Question: In the distant past what was the name given to the Super-Continent that made up the majority land mass of Earth?
Answer: Pangaea

Question: What is the name for the study of Continental Drift?
Answer: Plate Tectonics

Question: Cullen Skink is a hearty soup made with potatoes, onion and which fish?
Answer: Smoked Haddock

Question: Which common kitchen herb is used in a Mojito?
Answer: Mint

Question: What two ingredients make Devils on Horseback?
Answer: Prunes and bacon

Question: What is the main ingredient of Guacamole?
Answer: Avocado

Question: Rigatoni is what type of Italian food?
Answer: Pasta

Question: What is the name of the special Indian clay oven?
Answer: A Tandoor

Question: The Harvey Wall Banger cocktail contain Vodka, orange juice and what else?
Answer: Galliano

Question: Which chef presents 'Saturday Morning Kitchen' on TV?
Answer: James Martin

Question: Which food dish is named after one of Napoleons famous victories?
Answer: Chicken Marengo

Question: In Greek cuisine a vine or cabbage leaf with a savoury stuffing is called what?
Answer: A Dolma

Question: What was the name of the cavalry regiment raised and trained by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War?
Answer: The Ironsides

Question: William Howard Russell became famous as what during the Crimean War?
Answer: War Correspondent

Question: The Bourbon dynasty began to rule which country from 1700 and still do?
Answer: Spain

Question: What was abolished in Russia in 1861?
Answer: Serfdom

Question: Near which city in Russia did the greatest tank battle of World War II take place in July 1943?
Answer: Kursk

Question: At the battle of Ashdown, in A.D 871, the Danes were defeated by forces under which famous king?
Answer: King Alfred

Question: What did Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, die of?
Answer: Typhoid

Question: Who was the first monarch of the House of Tudor?
Answer: Henry VII

Question: Who crowned Napoleon as Emperor?
Answer: He crowned himself

Question: Which military battle saw eleven Victoria Crosses awarded, the most for any single action?
Answer: Battle of Rorke's Drift

Question: Who was the English King at the Battle of Agincourt?
Answer: Henry V

Question: Who were allied with the French Naval forces during The Battle of Trafalgar?
Answer: Spain

Question: Which admiral was in charge of the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland?
Answer: Admiral John Jellicoe

Question: Who was the Supreme Allied Commander during the D Day landings of 1944?
Answer: General Dwight D Eisenhower

Question: What RAF squardron number was nicknamed The Dambusters?
Answer: 617

Question: The Seiges of Ladysmith and Mafeking were military actions during which war?
Answer: Second Boer War

Question: What is the first name of the American professional tennis player with the surname Fish.
Answer: Mardy

Question: Michael Fish is a BBC weatherman, but in what field did his namesake become famous in the 1960s & 70s
Answer: Fashion designer.

Question: In which rock band was Fish the lead singer
Answer: Marillion

Question: Paul McGann & Gemma Redgrave starred in a BBC drama series called Fish in 2000, what were their professions
Answer: Lawyers - set in a court.

Question: In which country is Fishoek, a wine producing coastal area.
Answer: South Africa - Western Cape.

Question: In Finding Nemo, what was the name of Nemo's father.
Answer: Marlin

Question: Which progressive rock band had a track called The Fish on their 1971 album Fragile, their 4th album, but the first to feature Rick Wakeman.
Answer: Yes

Question: Who starred in the 1991 movie The Fisher King
Answer: Robin Williams

Question: What is the currency name in Bulgaria?
Answer: Lev

Question: Which comedian, writer & actor had the character Loadsamoney' which he played on his TV shows?
Answer: Harry Enfield

Question: Which actress played Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films fourteen times, from Dr. No (1962) until her final performance of the character in A View to a Kill (1985).
Answer: Lois Maxwell

Question: What is the French phrase used to describe an office which deals in the exchange of Money?
Answer: Bureau de Change

Question: The lyric I was born in the wagon of a travellin show, my mama used to dance for the money they'd throw' is from which song?
Answer: Gypsies Tramps & Thieves

Question: Which 1964 film, starring Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins depicted the 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift?
Answer: Zulu

Question: These were "star-cross'd lovers" whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families.  What were their names?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet

Question: What is the name of the only Canadian province to have French as its sole official language?
Answer: Quebec

Question: Which Christian name links Brown, Champagne and Aunt?
Answer: Charlie

Question: According to Greek Mythology, what was the name of the mountain nymph who falls in love with Narcissus?
Answer: Echo

Question: The advertisement for which soft drink caused controversy in the 1990s for seemingly promoting a violent act?
Answer: Tango

Question: A discovery by Professor Wilhelm Roentgen in the 1890s led to which amazing medical invention?
Answer: X-Ray

Question: Claude Monet, King Hussein of Jordan and Prince Charles all share the same birthday - the 14th .... of  which month?
Answer: November

Question: This word has seven letters, it came before god, is greater than god, more evil than the devil, poor people have it, rich people want it, if you eat it you would die. What is it?
Answer: Nothing

Question: What can you catch but you can't throw?
Answer: A cold

Question: What has a mouth but can't chew?
Answer: A river

Question: What is light as a feather but even the worlds strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a few inutes?
Answer: His breath

Question: What can go up a chimney down, but not down a chimney up?
Answer: An umbrella

Question: What begins with T, ends with T and contains T?
Answer: Teapot

Question: What is so frasgile that even saying its name would break it?
Answer: Silence

Question: What cannot be used unless it is broken?
Answer: An egg

Question: What is the name of Fluer Delacor's little sister?
Answer: Gabrielle

Question: What is Mad-Eye Moody's first name?
Answer: Alastor

Question: How many horcruxes are there?
Answer: 8

Question: What is the fulkl name of the Headmaster of Hogwarts who is killed in book 6?
Answer: Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

Question: Who is the poltergeist at Hogwarts?
Answer: Peeves

Question: What is the animal Professor McGonall turns into?
Answer: Cat

Question: What is the name of Colin Creevey's little brother?
Answer: Denis

Question: Scott of the Antartic reached the South Pole in January 2012. Who beat him to it?
Answer: (Roald Engelbregt Gravning) Amundsen (Norwegian)

Question: Which British Blue Peter presenter is attempting, in January 2012, to get to the South Pole on a variety modes of transport - including a bike and kite ski?
Answer: Helen Skelton

Question: Who were the two men who first stepped foot on the moon?
Answer: Neil Armstorng & Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin

Question: Who was the first person to have indisputably reached both the North and South Poles?
Answer: (Roald Engelbregt Gravning) Amundsen (Norwegian), see question 1.

Question: Who is most commonly attributed as finding America, when he was hoping to find a route to India?
Answer: Christopher Colombus

Question: Which British explorer was the  first ship's captain to stop the disease scurvy (now known to be caused by a lack of vitamin C) among sailors by providing them with fresh fruits?
Answer: Captain James Cook

Question: Which Portuguese explorer discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East - thought to be impossible at the time - in 1497??
Answer: Vasco da Gama

Question: In the Old English saga Beowulf, what is the name of the monster?
Answer: Grendel