Question: A story about the audience fortunately avoiding a falling chandelier during its premiere in 1791 originated which nickname of Haydn's Symphony Number 96?
Answer: Miracle Symphony

Question: Which BBC local radio station with its main studios in Luton covers Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire?
Answer: BBC Three Counties

Question: Obesity hypoventilation syndrome is also known by a name that refers to which Charles Dickens novel in which the 'fat boy' Joe exhibits the symptoms?
Answer: The Pickwick Papers

Question: Which species is the world's largest rodent?
Answer: Capybara

Question: In heraldry what shape is a mullet?
Answer: Star

Question: Which is the smallest by area of the Great Lakes of North America?
Answer: Ontario

Question: Which work by Tchaikovsky includes a sequence called The Rose Adagio'?
Answer: The Sleeping Beauty

Question: Which author won the Booker Prize in 1991 for his novel 'The Famished Road'?
Answer: Ben Okri

Question: Europa and Ganymede are moons of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: In 1960 Kwame Nkrumah became the first President of which African country?
Answer: Ghana

Question: Which English king was born in Pembroke Castle in Wales in 1457?
Answer: Henry VII

Question: The flag of which African country contains the image of an AK-47 rifle?
Answer: Mozambique

Question: The Chelt, Frome,Teme and Vyrnwy are all tributaries of which UK river?
Answer: Severn

Question: Which SI unit is named after an engineer born in Greenock in 1736?
Answer: Watt

Question: Stella Artois originates from which Belgian city, the name being shown on its bottles and cans?
Answer: Leuven

Question: Give a year in the life of the German artist Albrecht Durer.
Answer: 1471-1528

Question: Which Beatles song opens with the lyric Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup"?
Answer: Across the Universe

Question: Of which US rock band is Steven Tyler a founder member and lead singer?
Answer: Aerosmith

Question: Which city, home to the tallest and largest Gothic cathedral in France is the capital of Picardy region and the Somme department?
Answer: Amiens

Question: Which country's top tier soccer league has teams called Helsingborgs IF and Kalmar FF?
Answer: Sweden

Question: What name is given to a triangle in which two sides are equal in length?
Answer: Isosceles

Question: Which nickname for Haydn's Symphony Number 94 comes from a sudden loud chord at the end of a quiet opening theme of the second movement?
Answer: Surprise Symphony

Question: Which BBC local radio station based in Southampton covers Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight?
Answer: BBC Radio Solent

Question: Giving his name to an adjective meaning sanctimonious and hypocritical, Seth Pecksniff appears in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: Martin Chuzzlewit

Question: In imperial measurement, how many pints in a quart?
Answer: Two

Question: Who is the current poet laureate?
Answer: Carol Ann Duffy

Question: In what year will the next UK census be held?
Answer: 2021

Question: Who was Bill Clinton's vice-president?
Answer: Al Gore

Question: Who composed The Trout Quintet?
Answer: Schubert

Question: Which river runs through Belfast?
Answer: Lagan

Question: What is the capital of Greenland?
Answer: Nuuk

Question: Of what is graphology the study?
Answer: Handwriting

Question: Who wrote the 2006 novel The Road?
Answer: Cormac McCarthy

Question: Who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
Answer: John Steinbeck

Question: In which European city is Las Ramblas?
Answer: Barcelona

Question: Where in the UK is Port Erin?
Answer: Isle of Man

Question: In which city are the Lanes?
Answer: Brighton

Question: In which sport does the winner 'peg out'?
Answer: Croquet

Question: Slain by Hercules, which monster lived in the swamps near the city of Lerna?
Answer: Hydra

Question: Which geological period was named after the word for chalk?
Answer: Cretaceous

Question: For what is Mho a unit of measurement?
Answer: Electrical

Question: Who wrote the 1947 novel The Plague?
Answer: Albert Camus

Question: How many years of marriage are celebrated on your Sapphire anniversary?
Answer: 45

Question: Who played The Prisoner on TV in the 1960s?
Answer: Patrick McGoohan

Question: In what year was decimal coinage introduced in the UK?
Answer: 1971

Question: The Crab Nebula is in which constellation?
Answer: Taurus

Question: Appointed in 2011, who is the President of the Irish Republic?
Answer: Michael Higgins

Question: Appointed in 2012, who is the President of the Fifth French Republic?
Answer: Francois Hollande

Question: Who did Ramon Mercador kill in 1940?
Answer: Leon Trotsky

Question: Who directed the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: Danny Boyle

Question: For which event did Greg Rutherford win gold for GB in 2012?
Answer: Long jump

Question: Who, in 1799, wrote the poem Lamia?
Answer: John Keats

Question: In which body of water did John the Baptist baptise Jesus?
Answer: River Jordan

Question: In which city is the Golden Temple?
Answer: Amritsar

Question: Which famous scientist said "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: What name is now given to the area of Paris where the guillotine used to execute Louis 16th was situated?
Answer: Place de la Concorde

Question: Which Football League club share the Keepmoat Stadium with the town's rugby league club?
Answer: Doncaster Rovers

Question: Which of Beethoven's symphonies is named the Eroica?
Answer: 3rd

Question: Dawley, the birthplace of channel swimmer Matthew Webb, is in which New Town?
Answer: Telford

Question: What is the British name given to German white wines originally from the Rhine area?
Answer: Hock

Question: Which American rock band is made up the three Followill brothers and one of their cousins?
Answer: Kings of Leon

Question: According to a proverb, which vegetable will not be buttered by fine words? (Fine words butter no )
Answer: Parsnips

Question: In which city is the Kabaa?
Answer: Mecca

Question: Which of Dvorak's symphonies is named From the New World?
Answer: 9th

Question: The book 'Red Bones' by Anne Cleeves was dramatised by the BBC, on which islands is it set?
Answer: Shetlands

Question: The largest state or territory by area in Australia is Western Australia, which is second?
Answer: Queensland

Question: What name is given to the first Sunday of the Christian year?
Answer: Advent

Question: Which book opens with the line 'It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen'?
Answer: 1984

Question: What is the name of the police officer in the TV comedy series 'Allo 'Allo?
Answer: Crabtree

Question: What was discovered at Qumran in 1947?
Answer: Dead Sea Scrolls

Question: Who wrote the novella on which the film 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' was based?
Answer: Truman Capote

Question: King Stephen was the only King of which Royal House?
Answer: Blois

Question: Which famous scientist said "A man who wastes one hour of time has not discovered the value of life"?
Answer: Charles Darwin

Question: The exclusive right to breed Gressingham Ducks was bought by Gressingham Foods in 1996, and the ducks they now produce are all from their farms in East Anglia, however the village of Gressingham is in which Lancashire town or city?
Answer: Lancaster

Question: Which Football League club share the John Smith's Stadium with the town's rugby league club?
Answer: Huddersfield Town

Question: Which classic song was the only UK No. 1 hit single for Simon and Garfunkel?
Answer: Bridge Over Troubled Water

Question: What was the name of the Space Shuttle that flew the last US mission to the International Space Station in July 2011?
Answer: Atlantis

Question: The wartime code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, is in which New Town?
Answer: Milton Keynes