Question: What is the name of the opiate-like substances produced in the brain by Pituary glands?
Answer: Endorphins

Question: Who was known as 'The King Consort Of Scotland'?
Answer: FRANCIS II (of France)

Question: Which bluish-white metallic element has the atomic number 30?
Answer: Zinc

Question: Which chart topping song of 1980 contains the lines "You coulda' heard a pin drop when Tommy stopped and locked the door"?
Answer: 'COWARD OF THE COUNTY' by Kenny Rogers

Question: As what is the 'bulb' of a Crocus more correctly known?
Answer: Corm

Question: The character 'Thomas Sweeney' appeared in which British soap from 1984 to 2000?
Answer: 'Brookside'

Question: Born near Saragossa, who became court painter to Charles III of Spain in 1786?
Answer: Goya

Question: The Argentinean invasion of which island in 1982 started the 'Falklands War'?
Answer: South Georgia

Question: What would be the profession of a member of A.M.I.E.E.?
Answer: Associate Member of the Institute of ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS

Question: How many people are in a Netball team?
Answer: Seven

Question: What would you be if you were a member of the R.T.R.?
Answer: SOLDIER (Royal Tank Regiment)

Question: Which UK band had hits with 'You Really Got Me' and 'Sunny Afternoon'?
Answer: The Kinks

Question: 'Officer Alex J.Murphy' became better known by what name in the title of a 1987 film?
Answer: 'Robocop'

Question: The Iris has a thick-stemmed root instead of a bulb. By what name is this 'root' known?
Answer: Rhizome

Question: Under what name did actress Vivien Hartley achieve fame?
Answer: Vivien Leigh

Question: Which battle of the Napoleonic Wars is sometimes referred to as the 'Battle of the Three Emperors'?
Answer: Austerlitz

Question: Who founded the Jehovah's Witnesses in the 19th century?
Answer: Charles Russell

Question: In World War II, the US Marine Corps used members of which native American tribe as code senders?
Answer: Navajo

Question: What is the state capital of Washington?
Answer: Olympia

Question: In which US National Park is the geyser known as 'Old Faithful'?
Answer: Yellowstone

Question: In the Bible, who was thrown out of a window and eaten by dogs?
Answer: Jezebel

Question: In comics who was "The pilot of the future"?
Answer: 'Dan Dare'

Question: Which US President is on the $50 bill?
Answer: Grant

Question: What type of insect is a Lampyris noctiluca?
Answer: Glow Worm

Question: Which English motorway runs from Rotherham to Goole?
Answer: M18

Question: Which English motorway runs from Ross to Tewkesbury?
Answer: M50

Question: In which novel by Charles Dickens does 'Seth Pecksniff' appear?
Answer: 'Martin Chuzzlewit'

Question: The 'Glow-worm' is not actually a worm but a species of which insect?
Answer: BEETLE (accept Coleoptera)

Question: Who won the 2010 'Oscar' for Best Actress for the film 'The Blind Side'?
Answer: Sandra Bullock

Question: Philips and which other company developed the CD?
Answer: Sony

Question: Of which British monarch was Alice Keppel the mistress?
Answer: Edward Vii

Question: Which brewery makes the beer 'Spitfire'?
Answer: Shepherd Neame

Question: From which musical does the song 'I Dreamed A Dream' come?
Answer: 'Les Miserables'

Question: Which US state is called the 'Centennial State'?
Answer: Colorado

Question: In the Bible, who was the mother-in-law of Ruth?
Answer: Naomi

Question: Identify the number one hit from its opening line, "Is this the real life"?
Answer: 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

Question: Who became the first woman to win the 'Oscar' for Best Director in 2010?
Answer: Katherine Bigalow

Question: Which English bishop sign himself 'Sarum'?
Answer: The Bishop Of Salisbury

Question: Who was sworn in as Vice President of the USA on 20th January 2009?
Answer: Joe Biden

Question: The Zodiac sign Pisces belongs to which element?
Answer: Water

Question: Which company developed the VHS cassette?
Answer: Jvc

Question: Who was the sheriff of 'Four Feather Falls'?
Answer: 'Tex Tucker'

Question: In which European city was Audrey Hepburn born?
Answer: Brussels

Question: In which country would you find the Oland Island Bridge?
Answer: Sweden

Question: Which capital city is the farthest north on the European continent?
Answer: Helsinki

Question: Which is the only merchant ship to sink an enemy warship, it sank a U-boat whilst acting as a troop carrier in 1918?
Answer: R.M.S. Olympic

Question: In which month was the Battle of Agincourt fought?
Answer: OCTOBER (25th.)

Question: Who led the Everest expedition that put the first Briton on the summit?
Answer: Chris Bonnington (1975)

Question: What is or was the real first name of the newspaper owner Eddie Shah?
Answer: Selim

Question: Which game uses 64 cards, with no card below 7?
Answer: Bezique

Question: Which brewery produced an Indian Pale Ale called 'Bengal Lancer' in 2010?
Answer: Fullers

Question: Which artist painted 'The Old Woman Cooking Eggs' and 'The Rokeby Venus'?
Answer: Velasquez

Question: What name is given to the process of turning a boat on its side for cleaning and general repairs?
Answer: Careening

Question: Which English bishop signs himself 'Roffen'?
Answer: The Bishop Of Rochester

Question: In Norse mythology, of what was 'Aegir' the god?
Answer: The Sea

Question: Who was 'Dan Dare's' assistant and co-pilot?
Answer: 'Digby'

Question: What name is given to a small mechanical model of the Solar System?
Answer: An Orrery

Question: From which musical does the song 'The Impossible Dream' come?
Answer: 'Man Of La Mancha'

Question: Which company produced a motor car called the 'Scimitar'?
Answer: Reliant

Question: Identify the number one hit from its opening line, "When you're weary, feeling small"?
Answer: 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters'

Question: What is the name of 'Bob the Builder's' cement mixer?
Answer: 'Dizzy'

Question: How often is the Oberammergau Passion Play performed?
Answer: Every Ten Years

Question: Name the company featured in TV's 'Drop The Dead Donkey'?
Answer: 'Globelink News'

Question: Which is the largest cathedral in England?
Answer: Liverpool Anglican

Question: What in Civil Engineering is 'an innings'?
Answer: Land Reclaimed From The Sea

Question: The 'Redwing', 'Fieldfare' and 'Blackbird' are all members of which family of birds?
Answer: THRUSH or TURDIDAE

Question: Jeff Bridges was nominated for the 'Oscar' for Best Actor this year for his role as 'Rooster Cogburn' in which film?
Answer: 'True Grit'

Question: Which of the noble gases takes its name from the Greek for 'hidden'?
Answer: Krypton

Question: In George Orwell's 'Animal Farm', what is the name of the pig who emerges as the leader of the farm following the overthrow of 'Farmer Jones'?
Answer: 'Napoleon'

Question: Jesse Eisenberg was nominated for the 'Oscar' for Best Actor this year for his role as 'Mark Zuckerberg' in which film?
Answer: 'The Social Network'

Question: Which of the noble gases takes its name from the Greek for 'stranger'?
Answer: Xenon

Question: In George Orwell's 'Animal Farm', what is the name of the loyal but dim-witted cart-horse who carries out many of the orders handed down by 'Napoleon'?
Answer: 'Boxer'

Question: Which American film director of Czech origin twice won the Academy Award for Best Director for his films 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' and 'Amadeus'?
Answer: Milos Forman

Question: Which German-born French composer left his most famous opera 'Tales of Hoffmann' unfinished at his death in 1880?
Answer: Jacques Offenbach

Question: Which Sri Lankan batsman ended the 2011 Cricket World Cup as the highest run scorer?
Answer: Tillakaratne Dilshan

Question: Which Austrian composer left his most famous opera 'Moses und Aron' unfinished at his death in 1951?
Answer: Arnold Schoenburg

Question: Which American film director of Greek origin has twice won the Academy Award for Best Director for his films 'Gentleman's Agreement' and 'On The Waterfront'?
Answer: Elia Kazan