Question: Which Australian state capital lies on a river of the same name?
Answer: Brisbane

Question: Which ITV series, set in Africa, stars Hayley Mills and in 2009 also featured her sister Juliet?
Answer: 'Wild At Heart'

Question: Known as 'The Rochdale Cowboy', who wrote 'Napoleon's Retreat From Wigan'?
Answer: Mike Harding

Question: Matt Damon plays a janitor at which educational institution in the film 'Good Will Hunting'?
Answer: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (accept M.I.T.)

Question: Who won the Heptathlon Gold Medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships?
Answer: Jessica Ennis

Question: Which future President was the inaugural Ambassador to the UK, called at the time, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James?
Answer: John Adams

Question: Name one of the three female winners of the Turner Prize?
Answer: Rachel Whiteread, Gillian Wearing, Tomma Abts

Question: Who played 'Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt' in the 1958 film 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof'?
Answer: Burl Ives

Question: Which geographical feature completes '......... of Benin', ' Great Australian.....' and 'German......'?
Answer: Bight

Question: Mount Vesuvius began to erupt most famously on August 24th in which year?
Answer: 79 Ad

Question: Which company has supplied all of the balls for FIFA World Cup Finals since 1970?
Answer: Adidas

Question: Derived from the Greek for 'work', what is the CGS unit of energy?
Answer: Erg

Question: What is the title of the novel by Ian McEwan set in February 2003 on the day of the demonstration against the invasion of Iraq?
Answer: 'Saturday'

Question: Who wrote the 'Young Bond' series of novels, the first being 'Silver Fin'?
Answer: Charlie Higson

Question: Which New York born Australian orchestral conductor died last month?
Answer: Sir Charles Mackerras

Question: What was the first name of the younger brother of Ricky Hatton, also a professional boxer?
Answer: Matthew

Question: What colour is the disc on the flag of Bangladesh?
Answer: Red

Question: On which track does the 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' leave Pennsylvania Station?
Answer: 29

Question: In the Dewey Decimal Classification, books with a number beginning with 2 would be on which subject?
Answer: Religion

Question: In which film does Russell Crowe play 'John Nash', a mathematician who worked at MIT and Princeton?
Answer: 'A Beautiful Mind'

Question: Which sweets were advertised with the slogan '......... made to make your mouth water'?
Answer: Opal Fruits

Question: Who was runner-up in the 2010 Open Golf Championship?
Answer: Lee Westwood

Question: Which other US President died on July 4th 1826, the same day as John Adams?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Question: Which ITV series was set in the fictional town of 'Skelthwaite'?
Answer: 'Where The Heart Is'

Question: Who won the Eurovision Song Contest with 'What's Another Year'?
Answer: Johnny Logan

Question: What colour is the pentagram on the flag of Morocco?
Answer: Green

Question: Which song about a railroad from the film 'The Harvey Girls' won the 'Oscar' for Best Song in 1946?
Answer: '(On The) Atcheson, Topeka And The Santa Fe'

Question: In the Dewey Decimal Classification, what is the first number for books on art?
Answer: 7

Question: 'Stormbreaker' is the first in a series of novels by Anthony Horowitz about which teenage spy?
Answer: 'Alex Rider'

Question: Which Paris born sculptor died in New York in May?
Answer: Louise Bourgeois

Question: Name either of the females who have been Director General of MI5?
Answer: Stella Rimington, Eliza Manningham- Buller

Question: What is the name of the National Anthem of New Zealand?
Answer: 'God Defend New Zealand'

Question: Who played womaniser 'Michael James' in the 1965 film 'What's new Pussycat'?
Answer: Peter O'Toole

Question: Which is the only cape in Scotland?
Answer: Cape Wrath

Question: August 24th is St. Bartholomew's Day in Western Christianity. In which year did the 'St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre' take place in France?
Answer: 1572

Question: Which company is the new sponsor of the Football League in England?
Answer: Npower

Question: Who wrote the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway' about a day in the life of 'Clarissa Dalloway' in post-World War One England?
Answer: Virginia Woolf

Question: What is the surname of David, who famously designed hats for his mother Gertrude to wear at Royal Ascot?
Answer: Shilling

Question: Lexus is the luxury vehicle division of which manufacturer?
Answer: Toyota

Question: In Greek myth, into what creature did Artemis transform Actaeon?
Answer: Stag

Question: Which is the first movement in 'The Planets Suite' by Gustav Holst?
Answer: 'Mars'

Question: In the 'Star Wars' films, what species is 'Chewbacca'?
Answer: 'Wookie'

Question: In which town is the River Severn crossed by the English Bridge and the Welsh Bridge?
Answer: Shrewsbury

Question: In which south coast resort is tennis played at Devonshire Park?
Answer: Eastbourne

Question: How are singers Una Healy, Mollie King, Frankie Sandford, Vanessa White and Rochelle Wiseman collectively known?
Answer: 'The Saturdays'

Question: Which Tennis player lost to Pete Sampras in two Wimbledon finals?
Answer: Goran Ivanisevic

Question: What was the name of the painter and poet who was the only brother of the Bronte sisters?
Answer: Bramwell

Question: In which town in Yorkshire was the family home of the Bronte sisters?
Answer: Howarth

Question: Which chemical element, with the symbol 'Rb', takes its name from the Latin for 'deepest red'?
Answer: Rubidium

Question: Which Tennis player lost to Bjorn Borg in two Wimbledon finals?
Answer: Jimmy Connors

Question: In Norse mythology, what was the name of the rainbow bridge which connects Earth with Asgard, the realm of the gods?
Answer: Bifrost

Question: Mario Echandi Jimenez, who died last month, served as President of which Central American country between 1958 and 1962?
Answer: Costa Rica

Question: Making his debut for Sunderland last season, who is the only footballer from Benin ever to play in the Premier League?
Answer: Stephane Sessegnon

Question: Juan Maria Bordaberry, who died last month, served as President of which South American country between 1972 and 1976?
Answer: Uruguay

Question: Making his debut for Sunderland the season before last, who is the only footballer from Albania ever to play in the Premier League?
Answer: Lorik Cana

Question: Located directly across the river Rhine from Wiesbaden is which city, the capital of the state of Rhineland- Palatinate?
Answer: Mainz

Question: According to Norse mythology, what was the name of the tree located at the centre of the universe?
Answer: Yggdrasil

Question: Ronald Ross won the 1902 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on which disease?
Answer: Malaria

Question: 'Prince', 'Spandau Ballet', Beverley Knight and 'East 17' have all had hits with songs with which title?
Answer: 'Gold'

Question: From which city does the French stew 'Bouillabaisse' originate?
Answer: Marseille

Question: 'Mud', Mark Morrison, 'Seal' and 'Eternal' have all had hit songs with which title?
Answer: 'Crazy'

Question: Who was the 11th century Anglo-Saxon rebel in England who led the resistance to the Norman Conquest from his base on the Isle of Ely?
Answer: Hereward The Wake

Question: Gorgonzola cheese is named after the small town of Gorgonzola on the outskirts of which Italian city?
Answer: Milan

Question: Robert Koch won the 1905 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on which disease?
Answer: Tuberculosis

Question: Which Nazi was known as the 'Chief Executioner of the Third Reich' as he organised the transportation of people to the concentration camps?
Answer: Adolf Eichmann

Question: In which American sit-com did Ted Danson play the title character, a misanthropic doctor who operates a small practice and is constantly annoyed by his patients?
Answer: 'Becker'