Question: What would you find if you travelled to the centre of the solar system?
Answer: The Sun

Question: How many planets are there in the solar system?
Answer: Nine

Question: Which planet is named after the Roman goddess of love?
Answer: Venus

Question: What was the first artificial satellite?
Answer: Sputnik 1

Question: What is the name of the space shuttle destroyed in midair 28 Jan 1986?
Answer: Challenger

Question: What, ultimately, will the sun become?
Answer: A white dwarf

Question: Which planet takes almost 30 Earth years to orbit the sun?
Answer: Saturn

Question: What is the most distant object visible to the naked eye?
Answer: Andromeda galaxy

Question: Which planet is the densest?
Answer: Earth

Question: What is the name given to the super dense stars that sometimes result form a supernova?
Answer: Neutron Stars

Question: What shape is the Milky Way?
Answer: Spiral

Question: When was the first Pioneer space probe launched?
Answer: 1958

Question: Who was the first living creature in space?
Answer: Laika, a dog on board the Sputnik 2

Question: Visible sunspots vary in number according to a cycle of how many years?
Answer: Eleven

Question: Which planet is usually the furthest form the Sun, but sometimes is not?
Answer: Pluto

Question: What was the name of the American mission to land a man on the Moon?
Answer: Apollo project

Question: What was the name of the American space station?
Answer: Skylab

Question: Which country built the Saturn V rocket?
Answer: Usa

Question: Which objects in space emit energy in pulses?
Answer: Pulsars

Question: What travels around the Sun at an average speed of 185 miles per second.
Answer: The earth

Question: Which is the second lightest element in the universe?
Answer: Helium

Question: What is the name of the thousands of small bodies which orbit the Sun?
Answer: Asteroids

Question: How far does the Sun's gravitational influence extend?
Answer: About 1.5 light years

Question: What is the name for the study of the structure of the universe?
Answer: Cosmology

Question: What units are used for measuring distances in the universe?
Answer: Light years

Question: What is another name for a shooting or falling star?
Answer: Meteor

Question: Scientists study the red shift to investigate which aspect of cosmology?
Answer: The expansion of the universe

Question: Which planet possesses the Galilean satellites?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: What is brighter than a hundred million suns?
Answer: A supernova

Question: Who developed the 'aperture synthesis' method of radio astronomy?
Answer: Martin Ryle

Question: Which planet has one moon called Charon?
Answer: Pluto

Question: What are the clouds of interstellar dust, said to be the birthplace of stars?
Answer: Nebulae

Question: Which scientist first determined how stars make elements?
Answer: Fred Hoyle

Question: What is the astronomical unit equal to 32,616 light years?
Answer: Parsec

Question: Which is the second largest planet in the solar system?
Answer: Saturn

Question: Which planet has been the focus of investigations for signs of life?
Answer: Mars

Question: In the general theory of relativity what causes space-time to be modified?
Answer: Mass

Question: Which space probes failed to find life on Mars?
Answer: Viking probes

Question: Which type of celestial object emits bursts of energy at regular intervals?
Answer: Pulsar

Question: What is the defining feature of a neutron star?
Answer: Great density

Question: Which country has the airline KLM?
Answer: The Netherlands

Question: What two letters are worth the most in a game of Scrabble?
Answer: Q and Z

Question: After how many years of marriage would you celebrate your ruby anniversary?
Answer: 40

Question: Where would a troglodyte live? In a cave, up a tree or underwater?
Answer: In a cave

Question: How many counters does each player have at the start of a game of backgammon?
Answer: 15

Question: How many centimetres make up a hand, the measurement used on horses?
Answer: 10

Question: What are the six murder weapons used in a game of Cluedo?
Answer: Candlestick, Dagger, Lead Piping, Rope, Revolver and Spanner

Question: In what year did the weather forecast appear in The Times newspaper for the first time?
Answer: 1860

Question: What is the largest of the West Indian islands?
Answer: Cuba

Question: St Johnstown was once the capital city of Scotland. By what name is St Johnstown now known?
Answer: Perth

Question: What is the largest city in Switzerland?
Answer: Zurich

Question: The Ural Mountains form a natural border between which two continents?
Answer: Asia and Europe

Question: What is the capital of Iraq?
Answer: Baghdad

Question: In which English County can you find 4 towns with the suffix Regis?
Answer: Dorset

Question: In which ocean is the island group the Maldives?
Answer: The Indian Ocean

Question: Which river runs through the Grand Canyon?
Answer: The Colorado

Question: In kilometres, how long is the Suez Canal?
Answer: 161.9

Question: What country had the Roman name Hibernia?
Answer: Ireland

Question: What famous person has the real name of Eldrick Woods?
Answer: Tiger Woods

Question: What is Fred Flintstone's wife called?
Answer: Wilma

Question: What is the collective noun for a group of monkeys?
Answer: A troop

Question: Which film about Vietnam won the best picture at the 1978 Oscars?
Answer: The Deer Hunter

Question: What became the tallest building in the world when it opened in 1931?
Answer: The Empire State Building

Question: In what year did Percy L. Spencer invent the microwave?
Answer: 1947

Question: Which famous character was created by Michael Bond in a series of books for children?
Answer: Paddington Bear

Question: Which of the Bronte sisters wrote Wuthering Heights?
Answer: Emily

Question: Becky Sharp is the name of a character in which famous novel, which is also the title of a famous magazine?
Answer: Vanity Fair

Question: In George Orwell's Animal Farm what type of animal was Napoleon?
Answer: A pig

Question: What rock did Graham Greene write about?
Answer: Brighton Rock

Question: All children, except one, grow up is the opening line from which famous story?
Answer: Peter Pan

Question: Who wrote the novel The 39 Steps?
Answer: John Buchan

Question: Which famous book, published in 1816, is sub-titled The Modern Prometheus?
Answer: Frankenstein

Question: When was the nobel prize for literature first awarded?
Answer: 1901

Question: What major war began on 10 October, 1899?
Answer: The Boer War

Question: The words Czar and Kaiser are both derived from which famous person in history?
Answer: Julius Caesar

Question: Which American President ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb?
Answer: Harry S Truman

Question: Florence Nightingale was a nurse during which war?
Answer: The Crimean War

Question: What were the surnames of Bonnie and Clyde?
Answer: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

Question: What happened in 1847 that is sometimes referred to as Black Forty Seven?
Answer: The potato famine in Ireland

Question: Which brothers invented the airplane in 1903?
Answer: Wilbur and Orville Wright

Question: How many funnels did the Titanic have?
Answer: Four

Question: In what year was highwayman Dick Turpin hanged?
Answer: 1739

Question: Maximus Decimus Meridius was the main character in which film?
Answer: Gladiator

Question: In which 1955 film does Frank Sinatra play Nathan Detroit?
Answer: Guys And Dolls

Question: What is the full title to the sequel to the film Home Alone?
Answer: Home Alone 2: Lost In New York

Question: How many times is the f-word used in the film Goodfellas?
Answer: 246

Question: Chemically pure gold contains how many carats?
Answer: 24

Question: What is the boiling point of water in degrees Fahrenheit?
Answer: 212

Question: Who wrote the book A Brief History Of Time?
Answer: Stephen Hawking