Question: Only two horses beat Red Rum in the Grand National - L'Escargot and which other?
Answer: Rag Trade

Question: Which Birmingham-based pop group had the first record played on BBC Radio One (`Flowers in the Rain') and evolved into the Electric Light Orchestra?
Answer: The Move

Question: In which film of the early 1940s were the main supporting characters Ilsa Lund, Victor Laszlo and Captain Louis Renault?
Answer: Casablanca

Question: On which island is the mountain Adam's Peak?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: Which Dickens character was the illegitimate child of Edwin Leeford and Agnes Fleming?
Answer: Oliver Twist

Question: Who painted "Bubbles" in I 886, the picture used to advertise Pears soap?
Answer: John Everett Millais

Question: Whose stories include "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?
Answer: Washington Hiving

Question: What is the common name of Vitamin B9, which is given to pregnant women?
Answer: Folic Acid

Question: In which year was the Aberfan Disaster?
Answer: 1966

Question: Paramaribo is the capital of which republic in South America?
Answer: Suriname

Question: Who had a number I hit in 1980 with "Together We Are Beautiful"?
Answer: Fern Kinney

Question: Who is the current presenter of the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show?
Answer: Nick Grimshaw

Question: In 1936 George Nissen developed which item of sports equipment that still bears his name?
Answer: Trampoline

Question: Who won the World Snooker Championship in May 2014?
Answer: Mark Selby

Question: What structure connects the Trent & Mersey Canal with the river Weaver?
Answer: Anderton Boat Lift

Question: What was the original profession of the novelist Joseph Conrad?
Answer: Seaman

Question: Who was president of South Korea during the Korean War?
Answer: Syngman Rhee

Question: Four US states border Lake Michigan - Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and which other?
Answer: Indiana

Question: Whose written works include "Strange Interlude" and "Mourning Becomes Electra?
Answer: Eugene O'Neil

Question: Which is the only vitamin that the human body can synthesize?
Answer: Vitamin D

Question: In which year did Richard Nixon resign as US President?
Answer: 1974

Question: Who had a number 1 hit in 1980 with "What's. Another Year"?
Answer: Johnny Logan

Question: Name either of the current female presenters on Today on BBC Radio 4.
Answer: SARAH MONTAGUE or MISHAL HUSAIN

Question: What two-word French term is given to the last competitor during each stage of the Tour de France?
Answer: Lanterne Rouge

Question: Which French novelist and philosopher won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature and played in goal as a junior footballer?
Answer: Albert Camus

Question: What is the title of the comic opera by Edward German set in the court of Queen Elizabeth I?
Answer: Merrie England

Question: In the "Peppa Pig" series what, is her brother George's favourite toy?
Answer: Dinosaur

Question: Lester Piggott rode his first and last winners at which racecourse?
Answer: Haydock

Question: Grenadine is a syrup made from which fruit?
Answer: Pomegranate

Question: In a song by the Kinks, by which London station did Terry meet July at sunset?
Answer: Waterloo

Question: In which film starring Humphrey Bogart did Peter Lorre play Joel Cairo and Sydney Greenstreet play Kasper Gutman?
Answer: The Maltese Falcon

Question: In which century did Ivan the Terrible live?
Answer: 16th CENTURY

Question: Winch Australian state capital is on the River Torrens?
Answer: Adelaide

Question: Who was the first woman to be elected in 1992 as Speaker of the House of Commons?
Answer: Betty Boothroyd

Question: Which animals feature on the Coat of Arms of the Canary Islands?
Answer: Dogs

Question: During his time of Hogwart's to which house did the villain Voldemort belong?
Answer: Slytherin

Question: In football, Emile Heskey joined Liverpool and Gary Linker joined Everton from which club?
Answer: Leicester City

Question: The Saffir-Simpson scale is used to measure which natural occurrence?
Answer: Hurricanes

Question: Which Lloyd Webber musical is based on a book written by T S Eliot?
Answer: Cats

Question: In Desperate Housewives, who played Susan Mayer?
Answer: Teri Hatcher

Question: What sort of creature is a Malamute?
Answer: Dog

Question: -When George Formby sang the lines "It may be sticky, but I never complain; It's nice to have a nibble at it now and again", to what was he referring?
Answer: Little Stick Of Blackpool Rock

Question: In which town does Desperate Dan live?
Answer: Cactusville

Question: Which England rugby union captain resigned in May 1999 over allegation that he took and dealt in illegal hard drugs?
Answer: Lawrence Dallaglio

Question: In Greek mythology Achilles was the son of Peleus and whom?
Answer: Thetis

Question: The Norfolk town of Cromer is particularly famed for which seafood?
Answer: Crab

Question: Cleeve Hill is the highest point in which English county?
Answer: Gloucestershire

Question: To within five years either way, in which year were the first non electric gas lit traffic lights erected outside the Houses of Parliament?
Answer: 1868

Question: Ruth Lee Jones was the real name of which American singer, popular in the. 1950s who died in 1963 aged 39?
Answer: Dinah Washington

Question: Which other climber disappeared with George Mallory on Mount Everest in June 1924?
Answer: Andrew Irvine

Question: Which American singer, songwriter and actress had the real name Norma Deloris Egstrom?
Answer: Peggy Lee

Question: """An excellent year's progress"" is the closing line of which 1996 novel, later made into a 2001 film?"
Answer: Bridget Jones'S Diary

Question: Which much travelled footballer was given the nickname "The incredible sulk"?
Answer: Nicolas Anelka

Question: Brown Clee Hill is the highest point in which English county?
Answer: Shropshire

Question: What was the title of the first film that Elvis Presley appeared in?
Answer: Love Me Tender

Question: By what name is the heritage Mid-Hants Railway known, taken from the salad plant that used to be transported on it to London?
Answer: Watercress Line

Question: What is the only song to top the UK charts with four different artists?
Answer: Unchained Melody

Question: Anthony Joshua and Nicola Adams both won gold medals at the 2012 Olympics in which sport?
Answer: Boxing

Question: Which future king was the first Englishman to be given the title of Prince of Wales?
Answer: Edward Ii

Question: Which country in the Pacific was also known as The Friendly Islands?
Answer: Tonga

Question: Who in 1965 became the first man to walk in space?
Answer: Alexey Leonov

Question: What was the name of the policewoman shot dead outside the Libyan embassy in 1984?
Answer: Yvonne Fletcher

Question: Which architect designed the 87-storey Shard Building in London?
Answer: Renzo Piano

Question: What is the title of the American adult animated sitcom, based in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas?
Answer: King Of The Hill

Question: Grant Martin and Captain Albert Berry, both claim to have achieved which aviation first in 1911 and 1912 respectively?
Answer: Parachute Jump From A Plane

Question: Which singer was the first artist to have a posthumous UK number one single?
Answer: Buddy Holly

Question: What is the name of the prize awarded for the best film at the Venice Film Festival
Answer: Golden Lion

Question: The title of Poet Laureate as a royal office was first conferred on which poet in 1670?
Answer: John Dryden

Question: The biggest selling album in America for two consecutive years in the 1960s was the soundtrack to which film?
Answer: West Side Story

Question: Which Hollywood star's first name comes from the Hawaiian for `cool breeze over the mountains'?
Answer: kEANU REEVES

Question: What was the name of the fictional ship featured in the 1953 film The Cruel Sea?
Answer: Hms Compass Rose