Question: Minus 273 degrees Celsius is known as what?
Answer: Absolute Zero

Question: From which musical does the song 'Anything you can do' come?
Answer: Annie Get Your Gun

Question: For what occupation is there an examination of The Knowledge'?
Answer: Taxi Drivers

Question: Which French author wrote 'Nana', 'Germinal' and `J'Accuse'?
Answer: Emile Zola

Question: Iqualuit is the capital of which Canadian autonomous Inuit territory created in 1999?
Answer: Nunavut

Question: Who in the Bible was the mother of Isaac?
Answer: Sarah

Question: Tagalog is a language native to which country?
Answer: Phillipines

Question: A naevus is the medical term for what?
Answer: A Birthmark

Question: Which herb is usually used in the tomato base for a pizza?
Answer: Oregano

Question: Which philosopher wrote the 'The Critique of Pure Reason'?
Answer: Immanuel Kant

Question: Who wrote the short story on which the 2006 film 'Brokeback Mountain was based?
Answer: E. Annie Proulx

Question: Which newspaper became 'The Morning Star' in 1966?
Answer: The DAILY WORKER

Question: In the words of a popular song, from which hotel can 'you check out but never leave'?
Answer: Hotel California

Question: What, in the world of computing, did Larry Page and Sergey Brin found?
Answer: Google

Question: Which common tree has the Latin name Aesculus Hippocastanum?
Answer: Horse Chestnut

Question: What was the name of the 'Acid Bath Murderer'?
Answer: John HAIGH

Question: In American politics, what is the nickname given to the period between the election of a new president in November and the inauguration in January?
Answer: LAME- DUCK Presidency

Question: By what Treaty in 1713 was Gibraltar ceded to Britain in perpetuity?
Answer: TREATY of UTRECHT

Question: What was the name of the 'Brides in the Bath Murderer'?
Answer: George SMITH

Question: Which brothers own the Daily Telegraph?
Answer: Barclay Brothers

Question: The hallux is the medical term for which part of the body?
Answer: Big Toe

Question: In 1947, a research physicist Chester Carlson set up which company to sell his invention, an office machine?
Answer: Xerox

Question: Yoruba is a language spoken in which country?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: As a figure of speech, what is something hinted or implied without being definitely stated?
Answer: Innuendo

Question: Julian Bream is a virtuoso mainly on which instrument?
Answer: Guitar

Question: Who originated the philosophy of 'Utilitarianism'?
Answer: Jeremy Bentham

Question: Barbara Hulanicki founded which chain of fashion shops, famous in the 1960s?
Answer: Biba

Question: Which common tree has the Latin name Acer pseudoplatanus?
Answer: Sycamore

Question: Which actor played the lead in the film 'Air Force One'?
Answer: Harrison Ford

Question: Which word is defined as 'an Arctic plain of permanently frozen subsoil, with dwarfed vegetation'?
Answer: Tundra

Question: Which league football dub are nicknamed 'The Bantams'?
Answer: Bradford City

Question: At 34° 45' W, what is the eastern-most point of the South American continent?
Answer: Cape Branco

Question: Which Shakespeare tragedy takes place in both Venice and Cyprus?
Answer: Othello

Question: The mesosphere, at 50km to 80-90km altitude above Earth's surface, is directly above which other layer?
Answer: Stratosphere

Question: Which king of England was nicknamed 'Beauclerc'?
Answer: King Henry the First

Question: Which English Poet Laureate wrote "The Faerie Queene"?
Answer: Edmund Spencer

Question: Who was the third President of the USA; he died on July 4th, 1826?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Question: Which Irish rock band released the albums "Boy", "October", and "War"?
Answer: U2

Question: Fagus sylvatica is the botanical name for which common forest tree?
Answer: Beech

Question: Who wrote and narrated the TV series "The Romantics" in 2006?
Answer: Peter Ackroyd

Question: Who composed the oratorio "A German Requiem", also a quintet for clarinet and strings, etc?
Answer: Johannes Brahms

Question: A boxer between 155-160 lb. (72.6 kg) is classed in which weight?
Answer: Middleweight

Question: Which Old Testament prophet was summoned by the Witch of Endor?
Answer: Samuel

Question: In which year was the Battle of Gettysburg; David Lloyd George born; the first section of the London Underground opened?
Answer: 1863

Question: Which English chemist isolated the metals sodium and magnesium, etc?
Answer: Sir Humphry Davy

Question: Who directed the 1990 film "Dances With Wolves"?
Answer: Kevin Costner

Question: Which now retired English football referee booked Croatian Josip Simunic three times (playing against Australia) in the 2006 World Cup?
Answer: Graham Poll

Question: Which unit of dry volume was defined as containing eight gallons?
Answer: (Imperial) Bushel

Question: Which dish usually contains apple, nuts, celery, and a mayonnaise-based dressing?
Answer: Waldorf Salad

Question: Which late film actress (real name Harlean Carpentier) said "Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable"?
Answer: Jean Harlow

Question: Which daughter of Agamemnon was sacrificed for a fair wind?
Answer: Iphigenia

Question: Government by the military is called what?
Answer: Stratocracy

Question: Nereid and Triton are satellites of which planet?
Answer: Neptune

Question: At 51° 23' E, what is the easternmost point of the African continent?
Answer: Cape Hafun

Question: Which Shakespeare play takes place in both Bohemia and Sicily?
Answer: The Winter's Tale

Question: What is the lowest part of the Earth's atmosphere, which may be 2 km high above the Earth's surface?
Answer: Troposphere

Question: Who was the father of King Richard the Second of England?
Answer: Edward the Black Prince,.

Question: Who wrote "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy"?
Answer: Laurence Sterne

Question: Who was appointed as first President of the British Royal Academy?
Answer: Sir Joshua Reynolds

Question: Which English rock band's albums included "Communique", "Love Over Gold", "On Every Street"?
Answer: Dire Straits

Question: The WW2 Guadalcanal Campaign was on which of the Pacific islands?
Answer: Solomon Islands

Question: Who wrote and narrated the TV series "In Search of Myths and Heroes"?
Answer: Michael Wood

Question: Who composed the oratorio "Elijah" and an "Italian Symphony"?
Answer: Felix Mendelssohn

Question: A boxer between 123-126 lb. (57.2 kg) is classed in which weight?
Answer: Featherweight

Question: In the New Testament, who is father of John the Baptist?
Answer: Zacharias

Question: In which year was Mata Hari arrested; the Battle of Cambrai fought; King George the Fifth changed the Royal family surname to Windsor?
Answer: 1917

Question: Who wrote the lines of poetry 'Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert"?
Answer: (Percy Bysshe) Shelley

Question: The melon based drink midori is produced in which country?
Answer: Japan

Question: Who won the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars for the 1982 film "Gandhi"?
Answer: Richard Attenborough

Question: Which Imperial liquid measure was defined as containing five fluid ounces?
Answer: Gill

Question: Which late actress (real first names Ruth Elizabeth), said: "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night"?
Answer: Bette Davies

Question: Thomas the Tank Engine lives at a big station on which island?
Answer: Sodor

Question: Ergatocracy is a type of government by whom?
Answer: Workers

Question: Titan and Rhea are major satellites of which planet?
Answer: Saturn

Question: Chrissie Hynde is a vocalist/guitarist with which rock band?
Answer: The Pretenders

Question: What was the surname of the brothers who developed a paper-thin, malt flavoured toasted flake of maize?
Answer: Kellogg

Question: In the first verse of the nursery rhyme 'Old King Cole', what did he call for besides his pipe and bowl?
Answer: His Fiddlers Three