Question: In which city is the TV series 'ER' set?
Answer: Chicago_

Question: Which daily newspaper was first issued in 1900 at the price of ½d (halfpenny) and from 1914 came under the control of Lord Beaverbrook?
Answer: Daily Express

Question: Which is the largest of the asteroids?
Answer: Ceres

Question: Who was on the English throne in 1300?
Answer: Edward 1st

Question: In ice skating, what was the maximum mark that a judge could give to a competitor (in competitions up to 2006)?
Answer: Six

Question: Which sea lies between Saudi Arabia and the Sudan?
Answer: Red Sea

Question: Gibraltar Point stands on the English coast, in which county?
Answer: Lincolnshire

Question: Which angel is reputed to have given the word of God (the Koran) to Mohammed?
Answer: Gabriel

Question: Allium porrum is the scientific name of which vegetable?
Answer: Leek

Question: In 'The Simpsons', who is headmaster of the school that Bart attends?
Answer: Seymour Skinner

Question: Which physicist is credited with the 'Quantum Theory'?
Answer: Max Planck

Question: Who created the character 'Mike Hammer'?
Answer: Mickey Spillane

Question: In which city is the TV series 'Gray's Anatomy' set?
Answer: Seattle

Question: Now part of Santander, with which company would you have expected 'a smarter investor'?
Answer: Alliance & Leicester

Question: Which daily newspaper was founded in 1855 and was the first London penny paper? It was the means of sending Henry Morgan Stanley to Africa to continue Livingstone's work.
Answer: Daily Telegraph

Question: Millfield and Downside are public schools in which English county?
Answer: Somerset

Question: Which spirit is found in a Metropolitan cocktail?
Answer: Brandy

Question: Which Shakespeare play begins 'If music be the food of love, play on'?
Answer: Twelfth Night

Question: Blackpool is found on the English coast as well as in Lancashire, in which county is it?
Answer: Devon

Question: In which month is George Washington Day celebrated in the USA?
Answer: February

Question: According to Arthurian legend, which knight returned Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake?
Answer: Sir Bedivere

Question: In 'The Simpsons', who has two children named Tod and Rod?
Answer: Ned Flanders

Question: Who was the first Prime Minister to live in 10 Downing Street?
Answer: Sir Robert Walpole

Question: In which country did Kaiser Wilhelm II live from 1918 until his death in 1941?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: In which films do the characters Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddemore appear?
Answer: Ghostbusters

Question: In the 2009 Tour de France which British Olympic medallist finished 4th overall?
Answer: Bradley Wiggins

Question: Who wrote 'The Boys From Brazil'?
Answer: Ira Levin

Question: The life of 15th century French serial killer Gilles de Rais is believed to be the basis of which story by Charles Perrault?
Answer: Bluebeard

Question: In Greek mythology who killed Hector?
Answer: Achilles

Question: Now part of Santander, with which company would you have expected to get the ' ....... habit'?
Answer: Abbey

Question: What was the real name of the pirate, Blackbeard?
Answer: Edward Teach

Question: In which city were the World Swimming Championships held in July 2009?
Answer: Rome

Question: Wellingborough and Oundle are public schools in which English county?
Answer: Northamptonshire

Question: Which spirit is found in a daiquiri cocktail?
Answer: Rum

Question: In which country did Idi Amin settle and die after his exile from Uganda?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: In the 2009 Tour de France which British cyclist won six stages?
Answer: Mark Cavendish

Question: Who wrote the book 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'?
Answer: Khaled Hosseni

Question: Which is the only body of water in Scotland to be called a lake as opposed to a loch?
Answer: Lake of Menteith

Question: Who wrote 'Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man'?
Answer: Siegfried Sassoon

Question: Which is the brightest of the asteroids?
Answer: Vesta

Question: In Greek mythology who killed Achilles?
Answer: Paris

Question: Which group released the album 'A Hundred Million Suns'?
Answer: Snow Patrol

Question: What is the architectural term for ornamental stonework representing a scroll of paper?
Answer: Cartouche

Question: Prunus persica is the scientific name of which fruit?
Answer: Peach

Question: Henry Cecil Booth patented which household appliance in 1901?
Answer: Vacuum cleaner

Question: What does the musical term 'pizzicato' mean?
Answer: Plucked

Question: Which word is defined as 'an Arctic plain with permanently frozen subsoil'?
Answer: Tundra

Question: The film Yes Man, starring Jim Carrey, is based on the book of the same name by which modern British writer?
Answer: Danny Wallace

Question: Which fruit has varieties called Concorde, Packham and Cornice?
Answer: Pear

Question: The title of Agatha Christie's novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side is taken from a line in which poem?
Answer: The Lady of Shalott

Question: What specific part of the body is affected by blepharitis?
Answer: Eyelid

Question: Which country won the most medals at the Paralympics in Beijing?
Answer: China

Question: Who took over from Dermot Murnaghan as host of BBC2's Eggheads?
Answer: Jeremy Vine

Question: Which Nobel-prize winning British playwright died on December 24th 2008?
Answer: Harold Pinter

Question: Which European country has land borders with Greece, Turkey, Romania, Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia?
Answer: Bulgaria

Question: In cricket, which English county one-day side is known as the Phantoms?
Answer: Derbyshire

Question: Which artistic movement was led by Henri Matisse and André Derain?
Answer: Fauvism

Question: During which conflict was the battle of Blenheim fought?
Answer: War of the Spanish Succession

Question: Which European city was the destination of the girls (and thus the boys) in the Cliff Richard film Summer Holiday?
Answer: Athens

Question: Which fruit has varieties called Blue Tit, Czar and Early Laxton?
Answer: Plum

Question: Who hosts the new version of ITV's The Krypton Factor?
Answer: Ben Shephard

Question: The title of Agatha Christie's novel The Moving Finger comes from the line "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" in which poem?
Answer: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Question: Which National Trail runs for 177miles from Sedbury Cliffs near Chepstow to Prestatyn?
Answer: Offa's Dyke Path

Question: Which popular garden bird has the Latin name Cyanistes Caeruleus?
Answer: Blue Tit

Question: What specific part of the body is affected by phlebitis?
Answer: Veins

Question: Which country won the most medals overall at the Beijing Olympics in 2008?
Answer: Usa

Question: Which European country has land borders with Austria, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Poland and the Czech Republic?
Answer: Slovakia

Question: With which musical instrument is Pablo Casals associated?
Answer: Cello

Question: Which artistic movement was led by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso?
Answer: Cubism

Question: During which conflict was the battle of Creçy fought?
Answer: Hundred Years War

Question: Which metallic element, number 77 in the periodic table, takes its name from the Latin for "rainbow"?
Answer: Iridium

Question: In Greek myth, who was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who killed his mother to avenge his father's death?
Answer: Orestes

Question: Which famous emblem was designed by Charles Sykes and modelled on Eleanor Thornton?
Answer: Rolls Royce's Spirit of Ecstasy

Question: Who is the BBC's business editor?
Answer: Robert Peston

Question: Give a year in the life of British astronomer Sir William Herschel.
Answer: 1738 - 1822

Question: What is the SI unit of electric current?
Answer: Ampere

Question: In 2008, which actor starred as King Lear in one of the highlights of Liverpool's Capital of Culture year?
Answer: Pete Postlethwaite

Question: In which English county is Beamish Museum?
Answer: Durham