Question: What was the name of the first human spaceflight to land on the moon, in July 1969?
Answer: Apollo 11

Question: Pollo is Italian for which bird?
Answer: Chicken

Question: Benjamin Disraeli was British Prime Minister during the reign of which monarch?
Answer: Queen Victoria

Question: Amarapura was the former capital of which country?
Answer: Burma (Myanmar)

Question: In computing, what is the device which is plugged into a computer which serves as an adapter or to enable the use of certain software?
Answer: Dongle

Question: What is the largest internal human organ?
Answer: Liver

Question: What is the title of the 1987 film in which Cher plays a widow who falls in love with the brother, played by Nicholas Cage, of her husband-to-be?
Answer: Moonstruck

Question: A new Holy Thorn Tree was planted in 2012 in which Somerset town, to replace the one damaged by vandals in 2010?
Answer: Glastonbury

Question: Who played Mike Flaherty, the deputy mayor of New York, in the US television series ‘Spin City’?
Answer: Michael J Fox

Question: The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) was formed in which century?
Answer: 18th Century

Question: Pan American World Airlines offered the first commercially scheduled Boeing 747 service from John F Kennedy Airport to which British airport in 1970?
Answer: London Heathrow Airport

Question: What is the title of the first number one hit released by the Tamla Motown record label?
Answer: Please Mr Postman

Question: Which country’s football team did Germany beat in the 2002 FIFA World Cup semi-final?
Answer: South Korea

Question: A Stableford is a scoring system in which sport?
Answer: Golf

Question: Trypanophobia is the irrational fear of which medical procedure?
Answer: Injection

Question: Who wrote the novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’?
Answer: Dan Brown

Question: A diamondback is what type of creature?
Answer: Snake

Question: Kwame Nkrumah became the first President of which country in 1960?
Answer: Ghana

Question: In which year did the first car-carrying hovercraft cross the English Channel?
Answer: 1968

Question: What is the middle name of cartoon character Daffy Duck?
Answer: Dumas

Question: ‘Spondulicks’ is British slang for what?
Answer: Money

Question: Spode pottery is made in which European country?
Answer: England

Question: Which late US singer was known as ‘The Caruso of Rock’?
Answer: Roy Orbison

Question: Beth Tweddle has represented Britain in which sport?
Answer: Gymnastics

Question: Which London theatre has a thatched roof?
Answer: Globe Theatre

Question: What is the first name of Arkwright, played by Ronnie Barker in the UK television series ‘Open All Hours’?
Answer: Albert

Question: Before he became US President, Barack Obama was senator of which state?
Answer: Illinois

Question: Arthur Upmore, Ernie Bragg and Major Leafe are all characters in which ‘Carry On’ film?
Answer: Carry On Behind

Question: The English band Oasis is from which city?
Answer: Manchester

Question: US actor Ed Harris directed and starred in which 2000 film about an American artist?
Answer: Pollock

Question: Bovidae Ovis is the scientific name for which animal?
Answer: Sheep

Question: Stink 182 is a tribute band to which band?
Answer: Blink 182

Question: What is the title of the 1985 film sequel to ‘Romancing the Stone’ starring Michael Douglas?
Answer: The Jewel of the Nile

Question: Which English football club play their home games at the Reebok Stadium?
Answer: Bolton Wanderers FC

Question: In the game of Shove Ha’penny, what is the term for placing three coins in a ‘Bed’ in a single go?
Answer: Sergeant

Question: Who directed the 1960 film ‘Spartacus’?
Answer: Stanley Kubrick

Question: In January 1977, which French President officially opened the Pompidou Centre in Paris?
Answer: Valery Giscard d’Estaing

Question: The colour sepia is named after the pigment from the ink sac of which marine creature?
Answer: Cuttlefish

Question: A gastrectomy is the removal of which part of the human body?
Answer: Stomach

Question: The US Ramstein Air Base is in which European country?
Answer: Germany

Question: What are the names of the leather boxes, sometimes called phylacteries, worn by orthodox Jewish men on their head and arm during weekday morning prayers?
Answer: Tefillin

Question: In the Scottish nursery rhyme who runs through the town in his nightgown?
Answer: Wee Willie Winkie

Question: Which brothers created the hot air balloon?
Answer: Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier

Question: Who married Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey in November 1973?
Answer: Princess Anne

Question: Pitkin County is in which US state?
Answer: Colorado

Question: Lady Day (The Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin) falls in which month of the year?
Answer: March

Question: Omphalophobia is the irrational fear of which part of the body?
Answer: Navel/belly button

Question: Which US cartoon series first appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show in April 1987?
Answer: The Simpsons

Question: Swiss author Johanna Spyri wrote which famous children’s book about a young orphan girl in her grandfather’s care?
Answer: Heidi

Question: Which chemical compound has the formula H2S?
Answer: Hydrogen Sulphide

Question: Who wrote the 1924 musical composition ‘Rhapsody in Blue’?
Answer: George Gershwin

Question: Which UK supermarket chain has an in-store section called ‘Market Street’?
Answer: Morrisons

Question: What is the capital of The Isle of man?
Answer: Douglas

Question: Zorro is Spanish for which animal?
Answer: Fox

Question: How many lanes does an Olympic swimming pool have?
Answer: Ten

Question: In 2003, who became the oldest woman to win FHM’s ‘Sexiest Woman in the World ‘ award?
Answer: Halle Berry

Question: The Calcutta Cup is played for in which sport?
Answer: Rugby Union

Question: In which year was Scotland united with England by the Acts of Union?
Answer: 1707

Question: George Clooney, Michael Keaton and Val Kilmer have all played which fictional character on film?
Answer: Batman

Question: In the Shakespeare play ‘The Merchant of Venice’, who is Jessica’s father?
Answer: Shylock

Question: Which modern-day country was formerly known as British Honuduras?
Answer: Belize

Question: The Abu Simbel temples are in which African country?
Answer: Egypt

Question: Which month of the year was the ninth month of the Roman calendar?
Answer: November

Question: A part of which British motorway was closed for a week in July 2012 after a crack was found in the Boston Manor viaduct?
Answer: M4

Question: In the BBC television series Dr Who, the villain Davros was from which fictional planet?
Answer: Skaro

Question: In which year was the Berlin International Film Festival first held?
Answer: 1951

Question: In the Harry Potter series of books, whose pets were named Fang and Fluffy?
Answer: Rubeus Hagrid

Question: Who played Pussy Galore in the 1964 James Bond film ‘Goldfinger’?
Answer: Honor Blackman

Question: Which island in the US was known as Oyster Island?
Answer: Ellis Island

Question: Norwegian Omelette is another name for which dessert?
Answer: Baked Alaska

Question: What type of creature is a fody?
Answer: Bird

Question: The 1703 ‘Methuen Treaty’ was a military and commercial treaty between Britain and which other European country?
Answer: Portugal

Question: The ‘Avesta’ is the book of sacred writings in which religion?
Answer: Zoroastrianism

Question: Central Park is in which borough of New York City?
Answer: Manhattan

Question: Who was voted in as Mayor of London in May 2012?
Answer: Boris Johnson

Question: Who wrote, produced and directed the 2009 film ‘Avatar’?
Answer: James Cameron

Question: What was the maiden name the mother of US astronaut Buzz Aldrin?
Answer: Moon

Question: Great Leighs Race Course, which opened in 2007, is in which English county?
Answer: Essex