Question: In which part of the British Isles is Scapa Flow, where the UK 's chief naval base was situated during the two World Wars?
Answer: The Orkneys

Question: Which US crime writer also wrote under the name of Evan Hunter?
Answer: Ed McBain

Question: Who became the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury in 1961?
Answer: Dr Michael Ramsey

Question: What is the SI unit of force?
Answer: Newton

Question: What spirit drink is the base of a Tom Collins cocktail?
Answer: Gin

Question: Which is the only US state with just one bordering US state?
Answer: Maine

Question: In which year did all of the following occur: QE2 arrives in New York on her maiden voyage, the Kray twins were jailed for life and Boeing 747 makes its first test flight?
Answer: 1969

Question: The Wendigo is a mythical creature in the folklore of which native people?
Answer: Native Americans

Question: What was the name of King Harold of England's brother who fought against him at the Battle of Stamford Bridge?
Answer: Tostig

Question: In which year did all of the following occur: Prime Minister imposes direct rule on Northern Ireland, Idi Amin expels 50,000 Asians in 3 months and St Helens win the Rugby League Challenge Cup?
Answer: 1972

Question: How many points are awarded for a touchdown in American football?
Answer: Six

Question: Which British writer also wrote under the name of Jack Harvey?
Answer: Ian Rankin

Question: What type of fruit is a kumquat?
Answer: Orange

Question: In the TV sitcom 'Friends' what is the name of Phoebe's twin sister?
Answer: Ursula

Question: In the computing term GUI for what does the letter G stand?
Answer: Graphical (User Interface) accept graphic

Question: The son of Hannah, his name meaning 'Name of God' who was the last of the Old Testament Hebrew judges?
Answer: Samuel

Question: In the Old Testament who led the Israelites into the Promised Land?
Answer: Joshua

Question: The Bunyip is a mythical creature in the folklore of which native people?
Answer: Australian aborigine

Question: Give a year in the life of composer Franz Josef Haydn.
Answer: 1732-1809

Question: Name either country that is bordered but not crossed by the Mekong river.
Answer: Thailand/Myanmar

Question: Baikonur, Kapustin Yar and Plesetsk are all Russian centres for what activity?
Answer: Spaceship launches

Question: In Norse mythology who is the queen of the underworld and the daughter of Loki?
Answer: Hel

Question: Who was the AC Milan coach when they lost the 2005 Champions League final to Liverpool?
Answer: Carlo Ancelotti

Question: France, Holland and which other country fought on the American side in the US War of Independence?
Answer: Spain

Question: In French what is a bergere, as in Les Folies Bergere?
Answer: Shepherd(ess)

Question: Atrophic striae is a medical term for what condition that primarily affects women?
Answer: Stretch marks

Question: Which European female singer's albums have included 'Debut', 'Post', 'Homogenic' and 'Saved By Magic'?
Answer: Bjork

Question: Which former children's laureate was Kirsty Young's first castaway on 'Desert Island Discs'?
Answer: Quentin Blake

Question: In Egyptian mythology, the brother of Horus and Isis, who was the god of storms, and often represented as a hippopotamus?
Answer: Set

Question: """No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs,"" is the autobiography of which punk rocker?"
Answer: John Lydon

Question: The stage musicals 'Cabaret' and 'Chicago' were both written by the same songwriting team, name either of them.
Answer: Kander & Ebb

Question: What is the last event of an Olympic decathlon?
Answer: 1500 metres

Question: What is the SI unit of frequency?
Answer: Hertz

Question: Which US singer was born Alecia Moore in 1979, her hits include 'Get the Party Started', 'Family Portrait', 'Stupid Girls' and 'Who Knew'?
Answer: Pink

Question: At which battle of 1298 was William Wallace defeated by the English?
Answer: Falkirk

Question: Who was the coach of Bayern Munich when they lost the 1999 Champions League final to Manchester United, before winning it in 2001?
Answer: Ottmar Hitzfeld

Question: What is the popular name of the dance performed to the 'Galop Infernal' from 'Orpheus in the Underworld' by Offenbach?
Answer: Can Can

Question: The writing form known as Linear B was a graphic representation of which specific ancient language?
Answer: Mycenaean

Question: What treaty signed in March 1918 between Russia and Germany ended Russia's participation in World War 1 and the loss of its Baltic and Ottoman territories?
Answer: Brest-Litovsk

Question: Sentenced to 8 years in 2006 for crimes committed over 25 yrs earlier, by what name was John Humble known to the police?
Answer: Wearside Jack

Question: What spirit drink is the base of a screwdriver cocktail?
Answer: Vodka

Question: In the TV sitcom 'Frasier' what is the forename of Frasier's producer played by Peri Gilpin?
Answer: Roz

Question: Guinea-Bissau was until 1973 a colony of which country?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Which European country claims it has no dogs, trains or trees?
Answer: Iceland

Question: Who was the first person to be paid $1 million for appearing in a single movie?
Answer: Elizabeth Taylor

Question: What river rises in Russia and flows through Belarus before reaching the sea in the Ukraine?
Answer: Dneiper

Question: In the 2006 Formula 1 season Jenson Button and which other driver won his first ever Grand Prix?
Answer: Felipe Massa

Question: In French what is a moulin, as in Moulin Rouge?
Answer: Windmill

Question: In the telecoms term 3G, for what does the letter G stand?
Answer: (Third) Generation

Question: The Mason Dixon line forms a boundary between 2 US states, name either.
Answer: Maryland & Pennsylvania

Question: The national anthem of which European country has the same tune as 'God Saves The Queen'?
Answer: Liechtenstein

Question: The eldest of her family, who was first seen in 1959, has a sister named Skipper, twin siblings, Stacie and Todd and in 1992 a baby sister Kelly?
Answer: Barbie

Question: Which US vice president had a family dog named Checkers?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: In the medical organization NICE, for what does the letter C stand?
Answer: Clinical

Question: Under what name is bummalo fish served in a restaurant?
Answer: Bombay duck

Question: In a Disney film, which character is befriended by Timothy Q. Mouse?
Answer: Dumbo

Question: In which year did Louis Bleriot make the first powered flight across the English Channel?
Answer: 1909

Question: What were introduced to the British calendar by Sir John Lubbock, Governor of the Bank of England?
Answer: Bank Holidays

Question: Who was the first man to win tennis's Grand Slam, winning all four major championships in 1938?
Answer: Donald Budge

Question: Which now defunct car company manufactured the models Hunter, Husky and Wizard?
Answer: Hillman

Question: Who was the only President of the Confederate States of the USA?
Answer: Jefferson Davis

Question: In which year did Chuck Yeager first break the sound barrier in a Bell X-1 rocket plane?
Answer: 1947

Question: What was the name of John Mayall's band which included, at various times, Eric Clapton, John McVie, Peter Green and Mick Taylor?
Answer: (John Mayall's) Bluesbreakers

Question: Which Grade 1 listed attraction in the north-west was opened in 1894, having been built by Heenan and Froude?
Answer: Blackpool Tower

Question: Which public holiday is celebrated on the first Monday in September in the USA and Canada and in Australia on different days in different states?
Answer: Labour Day

Question: Which major trunk road runs south from Wick to just north of Stirling where it then becomes a motorway?
Answer: A9

Question: Which famous singer was a member of 'Bluesology' in the early 1960s, leaving in 1967 and changing his name to one that was a combination of the names of two members of the group?
Answer: Elton John