Question: 'Eleanor Rigby' and 'Yellow Submarine' first appeared on which Beatles album of 1966?
Answer: Revolver

Question: Who wrote the 2005 bestseller 'The Shadow of the Wind' set in post Spanish Civil War Barcelona?
Answer: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Question: Who after Real Madrid have won the European Cup/Champions League Trophy the most times?
Answer: Ac Milan

Question: Who was the Chief Medical Officer for England from 1998 to May 2010?
Answer: Sir Liam Donaldson

Question: In York what were located originally in the famous street known as the Shambles?
Answer: Butcher'S

Question: Which European country's flag is a vertical tricolour black, yellow and red (in that order left to right)?
Answer: Belgium

Question: John Adams, 2nd President of the USA, was the delegate to the Continental Congress for which American state?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: Which was the last country to join the G8 in 1997 (changing the G7 to G8)?
Answer: Russia

Question: In the 2010 General Election a constituency in which city was the first to declare its result?
Answer: Sunderland

Question: What does the Swedish name Bjorn literally mean?
Answer: Bear

Question: What is a naevus, or nevus?
Answer: A BIRTHMARK or MOLE

Question: In a football context who are Bafana Bafana?
Answer: South African Team

Question: Which actress is married to Taylor Hackford?
Answer: Helen Mirren

Question: Who is the TESCO boss who recently announced his intention to retire?
Answer: Sir Terry Leahy

Question: Which cricketer has scored the most test runs without making a test century?
Answer: Shane Warne

Question: Who directed the 2004 Oscar winning film 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'?
Answer: Peter Jackson

Question: What is the highest number that is a common factor (HCF) of 32 and 48?
Answer: 16

Question: Rachmaninov's 'Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini' is a work for which solo instrument and orchestra?
Answer: Piano

Question: 'Yesterday' and 'Ticket to Ride' first appeared on which Beatles album of 1965?
Answer: Help!

Question: Who wrote the 2006 best seller 'The Book Thief' set in Munich during World War II?
Answer: Markus Zusak

Question: Between 1977 and 1982 English football clubs won the European Cup 6 times in succession.
Answer: The winners were Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and which other club?

Question: In Edinburgh what name is given to the streets that link the Castle with Holyrood Palace?
Answer: Royal Mile

Question: Which European country's flag is a horizontal tricolour red, white and green (in that order top to bottom)?
Answer: Hungary

Question: Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the USA, was the delegate to the Continental Congress for which American state?
Answer: Virginia

Question: In which country will the 2011 Rugby Union World Cup be held?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: In the 2010 General Election 2 former Home Secretaries lost their seats. Name either.
Answer: Jacqui Smith / Charles Clarke

Question: What does the name Sylvia literally mean?
Answer: WOODS or FOREST

Question: Which famous singer said 'I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to'?
Answer: Elvis Presley

Question: The 2009 film `Inglourious Basterds' is set during which conflict?
Answer: World War Ii

Question: Who is the BP Chief Executive recently quizzed by the US Congress?
Answer: Tony Hayward

Question: Which English county borders only one other county?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: Beaune, Nuits St George and Chambertin are wines from which French wine region?
Answer: Burgundy

Question: In a 2010 film Percy Jackson is the son of which Greek God?
Answer: Poseidon

Question: Who directed the 2005 Oscar winning film 'Million Dollar Baby'?
Answer: Clint Eastwood

Question: By population, what is the second largest city in Belgium?
Answer: Antwerp

Question: What is the capital of the French region of Brittany?
Answer: Rennes

Question: Dyce airport serves which city?
Answer: Aberdeen

Question: What is the birthstone for September?
Answer: Sapphire

Question: Which Shakespeare play takes place in the city of Messina, Sicily?
Answer: Much Ado About Nothing

Question: Which group from Teignmouth has issued albums 'Black Holes & Revelations' and 'The Resistance'
Answer: Muse

Question: Which French Football Ligue 1 team's name includes the title Girondins?
Answer: Bordeaux

Question: Hobgoblin, Fidler's Elbow and Goliath are brewed by which brewer based at Witney in Oxfordshire?
Answer: Wychwood Brewery

Question: Who is the patron saint of Norway?
Answer: St. Olaf

Question: Who wrote the songs and music for Easter Parade?
Answer: Irving Berlin

Question: Name the Nigerian boxer who boxed in Liverpool from 1951, became the World Featherweight champion in Paris, in June 1957 stopping Cherif Hamia.
Answer: Hogan 'Kid' Bassey

Question: Taraxacum spp is the Latin name for which genus of common wild garden plant?
Answer: Dandelion

Question: Which UK supermarket has its headquarters in Preston?
Answer: Booths

Question: What colour is the artist's colour called vermillion?
Answer: Red

Question: Later holding a cabinet post, who finished second to Edward Heath in the 1965 Conservative Party Leadership Election?
Answer: Reginald Maudling

Question: What name is given to the handiwork made from the byproducts of harvesting marine mammals?
Answer: Scrimshaw

Question: Snell's Law deals with which branch of physics?
Answer: Optics or Light

Question: Catherine Morland is a leading character in which novel?
Answer: Northanger Abbey

Question: Whose symphony no3 is subtitled 'Scottish'?
Answer: Felix Mendelssohn

Question: Anthophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: Flowers

Question: In Greek mythology who is the God of Death?
Answer: Thanatos

Question: Who was the team principal of the Renault Fl team who resigned following the 'Crashgate scandal' in 2009?
Answer: Flavio Briatore

Question: In which city is Da Vinci's Last Supper on display?
Answer: Milan

Question: Which chemical element, No 36, is named for the Greek for 'hidden one'?
Answer: Krypton

Question: Which Shakespeare play takes place in the Kingdom of Navarre?
Answer: Love's Labour Lost

Question: Which group from Abingdon has issued albums 'Hail to the thief and 'In Rainbows'?
Answer: Radiohead

Question: The French Football Ligue 1 team Marseille have which other name in their title?
Answer: Olympique

Question: Who narrated the English version of Pocoyo?
Answer: Stephen Fry

Question: Bitter and Twisted, Old Engine Oil and Schiehallion are brewed by which brewer based at Alva in Clackmannanshire?
Answer: Harviestoun Brewery

Question: Who is the patron saint of Sweden?
Answer: St. Brigit

Question: Who wrote the lyrics and music for A Little Night Music?
Answer: Stephen Sondheim

Question: Name the Nigerian boxer who first boxed in Liverpool in the 1950s, later emigrating to USA where at different times he was both World Middleweight and Light Heavyweight champion?
Answer: Dick Tiger (accept Richard Ihetu

Question: Rumex spp is the Latin name for which genus of common wild garden plant?
Answer: Dock

Question: Who played the male lead in the 1958 film 'Bell, Book & Candle'?
Answer: James Stewart

Question: In the abbrevation CAFOD - for what does the 'O' stand?
Answer: Overseas

Question: From which piece of literature do the following lines come? 'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way'
Answer: Elegy written in a Country Churchyard

Question: Whernside is the highest peak in which National Park?
Answer: Yorkshire Dales

Question: What colour is the artist's colour called amaranth?
Answer: Purple

Question: Later holding a cabinet post, who finished second to Harold Wilson in the 1963 Labour Party Leadership Election?
Answer: George Brown.

Question: What name is given to leather now usually made from shark and ray skin?
Answer: Shagreen