Question: What was the name of Freddie Laker's cheap trans-Atlantic airline from 1977 to 1983?
Answer: Sky Train

Question: New York has two cathedrals. One is being refurbished following a fire in 2001, and is dediacted to St. John the Divine. To whom is the other dedicated?
Answer: St Patrick

Question: In which constellation would you find the Horse Head nebula?
Answer: Orion

Question: Which Oscar-winning actor had the middle name DeForest?
Answer: Humphrey Bogart

Question: What was the former name of Botswana?
Answer: Bechuanaland

Question: Howard Kirk is the eponymous hero of which 1975 Malcolm Bradbury novel?
Answer: History Man

Question: What role was played by Arthur Cook in the General Strike of 1926?
Answer: Miners' leader

Question: What name was given to a Roman gladiator who fought with a weighted net, a 3-pointed trident and a dagger?
Answer: Retiarius

Question: Which form of public entertainment has a name derived from the Spanish for "to go round"?
Answer: Rodeo

Question: Which winner of X Factor had the best selling single of 2008?
Answer: Alexandra Burke

Question: Which is the only horse racing course in Northamptonshire?
Answer: Towcester

Question: In medicine, what name is given to inflammation of the protective membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord?
Answer: Meningitis

Question: The national flag of Germany is a tricolour with three horizontal bands. What colour is the top band?
Answer: Black

Question: In his famous poem, precisely how many daffodils did Wordsworth see "at a glance"?
Answer: Ten thousand

Question: Which day of the week is named after the Norse god of single combat and heroic glory or courage?
Answer: Tuesday

Question: Which English comic actor do you associate with the line "Infamy, Infamy, They've all got it in for me"?
Answer: Kenneth Williams

Question: Which 1790 Mozart opera features the heroines Dorabella and Fiordiligi?
Answer: Cosi Fan Tutte

Question: Which British cyclist won four stages of the 2008 Tour de France?
Answer: Mark Cavendish

Question: What name was given to Haydn's symphony No. 96 as a result of a chandelier falling and narrowly missing the audience at its first performance?
Answer: Miracle Symphony

Question: Which masked hero of books and films signed himself with three strokes of his sword?
Answer: Zorro

Question: In which year did Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother die?
Answer: 2002

Question: Who started off selling newspapers, became the First Lord of the Admiralty in the 1870s and was immortalised in Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore?
Answer: W H Smith

Question: What was the title of Sir Walter Scott's first novel of 1814 which he set around the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion?
Answer: Waverley

Question: Which Glen Miller recording of 1941 was the first record ever to be awarded a gold disc?
Answer: Chattanooga Choo Choo

Question: What number Pennsylvania Avenue is the address of the White House?
Answer: 1600

Question: What is the only US state capital to have a 3-word name?
Answer: Salt Lake City

Question: Who represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1975 with the song "Let me be the one"?
Answer: The Shadows

Question: In Norse mythology, who was the goddess of the underworld?
Answer: Hel

Question: Lizard, Gloucester and Border are varieties of which bird?
Answer: Canary

Question: Which George Bernard Shaw play is subtitled 'A Metabiological Pentateuch'?
Answer: Back to Methuselah

Question: Which English king was the son of Lord Darnley and Mary Queen of Scots?
Answer: James I

Question: For which professional rugby league club did athlete Dwain Chambers play one match in 2008?
Answer: Castleford

Question: Who is the only one of Snow White's dwarves to wear glasses?
Answer: Doc

Question: Which is Spain's third most populated city after Madrid and Barcelona?
Answer: Valencia

Question: Which Scottish football ground is named after an English parliamentarian who fought in the Civil War?
Answer: Hampden Park

Question: What was originally stored in a buttery?
Answer: Wine

Question: For his portrayal of which real life character did Philip Seymour Hoffman win the 2006 Best Actor Oscar?
Answer: Truman Capote

Question: Which car company's logo features a prancing black horse?
Answer: Ferrari

Question: In 1959 which was the first city in Britain to be postcoded?
Answer: Norwich

Question: Who represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with the song "Long Live Love"?
Answer: Olivia Newton John

Question: What year did the Queen describe as her "annus horribilis"?
Answer: 1992

Question: Which part of the digestive system gets its name from the fact that it is as wide as twelve fingers?
Answer: Duodenum

Question: A photograph of which actress did Judge Roy Bean always carry in his wallet?
Answer: Lily Langtry

Question: What is the name of the carbohydrate found in the cell walls of fruits and used in the setting of jams and jellies?
Answer: Pectin

Question: What is the name of the structure under a balloon or airship that holds the crew and passengers?
Answer: Gondola

Question: How many years are there in a US President's term of office?
Answer: Four

Question: What is the fifth book of the New Testament?
Answer: Acts Of The Apolstles

Question: Which pie-making company in Baxenden in Lancashire, has bright insect-green wagons delivering to chippies across the region?
Answer: Holland'S

Question: In which magazine can Billie the Fish, Roger Mellie and Sid the Sexist appear?
Answer: Viz

Question: What is the name of the estuary at the mouths of the rivers Ouse and Trent?
Answer: Humber

Question: Give any year the Boer Wars was fought?
Answer: 1899-1902

Question: What record did Jeanne Calment reach in 1995?
Answer: Oldest Human Being

Question: On which island was the world's fourth atomic bomb detonated?
Answer: Bikini

Question: What is the most common name for the eggplant?
Answer: Aubergine

Question: Specifically, from the derivation of the name, what item did a chandler sell?
Answer: Candles

Question: What is the name of the blue or white cheese, made from full cream milk and manufactured in the parts of Leicestershire around Melton Mowbray?
Answer: Stilton

Question: On the banks of which river does the city of Quebec stand?
Answer: St Lawrence

Question: To which religious group did the chocolate manufacturing families Cadbury, Fry and Rowntree all belong?
Answer: Quakers

Question: What is the Roman numeral for 500?
Answer: D

Question: Which author created the CIA agent Jack Ryan?
Answer: Tom Clancy

Question: Which airship crashed, killing most of its passengers and crew, just outside of Beauvais in France on 5 October 1930?
Answer: R 101

Question: Bohea is a type of what?
Answer: Tea

Question: Which band leader's theme tune was 'Somebody Stole my Gal?
Answer: Billy Cotton

Question: What structure was moved from Hyde Park to Sydenham in 1854?
Answer: The Crystal Palace

Question: Which Worcester-based firm is the main manufacturer of Worcester Sauce?
Answer: Lea & Perrin

Question: British Airways was formed between 1971 and 1974 by the merger of two airlines - name either.
Answer: BEA or BOAC

Question: Which Scottish soup's name derives from its main ingredients, chicken and leeks?
Answer: Cockaleekie

Question: Of which tribe was Boudicca the queen?
Answer: Iceni

Question: Give any year in the life of the writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe.
Answer: 1809-49

Question: What American state's capital is Montgomery?
Answer: Alabama

Question: In the Church of England, which office is below that of a bishop, but is the head of the chapter of a cathedral?
Answer: Dean

Question: What was the punishment of the six Trade Unionists, the Tolpuddle Martyrs?
Answer: Transportation

Question: Roy Plomley was, in 1944, the creator and first presenter of which radio programme?
Answer: Desert Island Discs