Question: Which composer, born in 1732, wrote the oratorios 'The Creation' and 'The Seasons'?
Answer: (Franz Josef) Haydn

Question: Alfred Hitchcock made two films of the same name and virtually the same story in 1934 and 1956, the second starring Doris Day and James Stewart. Name the film. The Man Who Knew
Answer: Too Much

Question: On which island did the mutinous crew from the Bounty make their home?
Answer: Pitcairn

Question: Who starred as the villain Max Cady in the 1991 remake of the film 'Cape Fear'?
Answer: Robert de Niro

Question: Which athlete won a gold medal for Great Britain in the 2009 World Championships in Berlin in the triple jump?
Answer: Phillips Idowu

Question: Which US President was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Question: In which county would you find the stone circle known as 'Long Meg and her daughters'?
Answer: Cumbria

Question: Which bank acquired the Woolwich Building Society in 2000?
Answer: Barclays

Question: What was the middle name of Diana, Princess of Wales?
Answer: Frances

Question: Who was the principal guitarist with the Quintette du Hot Club de France?
Answer: Django Reinhardt

Question: What specific product is associated with the town of Lynchburg Tennessee?
Answer: Jack Daniel's

Question: Who is the narrator for the majority of R L Stevenson's book Treasure Island?
Answer: Jim Hawkins

Question: The Kiel Canal links the North Sea with which other sea?
Answer: The Baltic

Question: Which actor provided the voice for Mr Magoo?
Answer: Jim Backus

Question: In which country was Grinling Gibbons born?
Answer: Holland

Question: The main mouth of the Amazon lies in which country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Adam Dalgleish is a Scotland Yard detective in whose crime novels?
Answer: P D James

Question: What was the middle name of Princess Diana?
Answer: Frances

Question: Who wrote the novel The Turn of the Screw?
Answer: Henry James

Question: The Australian town of Newcastle is in which state?
Answer: New South Wales

Question: What type of creature is a Harvestman?
Answer: An Arachnid or Spider

Question: Two of the water signs are Cancer and Scorpio, what is the third?
Answer: Pisces

Question: In the 1940 film Fantasia, who was the Sorcerer's Apprentice?
Answer: Mickey Mouse

Question: The 1975 Australia v England cricket match had to be abandoned because of vandalism, at which ground was this match being played?
Answer: Headingley/Leeds

Question: Which South American country was named after an Italian City?
Answer: Venezuela

Question: Rachel, a Hebrew name appears in the Old Testament, it means what?
Answer: Ewe

Question: The plants called auricular belong to a family with which common name?
Answer: Primrose

Question: Name the film in which Arnold Schwarznegger becomes pregnant?
Answer: Junior

Question: Two of the earth signs are Taurus and Capricorn what is the third?
Answer: Virgo

Question: Who wrote the opera Hansel and Gretel?
Answer: Englebert Humperdinck

Question: In which year was the first London Marathon?
Answer: 1981

Question: Name the dragon that guarded treasure in the Hobbit?
Answer: Smaug

Question: Which religious group was founded by George Fox?
Answer: Society of Friends / the Quakers

Question: The Berlin Wall was breached in 1989, for how many complete years had it stood?
Answer: 28

Question: Name the home of the giants visited in Gulliver's Travels?
Answer: Brobdingnag

Question: The first five books of Hebrew Bible are contained in what Jewish Holy Book?
Answer: Torah

Question: To which family of birds do canaries and siskins belong?
Answer: Finch

Question: By what name is the bird the yaffle more commonly known?
Answer: Green Woodpecker

Question: What is the capital of the Seychelles?
Answer: Victoria

Question: In which English county is Aldeburgh?
Answer: Suffolk

Question: Which branch of physics is concerned with the study of low temperatures?
Answer: Cryogenics

Question: Which device did William Oughtred invent in 1621?
Answer: The Slide Rule

Question: What is the capital of Mauritius?
Answer: Port Louis

Question: What is the name of the Edinburgh Cathedral to be found on the Royal Mile?
Answer: St.Giles

Question: Which musical contain the songs, 'Til There Was You and 76 Trombones?
Answer: The Music Man

Question: Name the area of the Adriatic Sea into which the Rive Po flows?
Answer: Gulf of Venice

Question: If a food dish is called navarine, what must it have in it?
Answer: Lamb

Question: What did the Ancient Greeks call the area that now contains Syria, Lebanon and Israel?
Answer: Phoenicia

Question: What is the state capital of North Carolina?
Answer: Raleigh

Question: In Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, who was the father of Bianca and Katrina?
Answer: Baptista

Question: In which year was the Peterloo Massacre?
Answer: 1819

Question: What is the state capital of South Dakota?
Answer: Pierre

Question: How is the statue by Chares of the Sun God Helios better known?
Answer: Colossus of Rhodes

Question: Give a year in the life of Charlotte Bronte?
Answer: 1816 - 1855

Question: In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, to which Lady is Malvolio the steward?
Answer: Olivia

Question: In which year were the Gordon Riots?
Answer: 1780

Question: Where would you apply to become a keeper of an English lighthouse?
Answer: Trinity House

Question: Which famous ex-sportsman provides the voice for the children's TV programme 'Underground Ernie'?
Answer: Gary Linker

Question: Hever Castle in Kent was the childhood home of which English Queen?
Answer: Anne Boleyn

Question: What was the name of the first communications satellite, launched in 1962?
Answer: Telstar

Question: At the 2008 European Football Championships Otto Rehhagel was coach of which country's team?
Answer: Greece

Question: The nickname of which British Prime Minister was 'the unknown Prime Minister'?
Answer: Andrew Bonar-L aw

Question: The last line of which blockbuster film was "I used to hate the water, I can't imagine why"?
Answer: Jaws

Question: Which TV series features the characters 'Stanley Marsh' and 'Kyle Broflovski'?
Answer: South Park

Question: Which fish is used to make an Arbroath Smokie?
Answer: Haddock

Question: Which sport is played at the top level by Mardy Fish?
Answer: Tennis

Question: Which English writer, best known for his science fiction, published 'Outline of History' in the 1920s?
Answer: HG Wells

Question: What type of weapon is a 'Katana'?
Answer: (long, single edged) Sword

Question: The island of Trinidad lies seven miles off the coast of which South American country?
Answer: Venezuela

Question: Which US President was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize after his term in office?
Answer: Jimmy Carter

Question: An excess of what in the bloodstream causes jaundice?
Answer: Bile

Question: What was the name of the first nuclear submarine, launched in 1954?
Answer: Nautilus

Question: Dawley New Town changed its name in 1968, how is it now known?
Answer: Telford

Question: Mujibur Rahman was the first president of which country?
Answer: Bangladesh

Question: Bundaberg rum is produced in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: The Hindu and Urdu word for a foreign or distant land was corrupted by British soldiers in the early 20th century to become which familiar slang term referring to Britain?
Answer: Blighty

Question: The last line of which blockbuster film was "Good, for a moment there I thought we were in trouble"?
Answer: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Question: Which famous ex-sportsman provides the voice for the children's TV programme 'Roary the Racing Car'?
Answer: Stirling Moss

Question: Which pop group took their name from the Gaelic word for family?
Answer: Clannad

Question: Prasutagus was the husband of which famous woman?
Answer: Boudicca

Question: At the 2008 European Football Championships Leo Beenhakker was coach of which country's team?
Answer: Poland