Question: In which city did the original jazz club Birdland open in 1949?
Answer: New York

Question: Who replaced Mike Harding as the presenter of Radio 2's Folk Show?
Answer: Mark Radcliffe

Question: Which Conservative MP resigned as Government Chief Whip after the 'Plebgate' incident?
Answer: Andrew Mitchell

Question: The UK is to spend approximately £1 million before 2015 on Project Hougoumont, where is it to be spent?
Answer: Waterloo

Question: As at April 2013, who presents the Saturday afternoon Radio 2 show 'Pick of the Pops'?
Answer: Tony Blackburn

Question: Who wrote 'Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis'?
Answer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

Question: In the legendary Monty Python sketch about philosophers playing football, which World Cup winning captain was the only real footballer on the pitch?
Answer: Franz Beckenbauer

Question: Who is known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the middle ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Comer of Westminster Abbey?
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer

Question: What do Americans call what we call a chimney?
Answer: Smokestack

Question: What is the chemical symbol for Tungsten?
Answer: W

Question: Which fruit or vegetable is an Autumn Queen?
Answer: Onion

Question: The Lollard uprising and the Battle of Agincourt took place in the reign of which English monarch?
Answer: Henry V

Question: In which year did Michael Owen leave Liverpool FC to move to Real Madrid?
Answer: 2004

Question: Name either of the symbols to be found on the far right hand key of the top (numeric) line of a standard 'qwerty' keyboard?
Answer: THE PLUS SIGN of THE EQUALS SIGN

Question: Which English city is said, like Rome, to be built on seven hills?
Answer: Sheffield

Question: In medical science for what does the "I" stand in MRI scans?
Answer: Imaging

Question: Give a year in the life of Flemish artist Anthony Van Dyck?
Answer: 1599 - 1641

Question: To which island paradise in Celtic mythology was King Arthur taken after his death?
Answer: Avalon

Question: Which actor played the part of Lestrade in the TV series Sherlock first screened in 2010?
Answer: Rupert Graves

Question: From 2002-2005 John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, was Bishop for which English city?
Answer: Birmingham

Question: In which US State did the Salem witch trials take place?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island, lies north-east of which Australian city?
Answer: Brisbane

Question: To the nearest whole number what is the value of absolute zero on the Celsius scale?
Answer: Minus 273

Question: On television who travelled in the Liberator until it was destroyed?
Answer: Blake'S 7

Question: Which Major League Baseball team play home games at the Rogers Centre (formerly known as Skydome)?
Answer: Toronto Blue Jays

Question: The Dickens novel 'Hard Times' is set in which fictional town, partly based on Preston?
Answer: Coketown

Question: In which 1957 film did Alec Guinness win an Oscar for his portrayal of an English officer?
Answer: Bridge On The River Kwai

Question: What is the name for the fruit cherry in German?
Answer: Kirsche

Question: Which 1969 Elvis Presley hit was also a hit for the group Fine Young Cannibals in 1985?
Answer: Suspicious Minds

Question: Name the actress who played the title role in the 1976 film 'Carrie'.
Answer: Sissy Spacek

Question: Native to Australia, what type of creature is a bandy-bandy?
Answer: Snake

Question: In Arthurian legend who threw the sword Excalibur into the lake, at Arthur's request, after his death?
Answer: Bedivere

Question: Which England cricketer holds the record for the highest individual score for his country - 364 versus Australia in 1938?
Answer: Sir Len Hutton

Question: Give a year when Lord John Russell (the Earl Russell) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Answer: 1846-1852 and 1865-1866

Question: In the Bible, which prophet is usually accepted as the author of the book of Lamentations?
Answer: Jeremiah

Question: Members of the Wormwood family are some of the leading characters in which 2011 musical that won an Olivier award?
Answer: Matilda

Question: Which is the last British monarch to have been born outside the British Isles?
Answer: George II

Question: Who wrote the best selling books Pillars of the Earth and World Without End?
Answer: Ken Follett

Question: Which musical instrument is associated with Lang Lang?
Answer: Piano

Question: Which philosopher is famous for his wager that states though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should 'wager' as though God exists, because so living has everything to gain, and nothing to lose?
Answer: Blaise Pascal

Question: Gd is the chemical symbol for which element?
Answer: Gadolinium

Question: Dossi Dosso who died in 1542 was the name used by which Italian Artist from Ferrera?
Answer: Giovanni Di Lutero

Question: In nautical terms what is a donkey's breakfast?
Answer: A Mattress

Question: In what year did Finland become a member of the EU?
Answer: 1995

Question: At is the symbol for which chemical element?
Answer: Astatine

Question: In which Town or City in England is the Vintage Wireless Museum?
Answer: Dulwich

Question: The triangle film corporation was formed in 1915 by Thomas Ince, D. W. Griffith and which other director?
Answer: Mack Sennett

Question: Which county on the West coast of Ireland lies between County Limerick and County Galway?
Answer: County Clare

Question: Jamie Foxx won an Oscar for playing which man in a 2004 film?
Answer: Ray Charles

Question: Who created the fictional police detective Malcolm Fox?
Answer: Ian Rankin

Question: Leaving office in 2010, who was the last Labour Home Secretary?
Answer: Alan Johnson

Question: Which spirit is mixed with white rum, triple sec and lemon juice in a 'Between the Sheets' cocktail?
Answer: Brandy

Question: Who was the son born to Abram (as he was then known) and Hagar in the Old Testament?
Answer: Ishmael

Question: As which character did Peter Kay sing Once Upon a Christmas Song?
Answer: Geraldine Mcqueen

Question: How does Rene Descartes' philosophical proposition "Cogito ergo sum" translate into English?
Answer: I think therefore I am

Question: Deriving its name from the Latin word for little bag - what do you call the pit, or cavity, in the skin out of which a hair grows?
Answer: Follicle

Question: Which Premiership football club's kit was designed by Bruce Oldfield in 1997?
Answer: Norwich City

Question: Which actress was the first person to achieve ten Academy Award nominations for acting and, along with Greer Carson, is the only actress to have been nominated for Best Actress five years in a row?
Answer: Bette Davis

Question: The 1964 movie A Shot in the Dark was the sequel to which film?
Answer: The Pink Panther

Question: Which writer, mother of a British politician, wrote Testament of Youth?
Answer: Vera Brittain

Question: In which African country does the radical Islamist group Boko Haram mainly operate?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: Name either of the African countries in which the Watusi, also known as the Tutsi, people live?
Answer: RWANDA or BURUNDI

Question: Wincanton Race Course is in which English County?
Answer: Somerset

Question: Who sang the 1968 hit Indian Reservation?
Answer: Don Fardon

Question: The quokka is what type of animal?
Answer: Marsupial

Question: The ruling regime in Syria is dominated by which religious group?
Answer: The Alawites

Question: The Priora car is manufactured by which company?
Answer: Lada

Question: The Sedici car is manufactured by which company?
Answer: Fiat

Question: Who is the current Vice President of the USA?
Answer: Joe Biden

Question: Who plays Captain Kirk in the 2013 Star Trek film?
Answer: Chris Pine

Question: Sr is the symbol for which element?
Answer: Strontium

Question: In psychoanalysis what word describes the 'death instinct'?
Answer: Thanatos