Question: Which solo instrument features in the Largo from Dvorak's New World Symphony?
Answer: Cor Anglais

Question: During WW2, which building was the headquarters of Fighter Command?
Answer: Bentley Priory

Question: Which British Athlete won the 100 metres gold medal at the 1980 Olympics?
Answer: Alan Wells

Question: Jean Valjean is the central character in which classical novel?
Answer: Les Miserables

Question: Where, on the Baltic coast, was the German missile site where V1 rockets were designed and built?
Answer: Peenemunde

Question: The opera ' Beatrice and Benedict' by Berlioz is based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Much Ado About Nothing

Question: In a children's' book, if Elphaba is the wicked witch of the west, who is the good witch of the South?
Answer: Glinda

Question: In the title of the detective story by Dorothy L.Sayers, what are the 'Nine Tailors'?
Answer: Church Bells

Question: Which team won the first division 3 times in succession in the 1920's?
Answer: Huddersfield Town

Question: 'Behind the Shades' is the autobiography of which controversial sports figure? -
Answer: Duncan Fletcher

Question: In 1922, who replied "Wonderful Things", when asked what he could see through a hole in a wall?
Answer: Howard Carter

Question: In which childrens' TV programme, narrated by Derek Jacobi, would you see Iggle-Piggle & Upsy-Daisy?
Answer: In The Night Garden

Question: In art, Lisa Gherardini became better known as whom?
Answer: Mona Lisa

Question: In Australia, what is referred to as a 'brumby'?
Answer: Wild Horse

Question: On what Saint's day was the Battle of Agincourt fought in 1415?
Answer: St.CRISPIN

Question: What is name of the piece of leather on which a barber sharpens a cut-throat razor?
Answer: Strop

Question: What is the name of the theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee?
Answer: Dollywood

Question: Who patented the first revolver in 1836?
Answer: Samuel COLT

Question: Which of the Four Gospels is thought to be based on eyewitness information?
Answer: St. MARK

Question: In which Shakespeare play is the heroine called Rosalind?
Answer: As You Like It

Question: What is another name for the bird usually called the shrike?
Answer: Butcher Bird

Question: Messier numbers were first applied to what?
Answer: Accept any of GALAXIES, STAR CLUSTERS, NEBULAE or SUPER NOVA but not COMETS

Question: With reference to American cattle, what is the name of a motherless or stray calf?
Answer: Dogie

Question: Which county won crickets county championship 6 times in the 1960's?
Answer: Yorkshire

Question: Who is reputed to have said, 'Today, I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon'?; after discoveries at Mycenae?
Answer: Heinrich SCHLIEMANN

Question: Whom did St.Paul describe as 'his beloved physician'?
Answer: St. LUKE

Question: Who invented the cotton gin in 1783?
Answer: Eli Whitney

Question: In which war did the Battle of Ramillies take place?
Answer: WAR of the SPANISH SUCCESSION

Question: On which island is the children's' TV programme Balamory set?
Answer: Mull

Question: What is the capital of the Middle Eastern emirate, Qatar?
Answer: Doha

Question: A monument begun in 1948, in the Black Hills of South Dakota , when finished, will be of which American Indian Lakota chief?
Answer: Crazy Horse

Question: Where do people compete every Christmas Day for the Peter Pan Cup?
Answer: Serpentine in Hyde Park

Question: The film 'Infamous' is about which author?
Answer: Truman Capote

Question: What is the second brightest star in the constellation Orion?
Answer: Betelgeuse

Question: Who is the Muse of love poetry?
Answer: Erato

Question: How many acres are there in a hectare (to the nearest half acre)?
Answer: 2.5

Question: What was the name of William Wordsworth's sister, who was also a poet and pianist?
Answer: Dorothy

Question: What was the name of Cliff Richard's first No. 1 hit in the UK?
Answer: Livin' Doll

Question: Which actor, famous for his portrayal of gangsters, was born Emmanuel Goldenberg in Romania in 1893?
Answer: Edward G Robinson

Question: Which American football team are known as the Vikings?
Answer: Minnesota

Question: Who is the patron saint of ecologists?
Answer: Saint Francis

Question: Of which family is the minnow a member?
Answer: Carp

Question: Mount Mitchell is the highest peak of which American mountain range?
Answer: Appalachian Mountains

Question: Which part of the body is affected by Meniere's Disease?
Answer: Ear

Question: Which film of 1958 starred Ingrid Bergman as missionary Gladys Aylward?
Answer: Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Question: Who succeeded John Quincy Adams as president of the USA in 1829?
Answer: Andrew Jackson

Question: Which stretch of water separates Tasmania from mainland Australia?
Answer: Bass Strait

Question: What nationality is Liverpool FC footballer Sami Hyypia?
Answer: Finnish

Question: What was the Christian name of Judge Jeffreys (1645-1689)?
Answer: George

Question: Who composed the Christmas Oratorio in 1734?
Answer: J S Bach

Question: Which dramatist and poet was murdered by Ingram Frazer in Deptford in 1593?
Answer: Christopher Marlowe

Question: In what year did the Aberfan disaster take place?
Answer: 1966

Question: Which US female singer who died in 2008 had hits with 'Shrimp Boats' and 'You Belong To Me'?
Answer: Jo Stafford

Question: Which UK female singer who died in 2008 had hits with 'How much is that doggie in the window' and 'Jimmy Unknown'?
Answer: Lita Roza

Question: In what year did The Great Train Robbery take place?
Answer: 1963

Question: Which poet died of septicaemia in the Aegean Sea in 1915?
Answer: Rupert Brooke

Question: Give a year in the life of English poet, William Blake.
Answer: 1757-1827

Question: What was Elvis Presley's first No. 1 record in the UK?
Answer: All Shook Up

Question: Which famous Hollywood actor was born Roy Harold Scherer in Illinois in 1925?
Answer: Rock Hudson

Question: Which American football team are known as the Steelers?
Answer: Pittsburgh

Question: What part of the body is affected by Brights disease?
Answer: Kidneys

Question: Which 1972 film starred Diana Ross as Billie Holiday?
Answer: Lady Sings The Blues

Question: In the UK it is called a spanner, what do they call it in the USA?
Answer: Wrench

Question: Name the writer of The History Boys, winner of the 2006 Tony award for best play?
Answer: Alan Bennett

Question: Which stretch of water separates the North and South islands in New Zealand?
Answer: Cook Strait

Question: Who succeeded Andrew Johnson as US President in 1869?
Answer: Ulysses S Grant

Question: 'It's Oh So Quiet' and Venus as a Boy' were hit singles for which female artist?
Answer: Bjork

Question: What is the meaning of the adjective lachrymal?
Answer: Tearful

Question: In Roman mythology who was the wife of Jupiter?
Answer: Juno

Question: Who composed the Hungarian Dances in 1869?
Answer: Brahms

Question: What was the Christian name of Lord Byron?
Answer: George

Question: What name was given to the type of art particularly associated with Jackson Pollock?
Answer: (Abstract) Expressionism

Question: In the Addams Family what type of pet was Pugsley's Aristotle?
Answer: Octopus

Question: From whom did Henry Cooper first win the British heavyweight title in 1959?
Answer: Brian London

Question: Which former US world heavyweight champion knocked out Henry Cooper in four rounds in 1966?
Answer: Floyd Patterson

Question: Which US oceanographer led the teams which discovered the wrecks of the Titanic in 1985 and the Bismarck in 1989?
Answer: Robert Ballard

Question: Which football team play their home games at the Don Valley Stadium?
Answer: Rotherham United

Question: Which British comedian was born in Hall Green, Birmingham in 1924 and died in Sydney in 1968?
Answer: Tony Hancock

Question: What was the name of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog to whom she famously addressed a poem?
Answer: Flush