Question: Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay won the 1904 Nobel Prize for the discovery of which element?
Answer: Argon

Question: According to the advert what was the brand name of "Wodka from Varrington"?
Answer: Vladivar

Question: Who won the Lance Todd Trophy in the 2015 Challenge Cup Final?
Answer: Tom Briscoe (Leeds)

Question: Which biologist was known as "Darwin's Bulldog"?
Answer: Thomas Huxley

Question: Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, Bennet Drake and Captain Jackson are characters in which TV crime series?
Answer: Ripper Street

Question: On which Spanish Costa is Malaga?
Answer: Del Sol

Question: """If music be the food of love, play on"", is a line from which Shakespeare play?"
Answer: Twelfth Night

Question: Which film won the Oscar for best picture in 2015?
Answer: Birdman

Question: Which Asian country has a name meaning "Lion House"?
Answer: Singapore

Question: In WW2 Operation Yellow was the codename for the German invasion of which country?
Answer: France

Question: What was the pen name of the illustrator Hablot Knight-Brown?
Answer: Phiz

Question: Variola is the medical name for which disease?
Answer: Smallpox

Question: Robert Jordan, Maria and Pilar are characters from which 1940 novel?
Answer: For whom the bells tolls

Question: Who gave Hampton Court Palace to Henry VIII as a gift in 1528?
Answer: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

Question: The Bear Inn in Oxford with a collection of over 4500 is a haven for cravatologists. What do they collect?
Answer: Ties

Question: Which World Heavyweight Champion boxer (1944-2011) won Olympic Gold in 1964?
Answer: Joe Frazier

Question: Terrible Tudors and Awesome Egyptians are the first two titles in which series of illustrated books by Terry Deary?
Answer: Horrible Histories

Question: Which word completes the title of the jazz song first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and his Orchestra, "Minnie the _______"?
Answer: Moocher

Question: The momentum of a body is calculated by multiplying its mass by its what?
Answer: Velocity

Question: Which ‘Doctor Who’ played the title character in the film Carry On Sergeant?
Answer: William Hartnell

Question: What was the stage name of American ecdysiast Rose Louise Hovick (1911- 1970)?
Answer: Gypsy Rose Lee

Question: Which species of penguin is named after the cold water current that it swims in?
Answer: Humboldt

Question: In which 1958 film did Virginia McKenna play SOE agent Violette Szabo?
Answer: Carve Her Name With Pride

Question: In which half of which decade was the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in France?
Answer: First Half Of 1570s (1572)

Question: The flag of Ethiopia from 1897 to 1975 featured which animal, with the crown removed in 1974?
Answer: Lion

Question: The headquarters of which political party are in Newton Abbot, Devon?
Answer: Ukip

Question: Which bowler took the final wicket when England won the Ashes in the fourth test at Trent Bridge this month?
Answer: Mark Wood

Question: What is the middle name of TV producer William G Stewart?
Answer: Gladstone

Question: Dennis Waterman, the final member of the original cast of BBC TV show New Tricks left after episode 2 of the current, and final, series to be replaced by which actor playing retired detective Ted Case?
Answer: Larry Lamb

Question: An anti-emetic is a drug that is effective against what?
Answer: Vomiting

Question: After whom was the tower block in Peckham, the home to the Trotters, in Only Fools and Horses named?
Answer: Nelson Mandela

Question: In which Shakespeare play does Dogberry, a constable, manage to uncover Don John’s plot to discredit Hero?
Answer: Much Ado About Nothing

Question: In which half of which decade was the Edict of Nantes signed by the French King?
Answer: Second Half Of 1590s (1598)

Question: Who has been the Leader of the SNP in the House of Commons since 2007?
Answer: Angus Robertson

Question: Whose first novel published in 1985 was Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
Answer: Jeanette Winterson

Question: In which area of the arts were Rosa Melba Ponselle (1897-1981) and Märta Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) known?
Answer: Opera (Sopranos)

Question: The name of which species of penguin derives from the narrow black band under their heads which makes it appear as if they are wearing black helmets?
Answer: Chinstrap

Question: In which 1963 film does Richard Attenborough play Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett, known as Big X?
Answer: The Great Escape

Question: Of which South American country was Alberto Fujimori the President between 1990 and 2000?
Answer: Peru

Question: On the shores of which of the Great Lakes is Whistling Straits, the course that staged the 2015 US PGA Championship?
Answer: Michigan

Question: Which future King became Lord of Ireland aged 10 years in 1177?
Answer: John

Question: Who was the doctor and chief scientist on Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole?
Answer: Edward Wilson

Question: George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford is heir to which Dukedom?
Answer: Marlborough

Question: King Power Stadium in Leicester is named after the leading travel retail company in which country?
Answer: Thailand

Question: Who jointly led the expedition from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1860 to 1861 with Robert O’Hara Burke?
Answer: William John Wills

Question: Which airline has flight FR9146 from Liverpool to Barcelona and flight FR 9862 from Liverpool to Malaga?
Answer: Ryanair

Question: By what two-word name is the brother of Horrid Henry known in the books by Francesca Simon?
Answer: Peter Perfect

Question: Which word is missing from these lyrics? "Thanks for the memory, Of candlelight and wine, ______ on the Rhine, The Parthenon and moments on the Hudson River Line, How lovely it was!"
Answer: Castles

Question: A simple statement of Boyle’s Law is that the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its what?
Answer: Volume

Question: Which actress, who appeared in 24 of the films, played Calpurnia in Carry On Cleo?
Answer: Joan Sims

Question: Which King was born at Dunfermline Palace in November 1600?
Answer: Charles I

Question: Who won the World Figure Skating Championship ten times between 1901 and 1911 – a jump is named after him?
Answer: Ulrich Salchow

Question: Guitarist David Gilmour joined which rock band in 1967?
Answer: Pink Floyd

Question: Which battle took place on August 22nd 1485?
Answer: Bosworth (Field)

Question: Which battle that took place on December 2nd 1805 is also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors?
Answer: Austerlitz

Question: Who was the US Secretary of State between 2001 and 2005?
Answer: Colin Powell

Question: Who was the drummer with Led Zeppelin who died in 1980?
Answer: John Bonham

Question: Which city is the capital of Tanzania?
Answer: Dodoma

Question: On show in the Louvre, who painted The Raft of the Medusa?
Answer: Théodore Géricault

Question: Give a year in the life of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science.
Answer: 1780-1845

Question: Give a year in the life of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry.
Answer: 1780-1845

Question: Which city is the capital of Nigeria?
Answer: Abuja

Question: In which county is the Thames-side town of Marlow?
Answer: Buckinghamshire

Question: Who created the private detective Philip Marlowe?
Answer: Raymond Chandler

Question: What is vitamin B2 also known as?
Answer: Riboflavin

Question: Film-maker and screenwriter Jill Craigie was the wife of which politician?
Answer: Michael Foot

Question: On the Plimsoll Line what doers F denote?
Answer: Fresh Water

Question: How many centimetres in diameter is a standard C.D.
Answer: Twelve

Question: What was the first hit for Roxy Music
Answer: Virginia Plain

Question: Who appeared in the Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith and Traffic
Answer: Stevie Winwood

Question: Which actress enjoyed the Good Life then went Solo
Answer: Felicity Kendall

Question: What was the first name of Terry Collier's often seen sister in The Likely Lads
Answer: Audrey