Question: In December 1940 three British ships attacked the German battle cruiser 'Graf Spee', forcing it into Montivideo harbour.'Exeter' and 'Ajax' were two of the ships, but what was the third?
Answer: 'Achilles'

Question: Which animal is a medium sized cat native to the Americas, and has a deep yellow coat with black striped and spotted markings?
Answer: Ocelot

Question: Near which city is 'Fuhlsbuttel Airport'?
Answer: Hamburg

Question: In bettingshops, what name is given to clerks who calculate the winnings on betting slips?
Answer: Settlers

Question: How did 'Tosca' die in the opera of the same name?
Answer: She Threw Herself From A Parapet

Question: In a 22 card tarot pack, which card is the only one beginning with the letter 'L'?
Answer: Lovers

Question: Who was the oldest king to accede to the throne of England after 1066?
Answer: WILLIAM IV (aged 64)

Question: Ignoring the definite and indefinite articles, alphabetically which is the second of Dickens' novels?
Answer: 'BLEAK HOUSE' ('Barnaby Rudge' being first)

Question: Similarly, in terms of surnames, who would, alphabetically, be the second British Prime Minister in the 20th century?
Answer: CLEMENT ATTLEE (Asquith being first)

Question: Who Directed the 'Oscar' winning film of 2000, 'American Beauty'?
Answer: Sam Mendes

Question: Other than the United States' Bobby Fischer, which country provided the last non-Russian World Chess Champion?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: What type of garments were 'Topis' and 'Toques'?
Answer: Hats

Question: 'Red Lion' was for may years accepted as the most popular pubname in Great Britain. What pub name has now succeeded this?
Answer: 'The Crown'

Question: Which Roman emperor issued 'The Edict of Milan' and endedthe persecution of Christians?
Answer: Constantine

Question: Which eel-like fish has a sucker mouth with horny teeth, and a rough tongue, but no scales, paired fins, or jaws?
Answer: Lamprey

Question: Which group represented the UK at this year's Eurovision Song Contest?
Answer: 'Scooch'

Question: How did 'Carmen' die in the opera of the same name?
Answer: She Was Stabbed

Question: What word describes the property of a metal which allows it to be stretched into wire?
Answer: Ductility

Question: Which 'HMC' by David Essex was No. 1 in October 1975?
Answer: 'Hold Me Close'

Question: In the Old Testament, what was the name of the devise that contained the 'Ark of the Covenant'?
Answer: The Tabernacle

Question: In which sport or entertainment was Henry Higgins the first successful Englishman?
Answer: Bull Fighting

Question: What is 'Crepe de Chine'?
Answer: Silk Fabric

Question: In which country is the Ogaden?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: With what was the 'Plowden Report' concerned?
Answer: Education

Question: Which American actress plays "Roxie Hart" in the film, 'Chicago'?
Answer: Rene Zellweger

Question: Which entertainer once quipped "What you said hurt me very much - I cried all the way to the bank"?
Answer: Liberace

Question: Which American once described Margaret Thatcher as "the best man in England"?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: Ronaldo collected the "World Footballer Of The Year Award" in 1996 and 1997, when playing for which club?
Answer: Inter Milan

Question: For which club was Zinedine Zidane signed when voted "World Footballer Of The Year" in 1998 and 2000?
Answer: Juventus

Question: What nationality was Vitus Bering, after whom the strait separating Alaska and Russia was named?
Answer: Danish

Question: What was the nationality of William Baffin, who gave his name to Baffin Island?
Answer: English

Question: What is the name of Johannesburg's major cricket stadium, venue for this year's World Cup Final?
Answer: The Wanderers

Question: Whose painting, exhibited in 1874, gave rise to the term "Impressionism"?
Answer: CLAUDE MONET (it was called "Impressionism - soleil levant")

Question: In which Northamptonshire battle, fought on June 14th 1645, did the Parliamentarians under Fairfax, defeat Prince Rupert's Royalists?
Answer: Naseby

Question: The English and the Scots fought which battle, on September 9th.1513, near the Northumberland village of Branxton?
Answer: Flodden Field

Question: Which Union leader of the American Civil War gave his name to a tree in California's 'Sequoia National Park'?
Answer: General Sherman

Question: In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Treasure Island', what is the name of the sinister blind pirate?
Answer: 'Pew'

Question: Sir Sidney Holland was Prime Minister of which Commonwealth country, between 1949 and 1957?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Which TV comedy series first cast Derek Nimmo as the bumbling cleric, Reverend mervyn Noote?
Answer: 'All Gas And Gaiters'

Question: What is the name of 'Long John Silver's' parrot in the children's classic novel, 'Treasure Island'?
Answer: Captain Flint

Question: Hector Campora was President of which South American country in 1973?
Answer: Argentina

Question: What was the forename of 'Private Fraser', the undertaker in 'Dad's Army'?
Answer: James

Question: Which of the nine types of cream commonly on offer in supermarkets has the highest butterfat content?
Answer: Clotted Cream

Question: What was the occupation of 'Warden Hodges' in the TV classic, 'Dad's Army'?
Answer: Greengrocer

Question: In a flower, what name is given to the terminal part of a stamen, in which the pollen grains are produced?
Answer: Anther

Question: The official discovery of Newfoundland is credited to the man who set sail from Bristol in 1497, who?
Answer: John Cabot

Question: Which Dutch navigator is credited as being the first European to sight New Zealand?
Answer: Abel Tasman

Question: What type of infection is the skin complaint, Ringworm?
Answer: A Fungal Infection

Question: Who was English history's "Merry Monarch"?
Answer: Charles Ii

Question: What bird of fast-flowing streams is so-named from its habit of immersing itself under water to find food?
Answer: Dipper

Question: The wife of which former British Prime Minister had the maiden name of Johnson?
Answer: JOHN MAJOR (Norma)

Question: Which British Prime Minister married a lady with the maiden name of Moulton?
Answer: JAMES CALLAGHAN (Audrey)

Question: Which character was played by Anthony Hopkins in 'The Elephant Man'?
Answer: Dr. Frederick Treves

Question: Give a year in the life of Scottish writer and biographer, James Boswell?
Answer: 1740 - 1795

Question: Used extensively by the military in the 16th and 17th centuries, what was a Petronel?
Answer: A GUN (a short, large calibre rifle)

Question: Richard Attenborough played which leading role in the film, 'Jurassic Park'?
Answer: Dr. John Hammond

Question: Which is the only country to share borders with just Brazil and Surinam?
Answer: French Guiana

Question: Which country shares borders with Columbia and Costa Rica?
Answer: Panama

Question: The Russian port of Astrakhan lies on the delta of which major river?
Answer: Volga

Question: The island of Trinidad lies opposite the delta of which major South American river?
Answer: Orinoco

Question: The adventurous love life of which literary character includes marriages to the 'Gentleman Draper' and the 'Gentleman of Bath'?
Answer: 'MOLL FLANDERS' (from the book by Daniel Defoe)

Question: What was the popular name fro the American blues singer, composer and guitarist, McKinley Morganfield?
Answer: 'Muddy Waters'

Question: What word describes a system of winds that blow around an area of high pressure?
Answer: Anticyclone

Question: Hollesley Bay and Aldeburgh are coastal features of which English county?
Answer: Suffolk

Question: How many bonus points does a 'Scrabble' player receive when playing all seven of his tiles in a single turn
Answer: 50

Question: If a solution of common salt is electrolysed, chlorine gas is released at one electrode but which metal accumulates at the other?
Answer: Sodium