Question: What is the fruit of the plant ananas comosus?
Answer: Pineapple

Question: The exotic flower strelitzia is also known by which more common name?
Answer: Bird of Paradise

Question: Which player has won 5 FA Cup winners medals in the last ten years?
Answer: Ashley Cole

Question: Who composed the 1912 ballet 'Daphnis et Chloe'?
Answer: Ravel

Question: Who was England's most married queen? She had four husbands.
Answer: Catherine Parr

Question: Norman Cook, known as Fat Boy Slim, began his music career as a member of which chart-topping group?
Answer: The Housemartins

Question: Which authoress (1890-1969), surname Lamburn, was born in Bury?
Answer: Richmal Crompton

Question: What is the unit of weight used to measure gemstones?
Answer: Carat

Question: How many points make 'game' in rubber bridge?
Answer: 100

Question: What is the name of the organic food company founded by Prince Charles?
Answer: Duchy Originals

Question: In which town are the prominent amateur Rugby League teams `Rose Bridge' and `St Patrick's' based?
Answer: Wigan

Question: Which 1985 agreement between many EC states led to the removal of border controls between those countries?
Answer: Schengen

Question: The song 'O Fortuna' is to be found in which Carl Orff musical work?
Answer: Carmina Burana

Question: The Nazi regime was Germany's Third Reich, which was the First Reich?
Answer: Holy Roman Empire

Question: Sisters Kate and Bianca appear in which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: Taming of the Shrew

Question: Who is the presenter of TV programme Dragons Den?
Answer: Evan Davis

Question: From 1956 until his death in 2008 in which country did Arthur C Clarke live?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: Which film saw Sean Connery's last portrayal of James Bond?
Answer: Never Say Never Again

Question: What is the nickname of TV presenter Richard Hammond?
Answer: Hamster

Question: In which country does the factual series Ice Road Truckers take place?
Answer: Canada

Question: What does the "S" in HBOS stand?
Answer: Scotland

Question: Which retail company used Julie Walters in its adverts?
Answer: Asda

Question: Which famous mountain is known as the Six Grandfathers to the Lakota Sioux Indians?
Answer: Mount Rushmore

Question: Who was Britain's youngest Olympian at the 2008 games?
Answer: Tom Daley

Question: After appearing on the TV series Who Do You Think You Are Barbara Windsor discovered she was related to which artist?
Answer: John Constable

Question: The War Department existed from 1857 to 1964:when it changed to what?
Answer: Ministry Of Defence

Question: What" the name of the spoof bank that appears in the adverts for Nat West Mortgages?
Answer: A Bank

Question: Which Scotsman has been voted "The Worst Poet of All Time"?
Answer: William Mcgonagall

Question: By what name is the Music of Black Origin Awards better known?
Answer: Mobo Awards

Question: Which stage musical is based on the songs of Take That?
Answer: Never Forget

Question: South African fast bowler Andreas Nel has which nickname?
Answer: Gunter

Question: Which modem day artist is famous for painting elephants, wild animals, steam trains and other forms of transport?
Answer: David Shepherd

Question: What is the Iditarod which takes place in Alaska?
Answer: Dog Sled Race

Question: Where in England beside Liverpool would you find a regional Tate Gallery?
Answer: St Ives

Question: What is the name for the "Code of Living" followed by the Samurai?
Answer: Bushido

Question: Who was the last English manager of Chelsea?
Answer: Glenn Hoddle

Question: Which stretch of water runs around Iran, Oman and The United Arab Emirates?
Answer: Straits Of Hormuz

Question: Which man other than Billy McNeill and Martin O'Neil has managed both Aston Villa and Celtic?
Answer: Dr Josef Venglos

Question: Which is the most westerly point of mainland Wales?
Answer: St David'S Head

Question: What is the nickname of TV presenter James May?
Answer: Captain Slow

Question: Which world famous city in Eire stands on the River Lee?
Answer: Cork

Question: What symbol is found in the centre of the Indian flag?
Answer: A Wheel

Question: Which ancient structure ran from Old Kirkpatrick, Dumbartonshire to Bo'ness Falkirk?
Answer: Antonine Wall

Question: In 1995 Dave Grohl formed which pop band?
Answer: Foo Fighters

Question: Which acclaimed actor was the narrator of Paddington Bear on TV?
Answer: Sir Michael Hordern

Question: St Catherine's Point is the most southerly tip of which British island?
Answer: Isle Of Wight

Question: Who was the leader of the Saracens during the third crusade?
Answer: Saladhin

Question: Which car manufacturer has a badge with one large star and five small stars in a circle?
Answer: Subaru

Question: In cricket what name for a bowling delivery is taken from the Hindi-or Urdu language?
Answer: Doosra.

Question: Hailey Williams is the lead singer with which current pop band?
Answer: Paramore

Question: What video game developer created the critically acclaimed Grand Theft Auto series of games?
Answer: Rockstar Games

Question: Dundee cake is a rich fruit cake with which traditional topping?
Answer: Almonds

Question: In The Lord of the Rings trilogy to where did Frodo have to return the ring?
Answer: (The Fires Of) Mount

Question: Who was the first cartoon character to appear on a US postage stamp?
Answer: Bugs Bunny

Question: Which well known couple died in 1934?
Answer: Bonnie And Clyde

Question: What is the name of the cake traditionally eaten at Easter?
Answer: Simnel

Question: After whom is the New Orleans main airport named?
Answer: Louis Armstrong

Question: Where did Thomas Cook organise his first package holiday to go to?
Answer: Loughborough

Question: In most parts of the world castrated bulls are called bullocks what are they called in USA?
Answer: Steers

Question: In 1979, Trevor Francis became the first footballer to be transferred for a fee of £1 million, when he moved from Birmingham City to which club?
Answer: Nottingham Forest

Question: In the Dickens novel, "The Pickwick Papers", who sued Mr Pickwick for breach of promise?
Answer: Mrs Bardell

Question: Nadezhda von Meck was the patron of which great composer, and to whom he dedicated his fourth symphony?
Answer: Tchaikovsky

Question: Who owned the famous racehorse Shergar?
Answer: The Aga Khan

Question: Which city, in 1985, was the first to be designated European City of Culture, now renamed European Capital of Culture?
Answer: Athens

Question: Which English Renaissance dramatist and poet wrote the 17th century play, "Volpone"?
Answer: Ben Jonson

Question: In which modern day country is the site of the 1706 Battle of Ramillies?
Answer: Belgium

Question: Which footballer, whose surname sounds like a classic horse race, played for Preston North End from 2006, until joining Middlesbrough in September 2009?
Answer: Sean St Ledger

Question: Which political commentator and writer published a controversial biography of Prince Charles in 1995, much of it concerning the collapse of his marriage to Princess Diana?
Answer: Jonathan Dimbleby

Question: Which nickname was given to the American WWII general, George Patton?
Answer: BLOOD and GUTS

Question: In which BBC magazine style TV programme do John Craven, Julia Bradbury and Matt Baker take part?
Answer: Countryfile

Question: Who has taken over the TV role of Doctor Who, from actor David Tennant?
Answer: Matt Smith

Question: Which American W.W.II general was nicknamed Vinegar Joe?
Answer: Joseph Stilwell

Question: Who conducted the famous Panorama interview with Princess Diana in 1995?
Answer: Martin Bashir

Question: Which Kent batsman has the same surname as a two-syllable point of the compass?
Answer: Sam Northeast

Question: What is the profession of Ricky Gervais character, Bertram Pinkus, in the 2008 film, "Ghost Town"?
Answer: Dentist

Question: Which English novelist and poet, wrote the 19th century novel, "The Woodlanders"?
Answer: Thomas Hardy