Question: Put these UK police ranks in order, lowest to highest?
Answer: Detective Constable, Sergeant, Chief Inspector, Superintendent, Chief Constable

Question: What word generally referring to a type of slave or servant, and used figuratively for an ineffectual or powerless man, derives from Greek words meaning 'bed' and 'hold' or 'keep'?
Answer: Eunuch

Question: How many separate terms did William Gladstone serves as Prime Minister of Britain?
Answer: Four

Question: How many stars are on the national flag of China?
Answer: Five

Question: Scottish mathematician and scientist John Napier (1550-1617) pioneered the use of what?
Answer: Logarithms and the decimal point

Question: A miller's thumb is what type of creature?
Answer: Fish

Question: What was Alexander the Great's famous horse, whose Greek name translates to mean 'ox-head'?
Answer: Bucephalus

Question: Which spice comes from the rhizome (root-stalk) of the plant Zingaber Officionale?
Answer: Ginger

Question: During which month is Republic Day in Italy?
Answer: June

Question: From the Greek 'pro' meaning 'before' and 'gignoskein' meaning 'know', what medical term refers to the predicted course and outcome of an illness, and increasingly to forecasting other complex situations?
Answer: Prognosis

Question: In summer 2010 what species produced offspring in the wild in the UK for the first time in around 400 years after reintroduction to Scotland?
Answer: Beaver

Question: A caparison is an ornamental cloth used to cover a what?
Answer: Horse

Question: In which famous building are rooms named Vermeil, China, Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow Oval?
Answer: The Whitehouse

Question: Which 1920s film star's third husband was Henri Le Bailly de la Falaise, Marquis de la Coudraye?
Answer: Gloria Swanson

Question: In anatomy, 'plantar' relates to which part of the human body?
Answer: Foot

Question: A 2010 publicity-driven competition called the Carbuncle Cup focused on unpopular British what?
Answer: Architecture

Question: Something annular is in the shape of a what?
Answer: Ring

Question: Sfumato is a technique in what?
Answer: Painting

Question: In summer 2010 Ofcom (regulatory/complaints body for UK communications industries) found that broadband service providers were on average giving customers what percentage of the connection speeds they had contracted to receive?
Answer: 46%

Question: Sprinter Merlene Ottey, age 50, was a member of which nation's 4 x 100 metres relay squad at the 2010 European Championships?
Answer: Slovenia

Question: Who dueted with Harry Nilsson on the 1975 Phil Spectre song 'A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Every Day)' ?
Answer: Cher

Question: Evo Morales became president of which country in 2006?
Answer: Bolivia

Question: Which religion emerged from the Bible Student movement, founded in 1872 by Charles Taze Russell?
Answer: Jehovah's Witness

Question: In Dubai, Palm Judmeirah is a what?
Answer: Artificial island development

Question: A nide is a brood or nest of which type of birds?
Answer: Pheasants

Question: A Munro, of which there are 283, is a Scottish mountain which is over how many feet high?
Answer: 3,000

Question: Literally meaning repentance in Italian, what is the visible trace of an earlier painting beneath newer artwork on canvas?
Answer: Pentimento

Question: In a summer 2010 market trial, UK pub-chain Brakspear's launched free in-pub what?
Answer: Dogs' dinners

Question: An anemometer is a guage used for recording the speed of what?
Answer: Wind

Question: Which of the Rolling Stones has a cameo role as Captain Jack Teague, father of Jack Sparrow in 'Pirates of the Caribbean, At World's End'?
Answer: Keith Richards

Question: Catalonia, the Spanish Autonomous Community region comprising provinces Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona, banned what in 2010 with effect from 2012?
Answer: Bullfighting

Question: In the UK in the 1930s, what was named after the Minister of Transport?
Answer: Belisha Beacon

Question: Melanophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: The colour black

Question: How many pieces are on the board at the start of a game of chess?
Answer: 32

Question: How many presidents of France had there been as at 2010? 7; 12; 23; or 35?
Answer: 23

Question: How many Horsemen of the Apocalypse feature in the Bible's Book of Revelation?
Answer: 4

Question: How many players are (on the field) in a men's lacrosse team (one team not both teams)?
Answer: 10

Question: In the conventional western musical scale there are how many notes including sharps and flats, excluding those which repeat in a different octave?
Answer: 12

Question: How many times (as at 2010) has Roger Federer won the Wimbledon Men's Singles final? 4; 5; 6; or 7?
Answer: 6

Question: How many people (as at 2010) have walked on the moon?
Answer: 12

Question: In the Imperial Measurement system how many pounds are in a stone?
Answer: 14

Question: What number Pennsylvania Avenue is the Whitehouse?
Answer: 1600

Question: A peculiar frequency of roughly how many years saw US presidents dying in office (either assassinated or otherwise) from the 1840s to the 1960s?
Answer: 20

Question: New York City comprises how many boroughs?
Answer: 5

Question: How British King Georges have there been? 4; 5; 6 or 7?
Answer: 6

Question: It is now generally accepted that the human tongue can detect how many basic tastes?
Answer: 5

Question: According to the singer Katie Melua, how many million bicycles are there in Beijing? 5; 9; 10; or 25?
Answer: 9

Question: Twain is an old English word for which number?
Answer: 2

Question: How many rooms are on the Cluedo game board?
Answer: 9

Question: How many fences (not the number of times they are jumped) are on the Aintree Grand National race course?
Answer: 16

Question: The core rules of the Muslim faith are known as the "... (how many) Pillars of Islam"?
Answer: 5

Question: In which year were Concorde planes retired from service?
Answer: 2003

Question: Pop star Wyclef Jean was a potential but unsuccessful 2010 presidential candidate in which country?
Answer: Haiti

Question: Chennai, the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, was known by what name until 1968?
Answer: Madras

Question: Eighteen year-old Eri Yoshida, known as the Knuckleball Princess, in 2010 became the first Japanese woman to play in the US professional (generally all-male) league of which sport?
Answer: Baseball

Question: Which jockey won the 1981 UK Grand National on Aldaniti?
Answer: Bob Champion

Question: Yitzhak Rabin was the prime minister of which country between 1974 and 1977?
Answer: Israel

Question: Raines Law of 1896 related to the sale of what in New York State?
Answer: Liquor

Question: What was the nickname of the Parliamentary supporters during the mid 17th century English Civil War?
Answer: Roundheads

Question: On which part of the body would a tarboosh be worn?
Answer: Head

Question: The English town name suffix 'wich' (as in Nantwich and Northwich) derives from the mining of what mineral?
Answer: Salt

Question: What colour are Marge Simpson's eyes (this was revealed in one episode)?
Answer: Hazel

Question: What is the title of the fourth Dirty Harry film, starring Clint Eastwood?
Answer: Sudden Impact

Question: Castor (or castoreum) is an oily substance secreted by which animal, and historically used in medicine and perfume?
Answer: Beaver

Question: Which US president greeted astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin when they got back from the moon?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: Bruxism is the medical term for the involuntary habitual grinding of what?
Answer: Teeth

Question: When Marilyn Monroe sang 'Happy Birthday' to US president John Kennedy what age was he celebrating?
Answer: Forty-five

Question: Sapphire is the birthstone relating to which month of the year?
Answer: September