Question: On which day in 1945 was VJ Day (victory over Japan), the day on which Japan surrendered in World War II ?
Answer: 15th AUGUST

Question: The novelty hit record "Ullo john, got a new Motor?" was in the top twenty for eight weeks in 1984. Who recorded this record?
Answer: Alexei Sayle

Question: John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, became the effective ruler of England during the reign of Richard II in the 14th century. Later the father of Henry Bolingbroke, who became King Henry IV, what was John of Gaunt's official title?
Answer: Duke Of Lancaster

Question: Who wrote the opera "The Bartered Bride"?
Answer: Smetana

Question: What is the biggest city by population in the US state of Wisconsin?
Answer: Milwaukee

Question: Which cathedral is the tallest in the UK with a spire height of 123 metres or 404 feet?
Answer: Salisbury

Question: """The 59th Street Bridge Song"" was an early successful recording by Simon and Garfunkel. What is its better known alternative title?"
Answer: Feelin' Groovy

Question: On this day, 31st Janaury, in 2000, who was sentenced to life imprisonment? He was found guilty of murdering 15 people and is suspected of murdering many more.
Answer: Harold Shipman

Question: In an 1890 novel, Basil Hallward paints whose portrait?
Answer: Dorian Gray'S

Question: What name is given to the branch of Christianity followed by Jews in Israel and the U.S.A.?
Answer: Messianic

Question: In the cartoon series "Asterix the Gaul", what is the name of the oldest man in Asterix's Gaulish village who still has an eye for the ladies?
Answer: Geriatrix

Question: Which tree, noteed for the richness of the colour of its leaves, has the Latin name "Fagus Purpurea"?
Answer: Copper Beech

Question: Pop Music - The group called "The Attractions" was the backing group for which pop singer?
Answer: Elvis Costello

Question: Which British actor plays the lead part of George Smiley in the new film version of John Le Carre's "Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy"?
Answer: Gary Oldman

Question: What is the name of Rupert Murdoch's worldwide media company?
Answer: News International

Question: In which city would you find the Spanish Steps?
Answer: Rome

Question: In the original Beatles line-up, who was the bass guitarist?
Answer: Stuart Sutcliffe

Question: What is the traditional name for a 30th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Pearl

Question: The song "If I ruled the world" came from which musical?
Answer: Pickwick

Question: In 1994, the legendary Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna was killed when competing in which Grand Prix?
Answer: San Marino

Question: Which German river flows 292 kilometres from Lower Saxony, flowing into the North Sea just north of Bremen?
Answer: Weser

Question: Which two countries, who would come close to war in 1974, joined NATO on the same day in 1952 ?
Answer: GREECE and TURKEY

Question: Which was Charles Dickens' first published novel, serialised in 20 monthly parts from April 1836 ?
Answer: Pickwick Papers

Question: The Halle orchestra has been based in which English city since its formation in 1858 ?
Answer: Manchester

Question: Stretching from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the east which is England's newest National Park, established in April, 2011 ?
Answer: South Downs

Question: Including a unit of time and named after the rapid deployment troops used by the American forces in the war of Independence, what name was given to the inter-continental ballistic missiles first deployed in 1962 at the height of the cold war?
Answer: Minutemen

Question: Who was voted Welsh Sports Personality of the Year 2011?
Answer: Chaz Davies

Question: Thirty Six of the hats worn at the royal wedding in April, including the much ridiculed one worn by Princess Eugene, were designed by an Irish miliner from Galway awarded the OBE in 2007. What is his name?
Answer: Philip Treacy

Question: What name connects the 1971 Christmas No 1 record, which is the story of a love triangle involving Sue, Ted and the hero of the song, with a number machine first used on 1st June 1957 that has made over 100 million people happy?
Answer: Ernie

Question: The brother of Zeus and Hades and married to Amphitrite, which of the twelve Olympian Gods had both the horse and bull as symbols and was beleived to cause earthquakes?
Answer: Poseidon

Question: What is the correct title of the Simon and Garfunkel song that is often called Feelin' Groovy?
Answer: 59th STREET BRIDGE SONG

Question: Which film duo met The Invisble Man, The Mummy and Frankenstein?
Answer: Abbot And Costello

Question: What is the famous slogan of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus?
Answer: The Greatest Show On Earth

Question: Which of Beethoven's symphonies is also known as the Pastoral Symphony?
Answer: Symphony No 6

Question: Saint-Ettienne is the capital of which French department that shares its name with the country's longest river?
Answer: Loire

Question: Which town in Hertfordshire was built in 1903 as England's first garden city?
Answer: Letchworth

Question: What was the more common name for the German World War II dive bomber the Junkers Ju 87?
Answer: Stuka

Question: Often referred to by trainers in gyms, for what do the letters BMI stand in regard to physical fitness?
Answer: Body Mass Index

Question: Who is the tennis playing sister of Venus Williams?
Answer: Serena

Question: Which Irish airport has the three letter code KIR?
Answer: Kerry

Question: Which English novelist who lived from 1883 to 1959 is probably best remembered for the creation of master criminal Fu Manchu?
Answer: Sax ROHMER

Question: Which novelist, now aged 46, was responsible for the 2003 best selling book The Kite Runner?i
Answer: Khaled HOSSEINI

Question: Born in Cork in Ireland on July 26th 1927 what was the more famous name of the TV entertainer Daniel Patrick Carroll?
Answer: Danny La Rue

Question: Born in Dublin in Ireland on July 6th 1936 what was the more famous name of the TV entertainer David Tynan O'Mahoney?
Answer: Dave Allen

Question: Joseph Jagger, born in 1830 earned himself which long nickname when, in 1873, he hired six clerks to record the outcomes of six roulette wheels at a casino called The Beaux Arts? He discovered that one of the wheels showed a clear bias in that nine of the numbers occured more frequently than others and then went on to win over £65,000 over the next three days.
Answer: The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo

Question: Who were the first team to beat Manchester City in a Premeirship league match in the present season?
Answer: Chelsea

Question: What nickname links the surname of a teacher in TV's Grangehill and the alterego of a British criminal who has the real name Michael Gordon Peterson?
Answer: Bronson

Question: Who, since 2003, has been the Governor of the Bank of England?
Answer: Mervyn King

Question: Which novel is centred on certain "goings-on" at Wragley Hall, a country estate in the Midlands?
Answer: Lady Chatterley'S Lover

Question: In which ballet is Clara taken to the Kingdom of Sweets after she helps to defeat the evil Mouse King?
Answer: The Nutcracker

Question: Who painted the canvas known as Bubbles, later used in adverts for Pears Soap?
Answer: Millais

Question: Which group of stars is also known as the Big Dipper?
Answer: THE PLOUGH or CHARLES' WAIN

Question: Grenouille is the Frenchfor which creature?
Answer: Frog

Question: Who on radio had the catchphrase 'Right Monkey'?
Answer: Al Read

Question: In what decade of the 20th century did Howard Carter excavate the tomb of Tutankhamun?
Answer: 1920s

Question: What drink did the Marquess of Sillery first ship to London in the 17th century?
Answer: Champagne

Question: What name did the alchemists give to the hypothetical substance that would convert all base metals into gold?
Answer: Philosophers Stone

Question: Which band member is organising this year's Diamond Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace?
Answer: Gary Barlow