Question: What is the name of the channel that separates Mexico and Cuba?
Answer: Yucatan Channel

Question: Which singer has had hits with the groups, NERD, The Neptunes and Daft Punk as well as solo hits and accompanying Robin Thicke on 'Blurred Lines'?
Answer: Pharrell Williams

Question: Julius Nyerere was the first President of which country?
Answer: Tanzania

Question: Which country's flag is similar in design to the Jerusalem Cross or Crusader's Cross?
Answer: Georgia

Question: Who was the main architect of 'The Sage' in Gateshead?
Answer: Norman Foster

Question: In the USA singing groups known as 'Sweet Adelines' are the female equivalent of what?
Answer: Barber Shop Quartets

Question: In 1702 William 3rd was succeeded by Queen Anne, what was her relationship to him?
Answer: Sister-in-Law

Question: Who painted 'The Scapegoat' in 1854?
Answer: William Holman-Hunt

Question: At which battle did the military leader William Travis draw the famous 'line in the sand'?
Answer: The Alamo

Question: Which war of 1870 was precipitated by the 'Ems Telegram'?
Answer: Franco-Prussian.

Question: Which English cathedral, dedicated to St. Mary, has an original copy of Magna Carta?
Answer: Salisbury

Question: The Annals and The Histories are the 2 major works of which Roman historian who lived from around 56AD to around 117AD?
Answer: Tacitus

Question: The blue giant star, Spica, lies in which constellation?
Answer: Virgo

Question: Which company produces the 'Whimsies' series of small solid porcelain animal figures?
Answer: Wade

Question: Who composed the opera Lucia di Lammermoor?
Answer: Donizetti

Question: Trujillo and Chiclayo are cities in which country in the Americas
Answer: Peru

Question: How did the Akademic Shokalsky make the news on Christmas Eve It was the research/ 2013?
Answer: Ship trapped by ice in the Antarctic

Question: Common, Short Beaked and Spinner are all species of which mammal?
Answer: Dolphin

Question: Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire is the resting place of which Tudor queen?
Answer: Katherine Parr

Question: Which pop singer's maiden name was Lawrie and is now Kennedy Cairns?
Answer: Lulu

Question: The Kyle Railway line runs between Kyle of Lochalsh and which town or city?
Answer: Inverness

Question: Which Spanish painter died in Bordeaux in April 1928?
Answer: Francisco de Goya

Question: Athena is the Greek counterpart of which Roman goddess?
Answer: Minerva

Question: Which actor starred as Dr Who in the 1st colour episode?
Answer: Jon Pertwee

Question: On which river does the Suffolk town of Dedham stand?
Answer: Stour

Question: What is the most well-known creation of the Japanese artist Taro Chiezo?
Answer: Superlambanana

Question: Give a year in the life of of the English philosopher, statesman and scientist, Sir Francis Bacon.
Answer: 1561 - 1626

Question: In the Jewish religion, by what name are the first five books of the Tanakh collectively known?
Answer: Torah

Question: In which Asian country are the car manufacturers Proton and Perodua based?
Answer: Malaysia

Question: From the Turkish for .stuffed', what name is given to a dish of stuffed vine leaves?
Answer: Dolmades

Question: 'Based in the East Riding of Yorkshire, which football club is owned by Assem Allam?
Answer: Hull City

Question: What kind of books are published by Frommer's?
Answer: Travel

Question: In which year did Sigmund Freud die?
Answer: 1939

Question: What is Jamie Oliver's middle name?
Answer: Trevor

Question: What does an arenophile collect?
Answer: Sand

Question: Which fruit has varieties called Smooth Cayenne, Red Spanish and Sugarloaf?
Answer: Pineapple

Question: In which county is the newest Irish National Park at Ballycroy?
Answer: Mayo

Question: Who was best man at the inventor Marconi's wedding in 1927?
Answer: Benito Mussolini

Question: Which English cathedral, dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle, has a famous scissor arch?
Answer: Wells

Question: Which Roman writer, best known for his Natural History (Naturalis Historic), died during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD?
Answer: Pliny

Question: The white supergiant star, Deneb, lies in which constellation?
Answer: Cygnus

Question: Who produced the design, seen on textiles and wallpaper, known as 'The Strawberry Thief?
Answer: William Morris

Question: Who composed the opera The Girl of the Golden West?
Answer: Puccini

Question: Ecatapec and Merida are cities in which country in the Americas?
Answer: Mexico

Question: The roof of which London theatre collapsed during a performance in December 2013?
Answer: Apollo

Question: Gadwell, Garganey and Scaup are all species of which bird?
Answer: Duck

Question: Who was the husband of Lady Jane Grey, the 9 days queen?
Answer: Lord Guildford

Question: By what name is actor and comedian Sir David John White better known?
Answer: David Jason

Question: Which comic actor died on Christmas Day 1977?
Answer: Charlie Chaplin

Question: Ceres is the Roman counterpart of which Greek goddess?
Answer: Demeter

Question: On which river does the Cornish town of Lostwithiel stand?
Answer: Fowey

Question: Which two words immediately follow "if music be the food of love...." in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night?
Answer: """Play On"""

Question: Give a year in the life of the Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist, David Hume.
Answer: 1711 - 1776

Question: In 2012 Vincent Tan rebranded which football club, changing its home colours?
Answer: Cardiff City FC

Question: As what is the medical condition Haemotoma Auris better known?
Answer: Cauliflower Ear

Question: Which fruit has varieties called Cavendish, Williams and Pisang Raja?
Answer: Banana

Question: In which county is the smallest Irish National Park, The Burren?
Answer: Clare

Question: Name either of the singers who had their microphones turned off for overrunning at a concert in Hyde Park in July 2012.
Answer: Bruce Springsteen or Paul McCartney

Question: Who wrote Five Red Herrings and The Nine Tailors?
Answer: Dorothy L Sayers

Question: What kind of animal is a Corriedale?
Answer: Sheep

Question: Which stately home near Woodstock is a UNESCO World Heritage site?
Answer: Blenheim Palace

Question: Stolen on Bastille Day 1999, who was the artist of the painting titled 'L'enfant a la bulle de savon' which was recovered in March 2014?
Answer: Rembrandt

Question: Who was the oldest person to be appointed Prime Minister of the UK?
Answer: Gladstone

Question: Who was Chancellor for the 1925 budget which revived the 'gold standard'?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: Who won the Euro 2012 soccer tournament, beating Italy 4-0 in Kiev?
Answer: Spain

Question: What is the American equivalent of a UK charity shop?
Answer: Thrift Store

Question: In Monopoly, which street completes the green set of Bond Street and Regent Street?
Answer: Oxford Street

Question: Who created the Charlie Brown and Snoopy comic strip characters in 1948?
Answer: Charles M Schultz

Question: b What is the full name of the international organisation known as UNESCO?
Answer: United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation

Question: A Crystal wedding anniversary is celebrated after how many years?
Answer: 15 years

Question: What would be your birth sign if you were born on le October?
Answer: Libra

Question: Name the first commoner, i.e. non-Royal, to appear on a UK postage stamp.
Answer: William Shakespeare

Question: What is studied in semiotics?
Answer: Signs/Symbols

Question: In the cartoon series Calvin and Hobbes, Hobbes is a stuffed toy creature of what type?
Answer: Tiger

Question: 'Boris Godunov' was the only completed opera of which composer?
Answer: (Modest) Mussorgsky

Question: Which bird is also known as the Stormcock?
Answer: Mistle Thrush

Question: A top tourist attraction, a 150 mile long barrier reef, is off the coast of which Central American country?
Answer: Belize