Question: On the show for over twelve years, who is the longest serving 'Blue Peter' presenter?
Answer: John Noakes

Question: 'Dicky Mint', 'Mick the Marmaliser' and 'Nigel Ponsonby- Smallpiece' belong to which entertainers?
Answer: 'The Diddy Men'

Question: What is the capital city of Estonia?
Answer: Tallin

Question: In which Yorkshire town does 'Pocktoberfest' take place?
Answer: Pocklington

Question: Who won the Lance Todd Trophy in the 2013 Rugby League Challenge Cup Final?
Answer: Matty Smith

Question: The songs ‘Hound Dog’ and ‘Jailhouse Rock’ were written by Jerry Leiber and ______ who?
Answer: Mike Stoller

Question: Which plant is the logo of Encyclopædia Britannica?
Answer: Thistle

Question: Which word completes this verse from the famous monologue about Albert and the lion? A grand little lad was their Albert All dressed in his best; quite a swell 'E'd a stick with an 'orse's 'ead 'andle The finest that _______ could sell.
Answer: WOOLWORTH’S (accept WOOLIE’S)

Question: Give a year in the reign of King Richard II.
Answer: 1377-1399

Question: In which ocean is Réunion, an overseas department of France?
Answer: Indian Ocean

Question: Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to do what on August 6th 1926?
Answer: Swim The English Channel

Question: Which is the only city in the Irish province of Connacht?
Answer: Galway

Question: Who wrote “The Tin Drum”, published in 1959, part of the “Danzig Trilogy”?
Answer: Günter Grass

Question: Which character from ‘The Magic Roundabout’ was illustrated on a 1st class stamp issued in January?
Answer: Dougal

Question: How is Jordan Belfort, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, described in the title of a recent film?
Answer: The Wolf Of Wall Street

Question: Which Olympic sport is governed by the WTF?
Answer: Taekwondo

Question: Whose album ‘13’ issued last year was their first studio album since ‘Forbidden’ in 1995?
Answer: Black Sabbath

Question: Give either of the forenames of author A S Byatt.
Answer: Antonia Susan

Question: Stella McCartney became Creative Director of which Paris Fashion House in 1997?
Answer: Chloé

Question: Since 1961 what has been the name of the city known from 1589 to 1925 as Tsaritsyn?
Answer: Volgograd

Question: Which motorway crosses the original Severn Bridge – the M4 was diverted when the second crossing opened?
Answer: M48

Question: Which future England football manager played in the team beaten 6 - 3 by Hungary at Wembley in 1953?
Answer: Alf Ramsey

Question: Which musical by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone made its London debut last year?
Answer: The Book Of Mormon

Question: According to the Gospel of Luke, in which village did two disciples meet Jesus after the resurrection and ate with him – a scene depicted by Titian, Caravaggio and others?
Answer: Emmaus

Question: On which national radio station does John Suchet broadcast each weekday morning?
Answer: Classic Fm

Question: The Americans call this punctuation mark a period. What do we call it?
Answer: Full Stop

Question: Who played Nurse Mildred Ratched in the 1975 film ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’?
Answer: Louise Fletcher

Question: Who partnered John McEnroe to win 4 Wimbledon Gentlemen’s Doubles titles?
Answer: Peter Fleming

Question: Which composer became Vice-Kapellmeister to the House of Esterházy in 1761, then Kapellmeister five years later?
Answer: Joseph Haydn

Question: Who led a raid at Harper’s Ferry in 1859?
Answer: John Brown

Question: What is the collective name of the two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan set in the Beauregard Private Hotel in Bournemouth?
Answer: Separate Tables

Question: Which Conservative, the MP for Louth and Horncastle, elected in 1966, is the Father of the House of Commons?
Answer: Sir Peter Tapsell

Question: Give either of the forenames of author H E Bates.
Answer: Herbert Ernest

Question: Which river is spanned by the Clifton Suspension Bridge?
Answer: River Avon

Question: Which eponymous musical based on the 1963 Profumo Affair made its debut in London last year?
Answer: Stephen Ward

Question: According to the Gospel of John, in which village did Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead?
Answer: Bethany

Question: Who became the first American woman in space on June 18th 1983?
Answer: Sally Ride

Question: Which ‘saggy, old, cloth cat’ was illustrated on a 1st class stamp issued in January?
Answer: Bagpuss

Question: Which element is named after the Greek for ‘stench’?
Answer: Bromine

Question: ‘Houses of the Holy’ in 1973 was the fifth album released by which band, the first three contained the name of the band and the fourth was untitled?
Answer: Led Zeppelin

Question: What is the name for the ‘wavy line’ above the letter n in words such as jalapeño and piñata?
Answer: Tilde

Question: What is the surname of the character ‘Hawkeye’ in the film and TV series ‘M*A*S*H’?
Answer: Pierce

Question: Which country did Stephen Fleming captain in test cricket?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Which Noël Coward play features the eccentric medium and clairvoyant Madame Arcati?
Answer: Blithe Spirit

Question: The Prince of Wales feathers appeared on the reverse of which coin from 1971 to 2008?
Answer: Two Pence

Question: Which band of the 1980s often referred to themselves as ‘the fourth best band in Hull’?
Answer: The Housemartins

Question: Which pianist who had two Number 1 hits composed the theme tune to the 1960s sitcom ‘Meet The Wife’?
Answer: Russ Conway

Question: Which literary character's home was Thornfield Hall?
Answer: Mr (Edward) Rochester

Question: According to Muslin belief, who dictated the Koran to Mohammed?
Answer: Gabriel

Question: For his role in which film did JK Simmons win the Oscar for best Supporting actor in 2015?
Answer: Whiplash

Question: On the London underground, what is the colour of the Metropolitan Line?
Answer: Purple

Question: Which amendment of the US constitution repealed prohibition in 1933?
Answer: 21st

Question: Who wrote the opera's A Village Romeo and Juliet and The Magic Fountain?
Answer: Frederick Delius

Question: Just do it is the slogan of which company?
Answer: Nike

Question: What aid to farmers did William Merchland invent in 1889?
Answer: Milking Machine

Question: In which city would you find the Tower of Belem?
Answer: Lisbon

Question: Isabella of Valois (France) became England's youngest ever queen consort at the age of six when she married which king in 1396?
Answer: Richard the II

Question: What do American's call a Hot Dog?
Answer: A Weenie

Question: What letter is two dot's in Morse code?
Answer: L

Question: Who was the wife of king Priam of Troy?
Answer: Hecuba

Question: Which element was named Dephlogisticated Air by its discoverer, the French chemist Lavoisier who gave it this common name?
Answer: Oxygen

Question: What is the third Sunday before Easter known as?
Answer: Mothering Sunday

Question: What term is used for the distance from the earth to the sun?
Answer: Astronomical Unit

Question: In medicine, for what would you take a Mantoux Test?
Answer: Tuberculosis

Question: Which group had a No 1 hit in 1982 with My camera never lies?
Answer: Buck's Fizz

Question: What type of creature is a Queen Alexandra's Birdwing, the largest of its kind?
Answer: A butterfly

Question: Galena is the most important ore of which metal?
Answer: Lead

Question: In the BBC Curse of Comedy series, name either actor who played Tony Hancock or Joan Le Mesurier in the episode Hancock and Joan?
Answer: Ken Stott or Maxine Peake

Question: Which English city has districts called Inglemire, Marfleet and Gipsyville?
Answer: Hull

Question: Name the Jewish high priest at the time of the Crucifixion?
Answer: Caiaphas

Question: Which British actress was nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar) in 2015, for her role in The theory of everything?
Answer: Felicity Jones (Jane Wilde Hawkins)