Question: According to the OED what American magazine title is also the most common noun in the English language?
Answer: Time

Question: Which 1977 TV drama, starring Alison Steadman, is set in the living room of Beverley Moss?
Answer: Abigail's Party

Question: Who won the heptathlon in the Sydney Olympics?
Answer: Denise Lewis

Question: Who directed the films The Graduate, Silkwood and Primary Colours?
Answer: Mike Nichols

Question: Who is MP for Twickenham?
Answer: Vince Cable

Question: What do the national anthems of Spain and Kosovo have in common?
Answer: No Lyrics

Question: Who founded the Hogarth Press in 1917?
Answer: Leonard And Virginia Woolf

Question: What type of plant is a prickly pear?
Answer: CACTUS or SUCCULENT

Question: In the 1957 film Pal Joey, who played Joey Evans?
Answer: Frank Sinatra

Question: Which Swiss team surprisingly beat Manchester United in December 2011 to knock them out of the Champion's League?
Answer: Basle

Question: Which comic celebrity's autobiography published in 2012 is called 'Still Standing'?
Answer: Paul O'Grady

Question: At which UK university would you find the Scott Polar Research Institute?
Answer: Cambridge

Question: The 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' comes from which Handel oratorio?
Answer: Solomon

Question: What was the role of MI7 during World War 2?
Answer: PROPAGANDA and CENSORSHIP

Question: What distance is an Olympic steeplechase?
Answer: 3,000 metres

Question: In which European country is the site of the Battle of Marengo?
Answer: Italy

Question: What is Boris Johnson's first name?
Answer: Alexander

Question: What was the name of the spacecraft that took the first American woman, Sally Ride, into space?
Answer: Challenger

Question: Who was snooker World Champion in 1990, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 & 99?
Answer: Stephen Hendry

Question: In cooking, the unpleasant smelling gas that is produced when you over-cook cabbage is a compound of which element?
Answer: Sulphur

Question: Lobjoits, Webbs Wonderful and Winter Density are varieties of which summer vegetable?
Answer: Lettuce

Question: An image of which English cathedral appeared on the back of £20 notes issued between 1999 and 2007?
Answer: Worcester

Question: In James Bond films who played Miss Moneypenny from 'Goldeneye' in 1995 to 'Die Another Day' in 2002?
Answer: Saman'Tha Bond

Question: In which country were the Tonton Macoute active?
Answer: Haiti

Question: Name either of the 2 designers of the 2012 Olympic torch.
Answer: EDWARD BARKER or JAY OSGERBY

Question: What is the most widely spoken African language?
Answer: Swahili

Question: Who is MP for Doncaster North?
Answer: Ed Miliband

Question: Which Charles Dickens character lived in Satis House?
Answer: Miss Havisham

Question: Who founded the Kelmscott Press in 1891?
Answer: William Morris

Question: 6 of the 10 tallest buildings in Europe are in which capital city?
Answer: Moscow

Question: What is another name for the Chinese Gooseberry?
Answer: Kiwi Fruit

Question: Which company makes the Sea King helicopter?
Answer: Westland Helicopters

Question: In which London hotel was the Peach Melba invented in 1892?
Answer: Savoy

Question: Which London team beat Manchester United at the quarter final stage of the Carling Cup in 2011?
Answer: Crystal Palace

Question: Which comic celebrity's autobiography published in 2012 is called 'Is It Just Me'?
Answer: Miranda Hart

Question: With which English university does the John Innes Centre share a campus?
Answer: East Anglia

Question: The aria 'Let the Bright Seraphim' comes from which Handel oratorio?
Answer: Samson

Question: Over what distance do Olympic rowing and sculling races take place?
Answer: 2,000 metres

Question: In which European country is the site of the Battle of Blenheim?
Answer: Germany

Question: What was George Osborne's original first Christian name?
Answer: Gideon

Question: What was launched in 1923 and was described as the "official organ of the BBC"?
Answer: Radio Times

Question: What was the last mission to take a man to the moon?
Answer: Apollo 17

Question: In cookery, which action causes the Maillard Reaction?
Answer: BROWNING or TOASTING

Question: Name either of the two rivers that meet at Al-Qurnah to form the Shatt al-Arab.
Answer: EUPHRATES or TIGRIS

Question: Scarlet Nantes, Avenger and Orlando Gold are varieties of which winter vegetable?
Answer: Carrots

Question: Who plays Q in the latest Bond film Skyfall?
Answer: Ben Wishaw

Question: In which country where the Lord's Resistance Army first active?
Answer: Uganda

Question: Who designed the 2012 Olympic flame?
Answer: Thomas Heatherwick

Question: What colour was invented by William Perkin in 1856?
Answer: Mauve

Question: Who is the female presenter of the Channel 4 quiz show "Five Minutes to a Fortune"?
Answer: Davina McCall

Question: Nora Barnacle was the muse and wife of which Irish writer?
Answer: James Joyce

Question: Fanny Brawne was the muse and fiancée of which poet?
Answer: John Keats

Question: Which US Civil War union general said "I am tired and sick of fighting, its glory is all moonshine. War is Hell"?
Answer: William Sherman

Question: Mary Pickford, Kim Wilde and Sugar Ray Robinson were all born with which surname?
Answer: Smith

Question: Gary Numan, Cliff Richard and Crystal Gayle were all born with which surname?
Answer: Webb

Question: Give any year in the first circumnavigation of the world by Magellan's expedition.
Answer: 1577-1580

Question: Give a year during which Francis Drake circumnavigated the world.
Answer: 1577-1580

Question: What is the title of the recent musical based on the music of the Spice Girls?
Answer: Viva Forever!

Question: What is the title of the recent musical based on a book by Ben Elton with the music of Queen?
Answer: We Will Rock You

Question: George W Bush was vice president in whose administration?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: In which month of the year is Martinmas?
Answer: November

Question: In which US state will you find Stanford University?
Answer: California

Question: Whose first studio album in a decade 'The Next Day' was released in 2013?
Answer: David Bowie

Question: Which royal residence has the postcode PE35 6EN?
Answer: Sandringham

Question: For which high street clothing chain did Kate Middleton work as an accessory buyer in 2006?
Answer: Jigsaw

Question: What is the name of the mail order company founded by Kate Middleton's parents in 1987?
Answer: Party Pieces

Question: Which royal residence has the postcode SL4 1 NJ?
Answer: Windsor Castle

Question: Whose 2009 album 'Together through Life' made No.1 in the UK/US album charts, 39 years after his previous No.1 album in 1970?
Answer: Bob Dylan

Question: In which US state will you find Johns Hopkins University?
Answer: Maryland

Question: For what name does the 'E' stand in Richard E Grant?
Answer: Esterhuysen

Question: In which decade was the Times newspaper first published under the title "The Daily Universal Register"?
Answer: 1780s

Question: Which is the largest gland in the human body?
Answer: Liver

Question: For what does the 'L' stand in Samuel L Jackson?
Answer: Leroy

Question: Which English county has the motto "Floreat Salopia"?
Answer: Shropshire

Question: Which classical composer completed 104 symphonies?
Answer: Joseph Haydn

Question: Which famous classical composer completed 41 symphonies?
Answer: W A Mozart

Question: Who has been appointed as successor to Mervyn King as Governor of the Bank of England?
Answer: Mark Carney

Question: Merlyn Lowther, Andrew Bailey and Chris Salmon are the last three holders of which financial post?
Answer: Chief Cashier of the Bank of England

Question: Which halogen element, number 9 in the Periodic Table, is at standard pressure/temperature a pale yellow gas?
Answer: Fluorine

Question: Which lighthouse is situated on a rock nine miles southwest of Plymouth?
Answer: Eddystone