Question: The crystals of which element when heated, give off a violet vapour with an irritating odour, similar to chlorine?
Answer: Iodine

Question: On the coast of which English county are Pegwell Bay and St. Margaret's Bay to be found?
Answer: Kent

Question: Which is the heaviest and softest of the common metals?
Answer: Lead

Question: In India, what geographical features are the Ghats?
Answer: Mountain Ranges

Question: In 'Arthurian' legend, who was the father of Sir Galahad?
Answer: Sir Lancelot

Question: The ancient region of Mesopotamia is now part of which middle eatern country?
Answer: Iraq

Question: """On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair"", are the opening lines of which pop song?"
Answer: 'Hotel California'

Question: Who wrote the novel 'Do Anderoids Dream Of Electric Sheep', the basis of the screenplay for the film 'Blade Runner'?
Answer: Philip K. Dick

Question: The creature, the Loris, is related to which animal?
Answer: Lemur

Question: England cricketer Andrew Caddick was born in which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Although the names of the four Scottish 'Quarter Days' have remained the same, on which date of the respective months do they fall?
Answer: 28th

Question: Which city is served by Lester B. Pearson Airport?
Answer: Toronto

Question: Which poem in five sections, first published in 1922, was described by the poet as "..just a piece of rhythmic grumbling"?
Answer: The Wasteland

Question: In Greek mythology, who cut off his victims feet so that they would fit an iron bed?
Answer: PROSCRUSTES (accept Damastes)

Question: Phyllophobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Leaves.

Question: Which system of historical classification was devised by the 19th century Danish archaeologist Christian Jurgensen Thomsen?
Answer: THE THREE AGE SYSTEM (Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages)

Question: Name either of the two protagonists at the Battle of Blood River in 1836?
Answer: The Boers / The Zulus

Question: Which city is served by Hanedi Airport?
Answer: Tokyo

Question: Native to the Mediterranean and violet in colour, what sort of marine creature is a 'Venus's Girdle'?
Answer: Jellyfish

Question: Which architect designed the 'Millenium Dome'?
Answer: Richard Rogers

Question: The 'Greene King brewery' is based in which English town or city?
Answer: Bury St. Edmunds

Question: Which car company produces the four-wheel-drive 'Vitara'?
Answer: Suzuki

Question: Which traditional pudding was named after the wife of George II, she was the patron of the growers of its main ingredient?
Answer: Apple Charlotte

Question: Two telephone numbers can be dialled to reach the emergency services; one is 999, what is the other?
Answer: 112

Question: Who gave his name to an air-brake fro railways, which he invented when aged sixteen?
Answer: George Westinghouse

Question: Which car company produces the four-wheel-drive Terrano?
Answer: Nissan

Question: What was the name of the spacecraft in Stanley Kubrick's classic science-fiction film "2001: A Space Odyssey"?
Answer: Discovery

Question: How is Hanna Glawari described in the title of the operetta of her fictionalised life?
Answer: 'The Merry Widow'

Question: In which town or city is 'Arkells Brewery' based?
Answer: Swindon

Question: In which year did the London Evening News merge into the Evening Standard?
Answer: 1980

Question: Which French Emperor was exiled to Chislehurst in Kent in 1870, where he died in 1873?
Answer: NAPOLEON III (accept Louis-Napoleon)

Question: Which unsweetened biscuit was invented by the founder of the Royal Mineral Hospital and takes its name from him and the city in which he invented it?
Answer: Bath Oliver

Question: With which pop group do you associate Jo O'Meara and Rachel Stevens?
Answer: S Club (7)

Question: Pedology is the science of what?
Answer: Soils

Question: The capitulation of Marshal Bazaine's force at Metz was the last critical action of which war?
Answer: The Franco-Prussian War

Question: Whose 1923 essay "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" attacked the literary realism of Arnold Bennett?
Answer: Virginia Woolf

Question: Which geological period followed the 'Devonian Period' but preceded the 'Ordovician'?
Answer: Silurian

Question: What was the 'Asahi Shimbun', first produced 24th, September 1980, and advertised as "untouched by human hand"?
Answer: A Newspaper

Question: At which specific location could you see 'The Brazen Serpent', 'The Punishment Of Haman' and 'David Slaying Goliath'?
Answer: On The Ceiling Of The Sistine Chapel

Question: R.V. Shepherd and H.J. Turpin invented which light sub- machine gun?
Answer: Sten Gun

Question: Who played the part of 'Alfie' in the 1975 film 'Alfie Darling'?
Answer: Alan Price

Question: In March 2003, which 29 year-old became the youngest ever recipient of the Best Actor 'Oscar'?
Answer: Adrien Brody

Question: Who was voted FIFA 'Footballer Of The Year' 2003?
Answer: Zenedine Zidane

Question: In which year did the 'Torrey Canyon' sink, Donald Campbell was killed and the 'Colonels' seized power in Greece?
Answer: 1967

Question: In which year was the 'Great Train Robbery' the 'Profumo Affair' hit the headlines and Martin Luther King made his "I have a dream" speech?
Answer: 1963

Question: 'The School For Lovers' is the subtitle of which of Mozart's operas?
Answer: 'Cosi Fan Tuti'

Question: Picasso's 'Still Life With Chair Caning' in which strips of oilcloth in imitation of chair caning are stuck onto the surface of the work, is an example of which artistic technique?
Answer: Assemblage

Question: Which architect designed the Sydney Opera House?
Answer: Jorn Utson

Question: What historically were hatpieces, leopards, cartwheels and unicorns?
Answer: Coins

Question: Who played 'Mister Wilson' in the 1994 film 'Denis'?
Answer: Walter Mathau

Question: What is the smallest bird in the world?
Answer: The Bee Hummingbird

Question: Which actor sped off with Jack Lemmon in a speedboat at the end of the film 'Some Like It Hot'?
Answer: Joe E Brown

Question: Which popular card game of the 19th century, and still played today, had a predecessor called 'Spade The Gardener'?
Answer: 'Happy Families'

Question: What is the name of the Japanese port that was devastated by a huge earthquake in 1995. resulting in 4000 deaths?
Answer: Kobe

Question: What was Buddy Holly's real first name?
Answer: CHARLES (Hardin Holley)

Question: On 29th July 2000, Martin Dugard of Eastbourne became the first-ever winner of the British Grand Prix - in which sport?
Answer: Speedway

Question: Which former pop singer is now known as Yusuf Islam?
Answer: Cat Stevens

Question: Which racing driver had the first Formula 1 success of his career in July 2000, after 124 attempts, when he won the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim?
Answer: Rubens Barrichelo

Question: 'The Nore' is a sandbank at the mouth of which British river?
Answer: Thames

Question: With which English king did Pope Clement VII have a dispute?
Answer: Henry Viii

Question: Bamako is the capital of which country?
Answer: Mali

Question: What is the astronomical terminology fro 3.26 light years?
Answer: Parsec

Question: Both Luton Town and Stockport County football clubs have the same nickname. What is it?
Answer: 'The Hatters'

Question: In which month is United Nations day?
Answer: October

Question: With virtually the same tonnage and outline, in World War II, what was the sister ship of the Bismark?
Answer: Tirpitz

Question: What is the name of the grain or potato based Scandinavian spirit flavoured with Caraway seeds?
Answer: Aquavit

Question: What will be the middle two numbers of a car registered in September 2010?
Answer: 60

Question: There are eleven countries in the world that begin with the letter 'N'.Alphabetically, which would be the first?
Answer: Namibia

Question: Who played the part of 'Neville Hope' in 'Auf Wiedershen, Pet'?
Answer: Kevin Whately