Question: In 1948 which South African became the first person from outside the UK to hold the post of Chancellor of Cambridge University, a post he held until his death in 1950?
Answer: Jan Smuts

Question: Deadheads are fans of which American band?
Answer: The Grateful Dead

Question: The first trans-Pacific flight was in 1928. Name either of the men involved.
Answer: CHARLES KINGSFORD-SMITH or CHARLES ULM

Question: Which city completes the title of the 1995 film ‘Jefferson in .......’?
Answer: Paris

Question: Peter Coates is the owner and Chairman of which football club in the Premier League?
Answer: Stoke City

Question: Who plays John Watson in the TV drama ‘Sherlock’?
Answer: Martin Freeman

Question: Max Planck won the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1929. Who won in 1936 ‘In recognition of his pioneer work in Crete, particularly his contributions to the history and civilization of its Minoan age’?
Answer: Arthur Evans

Question: In the painting ‘The Hay Wain’ by John Constable, which river is being crossed?
Answer: Stour

Question: Who was Secretary of State for War from June 1914 until his death in June 1916?
Answer: Herbert Kitchener (1St Earl Kitchener)

Question: In the name of the American animal rights organisation PETA, for what word does the letter ‘E’ stand?
Answer: Ethical (People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals)

Question: Which area in the BBC Shipping Forecast is known in the French equivalent as Pas de Calais?
Answer: Dover

Question: In which European country was the Carnation Revolution on April 25th 1974?
Answer: Portugal

Question: What is the two-word alliterative name for the tree Ulmus procera?
Answer: English Elm

Question: In which English city are the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter and Cadbury World?
Answer: Birmingham

Question: The backing singers on ‘Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs’, also heard singing ‘The Big Ship Sails on the Alley-Alley-O’, had their own Number 1 hit two years later in 1980. From which school were they the choir?
Answer: St Winifred’S (There’S No One Quite Like Grandma)

Question: The name of which chemical element is derived from the Greek for stone?
Answer: Lithium

Question: Which confectionery product completes the title of the Anthony Horowitz book ‘The Falcon’s ...........’?
Answer: Malteser

Question: Wilberforce Claybourne were the first names of which character from the sitcom ‘Are You Being Served?’?
Answer: Mr Humphries

Question: Whose album, released in May, is called ‘Time’?
Answer: Rod Stewart

Question: Who founded Microsoft in 1975 with Bill Gates?
Answer: Paul Allen

Question: What is the middle name of Samuel L Jackson?
Answer: Leroy

Question: Which Victorian pub in Liverpool has rooms called Brahms and Liszt?
Answer: The Philharmonic (Dining Rooms)

Question: How long, in cubits, was Noah’s Ark?
Answer: 300

Question: The Thylacine, thought to be extinct, was a wolf living on which island?
Answer: Tasmania

Question: Which 19th century artist illustrated Oscar Wilde's "Salome" and Pope's "Rape of the Lock"?
Answer: Aubrey Beardsley

Question: By what name is the 1931 naval mutiny at Cromarty Firth commonly known?
Answer: Invergordon Mutiny

Question: Where in the human body would you find the Calcaneus?
Answer: The Heel

Question: Which great composer's only ballets were 'The Creatures of Prometheus" and “Ritterballet”?
Answer: Beethoven

Question: The Kakapo, or Parrot Owl, is a near extinct bird living, in which country'?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Which 18th/19th century South American patriot and statesman was nicknamed “the Liberator”?
Answer: Simon Bolivar

Question: Which song was a top 40 hit for both Nancy Sinatra in 1966 and Jessica Simpson in 2005?
Answer: These Boots Are Made For Walkin’

Question: Which country, with a East Mediterranean coastline produces the red wine 'Chateau Musar1?
Answer: Lebanon

Question: In which British city is Meadowhall railway Station?
Answer: Sheffield

Question: Who carved the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris?
Answer: Jacob Epstein

Question: Two shipping forecast areas touch the coast of Denmark: German Bight and which other?
Answer: Fisher

Question: Who is the oldest man to go into space?
Answer: John Glenn

Question: There were two Royal Navy mutinies in 1797, one at the Nore, where was the other?
Answer: Spithead

Question: Which wild flower is also known as the knapweed?
Answer: Cornflower

Question: Which Lerner & Loewe musical of 1958 features the songs “The Night They Invented Champagne” and “I Remember It Well"?
Answer: Gigi

Question: Which department store uses the slogan "Styling the Nation"?
Answer: Debenhams

Question: Which Derbyshire town is known as “The Capital of the High Peaks”?
Answer: Chapel en le Frith

Question: Which U S state, known as “The Mainland State”, or “The Last Frontier”, has the forget-me-not as its state flower?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Which US state, known as the Diamond State, or The First State, has the peach blossom as its state flower?
Answer: Delaware

Question: """The Smoke that Thunders"" is the local name for which Geographical feature?"
Answer: Victoria Falls

Question: After which war did Britain gain Ceylon. Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago?
Answer: Napoleonic Wars

Question: Name either of the two shipping forecasts that touch the coast of Norway?
Answer: North Uitsere South Uitsere

Question: Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis founded which Internet telephone company?
Answer: Skype

Question: Which famous scientist was offered the position of first President of Israel, but turned it down saying that he had no head for problems?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: What did Chuck Yeager do with 'Glamorous Glennis' in October 1947?
Answer: Broke the sound barrier

Question: Which 1960's group had the line-up Tony Crane, Billy Kinsley, John Banks and Aaron Williams?
Answer: The Merseybeats

Question: What is the highest decoration of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Order of Lenin

Question: On which mountain did Moses receive the Ten Commandments?
Answer: Mount Sinai

Question: What was the first country to use number plates on its road vehicles?
Answer: France

Question: Who played Morpheus in The Matrix?
Answer: Laurence Fishbume

Question: In mythology who was the muse of music?
Answer: Euterpe

Question: Which group recorded the 1969 hit album "Hot Buttered Soul"?
Answer: Isaac Hayes

Question: Which Roman emperor's last words were reputedly "What an artist the world is losing in me"?
Answer: Nero

Question: """I Dreamed a Dream"" and ""Bring Him Home"" are two song from which musical?"
Answer: Les Miserables

Question: What surname links a prolific 20th century author, a 20th century mass murderer and a British Olympic gold medallist?
Answer: Christie (Agatha, John, Linford)

Question: In which English town or City is Her Majesty's Prison Full Sutton?
Answer: York

Question: Which right wing American society is named after an American Officer lulled by Chinese Communists in 1945?
Answer: John Birch Society

Question: By what name is English singer-songwriter Florian Cloud de 3ounevialle O'Malley Armstrong (born 25 December 1971) better Known?
Answer: Dido

Question: Which 1973 Oscar winning actor made his cinema debut in the 1953 film "It Should Happen to You"?
Answer: Jack Lemmon

Question: Aldebaran is the brightest star in which constellation
Answer: Taurus

Question: Which famous actor married Shakira Baksh in 1973?
Answer: Michael Caine

Question: What nationality was Jack of the beanstalk?
Answer: English (Fe Fi Fo Etc.)

Question: What nationality is the Secretary General of the UN, Ban-Ki-Moon?
Answer: Korean

Question: How did poet Alexander Pushkin die in 1837?
Answer: In A Duel

Question: Which famous singer married Debbie Rowe in 1986?
Answer: Michael Jackson

Question: Which 2000 mile-long river enters the sea at the top of the Gulf of California?
Answer: The Colorado