Question: What sport is played in the Hitchcock film "Strangers on a train"?
Answer: Tennis

Question: In Ancient Rome, what was the name of the female prophets who sent messages from the Gods and had insights into the future?
Answer: The Sybils (Sybils were also in other cultures)

Question: Which football league team are nicknamed "The Cod Army"?
Answer: Fleetwood Town

Question: """Durham Early"" and ""January King"" are types of which vegetable?"
Answer: Cabbage

Question: Which English Philosopher said "The greatest happiness of the greatest number"?
Answer: Jeremy Bentham

Question: Name the year; Military coup in Greece removes Constantine II, Che Guevara is captured and shot in Bolivia and Celtic beat Inter-Milan 2-1 in the European Cup final.
Answer: 1967

Question: Who wrote the plays "Lost in Yonkers" and "The Prisoner of second avenue"?
Answer: Neil Simon

Question: What Latin phrase means "For the time being"?
Answer: Pro Tempore

Question: Which French king married Mary Tudor sister of Henry VIII in 1514?
Answer: Louis XII

Question: Cydonia oblonga is the Latin of which fruit, used in preserves and originally used to make marmalade?
Answer: Quince

Question: Which medical condition prevalent in World War One was caused by standing around in cold, wet and unsanitary conditions
Answer: Trench Foot

Question: Which is the youngest of the Ivy League Universities?
Answer: Cornell (1865)

Question: Delphinium is the botanical name for which common flower?
Answer: Larkspur

Question: Who replaced Tom Jones on the TV show the voice?
Answer: Boy George

Question: At what time of the day is the Ceremony of the Keys held in the Tower of London?
Answer: 10pm

Question: """Just now the lilac is in bloom, all before my little room"", is the first line of which poem by Rupert Brook?"
Answer: The Old Vicarage, Grantchester

Question: In which country were Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid supposedly killed in a shootout with soldiers in 1908?
Answer: Bolivia

Question: What colour is the 100 euro note?
Answer: Green

Question: Around 9000 of what were made in Dunmurry, in N. Ireland between 1981 and 1982?
Answer: The DeLorean DMC-12 car

Question: How many musicians are left at the end of Haydon's "Farewell Symphony"
Answer: Two

Question: Which historical character has been played in film by Norma Shearer (1938), Jane Seymour (1989) and Kirsten Dunst (2006)?
Answer: Marie Antoinette

Question: In which Canadian City would you find the Skytrain overhead railway?
Answer: Vancouver

Question: Who hosts Radio 1 breakfast show?
Answer: Nick Grimshaw

Question: What position does Amber Rudd hold in the Cabinet?
Answer: Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

Question: What position did Will Sommers hold at the Court of Henry VIII
Answer: Jester

Question: The island of New Guinea is split between Papua New Guinea to the east and which country to the west?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: What is the maximum number of clubs that a golfer can carry in their bag?
Answer: Fourteen

Question: On the cover of the album Abbey Road by The Beatles, which company manufactured the white car parked on the footpath to the left of the picture?
Answer: Volkswagen (Beetle)

Question: What was the family name of Frank and his six children in the Channel 4 TV series Shameless?
Answer: Gallagher

Question: Reading down group 1 (alkali metals) on the periodic table, the symbols for elements 3 and 11 form the name of which Chinese tennis player?
Answer: Li Na

Question: Costa Coffee and Premier Inn are owned by which company?
Answer: Whitbread

Question: Barbara Havers is the assistant to which Scotland Yard detective in the novels of Elizabeth George?
Answer: Inspector Thomas Lynley

Question: With which musical instrument is Dame Myra Hess (1890-1965) associated?
Answer: Piano

Question: Episode 13 in series 4 of which US TV series, based on a British character, was called "A Study in Charlotte"?
Answer: Elementary

Question: Who founded the eponymous fashion label DVF?
Answer: Diane Von Furstenberg

Question: Moise Tshombe was President of which province when it declared independence from the Congo in 1960?
Answer: Katanga

Question: Swimmers Cameron van der Burgh and Chad le Clos won gold medals and athlete Caster Semenya won a silver medal for which country at the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: South Africa

Question: How are Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison described in the title of a play by Neil Simon?
Answer: The Odd Couple

Question: What is the two-word title by which the Simon and Garfunkel song "The 59th Street Bridge Song" is familiarly known?
Answer: Feelin' Groovy

Question: Who plays Joey LaMotta, Jake's brother and manager in the 1980 film "Raging Bull"?
Answer: Joe Pesci

Question: The words 'FLOREAT SALOPIA' appear on the crest of which English football club?
Answer: Shrewsbury Town

Question: Which river flows through Hobart in Tasmania - there are English rivers of the same name in Cumbria, Derbyshire and Yorkshire?
Answer: Derwent

Question: Which Socialist was elected President of France on this day in 1981?
Answer: Francois

Question: Special stamps were issued on April 5th to mark which anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare?
Answer: 400th

Question: Wearmouth Bridge and two black lions feature on the crest of which English football club?
Answer: Sunderland

Question: Which river is formed at Launceston in Tasmania by the merging of the North Esk and South Esk rivers - a river of the same name forms much of the boundary between Devon and Cornwall?
Answer: Tamar

Question: On this day in which year was Nelson Mandela inaugurated as President of South Africa?
Answer: 1994

Question: """Cinderella Rockefella"" was a Number One single in 1968 for Esther and Abi (who)?"
Answer: Ofarim

Question: In the Famous Five stories by Enid Blyton which of the children owns Timmy the dog?
Answer: GEORGE (or GEORGINA)

Question: Which restaurant chain uses the slogan 'HOME OF THE ROAST'?
Answer: Toby Carvery

Question: By what name was Barbara Gordon known in DC Comics from 1967 to the mid-1980s?
Answer: Batgirl

Question: Brothers Simon and Stephen Cornwell were two of the executive producers on the BBC TV drama "The Night Manager". Who wrote the novel on which the drama was based?
Answer: John Le Carre

Question: Reading down group 18 (noble gases) on the periodic table, the symbols for elements 10 and 18 form which word defined as 'at a time or place not far away'?
Answer: Near

Question: Which town in Northern Ireland lies on the stretch of river between Upper Lough Erne and Lower Lough Erne?
Answer: Enniskillen

Question: Offa was King of which Anglo-Saxon Kingdom from 757 to 796?
Answer: Mercia

Question: Odumegwu Ojukwu was President of which state that seceded from Nigeria in 1967?
Answer: Biafra

Question: Which word is missing from the first line of text on the inside cover of a UK passport – "Her ??? Majesty's Secretary of State"?
Answer: Brittanic

Question: The Neil Simon plays "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" and "Brighton Beach Memoirs" are set in which city?
Answer: New York

Question: Who made the cake on the cover of the album "Let It Bleed" by The Rolling Stones?
Answer: Delia Smith

Question: What was the setting for the BBC TV comedy "Early Doors"?
Answer: A Pub

Question: A replica of whose statue of David stands outside the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence - the original is in the Galleria del Accademia?
Answer: Michelangelo

Question: Chinook, chum and sockeye are species of what type of fish?
Answer: Salmon

Question: In which city was Ludwig van Beethoven born?
Answer: Bonn

Question: Which animal of the Chinese Zodiac represents the year that began this February?
Answer: Monkey

Question: The date October 21st 2015 played a significant part in which 1989 film?
Answer: Back To The Future

Question: Which baseball player began his career in 1914 as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox?
Answer: Babe Ruth