Question: Which TV celebrity is married to Charles Saatchi?
Answer: Nigella Lawson

Question: Which US City is not part of any US State?
Answer: Washington Dc

Question: According to Greek and Roman mythology, which creature can only be tamed by a virgin?
Answer: The Unicorn

Question: Which BBC Local Radio Station began as Radio Blackburn in 1971?
Answer: Radio Lancashire

Question: Apart from Phil Taylor, and more recently Adrian Lewis (2011) who is the only other English player to win the PDC World Darts Championship?
Answer: Dennis Priestly

Question: The Urbis Centre in Manchester is soon to be the home of which national museum?
Answer: National Football Museum

Question: Who was General Secretary of SOGAT from 1983 to 1985, the first woman to lead a major trade union?
Answer: Brenda Dean

Question: Munich is the capital of which German state?
Answer: Bavaria

Question: What was the name of the juryless courts established in Northern Ireland in 1972, where the cases were heard by a single judge?
Answer: Diplock Courts

Question: Which Trade Unionist was appointed the first Minister of Technology in 1964?
Answer: Frank Cousins

Question: Before his election, Pope Benedict XVI was Archbishop of which City?
Answer: Munich

Question: When Sunderland won the 1973 FA Cup, under Bob Stokoe, who did they defeat in the final?
Answer: Leeds United

Question: Name the British inventor of the jet engine?
Answer: Sir Frank Whittle

Question: Name the awards for the worst films, announced just before the Oscars each year?
Answer: Golden Raspberries Or Razzies

Question: Which racecourse hosts The Lincoln Handicap?
Answer: Doncaster

Question: Give the name of the restaurant charity formed by Jamie Oliver to help disadvantaged young people?
Answer: Fifteen

Question: Which wood is traditionally used in manufacture of gun stocks?
Answer: Walnut

Question: Who was the only posthumous World Motor Racing Champion?
Answer: Jochen Rindt

Question: Which poet wrote the children's fantasy novel, The Box of Delights?
Answer: John Masefield

Question: Name the TV chat show hosted by John Freeman and later by Jeremy Isaacs, which ran on BBC television 1958 to 62 and 89 to 98 with one guest each week?
Answer: Face To Face

Question: Snooker cues are traditionally made from which wood?
Answer: Ash

Question: Apart from The Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia, which is the other National Park in Wales?
Answer: The Pembrokeshire Coast

Question: Who plays Nelson Mandela in the 2009 film Invictus?
Answer: Morgan Freeman

Question: Who directed the 2009 film Invictus?
Answer: Clint Eastwood

Question: What name is given to a castrated chicken?
Answer: A Capon

Question: Apart from George, who was the only other Beatle to appear at the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square?
Answer: Ringo Starr

Question: Where in London was the venue of the first FA Cup Final in 1872?
Answer: The Oval

Question: Which pop group was named after a fictional band in the film "A Clockwork Orange"?
Answer: Heaven 17

Question: Who plays King George VI in the award winning film The King's Speech?
Answer: Colin Firth

Question: In which radio comedy series does Andy Hamilton play The Devil?
Answer: Old Harry'S Game

Question: What do Nielsen Ratings measure?
Answer: TV audiences

Question: Graham Napier has hit a record 16 sixes in an innings both in a Twenty20 match in 2008 and a County Championship match in 2011, for which county does he play?
Answer: Essex

Question: Name either of the singers who passed away on the same day, 16th September 1977?
Answer: Maria Callas, Marc Bolan

Question: What is the capital of the new country. South Sudan?
Answer: Juba

Question: Terry Deary and Peter Hepplewhite write which series of entertaining and educational books for youngsters?
Answer: Horrible Histories

Question: In November 2011, 'Piccadilly Circus, London', one of the very few paintings of London by which artist, sold at auction for £5.6 million?
Answer: LS Lowry

Question: Which group had a 1980 hit with 'Turning Japanese'?
Answer: The Vapors

Question: Where in London is the Bomber Command Memorial to be built in 2012?
Answer: Green Park

Question: TV 'soap' characters Sinbad, Alma Baldwin and Nick Cotton have all been used in TV adverts for which brand?
Answer: Daz

Question: Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, is currently head of state of which country?
Answer: Egypt

Question: Who composed the ballet 'Ocean's Kingdom' first performed in 2011?
Answer: Paul McCartney

Question: Name either of the astronauts aboard the first flight of the Space Shuttle (Columbia in April 1981)?
Answer: John Young, Bob Crippen

Question: Who played Fu Manchu in the 1960s films based on the books by Sax Rohmer?
Answer: Christopher Lee

Question: How would any one of Anne Hegarty, Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace and Paul Sinha be described on a TV programme?
Answer: The Chaser

Question: Marton, Sally Brass and Christopher Nubbles are characters in which Dickens novel?
Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop

Question: What name is given to the pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca?
Answer: Hajj

Question: Name the Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan from where Russian space missions are launched?
Answer: Baikonur

Question: Klaus Voorman created the cover of which 1966 Beatles album?
Answer: Revolver

Question: Who composed the oratorio 'The Dream of Gerontius'?
Answer: Edward Elgar

Question: In the Bible to where was Saul heading when he was blinded by the light and converted to Christianity?
Answer: Damascus

Question: Which early US President said "if you want something that you've never had, you must be willing to do something that you've never done"?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Question: What name is given to the place of worship in the Sikh religion?
Answer: Gurdwara

Question: What is the name of the site in Australia used to test and launch missiles and spacecraft?
Answer: Woomera

Question: Richard Hamilton, who died in September 2011, was famous for the design of the cover of which Beatles album?
Answer: 'The Beatles'

Question: Who composed the cantata 'Belshazzar's Feast', first performed in 1931?
Answer: William Walton

Question: What is the common name of the butterfly 'Apatura Iris', the male is the most beautiful found in the British Isles. It has black/brown wings with white bands and a coloured sheen that gives it its name?
Answer: Purple Emperor

Question: In the Bible parable of the Good Samaritan, to where was the traveller heading when he was attacked?
Answer: Jericho

Question: The 'Express & Star', which features the cartoon 'Enoch & Eli', is the biggest selling regional daily newspaper in the UK, in which town or city is it based?
Answer: Wolverhampton

Question: Which British Prime Minister said "in the case of war, it's not who is right but who is left"?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: Who, along with Rachel Riley and Susie Dent, will host the 2012 series of Countdown?
Answer: Nick Hewer

Question: Squaw Valley, the venue for the 1960 Winter Olympic Games, is in which US state?
Answer: California

Question: Nadgett, Elijah Pogram and Tom Pinch appear in which Dickens novel?
Answer: Martin Chuzzlewit

Question: In the early 1970s, Lynne Paul and Eve Graham were the lead singers in which group?
Answer: New Seekers

Question: In Greek mythology, who is the twin sister of Helenus?
Answer: Cassandra

Question: Which group had a 1981 hit with 'Tainted Love'?
Answer: Soft Cell

Question: What name is given to the migration of a solvent from a dilute solution to a more concentrated solution across a semi-permeable membrane?
Answer: Osmosis

Question: In a TV advert, Mr T (from the programme 'The A-Team') takes a tank on to a football pitch to promote which brand?
Answer: Snickers

Question: Who became the third wife of Paul McCartney in October 2011?
Answer: Nancy Shevell