Question: Which was the first year the World Cup was televised in colour?
Answer: 1970

Question: Who is the only member of Winston Churchill’s Government (a Parliamentary Secretary of Agriculture) who is still alive (95 years)?
Answer: Lord Carrington

Question: Which 1989 Andrew Lloyd Weber musical is based on a 1955 novella by David Garnett?
Answer: Aspects Of Love

Question: Which English Monarch was born in 1367?
Answer: HENRY 4th

Question: What is the more popular name for the plant impatiens?
Answer: Busy Lizzie

Question: What was the name of the group fronted by Lionel Riche before he went solo in 1981?
Answer: The Commodores

Question: What is the name of P & O’s new cruise ship launched in 2015 which is the largest in their fleet?
Answer: Britannia

Question: In 2015 which London museum rejected the Thatcher family’s offer to display memorabilia belonging to the former Prime Minister?
Answer: The Victoria And Albert

Question: Which mythical Titan shares his name with the first cervical vertebrae in humans?
Answer: Atlas

Question: Mace is made from the dried outer covering of which seed, which itself is used as a spice?
Answer: Nutmeg

Question: Give a year in the life of Franz Joseph Haydn.
Answer: 1732 - 1809

Question: What is the name of the Edinburgh Detective created by Ian Rankin?
Answer: John Rebus

Question: From which counry did Cameroon gain independence in 1960?
Answer: France

Question: In which US City is William B. Hartsfield Airport?
Answer: Atlanta

Question: Who was the Greek Queen of the Gods?
Answer: Hera

Question: At the 2016 Oscars which film won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature?
Answer: Inside Out

Question: The first V.C.’s of the First World War were awarded for actions at which 1914 battle?
Answer: Mons

Question: Which future President of the USA took part in the Battle of San Juan Hill (also known as the Battle of San Juan Heights)
Answer: Theordore Roosevelt

Question: Who painted Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, and a Bigger Splash?
Answer: David Hockney

Question: Which actress played the title role in the 1976 film Carrie?
Answer: Sissy Spacek

Question: What is the symbol of the British Standards Institution?
Answer: Kitemark

Question: Who is the Shadow Secretary for Defence?
Answer: Emily Thornberry

Question: In which city will the 2017 World Athletics Championships take place?
Answer: London

Question: Which major UK sporting event was broadcast live on television for the first time in 1960?
Answer: The Grand National

Question: Which South African politician is the only person to sign both peace treaties for the 1st and 2nd World Wars?
Answer: Jan Smuts

Question: Which English actor/singer played the role of P.T. Barnum in the musical Barnum when it opened on Broadway in 1980?
Answer: Jim Dale

Question: What is the pollen producing organ of a flower?
Answer: Stamen

Question: In which English county was RAF Greenham Common, famous for its peace camp which was closed down in 1993?
Answer: Berkshire

Question: With which British band did singer/keyboardist Damon Albarn first come to prominence in the late 1980’s?
Answer: Blur

Question: The three largest cruise ships in the world are own by which cruise line?
Answer: Royal Caribbean

Question: What type of creature is the Simurgh from Persian mythology?
Answer: Bird

Question: A brick laid lengthways in wall construction is called a stretcher, what is a brick laid crossways called?
Answer: A Header

Question: Which actor played Pierre in the 1970’s TV series of War and Peace?
Answer: Anthony Hopkins

Question: Give a year in the life of George Frederick Handel?
Answer: 1685 - 1759

Question: What was the name of the detective created by Ruth Rendell who lived in Kingsmarkham?
Answer: Wexford

Question: From which country did Angola gain independence in 1975?
Answer: Portugal

Question: After Brazil which is the largest coffee producing country in the world ?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: Which 1847 book tells the story of the four orphaned Beverley children who are saved by gamekeeper Jacob Armitage?
Answer: Children Of The New Forest

Question: In which European city is Marco Polo Airport?
Answer: Venice

Question: Jonny and Colin Greenwood are members of which alternative rock band?
Answer: Radiohead

Question: At which Battle of 1812 did the British and allied forces under Wellington defeat a French Army led by Marmont?
Answer: Salamanca

Question: The Missouri Breaks National Monument is in which US State?
Answer: Montana

Question: In Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf what animal does the clarinet represent?
Answer: The Cat

Question: From which country does Fynbo cheese come?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Which star, the brightest in the constellation Lyra, is the fifth-brightest of all the stars visible in the night sky?
Answer: Vega

Question: Who founded the Order of the Thistle in 1687?
Answer: James II of England

Question: Who wrote the 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time”?
Answer: Anthony Powell

Question: What was the name of the Celtic fire festival, which marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter?
Answer: Samhain

Question: The brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor is also the eighth brightest in the whole night sky. What is its name?
Answer: Procyon

Question: Which team caused the first major upset in the Rugby World Cup when they beat Wales 16-13 in a pool match at Cardiff Arms Park in 1991?
Answer: Western Samoa

Question: Which 1961 film starred Paul Newman as pool shark "Fast" Eddie Felson?
Answer: The Hustler

Question: Which novel, first published in the UK in 1921, was the first to feature Agatha Christie's detective, Hercule Poirot?
Answer: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Question: Who was the thunder god in Celtic mythology?
Answer: Taranis

Question: Chris Gittins played which character in BBC Radio's "The Archers" for thirty five-years between 1953 and 1988?
Answer: Walter Gabriel

Question: Who was the Ireland rugby coach when they achieved the Grand Slam in 2009?
Answer: Declan Kidney

Question: The Harrow and Halifax bomber-aircraft, which saw service with the R.A.F. during the Second World War, were built by which company?
Answer: Handley-Page

Question: What do the Americans call the vegetable known in the UK as a courgette?
Answer: Zucchini

Question: Which waterway was developed by Ferdinand de Lesseps and opened in 1869?
Answer: The Suez Canal

Question: Which fictional character, in books and on TV, often spoke of dealing with the Penge Bungalow Murders as the great event of a long career?
Answer: Horace Rumpole

Question: Which opera singer was known as the "Swedish Nightingale"?
Answer: Jenny Lind

Question: What was the name of the psychologist played by Robbie Coltrane in the TV series ‘Cracker’?
Answer: Dr Eddie Fitzgerald

Question: Which Avro delta wing bomber entered service in the RAF in 1956 and was retired in 1984?
Answer: Vulcan

Question: Mendoza and La Rioja are wine regions in which country?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Eritrea gained independence from which country in 1993?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: Peter Benson appeared in over two hundred episodes of TV's "Heartbeat" between 1995 and 2010, playing which role?
Answer: Bernie Scripps

Question: Which airline used to promote itself as "The world's favourite airline"?
Answer: British Airways

Question: Which fortified wine is produced in the Italian island of Sicily?
Answer: Marsala

Question: Anthony Trollope's character, Plantagenet Palliser, sits in the House of Lords under what title?
Answer: Duke of Omnium

Question: Who was the heavily-moustached, gun-toting cowboy who sometimes pitted his wits against Bugs Bunny in Warner Brother's cartoons?
Answer: Yosemite Sam

Question: Which department store chain claims to be "never knowingly undersold"?
Answer: John Lewis

Question: What word do the Americans use to describe a tap?
Answer: Faucet