Question: Which is the main vitamin found in Liver Worts, butter-fat, green leaves etc.?
Answer: Vitamin A

Question: Which 'French Impressionist' painter, famed for his portrait, 'The Bar At The Folies Bergere', was born in Paris in 1832, and died of a gangrenous leg in 1883?
Answer: Edouard Manet

Question: What is the name of the Highwayman featured in John Gay's musical play, 'The Beggar's Opera'?
Answer: 'Macheath'

Question: Give a year in the life of novellist Henry Fielding?
Answer: 1707 - 1754

Question: Which actor played the title role in the 1939 film "Young Mr. Lincoln"?
Answer: Henry Fonda

Question: What mechanism ensures that when a vehicle is cornering, the rear wheels can both be driven, yet turn at a different rate?
Answer: Differential Gear

Question: Which word, derived from the Latin for 'wild', describes an untamed or uncultivated animal?
Answer: Feral

Question: In which city are the headquarters of Mercedes?
Answer: Stuttgart

Question: Who is the Shadow Secretary of State for Home Affairs?
Answer: Oliver Letwin

Question: In a mechanical clock or watch, what mechanism ensures that the hands are driven at an even rate?
Answer: Escapement

Question: What was the capital of the ancient Assyrian civilisation?
Answer: Nineveh

Question: Which 1980's quiz show, presented by Angela Ripon, featured the rounds "Team Challenge" and "In A Spin"?
Answer: 'Master Team'

Question: In World War I, British soldiers were named 'Tommies', what name was given to French soldiers?
Answer: 'Poilu'

Question: How would one play a piece of music with the instruction 'Con Brio'?
Answer: WITH SPIRIT (or lively)

Question: Who wrote the five volumes re-telling the 'Arthurian legend', under the title 'The Once And Future King'?
Answer: T.H. WHITE (Terence Hanbury)

Question: Which actor played 'Ashley Wilkes' in the film 'Gone With The Wind'?
Answer: Lesley Howard

Question: What was made by the now defunct companies 'Delarge', 'Delahaye' and 'Hotchkiss'?
Answer: Cars

Question: Which Prime Minister persuaded Queen Victoria to take the title 'Empress Of India'?
Answer: Disraeli

Question: In Greek mythology, name the ship in which Jason sailed, in search of the 'Golden Fleece'?
Answer: The Argo

Question: Queen Alia Airport serves which Middle East city?
Answer: Amman, Jordan

Question: Who was US Secretary of State during the 'war' against Afghanistan?
Answer: Colin Powell

Question: What is the main vitamin found in fish liver oils, egg- yolks, etc.?
Answer: Vitamin D

Question: Which cartoon character lived on 'Sweetwater Island' and was the son of 'Poopdeck Pappy'?
Answer: 'Popeye'

Question: What would you do if you found the instruction 'Da Capo' on a piece of music?
Answer: Repeat From The Beginning

Question: In Greek mythology, who gave 'Theseus' the ball of thread with which he found his way out of the 'Labyrinth'?
Answer: 'Ariadne'

Question: Name the address at which the murderer Christie lived, and which was later the title of a film about his crimes?.
Answer: 10, Rillington Place

Question: In which city are the headquarters of Fiat?
Answer: Turin

Question: What is the name of the 'theme park' near Ripon in Yorkshire?
Answer: Lightwater Valley

Question: What is the capital of the Canadian province of Newfoundland?
Answer: St. Johns

Question: Which singer was the first to win the Eurovision Song Contest, rwice?
Answer: JOHHNY LOGAN (Eire)

Question: In which year was the 'Mini' motor car introduced, and the first photographs were taken of the far side of the moon?
Answer: 1959

Question: Apart from sugar and eggs, what is marzipan made from?
Answer: (ground) ALMONDS

Question: Who was the female star of the Rome-set film, 'La Dolce Vita'?
Answer: Anita Ekberg

Question: Pulex irritans is the Latin name for which creature?
Answer: Human Flea

Question: Which ballerina, born in Ireland, was the founder of the Sadler's Wells Ballet?
Answer: Ninette De Valois

Question: Which common sal\d ingredient is a member of the same family as 'Deadly Nightshade'?
Answer: Tomato

Question: In which country does the Ferencvaros team play club football?
Answer: Hungary

Question: Astrakhan is a port in the delta of which major river?
Answer: River Volga

Question: Who was the author of 'Moll Flanders'?
Answer: Daniel Defoe

Question: Who wrote the children's book 'National Velvet'?
Answer: Enid Bagnold

Question: In the human body, which part of the gut absorbs water from food?
Answer: COLON (accept Large Bowel)

Question: Who, born in Gloucestershire, composed 'On Wedlock Edge' in 1909?
Answer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

Question: Name the Roman equivalent to the Greek goddess, Pallas Athena?
Answer: Minerva

Question: In which Parliamentary constituency did Frank Field replace Edmund Dell as MP in 1979?
Answer: Birkenhead

Question: When Muhammad received the word of god at Hira, near Mecca. Where exactly was he?
Answer: In A Cave

Question: Which large marsh,once thought bottomless, lies between Liverpool and Manchester?
Answer: Chat Moss

Question: Who was the first husband of film actress Marilyn Monroe?
Answer: Jim Dougherty

Question: On TV and radio, which 'couple' were the inhabitants of the village of 'Stackton Tressell'?
Answer: 'Hinge & Bracket'

Question: Which British river is spanned by the Pulteney Bridge?
Answer: Avon

Question: In which northern city is the National Football Museum based?
Answer: Preston

Question: The airport in Orange County, California is named after which famous film star?
Answer: John Wayne

Question: In which northern city is the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television?
Answer: Bradford

Question: John Wayne turned down the role of which Marshall, James Arness eventually playing the role for 20 years?
Answer: 'Matt Dillon'

Question: Who was Eisenhower's Democratic opponent in the 1952 and 1956 US Presidential campaigns?
Answer: Adlai Stevenson

Question: Who was Allied commander in Palestine at the end of World War I?
Answer: General Allenby

Question: Singer Jiles Perry (JP) Richardson was better known as who?
Answer: 'The Big Bopper'

Question: Who was Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces at the end of World War I?
Answer: Marshall Foch

Question: 'Stag' and 'Carib' beers are made in which country?
Answer: Trinidad

Question: Which Cricket county's 'Twenty/20' team are known as 'The Crusaders'?
Answer: Middlesex

Question: Of which group of Greek islands is Naxos the largest?
Answer: Cyclades

Question: Which 1960's American group originally comprised Neil Young, Steven Stills, Richie Furay, Dewey Martin and Bruce Palmer?
Answer: 'Buffalo Springfield'

Question: Which Russian naval officer composed 'Capriccio Espagnole' in 1887?
Answer: Rimsky-Korsakov

Question: Which large marsh, once a haunt for smugglers, lies between Hythe and Rye on the south coast?
Answer: Romney Marsh

Question: On TV, who are the inhabitants of the village of 'Royston Vasey'?
Answer: 'The League Of Gentlemen'

Question: In the nursery rhyme, what description is given to 'Wednesday's Child'?
Answer: 'Full Of Woe'

Question: Singer-songwriter Carole Klein was better known by what name?
Answer: Carole King

Question: Which is the third largest Greek island?
Answer: Lesvos

Question: Marble Arch and Lancaster Gate are stations on which London Undeground line?
Answer: Central Line

Question: The island of Trinidad lies opposite the delta of which major river?
Answer: River Orinoco

Question: What happened to 'Solomon Grundy' on a Saturday?
Answer: He Died

Question: After which famous man (known as 'Oklahoma's favourite son') is Oklahoma City's airport named?
Answer: Will Rogers

Question: In which country does the Gornik team play club football?
Answer: Poland

Question: In which country is Puccini's opera 'Turandot' set?
Answer: China

Question: Who was the firstwife of US President Ronald Reagan?
Answer: Jane Wyman

Question: Which Cricket county's 'Twenty/20' team are known asthe 'Gladiators'?
Answer: Gloucestershire