Question: What was the title used by the British Prime Minister from 1828 to 1830?
Answer: Duke of Wellington

Question: Alphabetically which is the last element in the periodic table?
Answer: Zirconium

Question: To which animal does the adjective lapine apply?
Answer: Rabbit

Question: On whose radio show did Kenneth Williams play Rambling Sid Rumpo?
Answer: Kenneth Horne

Question: Which World 1 American general was nicknamed “Black Jack”?
Answer: Pershing

Question: What was the Roman name for the city of Paris?
Answer: Lutetia

Question: Who wrote the play “Racing Demon”?
Answer: David Hare

Question: Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent, was the mother of which king of England?
Answer: Richard II

Question: Lieutenant Pinkerton is a character in which opera by Puccini?
Answer: Madame Butterfly

Question: Echoing its Scottish equivalent, what new name did English Heritage adopt in April 2015?
Answer: Historic England

Question: In the world of computing what is an ISP?
Answer: Internet Service Provider

Question: What was ruled ‘not a sport’ by Sport England?
Answer: Bridge

Question: What is the Queen’s personal flag?
Answer: Royal Ensign

Question: Which is the only stretch of coastline to be designated a British National Park?
Answer: Pembrokeshire Coast

Question: In military slang what are ‘Ack Emma’ and ‘Pip Emma’?
Answer: AM and PM

Question: Which fruit is used in the preparation of Eve’s Pudding?
Answer: Apples

Question: What kind of mammal is a sika?
Answer: Deer

Question: Bingo slang ‘droopy drawers’ represents which number?
Answer: 44

Question: Development of which aero-engine sent Rolls-Royce into receivership in 1971?
Answer: Rb211

Question: Where did world's largest tank engagement begin in July 1943?
Answer: Kursk

Question: Which British designer allegedly invented both the miniskirt and later hot pants?
Answer: Mary Quant

Question: Which model controversially wore a mini-dress to the Melbourne races in October 1965?
Answer: Jean Shrimpton

Question: 'London Calling' was a 1980 hit song for which group?
Answer: The Clash

Question: Who delivers the black spot to Billy Bones in Treasure Island?
Answer: Blind Pew

Question: Who wrote The Compleat Angler?
Answer: Isaac Walton

Question: Lake Eyre is the lowest point of which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were the leading characters in which drama series?
Answer: Partners in Crime

Question: The Plaka is the old historical neighbourhood of which capital city?
Answer: Athens

Question: Which king became ‘insane’ in 1453 but apparently ‘recovered’ in 1454?
Answer: Henry VI

Question: Which film was shot in Bodega Bay, California?
Answer: The Birds

Question: ‘This is a local shop, for local people’ – which TV programme?
Answer: The League of Gentlemen

Question: Which music star married Greg Allman in 1975?
Answer: Cher

Question: What was the name of Inspector Gadget’s niece?
Answer: Penny

Question: Which trunk road in Lancashire is known as the ‘Devil’s Highway’?
Answer: A666

Question: Which composer’s Eighth Symphony is known as ‘The Symphony of a Thousand’?
Answer: Gustav Mahler

Question: At which railway station did Edward Thomas’s train unexpectedly stop in late June, 1917?
Answer: Adlestrop

Question: In 2014, who became the first New Zealand cricketer to score a test-match triple century?
Answer: Brendon McCullum

Question: In the Hindu and Jain religions, what is a mandir?
Answer: Temple

Question: The English rock band Beady Eye were formed in 2009 after the break-up of which group?
Answer: Oasis

Question: What were first known as ‘mufflers’, when first invented in 1743?
Answer: Boxing Gloves

Question: People suffering from the Cotard Delusion believe what?
Answer: That They Are Dead

Question: Also known as winter depression, what is the full form of S.A.D.?
Answer: Seasonal Affective

Question: Andrei Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun are suspects in the murder of whom?
Answer: Alexander LITVINENKO

Question: Who is credited with commercializing jigsaw puzzles around 1760?
Answer: John SPILSBURY

Question: Which capital city was supposedly founded by Yuri the log armed?
Answer: Moscow

Question: On which date is All Saints day celebrated in the Western Church?
Answer: November 1st

Question: Which county finished bottom of division one with a record low points total?
Answer: Northamptonshire

Question: Mary Alice Young was the dead narrator of which TV drama?
Answer: Desperate Housewives

Question: Which is the only freshwater member of the Cod family?
Answer: Burbot

Question: The Peasants Revolt took place during the reign of which English King?
Answer: Richard II

Question: Who or what are ‘Beliebers’?
Answer: Fans of Justin Bieber

Question: John James Audubon became famous for painting ….what?
Answer: Birds

Question: Which Biblical city’s walls fell to the blast of trumpets?
Answer: Jericho

Question: Which king’s four sons together with their mother rebelled against him in France in 1173?
Answer: Henry II

Question: Which Sparkhill Community leader drives a yellow Mercedes?
Answer: Citizen Khan

Question: Which artistic term is used for the balance of light and shade?
Answer: Chiaroscuro

Question: Which street is Dublin’s main shopping centre?
Answer: O’Connell St

Question: What French term is used for a novel based on real people but under disguised names?
Answer: Roman a Clef

Question: In which film does Iris Henderson search for Miss Froy on a train in fictional Bandrika?
Answer: The Lady Vanishes

Question: Who was Hitler’s Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda?
Answer: Joseph Goebbels

Question: In which country is the resort of Marmaris?
Answer: Turkey

Question: The Egyptian species of which small mammal is also called the ichneumon?
Answer: Mongoose

Question: Which infamous club was founded in San Bernardino, California in 1948?
Answer: Hell’s Angels

Question: The environmental phobia ‘ombrophobia’ is an unnatural fear of what?
Answer: Rain

Question: On which children's television show did Ant and Dec first meet?
Answer: Byker Grove

Question: With which brand name do you associate the synthetic substance polytetrafluoroethylene?
Answer: Teflon

Question: What is the married surname of Lady Sarah, daughter of Princess Margaret?
Answer: Chatto

Question: Who was born Amy Lyon near Neston in Cheshire, in May 1765?
Answer: Emma, Lady Hamilton

Question: The bossa nova is a type of what more generic dance?
Answer: Samba

Question: What is the surname of Ceri, the Welsh fly-half who plays for Exeter Chiefs?
Answer: Sweeney

Question: What is the first name of Neil Kinnock’s wife?
Answer: Glenys

Question: The 1934 film ‘Wild Boy’ was based on whose life story?
Answer: Mick The Miller

Question: What term is usually used for a small English village without a church?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: Which general was nicknamed Old Blood and Guts?
Answer: Patton

Question: Which military legend died in Germany in December 1945 as the result of a car crash?
Answer: Patton

Question: Which TV series was about a quartet of students at Scumbag college?
Answer: The Young Ones

Question: Who was the first sportsman to be British Sports Personality of the Year twice?
Answer: Henry Cooper

Question: Who was U.S. President at the start of the 20th. Century?
Answer: McKinley

Question: The ancient ritual of bull-leaping took place on which Mediterranean island?
Answer: Crete

Question: Who was the mother of the English kings Richard I and John?
Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question: Which 12 century Cistercian abbey stood just outside Ripon?
Answer: Fountains Abbey

Question: Which musical instrument was based on the Portuguese ‘draguinha’?
Answer: Ukulele

Question: In 1972 John Hicks became the first Briton to win which of the Nobel Prizes?
Answer: Economics

Question: Which was the first European country to be led by a president?
Answer: France