Question: Where was the starting point for the 2015 Tour de France?
Answer: Utrecht, Netherlands

Question: How would a balmacaan be used?
Answer: Worn

Question: The book "The Open Side 2012" was written by playwright Greg McGee with who else?
Answer: New Zealand rugby player Richie McCaw

Question: Where is the land with the lowest elevation in South America?
Answer: Laguna del Carbn, Argentina

Question: The royal wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling on 19 June 2010, described as "Europe's biggest royal wedding since the Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer", took place in which country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: What is the title of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Glenn Slater's sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera"?
Answer: Love Never Dies

Question: Which creature is best qualified to serve as a model for the mythical unicorn, having its the main distinguishing characteristic?
Answer: Rhinoceros

Question: What was significant about the appointment in 1929 of Charles Curtis as 31st US Vice President?
Answer: He was the first with acknowledged non-European ancestry

Question: Which play, developed in the Vineyard Arts Project at Martha's Vineyard in the USA and premiering on Broadway in 2014, was based on the autobiography of Broadway writer and director Moss Hart?
Answer: Act One

Question: Which 1967 film, directed by Stuart Rosenberg starring Paul Newman and George Kennedy, was about the fate of a man sent to prison for vandalising parking meters?
Answer: Cool Hand Luke

Question: What part did Josiah Wedgwood, of the famous English pottery, play in the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of the Species?
Answer: His daughter Susannah was Charles Darwin's mother

Question: Feldspars, which make up over half of all minerals in the Earth's crust, are a group of rock-forming minerals characterised by the presence of aluminium and what else in their chemistry?
Answer: Silica ion

Question: What are Memphis Minnie, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey most well-known for?
Answer: Blues singing

Question: Danish artist Robert Storm Petersen (1882-1949), known as Storm P, was celebrated for his work in which field?
Answer: Humorous cartoons and writing

Question: Who wrote "The Shape Of Things To Come"?
Answer: H G Wells

Question: Who wrote "Desperate Remedies" (1871) and "Under The Greenwood Tree" (1872)?
Answer: Thomas Hardy

Question: What field did Dr Kurt Gdel (1906-78), considered one of the top practitioners in this field, work in?
Answer: Mathematics and mathematical logic

Question: First used in western medicine in the 17th century what was the drug developed from the bark of the cinchona tree used to treat?
Answer: Malaria

Question: On 29 May 1954, who sent a message to the aircraft carrier HMS Vengeance, saying "Thank you for the original forgery"?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth II

Question: In what country is the white wine grape Pinot grigio, a clone of Pinot gris, traditionally grown?
Answer: Italy

Question: The TV series "Indian Summers", which premired in 2015, deals with summers where?
Answer: Simla, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas

Question: What can be a term for food served with potatoes?
Answer: Parmentier

Question: In 1980, at 14 years old who was the youngest person to appear on the cover of "Vogue" magazine?
Answer: Brooke Shields

Question: A road system running down the west coast of the Americas, apart from a short gap across the south part of Central America, from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina, is called what?
Answer: The Pan-American Highway

Question: What is George W Bush's middle name?
Answer: Walker

Question: Bayer A.G., which was the first company to market aspirin, and heroin (as a non-addictive cough suppressant), originally manufactured what?
Answer: Dyestuffs

Question: Louis Comfort Tiffany was particularly well-known for his work in what?
Answer: Stained glass

Question: What dish consists of chicken pan-fried in a skillet and covered tightly after the initial browning so that the chicken steams as well as frying, with milk or cream added to the pan juices to create a white cream gravy?
Answer: Chicken Maryland

Question: Early episodes of UK TV series "Dr Who", "Z-Cars", and most of the iconic "Not Only ... But Also" share what?
Answer: The BBC tapes were wiped or re-used

Question: Who is the author of three mystery novels "The Shadow Catchers" (2006), "Chillwater Cove" (2007) and "Broken Wing" (2009), a continuing series revolving around a pair of FBI special agents, Mike Yeager and Peggy Weaver?
Answer: Thomas Lakeman

Question: Who is reputed to have survived over 55 assassination attempts, the most notable of which (the only time in modern history when a Head of State has personally exchanged fire with a potential assassin) was in 1931?
Answer: King Zog of Albania

Question: According to the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who raised Tarzan after he was orphaned?
Answer: Apes

Question: Along with peaches, Peach Melba consists of what flavour of ice cream and what type of sauce?
Answer: Vanilla and raspberry

Question: British artists William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, and Thomas Gainsborough were working in what century?
Answer: 18th

Question: Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the prize for, among others, determining the chemical structure of what, which she published in 1949?
Answer: Penicillin

Question: Christopher Nolan's second film, "Memento" (2000), was based on what book?
Answer: """Memento Mori"" by Jonathan Nolan"

Question: At 400 km in length, what is the world's longest glacier?
Answer: Lambert Glacier, Antarctica

Question: U Thant (Myanmar), Kurt Waldheim (Austria) and Javier Perez de Cuellar (Peru) successively held the same office; what was the office?
Answer: Secretary-General of the United Nations

Question: Whose first book, published in 1920, was "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"?
Answer: Agatha Christie

Question: King Idris I was deposed in 1969 as king of where?
Answer: Libya

Question: As what did "Vinicius and Tom" became a popular pairing in December 2014?
Answer: They were voted by Brazil as mascot names for the Rio Summer Olympics and Paralympics 2016

Question: In whose name was an annual award established in 2009, given to a living UK poet for new work in poetry?
Answer: Ted Hughes

Question: Finding its spraint means what animal has been there?
Answer: Otter

Question: Bannock, brioche, pita, focaccia and roti are varieties of what?
Answer: Bread

Question: Who is common to the films "Memento", "Inception", and "Interstellar"?
Answer: Christopher Nolan, as director

Question: Why did Devon and Cornwall assume considerable status in Britain and Europe during the early Bronze Age?
Answer: They were a major source of tin

Question: A cassowary is a type of what?
Answer: Bird

Question: What does a gelotologist study?
Answer: Laughter

Question: What was the original commercial television programme which inspired American Idol, and who created it?
Answer: Popstars (1999), crated in New Zealand by Jonathan Dowling

Question: In the final Test match of his career, international cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan became the first bowler to take 800 Test wickets. What nation did he represent?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: What was the Seiz Breur in Brittany?
Answer: A network of artists

Question: Which is a traditional topping for lasagne?
Answer: Cheese

Question: Who wrote "A Room With A View", "Howard's End" and "A Passage To India"?
Answer: E M Forster

Question: Who was the second author to be awarded the Booker Prize twice?
Answer: Peter Carey

Question: What Jewish celebration commemorates an event concerning children and lamb's blood?
Answer: Passover

Question: Mike Leigh directed what 1999 film, starring Jim Broadbent and Timothy Spall, about a famous music theatre partnership?
Answer: Topsy-Turvy

Question: Trajan, Titus, and Nerva were all what?
Answer: Emperors of Rome