Question: + (pronounced plus) and x (pronounced multiply) are chart- topping albums by which singer?
Answer: Ed Sheeran

Question: Which Football League club is known as the Brewers?
Answer: Burton Albion

Question: FOUR, released last year is a chart-topping album by which boy band, their last with five members?
Answer: One Direction

Question: Who is the only ‘dragon’ to have appeared in every series of Dragons’ Den?
Answer: Peter Jones

Question: Which Football League club is known as the Spireites?
Answer: Chesterfield

Question: What name is given to metals such as gold and silver which are unreactive and not readily subject to corrosion?
Answer: Noble Metals

Question: Complete the name of the American football team the Arizona _________.
Answer: Cardinals

Question: Which 1984 film relates the experiences of photographer Dith Pran?
Answer: The Killing Fields

Question: Who was Abraham Lincoln’s vice president when he was assassinated?
Answer: Andrew Johnson

Question: In 2012 a two pound coin was minted with an inscription round its edge which reads ‘SOMETHING WILL TURN UP’ to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of which author?
Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: Master of the House is a song featuring in which musical?
Answer: Les Miserables

Question: Balaton cheese is produced in which European country?
Answer: Hungary

Question: In Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women, what is the name of the family whose story is told?
Answer: March

Question: Which British politician lived at Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire, now in the care of the National Trust?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: Which British bird has the species Grey and Red-legged?
Answer: Partridge

Question: Francis II was the last man to hold which imperial title, abolished in 1806?
Answer: Holy Roman Emperor

Question: Which apple brandy is named after a district in Normandy?
Answer: Calvados

Question: Which Swiss tennis player won three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles in 2015 with her Indian partner Leander Paes?
Answer: Martina Hingis

Question: Who won the Bermondsey by-election in 1983 for the Liberal Party – he held his seat until the 2015 General Election when he lost it as a Liberal Democrat?
Answer: Simon Hughes

Question: On which Scottish Island would you find the Callanish Standing Stones?
Answer: Lewis

Question: In Russian cuisine what kind of food are blini?
Answer: Pancakes

Question: In the nursery rhyme, where did Doctor Foster go in a shower of rain?
Answer: Gloucester

Question: The 2004 film The Calcium Kid centres on which sport?
Answer: Boxing

Question: According to the writer Roald Dahl who is Champion of the World?
Answer: Danny

Question: Bridgwater in Somerset lies on which river?
Answer: Parrett

Question: Who was the Secretary of State for War killed in June 1916 when HMS Hampshire sank off the Orkneys?
Answer: Herbert Horatio Kitchener

Question: What is a belted Galloway?
Answer: (A breed of) CATTLE

Question: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a territory of which country?
Answer: India

Question: How many scoring sections are there on a dart board?
Answer: 82

Question: Which term is used to describe how quickly or easily a business can convert assets into cash?
Answer: Liquidity

Question: Which architect designed the house Fallingwater near Pittsburgh, and the Robie House in Chicago?
Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright

Question: According to the Bible’s New Testament, who replaced Judas Iscariot as one of Jesus’ twelve disciples?
Answer: Matthias

Question: Which line on the London Underground links Euston and Waterloo?
Answer: Northern

Question: Which 2013 film tells the story of P L Travers (authoress of Mary Poppins) meeting with Walt Disney?
Answer: Saving Mr Banks

Question: Matteo Renzi became the youngest ever Prime Minister of which country in March last year?
Answer: Italy

Question: What was the name of the Greek herald noted for his loud voice?
Answer: Stentor

Question: The song La donna e mobile comes from which Verdi opera?
Answer: Rigoletto

Question: Which novelist and critic, who was married to Iris Murdoch for over forty years, died earlier this year aged 89?
Answer: John Bayley

Question: Who was the official court painter to Henry VIII of England?
Answer: Hans Holbein

Question: What was the birth surname of the man who came to be known as Marshall Tito?
Answer: Broz

Question: Which popular product was created by Seventh Day Adventists at the Battle Creek Sanatorium in Michigan in 1894, largely with the aim of diminishing sexual desires?
Answer: (Kellogg’S) Corn Flakes

Question: In which US state is the Bonneville Salt Flats?
Answer: Utah

Question: What is the name of the heroine in The Hunger Games?
Answer: Katniss Everdeen

Question: Guy Garvey is a singer with which band?
Answer: Elbow

Question: In Dickens’ Great Expectations by what composer’s name does his friend, Herbert Pocket, call Pip?
Answer: Handel

Question: Which British cheese is traditionally wrapped in nettle leaves?
Answer: (Cornish) Yarg

Question: a Which river runs through Wensleydale in North Yorkshire?
Answer: Ure

Question: In the world of antiques, which word is used as a general description for small hand-made wooden objects?
Answer: Treen

Question: What was the birth surname of the man who became to be known as Vladimir Lenin?
Answer: Ulyanov

Question: Which soft drink, formulated by pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas, was first marketed nationally in 1904?
Answer: Dr Pepper

Question: Leonora is the heroine of which opera premiered in 1805?
Answer: Fidelio

Question: Which Swedish crime writer and dramatist died in October 2015 aged 67?
Answer: Henning Mankell

Question: Who scored five tries for Leeds in the 2015 Rugby League Challenge Cup Final?
Answer: Tom Briscoe

Question: Which English dessert is made from milk and cream, flavoured, sweetened and then whipped to a thick but light consistency?
Answer: Syllabub

Question: The Waterloo & City Line on the London Underground links Waterloo to which other station?
Answer: Bank

Question: Which 2013 film tells the story of Martin Sixsmith’s attempts to re-unite an Irish mother with her son, taken away by nuns after his birth?
Answer: Philomena

Question: Who became the second-youngest Prime Minister of Canada following the 2015 General Election?
Answer: Justin Trudeau

Question: Who is the Greek goddess of victory?
Answer: Nike

Question: Which river runs through the Cumbrian town of Kendal?
Answer: Kent

Question: Name either of the current presenters of The X Factor.
Answer: OLLY MURS or CAROLINE FLACK

Question: ‘Operation Valentine’was the World War II codename for the 1940 British occupation of which Danisislands?
Answer: Faroe Islands

Question: Lungs, released in 2009, was the first album by the band (who) and the Machine?
Answer: Florence

Question: In Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend to which character does the title refer?
Answer: John Harmon

Question: Blanket, Honeycomb and Bible are all types of what sort of foodstuff?
Answer: Tripe

Question: What is the two-word term used for a tennis match where the final score is 6-0,6-0?
Answer: Double Bagel

Question: Founded in 1760 Hamley’s is the oldest of which type of shop in the world?
Answer: Toy

Question: What is the English title of the Christmas carol originally written in Latin as Adeste Fideles?
Answer: O Come, All Ye Faithful

Question: Which French Impressionist produced the 1873 work Wild Poppies, Near Argenteuill?
Answer: Claude Monet

Question: Which term originating in the game of poker is used to describe the most reliable, profitable companies or their stocks?
Answer: Blue Chip

Question: Kitchener was one of the original members of the Order of Merit together with which surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery?
Answer: Joseph Lister

Question: Easter Island is a territory belonging to which country?
Answer: Chile

Question: The CERN laboratory is in the suburbs of which city?
Answer: Geneva