| What is the collective name of the semitendinotus, the semi membraneous and biceps femoris muscles? | Hamstrings |
| Which Babylonian king conquered Jerusalem? | Nebuchadnezzar |
| Which human rights lawyer defended the National Theatre during Mary Whitehouse’s unsuccessful case against The Romans in Britain? | Geoffrey Robertson |
| Which man defended the Guardian against Jonathan Aitken, Jeremy Thorpe against a charge of murder and Ken Dodd for tax evasion? | George Carman |
| Which Greek term means trial and error and is applied to problem-solving? | Heuristic |
| Who was known for his ‘The Man Who’ cartoons? | H M Bateman |
| Who wrote the Afghanistan-set The Man Who Would be King in 1888? | Rudyard Kipling |
| The song Heart and Soul was written by which man, with lyrics by Frank Loesser? | Hoagy Carmichael |
| In which English town is The Public, an arts centre well-known for its daring architecture, described as ‘a shoe box with blobby windows’? | West Bromwich |
| Science writer John Gribbin has also published a biography of which singer? | Buddy Holly |
| Who directed the Usual Suspects, the first two X-Men films, Superman Returns and Valkyrie? | Bryan Singer |
| His first major play, Frühlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening, 1891), which concerns sexuality and puberty among some young German students, caused a scandal, as it contained scenes of homoeroticism, implied group male masturbation, actual male masturbation, sado-masochism between a teenage boy and girl, rape, and suicide, as well as references to abortion. In 2006, it was adapted into a successful Broadway musical, Spring Awakening. Which German playwright? | Frank Wedekind |
| What is the name of the wrsetler played by Micky Rourke in the 2009 film? | Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson |
| The compilation album Now 1 featured two songs by which band? | UB40 |
| Who directed Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad? | Alain Resnais |
| Who wrote Q and A, later filmed as Slumdog Millionaire? | Vikas Swarup |
| A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre concerns the global war on terror and is set in which city? | Hamburg |
| Who wrote the song Hallelujah? | Leonard Cohen |
| The theatre group Kneehigh originate from which British county? | Cornwall |
| Which 2008 film saw Burt Reynolds as a washed up Hollywood star thinking is is being invited to play Shakespeare in Stratford on Avon but instead it’s an amateur production in Stratford St John, Suffolk? | A Bunch of Amateurs |
| The Emmy-award winning documentary The Beckoning Silence was about climbing which mountain? | The Eiger |
| Which lesbian American poet (1911-1979), famed for her friendship with Robert Lowell, was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970? | Elizabeth Bishop |
| Which classic of c20 literature was written on a long scroll of paper that is still occasionally unfurled at museums and galleries worldwide? | On The Road |
| Which American composer was born in December 1908 and is still alive as of November 2010? | Elliott Carter |
| In 2008, what became the fastest-selling DVD of all time in the UK? | Mamma Mia |
| Tate Britain has a room dedicated to his work. Which influential abstract artist worked in St Ives with Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth and later created the controversial pavilion at Peterlee new town? | Victor Pasmore |
| Who wrote Maus, the comic-book treatment of the Second World War? | Art Spiegelmann |
| What is the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, named for a British astrophysicist who was played by David Tennant on TV in 2008? | The Eddington Limit |
| Which German artist created slides which spiralled down Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2006, and created a functioning hotel room in New York’s Guggenheim Museum? | Carsten Hoeller |
| Under what name did Paul McCartney record an album of ambient music in 1993? | The Fireman |
| Which Japanese American supporter of gay rights played Mr Sulu in Star Trek? | George Takei |
| Which Kentucky-born singer-songwriter also stars in films and has his own brand of supermarket food, called Bakersfield Biscuits? | Dwight Yoakam |
| Which Norwegian composer, percussionist and jazz performer has a habit of performing on instruments not usually associated with the genre? His piece de resistance is a three-foot horn made entirely of 2500-year-old ice from a Norwegian glacier. | Terje Isungset |
| Who was the director of Waltz With Bashir? | Ari Folman |
| In his victory speech, Barack Obama referred to the phrase A Change is Gonna Come, associated with which singer-songwriter? | Sam Cooke |
| Which British playwright and memoirist, author of The Smoking Diaries and the Last Cigarette, died, perhaps predictably, of lung cancer in 2008? | Simon Gray |
| Which computer game, launched in 2007 and with sackboy/sackgirl/sackperson as its main protagonist, was praised for its pioneering use of user-generated content, where players could design new levels of their own? Stephen Fry voices the tutorials. | LittleBigPlanet |