Question: Who was known as 'The Million Dollar Mermaid'?
Answer: Esther Williams

Question: In architecture pillars carved to resemble male figures are named after which mythical god?
Answer: Atlas

Question: The car company Auto Union was formed in 1932 by the amalgamation of four manufacturers, by what name is it now known?
Answer: Audi

Question: Who wrote the play 'Private Lives'?
Answer: Noel Coward

Question: What is the title of Hilary Mantel's book that won her a second Man Booker Prize?
Answer: Bring up the Bodies

Question: Which astronomer coined the term 'Big Bang'?
Answer: Fred Hoyle

Question: Which composer wrote a 'German Requiem'?
Answer: Brahms

Question: Three generations of which family have won Oscars?
Answer: Huston

Question: In which constituency was Chris Huhne elected as MP in 2005?
Answer: Eastleigh

Question: Which Liberal Democrat MP succeeded Chris Huhne as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in 2012?
Answer: Ed Davey

Question: Which chemical element is named after the Roman for Paris?
Answer: Lutetium

Question: Which chemical element is named after an asteroid, now also classified as a dwarf planet?
Answer: Cerium

Question: Which is the largest lake wholly in Canada?
Answer: Great Bear Lake

Question: Who is credited with inventing the bifocal lens?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Question: Where in North Carolina did the Wright Brothers first flight take place?
Answer: Kitty Hawk

Question: Which is the largest lake in Africa?
Answer: Lake Victoria

Question: St Aidan's, John Snow and Ustinov are colleges at which University?
Answer: Durham

Question: 'Lungs' is the 2009 debut album by which indie rock band?
Answer: Florence And The Machine

Question: Which American author, born in Des Moines, Iowa, was Chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011?
Answer: Bill Bryson

Question: 'Sigh No More' is the 2009 debut album by which indie folk quartet?
Answer: Mumford & Sons

Question: What judicial office does Lord Dyson hold?
Answer: Master Of The Rolls

Question: Which Master of the Rolls produced the 1963 report into the Profumo Affair?
Answer: Lord Denning

Question: Which team won the 2012 Baseball World Series?
Answer: San Francisco Giants

Question: What is the real name of Engelbert Humperdinck?
Answer: Arnold George (Gerry) Dorsey

Question: The American TV series 'Elementary', featuring Sherlock Holmes in a modern setting, is set in which city?
Answer: New York

Question: What is the real name of Doris Day?
Answer: Doris Kappelhoff

Question: What is the English title of the Verdi opera `Un Ballo in Maschera'?
Answer: A Masked Ball

Question: What is the English title of the Stravinsky ballet 'Le Sacre du Printemps'?
Answer: The Rite Of Spring

Question: The original TV series 'CSI' was set in which American city?
Answer: Las Vegas

Question: Which family of garden birds has the Latin name Paridae?
Answer: Tits

Question: Who was the captain of the losing American team in the 2012 Ryder Cup?
Answer: Davis Love Iii

Question: King Richard III succeeded which King?
Answer: Edward V

Question: Which bird was adopted as Britain's National Bird in the 1960s?
Answer: Robin

Question: Which golfer sank the putt which ensured that Europe retained (not won) the Ryder Cup in 2012?
Answer: Martin Kaymer

Question: Who was the first UK winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question: What is the name of the Royal Horticultural Society's garden in Surrey?
Answer: Wisley

Question: Who was the British Foreign Secretary at the outbreak of World War II?
Answer: Lord Halifax

Question: How long, in feet, is a tennis court?
Answer: 78

Question: In which British city would you find Shrub Hill railway station?
Answer: Worcester

Question: Which Jane Austen novel begins 'The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex'?
Answer: Sense And Sensibility

Question: Which former England cricket captain died in December 2012?
Answer: Tony Greig

Question: In which British city would you find Snow Hill Railway Station?
Answer: Birmingham

Question: What trade does a cordwainer follow?
Answer: A Shoemaker Or Leather Worker

Question: In which war did the battle of Coronel take place?
Answer: World War I

Question: Give a year in the life of the artist Anthony van Dyck.
Answer: 1599-1641

Question: Which cricket journalist and former Test Match Special broadcaster died in January this year?
Answer: Christopher Martin-Jenkins

Question: Who wrote the novel 'The Cement Garden'?
Answer: Ian Mcewan

Question: Wb is the symbol for which SI derived unit?
Answer: Weber

Question: Larkspur is another name for which perennial plants?
Answer: Delphiniums

Question: Who was the father of the disciples James and John?
Answer: Zebedee

Question: Bq is the symbol for which SI derived unit?
Answer: Becquerel

Question: What is the name of the monument in the New Forest which is supposedly at the site of the death of King William II?
Answer: Rufus Stone

Question: The wife of which Egyptian captain of the guard attempted to seduce Joseph and then claimed that he had attempted to rape her?
Answer: Potiphar

Question: 'Walk the Line' was a film about which singer?
Answer: Johnny Cash

Question: The Rye House Plot was against which monarch?
Answer: Charles Ii

Question: What do Americans call a frying pan?
Answer: Skillet

Question: Which actor played George Cowley in the ITV series 'The Professionals'?
Answer: Gordon Jackson

Question: What is the surname of the two brothers who won gold and bronze medals in the Triathlon at the
Answer: 2012 Olympic Games?

Question: Which Tamla Motown group had a hit in 1966 with '(I'm A) Road Runner'?
Answer: Junior Walker And The All Stars

Question: Which play that premiered in 1956, featured the character Jimmy Porter?
Answer: Look Back In Anger

Question: Which 20th century conflict had the code name Operation Corporate?
Answer: The Falklands War

Question: The eighteenth century Treaty of Utrecht was signed by the belligerents of which war?
Answer: The War Of The Spanish Succession

Question: In which year did two jumbo jets collide at Tenerife airport, killing 583 people?
Answer: 1977

Question: The Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended which war?
Answer: The War Of 1812

Question: Carried out on May 2nd 2011, what was the objective of Operation Neptune Spear?
Answer: The Killing Of Osama Bin Laden

Question: Newcastle United striker Demba Ba plays international football for which country?
Answer: Senegal

Question: Who composed 'The Little Russian Symphony'?
Answer: Tchaikovsky

Question: Which actress played Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in five films?
Answer: Margaret Rutherford

Question: In which decade did the Queens portrait first appear on Bank of England bank notes?
Answer: 1960s

Question: What was the former name of the African city of Harare?
Answer: Salisbury

Question: Who wrote the 1927 novel 'To the Lighthouse'?
Answer: Virginia Woolf

Question: Who was the author of the 1938 novel 'Scoop'?
Answer: Evelyn Waugh

Question: Droitwich and Kidderminster are towns in which English county?
Answer: Worcestershire

Question: In which year was the fifty pence piece first issued?
Answer: 1969

Question: Who is the male star of the 2000 film 'The Beach'?
Answer: Leonardo Dicaprio

Question: Who was the only US President to remain a bachelor?
Answer: James Buchanan

Question: Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Athena?
Answer: Minerva

Question: Which Charles Dickens novel follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather?
Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop

Question: What was the first name of Italian statesman and writer Machiavelli?
Answer: Niccolo

Question: Queens Park Rangers defender Jose Bosingwa plays international football for which country?
Answer: Portugal

Question: The song 'Memory', is a show tune from which musical?
Answer: Cats

Question: Ciampino Airport serves which European city?
Answer: Rome