Question: According to the New Testament, who was the High Priest of the Jews to whom Jesus was taken when he was first arrested?
Answer: Caiaphas

Question: In the Superman comics, who is the young photographer whoworks with and is friends with Clark Kent and Lois Lane?
Answer: Jimmy Olsen

Question: The holder of which post is the First Commoner of the Land?
Answer: Speaker of the House of Commons

Question: What honorary title is given to members of the Royal Family when acting as figureheads of British Army regiments on public occasions?
Answer: CoIonel-in-Chief

Question: Who was the oldest British monarch at the time of ascending the throne?
Answer: William IV

Question: Which German battleship was sunk by Lancaster bombers in a Norwegian fjord in November 1944?
Answer: Tirpitz

Question: The Battles of Alma and Inker man took place during which war?
Answer: Crimean

Question: a Give either of the forenames of the author of Mary Poppins, PL Travers?
Answer: Pamela Lyndon

Question: From 1999 to 2001, Quentin Blake was the first person to hold which post?
Answer: Children?s Laureate

Question: If Batman is Bruce Wayne, what is the name of Batwoman?
Answer: Any of Kate, Kathy or Katherine Kane

Question: Whose novel, set in 1745, is considered to be the first historical novel?
Answer: Sir Walter Scott

Question: Who was Britain's last Roman Catholic monarch?
Answer: James 2nd

Question: The heir to which English monarch died when the White Ship sank in 1120?
Answer: Henry 1st

Question: The River Ure runs along the length of which Yorkshire dale?
Answer: Wensieydaie

Question: The prefix thio- refers to the presence of which element in a chemical compound?
Answer: Sulphur

Question: Prior to 1905, when Cardiff became one, which was the only city in Wales?
Answer: Bangor

Question: In literature, who sailed across the Atlantic to Liverpool in the SS Henrietta?
Answer: Phileas Fogg

Question: Which nut is obtained from the tree Juglans Regia??
Answer: Walnut

Question: Pendennis Castle and St Mawes Castle lie either side of the river close to which English town?
Answer: Falmouth

Question: Which spirit is the base of a Sidecar cocktail?
Answer: Brandy

Question: The Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash crosses which river?
Answer: Tamar

Question: Nicknamed Old Grog, which Admiral ordered the watering down of rum rations in 1738?
Answer: (Edward) Vernon

Question: What is the maximum letters or spaces permitted in a racehorse's name?
Answer: 18

Question: According to a song by Al Martino who was "as friendly as any man could be, but you never saw a man outdraw the man" from where?
Answer: Laramie

Question: In the song by Merle Haggard the singer was proud to be a what from Muskogee?
Answer: Okie

Question: Screen actresses Julie Christie and Merle Oberon were both born in which country?
Answer: India

Question: Which American novel published in 1852 was subtitled "Life Among The Lowly"?
Answer: Uncle Tom?s Cabin

Question: Who wrote the play "The Quare Fellow"?
Answer: Brendan Beehan

Question: Which bird, made famous on film and TV, is the state bird of New Mexico?
Answer: The Road Runner

Question: In which decade was the English FA Cup first contested?
Answer: 1870's

Question: In the 2002 BBC poll of 100 Most Famous Britons, name either of the two females who appear in the top ten?
Answer: Elizabeth I, Diana, Princess of Wales

Question: In the same BBC poll, name either of the two males in the top 10 who died in the 20th century.
Answer: Winston Churchill, John Lennon

Question: Which band has members called Agnetha Falsestart and Frida Longstocking?
Answer: Bjorn Again

Question: Frank Beard was the only beardless member of which three man rock band?
Answer: ZZTop

Question: Britain?s first Muslim MP, Mohammad Sawar was elected in which city in 1997?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: Adam Afriyie is the conservative MP for which Berkshire constituency?
Answer: Windsor

Question: Which Bond movie shares its name with a type of duck?
Answer: Goldeneye

Question: Which perfume and clothing company shares its name with a breed of duck found in the Camargue region of France?
Answer: Cacherel

Question: How old were Cass Elliott, Karen Carpenter and Keith Moon when they died?
Answer: 32

Question: """All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players"" is a quote from which Shakespeare"
Answer: play?

Question: """This was the most unkindest cut of ail"" is a quotation from which Shakespeare play?"
Answer: Julius Caesar

Question: Which scientific word is derived from the Greek meaning uncut?
Answer: Atom

Question: Acid is derived from the Latin word meaning what?
Answer: Sour

Question: Which English king was known as "Old Coppernose" because of his debasement of the currency?
Answer: Henry VllI

Question: Author Henry Fielding introduced a forerunner of which modern service in the18th century?
Answer: The Police

Question: Blaise Pascal introduced which public service to Paris in the 17th century?
Answer: Public transport

Question: In 1901 who became the first Prime Minister of Australia?
Answer: Edmund Barton

Question: In 1867 who became the first Prime Minister of Canada?
Answer: John A Macdonald

Question: Who plays Citizen Khan in the eponymous TV sitcom?
Answer: Adil Ray

Question: Upper Volta is the former name of which country?
Answer: Burkina Fasso

Question: British Honduras is now known by what name?
Answer: Belize

Question: Lionel was the first name of which trade union leader of the 1970s?
Answer: Len Murray

Question: In which year did the Queen marry the Duke of Edinburgh?
Answer: 1947

Question: """Being and Nothingness"" was a 1946 work by which French philosopher?"
Answer: Jean Paul Sartre

Question: """The Concept of Irony"" was a 1820s philosophical work by which Dane?"
Answer: Soren Kirkegaard

Question: Which poet guided Dante through Hell in "The Divine Comedy"?
Answer: Virgil

Question: Which great Assyrian city is named in the opening line of the poem Cargoes by John Masefield?
Answer: Nineveh

Question: Which Chuck Berry song is performed by Marty McFly at the end of the film Back to the Future?
Answer: Johnny B Goode

Question: To which Tom Jones song is the final striptease performed in the film The Full Monty?
Answer: You can leave your hat on

Question: Which famous sportsman's dad appeared on TV and in newspapers in adverts for Coral's saying "Stick One On It?
Answer: Joe Calzaghe

Question: Bookmakers "Bet Fred" were founded in which northern city?
Answer: Salford

Question: Give a year in the life of French writer and philosopher Francois- Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire.
Answer: 1749 -1832

Question: Give a year in the life of German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Answer: 1749 -1832

Question: What is the penultimate book of the New Testament?
Answer: Jude

Question: The song "I Could Have Danced All Night" comes from which musical?
Answer: My Fair Lady

Question: The word poodle for the breed of dog originated from which language?
Answer: German

Question: Which breed of dog originated in Germany, and is known in that country as the German Mastiff?
Answer: The Great Dane

Question: Who wrote "Love on The Dole"?
Answer: Walter Greenwood

Question: Who wrote "The Owl Service"?
Answer: Alan Garner

Question: Regan and Goneril are two of King Lear's daughters, who is the third?
Answer: Cordelia

Question: What is the capital city of Yemen
Answer: Sana'a

Question: What is the capital city of Bhutan?
Answer: Thimphu

Question: In which year did Mrs Bandaranaike become Prime Minister of Ceylon?
Answer: 1960

Question: Who was the last British King to rule over Ireland?
Answer: George Vi

Question: Alan, Wayne, Merill and Jay were 4 of the brothers in a popular singing group, name either of the other two brothers in the group?
Answer: Donny Or Jimmy

Question: The poem ?Funeral Blue? begins with the words "Stop all the clocks..". Who wrote it?
Answer: W H Auden