Question: Which aircraft company produced models called the Bearcat and the Wildcat?
Answer: Grumman

Question: Which Glasgow born architect designed the Glasgow School of Art, built between 1897 and 1909?
Answer: Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Question: In the passing of a Government Bill which stage follows after the bill has had a Third Reading in both Houses?
Answer: Royal Assent

Question: What date is the birthday of Prince George of Cambridge?
Answer: July 22nd

Question: Name either of the US states having land borders with Rhode Island?
Answer: Connecticut, Massachusetts

Question: Which building is the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury?
Answer: Lambeth Palace

Question: What is commonly known as the 'hobby of kings'?
Answer: Stamp Collecting

Question: The longest reigning living monarch is Rama 9th, ascending to the throne in June 1946, of which country is he king?
Answer: Thailand

Question: What is the title of the Bishop of Peel?
Answer: Bishop of Sodor and Man

Question: Give either of the middle names of Prince George of Cambridge?
Answer: Alexander Louis

Question: The adjective hirundine refers to which birds?
Answer: Swallows

Question: Who wrote the poem 'Rule, Britannia!' set to music by Thomas Arne?
Answer: James Thomson

Question: Which is the most northerly inhabited island in the British Isles?
Answer: Unst

Question: Portsmouth is the UK's only island city, on which island does it stand?
Answer: Portsea

Question: In which year did Charles Lindbergh make the first solo flight across the Atlantic?
Answer: 1927

Question: Which prolific Art Deco ceramics designer created a range named 'Bizarre'?
Answer: Clarice Cliff

Question: Who was the Australian no 11 batsman who scored 98 on his Test debut against England during 2013?
Answer: Ashton Agar

Question: Tom Joad and Jim Casey appear in which book?
Answer: Grapes of Wrath

Question: Which king was killed at the Battle of Flodden?
Answer: James 4th of Scotland

Question: In which Dickens' novel does Mr Crummie's Acting Company appear?
Answer: Nicholas Nickleby

Question: The Gunpowder Plot was an attempt to kill which king of England?
Answer: James I

Question: What is the present name of the country formerly known as Upper Volta?
Answer: Burkina Faso

Question: What bird appeared on the reverse of the farthing from 1937 to 1960?
Answer: Wren

Question: Which pop group was originally called Angel and the Snakes?
Answer: Blondie

Question: What name is given to a three-wheeled passenger vehicle propelled by a person pedalling?
Answer: Trishaw

Question: What type of grass grows in sand dunes and helps to stabilize them?
Answer: Marram or Beach

Question: In Greek myth who is the god of darkness?
Answer: Erebus

Question: Across which European river do the Cat and Mouse castles face each other?
Answer: Rhine

Question: Which silent film won the 2011 Oscar for Best Film?
Answer: The Artist

Question: Who in April 1500 discovered Brazil for Portugal?
Answer: Pedro Alvares Cabral

Question: What is the sauce made from adding cheese to a Bechamel sauce?
Answer: Mornay

Question: Which European country's flag consists of 3 horizontal bands of blue, black and white?
Answer: Estonia

Question: Who is the only American born winner of the F1 World Drivers' Championship?
Answer: Phil Hill

Question: In which book of the Bible is the battle of Armageddon mentioned?
Answer: Revelations

Question: Which Englishman discovered oxygen in 1774?
Answer: Joseph Priestley

Question: In legend, Vanderveken and his ship The Flying Dutchman are condemned to sail until the Day of Judgement off which headland?
Answer: Cape of Good Hope

Question: What codename was given to the Allied invasion of Sicily in WW2?
Answer: Husky

Question: Who composed the 1747 oratorio Joshua?
Answer: George F Handel

Question: By what name is the pre-historic animal the smilodon better known?
Answer: Sabre Tooth Tiger

Question: Mount Aso has the world's largest active volcanic crater. In which country is it situated?
Answer: Japan

Question: How many fluid ounces in a UK pint?
Answer: 20

Question: In which Dickens' novel does Mrs Jarley's Waxworks appear?
Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop

Question: The WMO is an agency of the UN dealing with what?
Answer: Meteorology

Question: Which is the only host nation not to win a gold medal at a summer Olympics?
Answer: Canada

Question: The Rye House Plot was a plot against which king of England?
Answer: Charles 2

Question: What is the present name of the country formerly known as Kampuchea?
Answer: Cambodia

Question: What is the forename of Captain Mainwaring's wife in the TV series Dad's Army?
Answer: Elizabeth

Question: What plant appeared on the reverse of the threepenny piece from 1937 to 1952?
Answer: Sea Pink or Thrift

Question: Which group was originally called the Pendletones and made one album as Carl and the Passions?
Answer: Beach Boys

Question: The loofah is the skeleton of a plant from which family?
Answer: Gourd

Question: Who is the most famous cartoon creation of Chester Gould?
Answer: Dick Tracy

Question: Who is the Roman goddess of chance?
Answer: Fortuna

Question: In which European city is the Peter Paul fortress?
Answer: St Petersburg

Question: Who, in 1988, led the 1st European expedition to cross Greenlandfrom east to west?
Answer: Fridtjof Nansen

Question: A dish descrbed as a la soubise consists of what vegetable in a Bechamel sauce?
Answer: (Strained or pureed) Onions

Question: Which US poet wrote a collection of poems called Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855?
Answer: Walt Whitman

Question: Which European country's flag consists of 3 horizontal bands of yellow, green and red?
Answer: Lithuania

Question: Who is the only New Zealander to win the F1 World Driver's Championship?
Answer: Denny Hulme

Question: The Oberammergau Passion Play is held as a result of a promise about what?
Answer: (Protection from the) Plague

Question: Which actor's name is missing in this title of Hogarth's? ". in the character of Richard the Third"; it is to be found in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
Answer: (David) Garrick

Question: During World War 2 in which country was the Gothic defensive line?
Answer: Italy

Question: If it has 12 points it is a Royal, 14 points it is Imperial and if it has 16 points a Monarch. What is being described?
Answer: A stag

Question: In what country are the most active volcanoes?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: In which 1932 novel do the Starkadder family appear?
Answer: Cold Comfort Farm

Question: During whose reign did the Duke of Wellington become Prime Minister?
Answer: George 4

Question: Who patented the electric razor in 1931?
Answer: Jacob Schick

Question: Mirabelle and Victoria are varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Plum

Question: On which earlier film of 1940 was the 1956 musical "High Society" based?
Answer: The Philadelphia Story

Question: Who was President of Egypt during the Suez Crisis of 1956?
Answer: (Gamel Abdul) Nasser

Question: What is the common name for the condition of myopia?
Answer: Shortsightedness

Question: What kind of creature is an alewife?
Answer: Fish

Question: In the US children's TV show, 1968-1970, as what were Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky known?
Answer: The Banana Splits

Question: Portree is the largest town of which island?
Answer: Skye

Question: Which car manufacturer made the models 'Imp' and 'Husky'?
Answer: Hillman

Question: Which port in Brittany is the base of the French Naval Atlantic fleet?
Answer: Brest

Question: What office did Stephen Langton hold at the time of the Magna Carta?
Answer: Archbishop of Canterbury

Question: In which country is the Qattara Depression?
Answer: Egypt

Question: Which TV soap centres around the residents of Ramsay Street?
Answer: Neighbours

Question: Which major river has its source at the confluence of the rivers Brigach and Breg in the Black Forest?
Answer: River Danube