Question: Which European country has the Leu as its currency?
Answer: Romania

Question: Which much loved British actress portrayed Mollie Weasley, mother of Ron in the Harry Potter series of films?
Answer: (Julie) Walters

Question: """How does it feel, To treat me like you do, When you've laid your hands upon me, And told me who you are"" are the opening lines of which single which reached no.9 in 1983 and no.3 in 1988 on the UK charts?"
Answer: Blue Monday

Question: Nicknamed “King of the Kippax”, Colin Bell made 394 appearances and scored 117 goals for which English football club between 1966 and 1979?
Answer: Manchester City

Question: On July 1st 1867 Sir John A. Macdonald became the first Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: Which cartoon character has a pet snail called Gary who meows?
Answer: Spongebob Squarepants

Question: Oneirology is the study of what?
Answer: Dreams

Question: How is the title character Prince Myshkin known in the title of a Dostoevsky novel?
Answer: The Idiot

Question: Bassanio, Portia, and Shylock are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Merchant of Venice

Question: On a standard UK typewriter keyboard, over which number is a circumflex positioned?
Answer: 6

Question: Channel 4 have recently announced that they are to screen a one off special of which show to coincide with the EU referendum, presented by Antoine de Caunes and Jean-Paul Gaultier which has been off air since 2007?
Answer: Eurotrash

Question: In what year was the first Formula One motor racing world championship held?
Answer: 1950

Question: Power lifter Micky Yule became Britain’s first gold medal winner at which games last week?
Answer: Invictus Games

Question: Which Briton was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953?
Answer: (Winston) Churchill

Question: Which organ of the human body produces insulin?
Answer: Pancreas

Question: Dave Brock has been leader of which psychedelic rock group for over 40 years?
Answer: Hawkwind

Question: Complete the proverb; “The devil finds work for...”?
Answer: Idle hands

Question: In Astronomy what name is given to the supermassive Black-Hole at the centre of our Galaxy?
Answer: Sagittarius A

Question: To date only 3 teams have won the Women’s Rugby World Cup, England, New Zealand and which other nation’s?
Answer: U.S.A.

Question: Which cricketer holds the record for the highest individual score in a test innings?
Answer: (Brian) Lara

Question: Which U.S. civil rights leader was shot dead on February 21 1965 in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom?
Answer: Malcolm X (accept Malcolm Little)

Question: George Cowling, was BBC Television’s first what? He made his debut on 11 January 1954?
Answer: Weatherman

Question: Which Royal Navy heavy cruiser sank the German battleship Bismarck on May 27th 1941?
Answer: HMS Dorsetshire

Question: In which UK city is the Bullring Shopping centre?
Answer: Birmingham

Question: What is the name of the giraffe which features in the logo and branding of Toys R Us?
Answer: Geoffrey

Question: BFN, CPT, DUR & JNB are all IATA codes for airports in which country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Hola Mahalla is an annual festival celebrated in which religion?
Answer: Sikh

Question: How are the members of The Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers now more commonly known, this name arose from a court case heard in 1797?
Answer: Tolpuddle Martyrs

Question: Florida resident George Zimmerman hit the headlines again last week after he attempted to put which controversial object up for auction, with a starting price of 5000 dollars?
Answer: A Gun (he killed Trayvon Martin with)

Question: Who was executed in the Bolivian village of La Higuera on October 9th 1967?
Answer: (Che) Guevara

Question: Which comic hero was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1939?
Answer: Batman

Question: Dr. Christian Barnard was the first person to successfully perform which type of human to human transplant?
Answer: Heart

Question: Which novelist wrote The Monarch of the Glen and Whisky Galore?
Answer: (Compton) Mackenzie

Question: Clun Forest, Romney and Bluefaced Leicester are all breeds of which animal?
Answer: Sheep

Question: The secretary-general of the Tanzania China-Africa Business Council, Yang Fenglan, has gone on trial in Dar es Salaam recently, she is accused of being the kingpin of a ring involved in the illegal trade of what?
Answer: Ivory

Question: Which eponymous Dickens character has a pet raven named Grip?
Answer: Barnaby Rudge

Question: Which Gloucestershire country estate is the ancestral home of the Duke of Beaufort is famous for annual trials held there?
Answer: Badminton

Question: Which internet based company has its headquarters at 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California?
Answer: Facebook

Question: What is given to a food additive approved for use in the European Union?
Answer: An E-Number

Question: Which fruit is mashed and forms the main body of the dish Baba Ghanoush?
Answer: Aubergine (accept Eggplant)

Question: Which fictional Frenchman was prisoner 24601?
Answer: (Jean) Valjean

Question: Pierre Omidyar founded which company in 1995?
Answer: Ebay

Question: Who played the Penguin in the 1992 film Batman Returns?
Answer: Danny Devito

Question: The World Heritage site Cichén Itzá is in which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: What was the name of Elvis Presley’s entourage?
Answer: Memphis Mafia

Question: On the TV quiz Pointless, how much is added to the jackpot for each pointless answer?
Answer: £250

Question: Name either of the non-Welsh winners of the World Snooker Championship in the 1970s.
Answer: JOHN SPENCER or ALEX HIGGINS

Question: How is Jorge Mario Bergoglio better known today?
Answer: THE POPE (Francis I)

Question: What colour is the beak of an adult male blackbird?
Answer: YELLOW (accept ORANGE-YELLOW)

Question: Which musical features the lawyer Billy Flynn?
Answer: Chicago

Question: Which pre-Raphaelite painted The Light of the World which shows Jesus preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door?
Answer: William Holman Hunt

Question: Who was Poet Laureate between Henry James Pye and William Wordsworth?
Answer: Robert Southey

Question: Which boy band released their first studio album Up All Night in 2011?
Answer: One Direction

Question: Who invented the spinning mule that built on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright?
Answer: Samuel Crompton

Question: Which War was ended by the 1648 Peace of Westphalia?
Answer: Thirty Years’ War

Question: The work of graffiti artist Banksy was first seen in which English city?
Answer: Bristol

Question: Which new town was named after a Durham-born miners’ leader?
Answer: Peterlee

Question: Which word completes the title of the 1926 D H Lawrence novel - The ______ Serpent?
Answer: Plumed

Question: In which 1988 film did Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito play Julius and Vincent Benedict?
Answer: Twins

Question: Which rugby league club played at Thrum Hall between 1886 and 1998?
Answer: Halifax

Question: How many prime numbers are there between 90 and 100?
Answer: One (97)

Question: What was the first name of the hymn-writing younger brother of John Wesley?
Answer: Charles

Question: Which Asian country has the fourth largest population after China, India and Indonesia?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: Which word can be a flightless bird, a Greek goddess or the second largest moon of Saturn?
Answer: Rhea

Question: Which cartoonist and illustrator who made complicated drawings of simple machines was born on this day in 1872?
Answer: William Heath Robinson

Question: What name is given to the shortest hole on the Old Course at Royal Troon Golf Club?
Answer: Postage Stamp

Question: Creighton-Ward is the surname of which character in a TV puppet series set between 2065 and 2067?
Answer: Lady Penelope