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GK 2
Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Parc National du Mont-Megantic is in which country? | Canada |
| In which city is the Hayden Planetarium? | New York City |
| Which astronaut, who orbited the Moon on Apollo 8, said the famous line "We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth", an inspiration to environmentalists? | William Anders |
| Teide National Park is on which island? | Tenerife |
| Who wrote a 'Consolation To Helvia', his mother? | Seneca |
| Which city was called 'New Archangel' while under Russian rule? | Sitka, Alaska |
| Constructed in 2009, the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), the world's largest single-aperture optical telescope. is on which island? | La Palma |
| Rafael Arazarena (1923-2009) was a poet born on which island? | Tenerife |
| What is a calima? | Saharan dust wind |
| What is a docent? | A university staff ranking, below professor |
| What name is given to the systematic study of people and cultures, particularly where the researcher observes society from the point of view of the subject of the study? | Ethnography |
| Which US poet wrote the opera "Le Testament"? | Ezra Pound |
| Of what were there exactly 12 in the "12 days of Christmas" song? | Lords-a-leaping |
| What does LBV mean on a bottle of port? | Late bottled vintage |
| Give a year in the life of Giuseppe Verdi. | 1813-1901 |
| Who released 2000 album "Coast To Coast"? | Westlife |
| Which Australian-born pianist and composer wrote "Country Gardens"? | Percy Grainger |
| Red Burgundy wine is largely made from which grape? | Pinot Noir |
| Which Lloyd Webber musical, about football and growing up in Northern Ireland, premiered in 2000 and closed in 2001? | The Beautiful Game |
| Name either of the two country singers who perished along with Patsy Cline in a 1963 aircrash? | Hawkins or Copas |
| Who was the youngest son of Jacob in the Bible? | Benjamin |
| The wine St Emillion is made predominantly from which grape? | Merlot |
| Which musical instrument did Bartlomeo Cristofori invent in 1701? | Piano |
| Which song contains the lyric "Please, Louise, pull me offa my knees"? | Footloose |
| Who sang the song "Footloose"? | Kenny Loggins |
| Whose autobiography was "Sing As We Go"? | Gracie Fields |
| Who composed the song "Ol' Man River"? | Jerome Kern |
| Who is the patron saint of architects? | St Thomas |
| Which 90s song contains the lyric "I swear I left her by the river"? | Hazard by Richard Marx |
| Chablis is largely produced from which grape variety? | Chardonnay |
| In the Bible, who was the eldest of Jacob's twelve sons? | Reuben |
| Who is the patron saint of television? | St Clare |
| Who caught and tamed Pegasus? | Bellerophon |
| Who wrote the song "I Got Plenty Of Nuttin"? | George Gershwin |
| "Walk To The Paradise Gardens" is an intermezzo from which work by Delius? | A Village Romeo and Juliet |
| What type of musical instrument is a calliope? | Steam organ |
| Who invented Coca-Cola? | Thomas Pemberton |
| Watercress is part of which family of plants or vegetables? | Brassica |
| 'Classico' and 'Refina' are zones of production pertaining to which type of wine? | Chianti |
| Tapioca derives from which plant? | Cassava |
| Who had a 1965 hit with "The Game Of Love"? | Wayne Fontana and The Mind Benders |
| Who had a 1964 hit with "The Crying Game"? | Dave Berry |
| What is the emblem of St Peter? | Cross keys |
| What was Level 42's first top 10 hit? | The Sun Goes Down |
| Who composed A Village Romeo and Juliet? | Delius |
| In "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" how many virgins left for the coach? | Sixteen |
| Who once quipped "Wagner's music is better than it sounds"? | Mark Twain |
| The Macadamia nut is also named after which Australian state? | Queensland |
| Who was the Roman God of boundaries and landmarks? | Terminus |
| Who is also called "The Lord of The Flies"? | Beelzebub |
| What is made of gin, lemon juice, sugar, soda and cherry brandy? | Singapore Sling |
| Which Chinese spiritual discipline that combines meditation and qigong exercises with a moral philosophy has been much persecuted since 1999? | Falun Gong |
| In Egyptian myth, who was Geb and Nut's first daughter? | Isis |
| What is the popular title of Mahler's Symphony No. 1? | Titan |
| In which musical work are there references to MR Baker, GR Sinclair and Caroline Alice? | Enigma Variations |
| Heloisa Eneida Manezes Paes Pinto was the inspiration for which song? | The Girl From Ipanema |
| Krishna is nearly always depicted in which colour in Hindu iconography? | Blue |
| Aaron Copeland wrote an eponymous ballet about which Wild West character? | Billy The Kid |
| Toblerones are made by which multinational food company? | Mondelēz International (formerly Kraft) |
| What was first introduced by Dionysus Exiguus? | The 'AD' system of numbering years |
| What spirit is the basis of a Singapore Sling? | Gin |
| Who were Isis's parents in Egyptian myth? | Geb and Nut |
| Which three fruits go into making Vimto? | Grapes, Blackcurrants and Raspberries |
| Who was the daughter of Zeus and Leda in Greek myth? | Helen |
| What is the red mark sometimes seen on the foreheads of Hindi women called? | Bindi |
| The bottom line of the traditional bass clef represents which musical note? | G |
| The theme to "Death In Venice" was part of which Mahler symphony? | Fifth |
| Complete the song lyric: "Though Cowards Flinch and Traitors Sneer...." | "...We'll keep the Red Flag Flying Here" |
| In Greek myth how was Asterius (or Asterion) better known? | The Minotaur |
| Whose bust is displayed in the entrance of the Bridgewater Hall? | Barbirolli |
| How is Ian Kilmeister better known? | Lemmy (from Motorhead) |
| Who is the lead singer of the band Elbow? | Guy Garvey |
| How many musical notes are there on a chromatic scale? | Twelve |
| Elston Gunn, Tedham Porterhouse and Elmer Johnson all have what in common? | All pseudonyms of Bob Dylan |
| Which London bridge is the first east after Lambeth Bridge? | Westminister Bridge |
| Which London underground line has the most stations? | District |
| What is the largest of the Cyclades Islands? | Naxos |
| What nickname does the Royal East Kent Regiment go by? | The Buffs |
| Which 'castle', really a Bronze and Iron Age hill fort, is held by some to have been the site of Camelot? | Cadbury Castle, Somerset (there is also a Cadbury Castle in Kent) |
| Peter Scott established which Gloucestershire wildlife and wildfowl sanctuary? | Slimbridge |
| How many African countries lie on the Equator? | Six (Gabon, both Congos, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia) |
| Why is the Golden Gate Bridge painted bright orange? | For better visibility in fog |
| Where is Banks and Taylor brewery? | Shelford, Beds |
| Which is the only London Underground line to connect with every other? | Jubilee |
| Which London underground line is only actually underground for 6 if its 41.5 mile run? | Metropolitan |
| Where is the Timothy Taylor brewery? | Keighley |
| Hopkins Airport serves which city? | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Which UK Princess married the son of a Walls sausages director? | Princess Anne, the Princess Royal |
| Which NW English town's park inspired the design of New York's Central Park? | Birkenhead |
| The Amur river forms part of the border between which two countries? | Russia and China |
| What was origianlly known as Hog Lane Market? | Petticoat Lane |
| Which Canadian city lies on Lake Ontario, 50 miles SW of Toronto, and is the centre of an area called 'The Golden Horseshoe'? | Hamilton |
| In 1929, what was created 5 miles from Hendon in Middlesex? | UK's first green belt |
| The first blue plaque erected in London honoured which person? | Lord Byron |
| What is the currency of both Koreas? | Won |
| Where is the Bight of Bonny? | West Africa, stretching from Nigeria to Gabon past Cameroon and Eq Guinea |
| What is the capital of the Turks and Caicos islands? | Cockburn Town |
| Which island is Cockburn Town, capital of the Turks and Caicos, on? | Grand Turk |
| What is Exmoor's highest point? | Dunkery Beacon |
| Admiralty Arch is actually a memorial to who? | Queen Victoria |
| In which country are the world's deepest known caves? | Georgia |
| Which is the world's deepest cave? | Krubera Cave |
| In which sea is Corfu? | Ionian |
| Which armed service branch operates the Navy's aircraft? | Fleet Air Arm |
| What is the Scottish equivalent of a mayor? | Provost |
| Where is the partner of Cleopatra's Needle located? | New York City |
| Which river flows through Lancaster? | Lune |
| Which river flows through Shrewsbury? | Severn |
| Which two rivers flow through Sheffield? | Sheaf and Don |
| Which river flows through Leeds? | Aire |
| Which river flows through York? | Ouse |
| Which river flows through Ripon? | Ure |
| Which river flows through Durham? | Wear |
| Which river flows through Carlisle? | Eden |
| Which river flows through Cardiff? | Taff |
| Which river flows through Swansea? | Tawe |
| Which river flows through Belfast? | Lagan |
| Which river flows through Athlone and Limerick? | Shannon |
| Which river forms part of the Devon-Cornwall border? | Tamar |
| What is a native of Cambridge called? | Cantabrigian |
| What is a native of Durham called? | Dunelmian |
| What is a native of Canterbury called? | Cantaurian |
| What is a native of Plymouth called? | Plymovian |
| What is a native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne called? | Novocastrian |
| What is a native of Cichester called? | Cicesterian |
| What is someone born in East Kent (East of the Medway) called? | Man of Kent |
| What is someone born in West Kent (West of the Medway) called? | Kentish Man |
| What is the currency of Finland? | Euro |
| What is the currency of Iceland? | Krona |
| What is the currency of Croatia? | Kuna |
| What is the currency of Slovenia? | Euro |
| What was the pre-Euro currency of Finland? | Markka |
| What was the pre-Euro currency of Slovenia? | Tolar |
| Which Devon town, close to the River Otter, is famous for lace-making? | Honiton |
| Yeovil is in which county? | Somerset |
| Which is the largest of the Scilly Isles? | St Mary's |
| What is the chief town of the Scilles? | Hugh Town |
| Land's End in Cornwall lies on which peninsula? | Penwith |
| Where was Henry VIII buried? | Windsor |
| Who did Catherine Parr marry, who was later executed in 1549? | Thomas Seymour |
| To whom did Edward VI leave his throne? | Lady Jane Grey |
| Why did Edward VI wish to leave his throne to Lady Jane Grey? | To prevent the Catholic Mary from acceding to the throne |
| How old was Jane Grey when she was executed? | Sixteen |
| Who painted 'The Execution Of Lady Jane Grey'? | Paul Delaroche |
| Lady Jane Grey was known as the '...' Days Queen - how many days? | Nine |
| When did the LRC become the Labour party? | 1906 |
| What did the LRC stand for? | Labour Representation Committee |
| In which year was China's Boxer Rebellion? | 1900 |
| For how many years did Queen Victoria reign? | 64 |
| Which war lasted 8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905? | Russo-Japanese War |
| From which country did Norway become independent in 1905? | Sweden |
| In which year was the largest earthquake to hit San Francisco in the 20th Century? | 1906 |
| Which British Army Officer led the troops that delivered Palestine from the Turks in 1917? | Viscount Allenby |
| What was Pakistan's 4th President, President Ali Bhutto's first name? | Zulfikar |
| How old was Edward VI when he died? | Fifteen |
| What was the firdt name of the Cuban President toppled by Castro, Batista? | Fulgencio |
| Who, 19 January 1544 – 5 December 1560, was known as "The King Consort of Scotland"? | Francis II of France |
| What was the present Queen's official title in 1936? | Elizabeth of York |
| In which year was Queen Elizabeth II born? | 1926 |
| Which rebel fought the Normans from the Isle of Ely in 1070? | Hereward the Wake |
| In 1828, Daniel O'Connell was elected as the MP for which then-British constituency? | Clare |
| Who was Prime Minister of the UK at the time of the Slavery Abolition Act? | Melbourne |
| Who became overlord of all England in 747AD? | Offa of Mercia |
| In which year was England first politically united with Wales? | 1536 |
| In which year did the Channel Tunnel officially open? | 1994 |
| At which battle of 8th January 871 did Alfred and Ethelred I defeat the invading Danes? | Battle of Ashdown |
| Where, in Dorset, is Ethelred I buried? | Wimborne |
| Which English king's pre-battle quote was "God First, Man Later"? | Ethelred I |
| What did the "Unready" in Ethelred II's epithet actually mean in Saxon? | No or bad counsel/ill-advised |
| Which Archbishop of york (d 1023) was instrumental in drafting law codes for both kings Æthelred the Unready and Cnut the Great of England? | Wulfstan |
| Which large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle? | Olympic Peninsula |
| Which river passes through Portland, Oregon? | Williamette |
| 3500km of the border between the USA and Canada follows which circle of latitude, or parallel? | 49th parallel |
| On which river is the Grand Coulee Dam? | Columbia |
| Which part of the Puget Sound, extending southeastward between West Point in the north and Alki Point in the south, is now entirely encompassed by Seattle? | Elliott Bay |
| Which is the largest building in the world by volume? | Boeing Manufacturing Plant, Everett |
| In terms of light pollution, what is the brightest city on Earth? | Las Vegas |
| In Greek myth, the Milky Way was held to be whose breast milk? | Hera |
| In Roman myth, the Milky Way was held to be whose breast milk? | Opis |
| Antares is a bright star in which constellation? | Scorpio |
| What two-word phrase is used for the feeling of 'falling into' the stars upon looking up at them? | Celestial vaulting |
| What body of water divides Seattle from the Olympic Peninsula? | Puget Sound |
| The Grand Coulee Dam lies on the Columbia river in which US state? | Washington |
| Which US city lies on Elliott Bay? | Seattle |
| Which US artist, who works with light and space, is best known for "Roden Crater", a natural cinder cone crater located outside Flagstaff, Arizona that he is turning into a massive naked-eye observatory? | James Turrell |
| Which American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer (b 1934) has written 44 works centred on the fictional Kentucky town of Port William? | Wendell Berry |
| In which US state is the city of Tacoma? | Washington |
| The Sylvania Mountains are located in which US state? | Nevada |
| The Amargosa Desert lies almost entirely within which US state? | Nevada |
| Pioneer Square is a district of which US city? | Seattle |
| Which is the second largest island in the contiguous United States? | Padre Island |
| Padre Island, the second largest island in the contiguous United States, is off the coast of which state? | Texas |
| Which is the largest island in the 48 contiguous US states? | Long Island |
| Where is the main Boeing Manufacturing Plant, the largest building in the world by volume? | Everett, WA |
| Pike Place Market is a famous market in which North American city? | Seattle |
| Which island off the coast of Washington state, is the 4th largest in the contiguous United States? | Washington |
| The Weschler scales measure what? | Human Intelligence |
| A correlation co-efficient can have values within what range? | -1 to 1 |
| Both Natural Bridges National Park and Capital Reef National Park lie in which US state? | Utah |
| Caused by the back-scattering of light by interplanetary dust, what German loanword refers to a faint brightening of the night sky in the region of the antisolar point? | Gegenschein |
| Of 'fluid' and 'crystallised' intelligence, which declines with age? | Fluid |
| What term is used for the memory ability to hold information in the memory and to manipulate it at the same time? | Working memory |
| Which branch of psychology deals with the differences between individuals eg in intelligence or personality? | Differential psychology |
| In which US state is Acadia National Park? | Maine |
| in which US state is Big Bend National Park? | Texas |
| Who is the main hero and protagonist of "Les Miserables"? | Jean Valjean |
| In 1835 London overtook which city as the most populous in the world? | Beijing |
| A different painting to "Starry Might", Van Gogh also painted "Starry Night On.." which river? | The Rhone |
| In which city was 'Earth Hour' first observed in 2006? | Sydney |
| The Earth looks towards the centre of the Milky Way (in the Northern hemisphere) in which season of the year? | Summer |
| What is the most populous city on Earth today? | Tokyo |
| Foulon & Bertier were members of the ancient regime, notoriously hung in which Parisian square on 22nd July 1789? | Place de la Greve |
| In which year of the 20th Century were there most road traffic deaths in the USA (it declined year on year after this)? | 1972 |
| What is theriophobia? | Fear of beasts |
| What unit measures the amount of light given off by a light source? | Lumen |
| What term is used for the amount of light present at a given surface? | Illuminance |
| What term is used to describe the amount of light perceived from a surface (by reflection) or a light source? | Luminance |
| Who painted "Café Terrace At Night" in 1888? | Van Gogh |
| What was the pseudonym of Hungarian photographer Gyula Halász, who was prominent in Paris between the wars? | Brassai |
| Who wrote 1985 novel "Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer"? | Patrick Suskind |
| The "Learn'd Astronomer" is part of which poetry collection? | Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| What were the four 'humours' believed to govern well-being by ancient Greek and Roman physicians? | Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile |
| Who famously opined "they f**k you up, your mum and dad"? | Larkin |
| Seen on an EEG, what is an ERP in neuroscience? | Event Related Potential |
| What name is given to the visual sensory memory (SM) register pertaining to the visual domain and a fast-decaying store of visual information (eg your persistent memory of a dark room after the light has been turned on for just one second)? | Iconic memory |
| What does LED stand for? | Light-emitting diode |
| What disease is also called cafard? | Depression |
| Although it technically refers to one of the symptoms of the disease, what term is also an old-fashioned name for rabies? | Hydrophobia |
| Who manufactured the 'Impian' model of car? | Proton |
| What does DEFRA stand for? | Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| The Government department created from the merger of the DIUS and BERR in 2009 is what? | DBIS (department of business, innovation and skills) |
| How many gallons are in one peck? | two |
| Drill, poplin and velour are all types of what? | Fabric |
| What does a 'bar sinister' in heraldry indicate? | Illegitimancy |
| In Boyle's Law, what is constant - volume, pressure or temperature? | Temperature |
| What name is given to government by the wealthy? | Plutocracy |
| How is the myositis plant better known? | Forget-me-not |
| DA to DK represents which area in UK car registrations? | Deeside |
| How many pecks are in a bushel? | Four |
| Basting, loop and saddle are all types of what? | Stitches |
| In whose gas law does volume vary in proportion to temperature at a constant pressure? | Charles' Law |
| Theocracy is government by who? | God/priests/clergy |
| The plant 'speedwell' has what colour of flowers? | Blue |
| In UK car registration plates, what area is represented by OA to OY? | Oxfordshire |
| In heraldry what is a 'passant' animal doing? | Walking |
| What is the colour black in heraldry? | Sable |
| What is the colour green in heraldry? | Vert |
| What is the colour yellow in heraldry? | Or |
| How many gallons are in a bushel? | Eight |
| What is the colour red in heraldry? | Gules |
| What is argent in heraldry? | White |
| What does 'rampant' mean in heraldry? | On hind legs |
| The boil weevil attacks which crop? | Cotton |
| Who developed an early steam powered engine in 1712? | Newcomen |
| On 'tenterhooks' is a saying that derives from equipment used in which industry? | Textiles |
| What is the common name for the delphinium? | Larkspur |
| How is the cuckoo flower also known? | Ragged robin |
| The ragged robin, or cuckoo flower, is a member of which family? | Campion |
| Who was the first woman in space? | Valentina Tereshkova |
| Who was the second woman in space? | Savitskaya |
| Who was the second Soviet cosmonaut? | Titov |
| Which RAF rank is directly below Air Vice-Marshal? | Air Commodore |
| What is the RAF's lowest commissioned rank? | Pilot officer |
| Which RAF rank is directly above Pilot Officer (the lowest)? | Flying Officer |
| Who was the first person to walk in space? | Leonev |
| Who was the first American to walk in space? | Ed White |
| Which is the next rank up from Flying Officer in the RAF? | Flight-lieutenant |
| Which UK army rank commands a division? | Major-general |
| What colour is the ribbon on a George Cross? | Dark Blue |
| What is the heaviest bird capable of flight in the world? | Great Bustard |
| Who was the first woman to walk in space? | Kathy Sullivan |
| Which numerous animal comprises 90% of seafloor animals? | Nematodes |
| Which animal makes a noise called a 'bell'? | Deer |
| What is the world's most numerous phylum? | Arthropods |
| Which notional boundary separates Asia's and Australia's ecology? | Wallace's line |
| In which year was it discovered that coelocanths are still alive today? | 1938 |
| What word means 'giving birth to live young' in biology? | Viviparous |
| Which type of plane was flown by the infamous Red Baron? | Fokker Triplane |
| Which bugle call is used to awaken troops for roll call? | Reveille |
| Which bugle call is used to signal that all squad room lights should be extinguished? | Tattoo |
| Which animal can squirt blood from its eyes as a defence mechanism against predators? | Horned toad |
| Which species of animal is named for a World heavyweight champion boxer? | Jack Dempsey fish |
| Which economicaly important animal is Bombyx mori? | Silkworm |
| Which animal has the largest brain of any living creature? | Sperm whale |
| What are the smallest living ratites, laying the biggest egg relative to body size of any bird? | Kiwi |
| What name is given to any group of eggs laid by a bird, one at a time? | Clutch |
| Which now-extinct bird laid the biggest ever known avian egg? | Elephant bird |
| In which species of animal does the 'male' carry eggs? | Sea Horse |
| Which famous animal collector (1884-1950) wrote the book "Bring Em Back Alive"? | Frank Buck |
| What is the more common name for the now-extinct animal Aepyornis? | Elephant Bird |
| Which ancient Greek dramatist wrote "Oedipus Rex"? | Sophocles |
| Laius and Jocasta, in Greek Myth, were the Kings and Queens of where? | Thebes |
| Although his real parents (Laius and Jocasta) were from Thebes, where was Oedipus actually brought up? | Corinth |
| In Greek myth, which blind prophet of Thebes was famed for clairvoyance and became a woman for 7 years? | Tiresias |
| How did Oedipus react to finding out that he had fulfilled the prophecy of killing his father and sleeping with his mother, in Sophocles' plays? | Blinded himself |
| Aristotle's views on tragedy are contained on which of his extant works? | Poetics |
| Which French playwright (1910-87) is famed for his 1943 play 'Antigone'? | Jean Anouilh |
| What name did Aristotle give to the 'error of judgement' that sets the train of events going in a tragedy? | Hamartia |
| In a tragedy, which two emotions should be evoked, according to a famous work of Aristotle? | Pity & Fear |
| Give a year in the life of Geoffrey Chaucer. | 1343-1400 |
| The 'Octotwin' study of human intelligence took place in which country? | Sweden |
| Who wrote the novel 'Kenilworth'? | Sir Walter Scott |
| Binet & Simon in Paris in 1905 were among the first to devise and use what? | Intelligence tests |
| What term, first used by Aristotle to refer to the emotion experienced by a audience watching a tragedy, refers to the purification and purgation of emotions—especially pity and fear—through art? | Catharsis |
| What name is given to the pseudo-scientific study of handwriting? | Graphology |
| In his 'Poetics' about what form of art did Aristotle say that events within it, should, as they unfold, appear both 'necessary' and 'probable'? | Tragedy |
| Which critical and philosophical term, the title of a famous Auerbach book, carries a wide range of meanings, which include imitation, representation, mimicry, the act of resembling, the act of expression, and the presentation of the self? | Mimesis |
| Which philosopher (1632-1704) fled to Rotterdam in 1683? | Locke |
| Originating in Spain, which type of fiction depicts the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society? | Picaresque |
| Which UK Parliamentary Act of 1689, which purposely did not apply to Catholics, allowed freedom of worship to Nonconformists who had pledged to the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and rejected transubstantiation? | Act of Toleration |
| Which French philosopher (1714-80) promulgated the views of John Locke in his home country? | Etienne Condillac |
| Whose works included "La Nouvelle Heloise"? | Rousseau |
| Whose works included "Jacques Le Fataliste"? | Diderot |
| What name, from the Greek for 'account', is given to an allegorical story with pointed or exaggerated details, meant to serve as a pleasant vehicle for a moral doctrine or to convey a useful lesson without stating it explicitly? | Apologue |
| In psychology, the 'Flynn Effect' refers to which as yet unexplained phenomenon? | The fact that IQ scores are rising year on year |
| Which later playwright nicknamed Chaucer 'Dan' Chaucer, where the Dan meant 'master'? | Spenser |
| Who wrote the apologue about happiness "The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia"? | Samuel Johnson |
| Who wrote 1690's "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"? | Locke |
| Who wrote 'Troilus & Crisedye'? | Chaucer |
| Which is the first of the 'Canterbury Tales'? | The Knight's Tale |
| Which is the second of the 'Canterbury Tales', forming a ribald contrast to the "Knight's Tale" that immediately preceded it? | The Miller's Tale |
| Which is the last, chronologically, of the 'Canterbury Tales'? | The Parson's Tale |
| What name is given to comic tales, characterized by an excessiveness of sexual and scatological obscenity, written by jongleurs in northeast France between ca. 1150 and 1400, and later reworked by both Boccaccio and Chaucer? | Fabliuax |
| Who was William Shakespeare's mother? | Mary Arden |
| Who remarked that Shakespeare had "small Latin, and lesse Greek"? | Jonson |
| A nekyia rite in Ancient Greece involved what? | Necromancy (calling up ghosts) |
| Nekyia, the 11th book of the 'Odyssey' involved Odysseus doing what? | Descending to the Underworld |
| A triangular zone around Wakefield is famous for the growing of what? | Rhubarb |
| What name is given to braising meat in soy sauce so that it changes colour? | Red cooking |
| The kitchen implement the "Parisian cutter" also has what name? | Melon baller |
| In which country was Herbert Von Karajan born in 1908? | Austria |
| Who was the photographer lover of Patti Smith, who shot the cover for her album "Horses"? | Robert Mapplethorpe |
| What does culinary term 'farsi' mean? | Stuffed |
| 'Clair De Lune' and 'Passepied' are part of which Debussy piano suite? | Suite Bergamesque |
| Who had a 1966 UK no 1 with "Somebody Help Me"? | The Spencer Davis Group |
| What was first founded in 1948 as "The Goldsborough Orchestra"? | The English Chamber Orchestra |
| "Angel Fingers" was a 1974 UK number 1 for who? | Wizzard |
| Which Christian festival is celebrated 40 days after Easter Sunday? | Ascension Day |
| Which Christian sect, founded in Manchester, believes that Christ's second coming has already happened? | Shakers |
| Who had a 1973 Number 1 with "Blockbuster"? | Sweet |
| Who had a 1982 hit with "The Lion Sleeps Tonite"? | Tight Fit |
| 'Dance Of The Tumblers' is taken from which Rimsky-Korsakov work? | The Snow Maiden |
| "See My Baby Jive" was a 1974 UK number 1 for who? | Wizzard |
| Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" is part of which larger work of his? | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Which Hindu deity reveals the Bhagavad Gita? | Krishna |
| To whom does Krishna reveal the Bhagavad Gita, on a battlefield? | Arjura |
| What is 'theophany'? | The appearance of God to man |
| Who is the "author" of the Ramayana? | Valmiki |
| Which deity personifies temptation in the Life of Buddha? | Mara |
| Who composed the song-cycle "Winterreise"? | Schubert |
| On whose poems is "Winterreise" by Schubert based? | Muller |
| Which composer devised the 12-tone system? | Schoenberg |
| What is the name of the bad fairy in Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty"? | Carabasse |
| In Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty", what is the titular character's real name? | Princess Aurora |
| The name of which instrument translates as 'jumping flea'? | Ukelele |
| What does 'al forno' mean? | Cooked in the oven |
| "I Know Him So Well" comes from which musical? | Chess |
| Who is the patron saint of France? | St Denis |
| What was founded George Williams found in 1844? | YMCA |
| In India, 'thuggees' committed murders in honour of which goddess? | Kali |
| On which island was Freddie Mercury born? | Zanzibar |
| Tasmin Little plays which instrument? | Violin |
| In which city did both Mozart and Beethoven both die? | Vienna |
| What type of instrument does Evelyn Glennie play? | Percussion |
| Who composed "The Sound Of Music"? | Rogers & Hammerstein |
| Who wrote the script for the musical "We Will Rock You"? | Ben Elton |
| Who wrote the song "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"? | Cole Porter |
| Which musical features the song "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"? | High Society |
| Which film musical features the song "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space"? | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Paul Michael Glazer starred in the film version of which Oscar-winning musical? | Fiddler On The Roof |
| In which musical does the song "Seasons Of Love" appear? | Rent |
| Which musical features the line "If you could see her through my eyes, She wouldn't look Jewish at all"? | Cabaret |
| In which territory is modern-day Jericho? | West Bank |
| Who was King Solomon's father? | David |
| What is the first commandment? | Thou shalt have no other gods before me |
| How is a member of the Society of Jesus known? | Jesuit |
| How many days does Diwali last for? | Five |
| In which decade was the rule preventing Trappist monks from talking lifting? | 1960s |
| Which protestant reformer (1509-64) taught that eternal salvation was predestined? | John Calvin |
| How many branches does a menorah have? | Seven |
| "You're A Grand Old Flag" and "Over There" are both songs taken from which musical? | Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| From which musical is the line "We'll be over, we're coming over, and we won't be back, we'll be buried over there"? | Oh! What A Lovely War |
| "Adeste Fidelis" is the Latin version of which carol? | Oh Come All Ye Faithful |
| Which week precedes Easter? | Holy Week |
| Which Jewish festival occurs around Easter? | Passover |
| What was the name of Elvis Presley's original backing band? | Jordanaires |
| Which country won the first Eurovision song contest in 1956? | Switzerland |
| Which 1950s pop idol was married to Debbie Reynolds & Liz Taylor? | Eddie Fisher |
| Gado Gado is a national dish of which country? | Indonesia |
| What does a croquet madame have that a croquet monsieur does not? | Fried egg |
| How else is the plant called a lady's smock known? | Cuckoo flower/Ragged Robin |
| Who discovered uranium? | Klaproth |
| Where was the world's first nuclear power station situated? | Obrusk |
| Where was the UK's first nuclear power station? | Calder Hall |
| In which year was Calder Hall, the UK's first nuclear power station, built? | 1956 |
| What are Ann, Audrey and West Sole? | North Sea Gas Fields |
| What is the chief ore of aluminium? | Bauxite |
| Magnetite is an ore of which metal? | Iron |
| Malachite is an ore of which metal? | Copper |
| Pentlandite is an ore of which metal? | Nickel |
| Which important ore contains both uranium and radium? | Pitchblende |
| Sphalerite is an ore of which metal? | Zinc |
| Copper, alloyed with a smaller amount of zinc than would make up bronze, has what alternate name? | Pinchbeck |
| Sterling silver consists of silver and which other metal? | Copper |
| What is the birthstone for March (two possible answers)? | Aquamarine/Bloodstone |
| What was Col Edwin Drake the first man to do, at Titusville, USA? | Drill an oil well |
| What does PDA stand for in computing? | Personal Digital Assistant |
| Which mammal has the highest average blood pressure? | Giraffe |
| Potter John Sadler invented which process? | Transfer printing |
| What does DAT stand for in computing? | Digital Audio Transport |
| Who made the 'Pup' aircraft? | Sopwith |
| Which Liverpool-born professor won the 1935 Nobel Prize for Physics? | Chadwick |
| What is a collector of teddy bears called? | Arctophile |
| Who would use an 'alpenstock'? | Mountaineer |
| Who was the first man to orbit the earth twice? | Gus Grissom |
| What is the alternate name for the daffodil, referring to a religious period? | Lent Lily |
| How is the shrub the Buddleia bush better known? | Butterfly Bush |
| Which layer of Earth's atmosphere lies between the troposphere and the mesosphere? | Stratosphere |
| Who invented the spinning jenny? | Hargreaves |
| Which is the world's only venomous mammal? | Platypus |
| What was the name of the first man-powered aircraft, flown in 1979 by Brian Allen? | Gossamer Albatross |
| Which dog famously has a black tongue? | Chow |
| Which office item was patented by William Purvis in 1883? | Rubber stamp |
| Who invented the vacuum cleaner? | H Cecil Booth |
| What is the medical term for crying? | Lacrimation |
| Iodine's name is based on the Greek for what word? | Violet |
| Which tree has the scientific name 'Sorbus Aucuparia'? | Rowan/Mountain Ash |
| What is someone who studies insects called? | Entomologist |
| What are SRBs on a space shuttle? | Solid rocket boosters |
| In which year was Britain's elm popuation decimated by Dutch Elm Disease? | 1967 |
| Which invention by Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1947 made pocket-size radios possible? | Transistor |
| Which space shuttle is first in alphabetical order? | Atlantis |
| What was Rolls-Royce's first aircraft engine, launched in 1947? | Eagle |
| What is Germany, France and the USA's national tree? | Oak |
| What comes 4th after rice, wheat and maize as a world food crop in terms of numbers produced? | Bananas |
| Which is the heaviest species of bear? | Polar Bear |
| Do monkeys have prehensile tails solely in the Old or New World? | Only in the New World (Americas) |
| The owl monkey is native to which continent? | South America |
| Which tree has the scientific name 'Aesculus Hippocastanum'? | Horse chestnut |
| Which was the first space shuttle to be launched? | Columbia |
| Which human disease is also called 'rabbit fever'? | Tularaemia |
| White gold is formed from which two metals? | Silver and gold |
| What is the sieve-like structure in a plankton-eating whale's upper jaw called? | Baleen |
| Parkesine was the first man-made example of what? | A plastic |
| Which bird lays the smallest egg in relation to its adult body size? | Ostrich |
| What is Earth's most abundant metal? | Iron |
| What comes out of a hawsehole? | Ship's cable |
| Cashmere wool comes from which animal? | Goat |
| What does a coloepterist study? | Beetles |
| The gossypium shrub provides which common product? | Cotton |
| How many horns do most black rhino have? | Two |
| What does it mean if a boy and girl are described as 'uterine'? | Same mother, different father |
| What is the motto of the London Stock Exchange? | My word is my bond |
| If A4 and A3 etc are paper sizes, what do B and C represent? | B - posters, C - envelopes |
| What is the alternate name of Equine Distemper? | Strangles |
| Which item of clothing gets its name from its similarity to parachutists' wear? | Jumpsuit |
| What does 'coward' mean when applied to a heraldic animal? | Tail between its legs |
| What were originally called 'gadabouts'? | Dodgems |
| Earls, Dukes and Marquises coronets all feature the leaves of which plant? | Strawberry |
| Columbia and Cotswold are breeds of which animal? | Sheep |
| Who employed the term 'conte philosophique' to describe a series of fictions in which he used various fictional forms in the satirical extrapolation of various philosophical issues of his day? | Voltaire |
| Dr Pangloss appears in which work? | Candide |
| Who founded 'The Review' in 1704? | Daniel Defoe |
| Who created the character of 'John Bull'? | John Arbuthnot |
| Marmite, Persil and Birdseye are all brands owned by which larger company? | Unilever |
| What name is given to an interstellar temperature in excess of 1 billion Kelvin? | Inferno |
| Which word means, in legal terms, 'to fail to submit to the custody of a court'? | Abscond |
| Who allegedly appeared at Bluff Creek in California in 1967? | Sasquatch/Bigfoot |
| With what item is a dinghy's rudder controlled? | Tiller |
| Which scientific constant is given the symbol 'h'? | Planck's |
| Whose works include 'Micromegas' and 'Zadig'? | Voltaire |
| What is the alternate title of Voltaire's 'Candide'? | Optimism |
| Which author was sent to London as an envoy of the Irish church in 1707? | Swift |
| Which novel has the alternate title 'Virtue Rewarded'? | Pamela (Richardson) |
| What was the 127m tall 'Northampton Lighthouse' built to test? | Elevators |
| The "Jane's" books contain lists of what, specifically? | Fighting ships/warships |
| Which geological period comes between the Carboniferous and the Triassic? | Permian |
| What did E.I.Dupont initially set up his eponymous company to make? | Explosives |
| DuPont make which material used in body armour and bulletproof vests? | Kevlar |
| What does the 'I' stand for in IHP, where 'HP' is horsepower? | Indioated |
| Low density metals in group 1a of the Periodic Table come under what general heading? | Alkali metals |
| 14 of the 15 Lanthanides in the Periodic Table are what kind of metal? | Rare Earth Metals |
| Which element is named for the Arabic for gold? | Zirconium |
| What is the alternate title of 'Clarissa' by Samuel Richardson? | The History of A Young lady |
| Who wrote the satirical novels 'Shamela', 'Joseph Andrews' and 'Jonathan Wild'? | Henry Fielding |
| Who devised the characters 'Roderick Random' and 'Peregrine Pickle'? | Smollett |
| Whose works include 'Ingenu' and 'The White Bull'? | Voltaire |
| What type of animal is a 'tetra'? | A fish |
| Factory workers who made what item were at main risk of devloping 'phossy jaw'? | Matches |
| Historically, what was the (non-existent) vapour that was believed to be the carrier of disease called? | Miasma |
| A snow leopard is also known by what one-word name? | Ounce |
| The land speed record attempt car 'Bluebird' was powered by an engine by which manufacturer? | Rolls-Royce |
| Where did Malcolm Campbell break the land speed record in 1935? | Daytona Beach |
| In which European city is the Museo Correr? | Venice |
| Alexander Calder's 'Eagle' is a feature of the Olympic Sculpture Park in which city? | Seattle |
| What was NASA's first human spaceflight programme, launched 1959? | Project Mercury |
| What was the nickname given to the original Boeing Manufacturing Plant near Seattle? | 'Red Barn' |
| Which sculpture, under the north end of the George Washington Memorial Bridge in Seattle, clutches an actual VW Beetle in its hand? | Fremont Troll |
| What was the nickname of the Lockheed SR-71 spy plane? | Blackbird |
| Bainbridge Island is both a city and an island in which US state? | Washington (there is a Bainbridge Island only in Alaska) |
| What is the main medium of the artist Dale Chihuly (born 1941)? | Glass |
| In which US state is Deception Pass State Park? | Washington |
| The Tundra is a US pick-up truck manufactured by who? | Toyota |
| How many US astronauts were involved in the Mercury project? | Seven |
| The Frye Art Museum and Experience Music project are attractions in which US city? | Seattle |
| Bryce Canyon National Park is in which US state? | Utah |
| The family Sphingidae, including the 'Sphinx' species are a type of what animal? | Moth |
| The third largest of the local group of galaxies, by what name is M33 better known? | Triangulum galaxy |
| "When I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer" is a famous part of which poetry collection? | Leaves of Grass (Whitman) |
| Great Basin National Park is in which US state? | Nevada |
| The North American chickadees belong to which family of birds? | Tits |
| Which of these worsens most with age: verbal reasoning, general knowledge or spatial and perceptual reasoning? | Spatial and perceptual reasoning |
| in statistics, what name is given to a group of subjects who have shared a particular event together during a particular time span (e.g., people born in Europe between 1918 and 1939; survivors of an aircrash)? | Cohort |
| What does a small 'g' stand for in human intelligence studies? | General factor |
| In which state is the Wupatki National Monument? | Arizona |
| In which large US national park are the Quinact rainforest and Queets River? | Olympic National Park |
| Eureka Valley is a neighbourhood in which US city? | San Francisco |
| What is the capital of the US state of Washington? | Olympia |
| Olympia, Washington lies on the southern shores of which body of water? | Puget Sound (via the Budd Inlet) |
| What is the nickname given to a bloodless 1859 dispute between the USA and the British Empire over the San Juan Islands? | Pig War |
| Orcas and Lopez islands belong to which larger group off the coast of Washington state, USA? | San Juan Islands |
| In which US state is Sequoia National Park? | California |
| Site of a famous observatory, which dormant volcano is Hawaii's highest point? | Mauna Kea |
| Thomas Hobbes lived exclusively in which century? | Seventeenth |
| How many pieces of music are chosen by a interviewee on Desert Island Discs? | Eight |
| In which year was Desert Island Discs first broadcast? | 1942 |
| The Pevensy Children and Professor Kirke feature in which books? | Chronicles of Narnia |
| Who wrote the story of 'Androcles and the Lion'? | Aesop |
| 'Sir Gawain and The Green Knight' is set at what time of year? | Christmastime |
| 'Sir Gawain and The Green Knight' is set at whose court? | King Arthur |
| Where was the first campus of the University of California founded in 1868? | Berkeley |
| Heracles defeated which famous wrestler, the son of Poseidon and Gaia, by trapping him in a bearhug? | Antaeus |
| In Homeric myth, to what race did Polyphemus belong? | Cyclops |
| Who wrote the 1808 poem 'Hyperion'? | Keats |
| Keats poem 'Hyperion' is abiout the battle between who? | Titans and Olympians |
| Which Titan did Neptune (or Poseidon) replace as God of The Sea? | Oceanus |
| who wrote 'The Convergence Of The Twain (Lines on the Loss of The Titanic)'? | Thomas Hardy |
| Of where was Gilgamesh, featured in the famous epic, a king? | Uruk |
| In the 'epic of Gilgamesh' which character, created by the gods, first battles, but later befriends Gilgamesh? | Enkidu |
| In which religion is paradise known as the 'House of Song'? | Zoroastrianism |
| In which century was the very first Olympic games? | 8th BC (776BC) |
| 2637BC is the mythical start date of what dating system? | Chinese calendar |
| Calens was which day of the Roman month? | 1st |
| Which sport was developed in China after 1949, in an effort to standardize the practice of traditional Chinese martial arts? | Wushu |
| Whose middle names were Fingal O'Flahertie Wills? | Oscar Wilde |
| From which work does the phrase "all men kill the thing they love" come? | Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol |
| Whose 1864 essay was "The Painter of Modern Life"? | Baudelaire |
| Give a year in the life of Walt Whitman. | 1819-92 |
| Who was Oscar Wilde's young lover - a scandal that led to his arrest and imprisonment? | Lord Alfred Douglas |
| What was the nickname of Oscar Wilde's lover Lord Arthur Douglas? | Bosie |
| From which Oxbridge college was Oscar Wilde an alumni? | Magdalen, Oxford |
| Who wrote "Manhattan Streets I Saunter'd, Pondering"? | Whitman |
| Which English poet (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption? | John Clare |
| Which archer was recalled by the Greeks to fight at Troy in the Iliad, despite an offensive wound? | Philoctetes |
| What name is given to a habitable attic or small (and possibly dismal or cramped) living space at the top of a house? | Garret |
| Which term meaning ‘poet’, is generally used for poets who composed at the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking Age and Middle Ages? | Skald |
| Who wrote "Lay Of The Last Minstrel" in 1805? | Walter Scott |
| When was the "Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress" renamed the US Poet Laureate? | 1986 |
| Generally regarded as one of the worst ever, was Poet Laureate from 1790 to 1813? | Henry Pye |
| Who wrote "A Vision Of Judgement", a poem on the death of George III? | Southey |
| Who satirised Southey with his poem "The Vision of Judgement"? | Byron |
| In which poem does the line "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" appear? | In Memoriam (Tennyson) |
| Of what disease did Prince Albert die in 1861? | Typhoid |
| Who composed poems "Idylls Of The King" and "The Charge Of The Light Brigade"? | Tennyson |
| Give a year in the life of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. | 1844-89 |
| Who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930? | Robert Bridges |
| Although first published in 1922, which book was not made available legally in the UK until 1936? | Ulysses |
| Who wrote "Huis Clos" (No Exit) in 1945? | Sartre |
| Which prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist's works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Blacks & The Screens? | Jean Genet |
| Who wrote 1836 play "The Inspector General"? | Gogol |
| Which pop group released 1986 LP 'Silk & Steel'? | Five Star |
| Who first said "cleanliness is next to Godliness"? | John Wesley |
| Which branch of Christianity did John Wesley found? | Methodism |
| Which Liverpool pop band featured brothers Roger, Garry & Russell? | The Christians |
| What was originally called "Brad's Drink"? | Pepsi-Cola |
| Who invented Pepsi? | Caleb Bradham |
| What is the alternative name of 'Childermas'? | Holy Innocents' Day |
| What creates the white smoke of a papal election? | Burning ballot papers |
| The Nicholas family of Wythenshawe invented which soft drink? | Vimto |
| What is Gary Numan's real name? | Gary Webb |
| Which musician originally invented the psuedonym 'Napoleon Dynamite'? | Elvis Costello |
| What is Elvis Costello's real name? | Declan McManus |
| Which 10-headed demon king carries off Rama's wife, Sita, in Hindu legend? | Ravana |
| Who was the wife of Orpheus, who in Greek Myth, he entered Hades in an attempt to retrieve? | Eurydice |
| Who had a 1971 No 2 with "Witch Queen Of New Orleans"? | Redbone |
| Who had a 1974 No 3 with "There's A Ghost In My House"? | R Dean Taylor |
| What animal's head did Egyptian God Anubis possess? | Jackal |
| Egyptian deity Apis had the head of which animal? | Bull |
| Apis was an Egyptian deity particularly revered in which ancient city? | Memphis |
| In Egyptian myth, who were the parents of Horus? | Osiris and Isis |
| Horus had the head of which animal in Egyptian myth? | Falcon |
| Who was the Egyptian goddess of fertility? | Isis |
| Who was the Ancient Egyptian God of creation? | Ptah |
| Who was Ancient Egypt's sun god? | Ra |
| Other than at Memphis (where it was Ptah), for most of Ancient Egyptian history, who was their chief God? | Osiris |
| Who was the God of Evil in Ancient Egypt? | Set(h) |
| Which Ancient Egyptian deity was killed and cut up by Set? | Osiris |
| What was the job of Thoth in Ancient Egyptian myth? | Scribe |
| In Ancient Egypt, of what was Thoth the God? | Wisdom, Learning, Scribes |
| Thoth had the head of which animal in Ancient Egyptian myth? | Ibis |
| Who were Achilles' parents in Egyptian myth? | Peleus and Thetis |
| Who fired the arrow that killed Achilles in Homeric myth? | Paris |
| Which West End musical's opening scene is set at an auction? | Phantom Of The Opera |
| Who composed 'The Sabre Dance'? | Khachaturian |
| Which pop song is based on Bach's "Sleepers Awake"? | A Whiter Shade Of Pale |
| Who sung 1977 hit "Don't It Make Your Brown Eyes Blue"? | Crystal Gayle |
| What was the first UK Top 10 hit for the Rolling Stones? | Not Fade Away |
| Which Bee Gee married Lulu? | Maurice Gibb |
| Encyclicals are sent by the Pope to whom? | Archbishops |
| Who had a 1962 comedy number one "Come Outside"? | Mike Sarne |
| Who provided humorous vocal interjections to Mike Sarne's Number 1 "Come Outside"? | Wendy Richard |
| In which town was Buddy Holly born? | Lubbock, Texas |
| Who gave up his plane seat to the Big Bopper on the ill-fated Buddy Holly flight in Feb 1959? | Waylon Jennings |
| Which Afrikaans word is given to strips of sundried meat? | Biltong |
| Fedor and Marina Mnishek are characters in which opera? | Boris Gudonov (Mussorgsky) |
| Suky Tawdry and Captain Vere appear in which opera? | Billy Budd (Britten) |
| Arbroath Smokies are made from which fish? | Haddock |
| Queenies are a nickname given to which shellfish? | Scallops |
| 'Hoover Hogs' eaten in desperation during the US Great Depression, are actually which animal? | Armadillos |
| What was The Singing Nun's real name? | Jeanne Deckers |
| Who did Wendy Richard play in Eastenders? | Pauline Fowler |
| In the song, which bells said "you owe me six farthings"? | St Martin's |
| What (modern-day, given his place of birth) nationality was St Valentine? | Italian |
| Who had a 1950 Number 1 with "This Ole House"? | Rosemary Clooney |
| Which West End musical involves cast members on roller skates? | Starlight Express |
| A charango is a Peruvian mandolin made from which animal? | Armadillo |
| How is singer Thomas Woodward better known? | Tom Jones |
| In the lyrics to the song what follows "There is an old mill by a stream"? | Nellie Dean |
| Topol is a character in which musical? | Fiddler On The Roof |
| Who sung about 'Blueberry Hill'? | Fats Domino |
| Gateau des Rois is eaten in France on which occasion? | Epiphany |
| Aaron belonged to which tribe, according to the Bible? | Levites |
| Other than Sarah, in the Bible who is mentioned as Abraham's wife (he married her after Sarah died)? | Keturah |
| What is the traditional site given for the Ascension of Jesus? | Mount of Olives/Bethany |
| Which vitamin is also called tocopherol? | Vitamin E |
| Which aid to safety was invented by George William Manby in 1818, (although in the US a version was patented in 1863 by Alanson Crane)? | Fire Extinguisher |
| Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan is generally credited with inventing what? | Bicycle |
| Who invented the carpet sweeper? | Melville Bissell |
| Who invented cat's eyes for the road? | Percy Shaw |
| The German Christine Hardt patented the first modern example of what in 1889? | Bra |
| Who won a prize from Napoleon for inventing canning, and since 1942 has had a prize in food technology named after him? | Nicholas Appert |
| The point on the rim of a rolling wheel follows what shape as the wheel moves? | Cycloid |
| What is Bolyai–Lobachevskian geometry better known as? | Hyperbolic geometry |
| Hyperbolic geometry and elliptic geometry are the two classic types of what broader category? | Non-Euclidean geometry |
| Using llame thread, what device was used by the Incas for counting? | Quipu |
| James Jacob Ritty (29 October 1836 – 29 March 1918) is often credited with inventing what? | Cash register |
| In which Indian city was there a major chemical disaster in 1984? | Bhopal |
| Which gas was involved in the 1984 Bhopal disaster? | Methyl Isocyanate |
| In which field is the Nicholas Appert Prize awarded? | Food technology |
| What is the SI unit of magnetic flux? | Weber |
| What is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed pottery on a delicate pale buff earthenware body? | Faience |
| From which town does Faience take its name? | Faenza, Italy |
| What is the name given to the process of using a reducing agent, often a form of carbon, to extract a metal from its ore? | Smelting |
| What name is given to the naturally-occurring gold-silver alloy? | Electrum |
| What process involves immersing white-hot metal into water in order to cool it rapidly? | Quenching |
| What name is given to the metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is ornamented or shaped by hammering from the reverse side to create a design in low relief? | Repoussé |
| What is the study of the causes of disease? | Epidemiology |
| What term is used for the measure of strength between an antigen and an antibody? | Affinity |
| What does AIDS stand for? | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| Which molecule, common to all green plants, does algae lack? | Chlorophyll |
| What name is given to the study of algae? | Algology |
| A compound with no delocalised electrons is described by what term? | Aliphatic |
| The different naturally-existing forms of chemical elements (such as graphite and diamond, both forms of carbon) are given what name in relation to each other? | Allotropes |
| Who wrote "The Wonders of Geology", and named the iguanadon - his work is seen as starting the scientific study of dinosaurs? | Gideon Mantell |
| Which epoch preceded the current Holocene epoch? | Pleistocene |
| What name is given to a positively-charged particle, emitted from a radioactive atom's nucleus? | Alpha-particle |
| How is the "Californian Perfume Company" now known? | Avon |
| Which eponymous area of the human brain controls the physical production of speech? | Broca's area |
| What is the most common tree species in Britain? | Sitka spruce |
| Which land animal makes the longest migration? | Caribou |
| Which product started out life named "The Amazing Oxygen Washer"? | Persil |
| Which high street chain is named after the then-girlfriend of Kim Caborn Waterfield? | Ann Summers |
| Which piece of chemistry lab equipment separates a mixture of liquids, the most common type being a 'Vigreux'? | Fractionating column |
| What is a young horse called? | Foal |
| What is a young deer called? | Fawn |
| What is found in a ewer? | Water |
| How many gallons comprise a bushel? | Eight |
| What is found in a band-box? | Hats |
| What is a 'cucharacha' in Spanish? | Cockroach |
| What is the 'bole' of a tree? | Trunk |
| The 'Ghosh Test' applies to what in UK courts? | Dishonesty |
| Which unit of weight was originally equivalent to one carob bean? | One carat |
| What were designed and manufactured by Timothy Hackworth and William Hedley? | Railway Engines |
| How is the flower myositis also known? | Forget-me-not |
| What colour is lignite, considered the lowest rank of coal? | Brown |
| What was the dog, the chow-chow first bred for? | To eat |
| What was designed and manufactured by Henri Farman and Glenn Curtis? | Aeroplanes |
| Uffa Fox (1898-1972) designed and wrote about what? | Sailing boats, yachts |
| Which bird has varieties called small whites, bronzes and blacks? | Turkeys |
| Malic acid is found in, and named after the Latin for, which fruit? | Apples |
| Which alloy consists of 85-99% tin, with small amounts of copper and antimony, and sometimes bismuth and lead? | Pewter |
| Which conifer, a form of cypress, is much used in horticulture and is reknowned for being able to grow at about 1m a year? | Leylandii |
| Who rules in a hagiocracy? | Religious leaders |
| Bell metal is an alloy of copper and what else? | Tin |
| Which company used the slogan "stop being English"? | IKEA |
| Who gave his name to a type of air-brake used on the railways? | Westinghouse |
| Who was born in 1452, the illegitimate son of Piero and Caterina, the latter possibly an Arabic slave? | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Which elastic scattering of light or other electromagnetic radiation by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the light gives the sky its blue colour? | Rayleigh scattering |
| Which (initially Robert Adam-designed) church with a green copper dome, stands in Edinburgh's Charlotte Square? | St George's |
| Which large column stands in Edinburgh's St Andrew Square? | Melville Monument |
| Who was the first UK's Secretary of State for War and became, in 1806, the last person to be impeached in the United Kingdom? | Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville |
| Which Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, Scotland, is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed example? | Bell Rock |
| The Bell Rock, site of the famous lighthouse, is a reef 11 miles off the coast of Angus that also goes by what name? | Inchcape |
| Which Scots civil engineer (8 June 1772 – 12 July 1850) was a famed builder of lighthouses? | Robert Stevenson |
| In which modern-day country was Billy Wilder born? | Poland |
| Billy Wilder won an Academy Award for producer, director and screenwriter for the same film - which one? | The Apartment |
| Who is the most nominated director in Academy Award history? | William Wyler |
| Who directed 'Some Like It Hot, 'The Seven Year Itch' and 'Double Indemnity'? | Billy Wilder |
| Which Stoic philosopher, born a slave, had his teachings written down by his pupil Arrian in 'Discourses'? | Epictetus |
| Isaac Newton was twice elected MP for which constituency, despite showing no interest whatever in the role? | Cambridge University |
| Sigmund Freud was born in which modern-day nation? | Czech Republic |
| Which self-taught and eccentric mathematician reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulated vector analysis? | Oliver Heaviside |
| Who said "men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all"? | Voltaire |
| Which position at Cambridge has been held by both Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking? | Lucasian Professor of Mathematics |
| Which layer of ionised gas in the Earth's atmosphere allows the propagation of radio waves beyond the horizon? | Heaviside layer/Kennelly-Heaviside Layer |
| The famed poet, George Gordon Byron, was which number (eg 1st, 2nd etc) Baron Byron? | Sixth |
| In which city was Byron schooled? | Aberdeen (Aberdeen Grammar) |
| What was the name of Byron's Newfoundland dog? | Boatswain |
| Who married Annabella Milbanke in 1815? | Byron |
| What was the name of Byron's half-sister with whom he may have had an incestuous child? | Augusta Leigh |
| Which daughter of Byron (1815-52) became a respected mathematician? | Ada Lovelace |
| Regarded as one of the world's first 'computer programmes', Ada Lovelace's 'note G on the analytical engine' from 1842 describes an algorithm for generating which type of numbers with Babbage's machine? | Bernoulli |
| The successor to his 'Difference engine', what name was given to a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician Charles Babbage? | Analytical Engine |
| Approximately 90% of all Arabian horses today can trace their lineage to which horse breeding farm established on 2 July 1878 with some of the first Arabian horses brought to England? | Crabbet Stud |
| In which city was Hans Christian Andersen born? | Odense |
| Which opera singer (6 October 1820 – 2 November 1887) was nicknamed 'The Swedish Nightingale'? | Jenny Lind |
| Which (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry? | Heinrich Heine |
| Which Dickens character is is notable for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, making frequent references to his own "'humbleness"? | Uriah Heep (David Copperfield) |
| What name is given is to the sexual practice or fantasy in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their voyeuristic pleasure? | Candaulism |
| How is Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, the wife of Salvador Dali better known? | Gala Dali |
| During the 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition, Salvador Dali had to be rescued from what item of clothing due to suffocation? | Diving suit |
| Who designed the Chupa Chups lollipop logo in 1969? | Salvador Dali |
| Which Catalan town is the birthplace of artist Salvador DalÃ, and houses the Teatre-Museu Gala Salvador DalÃ? | Figueres |
| Who wrote a famed and well-regarded 1848 'History of England'? | Thomas MacAulay |
| Which private school did Winston Churchill attend from the age of 14? | Harrow |
| Who wrote biographies, during the 1930s, of Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, and Augustus? | John Buchan |
| Which Victorian poet (1828-1909)'s 'Lark Ascending' inspired Vaughan Williams' work of the same title? | George Meredith |
| In which field was Arthur Young (11 September 1741 – 12 April 1820) a reknowned figure? | Agriculture |
| Which medieval French author wrote several works, including Chronicles and Meliador, a long Arthurian romance, and a large body of poetry? His Chronicles were hugely influential in the notion of medieval chivalry. | Froissart |
| Malvern, the spa town, is in which English county? | Worcestershire |
| How does the term 'ascripti glebae' translate? | Bound to the soul |
| Which agricultural technique, distinct from ploughing, involves breaking up and smoothing out the surface of the soil? | Harrowing |
| When was the first and most devastating outbreak of plague in England ('The Black Death')? | 1348-9 |
| Which British historian and Whig politician (1800-59) had the middle name 'Babington'? | Thomas MacAulay |
| Which medieval custom was the seizure by the Lord of the family's best beast on the death of a tenant? | Heriot |
| Which popular peasants' revolt in late-medieval Europe took place in northern France in the summer of 1358 during the Hundred Years' War? | Jacquerie |
| John Wycliffe led which political and religious movement? | Lollardy/Lollards |
| Who is the chief narrator of 'Wuthering Heights'? | Lockwood |
| Which English author, born 1879, worked for 3 years in Alexandria for the Red Cross? | EM Forster |
| Which political party was founded in 1678, on the basis of belief in constitutional monarchy opposition to absolute rule, a belief in human progress, liberalism and (initially at least) protectionism? | British Whig Party |
| Nelly Dean is a character in which novel? | Wuthering Heights |
| In which year was the Peasants' Revolt in England? | 1381 |
| Which Archbishop of Canterbury was beheaded during the Peasants' Revolt? | Sudbury |
| The Peasants' Revolt was an event that occurred during the reign of which English king? | Richard II |
| What did the 'EM' stand for in author EM Forster's name? | Edward Morgan |
| Thrushcross Grange is a location in which novel? | Wuthering Heights |
| What is the meaning of the word 'poltroonery'? | Cowardice |
| In linguistics, which word is used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate? | Copula |
| At which university did Hamlet allegedly study? | Wittenberg |
| Which book of The Bible begins 'In The Beginning Was the Word'? | John's gospel |
| In language, what name is given to clauses joint with no indication of how they are co- or sub-ordinated to each other? | Parataxis |
| Which month is mentioned as the setting in the prologue to 'The Canterbury Tales'? | April |
| Which branch of linguistics and logic is concerned with meaning? | Semantics |
| What are the opening three words of 'Moby Dick'? | Call Me Ishmael |
| Which castle is the seat of the Duke of Northumberland? | Alnwick Castle |
| In which English county is Haddon Hall? | Derbyshire |
| Which British politician (1754 – 1842) is credited with sparking the British Agricultural Revolution, and was a champion of civil liberties, famously speaking out after the Peterloo Massacre? | Coke of Norfolk (Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester) |
| In which tale of The Canterbury Tales is the only brief allusion to the 1381 Peasants' Revolt? | Nun's Priest's Tale |
| Who wrote poetry collection 'The Whitsun Weddings'? | Larkin |
| Which literary figure famously failed to get an academic post in Dublin because he misspelled 'professor' on his application? | WB Yeats |
| On what day is Martinmas? | 11th November (also Remembrance Day) |
| Which Northumberland castle, ruined and cared for by English Heritage, lies on a loop of the River Coquet, less than a mile from the coast? | Warkworth Castle |
| The surname 'Webster' originally referred to someone who carried out which trade? | Weaver |
| The surname 'Fuller' originally referred to someone who carried out which trade? | Cleaning wool |
| What was the first building bought by the UK National Trust, in 1896? | Alfriston Clergy House |
| Which church governance term refers to systems wherein the local church's decisions are made by a committee, typically called elders? | Plurality |
| In Judges,who led the Israelites in battle against Ammon and, after defeating them, fulfilled a rash vow of his, by sacrificing his daughter? | Jephthah |
| In which county is Fountains Abbey? | North Yorkshire |
| Which order of monks founded Fountains Abbey? | Cistercians |
| In 1382, William of Wykeham founded which educational establishment? | Winchester College |
| Which medieval theologian-philosopher (1266-1308) is best known for his doctrines of the "univocity of being,"; the formal distinction; and the idea of haecceity? | Duns Scotus/John Duns |
| Which English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln (1175-1253) has been called, by AC Crombie, "the real founder of...the modern English intellectual tradition"? | Robert Grosseteste |
| Give a year in the life of medieval scholastic theologian-philosopher Roger Bacon. | 1214-1294 |
| Who founded New College, Oxford? | William of Wykeham |
| Decorated, Perpendicular and Flamboyant are all terms specifically applied to what? | Gothic Architecture |
| What is 'Waiting For Godot's opening line? | "Nothing To Be Done" |
| Who wrote "The Third Policeman"? | Flann O'Brien |
| What is a catamite? | A juvenile male lover, usually a 'receiver'... |
| What later nickname did John Duns/Duns Scotus acquire? | Doctor Subtilis |
| In which English county is Selby, and thus Selby Abbey? | North Yorkshire |
| Which term from medieval scholastic philosophy, first coined by Duns Scotus, denotes the discrete qualities, properties or characteristics of a thing which make it a particular thing? | Haecceity |
| Which medieval scholar was 'Doctor Mirabilis'? | Roger Bacon |
| Which author (1874-1965) was famously described as the 'stately homo of England'? | W Somerset Maugham |
| In which play does the line "we are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep" appear? | The Tempest |
| What is synecdoche? | A figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something (eg hired hands) |
| Which lighthouse features in Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse" - it is on the Eastern side of St Ives Bay? | Godrevy |
| Dolly Pentreith, who died in 1777, was the last person in the native line of people who did what? | Speak Cornish |
| In which town are the Corrob Gardens? | Penzance |
| Where is Finisterre Cape? | NW Spain |
| In which country is the majority of the Karakum desert? | Turkmenistan |
| Which is the second biggest desert worldwide, after the Sahara? | Australian |
| Which desert and semi-desert region lies in Southern Israel and is the country's biggest? | Negev |
| On which British canal is the Barton Swing Aqueduct? | Bridgewater |
| In which English county is Wookey Hole? | Somerset |
| Which German city lies at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle rivers? | Koblenz |
| In which Irish county is the Inishowen Peninsula? | Donegal |
| Which lighthouse is 1.5 miles west of Lands End, standing on Carn Bras Island? | Longships |
| In which US state is the Painted Desert? | Arizona |
| In which English cathedral is there a famed late 13th century Mappa Mundi, rescued from potential sale in the 1980s by investors including the National Trust? | Hereford |
| Which bridge connects Brooklyn to Staten Island? | Verrazano Narrows |
| Which river runs through (London)Derry? | Foyle |
| Which Scottish family restored Eilean Donan Castle in the 20th Century? | MacRae |
| How many Eleanor Crosses remain standing? | Three |
| Originally, the Eleanor Crosses ran from London to which city? | Lincoln |
| Which body was formed in 1884 to campaign chiefly for poroprtional representation? | Electoral Reform Society |
| In which Scottish county is Cape Wrath? | Sutherland |
| Which is the Southernmost English county that does not possess a coastline? | Wiltshire |
| Which shipping area lies due north of Fitzroy? | Sole |
| Which island in Twickenham, known as a major jazz and blues venue in the 1960s, is reachable by footbridge only? | Eel Pie Island |
| Which is the only hill, a Marilyn, to fall on the England-Wales border? | Black Mountain (Hereford-Powys) |
| In which US state is Kitty Hawk, site of the first flight? | North Carolina |
| Which motorway runs from Russ to Tewkesbury? | M50 |
| Where are the 3 remaining Eleanor Crosses located? | Waltham, Geddington, Northampton |
| Which African country's name translates into English as 'furthest west'? | Morocco |
| Which European area's name translates into English as 'land beyond the forest'? | Transylvania |
| What was Ely named for? | Eels |
| Which Dickens schoolmaster character only has one eye? | Wackford Squeers (Nicholas Nickleby) |
| St John Rivers is a character in which classic work? | Jane Eyre |
| Which Samuel Beckett 'play' lasts a short time, has no plot, and no characters? | Breath |
| Gerontion is a character in the works of which poet? | TS Eliot |
| In which county is Saffron Walden? | Essex |
| What is notable about the work "The Recuyell Of The Historeyes of Troye"? | It was the first book printed in English (by Caxton) |
| The first book printed in English was printed by Caxton in which city? | Bruges |
| Which years spanned the Wars of the Roses? | 1455-85 |
| In which English county is Caister Castle? | Norfolk |
| Parson Trulliber appears in which classic novel? | Joseph Andrews (Fielding) |
| Sue Bridehead is a prominent character in which classic novel? | Jude the Obscure |
| Who wrote the play "Malone Dies"? | Beckett |
| In Gothic church architecture, what name was given to the entire structure of Apse, Choir and radiating chapels? | Chevet |
| What name is given to the method of construction where short pieces of debarked tree are laid up crosswise with masonry or cob mixtures to build a wall? | Cordwood construction |
| Which type of coal has the highest carbon content, the fewest impurities, and the highest calorific content of all types? | Anthracite |
| What is a yatagan (or yataghan)? | type of Ottoman knife or short sabre used from the mid-16th to late 19th centuries |
| What word refers to a tube in an inverted U shape which causes a liquid to flow uphill, above the surface of the reservoir? | Siphon |
| Who co-founded Fauvism with Henri Matisse - his works include 'Drying Sails' and 'Charing Cross Bridge'? | Andre Derain |
| What are the first four words of 'Ulysses' by James Joyce? | "Stately, Plump Buck Mulligan" |
| Who is the title character in Miller's "Death Of A Salesman"? | Willy Loman |
| Who wrote play "The Plough and The Stars"? | Sean O'Casey |
| Who wrote "Henderson The Rain King"? | Saul Bellow |
| In which Agatha Christie tale is the narrator the murderer? | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd |
| In which Northumberland town is there a bagpipe museum? | Morpeth |
| Who is the French equivalent of Britannia as a symbol of the state? | Marianne |
| Xai-Xai is a town in which country? | Mozambique |
| Fish-shaped 50 vatu coins are legal tender in which country? | Vanuatu |
| Katyn Forest, scene of a mass murder of Poles in WW2, is near which present day city? | Smolensk |
| What is the English name of Dutch port Vlissingen? | Flushing |
| Who is Laertes father in Hamlet? | Polonius |
| Better known as a playwright, who wrote the novel "Molloy"? | Beckett |
| Which titular literary character has the surname Farange? | Maisie in Henry James "What Maisie Knew" |
| On which river does Chartres stand? | Eure |
| Merida is the capital of which Spanish region? | Extremadura |
| Bank Foot, Chichester and Kingston Rock are stops on which city's underground network? | Newcastle |
| Which is the largest city in the US state of Delaware? | Wilmington |
| Which part of Bosnia is inhabited and autonomously administered by Serbs? | Republika Srpska |
| Which country issued guitar-shaped one dollar coins in 2004? | Somalia |
| In London, 1 Gough Square is better known as the former home of which historical figure? | Dr Johnson |
| What is the capital of the Netherlands Antilles? | Willemstad |
| Which footpath runs from Winchester to Thomas A Becket's Canterbury shrine? | Pilgrims' Way |
| Which rivers merge at York? | Foss and Ouse |
| What name is given to the marshy pine forests of Siberia? | Taiga |
| Which grassy high-altitude plain in Bolivia and Peru contains Lake Titicaca? | Altiplano |
| The Republic of Indonesia is centred around which larger island group? | Malay Archipelago |
| Which town in Greater Manchester lies near the source of the River Medlock? | Oldham |
| Where is the Massabielle Grotto? | Lourdes |
| Hierro is an island in which larger group? | Canaries |
| Which London street is famed for its open-air antiques market? | Portobello Road |
| The Portobello Road Antiques Market in London takes place on which day of the week? | Saturday |
| A South African 'stoep' is better known by what name in the UK? | Verandah |
| What is the capital of the island of Nevis? | Charlestown |
| New Providence is a major island in which group? | Bahamas |
| California was added to the United States of America after which conflict ended? | Mexican-American War |
| The Queen's Theatre and the Gielgud Theatre lie on which London street? | Shaftesbury Avenue |
| The Langdale Pikes are in which English county? | Cumbria |
| Ngamiland is part of which country? | Botswana |
| Savannah is a city in which US state? | Georgia |
| Which city in central France is the capital of the Indre-et-Loire department? | Tours |
| Who wrote of "The Wild Swans At Coole"? | WB Yeats |
| Who is known as an Oppidan? | Scholar at Eton (excepting the small number of King's Scholars) |
| Who founded Eton School in 1440? | Henry VI |
| Which Oxford college, next to the River Cherwell and containing within its grounds a deer park and Addison's Walk, was founded in 1458 by William of Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester? | Magdalen College |
| In Homer, who guided the arrow, physically shot by Paris, that killed Achilles? | Apollo |
| Who was Greek God of winds? | Aeolus |
| Al Martino's "Here In My Heart" reached number one in the UK in which year? | 1952 |
| With which song did Al Martino have a 1973 Top 10 hit? | Spanish Eyes |
| Which city was Aeneas supposedly from? | Troy |
| The descendants of Aeneas reportedly founded which city, according to myth? | Rome |
| In myth, what was Actaeon turned when he saw Artemis bathing? | Stag |
| The second number 1 of official UK chart history after "Here In My Heart" by Al Martino, was also the first sung by a female - what was it? | You Belong To Me by Jo Stafford |
| In myth, which goddess fell in love with Adonis? | Aphrodite |
| Which song by Michael Holliday was the first new UK No 1 of the 1960s? | Starry Eyed |
| Who led the Greeks in the Trojan War? | Agamemnon |
| Who had a UK No 1 in 1960 with "Why"? | Newley |
| Who first had a hit with the song "Why", a 1960 No 1 for Anthony Newley? | Frankie Avalon |
| Tony Burrows was the lead vocalist for which 'one-hit wonders'? | Edison Lighthouse |
| Who was the father of Ajax in myth? | King Telamon |
| In myth, what relation was Agamemnon to Menelaus? | Brother-in-law |
| Who sung 1970 Number 1 "Wand'rin Star"? | Lee Marvin |
| "Wand'rin Star" came from which film musical? | Paint Your Wagon |
| What did Ajax do when, in the mythical siege of Troy, he went mad? | Slaughtered sheep |
| Who was the mythical mother of Andromeda? | Cassiopeia |
| What was the B-side to Lee Marvin's hit "Wand'rin Star"? | I Talk To The Trees by Clint Eastwood |
| What was the name of Odysseus' faithful dog in Greek mythology? | Argos |
| Who had a UK Number 1 with "Brass In Pocket"? | The Pretenders |
| Who was the mythical daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta? | Antigone |
| In myth, who slayed the 100-eyed Argus? | Hermes |
| After it was slain, which mythical Greek god/dess placed the eyes of the monster Argus in the tail of the peacock? | Hera |
| What was the name of Oedipus' father, who he inadvertently killed, in myth? | Laius |
| At 2 minutes 4 seconds, what is the shortest UK No 1 of all time? | "Too Much Too Young" - The Specials |
| Which musical contains the song "Out Of my Dreams"? | Oklahoma |
| "Well Did You Ever" comes from which musical? | High Society |
| Who composed "Rusman and Lamilla"? | Glinka |
| In myth, who was the father of Telemachus? | Odysseus |
| Who had a 1972 hit with "All The Young Dudes"? | Mott The Hoople |
| What is Neil Diamond's real name? | Noah Kaminsky |
| Who did Joe Wash replace as Eagles guitarist in 1975? | Bernie Leadon |
| What is a bonze? | Buddhist priest |
| "Let There Be Drums" was a 1961 hit for who? | Sandy Nelson |
| What culinary term translates as "outside the work"? | Hors D'Oeuvres |
| On which Beatles song did George Harrison first play the sitar? | Norwegian Wood |
| In Judaism, what name is given to the seven-branched candlestick? | Menorah |
| Where was Buddy Holly's last concert, before his fatal flight? | Clear Lake |
| Gene Vincent was injured in the car crash that killed which other star? | Eddie Cochrane |
| The Acid Queen is a character in which musical production? | Tommy |
| 'Rain' was the B-side to which Beatles hit? | Paperback Writer |
| Who was the mother of the Biblical King Solomon? | Bathsheba |
| Which King of Israel had Jezebel as his wife? | Ahab |
| What nickname is given to Mozart's final symphony? | The Jupiter Symphony |
| What was Eddie Cochrane's first posthumous hit? | Three Steps To Heaven |
| Which legendary kingdom was said to lie between Cornwall and the Scilly Islands? | Lyonesse |
| Who sang "It Never Rains (In Southern California)"? | Albert Hammond |
| How is singer Leslie Sebastian Charles better known? | Billy Ocean |
| Who composed "Four Last Songs" in 1948? | Richard Strauss |
| Whose album "Fearless" won Best Album at the 2010 Grammy Awards? | Taylor Swift |
| What is the name of the family who perform in Kings of Leon? | Followill |
| What was the name of Kings of Leon's successful 2008 album, containing both "Sex On Fire" and "Use Somebody"? | Only By The Night |
| Which Delta blues guitarist, born 1915, was still touring in 2010, but died on 29th August 2011? | David "Honeyboy" Edwards |
| In the US which band have charted ten Number One singles on the Billboard country charts, including "Chicken Fried", "Toes", "Highway 20 Ride", "Free", "As She's Walking Away", "Colder Weather", "Knee Deep","Goodbye in Her Eyes", and "Sweet Annie"? | Zac Brown Band |
| Which king founded Kings College, Cambridge? | Henry VI |
| Which queen founded Queens College, Cambridge? | Margaret of Anjou |
| Which man (1422-91) is generally credited with introducing printing and movable type to England? | William Caxton |
| What alternate name does the Tower of London's Water Gate possess, a reference to the fact that many of the prisoners of the Tudors entered through it? | Traitors' Gate |
| Paycocke's House is a well-preserved 16th century house found in Coggleshall in which English county? | Essex |
| Who wrote "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"? | Milan Kundera |
| Which fashion designer, born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1932, died in 2014? | Oscar De La Renta |
| The Dinka people mainly inhabit which country? | South Sudan |
| Which ancient author wrote 'Georgics'? | Virgil |
| What name is given to a circular opening in a dome, such as that in Rome's Pantheon? | Oculus |
| In architecture, what name is given to the spiral, scroll-like ornament that forms the basis of the Ionic order, found in the capital of the Ionic column? | Volute |
| At which Cambridge college could you find the 'Mathematical Bridge'? | Queens College |
| Mary Graham and Tom Pinch appear in which Dickens novel? | Nicholas Nickleby |
| Which mystical author wrote "Sonnets To Orpheus"? | Rilke |
| Maud Gonne was frequently the muse for which poet, with whom she had a turbulent relationship? | WB Yeats |
| Who was the author of 'The Alexandria Quartet'? | Lawrence Durrell |
| Which poem includes the line "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness"? | Ode On A Grecian Urn (Keats) |
| Barnadine is a character in which Shakespeare play? | Measure For Measure |
| What name is given to the psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded? | Rorschach test |
| Who wrote the short story "Mr Loveday's Little Outing"? | Evelyn Waugh |
| Which convict is encountered by Pip in Great Expectations's memorable 'graveyard scene'? | Abel Magwitch |
| Who is the amiable brother-in-law of Pip in 'Great Expectations'? | Joe Gargery |
| Who is Pip's love interest in 'Great Expectations'? | Estella |
| Where does Miss Havisham live in 'Great Expectations'? | Satis House |
| Which US singer-songwriter mostly retired from public performances to devote his time to teaching mathematics and music theatre at the University of California? | Tom Lehrer |
| What name is given to a rush of water from a sudden break-up of ice? | Debacle |
| Which chair of Mathematics at Cambridge has been held by both Newton and Hawking? | Lucasian |
| Which compound produces the characteristic smell of swimming pools? | Nitrogen trichloride |
| Which mammal nearly always gives birth to identical quadruplets? | Nine-banded armadillo |
| Which perfume house introduced a brand called 'Amarige' in 1991? | Givenchy |
| In Norse myth Baldur was invulnerable to everything except what? | Mistletoe |
| An 'array' is the collective name for which mammals? | Hedgehogs |
| How many feet are in a nautical mile? | 6080 |
| Which word can refer to a mountain chain, a model of car and a radio call sign? | Sierra |
| What colour are the flowers of the plant mimosa? | Yellow |
| What date does St David's Day fall on? | March 1st |
| Which ship did Shackleton use on his 1914 voyage to Antarctica? | Endurance |
| What name is given to the condition of experiencing the phenomena of one sense with another sense (eg 'smelling colours')? | Synaesthesia |
| Who is credited with inventing the paper clip? | Vaaler |
| A 'rafter' is the collective name for which creatures? | Turkeys |
| In Norse myth, who was Baldur's father? | Odin |
| What was founded by Ware and Berrill in 1946? | MENSA |
| In the military, what are NVGs? | Night Vision Goggles |
| What does an 'ecdysiast' do? | Striptease |
| How is an 'anthropomorphic mannequin' better known? | Crash test dummy |
| In the name of the motorcycle company, what does BSA stand for? | Birmingham Small Arms |
| Emeralds are fundamentally a variety of which mineral? | Beryl |
| How should a Duke be addressed? | Your Grace |
| What name is given to the practice of caning on the soles of the feet? | Bastinado |
| What was the UK's first million-selling car? | Morris Minor |
| What connects 8 in 1968, 11 in 1969, 14 in 1971 and 17 in 1973? | Apollo missions |
| What roadside feature was first announced by Government as forthcoming in June 1961? | Push-button pedestrian crossings |
| What legal term means relation by marriage? | Affinity |
| In shipping, what is a VLCC? | Very Large Crude Carrier |
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