Question: In the famous American TV series "The Sopranos", which actor played Tony Soprano?
Answer: James Gandolfini

Question: Sixties pop music - Who recorded the 1964 hit record "Juliet"?
Answer: Four Pennies

Question: Turpentine was originally obtained predominantly from which tree?
Answer: Pine

Question: In golf, the 9 iron club was originally known by what old Scottish name?
Answer: Niblick

Question: Washington DC stands on which river?
Answer: Potomac

Question: Which famous composer, though better known for other works, wrote the music for several films including 'Bitter Springs' and 'Scott of the Antarctic'?
Answer: Ralph Vaughan-Williams

Question: 'Where Eagles Dare', 'The Guns of Navaronne' and 'Ice Station Zebra' were hugely successful films in the 1960's and 70's. Who wrote the novels on which these films were based?
Answer: Alistair Maclean

Question: Which English painter, the co-founder and first president of the Royal Academy, was the principal court painter to George III ?
Answer: Sir Joshua Reynolds

Question: 'A Kiss Before Dying', 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'The Stepford Wives' were hugely successful films in the 1960's and 70's. Who wrote the novels on which these films were based?
Answer: Ira Levin

Question: Which Dutch painter, famous for his portraits, was the principal court painter to Charles II ?
Answer: Sir Peter Lely

Question: Yale University took its anme from Elihu Yale because, as a very wealthy man he became its chief benefactor. Yale accumulated his substantial wealth while working for around 30 years for which organisation?
Answer: East India Company

Question: What is scotland's deepest loch?
Answer: Loch Morar

Question: Who directed the Oscar winning picture 'The Hurt Locker' ?
Answer: Catherine Bigalow

Question: Which horse, trained by the father of the jockey Ruby Walsh, won the 2000 Grand National?
Answer: Papillon

Question: The largest living "thing" is a Californian Redwood tree nicknamed "General Sherman". It is 275 feet high. How many tons is the tree estimated to weigh?
Answer: 1385

Question: Who defeated Adlai Stevenson in the US Presidential Election in November 1952 ?
Answer: Dwight D Eisenhower

Question: Which 77 year old German-born missionary won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Albert Schweitzer

Question: Navigation work on the Volga-Don canal was started in April 1952, ultimately connecting which two seas?
Answer: BLACK SEA (or SEA OF AZOV) and CASPIAN SEA

Question: In March 1952 General Fulgencio Batista re-took control of which Caribbean country after a military coup?
Answer: Cuba

Question: Which town on the North Devon coast was devastated by a flash flood in August 1952 ?
Answer: Lynmouth

Question: Which American colony became a self-governing commonwealth and an unincorporated territory of the USA in July 1952 ?
Answer: Puerto Rico

Question: Which European capital city hosted the 1952 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Helsinki

Question: What was the surname of the Scottish mathematician who discovered logarithms in 1613 ?
Answer: (John) NAPIER

Question: Britain's first stretch of motorway, opened in December 1958, bypassed which town (now officially a city) ?
Answer: Preston

Question: Russian Alexei Leonov was the first man to do what (albeit for just ten minutes) on 18th March 1965 ?
Answer: Walk In Space

Question: What is the three word collective name given to the first ten ammendments to the United States Constitution drafted in 1789 ?
Answer: Bill Of Rights

Question: According to the Bible, who was the first person to be born - as opposed to being created?
Answer: Cain

Question: What was the name of the man who invented Shredded Wheat in 1893 ? Was it Charles E Pinky or Henry D Perky?
Answer: Perky

Question: Which Spanish conquistador successfully crossed Panama in 1513, thus becoming the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the New World?
Answer: Balboa

Question: What was the well-known surname of the man who patented the ball-point pen in 1943 ?
Answer: (Lazlo) BIRO

Question: Another Place, a piece of modern sculpture consisting of 100 cast-iron figures facing out to sea on Crosby beach near Liverpool, is by which artist?
Answer: Antony Gormley

Question: Who wrote the novels Riders (1984), Rivals (1988) and Polo (1981) ?
Answer: Jilly Cooper

Question: Glyndwr University's state-of-the-art conference and perfomance centre, opened in 2009, is named after which Welsh harpist?
Answer: Catrin Finch

Question: Name a year in the life of the French artist Edouard Manet ?
Answer: 1832 - 1883

Question: In The Planets Suite by Gustav Holst, which planet is described in the title of its movement as The Magician ?
Answer: Uranus

Question: Red: My Autobiography, published in 2011, was written by which former England footballer?
Answer: Gary Neville

Question: What was the poet W.H.Auden's first name?
Answer: Wystan

Question: Which Liverpool art gallery, opened in 1877, was named after the local brewer and former Lord Mayor who financed it ?
Answer: Walker

Question: """Call me Ishmael"" are the opening words of which famous 19th century novel?"
Answer: Moby Dick

Question: How were Shirley, Keith, Laurie, Danny, Christopher and Tracy known collectively in the charts in the early 70s ?
Answer: Partridge Family

Question: Who was the lead singer with Wet Wet Wet until he went solo in 1999 ?
Answer: Marti Pellow

Question: Which record producer and band leader, who died in 1979, was responsible for 27 number ones in the UK for various artists including Cliff Richard and Frank Ifield?
Answer: Norrie Paramour

Question: Who was the lead giutarist with Led Zeppelin?
Answer: Jimmy Page

Question: What was the stage name of the duo who started as backing singers for Wham! and had a number two hit in 1987 with Heartache ?
Answer: Pepsie And Shirlie

Question: Which rock band did Jarvis Cocker form in Sheffield in 1978 - they had their big break in 1981 ?
Answer: Pulp

Question: Billy don't be a Hero in 1974 was which group's only UK No 1?
Answer: Paper Lace

Question: Cricket - which Yorkshireman scored a then Test record 364 runs against Australia at the Oval in 1938 ?
Answer: Len Hutton

Question: Which is the only non-English club to have reached a Rugby League Challenge Cup Final ?
Answer: Cataln Dragons

Question: Horse Racing - which is the only British racecourse whose name starts with a double letter ?
Answer: Ffos Las

Question: Rowing - assuming all six lanes are being used, how many competitors are there on the water in the final of the Men's Eights at the Olympic Games?
Answer: Fifty Four

Question: At which Grand Prix was Ayrton Senna killed in 1994 ?
Answer: San Marino

Question: Soccer - which is the only English club to have reached a EUFA Europa League Final ?
Answer: Fulham

Question: Including the goalkeeper, how many players are there in a water Polo team ?
Answer: Seven

Question: Tennis - three different women from which European country won major titles at last year's Wimbledon ?
Answer: Czech Republic

Question: The most famous horse race in the USA, the Kentucky Derby, is traditionally run on the first Saturday of which month ?
Answer: May

Question: Which animals feature on the Royal Arms of England?
Answer: (Three) LIONS

Question: Which river, which flows into the Irish Sea between Lytham St Annes and Southport, marked the northernmost extent of the ancient kingdom of Mercia?
Answer: Ribble

Question: Eurostar trains from London to Paris and Brussels have two possible stops in England before entering the Channel Tunnel. Name either.
Answer: EBBSFLEET and ASHFORD

Question: What is the two digit country calling code for England from abroad?
Answer: 44

Question: Which is the most easterly of the five boroughs that make up the metropolitan county of Merseyside?
Answer: St Helens

Question: What is the name of the 28 acre recreational lake in hyde Park, London, created by George II's royal gardener in 1730 ?
Answer: The SERPENTINE