Question: Which Dickens novel is subtitled "The Parish Boy's Progress"?
Answer: Oliver Twist

Question: The lack of which vitamin caused scurvy in the early days of the navy?
Answer: Vitamin C

Question: The Navajo tribe live mainly in three US states, name one of them?
Answer: New Mexico, Arizona, Utah

Question: Who succeeded to the English throne in 1422 at the age of nine months?
Answer: Henry Vi

Question: Which TV series featured Frank Drebin and Al, a seven foot tall cop whose face never appeared because he was too tall to fit on the screen?
Answer: Police Squad

Question: What was the main American tank of World War II?
Answer: Sherman

Question: What do the Russians call Moscow?
Answer: Moskva

Question: If, in an American diner, you ordered 'Eve With the Lid On', what would you recieve?
Answer: Apple Pie

Question: Which family holds the hereditary right to the office of Earl Marshal of England?
Answer: Howard Family

Question: Which was the major battle of the Franco-Prissian war?
Answer: Sedan

Question: Which musical features the song 'Let the sun shine in'?
Answer: Hair

Question: Who was responsible for inventing dynamite?
Answer: (Dr Alfred B) NOBEL

Question: In which city is La scala opera house?
Answer: Milan

Question: Which Bavarian town stages a wagner festival every July and August?
Answer: Bayreuth

Question: King Stephen (1135-54) was the only king of which royal house?
Answer: Blois

Question: Which American TV comedy series gave us the line "Confused? You will be"?
Answer: Soap

Question: First used in America, what name is given to a pub or restaurant that combines seafood and meat, such as steak and scampi?
Answer: SURF 'n' TURF

Question: The garden plant syringa is commonly known as what?
Answer: Lilac

Question: Name the last astronaut to have walked on the moon.
Answer: (Eugene) CERNAN (1927)

Question: Name the only bachelor President of the U.S.A.
Answer: James Buchanan

Question: Who siad "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"?
Answer: Groucho Marx

Question: Against which background is Dickens' novel 'A tale of two cities' based?
Answer: The French Revolution

Question: What is the meaning of the Latin phrase 'Modus Vivendi'?
Answer: Way Of Living

Question: In which of the rooms of Buckingham Palace are investitures held?
Answer: Ball Room

Question: Where in the human body is the cochlea?
Answer: In The Ear

Question: Which "Games" were first held in Buenos Aires in 1951 and then every four years?
Answer: The Pan-American Games

Question: Who is the only U.S. President to have been divorced?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: What name is given to a number system with base sixteen?
Answer: Hexadecimal

Question: The Prairie Dog is a member of which family of rodents?
Answer: Squirrel

Question: How many inches are there in a Hand, the unit used to measure the height of a horse?
Answer: Four

Question: In which English county is Barnstaple?
Answer: Devon

Question: From what would you fear if you suffered from Gymnophobia?
Answer: Nudity

Question: Which five letter word links the surname of an England cricketer who lived from 1922 to 1986 and a British airline entrepreneur who lived from 1922 to 2006 ?
Answer: Laker

Question: Who was President Of The USA at the time of the Wall Street Crash ?
Answer: Herbert HOOVER

Question: Which famous novel, published in 1719 does the title character describe his home as "The Island Of Despair" ?
Answer: Robinson Crusoe

Question: Which famous heavenly body shares it’s name with the second Astronomer Royal who held the position from 1720 to 1742 ?
Answer: Halley'S Comet

Question: Which small island, situated in the middle of the South Atlantic was named after the day it was discovered in 1503 by Portuguese navigator Afonso De Albuquerque ?
Answer: Ascension

Question: Which famous film actor, singer, music composer and author provided the voice of Shere Khan the tiger in the 1967 Disney animated film The Jungle Book ?
Answer: George Sanders

Question: Which North American State has the nickname The Peach State ?
Answer: Georgia

Question: What is the first Christian name of ex British Prime Minister Gordon Brown ?
Answer: James

Question: Moses, Muriel, Mollie, Benjamin, Mr Whymper, Squealer and Minimus are all characters that appear in which famous novel of 1945 ?
Answer: Animal Farm

Question: Having a radius of 586 kilometres, what is the name of the largest satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto ?
Answer: Charon

Question: Which island, situated in the Canadian territory of Nanavut was discovered by Europeans in 1576 and is named after an English navigator who died in 1622 ?
Answer: Baffin Island

Question: Which ex Carry On star provided the voice of Mallymkun The Dormouse in the 2010 computer animated Disney film Alice In Wonderland ?
Answer: Barbarba Windsor

Question: Which North American State has the nickname The Badger State ?
Answer: Wisconsin

Question: Which astronaut, part of the Apollo 12 mission on November 19th 1969 became the 4th person to walk on the moon after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Pete Conrad ?
Answer: Alan BEAN

Question: Which astronaut, part of the Apollo 17 mission on December 11th 1972 became the last of two men to walk on the moon along with fellow astronaut Harrison Schmitt ?
Answer: Eugene CERNAN

Question: Which London theatre has the same name as a silvery, white metal with the atomic number 46 ?
Answer: Palladium

Question: Which chemical element, a strong, light metal with the atomic number 22 takes it’s name from the Greek for "First Sons On Earth" ?
Answer: Titanium

Question: 23 out of the first 24 highest peaks in England lie in the Lake District with Scafell Pike being the highest. Which is the peak that does not lie in the Lake District, it is the 11th highest in England at 893 metres in height and is situated in the North Pennines ?
Answer: Cross Fell

Question: What is the name of the all female Russian punk band that in 2012 were jailed for two Years for staging an anti Vladimir Putin protest in a Moscow Cathedral ?
Answer: Pussy Riot

Question: An incident that occurred on November 19th 2002, in which European capital city did Pop star Michael Jackson create huge controversy when he dangled a baby from the fifth Floor of a hotel bedroom window ?
Answer: Berlin

Question: Which Gilbert And Sullivan opera set in Asia featured the famous saying "Let the punishment fit the crime" ?
Answer: The Mikado

Question: In which children’s comic did the character "Roy Of The Rovers" first appear in September 1954 ?
Answer: The Tiger

Question: Elected on October 14th 2011, what is the name of the current Secretary of state for defence ?
Answer: Phillip HAMMOND

Question: Introduced in 2006, What two word term was given to the optical disc storing medium, designed to be the successor to DVD, offering a much larger capacity and picture quality ?
Answer: Bluray

Question: Which Asian country’s flag consists of a single yellow star on a red background ?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: Ex US President George H W Bush was born in 1924, the same year as which other still living ex US President ?
Answer: Jimmy Carter

Question: Elected on September 4th 2012, who is the current Leader of the House Of Commons ?
Answer: Andrew LANSLEY

Question: Apart from it’s current presenter Kirsty Young, who has been the only regular female presenter of the radio show Desert Island Discs, doing so from 1988 to 2006 ?
Answer: Sue Lawley

Question: Which Gilbert And Sullivan opera that was introduced in 1889 opens to 24 Venetian young maidens binding white and red roses in posies to give to Marco and Giuseppe Palmeiri two persons that they all love ?
Answer: The Gondoliers

Question: Which Asian country’s flag consists of a large red disc on a green background ?
Answer: Bangladesh

Question: Ex US President Gerald Ford was born in 1913, the same year as which other ex US president, now deceased ?
Answer: Rixhard Nixon