Question: Which TV celebrity chef's Jack Russell Terrier, Chalky, died aged 17 in January 2007?
Answer: Rick STEIN

Question: In Hindu myth, which creature is associated with the god Hanuman?
Answer: Monkey

Question: In 1969, which category was added to the Nobel Prizes?
Answer: Economics

Question: If he were not in exile, which leader would live in the Potala Palace?
Answer: DALAI LAMA or Tenzin GYATSO

Question: Who, going through US customs said "I have nothing to declare but my genius"?
Answer: Oscar WILDE

Question: Which 'school' has witnessed: 'Blue Murder', 'Pure Hell' and a 'Train Robbery'?
Answer: St Trinians

Question: Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull were born in what would become which US state?
Answer: South Dakota

Question: What type of creature is a Coalmouse?
Answer: Bird

Question: What does an omophagic creature eat?
Answer: Meat

Question: Which creature produces the epicurean delicacy known as 'green fat'?
Answer: Turtle

Question: Which London market was moved in November to a new site at Nine Elms?
Answer: Covent Garden

Question: Born 1780 in Norwich, Which Englishwoman famously campaigned for prison reform?
Answer: Elizabeth FRY

Question: Which young woman fatally stabbed Jean Paul Marat while he was in his bath?
Answer: Charlotte CORDAY

Question: In which city were the crime series 'Homicide: Life on the Street' and 'The Wire' both set?
Answer: Baltimore

Question: Which city is the setting for the original crime series 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'?
Answer: Las Vegas

Question: What is the name of the evil wizard who is always trying to catch the Smurfs?
Answer: Gargamel

Question: Via Italian from Latin meaning 'goddess', what do we call a distinguished female singer?
Answer: Diva

Question: Itself a word in common English usage, what is the Latin word meaning "remember"?
Answer: Memento

Question: """Cor, stinks in here"" was the first line spoken in the first episode of which UK TV series?"
Answer: Eastenders

Question: A deficiency in which trace element is a major cause of the condition called goitre?
Answer: Iodine

Question: What name is given to an adult, Red Deer stag aged six years or older?
Answer: Hart

Question: Who became President of France in the early summer of 2007?
Answer: Nicolas SARKOZY

Question: Which country was formerly nicknamed 'The Cockpit of Europe'?
Answer: Belgium

Question: Which European country has often been referred to as the 'Playground Of Europe'?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Which country was formerly known as the 'Sugar Bowl of the World'?
Answer: Cuba

Question: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's mistress, Jane Burden, was the wife of which artist and poet?
Answer: William MORRIS

Question: Which Russian man designed the legendary AK-47 assault rifle?
Answer: Mikhail KALASHNIKOV

Question: Awarded by Congress; which is the highest military decoration given in the U.S.A.?
Answer: Medal Of Honor

Question: Which animal is "Me" in Roald Dahl's book, 'The Giraffe And The Pelly And Me'?
Answer: Monkey

Question: What is the name of the traditional boat used for transport on the River Nile?
Answer: Felucca

Question: The story setting of which Puccini opera is Paris in the 1830s?
Answer: La Boheme

Question: Which vegetable is available in varieties such as 'Bok Choy' and 'Savoy'?
Answer: Cabbage

Question: Politically speaking, what once linked Brazil, Uruguay, Mozambique and Angola?
Answer: Portuguese Colonies

Question: Whose wife “Wouldn’t have a Willie nor a Sam”?
Answer: ‘Enery the Eighth

Question: In darts, which region of the board is known as “mad house”?
Answer: Double one

Question: Which city is the home of the Spanish football team Real Betis?
Answer: Seville

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, in which London street did the Muffin Man live?
Answer: Drury Lane

Question: In which country are the headquarters of the high-street clothing retailers H&M?
Answer: Sweden

Question: Which Rogers and Hammerstein musical is set in San Francisco’s China Town?
Answer: The Flowerdrum Song

Question: Skagboys is a prequel to which novel by Irving Welsh?
Answer: Trainspotting

Question: To which humorous book is And Now All This a sequel?
Answer: 1066 and All That

Question: The three principal Uralic languages are Finnish, Estonian, and which other?
Answer: Hungarian

Question: Which Edinburgh landmark did Bill Bryson describe as looking like a “Gothic rocket ship”?
Answer: The Scott Memorial

Question: Which building did Clive James describe as a “portable typewriter full of oyster shells”?
Answer: Sydney Opera House

Question: The so-called “Curse of the Bambino” afflicted which team between 1918 and 2004?
Answer: Boston Red Sox

Question: Tiger Woods wears a shirt of which colour for the final round of each tournament?
Answer: Red

Question: Which of Shakespeare’s plays is set in Vienna?
Answer: Measure for Measure

Question: Which play contains the famous stage direction “Exit, pursued by a bear”?
Answer: A Winter’s Tale

Question: Which group recorded the early heavy-metal classic Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble?
Answer: Uriah Heep

Question: In 2013, who became the first person to release his one-hundredth studio album?
Answer: Cliff Richard

Question: In which board game might you hit a blot?
Answer: Backgammon

Question: What musical instrument forms one of the playing pieces in Buckaroo?
Answer: Guitar

Question: What, according to Dr Johnson, is “the triumph of hope over experience”?
Answer: Second marriage

Question: Which actor played Norman Stanley Fletcher’s teenage son, Raymond?
Answer: Nicholas Lyndhurst

Question: Which notable person died in the Ritz Hotel on the 8th of April 2013?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Question: In which town is the Black Country Living Museum?
Answer: Dudley

Question: Fictional character Selena Kyle is better known by what name?
Answer: Catwoman

Question: Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem was the resident band on which TV show?
Answer: The Muppets

Question: In 1961, where did a CIA-sponsored group make an unsuccessful attempt to invade Cuba?
Answer: Bay of Pigs

Question: Who won an acting Oscar for a six-minute role in Shakespeare in Love?
Answer: Judy Dench

Question: Which canal forms a navigable link between New York and the Great Lakes?
Answer: Erie Canal

Question: Rimini Miramare airport has been renamed in honour of which noted film director?
Answer: Federico Fellini

Question: The House of Braganza once ruled which European country?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Both Hairy Bikers have tattoos on their right arms depicting which iconic figure?
Answer: Che Guevara

Question: Abbotsford House, on the banks of the Tweed, was the home of which author?
Answer: Sir Walter Scott

Question: Which sport is sometimes known as “the sweet science”?
Answer: Boxing

Question: The 1953 Broadway musical Kismet is based on the works of which classical composer?
Answer: Alexander Borodin

Question: Which twin-code rugby international and television commentator is nicknamed “Jiffy”?
Answer: Jonathan Davies

Question: Which famous scientist was born on the same day as Abraham Lincoln?
Answer: Charles Darwin

Question: Which pioneer aviator died on the same day as Mahatma Gandhi?
Answer: Orville Wright

Question: What is the official hymn of the US Marine Corps?
Answer: The Halls of Montezuma

Question: Ride of the Valkyries is the official quick march of which branch of the British Army?
Answer: Parachute Regiment

Question: For which film of the series were large sections shot on location in Snowdonia?
Answer: Carry On Up the Khyber

Question: Which of the series had the pre-production title Anne of a Thousand Lays?
Answer: Carry On Henry

Question: The area now rebranded as “Cardiff Bay” was formerly known by what name?
Answer: Tiger Bay

Question: Which tube station forms the southern terminus of the Bakerloo line?
Answer: Elephant and Castle

Question: Who wrote the short-story collection The Dubliners, published in 1914?
Answer: James Joyce