Question: Which country had the Roman name Cambria?
Answer: Wales

Question: What word, meaning something left in a will, refers to an old and incompatible organisational computing system?
Answer: Legacy

Question: Alpha, Nevada and Snow Crown are types of which vegetable?
Answer: Cauliflower

Question: What was the name of the Space Shuttle which exploded after take-off in January 1986?
Answer: Challenger

Question: Which year saw the last commercial hovercraft English Channel crossing?
Answer: 2000

Question: What is the medical condition Herpes Zoster commonly called?
Answer: Shingles

Question: What breed of dog is known as the Carriage Dog (because they were trained to run with horse-drawn carriages as guard dogs)?
Answer: Dalmatian

Question: In which country is Timbuktu?
Answer: Mali

Question: What is the title of Thomas Hardy's last novel?
Answer: Jude the Obscure

Question: Genuphobia is the irrational fear of what part of the body?
Answer: Knee

Question: The North England town of Beverley is named after what creature?
Answer: Beaver

Question: Köppen-Geiger is the name of a classification system for what?
Answer: Climate

Question: The Greek word Xero (pronounced zero) in xerography and related terminology means what?
Answer: Dry

Question: In astronomy and metaphorical language what is the opposite of zenith?
Answer: Nadir

Question: What is the standard geometric name for a regular quadrilateral?
Answer: Square

Question: What inventor was nicknamed The Wizard of Menlo Park?
Answer: Thomas Edison

Question: In which year were car tax discs launched in the UK?
Answer: 1921

Question: Diabolism is the worship of what?
Answer: The Devil

Question: Who was the prime minister of Rhodesia from 1965-79?
Answer: Ian Smith

Question: In the 2001 film Black Hawk Down what is the Black Hawk?
Answer: Helicopter

Question: Which actor was the puppet character from TV's Stingray said to have been modelled on?
Answer: James Garner

Question: Former FBI director W Mark Felt revealed himself in 2005 to be what codenamed whistleblower?
Answer: Deep Throat

Question: What traditionally represents a fifth year wedding anniversary?
Answer: Wood

Question: In physics what single word term normally represents 'rate of change of position'?
Answer: Velocity

Question: What is the name of the blue rose unveiled by Japanese company Suntory in October 2009?
Answer: Applause

Question: Who produced, directed and narrated the best film Oscar winning 1952 movie The Greatest Show On Earth?
Answer: Cecil B deMille

Question: In the human body what is the common name for hemicrania?
Answer: Migrane

Question: Which Beatle was first to become a grandfather?
Answer: Ringo Starr

Question: Elsanta is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: Strawberry

Question: What was the submarine developed by US engineer Robert Fulton in 1803?
Answer: Nautilus

Question: Who captained the 2009 England women's cricket team?
Answer: Charlotte Edwards

Question: The Buddy Holly song That'll Be the Day is said to have been inspired by what John Wayne film?
Answer: The Searchers

Question: In the 1952 Olympic Games who won gold medals in the 5,000 metres, 10,000 metres and marathon?
Answer: Emile Zatopek

Question: TR is the international car registration for which country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: What animal is a brocket?
Answer: Deer

Question: Which playing card is known as the Curse of Scotland?
Answer: Nine of Diamonds

Question: What is the tenth and final day of the Hindu festival of Navrati called?
Answer: Dussehra

Question: Who wrote the classic two-part 19th century German play Faust?
Answer: Goethe

Question: Which British politician became MP for Finchley in 1959?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Question: What term did former Yahoo! vice-president and author Seth Godin originate whereby potential customers 'opt-in' to receive advertising?
Answer: Permission marketing

Question: To whom are the words 'Veni Vidi Vici' attributed, after he defeated Pharnaces the Second of Pontus?
Answer: Julius Caesar

Question: Which tough-guy actor was the voice of the dog Charlie B Barkin in the 1989 animated film All Dogs Go to Heaven?
Answer: Burt Reynolds

Question: What animal is a Bichon Frise?
Answer: Dog

Question: In which part of the human body is the Eustachian Tube?
Answer: Ear

Question: What is the craft of cutting and polishing stones or gems?
Answer: Lapidary

Question: What consultancy firm devised the 7-S Framework corporate analysis model?
Answer: McKinsey & Company

Question: Who wrote The Joy of Sex, published in 1972?
Answer: Alex Comfort

Question: By which name was American artist Anna Mary Roberston Moses, who began painting in her 70s, better known?
Answer: Grandma Moses

Question: Which rapper's real name is Curtis Jackson III?
Answer: 50 Cent

Question: Used by ancient Greeks and Romans what is a pelta?
Answer: Shield

Question: Pedagogy is the art or profession of what?
Answer: Teaching

Question: Anna Kournikova, Michelangelo, ILOVEYOU, and Melissa were examples of what?
Answer: Computer virus

Question: What is the short ladder made of webbing or rope used in mountaineering?
Answer: Etrier

Question: What was the first Monty Python feature film?
Answer: And Now For Something Completely Different

Question: What is the name of one full point in a Judo contest?
Answer: Ippon

Question: In which German city is the Brandhorst museum?
Answer: Munich

Question: The Palace of Knossos is on which Greek island?
Answer: Crete

Question: What is Niccolo Machiavelli's famously fascinating book on the art of political leadership, published in 1532?
Answer: The Prince

Question: Who was the first prime minister of Canada?
Answer: Sir John MacDonald

Question: Balliol College is part of which British University?
Answer: Oxford

Question: Which US state is known as the Magnolia State?
Answer: Mississippi

Question: Carol Ann Duffy became the first woman what?
Answer: British Poet Laureate

Question: The Greek word for moral character is the root of which English term referring to morals in business and professional activities?
Answer: Ethics

Question: Which city in the UK has the oldest Chamber of Commerce?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: Katakana is a symbol system of which language?
Answer: Japanese

Question: In which African country is Lake Turkana?
Answer: Kenya

Question: Miliaria is the medical name for what condition?
Answer: Prickly heat

Question: Which British school holds its annual Wall Game on the 30th of November?
Answer: Eton

Question: What colour are the flowers of the various plants known as Celandines?
Answer: Yellow

Question: The Swiss Re Tower in London is commonly known by what name?
Answer: The Gherkin

Question: What is the profession of Peter Kingdom in the UK TV series 'Kingdom'?
Answer: Solicitor

Question: The Babbington Plot was devised to kill which English monarch?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth the First

Question: What type of food is linguine?
Answer: Pasta

Question: Who released a 1995 album called Stanley Road?
Answer: Paul Weller

Question: In which decade did Queen Victoria's husband die?
Answer: 1860s

Question: Which writer created the fictional detective Auguste Dupin?
Answer: Edgar Allen Poe

Question: What is an animal called whose diet consists mainly of leaves?
Answer: Folivore

Question: Carceral relates to what type of building?
Answer: Prison

Question: How many vertebrae bones does a human usually have?
Answer: Thirty-three

Question: What type of headwear is named after a hero in a Robert Burns poem?
Answer: Tam O'Shanter

Question: What official reporting statement shows a company's financial situation, notably assets, at a point in time?
Answer: Balance sheet

Question: What island was previously called Formosa?
Answer: Taiwan

Question: In which UK city was artist L S Lowry born?
Answer: Manchester

Question: Chitterlings are the small intestines of which animal?
Answer: Pig