Question: Which is the first book of the Bible named after a man?
Answer: Joshua

Question: Who was the first boxer to win the Olympic heavyweight title and go on to become the World Heavyweight Champion?
Answer: Joe Frazier

Question: Which is the most northerly state capital in the USA?
Answer: Juneau

Question: Which group had a 1977 No 2 UK hit with a rock instrumental 'Fanfare for the Common Man'?
Answer: Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Question: Stephen Blackpool is a character in which Dickens novel?
Answer: Hard Times

Question: Havana Brown, Blue Russian and Devon Rex are varieties of which, animal?
Answer: Cat

Question: What is the state capital of West Virginia?
Answer: Charleston

Question: Capuchins belong to which larger religious order of monks?
Answer: Franciscans

Question: What was the name of the dog in the children,s TV show The Herbs?
Answer: Dill

Question: Mahe, Praslin and Silhouette are part of which island group?
Answer: The Seychelles

Question: Which wine producing region of France is famous for its Medoc and St Emilion wines?
Answer: Bordeaux

Question: Of which sport is F.I.N.A. the ruling body?
Answer: Swimming

Question: Which sea area is directly north of Rockall?
Answer: Bailey

Question: What is the chemical formula for Ammonia?
Answer: Nh3

Question: Only two flags of the world are square, one is Switzerland, what is the other one?
Answer: Vatican City

Question: Which composer wrote The Manfred Symphony in 1885?
Answer: Tchaikovsky

Question: In Greek mythology who was the husband of Hecuba?
Answer: Priam

Question: Who was the first boxer to win three successive Olympic Heavyweight titles?
Answer: Teofilo Stevenson

Question: What is the most southerly state capital in the USA?
Answer: Honolulu

Question: Which Frenchman first explored the St Lawrence River from 1534-1536 and 1541-1542?
Answer: Jacques Cartier

Question: Holland Lop, Flemish Giant and New Zealand White are breeds of which animal?
Answer: Rabbit

Question: Taking its name from the Greek word for 'delight', which school of philosophy believes that pleasure is the only intrinsic good?
Answer: Hedonism

Question: A smooth and continuous bending of the knees from a standing position in ballet is called what?
Answer: Plie

Question: Whom did Peter Fleming partner when they won the Wimbledon men's doubles title in 1979, 1981, 1983 and 1984?
Answer: John McEnroe

Question: In the Iliad, which Greek hero killed the Trojan leader Hector?
Answer: Achilles

Question: Who wrote the 1987 Booker Prize winning novel 'Moon Tiger'?
Answer: Penelope Lively

Question: Which wine producing area of France is famous for wines such as Beaune and Nuits Saint-Georges?
Answer: Burgundy

Question: What is the chemical formula for methane?
Answer: Ch4

Question: Leeds stands on the banks of which river?
Answer: River Aire

Question: Which composer wrote a Faust Symphony in 1857?
Answer: Franz Liszt

Question: Which branch of philosophy, derived from the Greek word for a porch was founded by Zeno of Citium?
Answer: Stoicism

Question: Anatomically, of what is nephrology the study?
Answer: The Kidney

Question: Glenda Jackson won two Best Actress Oscars, one was for 'Women in Love' but which 1973 film earned her a second Oscar?
Answer: A Touch of Class

Question: Whom did Pam Shriver partner when they won the Wimbledon ladies doubles title in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1986?
Answer: Martina Navratilova

Question: Who played Blott, in BBC's 1985 adaptation of Tom Sharpe's novel 'Blott on the Landscape'?
Answer: David Suchet

Question: Which domestic appliance was invented by H W Seeley in 1882?
Answer: Electric Iron

Question: Which duo's films included Rio Rita' and The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap'?
Answer: Abbott and Costello

Question: Who had a hilltop retreat in Jamaica called Firefly?
Answer: Noel Coward

Question: What is the star sign for the lst August?
Answer: Leo

Question: What animal is also known as the glutton?
Answer: Wolverine

Question: Which city did Rome destroy at the end of the Second Punic War?
Answer: Carthage

Question: In the Harry Potter stories what kind of creature is Aragog?
Answer: Spider

Question: In cookery, Americans use 'cups' as a unit of measurement, what is generally accepted as the equivalent of 1 cup in ounces?
Answer: 8 oz.

Question: Who was the first Rugby Union player to play 100 games for England?
Answer: Jason Leonard

Question: What is the collective noun for a group of falcons?
Answer: Cast

Question: Which biscuit company was founded in Reading in 1822?
Answer: Huntley & Palmers

Question: What musical term means to glide from one pitch to another?
Answer: Glissando

Question: Of what is malacology the study?
Answer: Molluscs

Question: Who commanded the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg?
Answer: George Meade

Question: In Greek myth, who was the husband of Helen of Troy?
Answer: Menelaus

Question: Give a year in the life of French composer Claude Debussy.
Answer: 1862 - 1916

Question: In which 1980s BBC sitcom did the characters Yvonne and Barry appear?
Answer: Hi de Hi

Question: Which British Prime Minister introduced the Great Reform Act of 1830?
Answer: (Lord) Charles Grey

Question: Which flower is known as 'the fair maid of February'?
Answer: Snowdrop

Question: Which group had No.1 albums with Southside in 1989 and White on Blonde in 1997?
Answer: Texas

Question: Which book, by number of verses, is the shortest in the Old Testament?
Answer: Obadiah

Question: Which horse won the 2013 Grand National?
Answer: Auroras Encore

Question: What is the birthstone for the month of May?
Answer: Emerald

Question: In which of the United States is the Iditarod Trail?
Answer: Alaska

Question: What animal is also known as the honey-badger?
Answer: Ratel

Question: Which daughter of the King of Tyre traditionally founded Carthage?
Answer: Dido

Question: Horses are measured in 'hands', what is the equivalent of a hand in inches?
Answer: 4 inches

Question: Who is the current Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police?
Answer: Bernard Hogan-Howe

Question: Who was the first cricketer to play 100 tests for England?
Answer: Colin Cowdrey

Question: What is the collective noun for a group of scorpions?
Answer: Bed or Nest

Question: Which chocolate firm was founded in London in 1759 and moved to Bristol in 1777?
Answer: J & R Fry's

Question: Which European country has the same flag as Indonesia; red over white?
Answer: Monaco

Question: Of what is mycology the study?
Answer: Fungi

Question: Who led the Confederate cavalry during the American Civil War?
Answer: J E B Stewart

Question: Who was the most famous son of Philip of Macedon?
Answer: Alexander the Great

Question: Who in 1985, replaced Roy Plumley as presenter of Desert Island Discs?
Answer: Michael Parkinson

Question: In 1834 which British prime minister presented the Tamworth Manifesto. forming the basis of the modem Conservative Party?
Answer: Robert Peel

Question: How is the harebell more commonly known in Scotland?
Answer: Bluebell

Question: Which author created The Toff , The Baron and Gideon of Scotland Yard? ,
Answer: John Creasey

Question: Which group had No. 1 albums with OK, Computer in 1997 and In Rainbows in 2007?
Answer: Radiohead

Question: Godthaab was the former name of which capital city?
Answer: Nuuk

Question: Which European motor manufacturer's logo is a winged arrow?
Answer: Skoda

Question: What, by number of verses is the longest book in the Old Testament?
Answer: Psalms

Question: What horse won the 2013 Derby?
Answer: Ruler of the World

Question: Who, in 1871, painted the picture Nocturne; Blue and Silver - Chelsea now in the Tate?
Answer: James Whistler

Question: Who was the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year for 2012?
Answer: Bradley Wiggins

Question: On TV, who provides the voice for Bob the Builder?
Answer: Neil Morrissey

Question: 'Frailty thy name is woman' is a quotation from which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: Hamlet