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PANDEMONIUM | "In Milton's ""Paradise Lost"" what is the capital of Hell?" |
BIRD | What type of creature is a turnstone? |
SEVEN | How many letters are used to make Roman numerals? |
ANDES | In which mountain range were monkey puzzle trees first discovered by Europeans? |
CLAUDIUS the GOD | "What is the sequel to Robert Grave's novel ""I Claudius""?" |
BASEBALL | In which sport would you use a knuckleball? |
(Andy) WARHOL | "Which artist's studio was known as ""the Factory""?" |
NISSAN | Which motor manufacturer makes the Juke and Note models? |
(Carl) ZEISS | Which German, together with Ernst Abbe, developed and produced many new lenses and heat resistant glasses? |
CACTUS | What type of plant is a saguaro? |
THE HACIENDA | "Which nightclub and music venue in Manchester was largely financed by the record label ""Factory Records""?" |
JUDOGI | What is the two piece costume worn in judo called? |
HUSSEIN | The current US president Barack Obama has what middle name? |
TREATY of ROME | Which 1957 treaty created the European Economic Community? |
(Fats) WALLER | "Which jazz pianist and composer composed ""Ain't Misbehavin""' and ""Honeysuckle Rose""?" |
(John) KEATS | "Who, in a poem, wrote ""Beauty is truth, truth is beauty""?" |
AMNIOTIC | What is the name of the fluid that surrounds the embryo in the womb? |
SOUTH AFRICA | In which country are the Tugela Falls? |
ALFRED the GREAT | Who was king of Wessex from 871 to 899? |
(Thelonius) MONK | "Which jazz pianist and composer 1917-1982 composed ""Round Midnight"" and ""Criss Cross""?" |
POLAND | In which country are the Masurian Lakes? |
PULMONARY ARTERY | Which blood vessel carries blood from the heart to the lungs? |
AUSTRIA | Which European country's flag consists of three horizontal bands of red, white and red? |
(Carl) FOGARTY | Which British rider won the World Superbike championship four times in the 1990s? |
(Lal) SHASTRI | Who succeeded Nehru as the second Prime Minister of India? |
BARWICK GREEN | What is the signature tune of the Archers radio programme? |
PENNSYLVANIA | Three Mile Island, scene of a 1979 radio-active disaster, is in which US state? |
(Valentino) ROSSI | "Which Italian, winner of nine Motor Cycling Grand Prix World Championships is known as ""The Doctor""?" |
Aston Villa | "Which Premiership football club has an area called ""The Holte End""?" |
Gwyneth Strong | Which actress played the part of Cassandra in 'Only Fools and Horses'? |
William II | Which English king was shot by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest in 1100? |
Gale | In the film 'The Wizard of Oz', what is Dorothy's surname? |
Mussolini | Who led the march on Rome in 1922? |
Rubella | What is the medical name for German measles? |
Raymond Chandler | Which crime writer created the private detective Philip Marlowe? |
Dartmoor | High Willhays is the highest point of which upland area? |
Garibaldi | Which biscuit is named after an Italian patriot who died in 1882? |
Canter | In horse riding, what comes between a trot and a gallop? |
Jackie Rae | Who was the first host of the TV game show 'The Golden Shot'? |
Lady Day | Which English quarter day falls on 25 March? |
M6 | On which motorway is the Thelwall Viaduct? |
Queen Elizabeth | Which former transatlantic liner was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong in 1972? |
New South Wales | Sydney is the capital of which Australian state? |
George Formby | "Which entertainer's catchphrases included ""It's turned out nice again""?" |
Attila the Hun | "Which barbarian king was known as ""the Scourge of God""?" |
Jon Voight | Which film actor's daughter is actress Angelina Jolie? |
Mel Blanc | "Whose epitaph on his tombstone reads ""That's All Folks""?" |
The Test | Which celebrated fishing river flows from near Basingstoke to Southampton Water? |
Red | As well as white, what colour appears on the cap of a water polo goalkeeper? |
Snake | In nature, what is a boomslang? |
John F Kennedy | Which political leader commanded the watercraft PT109 in WW2? |
Greenland | Which island's capital is Nuuk? |
Carrie Fisher | Which actress is the daughter of Debbie Reynolds? |
St Bernard | Which dog has the alternative name the Alpine Mastiff? |
Graf Spee | Which German pocket battleship was scuttled off Montevideo in 1939? |
Ronseal | "According to the advertising slogan-which product ""does exactly what it says on the tin""?" |
M4 | On which motorway is the Severn Bridge? |
John | Which English king signed the Magna Carta? |
Mosquito | Which de Havilland World War II fighter-bomber had a fuselage made of wood? |
Blue | In UK greyhound racing, what colour is worn by the dog in Trap Two? |
Carts | In days gone by, what did a wainwright make? |
Mao Tse Tung | Who led his followers on a 'Long March' in 1934? |
Newcastle United | Which Premiership football club's ground has an area called The Gallowgate End'? |
America Ferrera | Who plays Betty Suarez in the TV series 'Ugly Betty'? |
Jane Fonda | Who was attacked in the American press in 1972 as `Hanoi Jane'? |
Kinder Scout | What is the name of the highest point in the Peak District? |
Osborne | Which biscuit has the same name as Queen Victoria's house on the Isle of Wight? |
Frances Hodgson Burnett | Who was the author of the 1910 novel 'The Secret Garden'? |
Tower Bridge | Which London bridge built 1856-1894 is a combined bascule and suspension bridge? |
Shrove Tuesday | Traditionally, on what day does a Mardi Gras Festival take place? |
Bob Hope | Who adopted the song 'Thanks for the Memory' as a signature tune'? |
American Civil War | In which war was the Battle of Antietam fought? |
1976 | In what year did Concorde commence commercial service? |
(Bedrich) Smetana | Who composed the music to the comic opera The Bartered Bride'? |
Pat Barker | Which author won the Booker Prize in 1995 for The Ghost Road'? |
Kansas | In which US state is Dodge City, the famous frontier town of the wild west? |
Richard I | Which English king was born in Beaumont Palace in Oxford in 1157? |
Bhutan | The flag of which Asian country contain an image of the mythical Thunder Dragon holding jewels? |
Trent | The Dove, Derwent, Erewash and Soar are all tributaries of which UK river? |
Rhode Island | In which American state is the animated TV series Family Guy set? |
Kelvin | Which SI unit is named after a scientist born in Belfast in 1824? |
Tipperary | Magner's cider originates from which county in Ireland? |
Maxwell's Silver Hammer | "Which Beatles song opens with the lyric ""Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical science in the home""?" |
Metz | Which city, home to the oldest working opera house in France, is the capital of the Lorraine region and the Moselle department? |
Switzerland | Which country has top tier football league teams called FC Thon and FC Sion? |
Tongue | Which part of the body is removed during a glossectomy? |
Scalene | What name is given to a triangle in which all 3 sides are of different lengths? |
Colombia | Of which South American country has Juan Manuel Santos been president since 2010? |
BBC Three Counties | Which BBC local radio station with its main studios in Luton covers Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire? |
The Pickwick Papers | Obesity hypoventilation syndrome is also known by a name that refers to which Charles Dickens novel in which the 'fat boy' Joe exhibits the symptoms? |
Arkansas | Little Rock is the capital of which state of USA? |
Capybara | Which species is the world's largest rodent? |
Star | In heraldry what shape is a mullet? |
Ontario | Which is the smallest by area of the Great Lakes of North America? |
The Sleeping Beauty | Which work by Tchaikovsky includes a sequence called The Rose Adagio'? |
Ben Okri | Which author won the Booker Prize in 1991 for his novel 'The Famished Road'? |
Jupiter | Europa and Ganymede are moons of which planet? |
Ghana | In 1960 Kwame Nkrumah became the first President of which African country? |
Henry VII | Which English king was born in Pembroke Castle in Wales in 1457? |
Mozambique | The flag of which African country contains the image of an AK-47 rifle? |
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