Question: Journalist and writer Martha Gellhorn was the first wife of which author?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Question: Writer Roald Dahl was the husband of which Oscar-winning actress?
Answer: Patricia Neal

Question: South African rugby winger Bryan Habana was named after which famous English sportsman?
Answer: Bryan Robson

Question: Singer Alecia Moore first hit the charts in 2000 under what one-word name?
Answer: Pink

Question: The ancient cities of Leptis Magna and Cyrene can be found in which modern-day country?
Answer: Libya

Question: The ancient cities of Troy and Ephesus can be found in which modern-day country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: When Muttiah Muralitharan took his record-breaking 709th test wicket, which England player was the victim?
Answer: Paul Collingwood

Question: Which snooker player has scored a record 709 centuries in professional tournaments?
Answer: Stephen Hendry

Question: Arlanda airport serves which European capital city?
Answer: Stockholm

Question: Ruzyne airport serves which European capital city?
Answer: Prague

Question: The rotund Martin Fitzmaurice introduces the competitors in which annual sporting event?
Answer: World Darts Championship

Question: Scotsman Ivor Robson introduces the competitors in which annual sporting event?
Answer: Open Golf Championship

Question: Whirlishing Dervishes belong to which Islamic sect?
Answer: Sufi/Sufism

Question: Which country's currency changed from the Pound to the Euro in January 2008?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: Which country's currency changed from the Lira to the Euro in January 2008?
Answer: Malta

Question: How many toes are there on each foot of an ostrich?
Answer: 2

Question: How many pairs of chromosomes does a human have?
Answer: 23

Question: Which Scotland Yard detective is frequently upstaged by the crime-fighting abilities of Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: Inspector Lestrade

Question: Featured more regularly on TV than in the original books, which Scotland Yard detective is regularly helped (or hindered) by the efforts of Hercule Poirot?
Answer: Chief Inspector Japp

Question: The world's first what were installed outside the Houses of Parliament on 22nd October 1868?
Answer: Traffic Lights

Question: Luxardo is the most widely-available brand of which alcoholic spirit?
Answer: Sambuca

Question: What name is given to an island of coral that surrounds a lagoon?
Answer: Atoll

Question: What name is given to a narrow strip of land which connects two larger land masses?
Answer: Isthmus

Question: Who composed the scores for the Alfred Hitchcock movies "North By Northwest" and "Psycho"?
Answer: Bernard Herrmann

Question: Which city, the fourth largest in the Czech Republic, is renowned for its beer production and is the home of Skoda?
Answer: Plzen

Question: Named after a service station on the M4, which chef is proprietor of "The Fat Duck" and has been "In Search of Perfection" in print and on the media?
Answer: Heston Blumenthal

Question: Who wrote the novel 'Middlemarch' in 1869?
Answer: George Eliot

Question: On a Monopoly board, what lies between Vine Street and The Strand?
Answer: Free Parking

Question: What name is given to a straight line that joins any two points on the circumference of a circle?
Answer: Chord

Question: On which river does Phnom Penh stand?
Answer: Mekong

Question: What was the Christian name of the character played by Tim Healy in 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet'?
Answer: Dennis

Question: What is the capital of Armenia?
Answer: Yerevan

Question: Which football league club plays its home games at the Weston Homes Community Stadium?
Answer: Colchester United

Question: Who succeeded Robin Day as regular presenter of Question Time, in June 1989?
Answer: Peter Sissons

Question: What was the first Martin Scorsese film that Robert De Niro appeared in, released in 1973?
Answer: Mean Streets

Question: In which war was the Battle of the Ebro (Batalia del Ebro) fought?
Answer: Spanish Civil War

Question: Who founded Britain's first University museum in 1683?
Answer: Elias Ashmole

Question: Who was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi?
Answer: (The last) Shah of Iran

Question: Who was the first President and founder of the Turkish Republic in 1923?
Answer: Mustapha Kemal

Question: Who signs himself as Ebor?
Answer: Archbishop of York

Question: On which plateau in 1759 did the British defeat the French and take control of Quebec?
Answer: The Plains of Abraham

Question: Which weather phenomenon translates from the Spanish words for 'little boy'?
Answer: El Nino

Question: In terms of surface area, which is the largest body of water in the British Isles?
Answer: Lough Neagh

Question: Which 1910 comic novel by H G Wells features the Potwell Inn in Sussex?
Answer: The History of Mr Polly

Question: Which London thoroughfare gave its name to a 2003 novel by Monica Ali?
Answer: Brick Lane

Question: Who wrote the novels "Rosemary's Baby", "The Stepford Wives" and "The Boys from Brazil"?
Answer: Ira Levin

Question: Who is the youngest male actor to have won the Best Actor Oscar?
Answer: Adrien Brody

Question: What was the name of the junior TV Times magazine that ran from 1971 to 1994?
Answer: Look-In

Question: Which sunken ship lies on the floor of Pearl Harbour as a memorial to those killed in the attack of 7 December 1941?
Answer: USS Arizona

Question: Which gas makes up 95% of the atmosphere of the planet Mars?
Answer: Carbon Dioxide

Question: What brand name was registered by the Wolverine Shoe and Tanning Company in 1961?
Answer: Hush Puppies

Question: Ashkabat is the capital of which country?
Answer: Turkmenistan

Question: Which structure links the English towns of Barton and Hessle?
Answer: Humber Bridge

Question: Which English football league team play their home games at Griffin Park?
Answer: Brentford

Question: Since 1991, where has the annual Crufts Dog Show taken place?
Answer: NEC Birmingham

Question: The Impressionist movement got its name from a painting "Impression Sunrise" exhibited in 1874; who was the artist?
Answer: Claude Monet

Question: The young soldier Paul Baumer is the narrator and central character in which 1929 novel?
Answer: All Quiet on the

Question: In which series of children's books, first published in 1930, would you encounter the Blackett family and the Walker family?
Answer: Swallows and

Question: Who played the character Gene Hunt in the UK TV series 'Life on Mars' and 'Ashes to Ashes'?
Answer: Phillip Glenister

Question: Who starred in the TV series Tarzan between 1966 and 1969?
Answer: Ron Ely

Question: What does the Spanish word 'tapas' literally mean?
Answer: 'Cover' or 'lid'

Question: What is measured on the Scoville scale?
Answer: The heat of chillies

Question: Hindu god Brahma emerged from which part of the body of Vishnu?
Answer: The navel

Question: What is the capital of St Lucia?
Answer: Castries

Question: England's longest waterfall, Cauldron Snout, lies on which river?
Answer: River Tees

Question: What is the name of the longest river in Scotland?
Answer: River Tay

Question: After which chemical element is Argentina named?
Answer: Silver

Question: Which former England international footballer lasted 36 days in charge of Manchester City in 1996?
Answer: Steve Coppell

Question: The theme music to which long running news show is called 'The Awakening'?
Answer: News At Ten

Question: What is the most common non-contagious disease in the world?
Answer: Tooth decay

Question: In Egyptian mythology, who is the sun god?
Answer: Ra

Question: Which vegetable has varieties called Ormskirk and Spring Hero?
Answer: Cabbage

Question: What is the nickname for New Orleans?
Answer: The Big Easy

Question: What is the collective noun for bears?
Answer: Sleuth

Question: What do the Americans call what we call noughts and crosses?
Answer: Tic Tac Toe

Question: 'I'll be there for you' is the theme tune for which TV programme?
Answer: Friends