Question: In 'The Tempest' what is the name of the monster, son of Sycorax the witch?
Answer: Caliban

Question: Which broadcaster said 'South Koreans are too busy eating dogs to design a decent car'?
Answer: Jeremy Clarkson

Question: In the Scottish folk song and nursery rhyme, who was 'the man who lived in the moon'?
Answer: Aiken Drum

Question: What is the stage name of Dylan Mills?
Answer: Dizzee Rascal

Question: Which Greek philosopher founded the Stoics?
Answer: Zeno

Question: The winner of which sporting event is awarded the Venus Rosewater Dish?
Answer: Ladies Singles At Wimbledon

Question: In information technology, for what does the L stand in LAN?
Answer: Local

Question: Limestone is classed as which of the three main rock types?
Answer: Sedimentary

Question: Which concert venue is the home of the Northern Sinfonia?
Answer: The Sage Gateshead

Question: Who was the founder and first Artistic Director of the Royal Ballet?
Answer: Dame Ninette de Valois

Question: What is the nationality of record-breaking sprinter Usain Bolt?
Answer: Jamaican

Question: Which sporting event traces its roots to a match between Britain and the US at Gleneagles in 1921?
Answer: Ryder Cup

Question: Which stage musical features The Lambeth Walk and Leaning on a Lamp Post?
Answer: Me and My Girl

Question: Which tennis player won the "golden grand slam" of all four grand slam titles and an Olympic Gold in 1986?
Answer: Steffi Graf

Question: Which common wildflower has the Latin name Bellis Perennis?
Answer: Daisy

Question: According to Homer, what was the name of the Cyclops blinded by Odysseus?
Answer: Polyphemus

Question: Written in 1830 which composer's major symphony has the alternative title Episode in the Life of an Artist?
Answer: Hector Berlioz

Question: Which European country's currency is the forint?
Answer: Hungary

Question: With what type of shop is Charing Cross Road in London traditionally associated?
Answer: Bookshop

Question: Which UK city has the area dialling code 0113?
Answer: Leeds

Question: Who is declared King at the end of Macbeth?
Answer: Malcolm

Question: Give a year in the life of the composer Camille Saint-Saens.
Answer: 1835 - 1921

Question: To which order of mammals does the lemur belong?
Answer: Primates

Question: The TV series The Wire was set in which US city?
Answer: Baltimore

Question: In which English city was Isambard Kingdom Brunel born in 1806?
Answer: Portsmouth

Question: Who painted The Ambassadors, which hangs in the National Gallery?
Answer: Hans Holbein

Question: Who had their first UK number one hit in May 1999 with Swear It Again?
Answer: Westlife

Question: Which sauce gets its name from the Italian for "pound" or "crush"?
Answer: Pesto

Question: Brideshead is the seat of which family in Evelyn Waugh's novel?
Answer: Marchmain

Question: With which trade is Hatton Garden in London traditionally associated?
Answer: Jewellery

Question: Which UK city has the area dialling code 0117?
Answer: Bristol

Question: When Roger Federer achieved a career grand slam in 2009, he was the first man to do so since who in 1999?
Answer: Andre Agassi

Question: Which chemical element, atomic number 51, used to be called Stibium?
Answer: Antimony

Question: What is the nationality of Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius?
Answer: South African

Question: Which surrealist experimental and fashion photographer was born in Philadelphia in 1890?
Answer: Man Ray

Question: To which group of mammals does the possum belong?
Answer: Marsupials

Question: Engineer, George Stephenson was born in a village outside which English city in 1781?
Answer: Newcastle upon Tyne

Question: Which concert venue is the home of the Halle orchestra?
Answer: Bridgewater Hall

Question: Who was the founder and first Director of the National Theatre?
Answer: Sir Laurence Olivier

Question: Who had their first UK number one hit in July 1993 with Pray?
Answer: Take That

Question: Who composed his first symphony, subtitled Winter Daydreams in 1866?
Answer: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Question: For which sporting trophy is competition still rooted in a challenge to the holders?
Answer: Americas Cup

Question: In which US city was the original TV series CSI based?
Answer: Las Vegas

Question: Which English football league club play their home games at Boundary Park?
Answer: Oldham Athletic

Question: Five Anglican Bishops automatically sit in the House of Lords: the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and the Bishops of Durham and London are four, what is the title of the fifth?
Answer: Bishop of Winchester

Question: Which Norwegian prince delivers the closing lines of Hamlet?
Answer: Fortinbras

Question: Which common wildflowers belong to the Galanthus family?
Answer: Snowdrop

Question: According to Homer, who was the Queen of Troy?
Answer: Hecuba

Question: Which European country's currency is the lev?
Answer: Bulgaria

Question: In mobile phone technology, for what does the G stand in 3G?
Answer: Generation

Question: Who painted Diana and Actaeon, acquired for the nation by the National Gallery and National Gallery of Scotland in 2009?
Answer: Titian

Question: In geometry, how many vertices has a cube?
Answer: Eight

Question: Paper sizes are usually designated by the prefix A - what prefix do envelope sizes have?
Answer: C

Question: In which film of 1995 did Robert De Niro and Al Pacino appear on screen together for the first time?
Answer: Heat

Question: What is the capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia?
Answer: Victoria

Question: Which 3 letter word beginning with S has the longest entry in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition)?
Answer: Set

Question: Who is the patron saint of locksmiths and clockmakers?
Answer: St Peter

Question: In the Olympic Games those placed first to third receive medals, what is awarded to those finishing fourth to eighth?
Answer: Diplomas

Question: On which TV programme has the voice of Marcus Bentley been regularly heard for the last ten years?
Answer: Big Brother

Question: On which day of the week are US presidential elections traditionally held?
Answer: Tuesday

Question: Which European country was the Roman province of Lusitania?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Daniel Arap Moi became president of which country in 1978 on the death of the country's first president?
Answer: Kenya

Question: Which part of a bird is known formally as the furcula?
Answer: Wishbone

Question: Which famous scientist married his cousin Emma Wedgwood?
Answer: Charles Darwin

Question: Which famous military leader was Deputy Commander of NATO forces from 1951 to 1958?
Answer: Montgomery

Question: At which racecourse did Lester Piggott ride both his first and last winners?
Answer: Haydock Park

Question: What is the most south westerly point of mainland Europe, site of a lighthouse and a naval battle?
Answer: Cape St Vmcent

Question: What is the common name of the lymphatic tissue between the back of the nose and the throat?
Answer: Adenoids

Question: Which creature's name is also the term given to three strikes in a row in a game of ten-pin bowling?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Half of the world's mountain gorillas live in the Virunga National Park, in which country?
Answer: (Democratic Republic of the) Congo

Question: How are `Mistress Ford' and `Mistress Page' known in the title of a Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Question: Prior to the Law Resform Act (1996), the charge of murder could apply only if the victim died within what period from the time of the offence?
Answer: A year and a day

Question: In Jerusalem, what is the 'Yad Vashem;?
Answer: Holocaust Memorial museum

Question: Whose single 'Evergreen' was the best-selling record in the UK in the decade to December 31st 2009?
Answer: Will Young

Question: In the USA what is the value of the banknote that is nicknamed a 'Benjamin'?
Answer: $100