Question: Which Scandinavian capital hosted the 2012 European Athletics Championships?
Answer: Helsinki

Question: He famously ignored his orders, who was Nelson's superior at Copenhagen?
Answer: Sir Hyde Parker

Question: Pitt the younger resigned as PM because he was unable to deliver on which promise?
Answer: Emancipation Of Ireland's

Question: A name featuring a Greek letter, what is the US Army's equivalent to the SAS?
Answer: Delta Force

Question: A name featuring that of a marine mammal, what is the US Navy's equivalent to the SAS?
Answer: Navy Seals

Question: Which musical instrument's name comes from the German word meaning 'bell-play'?
Answer: Glockenspiel

Question: Who narrated the classic US TV series 'The Untouchables'?
Answer: Walter Winchell

Question: At which hospital did TV's Dr Kildare work?
Answer: Blaire General Hospital

Question: In a medical breakthrough in 1901, who was the first to classify A, B, O blood groups?
Answer: Karl Landsteiner

Question: Who did God order to preach at Nineveh, but he ran away, with scary consequences?
Answer: Jonah

Question: In telescopes and microscopes, what is the alternative name for the ocular lens?
Answer: Eyepiece

Question: What name is given to molten rock located beneath the surface of the Earth?
Answer: Magma

Question: Carson City is the capital of which US state?
Answer: Nevada

Question: The Assyrian Empire was mostly located in which modern day, middle-east country?
Answer: Iraq

Question: Who was the driving force behind the creation of the 'Windows' PC operating system?
Answer: Bill Gates

Question: Which hi-tech company has its main assembly plant in Everett, Washington?
Answer: Boeing

Question: What is the scientific species name (i.e. in Latin) for the Wren?
Answer: Troglodites Troglodites

Question: A carcass of which animal is blowtorched to make the illegal delicacy known as 'Smokies'?
Answer: Sheep acc. Mutton or Lamb

Question: Aimed at home audiences (1946-67) which popular show was on the 'Light Programme'?
Answer: Housewives' Choice

Question: Which radio show began in May 1940 with the aim of cheering up people in factories?
Answer: Workers' Playtime

Question: Which programme uses Penguin Cafe Orchestra's 'Scherzo and Trio' as its theme music?
Answer: Round Britain Quiz

Question: Who is honoured with a museum in her home city of Wakefield, West Yorkshire?
Answer: Barbara Hepworth

Question: Which famous sculptor was born in Castleford, West Yorkshire?
Answer: Henry Moore

Question: Which 'John' directed (and had a cameo in) the film 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'?
Answer: John Huston

Question: Who went from Radio 5 Live to 'The One Show' with Nadia Sawalah on BBC TV?
Answer: Adrian Chiles

Question: In 'Allo 'Allo', what was the surname of the British soldier who dressed as a Gendarme?
Answer: Crabtree

Question: Which place for one to be naked was used for exercise, bathing and intellectual pursuits?
Answer: Gymnasium

Question: Which of the PanHellenic Games was held on territory owned by the city state of Elis?
Answer: Olympic Games

Question: Which sporting activities took place in a palaestra? One of two possible answers is OK.
Answer: Boxing or Wrestling

Question: July 16 in our Western calendar coincides with the first day of which other calendar?
Answer: Islamic

Question: What was the title of the first single released by The Beatles in October 1962?
Answer: Love Me Do

Question: In which English county is the port town of Fleetwood?
Answer: Lancashire

Question: In 1938, who was the first actor ever to win successive Best Actor Academy Awards?
Answer: Spencer Tracy

Question: By what name was the city of York known when under Viking occupation?
Answer: Yorvik

Question: The Kamchatka Peninsula lies within the territory of which nation?
Answer: Russia

Question: By what alternative name is the Mariinsky theatre of St Petersburg much better known?
Answer: Kirov Ballet

Question: Messenger to the Greek gods, who was the son of Zeus and Maia?
Answer: Hermes

Question: In Greek mythology who killed the gorgon Medusa?
Answer: Perseus

Question: Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Number 13

Question: What would a 'galactophagist' (say "Galacto-Fay-Gist") consume a lot of?
Answer: Milk

Question: Terry Deary is the author of which series of children's books that were adapted for TV?
Answer: Horrible Histories

Question: Ivan and Alexey are two of Dostoyevsky’s ‘Brothers Karamazov’. Who is the other?
Answer: Dimitry

Question: For which film did Tom Hanks win his first Oscar?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: Which ex 'Neighbours' star played Ed Exley in the movie adaptation of 'LA Confidential'?
Answer: Guy Pearce

Question: Which Cabinet minister fathered Flora Keays by his secretary?
Answer: Cecil PARKINSON

Question: Which Labour minister under Gordon Brown had formerly been in the Liberal party?
Answer: Peter Hain

Question: From which major religion did the Hare Krishna movement spring?
Answer: Hindu

Question: Complete the saying ‘Whom the Gods love die ……..’?
Answer: Young

Question: A gathering of which birds can be described as an ‘unkindness’?
Answer: Ravens

Question: Built by Rama 1st. Which capital city is home to the Temple of the Emerald Buddha?
Answer: Bangkok

Question: What is the clarified butter commonly used in Indian cuisine?
Answer: Ghee

Question: Which famous writer lived at Gads Hill in Kent?
Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: Not often mentioned – what is Jeeves first name?
Answer: Reginald

Question: What is the nickname of Bertie Wooster’s friend Richard Little?
Answer: Bingo

Question: What is the name of the aunt that Bertie lives in mortal fear of?
Answer: Aunt Agatha

Question: Which record was broken by New Zealand batsman Corey Anderson on New Year’s Day?
Answer: Fastest Ever One-Day Century

Question: Who was commanded by God through a donkey?
Answer: Balaam

Question: In trigonometry what is calculated by the adjacent over the hypotenuse?
Answer: Cosine

Question: Which Marks and Gran sitcom returned in the new year after 15 years off screen?
Answer: Birds of a Feather

Question: In a greyhound race where does a dog finish if it makes ‘a show’?
Answer: Third

Question: Apart from a straight flush which other hand beats a full house in poker?
Answer: Four of a Kind

Question: Which letter denotes the civil aircraft marking for a plane registered in the UK?
Answer: G

Question: Which European city is nicknamed the Athens of the North?
Answer: Edinburgh

Question: Which kind of water contains quinine?
Answer: Tonic Water

Question: In a book recto is the right-hand page – what is the left?
Answer: Verso

Question: Whose autobiography was the UK’s best selling book of 2013?
Answer: Sir Alex Ferguson

Question: Which tennis star was sued for palimony by Judy Nelson?
Answer: Martina Navratilova

Question: On which instrument is a skirl played?
Answer: Bagpipes

Question: What was the Oxford Dictionaries ‘New Word of the Year’?
Answer: Selfie

Question: Which cooking term is used for sprinkling something with icing sugar or flour?
Answer: Dredging

Question: The Cornish cheese yarg is wrapped in what?
Answer: Nettles

Question: What is the alternative name for pimento or Jamaican pepper?
Answer: Allspice

Question: Whose head is to appear on a new £2 coin to commemorate the start of World War I?
Answer: Lord Kitchener

Question: In Botticelli’s famous Birth of Venus – in what is Venus standing?
Answer: Sea Shell

Question: Which 1960’s art vogue was based on optical illusion?
Answer: Op Art

Question: To west country folk what people are ‘emmets’ and ‘grockles’?
Answer: Tourists

Question: In the words lithograph, lithium and Paleolithic – what does ‘lith’ mean?
Answer: Stone

Question: The vessel had two sister ships the Olympic and which other?
Answer: Britannic

Question: At which port did the passengers embark?
Answer: Southampton