Question: Name the year. Churchill makes his famous 'Iron Curtain' speech in Fulton Missouri, Henry Fonda stars as Wyatt Earp in 'My Darling Clementine', and murderer Neville Heath is hanged at Pentonville Prison.
Answer: 1946

Question: Which side finished bottom of the 1st division of the County Cricket Championship in 2008?
Answer: Surrey

Question: When the Marie Celeste left New York on her ill-fated voyage, which Italian port was her destination?
Answer: Genoa

Question: What nationality was Trygve Lie, the first Secretary General of the United Nations?
Answer: Norwegian

Question: On the human body, as what is a furuncle more commonly known?
Answer: A Boil

Question: Which poet wrote the line, "If winter comes, can spring be far behind"?
Answer: Percy Shelley

Question: Which American state has Boise as its capital, and is known as the Gem State or Potato State?
Answer: Idaho

Question: The independent girls' school, Roedean, is situated near which south coast town?
Answer: Brighton

Question: Which Midlands club did Sam Allardyce manage, before he took up the position of manager at Bolton Wanderers in 1999?
Answer: Notts County

Question: Which Canadian born folk singer wrote and recorded the hit song, "Big Yellow Taxi"?
Answer: Joni Mitchell

Question: Which bridge, opened in 2002, is depicted on the reverse of the 2007 English £1 coin?
Answer: Gateshead Millennium Bridge

Question: Donald Neilson, convicted of four murders in 1975, was known by which nickname?
Answer: The Black Panther

Question: Which English football club won the European Cup in 1982. beating Bayern Munich, 1-0 in Rotterdam?
Answer: Aston Villa

Question: Which comedian actor played the part of Ron Glum in the radio programme 'Take It From Here'?
Answer: Dick Bentley

Question: Which famous public school is situated n the village of Street in Somerset?
Answer: Millfield

Question: According to Catholic legend which saint mopped the brow of Jesus on his way to Calgary?
Answer: Veronica

Question: Which poet wrote the line, 'For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever"?
Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question: In human anatomy, as what is a peri-orbital haematoma better known? A
Answer: Black Eye

Question: Which British politician became the tenth Secretary General of NATO in 1999?
Answer: George Robertson

Question: Which south coast resort has its own symphony orchestra, founded in 1893 and now based in Poole Arts Centre?
Answer: Bournemouth

Question: Vancouver Island is a part of which Canadian Province?
Answer: British Columbia

Question: Which artist, a member of the modern school of art, and noted for his paintings of violinists, was born in Russia in 1887, and died in Paris aged 97?
Answer: Marc Chagall

Question: Sgt. Joan Hogan and Mess Sgt. Rupert Ritzic were characters in which 1950's TV comedy series?
Answer: THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW (accept SGT BILKO).

Question: Which British composer, together with the tenor Peter Pears, founded the annual music festival at Aldeburgh?
Answer: Benjamin Britten

Question: Created in the 1990's, as a satire of James Bond, what was the name of the character in a number of films, who was originally termed, "The International Man of Mystery"?
Answer: Austin Powers

Question: Which TV producer and scriptwriter, created the TV series, 'Grange Hill'?
Answer: Phil Redmond

Question: Who, in 1678, along with Israel Tonge, fabricated the "Popish Plot", a fictitious conspiracy to murder Charles II?
Answer: Titus Oates

Question: The salts of which metal are used in the manufacture of calamine lotion?
Answer: Zinc

Question: Who was the mother of the Roman emperor, Nero, who was murdered on nis orders in A.D. 59?
Answer: Agrippina

Question: The merganser is a species of which kind of bird?
Answer: A Duck

Question: What nationality is the international Rugby Union referee, Alain Rolland?
Answer: Irish

Question: Which English Rugby Union side play their home matches at Franklin Gardens?
Answer: Northampton

Question: One Australian term for a fool is the word "galah". What type of bird is a galah?
Answer: A Cockatoo

Question: The Annapurna range of peaks stand in which Asian country?
Answer: Nepal

Question: The salts of which poisonous acid are found in rhubarb leaves?
Answer: Oxalic Acid

Question: Because of the outrage caused by the Popish Plot, which Archbishop of Armagh, was executed at Tyburn in 1681, the last Roman Catholic martyr to die in England? In 1975, he was canonised, and became the first new Irish saint for almost 700 years.
Answer: St Oliver Plunke'Tt

Question: Which local born actor/writer won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1981, for his work on the film, "Chariots of Fire"?
Answer: Colin Welland

Question: Creator, Nat Hiken gave which original title to the "Phil Silvers Show", it being changed after a couple of months?
Answer: You'Ll Never Get Rich

Question: Which style of art, which flourished briefly in the first part of the 20th century, took its name from the French for, "Wild Beasts"?
Answer: Fauvism

Question: In the novel, "The Pickwick Papers", by Charles Dickens, who brought an action against Mr Pickwick, for breach of promise to marry?
Answer: Mrs Bardell

Question: Give either the title or the singer of Britain's first winning Eurovision Song Contest entry?
Answer: 'Puppet on a String', Sandie Shaw

Question: Duncan Renaldo played which cowboy character in a famous US TV series?
Answer: Cisco Kid

Question: On which river is the 'Iron Gate'?
Answer: Danube

Question: What name is given to the energy which a body possesses by virtue of its motion?
Answer: Kinetic Energy

Question: Give either the title or the singer of Britain's latest winning Eurovision Song Contest entry?
Answer: 'Love Shine a Light' by Katrina and the Waves

Question: In 1936, Lionel Van Praag won the first world championship in which sport?
Answer: Speedway

Question: In which TV series did the brothers Hoss, Adam and Little Joe appear?
Answer: Bonanza

Question: Whose comic characters include 'Kevin Patterson', 'Julio Geordio' and 'Tim Nice-But-Dim'?
Answer: Harry Enfield

Question: In which Texas city is the Alamo?
Answer: San Antonio

Question: Benjamin Disraeli became the first Earl of . . . where?
Answer: Beaconsfield

Question: In which town does the traditional Furry Dance take place on May 8th each year?
Answer: Helston, Cornwall

Question: Who created the character 'Rip Van Winkle'?
Answer: Washington Irving

Question: What name is given to the energy which a body possesses by virtue of its position?
Answer: Potential Energy

Question: Who partnered Aretha Franklin on the 1987 no.1 hit 'I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)'?
Answer: George Michael

Question: What was the name of the state that seceded from Nigeria in 1967 and lasted until 1970?
Answer: Biafra

Question: In which German town or city could you walk in the 'Englische Garten'?
Answer: Munich

Question: Which city is known as 'Queen of the Baltic'?
Answer: Stockholm

Question: What is bought and sold at the London market known as 'The Baltic Exchange'?
Answer: Cargo space

Question: Who wrote the opera 'Lakme'?
Answer: Delibes

Question: Jack and Kit Wright, Thomas and Robert Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood and Sir Everard Digby amongst others are all associated with which historical event?
Answer: Gunpowder Plot

Question: Which Sunday newspaper was launched in September 1989 as a 'quality' broadsheet and ceased publication (as a tabloid) in November 1990?
Answer: Correspondent

Question: Which cruise ship sank in the Antarctic in late 2007, after hitting an iceberg?
Answer: MV Explorer

Question: Who created the character 'Mary Poppins'?
Answer: Pamela L Travers

Question: On which track did the first motor racing Grand Prix take place in 1907?
Answer: Le Mans

Question: What name is given to the stellar explosion caused when nuclear fusion within a massive star ceases and it suffers gravitational collapse?
Answer: (Super)Nova