Question: Who was the actor, who died in July 2006, who starred as the TV detective 'Crane' and appeared in the advertising campaign for Barrett Homes?
Answer: Patrick Allen

Question: The Hedge-Sparrow is more properly known by which name?
Answer: Dunnock

Question: Sana'a is the capital of which country?
Answer: Yemen

Question: In which British city is the Traverse Theatre?
Answer: Edinburgh

Question: Which country joined the EEC at the same time as UK and Ireland in 1973?
Answer: Denmark

Question: The Shuttleworth Collection, based in Bedfordshire, is an important National Museum; of what is it a collection?
Answer: Aeroplanes

Question: Haddon Hall in Derbyshire was used by the BBC to represent which property in a 2006 classic serial?
Answer: Thornfield Hall

Question: Which 1854 opera was the first in Wagner's Ring Cycle?
Answer: Das Rheingold

Question: Who wrote the book 'Tobacco Road'?
Answer: Erskine Caldwell

Question: Who was Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1967?
Answer: John Masefield

Question: Name either of the countries that joined the EC in 2007, increasing the membership to 27 countries?
Answer: Bulgaria, Romania

Question: Which 1951 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis became even more controversial when Martin Scorsese's film of the book was released in 1988?
Answer: The Last Temptation of Christ

Question: Who is the MP for Witney, Oxfordshire?
Answer: David Cameron

Question: The 'merle' is another name for which common bird?
Answer: Blackbird

Question: The Thirty Years War was a conflict between France, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands on one side against Austria, who were supported by which other country?
Answer: Spain

Question: In the English calendar, which is the first Quarter Day?
Answer: Lady Day

Question: To what was Winston Churchill referring when he said "Why do we need this peep show?"?
Answer: Commercial TV

Question: Which US President introduced Thanksgiving Day?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: Which British comedy star both co-wrote and appeared in an episode of 'The Simpson'
Answer: recorded in 2005?

Question: Who was the only bachelor President of the USA?
Answer: James Buchanan

Question: Which river, the fifth longest in Europe, is Portugal's longest?
Answer: Tagus

Question: Who wrote the play 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?
Answer: Tennessee Williams

Question: In the children's TV programme 'The Flowerpot Men', what was the name of the tortoise?
Answer: Slowcoach

Question: Which city was home to Marco Polo?
Answer: Venice

Question: In which county is the preserved heritage steam railway the 'Watercress Line'?
Answer: Hampshire

Question: Which nymph kept Odysseus on an island for seven years?
Answer: Calypso

Question: The tenor Rolando Villazon is from which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Which Suffolk town has hosted an annual music festival since 1948?
Answer: Aldeburgh

Question: Which golfer was the first British winner of the US Masters, winning in 1988?
Answer: Sandy Lyle

Question: Which children's TV programme featured a toad named Gabriel and a rag doll named Madeleine?
Answer: Bagpuss

Question: Who had a hit with 'What becomes of the broken hearted' in 1966 and again in 1974?
Answer: Jimmy Ruffin

Question: What was the title of the Ronnie Barker sitcom in which he played a Welsh photographer?
Answer: The Magnificent Evans

Question: In which Italian city was Christopher Columbus born?
Answer: Genoa

Question: Who won her first Best Actress Oscar in 1934 and her last in 1982?
Answer: Katherine Hepburn

Question: What product is made by the company 'Crocs Inc'?
Answer: Shoes

Question: Which mythological reptilian creature could kill with a single glance?
Answer: Basilisk

Question: What is the most southerly of the UK shipping forecast areas?
Answer: Trafalgar

Question: Which town in Sussex has hosted a drama festival annually since 1962?
Answer: Chichester

Question: What part of the body is affected by Meniere's Syndrome?
Answer: (Inner) ear

Question: Who was the first British golfer to win the World Match-Play Championship, beating Sandy Lyle in the final in 1987?
Answer: Ian Woosnam

Question: What was the surname of the man who was the only English Pope?
Answer: Brakspear

Question: Alberto Contador won which major sporting event in 2007?
Answer: Tour de France

Question: Who was the last Duchess of York before Sarah Ferguson?
Answer: Queen Mother

Question: The Queen Mother was the first British born consort of a monarch since which wife of Henry 8th?
Answer: Catherine Parr

Question: The tenor Juan Diego Florez is from which country?
Answer: Peru

Question: Labanotation, published by Rudolph Laban in 1928, is used to record movements of what?
Answer: (Ballet) Dancers

Question: Which musical was originally titled 'Welcome to Berlin'?
Answer: Cabaret

Question: Which Sussex hill is the site of the Battle of Hastings?
Answer: Senlac

Question: Who wrote the children's classic 'Charlotte's Web'?
Answer: E.B. White

Question: The flag of which Canadian province includes the cross of St Andrew?
Answer: Nova Scotia

Question: What part of the body is affected by Paget's Disease?
Answer: Bones

Question: Which musical was based on a short story called 'The Idylls of Sarah Browne'?
Answer: Guys and Dolls

Question: Invented by Alexander Parkes in about 1856 and originally called Parkesine, what was the first thermo-plastic?
Answer: Celluloid

Question: Which of the UK shipping forecast areas is named after the founder of the Meteorological Society?
Answer: Fitzroy

Question: What name is given to the science or study of drugs?
Answer: Pharmacology

Question: Whitehorse is the capital of which Canadian territory?
Answer: Yukon

Question: Which London landmark was built to commemorate Lord Nelson's and the Duke of Wellington's victories?
Answer: Marble Arch

Question: What is the name of the main mountain system of Mexico?
Answer: Sierra Madre

Question: Where would you see lines marked LR, TF, F, T, S, W and WNA?
Answer: On the side of a ship

Question: Who wrote the children's fantasy novels featuring Artemis Fowl?
Answer: Eoin Coffer

Question: How are Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham known collectively?
Answer: Medway Towns

Question: In 'The Lord of the Rings' what are Sting and Glamdring?
Answer: Swords

Question: What was the screen name of the actor whose real name is Tony Curtis?
Answer: Bernard Schwarz?

Question: Which American rock and roll pianist had a hit with song `Blueberry Hill'?
Answer: Fats Domino

Question: Which is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Bootes?
Answer: Arcturus

Question: Which European country contains the ski resorts of Davos and Klosters?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Which daughter of King Priam prophesied the fall of Troy, but was not believed?
Answer: Cassandra

Question: What is the capital of Qatar?
Answer: Doha

Question: By what name is the Australian echidna also known?
Answer: Spiny Anteater

Question: Which Italian town, at the foot of a hill containing a Benedictine Monastery was destroyed during heavy fighting in 1944?
Answer: Cassino

Question: In which European country is the resort of Antibes known for Roman remains?
Answer: France

Question: What is the wind of force 12 or more on the Beaufort scale called?
Answer: Hurricane

Question: In what year did the Falkands War take place?
Answer: 1982

Question: Which word, Italian for air, is used to describe a solo song with instrumental accompaniment in opera?
Answer: Aria

Question: From which Asian country did calico originally come?
Answer: India

Question: Which fungal disease of trees was first described in the Netherlands?
Answer: Dutch Elm Disease

Question: Name one of the two FBI Agents in the 'X-Files'.
Answer: Dana Scijlly/Fox Mulder

Question: What sort of creature is a 'gribble'?
Answer: A Small Marine Crustecean

Question: What was the sequel to Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventure in Wonderland?
Answer: Through The Looking Glass