Question: What was the name of the home ground of Stoke City FC from 1878 until 1997?
Answer: Victoria Ground

Question: Name the only Colombian to win a Nobel Prize.
Answer: Gabriel García Márquez

Question: The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, built on the site of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, is in which Russian city?
Answer: St Petersburg

Question: How is an oxbow lake known in Australia?
Answer: Billabong

Question: Who wrote the song Easter Parade?
Answer: Irving Berlin

Question: Whose picture (beside the Queen’s) will be on the new £5 note in 2016?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: Name the Scottish island where granite for curling stones is quarried.
Answer: Ailsa Craig

Question: In which novel would you find Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless?
Answer: Cold Comfort Farm (they are the farm’s cows)

Question: Which 2014 Tom Cruise film had the tagline Live, Die, Repeat?
Answer: Edge of Tomorrow

Question: Which European won the 2014 U.S Open Golf Championship?
Answer: Martin Kaymer

Question: In Egyptian mythology the god Sebek is associated with which creature?
Answer: Crocodile

Question: In which musical would you hear the song Bless your beautiful hide?
Answer: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Question: How did Oisin Tymon make the headlines in March 2015?
Answer: He was the producer attacked by Jeremy Clackson

Question: What name is given to sewing or gluing patches of material onto a garment or piece of material for decoration
Answer: Applique

Question: Which Country's Parliament is the Folketing?
Answer: Denmark

Question: To which order of monks did Tomas De Torquemada belong?
Answer: Dominican

Question: In which US state are the cities of Nogales, Surprise and Yuma?
Answer: Arizona

Question: In the middle ages, what was the system were cash payment could replace military service?
Answer: Scutage

Question: What does the word mendacious mean?
Answer: Lying (deceitful)

Question: What makes a Welsh Rarebit a Buck Rarebit?
Answer: A poached egg

Question: Who is the current Master of the Queen's Music?
Answer: Judith Weir

Question: What name is given to the scientific study of the size and shape of the earth?
Answer: Geodesy

Question: Who became UKIP's first MP when he won the Clacton by-election in October 2014?
Answer: Douglas Carswell

Question: In geological ages, which period was the first of the Mesozoic Era?
Answer: Triassic

Question: In which English town or city would you find Meadowhall Shopping Centre?
Answer: Sheffield

Question: Who was the Roman god of the sun?
Answer: Sol

Question: Which comedy duo had a Number one hit with The Stonk in 1991?
Answer: Hale and Pace

Question: Which Australian animal gets its name from a native word meaning “No drink”?
Answer: Koala

Question: Name the soft cloth made from silk that derives its name from the French word for rag.
Answer: Chiffon

Question: Who played The Lone Ranger in the 1950's TV series?
Answer: Clayton Moore

Question: On which islands would you find Longstone Lighthouse?
Answer: Farne Islands

Question: “Go Set A Watchman” is a long awaited sequel to which novel published in 1960?
Answer: To Kill a Mocking Bird

Question: Name any of the actors who escaped in the film The Great Escape?
Answer: Charles Bronson, John Leyton or James Coburn

Question: Which Crystal Palace manager became the first casualty of this season's Premier League when he got sacked in December 2014?
Answer: Neil Warnock

Question: In which Canadian city is there a Nelson's Column erected in 1809, It has from time to time become controversial with some of the local people?
Answer: Montreal

Question: Name the year: SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy in London; Ronald Reagan was elected President and Rhodesia gained independence?
Answer: 1980

Question: What is a more familiar name for Deuterium Oxide?
Answer: Heavy Water

Question: Grand Mal and Petit Mal are two types of which illness
Answer: Epilepsy

Question: Who was the Greek goddess of agriculture?
Answer: Demeter

Question: Which two comedy actors had a hit in 1978 with you're the one that I want?
Answer: Arthur Mullard and Hylda Baker

Question: What type of creature is an Emmett?
Answer: Ant

Question: Who was the last British winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Doris Lessing (2007)

Question: In which US state would you find the cities of Chesapeake, Roanoke and Fredericksburg?
Answer: Virginia

Question: The St Brice's day massacre of 1002 was an attack against which people?
Answer: The Danes (Vikings

Question: What would be measured on a Galvanometer?
Answer: Electric Current

Question: In geological ages, which period was the Last of the Palaeozoic era?
Answer: Permian

Question: Cosette, Marius and Fantine are characters in which book and film?
Answer: Les Miserables

Question: 'Cap de Formentor' is the northernmost point of which popular holiday island?
Answer: Majorca

Question: Which composer's dying words were supposedly, "I shall hear in heaven"?
Answer: Beethoven

Question: A fungus that thrives in wet Spring weather causes 'chocolate spot' on the leaves and stems of which vegetable?
Answer: Broad Bean

Question: Which 'Coronation Street' character was played for may years by Jean Alexander?
Answer: 'Hilda Ogden'

Question: Which popular holiday island has 'Punta de la Rasca' as its southernmost tip?
Answer: Tenerife

Question: Which Canadian Province has Victoria as its capital, and is crossed by the River Fraser?
Answer: British Columbia

Question: The youngest son of 'William the Conqueror' succeeded to the throne after his brother William. Who was he?
Answer: Henry I

Question: Which Irish Rugby Union player scored a hat-trick of tries against France in the 2000 Six Nations Championships?
Answer: Brian O'Driscoll

Question: Which Canadian Province, with a border on Hudson Bay, has Winnipeg as its capital?
Answer: Manitoba

Question: Of what was 'Frey' the god, in Norse mythology?
Answer: Fertility

Question: How were Patrick Hill, Richard McIlkenny and four others, known collectively to the media?
Answer: THE 'BIRMINGHAM SIX' (wrongly imprisoned for bombing two Birmingham pubs in 1974)

Question: The 'Hallux' is the medical name for what, in the human body?
Answer: Big Toe

Question: Two members of the 'Thrush' family visit Britain in huge numbers during the winter. If one is the 'Fieldfare', what is the other?
Answer: Redwing

Question: In 1994, Conchita Martinez became the first Spanish woman to win the Wimbledon singles title. Who did she beat in the Final?
Answer: Martina Navratilova

Question: The 'House Martin' is a common summer visitor to these shores, so too is which other 'Martin'?
Answer: Sand Martin

Question: What was the first item of non-stick cookware marketed by 'Teflon'?
Answer: Frying Pan

Question: In football, which nation besides Brazil have appeared in three consecutive World Cup Finals?
Answer: West Germany (1982 - 1990)

Question: Which European nation finished third in football's 1974 and 1982 World Cup Tournaments?
Answer: Poland

Question: In what units are household electricity bills measured?
Answer: Kilowatts

Question: What is the chemical formula for the gas, hydrogen sulphide?
Answer: H2 S

Question: What is the chemical formula for the gas , nitrous oxide?
Answer: N2 O

Question: Besides Sir Anthony Hopkins, which other "Tony" starred in the 1998 swashbuckler, 'The Mask Of Zorro'?
Answer: Antonio Banderas

Question: In the popular TV drama series, what was the name of the three-masted schooner purchased by 'James Onedin'?
Answer: 'CHARLOTTE RHODES' (in 'The Onedin Line')

Question: Often used as bedding or house plants, how is Impatiens walleriana better known?
Answer: Busy Lizzie

Question: Which Roald Dahl novel features the 'Oompa Loompas'?
Answer: 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory'

Question: French mariner, Jacques Cartier, left home in 1534 to sail across the Atlantic, to explore which river?
Answer: St. Lawrence