question: Which controversial rock star named his first two children `Moon Unit' and `Dweezil'?
Answer: Frank Zappa

Question: Who was the first black person to captain an England football team?
Answer: Paul Ince

Question: How is the Dickens character 'Jack Dawkins' better known?
Answer: The Artul Dodger

Question: What sort of creature is a 'Pine Marten'?
Answer: A Weasel-Like Rodent

Question: In pre-decimal currency, what was the sum total of a tanner, a `bob', a florin and a half-a-crown?
Answer: 6/-

Question: Who is the central female character in the musical 'Cabaret'?
Answer: Sally Bowles

Question: What kind of creature may be 'bottle-nosed'?
Answer: Dolphin

Question: Which Roman orator was slain by Mark Anthony's soldiers in 43 B.C.?
Answer: Cicero

Question: Which is the oldest inhabited walled city in the world?
Answer: Jericho

Question: The actress Laila Ward, who played Dr Who's assistant, married which of the Doctors?
Answer: Tom Baker

Question: What is removed in an odontectomy?
Answer: Tooth

Question: For what is the firm of Pratt and Whitney famous?
Answer: Aero-Engines

Question: Who was the first British athlete to win the men's 100 metres Olympic title?
Answer: Harold Abrahams

Question: To which animal does the adjective 'leporine' refer?
Answer: The Hare

Question: The world's largest diamond at 530 carats is 'The Star of Africa'. In which of the Crown Jewels can it be found?
Answer: The Sceptre

Question: The original Orient Express train ran from Paris to which city?
Answer: Istanbul

Question: Which Spanish word is also used in English slang for 'quickly' 'soon' or 'promptly'?
Answer: Pronto

Question: What is the name of the shop in London that boasts it is HM the Queen's Grocers?
Answer: Fortnum And Mason

Question: Who is the ex-actress wife of disgraced former war minister John Profumo?
Answer: Valerie Hobson

Question: As what does the German word 'Donner' translate into English?
Answer: Thunder

Question: What is the most common name for the creature called the Hamadryad?
Answer: King Cobra

Question: By what name is the spear-fish better known?
Answer: The Marlin

Question: Which is the largest seaport in Africa?
Answer: Durban

Question: Which creature has the largest eye?
Answer: Giant Squid

Question: Who was the partner of Kid Curry in the 1970s western TV series?
Answer: Hannibal Hayes

Question: What is the name of the hormone which is said to give males their aggressiveness?
Answer: Testosterone

Question: Who is the Greek equivalent to the Phoenician goddess Astarte, and the Babylonian goddess Ishtar?
Answer: Aphrodite

Question: In which country was there a terrorist leader called George Grivas?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: Pedro Ximenes is a grape usually used in the production of which drink?
Answer: Sherry .

Question: In the grounds of which building is the cannon called 'Mons 'Meg'?
Answer: Edinburgh Castle

Question: In which Dickens' novel would you find a lawyer named Tulkinghorne?
Answer: Bleak House

Question: One end of the Pennine Way is 'The Nag's Head' in Edale, where is the other?
Answer: Kirk Yetholm

Question: In the Old testament who was the mother of Samuel?
Answer: Hannah

Question: The 2008 film The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button' was adapted from a short story by whom?
Answer: F.Scott Fitzgerald

Question: Which sportsman married Elin Nordgren in 2004?
Answer: Tiger Woods

Question: The company Antofagasta is the world's largest producer of what?
Answer: Copper

Question: What was the last possession of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, lost to Islam in 1291?
Answer: Acre

Question: Xavier Rolet succeeded Clara Furse to a major job in which establishment during May 2009?
Answer: London Stock Exchange

Question: Which walking path runs for 42 miles from Osmotherley to Ravenscar?
Answer: Lyke Wake Walk

Question: In 1959, who led the 26th July revolutionary movement?
Answer: Fidel Castro

Question: In wine making, 'botrytis' is also known as what?
Answer: Noble Rot

Question: Which sportsman did tennis,player Chris Evert marry in 2008?
Answer: Greg Norman

Question: The Battle of Blenheim,1704, is described as the turning point in which war?'
Answer: WAR of the SPANISH SUCCESSION

Question: In which Dickens novel would you find a lawyer named Jaggers?
Answer: Great Expectations

Question: For which film did Sean Penn win an Oscar in 2009?
Answer: Milk

Question: Landmarks such as Angel's Landing, Three Patriarchs and The Great White Throne are to be found in which American National Park? '
Answer: Zion

Question: Which defence structures, originally against Napoleon, were inspired by the Corsican original?
Answer: Martello Towers

Question: In the folk song 'All Around My Hat' what will the singer have arranged round the hat?
Answer: The GREEN WILLOW

Question: In November 2008, Madelin Payne Dunham died aged 86. Who is her famous grandson?
Answer: Barack Obama

Question: Whose signature tune was 'One O'clock Jump'?
Answer: Count Basie

Question: In the play 'King Lear, what is the name of the youngest daughter of the king?
Answer: Cordelia

Question: How is Laura Hollins better known in the world of modelling?
Answer: Agyness Deyn

Question: Give another name for halite, the mineral form of sodium chloride.
Answer: Rock Salt

Question: Who was the maternal grandfather of Henry 8th?
Answer: EDWARD 4th

Question: What is another name for the Perseids meteor shower?
Answer: St. LAWRENCE'S TEARS

Question: Fescue and Yorkshire fog are types of what?
Answer: Grasses

Question: In USA, what do they call the silencer of a car?
Answer: Muffler

Question: 'Night of the Hunter'(1955),was the only film directed by which famous actor?
Answer: Charles Laughton

Question: Which group won the Mercury Prize in 2008 for their album 'The Seldom Seen Kid'?
Answer: Elbow

Question: Before Kabul, what was the capital city of Afghanistan?
Answer: Kandahar

Question: Which Summer Olympics host nation failed to win a gold medal?
Answer: Canada

Question: Apart from being Groundhog Day in USA, what Christian festival is observed on.February 2nd?
Answer: Candlemas

Question: 'Barwick Green' is the signature tune for which radio programme?
Answer: The Archers

Question: Who was the landlord of 'The Spyglass Inn' at the beginning of 'Treasure Island'?
Answer: Long John Silver

Question: Which film was the directorial debut of Clint Eastwood in 1971?
Answer: Play Misty For Me

Question: Who wrote the Manfred Man hit 'The Mighty Quinn'?
Answer: Bob Dylan

Question: The phenomenon known as Baily's Beads occurs during which event?
Answer: Solar Eclipse

Question: Element 94, first synthesized in 1940, was given what name?
Answer: Plutonium

Question: Alecia Moore sings under what name?
Answer: Pink

Question: Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley appears in novels by whom?
Answer: Elizabeth George

Question: What kind of creature is a 'sugar glider?
Answer: Possum

Question: Who played Flash Gordon in the 1936 film of that title?
Answer: Buster Crabbe

Question: A white mark spread over the forehead, and sometimes the face, of a horse is called what?
Answer: A blaze

Question: What name is given to the military code of Japanese samurai?
Answer: Bushido

Question: Which notoriously hot Indian city was known to its founders as Fort St George?
Answer: Madras / Chennai

Question: With which art form do you associate Ansel Adams and Robert Mapplethorpe?
Answer: Photography

Question: Togs measure the rate at which body heat escapes through what?
Answer: A duvet etc

Question: How many minims make one breve?
Answer: Four

Question: From which wood are castanets traditionally made?
Answer: Chestnut

Question: What is a Stiffkey (or Stewkey) Blue?
Answer: A type of cockle

Question: Who hid in the Boscobel Oak?
Answer: Charles II