Question: In which century was the Oxford Cambridge Boat Race first held?
Answer: 1800s

Question: Which 1950s-60s sex symbol is reputed to have said, "I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one"?
Answer: Brigitte Bardot

Question: Whose enormous yacht Eclipse launched in June 2009?
Answer: Roman Abramovich

Question: Which singer was born Steven Demetre Georgiou?
Answer: Yusuf Islam

Question: The initials SKILL are an aid to remembering what five excretory organs of the human body?
Answer: Skin, Kidneys, Intestines, Liver, Lungs

Question: Columbus Day commemorating the discovery of America is celebrated in which month?
Answer: October

Question: A Black or White what? refers to a company mounting respectively a hostile or a helpful takeover bid?
Answer: Knight

Question: Named after the Spanish city which first produced it, Cordovan is what kind of material?
Answer: Leather

Question: What is the term for a virtual barrier between two corporate departments, which often for legal reasons, must not share information? - Spanish fence; Chinese wall; Boston Barricade; or Bouquet of barbed wire.
Answer: Chinese wall

Question: What is the title of the film in which Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter play a childless couple who kidnap on of a set of quintuplets?
Answer: Raising Arizona

Question: What Latin warning phrase attempts to transfer risk to users or customers, meaning 'Buyer Beware'?
Answer: Caveat Emptor

Question: In which year did US athlete Jesse Owens win four Olympic gold medals?
Answer: 1936

Question: Owain Gwynedd of Wales defeated which English King in battle?
Answer: Henry the second

Question: Televisions, hi-fi equipment and similar electronic domestic items are referred to as what colour goods?
Answer: Brown

Question: What was the Ed Sullivan Show originally called?
Answer: Toast of the Town

Question: Who wrote the book The Woman in White?
Answer: Wilkie Collins

Question: What was the name of the notoriously clumsy 17th century English (of Irish origin) hangman?
Answer: Jack Ketch

Question: In Italian cooking what are small dumplings made from potato, semolina, or flour?
Answer: Gnocchi

Question: What does a carminative drug relieve?
Answer: Flatulence

Question: What dairy term is used to describe turnover or loss of customers, usually expressed as an annual percentage? - butter; churn; cream; or cheese.
Answer: Churn

Question: In Greek mythology what is the name of the youth loved and accidentally killed by Apollo, and from whose blood Apollo caused a flower to grow?
Answer: Hyacinth

Question: What famous TV cook was called Phyllis Primrose-Pechey?
Answer: Fanny Craddock

Question: What is the largest castle in Wales?
Answer: Caerphilly

Question: What Greek word is commonly given to the public test launch of a software version or website?
Answer: Beta

Question: Who was the Roman god of thunder?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: What type of vegetable is a kohlrabi?
Answer: Cabbage

Question: A company or product which has high market share and continues to produce good returns requiring minimal investment is called a 'cash...' what? - well; cow; machine; or potato?
Answer: Cow

Question: In which country are the Ajanta Caves?
Answer: India

Question: What German publisher's name became famous for a series of worldwide travel guides?
Answer: Karl Baedeker

Question: A logrunner is what type of creature?
Answer: Bird

Question: What is the name of the triangle which has two equal sides and two equal angles?
Answer: Isosceles

Question: What is a squirrel's nest called?
Answer: Drey

Question: Who is the world's most stolen artist?
Answer: Picasso

Question: In which month is the Vernal Equinox?
Answer: March

Question: """Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night,"" is a Bette Davis line from which film?"
Answer: All About Eve

Question: Who founded the Amazon website?
Answer: Jeff Bezos

Question: In 1791 George Hammond was appointed the first British envoy to which country?
Answer: Usa

Question: A grimoire is a book of what?
Answer: Magic spells

Question: The UK's Inns of Court is made up of how many legal societies?
Answer: Four

Question: Pianist and composer Frederic Chopin was born in which country?
Answer: Poland

Question: Ophidiophobia is an abnormal fear of what creatures?
Answer: Snakes

Question: Who painted a self-portrait called Bandaged Ear and Pipe?
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

Question: What are the feathers on an arrow called?
Answer: Fletching

Question: Gingivitis is the inflammation of which part of the human body?
Answer: Gums

Question: Who wrote the novel Ivanhoe?
Answer: Sir Walter Scott

Question: Who became leader of the British National Party in 1999?
Answer: Nick Griffin

Question: An isohyet or isohyetal line on a map connects two points having the same what?
Answer: Rainfall

Question: Lollo Rosso is a variety of which vegetable?
Answer: Lettuce

Question: What is the portmanteau word (a two-word combination) for a symbol of feeling, used in electronic messages?
Answer: Emoticon

Question: In which London park is the Albert Memorial?
Answer: Hyde Park

Question: The city of Akron is in which US state?
Answer: Ohio

Question: Kimchi is a traditional dish of which country?
Answer: Korea

Question: In Greek mythology how many labours did Hercules have to perform?
Answer: Twelve

Question: The US Federal National Mortgage Association is known by what girl's name, which puns its initials?
Answer: Fanny Mae

Question: Born James Newell Osterberg, who performed Lust for Life, used notably in the Trainspotting soundtrack?
Answer: Iggy Pop

Question: Hyalite is a variety of which semi-precious gemstone?
Answer: Opal

Question: Who won the 2009 German Formula One Grand Prix?
Answer: Mark Webber

Question: Who devised the Expectancy Theory of motivation?
Answer: Victor Vroom

Question: Domenikos Theotokopoulos is the real name of which painter and sculptor?
Answer: El Greco

Question: Omophagy is the eating of what?
Answer: Raw meat

Question: Peter de la Mare was first to hold what office in the House of Commons?
Answer: Speaker

Question: """All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players,"" is from which Shakespeare play?"
Answer: As You Like It

Question: Which car maker produces a model called the Veyron?
Answer: Bugatti

Question: Which team did Liverpool FC beat 10-0 in the League Cup 1986?
Answer: Fulham FC

Question: What does a fromologist collect?
Answer: Cheese labels

Question: What traditional term from the late 1800s refers to the difference between a price paid for a company or business, and the actual (lower) 'book value' of its assets?
Answer: Goodwill

Question: In what part of the human body are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
Answer: Ear

Question: What warlike term refers to a person or agency operating in the field of executive search?
Answer: Headhunter

Question: In which country was the inventor Alexander Graham Bell born?
Answer: Scotland

Question: What ceremony is performed beneath a chuppah?
Answer: Marriage

Question: Whose paintings included Woman with a Hat, The Open Window, and Bathers with a Turtle?
Answer: Henri Matisse

Question: In which country is the city Invercargill?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: What is the Chilean Pine more commonly known as?
Answer: Monkey Puzzle Tree

Question: What US state is known as the Nutmeg State?
Answer: Connecticut

Question: What past US president's autobiography is called Where's the Rest of Me?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: What is the Irish game played with a stick having a broad oval blade and a ball called a sliothar (or sliotar)?
Answer: Hurling

Question: If an item costs £1,175 including 17.5% VAT, what is its price excluding VAT?
Answer: £1,000

Question: Autumn King and St Valery are which types of vegetables?
Answer: Carrot

Question: What wind instrument has a variety known as a sweet potato?
Answer: Ocarina