Question: Which boxer was filmed striking a gong, that was used as an introduction to films from the J Arthur Rank studios?
Answer: Bombardier Billy Wells

Question: In 2009, Heath Ledger was the second person to win an Oscar posthumously. Who was the first?
Answer: Peter Finch

Question: Americans call it a trunk. What do the British call it?
Answer: Boot

Question: What film did Vittorio de Sica direct in 1946 about two innocent boys in Rome who commit a crime to buy a horse?
Answer: Shoe Shine

Question: In which computer game is the player in the role of "The Stranger", who uses a special book to travel to an island and thence to several worlds known as "Ages"?
Answer: Myst

Question: Which Formula One team, founded in 1963 by a New Zealander, were the first to design a car using a carbon fibre monocoque?
Answer: McLaren

Question: What is the common term for "pre-patellar bursitis"?
Answer: Housemaids knee

Question: Who had a morning show from June to October 1980 and a late night show from 1982 to 1993 weeknights at 12:30 a.m. at NBC in New York, then moved to CBS where the show screens at 11:30 p.m.?
Answer: David Letterman

Question: What is a slight fluctuation in pitch caused by the player of a stringed instrument shaking a finger while stopping a string?
Answer: Vibrato

Question: Who was the nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and heir to the throne, who renounced his childrens right to succession in order to make a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie Chotek and was assassinated with her in Bosnia in 1914?
Answer: Franz Ferdinand

Question: When was the armistice for World War I signed?
Answer: 11am on 11 November

Question: Which US TV show, for which the cast list included Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jason Alexander, was set predominantly in an apartment block on New York City's Upper West Side (but shot mostly in Los Angeles, California)?
Answer: Seinfeld

Question: Which pen manufacturer was founded in 1891 in Janesville, Wisconsin, USA?
Answer: Parker

Question: When did the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), formerly the governing body of cricket in England and across the world, pass most of its global functions to the International Cricket Council (ICC)?
Answer: 1993

Question: What were T S Eliot's first names?
Answer: Thomas Stearns

Question: What song plays over the end credits of the film "Christine"?
Answer: """Bad To The Bone"" by George Thorogood"

Question: One of the earliest European explorers to reach Australia and New Zealand has which island named after him?
Answer: Tasmania

Question: What is the contraction of the German "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" in common use in English?
Answer: Nazi

Question: Which city, previously the Roman town of Vindobona, became the capital of the Duchy of Austria in 1156 and the capital of Hapsburg power base in the 13th century?
Answer: Vienna

Question: What was Lieut. C D Lucas, RN, the first to receive as a result of his involvement in the bombardment of a Russian fortress in the Baltic on 21 June 1854?
Answer: Victoria Cross

Question: The musical "The King and I" is associated with which geographical area?
Answer: Thailand

Question: Which Greek letter usually denotes the brightest star in a constellation?
Answer: Alpha

Question: Who tried to win back the America's Cup from the New York Yacht Club 5 times between 1899 and 1930 in boats called "Shamrock"?
Answer: Sir Thomas Lipton

Question: Who was "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"?
Answer: Quasimodo

Question: Which journey by James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise in 1970 almost ended in disaster?
Answer: Apollo 13

Question: The lyrics of which song were inspired by the successful American defence of Fort McHenry in September 1814?
Answer: The Star-Spangled Banner

Question: What is a name for a hand-held weapon, used to strangle someone to death?
Answer: Garotte

Question: Which classic film is the story of a US marshal who cannot get help from anyone (including his new quaker wife) to face a gunfight with a criminal and his three henchmen?
Answer: High Noon

Question: The first pilgrims sailed to America from which English Port?
Answer: Plymouth

Question: Who had hit records with "Eh Eh", "Let's Dance" and "Poker Face"?
Answer: Lady Ga Ga

Question: The spiny leguminous plant called furze is also known as what?
Answer: Gorse

Question: David Ben-Gurion became Prime Minister of the provisional government of which newly created country on 15 May 1948?
Answer: Israel

Question: Which American was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union, the first female photojournalist for Life magazine, the first female war correspondent and the first to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II?
Answer: Margaret Bourke-White

Question: Who created the character of Hercule Poirot?
Answer: Agatha Christie

Question: In English law, what is the "foreshore"?
Answer: The area between the high and low watermarks of ordinary tides

Question: The military action popularly known as "The Charge of the Light Brigade" took place in which war?
Answer: Crimean War

Question: What is the electrical capacitance which 1 coulomb of electricity will charge to a capacity of 1 volt?
Answer: Farad

Question: Where are sculptures of Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis carved into the side of a mountain?
Answer: Stone Mountain, Georgia

Question: Although now a term for an ordinary infantryman, in 1640 a "fusilier" was so called because his weapon was a fusil. What was a fusil?
Answer: A light flintlock musket

Question: Who became famous through three films made in 1955 and 1956, and died at the wheel of a Porsche in 1956?
Answer: James Dean

Question: The song "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'" from the film "High Noon" was a big hit for Frankie Laine in the early 1950s. Who sang it on the film soundtrack?
Answer: Tex Ritter

Question: In chess, how many spaces does the rook move when castling?
Answer: 2 or 3

Question: What is the second shortest song released on a "proper" Beatles album?
Answer: """Maggie Mae"" from the album ""Let It Be"", released in 1970"

Question: Where did the Greek god Helios go home to sleep at night, where he lived with his brother, Eos?
Answer: In the sea

Question: Lake Erie is connected to Lake Ontario by which river?
Answer: Niagara

Question: What car was in production in Britain for the longest time, until 1971?
Answer: Morris Minor

Question: Who wrote the play "Oedipus Rex", "Antigone" and "Electra"?
Answer: Sophocles

Question: Which constellation is just below the feet of The Great Bear?
Answer: Leo

Question: What is the oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat?
Answer: USS Constitution

Question: Apollo Creed is the enemy of whom?
Answer: Rocky

Question: What is the name for radiations of a wavelength shorter than, and immediately next to, the visible spectrum?
Answer: Ultra violet

Question: Where in Paris would you go to stand under the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: Champs de Mars

Question: Which English writer wrote "Goodbye To All That", "I, Claudius", "Claudius The God" and "King Jesus"?
Answer: Robert Graves

Question: Sepoys, native soldiers, served under British command in which country?
Answer: India

Question: Which opera shocked audiences at its premire due to a combination of a biblical theme, the erotic and the murderous, especially "The Dance of the Seven Veils" and the heroine making necrophilic love?
Answer: """Salome"" by Richard Strauss"

Question: Of what descent was singer Bobby Darin?
Answer: Italian

Question: Where is the Klondike River?
Answer: Yukon Territory, Canada

Question: What is the name for a hydrometer which is used for determining the alcoholic strength of liquids?
Answer: Proof & tralle hydrometer

Question: In the Christian calendar, what is the week before Easter, historically a time of abstinence from eating flesh, drinking wine and carrying on business?
Answer: Holy Week