Question: In the Charles Dickens novel 'A Tale of Two Cities' Sidney Carton exchanges places with which other character?
Answer: Charles Darnay

Question: Which T.V. competition was won by Indonesian female Ping Coombes in 2014?
Answer: Masterchef

Question: The Battle of Flodden took place during the reign of which English King?
Answer: Henry VIII (1513)

Question: On the maps of the London Underground which line is coloured brown?
Answer: Bakerloo

Question: The okta is a unit used by meteorologists to measure which aspect of the weather?
Answer: Cloud Cover

Question: Which former Middle East hostage wrote the book 'An Evil Cradling'?
Answer: Brian Keenan

Question: Before moving to the city of Metropolis in which American town did Superman grow up
Answer: Smallville

Question: Used to suckle the infant Jupiter what name is given in mythology to the Horn of Plenty?
Answer: Cornucopia

Question: Who played the leading role in the T.V Western series 'Branded'?
Answer: Chuck Connors

Question: Which golfer won the U.S. Masters in 2014?
Answer: Bubba Watson

Question: If you had the letters M.I.C.E after your name what would be your profession?
Answer: Civil Engineer

Question: Who wrote the plays The Rose Tattoo' and The Night of The Iguana'?
Answer: Tennessee Williams

Question: What name is given to the point in a planet’s orbit when it is closest to the Earth?
Answer: Perigee

Question: What did the Daily Worker newspaper change its name to in 1966?
Answer: Daily Star

Question: Which former 'Liverbird' went on to play The District Nurse' on T.V?
Answer: Nerys Hughes

Question: Which motorway connects London to Oxford?
Answer: M40

Question: What did the English dancer Margaret Kelly found in 1932?
Answer: Bluebell Girls

Question: Which former Middle East hostage co-wrote the book 'Some Other Rainbow'?
Answer: John McCarthy

Question: Which acid is known as Aqua Fortis?
Answer: Nitric Acid

Question: Which comedy actor's single 'Noble England' was posthumously re-released in 2014?
Answer: Rick Mayall

Question: Which horse won the Epsom Derby in June 2014?
Answer: Australia

Question: Who played the diver Mike Nelson in the T.V. series 'Sea Hunt’?
Answer: Lloyd Bridges

Question: On maps of the London Underground what colour is the Circle Line?
Answer: Yellow

Question: For which film did screen tough-guy Lee Marvin win a Best Actor award at the 1966 Oscars?
Answer: Cat Ballou

Question: In William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' what was the profession of Quince?
Answer: Carpenter (Do not accept Joiner)

Question: Which symphony by Tchaikovsky is known as the 'Little Russian' or 'Ukrainian' symphony?
Answer: Second Symphony (in C Minor)

Question: Which T.V competition was won in 2014 by Collabro?
Answer: Britain’s Got Talent

Question: Concerning the condition of a stamp what do the letters O.G. mean to a philatelist?
Answer: Original Gum

Question: Which is the westernmost of the six African countries on the equator?
Answer: Gabon

Question: In which capital city are the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund?
Answer: Washington DC

Question: Which two word Latin phrase means 'Seize the Day?
Answer: Carpe Diem

Question: Which city's football team returned to the Football League in 2014 after a nine year absence?
Answer: Cambridge United

Question: Which actor, a former hospital patient in the T.V. comedy series 'Only When I Laugh' went on to play the Irish R.M.?
Answer: Peter Bowles

Question: Later used to advertise Nimble bread which group's most successful single was 'I Can't Let Maggie Go'?
Answer: Honeybus

Question: What name is given to a pavilion or seat fixed on an elephant's back?
Answer: Howdah

Question: What was author Lewis Carroll's real surname?
Answer: Dodgson

Question: Who wrote the plays 'Biloxi Blues' and The Sunshine Boys'?
Answer: Neil Simon

Question: Which type of pastry takes its name from the Greek word for 'leaf?
Answer: Filo

Question: Which number on the Beaufort scale is used to indicate a storm?
Answer: Eleven

Question: How many players are there on a hurling team?
Answer: Fifteen

Question: Which country churchyard in Buckinghamshire inspired Thomas Grey to write his well- known Elegy?
Answer: Stoke Poges

Question: What was the name of the wise owl in the children's T.V. Programme The Herbs'
Answer: Sage

Question: Which Cornish cheese uses nettles as an ingredient?
Answer: Yarg

Question: How is the 1624 painting entitled 'Portrait of a Man' more familiarly known?
Answer: The Laughing Cavalier

Question: The Wind of Change speech in 1960 by Harold Macmillan was made to the parliament of which country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: The flag of Cornwall is a white cross on a background of what colour?
Answer: Black

Question: Why are flags flown on public buildings on June 2nd?
Answer: Coronation Day (In 1953)

Question: What is the meaning of the Latin word diluvium as used in the word antediluvian?
Answer: Flood

Question: In which Dutch city did the 2015 Tour de France start?
Answer: Utrecht

Question: Who wrote the song Mr Tambourine Man which reached Number One for The Byrds in 1965?
Answer: Bob Dylan

Question: What is the family name of Dmitri, Ivan and Alexei in an 1880 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
Answer: Karamazov

Question: Who was the female star of the Alfred Hitchcock directed films The Birds and Mamie?
Answer: Tippi Hedren

Question: Tritium is an isotope of which element?
Answer: Hydrogen

Question: Who is the US Attorney General, appointed in April this year?
Answer: Loretta Lynch

Question: In 1774 who named Norfolk Island after Mary Howard Duchess of Norfolk?
Answer: Captain James Cook

Question: At the recent Tony Awards who won the award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in the play "The Audience" by Peter Morgan?
Answer: Helen Mirren

Question: The musical Cabaret is set in which Berlin nightclub?
Answer: Kit Kat

Question: Les Gray was the vocalist with which glam-rock band?
Answer: Mud

Question: What term do we use for the style of art known in German as "Jugendstil"?
Answer: Art Nouveau

Question: In which year was the Mutiny on the Bounty?
Answer: 1789

Question: A station on line 1 of the Paris Metro and a luxury hotel on an avenue of the same name are named in honour of which British king?
Answer: George V

Question: Method acting is based on the theories of which Russian actor and theatre director?
Answer: Konstantin Stanislavsky

Question: In the sitcom Porridge what was the middle name of Norman Fletcher, played by Ronnie Barker?
Answer: Stanley

Question: Which musical note is equal to one-eighth of a semibreve?
Answer: Quaver

Question: Who led a rebellion from Kent against the government of England in 1450?
Answer: Jack Cade

Question: """Baronet with Sam Chifhey Up"" is a painting by which artist born in Liverpool in 1724?"
Answer: George Stubbs

Question: At which battle of May 1455 was King Henry VI captured, leading to Richard Duke of York being declared Lord Protector?
Answer: St Albans

Question: What is the name of the bridge with shops on both sides that crosses the River Avon in Bath?
Answer: Pulteney

Question: The painting And When Did You Last See Your Father? by William Frederick Yeames is set in the middle of which century?
Answer: Seventeenth

Question: For what is the C series of paper sizes used?
Answer: Envelopes

Question: Which English theatre director is best known for her work in developing the Theatre Workshop?
Answer: Joan Little Wood

Question: The Mystical Boudoir of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel was the final regular episode of which sitcom?
Answer: Open All Hours

Question: What is the meaning of the musical term "Da capo"?
Answer: FROM THE BEGINNING (accept REPEAT THE PREVIOUS PART)

Question: At the recent Tony Awards The King and I won the Best Revival of a Musical. Which word completes the title of the novel on which it is based – "Anna and the King of …….."?
Answer: Siam