Question: Becky Sharp is the heroine of which novel?
Answer: Vanity Fair

Question: My Animals and Other Family is a 2013 autobiography by which TV and Radio presenter?
Answer: Clare Balding

Question: Who was the director of the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall?
Answer: Sam Mendes

Question: What is indicated by the Eastern Slavic name suffix 'ovich'?
Answer: Son of

Question: What is the more familiar name of Samuel Peyton Jones, a character in an animated series for children?
Answer: Fireman Sam

Question: Singer Alecia Beth Moore, who has had 3 UK number one hits, records under what name?
Answer: Pink

Question: Sophia Dorothea of Celle was married to which British king?
Answer: George I

Question: Where in the British Isles would you find Trinity Manor, Longueville Manor and Rosel Manor?
Answer: Jersey

Question: Which fruit has varieties called Medjool and Deglet Nour?
Answer: Dates

Question: Which racecourse stages the Midlands Grand National?
Answer: Uttoxeter

Question: Becky Thatcher is a character in which novel?
Answer: (The Adventures of) Tom Sawyer

Question: Who was the architect of the Gherkin Building at 30 St Mary Axe, London?
Answer: Norman Foster

Question: What is the common name of birds of the genus Pica?
Answer: Magpie

Question: Which Frenchman was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature but refused it?
Answer: Jean Paul Sartre

Question: In the children?s TV series Dora the Explorer what is the name of the monkey who is Dora's best friend?
Answer: Boots

Question: Which metal, atomic number 22, is used in the construction of parts for high speed planes, spacecraft and missiles?
Answer: Titanium

Question: Which fruit has varieties called Lady de Coverly and Kishmish?
Answer: Sultana

Question: William Wallace defeated the English forces of the Earl of Surrey at which battle of 1297?
Answer: Stirling

Question: What is featured on the central yellow stripe of the flag of Ghana?
Answer: (Black) Star

Question: Which Canadian is served by Pierre Trudeau International Airport?
Answer: Montreal

Question: A cholecystectomy is an operation to remove which organ?
Answer: Gall Bladder

Question: To within one year either way how old was Joan Rivers when she died in September 2014?
Answer: 81

Question: Who was the Swedish scientist (1707-1778) who devised the binomial naming system for plants and animals?
Answer: (Carl) Linnaeus or (Carl) von Linne

Question: Shaun Evans plays which TV fictional detective-portrayed in his younger days?
Answer: (Detective Constable) Morse (in the ITV series Endeavour?

Question: Miriam Gonzalez Durantez married which UK politician in 2000?
Answer: Nick Clegg

Question: Who had a UK No. 1 hit in 1960 with Only the Lonely?
Answer: Roy Orbison

Question: In The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, what kind of creature is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi?
Answer: A Mongoose

Question: Arctic King and Saladin are varieties of which vegetable?
Answer: Lettuce

Question: Who captained the England Women's cricket team in the 2014 T20 World Cup?
Answer: Charlotte Edwards

Question: Dublin, Glasgow, London, Petroleum, Coal, Wax, Stay and Jump are all towns in which US State?
Answer: Kentucky

Question: What is a group of kittens called?
Answer: A Kindle

Question: For what purpose was Eton College originally founded?
Answer: To Provide Free Schooling For Poor

Question: Who are better known as Gog and Cokke in Denmark and Dick and Doof in Germany?
Answer: Laurel And Hardy

Question: Harris Biggs-Wither proposed to which writer in 1793?
Answer: Jane Austen

Question: Sliced bread was the greatest invention since what?
Answer: Wrapped Bread

Question: Which American President was inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame?
Answer: Lincoln

Question: Who presented Meet the Romans on TV?
Answer: Mary Beard

Question: In which film did George Lazenby play James Bond?
Answer: On Her Majesty?S Secret Service

Question: Who is the Agony Uncle of the Daily Telegraph?
Answer: Graham Norton

Question: Longitude by Dava Sobel concerns the invention of what?
Answer: (Marine) Chronometer

Question: What is the name of the RAF's display team?
Answer: Red Arrows

Question: Name either of the only planets with no natural satellites?
Answer: Mercury Or Venus

Question: Henry Cavendish discovered which element?
Answer: Hydrogen

Question: What does the name Volkswagen mean?
Answer: Peoples Car

Question: Where in the UK is Bains Field?
Answer: North Sea

Question: Who invented the original 'little black dress'?
Answer: Coco Chanel

Question: ?We knocked the bastard off.? Whose first words were these to people awaiting his return?
Answer: Edmund Hilary

Question: In which Scottish town was David Livingstone born?
Answer: Blantyre

Question: In what year were the cave paintings at Lascaux discovered?
Answer: 1940

Question: What did William Herschel discover in 1781?
Answer: Uranus

Question: Name the Belfast vet who invented the pneumatic tyre?
Answer: Dunlop

Question: From which country did the first garden gnomes come to the UK?
Answer: Germany

Question: Ir is the chemical symbol for which element?
Answer: Iridium

Question: Bumble is the nickname of which sports commentator?
Answer: David Lloyd

Question: What did Banting and Best discover in 1921?
Answer: Insulin

Question: Who is known as The Father of Television?
Answer: John Logie Baird

Question: Which famous man was born in Litchfield 1709?
Answer: Dr Johnson

Question: Near which Lincolnshire village did the apple fall on Newton?s head?
Answer: Woolsthorpe

Question: Who commissioned the Royal Observatory?
Answer: Charles Ii

Question: In which capital is the Spanish Riding School?
Answer: Vienna

Question: William Oughred invented which mathematical instrument in 1622?
Answer: Slide Rule

Question: Which annual London event began in 1896?
Answer: Brighton Run

Question: What did Tim Berners Lee found?
Answer: World Wide Web

Question: In which country would you find the Test Cricket Ground of Sabina Park?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: The German nation anthem is set to whose music?
Answer: Joseph Haydn

Question: Who invented the aqualung diving apparatus?
Answer: Jacques Cousteau

Question: What have the following in common: Agatha Christie, Winston Churchill, Joyce Grenfell and Stella McCartney?
Answer: Each Had An American Mother

Question: What beverage was invented by Joseph Priestley?
Answer: Soda Water

Question: Where Was HMS Royal Oak sunk in World War II?
Answer: Scapa Flow

Question: What is known in the theatre as the iron?
Answer: Safety Curtain

Question: At which stately home was Downton Abbey filmed?
Answer: Highclere

Question: Asked 'Can you see anything'? who replied 'Yes, wonderful things'?
Answer: Howard Carter

Question: Which author created Private Eye Kate Brannigan?
Answer: Val Mcdermid

Question: What do we call what the French call an ordinateur?
Answer: Computer

Question: Complete the World War 2 slogan Careless talk ....?
Answer: Costs liyes

Question: Which brand was marketed with the slogan I'm only here for the beer?
Answer: Double Diamond

Question: Which Midlands city was formed when several towns joined together as a county borough in 1910, achieving city status in 1928?
Answer: Stoke-on-Trent

Question: What was the name of the Greenpeace ship sunk in Auckland harbour in 1985?
Answer: Rainbow Warrior

Question: Which brand was marketed with the slogan Any time, any place. anywhere?
Answer: Martini

Question: Which North Staffordshire culinary speciality, measuring about 8 to 10 inches in diameter, is usually eaten warm with the likes of grilled cheese, bacon and sausage?
Answer: Oatcakes

Question: During the 2012 London Olympic Games, which venue was known as the North Greenwich Arena?
Answer: 02

Question: Which children's cartoon character is always accompanied by her small pet monkey Boots?
Answer: Dora the Explorer

Question: During the 2012 London Olympic Games, which Royal Palace was used as a venue?
Answer: Hampton Court