Question: The Italian dessert zabaglione is made from eggs, sugar and which fortified wine?
Answer: Marsala

Question: Made in green and yellow varieties, which liqueur comes from the monastery which is the home of a monastic order founded by St Bruno?
Answer: Chartreuse

Question: Which bird is sometimes referred to as the 'goatsucker'?
Answer: Nightjar

Question: Which poet's ashes were interred in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, in 1967?
Answer: John Masefield

Question: Run to the Hills and Bring your Daughter to the Slaughter have been hit singles for which band?
Answer: Iron Maiden

Question: Which actor's ashes were interred in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, in 1989?
Answer: Laurence Olivier

Question: Need You Tonight and Suicide Blonde have been hit singles for which band?
Answer: Inxs

Question: Which bird is sometimes referred to as the 'philomel'?
Answer: Nightingale

Question: What is the state capital of New Hampshire?
Answer: Concord

Question: Mario Draghi succeeded Jean-Claude Trichet as the President of which financial organisation in
Answer: November 2011?

Question: The 1958 film The Matchmaker starring Anthony Perkins and Shirley McLaine was remade in 1969 as which musical?
Answer: Hello Dolly

Question: Which Formula One Racing driver is the cousin of 3-time Indianapolis 500 winner and current Indy car driver Dario Franchitti?
Answer: Paul Di Resta

Question: The 1940 movie The Philadelphia Story starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart was remade in 1956 as which musical?
Answer: High Society

Question: How is the woman born Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst in Stettin in 1729 more commonly known to history?
Answer: Catherine The Great

Question: Which English cyclist finished second behind Bradley Wiggins in the 2012 Tour de France?
Answer: Chris Froome

Question: The 2003 Stephen Fry film Bright Young Things was based on which author's novel Vile Bodies?
Answer: Evelyn Waugh

Question: Which Oscar-winning American actress published the cookery book It's All Good earlier this year?
Answer: Gwyneth Paltrow

Question: Which football league club play home games at the Crown Ground?
Answer: Accrington Stanley

Question: Give a year in the life of Italian artist Botticelli?
Answer: 1445-1510

Question: The Iran/Iraqi war which took place in the 1980's was also known as what?
Answer: First Persian Gulf War

Question: The flying fox is a large what?
Answer: (Fruit) Bat

Question: Who succeeded Stalin as Soviet leader?
Answer: Georgi Malenkov

Question: What element is obtained from bauxite?
Answer: Aluminium

Question: Who composed the opera "The Magic Fountain"?
Answer: Frederick Delius

Question: Give a year in the life of the French artist Gauguin?
Answer: 1848-1903

Question: Who wrote the novel 'The Moonstone'?
Answer: Wilkie Collins

Question: Who became Roman Emperor after Tiberius in 37AD?
Answer: Caligula

Question: What does the term guttate describe?
Answer: Having Or Resembling Drops

Question: The shipping forecast area 'Fitzroy" was previously known as what?
Answer: Finisterre

Question: Uttoxeter racecourse is in which English county?
Answer: Staffordshire

Question: St Catherine's Point is situated in which UK county?
Answer: Isle Of Wight

Question: Alexander the Great died in which ancient city?
Answer: Babylon

Question: The 2022 Football World Cup is to be held where?
Answer: Qatar

Question: What was the name of the actress who appeared in most Monty Python shows?
Answer: Carol Cleveland

Question: In the novel 1984 what was the surname of Winston Smith's interrogator?
Answer: O'Brien

Question: What is the name of the Islamic militant group active in Nigeria?
Answer: Boko Haram

Question: Who wrote the play 'Fear and Misery of the Third Reich'?
Answer: Bertolt Brecht

Question: Who is the mother of Aphrodite in Greek mythology?
Answer: Dione

Question: Be is the symbol for which element?
Answer: Beryllium

Question: Sturnus Vulgaris is more commonly known as what bird?
Answer: Starling

Question: Which country won cricket's first World Cup in 1975?
Answer: West Indies

Question: Who has taken over from the late Hugo Chavez as Venezuelan President?
Answer: Nicolas Maduro

Question: The Battle of Culloden in 1746 was fought near which Scottish city?
Answer: Inverness

Question: The bird genus corvidae consists mainly of what commonly known bird?
Answer: Crow

Question: Who is known as the founder of the science of genetics?
Answer: Gregor Mendel

Question: Lady Jane Grey was great granddaughter of which English king?
Answer: Henry Vii

Question: The SDP (Social Democratic Party) was formed in which year?
Answer: 1981

Question: Who directed the 2009 film 'The Hurt Locker'?
Answer: Kathryn Bigelow

Question: In the brain what area is especially associated with memory?
Answer: Hippocampus

Question: The singer Stefani Germanotta is better known as who?
Answer: Lady Gaga

Question: Who was the last Tudor Monarch?
Answer: Elizabeth I

Question: Who wrote the play 'The Playboy of the Western World?
Answer: J M Synge

Question: Who plays cricket at the New Road County Ground?
Answer: Worcester

Question: Who in the Bible was the mother of Jacob and Esau?
Answer: Rebecca

Question: Which country has the highest capital in the world?
Answer: Bolivia

Question: Watson and Crick discovered DNA in what year?
Answer: 1953

Question: What was the last battle of the English Civil War?
Answer: Battle Of Worcester

Question: Who wrote the play "The Homecoming"?
Answer: Harold Pinter

Question: Give a year in the life of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler?
Answer: 1860-1911

Question: Which is the only country to be listed in the NATO phonetic alphabet?
Answer: India

Question: On 4th July 1964, the Rolling Stones appeared as the panel on which TV programme, the only time that the panel featured more than four people?
Answer: Juke Box Jury

Question: Who played the title character in the 2012 film 'Lincoln'?
Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis

Question: Who will captain the 2014 European Ryder Cup team?
Answer: Paul McGinley

Question: Which rank of the peerage is directly below a duke?
Answer: Marquis

Question: Name either of the US states bordering Chesapeake Bay?
Answer: Maryland, Virginia

Question: Which building is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London?
Answer: Mansion House

Question: For most of its length which river forms a natural boundary between Norfolk and Suffolk?
Answer: Waveney

Question: In World War 2, in which country was the Mannerheim Line built?
Answer: Finland

Question: Which is the only country's capital to be listed in the NATO phonetic alphabet?
Answer: Peru

Question: In which year did all four of the home nations qualify for the football world cup?
Answer: 1958

Question: Who wrote the 2003 novel 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time' later made into a play, winning the best new play award in 2013?
Answer: Mark Haddon

Question: What is the name of the medical condition which causes the sufferer to fall asleep anywhere, at any time?
Answer: Narcolepsy

Question: In the 2012 film 'Les Miserables', who plays Jean Valjean?
Answer: Hugh Jackman

Question: About whom did Eric Clayton write Layla?
Answer: Patti Boyd

Question: Which island is separated from the mainland by The Swale?
Answer: Sheppey

Question: Which is the third most abundant elemental gas found in the Earth's atmosphere?
Answer: Argon

Question: Which aircraft company produced models called the Cherokee and the Seminole?
Answer: Piper

Question: Which supermarket uses the slogan 'Live Well For Less'?
Answer: Sainsbury's

Question: Which is the last absolute monarchy in Africa?
Answer: Swaziland

Question: What was the surname of the father and son who were joint winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 for their work on crystal structures?
Answer: Bragg

Question: In an opera, whose lover was Cavaradossi?
Answer: Tosca