Question: What type of primate is a sifaka?
Answer: Lemur

Question: Which British monarch is the only one to have been born at Buckingham Palace?
Answer: Edward VII

Question: Who built the first cotton spinning factory in Derbyshire in 1771?
Answer: Richard Arkwright

Question: Although a term coined many centuries after his death, which philosopher is famous for his 'razor'?
Answer: William of Ockham

Question: Who was the 14th President of the United States from 1853-1857?
Answer: Franklin Pierce

Question: To do with medicine what was extracted from a terebinth tree?
Answer: Turpentine

Question: Which country was actor Leslie Howard travelling from when his plane was shot down?
Answer: Portugal

Question: In which year was the Palestine Liberation Organisation formed?
Answer: 1964

Question: The term 'Hard Edge Painting' was coined in 1958 by which Los Angeles art critic?
Answer: Jules Lansner

Question: What is the meaning of the 19th Century word sockdolager?
Answer: A Climax Or Crescendo

Question: The village of Castle Combe used in the filming of Dr Doolittle is in which English county?
Answer: Wiltshire

Question: """The Sin of Harold Diddleback"", 1947 was the last film of which silent film star?"
Answer: Harold Lloyd

Question: Which American playwright 1897-1975 said 'The best part of married life is the fights, the rest is merely so-so'?
Answer: Thornton Wilder

Question: Five time Wimbledon champion, hockey and golf international, the only woman to win British golf and tennis championships, Olympic silver medallist for archery, award winning skater and mountaineer 'Champion of Champions' is a biography of which sportswoman?
Answer: Lottie Dodd

Question: Squids, cuttlefish and octopus belong to which class of marine mollusc?
Answer: Cephalopod

Question: What is the Greek name for Bacchus the god of wine and revelry?
Answer: Dionysus

Question: Which singer/songwriter released the 1972 album 'One Man Dog'?
Answer: James Taylor

Question: 'Raising the Laughs' is the auto biography of which comedian/actor?
Answer: Ted Ray

Question: The book 'The one that got away' is a book about which WWII pilot?
Answer: Franz Von Werra

Question: The father of an actor who has appeared in the films 'The Battle of Britain, The Golden Compass and Cuban Fury' played football for Manchester United. What is the fathers' name?
Answer: HAROLD McSHANE

Question: Which American politician said 'Marriage is neither Heaven nor Hell? It is simply Purgatory'?
Answer: Abraham Lincol

Question: In the traditional list of wedding anniversaries the 1st is paper, what is it in the modern list?
Answer: Clocks

Question: Brendan and Nathan McCullum play international cricket for which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: The 1964 film, simply called 'Film', written by Samuel Beckett, starred which actor?
Answer: Buster Keaton

Question: Dulcibella is the name of the boat in which classic novel?
Answer: The Riddle Of The Sands

Question: To do with medicine what was a fleam?
Answer: BLOODLETTING INSTRUMENT or LANCET

Question: Which City was Glenn Miller travelling to when his plane went missing?
Answer: Paris

Question: What is the State Capital of Montana?
Answer: Helena

Question: Which band released the 1972 album Close to the Edge?
Answer: Yes

Question: In which year was the Black Panther Party founded?
Answer: 1966

Question: In nautical terms, what is a Pusser's medal?
Answer: A Stain On Clothing

Question: The term Kinetic Art originated in the 1920's by which futurist painter?
Answer: Uberto Boccioni

Question: Portmeirion used as a setting for the Prisoner TV series is in which Welsh county?
Answer: Gwynedd

Question: Published in 2013 who wrote the novel 'An Officer and a Spy'?
Answer: Robert Harris

Question: Which American writer 1862-1910 said `if men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry'?
Answer: O'Henry

Question: What type of foodstuff is a duncan?
Answer: (Pale Yellow) Grapefruit

Question: Captain of Manchester City and England Wimbledon Doubles Champion, Davis Cup Captain, Olympic Tennis Gold Medallist. 'All Round Genius' is the biography of which sportsman?
Answer: Max Woosnam

Question: Whales, porpoises and dolphins belong to which group of aquatic mammals?
Answer: Cetaceans

Question: Ceres is the Roman name for which Greek Goddess?
Answer: Demeter

Question: What was the occupation of Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932)?
Answer: Garden Designer

Question: Which singer/songwriter released the 1975 album Playing Possum?
Answer: Carly Simon

Question: Three Times Lucky is the autobiography of which comedian/actor?
Answer: Jimmy Jewel

Question: Seven Men at Daybreak by Alan Burgess is a book about which WWII event?
Answer: Assassination Of Reinhard Heydrich

Question: The uncle of a pop star, scored a goal and broke his leg in the 1959 F.A. Cup Final, what is the uncle's name?
Answer: Roy Dwight

Question: Which American writer said 'Bigamy is having one husband too many, monogamy is the same'?
Answer: Erica Jong

Question: In the traditional list of wedding anniversaries the 4th is linen what is it in the modem list?
Answer: Electrical Appliances

Question: In what year did Cyprus become a member of the EU?
Answer: 2004

Question: What is the first forename of actor Robert Redford?
Answer: Charles

Question: Published in 2014 whose latest novel is called Northanger Abbey?
Answer: VAL McDIARMID

Question: Who painted 'The Death of Chatterton' in 1856?
Answer: Henry Wallis

Question: Alphabetically which club in the Football League this season comes first?
Answer: Accrington Stanley

Question: Which chemical element is named after the Greek word for hidden?
Answer: Krypton

Question: Which English town is connected with Count Dracula?
Answer: Whitby

Question: Hans Lippershey applied for a patent in the Netherlands in 1608 for an early form of which scientific instrument?
Answer: Telescope

Question: Who was called the King of Ragtime?
Answer: Scott Joplin

Question: What is the name of Heston Blumenthal's restaurant in Bray?
Answer: The Fat Duck

Question: The musical Jersey Boys features the music of which group?
Answer: (Frankie Valli And) The Four Seasons

Question: Which planet was originally called Georgium Sidus by its discoverer before it was renamed by German astronomer Johann Bode to ensure that its name conformed with other planetary names?
Answer: Uranus

Question: In which book would you find the characters Scout and her father Atticus Finch?
Answer: To Kill A Mocking Bird

Question: Who is the American lead male singer in the Canadian band Arcade Fire?
Answer: Win Butler

Question: Which pair of writers initiated the Steptoe and Son sitcom?
Answer: RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON

Question: Which city is the capital of the German State of Saxony?
Answer: Dresden

Question: Chetham's School in Manchester is famous in what field?
Answer: Music Teaching

Question: Who composed the 1938 ballet Billy the Kid?
Answer: Aaron Copland

Question: What was the name of the character played by John Wayne in the film True Grit?
Answer: Rooster Cogburn

Question: Which author has written novel series that include The Warlord Chronicles and the Grail Crest trilogy?
Answer: Bernard Cornwell

Question: Which miracle is the only one to appear in all four Gospels?
Answer: Feeding Of The 5000

Question: What was the name of the Kenyan shopping mall attacked by Somali terrorists in September 2013?
Answer: The Westgate Mall

Question: Ringwood Brewery is based in which English county?
Answer: Hampshire

Question: Which Briton was brought in as replacement tactician and helped the USA to victory in the 2013 America's Cup?
Answer: Sir Ben Ainslie

Question: Which American-Italian Fifties style restaurant chain first opened in this country in 1995 in Leicester and now has more than 180 outlets?
Answer: Frankie & Benny' S

Question: In World War 2 which was the only part of the USA invaded by the Japanese?
Answer: Aleutian Islands