Question: Who was the tallest President of the USA in the 20th century?
Answer: Lyndon Baines Johnson

Question: Which former English referee was President of FIFA from 1961-1974?
Answer: Sir Stanley Rous

Question: John Constable’s ‘Haywain’ depicts a scene on which river?
Answer: Stour

Question: Which real life western character had the Christian names James Butler?
Answer: Wild Bill Hickock

Question: Of which fruit is Red Gauntlet a variety?
Answer: Strawberry

Question: In which English town are the HQ of the Automobile Association?
Answer: Basingstoke

Question: In which film did the Minions first appear?
Answer: Despicable Me

Question: In which town or city is Warwick University?
Answer: Coventry

Question: What was the name of Sony’s first game console?
Answer: Play Station

Question: Which 1960/70’s TV series was set on Moon Base Alpha?
Answer: Space 1999

Question: Which seventeenth century leader reputedly told his troops to ‘put your trust in God and keep your powder dry’?
Answer: Oliver Cromwell

Question: At the 2014 FIFA World Cup which German player became the top scorer, with a total of 16 goals?
Answer: Miroslav Klose

Question: Who had a number 1 hit in 1977 with ‘I Feel Love’?
Answer: Donna Summer

Question: Woolley Edge Service station is on which motorway?
Answer: M1

Question: Which vegetable is present in dishes cooked ‘a la Crecy’?
Answer: Carrots

Question: Who had a number 1 hit in 1975 with ‘I’m Not In Love’?
Answer: 10cc

Question: Which company is responsible for the tracks, bridges, tunnels etc, on railways in Britain?
Answer: Network Rail

Question: Who wrote the book The Trial?
Answer: (Franz) Kafka

Question: In which decade of the 20tk century did women first sit in the House of Lords?
Answer: 1950s

Question: At the 2014 FIFAWorld Cup which now Real Madrid player won the Golden Boot as top scorer in the tournament?
Answer: James Rodriguez

Question: What was the name of the world’s first teletext information service started by the BBC in 1974 and ceasing in October 2012?
Answer: Ceefax

Question: What is the name given to the vertical posts that hold up the handrail of a staircase (sometimes simply called guards or spindles)?
Answer: Baluster

Question: Which Buckinghamshire farm was used as a hideout by the Great Train robbers?
Answer: Leatherslade

Question: Which vegetable is present in dishes cooked ‘a la Dubarry’?
Answer: Cauliflower

Question: Which town is the centre of the AL postcode?
Answer: St Albans

Question: The wood from which common tree was traditionally used to make tennis racquets, snooker cues and hockey sticks
Answer: Ash

Question: Which birds belong to the order Galliformes?
Answer: Fowl/Poultry (eg chicken and turkey) or game birds

Question: Which website was created by Steve and Julie Pankhurst in 1999 and now has the slogan ‘Millions of memories all in one place’?
Answer: Friends Reunited

Question: Enver Hoxha was the leader of which country between 1944 and 1985?
Answer: Albania

Question: Fulgencio Batista was the leader of which country between 1952 and 1959?
Answer: Cuba

Question: The Shenandoah National Park is in which US state?
Answer: Virginia

Question: In October 2013, which country' was the last to leave the Commonwealth after 48 years of membership?
Answer: Gambia

Question: Which single family of birds, not native to Europe, comprises the order Spenisciformes?
Answer: Penguins

Question: Which comedian has written several children’s books including Gangsta Granny?
Answer: David Walliams

Question: David Dinsmore is editor of which daily newspaper?
Answer: The Sun

Question: The phrase ‘tender is the night’ comes from one of whose poems?
Answer: John Keats

Question: Sheldon, Leonard, Raj, Howard and Penny are characters in which US sitcom?
Answer: Big Bang Theory

Question: Who was the commander of the Roman legions during the invasion of Britain in 43 AD and the first governor of the new province from 43 to 47?
Answer: Aulus Plautius

Question: Kirsten Mehr is the German bom wife of which prominent British politician?
Answer: Nigel Farage

Question: Disarrono is a prominent brand of which alcoholic- drink?
Answer: Amaretto

Question: Which country was the last to join the Commonwealth, doing so in 2009?
Answer: Rwanda

Question: Henry 4th is the only King of England to be buried in which cathedral?
Answer: Canterbury

Question: The company TNT Post has changed its operating name in Britain to what?
Answer: Whistl

Question: Which tree provides the very hard wood from which chopping blocks and shoe lasts are made, it is also used in parquet flooring?
Answer: Hornbeam

Question: Sarah Lancashire plays Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood and Steve Pemberton plays accountant Kevin Weatherill in which BBC TV drama about a kidnapping in West Yorkshire?
Answer: Happy Valley

Question: Which boat, launched in I960, was the Royal Navy’s first nuclear submarine?
Answer: HMS Dreadnought

Question: Who led the resistance to the Roman invasion of Britain and was captured in 51 AD, sentenced to death but spared by Emperor Claudius?
Answer: Cara(c)tacus

Question: Give any one of the eleven dates which were omitted from the English calendar in 1752?
Answer: 3rd to 13th September

Question: Cape Farewell is the southernmost point of which large island?
Answer: Greenland

Question: Luxardo is a prominent brand of which alcoholic liqueur?
Answer: Sambuca

Question: Who was the last sovereign of England to be buried in Westminster Abbey?
Answer: George 2nd

Question: Which musician has written the children’s book High In The Clouds, the story of Wirral the Squirrel?
Answer: Sir Paul McCartney

Question: Which of John Steinbeck’s novels told the story of the Joad family?
Answer: Grapes of Wrath

Question: The flag of which African country is three vertical stripes of green, white and green?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: give a year in the life of Ivan the Terrible.
Answer: 1530 -1584

Question: Bronze is an alloy of copper and which other metal?
Answer: Tin

Question: Rock musician William George Perks is better known as who?
Answer: Bill Wyman

Question: With which instrument do you associate the jazz musician Kid Ory?
Answer: Trombone

Question: Which French Romantic artist painted "Liberty Leading The People" in 1830?
Answer: Eugene Delacroix

Question: """Rinka"" the Great Dane was owned by which male model?"
Answer: Norman Scott

Question: """The Daughter of Time"" a novel by Josephine Tey, features an investigation into which real life historical mystery?"
Answer: Princes In the Tower

Question: The name of which illness is derived from the Greek for grey-coloured?
Answer: Polio

Question: The Zimmerman telegram of 1917 was intended for which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Which king was Prince Rupert of the Rhine's grandfather?
Answer: James I

Question: Give a year in the life of Peter The Great.
Answer: 1672 -1725

Question: Pewter is an alloy of tin and which other metal?
Answer: Lead

Question: English TV and film actor John Elton Halliday, 1912 —1983, is better known as whom?
Answer: John Le Mesurier

Question: In what year did Indian troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar and Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov die?
Answer: 1984

Question: The Battle of Brandywine took place during which war?
Answer: American War of Independence

Question: What is the capital of the US state Michigan?
Answer: Lansing

Question: """It matters not how a man dies but how he lives"" and ""patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"" are quotes attributed to whom?"
Answer: Samuel Johnson

Question: By what name is Edward of Woodstock, the eldest son of Edward Ill, better known?
Answer: The Slack Prince

Question: in popular literature who is the most well known herbalist in Shrewsbury?
Answer: Brother Cadfael

Question: The name of which illness is derived from the Greek for scaly?
Answer: Leprosy