Question: What is the oldest trophy in international sport?
Answer: The Americas Cup

Question: In which 1953 film did Marilyn Monroe play gold-digger Lorelei Lee?
Answer: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Question: Who captained the West Indies cricket team from 1974-85?
Answer: Clive Lloyd

Question: What was singer Tony Bennett's only No1 UK hit single (as at 2009)?
Answer: Stranger in Paradise

Question: In the human body what is the innominate bone more commonly known as?
Answer: Hip bone

Question: Which US singer's real name is Ernest Evans?
Answer: Chubby Checker

Question: Who became president of Uganda after Idi Amin was overthrown in 1980?
Answer: Milton Obote

Question: In which decade was third class rail travel re-designated second class on British railways?
Answer: 1950s

Question: Clayton Moore and John Hart both played which US TV character?
Answer: The Lone Ranger

Question: Saarland is an area of which European country?
Answer: Germany

Question: The Salk vaccine was developed in 1954 to be used against which disease?
Answer: Polio

Question: The Battle of Balaclava was fought during which war?
Answer: The Crimean War

Question: What is a Spanish nobleman of the highest rank called?
Answer: Grandee

Question: What nationality was guitarist Django Reinhardt?
Answer: Belgian

Question: What type of plastic was made from phenol and formaldehyde?
Answer: Bakelite

Question: In which country is the city of Stavanger?
Answer: Norway

Question: Which London Bridge designed by John Rennie was opened in 1817?
Answer: Waterloo

Question: What is the common name for solid carbon dioxide?
Answer: Dry ice

Question: Who played the Sheriff John T Chance in the 1959 film Rio Bravo?
Answer: John Wayne

Question: In which European city is the San Vittore women's prison?
Answer: Milan

Question: A detrusor is a muscle which forms a layer on the wall of which part of the human body?
Answer: Bladder

Question: What is the score of 40-all called in a game of tennis?
Answer: Deuce

Question: The July Revolution in 1830 was in which European country?
Answer: France

Question: Which English poet died of tuberculosis in Rome in 1821?
Answer: John Keats

Question: What is the name of the strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania?
Answer: Bass Strait

Question: Braxy is a fatal bacterial infection in which animal?
Answer: Sheep

Question: What type of plant is a cholla?
Answer: Cactus

Question: Which nation was formerly called British Honduras?
Answer: Belize

Question: A Dobro is what type of musical instrument?
Answer: Guitar

Question: Whose autobiography is entitled Steps in Time?
Answer: Fred Astaire

Question: Mysophobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Dirt

Question: What is the name of the panel used to shield a TV camera lens from direct light, or a microphone from unwanted noise?
Answer: Gobo

Question: What is the food okra commonly known as?
Answer: Ladies fingers

Question: Under the British Coal Mines Act of 1911 what age did a pit pony have to be before going underground?
Answer: Four

Question: What is Thailand's biggest island?
Answer: Phuket

Question: Which UK Chancellor of the Exchequer said, "The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall."?
Answer: Denis Healey

Question: The Yas Marina Grand Prix circuit is in which country?
Answer: Abu Dhabi

Question: Who was the first black man to appear on the cover of American Vogue?
Answer: LeBron James

Question: Which English county cricket team play at the Rose Bowl?
Answer: Hampshire

Question: On which river is the German town of Wittenburg?
Answer: Elbe

Question: Where in the human body is the radius?
Answer: Forearm

Question: An eyas is what young creature taken from the wild for training?
Answer: Hawk

Question: Which singer's epitaph is 'True To His Own Spirit'?
Answer: Jim Morrison

Question: What ice-cream dish is named after an Australian opera singer?
Answer: Peach Melba

Question: Lammas Day falls on the first day of which month?
Answer: August

Question: What type of creature is a canvasback?
Answer: Duck

Question: Which country has the international registraion RA?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Which prehistoric period followed the Stone Age and preceded the Iron Age?
Answer: Bronze Age

Question: What is the science of accurate time measurement called?
Answer: Chronometry

Question: President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and which prime minister were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978?
Answer: Menachen Begin

Question: Maurice Cole was the real name of which popular funny UK Radio and TV personality?
Answer: Kenny Everett

Question: What was Barbara Windsor's first Carry On film?
Answer: Carry On Spying

Question: In a game of English draughts how many pieces does each player normally begin with?
Answer: Twelve

Question: Jasper National Park is in which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: In which century was the Bank of England founded?
Answer: 17th

Question: What is the fin on the back of a fish called?
Answer: Dorsal

Question: Duma is a legislative body in the ruling asesembly of which country?
Answer: Russia

Question: Pyaemia is the poisoning of what?
Answer: Blood

Question: What is the profession of world famous Annie Liebovitz?
Answer: Photographer

Question: In which century was divorce legalised (by Act of Parliament) in England?
Answer: 19th

Question: How many Oscars did the 1959 film Ben Hur win?
Answer: Eleven

Question: Who was Henry the Eighth's fifth wife?
Answer: Catherine Howard

Question: Which British liner was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1915?
Answer: Lusitania

Question: Which Italian fashion designer was shot and killed outside his Miami home in 1997?
Answer: Gianni Versace

Question: What is the title of a British nobleman ranking above an earl and below a duke?
Answer: Marquess

Question: The Petrified Forest National Park is in which US state?
Answer: Arizona

Question: Coprophagia is the eating (by insects and certain animals) of what?
Answer: Dung

Question: Which London tube station was called Gillespie Road before adopting the name of a nearby football club in 1932?
Answer: Arsenal

Question: Which Native American Indian tribe bought the Hard Rock chain for a reputed $965m in 2006?
Answer: Seminoles

Question: Passat, the Volkswagen car model, is German for a type of what?
Answer: Wind

Question: Which singer-songwriter released an album in 1983 called Hearts and Bones?
Answer: Paul Simon

Question: Who was the first woman Speaker of the UK House of Commons?
Answer: Betty Boothroyd

Question: What are auctioned at Tattersalls?
Answer: Horses

Question: What is the fifth book of the Old Testament?
Answer: Deuteronomy

Question: What word, favoured by crossword compilers, is a small case for holding needles?
Answer: Etui

Question: Bertrand Russell was a founder member of which British peace-movement organisation, established in 1957?
Answer: Cnd

Question: In Greek mythology what was the name of the old man who ferried the souls of the dead across the River Styx to Hades?
Answer: Charon

Question: What is the state capital of Queensland, Australia?
Answer: Brisbane

Question: Natasha Khan is better known by what name?
Answer: Bat for Lashes

Question: P is the symbol for which chemical element?
Answer: Phosphorus

Question: In which 1963 film is Maureen O'Hara spanked by John Wayne?
Answer: McLintock

Question: The Copenhagen Criteria define eligibility for national membership of what organisation?
Answer: The European Union

Question: What is the Irish finger ring, comprising two hands, a heart and crown, worn to indicate romatic status?
Answer: Claddagh

Question: What is the grammatical term for words such as at, in, of, to, by, under, and with?
Answer: Preposition

Question: Acrophobia is a fear of what?
Answer: Heights

Question: Idiot Box is a derogatory term for what?
Answer: A television