Question: Name the smallest province in Canada.
Answer: Prince Edward Island

Question: In 1942, which American painted 'Nighthawks'?
Answer: Edward Hopper

Question: Name either of Edinburgh's Premier League football teams.
Answer: HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN or HIBERNIAN

Question: Maudie Littlehampton appeared in whose pocket cartoons in the Daily Express?
Answer: Osbert Lancaster

Question: What name is given to a golden horse with a white mane and tail?
Answer: Palomino

Question: Who was Poet Laureate during World War 1?
Answer: Robert Bridges

Question: Who founded the Theatre Union in 1936 and the Theatre Workshop in 1945 (both in Manchester)?
Answer: Joan Littlewood

Question: In Greek mythology who fell from Pegasus as he attempted to fly to Mount Olympus, the realm of the gods?
Answer: Bellerophon

Question: In the books about Tin Tin - the dog Snowy is known by what name in the original French?
Answer: Milou

Question: Name the theatre in Scarborough associated with Alan Ayckborn.
Answer: STEPHEN JOSEPH Theatre

Question: Victoria is the capital of which Canadian Province?
Answer: British Columbia

Question: Whose autobiography, published in late 2009, was called 'Stirred But Not Shaken'?
Answer: Keith Floyd

Question: Who was the maternal grandfather of Prince Rupert?
Answer: James 1

Question: The line 'There's a girl in New York City who calls herself the human trampoline' comes from which song?
Answer: Graceland

Question: Who bowled Don Bradman for a duck in his last Test Innings?
Answer: Eric Hollies

Question: In which 1953 film does the song 'Secret Love' first appear?
Answer: Calamity Jane

Question: Johnston McCulley created which character in 1919? The character became famous in comics, books, film and on TV.
Answer: Zorro

Question: Which king appointed John Dryden as the first official Poet Laureate?
Answer: Charles Ii

Question: Who shot PM Spencer Perceval?
Answer: John Bellingham

Question: Myron Bolitar appears in a number of thrillers by whom?
Answer: Harlan Coben

Question: Which London park shares its name with two football grounds?
Answer: St JAMES PARK

Question: Which comedian's catchphrase was 'You Lucky People?
Answer: Tommy Trinder

Question: What was the name of the comet which crashed into Jupiter in 1994?
Answer: Shoemaker-Levy

Question: Which country left the Commonwealth in 1972 and rejoined in 1989?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: In Communist Russia, what name was given to a worker who worked too hard with no market for what was produced?
Answer: Stakhnovite

Question: What is the world's heaviest seed?
Answer: Coco De Mer

Question: Who became the first American F1 champion in 1961?
Answer: Phil Hill

Question: Lucie Manette is the heroine of which Dickens Novel?
Answer: A TALE of TWO CITIES

Question: In USA what is a student in a second year of study called?
Answer: Sophomore

Question: Who was buried at Grytviken, South Georgia in 1922?
Answer: Ernest SHACKLETON

Question: The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing is also known as what?
Answer: Shakers

Question: What horse race might originally have been called the Bunbury Stakes?
Answer: The DERBY

Question: Which is the only moon in the solar system with atmosphere?
Answer: Titan

Question: 'Bumper' is the alternative name for which kind of horse race?
Answer: FLAT RACE ridden under National Hunt rules

Question: In Italian sport, what name is given to the fanatical groups of supporters, particularly of the Ferrari motor racing team?
Answer: Tifosi

Question: Glossitis affects which part of the human body?
Answer: Tongue

Question: Compounds of mercury and a metal are known as what?
Answer: Amalgam

Question: Who was sent as Ambassador to Outer Mongolia in 1957 by Khrushchev?
Answer: Molotov

Question: In 1911 who led the first successful expedition to reach the South Pole?
Answer: Roald Amundsen

Question: Thomas Hardy used what name for Oxford in his novels?
Answer: Christminster

Question: Which fruit has the Latin name Fragaria?
Answer: Strawberry

Question: What do we call what the Americans call a thumb tack?
Answer: Drawing Pin

Question: What is the more common name for the group of rebels who called themselves 'The Fists of Righteous Harmony' at the turn of the 20th century?
Answer: Boxers

Question: What is the Chinese art of placement called?
Answer: Feng Shui

Question: In 1450, Jack Cade led a rebellion against which King?
Answer: Henry Vi

Question: The 1940s US fighter plane the 'Bearcat' was built by which company?
Answer: Grumman

Question: The 1997 play 'Gross Indecency' by Moises Kaufman was about the three trials of which man in the late 19th century?
Answer: Oscar Wilde

Question: Name the film based on the Noel Coward play "Still Life", the theme music is Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 7 and the railway station featured in the film was Carnforth?
Answer: Brief Encounter

Question: Which politician coined the phrase "A week is a long time in politics"?
Answer: Harold Wilson

Question: Which actress of the early screen days was known as 'America's Sweetheart?
Answer: Mary Pickford

Question: In astronomy what name is given to a cloud of gas and dust in space?
Answer: Nebula

Question: If you were celebrating your coral wedding anniversary, for how many years have you been married?
Answer: 35

Question: The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration in Britain, what is the highest civilian decoration?
Answer: George Cross

Question: From which film does the song 'How are things in Glocca Morra?' come?
Answer: Finian'S Rainbow

Question: What is the former name of 'Belize'?
Answer: British Honduras

Question: In which year did Frank Sinatra die after a long illness?
Answer: 1998

Question: The cha-cha-cha is a dance developed from the mambo in 1950 in which country?
Answer: Cuba

Question: Which Eire county is surrounded on three sides by the Atlantic Ocean and has Lifford as the county town?
Answer: Donegal

Question: Give a year in the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh.
Answer: 1853-90

Question: Which invention in 1891 made Whitcomb L Judson famous?
Answer: Zip Fastener

Question: Veal Escalope is veal fried in what?
Answer: Breadcrumbs

Question: Moorfield's Hospital in London is Britain's leading hospital specialising in what?
Answer: Eye Injuries

Question: Who was the oldest 100 meters Olympic champion when he won in 1980?
Answer: Alan Wells

Question: Who bought the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's house in Paris in 1986?
Answer: Mohamad-Al-Fayed

Question: Which vegetable has varieties called 'The Student' and 'Tender and True'?
Answer: Parsnip

Question: Name the film infamous for a controversial scene where a knickerless Sharon Stone crosses her legs?
Answer: Basic Instinct

Question: Which politician coined the phrase 'The unacceptable face of capitalism'?
Answer: Edward Heath

Question: Which former TV personality committed suicide in her bathroom in October 1980, one week after being found guilty of shoplifting?
Answer: Lady Isobel Barnett

Question: Which famous person was known as 'The Little Sparrow'?
Answer: Edith Piaf

Question: In astronomy what name is given to a star that flares up to many times its normal brilliance then fades back to obscurity?
Answer: Nova

Question: What is the capital city of Sierra Leone?
Answer: Freetown

Question: What do the Americans call what we call a receptionist?
Answer: Desk Clerk

Question: Name the novel in which the main characters Leopold and Molly Bloom live in Dublin in 1904?
Answer: Ulysses

Question: Which European country does not have an army?
Answer: Liechtenstein

Question: In the Bible who was the father of King David?
Answer: Jesse

Question: Who was Earl Spencer's best man who was jailed for fraud?
Answer: Darius Guppy

Question: The tango is a dance originated in 1920 in which Country?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Which Eire county in the province of Leinster has the county town of Trim and has Tara as its main attraction?
Answer: Meath