Question: In which county is Plumpton racecourse?
Answer: (East) Sussex

Question: A Luau is a traditional feast or party celebrated on which islands?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: According to an adverting campaign in the 1980's and 1990's which beer was advertised as "The amber nectar"?
Answer: Fosters

Question: Which city, a national capital until 1922, is the only major city to span two continents?
Answer: Istanbul

Question: Give a year when Lord Liverpool was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Answer: 1812-1827

Question: Who won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in the 1984 film 'Amadeus'?
Answer: F Murray Abraham

Question: Which is the largest Canadian province in terms of area?
Answer: Quebec

Question: Which word means a device to aid memory e.g. "Richard of York gave battle in vain"?
Answer: Mnemonic

Question: Buster Bloodvessel was the lead singer of which pop group - popular in the early 1980s?
Answer: Bad Manners

Question: Which cocktail allegedly gets its name from the practice of 1950's American engineers stirring vodka into their cans of orange juice with this tool?
Answer: Screwdriver

Question: Which late 1970s/early 1980s TV sitcom revolved around a house and estate called 'Grantleigh'?
Answer: To the Manor Born

Question: Which is the smallest Canadian province in terms of area?
Answer: Prince Edward Island

Question: Who won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in the 2008 film 'Milk'?
Answer: Sean Penn

Question: With 133 appearances who is England's most capped cricket player?
Answer: Alec Stewart

Question: What name is given to a word formed from the initial letters of a series of words e.g. AIDS?
Answer: Acronym

Question: Scotch, Drambuie, ice and a lemon twist are the traditional ingredients of which cocktail?
Answer: Rusty Nail

Question: Which singer was lead singer with band Frankie Goes to Hollywood in the mid 1980s?
Answer: Holly Johnson

Question: Give a year in the life of the Belgian artist Rene Magritte.
Answer: 1898-1967

Question: Who was the Arsenal captain when they won the 2005 FA Cup -on penalties against Manchester United?
Answer: Patrick Viera

Question: Arundel Castle in Sussex is the family seat of which Dukes?
Answer: Dukes of Norfolk

Question: Kyle MacLachlan played agent Dale Cooper in which early 1990s US TV series?
Answer: Twin Peaks

Question: Which town, located in present day S.E. Turkey was the birthplace of St Paul?
Answer: Tarsus

Question: Name the author of the novel 'Shame', shortlisted for the 1983 Booker Prize.
Answer: Salman Rushdie

Question: Which naturalised American electrical/mechanical engineer and inventor (1856-1943) has given his name to the SI unit of magnetic flux density?
Answer: Nikola Tesla

Question: Who was the Arsenal captain when they won the 2003 FA Cup - beating Southampton 1-0?
Answer: David Seaman

Question: Give a year in the life of the artist Piet Mondrian.
Answer: 1872-1944

Question: Name the family seat of the Dukes of Marlborough.
Answer: Blenheim Palace

Question: In the Bible, which Philistine city was the home of Goliath?
Answer: Gath

Question: Steve Pemberton played shopkeeper Tulip 'Tubbs' Tattsyrup in which British TV series which ended in 2002?
Answer: The League of Gentlemen

Question: Name the author of the novel 'The Van', shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize.
Answer: Roddy Doyle

Question: Which island is referred to by its inhabitants as Kalaalit Nunaat?
Answer: Greenland

Question: After how many years is a Ruby wedding anniversary celebrated?
Answer: 40

Question: Which element, No. 71, has its name derived from the city of Paris?
Answer: Lutetium

Question: Which British pop star active since the 1970's has released albums called Up, So and Us?
Answer: Peter Gabriel

Question: in which city do the football team Atalanta of the Italian league play their home games?
Answer: Bergamo

Question: In what year did the Battle of Barnet take place in Britain?
Answer: 1471 (accept 1470

Question: Which Labour MP has been Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee since 2007?
Answer: Keith Vaz

Question: Which scientist first described the laws of planetary motion between 1609 - 1612?
Answer: Johannes Kepler

Question: Which celestial body is the only dwarf planet and largest asteroid found in the inner solar system?
Answer: Ceres

Question: On a human body, what are rhytides?
Answer: Wrinkles

Question: Upon which river does Lincoln stand?
Answer: The Witham

Question: Which European country's flag is three equal horizontal bands of blue at the top, black in the middle and white at the bottom?
Answer: Estonia

Question: Which is the only film of the fantasy genre ever to win the best picture Oscar - full name required?
Answer: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Question: Give a year in the life of the explorer Abel Tasman.
Answer: 1603 - 1659

Question: Which is the southernmost capital city in Europe?
Answer: Valetta

Question: Which philosopher is famous for his paradoxes, most notably Achilles and the tortoise?
Answer: Zeno

Question: In which year was the Bhopal disaster at the Union Carbide India Ltd. pesticide plant, the privatisation of British Telecom and the Queen opened the Thames Flood barrier?
Answer: 1984

Question: The painting 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergere' c1882 displayed at the Cortauld Gallery, London is by which artist?
Answer: Edouard Manet

Question: Which Shakespeare play takes place in the first years of the newly established Roman Republic?
Answer: Coriolanus

Question: Which British artist active since the 1970's has released albums entitled Never for Ever and Aerial?
Answer: Kate Bush

Question: In which city do German football team Schalke 04 play their home games?
Answer: Gelsenkirchen

Question: In what year did the Battle of Evesham take place in Britain?
Answer: 1265

Question: Who presents the TV show Reflex?
Answer: Shane Richie

Question: Which spirit is used as the base for a Mai Tai cocktail?
Answer: Rum

Question: In the Christian Old Testament of the Bible, which book immediately follows the Pentateuch?
Answer: Joshua

Question: Leo Bloom and Max Bialystock are two of the leading characters in which 2001 musical that won an Olivier award?
Answer: The Producers

Question: In Arthurian legend, what is the name of Lancelot's castle?
Answer: Joyous Gard

Question: Which Labour MP has been Chair of the Public Accounts Select Committee since 2010?
Answer: Margaret Hodge

Question: Which British scientist formulated a set of equations that describe electricity, magnetism and optics as manifestations of the same phenomenon, namely the electromagnetic field, in 1873?
Answer: James Clark Maxwell

Question: What name is given to the region of the solar system that lies immediately beyond Neptune but inside the scattered disc region?
Answer: Kuiper Belt

Question: Who narrated the English version of the Spanish animated children's series Pocoyo?
Answer: Stephen Fry

Question: On a human body, what are known medically as ephelides?
Answer: Freckles

Question: Who wrote the narrative poem The Rape of the Lock between 1712 1717?
Answer: Alexander Pope

Question: Upon which river does Durham stand?
Answer: Wear

Question: What colour is the 'artist's colour' called cerulean?
Answer: Blue

Question: Which country's flag is a horizontal bicolour of red over green in a 2:1 ratio with a red ornamental pattern on a white vertical stripe at the hoist?
Answer: Belarus

Question: Which vegetable Daucus spp has varieties called Autumn King and Pamex?
Answer: Carrot

Question: Who wrote the best selling novels Labyrinth and Sepulchre?
Answer: Kate Mosse

Question: What was the last film in the western genre to win a best picture Oscar?
Answer: Unforgiven

Question: Give a year in the life of the explorer Matthew Flinders.
Answer: 1774 - 1801

Question: In an Italian restaurant what are lamponi?
Answer: Raspberries

Question: Which is the easternmost capital city in the European Union?
Answer: Nicosia