Which Ballymena born actor was awarded an OBE in the New Years Honours List?
James Nesbitt

What is the name of the mosquito-borne infection that has spread to over 20 countries in the Americas whose name derives from the Lugandan word for 'overgrown'?
Zika virus

Eighty-six year old Gordon Goody passed away in January. With which infamous crime is he most associated?
The Great Train Robbery

The questions and answers within this quiz were verified and updated in July 2020.

Which female singer released the album 'Born to Die' in 2012?

Lana Del Rey

What was the name of the ship on which Charles Darwin crossed the Atlantic Ocean, led by captain Robert FitzRoy?

HMS Beagle

Bannock, Chapati and Panettone are types of what?

Bread

The questions and answers within this quiz were verified and updated in July 2020.

Which Australian bushranger became one of his country's greatest folk heroes following the Glenrowan shoot-out?

Ned Kelly

Then known as the voltaic pile, which modern day device was invented by Alessandro Volta in 1800?

Battery

Which sporting icon was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Century Award in 1999?

Which English Football League club who play their home games at Gigg Lane are known as the Shakers?

Bury

In which city was Usain Bolt competing when he broke the Mens 100m World Record in August 2009?

a) New York b) Berlin c) Lausanne

b) Berlin

Barry Bonds led a controversial career as an exceptional hitter in which sport?

Baseball

Who, in December 1955, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man in Mongomery, Alabama?
Rosa Parks

In 1941, The Imperial Japanese Navy made a surprise attack on a harbour in which U.S state?
Hawaii

Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his raid on the arsenal at which town in West Virginia? 
Harpers Ferry