Question: Who won the 2011 Turner Prize for his installation 'Do Words Have Voices'?
Answer: Martin Boyce

Question: Which famous British explorer went in search of El Dorado?
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh

Question: Which Caribbean island is served by Grantley Adams Airport?
Answer: Barbados

Question: Which famous actor played a character called Ron Jenkins in Coronation Street?
Answer: Ben Kingsley

Question: What is the only dog allowed to give testimony to a US court of law?
Answer: Bloodhound

Question: Which opera by Offenbach features the barcarole entitled 'Belle nuit, o nuit d'amour'?
Answer: The Tales Of Hoffman

Question: Starr Gate and Imperial Hotel are stops on which tram system?
Answer: Blackpool

Question: What are cardinal, sexton, and queen's executioner?
Answer: Beetles

Question: 'People will say we're in love' comes from which musical?
Answer: Oklahoma!

Question: Who wrote the poem 'Easter 1916'?
Answer: W B Yeats

Question: The cartoon character Norville Rogers is better known by what name?
Answer: Shaggy

Question: If an insect is said to be micropterous what does that mean?
Answer: It Has Small Wings

Question: In a song who 'Painted up her lips and rolled and curled her tinted hair'?
Answer: Ruby

Question: The Yas Marina Grand Prix circuit is in which city?
Answer: Abu Dhabi

Question: What is the title of the novel about Barnsley schoolboy Billy Casper which features PE teacher Mr Sugden?
Answer: A Kestrel For A Knave

Question: Which proportional representation system was the subject of the 2011 Referendum?
Answer: Alternative Vote

Question: The Tropic of Capricorn crosses the Atlantic coast of Africa in which country?
Answer: Namibia

Question: Who had a hit in 1968 with 'Baby Come Back'?
Answer: The Equals

Question: Who is the voice of the title character in the recent film 'Puss in Boots'?
Answer: Antonio Banderas

Question: 'Ranunculus' is the species name of which common wild flower?
Answer: Buttercup

Question: In South Africa what is the name given to ships of meat, salted and dried?
Answer: Biltong

Question: In which county is Aldeburgh?
Answer: Suffolk

Question: Who played 'Two-Face' in the 1995 film 'Batman Forever'?
Answer: Tommy Lee Jones

Question: In which month is Anzac Day?
Answer: April

Question: According to the UN, what round figure did the world population reach on October 31st 2011?
Answer: 7 Billion

Question: Geraldine McQueen is the comedy character creation of which comedian?
Answer: Peter Kay

Question: Who published a paper with the Geological Society of London on January 4th 1837 showing that the South American land mass was gradually rising?
Answer: Charles Darwin

Question: Which TV presenter recently published a book entitled 'Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British'?
Answer: Jeremy Paxman

Question: Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace are four of the six Nobel Prizes. Name either of the other two.
Answer: PHYSICS or ECONOMICS

Question: During the wars between the US Government and the Native Americans in the 1860s and 70s, Sitting Bull was one of the two great leaders of the Sioux; who was the other - victorious at the Battle of the Rose Bud and murdered whist in captivity in September 1877?
Answer: Crazy Horse

Question: Which entertainer was born Stevland Judkins (his surname later changed to Morris) in Saginaw, Michigan in 1950?
Answer: Stevie Wonder

Question: Who is the most successful non US golfer in Major Championships with 9 wins?
Answer: Gary Player

Question: The Hahnenkamm mountain and ski runs are part of which European ski resort?
Answer: Kitzbühel

Question: Which group had a 1967 hit with 'Night of Fear'?
Answer: The Move

Question: At which battle of 1403 was Sir Henry Percy aka Hotspur killed?
Answer: Shrewsbury

Question: Which shoe designer made his name designing for Ossie Clark before buying 'Zapata' and setting up his own company in 1973?
Answer: Manuel 'Manolo' Blahnik

Question: Which Shakespeare play contains the line 'Neither a borrower or a lender be'?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: What is the national flower of Spain?
Answer: Carnation

Question: Name the bear, the comedian from the 'Muppet Show'.
Answer: Fozzie

Question: What is the name of British Columbia's most popular ski resort, which was home to the alpine skiing events in the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Whistler

Question: What honour was conferred on shoe designer Jimmy Choo in 2002?
Answer: Obe

Question: At which battle of 1471 was Richard Neville aka Warwick the Kingmaker killed?
Answer: Barnet

Question: Rugosa is a particular type of which garden shrub?
Answer: Rose

Question: 'All that glisters is not gold' is a line from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Merchant Of Venice

Question: In the Lake District National Park, as what are Pavey Ark, Harrison Stickle and Pike of Stickle collectively known?
Answer: Langdale Pikes

Question: Who owned a teddy bear called Archibald Ormsby-Gore?
Answer: John Betjeman

Question: After China, India and the USA, what is the world's most populous country?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: 'The Necessary Aptitude' is the title of which poet/celebrity's 2011 autobiography?
Answer: Pam Ayres

Question: Of what type of bird did Darwin observe 12 different species in the Galapagos islands?
Answer: Finch

Question: Of which native American tribe were Geronimo and Cochise warrior leaders?
Answer: Apache

Question: Who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1954 and the Peace Prize in 1962?
Answer: Linus Pauling

Question: Which singer was played by Diana Ross in the 1972 film 'Lady Sings The Blues'?
Answer: Billie Holliday

Question: Who was Prime Minister of the UK at the time of the abdication of Edward VIII?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin

Question: Which tenor singer recorded the album 'Bring Him Home', which reached number 9 in the UK album charts in 2010-11?
Answer: Alfie Boe

Question: Dustin Hoffman played the role of an autistic savant in the film 'Rain Man'. Who played the part of his younger brother Charlie?
Answer: Tom Cruise

Question: Which is the only one of New York's boroughs that is not on an island?
Answer: Bronx

Question: Give a year in the life of the artist Sir Henry Raeburn.
Answer: 1756 To 1823

Question: Which type of gas is obtained by the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking'?
Answer: Shale Gas

Question: The oldest extant version of the Bible made by Jerome in the 4th century is known by which name?
Answer: Vulgate

Question: Which US city is the setting for the TV drama series 'Treme' (pronounced Tremmay)?
Answer: New Orleans

Question: Which city is linked to the motorway network by the M32?
Answer: Bristol

Question: How high, in feet, is a hockey goal (not ice hockey)?
Answer: Seven

Question: Who wrote the music for the ballet 'Daphnis et Chloé'?
Answer: Maurice Ravel

Question: Who was Commander-in-Chief of American ground forces in planning the invasion of France in 1944 and Commander of the US 1st Army on D Day?
Answer: Omar Bradley

Question: What substance crystallises in the gall bladder to form gall stones?
Answer: Cholesterol

Question: Plato was the pupil of which famous teacher?
Answer: Socrates

Question: In the Second World War, what was Operation Avalanche?
Answer: Allied Invasion Of Italy

Question: Who is chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra?
Answer: Vasily Petrenko

Question: What was the name of JFK Airport in New York prior to 1963?
Answer: Idlewild

Question: Which literary heroine was played in a 2011 film by Mia Wasikowska?
Answer: Jane Eyre

Question: Which novel opens with the following words 'Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery'?
Answer: The Da Vinci Code

Question: Which motorway connects Glasgow and Edinburgh?
Answer: M8

Question: Which fictional town was the setting for the TV series 'Z-Cars'?
Answer: Newtown

Question: In which country is Verdi's opera 'Aida' set?
Answer: Egypt