Question: Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution ended slavery?
Answer: 13th

Question: What was advertised with the slogan "a taste of paradise"?
Answer: Bounty

Question: Near which English city is the National Space Centre?
Answer: Leicester

Question: What as Che Guevara's original profession?
Answer: Doctor/Medicine

Question: London's Charing Cross Road is well known for which type of businesses?
Answer: Book shops

Question: In the Rugrats, who is Tommy Pickles' younger brother?
Answer: Dil

Question: Which transuranic element is named after continent?
Answer: Americium

Question: Which singer had No. 1 albums with Escapology in 2002 and Take the Crown in 2012?
Answer: Robbie Williams

Question: The Leyden Jar is an early form of what?
Answer: (Electrical) Capacitor

Question: In which country are the 2018 Commonwealth Games to be held?
Answer: Australia

Question: Who is the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats?
Answer: Simon Hughes

Question: What is the star sign for the 1st November?
Answer: Scorpio

Question: In what year was the Russian submarine Kursk sunk and the USS Cole attacked in Aden?
Answer: 2000

Question: Possessed by Thor, what was Mjolnir?
Answer: Hammer

Question: The hymn The Sorrowful Mother Stood is better known by what Latin name?
Answer: Stabat Mater

Question: Presented in 2013, who won the 2012 Oscar for Best Director?
Answer: Ang Lee

Question: Who is the only British prime minister born outside the British Isles?
Answer: Andrew Bonar Law

Question: From what London terminus station do you depart on a journey to Southampton?
Answer: Waterloo

Question: Which of Beethoven's symphonies includes a musical setting of the poem Ode to Joy?
Answer: 9th or Choral

Question: What is the historical name for the disease scrofula?
Answer: King's Evil

Question: In which city is the Amalienborg Palace?
Answer: Copenhagen

Question: Give a year in the life of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Answer: 1756 - 1791

Question: Which organisation's address is 'The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire'?
Answer: Rspb

Question: What was the original profession of Yasser Arafat?
Answer: (Civil) Engineer

Question: Philip K Dick's short story We Can Remember It For you Wholesale was the basis for which 1990 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Answer: Total Recall

Question: The island of Murano in the Venice Lagoon is famous for what product?
Answer: Glass

Question: Which football league club play their home games at Adams Park?
Answer: Wycombe Wanderers

Question: What is the capital of North Korea?
Answer: Pyongyang

Question: Whch British king had ten children by his mistress, the actress, Dorothea Jordan?
Answer: William IV

Question: What is the name of Spongebob Squarepants best friend?
Answer: Patrick

Question: Which transuranic element is named after a city in California?
Answer: Berkelium

Question: In which musical is the song Poor Jud is Dead?
Answer: Oklahoma

Question: The natives of which English county are known as Moonrakers?
Answer: Wiltshire

Question: Dave Gahan and Martin Gore are members of which British electronic band founded in the 1980s, they played the 02 Arena in 2013?
Answer: Depeche Mode

Question: The actor John Simm played the detective "Sam Tyler" in which BBC TV drama?
Answer: Life on Mars

Question: Which managing director of the "International Monetary fund" was forced to resign after a sex scandal in 2011?
Answer: Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Question: Hassan Rowhani, became the elected president of which country in June 2013, though ultimate power in the country is held by an unelected personage?
Answer: Iran

Question: Who did Luis Suarez controversially bite in April 2013 costing him a 10 match suspension?
Answer: Branislav Ivanovic

Question: Which playwright wrote "The Winslow Boy", which was revived at the Old Vic theatre during 2013?
Answer: Terence Rattigan

Question: Which was the first country, in 1960, to elect a female prime minister?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: Amman is the capital city of which country?
Answer: Jordan

Question: Which painter produced the works "The Death of Marat" and "Napoleon Crossing the Alps"?
Answer: Jacques-Louis David

Question: Who founded Lotus Cars in 1952?
Answer: Colin Chapman

Question: The astronauts "Taylor", "Landon" and "Donovan" are characters in which 1969 science fiction film?
Answer: Planet of the Apes

Question: Which TV series shown on BBC3 in 2013 stars Luke Newbury as "Kieren" a recovering zombie?
Answer: In the Flesh

Question: Which of the Tracy brothers piloted Thunderbird 3?
Answer: Alan

Question: Which Norwegian dramatist wrote the plays "A Doll's House" and "Ghosts"?
Answer: Henrik Ibsen

Question: Which band was formed by former Housemartins members Paul Heaton and David Hemmingway, their only Number One UK hit was "A Little Time"?
Answer: The Beautiful South

Question: Which chemical elements name drives from the German word for goblin?
Answer: Cobalt

Question: What is the official nickname of the US state of Kentucky?
Answer: The Bluegrass State

Question: Who was the first person to fly solo around the world?
Answer: Wiley Post

Question: Which British industrialist designed the second world war Halifax heavy bomber?
Answer: Sir Frederick Handley Page

Question: What is the anatomical name for the shin bone?
Answer: Tibia

Question: An eft is an alternative name for which creature?
Answer: Newt

Question: Which chemical elements name drives from the Greek word for stone?
Answer: Lithium

Question: In 2013, Justin Rose became the first Englishman in 43 years to win golf's US Open, who won in 1970?
Answer: Tony Jacklin

Question: Sharleen Spiteri was the lead singer with which group, whose debut single in 1989 was entitled "I Don't Want a Lover"?
Answer: Texas

Question: Which author wrote the political conspiracy thriller "House of Cards"?
Answer: Michael Dobbs

Question: Which is the only British Prime Minister to serve three monarchs?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin

Question: Who played "The Jackal" in the 1973 film "The Day of the Jackal"?
Answer: Edward Fox

Question: How is the form of transport known in Japan as the Shinkansen, known as in the UK?
Answer: Bullet Train

Question: In which country are "Holden" cars manufactured?
Answer: Australia

Question: What was the name of the German who invented the first practical internal combustion engine?
Answer: Nikolaus August Otto

Question: Which pop duo, consisting of Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit, had a number one UK single with the hit "Stay" in 1992?
Answer: Shakespeare's Sister

Question: The "Coulomb" is the SI Unit of what?
Answer: Electric Charge

Question: Name the Italian politician, born in 1919, who was Prime Minister seven times in the period 1972 to 1992, he died in 2013?
Answer: Giulio Andreotti

Question: Alex Keedis is the lead singer with which American funk-rock band?
Answer: Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Question: Which Russian-American is credited with inventing the helicopter?
Answer: Igor Sikorsky

Question: Which class of submarines is currently being built at Vickers to replace Britain's "Trafalgar" class of submarines?
Answer: Astute

Question: In which modern day country did the battles of the Kasserine Pass occur during World War 2 between the Allied and Axis forces?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: Jean Claude Juncker resigned as prime minister of which country in July 2013, being at that point the longest currently elected serving Prime Minister in the world?
Answer: Luxembourg

Question: Who wrote the 1997 novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities"?
Answer: Tom Wolfe

Question: Which current BBC TV programme was first shown in 1977 with Angela Rippon and Tom Coyne as its original presenters?
Answer: Top Gear

Question: Which African mammal is also known as the ant bear?
Answer: Aardvark

Question: Which artist painted "Bubbles", which was used in the advertising for Pears soap?
Answer: Sir John Everett Millais