Question: Who was the first Irish poet to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923?
Answer: W B Yeats

Question: What is the name of the disc shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune, discovered in 1992, which contains dwarf planets and small icy bodies?
Answer: The Kuiper Belt

Question: Who was the only US President to serve two non-consecutive terms of office?
Answer: Grover Cleveland

Question: Who plays the part of Charles Xavier in the 2011 film `X-Men First Class'?
Answer: James McAvoy

Question: Which British Prime Minister wrote a novel 'Savrola' in 1898, while serving as an army officer in India?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: Which English crime writer coined the 'Guinness is good for you' slogan while working as a copywriter?
Answer: Dorothy L Sayers

Question: Which horse, trained by Jonjo O'Neil, won the 2010 Grand National?
Answer: Don't Push It

Question: Which TV cartoon series features the Griffin family of Quahog, Rhode Island?
Answer: Family Guy

Question: Who won the Best Actress Oscar in 2010 for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in the film 'The Blind Side'?
Answer: Sandra Bullock

Question: Which British group released the albums 'Pablo Honey', 'The Bands' and 'OK Computer' in the 1990s?
Answer: Radiohead

Question: What is the name of the Crusader castle which is now a Unesco World Heritage site, which lies west of Horns in Syria?
Answer: Crac des Chevaliers

Question: Which German composed the 1911 opera 'Der Rosenkavalier'?
Answer: Richard Strauss

Question: In which Irish county would you find the Cliffs of Moher?
Answer: Clare

Question: What are the elements with atomic numbers from 57 to 71 in the periodic table called?
Answer: Lanthanides

Question: Which American Football team won the 45th Superbowl on 6 February 2011?
Answer: Green Bay Packers

Question: Which was the first Liverpool group to have their first three singles reach number one in the charts?
Answer: Gerry and the Pacemakers

Question: Named after a-Dutch astronomer; what is the name of the spherical cloud of comets, which lies about 1 light year from the sun?
Answer: The Oort Cloud

Question: Who was the US President who sought a third term of office when he ran as a Bull Moose or Progressive candidate?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Question: Who won the 2010 Wimbledon Men's Singles title?
Answer: Rafael Nadal

Question: Who plays the part Green Lantern in the 2011 film 'Green Lantern'?
Answer: Ryan Reynolds

Question: Which Booker Prize winner coined the advertising slogan 'Naughty by nice'?
Answer: Salman Rushdie

Question: Which horse, trained by Sir Michael Stoute, won the 2010 Epsom Derby?
Answer: Workforce

Question: In what year did Yasir Arafat die?
Answer: 2004

Question: Who is the current Foreign Secretary?
Answer: William Hague

Question: Which was the second Liverpool group to have their first three singles reach number one in the charts?
Answer: Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Question: Who wrote the screenplay for 'You Only Live Twice'?
Answer: Roald Dahl

Question: In which Irish county would you find the Hill of Tara?
Answer: Meath

Question: What were first used in the Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket on 11 July 1965?
Answer: Starting Stalls

Question: Who was the only female candidate in the 2010 Labour Party leadership contest?
Answer: Diane Abbott

Question: Which is the only marine species where the male gives birth to the young?
Answer: Sea Horse

Question: What is Marks & Spencer's casual men's wear label?
Answer: Blue Harbour

Question: Which fashion designer born in New York introduced the "Polo" label in 1967?
Answer: Ralph Lauren

Question: Which character in the Simpsons is voiced by Kelsey Grammer?
Answer: Side Show Bob

Question: Who said after losing a libel case against Robert Maxwell, 'I've just given a fat cheque to a fat Czech'?
Answer: Ian Hislop

Question: Which card game takes its name from the Spanish word for basket?
Answer: Canasta

Question: Which City in France was known to the Romans as 'Argentoratum'?
Answer: Strasbourg

Question: What is the more common name for the bone the furcula?
Answer: Wishbone

Question: Which landlocked country in Africa was formerly called Nyasaland?
Answer: Malawi

Question: Which is the most southerly golf course in Britain that the British Open can be played at?
Answer: Royal St Georges

Question: Which British car company manufactured the Javelin and Jupiter models?
Answer: Jowett

Question: Which Scottish port lies on Loch Ryan?
Answer: Stranraer

Question: In which European City is the Mariinsky Ballet based?
Answer: St Petersburg

Question: Which Roy Orbison song featured in the 'Only Fools and Horses' episode called 'Stage Fright'?
Answer: Cryin'

Question: Which American lost in a play off in 2009 British Open (golf)?
Answer: Tom Watson

Question: The Somme is in which French region?
Answer: Picardy

Question: Which musical instrument is Anne-Sophie Mutter famous for playing?
Answer: Violin

Question: John of Gaunt was the uncle of which English King?
Answer: Richard Ii

Question: Which of the Goodies wore union jack underwear?
Answer: Tim Brooke Taylor

Question: In French cookery, a dubarry sauce contains which vegetable?
Answer: Cauliflower

Question: Which other flag was raised on Mount Everest alongside the flags of Great Britain and Nepal by Hillary and Tensing in 1953?
Answer: United Nations

Question: Which planet was discovered in 1930?
Answer: Pluto

Question: Which Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced Premium Bonds?
Answer: Harold Macmillan

Question: Apart from Lincoln and Kennedy, two other presidents of the United States have been assassinated. Name either.
Answer: Garfield/Mckinlay

Question: The flag of which of the United States of America incorporates a Union Jack?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: How many test centuries did Don Bradman score?
Answer: 29

Question: The Baha'i faith was founded in the 19th century in which country?
Answer: Iran/Persia

Question: Which event of 1836 is known as America's Thermopylae?
Answer: The Alanio

Question: Which German footballer won the Golden Boot at the 2010 World Cup?
Answer: Thomas Muller

Question: 'The Sun is God' are reputedly the famous last words of which British artist?
Answer: J M W Turner

Question: The Latin 'Dunelm' relates to which Church of England diocese?
Answer: Durham

Question: In which year between the World Wars did Britain go off the Gold Standard?
Answer: 1931

Question: From 1881 Russian Jews and their property were subjected to periodic mob attacks. What were these attacks called?
Answer: Pogroms

Question: Which present day State of America was known officially as Indian Territory?
Answer: Oklahoma

Question: Which actor played Dr Who between 1974 and 1980?
Answer: Tom Baker

Question: The artists Beardsley, Klimt, and Tiffany were leading figures in which art movement?
Answer: Art Nouveau

Question: In World War One what were Talbots, Pups and Camels?
Answer: Aeroplanes

Question: In which year did Dr Who first appear on our television screens played by William Hartnell?
Answer: 1963

Question: Which English playwrights last words were "Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you in the morning"?
Answer: Noel Coward

Question: Which artistic style is described as "The exploration of colour and technique to capture the transience of light"?
Answer: Impressionism

Question: PNG is the international car registration for which country?
Answer: Papua New Guinea

Question: What city is the capital of Slovenia?
Answer: Ljubliana

Question: In July 2011, which local judge led the public enquiry into News International phone hacking affair?
Answer: Sir Brian Leveson

Question: Which Shakespearian character's last words were "The Rest is Silence"?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: In which commodity did a mercer deal?
Answer: Textiles

Question: Which chief executive of News International resigned in July 2011 over the phone hacking scandal?
Answer: Rebekah Brooks