Question: Naypyidaw is the capital of which Asian country?
Answer: Myanmar

Question: Which Nobel Prize winner for Literature was born in Bone, Algeria in November 1913?
Answer: Albert Camus

Question: Who won the 2015 Betfred World Snooker Championship, held at the Crucible Theatre Sheffield?
Answer: Stuart Bingham

Question: Give a year in the life of the composer Antonio Vivaldi.
Answer: 1678-1741

Question: What name is given to the former administrative areas of the Isle of Man?
Answer: Sheadings

Question: What name, is given to the 2 administrative divisions of the Channel Islands?
Answer: Bailiwicks

Question: Who is the presenter of the BBC TV quiz ‘Two Tribes’?
Answer: Richard Osman

Question: Who is the presenter of the BBC TV quiz ‘The Link’?
Answer: Mark Williams

Question: What score in tennis is known as ‘Double-bagel’?
Answer: 6-0 6-0

Question: At Wimbledon, what is the name of the computer system connected to cameras which tracks the path of the ball for replay purposes when a player challenges a line call?
Answer: Hawkeye

Question: What is the brightest star in the constellation Cygnus?
Answer: Deneb

Question: Where was Wallace and Gromit's destination in 'A Grand Day Out'?
Answer: The Moon

Question: Who composed the 1912 tone poem 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Sping’?
Answer: (Frederick) DELIUS

Question: Who was the creator of the ceramic poppies placed around the Tower of London?
Answer: (Paul) CUMMINS

Question: Which US state is nicknamed the 'Hawkeye State’?
Answer: Iowa

Question: What name is given to the identification of God with the universe?
Answer: Pantheism

Question: In the BBC sitcom, according to the sign on their van Trotters Independent Traders have branches in New York, Peckham and where else?
Answer: Paris

Question: What is the brightest star in the constellation Leo?
Answer: Regulus

Question: Who designed the sculpture ArcelorMittel Orbit, located in London's Olympic Park?
Answer: (Anish) KAPOOR

Question: Who composed the 1933 'Knightsbridge March'?
Answer: (Eric) COATES

Question: Which motor manufacturer produces the models Twingo and Captur?
Answer: Renault

Question: What is the main grape used in the production of Rioja red wine?
Answer: Tempranillo

Question: What did Watson, Crick and Wilson discover in 1953, and for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962?
Answer: (Structure of) DNA

Question: John Harmon, Bella Wilfer and Noddy Boffin are characters in which of Charles Dickens' novels?
Answer: Our Mutual Friend

Question: By what other names are Norwegian lobsters known?
Answer: SCAMPI or DUBLIN BAY PRAWNS

Question: What was the name of the double agent convicted of spying for the Soviet nion in 1961, and who escaped from prison in 1966?
Answer: (George) BLAKE

Question: What did Bardeen, Shockley and Brattain invent in 1947, and for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956?
Answer: Transistor

Question: James and Henry Durie and the Lady Alison are characters in which of Robert Louis Stevenson's novels?
Answer: The Master Of Ballantrae

Question: Which European country's flag consists of three horizontal bands of carmine red, white and carmine red in the ratio of 2:1:2?
Answer: Latvia

Question: What is another name for freshwater lobsters?
Answer: CRAYFISH or CRAWFISH

Question: From what did Prince Albert die in 1861?
Answer: Typhoid Fever

Question: Which British politician described a fanatic as 'one who can't change his mind and won’t change the subject’?
Answer: (Winston) CHURCHILL

Question: Who painted 'Man in a Golden Helmet', in 1550 and 'Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer' in 1653?
Answer: Rembrandt

Question: What is the forename of the shoe designer Loubertin?
Answer: Christian

Question: General Gordon, Michelangelo and Cardinal Richelieu have all been played on screen by which actor?
Answer: (Charlton) HESTON

Question: After what event did Churchill say 'the worst disaster and largest capitulationin British history'?
Answer: FALL of SINGAPORE

Question: Miu Miu is a brand of which fashion house?
Answer: Prada

Question: Who is the Roman goddess of luck and chance?
Answer: Fortuna

Question: Oscar Schindler, Michael Collins and Alfred Kinsey have all been played on screen by which actor?
Answer: (Liam) NEESON

Question: Who, in 1989, skippered the first all female crew to sail around the world?
Answer: (Tracy) EDWARDS

Question: What species of willow is much used in basketwork?
Answer: Osier

Question: Which port is situated at the mouth of the Yangtze River?
Answer: Shanghai

Question: Who, in 1976, were the first Dutch group to have a UK No. 1?
Answer: Pussycat

Question: What sport was developed in the mid 19th century at Harrow School?
Answer: Squash

Question: What name is given to the networking device that controls the flow of data packets between computers, peripherals and other networks?
Answer: Router

Question: Which author created the FBI forensic psychologist Alex Cross?
Answer: (James) PATTERSON

Question: Created, by William G. Morgan, in 1895 what sport was originally called Mintonette?
Answer: Volleyball

Question: Who, in 1977, were the first Spanish group to have a UK No. 1?
Answer: Baccara

Question: Which British member of the grouse family turns white as a winter camouflage?
Answer: Ptarmigan

Question: Who wrote 1892 farce 'Charley's Aunt'?
Answer: (Brandon) THOMAS

Question: Where in the human body is the tectum?
Answer: Brain

Question: During which war did the Battle of the Ebro take place?
Answer: Spanish Civil War

Question: After whom is the US state of Virginia named?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth 1st

Question: In the acronym ASBO, for what does the B stand?
Answer: Behaviour

Question: How many vertebrae are there in the human neck?
Answer: Seven

Question: In darts, a three dart finish requiring a treble, single and double of the same number is given what name?
Answer: Shanghai

Question: In which country is the wine growing region, Hawkes Bay?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Robber, Fiddler and Edible are all types of which creature?
Answer: Crab

Question: Give a year in the life of Joan of Arc.
Answer: 1412-1431

Question: Give the title of either the second or third books in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy?
Answer: Fifty Shades Darker or Fifty Shades Freed

Question: What does the Italian company Fincantieri make?
Answer: Ships

Question: Meetings of Tory backbenchers are known by what name?
Answer: 1922 Committee

Question: Which bird has only two toes on each foot?
Answer: Ostrich

Question: Which film and comic ‘superhero’ has a ‘day-job’ as photographer with the Daily Bugle?
Answer: Spiderman

Question: The Pillars of Hercules feature on either side of the coat of arms of which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: Which UK town is home to a pencil museum?
Answer: Keswick

Question: What can be skinny, tapered, slim, straight, boot oat, cigarette bottom, narrow-bottom, low waist, anti-fit, flared or distressed?
Answer: Jeans

Question: California and New Zealand are areas of which English city?
Answer: Derby

Question: Papageno and Pamina are characters in which opera?
Answer: The Magic Flute

Question: From what is couscous made?
Answer: Semolina or Durum wheat

Question: Pannage pork is considered a delicacy, on what are the pigs fed?
Answer: Acorns

Question: Which Scottish group had UK top 20 hits with Real Gone Kid and Dignity?
Answer: Deacon Blue

Question: Which Swedish warship sank on her maiden voyage on 10th August 1628?
Answer: Vasa

Question: On 1st January 2015, which country became the 19th to adopt the Euro as its currency?
Answer: Lithuania

Question: Which actor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 2007?
Answer: Johnny Depp

Question: Which TV personality and singer now has the surname Fernandez-Versini?
Answer: Cheryl Cole