Question: Who was the first to reach Asia by sailing all the way around the Cape of Good Hope?
Answer: Vasco Da Gama

Question: Catfish Row, Charleston is the setting of which opera?
Answer: Porgy And Bess

Question: Who became the oldest Olympic 100 metres Champion when he won Gold in 1980?
Answer: Alan Wells

Question: By what name are the biblical plays of the Middle Ages known?
Answer: Mystery Plays

Question: What is the motto of the Prince of Wales?
Answer: Ich Dien

Question: Which is the world's largest marine park?
Answer: The Great Barrier Reef National Park

Question: The city of Durham stands on which river?
Answer: Wear

Question: Who wrote TV scripts under the nom-de-plume 'Gerald Wiley'?
Answer: Ronnie Barker

Question: Which film features the song 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend'?
Answer: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Question: The Kittiwake belongs to which family of birds?
Answer: Gulls

Question: In 1959 which British city became the first to adopt a post code system?
Answer: Norwich

Question: Which Irish rally driver won the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally driving a Mini Cooper?
Answer: Paddy Hopkirk

Question: Which word can mean a tool, a tree or a type of transport?
Answer: Plane

Question: Who is the only man to have won both a motorcycling world championship and the Formula 1 World Championship?
Answer: John Surtees

Question: Which car company is named after the founder of Detroit?
Answer: Cadillac

Question: What is the meaning of the German word 'spätlese' as applied to wine?
Answer: Late harvest

Question: Which common flower has the Latin name 'Bellis Perennis'?
Answer: Daisy

Question: The Oresund Bridge links Copenhagen to which city?
Answer: Malmo

Question: How is World War 2 known to the Russians?
Answer: (Great) Patriotic War

Question: What does a fellmonger sell?
Answer: Animal skins

Question: Which locks control entry to the Panama canal from the Atlantic end?
Answer: Gatun Locks

Question: In Texas Hold 'Em poker what follows the 'flop' and the 'turn'?
Answer: The River

Question: Who led the investigations into the Bill Clinton / Monica Lewinsky affair?
Answer: Kenneth Starr

Question: In which TV series did the voice of Michael Angelis replace that of Ringo Starr?
Answer: Thomas the Tank Engine

Question: Which English cathedral is the only one built South/North as opposed to East/West?
Answer: Coventry

Question: Which pre Euro German coin was one hundredth of a mark?
Answer: Pfennig

Question: Ian Kilminster, better known as `Lemmy', is singer with which group?
Answer: Motorhead

Question: Banting, Best and MacLeod are renowned for the discovery of what in 1922?
Answer: Insulin

Question: Which US President was the first to live in the White House?
Answer: John Adams

Question: What was the result of the Gleneagles Agreement of 1977?
Answer: South Africa's exclusion from international sport

Question: From which country does the cheese `Manchego' come?
Answer: Spain

Question: Buddy Rich was famous for his playing of which instrument?
Answer: Drums

Question: What name has been used by three Scottish kings, eight Popes and three Russian Tsars?
Answer: Alexander

Question: 'Britain's Got Talent' judge Amanda Holden's first TV appearance was in 1991 on which programme?
Answer: Blind Date

Question: Which football league club moved from Belle Vue and played their first game at the new Keepmoat Stadium on New Year's Day 2007?
Answer: Doncaster Rovers

Question: What is the most famous group of dolmens in England called?
Answer: Stonehenge

Question: What is the familiar name of the garden flower lathyrus odorata?
Answer: Sweet Pea

Question: Which pretender to the English throne styled himself as Richard 4th?
Answer: Perkin Warbeck

Question: What is the meaning of the prefix Kil- or Cill- in Irish place names?
Answer: Church

Question: Which famous aviator and adventurer went missing in the Nevada Desert during September 2007, when the plane he was piloting failed to return?
Answer: Steve Fossett

Question: Which creature, according to Pliny, had a glance that meant certain death?
Answer: Basilisk

Question: Which engineer designed the WW2 fighter plane, the 'Hurricane'?
Answer: Sydney Camm

Question: Who was depicted on the reverse of the last English pound note?
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton

Question: What term is used in the financial world to describe an investor who buys a security in the hope of selling it at a higher price, believing that the market will go up?
Answer: Bull

Question: What was invented by the Chinese, imported into Britain from Italy by Charles lst and known to the Arabs as 'sherbet'?
Answer: Ice cream

Question: With which sport is Sir John Sholto Douglas (1844-1900) connected?
Answer: Boxing

Question: Which country imports the biggest volume of Champagne from France?
Answer: Great Britain

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

Question: Which 15-year-old won the 125 CC British Grand Prix at Donington Park 2008?
Answer: Scott Redding

Question: How many pounds are there in an imperial ton?
Answer: 2240

Question: Who, in 1616, announced important observations on blood circulation?
Answer: William Harvey

Question: What is the word for the part of a solid geometric figure left after the top part has been cut off on a plane parallel to the base?
Answer: Frustum

Question: Which major city is located on the River Loire, approximately 50 kilometres from the Atlantic coast?
Answer: Nantes

Question: Burgess, McLean and Blunt all belonged to which arcane Cambridge University Debating Society founded in the 1820's?
Answer: The Apostles

Question: Who played Yosser Hughes in the acclaimed TV series "The Boys From The Black Stuff'?
Answer: Bernard Hill

Question: Give a year in the life of Prince Henry the Navigator.
Answer: 1632-1704

Question: What is the name of the cyclist from the Isle of Man who won six stages in the 2009 Tour de France?
Answer: Mark Cavendish

Question: Which theatre was Abraham Lincoln attending when he was assassinated?
Answer: Ford

Question: In which city is the tomb of Saint Ignatius Loyola?
Answer: Rome

Question: Which delicacy are pigs often used to locate?
Answer: Truffles

Question: The character Charlie Hungerford, played by Terence Alexander, appeared in which TV series?
Answer: Bergerac

Question: Who played Himmler in the 1976 film "The Eagle Has Landed"?
Answer: Donald Pleasance

Question: Who wrote "March of the Meanies" for the Beatles' cartoon film "Yellow Submarine"?
Answer: George Martin.

Question: Who is Prime Minister of Russia?
Answer: Vladimir Putin

Question: How often does the Lambeth Conference take place?
Answer: Every ten years

Question: Who had a Greek phrase which could translate as: "Why worry" carved into the pediment of his cottage at Cloudshill, Dorset?
Answer: T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia).

Question: Which 14th-century English religious reformer was often called The Morning Star of the Reformation?
Answer: John Wycliffe

Question: Which modern-day country is the birthplace of Sigmund Freud?
Answer: Czech Republic

Question: Who was the Greek God of Thunder?
Answer: Zeus

Question: What is the flavour of the liqueur Amaretto?
Answer: Almond

Question: In 1990, which was the first UK city to be a European City of Culture?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: Which South American soldier and statesman became known as "The Liberator"?
Answer: Vestigial

Question: In Egyptian mythology, which God has the head of a crocodile?
Answer: Sobek

Question: Which Commonwealth country is known as "The Land of the Long White Cloud"?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: In which TV series of the 1990s did Sarah Lancashire play a District Nurse?
Answer: Where The Heart Is

Question: Which bird is also called the stormcock?
Answer: Mistle Thrush

Question: Who painted "Virgin Of The Rocks" or "Madonna Of The Rocks" between 1483 and 1506?
Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci