Question: Harold Sakata won a silver medal in Olympic weightlifting but became more famous playing which villain in a James Bond film?
Answer: Oddjob

Question: In which English county is Stokesay Castle?
Answer: Shropshire

Question: In 1997 St Isidore of Seville was chosen by Pope John Paul II as the patron saint of which modern phenomenon?
Answer: Internet/Computing

Question: Who wrote the 1948 play 'The Browning Version'?
Answer: Terence Rattigan

Question: Saturn is the Roman god of time, who is the Greek alternative?
Answer: Chronos

Question: How many gold medals did Jesse Owens win at the 1936 Berlin Olympics?
Answer: 4

Question: In the game of poker what is a hand consisting of three cards of one value and a pair of another value called?
Answer: A Full House

Question: What style of jazz which began and was developed in the mid 1940s was pioneered by jazz musicians Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie?
Answer: Be-bop

Question: Which British bird has the Latin name 'Troglodytes Troglodytes'?
Answer: (Eurasian) Wren

Question: The Goose Fair is held annually in which British city?
Answer: Nottingham

Question: Name the major German Stock Market Index.
Answer: Dax

Question: The old boys of which public school are known as Old Alleynians?
Answer: Dulwich

Question: Which architect designed Tom Tower and The Sheldonian Theatre, both in Oxford?
Answer: Christopher Wren

Question: Name one of the fire signs of the Zodiac.
Answer: Aries, Leo or Sagittarius

Question: In the Harry Potter series of films and books who has a cat called Crookshanks?
Answer: Hermione Granger

Question: What is Sean Connery's first Christian name?
Answer: Thomas

Question: Who wrote the play 'The Cherry Orchard' in 1904?
Answer: Anton Chekhov

Question: Who wrote The Ghost (2007) and An Officer and a Spy (2013)?
Answer: Robert Harris

Question: From which country does the tennis player Juan Martin del Potro come?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Which car company produces a model called the Verso?
Answer: Toyota

Question: Who was the Vice-President of the USA from 1965-1969 when L.B. Johnson was President?
Answer: Hubert Humphrey

Question: Who played Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street?
Answer: Julie Hesmondhalgh

Question: In what country was Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik cube born?
Answer: Hungary

Question: Where in the human body would you find the Organs of Corti?
Answer: Ear

Question: In what year was the first Battle of St. Albans?
Answer: 1455

Question: What is the SI unit of electric charge?
Answer: Coulomb

Question: What is the price of a first class stamp?
Answer: 62p

Question: The song Michelle appears on which Beatles album?
Answer: Rubber Soul

Question: In which English county is Castle Drogo?
Answer: Devon

Question: Which Thames bridge lies between Chelsea Bridge and Battersea Bridge?
Answer: Albert Bridge

Question: Who succeeded Augustus as Emperor of Rome in 14AD?
Answer: Tiberius

Question: Who directed the 1973 film American Graffiti?
Answer: George Lucas

Question: On which UK motorway is the Membury service station?
Answer: 4

Question: At what ground was the first replay of a Wembley F.A. Cup final played?
Answer: Old Trafford

Question: Which shipping area lies directly to the west of Malin?
Answer: Rockall

Question: In what country is the Roman ampitheatre of El Jid of Thysdrus?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: Which country's flag consists of 3 horizontal bands of red, white and red?
Answer: Austria

Question: In which African country is Lake Turkana, formerly Lake Rudolf?
Answer: Kenya

Question: Which member of the cabinet is the MP for Chingford and Woodford Green?
Answer: Ian Duncan-Smith

Question: What is the common name of Taxus Baccata?
Answer: Yew

Question: Who composed the music for the 1909 opera Susanna's Secret?
Answer: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

Question: In what year was there a vote in the UK on the issue of leaving the then Common Market?
Answer: 1975

Question: What instrument does jazz musician Gary Burton play?
Answer: Vibraphone

Question: Who wrote The Client (1993) and Sycamore Row(2013)?
Answer: John Grisham

Question: From which country does the tennis player Stanislas Wawrinka come?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: What is the state capital of Maryland?
Answer: Annapolis

Question: Who was Vice-President of the USA from 1977-81 when Jimmy Carter was President?
Answer: Walter Mondale

Question: Who plays Kat Moon in Eastenders?
Answer: essie Wallace

Question: In what country was Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, born?
Answer: Belgium

Question: Where in the human body would you find Bowman's Capsule?
Answer: Kidney

Question: In what year was the Battle of Crecy?
Answer: £145.50

Question: What does a colour TV licence cost?
Answer: £145.50

Question: The song Eleanor Rigby is on which Beatles album?
Answer: Revolver

Question: In which English county is Corfe Castle?
Answer: Dorset

Question: Who, in 1931, designed the map of the London Underground?
Answer: Harry Beck

Question: Who, in 79AD, succeeded Vespasian as Emperor of Rome?
Answer: Titus

Question: Who directed the 1999 film American Beauty?
Answer: Sam Mendes

Question: On which motorway is the Tamworth service station?
Answer: M42

Question: Of what are deers antler's made?
Answer: Bone

Question: Who wrote the 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway?
Answer: Virginia Woolf

Question: Which team won the FA Cup in both the last final to be played at the old Wembley stadium and the first to be played at the new one?
Answer: Chelsea

Question: Which shipping area lies immediately to the east of Dogger?
Answer: German Bight

Question: In which country can you find the ruins of the Roman town of Leptis Magna?
Answer: Libya

Question: Which country's flag consists of 3 vertical stripes of red, white and red?
Answer: Peru

Question: Who was king of England in 1505?
Answer: Henry VII

Question: Which member of the cabinet is MP for Twickenham?
Answer: Vince Cable

Question: Who composed the music for the 1935 opera Lulu?
Answer: Alban Berg

Question: What instrument did the jazz musician Wes Montgomery play?
Answer: Guitar

Question: Which French chef created Peach Melba in 1893?
Answer: Auguste Escoffier

Question: In which English county is Skegness?
Answer: Lincolnshire

Question: In what year was Queen Elizabeth II born?
Answer: 1926

Question: An oenophile is a connoisseur of what?
Answer: Wine

Question: On a weather map, what name is given to a line joining points having equal hours of sunshine?
Answer: Isohel

Question: Which 1980s US TV police show featured the characters Frank Furillo, Andy Renko and Mick Belker?
Answer: Hill Street Blues

Question: Which company is advertised on TV by the puppets Betty, Earl and Joyce?
Answer: Wonga

Question: Mary Todd was the wife of which US President?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: In Norse mythology what is the name of the group of women whose name means 'chooser of the slain'?
Answer: Valkyries

Question: The Japanese poetry form known as a Haiku consists of how many syllables?
Answer: 17

Question: Mamie Doud was the wife of which US President?
Answer: Dwight D Eisenhower

Question: A turophile is a lover of which food?
Answer: Cheese

Question: Scuttle, a seagull, is a character in which 1989 Disney film?
Answer: The Little Mermaid

Question: Which US country singer is the second best-selling solo albums artist of all time (in the USA) after Elvis Presley?
Answer: Garth Brooks

Question: Which 1980s and 90s US TV legal drama featured the company McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzack?
Answer: LA Law

Question: Amy Williams and Lizzy Yarnold of Great Britain have won the Winter Olympic Gold Medal at the last two games in which event?
Answer: Skeleton

Question: Lampwick and Stromboli are characters in which 1940 Disney film?
Answer: Pinocchio

Question: Which Australian city was known as Palmerston between 1869 and 1911?
Answer: Darwin