Question: The hymn "I vow to thee, my country" was set by Gustav Host to which of his "The Planets" suite?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: Whose novels "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" were published posthumously in 1818, and who died before completing one that was eventually called "Sanditon"?
Answer: Jane Austen

Question: What orbits the Sun between Earth and Mercury?
Answer: Venus

Question: David Broome was a succcesful competitor in what sport in the 1960s and 1970s?
Answer: Show jumping

Question: What was Melanie Chisholm's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
Answer: Sporty

Question: The islands of Funen, Zealand, Bornholm, Lolland, Falster, Mors and Langeland belong to which nation?
Answer: Denmark

Question: In which game are the clues mimed?
Answer: Charades

Question: The common choko is what colour when ripe?
Answer: Green

Question: What is the maximum number of characters (including spaces) that can be used in a "tweet"?
Answer: 140

Question: Who became chairman of the Watford Football Club for the second time in 1997?
Answer: Elton John

Question: Jeeves is butler to which fictional character created by P G Wodehouse?
Answer: Bertie Wooster

Question: What part of New York City is named for Catherine of Braganza?
Answer: Queens

Question: London's Shaftesbury Avenue is known for what type of establishment?
Answer: Theatres

Question: What are found, although in small amounts, in certain seeds and stones, such as those of apple, mango, peach, and bitter almonds?
Answer: Cyanides

Question: When did the United Kingdom convert to decimal currency?
Answer: 15 February 1971

Question: What phrase means "on the brink of failure"?
Answer: Up the creek

Question: What is the more common name for polytetrafluoroethylene?
Answer: Teflon

Question: After 97 years since being installed on a rock in Copenhagen harbour, the statue of "The Little Mermaid" left its place in April 2010 to go where?
Answer: Shanghai, China

Question: Who was the merchant sea-captain who made the first American circumnavigation of the world in 1790, and is known for trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the fur trade in that region?
Answer: Robert Gray

Question: The Jefferson Memorial, completed in 1943, is in which city?
Answer: Washington DC

Question: What was the most recognisable feature of Moshe Dayan, who from 1953 to 1958 was the Chief of Staff of the Israel Defence Forces?
Answer: Black eye patch

Question: In the British series of "The Office", the character of Gareth is played by which actor?
Answer: Mackenzie Crook

Question: """Spondulicks"" is another word for what?"
Answer: Money

Question: What does the organisation "FEGUIFUT" administer?
Answer: Soccer in Equatorial Guinea

Question: What science is concerned with the development of an embryo from the fertilization of the ovum to the foetus stage?
Answer: Embryology

Question: What is the name for about 70 species of insect native to New Zealand that can grow as long as 100 mm (4 in) not including the legs and antennae, and weigh about 20-30 g (1 to 3/4 of an ounce)?
Answer: Weta

Question: After the Parthenon had stood in Athens for over 2,000 years it was destroyed in 1687 by which two countries?
Answer: Venice and Turkey

Question: Lotte Lenya, who played Rosa Klebb in "From Russia With Love" and the Contessa in "The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone", was married to whom?
Answer: Kurt Weill

Question: Over several weeks after the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union agreed to give up its monopoly of power on February 7, 1990, the constituent republics of the USSR held their first competitive elections. How many republics were there?
Answer: 15

Question: What does the German surname Schwarzkopf literally mean?
Answer: Black head

Question: The constitution of which country is the world's oldest still in effect?
Answer: San Marino

Question: What medieval coin, first minted around 1140 by Roger II of Sicily, was adopted by Florence in 1252 and Venice in 1283, and was in use in Austria-Hungary until 1914?
Answer: Ducat

Question: Which film was notable for the legal battle that ensued when first Madonna then Kim Basinger backed out of the title role, and for winning a "Worst Director" award for David Lynch at the Golden Raspberry Awards?
Answer: Boxing Helena

Question: What "moon" traditionally follows a wedding?
Answer: Honey

Question: Who, it is said, did similar deals with Dr Faustus, Robert Johnson and Niccol Paganini?
Answer: The devil

Question: What name is given to the concept that an animal hitting keys at random on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a particular chosen text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare?
Answer: Infinite monkey theorem

Question: What workers make up the majority of the Teamsters Union in the USA?
Answer: Truck drivers

Question: Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, Kate McGarrigle, who died in 2010, was the mother of whom?
Answer: Rufus and Martha Wainwright

Question: The RMS "Lancastria" was the subject of the worst single loss of life in British maritime history and the bloodiest single engagement for UK forces in World War II; she was sunk by German bombers on 17 June 1940 when taking part in an operation to evacuate 150,000 troops from where?
Answer: St Nazaire

Question: In the nursery rhyme "sing a song of sixpence", what kind of bird plucked off a nose?
Answer: Blackbird

Question: Which mountain range stretches from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west?
Answer: Alps

Question: As of April 2010, who was the wealthiest person in the world?
Answer: Carlos Slim Hel, Mexican business magnate

Question: Churning cream turns it into what?
Answer: Butter

Question: Which rock band's first drummer, Stumpy Pepys, was killed in an obscure gardening accident, their second, Eric Stumpy Joe Childs, died by choking on vomit, and their third died from spontaneous combustion during a concert?
Answer: Spinal Tap

Question: If someone is narcoleptic, what do they tend to do?
Answer: Fall asleep

Question: Sean Parnell made international news in July 2009. Who is he?
Answer: The lieutenant governor of Alaska who became governor after Sarah Palin's resignation

Question: What was the occupation of John Spilsbury of London, England, who is credited with inventing the jigsaw puzzle around 1760?
Answer: Mapmaker and engraver

Question: The state of Tabasco, where the sauce gets its name, is in which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: What 2007 film is an over-the-top send-up of action movies, featuring a large amount of violence (including killing by carrots), starring Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci & Paul Giamatti?
Answer: Shoot 'Em Up

Question: How many verbs are in the following sentence: "Roger told his dog not to jump on the furniture with muddy feet"?
Answer: 2

Question: """Someone Who'll Watch Over Me"" and ""Factory Girls"" are plays by whom?"
Answer: Frank McGuiness

Question: During the reign of which English king was there a succession crisis between his supporters and those of his cousin, the Empress Matilda?
Answer: Stephen

Question: The mazurka originated in which country?
Answer: Poland

Question: What is written under the Indian national emblem that was adopted as the National Emblem of India on 26 January 1950 when India became a republic, of 4 lions (one hidden from view) that symbolise power, courage, pride and confidence?
Answer: The truth alone triumphs

Question: A guava is a type of what?
Answer: Fruit

Question: Kickflips, ollies, Nollies and nosediving are moves in what sport?
Answer: Skateboarding

Question: What is another name for a Lexicon?
Answer: Dictionary

Question: In Norse mythology, which plant killed the god Baldur?
Answer: Mistletoe

Question: Palaeontology is the study of what?
Answer: Fossils