Question: What did Nicholas Copernicus argue was at the centre of our universe, and what was the common belief before then?
Answer: The Sun - before then people believed it was the Earth

Question: How is the gas Nitrous Oxide better known?
Answer: Laughing gas

Question: What is the sum of degrees in the internal angles in a triangle?
Answer: 3.142

Question: In what year was Albert Einstein born?
Answer: 1879

Question: How many housing property squares are there on a Monopoly board?
Answer: 22

Question: Is the bottom stripe on the USA flag red or white?
Answer: Red

Question: How many times does the letter p occur in the first line of the tongue twister about Peter Piper?
Answer: 9

Question: Which line on the London Underground is represented by the colour yellow?
Answer: The Circle Line

Question: If a month has a Friday the thirteenth then on what day of the week would that month begin?
Answer: Sunday

Question: Out of all the animals which make up the Chinese horoscope, which comes first alphabetically?
Answer: Dog

Question: Which year is represented by the seven Roman numerals listed in descending order?
Answer: 33,573

Question: What type of dogs are commonly kept by Eskimos?
Answer: Huskies

Question: If the cheetah is the fastest thing on four legs, what is the fastest on two legs?
Answer: The ostrich

Question: What is the national bird of New Zealand?
Answer: The kiwi

Question: The body of the Egyptian Sphinx was based on which animal?
Answer: A lion

Question: What colour are the spots on a common ladybird?
Answer: Black

Question: What is the distinguishing feature of a Manx cat?
Answer: It has no tail

Question: The Chihauhau dog derives it's name from a town in which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Out of all the animals in the Chinese horoscope, which comes last alphabetically?
Answer: Tiger

Question: The TV series Planet Of The Apes starring Roddy McDowell was set in what year?
Answer: 3085

Question: On a football pitch, how many yards should the penalty spot be from the goal line?
Answer: 12

Question: In what year was the first World Cup held?
Answer: 1930

Question: What was the number on the back of the jersey that both Maradona and Pele said was lucky?
Answer: 10

Question: Who managed the first English side to win the European Cup?
Answer: Matt Busby

Question: Which English football team are nicknamed the Hornets?
Answer: Watford

Question: Which is the only country to have played in every World Cup since it started in 1930?
Answer: Brazil

Question: The book Macca Can was about which ex-Liverpool footballer?
Answer: Steve McMahon

Question: Which European football club is nicknamed La Vicchia Signora, which translates as the old lady?
Answer: Juventus

Question: In what year was the first penalty scored in an FA Cup final?
Answer: 1910

Question: Which male singer sang the opening line of the original Band Aid single Do They Know It's Christmas?
Answer: Paul Young's

Question: Which two singers duetted on the 1987 hit I Knew You Were Waiting For Me?
Answer: George Michael and Aretha Franklin

Question: By what name is Graham McPherson better known as in the music world?
Answer: Suggs

Question: Which 90s song includes the line What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you?
Answer: Wicked Game

Question: What was Blondie's first UK number one single?
Answer: Heart Of Glass

Question: Which comedy duo had a number one hit in the UK with The Stonk in 1991?
Answer: Hale And Pace

Question: The Beatles' last live performance was at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. In what year was this?
Answer: 1966

Question: What organisation is also known as La Cosa Nostra?
Answer: The Mafia

Question: What two drinks are used to made a Black Velvet?
Answer: Guinness and Champagne

Question: Which American president gave the order to withdraw from the Vietnam War?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: Who wrote The old man of Lochnagar?
Answer: Prince Charles

Question: In the stock exchange what animal is used as a nickname to describe someone who sells shares thinking that the price will fall?
Answer: Bear

Question: If you were born on Christmas day, what would your star sign be?
Answer: Capricorn

Question: What type of headgear was named after a battle in the Crimean War?
Answer: Balaclava

Question: What are the three largest Cathedrals in England?
Answer: St Pauls, York Minster and Lincoln

Question: How many miles long is the river Nile?
Answer: 4160

Question: What nationality was Christopher Columbus?
Answer: Italian

Question: When women first got the vote in Britain in 1918, how old did they have to be?
Answer: 30

Question: Who in 1961 made the first space flight?
Answer: Yuri Gagarin

Question: What was the Roman name for Scotland?
Answer: Caledonia

Question: What was the first country to issue postage stamps?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: What famous building did John Nash rebuild in 1825?
Answer: Buckingham Palace

Question: Who was the first American President to resign from office?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: For how many years did Louis XIV of France reign?
Answer: 72

Question: What distance is covered in one circuit of a modern outdoor running track?
Answer: 400 metres

Question: Who was the first snooker player to score a maximum 147 break in World Championship snooker?
Answer: Cliff Thornburn

Question: In what country was the game of golf invented?
Answer: Scotland

Question: How many players in total get down in a normal rugby union scrum?
Answer: 16

Question: How many players make up a netball team?
Answer: 7

Question: In the Olympic Games, what five sports make up the modern pentathlon?
Answer: Running, Fencing, Swimming, Horse Riding and Shooting

Question: What is the maximum no of match points that can be held at one time in a tennis match at Wimbledon?
Answer: 6

Question: In what year was the first World Snooker Championship held?
Answer: 1927

Question: The painter Caneletto is famous for painting landscapes of which two European cities?
Answer: Venice and London

Question: In the series of children's Noddy books, what is the name of the policeman?
Answer: Mr. Plod

Question: To what animal was Robert Burns referring in his poem with the lines Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie?
Answer: A mouse

Question: Which French artist, born in 1834 was best known for his paintings of ballet dancers?
Answer: Edgar Degas

Question: What novel by Ray Bradbury was named for the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns?
Answer: Fahrenheit 451

Question: Who wrote The Ugly Duckling and The Emperor's New Clothes?
Answer: Hans Christian Anderson

Question: The artist Leonardo Da Vinci was alive in which two centuries?
Answer: 15th and 16th

Question: What are the first names of the four children who enter Narnia through a wardrobe in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe?
Answer: Susan, Peter, Edmund and Lucy

Question: In what year did Agatha Christie die?
Answer: 1976

Question: What is the only venomous snake in Britain?
Answer: The Adder

Question: Built in 1869, which famous British ship was named after a Scottish undergarment?
Answer: The Cutty Sark

Question: A British TV audience outnumbered a British radio audience for the first time for what special occasion?
Answer: The Coronation of Elizabeth II

Question: In which British city would you find Arthur's Seat?
Answer: Edinburgh

Question: The popular British pub name The Royal Oak is named after which King?
Answer: Charles II

Question: What is the oldest University in Britain?
Answer: Oxford

Question: In which British city was Guy Fawkes born and Dick Turpin killed?
Answer: York

Question: In which year was British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assasinated?
Answer: 1812

Question: What is the tallest and thickest type of grass?
Answer: Bamboo

Question: In nature, what does a dendrologist study?
Answer: Trees

Question: What is the largest mammal in the world and can reach a length of 100 foot?
Answer: The Blue Whale