Question: Who wrote the 1968 novel "A Kestrel for a Knave"?
Answer: Barry Hines

Question: In Greco-Roman mythology, who is the Muse of Tragic Poetry?
Answer: Melpomene

Question: In the novel of the same name, the car "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", was built and driven by whom?
Answer: Caractacus Potts

Question: In which constellation is Arcturus, the fifth brightest star in the night sky, located?
Answer: Bootes

Question: The "Sons of the Desert" is the international appreciation society of which cinematic duo?
Answer: Laurel and Hardy

Question: How many cards are used in the card game Bezique?
Answer: 64

Question: Which ladies retail chain has Jacqueline Gold as its Chief Executive?
Answer: Anne Summers

Question: Who directed the 2004 film The Aviator?
Answer: Martin Scorcese

Question: What kind of creature is a Kentish Glory?
Answer: Moth

Question: In which UK county is Corfe Castle?
Answer: Dorset

Question: Which English engineer (1907-1996) is usually credited with inventing the jet engine?
Answer: Sir Frank Whittle

Question: Which building society, demutualised in 1997 and acquired by Santander in 2008, was once advertised by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie using a slogan claiming to attract to ‘a smarter investor’?
Answer: Alliance & Leicester

Question: In which of the United States is Cape Cod?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: In The Planets by Gustav Holst, which planet is the Magician?
Answer: Uranus

Question: Havarti cheese is made in which north European country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: The Lines of Torres Vedras were lines of forts built in 1809-1810 during the Peninsular War to defend which city?
Answer: Lisbon

Question: The name of which European country appears on its stamps as EESTI?
Answer: Estonia

Question: In 2014 a two pound coin was minted with an inscription round its edge which reads ‘SERVING THE MARINER’ to celebrate the 500th anniversary of which organisation?
Answer: Trinity House

Question: In which city is the Juilliard School of Music?
Answer: New York

Question: What is the title of the novel published this year that was originally the first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird?
Answer: Go Set A Watchman

Question: In Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev which instrument represents the cat?
Answer: Clarinet

Question: In which TV show did the character Frasier Crane first appear?
Answer: Cheers

Question: For which club did footballer Robert Lewandowski score five goals in nine minutes against Wolfsburg in September 2015?
Answer: Bayern Munich

Question: Who won Britain’s only 2014 Winter Olympics gold medal?
Answer: Lizzy Yarnold

Question: In the world of antiques, which word is used to describe the known history, documentation or origin of an object?
Answer: Provenance

Question: In which country would you find the ruined city of Machu Pichu?
Answer: Peru

Question: Between 1903 and 1905 who composed the orchestral composition La Mer?
Answer: Debussy

Question: Within one year either way, in what year were Concorde planes retired from service?
Answer: 2003

Question: In which decade did Swiss engineer George de Mestral obtain a patent for Velcro?
Answer: 1950s

Question: Who played Henry VIII in the TV Series Wolf Hall?
Answer: Damien Lewis

Question: In which Country is the town of Schengen where the 1985 treaty was signed?
Answer: Luxembourg

Question: Which is the most populated city on the continent of Africa?
Answer: Lagos

Question: In which American state is Roswell, where it is claimed a U.F.O. crashed in 1947?
Answer: New Mexico

Question: Which gangster was shot and killed outside the Biograph Cinema in Chicago in 1934?
Answer: John Dillinger

Question: Who rules in a Gynarchy or Gynocracy?
Answer: Women

Question: Black, White, Sumatran and Javan are varieties of which endangered species of animal?
Answer: Rhinoceros

Question: A competitor in the 2000 Sydney Olympics - by what nickname was Equatorial Guinean swimmer Eric Moussambani known?
Answer: Eric the Eel

Question: Which Indian city, the capital of Rajasthan, is known as the ‘Pink’ city?
Answer: Jaipur

Question: At which Crimean port did F D Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet for a conference in February 1945?
Answer: Yalta

Question: What symbol is used to denote a National Trail on footpath signs?
Answer: Acorn

Question: In what year did "Rocky" win the Best Picture Oscar, Apple II computer go on sale and Jimmy Carter was sworn in as US President?
Answer: 1977

Question: Which Belgian won the Tour de France five times in 1969 to 1972 and in 1974?
Answer: (Eddie) MERCX

Question: The medical condition rhinopharyngitis is more commonly called what?
Answer: (Common) COLD

Question: In the 1960-68 TV series, what was the character name of "Danger Man"?
Answer: John Drake

Question: Which Football League club was founded in 2004?
Answer: Mk Dons

Question: From what wood are the stocks of fine rifles and shotguns made?
Answer: Walnut

Question: Nancy Sinatra duetted with which singer on the songs ‘Jackson’, ‘Lady Bird’, 'Summer Wine’ and ‘Did You Ever’?
Answer: Lee Hazlewood

Question: Three species of swan are commonly found in Britain, mute and whooper are two, what is the third?
Answer: Bewick’s

Question: Two countries have national flags that are square, name either?
Answer: Switzerland or Vatican City

Question: Fought in 1827 during the Greek War of Independence, what was the last major sea battle to be fought under sail?
Answer: Navarino

Question: Which actor plays Father Brown in the latest T.V. series?
Answer: Mark Williams

Question: Who wrote the book first published in 1933 “The Shape Things to Come”?
Answer: H.G. Wells

Question: What is the Japanese word for a martial arts training area?
Answer: Dojo

Question: Which of the biblical judges selected his army by how they drank from a stream?
Answer: Gideon

Question: With which branch of the arts is Sarah Lucas particularly involved?
Answer: Sculpture

Question: Peter William Thomley was a masked wrestler of the 1970’s who took part under what Oriental name?
Answer: Kendo Nagasaki

Question: As at June 2015 for which F1 team do Jensen Button and Fernando Alonso race?
Answer: McLAREN

Question: Fuerteventura and La Gomera are two islands in which archipelago?
Answer: Canary Islands

Question: Who rode Don’t Push It to victory in the 2010 Grand National?
Answer: A P Mccoy

Question: Who was the famous RAF Bomber Command representative who observed the dropping of the atom bomb on Nagasaki?
Answer: Leonard Cheshire

Question: Which Roman Catholic saint was a Polish Franciscan priest who worked in Japan and India before his death in Auschwitz in 1941, after he volunteered to take the place of a condemned young father?
Answer: Fr. Maximilian Kolbe

Question: In the NATO phonetic alphabet which month is mentioned?
Answer: November

Question: Which UNESCO World Heritage Site, built mainly by Abraham Derby is found in Shropshire?
Answer: Ironbridge Gorge

Question: Which flower and girl’s name is the equivalent of the French name Marguerite?
Answer: Daisy

Question: The home of The Simon Bolivar Orchestra is in which city?
Answer: Caracas

Question: Who was the last King of Greece?
Answer: Constantine II

Question: Leonard was the first Christian name of which British Prime Minister, who was born during 1912, in Portsmouth?
Answer: James CaIIaghan

Question: Which actress was the first wife of US President Ronald Reagan?
Answer: Jane Wyman

Question: Who was Britain’s only Track and Field gold medallist at the 1972 Olympics?
Answer: Mary Peters

Question: Which cathedra! city of northern England has railway stations called "Westgate" and "Kirkgate"?
Answer: Wakefield

Question: Which flowers form the majority of the genus Helianthus?
Answer: Sunflowers

Question: What is the principal unit of currency of Mozambique?
Answer: Metical

Question: Which Greek heroine refused to many a man unless he could beat her in a footrace?
Answer: Atlanta