Question: What is the last word of the fourth line of the hymn Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – the last word of the third line is ‘mild’?
Answer: Reconciled

Question: Which country in the Americas has the fourth largest population after U S A, Brazil and Mexico?
Answer: Colombia

Question: Which word can be a Roman god, an American space program or the assumed name of a singer born Farrokh Bulsara?
Answer: Mercury

Question: Which negotiator who was held hostage in Beirut from 1987 to 1991 was born on this day in 1939?
Answer: Terry Waite

Question: At which meeting will a race renamed for 2016 as the Gold Cup in Honour of The Queen’s 90th Birthday be run on June 16th?
Answer: Royal Ascot

Question: The play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard expands on two characters from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: Racing driver Jacky Ickx and athlete Ivo Van Damme have both been Sports Personality of the Year in which country?
Answer: Belgium

Question: What is the title of the painting by William Holman Hunt which features an animal with a red cloth wrapped around its horns on the Day of Atonement?
Answer: The Scapegoat

Question: ‘I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky’ and ‘Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack’ are lines from two poems by which Poet Laureate?
Answer: JOHN MASEFIELD (SEA-FEVER and CARGOES)

Question: Which boy band, active from 2008 to 2013, included Marvin Humes and Aston Merrygold?
Answer: Jls

Question: Manningham, Tong and Wyke are wards in which Metropolitan Borough Council?
Answer: Bradford

Question: The Bulgarian born artist Christo is associated with wrapping buildings including the Reichstag in Berlin in 1995 and which Paris bridge in 1985?
Answer: Pont-Neuf

Question: Tirpitz was sunk on November 1944 during Operation Catechism by bombers from Number 9 Squadron and which other numbered squadron, well known from Operation Chastise the previous year?
Answer: 617

Question: Near the border of Durham and Cumbria, what is Cauldron Snout?
Answer: WATERFALL (accept CATARACT)

Question: Only two grounds have hosted England football internationals, an England test match and an FA Cup Final replay. One is the Oval. Which ground is the other?
Answer: Bramall Lane

Question: What name is given to the sequence of numbers that begins 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13?
Answer: Fibonacci (Numbers)

Question: Which word completes the full title of the novel by Henry Fielding - The History of Tom Jones, a ______?
Answer: Foundling

Question: In the first two series of which TV comedy drama did Ben Miller play D I Richard Poole?
Answer: Death In Paradise

Question: Name either of the non-Scottish winners of the World Snooker Championship in the 1990s.
Answer: JOHN PARROTT or KEN DOHERTY

Question: What was the ‘regnal number’ of Pope Benedict who resigned in 2013?
Answer: Xvi (Sixteen)

Question: What colour is the head of an adult male mallard?
Answer: Green

Question: In office from 1969 to 1973 who was Richard Nixon’s first Vice President?
Answer: Spiro T Agnew

Question: In which decade was singer Petula Clark born?
Answer: 1930s (1932)

Question: What name is shared by a Ford car produced from 1939 to 1967 and an ITV company established in 1959?
Answer: Anglia

Question: In the Disney film Fantasia, who takes the role of the sorcerer's apprentice?
Answer: Mickey Mouse

Question: It was announced last month that Walter Mazzarri is to take over from Quique Sanchez Flores as manager of which Premiership football team for the 2016/17 season?
Answer: Watford

Question: Aimed at reducing nuclear proliferation, name either of the 2 world leaders which signed the Kremlin Accords in 1994?
Answer: (Bill) Clinton or (Boris) Yeltsin

Question: Which song title links a 1957 single release by Carl Perkins and a 1963 single by the Dave Clark Five?
Answer: Glad All Over

Question: Which English born author and inventor was a Radar instructor during world war two, pioneered the science of geostationary satellite orbiting in the late 1940's, discovered underwater ruins while scuba diving off Sri Lanka in 1956 and was knighted by the Queen in 1998, 10 years before his death?
Answer: (Arthur C.) Clarke

Question: The oldest outdoor statue in London, an Ancient Egyptian black basalt effigy of the lion-goddess Sekhmet stands outside which company's headquarters at 34-35 New Bond St?
Answer: Sotheby's

Question: A blue jay named Mordecai and a raccoon named Rigby are the main protagonists of which Cartoon Network series, first broadcast in 2010, other appearing characters include Skips, a yeti who works as a groundskeeper, voiced by Mark Hamill?
Answer: The Regular Show

Question: Sadly veteran actor Burt Kwouk OBE left us last month at the age of 85, what was the name of the character he played in Last of the Summer Wine?
Answer: Entwistle

Question: In law, although in English law it now falls under the remit of perverting the course of justice, embracery is the crime of committing which act?
Answer: Jury tampering

Question: Who is the Greek Muse of epic poetry?
Answer: Calliope

Question: Rioja Wines come from a region in which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: Which German won the 1905 Noble Prize for Chemistry for the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds?
Answer: (Johann) Bayer

Question: Dave Vanian, Brian James and Rat Scabies were three of the original four members of which punk band?
Answer: The Damned

Question: Who replaced Carol Vorderman as the numbers expert on Countdown in January 2009?
Answer: (Rachel) Riley

Question: Despina and Proteus are moons orbiting which planet of the solar system?
Answer: Neptune

Question: Dennis Hennessy, a convicted murderer from London was last month sentenced to a six month prison sentence, after he was caught 'admiring gardens', where?
Answer: Buckingham Palace

Question: The last episode of which long running T.V. series was entitled Goodbye, Farewell and Amen?
Answer: M.A.S.H.

Question: Candace Payne, a stay at home mother from Texas, went viral last month after a video of her appeared on YouTube, in which she gleefully sits in her car wearing what?
Answer: Chewbacca Mask (accept Wookie Mask)

Question: In 1830 which US president signed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized the forced removal of Native Americans from land?
Answer: (Andrew) Jackson

Question: Which company manufactured the 'Halifax' bomber, a mainstay of the RAF during WW2?
Answer: Handley-Page

Question: Smith's Lawn is a famed venue in which sport?
Answer: Polo

Question: Bibendum is the real name of which famous advertising mascot?
Answer: Michelin Man

Question: Which U.S. born sculptor's works include "Genesis", "The Rock Drill" and "Jacob and the Angel"?
Answer: (Jacob) Epstein

Question: BOM, HYD & DEL are all IATA codes for airports in which country]?
Answer: India

Question: The 1935 trial for manslaughter of Edward Russell was the last to take place in which London Location?
Answer: House of Lords

Question: Which Asian capital city stands on the Chao Phraya River?
Answer: Bangkok

Question: Who directed this year's Cannes Palme D'or winning film "I, Daniel Blake"?
Answer: (Ken)Loach

Question: Which Scottish woman, profoundly deaf from the age of 12, has become due to her 'sensing* the vibration of music, a noted solo percussionist? She studied at the London Royal Academy and appeared at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games?
Answer: (Dame Evelyn) Glennie

Question: Which James Bond film was the first to be released in the U.K. with an age restricting classification rating?
Answer: License to Kill

Question: A.B. DeVilliers, Chris Gayle and Shane Watson all play for a team based in which city in cricket's Indian Premier League?
Answer: Bangalore (accept Bengaluru)