Question: Which Italian wrote the opera "La Boheme"?
Answer: Puccini

Question: Who wrote the book "The Brothers Karamazov"?
Answer: Dostoyevsky

Question: By what name was singer Terence Nelhams better known?
Answer: Adam Faith

Question: What did William Addis invent whilst in Newgate Prison?
Answer: The Toothbrush

Question: In mythology, which winged horse did Bellerophon ride?
Answer: Pegasus

Question: Who was the last prisoner in Spandau Jail, Berlin?
Answer: Rudolph Hess

Question: In children's literature, which car did Commander Caractacus Potts drive?
Answer: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Question: What was the first name of the character "Rigsby" in the TV comedy "Rising Damp"?
Answer: Rupert

Question: Who designed the statue "Angel of the North" which stands alongside the M1 motorway?
Answer: Anthony Gormley

Question: What was the first name of the boxer Sonny Liston?
Answer: Charles

Question: Who wrote the book (later a film) "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"?
Answer: Allan Sillitoe

Question: Who wrote the 1930's books "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Capricorn"?
Answer: Henry Miller

Question: In which European city is the criminal society called the "Camorra" based?
Answer: Naples

Question: What is the symbol/logo of the financial institution "Legal and General"?
Answer: An Umbrella

Question: Who wrote the poems "The Soldier" and "The Old Vicarage"?
Answer: Rupert Brooke

Question: Who said "In the Country of the Blind The One-eyed Man is King?
Answer: H G Wells

Question: On a dartboard which number is between 18 and 13?
Answer: 4

Question: Paul Tortlellier and Mistislav Rostropovich are associated with which musical instrument?
Answer: The Cello

Question: Who played Jim Morrisson in Oliver Stone's film "The Doors"?
Answer: Val Kilmer

Question: What is produced in a Bessemer Converter?
Answer: Steel

Question: What metal is always present in alloys called amalgams?
Answer: Mercury

Question: Whose ghost was at the dinner table in "Macbeth"?
Answer: Banquo'S

Question: Who, apart from Geoff Hurst, scored in the 1966 World Cup Final for England?
Answer: Martin Peters

Question: Which U.S. state known as "The Mainland State" or "The Last Frontier" has the forget-me-not as its state flower?
Answer: Alaska

Question: What, in Buddhist theology, is the highest level of attainment?
Answer: Nirvana

Question: Which music legend was the subject of Don McLean's song - "American Pie"?
Answer: Buddy Holly

Question: Who said "A week in politics is a long time"?
Answer: Harold Wilson

Question: On what date is Burns Night celebrated?
Answer: 25th JANUARY

Question: Which famous jazz singer was known as "Lady Day"?
Answer: Billie Holiday

Question: From which poem is the line "Rats, they fought like dogs, and killed the cats"?
Answer: Pied Pier Of Hamlin

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

Question: What type of whisky has the same name as a French royal family?
Answer: Bourbon

Question: On which planet are the craters Brahms and Liszt?
Answer: Mercury

Question: Who wrote the novel "Mansfield Park"?
Answer: Jane Austen

Question: Name the year in which Freddie Mercury died, hostage Terry Waite was released and No. 10 Downing Street was mortar bombed?
Answer: 1991

Question: Which day of the week is traditionally associated with "Ladies Day" at Royal Ascot?
Answer: Thursday

Question: What is the only non-fictional country visited by Gulliver in his travels?
Answer: Japan

Question: Which British King had the longest reign?
Answer: George Iii

Question: What was the first Elvis Presley single to reach number one in the UK?
Answer: All Shook Up

Question: In computing, how many bytes are there in a kilobyte?
Answer: 1024

Question: How many chromosomes are there in the female sex cell?
Answer: 23

Question: Which politician, now a Lord of the Realm, served with the SBS and was Britain's special representative in Bosnia?
Answer: Paddy Ashdown

Question: Which firm of car manufacturers describes one of its models as, "Full of Lovely Stuff", and has a TV advert showing it being made from cake and other confectionaries?
Answer: Skoda

Question: Which English romantic poet, (1795-1821), wrote the poem, "The Eve of St Agnes"?
Answer: John Keats

Question: Who was the German Ambassador to Britain from 1936-38?
Answer: Joachim Von Ribbentrop

Question: In which country was Adolf Eichmann a resident, when captured by the Israelis in 1960?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Which famous actor of his day, played the Hunchback of Notre Dame in the 1923 silent film?
Answer: Lon Chaney

Question: Which famous Englishman was born at Burnamthorpe in Norfolk in 1758?
Answer: Lord Horatio Nelson

Question: What is the main ingredient in the Indian drink, "lassi"?
Answer: Yoghurt

Question: Kerstin Hakansson, winner of the first Miss World contest, came from which country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: Russell is the family name of which English Duke?
Answer: Duke Of Bedford

Question: Name the American winner of the 1973 Miss World contest, whose reign lasted just 104 days, before she was sacked, following a series of high profile liaisons with various famous men of the day.
Answer: Marjorie Wallace

Question: The German liqueur, "Kummel" is flavoured with cumin and two other herbs. Name either.
Answer: CARAWAY SEED or FENNEL

Question: John Jarndyce and Honoria, Lady Dedlock are major characters in which Dickens novel?
Answer: Bleak House

Question: Who played Esmeralda, to Charles Laughton's Quasimodo, in the 1939 version of the film, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"?
Answer: Maureen O'Hara

Question: Which TV programme always ended with the words, "Head 'em up, Move 'em out"?
Answer: Rawhide

Question: Which English poet, (1770-1850), wrote, "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey?
Answer: William Wordsworth

Question: The Guardian cartoonist, Steve Bell, always portrayed which politician with his Y-fronts outside his trousers?
Answer: John Major

Question: Which American Formula One motor racing driver, heir to part of the vast family fortune made in the cosmetics industry, won the British Grand Prix in 1973, but was killed during the South African Grand Prix, in 1974?
Answer: Peter Revson

Question: The White Death was an alternative name for which once common disease?
Answer: Tuberculosis.

Question: A person who writes the music for an opera is called a composer. What name is given to the person who writes the words?
Answer: A Librettist

Question: Which famous historical event was featured in the novel, "Lorna Doone"?
Answer: The Monmouth Rebellion

Question: Give a year in the life of Geoffrey Chaucer, dubbed "The Father of English Literature"?
Answer: c1343-1400.

Question: In the TV comedy series, "Absolutely Fabulous", which actress played the part of Edina's dim-witted assistant, "Bubble"?
Answer: Jane Horrocks

Question: What is the name of the Australian actor/comedian who created the character Dame Edna Everage?
Answer: Barry Humphries

Question: Which British city was once said to be famous for Jam, Jute and Journalism?
Answer: Dundee

Question: The author, George Orwell was shot in the throat whilst fighting in which war?
Answer: Spanish Civil War

Question: Which singer once said of herself, "It takes a lot of money to look as cheap as this"?
Answer: Dolly Parton

Question: Which man said of Gandhi, "You'd be amazed how much it costs to keep that old man in poverty"?
Answer: Lord Louis Mountbatten

Question: Although losing all three fights, which British boxer, between 1973 and 1975, went the distance with Joe Frazier and twice with Muhammed Ali?
Answer: Joe Bugner

Question: Which British Trade Union leader fought with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, and was badly wounded at the Battle of Ebro in 1938?
Answer: Jack Jones

Question: In which Yorkshire town was the opera singer Lesley Garrett born in 1955?
Answer: Doncaster