Question: How many square inches are there in one square foot?
Answer: 144

Question: The Spanish called them 'Moors', but what name was used by Europeans in the Middle Ages for people of Arab origin?
Answer: 'Saracens'

Question: Which is Scotland's oldest football club?
Answer: Queens Park

Question: In geometry, what is the name given to an angle greater than 180 degrees and less than 360 degrees?
Answer: Reflex

Question: Who was the first English footballer to be sent off in a full England competitive match?
Answer: ALAN MULLERY (v Yugoslavia, 1968)

Question: What name was given to the Spanish invaders of South America?
Answer: 'Conquistadors'

Question: In which town are the HQ of the Sussex police?
Answer: Lewes

Question: Rastafarianism is based on the ideas of which former Jamaican?
Answer: Marcus Garvey

Question: What is the official language of Mozambique?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: In which city are the HQ of the West Mercia Constabulary?
Answer: Worcester

Question: 'Terrible Tudors' and 'Awesome Egyptians' were the first two titles in which series of illustrated books?
Answer: 'Horrible Histories'

Question: In which country is the village of Ytterby, after which four chemical elements are named?
Answer: Sweden

Question: Which island is the burial place of many Scottish kings and Labour leader John Smith?
Answer: Iona

Question: The film 'Murder, She Said' is based on which Agatha Christie book in which 'Miss Marple' witnesses a passenger on a train being strangled?
Answer: '4.50 From Paddington'

Question: Which act represented Ireland in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: 'Jedward'

Question: The FINA World Championships contain five sports - diving, swimming, open water swimming, synchronised swimming and which other?
Answer: Water Polo

Question: Who is the new judge on 'Dragon's Den'?
Answer: Hilary Devey

Question: In which city is the largest football stadium in Germany, home to the 2010-2011 Bundesliga champions?
Answer: Dortmund

Question: Which lady wrote the book 'Chequers: The Prime Minister's Country House And Its History'?
Answer: Norma Major

Question: Which Briton won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine?
Answer: Robert Edwards

Question: What shape is each of the faces of an icosahedron?
Answer: TRIANGULAR (accept triangle)

Question: In which opera does 'Turiddu', a young villager return to Sicily to find his fiancee, 'Lola', has married 'Alfio', the prosperous village teamster?
Answer: 'Cavalleria Rusticana'

Question: At which circuit in 1955 did Stirling Moss win his first British Grand Prix, the race's debut at that circuit?
Answer: Aintree

Question: Which actor has replaced Bill Paterson in the role of Head of the CPS in 'Law and Order: UK'?
Answer: Peter Davison

Question: What is the surname of Marcus who formed a folk rock band in 2007 with Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall, and Ted Dwane?
Answer: MUMFORD (Mumford & Sons)

Question: What is the length in metres, of the course in Olympic Rowing events?
Answer: 2000

Question: Who wrote the book, now a successful play, 'War Horse'?
Answer: Michael Morpurgo

Question: In chemistry organic compounds contain which element?
Answer: Carbon

Question: Who lost his seat as MP for Enfield Southgate at the 1997 General Election?
Answer: Michael Portillo

Question: Which Italian region has the largest population?
Answer: Lombardy

Question: Complete the name of the folk band 'Noah and the.....'?
Answer: '.. Whale'

Question: Which sport, last held in 1924, will return to the 2016 Olympics in modified form?
Answer: RUGBY UNION (as Rugby Sevens)

Question: When booking tickets online it is often necessary to type letters or digits from a distorted image. This is a test to ensure that the response is by a human rather than a computer. What is the name of this test?
Answer: CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart)

Question: Which 1996/97 TV drama had characters 'Anna', 'Milly', 'Ferdy', 'Egg' and 'Miles'?
Answer: 'This Life'

Question: Who wrote the play 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstein Are Dead'?
Answer: Tom Stoppard

Question: Which isotope of Carbon is used in 'Carbon Dating'?
Answer: Carbon 14

Question: Who was the leader of the LiberaL Democrats at the 1997 General Election?
Answer: Paddy Ashdown

Question: Which Italian region is surrounded by four others - Lazio, Tuscany, Marche and Abruzzo?
Answer: Umbria

Question: Which badly behaved children's character was created by Francesca Simon, hates his brother 'Perfect Peter' and has an arch enemy 'Moody Margaret'?
Answer: 'Horrid Henry'

Question: Which chemical element is named after the Latin for Copenhagen where it was discovered?
Answer: Hafnium

Question: Who led the forces of the British East India Company at the 1757 Battle of Plassey?
Answer: Robert Clive

Question: The largest Scottish island is Lewis and ...... Which name completes the title?
Answer: Harris

Question: Who has been the editor of the Daily Mail since 1992?
Answer: Paul Dacre

Question: Who played 'Edward Beddoes', the victim's valet in the 1974 film 'Murder On The Orient Express'?
Answer: John Gielgud

Question: In which Asian city were the 2011 FINA World Championships held?
Answer: Shanghai

Question: Who has twice been Prime Minister of Italy - from 1996 to 1998 and from 2006 to 2008?
Answer: Romano Prodi

Question: In which southern English city is the Spinnaker Tower?
Answer: Portsmouth

Question: Which Dickens novel features a Cricket match between 'All-Muggleton' and 'Dingley Dell'?
Answer: 'The Pickwick Papers'

Question: What is the name of a triangle in which all the sides are of different lengths?
Answer: Scalene

Question: In which opera does the eponymous heroine love a painter 'Mario Cavaradossi'?
Answer: 'Tosca'

Question: Stirling Moss also won the next British Grand prix held at Aintree, in 1957, to give which British team its first Grand Prix victory?
Answer: Vanwall

Question: Which local radio station broadcasts from Southport on 107.9 FM?
Answer: Dune 107.9

Question: Who plays ex-policeman 'Gerry Standing' in 'New Tricks'?
Answer: Denis Waterman

Question: How many questions must be answered correct to win £1 million on 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'?
Answer: 12

Question: Who did the first Duke of Northumberland employ to landscape the parkland adjoining Alnwick Castle, in order to create Alnwick Garden?
Answer: Lancelot 'Capability' Brown

Question: Which Football League club shares its home ground with non-league Kingstonian FC?
Answer: Afc Wimbledon

Question: In which decade was Saint John of Arc burned at the stake?
Answer: 1430's (1431)

Question: In which Commonwealth country is 'Fiordland National Park'?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Which Nobel Prize has been won by Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman?
Answer: ECONOMIC SCIENCES (accept Economics)

Question: Which team won the Football League Championship in 2010-2011?
Answer: Queens Park Rangers

Question: Which Dickens novel is set in 'Coketown'?
Answer: 'Hard Times'

Question: Who was Home Secretary from 1979 to 1983?
Answer: William Whitelaw

Question: In which month is Battle of Britain Day?
Answer: September

Question: In which month is Lady Day?
Answer: March

Question: Who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1979 to 1983?
Answer: Geoffrey Howe

Question: Which football team finished bottom of the Premier League in 2010-2011?
Answer: West Ham United

Question: What is the county town of Derbyshire?
Answer: Matlock

Question: In which country was former BBC reporter Rageh Omar born?
Answer: Somalia

Question: Which company produces the 'Wind' car model?
Answer: Renault

Question: What is the county town of Shropshire?
Answer: Shrewsbury

Question: The 'White Horse Bridge' leads to which English sports stadium?
Answer: Wembley

Question: 'Adria Airways' is based in which EU country?
Answer: Slovenia

Question: Spargel is the German name for which vegetable?
Answer: Asparagus