Question: Which 17th century would-be assassin is reputed to have said to one of his victims “a desperate disease requires a desperate remedy”?
Answer: Guy Fawkes

Question: What was the name of the ITV network’s teletext information service started in the late 1970s which ceased in 1992?
Answer: Oracle

Question: Which town is the centre of the SS postcode?
Answer: Southend

Question: Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi appear as Celia and Alan, two childhood sweethearts reunited via Facebook, in which BBC TV drama series?
Answer: Last Tango in Halifax

Question: Give the surname of the British father and son who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915?
Answer: Bragg

Question: Which ship, launched in 1860, was the Royal Navy’s first iron-hulled warship?
Answer: HMS Warrior

Question: The Law concerning the distance and relative speeds of celestial bodies and said to confirm the Big Bang Theory is named after which American astronomer?
Answer: (Edwin) Hubble

Question: In which Russian city is the Summer Palace?
Answer: St. Petersburg

Question: in which battle of 1403 was Harry Hotspur killed?
Answer: Shrewsbury

Question: Alfred Butts created which board game in 1938?
Answer: Scrabble

Question: In the poem by Tennyson, the line "I am here at the gate alone" is addressed to whom?
Answer: Maud

Question: Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, was known by what name when it was part of Yugoslavia?
Answer: Titograd

Question: With a character in which novel does Starbuck's coffee chain share its name?
Answer: Moby Dick

Question: Which British Prime Minister said, on first taking office, 'My mission is to pacify Ireland'?
Answer: William Gladstone

Question: Who did Australia beat in the final of the 2015 ICC World Cup?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: In the American Civil War General Sherman led the so-called 'March to the Sea' through which US state?
Answer: Georgia

Question: Which jockey won the Derby at Epsom in 2015 for the second time?
Answer: Frankie Dettori

Question: Which theatrical movement was initiated by Antonin Artaud in the 1930s 'to disturb audiences and strip away the veneer of civilisation'?
Answer: The Theatre Of Cruelty

Question: Who was the losing presidential candidate to Lyndon B Johnson in 1964?
Answer: Barry Goldwater

Question: The German word Dom signifies what type of building?
Answer: Cathedral

Question: What is the name of Sidney Poitier?s character in the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night? (The name features in the title of a 1970 follow-up.)
Answer: Virgil Tibbs

Question: Benny, Agnetha, Anni-Frid and ________ who made up ABBA?
Answer: Björn

Question: A plane from which budget airline crashed in the Alps in March this year?
Answer: Germanwings

Question: What date is All Saints’ Day?
Answer: November 1

Question: Who was the last Tsar of Russia?
Answer: Nicholas Ii

Question: Who led the British East India Company forces against the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies at the Battle of Plassey in 1757?
Answer: Colonel Robert Clive

Question: Jack Nicholson has won two Best Actor Oscars, but for which 1983 film did he win Best Supporting Actor?
Answer: Terms Of Endearment

Question: Which poem by Walter de la Mare begins “‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller”?
Answer: The Listeners

Question: Which French blue cheese, ripened in the caves of Mount Combalou is made from ewe's milk?
Answer: Roquefort

Question: The site of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, is situated in which modern day country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: In which country is Sochi, the host of the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Russia

Question: In heraldry, which colour is denoted by the term azure?
Answer: Blue

Question: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, would have been situated in which modern day country?
Answer: Iraq

Question: In which century was Innocent XIII the Pope, the last Pope of this name?
Answer: 18th Century

Question: Which Michael Frayn play is based around a 1941 meeting between Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr?
Answer: Copenhagen

Question: Which country split into two in the velvet divorce of 1993?
Answer: Czechoslovakia

Question: Located in the Orkney Islands, which sea stack is the third tallest in Britain?
Answer: Old Man of Hoy

Question: The sisters Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen are the eponymous characters in which D. H. Lawrence novel from 1920?
Answer: Women In Love

Question: Which politically active Chinese artist was arrested for “Economic Crimes' in 2011?
Answer: Ai Weiwei

Question: In which city did the 2 015 Football Champions League final take place?
Answer: Berlin

Question: In 2015 the left wing Syriza party won the general election in which country?
Answer: Greece

Question: According to the Old Testament, which place is the source of the river that divides into four other rivers - the Pishon, Gihon, Tigris and Euphrates?
Answer: The Garden of Eden

Question: The term “paparazzi’ is derived from the name of a character in which film by Federico Fellini?
Answer: La Dolce Vita

Question: Who cried when his ‘Walkers Crisps’ were taken off him?
Answer: Paul Gascoigne

Question: Under what pseudonym did writer Edith Pargeter create the detective Brother Cadfael?
Answer: Ellis Peters

Question: Which French revolutionary leader was assassinated by Charlotte Corday whilst he was having a bath?
Answer: Marat

Question: The cartoon character Garfield the Cat was created by which cartoonist?
Answer: Jim Davis

Question: The "Ampere" is the SI Unit of what?
Answer: Electrical Current

Question: Which Rugby League team won the Kingstone Press Championship in 2014?
Answer: Leigh Centurions

Question: In which city is "The Statue of David" by the Renaissance sculptor, Michelangelo Buonarotti, now to be found?
Answer: Florence

Question: Prior to his elevation to the papacy in 2013 as Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was archbishop of which city?
Answer: Buenos Aires

Question: Which Pope was originally called Simon?
Answer: St Peter

Question: Which river flows through the centre of the city of Durham?
Answer: The River Wear

Question: In which constellation is Aldebaran the brightest star?
Answer: Taurus

Question: in which year was the Duke of Marlborough victorious at the Battle of Blenheim?
Answer: 1704

Question: Which Mozart opera of 1781 is set in the aftermath of the Trojan War?
Answer: Idomeneo

Question: In which constellation is Spica the brightest star?
Answer: Virgo

Question: Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the contiguous USA, is in which range?
Answer: Sierra Nevada

Question: Of which Irish county is Ennis the county town?
Answer: Clare

Question: Of which Irish county is Tralee the county town?
Answer: Kerry

Question: Which playwright was the maternal grandfather of actress Geraldine Chaplin?
Answer: Eugene O'Neill

Question: Two Books of the Old Testament begin with the letter L. One is Leviticus. What is the other?
Answer: Lamentations

Question: The basenji breed of hunting dog originated on which continent?
Answer: Africa

Question: Which motor manufacturer produces a model called the Yaris?
Answer: Toyota

Question: Which country in Central America has the highest population?
Answer: Guatemala

Question: Which American author is mentioned in the Beatles song l am the Walrus?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: Which lake was formed by the construction of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado river?
Answer: Lake Mead

Question: Which general interest magazine was founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace?
Answer: Reader’S Digest

Question: Who wrote the sketch The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town for The Two Ronnies TV show?
Answer: Spike Milligan

Question: Stephen Hendry was the World Snooker Champion every year between 1990 and 1996 except for 1991. Who won the title in 1991?
Answer: John Parrott

Question: TV's Peaky Blinders is set in which UK city?
Answer: Birmingham