Question: What nationality was Trygve Lie, the first Secretary-General of the United Nations?
Answer: Norwegian

Question: Weddell, Ross and Baikal are among the varieties of which mammal?
Answer: Seals

Question: In 1599, in which market town was Oliver Cromwell born?
Answer: Huntingdon

Question: In 1989, Hans-Adam II became the monarch and head of which European state?
Answer: Liechtenstein

Question: Who was the World’s no.1 ranked male tennis professional from 1964 to 1970?
Answer: Rod Laver

Question: What part did the late Kevin Lloyd play in ‘The Bill’?
Answer: Alfred ‘TOSH’ LINES

Question: What was Orson Welles’ first film?
Answer: Citizen Kane

Question: Spanish. What item of clothing is/are ‘los guantes’?
Answer: Gloves

Question: American. What word is used to describe a large, co-operatively owned house?
Answer: Condominium

Question: Classical. Zadok the Priest was composed in 1727 by whom?
Answer: George Frideric HANDEL

Question: Jazz. With what instrument do you associate Art Tatum, 1909-1956?
Answer: Piano

Question: ‘Dead Belgians Don’t Count’ was the original working title of which 90s sitcom?
Answer: Drop The Dead Donkey

Question: Who advertise themselves as ‘The nation’s biggest fish and chip shop, every Friday’?
Answer: J.D. Wetherspoon’S

Question: Which WWII leader’s son, Romano, became a noted jazz pianist?
Answer: Benito MUSSOLINI

Question: Who did Nick Clegg narrowly defeat in the LibDem leadership contest in 2007?
Answer: Chris HUHNE

Question: Which woman ceased to be a senator for the state of New York in 2009?
Answer: Hillary CLINTON

Question: Who led the Labour Party for 22 months from May 1992?
Answer: John SMITH

Question: A former comic, which Staffordshire lad hosted the BBC 2 quiz show ‘Breakaway’?
Answer: Nick HANCOCK

Question: In TV’s Dad’s Army, what was Captain Mainwaring’s first name?
Answer: George

Question: Since 1886, Great Britain and USA have contested the Westchester Cup in which sport?
Answer: Polo

Question: For which novel did Leslie Thomas win the 1966 Author’s Club ‘First Novel Award’?
Answer: The VIRGIN SOLDIERS

Question: Dying in 1850, whose poems included 'Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey'?
Answer: William WORDSWORTH

Question: What is separated from the Essex mainland by Benfleet Creek and Easthaven Creek?
Answer: Canvey Island

Question: Ramses Station is the main railway station in which capital city?
Answer: Cairo

Question: With which country does Paraguay have its longest land border?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Which of the elements, one of the noble gases, has the atomic number 10?
Answer: Neon

Question: Which late Nobel Laureate once called for Tony Blair to be prosecuted for war crimes?
Answer: Harold PINTER

Question: Who wrote 'Notes on a Scandal' – later filmed with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett?
Answer: Zoe HELLER

Question: What is the proper medical name for the windpipe?
Answer: Trachea

Question: What is the proper name for the Japanese art of flower arranging?
Answer: Ikebana

Question: From his August 2012 obituary in The Independent, who died aged 'treble 16, double 12'?
Answer: Sid WADDELL

Question: At which weight did both Randolph Turpin and Nigel Benn win boxing world titles?
Answer: Middleweight

Question: Which darts player whose home town is Blackpool, has the nickname ‘The Rocket’?
Answer: Ronnie BAXTER

Question: Who shaved her head to play the character Lt Ellen Ripley in the 1992 film ‘Alien3’?
Answer: Sigourney WEAVER

Question: Which country's name in its own language is Druk Yul – i.e. 'Land of the Thunder Dragon'?
Answer: Bhutan

Question: Which country’s name translates as 'Holy' or 'Resplendent' Island?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: US singer-songwriter Adam Levine is lead singer with which band?
Answer: Maroon 5

Question: The scene of bitter fighting in 1942-43, which is also the largest of the Solomon Islands?
Answer: Guadalcanal

Question: The largest sub-species of brown bear takes its name from which archipelago off Alaska?
Answer: KODIAK bear

Question: Which cocktail contains tequila, orange-flavoured liqueur, and the juice of lime or lemon?
Answer: Margarita

Question: Which Cognac brand shares its full name with a French international rugby flanker?
Answer: Remy Martin

Question: Which long drink cocktail linked with Venice is a mix of sparkling wine and peach puree?
Answer: Bellini

Question: Which nickname connects Tchaikovsky's second symphony and the Ukraine?
Answer: Little Russia / Russian

Question: Who wrote the poem whose lengthy title is usually shortened to 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan'?
Answer: Alexander PUSHKIN

Question: Who composed the 1791 opera entitled ‘La Clemenza di Tito’?
Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART

Question: Which English County is known as The Land of The Prince Bishops?
Answer: County DURHAM

Question: Which birds have to be fed prawns in captivity order maintain their trademark colouring?
Answer: Flamingos

Question: What mythical object did Sir Bedivere return to ‘The Lady of Avalon’?
Answer: Excalibur

Question: He died aged 79 in 2005; who was the legendary host of US TV’s ‘The Tonight Show’?
Answer: Johnny CARSON

Question: Which Shipping Forecast Area was formerly known as Heligoland?
Answer: German Bight

Question: Which animal’s head has been the trademark of Colman’s Mustard for over 150 years?
Answer: Bull

Question: Which THREE colours appear in the logo of the food retail chain LIDL?
Answer: Blue, Yellow And Red

Question: Which Greek god gives his name to a company famous for making handbags?
Answer: Hermes

Question: Which Olympic gold medallist ran the first leg of the 8,000 strong Olympic Torch relay?
Answer: Ben AINSLIE

Question: In a special live edition of ‘East Enders’, which character was the Olympic torch bearer?
Answer: Billy MITCHELL

Question: What two words began the titles of all bar one episode of TV’s ‘Friends’?
Answer: The One…

Question: What two words begin the titles of every episode of TV’s ‘Perry Mason’?
Answer: The Case…

Question: AKA pharyngeal tonsils, what are located in the passage linking throat and nasal cavity?
Answer: Adenoids

Question: What do we call bands of flexible fibrous connective tissue that links bones together?
Answer: Ligaments

Question: What do we call the fluid in the blood in which cells and corpuscles are suspended?
Answer: Plasma

Question: Who did Queen Victoria immediately succeed as British sovereign?
Answer: William Iv

Question: William McGonagall penned a poem commemorating which December 1879 rail disaster?
Answer: Tay Bridge

Question: Which two words usually appear vertically within parallel lines on modern cheques?
Answer: Account Payee

Question: Which often controversial global fashion brand was founded in Treviso in 1965?
Answer: Benetton

Question: What is the proper name of the 'stub' left in a chequebook once a cheque is detached?
Answer: Counterfoil

Question: Australia-born Natalie Bennett was elected leader of which party in September 2012?
Answer: GREEN PARTY or GREENS

Question: Nicknamed the 'The Pearl of the Danube', which capital is overlooked by János Hill?
Answer: Budapest

Question: What name is given to the events of 30 January 1972 in Londonderry?
Answer: Bloody Sunday

Question: A son, his dad is Dwight Yorke; what is the first name of Katy Price's eldest child?
Answer: Harvey

Question: Which living French movie star has been called "a big, beautiful runaway truck of a man"?
Answer: Gerard DEPARDIEU

Question: Tories have a tree, Labour a rose, LibDems a bird. What symbol appears on UKIP's logo?
Answer: £ or POUND SIGN

Question: Which of Elton John's singles was a tribute to a despatch rider killed in an accident?
Answer: Song For Guy

Question: Where was the last train going according to The Monkees in 1966?
Answer: Clarksville

Question: Which art movement inspired by the machine age was pioneered by Wyndham Lewis?
Answer: VORTICISM or VORTICIST