Question: What was the first name of Italian tenor Caruso, born in 1873?
Answer: Enrico

Question: Who composed the 19th Century opera ‘La Boheme’?
Answer: Giacomo Puccini

Question: Tamino, Sarastro, Pamina and Papageno are all characters from which opera by Mozart?
Answer: The Magic Flute

Question: In 1991, who made 101 curtain calls and set a world record of one hour 20 minutes for applause for his role in Verdi’s ‘Otello’?
Answer: Placido Domingo

Question: The opera ‘Deliverence of Theseus’ by Darius Milhaud lasts how many minutes?
Answer: Seven minutes

Question: Which opera singer was born Claire Mary Teresa Rawston in 1944?
Answer: Kiri Te Kanawa

Question: ‘Premiere’ is the 2004 debut album of which opera singer?
Answer: Katherine Jenkins

Question: Which opera singers were known as ‘The Three Tenors’?
Answer: Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, Luciano Pavarotti

Question: Which opera by Puccini was completed after his death by Franco Alfano?
Answer: Turandot

Question: Carlos Marin, Urs Buhler, Sebastien Izambard and David Miller are members of which operatic pop vocal group?
Answer: Il Divo

Question: ‘I Don’t Know How to Love Him’ is a song from which rock opera?
Answer: Jesus Christ Superstar

Question: Which English city is known as ‘The Merry City’?
Answer: Wakefield

Question: The Chiffon cake, made with vegetable oil instead of butter, originated in which country?
Answer: Usa

Question: Which playing card is known as ‘The Curse of Mexico’?
Answer: Two of spades

Question: What is the name of the Muppet rock band which features on the children’s television show ‘The Muppet Show’?
Answer: Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem

Question: In the human body, Inguinal, Femoral, Epigastric ans Spigelian are all types of what?
Answer: Hernias

Question: Cuthbert Ottaway was the first captain of which national football team in their first official international match?
Answer: England

Question: Late actress Greta Garbo was born in which European country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: What was the name of American frontiersman Davy Crockett’s rifle which was presented to him for his service in the Tennessee State Assembly?
Answer: Old Betsy

Question: The icing on a Tompouce cake is traditionally which colour?
Answer: Pink

Question: Which are the four mutable signs of the Zodiac?
Answer: Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces

Question: Cascade, Mills Mess, Backcross and Tramline Pass are all terms used in which activity?
Answer: Juggling

Question: What is the national bird of India?
Answer: Peacock

Question: What type of tool is a Stillson?
Answer: Wrench

Question: In 1932, which Californian-based company became the first to commercially produce electric guitars?
Answer: Rickenbacker (Ro-Pat-In Corporation)

Question: What is the county town of Kent, England?
Answer: Maidstone

Question: Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte are characters in which 1980’s UK television drama series?
Answer: Brideshead Revisited

Question: What is the first name of former Irish boxer Barry McGuigan?
Answer: Finbarr

Question: In June 1987, which country introduced a one dollar coin nicknamed the ‘Loonie’?
Answer: Canada

Question: Silicon Alley is a nickname for an area with a concentration of Internet and new media companies in which city?
Answer: New York

Question: Which animal is the subject of the 1984 film ‘A Private Function’?
Answer: Pig

Question: Former World Number One professional tennis player Arantxa Vicario was born in which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: How many sisters did Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, have?
Answer: Four

Question: Manor Farm at Dingley Dell features in which novel by Charles Dickens?
Answer: The Pickwick Papers

Question: Which scientist is credited with saying ‘The one who follows the crowd will usually get further than the crowd.  Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before’?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: The Chromatic Scale is a musical scale with how many pitches or notes?
Answer: 12

Question: Cathays, Splott and Fairwater are all areas of which British city?
Answer: Cardiff

Question: Which was the first planet in our solar system to be discovered by telescope?
Answer: Uranus

Question: In Greek mythology who slayed the Hydra of Lerna?
Answer: Heracles

Question: Actress Jill St John appeared in which James Bond film?
Answer: Diamonds Are Forever

Question: What is the first real name of singer Leo Sayer?
Answer: Gerard

Question: Which British former Junior Health Minister claimed that  Northerners were dying of ‘ignorance and chips’?
Answer: Edwina Curry

Question: Unicum, Fusilier, Black Parrot and Zurel are all varieties of which garden flower?
Answer: Tulip

Question: What is the first name of Leonard’s chauffeur in the UK television series ‘Butterflies’?
Answer: Thomas

Question: Who wrote the 1979 novel ‘The Executioner’s Song’?
Answer: Norman Mailer

Question: Terra is another name for which planet in our solar system?
Answer: Earth

Question: Australian sportsman Ricky Ponting is associated with which sport?
Answer: Cricket

Question: What is the name of the dog in Enid Blyton’s ‘Secret Seven’?
Answer: Scamper

Question: Which word replaced ‘Bachelor’ and ‘Spinster’ on UK marriage certificates?
Answer: Single

Question: Which meat is traditionally used in a Stroganoff dish?
Answer: Beef

Question: Mr Grainger, Mr Humphries and Captain Peacock are all characters in which UK television series?
Answer: Are You Being Served?

Question: How many London Underground stations lie outside the M25 London Orbital motorway?
Answer: Five

Question: The Benwood, known as one of the most dived shipwrecks in the world, lies off which US state?
Answer: Florida

Question: The 1970’s ‘Cod Wars’ were over fishing rights between the UK and which other country?
Answer: Iceland

Question: FIDE is an international sports federation for which game?
Answer: Chess (Federation Internationale des Echecs)

Question: Michel Martelly became President of which Caribbean country in May 2011?
Answer: Haiti

Question: Sphagnum is what type of plant?
Answer: Moss

Question: ‘Arundells’ was the home of which British Prime Minister?
Answer: Edward Heath

Question: Captain Phoebus, Clopin and Esmeralda are all characters from which 1996 Disney film?
Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Question: What is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Chi

Question: What are the bars or wire rods called which connect the hub of a wheel to its rim?
Answer: Spokes

Question: Who was the first serving US President to visit Australia?
Answer: Lyndon B Johnson

Question: The Kaizer Chiefs is a premier league football team in which country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: In September 1983, 38 Irish Republican Army prisoners escaped from which prison in the largest prison escape in British history?
Answer: Maze Prison

Question: Who was British Poet Laureate 1850 to 1892, the longest tenure of any British laureate?
Answer: Alfred Tennyson

Question: In June 1975, Mozambique gained independence from which European country?
Answer: Portugal

Question: US film director and actor Shelton Jackson Lee is better known by what name?
Answer: Spike Lee

Question: Who won the 1990 Wimbledon Ladies Singles Tennis Championship?
Answer: Martina Navratilova

Question: Which British television chef was reported as saying ‘Michelin Stars, they’re my past’?
Answer: Marco Pierre White

Question: Porphyrophobia is the irrational fear of, or aversion to, which colour?
Answer: Purple

Question: Ozzy Osbourne, lead singer and frontman of the band Black Sabbath, was born in which British city?
Answer: Birmingham

Question: Eton College is in which English county?
Answer: Berkshire

Question: What is the surname of Muppet Dr Bunsen in the children’s television series ‘The Muppets’?
Answer: Honeydew

Question: Which French President was nicknamed ‘The Great Asparagus’?
Answer: Charles De Gaulle