Question: Who carried the flag for Britain at the opening ceremony at the 2012 Olympic Games?
Answer: Chris Hoy

Question: What was the first name of former US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt?
Answer: Anna

Question: Lanix is the largest domestically owned manufacturer of consumer and professional electronics in which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Who won a Gold Medal for Britain in the men’s 100 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona?
Answer: Linford Christie

Question: What was the original state flower of US state Oklahoma?
Answer: Mistletoe

Question: US actor, producer and director Nicolas Coppola is better known by what name?
Answer: Nicolas Cage

Question: The Kladdkaka (or chocolate mud cake) originated in which country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: Pelo is Spanish for which part of the body?
Answer: Hair

Question: In March 2013, an English Heritage Blue Plaque was unveiled to commemorate which iconic design by Harry Beck on the 80th anniversary of its first public appearance?
Answer: London Underground Map

Question: A foehn is what type of weather condition?
Answer: Wind

Question: What relation to Peter the Great of Russia was Catherine I of Russia?
Answer: Wife

Question: Which Formula One Grand Prix Circuit has corners named Anthony Noghes and La Rascasse?
Answer: Monaco

Question: Folgate, Grosso, Fathead and Grappenhall are all varieties of which garden plant?
Answer: Lavender

Question: In medicine which lotion is traditionally used to alleviate the symptoms of chicken pox?
Answer: Calamine lotion

Question: In the human body what is a carotid?
Answer: Artery

Question: In December 1937 which long-running children’s comic was first published in the UK?
Answer: The Dandy

Question: Mwai Kibaki became President of which African country in 2002?
Answer: Kenya

Question: In 1960 which Belgian-born oceanographer and engineer made the first manned expedition to the Mariana Trench, the deepest place in the ocean?
Answer: Jacques Piccard

Question: The towns of Lowestoft and Felixstowe are in which English county?
Answer: Suffolk

Question: The Northumberland Strait is in which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: Tiradentes Day is celebrated in Brazil during which month of the year?
Answer: April

Question: How many ways are there for a batsman to get out in the game of cricket?
Answer: Ten

Question: A group of which birds is known as a rafter?
Answer: Turkeys

Question: What is a single dish consisting of seafood and meat commonly known as?
Answer: Surf and Turf

Question: Which London station has a tile floor mosaic which reads ‘MIND THE GAP’?
Answer: Victoria Station

Question: Which playing card is known as ‘Grace’s Card’?
Answer: Six of hearts

Question: In the UK television series ‘Doctor Who’ the Sisters of Plenitude are human forms of which animal?
Answer: Cat

Question: Who wrote the 1956 novel ‘101 Dalmatians’?
Answer: Dodie Smith

Question: Knoblauch is German for which herb?
Answer: Garlic

Question: The 2013 film ‘Rush’ is about the rivalry between which two former Formula One racing drivers?
Answer: James Hunt and Niki Lauda

Question: Former US President John F Kennedy belonged to which political party?
Answer: Democratic Party

Question: Which artist worked for Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, as military architect and engineer?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Question: The Devil’s ‘what’ is a large natural amphitheatre and beauty spot near Hindhead, Surrey?
Answer: Punch Bowl

Question: Ragnar Lodbrok is a character in which Historical television drama series?
Answer: Vikings

Question: Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was a protege of which body-building guru who died in March 2013, aged 93?
Answer: Joe Weider

Question: A lamington is a dessert cake originating in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: In 2013 which European actress sold her jewellery for more than 3.2 million pounds sterling and donated the money from the sale to benefit stem cell therapy research?
Answer: Gina Lollobrigida

Question: How many shapes Make up the 2012 London Olympic logo?
Answer: Five

Question: Dennis Patterson, Leonard Osborne, Wayne Norris and Albert Moxey are all characters in which UK television series?
Answer: Auf Wiedersehen Pet

Question: Cardiophobia is the irrational fear of which organ in the body?
Answer: Heart

Question: Who won the 1991 Wimbledon Men’s Singles Championship?
Answer: Michael Stich

Question: Located in Mexico, what are Popocateptl and El Chicon?
Answer: Volcanoes

Question: Which British monarch founded the Order of the Bath?
Answer: King George I

Question: Alec Guinness played Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson in which 1957 World War II film?
Answer: The Bridge on the River Kwai

Question: ‘How do I love thee?  Let me count the ways’  is the opening line of a work by which English poet?
Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Question: A Slippery Dick is what type of creature?
Answer: Fish

Question: Who was the first woman to top the UK singles chart with a song she had written herself?
Answer: Kate Bush

Question: Which goddess was the wife of Roman god Vulcan?
Answer: Venus

Question: Lawrence Boythorn and John Jarndyce are characters in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: Bleak House

Question: Argentum is Latin for which chemical element?
Answer: Silver

Question: The English city of Peterborough stands on which river?
Answer: River Nene

Question: Chwefror is Welsh for which month of the year?
Answer: February

Question: Columbus is the capital of which US state?
Answer: Ohio

Question: How many Oscars did the 1962 film ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ win?
Answer: Seven

Question: What is a military officer called who acts as an administrative assistant to a more senior officer?
Answer: Adjutant

Question: In which English city was Guy Fawkes, of Gunpowder Plot fame, born?
Answer: York

Question: What is the national animal of England?
Answer: Lion (Barbary)

Question: In November 1997 Mary McAleese was elected 8th President of which European country?
Answer: Ireland

Question: Charlie Wax is a fictional secret agent in which 2010 film?
Answer: From Paris With Love

Question: During which month of the year does the ceremony of ‘Swan Upping’ take place on the River Thames?
Answer: July

Question: Eleutherophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: Freedom

Question: What colour are the ‘G’s’ in the regular Google logo?
Answer: Blue

Question: Black Amish is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: Apple

Question: Which English city is known as ‘Rainy City’?
Answer: Manchester

Question: In 2011 who became the first Manchester United FC captain from Eastern Europe?
Answer: Nemanja Vidic

Question: In July 1991 who became the New Archbishop of Canterbury?
Answer: George Carey

Question: What is the minimum legal age a person can get married without parental consent in the US state of Nebraska?
Answer: 19 years

Question: The Postage Stamp is the shortest hole on which Scottish golf course?
Answer: Royal Troon

Question: The port of Fishguard is in which country of the UK?
Answer: Wales

Question: ‘Graffiti on the ‘what’ is a 2013 album by the Stereophonics?
Answer: Train

Question: The daughter-in-law of which British politician became the first woman Prime Minister of Denmark in 2011?
Answer: Neil Kinnock

Question: Rabologists are collectors of what?
Answer: Walking sticks

Question: Berger’s disease affects which part of the body?
Answer: Kidneys

Question: Famous for surfing, Fistral Beach is in which English county?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: In which decade of the 1900’s were women first admitted into the London Stock Exchange?
Answer: 1970’s (1973)

Question: According to The Guinness Book of World Records the village of Bernotai in which country is the geographic centre of Europe?
Answer: Lithuania

Question: In which city is the Headquarters of the European Union?
Answer: Brussels

Question: Which ocean borders the west of Europe?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean