Question: Which Liverpool born comedian, author and actor's 2010 autobiography is entitled 'Stalin Ate My Homework'?
Answer: Alexei Sayle

Question: Moorfields Hospital in London is the oldest and largest hospital in the world caring for which part of the body?
Answer: Eye

Question: Which club won a 1960's FA Cup Final with defenders Dowd, Book, Pardoe, Doyle, Booth and Oakes?
Answer: Manchester City

Question: Musically, how are twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid known?
Answer: 'The Proclaimers',

Question: Which 1980's BBC drama was set on a North Sea ferry?
Answer: 'Triangle'

Question: What is the name of the publication founded in 1861 which is the Methodist weekly newspaper?
Answer: (Methodist) RECORDER

Question: Who wrote the novel 'The Call Of The Wild'?
Answer: Jack London

Question: How many MP's are there in the House of Commons?
Answer: 650

Question: Which English county has districts called Bromsgrove, Wyre Forest and Malvern Hills?
Answer: Worcestershire

Question: Who did Queen Victoria succeed on the throne?
Answer: William Iv

Question: To whom was Mike Todd married when he was killed in a plane crash in 1958?
Answer: Elizabeth Taylor

Question: How many electrons orbit the nucleus in an atom of Helium?
Answer: Three (3)

Question: In which month is the Henley Royal Regatta held?
Answer: July

Question: Which instrument is played by classical musician John Lill?
Answer: Piano

Question: Which company is the tyre supplier for all teams in Formula One in 2011?
Answer: Pirelli

Question: Which singer's 2011 album is called '21'?
Answer: 'Adele'

Question: In Physics, momentum is the product of mass and which other quantity?
Answer: Velocity

Question: In Yorkshire what are the 'Huddersfield Broad' and the 'Huddersfield Narrow'?
Answer: Canals

Question: Which 20th century Prime Minister included 'Earl of Oxford' in his title as a peer?
Answer: Herbert Asquith

Question: What was the name of the actor brother of Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave who died last year?
Answer: Corin

Question: Which member of the Royal Family was made an MBE in 2007?
Answer: Zara Phillips

Question: In which country is the Formula One team 'HRT' based?
Answer: SPAIN (Hispania Racing Team)

Question: Which vocal group released the best selling album on 2010 in Britain - 'Progress'?
Answer: 'Take That'

Question: Actor James McArthur who died in October last year was most famous for playing 'Danny Williams' in which police series?
Answer: 'Hawaii Five-O'

Question: In Physics, using Newton's Second Law of Motion, force is the product of mass and which other quantity?
Answer: Acceleration

Question: Which 32 mile canal runs from the Bridgewater canal in Manchester to join the Aire and Calder Navigation Canal at Sowerby Bridge in Yorkshire, passing through the town that gives the canal its name?
Answer: Rochdale Canal

Question: Clarissa, Countess of Avon, aged 90 is the widow of which Prime Minister?
Answer: Anthony Eden

Question: The first great-grandchild of the Queen was born in December of last year. What is her first name?
Answer: SAVANNAH (Phillips)

Question: In which English town can you drive on Barbara Castle Way?
Answer: Blackburn

Question: Who was the Pope throughout World War II?
Answer: Pius Xii

Question: Which opticians, known in short as 'D&A', merged with Boots in 2009?
Answer: Dollond And Aitchison

Question: Which team won a 1960's Gillete Cup Final using bowlers Thomson, Buss, Snow, Bates and Dexter?
Answer: Sussex

Question: Musically, how are brothers Ron and Russell Mael known?
Answer: 'Sparks'

Question: Which 1950's/60's ITV series was set in the fictional 'Oxbridge General Hospital'?
Answer: 'Emergency - Ward 10'

Question: Founded in 1879, what is the official news publication of the Salvation Army?
Answer: 'War Cry'

Question: Which fictional work features the 'Seven Commandments', which are summarised by the statement "four legs good, two legs bad"?
Answer: 'Animal Farm'

Question: The principal Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons has the official title Chairman of Ways and Means. Who is the current holder of the post, the MP for Chorley?
Answer: Lindsay Hoyle

Question: Which English county has districts called Blaby, Charnwood and Melton?
Answer: Leicestershire

Question: Which number completes the formula for Nitric Acid, 'HNO....'?
Answer: '3' (three)

Question: Valencia was the venue for the 2007 and 2010 America's Cup, as the defending yacht was from which landlocked country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Nigel Ogden presents a BBC Radio Two programme featuring music played on which instrument?
Answer: Organ

Question: Give either of the first names of Blackpool footballer DJ Campbell?
Answer: Dudley Junior

Question: Which Lerner and Lowe musical is based on the TH White novel 'The Once And Future King'?
Answer: 'Camelot'

Question: In the comic strip 'Calvin and Hobbs', what sort of animal is 'Hobbs'?
Answer: Tiger

Question: Which Pope made Henry VIII 'Defender of the Faith' in 1521?
Answer: Leo X

Question: In which town was the first 'Ikea' store in the UK opened
Answer: Warrington

Question: Sent as a gift to King James II of Scotland in 1457, what is the alliterative name of the medieval bombard siege gun located outside of Edinburgh Castle?
Answer: 'Mons Meg'

Question: Traditionally, athletes from which country lead the parade at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games?
Answer: Greece

Question: Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, which 2011 drama film, directed by Martin Scorsese, tells the story of a boy who lives alone in a Paris railway station?
Answer: 'Hugo'

Question: Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, which 2011 American drama tells the story of an autistic boy coming to terms with his father's death in the 9/11 attacks?
Answer: 'Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close'

Question: The 'Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults' is a British charity better known by what acronym?
Answer: 'Mencap'

Question: Which English author famously helped to create the "Go to work on an egg" advertising slogan used by the United Kingdom's Egg Marketing Board during the 1950's?
Answer: Fay Weldon

Question: Eric Coates' light orchestral serenade 'By The Sleepy Lagoon' is the appropriately titled introductory music to which long running radio show?
Answer: 'Desert Island Discs'

Question: Capturing light energy to conserve free energy in the form of ATP, which organelles found in plant cells conduct photosynthesis?
Answer: Chloroplasts

Question: The final plate of William Hogarth's 'A Rake's Progress' series depicts a scene inside which institution, founded in London in 1247?
Answer: Bethlehem Hospital

Question: According to Greek mythology, who was the mother of the twins Apollo and Artemis?
Answer: Leto

Question: Consisting of several RNA and protein molecules arranged into two subunits, which component of cells coordinate synthesis by reading the messenger RNA copy of the DNA and assembling the appropriate amino
Answer: Ribosomes

Question: Which female East Anglian mystic wrote 'Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love', a 14th century work documenting a series of intense visions of Jesus Christ experienced during a severe illness?
Answer: Julian Of Norwich

Question: Which English football club, who currently play in the Northern Premier League Division One South, are the world's oldest football club, having been founded in 1857?
Answer: Sheffield F.C

Question: What is the name given to the botanical gardens near Mevagissey in Cornwall that were created by members of the Cornish Tremayne family, over a period from the mid-18th century up to the beginning of the 20th century?
Answer: Lost Gardens Of Heligan

Question: Which restoration dramatist was also responsible for designing Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard?
Answer: John Vanbrugh