Question: What botanically has varieties Jonathan, Rome Beauty and Sunset?
Answer: Apple

Question: 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' is the best known work by which composer?
Answer: Paul Dukas

Question: Foinavon won the Grand National in 1967 at odds of 100-1. What was the next horse to win it at odds of 100-1?
Answer: Mon Mome

Question: Kenny Dalglish and Herbert Chapman have both won top flight English league championships with two different clubs. Who is the only other man to do this?
Answer: Brian Clough

Question: Who played the Vicar of Dibley on TV?
Answer: Dawn French

Question: Who is the Italian born architect of The Shard in London?
Answer: Renzo Piano

Question: Which river separates Cornwall from Devon?
Answer: The Tamar

Question: Mount Toubkal, at 13665 ft is the highest peak in which African mountain range?
Answer: Atlas Mountains

Question: At 2880 square miles which is the largest county in Ireland?
Answer: Cork

Question: Who in June 1990 was awarded a knighthood whilst still playing cricket at test match level?
Answer: Richard Hadley.

Question: Sir Peter Paul Rubens painted the ceiling of which building situated in London?
Answer: The Banqueting House Whitehall

Question: Who played Lewis in 'Morse' and also in its spin off 'Lewis'?
Answer: Kevin Whately

Question: Barbara Millicent Roberts first appeared on this planet in 1959. How is she better known?
Answer: Barbie

Question: Which inlet of the Irish Sea separates Cumbria from Dumfries and Galloway?
Answer: The Solway Firth

Question: Kwame Nkrumah was the first President of which African country?
Answer: Ghana

Question: Which element has atomic number 8?
Answer: Oxygen

Question: Where did Fiddler's Dram go on a day trip to in 1979?
Answer: Bangor

Question: What profession did St Joseph husband of the Virgin Mary have?
Answer: Carpenter

Question: With which West German Chancellor is the policy of Ostpolitik associated?
Answer: Willy Brandt

Question: Christian Horner is team principal for which F1 racing team?
Answer: Red Bull Racing

Question: What is the name of the soccer team in Los Angeles for which David Beckham plays?
Answer: Galaxy

Question: Who was the mother of Christ's mother, Mary?
Answer: St Anne

Question: flow was British born actor William Henry Pratt (1887 -1969) better known?
Answer: Boris Karloff

Question: Whom did Queen Victoria succeed in 1837?
Answer: William Iv

Question: Which part of the body is affected by epistaxis?
Answer: Nose

Question: Butch the dog, Kipper the cat and Ramsbottom the snake were friends of which TV puppet?
Answer: Sooty

Question: Which famous British singer and songwriter, born at Smithdown Hospital in Liverpool, died on 28th January 1983?
Answer: Billy Fury

Question: Leila Williams was the first female presenter of which children's TV series?
Answer: Blue Peter

Question: In which month is 'The Last Night of the Proms' held?
Answer: September

Question: Which WW2 aircraft was known as 'The Stringbag'?
Answer: (Fairey) Swordfish

Question: `Fallopia japonica' is a perennial weed, very difficult to eradicate. How is it better known?
Answer: Japanese Knotweed

Question: Which poet, the sister of a famous English painter, wrote: 'Morning and evening, Maids heard the goblins cry: Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy'?
Answer: Christina Rossetti

Question: In which London open space is the Albert Memorial?
Answer: Kensington Gardens

Question: Who wrote the poem 'Ash Wednesday', published in 1930?
Answer: T S Eliot

Question: Which Briton beat Oliver McCall to become WBC World Heavyweight champion in 1995?
Answer: Frank Bruno

Question: In which BBC radio series did Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister feature?
Answer: The Goon Show

Question: Which American group is made up of will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo and Fergie?
Answer: Black Eyed Peas

Question: What type of transport was used to take French troops to the first Battle of the Mame?
Answer: (Paris) Taxis

Question: Which element, atomic number 11, is a soft, silvery-white, highly reactive metal?
Answer: Sodium

Question: Which actor got stung in 'The Sting'?
Answer: Robert Shaw

Question: Which well-know song begins: 'I'm gonna write a little letter, Gonna mail it to my local DJ'?
Answer: Roll Over Beethoven

Question: Name one country which borders Panama?
Answer: COSTA RICA or COLOMBIA

Question: Cricketer James Pattinson made his test debut for Australia this year. What is the first name of his brother, a Nottinghamshire player who played one test for England in 2008?
Answer: Darren

Question: The word anserine' means resembling which bird?
Answer: Goose

Question: Which Shakespeare play introduced the phrase 'Shuffle off this mortal coil'?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: Which British band is made up of Aston Merrygold, Marvin Humes, Jonathan 'JB' Gill and Oritse Williams?
Answer: Jls

Question: Which pilot from Richthofen's Circus became a prominent political figure?
Answer: Hermann Goring

Question: Which element, atomic number 82, a heavy metal, is soft and malleable, blue/white when freshly cut, but soon turns grey?
Answer: Lead

Question: William the Conqueror built a castle in York in 1068. Rebuilt in the 13th century, by what name is the ruined keep now known?
Answer: Clifford'S Tower

Question: Which former British, Commonwealth and European Heavyweight champion boxer holds triple
Answer: nationality - Hungarian, British and Australian?

Question: Which wild plant has the Latin name hyacinthoides non-scripta and is said to be threatened by crossbreeding with its near relative, hyacinthoides hispanica?
Answer: (COMMON or ENGLISH) BLUEBELL

Question: Who wrote: 'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea'?
Answer: Thomas Gray

Question: Who designed the Albert Memorial in London?
Answer: Sir George Gilbert Scott

Question: Historically which Rugby League Super League side were known as 'The Airlie Birds'?
Answer: Hull Fc

Question: Which children's TV series began with the narrative: 'In the lands of the North, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea....! ?
Answer: Noggin The Nog

Question: Since 1995, in which month is the Eurovision Song Contest held?
Answer: May

Question: Which WW2 aircraft was known as 'The Wimpy'?
Answer: (Vickers) Wellington

Question: What is the surname of Doug who made his test debut for New Zealand this year? His father Brendan and uncle John were also New Zealand test cricketers.
Answer: Bracewell

Question: Which Shakespeare play coined the phrase 'Salad Days' to describe a time of youth and inexperience?
Answer: Antony And Cleopatra

Question: Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson were Vice Presidents of which President of the USA?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: Venus and which other planet have a retrograde rotation (backward spin) around their axes?
Answer: Uranus

Question: With which film do you associate Lara's Theme?
Answer: Dr Zhivago

Question: Of which famous song is this the first line 'Everybody's doin' a brand new dance now'?
Answer: The Locomotion

Question: Who was the father of the Black Prince?
Answer: Edward Iii

Question: Which famous American singer-songwriter and musician, born in Vernon, Texas, died on 6th December 1988?
Answer: Roy Orbison

Question: Cheyenne is the capital of which US state?
Answer: Wyoming

Question: In whose tomb was Jesus laid after the crucifixion?
Answer: Joseph Of Arimethea

Question: Which British born actor's real name was James Lablache Stewart (1913 -1993)?
Answer: Stewart Granger

Question: In Heraldry, what does 'Sinister' mean?
Answer: (On The) Left

Question: How many points are awarded to a driver for winning a Formula One Grand Prix?
Answer: 25

Question: Where did the first battle of the Wars of the Roses take place?
Answer: St Albans