Question: Which hero of the 1956 F A Cup Final played for non-league side St. Helen's Town before joining Manchester City?
Answer: Bert Trautmann

Question: Which town is the administrative centre of Buckinghamshire?
Answer: Aylesbury

Question: Where are the headquarters of Essex County Cricket Club?
Answer: Chelmsford

Question: At which racecourse is the Irish Grand National held?
Answer: Fairyhouse

Question: Taraxacum Officinale is the Latin name of which common wild flower?
Answer: Dandelion

Question: Who lived at the TV address, 698 Candlewood Lane, Cabot Cove, Maine?
Answer: Jessica Fletcher

Question: Kinder Downfall is the tallest waterfall in which National Park?
Answer: Peak District

Question: Saint Mary's Hall, founded by the Jesuits, is the preparatory department for which Lancashire Independent school?
Answer: Stonyhurst

Question: Who was President of the USA between 1923 and 1929?
Answer: Calvin Coolidge

Question: Pico d;Aneto is the highest point in which mountain range?
Answer: Pyrenees

Question: Of which book is John Ridd the main male character?
Answer: Lorna Doone

Question: In the passing of a Government Bill, what follows the Third Reading?
Answer: Royal Assent

Question: Which country was known to the Romans as Mauretania Tingitana?
Answer: Morocco

Question: The Porteus Riots of 1736 took place in which city?
Answer: Edinburgh

Question: Which bird referred to in literature is the state bird of Arkansas, Florida and Mississippi?
Answer: The Mockingbird

Question: The paramilitary group Alpha 66 was formed in Florida to oppose whom?
Answer: Fidel Castro

Question: Who plays Agnes Brown in "Mrs Brown's Boys"?
Answer: Brendan O?Carroil

Question: Gideon is the first name of which contemporary politician?
Answer: George Osborne

Question: What is the name coined by Arthur Cayley to a group of numbers displayed in rows and columns to form a rectangular array?
Answer: A matrix

Question: Which is the 6th book of the New Testament following the four gospels and Acts of The Apostles?
Answer: Romans

Question: Who plays Sheldon Cooper in "The Big Bang Theory"?
Answer: Jim Parsons

Question: In the 2014 Oscars, who won the Oscar for Best Actor in a leading role??
Answer: MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY

Question: For which Formula One team do Roman Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado drive?
Answer: Lotus

Question: Which is the largest town on the Isle of Wight?
Answer: Ryde

Question: Which was the first service station to be opened on a British motorway?
Answer: Watford Gap

Question: Who became Anglican Bishop of Liverpool in 2014, replacing Bishop James Jones?
Answer: Rt Rev Paul Bayes

Question: What is the common name of the tree and shrub Salix?
Answer: Willow

Question: Which Irish dish consists of a mixture of mashed potato and cabbage (or kale)?
Answer: Colcannon

Question: In the title of a BBC2 TV programme, how are Antonio Carluccio and Genaro Contaldo known?
Answer: Two Greedy Italians

Question: Which Country & Western singer, who died in 2013, called himself 'The Original Man In Black', his hits include Indian Love Call and'Rose Marie?
Answer: Slim Whitman

Question: Who wrote the novels 'The Fog', 'The Dark' and 'The Rats'?
Answer: James Herbert

Question: In the Bible to where was the Good Samaritan traveling?
Answer: Jericho

Question: The 1919 Prohibition Act was named after which politician?
Answer: (Andrew) Volstead

Question: How many acres are there in one square mile?
Answer: 640

Question: VVhich Pulitzer prize winning author and journalist was present at both the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris?
Answer: Norman Mailer

Question: What is the more common name for the South African mammal the ratel?
Answer: Honey badger

Question: Where were the 1976 Winter Olympics held?
Answer: Innsbruck

Question: Which spirit gives the 'kick' in a Singapore Sling?
Answer: Gin

Question: Which bird was the symbol of the goddess Athena?
Answer: Owl

Question: To within a year either way, how old was Mickey Rooney when he died in April 2014?
Answer: 93

Question: What is the more familiar name of Patrick Clifton, a character in an animated series for children?
Answer: Postman Pat

Question: In which year did all the following events occur: Tunguska explosion in Siberia, First Model T Ford produced, 2-year-old Pu Yi becomes Emperor in China and the Summer Olympics first held in London?
Answer: 1908

Question: Which of Shakespeare's plays opens with the line Now is the winter of our discontent?
Answer: King Richard III

Question: The Express, The Telegraph, The Economist, The Times, The Star and The Independent were all what in 1830?s London? (Not Newspapers)
Answer: Stagecoaches

Question: 'O for amuse of fire that would ascend. The brightest heaven of invention' are the opening lines of which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Henry V

Question: Where did Captain Cook meet his end in 1779?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: Which hotel was the first in London to be lit by electricity?
Answer: Savoy

Question: What significant role did Anmer play on June 4th 1913?
Answer: Horse That Killed Emily Davidson

Question: Who stole the fire from heaven?
Answer: Prometheus

Question: Squidward is the reluctant neighbour and workmate of which children's cartoon character?
Answer: Spongebob Squarepants

Question: Complete the World War 2 slogan Be like Dad......... ?
Answer: Keep mum

Question: Which Mediterranean island features a single Saracen's head on its flag?
Answer: Corsica

Question: Which river forms part of the border between Germany and Poland?
Answer: Oder

Question: Which British daily newspaper was not published between December 1978 and November 1979?
Answer: Times

Question: In which English town or city are the Piece Hall and the Eureka Museum?
Answer: Halifax

Question: John Renboum, Bert Jansch and Danny Thompson were three of the founder members in 1967 of which British folk-rock group?
Answer: Pentangle

Question: Nicolai Petrovich Poliakov became better known as who?
Answer: Coco the Clown

Question: Who was Britain?s first female DJ on BBC Radio 1?
Answer: Anne Nightingale

Question: What condiment is made of boiled beans, roasted grain and brine?
Answer: Soy Sauce

Question: How many years are there between Preston Guilds?
Answer: 20

Question: BBC's Children's Favourites became Junior Choice when Radio 1 and Radio 2 were formed, who presented it?
Answer: Ed Stewart

Question: Harry Hole appears as a policeman in the best-selling books by which author?
Answer: Jo Nesbo

Question: Books including Why Can't Elephants Jump? Why Are Orang-utans Orange? and Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? consist of selected questions and answers from the Last Word section of which magazine?
Answer: New Scientist

Question: Which Football League club moved into its new home in 2007 at the New Meadow, now known as the Greenhous Meadow for sponsorship purposes?
Answer: Shrewsbury Town

Question: As in Neandertal, the German word tal translates as what word in English?
Answer: Valley

Question: Coventry Cathedra! is dedicated to which Saint?
Answer: St Michael

Question: Which country joined the European Common Market with the UK and Ireland in 1973?
Answer: Denmark

Question: What is the name of Monaco’s ruling family?
Answer: Grimaldi

Question: Which is the largest island in the Greater Antilles?
Answer: Cuba

Question: Cardinal Richelieu was Chief Minister of the French King from 1624 to 1642. Which king (name and regnal number)?
Answer: Louis Xiii

Question: Which Scottish football team plays home games at Pittodrie?
Answer: Aberdeen

Question: Goalkeeper Simon Mignolet who signed for Liverpool in 2013 has international caps for which country?
Answer: Belgium

Question: Wasps rugby union club relocated in December 2014 from Wycombe Wanderers to share which other Football League club's ground?
Answer: Coventry City

Question: Give a year in the life of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Polish mathematician and astronomer.
Answer: 1473-1543