Question: What is the collective noun for a group of dolphins?
Answer: Pod/School

Question: What is the highest mountain on the Isle of Man?
Answer: Snaefell

Question: Which comedian's real name is Michael Pennington?
Answer: Johnny Vegas

Question: Who composed the opera 'The Rake's Progress' in 1951?
Answer: Igor Stravinsky

Question: Libreville is the capital of which West African country?
Answer: Gabon

Question: What name is given to the larvae of the cranefly?
Answer: Leatherjacket

Question: In which year did the Easter Rising, against British rule in Ireland, take place?
Answer: 1916

Question: What term describes ranks in the Royal Navy above that of Captain?
Answer: Flag Officers

Question: Which American President acquired the nickname 'The Gipper'?
Answer: Ronald REAGAN

Question: In a very well-known novel, who owns the house called Manderley?
Answer: MAXIM De WINTER

Question: Who is the only New Zealander to have won the Fl World Drivers Championship?
Answer: Denny Hulme

Question: In WW2, which company made the Halifax bomber?
Answer: Handley Page

Question: What acid is found in rhubarb leaves?
Answer: Oxalic Acid

Question: Who wrote the music for the 1948 film 'Scott of the Antarctic'?
Answer: Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Question: Which classical author became Mrs Arthur Nicholls?
Answer: Charlotte Bronte

Question: Who made a series of television programmes from River Cottage?
Answer: Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall

Question: A sepoy was a soldier from which country?
Answer: India

Question: On a musical score, what does 'da capo' mean?
Answer: From The Beginning

Question: In Jules Veme's 'Around the World in 80 Days', Phileas Fogg starts and finishes his journey at which London club?
Answer: The REFORM Club

Question: Which literary work, completed in 1353, contains the tales of ten travellers escaping from the plague in Florence?
Answer: Decameron

Question: Which 'Bond girl' was married to a Beatle? Give either the name of the actress or the name of the character.
Answer: Barbara Bach

Question: In a Dickens novel, who lived at Satis House?
Answer: Miss Havisham

Question: Who wrote the medieval poem 'Piers Plowman'?
Answer: William Langland

Question: Which actor appeared in the first and the last episodes of 'Grange Hill'?
Answer: Todd Carty

Question: Which TV cook is married to presenter Fern Britton?
Answer: Phil Vickery

Question: Who attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford in 1975?
Answer: (Lynette 'SQUEAKY') FROMME

Question: Who designed the Avro Vulcan Bomber?
Answer: Roy Chadwick

Question: Who wrote the music for the films 'Dancing with Wolves' and 'Out of Africa'?
Answer: John Barry

Question: Who was the father of the Virgin Mary?
Answer: Saint JOACHIM

Question: Which famous London club was founded by Italian Francesco Bianco?
Answer: White'S

Question: Architect Frank Matcham (1854-1920) specialized in designing which kind of building?
Answer: Theatres

Question: In science, what is the name given to a substance with characteristic reactions used as a chemical test?
Answer: Reagent

Question: What name was given to the proletariat of the French Revolution?
Answer: Sans Culottes

Question: Who died on January 5th 1922 whilst on his fourth Antarctic expedition?
Answer: Sir ERNEST SHACKLETON

Question: Of what institution was Sir John Houblon the first governor in 1694?
Answer: BANK of ENGLAND

Question: Since 1066, who was the oldest English monarch to ascend the throne?
Answer: William Iv

Question: Which group had a hit in the 1960's with 'Keep on running'?
Answer: Spencer Davis Group

Question: Britain's first motor bus service started in 1897, in which town or city?
Answer: Bradford

Question: Ernest Shepard was the original illustrator of which children's stories?
Answer: WINNIE the POOH

Question: In the 2008 film 'W, directed by Oliver Stone, who played George W. Bush?
Answer: Josh Brolin

Question: Which is the only fabric in the world, the manufacture of which is governed by an Act of Parliament - specified in a 1993 Act?
Answer: Harris Tweed

Question: In 1944, in which New Hampshire town was an agreement drawn up to establish the IMF and World Bank?
Answer: Bretton Woods

Question: Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker prize for 2008 - what was the title of the book?
Answer: The WHITE TIGER

Question: Which organisation has the motto 'Mantiens le droit', which is included in its coat of arms?
Answer: Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Question: Who, on 17m October 2008, became the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in Test cricket?
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar

Question: Who shared the 1901 Nobel Peace Prize (the first) with Frederic Passy, for his work which inspired the creation of the Red Cross and the Geneva Convention?
Answer: Henri Dunant

Question: In 1894, Marks and Spencer opened their first 'Penny Bazaar', in which town or city?
Answer: Manchester

Question: Harmsen Van der Beek is the original illustrator of which books by Enid Blyton?
Answer: Noddy

Question: Australian Douglas Mawson, 1882-1958, was famous for exploration on which continent?
Answer: Antarctica

Question: Which British bank issued the first credit card in 1966?
Answer: Barclays

Question: Which cricketer, who retired from first class cricket in 2008, scored 135 centuries although he had limited success at Test level?
Answer: Graham Hick

Question: Bavarian lederhosen are traditionally made from the hide of which animal?
Answer: Deer

Question: What does the Stock Exchange call a temporary rise in share prices which does not lead to a recovery and precedes a decline?
Answer: Dead Cat Bounce

Question: In Greek mythology, who was the legendary King of Troy?
Answer: Priam

Question: Who was the grandfather of Queen Victoria?
Answer: George Iii

Question: Who directed the 2008 film 'Burn after Reading'?
Answer: Coen Brothers

Question: Traditional wattle hurdles were made from the wood of which tree?
Answer: Hazel

Question: Mount Marmolada is the highest peak in which European mountain range?
Answer: Dolomites

Question: Which National Trust property in Cheshire includes a mansion and a Tudor hall that was once owned by the Egerton family?
Answer: Tatton Park

Question: Who founded the Ballet Russe?
Answer: Sergei Diaghilev

Question: Who presented the TV show 'The Human Body'?
Answer: Robert Winston

Question: In which country did Victoria Adams marry David Beckham?
Answer: Ireland

Question: What is sciophobia a fear of?
Answer: Shadows

Question: Who was the first woman in Britain granted a professional boxing licence?
Answer: Jane Couch

Question: What is tocophobia a fear of?
Answer: Childbirth

Question: How is the plant Lactuca Sativa better known?
Answer: Lettuce

Question: Who lost most Ladies Singles Finals at Wimbledon in the 1980's?
Answer: Chris Evert

Question: Which famous poet wrote the line 'we are the hollow men'?
Answer: T. S. Eliot

Question: Which band had a top ten in 1996 with Cosmic Girl?
Answer: Jamiroquai

Question: Which English town has railway stations called High Level and Low Level?
Answer: Wolverhampton

Question: In which decade of the 20th Century were the Oscars instigated?
Answer: 1920s

Question: Which author created the fictional detective C Auguste Dupin?
Answer: Edgar Allen Poe

Question: Who assassinated the Duke of Buckingham in 1628?
Answer: John Felton

Question: Who defeated Martina Navratilova in her last Wimbledon Singles Final?
Answer: Conchita Martinez

Question: John Crome (1768-1821) founded which School of Painting?
Answer: Norwich School

Question: Which African country takes its name from the Shona for 'house of stone'?
Answer: Zimbabwe

Question: 'Live Forever' was the first UK top ten single for which band?
Answer: Oasis

Question: King Alexander I, assassinated in Marseilles in 1934, was king of which country?
Answer: Yugoslavia

Question: Air fight pioneer Amy Johnson vanished over which river?
Answer: Thames