Question: Arsenal midfielder Tomas Rosicky plays for which international team?
Answer: Czech Republic

Question: Yulia Tymashenko imprisoned for abuse of her office was a former Prime Minister of which European country?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: How is the mathematical series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 etc better known?
Answer: Fibonacci

Question: Give a year in the life of Genghis Khan.
Answer: 1162-1227

Question: Who is to play Miss Havisham in the 2012 film version of Dickens' Great Expectations'?
Answer: Helena Bonham Carter

Question: Who is to play the role of Bilbo Baggins in the 2012 film of Tolkien's 'The Hobbit'?
Answer: Martin Freeman

Question: How many symphonies did Johannes Brahms complete?
Answer: 1336-1405

Question: Give a year in the life of Tamerlane.
Answer: 1336-1405

Question: What is the mathematical name for series such as 2, 6, 18, 54 etc where the next term in the sequence is obtained by multiplying the previous one by a fixed number?
Answer: Geometric

Question: What is the appropriate name of the current Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales?
Answer: Lord Judge

Question: The beer Singha originates in which country?
Answer: Thailand

Question: Kirin beers originate in which country?
Answer: Japan

Question: For what does the B stand in the acronym COBRA?
Answer: (Cabinet Office) Briefing

Question: Who is the current Father of the House of Commons?
Answer: Sir Peter Tapsell

Question: Which actor has appeared in the films `Se7en', 'Fight Club', 'Inglourious Basterds' and 'Oceans Eleven'?
Answer: Brad Pitt

Question: Which of Thomas Hardy's novel which opens on Guy Fawkes Night takes place on Egdon Heath?
Answer: The Return Of The Native

Question: 'Sitting on a comflake waiting for the van to come' is a line from which Beatles song from 'Magical Mystery Tour' album?
Answer: I Am The Walrus

Question: What was the currency of Portugal before the Euro?
Answer: Escudo

Question: Which actor has appeared in the films Invictus', 'The Departed', 'The Talented Mr Ripley' and 'Oceans Eleven'?
Answer: Matt Damon

Question: From what country does the cheese Jarlsberg originate?
Answer: Norway

Question: In the Lotto Thunderball draw, you choose 1 Thunderball from how many?
Answer: 14

Question: In the Euro Millions draw you choose 2 lucky star numbers from how many?
Answer: 11

Question: From what country does the cheese Castello originate?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Who plays himself in the TV sitcom 'Episodes'?
Answer: Matt Leblanc

Question: Which Norwegian author created the detective Harry Hole in books such as 'The Redbreast' and 'The Snowman'?
Answer: Jo Nesbo

Question: What species of British breeding birds can be Great, Arctic or Long-tailed?
Answer: Skua

Question: In which Libyan city, his birthplace, was Colonel Gaddafi captured and killed in October 2011?
Answer: Sirte

Question: In 1498 who painted 'The Last Supper', located in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan?
Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci

Question: In what year was the pound coin introduced?
Answer: 1983

Question: Who, in 1642, painted 'The Night Watch', now to be found in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam?
Answer: Rembrandt

Question: In which British city is Citadel railway station?
Answer: Carlisle

Question: What is the origin of the term Dog Days, the period of hot weather from mid July to mid August in Southern Europe?
Answer: The appearance of SIRIUS, the DOG STAR in the night sky

Question: In what year did the 9/11 attacks in the USA take place?
Answer: 2001

Question: What was the capital of Portugal prior to Lisbon?
Answer: Coimbra

Question: In what year did the 7/7 attacks in London take place?
Answer: 2005

Question: What is the origin of the name of properties known as 'The Spinney'?
Answer: Located in a COPSE or small WOOD

Question: Sportsman Gerry Watson is better by which first name?
Answer: Bubba

Question: In which US state is the city of Cincinnati?
Answer: Ohio

Question: Who was King of England in 1200?
Answer: John

Question: Who was King of England in 1400?
Answer: Henry Iv

Question: Which Celtic quarter day falls on the 1st of May?
Answer: Beltane

Question: In which US state is the city of Pittsburgh?
Answer: Pennsylvania

Question: Which birthday did Prince Philip celebrate this year?
Answer: 91st

Question: Which vegetable has the Latin name Allium Porrum?
Answer: Leek

Question: Who won the 2012 Rugby Union Six Nations title?
Answer: Wales

Question: In 1993, Barbara Harmer became the first woman to pilot what?
Answer: Concorde

Question: Which natural substance provides the raw material for the man-made fibre rayon?
Answer: Plant Cellulose

Question: Operation Crossbow was the code name for Allied counter-measures against which weapons?
Answer: V1 & V2

Question: """Good Morning Starshine"" and ""Hare Krishna"" are songs from which 1967 musical?"
Answer: Hair

Question: Who wrote the 1936 book "How To Win Friends and Influence People"?
Answer: (Dale) Carnegie

Question: Who, as at July 2011, is Archbishop of Westminster?
Answer: (Vincent) Nichols

Question: What type of Rolls-Royce engines were used to power Concorde?
Answer: Olympus

Question: Who is the youngest driver to win a Formula 1 World Championship?
Answer: (Sebastian) Vettel

Question: Operation Chariot was the code name for which British raid in March 1942?
Answer: (Dry Dock at) St. Nazaire

Question: In which park is London Zoo situated?
Answer: Regent's Park

Question: Who wrote the 1947 book TheTheory and Practice of Gamesmanship?
Answer: Stephen-Potter

Question: Which 1985 film was nominated for eleven Oscars and did not win any
Answer: The Color Purple

Question: What is the capital of the French department Calvados?
Answer: Caen

Question: Who composed the music for the 1912 ballet "Daphnis et Chloe"?
Answer: (Maurice) Ravel

Question: A Black Russian cocktail consists of vodka and which liqueur?
Answer: Coffee Liqueur

Question: Which foodstuff is obtained from the root of the cassava plant?
Answer: Tapioca

Question: What, in the Old Testament, was 300 cubits long, and 30 cubits high?
Answer: Noah's Ark

Question: Night blindness is caused by a deficiency of which vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin A

Question: What is the capital of the Austrian province of Tyrol?
Answer: Innsbruck

Question: Which 2003 film was nominated for eleven Oscars and won all of them?
Answer: (The Lord of the Rings) Return of Me King

Question: Who composed the 1862 opera "Beatrice et Benedict'?
Answer: (Hector) Berlioz

Question: What are the husks of grain separated from flour after grinding called?
Answer: Bran

Question: The head and the abdomen are two of the three part of an insect's body - what is the third?
Answer: Thorax

Question: Who, in the Old Testament, ordered the building of the Golden Calf?
Answer: Aaron

Question: In "The Simpson", what is the name of Bart's school principal?
Answer: (Seymour) Skinner

Question: How many grains are there in a pennyweight?
Answer: Twenty Four

Question: Who, in about 1759, painted the picture "The Shrimp Girl", now in the National Gallery, London?
Answer: (William) Hogarth

Question: In Norse mythology, from what type of tree was man first created?
Answer: Ash

Question: Which is the only Far Eastern country to have been a member of OPEC, being so from 1962 to 2008?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: Who was the US Marine involved in arms sales to Iran and diverting money to the Nicaraguan Contras?
Answer: Lt-Col. (Oliver) North

Question: What is the heraldic term for right?
Answer: Dexter

Question: How many links are there in a surveyor's chain?
Answer: One Hundred

Question: In 'The Simpsons", what is the forename of the driver of the school bus?
Answer: Otto

Question: The cosmic mountain Mount Meru is the centre and axis of the universe according to which mythology?
Answer: Hindu or

Question: Who, in 1856, painted the picture "The Blind Girl, now in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery?
Answer: (John Everett) Millais