Question: In which year of the 1960s did Sandie Shaw have a number one hit with 'Puppet on a String' and Procol Harum with 'Whiter Shade of Pale'?
Answer: 1967

Question: Which Roman emperor is known by a name which translates as 'Little Boots'?
Answer: Caligula

Question: Who in 1938 invented the game of Scrabble (although he called it Criss-Crosswords)?
Answer: Alfred Butts

Question: Which artist's last words, in 1851, were "The sun is God"?
Answer: J M W Turner

Question: Who, in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was the first British swimmer to win 2 gold medals since 1908?
Answer: Rebecca Adlington

Question: Give a year in the life of composer Gaetano Donizetti?
Answer: 1797-1848

Question: Whose 9 metre high statue of a spider was acquired by Tate Modern in 2008?
Answer: Louise Bourgeois

Question: Cyclist Tommy Simpson died whilst taking part in the 1967 Tour de France. What 'first' had he previously achieved in the event?
Answer: First Englishman To Wear The Yellow Jersey

Question: Children's author Mrs Darrell Waters was better known under which name?
Answer: Enid Blyton

Question: Matter is thought to contain two classes of particles, Hadrons and which other?
Answer: Leptons

Question: What physical fact was proven by Foucault's pendulum?
Answer: That The Earth Rotates

Question: Which war was ended by the Treaty of Westphalia?
Answer: The Thirty Year War

Question: If you had a postcode starting NE5 where would you live?
Answer: Newcastle Upon Tyne

Question: On which pipe of a set of bagpipes is the tune fingered?
Answer: The Chanter

Question: The style of singing known as Fado comes from which European country?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Who said "I think, therefore I am"?
Answer: Rene Descartes

Question: In Greek mythology who was the Muse of Tragedy?
Answer: Melpomene

Question: Which bird, seen in Britain in the summer, has varieties called Reed, Grasshopper and Willow?
Answer: Warbler

Question: Who, in legend, commanded the Greeks during the Trojan War?
Answer: Agamemnon

Question: Who wrote "Mr Midshipman Easy"?
Answer: Frederick Marryat

Question: In which Canadian province is the nation's capital Ottawa?
Answer: Ontario

Question: Which tree has the Latin name Salix?
Answer: Willow

Question: Who performed the first successful human heart transplant?
Answer: Dr Christian Barnard

Question: Who starred in films as 'Crocodile Dundee'?
Answer: Paul Hogan

Question: 'Kim', the 1901 novel by Rudyard Kipling, is about an Irish orphan named Kim O'Hara. Kim is short for which name?
Answer: Kimball

Question: In which year was the suffix letter first used on British car registration plates?
Answer: 1963

Question: Britannia Metal is composed mainly (93%) of which element?
Answer: Tin

Question: On which river is the Kariba Dam?
Answer: Zambezi

Question: Who has hosted a 'Comedy Roadshow' on BBC TV during 2009?
Answer: Michael McIntyre

Question: Name either of the two countries that joined NATO during 2009?
Answer: Croatia or Albania

Question: Which state surrounds the Australian Capital territory including the capital Canberra?
Answer: New South Wales

Question: Name the writer known as 'Denmark's most famous son', his birthplace in Odense is now a museum?
Answer: Hans Christian Anderson

Question: Who played the part of Michael Douglas's wife in the film 'Fatal Attraction'?
Answer: Anne Archer

Question: How many chains are there in one mile?
Answer: 80

Question: What is the name of the traditional Scottish pudding, often eaten at Hogmanay, made with suet, currants and, sultanas and named from the cloth in which it is wrapped for cooking?
Answer: Clootie Dumpling

Question: In the North East a workman's packed lunch is his 'bait', what is it in Scotland?
Answer: His 'Piece'

Question: Between 1892 and 1954, which part of New York was the point of entry for millions of immigrants?
Answer: Ellis Island

Question: What was the surname of the Danish father and son who both won Nobel Prizes for Physics, in 1922 and 1975?
Answer: Bohr

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

Question: French world cup winning footballer Zinedane Zidane is the son of an immigrant from which country?
Answer: Algeria

Question: From which wine making region does Chablis come?
Answer: Burgundy

Question: In which Beatles song does 'the barber shave another customer'?
Answer: Penny Lane

Question: In Greek mythology, Thanatos represented Death who was his twin brother who represented Sleep?
Answer: Hypnos

Question: Who, in a Shakespeare play, said "The evil that men do lives after them"?
Answer: Mark Antony

Question: Discovered in 1824, which chemical element, Atomic Number 14, has a name derived from the Latin for 'flint'?
Answer: Silicon

Question: The name of which classic film (starring Audrey Hepburn) was also the title of a 1996 hit record for the group 'Deep Blue Something'?
Answer: Breakfast at Tiffany's

Question: 'Take My Breath Away' was the theme to which film?
Answer: Top Gun

Question: In 2010 which city will become Europe's first 'Green Capital'?
Answer: Stockholm

Question: Which alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold, is named after a London clockmaker?
Answer: Pinchbeck

Question: What name is given to a short handled farming tool with a semi-circular blade?
Answer: Sickle

Question: What was the family name of Lord and Lady Marchmain in 'Brideshead Revisited'?
Answer: Flyte

Question: Which well known liqueur, usually served in a distinctive manner, is flavoured with elderberry and liquorice?
Answer: Sambuca

Question: Red Stripe lager was originally brewed in which country?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: Who is the President of the Football Association?
Answer: Prince William

Question: Who, in a Shakespeare play, gives his son the advice "Neither a lender or a borrower be"?
Answer: Polonius

Question: Which popular Scottish dessert is made with oats, cream, berries and whisky and often eaten at a Burns Supper?
Answer: Cranachan

Question: Which Asian country's flag consists of three vertical stripes of black, red and green with a picture of a mosque in the centre?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: The Everett Factory in Washington state, USA is the world's largest building, which company own it?
Answer: Boeing

Question: The William Burrell Collection is in which British town or city?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: How many cables make up a nautical mile?
Answer: Ten

Question: Who wrote the major choral work 'All Night Vigil', better known as the 'Vespers' which was sung at his funeral in 1943?
Answer: Rachmaninov

Question: On which Aegean island is the lively resort of Faliraki?
Answer: Rhodes

Question: Formerly the Public Records Office, by what name is it now known?
Answer: National Archives

Question: Which metal is produced by the Mond Process?
Answer: Nickel

Question: Give a year during the Governorship of Peter Stuyvesant in New York.
Answer: 1647-1664

Question: Vestiphobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Clothing

Question: Chrometophobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Money

Question: Give a year during which Ramsay MacDonald was Prime Minister in Britain.
Answer: 1924; 1929-31; 1931-5

Question: Name one of the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility.
Answer: Elinor; Marianne or Margaret

Question: Which is the second largest lake in the Lake District?
Answer: Ullswater

Question: The summer Olympic Games of 1912 were held in which city?
Answer: Stockholm

Question: In which Shakespeare play does the character Mercutio appear?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet

Question: Name one of the moons of the planet Mars.
Answer: Phobos or Deimos

Question: In which Shakespeare play does the character Goneril appear?
Answer: King Lear

Question: The summer Olympic Games of 1988 were held in which city?
Answer: Seoul

Question: Who was The Times correspondent who reported on location from the Crimean War?
Answer: William Russell