Question: How many hours did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spend walking on the moon in 1969?
Answer: Two hours

Question: Who makes or made the model of vehicle the Cresta?
Answer: Vauxhall

Question: How many years does it take for Halley's Comet to reappear?
Answer: Every 76 years

Question: At the Restoration in 1660, whom did Charles II appoint as Governor of Windsor Castle?
Answer: Prince Rupert

Question: In which year did the Berlin Wall come down?
Answer: 1989

Question: The inhabitants of which Asian city call their city Krung Thep, "the City of Angels"?
Answer: Bangkok

Question: Give a year in the life of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Answer: 1340-1400

Question: Who directed the film Ryan's Daughter (1970)?
Answer: David Lean

Question: Give a year in the life of John Milton.
Answer: 1608-1674

Question: In 1707 a fleet of Navy ships was wrecked off the Scilly Islands. Who was the commander who lost his life in the disaster?
Answer: Sir Cloudesley Shovel

Question: In 1939 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was called "the most dangerous woman in Europe". By whom?
Answer: Adolf Hitler

Question: What is the name used for the training and cutting of trees and shrubs into ornamental shapes?
Answer: Topiary

Question: Which present-day US state was known officially in the 19th century as Indian territory?
Answer: Oklahoma

Question: Who wrote the opera Peter Grimes?
Answer: Benjamin Britten

Question: Who wrote the opera The Queen of Spades?
Answer: Tchaikovsky

Question: In which US state was native American chief Sitting Bull killed?
Answer: South Dakota

Question: Which flightless bird was found in Britain until nearly 200 years ago?
Answer: (Great) Auk

Question: What is the name for deliberately dwarfing trees and shrubs?
Answer: Bonsai

Question: Who directed the film Citizen Kane (1941)?
Answer: Orson Welles

Question: According to the Old Testament of the Bible, who consulted the witch of Endor?
Answer: Saul

Question: In which British county are the rivers Taw, Torridge and Teign?
Answer: Devon

Question: Why is a male falcon called a tiercel?
Answer: It is a THIRD SMALLER than the female falcon

Question: The village of Borstal that gave its name to institutions for juvenile criminals is in which British county?
Answer: Kent

Question: According to the Old Testament of the Bible, name one of the three friends who comforted Job.
Answer: Eliphaz; Bildad or Zophar

Question: Name one of the two female leads in the film Calendar Girls (2003)?
Answer: Helen Mirren or Julie Walters

Question: According to the book of Revelations in the New Testament of the Bible, where were the kings of the earth gathered for battle?
Answer: Armageddon

Question: The state of Malta consists of several islands - which is second in size to Malta itself?
Answer: Gozo

Question: On which river is St Petersburg situated?
Answer: Neva

Question: According to the New Testament of the Bible, where is referred to as the town of David?
Answer: Bethlehem

Question: Who wrote the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in 1936?
Answer: John Maynard Keynes

Question: What is the official publication for all state proclamations and the announcement of diplomatic and service appointments?
Answer: The London Gazette

Question: Which sea lies between Australia and New Zealand?
Answer: Tasman

Question: Glen Shee, Glencoe and Glen Ample are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Raspberry

Question: Gala, Jonagold and Pink Lady are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Apple

Question: Name one of the two Belgian cities linked by the Albert Canal.
Answer: Antwerp or Liege

Question: The Hall of Arts and Sciences that was opened in 1871 is better known now as what?
Answer: The Royal Albert Hall

Question: St Enoch's station is/was in which British city?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: In a symphony orchestra, which is the smallest woodwind instrument?
Answer: Piccolo

Question: In 1927 the capital of Australia was established in Canberra. Where had it the previous capital been?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: In the 2008 Olympic Games a team of 3 British women won a sailing gold medal - for which class of boat?
Answer: Yngling

Question: What nationality is the model Gisele Bundchen?
Answer: Brazilian

Question: Which former African leader once declared himself 'The Last King of Scotland'?
Answer: Idi Amin

Question: Which English Prime Minister left school in 1959 with 3 'O' levels?
Answer: John Major

Question: Which of the four teenage mutant Ninja turtles would come first alphabetically?
Answer: Donatello

Question: What is the nickname of the local mafia boss voiced by Joe Mantegna in 'The Simpsons'?
Answer: Fat Tony

Question: Gisbome, Hawkes Bay and Marlborough are wine producing districts in which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Robertson, Constantia and Pearl are wine producing districts in which country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Which 1980 cult film, directed by John Landis, starred John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd?
Answer: Blues Brothers

Question: Io, Callisto and Europa are moons of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: In which city were almost all French kings crowned?
Answer: Rheims

Question: Which monarch said Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest'?
Answer: Henry II

Question: In the Harry Potter books, which house at Hogwarts has a serpent as its emblem?
Answer: Slytherin

Question: In the children's books by Francesca Simon, 'Perfect Peter' is the younger brother of which character?
Answer: Horrid Henry

Question: Who collaborated with Karl Marx to produce 'The Communist Manifesto' in 1848?
Answer: Frederick Engels

Question: In 1706, the Duke of Marlborough won the Battle of Ramillies. In which modem country is it?
Answer: Belgium

Question: What is the name of the London based society for conjurors and magicians, founded in 1905?
Answer: The Magic Circle

Question: Which entertainer had a statue erected in his memory in his home town of Caerphilly in 2008?
Answer: Tommy Cooper

Question: What is the name of the medical condition of the eye which derives its name from the Greek words for 'without' and 'spot'?
Answer: Astigmatism

Question: What are the tiny blood vessels called which connect the smallest arteries and veins in the body?
Answer: Capillaries

Question: The aurochs is a wild ancestor of which domesticated animal?
Answer: Cattle

Question: The tarpan is a wild ancestor of which domesticated animal?
Answer: Horse

Question: Which part of the body is affected by stomatitis?
Answer: Mouth

Question: What type of food is eaten by animals with carnassial teeth?
Answer: Meat

Question: Protons and neutrons are made up of what smaller objects?
Answer: Quarks

Question: How many quarks make a proton?
Answer: 3

Question: Mauna Loa is a volcano in which US state?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: Mount St Helens is a volcano in which US state?
Answer: Washington

Question: Which Nottinghamshire fast bowler who died in 1995 was best known for implementing the 'Fast Leg Theory' in the Bodyline Ashes Test series in 1932/33?
Answer: Harold Larwood

Question: What is the usual name for the animal sometimes called a glutton?
Answer: Wolverine

Question: How many legs has a flea?
Answer: 6

Question: What is the minimum age of the President of the USA?
Answer: 35

Question: To what was John Keats referring in his line "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness"?
Answer: A Grecian Urn

Question: Which economist wrote "The Affluent Society" in 1958?
Answer: J K Galbraith

Question: How many legs has a lobster?
Answer: 10

Question: What is the name of the colourless plum brandy which is made in several Balkan and Eastern European countries?
Answer: Slivovitz

Question: Which dramatist wrote 'The Alchemist in 1610?
Answer: Ben Jonson

Question: Which law, originating during the reign of Clovis, prevents a woman from succeeding to a throne?
Answer: Salic Law

Question: What are classified using the Hubble Sequence?
Answer: Galaxies