Question: Which battle cruiser was sunk by the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen on May 24, 1941?
Answer: HMS Hood

Question: In the children’s animated TV series, of which ship was Captain Pugwash the captain?
Answer: The Black Pig

Question: Which US TV musical comedy drama series is set in the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima Ohio?
Answer: Glee

Question: Which European city is served by Marignane Airport?
Answer: Marseilles

Question: Which country won the African Cup of Nations Trophy in 2015 beating Sudan on penalties in the final?
Answer: Cote d'Ivoire

Question: What breed of dog was named 'Best in Show' at Crifts in 2015
Answer: Scottish Terrier

Question: What is the capital of Equatorial Guinea?
Answer: Malabo

Question: Which soul singer's backing group were cailed The Famous Flames?
Answer: James Brown

Question: Catherine of Braganza was married to which English king?
Answer: Charles II

Question: Which chemical element has the atomic number 83 and symbol Bi?
Answer: Bismuth

Question: What is the capital of Kosovo?
Answer: Pristina

Question: Lou Reed was the lead singer with which group?
Answer: Velvet Underground

Question: Who was captain of the England men's cricket team during the 2015 One Day International World Cup?
Answer: Eoin) MORGAN

Question: In cookery what does the term farci mean?
Answer: Stuffed

Question: The charity CRISIS supports who or what?
Answer: Homeless

Question: What is the SI derived unit of inductance?
Answer: Henry

Question: What is the flavour of the Italian liqueur Sambuco?
Answer: Anise/Aniseed

Question: Who was captain of the England rugby union team during the 2015 World Cup?
Answer: (Chris) ROBSHAW

Question: In cookery if food is napped how is it served?
Answer: Within A Sauce

Question: Who, in the Old Testament, sold his birthright for a piece of bread and a potage of lentils?
Answer: Esau

Question: Which car company has the six brightest stars of the constellation Pleiades as its badge?
Answer: Subaru

Question: Which artist painted "At the Races" (1877-80) and "Dancers at the Barre" (1888)?
Answer: (Edgar) DEGAS

Question: Who created the private investigator Kinsey Millhone?
Answer: (Sue) GRAFTON

Question: How was the entertainer Nicolai Poliakoff better known?
Answer: Coco The Clown

Question: In what year was the CIA founded?
Answer: 1947

Question: Who, in 1929, became the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the UK?
Answer: Margaret) BONDFIELD

Question: Which motor-cycle company has three tuning forks as its badge?
Answer: Yamaha

Question: Pierre Omidyar founded which internet company?
Answer: Ebay

Question: Who created the private investigator Jackson Brodie?
Answer: (Kate) ATKINSON

Question: Which artist painted 'Three Dancers (1925) and "Weeping Woman" (1937)?
Answer: (Pablo) PICASSO

Question: In which year were Nobel Prizes first awarded
Answer: 1901

Question: In 2001, which comedian was the first winner of Celebrity Big Brother?
Answer: (Jack) DEE

Question: Which creatures are affected by Isle of Wight disease?
Answer: (Honey) BEES

Question: Who commanded the Confederate forces at the Battle of Gettysburg?
Answer: (Robert E.) LEE

Question: The octothorpe key on a key board is more commonly known as what?
Answer: Hash Key

Question: Which European country's flag consists of horizontal halves of blue over red with a gold crown in the upper hoist?
Answer: Liechtenstein

Question: The Heathrow Express departs from which London station?
Answer: Paddington

Question: Between 1968-1978 Jack Jones was the General Secretary of which trade union?
Answer: Transport & General Workers Union/Tgwu

Question: Which creatures are mainly affected by Newcastle disease?
Answer: Poultry/Domestic Fowl

Question: Which European country's flag consists of horizontal halves of white over light blue, sometimes with the State Arms in the centre?
Answer: San Marino

Question: From what London station does the Eurostar train depart?
Answer: St. Pancras

Question: Between 1968-1978 Hugh Scanlon was President of which trade union?
Answer: Amalgamated Engineering Union/Aeu

Question: Name the only city situated on the River Wye.
Answer: Hereford

Question: Specifically ambergris is obtained from which creature?
Answer: Sperm Whale

Question: Which country won the Africa Cup of Nations in February 2015?
Answer: Ivory Coast

Question: In the cartoon show "The Wacky Races" who drove the Mean Machine?
Answer: Dick DASTARDLY

Question: According to the title of the book what was served at the Whistle Stop Cafe?
Answer: Fried Green Tomatoes

Question: What is another, non scientific, name for the white whale?
Answer: Beluga

Question: Which composer said of Wagner "he has lovely moments, but awful quarters of hours"?
Answer: (Gioacchino) ROSSINI

Question: Which title character, from a children's animated TV series, lives in Pontypandy?
Answer: Fireman Sam

Question: What type of product was the failed brand Dasani?
Answer: (Bottled) WATER

Question: What French phrase means "fashionable"?
Answer: A La Mode

Question: What connects the Duke of Wellington, George Stephenson and Elizabeth Fry?
Answer: All have appeared on £5 banknotes

Question: Jane Seymour played the character "Solitaire" in which Bond Film?
Answer: Live and Let Die

Question: What is the name of the Provencal fish stew which originates from Marseilles?
Answer: Bouillabase

Question: """Marcus Tullius"" are the forenames of which Roman lawyer, politician and philosopher, killed during the power-struggle after the murder of Julius Caesar?"
Answer: Cicero

Question: Which author of the mid-20th century created the characters Basil Seal, Mrs Julia Stitch, the newspaper-proprietors Lord Copper and Lord Zinc, and Guy Crouchback?
Answer: Evelyn Waugh

Question: From which Rogers and Hammerstein musical, filmed in 1956, do the songs "If I loved you" and "June is bustin' out all over" come?
Answer: Carousel

Question: Which order of friars is also known as the "Black Friars"?
Answer: Dominicans

Question: What tool would a rhabdomancer use in his (or her) trade or art?
Answer: A ROD for DIVINING Water Minerals

Question: John Adams and which other American president died on the Fourth of July 1826?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Question: The characters James Wormold, Charles Fortnum, Holly Martins and Pinkie Brown were created by which British author, who died in Switzerland in 1991?
Answer: Graham Greene

Question: The Hector Berlioz opera "Les Troyens" is based on a poem written by whom?
Answer: Virgil

Question: Saint Bruno founded which order of Monks?
Answer: Carthusian

Question: Which multi purpose tool was first produced in 1891 by Karl Elsener, founder of the company Victorinox?
Answer: Swiss Army Knife

Question: The device shaped like a human foot, which cobblers use to make and repair shoes is called what?
Answer: Last

Question: Steinlager comes from which Commonwealth country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in which theatre in April 1865?
Answer: Ford's

Question: Of what animais are musophobes afraid?
Answer: Mice and Rats

Question: The Hector Beriioz opera "Beatrice et Benedict" is based on which of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: Much Ado About Nothing

Question: Who presents three hours of music on Classic FM, on weekdays between 10.00 am and 1 pm?
Answer: John Suchet

Question: What pub chain was founded by Tim Martin in 1975?
Answer: Wetherspoon’s

Question: Header, stretcher, half bat and queen closer are types of what sort of buiiding material?
Answer: \Brick

Question: Of what does someone suffering from brontophobia have an irrational fear?
Answer: Thunder

Question: With which long running folk-rock band have fiddlers Dave Swarbrick and Ric Sanders been associated?
Answer: Fairport Convention

Question: On Classic FM, Saturday morning music, 9.00 am to 12.00 noon, is in the hands of which presenter?
Answer: Alan Titchmarsh