1. What is the name for the top part of a fraction?
2. Which building is known colloquially as Paddy's Wigwam?
3. Many of the spacecraft in the Alien film francise are named from the works and life of which major novelist?
4. Which word for a minor transgression comes from the Spanish for 'little sin'?
5. What is the name of Cambridge University's art and antiquities museum?
6. George Balabushka and John Parris are famous names in the manufacture of which items of sports equipment?
7. What is the traditional Neapolitan song made famous by Enrico Caruso and Elvis Presley, which takes its name from a waterfront district in the Bay of Naples?
8. The word 'ounce' is derived from the Latin for what fraction?
10. What is the main gas in the Ozone Layer?
11. In which English port is there a dock tower based on the bell tower of Siena's Palazzo Pubblico?
12. What do we call the remnant of the supernova first observed in July 1054?
13. What does the K stand for in AK-47?
14. What event took place while President George W Bush was reading a children's story entitled The Pet Goat?
15. Who is the protagonist in Truman Capote's 1958 novella 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'?
16. Filippo Brunelleschi famously engineered the dome of which cathedral?
18. Which English town suffered a major fire in 1854, and a consequent explosion so large that it destroyed the commercial district of the neighbouring town with heavy debris and fire.
19. In which game is 'God Bless You' a useful mnemonic?
20. What is the generic term for organisms that drift in the surface layer of open water?
21. Which African country lost its entire 800 mile coastline in 1993?
22. What is the name of the rough-surfaced scraping and cutting structure unique to molluscs, which is broadly equivalent to a tongue?
23. Janet Planet was the first wife of which prominent singer-songwriter?
24. Which king was killed at the Battle of Flodden?
25. Which country elected a lesbian Head of Government in 2009?
26. What platform number was added to London King's Cross railway station in May 2010?
27. What lies at the bottom of the hypothalamus at the base of the brain?
28. Which grumpy old man lived at No 1 Coronation Street for the first 10 years of the soap?
29. For what was Albert Einstein awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics?
30. In Beaumarchais' famous play who is the Barber of Seville?
31. Which English football club has a fanzine called 'Gary Mabbutt's Knee', even though Mabbutt never played for them?
32. Although often said to be untranslatable, how is the Greek word 'logos' usually translated in the New Testament?
33. Stelvin is the most well known brand of what?
34. Who wrote the 1949 classic of feminist literature, 'The Second Sex'?
35. The civilian vessel Kobayashi Maru and the training exercise named after it form a recurring theme in which media franchise?
36. Glera is the main grape used to produce which Italian wine?
37. Which piece of DNA does a woman always inherit from her mother, making it important in anthropological research?
39. Which familiar Italian cheese is made from whey rather than curds?
40. Who sits on the Chrysanthemum Throne?
41. In sport, what is a 'panenka'?
42. Which chemical element derives its name from the Greek word for the element lead?
43. Spanish Town is one of the larger towns and a former capital of which island?
44. On which university campus did Sir Denys Lasdun design the famous ziggurats for student accommodation?
45. What do the three lions represent on the Duke of Edinburgh's coat of arms?
46. Which traditional song refers to "his horn in the morning"?
47. What kind of shop is named after the certificate permitting it to trade?
48. Which river forms much of the border between the USA and Mexico?
49. In which EU city is there a municipal food market called the English Market?
50. Who famously had the words "This machine kills fascists" written on his guitar?