Question: How many triple word score squares are there on a traditional Scrabble board?
Answer: 8

Question: A representation of whom is the mascot used on the Queen's car when she is in England?
Answer: St George

Question: Which British Prime Minister was the last to have been born in the nineteenth century?
Answer: Harold Macmillan

Question: Who wrote the incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt, first performed in 1876?
Answer: Edvard Grieg

Question: Whose first solo UK number 1 single was I'm Still Waiting in August 1971?
Answer: Diana Ross

Question: In which Paris square would you find an obelisk from the temple of Rameses II at Thebes?
Answer: Place de la Concorde

Question: Which metallic element, number 56 in the periodic table, takes its name from the Greek for "heavy"?
Answer: Barium

Question: What is the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature?
Answer: Kelvin

Question: In 2008, which famous actor wowed critics in Stratford with his Hamlet, but had to pull out of the London production?
Answer: David Tennant

Question: Who was the Premier League's top goal scorer for three consecutive seasons between 1994 and 1997?
Answer: Alan Shearer

Question: Who is the BBC's political editor?
Answer: Nick Robinson

Question: What is the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba?
Answer: Winnipeg

Question: Who set Cardinal Newman's poem The Dream of Gerontius to music in his 1900 oratorio?
Answer: Edward Elgar

Question: Who captained the USA to victory in the Ryder Cup in 2008?
Answer: Paul Azinger

Question: Which actress holds the record for the most Oscar nominations?
Answer: Meryl Streep

Question: Who was on the English throne in 1600?
Answer: Elizabeth I

Question: In which book do Mr Jones and The Battle of the Cowshed appear?
Answer: Animal Farm

Question: In which book does Michael Henchard auction his wife and child?
Answer: The Mayor of Casterbridge

Question: Which play has tramps Estragon and Vladimir as the main characters?
Answer: Waiting for Godot

Question: Which Shakespeare play features Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: Who painted 'The Blue Boy' in 1770?
Answer: Thomas Gainsborough

Question: Who shot Lee Harvey Oswald in November 1963?
Answer: Jack Ruby

Question: Who did Sirhan Sirhan assassinate in 1968?
Answer: Robert Kennedy

Question: In which US state is Buffalo?
Answer: New York

Question: In which decade was the Eiffel Tower completed?
Answer: 1880s

Question: In which decade was Blackpool Tower completed?
Answer: 1890s

Question: In which country is Aconcagua located?
Answer: Argentina

Question: In which country is Cotopaxi located?
Answer: Ecuador

Question: Who wrote 'The Trout Quintet' in 1819?
Answer: (Franz) Schubert

Question: Who wrote the music for the 1957 musical 'West Side Story'?
Answer: Leonard Bernstein

Question: La Giralda is the bell tower of which Spanish cathedral?
Answer: Seville

Question: What type of creature are Krill?
Answer: Shrimp-like crustaceans

Question: What creature gives birth to a hinny?
Answer: A donkey

Question: To which saint is the Cathedral in Red Square dedicated?
Answer: St Basil

Question: Which club won the UEFA Champions League Final the year before Liverpool's win in Istanbul in 2005?
Answer: Porto

Question: Which river comprised the boundary between Hades and Earth in Greek mythology?
Answer: Styx

Question: Who was the ferryman over the Styx?
Answer: Charon

Question: Who wrote the operetta 'Orpheus in the Underworld'?
Answer: Offenbach

Question: What popular name is given to the Infernal Galop from Act 2 of 'Orpheus in the Underworld'?
Answer: The Can Can

Question: In which country is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded?
Answer: Norway

Question: Who wrote the 1986 Booker Prize winning novel 'The Old Devils?
Answer: Kingsley Amis

Question: Which female politician was assassinated in Pakistan in December 2007?
Answer: Benazir Bhutto

Question: Which isotope of carbon is used in radiocarbon dating?
Answer: C14

Question: An isotope of which metal was used to poison the Russian Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006?
Answer: Polonium

Question: After the Latin name for which modern European capital is the element Hafnium named?
Answer: Copenhagen

Question: After the Latin name for which modern European capital is the element Lutetium named?
Answer: Paris

Question: Who wrote the words to Auld Lang Syne in 1788?
Answer: Robbie Bums

Question: Who wrote the music for Rule Britannia?
Answer: Thomas Arne

Question: Who was British Prime Minister when the Battle of Waterloo was fought?
Answer: Lord Liverpool

Question: For which king was Handel's Water Music composed?
Answer: George I

Question: Which 1942 film features the line "Play it Sam, play 'As time goes by'"?
Answer: Casablanca

Question: Who designed the Bridgewater Canal, opened in 1761?
Answer: James Brindley

Question: Who designed the Menai Suspension Bridge, completed in 1826?
Answer: Thomas Telford

Question: What is the main constituent of pewter?
Answer: Tin

Question: Who was defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685?
Answer: Duke of Monmouth

Question: Which great battle between the Greeks and Persians took place in 490BC?
Answer: Battle of Marathon

Question: In which port did The Herald of Free Enterprise capsize in 1987?
Answer: Zeebrugge

Question: What was the name of the VLCC tanker that split in two off the coast of Brittany in 1978?
Answer: Amoco Cadiz

Question: What nationality was the World War 2 military leader General Sikorski?
Answer: Polish

Question: What nationality was Che Guevara?
Answer: Argentine

Question: Which English football league team plays home matches at Edgeley Park?
Answer: Stockport County FC

Question: In which county is Ascot?
Answer: Berkshire

Question: Who said his forenames were 'Anthony Aloysius St. John'?
Answer: Tony Hancock

Question: What was the name of the 14 year old boy whom Winnie Mandela was cleared of killing?
Answer: Stompie Moeketsi

Question: Name the American TV detective played by Gene Barry who had a chauffeur-driven Rolls in a 1960s series?
Answer: Amos Burke

Question: In the comic-strip "Batman and Robin" what is the Boy Wonder's real name?
Answer: Dick Grayson

Question: Which ship, during the Falklands conflict was nicknamed 'The Great White Whale'?
Answer: Canberra

Question: Which is the only disease that has been eradicated by man?
Answer: Smallpox

Question: Shirley Temple Black became US Ambassador to which African Country in 1974?
Answer: Ghana

Question: Which word is used, familiarly, by an Australian for 'food'?
Answer: Tucker

Question: Give one of the forenames of 'Lenin'?
Answer: Vladimir Ilyich

Question: According to the Old Testament, who was the first person to have a 'navel'?
Answer: Cain

Question: Which was the first novel written by Charles Dickens?
Answer: The Pickwick Papers

Question: In which 1950s TV series was the leading character's name Peter Brady?
Answer: The Invisible Man

Question: What name is given to a mixture of coffee, steamed milk and powdered chocolate?
Answer: Cappuccino

Question: What kind of creature's largest species is called a 'Goliath'?
Answer: Frog

Question: Which American State has the name of a Red Indian nation as its capital?
Answer: Wyoming

Question: According to Roman mythology, who was the father of the God Jupiter?
Answer: Saturn

Question: What is the maximum number of missiles that a 'Polaris' submarine could carry?
Answer: Sixteen

Question: What is the favourite form of greeting given to Royalty, VIPs etc, from a Maori?
Answer: Sticking Out Of Tongue

Question: Which artist painted 'The Birth of Venus'?
Answer: Sandro Botticelli

Question: According to Greek mythology, who gave birth to the winged horse 'Pegasus'?
Answer: Medusa

Question: Who starred in, wrote the screenplay and directed the film 'The Railway Children'?
Answer: Lionel Jeffries