Question: At which resort did Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet in a major conference in February 1945?
Answer: Yalta

Question: What is the name of the area in Central Park dedicated to the memory of John Lennon?
Answer: Strawberry Fields

Question: In which band did Ringo Starr play immediately before he joined the Beatles?
Answer: Rory Storm and the Hurricanes

Question: Who wrote the plays The Browning Version and Separate Tables?
Answer: Terence Rattigan

Question: Which was Shakespeare's shortest play?
Answer: The Comedy of Errors

Question: In which modern day country would you have found the majority of the Hittite Empire?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Which country is the largest producer of tungsten (75% of world's output)?
Answer: China

Question: Who played guitar and was a founder of the 'Hot Club of France' (Quintette du Hot Club de France)?
Answer: Django Reinhardt

Question: Who in 1968 was the first cricketer to be officially recorded as scoring a six off every ball in a six ball over in first class cricket?
Answer: Gary Sobers

Question: In the shape of which animal does the Hindu God Hanuman appear?
Answer: A Monkey

Question: In Italian cuisine what name is given to a turnover of pizza dough filled with vegetables meat or cheese?
Answer: Calzone

Question: What type of foodstuff is Port Salut?
Answer: Cheese

Question: Which desert separates Egypt and Israel?
Answer: Negev

Question: Which classic 1952 film was based on a short story called The Tin Star?
Answer: High Noon

Question: Whose autobiography was Goodbye To All That?
Answer: Robert Graves

Question: How many chromosomes are in a human body cell?
Answer: 46

Question: Who was Lieutenant Gerard Chasing for four years in the TV series The Fugitive?
Answer: Richard Kimble

Question: Which golfing accessory was patented by George Grant in 1899?
Answer: The Tee

Question: Under which zodiac sign was Jesus born?
Answer: Capricorn

Question: Although the Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay, where was it finally beached?
Answer: MOLFRE - accept ANGLESEY

Question: What is the name of the hero in the play Death of a Salesman?
Answer: Willie Loman

Question: What was the character name of the Girl from Uncle?
Answer: April Dancer

Question: Who was the first female to be the speaker of the House of Commons?
Answer: Betty Boothroyd

Question: Which aircraft company built a model called the Comet?
Answer: De Havilland

Question: From what material are millefiori ornaments made?
Answer: Glass

Question: Border, Corriedale and Leicester are all breeds of which animal?
Answer: Sheep

Question: Who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a papyrus boat in 1969-70?
Answer: Thor Heyerdahl

Question: What is the name of the RAF Officer Training School?
Answer: Cranwell

Question: What was the capital of Brazil before Brasilia?
Answer: Rio De Janeiro

Question: Which Egyptian God had the head of a falcon?
Answer: Horus

Question: Whose last words were reputed to have been "I will hear in heaven"?
Answer: Ludwig Van Beethoven

Question: On which body of water does Kampala stand?
Answer: Lake Victoria

Question: What is the modern name of Dutch Guiana?
Answer: Surinam

Question: On which Island is the Japanese Capital Tokyo to be found?
Answer: Honshu

Question: In which year was the Easter Uprising in Ireland?
Answer: 1916

Question: When jeered during his maiden speech, which future Prime Minister said "Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me"?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: Which London landmark now stands on the site of the Tyburn Tree/Gallows?
Answer: Marble Arch

Question: Name either of the states annexed to Britain after the Boer War?
Answer: Orange Free State/Transvaal

Question: In which British City was a mosque first opened in 1860?
Answer: Cardiff

Question: Which was the first London Street to be lit by gas lamp?
Answer: Pall Mall

Question: Name any of the four US states that were part of the Dustbowl in the 1930's?
Answer: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado

Question: What is the chemical name for vitamin B2?
Answer: Riboflavin

Question: In which US city was the first telephone exchange set up?
Answer: Boston

Question: What was the nationality of racing driver Jochin Rindt?
Answer: Austrian

Question: The Paris-Dakar rally stars in France but end in which country?
Answer: Senegal

Question: Which is the nearest British town to Beachy Head?
Answer: Eastbourne

Question: Which British Foreign Minister, later Prime Minister, is associated with Gunboat Diplomacy?
Answer: Lord Palmerston

Question: Who said guns will make us powerful but butter will make us fat?
Answer: Herman Goering

Question: Which film classic was based around the Boxer Rebellion?
Answer: 55 Days At Peking

Question: When Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped by Israeli Agents, in which country was he found?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Which was the capital city of the Assyrian Empire?
Answer: Nineveh

Question: What structures were built along the south coast of England during the Napoleonic wars to protect England from invasion by the French?
Answer: Martello Towers

Question: Name either of the Royal Navy vessels on which Harold Wilson held talks with Ian Smith about UDI.
Answer: Hms Tiger/Hms Fearless

Question: Which disease caused the death of 43 people in Croydon in 1937?
Answer: Typhoid

Question: What was the name of the faith healer employed by Glenn Hoddle for the 1998 England World Cup squad?
Answer: Eileen Drewery

Question: Simon Woodruffe started which food chain in 1998?
Answer: Yo Sushi

Question: Phil Silvers wrote Nancy with the Laughing Eyes about which entertainer's daughter?
Answer: Frank Sinatra

Question: Which metal is obtained from minerals haematite and magnetite?
Answer: Iron

Question: Who had a mistress called Clara Petacci?
Answer: Benito Mussolini

Question: What name. is given to a golden coloured horse with a golden mane?
Answer: Palomino

Question: What colour is copper sulphate?
Answer: Blue

Question: Which is the lightest (least dense) metal?
Answer: Lithium

Question: The former Labour Minister Gerald Kaufman has his constituency in which city?
Answer: Manchester

Question: Sir Humphry Repton achieved fame in the 18th century in which sphere of activity?
Answer: Landscape Gardening

Question: Name the Italian composer of 'The Pines of Rome'.
Answer: Ottorino Respighi

Question: In which English county are the Howardian Hills?
Answer: North Yorkshire

Question: A National Hunt flat race is generally known as what?
Answer: A Bumper

Question: What is the Latin name for the star constellation known in English as 'The Flying Horse'?
Answer: Pegasus

Question: In Japanese homes, what is a shoji?
Answer: Screen/Sliding Door

Question: What is the English name for the star constellation Aquila?
Answer: The Eagle

Question: Bigos, a form of sauerkraut, is a national dish from which country?
Answer: Poland

Question: In the 20th century Henri Cartier-Bresson achieved fame in what area of activity?
Answer: Photography

Question: The 12000 foot high volcano Semeru is the highest peak on which South-East Asian island?
Answer: Java

Question: Who is the British director of the 1994 film 'Shallow Grave'?
Answer: Danny Boyle

Question: Which metal has a low-grade version called spelter, often used for sculptural casting?
Answer: Zinc

Question: What is the name of Steven Spielberg's 1997 film telling the story of a slave ship mutiny?
Answer: Amistad

Question: Give one year during the life of George 'Beau' Brummell.
Answer: 1778 - 1840

Question: On old time sailing ships what was the role of a loblolly boy?
Answer: Surgeon'S Assistant

Question: Which fruit provides the basis for quetsch brandy?
Answer: Plums

Question: Which is the longest river in New Zealand?
Answer: Waikato

Question: The former Labour minister Charles Clarke had his constituency in which English city?
Answer: Norwich

Question: Give one year during the lifetime of actor David Garrick.
Answer: 1717 -1779