Question: In 20-20 cricket what is the name of the Lancasshire team?
Answer: Lancashire Lightning

Question: What nationality was the artist Frida Khalo?
Answer: Mexican

Question: In the cartoon series 'Asterix the Gaul' what is the name of the chief druid of Asterix's Gaulish village who makes all of the potions and medicines?
Answer: Getafix

Question: Excluding Ireland, which is the only "flat" racecourse in the U.K. beginning with the letter "P"?
Answer: Pontefract

Question: """Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"" is a famous quote written by whom?"
Answer: Samuel Johnson

Question: What name is given to the flat, oven-baked Italian bread, related to, but different from Pizza? It is usually seasoned with olive oil, salt and sometimes herbs.
Answer: Focaccia

Question: Which cabinet minister made the following apology in 2011? "I simply wanted to make sure that the pieces of paper were not weighing me down. I have to apologise because on reflection I shouldn't have disposed of them in that way"
Answer: Oliver Letwin

Question: Which cabinet minister made the following apology in 2011? "I have always believed that all rape is extremely serious and must be treated as such. I am sorry if my comments gave you any other impression or upset you".
Answer: Kenneth Clarke

Question: What name is given to the branch of Christianity followed in Egypt?
Answer: Coptic

Question: Which word, beginning with S and originally German, has now been adopted into English with a meaning of "pleasure in another's misfortune"?
Answer: Schadenfreude

Question: Excluding Ireland, which is the only racecourse in the U.K. beginning with the letter D?
Answer: Doncaster

Question: """Rank is but the guinea's stamp, the man's the gold for all of that"" is a famous quote written by whom?"
Answer: Robert Burns

Question: What name is given to the sweet French bread, enriched with a high egg and butter content? It is commonly eaten with breakfast or as a snack, and has numerous uses in cuisine.
Answer: Brioche

Question: Which country is the top grape-producing country in the world producing almost 9 million tons of grapes each year?
Answer: Italy

Question: Which country is the top date-producing country in the world producing over 1 million tons of dates each year?
Answer: Egypt

Question: Which American president is credited with the quote :- "Never before have we had so little time to do so much"?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question: """I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky"" was a line written by the poet John Masefield. What was the title of the poem?"
Answer: Sea Fever

Question: Controversy at the Oscars - Which film director created a stir at the 2003 Oscars ceremony? There was a loud and prolonged booing when he won the award for best director for his film "The Pianist", becasue the director was a convicted rapist.
Answer: Roman Polanski

Question: Old television quiz shows - who was the original presenter of the TV quiz show "Going for Gold"?
Answer: Henry Kelly

Question: Old television quiz shows - who was the original presenter of the TV quiz show "Blockbusters"?
Answer: Bob Holness

Question: Which tree noted for the beauty of its form, has the Latin name Salix Babylonica?
Answer: Weeping Willow

Question: The album "Good Girl Gone Bad" was the number 1 selling album in the UK in 2009 with sales of 1.5 million. Who was the singer?
Answer: Rihanna

Question: """Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack butting through the channel in the mad March days"" were lines written by John Masefield, from what poem?"
Answer: Cargoes

Question: Controversy at the Oscars - Which film director created a stir at the 2003 Oscar ceremony? There was a loud and prolonged booing after he won the award for best documentary for his film "Bowling for Columbine", because in his acceptance speech he had delivered a tirade of abuse against George Bush.
Answer: Micheal Moore

Question: Which Lancashire novelist, who came from Leigh, wrote the novels "Goodbye Mr Chips", "Random Harvest" and "Lost Horizon"?
Answer: James Hilton

Question: The mother and son of which British monarch were both beheaded?
Answer: James I

Question: Which capital city sits on the river Sumida?
Answer: Tokyo

Question: Measurement - conversion from imperial to metric - How many metres are equivalent to one furlong, to the nearest unit? (will accept + or - 1)
Answer: 201

Question: Measurement - conversion from imperial to metric - How many kilograms to the nearest unit are equivalent to 1 hundredweight? (will accept + or - 1)
Answer: 51

Question: Which British actor played the lead part in the film of one of John Le Carre's more recent novels "The Constant Gardener"?
Answer: Ralph Fiennes

Question: Which British monarch had the most children?
Answer: Queen Anne

Question: Which capital city sits on the river Manzaneres?
Answer: Madrid

Question: Who is the founder of Facebook, doing so at the age of 20? He was named by Time magazine as "Person of the Year" in 2010. His personal fortune is estimated at over 17 billion dollars.
Answer: Mark Zuckerberg

Question: Who is the founder of Wikipedia, the on-line non-profit encyclopaedia? He was named as one of the world's most influential people by Time magazine in 2006 and was recognised by the prestigious Swiss Gottlieb award in 2011.
Answer: Jimmy Wales

Question: The title of which classic TV comedy series comes from a Shakespeare sonnet?
Answer: Darling Buds Of May

Question: What is the name of the curved upper surface of a liquid in a tube?
Answer: Meniscus

Question: Prior to Bill Clinton, who was the last Democrat President of the USA?
Answer: Jimmy Carter

Question: To the nearest thousand how many words are there in the Bible?
Answer: 726 thousand

Question: In the Bible, which four word phrase comprise the first words spoken by God, as recorded in theBook of Genesis?
Answer: Let There Be Light

Question: A party called VERITAS stood for seats in the 2005 General Election. Who was the Chairman of that party?
Answer: Robert Kilroy-Silk

Question: A party called RESPECT stood for seats in the 2005 General Election. Who was the Chairman of that party?
Answer: George Galloway

Question: In the original Beatles line-up who was the drummer?
Answer: Pete Best

Question: In which city would you find The Spanish Riding School?
Answer: Vienna

Question: In Indian cuisine what vegetable is indicated by the word DAL?
Answer: Lentils

Question: What nationality was the pointillist artist KANDINSKY
Answer: Russian

Question: What was the name of the Chief Commissioner of the London Metropolitan police force who resigned in 2008?
Answer: Ian Blair

Question: Cricket - The leading run scorer in test match cricket is Sachin Tendulkar. What is the name of the Indian batsman who is second highest scorer of test match runs?
Answer: (Rahul) DRAVID

Question: To what RAF base are the bodies of servicemen killed in the war in Afghanistan now transported?
Answer: Brize Norton

Question: Brookfield public boarding school for boys is the setting for what famous novel, which also became a famous film?
Answer: Goodbye Mr Chips

Question: What is the longest river in Asia?
Answer: Yangtse

Question: Who was the Commander-in Chief of the British Naval Fleet at the beginning of the First World War?
Answer: (Admiral) JOHN JELLICOE

Question: Florizel Street was the original working title of which famous British television soap?
Answer: Coronation Street

Question: Insomnia Cafe was the original working title of which famous American comedy series?
Answer: Friends

Question: In Indian cuisine, what vegetable is indicated by the word SAG?
Answer: Spinach

Question: What was the name of the Chief Commissioner of the London Metropolitan police force who resigned in 2011?
Answer: Paul Stephenson

Question: Which Australian cricketer is the third highest scorer of test match runs, after Tendulkar and Dravid?
Answer: (Ricky) PONTING