Question: Who took the Leonard Cohen song Hallelujah to No.1 in 2008?
Answer: Alexandra Burke

Question: Who is lead singer with The Killers?
Answer: Brandon Flowers

Question: Which TV detective was assisted by Inspector Mike Burden?
Answer: Inspector Wexford

Question: Who played detectives Charley Farley and Piggy Malone?
Answer: The Two Ronnies

Question: Paul Cezanne, Paul Gaugin and Vincent van Gogh belonged to which school of painting?
Answer: Post-Impressionists

Question: Which family was portrayed as the Magi in Botticelli’s Adoration of the Magi?
Answer: Medici

Question: Who painted The Rokeby Venus?
Answer: Velasquez

Question: Which global company owes everything to an invention by Dr John S Pemberton?
Answer: Coca Cola

Question: What was the first commercially available household detergent?
Answer: Persil

Question: What colour is the mineral malachite?
Answer: Green

Question: What do we call the layer of the Earth between its crust and its core?
Answer: Mantle

Question: Shelley’s Adonias is an elegy on the death of which poet?
Answer: Keats

Question: Wordsworth, Coleridge – who was the third of the Lake Poets?
Answer: Southey

Question: With which profession does one associate the Stanislawski Method?
Answer: Acting

Question: In a top ten hit for Dusty Springfield who was Billy Ray?
Answer: The Son of a Preacher Man

Question: Which sport has banned left-handed playing since 1975?
Answer: Polo

Question: What is the family name of the ruling dynasty of Monaco?
Answer: Grimaldi

Question: What instruction to a printer means ‘let the original stand’?
Answer: Stet

Question: What breed of dog’s evidence is admissible in an American court?
Answer: Bloodhound

Question: What word is used for the tail of a rabbit, hare or deer?
Answer: Scut

Question: Which TV programme featured the Olympic Hide and Seek Final?
Answer: Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Question: Which capital was burned by the British in 1814?
Answer: Washington

Question: Australia has two flightless birds – the emu and which other?
Answer: Cassowary

Question: Which is the only European country where porcupines live in the wild?
Answer: Italy

Question: A shubunkin is a variety of what kind of fish?
Answer: Goldfish

Question: Which of the Greek islands is closest to the Albanian coast?
Answer: Corfu

Question: What do the Germans call Donau?
Answer: The River Danube

Question: What was Melanie Sykes selling from an ice cream van?
Answer: Boddington’s Bitter

Question: In 1961 young Terry Brooks made his debut as the first …….what?
Answer: Milky Bar Kid

Question: According to the old ad what did ‘a million housewives every day pick up’?
Answer: A Tin of Heinz Beans

Question: Who was title character Sarah Woodruff?
Answer: The French Lieutenant’s

Question: ‘You were cute, White, but cute’?
Answer: Ghost

Question: In which country was the late actor Leo McKern born?
Answer: Australia

Question: Who composed the symphonic poem Scheherezade?
Answer: Rimsky-Korsakov

Question: Who is the Patron Saint of Spain?
Answer: St James

Question: In which country was the late actor Sid James born?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Who composed the work Tales From the Vienna Woods?
Answer: Johann Strauss

Question: Found in the body what substance is cerumen?
Answer: Ear Wax

Question: In American criminal slang what is a ‘shamus’?
Answer: Private Detective

Question: Which two words prefixed 'Oake Ham', a brand of tinned meat?
Answer: Ye Olde

Question: What is the missing first word in the title of Rose Macauley's novel '… By An Idiot'?
Answer: Told

Question: What does the prefix 'cry' mean in words such as cryogenics?
Answer: Cold

Question: Who began her show-business career playing Sophie Tuckshop in ITMA on the wireless?
Answer: Hattie Jacques

Question: Who played the fairy godmother in Adam Ant's 'Prince Charming' video?
Answer: Diana Dors

Question: Ruth Jones played which part in 'Gavin and Stacey' on television?
Answer: Nessa Jenkins

Question: Which Russian word means largest or most grand?
Answer: Bolshoi

Question: What is London's largest theatre, if its name has not already given it away?
Answer: Coliseum

Question: Which Yorkshire company introduced the crinkle cut crisp in 1956?
Answer: Seabrook

Question: Pepsico dropped the Smith's Crisps brand in favour of which other?
Answer: Walker's

Question: Which gas is in a green fire extinguisher?
Answer: Halon

Question: Which actor died in 1943, a year after he had filmed the history of the Spitfire?
Answer: Leslie Howard

Question: The actor David Garrick was mentored by which schoolmaster from Lichfield?
Answer: Samuel Johnson

Question: Oscar Hammerstein mentored which librettist, who wrote the lyrics to 'West Side Story'?
Answer: Stephen Sondheim

Question: The Campsie Fells lie to the north of which Scottish city?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: Which city would have been renamed 'Germania' if the Nazis had won World War 2?
Answer: Berlin

Question: Which European capital lies on the River Senne?
Answer: Brussels

Question: What ten-letter term meaning nonsense was first aired on 'Hancock's Half Hour'?
Answer: Codswallop

Question: Which science fictional vulgarism sounds like an Italian appliance manufacturer?
Answer: Smeg

Question: Which Royal Naval vessel was the subject of the Yangtze Incident in 1949?
Answer: HMS Amethyst

Question: In 1960 the first laser used which crystal as its lens, perhaps after 40 years of trying?
Answer: Ruby

Question: Which Victorian Field Marshall's name has become a by-word for efficiency?
Answer: Sir Garnet Wolseley

Question: In which coastal town would you find The Spanish City fairground?
Answer: Whitley Bay

Question: Which ITV company made the World In Action current affairs programme?
Answer: Granada

Question: What type of clamp would an engineer use to hold an object with radial symmetry?
Answer: Chuck

Question: In 1901 who became the last non-league winners of the FA Cup?
Answer: Tottenham Hotspur

Question: Crombie overcoats and Harrington jackets clad which youth movement?
Answer: Skinheads

Question: Mod girls wore what type of quilted jacket on their partners' scooters?
Answer: Parka

Question: Bum Freezers worn by public and private schoolboys are more properly called what?
Answer: Eton Jackets

Question: 'The Professor' was a novel by which of the Bronte sisters?
Answer: Charlotte

Question: Arthur Conan Doyle sent who to the Lost World?
Answer: Challenger

Question: Professor Otto Lidenbrock followed Arne Saknussemm where?
Answer: Centre of the Earth

Question: What is the total if you add the regnal numbers of our last three kings?
Answer: 19

Question: In 1995 the Labour Party abandoned which part of its constitution?
Answer: Clause IV

Question: A statue of which nurse stands on the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square?
Answer: Edith Cavell

Question: In 1700 Solomon de Medina was the first from which religion to receive a knighthood?
Answer: Judaism

Question: In 1917, which Queen received the first Damehood, the female equivalent of a knighthood?
Answer: Mary

Question: Which language gave us the word 'Germanic'?
Answer: Latin

Question: In 1963 President Kennedy was shot in which square in Dallas?
Answer: Dealey Plaza

Question: In 1901 Queen Victoria died in which building on the Isle of Wight?
Answer: Osborne House

Question: What are the two most common initial letters used in United States radio identifiers?
Answer: K & W

Question: 'Elizabethan Serenade' was a pop hit for Boris Gardiner under what title?
Answer: Elizabethan Reggae

Question: At what time of day is 'Sailing By' broadcast on Radio 4?
Answer: Late Night / 12:50

Question: Which Scottish village appears for only one day every one hundred years?
Answer: Brigadoon

Question: Trains from Derby Friargate station arrived where in Nottingham?
Answer: N'ham Victoria

Question: What is the most northerly railway station on the Derwent Valley Line?
Answer: Matlock