Question: Which playwright's works include 'The Madness of George III' and 'The History Boys'?
Answer: Alan Bennett

Question: Who is the author of a series of 21 historical novels featuring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin?
Answer: Patrick O'Brian

Question: Which Labour Party shadow cabinet member is married to trade union activist Jack Dromey?
Answer: Harriet Harman

Question: What was the first name of Dame Edna Everage's late husband?
Answer: Norm/Norman

Question: The Yas Marina circuit used in Formula 1 for the first time in 2009, is the venue for which Grand Prix?
Answer: Abu Dhabi

Question: Who invented the nets which go between football goal posts?
Answer: John Brodie

Question: Tokay wine comes from which European country?
Answer: Hungary

Question: Who was British Foreign Secretary at the outbreak of World War I?
Answer: Sir Edward Grey

Question: What word completes the title of the 2012 film 'Cockneys vs (versus) '?
Answer: Zombies

Question: Which female crime writer is an occasional crime-solving companion to Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's novels?
Answer: Ariadne Oliver

Question: Complete the title of the debut novel by Marina Lewycka 'A Short History of.in Ukrainian'.
Answer: Tractors

Question: Which Shipping Forecast area lies south of South Utsire and north of German Bight?
Answer: Fisher

Question: Who is alleged to have said in his writing 'A little learning is a dangerous thing'?
Answer: Alexander Pope

Question: What is the name of the 170 metre high observation tower beside Portsmouth Harbour, opened in 2005?
Answer: Spinnaker Tower

Question: In the periodic table which metal follows lithium and sodium in the alkali metals (valency 1)?
Answer: Potassium

Question: Actor Larry Hagman was the son of which Broadway musical star?
Answer: Mary Martin

Question: Who wrote the poem Leisure which begins 'What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare'?
Answer: W H Da'Vies

Question: Which album by Madonna was the best-selling album of 1986?
Answer: True Blue

Question: What is the English equivalent of the Scottish dish 'Rumbledethumps'?
Answer: Bubble & Squeak

Question: Which poet wrote 'Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough'?
Answer: John Betjeman

Question: Which is the largest borough of New York?
Answer: Queens

Question: In Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize winning novel 'Wolf Hall', what was the name of the family that lived there?
Answer: Seymour

Question: What is the name of the main German stock market index?
Answer: Dax

Question: Which group had a top ten hit with 'Driving in My Car' in 1982?
Answer: Madness

Question: In which city did Charles 1 establish his headquarters after being turned back from London in 1642?
Answer: Oxford

Question: Where would you most commonly find the inscription Standing on the Shoulders of Giants?
Answer: On The Edge Of A Two Pound Coin

Question: Which is the bestselling book in the world that is protected by copyright (unlike the Bible)?
Answer: The Guinness Book Of Records

Question: Blue Jacket and Delft Blue are varieties of which flower?
Answer: Hyacinth

Question: The Second English Civil War effectively ended on 28 August 1648 with the Royalist surrender of which town to Sir Thomas Fairfax?
Answer: Colchester

Question: How many successive pots must a snooker player make to score a maximum break of 147?
Answer: 36

Question: In the Bible whose wife was Zipporah?
Answer: Moses

Question: Which statesman, executed in 1535, has become the Patron Saint of politicians?
Answer: St Thomas More

Question: What is the name of the play within a play in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'?
Answer: The Mousetrap

Question: Who shot Ronald Reagan on 30 March 1981?
Answer: John Hinckley

Question: Who painted Belshazzar's Feast between 1636/38 and Portrait of Titus in 1655?
Answer: Rembrandt

Question: What is the currency of Algeria?
Answer: Dinar

Question: Who painted Olympia and The Luncheon on the Grass both in 1863?
Answer: Edouard Manet

Question: In which African country is the Okavango Delta?
Answer: Botswana

Question: What is the currency of Iran?
Answer: Rial

Question: What is the common name of the tree genus Fagus?
Answer: Beech

Question: Which name connects a town in the Isle of Man, the Metropolitan Police and a huntsman in a famous folk song?
Answer: Peel

Question: Victorinox is the major brand name of which iconic product?
Answer: Swiss Army Knife

Question: Which name connects a town in the north of England, a prehistoric burial chamber and an American gangster?
Answer: Barrow

Question: The Birth of Venus by Botticelli hangs in an art gallery in which city?
Answer: Florence

Question: Which prominent English politician shares a middle name with former US President Bill Clinton?
Answer: William Hague

Question: In welsh place names what does LLAN mean e.g. Llanberis, Llandudno?
Answer: (Site Of A) Church

Question: Which author wrote the Darling Buds of May?
Answer: H. E. Bates

Question: In which county is the constituency of William Hague?
Answer: North Yorkshire

Question: Which author's first book was the 1964 novel 'When The Lion Feeds', featuring the ex-SAS officer Hector Cross? His latest (2013) is 'Vicious Circle'.
Answer: Wilbur Smith

Question: Which country will host the EUFA European Football Championships in 2016?
Answer: France

Question: The quotation "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" occurs in which 1979 US film?
Answer: Apocalypse Now

Question: Which city has underground stations called Dinamo and Lubyanka?
Answer: Moscow

Question: Which architect (1752-1835) was responsible for the design of the present Royal Pavilion in Brighton?
Answer: John Nash

Question: Designed by Howard Hughes, the Hughes H-4 Hercules aircraft, only of which was produced, in 1947, was known by what nickname?
Answer: The Spruce Goose

Question: Cinnamon, star anise and schezuan pepper are three of the ingredients in Chinese five spice powder. Name either of the other two.
Answer: Cloves/fennel

Question: The 2010 book Arthur and George by Julian Barnes is a fictional account of a real relationship. Who was the real-life basis for the character of Arthur?
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Question: Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine are what type of element?
Answer: Halogens

Question: Which small rodent, often kept as a pet, is also known as a jird or sand rat?
Answer: Gerbil

Question: On a film set what is a gaffer?
Answer: Electrician

Question: The songs It Ain't Necessarily So and Summertime are from which stage show?
Answer: Porgy and Bess

Question: From which country does pinotage wine come?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Which river forms most of the border between Suffolk and Essex?
Answer: Stour

Question: With what area of need does the UK charity Cruse mainly concern itself?
Answer: Bereavement

Question: Who introduced the character of ex-SAS soldier Nick Stone in his novel 'Remote Control'?
Answer: Andy McNab

Question: The Ffestiniog Railway runs from Blaenau Ffestiniog to which other Welsh town?
Answer: Porthmadog

Question: Affecting approximately 1 in 25 children, how is the optical condition amblyopia commonly known?
Answer: Lazy Eye

Question: In Greek mythology who was the wife of Priam and mother of Paris?
Answer: Hecuba

Question: What is the title of Stephen Ambrose's book which followed the .exploits of Easy Company following the D Day landings in 1944?
Answer: Band of Brothers

Question: The name of which type of wineglass is also the name of a musical instrument?
Answer: Flute

Question: Which famous English painter (1776-1837) was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk?
Answer: John Constable

Question: The Autoroute du Soleil is the name given to the A6 from Paris to Lyon, it continues from there as the A7, to which city?
Answer: Marseilles

Question: The fifteen highest peaks in the Carpathian Mountains are all in which country?
Answer: Slovakia