Question: Georges Pompidou, Prime Minister of France 1962-68) succeeded whom as President in 1969?
Answer: Alain Poher

Question: What would you be expected to do with aspic?
Answer: Eat it

Question: According to a book by former British foreign secretary Lord Owen, which world leader collapsed while sitting on a sofa watching a football game in 2002?
Answer: George W Bush

Question: With what is the American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth particularly associated?
Answer: Invention of the first fully electronic TV

Question: """Jessica"", the theme tune of the TV programme ""Top Gear"", was originally recorded by whom?"
Answer: The Allman Brothers Band

Question: The de facto first Governor-General of India, Warren Hastings, was impeached (and acquitted), on his return to England in 1786, on what grounds?
Answer: Misconduct, particularly mismanagement and personal corruption

Question: Which psychological thriller film was the first appearance for Angela Lansbury (currently in long-running US TV serial "Murder She Wrote") and won its lead actress her first Academy Award for Best Actress?
Answer: Gaslight (1944)

Question: A bodhrn, tabor, pandeiro and bongo are types of what?
Answer: Drum

Question: The names of Maradona, Platini and Cruyff are associated with what World Championships?
Answer: Football (soccer)

Question: The leader of the Catholic Church in England is based where?
Answer: Westminster

Question: Which is the last major military engagement of the American Civil War?
Answer: Battle of Five Forks

Question: Where do Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen appear together?
Answer: On the back of the Great A'Tuin

Question: What is the name for discoveries in detective novels that are put there to mislead the reader?
Answer: Red herrings

Question: In 1971 Alan Shepard fired two balls in which sporting code?
Answer: Golf

Question: After a kangaroo court trial in 1989 which European leader and his wife were then executed by firing squad?
Answer: Nikolae Ceauescu

Question: Who was a British political reformer, writer and politician, noted for her long-standing championship of the Single Transferable Vote system of elections who is the author (1974) of "How Democracies Vote", a standard reference work on electoral systems?
Answer: Enid Lakeman

Question: One of the unique qualities of the Mocon (or Yucum) Falls in the Uruguay River is that they run along the river rather than across it, and another is what?
Answer: They are regularly obscured when water rises in the river

Question: What is a style of delivery mostly used in operas, oratorios, and cantata, in which a singer adopts the rhythms of ordinary speech?
Answer: Recitative

Question: Adele Laurie Blue Adkins MBE is internationally known as what?
Answer: A singer and songwriter

Question: In 2001 at least how many films released in the USA were sequels, prequels, or the start of a series?
Answer: 12

Question: When the British player Virginia Wade won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1977, the last British woman to do so for at least the next approximately 40 years, what other significance did the win have?
Answer: 1977 was Wimbledon's centenary

Question: What was the occupation of the character played by Maggie Smith in "The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie"?
Answer: Teacher

Question: When did the style of football known as "Total Football" reach the World Cup?
Answer: 1974

Question: Actors Saoirse Ronan, Julie Walter, Domnhall Gleeson and Jim Broadbent appeared in which film?
Answer: Brooklyn

Question: In 1949, in the last stages of the Chinese Civil War, Mao Zedong announced the creation of the People's Republic of China in which newly named capital of the Republic?
Answer: Beijing

Question: What is the next in this series: Liesl, Friedrich, Louisa, Kurt, Brigitta, Marta, and ... ?
Answer: Gretl

Question: Where would a fluffer be most likely to be found?
Answer: In an underground railway line

Question: In what sport is the item which is played by the contestants is usually 1 inch (25 mm) thick, 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and in the adult size weighs 3 lb (1.3-1.5 kg)?
Answer: Underwater hockey

Question: Who created the fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey?
Answer: Dorothy L Sayers

Question: Which blood vessel supplies blood to the brain?
Answer: Internal carotid artery

Question: Jean-Claude Van Damme plays both of the twins, separated after the death of their parents, in which 1991 film?
Answer: Double Impact

Question: Who became vice-president and then president of the USA without having been voted into either office?
Answer: Gerald Ford

Question: How many sports are there in a decathlon?
Answer: 10

Question: Balsamic vinegar is traditionally made from fermented what?
Answer: Grapes

Question: Two main mechanisms which create the trade winds, between 30N and 30S latitude, are the differences in solar heat and what?
Answer: The turning of the globe

Question: Between which countries was the War of the Pacific fought?
Answer: Chile and a united Bolivia and Peru

Question: When Kobe Bryant of the Lakers played the farewell game of his 20 year NBA career in 2016 what was his score as part of his side's 101-96 win?
Answer: 60

Question: In the book "Treasure Island", what did Ben Gunn dream of?
Answer: Cheese

Question: The second Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjld, died in office in 1961 and became subsequently one of only four people to receive a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize. How did he die?
Answer: In a plane crash

Question: A washboard scraped with a thimble features as an instrument in what kind of music?
Answer: Skiffle

Question: Gene Hackman did not appear with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder in which of the "Superman" film series released between 1978 and 1987?
Answer: Superman III (1983)

Question: The inability or near inability in colour blindness to differentiate between some colours is, in the most common form of it, between red and which other colour?
Answer: Green

Question: Which is NOT a recognised STD or venereal disease?
Answer: Thrush

Question: When were England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland termed a Commonwealth?
Answer: Under Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector

Question: What was a notable event at the 1990 Australian Open tennis tournament?
Answer: World number 9 John McEnroe was disqualified in his 4th round match

Question: What is the etymology of "malaria"?
Answer: Bad air

Question: In February 2014 which sought after film actor married opera director Sophie Hunter?
Answer: Benedict Cumberbatch

Question: What is the peptide hormone produced in all vertebrates and some others to promote the absorption of glucose from the blood to muscles and fat tissue?
Answer: Insulin

Question: Who was the last Empress of All the Russias?
Answer: Alexandra

Question: Who took the lead role in the 2014 film "The Imitation Game"?
Answer: Benedict Cumberbatch

Question: In July caribou migrate in large numbers south across which continent?
Answer: North America

Question: What differentiates the game of roque from that of croquet?
Answer: It is played on a hard surface, and the grounds are bordered by a low kerb

Question: Bartizan, stylobate, breastsummer are terms found in what discipline?
Answer: Architecture

Question: On Christmas Day 1914 during World War I, there was an unofficial truce between British and German troops at various places along the lines. In sub-zero temperatures in no-man's land near Armentieres, France, the soldiers played what game?
Answer: Football

Question: Wenceslas Square is in which capital city?
Answer: Prague

Question: John Frieda is a famous name in what field?
Answer: Hairdressing

Question: Which city, established in 1849 as a protective Army outpost situated on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River, is the home of a NASCAR track called The Texas Motor Speedway?
Answer: Fort Worth

Question: In 1936, Anastasio Somoza became the dictator of which country?
Answer: Nicaragua