Question: Who directed the 2005 version of the film "King Kong"?
Answer: Peter Jackson

Question: What is the French name for the grape that the Australians call Shiraz?
Answer: Syrah

Question: Name either of the two cheeses that are layered together to make Huntsman's cheese.
Answer: Double Gloucester or Stilton

Question: Who directed the 2010 film "127 Hours"?
Answer: Danny Boyle

Question: In Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" what is given as Robert Langdon's profession?
Answer: Symbologist

Question: From which language do we get the word 'yoga'?
Answer: Sanskrit

Question: Who wrote the epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha"?
Answer: Longfellow

Question: Durres is the chief port of which country?
Answer: Albania

Question: Which river flows through Galway City in Ireland?
Answer: Corrib

Question: Which species of deer was introduced to Britain at Woburn in the early 20th century?
Answer: Muntjac

Question: Who was Britain's first female Home Secretary?
Answer: Jacqui Smith

Question: Tegel airport serves which European capital city?
Answer: Berlin

Question: Who is Australia's first female Prime Minister?
Answer: Julia Gillard

Question: Whose autobiography entitled "The Woman I Was Born To Be" was published in 2010?
Answer: Susan Boyle

Question: What is the name of 'Take That's' 2010 album which marked the return to the band of Robbie Williams?
Answer: Progress

Question: The chemical element Potassium's symbol K, comes from which Latin word?
Answer: Kalium

Question: The chemical element Sodium's symbol Na, comes from which Latin word?
Answer: Natrium

Question: Which artiste had the best-selling single of 2009, with "Poker Face"?
Answer: Lady Gaga

Question: The Gulls is the nickname of which English Football League team?
Answer: Torquay United

Question: The Luddite Riots appear in which of Charlotte Bronte's novels?
Answer: Shirley

Question: The Bantams is the nickname of which English Football League team?
Answer: Bradford City

Question: What was the name of the official match ball for the 2010 World Cup?
Answer: Jabulani

Question: Which TV series was filmed in the Irish village of Avoca?
Answer: Ballykissangel

Question: Who described the news of the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton as 'wicked'?
Answer: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

Question: Who had an instrumental hit in 1962 with "Telstar"?
Answer: The Tornadoes

Question: Which TV series was filmed in the Scottish village of Plockton?
Answer: Hamish Macbeth

Question: At 4132 miles long, which is regarded as the longest river in the world?
Answer: Nile

Question: What name is given to the yellow fluid that surroundsand lubricates cartilages in joints?
Answer: Synovial Fluid

Question: In which organ of the body is the pineal gland?
Answer: The Brain

Question: The Curragh and Punchestown racecourses are in which Irish county?
Answer: Co. Kildare

Question: In the USA, what date is Groundhog Day?
Answer: February 2nd

Question: What is the name of Ed Milliband's second son, born in 2010?
Answer: Samuel

Question: Who played Queen Elizabeth, wife of King George VI, in the 2011 film "The King's Speech"?
Answer: Helen Bonham Carter

Question: The pop group, The Beautiful South' were formed by twomembers of which earlier group?
Answer: The Housemartins

Question: Which Archbishop of Canterbury crowned Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: Geoffrey Fisher

Question: In the 1960's, whose band was the 'All Stars'?
Answer: Junior Walker

Question: Who played the part of US marshal Rooster Cogburn in the 2011 film "True Grit"?
Answer: Jeff Bridges

Question: Shrimps, barnacles, scorpions, spiders, etc., all belong to which phylum?
Answer: Arthropods

Question: In which US state did the Battle of the Little Bighorn take place in 1876?
Answer: Montana

Question: What is the maximum width of a football (soccer) pitch?
Answer: 5 feet

Question: How high is the top of a badminton net above the centre of the court?
Answer: 5 feet

Question: In which US state did the Battle of Yorktown take place in 1781?
Answer: Virginia

Question: Who was the first Asian UN Secretary General?
Answer: U Thant

Question: Where is the Burj Khalifa to be found?
Answer: Dubai

Question: Who did Thomas More succeed as Lord Chancellor?
Answer: Thomas Wolsey

Question: Name one of the years in which Red Rum won the Aintree Grand National.
Answer: 1973,1974, 1977

Question: Who was crowned by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day 800?
Answer: Charlemagne

Question: In 1837 who nicknamed Robespierre "The Sea-Green Incorruptible"?
Answer: Thomas Carlyle

Question: In the works of Beatrix Potter, what kind of creature is Jeremy Fisher?
Answer: A Frog

Question: What is the connection between the corner shop in Coronation Street and that at 74 North Parade, Grantham, Lincs?
Answer: They were both owned at one time by a man called Alf Roberts

Question: From 1922-1933, with which School of Art was Wassily Kandinsky particularly associated?
Answer: Bauhaus

Question: Who became Secretary of the FA in 1978 and its first Chief Executive in 1989?
Answer: Graham Kelly

Question: What rare event held up both the 1946 and 1947 FA Cup finals?
Answer: The ball burst

Question: Apart from Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, what is the only other English county allowed to produce Stilton cheese?
Answer: Derbyshire

Question: Which 1966/1973 US TV series featured the characters Jim Phelps, Cinnamon Carter and Rollin Hand?
Answer: Mission Impossible

Question: Who gave JFK a dog called Pushinka in 1961?
Answer: Nikita Krushchev

Question: In netball, name one of the two positions which are the only ones allowed to score goals?
Answer: Goal Shooter and Goal Attack

Question: Which sauce is created with butter, egg yolks, seasoning and lemon juice?
Answer: Hollandaise

Question: Which veteran British singer was born Clive Powell in Leigh, Lancashire in 1943?
Answer: Georgie Fame

Question: The House of Braganza was the last line of monarchs in which European country?
Answer: Portugal

Question: In 1998, who, at the age of 77 became the eldest person ever to go into space?
Answer: John Glenn

Question: Who benefited from Queen Anne's Bounty?
Answer: Poor clergymen

Question: Who won the 1978 Booker Prize with the novel The Sea, The Sea'?
Answer: Iris Murdoch

Question: Which South-East Asian country has nine state royal families, each of whose head takes it in turn to be King?
Answer: Malaysia

Question: Which is the only Shakespeare play in which an animal's name appears in the title?
Answer: The Taming of the Shrew

Question: Who was king of Libya when it obtained independence in 1951?
Answer: Idris

Question: Which plant (Latin name crataegus) is also called the May Tree, since this is the month in which it blooms?
Answer: Hawthorn

Question: What links Dione, Mundilfari, Bestia, Skoll and Fenrir?
Answer: They are all moons of Saturn

Question: Belfast lies at the mouth of which river?
Answer: River Lagan

Question: What is the largest active volcano in Europe?
Answer: Mount Etna

Question: Which Englishman (680-755) is known as The Apostle of Germany?
Answer: Saint Boniface

Question: Originally a symbol of St Peter and now featured on the flag of the Vatican, which emblem is often used as a pub sign in Britain?
Answer: The Cross Keys

Question: What moved to Nine Elms in 1974?
Answer: Covent Garden Market

Question: Which board game for two players originating in China and popular in Japan uses black/white stones on a 19x19 grid.
Answer: Go

Question: Jose and Raul were the Christian names of which Chess player - World Champion from 1921-1927?
Answer: Capablanca

Question: Who was the beautiful girl loved by Eros in Greek mythology? Her name means 'spirit' or 'life' in Greek.
Answer: Psyche

Question: Troglodytes troglodytes is the scientific name of which bird?
Answer: (European)Wren

Question: According to legend, on which Mediterranean island did the Cyclops, Polyphemus, live?
Answer: Sicily