Question: John Bird and Gordon Roddick founded which magazine in 1991?
Answer: The Big Issue

Question: Which actress once said of her husband “If his manhood was one inch shotere they’d call him the Queen of Hollywood”?
Answer: Carole Lombard (Mrs Clarke Gable)

Question: Who wrote the political autobiography “Pulling No Punches”?
Answer: John Prescott

Question: Lonicera is the Latin name for which fragrant climbing plant?
Answer: Honeysuckle

Question: Which football club replaced Barrow in the Football League after the 1971-72 season?
Answer: Hereford

Question: The voice of which character in The Simpsons is provided by Nancy Cartwright?
Answer: Bart

Question: In which French fishing port on the Cote d’Azur is Pamplona Beach?
Answer: St Tropez

Question: How many people sit on a jury in Scotland?
Answer: 15

Question: Who wrote the poem “Home Thoughts From Abroad”?
Answer: Robert Browning

Question: What is the better known name of the South African plant Mesembryanthemum?
Answer: Livingstone Rose

Question: In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, who was Romeo’s first love?
Answer: Rosalie

Question: Which word completes the title of a collection of keyboard music dated 1722 by Johann Sebastian Bach - The Well-Tempered ______?
Answer: Clavier

Question: What is the name of Dan Dare’s Wigan-born batman?
Answer: Albert Fitzwilliam Digby

Question: Which BBC TV drama that ran from 1985 to 1990, set in the fictional town of Tarrant, was filmed on the River Hamble and the Solent?
Answer: Howard’S Way

Question: Which ice cream company produces flavours including Cherry Garcia, Cone Sweet Cone and Caramel Chew Chew?
Answer: Ben & Jerry’S

Question: In which city did Gavrilo Princip assassinate a husband and wife in June 1914?
Answer: Sarajevo

Question: Which is the only African capital city that begins with the letter R?
Answer: Rabat

Question: Which European country has provinces called Zeeland, Friesland and Gelderland?
Answer: The Netherlands

Question: Three Asian countries will play in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Two are Japan and South Korea. Which is the third
Answer: Iran

Question: Who in 2007 said ‘The House has noticed the Prime Minister’s remarkable transformation in the past few weeks from Stalin to Mister Bean’?
Answer: VINCE CABLE (about GORDON BROWN)

Question: The Martians Have Landed in Wigan and Robin Hood and the Bogey-Rolling Contest are monologues written by which performer known as The Bolton Bullfrog?
Answer: Bernard Wrigley

Question: The Varicella Zoster Virus causes which disease in children?
Answer: Chickenpox

Question: Which 88 year old Dame is currently appearing in Blithe Spirit in London?
Answer: Angela Lansbury

Question: Mrs Malaprop is a character in which Sheridan comedy?
Answer: The Rivals

Question: Which bird features on the flag of the US state of Louisiana?
Answer: Pelican

Question: The 1969 Derby winner Blakeney and the 1973 winner Morston were both named after villages in which English county?
Answer: Norfolk

Question: Who was MP for Makerfield from 1987 to 2010?
Answer: Ian Mccartney

Question: Who was the husband of Saint Anne and father of the Virgin Mary?
Answer: Saint Joachim

Question: Queen Anne’s Revenge was the flagship of which pirate?
Answer: EDWARD TEACH (accept BLACKBEARD)

Question: Which motorway runs from near Preston to Colne?
Answer: M65

Question: In which sport do players use the penhold grip or the shakehand grip?
Answer: Table Tennis

Question: Which member of The Pussycat Dolls was born in Hawaii?
Answer: Nicole Sherzinger

Question: Which character in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland recites the poem which begins Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you’re at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea tray in the sky?
Answer: The (Mad) Hatter

Question: The olfactory nerve carries the sensory information for which of the senses?
Answer: Smell

Question: Which 1961 Western is the only film directed by Marlon Brando?
Answer: One-Eyed Jacks

Question: In Through The Looking Glass which characters recite the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter to Alice?
Answer: TWEEDLEDUM and TWEEDLEDEE

Question: The screenplay of the 1961 horror film The Pit and the Pendulum was based on a short story by which author?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: Which musical, currently running in London, includes the song Tomorrow is a Latter Day?
Answer: The Book Of Mormon

Question: Mrs Bardell is the landlady of which Dickens character who she sues for breach of promise?
Answer: Samuel Pickwick

Question: Fritz Haber won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesising which chemical compound?
Answer: Ammonia

Question: In which film does Dustin Hoffman play Michael Dorsey and Dorothy Michaels?
Answer: Tootsie

Question: The Outside-Half Factory and The Pontypool Front Row were written by which Welsh performer?
Answer: Max Boyce

Question: Which author who created Adrian Mole died last month aged 68?
Answer: Sue Townsend

Question: Which cricket team will play 5 test matches against England in July and August this year?
Answer: India

Question: Name either of the females who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in January 1986.
Answer: CHRISTA MCAULIFFE or JUDITH RESNIK

Question: At which race course is the King Richard III Stakes run in April?
Answer: Leicester

Question: How many years of marriage is usually associated with a gift of pearl?
Answer: 30

Question: Ian McCartney was Labour Party Chair from 2003 to 2006 when he was succeeded by which Salford born MP, who as a child played a street urchin in the film A Taste of Honey?
Answer: Hazel Blears

Question: According to the Acts of the Apostles on which island was Saint Paul shipwrecked on his way to Rome to appeal to Caesar?
Answer: Malta

Question: What name was given to the Dock in Wapping where pirates and smugglers were hanged?
Answer: Execution Dock

Question: By what name are the services near Lancaster on the M6 known – the tower was Grade II Listed in 2012?
Answer: FORTON Note: The services are now officially known as Lancaster (Forton) Services

Question: In which sport is a domestique a team member who works to ensure the best position for the team leader?
Answer: Cycling

Question: Starbuck’s Coffee traditionally has three sizes – venti, grande and which other?
Answer: Tall

Question: Who was President of France during World War One?
Answer: Raymond Poincaré

Question: Which is the only Asian capital city that begins with the letter H?
Answer: Hanoi

Question: In 1966 Muhammad Ali had two fights in England – the first against Henry Cooper and the second against which boxer who he knocked out in the third round?
Answer: Brian London

Question: Which word completes the popular name of the final movement of Handel’s Suite Number 5 for Harpsichord – The ______________ Blacksmith?
Answer: Harmonious

Question: Which BBC game show presented by Noel Edmonds ran from 1985 until 1998?
Answer: Telly Addicts

Question: In which sport did violinist Vanessa-Mae compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Answer: (Alpine) Skiing

Question: Who is the Bishop of London?
Answer: Richard Chartres

Question: At noon on December 31st in which year did Panama gain full control of the Panama Canal?
Answer: 1999

Question: What is the stage name of singer-songwriter Eliza Caird?
Answer: Eliza Doolittle

Question: In which city was the TV series Peaky Blinders set?
Answer: Birmingham

Question: Which African capital city has a name meaning "Three Towns"?
Answer: Tripoli

Question: Which historical figure has been played on film and TV by "Richard Harris", "Tim Roth" and "Dominic West"?
Answer: Oliver Cromwell

Question: Which chemical element has the symbol "Na"?
Answer: Sodium

Question: Sir Arthur Pearson founded which newspaper in 1900; the current editor is Hugh Whittow?
Answer: Daily Express

Question: Which medical condition gets its name from the Greek for "Half a Head"?
Answer: Migraine