Question: Which poet wrote “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”?
Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question: Which Irish poet’s epitaph ends “Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman pass by”?
Answer: William Butler Yeats

Question: Who is the patron saint of television?
Answer: St Clare

Question: In the 1974 TV comedy “It Ain’t Half Hot Mum”, who played the part of Gunner Beaumont?
Answer: Melvyn Hayes

Question: Which TV detective had a dog called simply “Dog”?
Answer: Columbo

Question: Name one of the ports featured in the TV drama “Triangle”
Answer: Felixstowe, Gothemburg or Rotterdam

Question: Which famous actress provided the voice of Maggie in “The Simpsons” when she uttered her first word?
Answer: Liz Taylor

Question: By what nicknames was Edward, eldest son of Edward III known?
Answer: The Black Prince

Question: Which South American country has borders with Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina?
Answer: Paraguay

Question: How wide, in feet, is a table tennis table?
Answer: Five

Question: What was the name of the character played by Ade Edmondson in the 1990s sitcom ‘Bottom’?
Answer: Edward Elizabeth Hitler

Question: Who created the artwork Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 which was destroyed in the 2004 Momart London warehouse fire?
Answer: Tracey Emin

Question: Complete the title of one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales – ‘The _________ of Bath’s Tale’.
Answer: Wife

Question: Whose Liverpool Oratorio released in 1991 was composed in collaboration with Carl Davis?
Answer: Paul Mccartney

Question: The Battle of Rain, or Lech, on April 15th 1632 in which the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus beat the forces of the Holy Roman Empire was part of which war?
Answer: Thirty Years’ War

Question: Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, the largest in North America, is in which US state?
Answer: Alaska

Question: The Reading Festival held over the August Bank Holiday weekend shares its line-up with which other Festival?
Answer: Leeds

Question: Who wrote the plays The Sunshine Boys and The Odd Couple?
Answer: Neil Simon

Question: The name of which musical instrument is a French word for ‘paperclip’?
Answer: Trombone

Question: In which 1944 film does Felix Aylmer play the Archbishop of Canterbury, Max Adrian play the Dauphin and John Laurie play Jamy, a Scottish Captain in the English Army?
Answer: Henry V

Question: What is 2014 in Roman numerals?
Answer: Mmxiv

Question: What was the first name of the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria, in 1944 the last of her children to die?
Answer: Beatrice

Question: Which canal passes through the centre of Lymm in Cheshire?
Answer: Bridgewater

Question: Who had bought the Corner Shop from Elsie Lappin in the first episode of ‘Coronation Street’?
Answer: Florrie Lindley

Question: Who is the wife of cartoon character Hagar the Horrible?
Answer: Helga

Question: Which duo had a Number Two hit in 1984 with Agadoo?
Answer: Black Lace

Question: Which city in the German state of Saxony has the largest population?
Answer: Dresden

Question: Name any one of the three cricketers recently knighted by Antigua.
Answer: CURTLY AMBROSE, RICHIE RICHADRSON or ANDY ROBERTS

Question: Which planet in the Solar System has diameter nearest to that of Earth?
Answer: Venus

Question: Who was appointed the first Minister of Technology in 1964 – he was General Secretary of the TGWU at the time?
Answer: Frank Cousins

Question: What is the capital city of the Italian region of Liguria?
Answer: Genoa

Question: Which gas makes up about 96% of the atmosphere of the planet Mars?
Answer: Carbon Dioxide

Question: Who was found dead in the first episode of ‘East Enders’?
Answer: Reg Cox

Question: Three chemical elements have symbols beginning with the letter I. One is iodine. Name either of the others.
Answer: INDIUM or IRIDIUM

Question: Complete the title of the 1976 Number One by Paper Lace - Billy, don’t be a _______ .
Answer: Hero

Question: The Guardian Fiction Prize was replaced in 1999 by the Guardian First Book award. Whose novel White Teeth was the second winner?
Answer: Zadie Smith

Question: Ray McAnally won a posthumous BAFTA in 1990 for his role as Paddy Brown in which film, his last, released the previous year?
Answer: My Left Foot

Question: What is the hyphenated name of the lemur, Daubentonia madagascariensis, the world’s largest nocturnal primate?
Answer: Aye-Aye

Question: Who died in the Petersen House at 516 10th Street NW in Washington DC on April 15th 1865?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: Victoria Eugenie the daughter of Princess Beatrice married the King of which European country in 1906?
Answer: Spain

Question: What is the two-letter postcode for addresses in Birkenhead and Wallasey?
Answer: Ch

Question: Name either of the plays for which Peter Shaffer won a Tony Award for Best Play.
Answer: EQUUS or AMADEUS

Question: ‘Seventy-Six Trombones’ is a song from which Meredith Wilson musical?
Answer: The Music Man

Question: Who plays Yorick in the 1996 film version of ‘Hamlet’, played in flashback?
Answer: Ken Dodd

Question: In Greek myth who was the father of Hector?
Answer: Priam

Question: In ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ what is the surname of the character with given names Eurydice Colette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau, known as Patsy?
Answer: Stone

Question: Which of The Canterbury Tales, the first, features cousins Arcite and Palamon and their pursuit of Emily?
Answer: The Knight’S Tale

Question: Whose oratorio The Creation was composed in the 1790s?
Answer: Joseph Haydn

Question: Where was the ship SS Great Britain from 1886 until 1970, when it was returned to Bristol?
Answer: Falkland Islands

Question: Which African country has land borders with Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti?
Answer: Eritrea

Question: 2 Willow Road is part of a terrace of three houses in Hampstead London designed by which architect with the same surname as a Bond villain – Ian Fleming was one of those who objected to the demolition of the previous properties on the site?
Answer: Ernő Goldfinger

Question: Westminster Abbey is dedicated to which Saint?
Answer: Peter

Question: Which England Rugby Union player has the nickname 36?
Answer: Billy Twelvetrees

Question: Complete the title of the 2009 animated science fiction film Cloudy with a Chance of _______________.
Answer: Meatballs

Question: The International New York Times was known by what title until last October?
Answer: International Herald Tribune

Question: In American politics, what is the symbol of the Republican Party?
Answer: Elephant

Question: What is the minimum distance over which a 'steeplechase' is run, in British horse racing?
Answer: Two Miles

Question: In British horse racing, what is the minimum distance over which a 'flat race' is run?
Answer: Five Furlongs

Question: What is the symbol of the democratic Party in American politics?
Answer: Donkey

Question: Now only used in the Isle of Man, a "deemster" is an old name for what?
Answer: A Judge

Question: Britain's highest waterfall, Cauldron Snout, lies on a river that rises in the north Pennines. Which river?
Answer: Tees

Question: Which year saw Castro create the communist state of Cuba, and Makarios elected President of the newly independent Cyprus?
Answer: 1959

Question: Which runner took the 100 metres gold at the Atlanta Olympics, only a year after she overcame Grave's Disease
Answer: Gail Devers

Question: After failing to win his sixth Tour de France, who made up for his disappointment by winning the inaugural Olympic road time trial in 1996?
Answer: Miguel Indurain

Question: What cotton cloth, woven from coloured yarns into stripes or checks, takes its name from the Malay word for striped?
Answer: Gingham

Question: Who suffered 'The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner' in the 1962 film of that name?
Answer: Tom Courtney