Question: English passport offices are located in 4 locations: London, Liverpool and 2 others - name one.
Answer: Peterborough / Durham

Question: If you add the number of ‘Easy Pieces’ in the 1970 Jack Nicholson film to the ‘Angry Men’ in the 1970 film and then add the number of Eddie Cochran ‘Steps to Heaven’ in his 1960 song, what number do
Answer: you get?

Question: Which cartoonist produces the ‘If’ series in the Guardian?
Answer: Steve Bell

Question: Which legal term is Latin for ‘elsewhere’?
Answer: Alibi

Question: Which US Army General said, in a speech in May 1944. “Americans love a winner who will not tolerate a loser”?
Answer: George Patton

Question: Henry VIII described which teenage wife as his ‘Rose without a thorn’?
Answer: Catherine Howard

Question: Which event of 1962 is the subject of the 2000 film Thirteen Days’, starring Kevin Costner?
Answer: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Question: Who wrote the 1893 opera ‘Hansel and Gretel’?
Answer: Engelbert Humperdinck

Question: In which city was Picasso born?
Answer: Malaga

Question: Ornithologist John Latham named 2 birds after places in Kent; name one of the birds.
Answer: Sandwich Tern or Dartford Warbler

Question: Hughtown is the largest settlement of which island group?
Answer: Isles of Scilly

Question: Leopold Bloom is the leading character in which 20th century novel?
Answer: Ulysses

Question: Which US crime drama TV series ran from 2008-2013 and starred Bryan Cranston in the leading role?
Answer: Breaking Bad

Question: Joe Strummer was the lead singer of which punk band from 1976-1986?
Answer: The Clash

Question: Which footbail league club’s nickname is the Shrimpers?
Answer: Southend United

Question: Nelson Rockefeller served as Vice President under which President?
Answer: Gerald Ford

Question: Which British writer married Harold Pinter in 1980?
Answer: (Lady) Antonia Fraser

Question: Who was the wife of the English king Edward IV and mother of Edward V?
Answer: Elizabeth Woodviiie

Question: Which 1813 battle was also known as the Battle of the Nations?
Answer: Leipzig

Question: John Crome and John Sell Cotman were leading members of which school of painting, founded in 1803?
Answer: Norwich

Question: Which 1982 film is based on the 1968 sci-fi novel by Philip K Dick “Do androids dream of electric sheep’?
Answer: Blade Runner

Question: In which city was opera singer Maria Callas born in 1923?
Answer: New York

Question: Which French writer refused the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Jean Paul Sartre

Question: Who succeeded Alex Salmond as leader of the Scottish National Party and First Minister of Scotland in 2014?
Answer: Nicola Sturgeon

Question: In what decade was Stalin born?
Answer: 1870s

Question: Which civil engineer (1819-1891) was responsible for the creation of a sewer network for central London after Parliament passed an Enabling Act in 1858?
Answer: Sir Joseph Bazalgette

Question: Which musician’s touring schedule has been popularly named The Never Ending Tour’-it started in June 1988?
Answer: Bob Dylan

Question: What was Ike and Tina Turner’s last UK Top 20 single, reaching No.4 in 1973?
Answer: Nutbush City Limits

Question: Titanic and Olympic were two of the White Star Line’s trio of Olympic-Class ocean liners. What was the third, launched in 1914 and constructed by Harland and Wolf in Belfast?
Answer: The Britannic

Question: In which city is the baseball team ‘White Sox’l ocated? They play their home games at the US Cellular Field, formerly Comiskey Park.
Answer: Chicago

Question: Which incident lasted 30 seconds on the 26th October 1881 in the United States inspired a 1957 film directed by John Sturges?
Answer: The Gunfight at the OK Corral

Question: What was the final destination of the first westward delivery by the Missouri- based Pony Express, which started in St Joseph in 1860?
Answer: Sacramento

Question: In the book ‘the Sign of Four” Sherlock Holmes describes the cocaine with which he is injecting himself as a certain ‘percent solution’. It is also the title of a book by Nicholas Heyer published in 1974 and a film adaptation in 1976. What is the number of this percent solution?
Answer: Seven

Question: The so-called ‘Acid Bath Murdere;d was executed in 1949 in Wandsworth Prison. What was nis name
Answer: John Haigh

Question: The American fantasy crams series 'Game of Thrones' is based on the novels of which author?
Answer: George R R Martin

Question: Which 2004 play, iater a 2006 film, is based in the fictional Cutlers Grammar School in Sheffield?
Answer: The History Boys

Question: On a standard Qwerty computer keyboard which number key also has the asterisk/star symbol?
Answer: 8

Question: What kind of pastry is used to make chocolate eclairs?
Answer: Choux

Question: Who currently presents ‘Desert Island Discs’ on BBC Radio 4?
Answer: Kirsty Young

Question: What kind of shop bears an emblem attributed to the Medici family?
Answer: Pawn Shop

Question: What do the Americans call a chimney?
Answer: Smokestack

Question: Which German Chancellor’s surname translates to cabbage?
Answer: (Helmut) Kohl

Question: What name is given to a group of things to do before you die?
Answer: Bucket List

Question: Of which fruit is Norfolk Giant a variety?
Answer: Raspberry

Question: Vivian Ward and Edward Lewis are the central characters in which 1990’s romantic film comedy?
Answer: Pretty Woman

Question: In which country was fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger born?
Answer: America

Question: Which record label is associated with a palm tree logo?
Answer: Island Records

Question: Which MP is the Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee?
Answer: Keith Vaz

Question: Which George Gershwin opera is adapted from a novel by DuBose Heyward?
Answer: Porgy and Bess

Question: In which British city was the pharmacy chain Boots established in 1849?
Answer: Nottingham

Question: Give a year in the life of Christopher Marlowe.
Answer: 1564-1593

Question: Which French king did Henry the Eighth meet at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520?
Answer: Francis the First

Question: In which African country is the city of Port Harcourt?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: What kind of creature is a Shrek?
Answer: Ogre

Question: In which English county is Gatwick Airport?
Answer: West Sussex

Question: What is Sepp Blatter’s real first name?
Answer: Joseph

Question: Which American Chief was stabbed and subsequently died whilst under a flag of truce at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, in 1877?
Answer: Crazy Horse

Question: Where in England is Brunel University?
Answer: Uxbridge

Question: Where are the HQ of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution?
Answer: Poole

Question: The name of which Italian sausage is often used to describe verbal rubbish?
Answer: Baloney

Question: What is the name of the RAF air rescue station on Anglesey?
Answer: Valley

Question: To protect it from imitation, which Swiss chocolate bar was granted a patent in 1909?
Answer: Toblerone

Question: In the 1976 sci-fi film “Logan’s Run”, at what age are people killed off to prevent over population?
Answer: 30

Question: What did Baedeker describe, in 1860, as the finest hotel in London?
Answer: Claridges

Question: What post in the House of Commons is held by Lindsay Hoyle, MP?
Answer: Deputy Speaker

Question: Who is associated with the words ‘Spend, Spend, Spend’ in the 1960’s?
Answer: Vivienne Nicholson

Question: In which country are the Spenser Mountains and Garvie Mountains?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Sam Wheat and Molly Jensen are the central characters in which 1990’s romantic film?
Answer: Ghost

Question: What was the name of Alfred the Great’s kingdom?
Answer: Wessex

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, who said ‘What a good boy am I’?
Answer: Little Jack Horner

Question: Which musical concerns a strike at the Sleep-Tite factory in Iowa?
Answer: The Pyjama Game

Question: In the Bible, whose first husband was Uriah the Hittite?
Answer: Bathsheba