Question: 'What is the currency of Zambia?
Answer: The Kwacha

Question: Warts are part of which virus family?
Answer: Papovavirus

Question: Which philosopher said that the life of man was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"?
Answer: Thomas Hobbs

Question: The Butcher bird is another name for which bird? T
Answer: Shrike

Question: Which town in Italy is the home of violin making?
Answer: Cremona

Question: By which treaty was Gibraltar formally ceded to Great Britain in 1713?
Answer: The Treaty Of Utrecht

Question: Who wrote 'An Enemy of the People'?
Answer: Henrick Ibsen

Question: Which Beethoven Symphony was originally dedicated to Napoleon?
Answer: The Third

Question: Who wrote the music for Berthold Brecht's `The Beggars Opera'?
Answer: Kurt Weill

Question: Which British Army rank comes after Brigadier?
Answer: Major General

Question: Which rank in the Royal Navy is the equivalent to the rank of Colonel in the British Army?
Answer: Captain

Question: Shepton Dash in 1961 was the first dog to advertise which product?
Answer: Dulux Paint

Question: From which city do the groups Human League and Def Leppard originate?
Answer: Sheffield

Question: Clint Reno, Vince Everett and Danny Fisher are roles played in films by whom?
Answer: Elvis Presley

Question: Who is the Prime Minister of Canada?
Answer: Stephen Harper

Question: Who was the first Pope of the Roman Catholic Church?
Answer: St Peter

Question: The Starlight Barking was a 1967 sequel to which children's novel?
Answer: 101 Dalmatians

Question: What is formed by the confluence of the Ouse and Trent rivers?
Answer: Humber

Question: What is the name of the diacritical mark in Spanish which is placed over a letter 'n' to soften its pronunciation, e.g. in the word 'señor'?
Answer: Tilde

Question: What was ended by the Treaty of Vereeniging?
Answer: The (Second) Boer War

Question: The first Butlin's holiday camp opened in 1936 in which resort?
Answer: Skegness

Question: What is the only Scrabble tile with a value not shared by any others?
Answer: K

Question: Philip Harben is considered to be the first of his kind on UK TV. What was his area of expertise?
Answer: Chef(accept cookery)

Question: What was the first name of the French artist Poussin (1594-1665)?
Answer: Nicolas

Question: For what product is the city of Carrara in Italy most famous?
Answer: Marble

Question: What was Michelangelo's family name?
Answer: Buonarroti

Question: Who sculpted the figure of Eleanor Rigby in Liverpool's Stanley Street?
Answer: Tommy Steele

Question: Which of the United States was the 14th to join the Union (i.e. the first to join after the original 13)?
Answer: Vermont

Question: According to Winston Churchill, in a speech of 1946, the Iron Curtain ran from Stettin in the Baltic to which other port?
Answer: Trieste

Question: In the books by Sue Townsend, Adrian Mole was supposedly born in which English county?
Answer: Leicestershire

Question: What is the country of origin of the Falabella horse?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Who wrote the 19th century detective novel "The Moonstone"?
Answer: Wilkie Collins

Question: In Shakespeare's Macbeth which character speaks the last words of the play?
Answer: Malcolm

Question: In Mathematics on a 2-dimensional graph, what is the name given to the point of intersection of the x and y axes?
Answer: Origin

Question: In the Enid Blyton stories-what is the name of Noddy's house?
Answer: House for One

Question: If a dish includes 'Du Barry' in its name what ingredient does it contain?
Answer: Cauliflower

Question: What white grapes are used to make champagne?
Answer: Chardonnay

Question: Which unit of length is equal to 3.26 light years?
Answer: Parsec

Question: What was the exact London address of Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: 221B Baker Street

Question: In 1805 Mungo Park was sent to trace the course of which river?
Answer: Niger

Question: Cornish Yarg cheese is wrapped in the leaves of which plant?
Answer: Nettle

Question: Melissophobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Bees

Question: Whose symphony No.1 composed in 1916 is known as 'The Classical Symphony'?
Answer: Sergei Prokoflev

Question: In which newspaper's magazine would you find a problem page called Dr Ozzy?
Answer: Sunday Times

Question: Which writer's autobiography was published in 2010, 100 years after his death as instructed in his will?
Answer: Mark Twain

Question: In Australian cricket what are 'extras' known as?
Answer: Sundries

Question: In which country was Roald Dahl born?
Answer: Wales

Question: Which line on the London Underground has the most stations?
Answer: District

Question: Which musician lived at 9 Madryn Street Liverpool?
Answer: Ringo Starr

Question: What was the middle name of Captain James Kirk?
Answer: Tiberius

Question: Who sculpted "The Gates of Hell" depicting a scene from Dante's Inferno from 1880 until his death in 1917?
Answer: Auguste Rodin

Question: What is the capital of Tanzania?
Answer: Dodoma

Question: Who wrote the poem The Wreck of the Hesperus"?
Answer: (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow

Question: The Battle of Inchon took place during which war?
Answer: Korean

Question: Who composed and sang the theme tune for "One Foot in the Grave"?
Answer: Eric Idle

Question: Before the 20th century, what nationality was the last non-Italian Pope?
Answer: Dutch

Question: In which Shakespeare play will you find the jester "Touchstone"?
Answer: As You Like It

Question: Which was the last Olympic Games to be opened by a ruling British monarch?
Answer: Montreal

Question: In which 2002 film did Richard Gere play the part of Billy Flynn?
Answer: Chicago

Question: Who painted "The Boyhood of Raleigh'?
Answer: (John Everett) Millais

Question: In the Royal Navy which rank is below Commodore and above Commander?
Answer: Captain

Question: Who composed the opera "Don Giovanni"?
Answer: Mozart

Question: Which chemical element, atomic no. 41, is named after the daughter of King Tantalus?
Answer: Niobium

Question: Which team were the last winners of football's First Division before the formation of the Premier League?
Answer: Leeds United

Question: Who plays the part of Charlie Fairhead in TV's "Casualty"?
Answer: Derek Thompson

Question: SNN is the international code for which European airport?
Answer: Shannon, Ireland

Question: Which US state is bordered by Massachusetts, New York and New Hampshire?
Answer: Vermont

Question: Which letter is represented in Morse code by 'dot dot'?
Answer: The letter 'i'

Question: A quarantine (or quarrender) is a kind of which fruit?
Answer: Apple

Question: Who directed the 1947 film "It's a Wonderful Life"?
Answer: Frank Capra

Question: Which author was married to Catherine Hogarth?
Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: The Battle of Shiloh took place during which war?
Answer: US Civil War

Question: What is the name of the theme tune for "Monty Python's Flying Circus"?
Answer: Liberty Bell

Question: In which Shakespeare play will you find the servant 'Lancelot Gobbo'?
Answer: The Merchant of Venice

Question: Who lit the Olympic flame at the Atlanta Games in 1996?
Answer: Muhammed Ali

Question: In which 1980 film did John Hurt play the part of John Merrick?
Answer: The Elephant Man

Question: Who painted "The Rokeby Venus", to be found in the National Gallery?
Answer: Diego Velazquez

Question: Who composed the opera "Eugene Onegin"?
Answer: Tchaikovsky

Question: Which Briton won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983?
Answer: William Golding

Question: Winston Churchill was MP for which constituency from 1924-1945?
Answer: Epping

Question: Which chemical element, atomic no. 97, is named after a US university?
Answer: Berkelium

Question: Who were the first winners of the Football League in 1889?
Answer: Preston North End

Question: Which US state is bordered by Massachussetts, Rhode Island and New York?
Answer: Connecticut

Question: Which letter is represented in Morse code by 'dash dash'?
Answer: The Letter M