Question: In which series does Kiefer Sutherland play CTU agent Jack Bauer?
Answer: 24

Question: Who played the title role in the 2002 film, Mr Deeds?
Answer: Adam Sandler

Question: What is the name of Bob the Builder?s cat?
Answer: Pilchard

Question: In which sci-fi TV series did Dirk Benedict play Lieutenant Starbuck?
Answer: Battlestar Galactica

Question: Which legendary music festival took place in 1969?
Answer: Woodstock

Question: What nationality is actor Russell Crowe?
Answer: New Zealander

Question: Which film starring Meryl Streep in 1985, won 7 Oscars?
Answer: Out of Africa

Question: 20, In London, what is the 'actual name' of the street 'known as' Petticoat Lane?
Answer: Middlesex Street

Question: How are Eddie, Lily, Herman, Grandpa and Marilyn collectively known?
Answer: The Munsters

Question: In which city did Van Der Valk do his detecting?
Answer: Amsterdam

Question: Who directed the Oscar nominated film Mystic River?
Answer: Clint Eastwood

Question: Who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the film Ray?
Answer: Jamie Foxx

Question: Which film has had sequels entitled The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome?
Answer: Mad Max

Question: Which long running BBC comedy was set in the coastal town of Walmington-On-Sea?
Answer: Dad's Army

Question: The record ?I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing? was used to advertise which soft drink?
Answer: Coca Cola

Question: Who played 'Gandhi' in the film of the same name?
Answer: Ben Kingsley

Question: Which actress played the part of Angie in EastEnders?
Answer: Anita Dobson

Question: In mythology, who was 'Pax'?
Answer: Roman goddess of peace

Question: From what plant is 'tapioca' obtained?
Answer: The roots of the cassava plant

Question: Who was the 18th President of the USA from 1869 - 1877?
Answer: Ulysses S. Grant

Question: What is the name of the canal linking Lake Erie and Lake Ontario in Canada?
Answer: Welland Ship Canal

Question: What name is given to the sea stretching from Australia to New Zealand?
Answer: The Tasman Sea

Question: Which British Prime Minister died whilst in office in 1865 aged 80 years?
Answer: Lord Palmerston

Question: Who fronted the band Culture Club?
Answer: Boy George

Question: Which is more substantial, Afternoon Tea or High Tea?
Answer: High Tea

Question: What does a bad workman always blame?
Answer: His tools

Question: In which soap would you find a garage known as The Arches?
Answer: Eastenders

Question: What is an Alto Cumulus?
Answer: Cloud

Question: In which European country would you find Tuscany?
Answer: Italy

Question: Which is the busiest passenger ferry port in England?
Answer: Dover

Question: What weapons are used in fencing?
Answer: Swords

Question: Which golfer Jack was nicknamed 'The Golden Bear'?
Answer: Jack Nicklaus

Question: In which Scottish City would you find Sauchiehall Street?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: Which musician was known as 'Satchmo'?
Answer: Louis Armstrong

Question: Which royal was once married to Lord Snowden?
Answer: Princess Margaret

Question: What was discovered in Klondike, Canada, in 1896?
Answer: Gold

Question: What did the town of Long Beach, California, buy from Britain in 1967?
Answer: The liner Queen Mary

Question: What wartime position did General Montgomery assume in 1942?
Answer: Commander-in-Chief, Middle East

Question: What famous painting was stolen from the Louvre in Paris in 1911?
Answer: The Mona Lisa

Question: What nation-wide event took place in England, starting in 1642?
Answer: The Civil War

Question: Hong Kong was taken by the British in which year?
Answer: 1839

Question: In which year did the Blitz on London start?
Answer: 1940

Question: What did Matthew Webb, the swimmer, achieve in 1875?
Answer: He became the first man to swim the English Channel

Question: A raid on London resulted in eight deaths in 1916. What caused them?
Answer: An aerial bombardment by Zeppelins

Question: Which Roman landed in Britain in 55 BC?
Answer: Julius Caesar

Question: In which English city was Dick Turpin hanged?
Answer: York

Question: Which treaty in 1957 led to the creation of the EEC?
Answer: Treaty of Rome

Question: Name the British Prime Minister at the outbreak of WW1?
Answer: Herbert Asquith

Question: In which city was Terry Waite taken hostage in 1987?
Answer: Beirut

Question: Which Olympic Games first featured women's weightlifting?
Answer: Sydney 2000

Question: What was the number of Michael Jordan's baseball shirt?
Answer: 23

Question: The winter Olympic event 'Biathlon' combine which two sports?
Answer: Cross country skiing and shooting

Question: In what year did the UK government ban 'Fox Hunting'?
Answer: 2001

Question: The International Curling Championships have been won the most times by which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: What's the lower age limit to join the Senior Golf Tour?
Answer: 50

Question: American 'Kelly Slater' is best known for which sport?
Answer: Surfing

Question: Which boxer broke Muhammad Ali's jaw in 1973?
Answer: Ken Norton

Question: In snooker, how many balls are on the table at the start of a game?
Answer: 22

Question: In what year did Roger Bannister break the 4 minute mile barrier?
Answer: 1954

Question: Tennis star Steffi Graf was born in which country?
Answer: Germany

Question: What number is the yellow ball in a numbered set of pool balls?
Answer: 1

Question: What year was the Olympic Flame first used?
Answer: 1932 Â

Question: In 1950 who made the allegation that 205 State Department officials were 'card carrying communists'?
Answer: Joseph McCarthy

Question: In 1961 which famous dancer sought political asylum in Paris?
Answer: Rudolf Nureyev

Question: Whose controversial radio broadcast of H. G. Wells The War of The Worlds (1938) caused widespread panic in the US?
Answer: Orson Welles

Question: Which former Reuters employee went on to create one of the world's most famous secret agents?
Answer: Ian Fleming

Question: Who was known as the 'Sultan of Swat'?
Answer: Babe Ruth

Question: Who wrote The Common Sense Book of Child Care?
Answer: Doctor Benjamin Spock

Question: Which Russian revolutionary died of head wounds on 21 August 1940?
Answer: Leon Trotsky

Question: Who was the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Woolstencraft?
Answer: Mary Shelley. 12

Question: Whose plays include Uncle Vanya and The Three Sisters?
Answer: Anton Chekhov

Question: Who founded the Christian Science Church?
Answer: Mary Baker Eddy

Question: What is the largest known encyclopaedia, made up of 22,877 volumes in 11,095 books?
Answer: The Yongle Dadian

Question: In a pub, which would be the odd one out: Old Speckled Hen, The Famous Grouse or Wild Turkey?
Answer: Old Speckled Hen the others are whiskies

Question: What common term for foolhardy behaviour has its roots in soldiers emerging from the trenches during the First World War?
Answer: Over the top

Question: Who missed the penalty for France in the 2006 World Cup final?
Answer: David Trezeguet

Question: In JM Barrie's Peter Pan, what school did the fictional character Captain Hook attend?
Answer: Eton

Question: Who failed to receive a posthumous Nobel Prize in 1962 despite her contribution to building a model of DNA?
Answer: Rosalind Franklin

Question: What is the deepest sea trench called?
Answer: The Mariana Trench. At 10,920 m (35,827 ft) from sea level, it could drown the Alps twice over

Question: Is the Pacific the world?s largest or smallest ocean?
Answer: The largest. It is over 165 million km2 (64 million miles2) and covers more than a third of Earth?s surface

Question: How many tides are there every day?
Answer: Two. A high tide and a low tide

Question: Why is it easy to float in the Dead Sea?
Answer: It is salty. This huge lake contains seven more times salt than rain water