Question: Which author was responsible for the series of short comic books Brigadier Gerard?
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

Question: In which US state can you find the area named "The Valley of the 10,000 Smokes"?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Which African country lies directly south of Gibraltar?
Answer: Morocco

Question: What are salmon usually called during the first two years of their life?
Answer: Parr

Question: Alice Perrers was the mistress of which English king?
Answer: Edward Iii

Question: What were first used in the UK at the Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket in 1965?
Answer: Starting Stalls

Question: Reggae superstar Bob Marley died in which year?
Answer: 1981

Question: Which breakfast food is named after the Roman goddess of corn and agriculture?
Answer: Cereal

Question: What name is given to the painting medium that uses eggs?
Answer: Tempera

Question: Who wrote the novel 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'?
Answer: Stieg Larson

Question: Rabbinic and Sephardic are denominations of which religion?
Answer: Judaism

Question: What's the third book in the Fifty Shades trilogy by E.L.James/
Answer: Fifty Shades Freed

Question: Americans call them scallions; what do we call them?
Answer: Spring Onions

Question: In which town will you find the Black Sheep brewery?
Answer: Masham

Question: What role was played by Doreen Mantle in TV's One Foot In The Grave?
Answer: Mrs Warboys

Question: Which American newspaper is associated with the slogan "All the news that's fit to print"?
Answer: New Your Times

Question: What is the name of the strait which divides the city of Istanbul?
Answer: Bosporous

Question: In which film did the Frankenstein monster sing 'Puttin on the Ritz'?
Answer: Young Frankenstein

Question: By what name is Oil of Vitriol known today?
Answer: Sulphuric Acid

Question: Which metaphysical poet famously wrote 'No man is an island'?
Answer: John Donne

Question: Blue vitriol is the sulphate of which metal?
Answer: Coper

Question: In 1983, Lady Donaldson was the first woman to be elected as what?
Answer: Lord Mayor Of London

Question: Which asian country has the Kip as its main unit of currency?
Answer: Laos

Question: How many canonical gospels are there in the New Testament?
Answer: Four

Question: Who composed Night on a Bare Mountain?
Answer: Mussorgsky

Question: What was the work of a 'dhobi wallah'?
Answer: Laundry

Question: In which Scottish castle was Mary Stuart crowned Queen of Scots in 1543?
Answer: Stirling

Question: What in Italy is the ferroviaria?
Answer: Railway

Question: At which place in Devon will you find the Britannia Royal Naval College?
Answer: Dartmouth

Question: An incident in the life of naval cadet George Archer-Shee was the main inspiration for which play by Terence Rattigan?
Answer: The Winslow Boy

Question: Which former 'Have I Got News For You' presenter made an occassional appearance as Patrick in 'One Foot In The Grave'?
Answer: Angus Deayton

Question: Which pre-Euro German coin was one hundreth of a mark?
Answer: Pfennig

Question: Which singer, along with Buddy Holly and 'The Big Bopper' was killed in a plane crash in 1959?
Answer: Ritchie Valens

Question: Who invented the Steam Hammer in the nineteenth century?
Answer: (James) NAISMITH

Question: What is depicted in a stretched out form at the bottom of Holbein's painting The Ambassadors?
Answer: A Skull

Question: Who is said to have designed the maze in which the mythical Minotaur was confined?
Answer: Daedalus

Question: Moneymaker, beefsteak and plum are varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Tomato

Question: Which iconic U.S. detective agency used the motto 'We Never Sleep'?
Answer: Pinkertons

Question: Which stagework, the most performed of all Arthur Miller's plays, was inspired by the so-called McCarthy witchhunts in 1950's America?
Answer: The Crucible

Question: What type of foliage is used for the fences on the Grand National course at Aintree?
Answer: Spruce

Question: Which is the only African capital city to have an underground railway system?
Answer: Cairo

Question: Which British military institution has the motto; "Serve To Lead"?
Answer: Sandhurst

Question: In which town or city are the hadquarters of CAMRA - the Campaign For Real Ale?
Answer: Saint Albans

Question: Which poet wrote the 1817 poem 'So We'll Go No More A-Roving'?
Answer: Byron

Question: Said to be the fastest creature on the planet, which is Britain's largest Falcon?
Answer: Peregrine

Question: Who composed the tone poem The Sorcerer's Apprentice?
Answer: Dukas

Question: Which English Queen married her brother-in-law?
Answer: Catherine Of Aragon

Question: What is the name of the Nazi musical featured in the film The Producers?
Answer: Springtime For Hitler

Question: Whic is the most northerly racecourse in the UK?
Answer: Perth

Question: Prior to his election as President, Barack Obama was a Senator for which US state ?
Answer: Illinois

Question: How many dry gallons are there in a bushel ?
Answer: Eight

Question: What, in anatomy, is the hardest part of the body ?
Answer: Enamel

Question: In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , what is the job of the ' rude mechanical ' Bottom ?
Answer: Weaver

Question: In music, which major scale contains just one flat ?
Answer: F Major

Question: In Private Eye magazine, the phrase " Ugandan discussions " is a euphemistic term for what ?
Answer: SEX or SEXUAL RELATIONS

Question: The Simpsons cartoon series was originally part of who's TV show ?
Answer: Tracy Ullman

Question: Which composer and pianist, usually included as one of the Three B's of classical music, wrote A German Requiem ?
Answer: Brahms

Question: In which modern country is the site of the legendary city of Troy ?
Answer: Turkey

Question: What is a Californian Buckeye ?
Answer: A Tree

Question: June is Bustin' Out All Over is a song from which musical
Answer: Carouseil

Question: What relation is Prince Philip to Queen Victoria ?
Answer: Great Great Grandson

Question: What legal verdict is available in Scotland but not in England and Wales ?
Answer: Not Proven

Question: The adjective ' caprine ' refers to which type of animal ?
Answer: Goat

Question: Who is to succeed Hilary Clinton as U.S. Secretary of State ?
Answer: John Kerry

Question: Because of an uprising that began in France and quickly spread to Italy, the Austrian Empire and Germany, which year of the 19'th century became known as the ' Year of Revolutions ' ?
Answer: 1848

Question: Which Welsh Rugby Union team plays its home games at the Gnoll ?
Answer: Neath

Question: What was the name of Oasis's first UK No. 1 hit single ?
Answer: Some Might Say

Question: Bernard de Launay was decapitated at the hands of a French mob in 1789. What post did he hold ?
Answer: Governor Of The Bastille

Question: In the forthcoming trilogy of films based on Tolkien's The Hobbit , which British actor plays Bilbo Baggins ?
Answer: Martin Freeman

Question: In which year did the Peterloo Massacre take place ?
Answer: 1819

Question: Which is the least densely populated county of England ?
Answer: Northumberland

Question: Andy Murray's victory over which sporting rival made him Britain's first male grand slam tennis champion for 76 years ?
Answer: (Novak) DJOKOVIC

Question: For how long does Rip Van Winkle sleep in Washington Irving's story ?
Answer: 20 Years

Question: Which magician was the first TV partner of Basil Brush ?
Answer: David Nixon

Question: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better is a song from which show ?
Answer: Annie Get Your Gun

Question: What is the rugby union equivalent of a throw-in in football ?
Answer: Line Out

Question: In 2012 , who became the first woman writer to win the Booker Prize for the second time ?
Answer: Hilary Mantel

Question: Who said at the time of her resignation from public office: " It's a funny old world " ?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher