Question: The Royal Albert Hall is in which London road?
Answer: Kensington Gore

Question: During which year were the first Youth Olympics held?
Answer: 2010

Question: Which English pop artist created The Beatles ‘Sgt Pepper’ album cover?
Answer: Peter Blake

Question: In South Africa, a Sangoma is more commonly known as what type of person?
Answer: Witch doctor/healer

Question: The Gopik is a unit of currency in which country?
Answer: Azerbaijan

Question: In the 1990 film ‘White Hunter, Black Heart’, Clint Eastwood’s character is based on which film director?
Answer: John Huston

Question: Virologist Max Theiler won a 1951 Nobel Prize for developing a vaccine against which disease?
Answer: Yellow Fever

Question: Which record label is named after founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss?
Answer: A&M Records

Question: Which German composer wrote the oratorios ‘Elijah’ and ‘St Paul’?
Answer: Mendelssohn

Question: Which prolific English Novelist’s first book was entitled ‘Jigsaw’?
Answer: Barbara Cartland

Question: What does ‘N’ represent in the Periodic Table?
Answer: Nitrogen

Question: Which late singer had a favourite pet cat called Delilah?
Answer: Freddie Mercury

Question: Agrava, Cephlon and Virn are all fictional planets in which BBC science fiction television series?
Answer: Blake’s 7

Question: The Apo Reef lies off the coast of which country?
Answer: Philippines

Question: Which city hosted the 2010 Paralympic Games?
Answer: Vancouver

Question: Femicide is the killing of which members of society?
Answer: Women

Question: The Carisbrook Rugby Stadium is in which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Los Barcos was the name of the fictional village in which BBC television series?
Answer: Eldorado

Question: In September 2011, which British comedian swam the length of the River Thames for charity?
Answer: David Walliams

Question: ‘The Evil Monk’ coffee liqueur is named after who?
Answer: Grigori Rasputin

Question: Which British newspaper was launched with the slogan ‘It is, are you’?
Answer: The Independent

Question: What is the name of the bank in the UK television series ‘Dad’s Army’?
Answer: Swallow Bank

Question: VT is the abreviation for which US state?
Answer: Vermont

Question: Which beverage, introduced in 1898, was originally called ‘Brad’s Drink’?
Answer: Pepsi-Cola

Question: Which US businessman funded the Standard Oil Company?
Answer: John D Rockefeller

Question: What is the capital of Morocco?
Answer: Rabat

Question: Who did actor Jack May play in the BBC radio series ‘The Archers’?
Answer: Nelson Gabriel

Question: Which Internet search engine was shortened to Ask.com in 2006?
Answer: AskJeeves.com

Question: Which British athlete won a Gold Medal in the heptathlon at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin?
Answer: Jessica Ennis

Question: Who was the first and only footballer to be knighted while still an active professional player?
Answer: Sir Stanley Matthews

Question: What was British Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s first name?
Answer: James

Question: In the novel Peter Pan, what are the first names of Wendy’s two brothers?
Answer: Michael and John

Question: The Oswaldo Cruz Institute and the Butantan Institute are in which South American country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Former Olympic athlete and Gold Medallist Michael Duane Johnson was born in which US state?
Answer: Texas

Question: What is a young swan called?
Answer: Cygnet

Question: According to Greek mythology, who was the first woman on Earth?
Answer: Pandora

Question: On which part of the body would a mutch be worn?
Answer: Head – linen cap worn by women and children

Question: In which South American city is Sugarloaf Mountain?
Answer: Rio de Janiero

Question: Who wrote the 1950 novel ‘A Town Like Alice’?
Answer: Neville Shute

Question: Which musical instrument represents the cat in Sergei Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’?
Answer: Clarinet

Question: Khoom is Hebrew for which colour?
Answer: Brown

Question: What type of creature is a mango?
Answer: Bird

Question: What is the highest level Dan in judo?
Answer: 10th

Question: Originally built as a research lab off the coast of Puerto Rico, the world’s first underwater hotel, the Jules Undersea Lodge, is now situated in which US state?
Answer: Florida

Question: Which actor played Sergeant Francis Troy in the 1967 film ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’?
Answer: Terence Stamp

Question: Created by cartoonist Robert Lips, cartoon character ‘Globi’ originated in which European country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: How many players are on the field in a team during a game of Canadian Box Lacrosse?
Answer: Six

Question: Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was elected Prime Minister of which country in March 2004?
Answer: Spain

Question: Who recorded the 1965 song ‘Eve of Destruction’, a protest song against the Vietnam War?
Answer: Barry McGuire

Question: In which English city did the Belgrade Theatre open in 1958?
Answer: Coventry

Question: Which Spice Girl took part in ‘Dancing With the Stars’, the US version of the UK television show ‘Strictly Come Dancing’?
Answer: Melanie Brown (Scary Spice)

Question: Which US highway is known as the ‘Loneliest Road in America’?
Answer: Route/Highway 50

Question: In humans the atlas and axis bones are in which part of the body?
Answer: Neck

Question: A polyglot is someone who uses or knows several what?
Answer: Languages

Question: Sastrugi are parallel wave-like ridges caused by winds on the surface of what?
Answer: Snow

Question: ‘Bankable Productions’, an independent film and television production company, was founded by which former model?
Answer: Tyra Banks

Question: ‘Podshaving’ is the art of hand-making which piece of sports equipment?
Answer: Cricket bat

Question: In 1786, Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard became the first climbers to reach the summit of which European mountain?
Answer: Mont Blanc

Question: Which female gymnast won Gold Medals in the Balance Beam and Floor Exercise events in the 1972 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Olga Korbut

Question: According to the proverb ‘People in glass houses shouldn’t do what’?
Answer: Throw stones

Question: How many ounces are in a US (short) ton?
Answer: 32,000

Question: On a QWERTY keyboard which letter lies between A and D?
Answer: S

Question: Fictional character Cruella De Vil is associated with which breed of dog?
Answer: Dalmation

Question: Eboracum was the Latin name for which English city?
Answer: York

Question: Which fictional doctor lives in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh?
Answer: Dr Doolittle

Question: In sport, what is the informal name of the box or bench to which offending players be sent as a penalty during a game?
Answer: Sin bin

Question: What is the name of the short, horizontal pole projecting from a wall on which scaffold floorboards rest?
Answer: Putlog (or putlock)

Question: In the Batman series of films, what is Alfred the butler’s surname?
Answer: Pennyworth

Question: In which part of the human body are the metatarsus bones?
Answer: Foot

Question: What breed of animal is a Chester White?
Answer: Pig

Question: Boss, Flex, Vane and Nock are terms used in which sport?
Answer: Archery

Question: What is the last book of the Old Testament of The Bible?
Answer: Malachi

Question: Which race horse won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1989?
Answer: Desert Orchid

Question: ‘Well, nobody’s perfect’ is the last line of which 1959 film?
Answer: Some Like It Hot

Question: Bocconi University is in which European city?
Answer: Milan

Question: What is the system of sending messages by holding the arms, or two flags, in certain positions according to an alphabetic code?
Answer: Semaphore

Question: Author Franklin Birkinshaw is better known by what name?
Answer: Fay Weldon

Question: The Korac Cup was played for in which sport?
Answer: Basketball

Question: A ‘Destrier’ was the name of what, used by a medieval knight in battle?
Answer: War horse