Question: How many imperial pounds are in an imperial ton?
Answer: 2240

Question: What letter of the Greek alphabet is equivalent to the English K?
Answer: Kappa

Question: What is the lowest of the commissioned ranks in the Royal Air Force?
Answer: Pilot Officer

Question: What would you fear if you suffered from Astraphobia?
Answer: Lightning

Question: Give a year in the life of King Alfred the Great?
Answer: 849-899Ad

Question: In 1963 what was the first chart success of the Rolling Stones which reached number 21 in the charts?
Answer: Come On

Question: Which culinary vegetable has the scientific name `solanum tuberosum'?
Answer: Potato

Question: What is the more common name of the disease pertussis?
Answer: Whooping cough

Question: By what name is the lowest (or fourth) deck of a typical merchant ship known?
Answer: Orlop

Question: The Galton-Henry system is a method of classifying what?
Answer: Fingerprints

Question: For which London constituency was Winston Churchill MP between 1945-1964?
Answer: Woodford

Question: Which musical performer made famous the song 'Burlington Bertie'?
Answer: Ella Shields

Question: Name any of the four fairies attending Oberon and Titania in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer's Night Dream'?
Answer: Cobweb, Mustardseed, Peasbiossom, Moth

Question: In which land does Puff the Magic Dragon live?
Answer: Honalee

Question: What is a Mexican Black Howler?
Answer: A monkey

Question: What is the nearest national capital city to Bratislava, only 35 miles away?
Answer: Vienna

Question: In 1968, three astronauts were jointly given the TIME Person of the Year award. Give one of their names.
Answer: Anders, Boorman, Lovell

Question: Modelled on the Spanish bullfight, in which country did the Paso Doble dance originate?
Answer: France

Question: 'Disko Troop' is the captain of the We're Here' fishing vessel in which Rudyard Kipling novel, which was made into a film starring Spencer Tracy?
Answer: Captains Courageous

Question: What was the first name of Stradivari, who lived 1644-1737, and is famous as a manufacturer of stringed musical instruments?
Answer: Antonio

Question: There are three types of muscle in the human body: Skeletal, Smooth and which other?
Answer: Cardiac

Question: What is the official residence of the French President?
Answer: Elysee Palace

Question: Which footballer has won a record 111 caps for Colombia? He is best known for his distinctive blond afro hairstyle and he played in Europe between 1988 and 2001, first for Montpellier and latterly for Real Valladolid.
Answer: Carlos Valderrama

Question: Which Irish actor is well known for playing a one-armed waiter named 'Riddle', an incompetent builder in a hotel, and someone posing as a dead man in order to claim a winning lottery ticket?
Answer: David Kelly

Question: Fado music originated in which country?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Which Luftwaffe bomber was withdrawn from the Battle of Britain because of heavy losses although it was used successfully elsewhere throughout the war?
Answer: Stuka

Question: What name is given to non-volatile computer memory that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed which is primarily used in memory cards, memory sticks etc?
Answer: Flash

Question: Ghandi's march to Dandi in 1931 was a protest against Britain's tax on which commodity?
Answer: Salt

Question: Which 2009 movie is a biopic of Ian Dury, starring Andy Serkis in the title role and Ray Winstone as his father?
Answer: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Question: What type of cake kicked off Proust's reminiscences in "Remembrance of Things Past"?
Answer: Madeleine

Question: In which Charles Dickens novel do we meet the minor characters: Startop, Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick?
Answer: Great Expectations

Question: Who was the first woman to win the TIME Man of the Year award in 1936?
Answer: Wallis Simpson

Question: Which native American tribe were famously used as "Code Talkers" during WW2, due to the fact that so few people talked their language?
Answer: Navajo

Question: With which type of wine did Hannibal Lecter say he was going to wash down his Liver and Fava beans?
Answer: (A nice) Chianti

Question: If Strasbourg is 68 and Montpellier is 34, then what number is Paris?
Answer: 75

Question: What-is the official residence of the Mayor of New York City?
Answer: Gracie Mansion

Question: What is the national epic poem of Finland (usually translated as 'Land of Heroes'). Sibelius set some of its myths to music in his tone poems.
Answer: Kalevala

Question: Which philosopher, who was born in Algerian in 1930, originated the deconstruction theory?
Answer: Jacques Derrida

Question: The US flag contains the most stars, having 50, but which country's flag has the second most, with 27 stars?
Answer: Brazil

Question: If Germany is 49 and the United Kingdom is 44, then what number is France?
Answer: 33

Question: One of the earliest phrases used (perhaps unwisely) inrtship is that of "I love you". If a chap were to say to his girlfriend: "Seni seviyorum", language would he be speaking?
Answer: Turkish

Question: Which shipping forecast area lies to the south of Fair Isle and to the west of Forties?
Answer: Cromarty

Question: The five towns that make up the city of Stoke on Trent together with Stoke are Hanley, Burslem, Fenton and two others. Name one of the other two.
Answer: Longton or Tunstall

Question: """Nodor"" and ""Winmau"" are the two leading manufacturers of which item of sport/games equipment?"
Answer: Dartboards

Question: What is the name of the Jewish mystical interpretation of Scripture, which comprises the Sepher Yezirah (Book of Creation) and the Zohar (Splendour) that has become popular with new age types?
Answer: Kabbalah

Question: If a girl were to say to her boyfriend: "Mina rakastan sinua", what language would she be speaking?
Answer: Finnish

Question: Which Test Match Special commentator has a son who has been a bowler for Sussex CCC since 1994?
Answer: Christopher Martin Jenkins

Question: Which of the five New York boroughs has the largest population?
Answer: Brooklyn

Question: What is the pre-Columbian civilisation that thrived in southern Mexico in 1400 BC, generally considered the first meso-American civilisation?
Answer: Olmec

Question: In which French town, did Jean Claude Killy achieve a clean sweep all of the men's alpine events in the 1968 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Grenoble

Question: 'Captain Hoseason' of the ship the 'Covenant' features in which Robert Louis Stevenson novel, which was made into a film starring Michael Caine?
Answer: Kidnapped

Question: Which prize-winning series of books by Julia Donaldson tell the story of a mouse taking a walk in a dark wood?
Answer: The Gruffalo

Question: Who won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Billy Wilder's 1953 film "Stalag 17"?
Answer: William Holden

Question: In which TV comedy has fictional actor Andy Millman cried on "Celebrity Big Brother," his agent Darren Lamb suggested anyone other than his only client for roles and Ross Kemp tried to steal sweets off the BBC?
Answer: Extras

Question: Give a year in the life of composer, conductor and pianist Carl Maria von Weber.
Answer: 1786-1826

Question: What is the first name of the ballet dancer Nijinsky, who was unsuccessfully treated by Eugene Bleuler in Switzerland when diagnosed with schizophrenia?
Answer: Vaslav

Question: Who was President of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972, who made the decision to continue the 1972 Munich Olympic Games despite a terrorist attack?
Answer: Avery Brundage

Question: Of the exclusive London clubs which one was founded in 1824, has its address at 107, Pall Mall, SW1 and shares its name with a club in Liverpool?
Answer: The Athenaeum