Question: Which country will stage the 2018 Winter Olympic Games?
Answer: South Korea

Question: Appearing for the first time in 1946, who, l say who, was the rooster featured in a series of Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies cartoons?
Answer: Foghorn Leghorn

Question: Henri IV was the first French king of which House in 1589?
Answer: Bourbon

Question: Buckminster-Fullerene, made up of spheres of 60 atoms is an allotrope of which element?
Answer: Carbon

Question: Which Rolling Stones 1964 No.1 hit was a cover of a 1956 blues recording made by Howlin’ Wolf?
Answer: Little Red Rooster

Question: What was Australian tennis player Margaret Court’s maiden name?
Answer: Smith

Question: Which cloud formation is abbreviated to Cs?
Answer: Cirrostratus

Question: What was Angie Dickinson’s character’s name in the TV series Police Woman?
Answer: Pepper (Suzanne) Anderson

Question: There are 4 novels (as opposed to short stories) featuring Sherlock Holmes; A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and which other?
Answer: The Valley of Fear

Question: What kind of animal was W. A. Rey’s Curious George?
Answer: Monkey

Question: Which song writer and recording artist is the subject of the stage musical “Beautiful”?
Answer: Carole King

Question: Who was voted PFA Young Player of the year 2015?
Answer: Harry Kane

Question: David Frost was once married to which of Peter Sellers four wives?
Answer: Lynn Frederick

Question: What was B.B. Kings real first name?
Answer: Riley

Question: Go Set a Watchman is a sequel to which famous book?
Answer: To Kill A Mockingbird

Question: The Canary Islands lie due west of which African Country?
Answer: Morocco

Question: Which group in 1994 released the live Album “Hell Freezes Over”?
Answer: The Eagles

Question: Gracepoint is the US version of which British drama series?
Answer: Broadchurch

Question: Who first spoke the words known as The Magnificat”?
Answer: Mary

Question: Which Booker prize winning writer wrote the slogan “That’ll do nicely” for American Express?
Answer: Salman Rushdie

Question: In which country was the 2015 Eurovision song contest held?
Answer: Austria

Question: Who was the owner of Manchester’s Hacienda Club and Factory Records?
Answer: Tony Wilson

Question: Into what was Daphne changed as a means of avoiding the advances of the God Apollo?
Answer: A Laurel Tree

Question: TV astronomer Brian Cox played keyboards with which group?
Answer: D.Ream

Question: In which war was Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida set?
Answer: Trojan

Question: Which British King was the last to personally lead an army into battle ?
Answer: George Ii

Question: The new £1 coin due to come into circulation in 2017 will have how many sides?
Answer: Twelve

Question: Which composer founded the institution now known as the University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig in 1843?
Answer: Mendelssohn

Question: The holder of which office has the official anthem Hail Columbia?
Answer: Vice President Of The Usa

Question: Tom Wilkinson played Lyndon Baines Johnson in which 2014 film?
Answer: Selma

Question: The territorial area of Canberra is completely surrounded by which Australian State?
Answer: New South Wales

Question: Which was voted Britain’s national bird in a recent poll the results were announced on Countryfile in June 2015?
Answer: Robin

Question: Who in 1979 released the record “Breakfast in America”?
Answer: Supertramp

Question: Who wrote the ghost story Woman in Black?
Answer: Susan Hull

Question: Who chaired South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995 – 1998?
Answer: Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Question: In what form did Zeus come to Danae?
Answer: A Shower Of Gold

Question: The sea arch known as Durdle Door Ties on the coast of which county?
Answer: Dorset

Question: At which racecourse did Tony McCoy have his last professional race on a horse called Box Office in April 2015?
Answer: Sandown

Question: Which Thomas Hardy novel features the heroine Eustacia Vye?
Answer: Return Of Ther Native

Question: Who created and wrote the 2015 TV series Banished?
Answer: JIMMY McGOVERN

Question: During the I930’s which was the most famous club in Harlem?
Answer: Cotton

Question: Of which country did Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy became monarchs?
Answer: Narnia

Question: In sport who are the Black Caps?
Answer: New Zealand Cricket Team

Question: Who was the highest placed Briton in the 2015 Masters Golf?
Answer: Justin Rose

Question: Who in the Bible sold his birth right for a Mess of Pottage?
Answer: Esau

Question: Outside which building in New York was John Lennon shot?
Answer: Dakota

Question: Who is the GMB Union General Secretary who received a knighthood in June 2015?
Answer: Paul Kenny

Question: Which insect does Isle of Wight Disease affect?
Answer: Bee

Question: In which country do Kia Cars originate?
Answer: South Korea

Question: The half penny coin which went out of circulation in 1969 featured an image of which ship on the reverse?
Answer: Golden Hind

Question: Which African Country lies due west of Madagascar?
Answer: Mozambique

Question: Who preceded Neil Kinnock as leader of the Labour Party?
Answer: Michael Foot

Question: Whose early film roles included Estella, in David Lean’s "Great Expectations” and Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet"?
Answer: Jean Simmons

Question: In which French region are the cities of Nancy and Metz located?
Answer: Lorraine

Question: What was the name of the kind hearted orphan created in two books by Eleanor H Porter?
Answer: Pollyanna

Question: The Gilbert and Sullivan opera "Patience" has what alternative title?
Answer: Bunthorne’s Bride

Question: Which ground is the home of Premiership Rugby Union club, Exeter Chiefs?
Answer: Sandy Park

Question: In which American city are the Bruins Ice Hockey team and the Celtics Basketball team based?
Answer: Boston

Question: In which National Park would you find Drake Howe on Cringle Moor the highest point of the Cleveland Hills?
Answer: North York Moors

Question: What is the real name of the singer whose stage name was Shakin'Stevens?
Answer: Michael Barratt

Question: Who is the MP for Sevenoaks who was Defence Secretary at the end of the coalition government in May 2015?
Answer: Michael Fallon

Question: Who became the first Women's Marathon, Olympic Gold medallist?
Answer: Joan Benoit

Question: Which time travelling character did Nicholas Lyndhurst portray in the sitcom "Goodnight Sweetheart"
Answer: Gary Sparrow

Question: In fashion what name is given to leggings, styled to look like tight denim jeans?
Answer: Jeggings

Question: The cocktail called a Negroni has three alcoholic ingredients, gin and sweet vermouth are two of them: what is the third?
Answer: Campari

Question: Who was the King of France at the time of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre?
Answer: Charles IX

Question: Who succeeded Michael Gove as Education secretary in the Coalition Government?
Answer: Nicky Morgan

Question: What colour jersey is worn by the leading young rider (under 26 years old) in the Tour de France?
Answer: White

Question: Paul Eddington played Jim Hacker in the original series of "Yes Prime Minister", but who played him in the 2013 remake?
Answer: David Haig

Question: Which motor manufacturer produces the 7-seater MPV known as the Orlando?
Answer: Chevrolet

Question: Nastro Azzurro is the flagship brand of which Italian brewer?
Answer: Peroni

Question: What was the name of the holder of thee title "Earl of Essex" who was executed in 1501?
Answer: Robert Devereux

Question: Which British character-actress, who was made a Dame in 1967, won the Oscar for best Supporting Actress in 1963 for her role in the film "The V.I.P.s"?
Answer: Margaret Rutherford

Question: Which Shropshire hill lies four miles to the west of Telford and rises to 1335 feet above sea level?
Answer: The Wrekin

Question: Which fictional reporter made his debut in "Land of the Soviets" in 1929?
Answer: Tintin