Question: Which metallic element has the atomic number 26?
Answer: Iron

Question: The Italian liqueur amaretto is flavoured with which ingredient?
Answer: Almonds

Question: What is the county town of the Scottish county of Angus?
Answer: Forfar

Question: Who was the only British woman to win an athletics gold medal at Beijing in 2008?
Answer: Christine Ohuruogu

Question: Name either of the "Two Gentlemen of Verona".
Answer: Valentine Or Proteus

Question: On which Scottish Island is the town of Lochmaddy?
Answer: North Uist

Question: How many faces has a dodecahedron?
Answer: 12

Question: Which British football player was the most expensive transfer of 2013 going for second highest transfer fee in history?
Answer: Gareth Bale

Question: Who wrote the poem which starts 'What passing bell for those who die as cattle'?
Answer: Wilfred Owen

Question: Which national organisation has its HQ at Sandy, Bedfordshire?
Answer: The Rspb

Question: Ted Hughes became Poet Laureate in 1984 after which other poet refused the honour?
Answer: Philip Larkin

Question: To within 10 years, when was income tax introduced in the UK as 'a temporary measure'?
Answer: 1777

Question: Izzy wizzy, let?s get busy was a catchphrase of which children?s TV favourite?
Answer: Sooty

Question: By what name is singer Vera Margaret Welch better known?
Answer: Vera Lynn

Question: The fictional character Don Diego de la Vega is better known by what nickname?
Answer: Zorro

Question: In April 2014, the Catholic Church canonized two former Popes, name either?
Answer: Pope John Xxiii/Pope John Paul Ii

Question: The various varieties of chilli pepper belong to which genus of plants?
Answer: Capsicum

Question: Harold Harefoot (Harold l) was King of England from 1035 to 1040, who was his father?
Answer: King Canute

Question: Rod Stewart was the lead singer of which band from 1969 to 1975?
Answer: The Faces

Question: Which imaginary creature was described by Lewis Carroll as with jaws that bite and claws that catch?
Answer: The Jabberwocky

Question: Which vegetable is the normal base for the dish moussaka?
Answer: Aubergine

Question: What is the English name for the river known in Wales as Afon Dyfrdwy?
Answer: The Dee

Question: a In 2013 who won the Best Director Oscar?
Answer: Ang Lee

Question: Which scholar is known as the Father of Geometry?
Answer: Euclid

Question: In 2008 for which player did Manchester City pay 32,500,000 pounds?
Answer: Robinho

Question: In the early 1980s Marc Almond was half of which pop duo?
Answer: Soft Cell

Question: Who was the father of King Richard II?
Answer: Edward The Black Prince

Question: Which large bird of prey has the Latin name Pandion Haliaetus?
Answer: The Osprey

Question: Give one of the years in which Cecil Day-Lewis was Poet Laureate?
Answer: 1968-1972

Question: Which TV series of the 1960s regularly features a white Volvo P1800?
Answer: The Saint

Question: MP Sidney Silverman put forward a Private Members bill in 1965. To what did this ultimately lead?
Answer: The Abolition Of The Death Penalty

Question: Which type of tree form the Genus Betula?
Answer: Birch Trees

Question: Which City was UK City of Culture in 2013?
Answer: Derry-Londonderry

Question: Who were the first sponsors of the Premier League, starting in 1993?
Answer: Carling

Question: In early children?s television who appeared regularly with Muffin the Mule?
Answer: Annette Mills

Question: What is the surname of the only father and son to both become Formula One World Champion?
Answer: Hill

Question: In literature what was the real name of the Artful Dodger?
Answer: Jack Dawkins

Question: Which green vegetable belongs to the Brassica Oleracea Italica group of plants?
Answer: Broccoli

Question: Which is the only prime number between 90 and 100?
Answer: 97

Question: The River Avon has an old Celtic name, what does it mean?
Answer: River

Question: The Waltz of the Flowers and The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy are from which 19th century ballet?
Answer: The Nutcracker

Question: In the Bible what was the first of the Plagues of Egypt?
Answer: Water Turning Into Blood

Question: Who was the real-life sailor on whom Robinson Crusoe is allegedly based?
Answer: Alexander Selkirk

Question: 'Grace and Favour' was the follow-up to which BBCTV sitcom?
Answer: Are You Being Served

Question: Which is the smallest of the Great Lakes?
Answer: Ontario

Question: In which famous novel does the HMS Compass Rose sink?
Answer: The Cruel Sea

Question: What type of lager takes its name from the Czech town where it was first brewed?
Answer: Pilsner

Question: The remains of King Richard 3rd Were found under a car park in which city?
Answer: Leicester

Question: What unusual means of transport connects North Greenwich to the Royal Docks?
Answer: Cable Car

Question: Which is the largest state in Australia?
Answer: Western Australia

Question: Which animal features prominently in paintings by Alfred Munnings?
Answer: Horse

Question: A deficiency of which element causes goitre?
Answer: Iodine

Question: In a famous novel, how is Sir Percy Blakeney otherwise known?
Answer: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Question: The dollar ($) and Euro (£) symbols both appear on which numerical key on a British keyboard?
Answer: 4

Question: Name any one of the three women to have trained a Grand National winner?
Answer: Jenny Pitman, Venetia Williams, Sue Smith

Question: Which classic cocktail consists of whisky, sweet vermouth and angostura bitters?
Answer: Manhattan

Question: The current £20 note featuring Adam Smith depicts the manufacture of which household object?
Answer: Pins?

Question: The Treaty of Windsor of 1386 resulted in the longest British alliance, with which country?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Which children's writer created the characters The Saucepan Man, Dame Washalot and Moonface?
Answer: Enid Blyton

Question: Give a year in the life of astronomer Copernicus?
Answer: 1473-1543

Question: Which desert lies in Sudan between the River Nile and the Red Sea?
Answer: Nubian Desert?

Question: What is the name of the mountain above Rio de Janeiro where the statue of Christ the Redeemer stands?
Answer: Corcovado

Question: What is the name of the railway line that is being built through London to link Reading, Berkshire with Shenfield in Essex?
Answer: Crossrail

Question: Edward of Woodstock who, as Prince of Wales, died before his father and so was never King of England, is better known by which name?
Answer: The Black Prince

Question: Which English novelist had an early career as a policeman in Burma?
Answer: George Orwell

Question: Which famous musical features the song 'There is Nothing Like a Dame'?
Answer: South Pacific

Question: What was the nationality of the playwright August Strindberg?
Answer: Swedish

Question: The £10 note issued between 1992 and 2003 featuring Charles Dickens had which activity on the back?
Answer: A Cricket Match

Question: Who was Prime Minister of the UK at the end of World War 2?
Answer: Clement Attlee

Question: What name is given to the covered entrance to a churchyard, intended to give shelter to the coffin and mourners before entering the church?
Answer: Lichgate

Question: Who plays the part of Mrs Brown in the TV comedy Mrs Brown's Boys?
Answer: Brendan O'Carroll

Question: Which US city is known as the Big Orange?
Answer: Los Angeles

Question: On which musical instrument would you find pedals, a resonator and a pillar?
Answer: Harp

Question: Which 2007 treaty amended the Maastricht Treaty and Treaty of Rome?
Answer: Lisbon

Question: The 15-a-side sport Camogie is the female equivalent of which sport?
Answer: Hurling

Question: The flag of which country has twelve colours, more than any other national flag?
Answer: Costa Rica

Question: At 14.17 miles long, which is the longest circuit ever used for a Formula 1 motor race?
Answer: Nurburgring