Question: Green politician Samantha Weinberg wrote a trilogy of novels under the alias Kate Westbrook in the noughties, based on the fictional diaries of which Ian Fleming character?
Answer: Miss Moneypenny

Question: Who is the elder sister of Stella Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire?
Answer: Blanche Dubois

Question: Which famous fictional character retired to a small farm on the Sussex Downs in 1903 and took up the hobby of bee-keeping as his main occupation?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Question: Which ground was the venue for the first ever cricket Test Match between England and Australia in 1877 ?
Answer: Melbourne Cricket Ground

Question: Which motor racing circuit was used for the cycling raod races at the 2012 London Paralympic Games?
Answer: Brands Hatch

Question: Which US Football team moved from the Three Rovers Stadium to the newly built Heinz Field in 2001 ?
Answer: Pittsburgh Steelers

Question: The Olympic Stadium in which city was completed in 1938 and has hosted two World Athletic Championships, three Europeans and one Olympics, but not the one it was built for?
Answer: Helsinki

Question: What was the name of the circuit on which the Dutch Formula One Grand Prix was held from 1948 until its last running in 1985 ?
Answer: Zandvoort

Question: At which football ground did Frank Bruno defeat Joe Bugner in October 1987 ?
Answer: White Hart Lane

Question: In which of New York's five boroughs is the New Yankee stadium located?
Answer: The Bronx

Question: After which famous American tennis player is the stadium at Flushing Meadow named, where the final of the US Open has been held each year since 1997 ?
Answer: Arthur Ashe

Question: Which Scottish Lib Dem MP is currently Chief Secretary to the Treasury?
Answer: Danny Alexander

Question: The name's the same - A small Norfolk town near the Suffolk border and a verb used by teenagers meaning "to show a lack of respect"?
Answer: Diss

Question: Chemistry - which of the halogens has the lowest atomic number?
Answer: Flourine

Question: Lady Day or, more properly, the Feast of the Anunciation of the Blessed Virgin, is celebrated on the 25th of which month?
Answer: March

Question: Which common British mammal has the scientific name Erinaceous Europaeus?
Answer: Hedgehog

Question: Sri Lanka has two official languages - Sinhala or Singhalese is one, what is the other?
Answer: Tamil

Question: What was the surname of the last man to walk on the moon?
Answer: (Eugene) CERNAN

Question: Which wrexham company was formed in 1931 by the merger of Soames Brewery, Island Green Brewery and the Oswestry firm of Dorsett Owen?
Answer: Border Breweries

Question: In the phonetic alphabet what word represents the letter I ?
Answer: India

Question: Love Parsley is another name for what herb?
Answer: Lovage

Question: In the poetic form, the limerick, how many lines are there?
Answer: 5

Question: Which oscar-winning film director directed the 1960's classic movie 'Doctor Strangelove'?
Answer: Stanley Kubrick

Question: Which oscar-winning film director directed the 1960's classic movie 'Doctor Zhivago'?
Answer: David Lean

Question: In the poetic form, the sonnet, how many lines are there?
Answer: 14

Question: For what television series was the theme tune "I could be so good for you"?
Answer: Minder

Question: A Bandicoot belongs to which order or class of animals?
Answer: Marsupials

Question: Which American president is credited with the quote:- "Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate?
Answer: John F Kennedy

Question: Rugby Union - Franklins Gardens is the home of which club?
Answer: Northampton

Question: Pop music - which one hit wonder group had a number one hit with 'Something in the Air' in 1969?
Answer: Thunderclap Newman

Question: Which Englishman, born in 1791, is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer , that eventually led to more complicated designs?
Answer: Charles Babbage

Question: In a series of best-selling novels over the last ten years, which author created the hero Matthew Shardlake?
Answer: (C.J.) Sansom

Question: From which animal do we get catgut?
Answer: SHEEP or HORSES

Question: With what biblical location would you associate Shadrach, Meschak and Abednego?
Answer: Fiery Furnace

Question: A Capybara belongs to which order or class of animals?
Answer: Rodents

Question: Rugby Union - Kingsholm is the home of which club?
Answer: Gloucester

Question: What is the name given to the chicken dish in which the boned and flattened chicken breast, flavoured with garlic butter and chives, is dipped in egg and breadcrumbs and is fried or baked?
Answer: Chicken Kiev

Question: What is the name given to the Italian fried chicken dish in which a sauce of garlic, tomatoes and white wine is used? Named supposedly after an inn-keeper was forced to make a dish with any food available by Napoleonic French forces?
Answer: Chicken Marengo

Question: The novelty hit record "The Birdie Song" was in the top twenty for 23 weeks in 1981. Who recorded this record?
Answer: The Tweets

Question: At the 2012 Cheltenham Festival of National Hunt racing who was the top winning jockey, with 5 winners?
Answer: Barry Geraghty

Question: The song "Nobody Does it Better" by Carly Simon provided the theme for which James Bond film?
Answer: The Spy Who Loved Me

Question: In the animated film classic "Toy Story", which film star voiced the character of Woody?
Answer: Tom Hanks

Question: Religous reformers - which 14th century Oxford scholar, initially famous for translating the Bible from Latin into English, later criticised the wealth and power of the church, questioning the scriptural basis of the papacy? His followers were known as Lollards.
Answer: John Wycliffe

Question: On which date in 1945 was VE Day (victory in Europe), the day on which Germany surrendered in World War II ?
Answer: 8th MAY

Question: Religous reformers - which 16th century Oxford scholar was the first to translate the Bible into English from the original Greek texts? He was charged with heresy, strangled and burned at the stake in 1535 by the Roman Catholic Church.
Answer: William Tyndale

Question: Mary Anne Evans was the real name of which famous novelist?
Answer: George Eliot

Question: Who was the Iranian religous leader who returned to Iran from exile in 1979 to establish a fundamentalist Islamic republic? He supported the seizing of the US embassy and the Iran-Iraq war.
Answer: Ayatollah Khomeini

Question: At the 2012 Cheltenham Festival of National Hunt racing , who was the top trainer? His total of 7 winners this year enabled him to become the most winning trainer in Cheltenham history.
Answer: Nicky Henderson

Question: The song "We have all the time in the World" by Louis Armstrong provided the theme for which James Bond film?
Answer: On Her Majesty'S Secret Service

Question: In the animated film classic "Shrek" which film star voiced the character of Donkey?
Answer: Eddie Murphy

Question: Which American, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence, proved that lightning is a form of electricity?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Question: Four English football clubs installed artificial grass pitches in the 1980s. Name one of the two northern clubs that had a synthetic pitch.
Answer: OLDHAM or PRESTON

Question: Four English football clubs installed artificial grass pitches in the 1980s. Name one of the two southern clubs that had a synthetic pitch.
Answer: LUTON or Q.P.R.

Question: In the electromagnetic spectrum, which type of radiation has the shortest wavelength? Its main uses are in medical diagnosis.
Answer: Gamma Waves

Question: Simon de Montfort led the Barons Revolt against King Henry III and became the effective ruler of England in the 13th century. Later defeated and killed at the Battle of Evesham what was Simon de Montfort's official title?
Answer: Earl Of Leicester