Question: Which architect redesigned the Parisian street layout in the 19th century?
Answer: Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmainn

Question: Which family live at Dorlcote Mill in a work by George Eliot?
Answer: Tulliver

Question: What was the first horse to be trained by a woman to win the Grand National?
Answer: Corbiere

Question: In scrabble how many points is the letter K worth?
Answer: 5

Question: Pupils of which school are known as Carthusians?
Answer: Charterhouse

Question: How did the celebrated drunk Jeffrey Barnard plagiarise the title of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to describe a hangover?
Answer: The Wrath Of Grapes

Question: T E Lawrence was riding which make of motorcycle in the accident that led to his death in 1935?
Answer: Brough

Question: In the body which strong flexible tissue holds bones together where they form a joint?
Answer: Ligament

Question: What was Clementine Churchill's maiden name?
Answer: Hozier

Question: 'The Voice' is a talent show. Apart from Tom Jones name any of the other three judges.
Answer: WILL I AM, DANNY O'DONOHUE or JESSIE J

Question: George Frideric Handel produced a piece of music for the coronation of George II and it has been used in each coronation since. What is its title?
Answer: Zadok The Priest

Question: 'The Knowledge' that London taxi drivers need to learn is an intimate knowledge of all streets within a 6 mile radius of which London mainline station?
Answer: Charing Cross

Question: Which sovereign state comprises about 1% of the land area of Brneo?
Answer: Brunei

Question: Which biblical character was known for his patience?
Answer: Job

Question: Sergeant John Bacchus assists which detective?
Answer: George Gently

Question: Dusty Springfield's biggest success in the US was to reach number 1 in the dance charts in 1987 when she featureed on 'What Have I Done to Deserve This?' with which duo?
Answer: Pet Shop Boys

Question: Launched in 1981, what was the name of the first operational space shuttle?
Answer: Columbia

Question: Which boxer's real name was Walker Smith?
Answer: Sugar Ray Robinson

Question: Which rowing race first rowed in 1715 is believed to be the oldest continually running sporting event in existence?
Answer: Doggett'S Coat And Badge

Question: Which famous pop duo originally went under the name of Tom and Jerry?
Answer: Simon And Garfunkel

Question: Who was British Prime Minister at the time of the Jarrow March?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin

Question: Te Papa is the national museum of which Commonwealth country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams created what in 2006?
Answer: Twitter

Question: Which British City has a railway station .named after the nearby meadow of a church founded by the Knights Templar?
Answer: Bristol

Question: Which actor played the parts of Mick Shipman in Gavin and Stacey and Archie Mitchell in Easterners?
Answer: Larry Lamb

Question: In which 1975 film directed by Milos Forman did Jack Nicholson play the lead character Randall McMurphy?
Answer: One Flew Over The Cuckoo'S Nest

Question: Whernside is the highest point in which national park?
Answer: Yorkshire Dales

Question: Whose 2nd Symphony is known as The Resurrection?
Answer: Mahler

Question: What was found by the Canadian Merchant ship 'Dei Gratin' on December 4th 1872?
Answer: Mary Celeste

Question: What is the name of the Pakistani cricket captain jailed for his part in a betting fix during a match against England in 2010?
Answer: Salman Butt

Question: During the 20 Century, Britain only held a general election twice in the same year - name either year.
Answer: 1920 or 1974

Question: Which former World War II pilot land Head of the CIA did Ronald Reagan choose as his Vice President?
Answer: George Bush

Question: The use of what widely used product was first demonstrated at Merstham Quarry, Surrey in 1867?
Answer: Dynamite

Question: Which European Country has the oldest State Flag, dating back to the 14th century?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Which poem by Keats and novel by Disraeli both have the same title?
Answer: Endymion

Question: What species of rodent has the Latin name cavia porcellus?
Answer: Guinea Pig

Question: What links the deaths of W C Fields and Dean Martin and Charlie Chaplin?
Answer: All Died On Xmas Day

Question: Who is the only player to have captained the British Lions Rugby Union team on two tours?
Answer: Martin Johnson

Question: Which sauce derives its name from the Italian for "pounded"?
Answer: Pesto

Question: In Tolkien's Hobbit Where did the quest to same Middle Earth begin?
Answer: Bag End (Accept The Shire

Question: What was the name of the oil tanker that ran aground in PrinceWilliam Sound off the Alaskan coast in 1989?
Answer: Exxon Valdez

Question: Which major political figure won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1957book "Profiles in Courage?
Answer: John F Kennedy

Question: Which English King was also crowned King of France in 1431?
Answer: Henry Vi

Question: Under what pseudonym did Dr Brooke Magnanti publish her notorious "Diary of a Call-Girl"?
Answer: Belle De Jour

Question: Who in 1964 became the first female group to have a Number 1 hit in the UK?
Answer: The Supremes

Question: Natives of which British overseas territory call themselves Llanitos?
Answer: Gibraltar

Question: Which legendary World Champion Boxer dropped his surname of Barrow to box under his two Christian names?
Answer: Joe Louis

Question: Who created "Facebook in 2004?
Answer: Mark Zuckerberg

Question: Which British city has a railway station named after a series of novels written by Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: Edinburgh

Question: What was the occupation of Olympic and World Champion skater Christopher Dean before he turned professional?
Answer: Policeman

Question: Which actress played the parts of Sheila Grant in Brookside and Barbara Royle in the Royle Family?
Answer: Sue Johnston

Question: In which 1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese did Robert De Niro play the head character Travis Bickell?
Answer: Taxi Driver

Question: Which national park is named after the Maasai term for 'endless plains'?
Answer: Serengeti

Question: Whose 7th symphony is known as the Leningrad?
Answer: Shostakovich

Question: What in 1985 did the oceanographer Robert Ballard discover 370 metres south west of Nistaken Point, Newfoundland?
Answer: Wreck Of The Titanic

Question: Which South African cricketer was banned for life after being found guilty of match fixing?
Answer: Hansie Cronje

Question: During 20th century what was the longest period in years between General Elections in Britain?
Answer: 10 Years

Question: Which future Nobel Prize winner did Bill Clinton choose as his Vice President?
Answer: Al Gore

Question: Which former Portuguese African Colony joined the British Commonwealth in 1995?
Answer: Mozambique

Question: Which device was originally a Louisette, named after its surgeon/inventor Antoine Louis?
Answer: Guillotine

Question: Which country has the only flag that is not rectangular or square?
Answer: Nepal

Question: What is the only surname to be shared by an American President and a British Prime Minister?
Answer: Wilson

Question: Which Ukrainian City is known as the "Pearl of the Black Sea"?
Answer: Odessa

Question: What food would you get if you ordered Albondingas in a Spanish restaurant or Frikadeller in a Scandinavian one?
Answer: Meatballs

Question: In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales the pilgrims met at which inn?
Answer: The Tabard Inn

Question: What was the name of the oil tanker that ran aground off the coast of Brittany in 1978?
Answer: Amoco Cadiz

Question: Which major political figure won, the Nobe1Prize for Literature for his 'History of the English Speaking Peoples'?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: Which operatic character dies at the hand of the soldier Don Juan?
Answer: Carmen

Question: What charitable publication was founded by John Bird?
Answer: Big Issue