Question: Which rapper is the husband of R and B superstar singer, Beyoncé?
Answer: Jay Z

Question: Born in 1457, who was the last English King to be born in Wales?
Answer: Henry Vii

Question: What is the name of the US financier jailed for 150 years for fraud in June 2009?
Answer: Bernard Madoff

Question: Which chef was the winner of the 2009 show, "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here"?
Answer: GINO d'ACAMPO

Question: Which TV programme is advertised with the slogan, "Daily workouts from Down Under"?
Answer: Aerobics, Oz Style

Question: What is the highest number on the Beaufort scale of wind measurement?
Answer: 17

Question: The film Kes is based on which book by the author Barry Hines?
Answer: A Kestrel for a Knave

Question: The Cato Street Conspiracy was a plot to kill which British Prime Minister?
Answer: Lord Liverpool

Question: Which car manufacturer's name is taken from a divinity exalted by Zororaster?
Answer: Mazda

Question: Kungsholmen, Norrmalm, Sodermalm and Ostermalm are the four districts of which European city?
Answer: Stockholm

Question: On TV who played the detective Frank Cannon?
Answer: William Conrad

Question: Which band's name was inspired by a novel by Herman Hesse?
Answer: Steppenwolf

Question: Which English football league club is based in Cleethorpes?
Answer: Grimsby Town

Question: Frenchman Henri Mouhot rediscovered which Cambodian religious monument in 1860?
Answer: Angkor Wat

Question: Moshe Dayan, Danger Mouse and James Joyce were all noted for wearing what?
Answer: Eyepatch

Question: Which actor played dodgy author Mel Hutchwright in Coronation Street?
Answer: Sir Ian McKellen

Question: The Jordanian capital Amman formerly had the same name as which American city?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: Traditionally made for agricultural workers, which elongated suet crust dumpling has a meat filling at one end and a jam one at the other?
Answer: Bedfordshire Clanger

Question: Which company originally produced the 'Matchbox' series of die cast toys?
Answer: Lesney

Question: First used for test match cricket on 10 November 2000, the Bangabandhu National Stadium is in which country?
Answer: Bangladesh

Question: In the Disney film Snow White, what is it that the Seven Dwarfs mine?
Answer: Diamonds

Question: Meles meles is the Latin name for which British mammal?
Answer: Badger

Question: Which song was a hit for Rose Royce in 1978 and for Jimmy Nail in 1985?
Answer: Love Don't Live Here Anymore

Question: What is the derived SI unit of energy?
Answer: Joule

Question: From which children's book did Pink Floyd take the title of their 1967 album 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn'?
Answer: Wind in the Willows

Question: What name for the Internet, the World Wide Web etc was popularised by fiction author William Gibson in his novel Neuromancer?
Answer: Cyberspace

Question: Anna Smashnova played which sport professionally until 2007?
Answer: Tennis

Question: What is the highest number on the Mercalli scale of earthquake measurement?
Answer: 12

Question: The film Apocalypse Now is based on which novella by the author Joseph Conrad?
Answer: Heart of Darkness

Question: The Ridolfi Plot planned the assassination of which British monarch?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth I

Question: Which car manufacturer's name is Latin for roll?
Answer: Volvo

Question: Which band was named after the 18th century agriculturalist credited with inventing the seed drill?
Answer: Jethro Tull

Question: Englishman Sir Stamford Raffles rediscovered which Javanese Buddhist stupa in 1815?
Answer: Borobodur Temple

Question: Which comedian donned a ginger wig to play wannabee romeo Eric Gartside in Coronation Street?
Answer: Peter Kay

Question: Napoli is the capital of which Italian region?
Answer: Campania

Question: Which American city is named for the future King James II of England?
Answer: New York or Albany

Question: Which company was founded by David Quayle and Richard Block in Southampton in 1969?
Answer: B & Q

Question: Originating in the Scottish town of Forfar, which pie is made from minced beef, and sometimes onions, in shortcrust pastry folded into a semi-circular shape?
Answer: Bridie

Question: ma is the internet suffix for which country?
Answer: Morocco

Question: Meccano produced which range of die cast toys?
Answer: Dinky

Question: In the Latin American version of The Simpsons which character is known as Jefe Gorgory?
Answer: Chief Wiggum

Question: In the Disney film Peter Pan what colour is Tinkerbell's dress?
Answer: Green

Question: Which medical device, used for auscultation was invented by Rene Laennec in 1816?
Answer: Stethoscope

Question: Which European capital city was known as Vindobona in Roman times?
Answer: Vienna

Question: Which song was a hit for Eddie Floyd in 1967 and for Amii Stewart in 1979?
Answer: Knock on Wood

Question: Who had world concert tours entitled 'Drowned World', 'Confessions' and 'Blond Ambition?
Answer: Madonna

Question: The song "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" appears on the 1997 album 'The Healing Game', by which artist?
Answer: Van Morrison

Question: On the internet what is the derogatory retronym for normal paper mail?
Answer: Snail Mail

Question: The city of St Albans stands on which river?
Answer: River Ver

Question: Which American entertainer says of herself "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap"?
Answer: Dolly Parton

Question: In which country is the most easterly point of Africa?
Answer: Somalia

Question: The name of which English county is also a surname shared by an actress and a former England cricketer?
Answer: Hampshire

Question: In 2010 who left the message "Dear Chief Secretary, I'm afraid there is no money. Kind regards - and good luck"?
Answer: Liam Byrne

Question: Inspector Lestrade appears in novels featuring which detective?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Question: In cricket what score is known as 'Nelson'?
Answer: 111

Question: In which month does the Scottish quarter day Candlemas fall?
Answer: February

Question: In which Yorkshire town are the famous Five Rise Locks on the Leeds-Liverpool canal?
Answer: Bingley

Question: Whose first solo no. 1 hit was Fight for this Love, released in 2009?
Answer: Cheryl Cole

Question: What is the official language of Andorra?
Answer: Catalan

Question: Which crop is processed in a `ginnery'?
Answer: Cotton

Question: Who, in the seventeenth century, said "Desperate diseases require desperate remedies"?
Answer: Guy Fawkes

Question: In which country is the most northerly point of Africa?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: The name of which English county is part of the name of the Queen Mother's unfortunate 1957 Grand National horse?
Answer: Devon

Question: Ramshaw Rocks and Hen Cloud are in which National Park?
Answer: Peak District

Question: What position is no.1 in rugby league and no.15 in rugby union?
Answer: Full Back

Question: Which former sportsman presents the TV quiz show Divided?
Answer: Andrew Castle

Question: Which American composer wrote the music for the songs Stardust and Georgia on my Mind?
Answer: Hoagy Carmichael

Question: Which letter of the Greek alphabet, when written as a capital, looks like our letter P?
Answer: Rho

Question: In which state is the waterfront in the film On the Waterfront?
Answer: New Jersey

Question: Inspector Japp appears in novels featuring which detective?
Answer: Hercule Poirot

Question: 'Nelson' is an English cricketer's unlucky number, what number is the Australian equivalent?
Answer: 87 (eighty-seven) as it's 13 short of a hundred

Question: Which European country has had no army since 1868 and is home to the world's largest manufacturers of false teeth?
Answer: Liechtenstein

Question: Which 16 century French navigator is credited with the discovery of the St Lawrence Seaway?
Answer: Jacques Cartier

Question: Who holds the title First Commoner of the Land?
Answer: The Speaker