Question: Which Football League Division One club is based at the New York Stadium?
Answer: Rotherham United

Question: Which nineteenth century novelist wrote 'Mary Barton, A Tale of Manchester Life'?
Answer: Elizabeth Gaskell

Question: In which English city is the Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint Chad?
Answer: Birmingham

Question: By what patriotic name was the tower containing Big Ben renamed in 2012?
Answer: Elizabeth Tower

Question: 8th June 2013 marked the centenary of the death of which suffragette, 4 days after colliding with the King's hors; Ammer, at the Epsom Derby?
Answer: Emily Davison

Question: Joey is the name of the main protagonist in which 1982 Michael Morpurgo book, made into a hit movie in 2011?
Answer: War Horse

Question: Robert Shaw played primary baddie Donald 'Red' Grant in which James Bond film?
Answer: From Russia With Love

Question: Responsible for such films as 'Pulp Fiction' and 'The Crying Game', which film Production Company was founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 1979?
Answer: Miramax

Question: What part of the British Isles was historically divided into 'Sheadings'?
Answer: Isle Of Man

Question: Which animals have types named Black, White and Sumatran?
Answer: Rhinoceros

Question: What is the name of Burma's Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader of the opposition National League for Democracy?
Answer: Aung San Suu Kyi

Question: In 1983 Miss Betty Trask left £400,000 for an annual award for what genre of writing?
Answer: Romantic

Question: What is the capital city of Kentucky?
Answer: Frankfort

Question: Which mythical creature was half man and half goat?
Answer: Satyr

Question: Catherine Bigelow was the first woman to win an Oscar as Best Director, for which film did she win the award?
Answer: The Hurt Locker

Question: The airport of Arrecife serves which of the Canary Islands?
Answer: Lanzarote

Question: Who wrote 'Jurassic Park' and created the TV series ER?
Answer: Michael Crichton

Question: The capital symbol for which letter of the Greek alphabet resembles the letter P in our alphabet?
Answer: Rho

Question: Which author set his novels in 'The Five Towns'?
Answer: Arnold Bennett

Question: Which city is served by Rhine-Ruhr airport, the third largest airport in Germany?
Answer: Dusseldorf

Question: Van Morrison was a member of which 60s group?
Answer: Them

Question: Who wrote the 1993 novel "Trainspotting"?
Answer: Irvine WELSH

Question: Which breed of sheep did Beatrix Potter breed at Hilltop Farm and help to save from extinction?
Answer: Herdwick

Question: What does the Arabic word "halal" mean?
Answer: LAWFUL or PERMITTED

Question: Inspector Bucket is a policeman in which Charles Dicken's novel?
Answer: Bleak House

Question: In the Bible, who was the son of Abraham and Hagar?
Answer: Ishmael

Question: In the Gerry Anderson TV series who piloted Stingray?
Answer: Troy Tempest

Question: In which U.S. state were Henry Ford, Magic Johnson and Berry Gordy all born?
Answer: Michigan

Question: Guaqui and Puno are ports on the world's highest navigable waterway. What is it?
Answer: Lake Titicaca

Question: Bradley Walsh hosts which ITV quiz programme?
Answer: The Chase

Question: Which veteran pastry chef and writer is the female judge of the Great British Bake-Off on TV?
Answer: Mary Berry

Question: Senna and Ammonia were minor characters in which BBC TV comedy series?
Answer: Up Pompeii

Question: What is the German equivalent of 'cheers' when drinking beer?
Answer: Prost

Question: Who had a No.1 hit in 2004 with her debut single 'Smile'?
Answer: Lily Allen

Question: Who was the editor of the Spectator magazine from 1999 to 2005?
Answer: Boris Johnson

Question: In February 2011 an earthquake killed over 180 people in which New Zealand city?
Answer: Christchurch

Question: Ariel, Gillette, Duracell and Oral-B are all brands of which global giant?
Answer: Proctor And Gamble

Question: What is the name of the butler portrayed by Jim Carter in Downton Abbey?
Answer: Mr Carson

Question: Which TV personality has written the best-selling autobiography 'Camp David'?
Answer: David Walliams

Question: In which city is the Prado Art Gallery?
Answer: Madrid

Question: The Manush and Sinti are branches of which ethnic group?
Answer: Romany / Gypsies

Question: Which hardwearing fabric, a variety of cotton, is named after a Chinese port?
Answer: Nankeen

Question: Which 2003 Sofia Coppola film is set in the Park Hyatt Hotel, Tokyo?
Answer: Lost in Translation

Question: Which artist's real name may be Robin Gunningham?
Answer: Banksy

Question: Who currently presents the Radio 1 Breakfast Show?
Answer: Nick Grimshaw

Question: Which scientist formulated the law of elasticity in 1660?
Answer: Robert Hooke

Question: What happened at Scapa Flow on 21st June 1919?
Answer: German fleet was scuttled

Question: Completed in 1998 and looking down on Gateshead, Anthony Gormley's giant sculpture is called what "of the North'?
Answer: Angel

Question: In which of Dickens's novels do Pip Pirrip and Miss Havisham appear?
Answer: Great Expectations

Question: What is the name from a nursery rhyme, of the drink made from orange juice and bitter lemons?
Answer: St Clements

Question: How many days are there in Lent?
Answer: 40

Question: What is the name of the solid residue left after coal has been carbonised and almost all of its constituent volatiles removed?
Answer: Coke

Question: According to the title of the 1964 hit by The Shangri-La's, who did the girl meet at the candy store?
Answer: The Leader Of The Pack

Question: Which comedian and comic actor played both 'the Gaffer' and 'Selwyn Froggitt' in TV series?
Answer: Bill Maynard

Question: Ten inches is the equivalent of how many millimetres?
Answer: 254

Question: David Attenborough, in 2012, became the second person to have appeared four times as a castaway on Desert Island Discs; which Liverpool born comedian was the first?
Answer: Arthur Askey

Question: How many countries currently make up the European Union?
Answer: Twenty seven

Question: Leviathan, the world's largest vessel of its type when built at Cammell Laird in 1909, was based at the Port of Liverpool, what type of vessel was she?
Answer: (Suction) Dredger

Question: Name the actress who died in July 2011 aged 94, who is probably best remembered for her role as the governor of a women's prison in Within These Walls?
Answer: Googie Withers

Question: Which former US First Lady died in July 2011 at the age of 93?
Answer: Betty Ford

Question: Who is the choirmaster of the 'Military Wives'?
Answer: Gareth Malone

Question: Which World Heritage site is 3 miles north east of Bushmills in Northern Ireland?
Answer: The Giant'S Causeway

Question: Within one year either way, in what year was the Girl Guides Association formed?
Answer: 1910

Question: Which classical author wrote the Georgics?
Answer: Virgil

Question: Who has had dogs called Ruby, Teddy, Offa, Lucy and Sadie?
Answer: David Blunkett

Question: Which British city's pubs were state-controlled from 1915-1971?
Answer: Carlisle

Question: Which garden plant has the varieties 'Brutus', 'Dollar Princess' and 'Eva Boerg'?
Answer: Fuchsia

Question: The novel 'A Good Year', about a City trader who inherits a vineyard in Provence, was adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cottillard. Who wrote it?
Answer: Peter Mayle

Question: Samantha Murray won GB's final medal of the 2012 Olympics in which sport?
Answer: (Women'S) Modern Pentathlon

Question: Who won the USA's only gold medal in boxing at Tokyo Olympic Games of 1964?
Answer: Joe Frazier

Question: Marilyn Monroe was born and died in the same American City which one?
Answer: Los Angeles

Question: Which British monarch was 'Elector of Hanover' from 1698-1727?
Answer: George I

Question: Who had number 1 hits in 1959 with 'Dream Lover' and 'Mack the Knife'?
Answer: Bobby Darin