Question: Who punched her way into the history books in 2012 by becoming the first woman ever to win Olympic gold in boxing ?
Answer: Nicola Adams

Question: Which island is the source of the fortified wine , Marsala ?
Answer: Sicily

Question: Cleopatra was said to have bathed in the milk of which animal in order to preserve her complexion ?
Answer: Asses' Milk

Question: What's the name of King Lear's eldest daughter in the Shakespeare play ?
Answer: Goneril

Question: Which actor plays the villain, Silva, in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall ?
Answer: Javier Bardem

Question: What is the sum of the interior angles of a pentagon ?
Answer: 540

Question: In musical notation , what is the effect of placing a dot immediately after a note ?
Answer: Increases Its Length By Half

Question: Which composer married Clara Wieck ?
Answer: (Robert) SCHUMANN

Question: Give the title of the second U.K. No. 1 hit single for the Spice Girls.
Answer: Say You'Ll Be There

Question: How were King George V and Kaiser Wilhelm II related ?
Answer: (First) COUSINS

Question: In the Bible it is said that Noah's Ark was grounded on which mountain ?
Answer: Mount Ararat

Question: Who was the messenger of the Greek gods ?
Answer: Hermes

Question: Which city in Russia is the world's largest north of the Arctic Circle ?
Answer: Murmansk

Question: Which Roman emperor is said to have made his horse Incitatus a senator ?
Answer: Caligula

Question: The title of the TV programme Torchwood is an anagram of which two words ?
Answer: Doctor Who

Question: What nickname was given to the Junkers 87 aeroplane in World War 2 ?
Answer: Stuka

Question: What type of English dessert is made from mixing whipped cream, sugar and pureed fruit, often gooseberry ?
Answer: Fool

Question: Which fruit traditionally forms part of the dessert known as Eton Mess ?
Answer: Strawberries

Question: On TV, what is the name of Peppa Pig's younger brother ?
Answer: George

Question: What island lies immediately to the south of Martinique in the Caribbean ?
Answer: Saint Lucia

Question: Which creatures are affected by Isle of Wight disease ?
Answer: Bees

Question: Buckingham Palace was formerly known by what name before its redesign by the architect John Nash in the 1820's ?
Answer: Buckingham House

Question: Blind Hughie, Fortress and Concentration are all forms of which popular game?
Answer: Dominoes

Question: Which bone do jockeys break most often ?
Answer: COLLAR-BONE or CLAVICLE

Question: Which Monty Python comedian wrote and sang the theme tune to BBC's One Foot In the Grave ?
Answer: Eric Idle

Question: Which farm dog watches over the home of Shaun the Sheep ?
Answer: Bitzer

Question: Which James Bond film features two female bodyguards named Bambi and Thumper ?
Answer: Diamonds Are Forever

Question: Which six-a-side game was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan ?
Answer: Volleyball

Question: Hampton Court Palace was originally built for which individual ?
Answer: Cardinal Wolseley

Question: What is the nautical term bosun short for ?
Answer: Boatswain

Question: Which cast member played the piano in the original Beyond the Fringe satirical revue of the early Sixties ?
Answer: Dudley Moore

Question: Which retail guru presented the TV series Mary Queen of Shops ?
Answer: Mary Portas

Question: With the exception of its short coastline, The Gambia is bordered on all sides by which other West African country ?
Answer: Senegal

Question: Julius was the first name of which Bond villain ?
Answer: Dr No

Question: What was the original name of The Sun newspaper ?
Answer: Daily Herald

Question: Which author became Governor General of Canada in 1935 ?
Answer: JOHN BUCHAN / 1st BARON TWEEDSMUIR

Question: Which is the lightest or minimum weight division in professional boxing , limited to fighters weighing less than 7 stone 7 pounds ?
Answer: STRAW-WEIGHT or MINI FLY-WEIGHT

Question: Which newspaper was originally known as The Sunday Pictorial ?
Answer: Sunday Mirror

Question: Who played the title role in the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man ?
Answer: Andrew Garfield

Question: Alan Strang is the tortured hero of which award-winning 1973 stage play by Peter Shaffer ?
Answer: Equus

Question: In which book of the Bible is the story of Lot's wife recounted ?
Answer: Genesis

Question: What , in the NATO phonetic alphabet, is the code word for M ?
Answer: Mike

Question: What is the collective term for the four largest moons orbiting Jupiter ?
Answer: Galilean Moons / Satellites

Question: In the BBC comedy All Quiet On the Preston Front , to what voluntary organization did Hodge, Spock, Lloydy and co. belong ?
Answer: The T.A. / Territorial Army

Question: Who was British Prime Minister between 1894 and 1895 ?
Answer: (Earl of) ROSEBERY

Question: Which character in Irish folklore stores a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow ?
Answer: Leprechaun

Question: In which street in the City of London did the Great Fire of London break out in 1666 ?
Answer: Pudding Lane

Question: What was the name of the King's horse that caused the death of suffragette Emily Davison at the Epsom Derby in 1913 ?
Answer: Anmer

Question: The Cavendish Laboratory houses the Physics Department of which major British university ?
Answer: Cambridge

Question: Which British playwright wrote the works Absence of War , Racing Demons and Teeth 'N' Smiles ?
Answer: David Hare

Question: Who wrote the music of the light opera Orpheus in the Underworld ?
Answer: Offenbach

Question: What is the chief ingredient of the drink Mead ?
Answer: Honey

Question: What was the surname of the French brothers who invented the hot - air balloon in the 18'th century ?
Answer: Montgolfier

Question: Who is credited with the authorship of the book known as the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible ?
Answer: (St) LUKE

Question: Which leader of the Peasants' Revolt was killed by the Lord Mayor of London at Smithfield in June , 1381 ?
Answer: Watt Tyler

Question: What was the name of the ' white horse ' who famously helped to keep the crowds in order at the first Wembley F.A. Cup Final in 1923 ?
Answer: Billie

Question: For which 1988 a cappella song is Bobby McFerrin best known ?
Answer: Don'T Worry, Be Happy

Question: Which British astronomer - a proponent of the steady state theory of the universe - is usually credited with having coined the term ' big bang ' ?
Answer: (Sir Fred) HOYLE

Question: What type of dog is Beethoven in the film franchise of that name ?
Answer: St Bernard

Question: What was the nickname of Dr McCoy in Star Trek ?
Answer: Bones

Question: In the children's show Trumpton, what was the profession of Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub ?
Answer: Firemen

Question: Pulpo is the Spanish word for what type of seafood ?
Answer: Octopus

Question: In Greek mythology , the hero Odysseus is king of which island ?
Answer: Ithica

Question: On which river in Germany does the town of Heidelberg stand ?
Answer: The Nekkar

Question: Which company used an Old English Sheepdog named Dash in a popular series of TV adverts from 1964 to 1972 ?
Answer: Dulux Paints

Question: Who was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 ?
Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt

Question: Each September at Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire , men perform an ancient animal dance holding what ?
Answer: Antlers

Question: Which Mediterranean herb is also known as wild marjoram ?
Answer: Oregano

Question: What was adopted as the official motto of the United States in 1956 ?
Answer: """In God We Trust"""

Question: Which fish, with the scientific name Pleuronectes platessa , is a flatfish immediately identifiable by the reddish or orange spots on its upper side ?
Answer: Plaice

Question: On which river does the city of Lisbon stand , just before it reaches the Atlantic Ocean ?
Answer: Tagus

Question: What word is given to the thin leather straps used in falconry to tether the bird ?
Answer: Jesses