Question: What does a nephrologist study?
Answer: The kidneys

Question: In which city was Bonnie Prince Charlie born?
Answer: Rome

Question: Chief Superintendent Strange, played by James Grout, was the boss of which TV detective?
Answer: Morse

Question: Which property completes this group of 3 on the Monopoly board? Piccadilly, Coventry Street and where?
Answer: Leicester Square

Question: Who invented Meccano in 1900?
Answer: Frank Hornby

Question: How many strings are there on a balalaika?
Answer: 3

Question: Electrum is an alloy of gold and which other element?
Answer: Silver

Question: In the 2014 Winter Olympic Games who did the British women's curling team defeat to win a bronze medal?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: What is the first name of Edna Everage's much put upon travelling companion and bridesmaid?
Answer: Madge

Question: In which country did DJ John Peel die in 2004?
Answer: Peru

Question: Who was Playboy's first Sweetheart (later Playmate) of the month in 1953?
Answer: Marilyn Monroe

Question: For which TV programme was the Liberty Bell March the theme tune?
Answer: Monty Python's Flying Circus

Question: Manila is on which Philippine island?
Answer: Luzon

Question: Name the President of Ireland.
Answer: Michael D Higgins

Question: What name connects Marge Simpson and Jackie Kennedy?
Answer: Bouvier

Question: Who plays Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham in `Downton Abbey'?
Answer: Hugh Bonneville

Question: Which was the host city of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games?
Answer: Vancouver

Question: Who created the TV series 'The West Wing'?
Answer: Aaron Sorkin

Question: Which football team formerly played their home games at Roker Park?
Answer: Sunderland

Question: Viscount Severn is the son of which member of the royal family?
Answer: Prince Edward

Question: 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways' is a line written by which poet?
Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Question: Of what is emetophobia a fear?
Answer: Vomiting

Question: Orchestral conductor Leopold Stokowski was born in 1882 in which capital city?
Answer: London

Question: In Tony Blair's cabinets who successively held the positions of Secretary of State for Scotland, Northern Ireland, Minister without Portfolio, Leader of the Commons, Health, Defence and Home Secretary?
Answer: John Reid

Question: The site of Pompeii is close to which modern city?
Answer: Naples

Question: An odalisque is a female what?
Answer: Slave

Question: dim. is the abbreviated form of which musical term?
Answer: Diminuendo

Question: In which country did the First Taranaki War start on March 17th 1860?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Of which Canadian province is Halifax the capital?
Answer: Nova Scotia

Question: What was the first name of the Nobel Prize winning scientist (1871-1937) Rutherford?
Answer: Ernest

Question: Which British town had Royal officially attached to its name in 2011?
Answer: Wootton Bassett

Question: Kate Winslet won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in which 2008 film?
Answer: The Reader

Question: Rhea and Iapetus are the second and third largest moons of which planet?
Answer: Saturn

Question: Give a year in the life of Canaletto.
Answer: 1697-1768

Question: What do the following towns have in common - Chelmsford, Perth and St Asaph?
Answer: Awarded City Status To Mark The Queen'S Diamond Jubilee

Question: What word completes the title of the 2012 film 'The Five-Year..'?
Answer: Engagement

Question: Bernie Brewer, Billy the Marlin and the Phillie Phanatic are team mascots in which US sport?
Answer: Baseball

Question: What was the first name of the Nobel Prize winning scientist (1901-1954)Fermi?
Answer: Enrico

Question: What is the surname of Tommy and Tuppence - the married sleuths, who appear in several novels and short stories by Agatha Christie?
Answer: Beresford

Question: Who created the TV series Futurama'?
Answer: Matt Groening

Question: Which rugby league team formerly played their home games at Hilton Park?
Answer: Leigh

Question: In the pre-nationalisation period which railway company is missing from the 'Big Four' - GWR, LMS, LNER and.?
Answer: Southern

Question: Name either of the Shipping Forecast areas named after islets.
Answer: FASTNET or ROCKALL

Question: Who discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter around 1610?
Answer: Galileo

Question: Give a year in the life of Botticelli.
Answer: 1444-1510

Question: What is indicated by a dot after a note on a musical score?
Answer: Lengthen'S The Duration By A Half

Question: Which King of Scotland was born on March 17th 1473? He died 40 years later.
Answer: James Iv

Question: Of what is oneirology the study?
Answer: Dreams

Question: Which British composer died in 1983 on the island of Ischia?
Answer: Sir William Walton

Question: In 1841 who was the first US Vice President to take office as President after his predecessor died in office?
Answer: John Tyler

Question: The site of Carthage is close to which modern city?
Answer: Tunis

Question: Nagasaki is on which Japanese island?
Answer: Kyushu

Question: Name the King of the Netherlands.
Answer: Willem-Alexander

Question: In which year were both the Queen and Marilyn Monroe born?
Answer: 1926

Question: Who plays CIA Officer Carrie Mathison in 'Homeland'?
Answer: Claire Danes

Question: Which venue was called the North Greenwich Arena during the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: The O2 Arena

Question: On the Isle of Man for what do the letters MHK stand?
Answer: Member Of The House Of Keys

Question: Which British army officer invented artillery shells containing bullets to inflict more casualties?
Answer: Henry Shrapnel

Question: Margarita Cansino was the original name of which film star?
Answer: Rita Hayworth

Question: Who composed a symphony with a sudden fortissimo chord at the end of the opening which gives it the nickname Surprise Symphony?
Answer: Joseph Haydn

Question: Which is the largest island entirely in Indonesia?
Answer: Sumatra

Question: Which was the last horse to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup 3 years in succession?
Answer: Best Mate

Question: The Battle of Dettingen in which George II led the British troops occurred during which War?
Answer: War Of The Austrian Succession

Question: Which fashion house introduced a youth-oriented line Miu Miu in 1992?
Answer: Prada

Question: Which UK Prime Minister-to-be married Lady Dorothy Cavendish in 1920?
Answer: Harold Macmillan

Question: Miss Joan Hunter Dunn is praised in which poem by John Betjeman?
Answer: A Subaltern'S Love Song

Question: What is the more common name for the species Panthera Onca?
Answer: Jaguar

Question: Which Dallas actor also appeared in the MGM musicals Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate?
Answer: Howard Keel

Question: Which is the only single malt whisky distilled on the Isle of Skye?
Answer: Talisker

Question: Which animal has species - white, black, Indian, Sumatran and Javan?
Answer: Rhinoceros

Question: Which post-impressionist painted The Card Players in 1892?
Answer: Paul Cezanne

Question: Violet Millar became the wife of which future UK Prime Minister in 1922?
Answer: Clement Attlee

Question: The Great Bear Lake and the Great Slave Lake are in which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: Barbara Hulanicki founded which fashion label?
Answer: Riba

Question: The Battles of Missolonghi in 1823 and 1826 occurred during which country's War of Independence?
Answer: Greece

Question: Who is the only man to have trained the winner of the Grand National in 3 consecutive years?
Answer: Vincent O'Brien

Question: Which is the largest island in Japan?
Answer: Honshu

Question: The works of which composer, born in Hamburg in 1833, include a series of 21 Hungarian Dances?
Answer: Johannes Brahms

Question: Which American Oscar-winning actress had the original name Caryn Johnson?
Answer: Whoopi Goldberg

Question: Therevada and Mahayana are the two main branches of which religion?
Answer: Buddhism