Question: The Battle of Palmito Ranch (Hill) was the last major clash of which 19th century war?
Answer: American Civil War

Question: Singer Rihanna, and cricketer Sir Garfield Sobers are from which island?
Answer: Barbados

Question: Which species of bird has Andean and Californian varieties?
Answer: Condor

Question: """Gates of Hell"" and ""The Burghers of Calais"" are by which sculptor?"
Answer: (Auguste) Rodin

Question: Julia Gillard, elected Australian PM in 2010, was born in which country?
Answer: Wales

Question: The original 'Old Guard' were part of whose army?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Question: The Straits Times Index is the stock market of which Asian republic?
Answer: Singapore

Question: Which novel is set on one day - 16th June 1904?
Answer: Ulysses

Question: The girls' name Vanessa was invented by which 18th century Anglo-Irish writer?
Answer: Jonathan Swift

Question: Which alcoholic spirit is made from the blue agave plant?
Answer: Tequila

Question: Which city is at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers?
Answer: Montreal

Question: What name, also given to the spacecraft used, was given to the American space program that ran from 1959 to 1963, with the aim of putting a man in earth orbit?
Answer: Mercury

Question: In which English county are the National Space Centre and the Foxton canal locks?
Answer: Leicestershire

Question: What is the name of Atticus Finch's daughter, the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird?
Answer: Scout

Question: What is the main unit of currency of Vietnam?
Answer: Dong

Question: What is the state capital of Wyoming?
Answer: Cheyenne

Question: Who wrote the plays Plaza Suite and The Odd Couple?
Answer: (Neil) Simon

Question: What is the main currency unit of Afghanistan?
Answer: Afghani

Question: Which cooking utensil is called a skillet in America?
Answer: Frying Pan

Question: What was the name of the 1990s TV series starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson as flatmates Eddie and Richie?
Answer: Bottom

Question: Which author was born in Higher Brockhampton, near Dorchester, in 1840?
Answer: (Thomas) Hardy

Question: Asmara is the capital of which state that became independent on 24 May 1993?
Answer: Eritrea

Question: Which American playwright wrote The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night?
Answer: (Eugene) O'Neill

Question: What name is given to a female rat?
Answer: Doe

Question: In the TV programme '24', what is the name of the character played by Kiefer Sutherland?
Answer: Jack Bauer

Question: Who won the 1968 US presidential election?
Answer: (Richard) Nixon

Question: Occurring on 21 July 1861, on what was the first major land battle of the American Civil War?
Answer: First Bull Run

Question: In the book and film The Railway Children, who was the sister of Peter and Phyllis?
Answer: Bobbie

Question: In which of his books does George Orwell recount his experiences in the Spanish Civil War?
Answer: Homage to Catalonia

Question: In which Virginia town, in April 1865, did Robert E Lee sign the Confederate surrender at the end of the American Civil War?
Answer: Appomattox

Question: Alan Hansen joined Liverpool from which club in 1977?
Answer: Partick Thistle

Question: Which actor/director's production company is called Malpaso Productions?
Answer: Clint Eastwood

Question: Which Tottenham Hotspur manager signed Ossie Ardiles?
Answer: Keith Burkinshaw

Question: What was the name of the month in the French Revolutionary Calendar which corresponded to parts of July and August? The same word describes a lobster dish.
Answer: Thermidor

Question: Which river forms most of the border between Laos and Thailand?
Answer: Mekong

Question: Ian Curtis, who committed suicide in May 1980, was the vocalist with which group?
Answer: Joy Division

Question: John Wayne won his only Oscar for his role in which film?
Answer: True Grit

Question: Eddie Reader had a Number 1 hit in April 1988 with which group?
Answer: Fairground Attraction

Question: Which famous author spent 5 years in the 1920's as a police officer in Burma?
Answer: George Orwell

Question: Which directing partnership remade the film True Grit in 2010?
Answer: The Coen Brothers

Question: Which Israeli leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978?
Answer: Menachem Begin

Question: What was the name of the month in the French Revolutionary Calendar which corresponded to parts of March and April, and has the same name as a 1993 film starring Gerard Depardieu based on a Zola novel?
Answer: Germinal

Question: Which river forms the border between Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana?
Answer: Limpopo

Question: The subject of a 1970 Ken Russell film, which Russian composer's first symphony was nicknamed Winter Daydreams?
Answer: Tchaikovsky

Question: What did the poet Homer frequently describe as 'wine-dark'?
Answer: The Sea

Question: Which regular feature in Private Eye covers pretentious or pompous statements from the arts, academia and business?
Answer: Pseuds Corner

Question: What nationality was the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard?
Answer: Danish

Question: Which poem by Keats opens with the words "O what can all thee, knight-at-arms, alone and palely loitering"?
Answer: La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Question: Which band did Mick Jones form on leaving the Clash?
Answer: Big Audio Dynamite

Question: Which English character actor played Mr Salt in the 1971 film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'?
Answer: Roy Kinnear

Question: What was the name of Jodie Foster's character in the film 'Bugsy Malone'?
Answer: Tallulah

Question: Who wrote the novel 'Cold Comfort Farm' in 1932?
Answer: Stella Gibbons

Question: In which year was the Battle of the Little Big Horn?
Answer: 1876

Question: In which English county was Charles Darwin born?
Answer: Shropshire

Question: Who played the Skipper in the 1960s US TV sitcom 'Gilligan's Island'?
Answer: Alan Hale

Question: Which Liberal Democrat MP was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury in David Cameron's Cabinet in May 2010, only to resign the same month over an expenses claim?
Answer: David Laws

Question: Name one of the Patron Saints of Paris.
Answer: St. Denis or St. Genevieve

Question: The steel pan (or drum) is the national instrument of which island nation, where it was invented?
Answer: Trinidad and Tobago

Question: Which of the halogens has the lowest atomic number (9)?
Answer: Fluorine

Question: Which Shakespeare play is set in Sicilia and Bohemia?
Answer: The Winter's Tale

Question: Which historic region of France, roughly corresponding to the Dordogne, gives its name to black truffles?
Answer: Perigord

Question: Created by Sega in the 1990's, what type of creature is the video game character Sonic?
Answer: Hedgehog

Question: Of what is dromophobia the fear?
Answer: Crossing the street/road

Question: For what does the C stand in the acronym UNESCO?
Answer: Cultural

Question: Who was the French composer of the ballet Daphne et Chloe?
Answer: (Maurice) Ravel

Question: On which London thoroughfare is the Cenotaph situated?
Answer: Whitehall

Question: What name is given in English to a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction, eg deeply superficial?
Answer: Oxymoron

Question: Who was British Prime Minister when the American Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776?
Answer: Lord North

Question: In Australian Rules football, how many points are awarded for a field goal?
Answer: Six

Question: Who was the Queen consort of King Charles the Second of England?
Answer: Catherine of Braganza

Question: Which nocturnal animal has the Latin name `meles meles'?
Answer: (European) Badger

Question: On which river does the Grand Coulee Dam stand?
Answer: Columbia

Question: For what does the G stand in P. G. Wodehouse?
Answer: Grenville

Question: Which character of "The Archers" died in a fire on the day that ITV began broadcasting in 1955?
Answer: Grace Archer