Question: Jacques Cousteau's famous boat shares its name with which form of West Indian music?
Answer: Calypso

Question: Travelling west along the M4 motorway, which county would you enter as you left Berkshire?
Answer: Wiltshire

Question: What word is painted on the road surface in Ireland to mean the same as 'Give Way' in Britain?
Answer: Yield

Question: Which film featured the hit song "I've had the time of my life"?
Answer: Dirty Dancing

Question: Sunderland stands on which river?
Answer: Wear

Question: Who won the Booker Prize in 1998 with the novel 'Amsterdam'?
Answer: Ian McEwan

Question: Which British Prime Minister was born in New Brunswick, Canada?
Answer: Bonar Law

Question: Who wrote symphonies nicknamed 'Paris' and 'Prague'?
Answer: Mozart

Question: In cookery, what name is given to a cooked mixture of equal parts of butter and flour?
Answer: Roux

Question: Belgian Kriek beer is flavoured with which fruit?
Answer: Cherry

Question: Who won the Booker Prize in 1990 with the novel 'Possession'?
Answer: A.S. Byatt

Question: By what name was model Lesley Hornby better known?
Answer: Twiggy

Question: Which British Prime Minister was a cousin of Rudyard Kipling?
Answer: Baldwin

Question: Who discovered that coal-tar naphtha and rubber could make cloth waterproof?
Answer: Mackintosh

Question: Which form of motor racing takes place on a straight 440 yard course?
Answer: Drag racing

Question: Which type of helicopter is named after the warm wind that blows down the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains?
Answer: Chinook

Question: The alcoholic drink 'Mirabelle' is flavoured with which fruit?
Answer: Plums

Question: Who said that in the future everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes?
Answer: Andy Warhol

Question: Norwich stands on which river?
Answer: Wensum

Question: Which 2003 film is based on the activities of Rylstone Women's Institute?
Answer: Calendar Girls

Question: Apart from London, in which other British city is there a place called Charing Cross?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: Who invented the road safety feature 'cat's eyes'?
Answer: Percy Shaw

Question: Who was the female star of the TV police series 'Cat's Eyes'?
Answer: Jill Gascoigne

Question: At which sport do Great Britain and USA play for the Westchester Cup?
Answer: Polo

Question: In 2005 Scotland won the King's Cup for the second successive year making them World Champions at which particular form of polo?
Answer: Elephant Polo

Question: Turin is the major city of which region of Italy?
Answer: Piedmont

Question: What name is given to motor racing on a grass track?
Answer: Autocross

Question: In cookery what is the chief ingredient along with egg in making mayonnaise?
Answer: Olive oil

Question: What was the code name for the German invasion of Russia in World War 2?
Answer: Barbarossa

Question: Which admiral assumed command at Trafalgar after the death of Nelson?
Answer: Collingwood

Question: Which hero was the son of Zeus by Alcmene?
Answer: Hercules

Question: A dish described as la Bretonne' is garnished with which vegetable?
Answer: Beans

Question: In the world of animals, what is meant by the word 'ungulate'?
Answer: Having hoofs

Question: Who wrote the novel 'Hungry as the Sea'?
Answer: Wilbur Smith

Question: Which physicist proposed the Quantum theory?
Answer: Max Planck

Question: What name is commonly given to the theatre produced by the playwrights Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter and others?
Answer: Theatre of the Absurd

Question: Which Russian was the first man to walk in space?
Answer: Alexei Leonov

Question: Which English King married Henrietta Maria, the daughter of Henry 4th of France?
Answer: Charles 1st

Question: Florence is the major city of which region of Italy?
Answer: Tuscany

Question: Give any year in which Macbeth was King of Scotland?
Answer: 1040-1057

Question: In the world of animals, what is meant by the word 'diprodont'?
Answer: Having two front teeth

Question: A dish described as 'Parmentier' includes which vegetable?
Answer: Potato

Question: Which astronomer proposed the theory of the expanding universe?
Answer: Edwin Hubble

Question: Who wrote the novel 'Chesapeake'?
Answer: James Michener

Question: How many pounds are there in one hundredweight?
Answer: 112

Question: What is the weight in pounds of a gallon of water?
Answer: 10

Question: Which English King married Adelaide, the daughter of George, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen?
Answer: William 4th

Question: Name the ancient civilised region bordered by the two rivers, Tigris and Euphrates?
Answer: Mesopotamia

Question: Who, born in Reading in 1903, called his autobiography "Life Among Antiques"?
Answer: Arthur Negus

Question: In which county is the National Nature Reserve of Barton Hills?
Answer: Bedfordshire

Question: A new 50p coin was issued in 2007 showing a fleur-de-lys embossed on a globe, it was issued to celebrate the anniversary of what?
Answer: Scouting

Question: How long is the term of office served by the President of the European Commission?
Answer: 5 years

Question: Peter Parker is the secret identity of which comic book character?
Answer: Spiderman

Question: Britain's oldest working theatre, built in 1766, is called the 'Old Vic', in which city is it?
Answer: Bristol

Question: Which was the first European country to give women the vote when they voted in the National elections of 1906?
Answer: Finland

Question: Prior to Virginia Wade in 1977, who was the previous British winner of a Grand Slam tennis singles tournament?
Answer: Sue Barker

Question: What is the popular name of Tchaikovsky's Symphony no.6 in B minor?
Answer: Pathetique

Question: Bruce Banner is the secret identity of which comic book character?
Answer: The Incredible Hulk

Question: Lion's Mane, Moon and Compass are types of which creature?
Answer: Jellyfish

Question: Which band of the 1960s and 1970s had the following line-up: Graeme Edge, Mike Pinder, John Lodge, Ray Thomas and Justin Hayward?
Answer: Moody Blues

Question: Which novel won a Pulitzer Prize for Alice Walker?
Answer: The Colour Purple

Question: In 1972, Hawkwind had their only UK top ten hit with which song?
Answer: Silver Machine

Question: Who threatened to "thcream and thcream and thcream until I'm thick"?
Answer: Violet Elizabeth Bott

Question: How is the Chief Gentleman Usher to the Sovereign and Usher to the Order of the Garter more commonly known?
Answer: Black Rod

Question: What was Sherlock Holmes' first case?
Answer: A Study in Scarlet

Question: Who was the respectable Victorian gentleman who became known as the 'King of Saucy Postcards'?
Answer: Donald McGill

Question: Which American TV sitcom featured the families of sisters Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell?
Answer: Soap

Question: Who was the actor, who died in October 2006, who was the voice of the "Schhhh... you know who" advertising campaign?
Answer: William Franklin

Question: The Pink Sea Fan is an endangered species found in the sea around the coast of Britain, what is it?
Answer: Coral

Question: For how long does a US senator normally serve before having to seek re-election?
Answer: 6 years

Question: Which 2002 Martin Scorsese film, set in the Five Points district, is loosely based on a 1928 novel by Herbert Asbury?
Answer: Gangs of New York

Question: Which car company make an SUV (sports utility vehicle) called the `RAV 4'?
Answer: Toyota

Question: Which was the last European country to give full voting rights to women, in 1989?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: What is the medical term for the protrusion of an organ or tissue through a wall of the cavity in which it is usually contained?
Answer: Hernia

Question: Name either of the two main protagonists of the Seven Weeks War of 1866?
Answer: Austria and Prussia

Question: Which car company make an SUV (sports utility vehicle) called the 'CRY'?
Answer: Honda

Question: Achilles and Hector appear as characters in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Troilus and Cressida