Question: Which Verdi opera is based on the play Le Roi S'amuse by Victor Hugo?
Answer: Rigoletto

Question: Sanditon is an unfinished novel by whom?
Answer: Jane Austen

Question: Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished prohibition?
Answer: 21st

Question: What was advertised with the slogan "the totally tropical taste"?
Answer: Lilt

Question: Which of the Tracy brothers piloted Thunderbird 4?
Answer: Scott

Question: Which was the first country to give the vote to women, doing so in 1893?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Who played the title role in the 1997 film "The Jackal" a remake of "The Day of the Jackal?
Answer: Bruce Willis

Question: The "Pascal" is the SI Unit of what?
Answer: Pressure

Question: Who was the top-scoring English footballer in the 2012-13 English Premier League season?
Answer: Ricky Lambert

Question: The Quango, the CQC, reviews and audits hospitals and nursing homes in the UK. For what does the "Q" in CQC stand?
Answer: Quality

Question: Who wrote the book "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists?
Answer: Robert Tressell

Question: On which river does the city of Derby Stand?
Answer: River Derwent

Question: What is Japanese golfer Masashi Ozaki's nickname?
Answer: Jumbo

Question: Studio Ghibli produce award winning animation films but from which country do they originate?
Answer: Japan

Question: Which tough guy actor played a cross dressing pirate in the film Stardust?
Answer: Robert De Niro

Question: What is the anatomical name of the big toe?
Answer: Hallux

Question: Who had number one hits in 1959 with "Side Saddle" and "Roulette"?
Answer: Russ Conway

Question: Which Labour politician wrote a 1989 autobiography titled The Time of my Life'?
Answer: Denis Healey

Question: What is the name of the Wiltshire house of the Marquis of Bath?
Answer: Longleat

Question: What is the standard lap distance in an Olympic velodrome
Answer: 250 Metres

Question: Which celebrity chefs autobiography in 2006 was called 'Humble Pie'?
Answer: Gordon Ramsey

Question: What is the main metallic element in pewter?
Answer: Tin

Question: Name the island separated from the mainland by the Juan de Fuca, Georgia and Queen Charlotte Straits?
Answer: Vancouver Island

Question: Why was model Reeva Steenkamp in the news in January 2013?
Answer: She died in residence of boyfriend Oscar Pistorius

Question: Whom did Ffion Jenkins many in 1997?
Answer: William Hague

Question: What two word term is given to a petition with signatures written in a circular formation so that no one appears to be the ringleader?
Answer: Round Robin

Question: Which ancient philosopher's works are collected in 'The Analects'?
Answer: Confucius

Question: What is the most widely spoken language in India?
Answer: Hindi

Question: Who won Great Britain's only athletics gold medal in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games?
Answer: Mary Peters

Question: Which word describes a temporary or improvised encampment providing little or no cover?
Answer: A Bivouac

Question: In which English cathedral will you find St. Bede's Tomb and St Cuthbert's Shrine?
Answer: Durham

Question: In which month of the year is Michaelmas?
Answer: September

Question: Which is the largest muscle in the human body?
Answer: Gluteus Maximus

Question: Who is the Conservative MP for Maidenhead?
Answer: Teresa May

Question: Which pop singer is the mother of Blue Ivy Carter?
Answer: Beyonce

Question: Which film star has daughters called Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret?
Answer: Nicole Kidman

Question: Who painted 'The Scapegoat', 'The Hireling Shepherd' and "The Light of the World?
Answer: William Holman Hunt

Question: Which company sponsored the 2013 FA Cup Final?
Answer: Budweiser

Question: The song Burning Bridges by the Mike Curb Congregation is sung over the opening credits of which film?
Answer: Kelly'S Heroes

Question: Who was the famous Abbess of Whitby who played an important role in the conversation of Anglo Saxon England to Christianity?
Answer: Hilda

Question: Which song especially written for the film version of Les Miserables was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song?
Answer: Suddenly

Question: Which car company made the Sirocco model?
Answer: Volkswagen

Question: Red Stripe Beer was originally brewed in which country?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: Which fountain pen range has a distinctive white star at the top of its cap?
Answer: Mt. Blanc

Question: Annie Leibovitz and Vivienne Westwood were commissioned to create bold designs for which 1980's range of watches?
Answer: Swatch

Question: Who replaced Judas Iscariot as one of the twelve disciples?
Answer: Matthias

Question: Which TV presenter was married to Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard, daughter of the late Duke of Norfolk?
Answer: David Frost

Question: Horus, the Egyptian god of the sun, war and protection had the head of which creature?
Answer: Falcon

Question: Which comedienne presents the Radio 4 panel game 'Dilemma' and co-presents 'The Great British Bake-Off'?
Answer: Sue Perkins

Question: Which TV policeman worked for the `Bureau des Etrangers'?
Answer: Bergerac

Question: Three people have featured on the reverse of the £5 note, the two most recent are George Stephenson and Elizabeth Fry, who was the first?
Answer: Duke of Wellington

Question: In which war were the battles of Blenheim and Ramillies fought?
Answer: Spanish Succession

Question: In which city is Wawel Castle?
Answer: Krakow

Question: Who has won 7 of the last 10 all Ireland senior hurling championships?
Answer: Kilkenny

Question: Who came fifth in the 2012 Olympic medal table behind USA, China. GB and Russia?
Answer: South Korea

Question: Who first translated the New Testament into English in 1526?
Answer: William Tyndale

Question: Curly McLain is a character in which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?
Answer: Oklahoma!

Question: Which record by Connie Francis kept Cliff Richard from the No.1 spot with his first hit 'Move It' in 1958?
Answer: Stupid Cupid

Question: Who has scored the most test centuries (41) for Australia?
Answer: Ricky Ponting

Question: Which cabinet minister is MP for Chingford and Woodford Green?
Answer: Iain Duncan Smith

Question: Which record by Culture Club was the best-selling UK single of 1983?
Answer: Karma Chameleon

Question: Which jazz pianist had the forenames Thomas Wright?
Answer: Fats Waller

Question: Who wrote the play Entertaining Mr. Sloane?
Answer: Joe Orton

Question: Who introduced The 'New Look' in women's fashion in February 1947?
Answer: Christian Dior

Question: What was main instrument of jazz musician Lionel Hampton?
Answer: Vibraphone

Question: Who played Daphne in the TV series Frasier?
Answer: Jane Leeves

Question: Who is the third wife of Rod Stewart, they married in 2007?
Answer: Penny Lancaster

Question: Augury is a form of telling the future by doing what?
Answer: Interpreting The Flight Of Birds

Question: Bertha Mason is a barely seen but important character in which 19th Century novel?
Answer: Jane Eyre

Question: The singer and songwriter Ketevan (Katie) Melua was born in which now-independent country in 1984?
Answer: Georgia

Question: What was the Christian name of the character played by Penelope Keith in The Good Life' TV series?
Answer: Margot

Question: Who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi in 1948?
Answer: (Nathuran) Godse

Question: Who built the first cast iron bridge at Coalbrookdale, opened in 1780?
Answer: (Abraham) Darby

Question: In which city was Muhammed Ali born in 1942?
Answer: Louisville

Question: To within a year either way, in which year did the Mallard reach 126mph - a record for a steam loco?
Answer: 1938

Question: Who directed the 1975 film 'Jaws'?
Answer: Steven Spielberg

Question: Which 1956 film starred Gregory Peck as a captain obsessed with a great white whale?
Answer: Moby Dick

Question: Which Portuguese navigator (1467-1520) is regarded as the discoverer of Brazil?
Answer: (Pedro Alvares) Cabral