Question: Which was the last club to lose in consecutive FA Cup Finals doing so in 1998 and 1999?
Answer: Newcastle United

Question: Eleanor of Castile was the mother of which English monarch?
Answer: Edward Ii

Question: Which African county has its capital in Lusaka?
Answer: Zambia

Question: Which club has been FA Cup finalists 4 times but never won the trophy?
Answer: Leicester City

Question: Which element has the chemical symbol Hg?
Answer: Mercury

Question: What is the literal meaning of the Latin phrase bona fide?
Answer: In Good Faith

Question: Who founded the 'Ballet Russes' in 1909?
Answer: Sergei Diaghilev

Question: What is the literal meaning of the Latin phrase in vino veritas?
Answer: IN WINE (there is) TRUTH

Question: Which record by Bobby Darin kept Marty Wilde from the No. 1 spot in 1959 with 'A Teenager In Love'?
Answer: Dream Lover

Question: The film Schindler's List was based on whose Booker Prize winning novel of 1982?
Answer: Thomas Keneally

Question: Which river flows through the city of Derby?
Answer: Derwent

Question: What is the main alcoholic content of the cocktail Manhattan?
Answer: Whisky

Question: Which novel by Iris Murdoch won the 1978 Booker Prize?
Answer: The Sea, The Sea

Question: Which river flows through the town of Shrewsbury?
Answer: Severn

Question: What is the main alcoholic content of the cocktail Cosmopolitan?
Answer: Vodka

Question: Which US president had the shortest term of office, only 31 days?
Answer: William H Harrison

Question: Who composed the music for the opera The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra)?
Answer: Gioachino Rossini

Question: Who played the part of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the TV series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister?
Answer: Nigel Hawthorne

Question: Which machine was invented by Hiram Moore in 1834?
Answer: Combine Harvester

Question: Who has scored the most runs in an innings (380) in tests for Australia?
Answer: Matthew Hayden

Question: Tabitha Babbitt is credited with which invention in 1813?
Answer: Circular Saw

Question: Who composed the music for the opera Idomeneo?
Answer: Mozart

Question: In which South American country is Mount Chimborazo the highest mountain?
Answer: Ecuador

Question: Who created the fictional detective Adam Dalgliesh, played on TV by Roy Marsden?
Answer: P D James

Question: By what name is the tree Fagus sylvatica more commonly known?
Answer: Beech

Question: Which is the highest mountain in Germany?
Answer: Zugspitze

Question: Which jazz trumpeter and bandleader had the forenames John Birks?
Answer: Dizzy Gillespie

Question: Which Welshman defeated Chris Eubank to win the WBO Super Middleweight World Title in 1997?
Answer: Joe Calzaghe

Question: Prior to Barack Obama in 2009 who was the last US president to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Jimmy Carter

Question: Who won an Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of composer Antonio Salieri in the film Amadeus?
Answer: F Murray Abraham

Question: Which American poet wrote I Haven Y Told My Garden Yet?
Answer: Emily Dickinson

Question: Which artist painted A Wheatfield With Cypresses in 1889?
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

Question: The duck-billed platypus is endemic to which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: The Road Not Taken was written by which American poet?
Answer: Robert Frost

Question: Which artist painted Poppies Blooming in 1873?
Answer: Claude Monet

Question: Which US Air Force test pilot became the first man to break the sound barrier in a Bell X-1 rocket plane in October 1947?
Answer: Chuck Yeager

Question: Which bird has the scientific name Buteo buteo?
Answer: Buzzard

Question: Who wrote the play The Entertainer?
Answer: John Osborne

Question: What nationality was sculptor Alberto Giacometti?
Answer: Swiss

Question: Which bird has the scientific name Hirundo rustica?
Answer: Swallow

Question: Which metal melts at around 27 degrees Celsius?
Answer: Francium

Question: Which was the last of Thomas Hardy's novels to be published?
Answer: Jude The Obscure

Question: Who played Captain Renault in the film Casablanca?
Answer: Claude Rains

Question: Which original member of the Football League plays its home games at Deepdale?
Answer: Preston North End

Question: Who wrote the play 'Long Day's Journey into Night'?
Answer: Eugene O'Neill

Question: Who plays Mary in the film 'There's something about Mary'?
Answer: Cameron Diaz

Question: In which US State did the Hindenburg Airship crash?
Answer: New Jersey

Question: Who ruled England between 1603 and 1625?
Answer: James I

Question: For which band did Bon Scott, who died in 1980, sing?
Answer: Ac/Dc

Question: Who was the puppet master of Spit the Dog?
Answer: Bob Carolgees

Question: In which city is Corriere Della Sera the daily paper?
Answer: Milan

Question: What type of animal is Bagheera in 'The Jungle Book'?
Answer: Panther

Question: What was the name of the lioness in the book 'Born Free'?
Answer: Elsa

Question: Of which protein are hair and nails made?
Answer: Keratin

Question: What was the former name of Burkina Faso?
Answer: Upper Volta

Question: Which boxer was nicknamed Homicide Hank?
Answer: Henry Armstrong

Question: In which county is Hinckley Point Power Station?
Answer: Somerset

Question: In which own/city was Mohandas (Karamchanda) Ghandi assassinated?
Answer: New Delhi

Question: Who has been the longest serving American President?
Answer: Franklin D Roosevelt

Question: How many points are given to a driver for winning a Formula One Grand Prix?
Answer: 25

Question: Which King of England married Caroline of Ansbach?
Answer: George Ii

Question: Which opera singer was known as La Stupenda?
Answer: Joan Sutherland

Question: In which UK town is the World of Glass Museum?
Answer: St Helens

Question: Which TV show featured the character Carrie Bradshaw?
Answer: Sex And The City

Question: Where did the rowing events take place at the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: Eton Dornay

Question: Who shot songwriter and producer Lana Clarkson in 2003? He was convicted in 2009.
Answer: Phil Spector

Question: Who wrote the play 'The Glass Menagerie'?
Answer: Tennessee Williams

Question: Which sitcom is set in Helmand Province?
Answer: Bluestone 42

Question: In which American State was the first atomic bomb detonated?
Answer: New Mexico

Question: Who was the English monarch from 1399 to 1413?
Answer: Henry Iv

Question: Which group does Bruce Dickenson front?
Answer: Iron Maiden

Question: Who won the first international Rugby Union Match in 1871?
Answer: Scotland

Question: Which is Norway's most northerly city?
Answer: Tromso

Question: Who is puppet master of Orville, the duck?
Answer: Keith Harris

Question: Who played the title role in the film 'Cat Ballou'?
Answer: Jane Fonda

Question: In which 1960's TV series did Clarence the cross-eyed lion appear?
Answer: Daktari

Question: Who was the green skinned Egyptian God of the underworld and afterlife?
Answer: Osiris

Question: Who is credited with the invention of the World Wide Web?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee

Question: What was the former name of Sellafield Nuclear Power Station?
Answer: Windscale

Question: Who played Niles in the TV series Frasier?
Answer: David Hyde-Pierce

Question: Which boxer was nicknamed the Orchid Man?
Answer: Georges Carpentier

Question: In which UK county is RAF Lakenheath?
Answer: Suffolk

Question: In which city did the assassination of Martin Luther King take place?
Answer: Memphis

Question: Which American President sanctioned the use of atomic weapons against Japan?
Answer: Harry S Truman

Question: Which team did Alan Ball manage and win promotion to the First Division in 1987?
Answer: Portsmouth

Question: How many points are awarded to the driver for second place in a Formula One Grand Prix?
Answer: 18

Question: What was opera singer Maria Callas' nickname?
Answer: La Divina

Question: Which town in Greater Manchester has a railway station called Mumps?
Answer: Oldham