Question: What is the most southerly point in Dorset?
Answer: Portland Bill

Question: After which explorer is the international airport at Venice named?
Answer: Marco Polo

Question: What was the name of Britain's last battleship, broken up in 1960?
Answer: Hms Vanguard

Question: Riyadh is the capital of which country?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: In Canterbury Tales, who is the first pilgrim to tell their story?
Answer: The Knight

Question: Lord Roy Jenkins chose which part of Glasgow as his title?
Answer: Hillhead

Question: Which European country has a flag consisting of three horizontal stripes, red, white and red? AUSTRIA
Answer: 4 Which king led the forces that laid siege to Troy?

Question: What word was used by Billy Batson to change into Captain Marvel?
Answer: Shazam!

Question: Which Turner Prize-winning sculptor designed the ArcelorMittal Orbit, a 22m. sculpture, for the London 2012 Olympic Park?
Answer: Anish Kapoor

Question: What is the former name of the element Potassium, from which it takes its chemical symbol?
Answer: Kalium

Question: Who is the only British Prime Minister to have taken office on the assassination of his predecessor?
Answer: Lord Liverpool

Question: The West Highland Highway runs from Milngavie, just outside Glasgow, to which town in the Highlands?
Answer: Fort William

Question: Ralph M. Steinman won the 2011 Nobel Prize, despite having died before the prize was announced. In which Nobel field did he win?
Answer: Medicine

Question: An omelette with smoked haddock and cheese was perfected at the Savoy Hotel, and named after which novelist?
Answer: Arnold Bennett

Question: In Ronald Searle's cartoons, which school was attended by Nigel Molesworth?
Answer: St Custards

Question: Which African country has a flag which is a vertical tricolour of orange, white and green, which looks like a reverse of the Irish flag?
Answer: Cote d'Ivoire

Question: Of what is pedology the study?
Answer: Soil

Question: Who wrote the novels "Enigma" and "The Ghost?
Answer: Robert Harris

Question: Lester B. Pearson Airport serves which Commonwealth city?
Answer: Toronto

Question: Which actress has played Lady Dedlock and Miss Havisham in BBC adaptations of Dickens' novels?
Answer: Gillian Anderson

Question: Which garden plant or shrub belongs to the genus Lonicera?
Answer: Honeysuckle

Question: In the CYMK colour model for printing, for what does the C stand?
Answer: Cyan

Question: Sarah Lund is the central character in which Danish detective series, shown on BBC Four?
Answer: The Killing

Question: Which charity has been supported by the comedy called The Secret Policeman's Balls?
Answer: Amnesty International

Question: Which Australian-brn brothers played cricket for Surrey and England in the 1990's?
Answer: Hollioake

Question: Jim Kerr is lead singer of which band, who had 1985 hit with "Don't You (Forget About Me)"?
Answer: Simple Minds

Question: According to Greek myth, which king was condemned by Zeus to be tied to an ever-spinning flaming wheel in Hades?
Answer: Ixion

Question: Cambodia is bordered by Thailand, Vietnam, and which other country?
Answer: Laos

Question: Which of Beethoven's symphonies is known as 'The Choral"?
Answer: Ninth

Question: Which former party leader is MP for Chingford and Woodford Green?
Answer: Iain Duncan-Smith

Question: Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, was the mother of two 15th c. Kings of England. Name either
Answer: Edward IV and Richard III

Question: In measurement, which Greek letter is applied to the prefix micro-, equal to 10-6?
Answer: Mu

Question: Who presents "I've Never Seen Star Wars" on BBC Radio 4?
Answer: Marcus Brigstocke

Question: What is the flavouring of the liqueur Kahlua?
Answer: Coffee

Question: The South Downs Way runs from Winchester to which Sussex town?
Answer: Eastbourne

Question: Which former party leader is MP for North East Fife?
Answer: Menzies Campbell

Question: Which London borough was granted Royal Borough status marking the Queen's Silver Jubilee?
Answer: Greenwich

Question: Which Greek philosopher left Athens for the island of Euboea after the death of his pupil Alexander the Great, in fear of anti-Macedonian feeling?
Answer: Aristotle

Question: Of what is philology the study?
Answer: Language

Question: Which Verdi opera includes 'The Anvil Chorus"?
Answer: Il Trovatore

Question: Which Premiership football side are nicknamed the Canaries?
Answer: Norwich City

Question: What is the surname of the father and son English cricketers who have both played for Nottinghamshire and in successful Ashes series?
Answer: Broad

Question: Who played headmistress Miss Fritton and her brother in the 2007 film 'St. Trinians"?
Answer: Rupert Everett

Question: Which African country has a flag which is a vertical tricolour of blue, yellow and red, similar to the flag of Romania?
Answer: Chad

Question: What is the common name of garden plants in the Tagetes genus and Calendula genus?
Answer: Marigold

Question: Which British PM served for the longest time, his single term of 20 years, 314 days being longer than even the combined multiple terms of any other Prime Minister?
Answer: Robert Walpole

Question: Who wrote the novels "A Week in December" and 'Birdsong"?
Answer: Sebastian Faulks

Question: Which Shakespeare play is set in Vienna?
Answer: Measure for Measure

Question: A dessert of peaches and raspberry sauce with vanilla ice cream was created by Auguste Escoffier in honour of which performer?
Answer: Dame Nellie Melba

Question: According to Greek myth, which queen was condemned by Poseidon to be tied to a chair in the heavens for eternity?
Answer: Cassiopeia

Question: Who was re-elected Prime Minister of Canada in May 2011?
Answer: Stephen Harper

Question: Which 2011 BBC drama series, starring Romola Garai and Ben Wishaw, centred around a 1950's current affairs TV programme?
Answer: The Hour

Question: David Walliams swam 140 miles of the River Thames in 2011 to raise funds for which charity?
Answer: Sport Relief

Question: Who was the last winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature to have been born in Britain?
Answer: Harold Pinter

Question: Kingsford Smith Airport serves which Commonwealth city?
Answer: Sydney

Question: Lady Day (The Feast of the Annunciation) is on what date?
Answer: March 25th

Question: Members of which band won both "I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here" and 'Strictly Come Dancing " in 2011?
Answer: McFly

Question: Lucy Snow is the heroine of which Charlotte Bronte novel?
Answer: Villette

Question: Give either of the real forenames of 'Count' Basie.
Answer: William James

Question: Which of the Mr Men has extremely long arms?
Answer: Mr Tickle

Question: The luxury Maybach car models are to be discontinued in 2013, which car company produces them?
Answer: Mercedes

Question: Melboume, Australia lies on which river?
Answer: Yarra

Question: Albert II is currently king of which country?
Answer: Belgium

Question: What is a cricket umpire signalling when he holds out one arm horizontally?
Answer: No Ball

Question: In Shakespeare's Macbeth, King Duncan has two sons, one is Malcolm, name the other.
Answer: Donalbain

Question: Who was the leader of the Labour Party when they were defeated in the 1979 General Election?
Answer: James Callaghan

Question: Grey Street, named after Prime Minister Earl Grey, is a major street in which British city?
Answer: Newcastle-on-Tyne

Question: Which outlaw was shot and killed by Bob Ford?
Answer: Jesse James

Question: Who presents the TV quiz show 'The Chase'?
Answer: Bradley Walsh

Question: Which author, in 1859, founded the weekly magazine 'All The Year Round', a successor to 'Household Words'?
Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: Fleance appears in Shakespeare's Macbeth, whose son is he?
Answer: Banquo

Question: Which car company produced the Karmann-Ghia between 1955 and 1974?
Answer: Vw