Question: Which wine was traditionally transported downriver in Rabelo boats?
Answer: Port

Question: On winning the US Masters in 2003, which man became the only Canadian to win one of golf's major titles?
Answer: Mike Weir

Question: What name is given to the series of narrative poems by Lord Tennyson, which retells the legend of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table?
Answer: Idylls Of The King

Question: Which 15th century English writer compiled some French and English Arthurian legends, and added work of his own, under the title of "Le Morte d'Arthur"?
Answer: Sir Thomas Malory

Question: Prior to Padraig Harrington in 2008, who was the last European golfer to win two of golf's major titles in the same season?
Answer: Nick Faldo

Question: Ruth Kelly, who announced in September 2008, that she is stepping down from the cabinet to spend more time with her family, has been an MP in which northern town since 1997?
Answer: Bolton

Question: Which American TV legend produced the detective series, "FBI", "Cannon" and "Barnaby Jones"?
Answer: Quinn Martin

Question: Which common pastoral plant, has the botanical name "trifolium repens"?
Answer: (White) Clover

Question: Which composer, born in Pesaro in Italy in 1792, based his opera, "The Barber of Seville" on the trilogy by French playwright, Pierre de Beaumarchais?
Answer: Rossini

Question: The Musee d'Orsay, in Paris, which houses many great impressionist paintings, was originally designed as what sort of building?
Answer: A Railway Station

Question: The adjective "cervine", is used when pertaining to which animal?
Answer: The Deer

Question: According to tradition, the Greek mythological monsters, Scylla and Charybdis, menaced seafarers in which stretch of water?
Answer: Straits Of Messina

Question: The atomic number of a chemical element, is determined by the numbers of which particle, in its nucleus?
Answer: The Proton

Question: Courtney Walsh first played cricket for which county side in England in 1984, remaining with them until 1998?
Answer: Gloucestershire

Question: Which film star did Elvis Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie, marry in August 2002? He filed for divorce just 108 days later.
Answer: Nicholas Cage

Question: Who is currently the Secretary General of the United Nations?
Answer: Ban Ki-Moon

Question: Which type of cloth has a name which originally meant to criticise or discuss and now means to
Answer: solicit information?

Question: In heraldry, which word describes the right hand side of the shield?
Answer: Dexter

Question: Give either of the forenames of the author of Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky.
Answer: Fyodor or Mikhailovitch

Question: Who became heir to the throne of France as a result of the Treaty of Troyes in 1420?
Answer: Henry V of England

Question: Which actress failed to win an Academy Award despite having been nominated 6 times?
Answer: Deborah Kerr

Question: Give a year in the life of the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Answer: 1724 to 1804

Question: Which Daily Mirror journalist wrote for many years under the pen name of Cassandra?
Answer: William Connor

Question: Which year saw the very first Edinburgh Festival?
Answer: 1947

Question: Who painted the work "Belshazzar's Feast" currently on display at the National Gallery in
Answer: London?

Question: In which decade was Archbishop Cranmer burnt at the stake?
Answer: 1550s

Question: A Sugar anniversary celebrates how many years of marriage?
Answer: 6

Question: Bungay Castle is in which English county?
Answer: Suffolk

Question: Who was the male star of the film "Man Of La Mancha"?
Answer: Peter O'Toole

Question: Which long running television detective series is based upon the novels of Caroline Graham?
Answer: Midsomer Murders

Question: Besides China and Cambodia, which other country has a border with Vietnam?
Answer: Laos

Question: Who is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Poseidon?
Answer: Neptune

Question: Who most famously had a horse name Bucephalus?
Answer: Alexander the Great

Question: What is the name of the currency used in Sudan?
Answer: Pound

Question: In mathematics which 2 letters could be used to represent the square root of minus 1?
Answer: i or j

Question: Who wrote the novel Cannery Row?
Answer: John Steinbeck

Question: Which adjective means eagle like?
Answer: Aquiline

Question: If you have committed regicide who would you have killed?
Answer: A King

Question: In heraldry which word describes an animal with its body resting on its leg and with its head raised?
Answer: Couchant

Question: What was the forename of writer Proust (1871-1922)?
Answer: Marcel

Question: In which modern day country is the birthplace of the geneticist Gregor Mendel?
Answer: Czech Republic

Question: What are Fly in Nevada, USA, El Tatio in Chile and Strokker in Iceland?
Answer: Geysers

Question: The autobiography of which popular US film director of the 1930s and 40s, was called Name
Answer: Above the Title?

Question: Give a year in the life of the writer Franz Kafka.
Answer: 1883 - 1924

Question: In 1994, which successful sportswoman wrote the novel Total Zone?
Answer: Martina Navratilova

Question: Who composed the orchestral pieces the Lark Ascending and The Pilgrim's Progress?
Answer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

Question: Around 1503, who painted the Coronation of the Virgin, now to be found in the Vatican museum?
Answer: Raphael

Question: In which decade did the Gordon Riots take place?
Answer: 1780s

Question: In the bible the book of Lamentations is ascribed to which of the prophets?
Answer: Jeremiah

Question: Which Prime Minister twice succeeded J Ramsay Macdonald?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin

Question: Which fictional Police Officer was created by M C Beaton?
Answer: Hamish Macbeth

Question: Which notable Englishman was murdered on 29th December 1170?
Answer: Thomas Becket

Question: Who most famously had a horse named Copenhagen?
Answer: Duke of Wellington

Question: What is the name of the currency used in Malaysia?
Answer: Ringgit

Question: Who wrote the novel Vile Bodies?
Answer: Evelyn Waugh

Question: What was being advertised by Lorraine Chase when she used the words "Nah, Luton Airport"
Answer: Campari

Question: What was the code name for the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945?
Answer: Little Boy

Question: What type of fruit is a 'James Grieve'?
Answer: Apple

Question: Will's Neck is the highest point in which range of hills?
Answer: Quantocks

Question: The SWALEC Stadium will become a Test cricket ground in 2009, in which town or city is it?
Answer: Cardiff

Question: Which language is common to Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism?
Answer: Sanskrit

Question: How many seats are there in the US Senate?
Answer: 100

Question: Wold's Top at 551 feet is the highest point in which county?
Answer: Lincolnshire

Question: What did Hubert Cecil Booth first patent in 1902?
Answer: Vacuum Cleaner

Question: In which part of the British Isles is Carisbrooke Castle?
Answer: Isle of Wight

Question: What type of fruit is a 'Merton Pride'?
Answer: Pear

Question: Which actor was a Dad's Army regular and also appeared in the film 'Ben Hur'?
Answer: John le Mesurier

Question: Who wrote the sonnet 'How do I love thee'?
Answer: Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

Question: The LHC has been built to research nuclear physics, for what does the H stand?
Answer: Hadron

Question: Who said 'I am not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens'?
Answer: Woody Allen

Question: Bourbon whisky is named after a county in which US state?
Answer: Kentucky

Question: Who had a UK number 1 hit in 1955 with the song 'Stranger in Paradise'?
Answer: Tony Bennett

Question: Which video game is set in Liberty City?
Answer: Grand Theft Auto

Question: Dolomite is an ore of which metal?
Answer: Magnesium

Question: Which betting odds are nicknamed 'bottle'?
Answer: 2/1

Question: Who is MP for Hampstead and Highgate?
Answer: Glenda Jackson