Question: The song ‘Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher’ is from which British stage musical?
Answer: Billy Elliot

Question: Before he became pope, which Pope wrote a play called ‘The Jeweller’s Shop’?
Answer: Pope John Paul II

Question: Which stage musical was forced to close in 1973 when the roof of the Shaftesbury Theatre in London collapsed?
Answer: Hair

Question: Which Irish playwright was the co-founder of the London School of Economics?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw

Question: Who are Vladimir and Estragon waiting for in a 1950’s play by Samuel Beckett?
Answer: Godot

Question: Which British theatre hosted the 2013 Royal Variety Performance?
Answer: London Palladium

Question: Which French cabaret theatre has a windmill on its roof?
Answer: Moulin Rouge

Question: Aimee, Kelly and Jack are children of which British singer?
Answer: Ozzy Obourne

Question: A decennial event occurs every how many years?
Answer: Ten

Question: In which Agatha Christie novel does Hercule Poirot commit murder?
Answer: Curtain

Question: A group of which birds is known as an Unkindness?
Answer: Ravens

Question: In which month in 1990 was Nelson Mandela released from prison in South Africa?
Answer: February

Question: Which is the third planet from the Sun?
Answer: Earth

Question: The song ‘Tea For Two’ is from which 1925 musical?
Answer: No, No, Nanette

Question: Who played Jodie Foster’s lawyer, Kathryn Murphy, in the 1988 film ‘The Accused’?
Answer: Kelly McGillis

Question: Which creature represents the Deadly Sin of Avarice?
Answer: Toad

Question: Photographer Ansel Adams was famous for his photographs of what?
Answer: Landscapes

Question: Which vegetable is traditionally the main ingredient in a Spanish omelette?
Answer: Potato

Question: Which late US actor was born Bernard Schwartz in 1925?
Answer: Tony Curtis

Question: What is the southernmost capital city in the world?
Answer: Wellington

Question: The 1999 autobiography ‘Still Me’ is by which late US actor?
Answer: Christopher Reeve

Question: General Benedict Arnold switched allegiance to the British side during which war?
Answer: American War of Independence

Question: Madison Square Garden in New York City opened during which decade of the 20th Century?
Answer: 1960’s (1968)

Question: The Commissioner’s Trophy is awarded annually for which sport?
Answer: Baseball

Question: To which British entertainer did songwriter/composer Lionel Bart sell the rights to the musical ‘Oliver!’ for a reputed 350 pounds sterling?
Answer: Max Bygraves

Question: Who was the longest-serving Leader of the Opposition in British political history?
Answer: Neil Kinnock

Question: Campsa, New Holland and Repoil are bends on the Formula One Grand Prix circuit in which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: Which UK television quiz show had the theme tune ‘Acka Raga’, performed by John Meyer on the sitar?
Answer: Ask the Family

Question: In which European country is the 1983 film ‘Local Hero’ set?
Answer: Scotland

Question: What is the name of the UK investment banking company which collapsed after Broker Nick Leeson lost 1.3 billion dollars on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1995?
Answer: Barings Bank

Question: The adrenal glands are situated above which organs in the human body?
Answer: Kidneys

Question: In the sport of fencing, what is the name of a bladework manoeuvre intended to deflect or block an incoming attack?
Answer: Parry

Question: What was the first name of British Prime Minister Gladstone?
Answer: William

Question: Which British coastal town is known as ‘The Pearl of Dorset’?
Answer: Lyme Regis

Question: Mawrth is Welsh for which month of the year?
Answer: March

Question: Who was the only British Chancellor of the Exchequer not to deliver a budget?
Answer: Iain MacLeod

Question: The Dogger Bank earthquake of June 1931, the strongest ever in the UK, reportedly caused the wax head of which infamous murderer to fall off in London’s Madame Tussaud’s?
Answer: Dr Crippen

Question: What is the surname of Terry, played by James Bolam, in the UK 1960’s television series ‘The Likely lads’?
Answer: Collier

Question: In astronomy, Pulsar, Binary, Dwarf and Red Giant are all types of what?
Answer: Star

Question: A bloater is which fish salted, smoked and partially dried?
Answer: Herring

Question: Which Scottish city is known as the ‘Capital of the Highlands’?
Answer: Inverness

Question: English country and western songwriter Samuel Hutt is better known by what name?
Answer: Hank Wangford

Question: Former football player Eusebio, who died in January 2014, played for which national team?
Answer: Portugal

Question: In November 1990, Mary Robinson defeated Brian Lenihan to become the first female President of which country?
Answer: Ireland

Question: What is the name of the Trust, founded in 1986, which specialises in the removal of the debris of war, such as landmines?
Answer: The HALO Trust

Question: Which vegetable represented the green team on the UK television series ‘Ready Steady Cook’?
Answer: Pepper

Question: How many dresses are in the title of a 2008 film starring Katherine Heigl?
Answer: 27

Question: According to the Bible, which part of Goliath’s body did David cut off?
Answer: Head

Question: Which former Coronation Street actress was born Shirley Anne Broadbent?
Answer: Amanda Barrie

Question: Alexandra of Denmark was the wife of which British monarch?
Answer: King Edward VII

Question: What is the name of the oblong metal ring with a spring clip, used in mountaineering to attach a running rope to a piton or similar device?
Answer: Carabiner

Question: During which year did a man last walk on the moon?
Answer: 1972

Question: Which country won the 2013 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup?
Answer: Australia

Question: ‘Boker tov’ is Hebrew for what?
Answer: Good morning

Question: Which is the largest island of England?
Answer: Isle of Wight

Question: Which English dramatist wrote ‘The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger’ in 1696
Answer: Sir John Vanbrugh

Question: Dr Tom Parry Jones, who died in January 2013, developed and marketed which ‘road safety’ device in 1967?
Answer: Electronic Breathalyser

Question: Basildon and Harlow are towns in which English county?
Answer: Essex

Question: ‘Satis’ is the name of the house in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: Great Expectations

Question: Which British cartoon strip character is known as Willi Wacker in Germany?
Answer: Andy Capp

Question: The first inauguration of which US President took place aboard a plane?
Answer: Lyndon B Johnson

Question: In Norse mythology who is known as ‘The Trickster God’?
Answer: Loki

Question: Susanna Hall was the eldest daughter of which English playwright?
Answer: William Shakespeare

Question: In the 1977 song by Elvis Costello, what colour shoes do the angels want to wear?
Answer: Red

Question: What colour is the Big Taxi in the 1970 Joni Mitchell song?
Answer: Yellow

Question: What colour are the Fields in the 1993 single by Sting?
Answer: Gold

Question: What colour is the title of a song on the album ‘Sonik Kicks’ by Paul Weller?
Answer: Green

Question: What colour is the Cortina in a 1978 single by The Tom Robinson Band?
Answer: Grey

Question: What is the title of a 1968 hit single by The Scaffold which is a modernisation of an older folk song called The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham’?
Answer: Lily the Pink

Question: In a 1964 single by The Rolling Stones what type of bird was Little and Red?
Answer: Rooster

Question: What was White in a 1982 single by Nazareth?
Answer: Bicycle

Question: What colour Lipstick is the title of a song on the album ‘Talk the Talk’ by Rihanna?
Answer: Red

Question: Who had a 1972 hit single with ‘Song Sung Blue’?
Answer: Neil Diamond

Question: Which singer released a 2013 song called ‘Yellow Raincoat’, which is supposedly about his former girlfriend Selena Gomez?
Answer: Justin Bieber

Question: What colour is the Crush, a song from the 1988 album ‘Green’ by REM?
Answer: Orange