Question: Who was elected to replace Hosni Mubarak as President of Egypt in 2012, but was later deposed in July 2013?
Answer: Mohammed Mursi

Question: Give either of the forenames of P. D. James
Answer: Phyllis / Dorothy

Question: Which (liquid) foodstuff has the chemical formula CH3COOH?
Answer: Vinegar

Question: What was the title of the debut single by the Rolling Stones. It reached No. 21 in the UK pop charts in 1963?
Answer: Come On

Question: Which is the only place in the UK to have a post code beginning with the letter 'Z'?
Answer: Shetland

Question: Which ubiquitous traffic aid was invented by Charles P. Rudebaker in 1914, in New York City?
Answer: Traffic Cone

Question: Whose first husband was Conrad Hilton Jnr., heir to the hotel empire?
Answer: Elizabeth Taylor

Question: Who won the 1960 Best Actress Oscar for her part in the film "Two Women"?
Answer: Sophia Loren

Question: What does the name Punjab mean?
Answer: Five Rivers

Question: Who, in 1979, was the 1st British footballer to be transferred for £1 million?
Answer: Trevor Francis

Question: In U.S. slang what value currency note is a Ulysses?
Answer: $50 bill

Question: In medicine, what is the more common name for otalgia?
Answer: Earache

Question: What dessert means 'cooked cream' in Italian?
Answer: Pannacotta

Question: Who hosts ITVs quiz show The Chase?
Answer: Bradley Walsh

Question: 90% of the species of the bird of paradise are indiginous to which island?
Answer: New Guinea

Question: In which German city did Becks beer originate?
Answer: Bremen

Question: What is denoted on a weather map by a line with a row of solid semi circles attached?
Answer: Warm Front

Question: What city was sacked by Alaric and the Visigoths in 410 AD?
Answer: Rome

Question: What is the birthstone for December?
Answer: Turquoise

Question: In which city is the U.S. Naval Academy?
Answer: Annapolis

Question: Which organisation won its 3rd Nobel Peace Prize in 1963?
Answer: (International) Red Cross

Question: From which London station do you depart on a train journey to Cardiff?
Answer: Paddington

Question: Who played Nelson Mandela in the 2009 film lnvictus?
Answer: Morgan Freeman

Question: Who is currently the creative director at the House of Chanel?
Answer: Karl Lagerfeld

Question: In which sport/game do Team Europe and Team USA compete for the Weber Cup?
Answer: 10 pin bowling

Question: Who created the fictional LAPD detective Harry Bosch?
Answer: Michael Connolly

Question: Give either of the alternate names for the Gulf of California.
Answer: Sea of Cortez or Vermillion Sea

Question: In US slang what value currency note is a Benjamin?
Answer: $100 bill

Question: Which motor manufacturer makes the models Roomster and Superb?
Answer: Skoda

Question: In medicine, what is the common name for epistaxis?
Answer: Nose bleed

Question: 1n which country did Jarlsberg cheese originate?
Answer: Norway

Question: Who hosts the BBC quiz show Perfection?
Answer: Nick Knowles

Question: Who wrote To the Devil, a Daughter and The Haunting of Toby Jugg?
Answer: Dennis Wheatley

Question: To which family of birds does the kookaburra belong?
Answer: Kingfisher

Question: Located in the Orkneys, what is Britain's most northerly working whisky distillery?
Answer: Highland Park

Question: The BBC's shipping forecast starts with Viking and finishes with what?
Answer: South East Iceland

Question: Which battle, of 1836, saw the capture of General Santa Anna and marked the end of the Texan Revolt?
Answer: San Jacinto

Question: Who, in 1930, painted the picture American Gothic?
Answer: Grant Wood

Question: Which country, in 1893, was the first to give women the vote?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Which singer released the albums Aladdin Sane in 1973 and Let's Dance in 1983?
Answer: David Bowie

Question: What is the star sign for 1st September?
Answer: Virgo

Question: Where in England is the Britannia Royal Naval College?
Answer: Dartmouth

Question: The Ancient wonder of the Lighthouse on the island of Pharos was situated at the entrance to which harbour?
Answer: Alexandria

Question: From which London station do you depart on a rail journey to Glasgow?
Answer: Euston

Question: Who played Alfred Hitchcock in the 2012 film Hitchcock?
Answer: Anthony Hopkins

Question: Who wrote a series of novels featuring Detective Rizzoli and Medical Examiner Isles?
Answer: Tess Gerritsen

Question: Of which African country is the cedi the currency?
Answer: Ghana

Question: In pre-decimal currency how much was half a groat worth?
Answer: 2 pence

Question: Which vegetable is used in the dip baba ghanoush?
Answer: Aubergine

Question: Who wrote the novel Saturday Night, Sunday Morning?
Answer: Alan Sillitoe

Question: Which tree is also known as the Mountain Ash?
Answer: Rowan

Question: Which fairground sweet is known in France as 'barbe a papa' (father's beard)?
Answer: Candy Floss

Question: Rickets is a disease associated with a deficiency of which vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin D

Question: How many different Nobel Prizes are awarded each year?
Answer: Six

Question: Sine, cosine and tangent are the three most familiar functions in which branch of mathematics?
Answer: Trigonometry

Question: Which company created 'Blue Jasperware'?
Answer: Wedgwood

Question: In Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' a flamingo and a hedgehog were used to play which game?
Answer: Croquet

Question: Who fronted the BBC TV series 'Troubleshooter', advising ailing businesses on ways to improve their performance?
Answer: Sir John Harvey-Jones

Question: Which musical instrument does Lisa play in the TV cartoon 'The Simpsons'?
Answer: Saxophone

Question: Which product was advertised with the slogan 'central heating for kids'?
Answer: Ready Brek

Question: What food might also be called Norway Lobster or Dublin Bay Prawn?
Answer: Scampi

Question: What word is used to describe a marked ski run or an area where fencing takes place?
Answer: Piste

Question: Which part of the British Isles is divided into six areas called sheadings?
Answer: Isle of Man

Question: Which US city is known as `Beantown'?
Answer: Boston, Massachusetts

Question: Which Australian city was originally called Port Jackson?
Answer: Sydney

Question: In which city was the first US Presidential inauguration held, prior to Washington DC becoming the capital?
Answer: New York

Question: Who wrote the plays 'Cavalcade', 'Bitter Sweet' and 'Hay Fever'?
Answer: Noel Coward

Question: Six is the first 'Perfect Number', i.e. a number that is the sum of all of its factors (excluding itself), which is the second?
Answer: 28

Question: To which period in American history does the term antebellum refer?
Answer: Pre Civil War

Question: Whose first novel was titled 'Desperate Remedies'?
Answer: Thomas Hardy

Question: Piri-piri sauce originates in which county?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Name the pop song from this opening line; "The moment I wake up, before I put on my make-up".
Answer: I Say a Little Prayer

Question: Name the pop song from this opening line; "As the snow flies on a cold and grey Chicago morn, and a poor little baby child is born"?
Answer: In The Ghetto

Question: Which modern sport is similar to the 18th century game `battledore'?
Answer: Badminton

Question: What were originally 8" then 5¼" and then 3½", there was also a 2" version available at some time?
Answer: (Computer) Floppy disks

Question: Which chocolate and toffee assortment shares its name with the title of a play by JM Barrie?
Answer: Quality Street

Question: Levens Hall in Cumbria is famous for what sort of garden, claimed to be the world's oldest?
Answer: Topiary garden

Question: What name is given to the condition where a captive begins to sympathise with their captors?
Answer: Stockholm Syndrome

Question: In 1847, which Bristol company was the first British company to make a chocolate bar?
Answer: Fry's