Question: Featured on a British commemorative stamp in 2009, which woman writer and feminist philosopher, wrote, in 1792, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"?
Answer: Mary Wollstonecraft

Question: Batavia was the former name, up until 1942, of which Asian city?
Answer: Jakarta

Question: Ilex aquifolium is the botanical name for which tree?
Answer: (Common) HOLLY

Question: In opera 'The Marriage of Figaro' who does Figaro marry?
Answer: Susanna

Question: Who, in the Old Testament, was born at Gath one of the 'five cities of the plains'?
Answer: Goliath

Question: What are produced by the lachrymal glands?
Answer: Tears

Question: From which language do we get the words dinghy, shampoo and dungarees?
Answer: Hindi

Question: Who, in the New Testament, claimed to be 'a citizen of no mean city'?
Answer: Saul/St Paul

Question: Which organ of the body produces bile?
Answer: Liver

Question: In the Oscar acting categories, which actress has received the most nominations?
Answer: Meryl Streep

Question: What is the main ingredient of the soup borsch?
Answer: Beetroot

Question: What is the capital of Montenegro?
Answer: Podgorica

Question: Who was the Commander of the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg?
Answer: George Meade

Question: Striding Edge is a ridge leading to which Lakeland mountain?
Answer: Helvellyn

Question: Gaius Octavius (Octavian) is better known as which Roman Emperor?
Answer: Augustus

Question: Which word appears in the name of all Japanese merchant ships?
Answer: Maru

Question: In which year was the M1 Motorway opened?
Answer: 1959

Question: Which British territory was captured by the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941?
Answer: Hong Kong

Question: From which musical does the song The Night They Invented Champagne' come?
Answer: Gigi

Question: The Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanica was better known by which nickname?
Answer: Caligula

Question: In naval warfare for what is a paravane used for?
Answer: Mine Sweeping

Question: With which instrument do you associate jazz musician Charlie Mingus?
Answer: Double Bass

Question: Who was the original quizmaster of the TV series 'They Think It's All Over'?
Answer: Nick Hancock

Question: Woburn Abbey is the family seat of which duke?
Answer: Bedford

Question: Which is Britain's smallest bird?
Answer: Goldcrest

Question: Which of the United States is known as the Wolverine State'?
Answer: Michigan

Question: In which English cathedral is the Angel Choir?
Answer: Lincoln

Question: The Guiness brewery now specialises in producing stout, but which other traditional dark beer, weaker in alcohol, was also originally brewed there?
Answer: Porter

Question: With which instrument do you associate jazz musician Herbie Hancock?
Answer: Piano

Question: Inverary Castle is the family seat of which duke?
Answer: Argyll

Question: Who was the original quizmaster of the TV series 'A Question of Sport'?
Answer: David Vine

Question: In which English cathedral are the Five Sisters windows?
Answer: York

Question: The book 'Ten Days That Shook the World' by John Reid is about which event?
Answer: October/Russian Revolution

Question: In Greek myth into what was Daphne turned whilst being pursued by Apollo?
Answer: Laurel Tree

Question: To which English king was Elizabeth Woodville married?
Answer: EDWARD the FOURTH

Question: Who.excluding honourary knighthoods, was the first pop singer to be knighted?
Answer: Cliff Richard

Question: Who was the last Prime Minister of the Great Britain to sit as Prime Minister in the House of Lords?
Answer: (Marquess of) SALISBURY

Question: Who is the only man to have won to have won both the world motor cycling and Fl motor racing championships?
Answer: John Surtees

Question: Callao is the main port of which country?
Answer: Peru

Question: Which planet when discovered was originally called the Georgian planet?
Answer: Uranus

Question: Which poet, who died during World War One, wrote the poems 'Peace' and 'Tiare Tahiti'?
Answer: Rupert Brooke

Question: In Greek myth who was the beautiful youth, loved by Aphrodite and killed by a boar?
Answer: Adonis

Question: Who was the first music hall star to be knighted?
Answer: Harry Lauder

Question: To which English king was Anne Neville married?
Answer: RICHARD the THIRD

Question: Who is the only man to have won the US Open singles tennis title on three different surfaces (grass, clay, and hardcourt)?
Answer: Jimmy Connors

Question: Whose was the shortest British premiership of the twentieth century?
Answer: Andrew Bonar Law

Question: Situated on the Red Sea what is the main port of Saudi Arabia?
Answer: JIDDAH or JEDDA

Question: Who, in 1632, painted 'The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp'?
Answer: Rembrandt

Question: Who had the catchphrase 'Can you hear me mother'?
Answer: Sandy Powell

Question: What was the former name of Manchester Airport?
Answer: Ringway

Question: As what were Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder known in the title of a 1968 film?
Answer: The Producers

Question: What is a Portuguese man-of-war?
Answer: Jellyfish

Question: Which is the oldest tower of the Tower of London?
Answer: The White Tower

Question: Rose Sunday is another name for which day?
Answer: Mothering Sunday

Question: Yo Yo Ma is a virtuoso on which instrument?
Answer: Cello

Question: What is a Dandie Dinmont?
Answer: Dog

Question: Who invented the ball-point pen?
Answer: Laszlo Biro

Question: Lesotho is surrounded by which other country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: What was Alfred Leete's artistic contribution to the British First World War effort?
Answer: The 'Your Country Needs You' poster

Question: Which musical genre derives its name from a phrase used in 1962 in a novel by William Burroughs?
Answer: Heavy Metal

Question: What is worn on the feet in street hockey?
Answer: Roller skates

Question: Safeway supermarkets were taken over by which rival?
Answer: Morrison's

Question: What name is given to the part of a flag nearest the flag pole?
Answer: Hoist

Question: What was the nationality of the scientist Robert Bunsen?
Answer: German

Question: Who presents the Radio 2 Wednesday night folk music show?
Answer: Mike Harding

Question: Throughout the Old Testament there are references to the 'Great Sea', by what name is that sea now known?
Answer: Mediterranean

Question: During the nineteenth century what name was given to Indian soldiers serving under British command?
Answer: Sepoys

Question: From 1901-1903, Edmund Barton was the first Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: The 'Road to the Isles' runs from Fort William to which port?
Answer: Mallaig

Question: In which country were the Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed in 2001?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: What was the name of the Cartwright's ranch in the TV western `Bonanza'?
Answer: The Ponderosa

Question: What sport was played by the legendary character Rudolph Wanderone, better known as Minnesota Fats?
Answer: Pool

Question: What is the name of the Japanese mafia-like criminal organisations?
Answer: Yakuza

Question: Who wrote the Jimi Hendrix hit 'All Along the Watchtower'?
Answer: Bob Dylan

Question: Nicknamed the 'King of Soho' his publications included Mayfair and Razzle magazines, he died in March 2008, by what name was he known?
Answer: Paul Raymond

Question: Who was the father of King Henry 3rd?
Answer: King John

Question: In which battle did the 'Thin Red Line' feature?
Answer: Balaclava

Question: Which is the largest free-standing building in Britain?
Answer: Terminal 5, Heathrow airport

Question: In which bay is the Isle of Capri?
Answer: Bay of Naples

Question: On which Shakespeare play is the musical 'The Boys From Syracuse' based?
Answer: Comedy of Errors

Question: Which old British coin was known as a 'tester'?
Answer: Sixpence

Question: What name was given to small balls used as a charge in a cannon that scattered when fired?
Answer: Grapeshot