Question: Who wrote the novel 'The Good Companions"?
Answer: J B Priestley

Question: Who directed the film 'The Aviator'?
Answer: Martin Scorsese

Question: Which football team does Rafael Benitez manage?
Answer: Napoli

Question: With which band did Ray Manzarek play keyboards?
Answer: The Doors

Question: Who plays D.C.I. Banks on TV?
Answer: Stephen Tomkinson

Question: Who stole fire from The Gods?
Answer: Prometheus

Question: In which city is the Liceu Opera House?
Answer: Barcelona

Question: With which bank was Paul Flowers associated?
Answer: The Co-Operative Bank

Question: Which is the largest desert in the World?
Answer: Sahara

Question: What is the capital of Gabon?
Answer: Libreville

Question: Which American State has as a nickname 'The Last Frontier'?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Who was the ruler of Albania from 1928 to 1939?
Answer: King Zog

Question: Which school did Captain Hook, from Peter Pan attend?
Answer: Eton

Question: In which sport did Mickey Duff make a career?
Answer: Boxing, As A Promoter

Question: Which_famons writer also wrote novels using the name Mary Westmacott?
Answer: Agatha Christie

Question: Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009?
Answer: Barack Obama

Question: Which politician did John Bellingham assassinate?
Answer: Spencer Perceval

Question: In which musical was the song 'Summertime' first heard?
Answer: Porgy And Bess

Question: Who was the 'Galloping Gourmet'?
Answer: Graham Kerr

Question: Who, together with Howard Greenfield, co-wrote the song 'Is this the way to Amarillo'?
Answer: Neil Sedaka

Question: What was Amy Fearn the first woman to do professionally?
Answer: Referee A Football Match

Question: What name was shared by the wives of the English kings Edward IV and Henry VII?
Answer: Elizabeth

Question: Cricket. Who was the batsman when Shane Warne bowled the so-called "ball of the century" on 4th June 1993?
Answer: Mike Gatting

Question: What creature appears on the logo of Alfa Romeo cars?
Answer: A snake

Question: Which city's name is given to symphonies 82 to 87 inclusive by Haydn?
Answer: Paris

Question: """In order to make ice, fill the trays with water was one of many party tips in the much ridiculed 2013 book ""Celebrate"". by which ""celebrity"" author?"
Answer: Pippa Middleton

Question: Newmarket racecourse straddles the border of Suffolk and which other county?
Answer: Cambridgeshire

Question: In a famous 1813 novel, what was the surname of sisters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia?
Answer: Bennet

Question: Genesis Chapters 6, 7, 8 and 9 are devoted to what story?
Answer: Noah's Flood

Question: Which Shakespeare play of 1591 opens with the funeral of King Henry V?
Answer: Henry VI Part 1)

Question: In which language was the Communist Manifesto by Marx/Engels first published, in 1848?
Answer: German

Question: The present building opened in 1937-which London venue was used to stage the 2012 Olympic volleyball competition?
Answer: Earls Court

Question: In the 1994 film Speed, what is the minimum speed at which the bus must travel before the bomb on board is detonated?
Answer: 50 mph

Question: A top twenty hit in 1979, which rock song begins 'The sirens are screaming and fires are howlin' way down in the valley tonight'?
Answer: Bat Out of Hell

Question: How many time zones are there in China?
Answer: One

Question: Popular with young British people, on which Mediterranean island is the resort of Faliraki located?
Answer: Rhodes

Question: Which surrealist artist, 1898-1967, featured bowler hats in many of his paintings?
Answer: Rene Magritte

Question: Give any one year in the era known in British history as The Regency?
Answer: 1811-1820

Question: Which is the most easterly town in Britain directly connected to the motorway network?
Answer: Folkestone

Question: Barry and Yvonne Stuart-Hargreaves were resident ballroom dancing instructors in which television sitcom?
Answer: Hi-de-Hi

Question: Which classic 1941 film features the characters Joel Cairo, Kasper Gutman and Brigid O'Shaughnessy?
Answer: The Maltese Falcon

Question: The Rock of Gibraltar is made of what type of rock?
Answer: Limestone

Question: 1 Which cocktail consisting of tequila and triple sac and lemon or lime juice has a name which means "daisy" in Spanish?
Answer: Margarita

Question: Which Cheshire town is thought to take its name from the fact if was considered a suitable location for crossing a river there by King Canute in 1017?
Answer: Knutsford

Question: """Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me"" is a famous line from what 1964 film?"
Answer: Carry On Cleo

Question: What is the longest and strongest bone in the human body?
Answer: Femur

Question: Which country's national anthem has verses sung{ in five different languages?
Answer: South Africa

Question: According to the 1975 hit Paul Simon song, how many different ways are there to leave your lover?
Answer: 50

Question: Widely promoted on Radio Luxembourg in the late '50s and early 1960s, what was the name of the system, devised by Horace Batchelor, which increased your chances. of winning large sums of money on the football pools?
Answer: Infra-Draw

Question: A word meaning "sea battler", what is the most common surname in Ireland?
Answer: Murphy

Question: In a famous novel of 1868- what is the surname of sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and March (Little Women)
Answer: Amy?

Question: In terms of both population and area, which is the largest of the Canary Islands?
Answer: Tenerife

Question: Give any one year covered in the diary of Samuel Pepys.
Answer: 1660-1669

Question: At the Academy Awards, who was the first British woman to win the Best Actress Oscar?
Answer: Vivien Leigh

Question: What metal is mined in a stannary?
Answer: Tin

Question: """Neither a borrower nor a lender be' is a line from which of Shakespeare's plays?"
Answer: Hamlet

Question: An athlete wearing the initials KSA on his vest is representing which country?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: In which language did Samuel Beckett originally write and publish the play 'Waiting for Godot'?
Answer: French

Question: A second full moon in a single calendar month is now commonly given what name?
Answer: Blue Moon

Question: What anatomically is your minimus?
Answer: Little finger

Question: Which London park staged the 2012 Olympic equestrian events?
Answer: Greenwich Park

Question: Which is the most northerly town in Britain directly connected to the national rail network?
Answer: Thurso

Question: Anton Chekhov's play "The Three Sisters" is said to have been inspired by which real life siblings?
Answer: The Bronte sisters

Question: Which city links Haydn's symphony number 104 and Vaughan Williams' symphony number 2?
Answer: London

Question: Ayers Rock (Uluru) in Australia is made of what type of rock?
Answer: Sandstone

Question: What single word completes the title of Marie Lloyd's famous music hall song "She sits among the cabbages and . . . "?
Answer: Peas

Question: Who won the Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for the film 'Ghost'?
Answer: Whoopi Goldberg

Question: Which Cambridgeshire town shares its name with a month of the year?
Answer: March

Question: Which member of the Royal Family appeared on The Archers radio programme in February 2011?
Answer: Duchess of Cornwall (Camilla Parker-Bowles)

Question: Who was the first female president of the Republic of Ireland, elected in 1990?
Answer: Mary Robinson

Question: Which animal features on the Coat of Arms of Berlin?
Answer: Bear

Question: Which house did Harry Potter belong to in Hogwarts School?
Answer: Gryffindor

Question: The name of what type of pasta means "little tongues" in Italian?
Answer: Linguini

Question: In football, Emlyn Hughes joined Liverpool and Alan Ball joined Everton from which club?
Answer: Blackpool

Question: Which musical is based on a book written by Gaston Leroux?
Answer: Phantom Of Tiie Opera