Question: In what year was Charles 1 executed?
Answer: 1649

Question: Who piloted the command module during the first Moon landing?
Answer: Michael Collins

Question: On what date was John Lennon murdered in New York?
Answer: 8 December 1980

Question: Which spaceman was the first to orbit the Earth?
Answer: Yuri Gagarin

Question: What was the age of Sir Winston Churchill when he died in 1965?
Answer: 93

Question: In which European city would you find the 'Spanish Steps'?
Answer: Rome

Question: In what year was the building of the 'Sydney Opera House' finished?
Answer: 1973

Question: In what year were first and second class stamps introduced in Britain?
Answer: 1968

Question: In the book 'Lost Horizon' by James Hilton, what was the name of the imaginary paradise created in the book?
Answer: Shangri-La

Question: Charles Cruft organised his first dog show to promote what?
Answer: Dog biscuits

Question: Which famous actor was born in Beirut in 1964?
Answer: Keanu Reeves

Question: Which Irish actor played 'Macbeth at 'The Old Vic in 1980?
Answer: Peter O'Toole

Question: Who was the first newsreader to appear on television in 1955?
Answer: Kenneth Kendal

Question: Born in 1533, who was known as the virgin Queen?
Answer: Elizabeth 1

Question: What is the largest city in South Africa?
Answer: Johannesburg

Question: Where is most of the Earth's fresh water located?
Answer: Is it in Lakes, Streams, Clouds or Polar ice caps?

Question: Who played 'Nellie Dingle in Emmerdale?
Answer: Sandra Gough

Question: In the 1987 film 'Cry Freedom' which character was played by Denzel Washington?
Answer: Stephen Biko

Question: What was the full name of poet T.S. Eliot?
Answer: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Question: Trowbridge is the administrative centre for which county?
Answer: Wiltshire

Question: The 'Kelvin Scale' is used to measure what?
Answer: Temperature

Question: You would use Whisky and Sweet Vermouth to make which cocktail?
Answer: Manhattan

Question: You would use Crème de Cacao, Cream and Brandy to make which cocktail?
Answer: Brandy Alexander

Question: How many sheets of paper in a ream?
Answer: 500

Question: What does the term 'per diem' mean?
Answer: daily

Question: What does the term 'ad infinitum' mean?
Answer: forever

Question: Dermatitis is a disease affecting what?
Answer: The skin

Question: What does a 'misogynist' hate?
Answer: Women

Question: Feather/s worn as an adornment is known as what?
Answer: Plume

Question: If you are studying acoustics, what are you studying?
Answer: Sound

Question: What cooking term is used if you are cooking just below boiling point?
Answer: Simmering

Question: A 'xenophobe' dislikes or is afraid of what?
Answer: Strangers

Question: A formal agreement enforceable by law is what?
Answer: A Contract

Question: What six letter 'B' word means Violation of a law or contract?
Answer: Breach

Question: What word beginning with 'B' means the highest degree of happiness?
Answer: Bliss

Question: What word is given to a small shallow dish with a lid used for science specimens?
Answer: A Petri-dish

Question: A metal hook often with a barb, for lifting fish is called a what?
Answer: Gaff

Question: What is the American word for the bonnet of a car?
Answer: Hood

Question: Complete this proverb, 'The spirit is willing but the...'?
Answer: flesh is weak

Question: 'Parmesan Cheese' derives its name from what?
Answer: Italian city of Parma

Question: What does a 'Vintner do?
Answer: Sells wine

Question: In the UK we call it the 'Underground' What do the Americans call it?
Answer: Subway

Question: In the UK we call it a 'Spanner' What do the Americans call it?
Answer: A wrench

Question: 'Nom de plume' means what?
Answer: Pen name

Question: The mallet used by an auctioneer is called a what?
Answer: Gavel

Question: The Japanese word 'sayonara' means what?
Answer: Good-bye

Question: 'Gymnophobia' is the fear of what?
Answer: Naked bodies

Question: Capuchin, Spider and Colobus are types of what?
Answer: Monkey

Question: 'Myositis' affects which part of the body?
Answer: Muscles

Question: Who would wear a 'Yarmulke'?
Answer: A Jew

Question: An 'Osteopath' is a specialist in what?
Answer: Bones

Question: What name is given to the profession of barrel making?
Answer: Cooper

Question: 'Entomology' is the study of what?
Answer: Insects

Question: Where was Thomas Becket murdered?
Answer: Canterbury Cathedral

Question: How did Charles 1 die?
Answer: 0 He was beheaded

Question: Which Monarch established the Church of England?
Answer: Henry V111

Question: George A Custer died in which battle?
Answer: Battle of Little Big Horn

Question: Florence Nightingale became famous in which war?
Answer: The Crimean War

Question: Name the four US Presidents carved into the side of Mount Rushmore?
Answer: Lincoln; Washington; Jefferson and T. Roosevelt

Question: Born Lucille Fay LeSueur, by what name was she better known?
Answer: Joan Crawford

Question: In the film 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' What character was played by Bob Hoskins?
Answer: Eddie Valiant

Question: In 1961 Marilyn Monroe and Clarke Gable both made their final movie. What was the name of the film?
Answer: The Misfits

Question: Who wrote the songs for the classic film 'Oklahoma'?
Answer: Rodgers & Hammerstein

Question: By what name is 'Caryn Elaine Johnson' better known to film fans?
Answer: Whoopi Goldberg

Question: Who were the two principal actors starring in the 1942 film 'Holiday Inn'?
Answer: Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire

Question: Alfred Hitchcock made this movie twice, the first time in 1934 and again in 1956. What's the film ?
Answer: The Man Who Knew Too Much

Question: In the Disney movie 'Aladdin', what kind of pet does Jasmine have?
Answer: Tiger

Question: Who played 'Eddie' in 'The Rocky Horror Show'?
Answer: Meatloaf

Question: Who played the character 'Lloyd Christmas' in the film 'Dumb and Dumber'?
Answer: Jim Carey

Question: Who played 'Gertie' in the film 'E.T.'?
Answer: Drew Barrymore

Question: What famous cartoon character made his debut in the film 'Steamboat Willy'?
Answer: Mickey Mouse

Question: Which actress took the lead roll in the 1988 film 'Working Girl'?
Answer: Melanie Griffith

Question: Which Rock star joined Mel Gibson in the film 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'?
Answer: Tina Turner

Question: Who played Batman in the 1966 movie, Batman?
Answer: Adam West

Question: More than 50% of all men on Corfu have which first name?
Answer: 5

Question: Born on the 21st July 1899, who wrote the novel 'A Farewell To Arms'?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Question: Which American gangster was said to have been shot by FBI agents outside a Chicago cinema on July 22nd 1934?
Answer: John Dillinger

Question: He was born in 1913 and was Labour Party Leader from: 1980 - 1983. Who was he?
Answer: Michael Foot

Question: Who was he: First to swim the English Channel and later died attempting to swim across Niagara Falls?
Answer: Captain Matthew Webb

Question: Louise Brown achieved medical history in July 1978 by doing what?
Answer: Being the first test tube baby

Question: The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) was founded in Washington DC in July of which year?
Answer: 1908

Question: Peru declared its independence from which country in 1821?
Answer: Spain

Question: Who wrote the classic novel 'Wuthering Heights'?
Answer: Emily Brontë

Question: What was Tony Benn's title before disclaiming his peerage in 1963?
Answer: Viscount Stansgate

Question: Bob Dylan; Eric Clapton and George Harrison performed a charity concert in aid of which country in 1971?
Answer: Bangladesh

Question: Who played the title role in the film 'Lawrence of Arabia'?
Answer: Peter O'Toole

Question: Opened in August 1778, what is the name of Milan's famous opera house?
Answer: La Scala

Question: Hans Christian Anderson died in August 1875. What was his nationality?
Answer: Danish