Question: What is the German name for the Polish city of Gdansk ?
Answer: Danzig

Question: What is the name of the country huse in County Durham, where Velasquez's famous masterpiece, The Toilet of Venus, was hung from 1813 until it was purchased by the National Gallery in 1906 ?
Answer: ROKEBY (Park) (hence Rokeby Venus)

Question: Edward VII's first Christian name wasn't Edward, What was it ?
Answer: Albert

Question: Which European capital city was known as Kristiana from 1877 to 1925 ?
Answer: Oslo

Question: What name has been given to the new intitution created by the merger of Deeside College and Wrexham's Yale College earlier this year ?
Answer: (Coleg) Cambria

Question: Which senior cabinet minister was given the Christian names Gideon Oliver, adding his current first name when he was 13 as "an act of rebellion" ?
Answer: GEORGE (Gideon Oliver) OSBORNE

Question: What was the stage name of the operatic soprano who was born Helen Porter Mitchell in 1861 ?
Answer: Nellie Melba

Question: In which year were TV licences introduced in the UK?
Answer: 1946

Question: Which designer (brand) created the Kelly bag?
Answer: Hermes

Question: By what name is the Gravelly Hill Interchange better known?
Answer: Spaghetti Junction

Question: The Galápagos Islands are a provincial territory of which South American country, 600 miles away on the same equatorial latitude?
Answer: Ecuador

Question: Who succeeded Sir Clive Woodward as England's rugby union coach?
Answer: Andy Robinson

Question: What is Bill Clinton's middle name?
Answer: Jefferson

Question: In which country are the Sutherland Falls?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: In the US TV comedy show Everybody Loves Raymond, what is Raymond's brother's first name?
Answer: Robert

Question: What is the largest flat fish species?
Answer: Halibut

Question: Who played the Ringo Kid in the original Stagecoach film?
Answer: John Wayne

Question: Which artist painted The Potato Eaters?
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

Question: In architecture, what is a lancet?
Answer: A window

Question: Which singer's original name was Elaine Bookbinder?
Answer: Elkie Brooks

Question: Which country has the international car registration RA?
Answer: Argentina

Question: What does a cartophilist collect?
Answer: Cigarette cards

Question: Which European city had the Roman name Lutetia?
Answer: Paris

Question: Yeomen Warders at the Tower of London are commonly known by what other name?
Answer: Beefeaters

Question: Which actress appears with Jarvis Cocker in Pulp's video, Common People?
Answer: Sadie Frost

Question: How many labours were performed by Hercules?
Answer: Twelve

Question: In which London pub did Ronnie Kray murder George Cornell?
Answer: The Blind Beggar

Question: What date is Trafalgar Day?
Answer: 21 October

Question: What is the birthstone for April?
Answer: Diamond

Question: What does 'E' represent in E = MC2?
Answer: Energy

Question: What note do orchestras typically tune up to?
Answer: A

Question: Which English cathedral was destroyed by fire in 1666?
Answer: St Pauls

Question: Who shot and killed Billy the Kid in 1881?
Answer: Pat Garrett

Question: What was the first name of Dustin Hoffman's female character in Tootsie?
Answer: Dorothy

Question: In which year (or decade) were luncheon vouchers introduced in the UK?
Answer: 1955

Question: How did soul singer Otis Redding die in 1967?
Answer: Plane crash

Question: Who invented the revolver (handgun)?
Answer: Samuel Colt

Question: In which ocean is Ascension Island?
Answer: Atlantic

Question: Who was the first English monarch to abdicate?
Answer: Richard II

Question: At which railway station was the film Brief Encounter made?
Answer: Carnforth

Question: Who was the first British person to walk in space?
Answer: Michael Foale

Question: What are Climax, Intercourse, Accident, Sugar Tit, and Fred?
Answer: Towns in the USA

Question: Bafana Bafana, the South African nickname for its national football team means?
Answer: The Boys

Question: What is the bodyguard character played by Kevin Costner in the 1992 film 'The Bodyguard'?
Answer: Frank Farmer

Question: What appears directly below the expiry date on a UK Vehicle Tax disc?
Answer: A barcode

Question: The 2,228m high Mount Kosciuszko is the highest mainland mountain of which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Which European country ceased to be a monarchy in 1910?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Farringford House on the Isle of Wight was the home of which poet?
Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Question: What was US tennis player Anne White instructed to cease wearing at Wimbledon in 1985?
Answer: White lycra jumpsuit

Question: Orzo is what type of foodstuff?
Answer: Pasta

Question: Tirana is the capital of which country?
Answer: Albania

Question: What item of his apparel was made of liquorice and eaten by Charlie Chaplin in the film 'The Gold Rush'?
Answer: Boot

Question: Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is better known by what DuPont brand name?
Answer: Teflon

Question: In which year did the ocean liner the QE2 make her maiden voyage?
Answer: 1969

Question: The white sea-borne floating mineral (magnesium silicate) called meerschaum, used in making tobacco pipes, takes its name from the German meaning of what?
Answer: Sea Foam

Question: Who wrote the play The Winslow Boy?
Answer: Terence Rattigen

Question: What primarily causes an ice-skate to melt ice, creating lubricated contact helpful for skating?
Answer: Pressure

Question: Which British artist painted The Pond?
Answer: L S Lowry

Question: The Battle of Antietam was fought during which war?
Answer: American Civil War

Question: Who wore England's number 9 shirt in their 1966 World Cup Final victory over Germany?
Answer: Bobby Charton

Question: What is produced in the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas?
Answer: Hormones

Question: Which country's old name is Kemet, meaning 'black land', a reference to the fertile soil of its vast flood plains?
Answer: Egypt

Question: In 2010, Asda (owned by Walmart) bought the UK stores of which discount grocers for £778m?
Answer: Netto

Question: Which three major sporting endorsees of Gillette coincidentally suffered unexpected failures in 2009/10?
Answer: Tiger Woods, Thierry Henri, Roger Federer

Question: In an electrical circuit diagram what is denoted by a circle containing the capital letter A?
Answer: Ammeter

Question: What internationally popular competitive activity features a 'Racing Homer'?
Answer: Pigeon racing

Question: Amy Winehouse and the brand of which famous 1930s sportsman announced a joint collection in 2010?
Answer: Fred Perry

Question: What is the largest rough gem-quality diamond ever found (as at 2010)?
Answer: The Cullinan Diamond

Question: William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847 novel Vanity Fair, a satire of early 1800s British society, has the extended title, 'A Novel without a ...' what?
Answer: Hero

Question: What Dutch Brewery arranged an 'ambush marketing' appearance of 36 orange-clad dancing women in the Denmark v Netherlands 2010 World Cup game audience, attracting complaints from FIFA, and massive publicity?
Answer: Bavaria

Question: The suspension of what requirement was cited as the cause of a surge in UK houses coming to market after the 2010 general election?
Answer: HIPs

Question: What car company faced major problems over a sticking accelerator fault in 2010?
Answer: Toyota

Question: In chemistry and physics, volatility is the tendency of a substance to what?
Answer: Vaporize

Question: Sir Joseph Paxton designed which notable 1851 Hyde Park building, re-located in 1854, where its name persists since accidental destruction in 1936?
Answer: The Crystal Palace

Question: In March 2010, which country passed a law banning all strip clubs and made it illegal for any business to profit from the nudity of employees such as topless waitresses?
Answer: Iceland

Question: The religious slot Thought for the Day features in which BBC Radio show?
Answer: Today