Question: What collectively are Beas, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, and the Sutlej?
Answer: Five rivers of the Punjab

Question: The Kuiper Belt is in the orbit of which planet?
Answer: Neptune

Question: What was the deadly cargo of the B-29 Bockscar?
Answer: An 'A' Bomb

Question: For what does the computing acronym FTP stand?
Answer: File Transfer Protocol

Question: Which World War 2 operation (later known as Operation Jubilee) took place on 19th August 1942?
Answer: Raid on Dieppe

Question: Who had a not hit in 1983 with the song 'Electric Avenue'?
Answer: Eddy Grant

Question: Gibbons and orang-utans are types of which creature?
Answer: Apes

Question: Which car company makes the Berlingo?
Answer: Citroen

Question: Which Dutch physicist formulated the Wave Theory of light?
Answer: Christian Huygens

Question: Which Persian king released the Hebrews from Babylon?
Answer: Cyrus

Question: Which TV character had the catchphrases "Permission to speak, sir?" and "Don't panic"?
Answer: Corporal Jones

Question: Members of which pop group were jailed in Russia after performing an anti Putin song in Moscow Cathedral?
Answer: Pussy Riot

Question: Who resigned as CEO of Barclay's after the LIBOR tax rate scandal?
Answer: Bob Diamond

Question: Who is the former Formula 1 racing driver who won a Paralympics Cycling Gold Medal at London 2012?
Answer: Alex Zanardi

Question: Li Yung became very famous in 2012, why did she make international news?
Answer: China's first female astronaut

Question: Who, now an Honorary Professor of Media Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, wrote the autobiography 'Mid Term Report'?
Answer: Phil Redmond

Question: Which explorer discovered the Victoria falls on the River Zambezi?
Answer: David Livingstone

Question: Which was the first Plague inflicted on Egypt to persuade the Pharaoh to release the Israelites?
Answer: Turned the Nile to blood

Question: In which country is the wine growing region, Bekaa Valley?
Answer: Lebanon

Question: Which Wigan and GB rugby league player played for the Barbarians against Australian Wallabies in late 2011?
Answer: Sam Tomkins

Question: The first space satellite 'Sputnik' was launched in which year?
Answer: 1957

Question: How is the term "If anything can go wrong, it will" commonly known?
Answer: Murphy's Law

Question: In the nursery rhyme, who saw the sparrow kill Cock Robin?
Answer: The Fly

Question: What nickname was given to Margaret Thatcher during her time as Prime Minister?
Answer: Iron Lady

Question: Which British warship was sent to patrol the Falkland Islands in 2012?
Answer: HMS Dauntless

Question: Who became President of Egypt in June 2012?
Answer: (Mohammed) Morsi

Question: Joel Tomkins was transferred from Wigan to which rugby union club in 2011?
Answer: Saracens

Question: Since leaving his radio show, Chris Moyles has taken on which part in the musical 'Jesus Christ Superstar'?
Answer: King Herod

Question: The first commercial Concorde flight from Paris to Rio de Janeiro took place in which year?
Answer: 1976

Question: In German politics who was known as the Iron Chancellor?
Answer: Bismarck

Question: Which British warship was sent up the Thames to provide security cover for the 2012 Olympic Games?
Answer: HMS Ocean

Question: Who is the Prime Minister of Australia?
Answer: Julia Gillard

Question: The Analects, or Lunyu, dating back to approximately 450 BC is a collection of sayings and ideas of which philosopher?
Answer: Confucius

Question: Which TV character had the catchphrase "Listen very carefully; I shall say zis only once"?
Answer: Michelle

Question: Who had a hit in 2012 with the song and video 'Gangnam Style'?
Answer: Psy

Question: Which cricketer was killed by a Tube train in Wimbledon in June 2012?
Answer: Tom Maynard

Question: Which word can be a fruit, a language, a country's one-time ruler or a type of duck?
Answer: Mandarin

Question: Whistler painted 'Arrangement in Grey and Black', version no.1 was of his mother, which philosopher and historian was the subject of version no.2?
Answer: Thomas Carlyle

Question: Which substance forms the explosive component of dynamite?
Answer: Nitroglycerin

Question: In which country is the Swat Valley?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: In 2012, who became the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound without vehicular power when he jumped from a helium balloon at a height of approximately 24 miles?
Answer: Felix Baumgartner

Question: Who has written the novels 'A Tiny Bit Marvellous' and 'Oh Dear, Silvia'?
Answer: Dawn French

Question: Who was the son of Daedalus?
Answer: Icarus

Question: Which explorer discovered Lake Victoria and the source of the Nile?
Answer: John Speke

Question: Which ex-policeman, played by Denis Lawson is the new character in the TV series 'New Tricks'?
Answer: Steve McAndrew

Question: Which was the first of the 12 Labours of Hercules?
Answer: Slaying the Nemean Lion

Question: Who became Shadow Chancellor after the 2010 General Election?
Answer: Alan Johnson

Question: Who was the youngest son of Jacob and Rachel?
Answer: Benjamin

Question: In which Bond film does his car convert to a submarine to enable him to escape?
Answer: The Spy Who Loved Me

Question: Name either of the singers who had a hit with 'Together in Electric Dreams' in 1984?
Answer: Giorgio Moroder or Phil Oakey

Question: Oryx, Kudu and Gnu are types of which creature?
Answer: Antelopes

Question: Which car company makes the Twingo?
Answer: Renault

Question: In World War 2, what code name was given to the Allied airborne landings at Arnhem in 1944?
Answer: Market Garden

Question: Who was the Australian opening batsman who faced the first ball, scored the first run and the first century in Test cricket?
Answer: Charles Bannerman

Question: Which creature arose from the blood of the slain Medusa?
Answer: Pegasus

Question: What is the English equivalent of the French pret-a-porter?
Answer: Ready To Wear

Question: Which war ended on 28 March 1939?
Answer: Spanish Civil War

Question: The Salk vaccine is administered to combat which disease?
Answer: Polio(Myelitis)

Question: What is or was a moidore?
Answer: (Gold) Coin

Question: What nationality was the detective story writer Ngaio Marsh?
Answer: New Zealander

Question: What is the name of the tides of smallest range, occurring after the moon's first and third quarter?
Answer: Neap Tides

Question: Who presided over the 'Bloody Assizes' of 1685?
Answer: Judge Jeffries

Question: To which family of trees does the osier belong?
Answer: Willow

Question: What are the 'corns' in corned beef?
Answer: Salt

Question: Who wrote the novels 'Lord Jim' (1900) and 'The Secret Agent' (1907)?
Answer: Joseph Conrad

Question: Which honorary appointment to the British Royal House has been held by Edward Elgar, Arthur Bliss and Malcolm Williamson?
Answer: Master Of The King'S (Or Queen'S) Music

Question: Originally built on another site in 1850-51, which building burned down at Sydenham Hill in 1936?
Answer: Crystal Palace

Question: Who recorded the 1995 LP 'History - 'Past, Present and Future, Book 1'?
Answer: Michael Jackson

Question: In which Dodie Smith novel, twice filmed, does Cruella de Vil appear?
Answer: One Hundred And One Dalmatians

Question: Anne Frank wrote her diary in the loft of a house in which city?
Answer: Amsterdam

Question: In Roman mythology who was the goddess of flowers?
Answer: Flora

Question: Who gave his first public demonstration of television in London on 27 January 1926?
Answer: John Logie Baird

Question: Which former Conservative PM died in 2005?
Answer: Edward Heath

Question: Give a year in the life of Gregor Mendel, proposer of the Laws of Heredity.
Answer: 1822-1884

Question: Which hominid is named after the valley near Dusseldorf; where the first skull was found in 1957?
Answer: Neanderthal

Question: According to folklore, which plant shrieks when pulled from the ground?
Answer: Mandrake