Question: In May 1977 Rod Stewart's 'The First Cut is the Deepest' topped (by the charts but which banned song was widely believed to have outsold it?
Answer: God Save The Queen

Question: Who was MP for Huntingdon from 1979 to 2001?
Answer: John Major

Question: What name is given to the underground stem base of plants such as crocus and gladiolus?
Answer: Corm

Question: Which mountain to the east of Jerusalem has the Garden of Gethsemane at its foot?
Answer: Mount of Olives

Question: The song 'On My Own' features in which musical?
Answer: Les Miserables

Question: In which Treaty of 1783 did Britain recognise the independence of the USA?
Answer: Versailles

Question: Who founded the Kelmscott Press?
Answer: William Morris

Question: Which three words immediately follow "Now is the summer of our discontent made glorious summer by this ...." in Shakespeare's Richard Ill?
Answer: """Sun of York"""

Question: Coriolanus Snow, Peeta Mellark and Haymitch Abernathy are characters in which series of books?
Answer: The Hunger Games

Question: Which US entertainer's 1988 autobiography is entitled That's Not All Folks?
Answer: Mel Blanc

Question: Which English publishing company, founded in 1986 owes much of its success to the popularity of the Harry Potter books?
Answer: Bloomsbury

Question: What name is shared by a former England rugby union player and a TV chef?
Answer: Phil Vickery

Question: Which woman, together with her husband, founded the television company Desilu Productions?
Answer: Lucille Ball aka Mrs Desi Arnaz

Question: How many sides are there on the new £1 coin to be introduced in 2017?
Answer: 12 sides

Question: Name the paranoid android in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams.
Answer: Marvin

Question: What is the nautical measurement of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour?
Answer: Knot

Question: Which city has a waterfront area/tourist attraction called 'The Sund'?
Answer: Shanghai

Question: Which American jazz singer was known as 'Lady Day'?
Answer: Billie Holliday

Question: Which fish belong to the genus 'Esox'?
Answer: Pike

Question: Which American composer (18541932) was known as the March King?
Answer: John Phillip Sousa

Question: Who presents the TV travel series `An Idiot Abroad'?
Answer: Karl Pilkington

Question: What is the name of the aboriginal spear thrower that also gave its name to a missile testing site?
Answer: Woomera

Question: Which entrepreneur was a hit on the Dragon's Den with Reggae Reggae Sauce?
Answer: Levi Roots

Question: Which planet did a transit across the sun in 2012?
Answer: Venus

Question: Warwick stands on which river?
Answer: Avon

Question: Which character was portrayed on film by Gregory Peck and on TV by loan Gruffudd?
Answer: Horatio Hornblower

Question: Who first uttered the phrase "Rainbow Nation” in 1994?
Answer: Desmond Tutu

Question: In which year was Martin Luther King Jnr assassinated?
Answer: 1968

Question: Which comic strip was created by Mary Tourtel?
Answer: Rupert The Bear

Question: Sana’a is the constitutionally stated capital of which country?
Answer: Yemen

Question: In which country was the fashion designer Yves St Laurent brn?
Answer: Algeria

Question: Which book by Kit Williams caused controversy when people were digging up ground in an effort to find a pendant with a golden hare on it?
Answer: Masquerade

Question: ‘Life Thru a Lens’ was the first No. 1 album by which singer in 1997?
Answer: Robbie Williams

Question: Under which leader bom in Caracas, did Venezuela achieve independence from Spain in 1821?
Answer: Simon Bolivar

Question: Oscitation is a more scientific term for which common activity?
Answer: Yawning

Question: Which US state is nicknamed the 'Wolverine State’?
Answer: Michigan

Question: What was the surname of the married couple convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, and who were executed in 1953?
Answer: Rosenberg

Question: What is the main grape used in the production of Chianti wine?
Answer: Sangiovese

Question: What member of the grouse family gets its name from the Gaelic for 'horse of the woods'?
Answer: |Capercaillie

Question: Which Italian city features in the original film version of The Italian Job?
Answer: Turin

Question: Which car company is/was named after the man who invented the carburettor?
Answer: Daimler

Question: Who was the first Olympic boxing gold medallist (middleweight in 1952) to go on to become heavyweight champion of the world?
Answer: Floyd Patterson

Question: Which director’s last film was Family Plot in 1975?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock

Question: Cape Hatteras in North Carolina is the nearest land to which UK overseas territory?
Answer: Bermuda

Question: During 2014, 74 year old Alexander Chancellor became the editor of which magazine?
Answer: The Oldie

Question: The Rye House Plot was a plan to assassinate which English monarch?
Answer: Charles 2nd

Question: Who was President of Russia from 2008-2012 while Vladimir Putin served as Prime Minister?
Answer: Dmitri Medvedev

Question: Bob Hoskins played crime boss Harold Shand in which film?
Answer: The Long Good Friday

Question: What was the first single released by Frankie Goes To Hollywood not to reach number 1 in the UK, although the album of the same name did?
Answer: Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Question: How many digits are on the “long number” seen on the front of a credit or debit card?
Answer: 16

Question: Which French shoe designer once said; “red is more than a colour”?
Answer: Christian Louboutin

Question: Which composer, who lived from 1732-1809, wrote the music now used for the German national anthem?
Answer: (Franz) Joseph Haydn

Question: Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery was named after its founding benefactor, who made his fortune in what industry?
Answer: Brewing

Question: New Guinea and Borneo are the two largest “divided” islands in the world. What is the third largest island which is divided between two or more nations?
Answer: Ireland

Question: What is the English translation of the Italian opera La Gazza Ladra?
Answer: The Thieving Magpie

Question: Which French region has Metz as its official capital?
Answer: Lorraine

Question: Which car company manufactures the electric car the Zoe?
Answer: Renault

Question: What is the first name of the young witch, heroine of The Wee Free Men and A Hat Full of Sky books in the Discworld series?
Answer: Tiffany

Question: Bordeaux is the capital of which French region?
Answer: Aquitaine

Question: The Boy in The Dress and Gangsta Granny are books written by which actor/writer?
Answer: David Walliams

Question: From which planet does Doctor Who originate?
Answer: Galifrey

Question: Which actor provides the voice for Gru in the film Despicable Me?
Answer: Steve Carrell

Question: During the 2012 Olympics where did the white water event take place?
Answer: Lee Valley Park

Question: The Wilhelm Gustloft which sank in the Baltic in 1945 was compared to which other ship because of the loss of lives?
Answer: Titanic

Question: Which order of monks inhabited Bolton Priory?
Answer: Augustinian

Question: Who was the commander of the besieged British troops at the Siege of Mafeking in May 1900?
Answer: Baden-Powell

Question: The name of which Spanish region means ?very hard??
Answer: Extremadura

Question: In which city is the Commandery Civil War Centre?
Answer: Worcester

Question: In the Asterix stories, what is the name of the druid who brews the magic potion?
Answer: Getafix

Question: The Blue Fairy is a character in which Disney classic?
Answer: Pinocchio

Question: In which English county is the town of Marlborough?
Answer: Wiltshire

Question: Give any year in the life of the pirate Blackbeard?
Answer: 1680-1718

Question: In September 2013, a plaque was unveiled at the Pier Head, Liverpool commemorating the loss of which ship, sunk in June 1940 with the loss of at least 4000 lives?
Answer: RMS Lancastria