Question: The American Bill Viola is associated with which art form?
Answer: Video

Question: In the internationally recognised educational organisation 'IBO'', for what does the letter 'B' stand?
Answer: Baccalaureate

Question: Which American state is nicknamed the Com Husker state?
Answer: Nebraska

Question: What is the 10th letter in the Greek alphabet and is equivalent to the English letter "K"?
Answer: Kappa

Question: Give a year in the life of Galileo.
Answer: 1564-1642

Question: What name was given to the followers of John Wycliffe?
Answer: Lollards

Question: Who played Jean Harlow in the 1965 film "Harlow"?
Answer: Carroll Baker

Question: Royal Sovereign, Aromel and Red Gauntlet are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Strawberry1lb Which UK international airport has the code BFS?

Question: Who painted "Girl with a Pearl Earring" circa 1665?
Answer: Johannes Vermeer

Question: Who directed the 1980 film "Ordinary People"?
Answer: Robert Redford

Question: Which writer had a cat called Hodge?
Answer: Dr Johnson

Question: To which animal does the adjective aquiline refer?
Answer: Eagle

Question: Near which city did Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" take place?
Answer: Athens

Question: What is the meaning of the Latin phrase "Agnus Dei"?
Answer: Lamb of God

Question: Verulamium is the Roman name for which English city?
Answer: St Albans

Question: What Hindi name is given to a keeper or driver of elephants?
Answer: Mahout

Question: In Greek mythology who was the wife of Odysseus?
Answer: Penelope

Question: Which American invented the Polaroid camera in 1947?
Answer: Edwin Land

Question: What is the SI unit of pressure?
Answer: Pascal

Question: Which author wrote "If not actually disgruntled, he was far from gruntled"?
Answer: P G Wodehouse

Question: How many players are there in a tug of war team?
Answer: 8

Question: In the Bible who was the father of Joseph and Benjamin?
Answer: Jacob

Question: Which American state is nicknamed the Treasure state?
Answer: Montana

Question: Which is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet and is equivalent to the English letter "L"?
Answer: Lambda

Question: Give a year in the life of Vasco de Gama.
Answer: 1460-1524

Question: In which constellation is the star Regulus?
Answer: Leo

Question: Which actress caused a sensation by appearing naked in the 1933 film "Ecstasy"?
Answer: Hedy Lamarr

Question: Onward, Fertility and Merton Pride are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Pear

Question: Which disease of the central nervous system is named after the Englishman who wrote "An Essay on the Shaking Palsy" in 1817?
Answer: Parkinson's Disease

Question: Who was Poet Laureate for the longest period (42 years 1850-1892)?
Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question: Who painted "The garden of earthly delights" circa 1504?
Answer: Hieronymus Bosch

Question: Which is the smallest country in area in South America?
Answer: Surinam(e)

Question: Which Oscar-winning actress directed the film "Little Man Tate" in 1991?
Answer: Jodie Foster

Question: Which Australian partnered John Lloyd to three Grand Slam Mixed Doubles titles in the 1980s?
Answer: Wendy Turnbull

Question: In which city does the majority of the Shakespeare play "The Taming of the Shrew" take place?
Answer: Padua

Question: What is the meaning of the Latin phrase "Dominus vobiscum"?
Answer: The Lord (God) be with you

Question: Aqua Sulis was the Latin name for which English city?
Answer: Bath

Question: What nationality was Formula 1 motor racing champion Juan Fangio?
Answer: Argentinian

Question: What Hindi name is given to a litter or seating on an elephant's or camel's back?
Answer: Howdah

Question: Which Scotsman invented the vacuum flask in 1892?
Answer: James Dewar

Question: Who described cauliflower as a "cabbage with a college education"?
Answer: Mark Twain

Question: On which river does Lincoln stand?
Answer: Witham

Question: In the Bible who was the son of Abraham and Sarah?
Answer: Isaac

Question: According to the Talmud who was the first wife of Adam?
Answer: Lilith

Question: How many cards are there in a Tarot pack?
Answer: 78

Question: Who was the Irish dancer who was the founder of the Bluebell Girls?
Answer: Margaret Kelly

Question: Which Polynesian word means forbidden?
Answer: Taboo

Question: In which sport did Stanley Matthews' father achieve success?
Answer: Boxing

Question: How long is allowed between games in an APT (professional) tennis match?
Answer: 90 Seconds

Question: Which is the only spice quoted on the stock market?
Answer: Pepper

Question: The National Gallery is situated in which London square?
Answer: Trafalgar

Question: Which was the last pitched battle to be fought on English soil?
Answer: Sedgemoor

Question: Elizabeth Woodville was the wife of which English King?
Answer: Edward Iv

Question: Who wrote the Elvis Presley song "Blue Suede Shoes"
Answer: Carl Perkins

Question: How long is allowed between serves in an APT tennis match i.e. between 1st and 2nd serve?
Answer: 20 Seconds

Question: Travelling outward from the sun which is the first planet with a satellite?
Answer: Earth

Question: Which celebrity named his son (nickname) 'Blanket'?
Answer: Michael Jackson

Question: Which female celebrity named her child 'Apple'?
Answer: Gwyneth Paltow

Question: Which American State Capital has the same name as its state?
Answer: Oklahoma City

Question: What name is traditionally given to the hangman in a Punch and Judy Show, named after Charles 1st executioner?
Answer: John Ketch

Question: Which medal formerly for the RAF was introduced in 1918 for bravery of officers, but now is for all ranks of the service?
Answer: D.F.C.

Question: Which trees were the subject of paintings by Monet in 1891?
Answer: Poplar

Question: Which "Bond Girl" has a mother who is from Liverpool?
Answer: Halle Berry

Question: Who is credited with the invention of bi-focal glasses?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Question: The cornet, trombone, tuba and euphonium are instruments in a brass band. Name one other?
Answer: Flugelhorn

Question: Banjo Patterson is credited with writing which song a national favourite of its country?
Answer: Waltzing Matilda

Question: """Hyf Haus"" is a famous name in which building system?"
Answer: Pre-Fabricated Houses

Question: Operation Frankton was the name given to which 2nd World War naval operation?
Answer: Fixing Mines To German Ships

Question: Which Indian City is known as the Silicon Valley of India?
Answer: Bangalore

Question: Which drink has major commercial types called Robusta and Arabica?
Answer: Coffee

Question: Which English statesman, lawyer and scientist died after catching pneumonia from stuffing a chicken with snow?
Answer: Francis Bacon

Question: What is the highest peak in Germany?
Answer: The Zugspitze

Question: The Trevi Fountain scene in "La Dolca Vita" featured which Swedish starlet?
Answer: Anita Ekberg

Question: In the USSR what was the Komosomol?
Answer: The Communist Yough League

Question: Which Shakespeare character dies saying 'the rest is silence'?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: Who is the patron saint of the Order of the Garter?
Answer: St George

Question: """Building Better Worlds"" Weyland-Yutani Corp features in which sci-fi film series?"
Answer: Alien

Question: Where was Hitler's mountain hideout?
Answer: Berchtesgaden

Question: Adria Airways is the airline of which former Yugoslav State?
Answer: Slovenia

Question: Which sport is supervised in Scotland by the Camanachd Association?
Answer: Shinty

Question: In World War 2 which German City was the target of first 'thousand member raid'?
Answer: COLOGNE - 30th MAY 1942

Question: What is the name of the Speaker of the House of Commons?
Answer: John Bercow

Question: Which US President's portrait appears on the US $5 bill?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: Which philosopher said "The State is not abolished it withers away"?
Answer: Friedrich Engels