Question: Who is the shadow Foreign Secretary ?
Answer: Hilary Benn

Question: Three female trainers have won the Grand National, Jenny Pitman is one name either of the other two,
Answer: Venetia Williams

Question: Who played the title role in the 2015 film Macbeth?
Answer: Michael Fassbender

Question: Which British rock group named themselves after a South African football club?
Answer: Kaiser Chiefs

Question: What name is given to a medicinal extract in a solution of alcohol?
Answer: Tincture

Question: Band leader Glenn Miller was an accomplished player of which musical instrument?
Answer: Trombone

Question: What name ts given to floors in a building, usually between the ground floor and the floor
Answer: above?

Question: David Beckham retired in 2013 after playing 10 games for which French club?
Answer: Paris Saint- Germain

Question: Which group had a number one hit in 1977 with Chanson D’amour?
Answer: Manhattan Transfer

Question: Writing’s on the Wall is the theme song to which Bond film?
Answer: Spectre

Question: Who is the current presenter of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue?
Answer: Jack Dee

Question: Who is the daughter of Leontes in The Winter’s Tale?
Answer: Perdita

Question: In art, what name is given to the technique of mural painting on wet plaster?
Answer: Fresco

Question: Which motorway links Cadnam, west of Southampton to Portsmouth?
Answer: M27

Question: Who is the famous brother of the actress Shirley MacLaine?
Answer: Warren Beatty

Question: In which month is the Lord Mayor’s Show held in London?
Answer: November

Question: Lady Helen Taylor is the daughter of which Royal Duke?
Answer: Duke Of Kent

Question: In which English county is Bletchley Park?
Answer: Buckinghamshire

Question: In which year did Louis Bleriot become the fist man to cross the English Channel in an heavier than air craft?
Answer: 1909

Question: At the 2016 Oscars a film about which singer won the Oscar for best documentary?
Answer: Amy Whitehouse

Question: Who was the founder of King's College, Cambridge?
Answer: Henry the Sixth

Question: King Albert II abdicated as monarch of which country on July 21st 2013 in favour of his son Crown Prince Phillipe?
Answer: Belgium

Question: Which artist sang the soundtrack to the Bond film "Spectre"?
Answer: Sam Smith

Question: Under what name does US singer-songwriter Elizabeth Grant perform, her albums include 'Born to Die' and 'Honeymoon'?
Answer: Lana Del Rey

Question: Columbine is an adjective pertaining to which bird?
Answer: Dove or Pigeon

Question: Which country on the West African coast lies between The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Namibia?
Answer: Angola

Question: Name one of the three earth signs of the zodiac.
Answer: Taurus/Virgo/Capricorn

Question: In the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, what must the Baronet Ruddigore do every day to avoid the witch's curse and die in agony?
Answer: Commit a crime

Question: Whose second studio album in 2014 was ‘X’ (pronounced Multiply)?
Answer: Ed Sheeran

Question: For his role in the film The Theory of Everything’, which actor won the Best Film Actor BAFTA in 2015?
Answer: Eddie Redmayne

Question: Mintonette was the original name given to which sport?
Answer: Volleyball

Question: Where on the human body is the lunula?
Answer: Fingernail

Question: What do the books Pilgrims Progress, Don Quixote and Fanny Hill have in common?
Answer: Written in prison

Question: In which English county is Longleat House and Safari Park?
Answer: Wiltshire

Question: In terms of area which is the second largest lake in Africa after Lake Victoria?
Answer: Lake Tanganyika

Question: In what year did the United Kingdom National Lottery begin?
Answer: 1994

Question: Which game features the terms Winds, Dragons, Flowers and Seasons?
Answer: Mah-jong

Question: Which Stephen King novel features the characters John and Wendy Torrance and their son Danny?
Answer: The Shining

Question: As played by William Shatner in the TV series Star Trek what is Captain Kirk’s middle name?
Answer: Tiberius

Question: What alternative name was given to the American Civil War battles at Manassa in 1861?
Answer: Bull Run

Question: Which animals are termed ovine?
Answer: Sheep

Question: What was the name of Sir Francis Drake’s ship at the start of his circumnavigation of the world in 1577?
Answer: The Pelican

Question: According to the British Horseracing Authority, what is the shortest distance over which horses race?
Answer: 5 Furlongs

Question: Triton is the largest moon of which planet?
Answer: Neptune

Question: How many hurdles must be cleared in Men’s 110m and 400m Hurdles races?
Answer: Ten

Question: Who sang the theme tune to Rawhide, the TV series which ran from 1959-1966?
Answer: Frankie Laine

Question: Which Briton won an ice-skating Gold at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics?
Answer: Robin Cousins

Question: To spare themselves from a plague, in 1633 the residents of the village of Oberammergau in Germany made what heavenly promise which is kept to this day?
Answer: Stage a passion play

Question: In April 2014, a porcelain object from the Chenghua period of Chinese history sold for £21m, setting a record for any Chinese porcelain. What is its colloquial name?
Answer: """Chicken cup"""

Question: If Georgia O'Keeffe is to Taos, New Mexico, which German artist known for his surrealist paintings is to Sedona, Arizona?
Answer: Max Ernst (1891-1976)

Question: The planet Dagobah is the site of exile of which wise master voiced by Frank Oz throughout a seminal series?
Answer: Yoda

Question: In an episode of Mythbusters, what was speculated to have been used by sailors to adjust to light and darkness as they went above and below a ship's deck?
Answer: Eyepatch

Question: What is traditionally broken at the funeral of a magician, the practice starting from Harry Houdin's funeral in 1926?
Answer: Wand

Question: Treskilling Yellow from Sweden, Bull's Eye from Brazil, Inverted Jenny from the United States, Basel Dove from Switzerland and Benjamin Franklin Z Grill from the United States are some of the famous specimens of what?
Answer: Postage stamps

Question: What word internationally recognized as a distress signal and always given three times in a row derives from the French for 'come help me'?
Answer: Mayday (venez m'aider)

Question: The Kiswa, a 658 sq. m. silk cloth embroidered with gold threads drapes what religious object?
Answer: Kaaba in Mecca

Question: In 18th/19th century England, mercury was used in the production of felt, which was used in the manufacturing of hats. Some workers in these factories developed dementia because of mercury poisoning. What expression for insanity has this etymological origin?
Answer: Mad as a hatter

Question: In 2008, China submitted a proposal to UNESCO to make which 13th century 'poetic' city, with its ruins of a 'stately pleasure dome', a World Heritage Site?
Answer: Xanadu (Shàngdū)

Question: First used in the context of folklore in 1885, what term describes a god/spirit/animal who disobeys normal rules and tries to survive the dangers of the world using deceit?
Answer: Trickster

Question: The 1633 painting The Storm on the Sea of Galilee that depicts the miracle of Jesus calming the waves was stolen in 1990 from a Boston museum in what is considered to be the biggest art theft in history. This painting is the only known seascape of which great artist?
Answer: Rembrandt

Question: What is the correct term for a tomb or monument erected in honor of those whose remains are elsewhere?
Answer: Cenotaph

Question: In the US, baseball parks are often designed so that the batter is facing east, in order that the afternoon sun does not shine in his eyes. This means that left-handed pitchers are always throwing from a particular direction. What term for a left-hander originated from this practice?
Answer: Southpaw