Question: Name any one of the astronauts who flew in Apollo 8, the first manned flight to leave Earth orbit?
Answer: Frank Borman, William Anders, Jim Lovell

Question: What are given ESRB ratings? The categories are; eC, E, E10+, T, M and AO.
Answer: Computer/Video Games

Question: In which Disney film do the fairies Flora, Fauna and Merryweather appear?
Answer: Sleeping Beauty

Question: Name either of the actors who passed away on the same day, 10th October 1985?
Answer: Yul Brynner, Orson Welles

Question: Francesca Simon writes which series of books for young readers?
Answer: Horrid Henry

Question: Who played the detective Aurelio Zen in the BBC TV series of January 2011?
Answer: Rufus Sewell

Question: The new postcode E20 has been introduced to cover which development?
Answer: Olympic Park

Question: Which car company produce a model called the 'Kangoo'?
Answer: Renault

Question: Which team won the first Heineken Cup in 1996?
Answer: Toulouse

Question: Who in athletics was known as the "Flying Housewife?
Answer: Fanny Blankers-Koen

Question: Who wrote the music for the 2002 film The Hours?
Answer: Philip Glass

Question: Who wrote the music for the 1993 film The Piano?
Answer: Michael Nyman

Question: In which year did men first walk on the moon?
Answer: 1969

Question: Which year was National Service abolished in the UK?
Answer: 1960

Question: Which British Prime Minister's wife was a published poet?
Answer: Harold Wilson

Question: Which politician faked his own death in Florida in 1974?
Answer: John Stonehouse

Question: In which year did Elvis Presley get married?
Answer: 1967

Question: In which hospital was the first heart and lung transplant performed by Sir Magdi Yacoub?
Answer: Harefield Hospital

Question: What is the name of the Chilean mine in Copiapo, Chile, where 33 miners were trapped in 2010?
Answer: San Jose

Question: Who was the first host of the TV show Pets Win Prizes?
Answer: Danny Baker

Question: In which TV soap is there a garage called the Arches?
Answer: Eastenders

Question: Ben Lomond and Baldwin are varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Blackcurrant

Question: Which vegetable has the Latin name brassica oleracea gemmifera?
Answer: Brussels Sprout

Question: Where is Charles Darwin buried?
Answer: Westminster Abbey

Question: Where were the Bee Gees twins Maurice and Robin Gibb born?
Answer: Isle of Man

Question: What is the name of the character played by Humphrey Bogart in the film The ,
Answer: Maltese Falcon?

Question: In which sea is the Great Barrier Reef?
Answer: Coral Sea

Question: In which ocean is the Gulf Stream?
Answer: Atlantic

Question: Which fictional girls' school did Ronald Searle create?
Answer: St Trinian's

Question: What is the name of The Vicar of Dibley?
Answer: Geraldine Grainger

Question: What is the name of the heroine in Steig Larsson's Millennium Trilogy?
Answer: Lisbeth Salander

Question: What was the first full-length animated film?
Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Question: How many points are scored when you kick a goal in Gaelic football?
Answer: 3

Question: Which castle guards the main route through Purbeck Hills?
Answer: Corfe Castle

Question: How are Bob Ferris and Terry Collier known collectively?
Answer: The Likely Lads

Question: Who wrote The Iceman Cometh, and disowned his daughter for marrying Charlie Chaplin?
Answer: Eugene O'Neill

Question: What type of creature is the Australian currawong?
Answer: Bird

Question: Whose plays include Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian
Answer: Chalk Circle?

Question: What is the title of a novel by A J Cronin, a ballet by Kenneth Macmillan and has the Latin name cercis canadensis?
Answer: The Judas Tree

Question: Running for 46 miles, which line of the London Underground has the longest track?
Answer: Central

Question: In which town in Greater Manchester did Harold Shipman practise as a GP before murdering at least 15 of his patients?
Answer: Hyde

Question: Which BBC police series was about a female inspector in the town of Hartley?
Answer: Juliet Bravo

Question: Which BBC nightly news programme was presented by Cliff Michelmore, with Fyfe Robertson and Magnus Magnusson?
Answer: Tonight

Question: Who changed his name from Gideon, and became MP for Tatton in 2001?
Answer: George Osborne

Question: Who was wrongly convicted in 2001 of the murder of Jill Dando?
Answer: Barry George

Question: Which US general had an early career as a teacher, was involved in conflicts in Mexico, Cuba and Europe and had a WWII tank named after him?
Answer: John Pershing

Question: The tune of the British national anthem appears within which composer's Jubilee Overture?
Answer: Carl Maria von Weber

Question: In which European country is Lake Inari?
Answer: Finland

Question: What is a haboob in the Sahara?
Answer: A sand or dust storm

Question: Which dish comprises round slices of fillet steak with sauteed truffles and foie de gras is named after an Italian composer?
Answer: Tournedos Rossini

Question: From which country does Red Stripe lager originally come?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: Britain, USA, Japan, Germany and France hold the five permanent executive directorships of which financial organisation?
Answer: The World Bank

Question: Which Middle Eastern country was freed from Vichy French rule by Britain
Answer: and the Free French in 1941?

Question: Who was stripped of his Saudi Arabian nationality in 1994, being considered a threat to the ruling House of Saud?
Answer: Osama Bin Laden

Question: Which RAF base is located on Cyprus?
Answer: RAF Akrotiri

Question: What is the English version of the Russian forename Vasily?
Answer: Basil

Question: Death of a Princess, a TV drama based on a real event, caused a diplomatic incident between Britain and which country in 1980?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: What unusual event happened in Britain on 11th August 1999?
Answer: Total Solar Eclipse

Question: In what year (5 years either way) was the British Open Golf Championship first held?
Answer: 1860

Question: Easter Island is a territory of which country?
Answer: Chile

Question: Which artist painted 'The Opening of the Fifth Seal' in about 1610?
Answer: El Greco

Question: Which son of King Agenor is the reputed founder of the city of Thebes in Ancient Greece?
Answer: Cadmus

Question: Who was the first British author to win the Nobel prize for Literature, in 1907?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question: In the Bible, who was the elder daughter of Laban who became the first wife of Jacob and the mother of Dinah?
Answer: Leah

Question: Who in 1711 wrote the line 'A little learning is a dangerous thing'?
Answer: Alexander Pope

Question: Which TV cartoon series is about CIA agent Stan Smith and his family?
Answer: American Dad

Question: Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2010 for his role as Otis Blake in the film 'Crazy Heart'?
Answer: Jeff Bridges

Question: Which British group released the albums `Definitely Maybe' and 'Be Here Now' in the 1990s?
Answer: Oasis

Question: Which Pope launched the first Crusade in 1095?
Answer: Urban II

Question: In Greek Mythology what was the first of the Twelve Labours of Hercules?
Answer: To kill the (Nemean) lion

Question: Which Italian composed the 1832 opera 'The Elixir of Love' (L'elisir d'amore')?
Answer: Donizetti

Question: What is the capital of Benin?
Answer: Porto Novo

Question: Which English king was born at Dunfermline Palace in 1600?
Answer: Charles I

Question: In what year (5 years either way) was the US Open Golf Championship first held?
Answer: 1895

Question: Which artist painted 'Allegory on the Blessings of Peace' in about 1630?
Answer: Rubens

Question: According to Virgil, who was the reputed founder of the city of Carthage?
Answer: Dido

Question: In the Bible, who was the servant of Sarah who became the concubine of Abraham and mother of Ishmael?
Answer: Hagar