Question: In which year was the BBC granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation; Cardiff City beat Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley; Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: 1927

Question: How many Parliamentary constituencies are there in the UK?
Answer: 650

Question: Which US composer, conductor and pianist has written the music for over 100 films, starting with "Daddy-O" in 1958, his latest is the 2012 film "Lincoln"?
Answer: John Williams

Question: Which M62 spur runs from Cleckheaton to Bradford?
Answer: M606

Question: Which 2009 Formula One Grand Prix was run at night time?
Answer: Singapore

Question: Gillian Gilks (nee Perrin, later Goodwin) was an exponent in which sport?
Answer: Badminton

Question: What is the meaning of the German word Bundesliga?
Answer: Nation-wide League

Question: What was contained in the Ark of the Covenant?
Answer: Ten Commandments

Question: The EGX 30 index is the name of which country's stock market?
Answer: Egypt

Question: What is the name of Hong Kong's stock market Index?
Answer: Hang Seng

Question: Which US actor/comedian originally sung "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again"?
Answer: George Burns

Question: Which BBC Radio Lancashire presenter succeeded Tim Gudgin as reader of the sports results on Grandstand and Final Score?
Answer: Mike West

Question: In which Italian city are the HQ of Ducati motorcycles?
Answer: Bologna

Question: The rivers Axe, Brue, Cary, Parrett, eta, are in which English county?
Answer: Somerset

Question: For what reason was the tocsin bell rung?
Answer: Times of danger

Question: Which American rock band took its name from a pickup truck?
Answer: Reo Speedwagon

Question: Which patron saint was believed to have lived on locusts and honey?
Answer: St. John the Baptist

Question: What is the national bird of England, and Ireland?
Answer: (European) Robin

Question: Which WW2 bomber was made entirely of wood?
Answer: The Mosquito

Question: Which US president vetoed the Volstead Act in 1919?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Question: The Dutch Super Cup, played between the Eredivisie winners and the winner of the KNVB Cup, is named after which footballer?
Answer: Johan Cruyff

Question: Plovdiv and Varna airports, et al, are in which European country?
Answer: Bulgaria

Question: Which of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland is called The Navigator', "The Voyager', or The Bold'?
Answer: St. Brendan

Question: Opera buffa is a formal description of what?
Answer: (Italian) Comic Opera

Question: Which world famous distillery is in Lynchburg, Tennessee, USA?
Answer: Jack Daniels

Question: Which German developed the concept of the kindergarten?
Answer: (Friedrich) Froebel

Question: Tarbes and Pau airports serve which French town?
Answer: Lourdes

Question: Which aircraft is the largest passenger airliner currently in service?
Answer: Airbus 380

Question: Allium sativum is the Latin name for which vegetable?
Answer: Garlic

Question: What word describes the process of forcing liquid into the strata to split them and prevent them from closing?
Answer: Fracking

Question: Which Austrian scientist was the founder of genetics?
Answer: (Gregor Johann) Mendel

Question: What name is given to a blood-filled balloon-like bulge in a blood vessel?
Answer: Aneurism

Question: Which US country music artiste had hits with 'The Carribean' and 'I Wish I Was a Little Bit Younger and Know What I Know Now'?
Answer: Mitchell Torok

Question: The daily newspaper The Tennessean' is published in which city?
Answer: Nashville

Question: Sant Francesc Xavier is the capital of which Balearic island?
Answer: Formentera

Question: David Moyes played in what position during his football career?
Answer: Centre Half

Question: Which English poet (1608-1674) wrote the opening line: "When I consider how my light was spent"?
Answer: (John) Milton

Question: Name the Greek goddess of divine retribution.
Answer: Nemesis

Question: Lod airport (now Ben Gurion International Airport) serves which Asian city?
Answer: Tel Aviv

Question: Name the Greek goddess of peace.
Answer: Irene

Question: Narita international airport serves which city?
Answer: Tokyo

Question: Jazz fusion musician Pat Metheny plays which instrument?
Answer: Guitar

Question: In both the 2010 and 2011 Women's French Open Tennis was a first Grand Slam success for its winner. Name either player,
Answer: Francesca Schiavone/Li Na

Question: Philippa of Hainault was the wife of which English king?
Answer: Edward the Third

Question: Central America's Panama seceded from which country in 1903?
Answer: Columbia

Question: Ringing Roger and Grindslow Knoll are features in which English National Park?
Answer: The Peak District

Question: Who had 1960's hits with "Forget Me Not", "I Don't Know Why", and "Boys Cry"?
Answer: Eden Kane

Question: What is the family name of the Dukes of Bedford?
Answer: Russell

Question: Give the name of the character played by Oscar winning actor Edmund Gwenn in the 1947 film "Miracle on 34th Street".
Answer: Kris Kringle

Question: What is the family name of the Earl of Harewood?
Answer: Lascelles

Question: In which English city is Paragon Station?
Answer: Hull

Question: Who had 1960's Top Ten hits with "A Hundred Pounds of Clay", "Time" and "Our Favourite Melodies"?
Answer: Craig Douglas

Question: Stafford stands on which English river?
Answer: Sow

Question: Who preceded Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin

Question: Ludlow, Shropshire lies on the bend of which river?
Answer: Teme

Question: In which year did Beethoven die?
Answer: 1827

Question: What is the most northerly county of the Irish Republic?
Answer: Co. Donegal

Question: What is the literary term for deliberate understatement?
Answer: Litotes

Question: Thorpe Station is in which English city?
Answer: Norwich

Question: Name the year: Chernenko dies; the Achille Lauro is hi-jacked; a Japanese Air Lines 747 crashes killing 520 people.
Answer: 1985

Question: Which Army rank equates to the RAF rank of Wing Commander?
Answer: Lieutenant Colonel

Question: Which Yorkshire crime writer created the character Chief Inspector Banks?
Answer: Peter Robinson

Question: The artists Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, and Patrick Heron are primarily associated with which English seaside resort?
Answer: St. Ives

Question: The oldest film festival in the world awards the "Golden Lion" as its top prize. In which city is it held?
Answer: Venice

Question: The American TV series 'The Wire" is set in which city?
Answer: Baltimore

Question: Which German city was the target of the first 1000 bomber raid in 1942?
Answer: Cologne

Question: Hlobane and Isandhlwana were battles in which 19th century conflict?
Answer: (Anglo-)Zulu War

Question: To within 10 miles, how long is the Pennine Way, running from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders?
Answer: 267 miles

Question: Michael Caine portrayed which officer in the 1964 film "Zulu"?
Answer: Lt. Gonville Bromhead

Question: To within 10 miles, how long is Alfred Wainwright's Coast to Coast walk, from St. Bees, Cumbria, to Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire?
Answer: 192 miles

Question: Which American baseball team was formed in 1962 to replace the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants?
Answer: New York Mets

Question: Which Scottish author wrote "A Good Man in Africa", "The New Confessions", and his most recent novel "Ordinary Thunderstorms"?
Answer: William Boyd

Question: Which former American baseball player currently holds the records for both most home runs in a season, and most career home runs?
Answer: Barry Bonds

Question: In the UK, which creature is often known as a 'Rumpy'?
Answer: A Manx Cat

Question: In contract rubber bridge, how many points are awarded for successfully making a non-vulnerable contract of four Spades?
Answer: 120

Question: Where was the specific location of the nuclear accident in the USA in 1979?
Answer: Three Mile Island