Question: What is the name of the drunken, uncouth character, created by Barry Humphries, who is the Australian cultural attaché and minister for the arts?
Answer: Sir Les Patterson

Question: Which actress played the part of Brenda Furlong in the TV comedy series, "Dinner Ladies"? The same actress also wrote and produced the series.
Answer: Victoria Wood

Question: Which Dickens novel features the Gordon anti Catholic riots in London in 1780?
Answer: Barnaby Rudge

Question: Which disease, the victims of which are nearly always men, (females are asymptomatic carriers of the disorder), is sometimes known as "The Royal Disease"?
Answer: Haemophilia

Question: The West Indian island of Hispaniola consists of The Dominican Republic and which other country?
Answer: Haiti

Question: Which common spring flower has the Latin name Galanthus?
Answer: Snowdrop

Question: Made in 1961, what was the last film of both Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable?
Answer: The Misfits

Question: Which famous American jazz singer was born Eleanora Fagan in Baltimore in 1915?
Answer: Billie Holiday

Question: Who was the Roman god of sleep?
Answer: Somnus

Question: The star Regulus is in which constellation?
Answer: Leo

Question: The Pleiades are in which constellation?
Answer: Taurus

Question: Who was the wife of Henry II?
Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question: Where in the UK are the towns of Sandown and Shanklin?
Answer: Isle of Wight

Question: In which county is Taunton?
Answer: Somerset

Question: In which city is the Ferens Art Gallery?
Answer: Hull

Question: Name either of the countries who play for the Calcutta Cup.
Answer: England or Scotland

Question: Which football team is nicknamed the Seagulls?
Answer: Brighton and Hove Albion

Question: Which sport is played for the Corbillon Cup?
Answer: Table Tennis

Question: Who composed the opera Aida?
Answer: Verdi

Question: What was the surname of Malcolm X?
Answer: Little

Question: What is the chemical symbol for arsenic?
Answer: As

Question: What was the name of the first space shuttle to travel in space?
Answer: Columbia

Question: What is the SI unit of inductance?
Answer: The Henry

Question: Who formulated the laws of electromagnetism?
Answer: Faraday

Question: Which fictional character's first name was Endeavour?
Answer: Inspector Morse

Question: Who composed the Emperor Concerto?
Answer: Beethoven

Question: Who composed the Clock Symphony?
Answer: Haydn

Question: Which children's book was subtitled There and Back Again?
Answer: The Hobbit

Question: What was the nickname of gangster George Nelson?
Answer: Babyface

Question: What is the currency of China?
Answer: Yuan

Question: What subject was added as a Nobel Prize in 1969?
Answer: Economics

Question: What is the highest mountain in Neyaealand?
Answer: Mount Ccok

Question: Of what were cleeks and baffys types?
Answer: Golf Clubs

Question: Which philosopher founded the Cynics?
Answer: Antisthenes

Question: Who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914?
Answer: Gavrillo Princip

Question: In which city is the world's longest street?
Answer: Los Angeles

Question: What is the opposite of zenith?
Answer: Nadir

Question: What is the opposite of perihelion?
Answer: Aphelion

Question: Which cathedral has the tallest spire in England?
Answer: Salisbury

Question: What does the term avast mean?
Answer: Stop

Question: What are Ombre and Quadrille?
Answer: Types of card game

Question: In which year was the Battle of Trafalgar?
Answer: 1805

Question: In which year was the Battle of Agincourt?
Answer: 1415

Question: At which racecourse is the St Leger run?
Answer: Doncaster

Question: Which salad vegetable is one of the main ingredients of the Greek sauce, Tzatziki?
Answer: Cucumber

Question: Who sang the theme song for the 1974 Bond film, "The Man with the Golden Gun"?
Answer: Lulu

Question: Which army officer, later a Confederate General led the attack, which captured John Brown and his band of rebels at Harpers Ferry in 1859?
Answer: Robert E Lee

Question: The film, "Bridget Jones's Diary" was based on the novel by which English authoress?
Answer: Helen Fielding

Question: Which Lancashire wicketkeeper scored a century in only his 4th first class match in 1987?
Answer: Warren Hegg

Question: Nollywood is the colloquial name given to the film industry of which country?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: Who is currently the chief cashier at the Bank of England?
Answer: Andrew Bailey

Question: Which British comedian used the catchphrase, "Can you hear me mother"?
Answer: Sandy Powell

Question: At which location did Captain Matthew Webb die in 1883?
Answer: Niagara Falls

Question: Which airline, founded as Jersey European Airways in 1979, has its largest base at Southampton Airport?
Answer: Flybe

Question: The TV detective series, "Cold Case" deals with unsolved murders in which American city?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: Who had a U.K. hit record in 1965, with his tune, "A Walk in the Black Forest"?
Answer: Horst Jankowski

Question: The first stations on the three railway lines out of which Scottish city are Beauly, Carrbridge and Nairn?
Answer: Inverness

Question: The first stations on the four railway lines out of which city are Saxilby, Hykeham, Metheringham and Market Rasen?
Answer: Lincoln

Question: Who is the head of the CSI team, in the TV series of that name? The series is set in Las Vegas, and the character played by American actor, William Petersen.
Answer: Gil Grissom

Question: In which Commonwealth country is the low cost airline, Virgin Blue based?
Answer: Australia

Question: In which Canadian province is the city of Niagara Falls?
Answer: Ontario

Question: In which American TV series did the main character often use the phrase, "I love it when a plan comes together"?
Answer: The A Team

Question: Which British banknote shows the directions N, S, E, and Won its reverse side?
Answer: £10

Question: Which colloquial name is given to the Pakistani film industry, after the city where it is based?
Answer: Lollywood

Question: """The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole"", was written by which English authoress?"
Answer: Sue Townsend

Question: What was the name of the general, and political leader, who led the Mexican forces at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836?
Answer: Antonio Santa Anna

Question: Which Ivy League university is situated in the city of Ithaca, in New York state?
Answer: Cornell University

Question: Name the actress, who played the part of Nurse Chappel in the original TV series, "Star Trek", and married the creator Gene Roddenberry in 1969.
Answer: Majel Barrett

Question: The Carly Simon song, "Nobody Does It Better", was the theme song for which 1977 Bond film?
Answer: The Spy Who Loved Me

Question: When served with an alcoholic drink, what is the Turkish word for appetisers or small dishes, equivalent to the Spanish word Tapas?
Answer: Meze

Question: Whom did Bernard Montgomery replace as head of the Eighth Army in North Africa in 1942?
Answer: Claude Auchinleck

Question: What name is given to the large cask which holds 54 imperial gallons of beer?
Answer: A Hogshead

Question: Which Irish sportsman is the subject of the 2008 book, "In BOD we trust"?
Answer: Brian O'Driscoll

Question: Elected to office in November 2008, who is currently the Prime Minister of New Zealand?
Answer: John Key

Question: Standing on the shores of Loch Linnhe, which Scottish town lies at the southern end of the Great Glen?
Answer: Fort William

Question: In the 1995, Wallace and Gromit film, "A Close Shave", what is the name of Wendoline's robot dog?
Answer: Preston

Question: The New Hebrides Condominium changed its name to which present title when it became independent in 1980?
Answer: Vanuatu

Question: In which position does England Rugby Union international Lee Mears play?
Answer: Hooker

Question: At which North West University is the Robert Powell theatre, in the city of his birth?
Answer: Salford