Question: Leland Stanford, Earl Warren and Pat Brown (father of the current holder) have held the position of Governor of which US state?
Answer: California

Question: The James Joyce novel Ulysses is set on one day in Dublin in 1904 in which month
Answer: June

Question: The music key signature C Major has no sharps or flats. What is the equivalent minor key?
Answer: A Minor

Question: Boggis, Bunce and Bean are three wealthy fanners who are the targets of the title character in which Roald Dahl novel filmed in 2009?
Answer: Fantastic Mr Fox

Question: Which salad plant has the scientific name Nasturtium officinale
Answer: Watercress

Question: Which European golfer was joint runner-up in the 2014 Open Golf Championship?
Answer: Sergio Garcia

Question: The Boys from Syracuse is a musical based on which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Comedy of Errors

Question: Which character was played by Peter Capaldi in the recent TV drama The Musketeers?
Answer: Cardinal Richelieu

Question: Cleopatra's Needle in London had stood in which Egyptian city since 12 BC
Answer: Alexandria

Question: In which month is the Feast of the Annunciation in the Christian church
Answer: March

Question: Give either of the first names of The Odd Couple in the play by Neil Simon
Answer: Felix or Oscar

Question: Author Candida Lycett Green died in August. Which poet was her father
Answer: John Betjeman

Question: Published in 2013 Mad About the Boy is the third book about which character who is then 51 and a widow with two children?
Answer: Bridget Jones

Question: Name either the US Vice President or the former US Secretary of the Treasury who fought a duel in New Jersey in July 1804.
Answer: Aaron Burr or Alexander Hamilton

Question: The album If You Wait reached number two last year for which band? Their name sounds like it could be the name of a school in the capital.
Answer: London Grammar

Question: Which comedian co-hosts the TV talk show The Last Leg with Adam Hills and Alex Brooker?
Answer: Josh Widdecombe

Question: Which is the only letter in an English Scrabble set which has 3 tiles
Answer: G

Question: The logo of which General Motors car brand is on the shirts of Manchester United FC
Answer: Chevrolet

Question: Who was the Democratic candidate in the 1984 US Presidential Election?
Answer: Walter Mondale

Question: Clarissa is the eponymous protagonist of which Virginia Woolf novel set on one day in post World War One London?
Answer: Mrs Dalloway

Question: The six elements including Beryllium and Magnesium are described in the periodic table as 'alkaline (what) metals'?
Answer: Earth

Question: Canadian Ian Millar holds the record for most Olympic appearances with 10 from 1972 to 2012, but excluding 1980, winning a team silver medal in 2008. In which sport does he compete?
Answer: Equestrian (accept Show Jumping)

Question: Which actor, who died after a riding accident while filming in 1988, played Henry Salt in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1?
Answer: Roy Kinnear

Question: Who was the drummer for the band Nirvana before founding the Foo Fighters?
Answer: Dave Grohl

Question: Where was cartographer Gerardus Mercator born - the modern name of the country where he was born?
Answer: Belgium

Question: What was the name of the only female emperor of China (690 to 705) to rule the country in her own right?
Answer: Wu

Question: In which city is Monkwearmouth Station Museum?
Answer: Sunderland

Question: Who married Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini in July?
Answer: Cheryl Cole

Question: On which island is the oldest operating lighthouse on the West Coast of the USA
Answer: Alcatraz

Question: In 1985 which was the last non-Glasgow team to win the Scottish Football League title
Answer: Aberdeen

Question: In which English city is the arts and media centre called The Custard Factory
Answer: Birmingham

Question: Which post was held by Reginald Pole from 1556 to 1558
Answer: Archbishop Of Canterbury

Question: Brian Hyland had a US number one and UK number eight in 1960 with a song whose title included which item of clothing?
Answer: (Itsy Busy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot) Bikini

Question: Emile Ford and the Checkmates had a UK number one in 1959 with a song whose title included which parts of the body?
Answer: (What Do You Want To Make Those) Eyes (At Me For?)

Question: Name either the predecessor or successor of Reginald Pole as Archbishop of Canterbury?
Answer: Thomas Cranmer or Matthew Parker

Question: Which Rugby League club play their home games at the Hive Stadium?
Answer: London Broncos

Question: The tui and the weka are birds native to which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: What was the name of the TV comedy that ran from 1975 to 1978 about National Service in the RAF?
Answer: Get Some In!

Question: Who wrote the 1980 Booker Prize winner Rites of Passage!
Answer: William Golding

Question: Who wrote the 1990 Booker Prize winner Possession?
Answer: AS Byatt

Question: In the TV comedy that ran from 1977 to 1980 Wolfie Smith is the self- proclaimed leader of the TPF. Which district of London is the T in the title of the group?
Answer: Tooting (Popular Front)

Question: In which islands are the only penguins that live North of the equator in the wild?
Answer: Galapagos

Question: Rugby Union club London Wasps play their home games at Adams Park in which town?
Answer: High Wycombe

Question: What is the name of the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico subjected to an explosion in April this year?
Answer: 'Deepwater Horizon'

Question: What nationality is the singer Shakira?
Answer: Colombian

Question: Name either of the actresses who played the wife of 'James Herriot' in the TV series 'All Creatures Great And Small'?
Answer: CAROLE DRINKWATER or LINDA BELLINGHAM

Question: 'Bingo Little', 'Gussie Fink-Nottle' and 'Catsmeat Potter- Pirbright' are friends of which fictional character?
Answer: 'Bertie Wooster'

Question: What was he first name of Diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine?
Answer: RUDOLF (also accept Cristian or Karl)

Question: In which century did the plague known as 'The Black Death' occur?
Answer: 14th

Question: Aisgill Summit is the highest point on which railway line?
Answer: Settle To Carlisle

Question: Who was the French Prime Minister at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 which led to the Treaty of Versailles?
Answer: Georges Clemenceau

Question: Which New Zealand city lies on the River Avon?
Answer: Christchurch

Question: Which sport did Larry Bird, Wilt Chamberlain and 'Magic' Johnson play?
Answer: Basketball

Question: The Tom Stoppard play 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' is based on characters from which play by Shakespeare?
Answer: 'Hamlet'

Question: At which Grammar School is 'Mr. Cleaves' a bizarre teacher, in the first series of 'Little Britain'?
Answer: 'Kelsey Grammar School'

Question: What is the cost of a first class stamp for a letter of up to 100 grams?
Answer: 41 pence

Question: Who composed 'The Lark Ascending'?
Answer: Ralph Vaughan- Williams

Question: Located between the A580 and the Bridgewater Canal, at which former colliery now a museum, is the only surviving pit headgear and engine house in the Lancashire coalfield?
Answer: Astley Green

Question: At which decisive battle in 31 BC did the forces of Octavian defeat the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra?
Answer: Actium

Question: Which is the northernmost German state, with capital Kiel and bordering Denmark?
Answer: Schleswig-Holstein

Question: Name either of the former athletes, one track and one field, who represent Ukraine on the International Olympic Committee?
Answer: VALERI BORZOV or SERGEI BUBKA

Question: How are the bright stars 'Alnitak', 'Alnilam' and 'Mintaka' known collectively?
Answer: 'Orion'S Belt'

Question: Give a year in the life of explorer 'Henry the Navigator'?
Answer: 1394 - 1460