Question: Who was the first Tudor King of England?
Answer: Henry VII

Question: What colour is the gemstone kunzite?
Answer: Lilac

Question: What title, from French/Italian/Arabic etymology meaning trench/spadework/tunnel, is commonly held by a non-ranking soldier in an engineer regiment?
Answer: Sapper

Question: In what year was the Sex Discrimination Act passed in the UK?
Answer: 1975

Question: What word represents the letter J in the UK Police radio communications?
Answer: Juliet

Question: What colour berets do the New York City crime-fighters the 'Guardian Angels' wear?
Answer: Red

Question: Eddie Shah's 1988 newspaper 'Post' folded after how many issues?
Answer: Thirty-three

Question: During the siege of which African city did General Gordon die?
Answer: Khartoum

Question: What type of creature is a gadwall?
Answer: A duck

Question: What date of the year is Burns Night?
Answer: 25th of January

Question: Which member of England's 2003 Rugby World Cup winning team has an uncle in the 1966 England Soccer World Cup winning team?
Answer: Ben Cohen

Question: What is the second book of the Bible's Old Testament?
Answer: Exodus

Question: Who in Greek mythology fell in love with his own reflection?
Answer: Narcissus

Question: What are musophobics afraid of?
Answer: Mice

Question: What is the name of the photographer famous for taking pictures of crowds of naked people?
Answer: Spencer Tunick

Question: How many strings does a ukelele have?
Answer: Four

Question: Which author died at Astapova railway station in 1910?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy

Question: What does a copoclephilist collect?
Answer: Keyrings

Question: Who was appointed the first woman cabinet minister in the UK?
Answer: Margaret Bondfield

Question: Alicante, Golden Boy and Piranto are types of what?
Answer: Tomato

Question: Who wrote the novel Bonfire of the Vanities?
Answer: Tom Wolfe

Question: In which year was the first Miss World contest held?
Answer: 1951

Question: Who was Sherlock Holmes' housekeeper?
Answer: Mrs Hudson

Question: How many square yards are in a British acre?
Answer: 4,840

Question: Who played Professor Marcus in the 1955 film, The Ladykillers?
Answer: Alec Guinness

Question: In which year was TV's Channel 4 launched?
Answer: 1982

Question: What are kept in an apiary?
Answer: Bees

Question: What poisonous chemical element has the atomic number 33?
Answer: Arsenic

Question: What fish family is the anchovy a member of?
Answer: Herring

Question: Who was the first person to cross the English Channel in a plane?
Answer: Louis Bleriot

Question: How many gun-firings salute the Queen's Birthday at the Tower of London?
Answer: Sixty-two

Question: In which Bavarian town is the Passion Play performed every ten years?
Answer: Oberammergau

Question: What is Hanson's disease commonly known as?
Answer: Leprosy

Question: What does a hygrometer measure?
Answer: Humidity

Question: What 1945 film starring Margaret Lockwood was titled after the legend of a 17th century highwaywoman?
Answer: The Wicked Lady

Question: Who was the first wife of poet Ted Hughes, who killed herself in 1963?
Answer: Sylvia Plath

Question: Who composed the Funeral March sonata?
Answer: Frederic Chopin

Question: Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) founded what religious order?
Answer: The Society of Jesus

Question: Leslie Poles were the first names of which writer, whose works included The Go-Between?
Answer: L P Hartley

Question: In which city is Hell Gate Bridge, said to have inspired Sydney Harbour Bridge?
Answer: New York

Question: The Bessemer process was invented in 1856 for the production of what material?
Answer: Steel

Question: Which US poet wrote the Star-Spangled Banner?
Answer: Francis Scott Key

Question: What is the basic monetary unit of Morocco?
Answer: Dirham

Question: Sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials, which former chief of the Luftwaffe took cyanide the night before his scheduled hanging?
Answer: Hermann Goring

Question: The grandfather of which English actress was leader of the Labour Party 1931-35?
Answer: Angela Lansbury

Question: A human-being has how many pairs of chromosomes?
Answer: Twenty-three

Question: Who played the title role in the 1992 film My Cousin Vinnie?
Answer: Joe Pesci

Question: The Tamil Tigers are a rebel force in which country?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: In Greek Mythology which King was condemned to stand near fruit and water which moved away when he reached for them?
Answer: Tantalus

Question: In 2005 Yulia Tymoshenko became the first female Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: The Reverse Frankensteiner is a move in what performance art form?
Answer: Professional Wrestling

Question: Palermo is the capital of which island?
Answer: Sicily

Question: Fucus (pronounced 'fewcus') is a type of what?
Answer: Seaweed

Question: What car maker announced in early 2009 plans to reintroduce the iconic DS marque?
Answer: Citroen

Question: What colour is the flesh of a lychee?
Answer: White

Question: A hendecagon is a plane figure with how many straight sides?
Answer: Eleven

Question: Who was the only guest vocalist to feature on a Led Zeppelin album?
Answer: Sandy Denny

Question: The Stasi were the secret police of which country?
Answer: East Germany

Question: In which English county is Windsor Castle?
Answer: Berkshire

Question: Which music hall singer was famed for her rude songs, including 'I Sits Among the Cabbages and Peas'?
Answer: Marie Lloyd

Question: La Brabanconne is the national anthem of which European country?
Answer: Belgium

Question: Which city hosted the 1964 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: Tokyo

Question: What date is St Swithin's Day?
Answer: July 15th

Question: What was the Italian cruise liner hijacked by terrorists in October 1985?
Answer: Achille Lauro

Question: Which Shakespeare play features in the Cole Porter musical 'Kiss Me, Kate'?
Answer: Taming of the Shrew

Question: In which country is the port of Dakar?
Answer: Senegal

Question: Which English cartoonist created the St Trinian schoolgirls?
Answer: Ronald Searle

Question: Which World War Two leader was nicknamed the Desert Fox?
Answer: Rommel

Question: Grenache is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: Grape

Question: Who was wife to Henry II and mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John?
Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question: Sigourney Weaver portrayed which zoologist in the 1988 film Gorillas in the Mist?
Answer: Dian Fossey

Question: Which Native American leader's real name was Goyathlay?
Answer: Geronimo

Question: Titan and Ganymeade are what in our Solar System?
Answer: Moons

Question: In the first episode of the TV series Dallas which character took his new wife home to meet his family?
Answer: Bobby Ewing

Question: How many players in total are bound together from both sides in forming a rugby union scrum?
Answer: Sixteen

Question: Which English county is known locally as Kernow?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: Who was the last surviving of the literary Bronte sisters?
Answer: Charlotte

Question: Which Guns 'n' Roses song is based on a short story by Del James called Without You?
Answer: November Rain

Question: In which year was the Wall Street Crash?
Answer: 1929

Question: In a theatre what is the job of a visagiste?
Answer: Make-up artist

Question: Who runs the Greendale post office in the children's TV show Postman Pat?
Answer: Mrs Goggins

Question: In Greek mythology what is a nymph called who inhabits a wood or a tree?
Answer: Dryad

Question: GBJ is the international vehicle registration for where?
Answer: Jersey

Question: What is the fruit of the blackthorn (prunus spinosa)?
Answer: Sloe

Question: Who played Dr Who in the 1965 film Dr Who and the Daleks?
Answer: Peter Cushing

Question: What is the medical condition in which a person has an extreme tendency to fall asleep at inappropriate times?
Answer: Narcolepsy