Question: Which disease, now known to be a virus, was first identified in Germany in 1814?
Answer: Rubella

Question: The Gregorian Calendar replaced which earlier calendar in western Europe?
Answer: Julian

Question: How was Lord Thomson travelling when he died at Beauvais in France in 1930?
Answer: R101 / Airship

Question: In 1910 Leo Tolstoy died in what type of building?
Answer: Railway Station

Question: In 1812 who was shot while walking through the lobby of the House of Commons?
Answer: Spencer Perceval

Question: The Sequoia trees of the Sierra Nevada are better known as what?
Answer: Redwoods

Question: When explaining the Doppler Effect which suffix follows the words 'Red' and 'Blue'?
Answer: Shif

Question: Who played Catherine of Aragon in 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII' AND Queen Victoria in 'Edward VII'?
Answer: Annette Crosby

Question: Kate Philips played which wife of Henry VIII in 'Wolf Hall'?
Answer: Jane Seymour

Question: Which team were named to honour 'the Nordic tradition in the northern Midwest'?
Answer: Minnesota Vkings

Question: Which team are named after the pirates who raided their coast in Spanish times?
Answer: Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Question: Which commercial television company had its studios at Teddington?
Answer: Thames

Question: What does the Morrison's supermarket chain call its delicatessen counters?
Answer: Market Street

Question: The taste of which Chinese beer reminds you that its city of origin was a German concession?
Answer: Tsingtao

Question: Which liqueur keeps Aunt Mary awake?
Answer: Tia Maria

Question: Which brand of cream cheese should spread brotherly love?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: Played by Patrick Newell, who was John Steed and Tara King's boss in The Avengers?
Answer: Mother

Question: Buddy Holly died in which month of 1959?
Answer: February

Question: Who began treatment for her alcoholism in 1978?
Answer: Betty Ford

Question: Who published a regular newspaper column from 1936 onwards?
Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt

Question: Who was never known by her legal first names of Claudia Altaria?
Answer: Lady Bird Johnson

Question: Which industrialist born in Wirksworth in 1803 opened Matlock Hydro in 1853?
Answer: John Smedley

Question: Christians pilgrims to which Spanish city returned wearing a scallop shell in their hat bands?
Answer: Santiago de Compostela

Question: Until recent times Muslim men returned from the Haj wearing turbans of which colour?
Answer: Green

Question: In 1999 FIFA declared which Dutchman to have been Coach Of The Century?
Answer: Rinus Michels

Question: His 1965 recording of 'A Hard Day's Night' was a parody of which actor?
Answer: Laurence Olivier

Question: Sellers described which London suburb as 'the gateway to the south'?
Answer: Balham

Question: What type of port can be found at Pegwell Bay in Kent and at Ryde on the Isle of Wight?
Answer: Hoverport

Question: What is the nickname of Football Premiership club Bournemouth?
Answer: The Cherries

Question: Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell in Yorkshire are the three corners of which triangle?
Answer: Rhubarb

Question: Winston Smith spends most of 1984 trying to learn the lines to which song?
Answer: Oranges and Lemons

Question: What is the Kiwi Fruit commonly called in New Zealand?
Answer: Chinese Gooseberry

Question: What is the name of actress Gwyneth Paltrow's oldest child?
Answer: Apple

Question: If you walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht, what colour was your scarf?
Answer: Apricot

Question: If satsumas were Japanese and mandarins were Chinese, which oranges were North African?
Answer: Tangerines

Question: Bowie's video for 'Let's Dance' was recorded in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Live Aid featured a video of Bowie duetting with which rock star?
Answer: Mick Jagger

Question: Bowie's mother appeared with him in the innovative video for which song?
Answer: Ashes To Ashes

Question: Any direct route from New York state to Wisconsin transects which Canadian province?
Answer: Ontario

Question: In 1886 Franz von Soxhlet suggested that which wine process could be applied to milk?
Answer: Pasteurisation

Question: A geophagist engages in which unattractive practice?
Answer: Eats Earth/Clay

Question: 'Paro' was the largest moai erected on which island?
Answer: Easter Island

Question: Deborah, Diana, Jessica and Pamela were some of the members of which family?
Answer: Mitford

Question: The sisters of Dixon of Dock Green's Jack Warner performed as which characters?
Answer: Gert and Daisy

Question: Which colours link Max Miller's joke books with the River Nile?
Answer: Blue & White

Question: What colour is the directory to the National Gardens Scheme?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Which TV series was set in a telephone exchange in Derby?
Answer: The Hello Girls

Question: Hadfield near Glossop became the fictional town of Royston Vasey in which TV series?
Answer: League of Gentlemen

Question: Which TV series about a women's football team was filmed in Ilkeston?
Answer: Playing The Field

Question: Which actor, born in Hayfield in 1915, supplied the voices of the Mr Men on TV?
Answer: Arthur Lowe

Question: What is the third word of the motto adopted by France in 1946?
Answer: Fraternity

Question: In 2006 TV host Victoria Coren won half a million pounds playing which card game?
Answer: Poker

Question: Which sporting knight made an appearance on The Archers as part of Sport Relief 2014?
Answer: Sir Bradley Wiggins

Question: Bob Crow, who died in March 2014, was the leader of which trade union?
Answer: RMT/Rail Maritime &

Question: Disney’s recent animated film Frozen is based on which tale by Hans Christian Andersen?
Answer: The Snow Queen

Question: What nationality was author Gabriel García Márquez, who died on 17th April?
Answer: Colombian

Question: Which UK national newspaper was awarded a share in a Pulitzer Prize in 2014?
Answer: The Guardian

Question: Which knighted actor directed the 2011 superhero movie Thor?
Answer: Kenneth Branagh

Question: Which member of England’s 1966 World Cup-winning side was born in Shirebrook?
Answer: Ray Wilson

Question: Who was Joseph Stalin’s immediate successor as Premier of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Georgy Malenkov

Question: Which motor manufacturer uses the advertising slogan ‘Simply Clever’?
Answer: Škoda

Question: Which island is known to the French as Aurigny?
Answer: Alderney

Question: Helen Graham is the eponymous protagonist of which 19th-century novel?
Answer: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Question: Which restored castle in West Sussex is the seat of the Duke of Norfolk?
Answer: Arundel Castle

Question: Which Derbyshire railway station has the three-letter code CMF?
Answer: Cromford

Question: The Brooklyn Bridge connects Brooklyn to which other New York borough?
Answer: Manhattan

Question: The Vasco da Gama Bridge, the longest in Europe, spans which river?
Answer: Tagus

Question: Which is the most southerly city to have hosted the Winter Olympics?
Answer: Nagano

Question: Which is the most southerly of the Met Office’s shipping forecast areas?
Answer: Trafalgar

Question: Which European language is spoken by a lusophone?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: The song Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend comes from which musical?
Answer: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Question: The Malabar Coast is found in which country?
Answer: India

Question: Mentioned in the title of Cole Porter’s Begin the Beguine, what is a beguine?
Answer: A dance

Question: The motto of which university is “Learn and Live”?
Answer: Open University

Question: Which fictional division of the Jersey police employed the services of Jim Bergerac?
Answer: Le Bureau des Étrangers

Question: What is the name of the fictional island that provides the setting for Death in Paradise?
Answer: Saint Marie

Question: Which island is the birthplace of Cristiano Ronaldo?
Answer: Madeira