Question: Which king married Elizabeth of York, the daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville?
Answer: Henry Vii

Question: Which element has atomic number 71 and symbol Lu?
Answer: Lutetium

Question: Who was voted the first BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1954?
Answer: Chris Chataway

Question: Who was British Prime Minister between 1924 and 1929?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin

Question: Which cartoon character made his screen debut in 1940 in the animated short film A Wild Hare'?
Answer: Bugs Bunny

Question: In which castle was Mary Queen of Scots beheaded in 1587?
Answer: Fotheringay Castle

Question: In which American city are the headquarters of Amazon.com located?
Answer: Seattle

Question: 'Mrs Dalloway' and "To the Lighthouse' are among the works of which writer?
Answer: Virginia Woolf

Question: Which London theatre, that famously 'never closed', did finally close in 1964 before subsequently reopening as a cinema and a strip club?
Answer: The Windmill

Question: Predominantly which grape is used in the manufacture of sherry?
Answer: Palomino

Question: 'Bye Bye Love' was which duo's first top ten single in the UK in 1957?
Answer: Everly Brothers

Question: Who successfully piloted the spacecraft Vostok Six in 1963?
Answer: Valentina Tereshkova

Question: Which store did Barbara Hulanicki open in Kensington in 1964?
Answer: Biba

Question: Roger Daltrey is lead singer with which long-running band?
Answer: The Who

Question: Desmond Miles is the lead character and main protagonist of which series of video games?
Answer: Assassin's Creed

Question: In the Bible St Paul's conversion to Christianity takes place on the road to where?
Answer: Damascus

Question: Calabrese is a variety of which vegetable?
Answer: Broccoli

Question: How are the comedians Thomas Derbyshire and Robert Harper better known?
Answer: Cannon and Ball

Question: 6 and 28 are perfect numbers. What is the next perfect number in the sequence?
Answer: 496

Question: Which country became the 28th member of the European Union in July 2013?
Answer: Croatia

Question: In which constellation would you find the star cluster known as the Plough or Big Dipper?
Answer: Ursa Major

Question: In a Punch and Judy show what traditionally is the name of the dog?
Answer: Toby

Question: What is the chemical symbol for the element Mercury?
Answer: Hg

Question: Who, in March 1912, famously said I am just going outside and may be some time"?
Answer: Captain Lawrence Oates

Question: Kloten airport serves which European city?
Answer: Zurich

Question: Proposed in 1983, what was President Reagan's 'Strategic Defense Initiative', or SDI, more popularly known as?
Answer: Star Wars

Question: Who was President of America between 1929 and 1933?
Answer: Herbert Hoover

Question: Who won a gold medal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in the women's skeleton bob?
Answer: Lizzie Yarnold

Question: According to the traditional nursery rhyme when did the Knave of Hearts steal the tarts?
Answer: On a Summer's Day

Question: In which constellation is the bright star Sirius?
Answer: Canis Major

Question: Which fictional character has been portrayed on film by David Niven in 1956 and Steve Coogan in 2004?
Answer: Phileas Fogg (in 'Around the World in Eighty Days')

Question: Which country did Emmelie de Forest represent in winning the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Which Moscow building once housed the headquarters of the KGB and a notorious prison?
Answer: The Lubyanka

Question: Which vegetable is also known as the eggplant in the United States?
Answer: Aubergine

Question: In the nursery rhyme, if Monday's child is 'fair of face', what is Wednesday's child?
Answer: Full of Woe

Question: Which TV cartoon series(later a film) features the children Pebbles and Bam Bam?
Answer: The Flintstones

Question: What is the chemical symbol for the element Antimony?
Answer: Sb

Question: Which rugby union team plays its home fixtures at Welford Road?
Answer: Leicester

Question: What nationality was painter Piet Mondrian?
Answer: Dutch

Question: Which Pennsylvania nuclear power plant suffered a partial nuclear meltdown in 1979?
Answer: Three Mile Island

Question: What is the name of the Newfoundland dog in the play/novel 'Peter Pan'?
Answer: Nana

Question: Who was assassinated on 30 January 1948 by Nathuram Godse?
Answer: Mohandas Gandhi

Question: Which football league team plays its home matches at the Lamex Stadium?
Answer: Stevenage

Question: According to the New Testament, which criminal was released by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus?
Answer: Barabbas

Question: Which creatures live in a formicary?
Answer: Ants

Question: In which county is Adnams Brewery situated?
Answer: Suffolk

Question: 'The Lass that loved a Sailor' is the subtitle of which 1878 light opera?
Answer: HMS Pinafore

Question: Laurence Olivier took the title Baron Olivier of which town?
Answer: Brighton

Question: Which Chinese city, the capital of Shaanxi province, is home to the Terracotta Army?
Answer: Xi'an

Question: What is the name of Austria's highest mountain?
Answer: Grossglockner

Question: Which currency is represented by the ISO code CHF?
Answer: Swiss Franc

Question: Where did the witches Alexandra Spofford, Jane Smart and Sukie Rougemont live according to the title of a John Updike novel?
Answer: Eastwick

Question: What is the name of the highest prize awarded at the annual Cannes Film Festival?
Answer: Palme D'Or

Question: Which English rock band recently achieved their first number one album in 43 years when their latest release, 13, went straight in at the top of the chart?
Answer: Black Sabbath

Question: On which London thoroughfare are the Dorchester and Grosvenor House Hotels?
Answer: Park Lane

Question: Businessmen from which US city provided most of the financial backing for Charles Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight in 1927?
Answer: St Louis

Question: Which English rock band's second album, BE, entered the charts at number two last month, the title being the initials of the band's name?
Answer: Beady Eye

Question: Fishermen from which English port were reputed to have hung a monkey during the Napoleonic Wars, thinking it was a French spy?
Answer: Hartlepool

Question: Which English rugby union player was voted European Player of the Year last season?
Answer: Jonny 'Wilkinson

Question: What was the name of Hitler's personal secretary who disappeared at the end of the War?
Answer: Martin Bormann

Question: Which currency is represented by the ISO code EGP?
Answer: Egyptian Pound

Question: Which composer was born in Leipzig in 1813 and died in Venice in 1883?
Answer: Richard Wagner

Question: Shane Meadows' documentary film about which band received its world premiere at Trafford Park last month and was also simultaneously broadcast live in many cinemas across the UK?
Answer: Stone Roses

Question: Where in North Carolina did the Wright brothers make their pioneering first flight in 1903?
Answer: Kitty Hawk

Question: Which 1898 Henry James novel features children named Miles and Flora?
Answer: The Turn Of The Screw

Question: A documentary-biographical film about which US rock singer, produced by Ridley Scott, will be released this month simultaneously via a worldwide cinema broadcast in over 50 countries?
Answer: Bruce Springsteen

Question: In which European capital city would you find the Chrisriansborg and Amalienborg Palaces?
Answer: Copenhagen

Question: Built in 1961, the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh was the first sports stadium in the world to feature what?
Answer: Retractable Roof

Question: Which actor holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations for acting without a win, having been nominated on eight occasions?
Answer: Peter O'Toole

Question: In what decade was the political party Plaid Cymru founded?
Answer: 1920s

Question: Which writer, mother of a British fashion designer, wrote the novel Lace?
Answer: Shirley Conran