Question: Who was President when the first Peanuts cartoon was published?
Answer: Harry Truman

Question: Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?
Answer: Sinclair Lewis

Question: Where in England was Dame Judi Dench born?
Answer: York

Question: William Christensen of Madison, New Jersey, has claimed to have the world's biggest collection of what?
Answer: Beer Cans

Question: In which decade did Billboard magazine first publish and American hit chart?
Answer: 30s

Question: Where was horse racing's Breeders' Cup held in 1988?
Answer: Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky

Question: From which country did Angola achieve independence in 1975?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Which city does David Soul come from?
Answer: Chicago

Question: Who won Super Bowl XX?
Answer: Chicago Bears

Question: Which was the first European country to abolish capital punishment?
Answer: Norway

Question: What first appeared in Ohio in 1914 to affect transport?
Answer: First Traffic Lights

Question: In what field did the brother of the author of The Turn of the Screw find fame?
Answer: Psychology (William James was the brother of Henry)

Question: In which country did he widespread use of ISDN begin in 1988?
Answer: Japan

Question: What is Bruce Willis' real first name?
Answer: Walter

Question: Which William wrote the novel Lord Of The Flies?
Answer: Golding

Question: Which innovation for the car was developed by Prince Henry of Prussia in 1911?
Answer: Windshield wipers

Question: How is musician William Lee Conley better known?
Answer: Big Bill Broonzy

Question: To ten thousand square miles what it the area of New Mexico?
Answer: 121,364 square miles

Question: How is Joan Molinsky better known?
Answer: Joan Rivers

Question: In which branch of the arts is Patricia Neary famous?
Answer: Ballet

Question: Which country is Europe's largest silk producer?
Answer: Italy

Question: At which university did Joseph Goebbels become a doctor of philosophy?
Answer: Heidelberg

Question: Which prince is Queen Elizabeth II's youngest son?
Answer: Edward

Question: When did the founder of Jehovah's Witnesses say the world would end?
Answer: 1914

Question: Who found the remains of the Titanic?
Answer: Robert Ballard

Question: What was the profession of Sir David Frost's father?
Answer: Clergyman

Question: Who was the only Spice Girl not to have a middle name?
Answer: Posh Spice

Question: What are the international registration letters of a vehicle from Algeria?
Answer: Dz

Question: How did Jock die in Dallas?
Answer: Helicopter accident

Question: Who said, "Anybody wishing to banish theft from the world must cut off the thief's hands?
Answer: Ayatollah Khomeini

Question: To the nearest 10,000 square miles, what is the area of Arkansas?
Answer: 53,187

Question: What star sign is Michael Caine?
Answer: Pisces

Question: Who wrote the novel Evening Class?
Answer: Maeve Binchy

Question: Which country does the airline Air Pacific come from?
Answer: Fiji

Question: In which branch of the arts does Allegra Kent work?
Answer: Ballet

Question: Who had a 70s No 1 hit with Billy, Don't Be A Hero?
Answer: Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods

Question: Banting and Best pioneered the use of what?
Answer: Insulin

Question: Who directed the movie La Dolce Vita?
Answer: Federico Fellini

Question: Which country does the airline LACSA come from?
Answer: Costa Rica

Question: Who directed 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Answer: Stanley Kubrick

Question: Which is the largest of the Japanese Volcano Islands?
Answer: Iwo Jima

Question: Who was the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic?
Answer: Amelia Earhart

Question: Which port lies between Puget Sound and Lake Washington?
Answer: Seattle

Question: Who became US Vice President when Spiro Agnew resigned?
Answer: Gerald Ford

Question: In which decade of the 20th century was Billy Crystal born?
Answer: 1940s

Question: Which George invented the Kodak roll-film camera?
Answer: Eastman

Question: Which series had the characters Felix Unger and Oscar Madison?
Answer: The Odd Couple

Question: Who along with Philips developed the CD in the late 70s?
Answer: Sony

Question: Where is the multinational Nestle based?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Do You Know Where You're Going To? was the theme from which film?
Answer: Mahogany

Question: 19969 was the Chinese year of which creature?
Answer: Rat

Question: In the 90s how many points have been awarded for finishing second in a Grand Prix?
Answer: 6

Question: Stapleton international airport is in which US state?
Answer: Colorado

Question: What was Kevin Kline's first movie?
Answer: Sophie's Choice

Question: Which actor had a Doberman Pinscher called Kirk?
Answer: William Shatner

Question: Which country became the first in the world to issue the dreaded parking ticket?
Answer: France

Question: What day of the week was the Wall Street Crash?
Answer: Thursday

Question: The US signed a treaty with which country to allow the construction of the Panama Canal?
Answer: Columbia

Question: What was Prince's last No 1 of the 80s?
Answer: Batdance

Question: Man In The Mirror first featured on which Michel Jackson album?
Answer: Bad

Question: Where was the first battle with US involvement in the Korean War?
Answer: Suwon

Question: On which Caribbean island did Princess Diana spend he first Christmas after her divorce was announced?
Answer: Barbuda

Question: In which decade was Arnold Schwarzenegger born?
Answer: 1950s

Question: Which musical featured the song Thank Heaven for Little Girls?
Answer: Gigi

Question: The Queen Elizabeth liner was destroyed by fire in the 70s in which harbour?
Answer: Hong Kong

Question: What breed of dog did Columbo own?
Answer: Basset hound

Question: What combined with Metro Pictures and Goldwyn Pictures to form MGM?
Answer: Louis B Mayer Company

Question: Which Oscar-winning actress was born on exactly the same day as actress Lindsay Wagner?
Answer: Meryl Streep

Question: Which Amendment to the Constitution brought in prohibition in 1920?
Answer: 18th

Question: In Richard Nixon's famous Checkers speech, who or what was Checkers?
Answer: His daughter's dog

Question: Which oil scandal hit the US in 1924?
Answer: Teapot Dome Scandal

Question: Phil Collins appeared in which Spielberg film with Robin Williams?
Answer: Hook

Question: 1998 was the Chinese year of which creature?
Answer: Tiger

Question: Theodore Francis international airport is in which US state?
Answer: Rhode Island

Question: In which soap did Demi Moore find fame?
Answer: General Hospital

Question: To the nearest million, what is the population of London, England?
Answer: 7 million

Question: What did Clarice Cliff create?
Answer: Pottery

Question: Which James Bond film features a song by Louis Armstrong?
Answer: On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Question: In which decade of the 20th century was William Hurt born?
Answer: 1950s

Question: In what year were US ground troops first dispatched to Vietnam?
Answer: 1965

Question: In 1999 Anna Kournikova signed a lucrative contract to model what?
Answer: Bras

Question: Which member of the Monkees came from Washington DC?
Answer: Peter Tork

Question: In what decade were video recorders first developed?
Answer: 50s

Question: Who had the noels Spy Hook and Spy Line published in the 80s?
Answer: Len Deighton

Question: the first credit cards were for use in what type of establishments?
Answer: Restaurants

Question: In which country was Ursula Andrews born?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: What was CBS TV news broadcaster Walter Cronkite's stock closing phrase?
Answer: And that's the way it is

Question: Which item of clothing cost Isadora Duncan her life?
Answer: Scarf- it was caught in a moving car wheel

Question: Who had a 70s No 1 hit with Let Your Love Flow?
Answer: Bellamy Brothers

Question: Which state renewed Mike Tyson's boxing license in 1998?
Answer: Nevada