Question: Which French Romantic artist painted the "Raft of the Medusa" in 1819?
Answer: Theodore Gericauit

Question: With which instrument do you associate jazz musician Freddie Hubbard?
Answer: Trumpet

Question: What name is given to the stretch of water between the west coast of Scotland and the Outer Hebrides?
Answer: The Minch

Question: To the nearest 5000, what is the crowd capacity of the new Wembley Stadium?
Answer: 90,000

Question: In which town is Moorhouse's brewery?
Answer: Burnley

Question: In which battle of 1265 was Simon de Montfort killed?
Answer: Evesham

Question: Who was the drummer of the pop group Slade?
Answer: Don Powell

Question: In Kipling's poem " For all we have and are", who is at the gate?
Answer: The Hun

Question: Which actor played the third Dr Who on television?
Answer: Jon Pertwee

Question: What did Edward Budding invent in 1832?
Answer: Lawn Mower

Question: In which English town was Wilfred Owen born?
Answer: Oswestry

Question: What was the name of Ghana before it gained independence?
Answer: Gold Coast

Question: Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc were prominent members of which German Expressionist Art movement based in Berlin?
Answer: The Blue Rider

Question: Who had a UK hit in the 1960s with the song" Juliet"?
Answer: The Four Pennies

Question: Name the Confederate warship built at Birkenhead and sunk off Cherbourg.
Answer: CSS Alabama

Question: Who had a 1960s UK hit with "You were on my mind"?
Answer: Crispin St Peters

Question: What was the title of the Sex Pistol's first UK single?
Answer: Anarchy in the UK

Question: Which actor played Barnes Wallis in the film The Dambusters?
Answer: Michael Redgrave

Question: If a dish is described as "A La Lyonaisse" what must it contain?
Answer: Onions

Question: To the nearest 1000, what is the crowd capacity on Centre Court at Wimbiedon?
Answer: 15,000

Question: Which actress played Annie Oakley in the film "Carry on Cowboy"?
Answer: Angela Douglas

Question: In which English town or city is the Titanic brewery?
Answer: Stoke-on-Trent

Question: Situated on Mars, what is the name of the iargest volcano in the Solar System?
Answer: Olympus Mons

Question: In which English city would you find Chamberlain Square and the Rotunda?
Answer: Birmingham

Question: By what name was pop and rock singer Larry Lurex better known?
Answer: Freddie Mercury

Question: What date is Waterloo Day?
Answer: 18th June

Question: What is the name of the Gulf separating the coast of northern Vietnam from China and into which the Red River flows?
Answer: Tonkin

Question: Which US city was ravaged by a Great Fire in 1871 that left thousands homeless?
Answer: Chicago

Question: Many British hill tops have a trig point placed by the Ordnance Survey. What is the word 'trig' short for?
Answer: Triangulation

Question: What is the family name of an England 1966 football world cup winner and his nephew, an England 2003 rugby union world cup winner?
Answer: Cohen

Question: Who wrote the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead?
Answer: Tom Stoppard

Question: Which constituency returned Douglas Carswell as the first UKIP MP in October 2014?
Answer: Clacton

Question: Which chemical element comes next in order of atomic number: hydrogen, helium, lithium, ............?
Answer: Beryllium

Question: What nationality was composer Alexander Borodin?
Answer: Russian

Question: Who was the gypsy guitarist who became a jazz virtuoso in the 1930s with the Quintette du Hot Club de France?
Answer: Django Reinhardt

Question: What character did Harrison Ford play in the Star Wars films?
Answer: Han Solo

Question: Which Missionaries of Charity founder was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979?
Answer: Mother Teresa

Question: The New York Rangers play which sport? I
Answer: Ce Hockey

Question: According to Shakespeare, which wood moved to defeat Macbeth?
Answer: Birnam

Question: Who was the personal architect of Hitler and Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during the Second World War?
Answer: Albert Speer

Question: Paul Arthurs and Tony McCarroll were members of which Manchester group?
Answer: Oasis

Question: Who directed the film The Piano released in 1993?
Answer: Jane Campion

Question: In the early 1960s, US meteorologist Edward Lorenz worked on computer models of weather systems. What term did he use to describe the variations found?
Answer: Butterfly Effect

Question: In a line from the song ?Anything Goes? by Cole Porter, what sort of words are now used by authors 'who once knew better words'?
Answer: Four-Letter Words

Question: Who presents the TV quiz The Link?
Answer: Mark Williams

Question: Which Italian noblewoman was queen of France between 1547 and 1559, and ruled as regent in the years afterwards (full name needed)?
Answer: Catherine De' Medici

Question: What was the name until 1975 of the country now called Benin?
Answer: Dahomey

Question: According to Shakespeare, to who does the line 'Banish plump Jack and banish all the world' refer?
Answer: Sir John Falstaff

Question: Who was the Austrian Chancellor assassinated in 1934 by Nazis?
Answer: Engelbert Dollfuss

Question: England only won two matches in the 2015 ICC World Cup. Name either of the teams that they beat.
Answer: Aghanistan Or Scotland

Question: Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar Linton appear in which book by one of the Brontë sisters?
Answer: Wuthering Heights

Question: Who was the Canadian jazz pianist (1925-2007), winner of eight Grammy Awards who released over 200 recordings?
Answer: Oscar Peterson

Question: What was the name of the computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Answer: Hal

Question: Supposedly spoken by Jesus and his disciples, which Semitic language formed large parts of the Book of Daniel, the Talmud and the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Answer: Aramaic

Question: Name either of the Israeli politicians who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Yasser Arafat in 1994?
Answer: Yitzhak Rabin Or Shimon Peres

Question: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first in which trilogy of novels?
Answer: Millennium

Question: At which site did Vita Sackville-West create her 'White Garden'?
Answer: Sissinghurst

Question: Which is the sixth book of the New Testament?
Answer: (Epistle To The) Romans

Question: How many faces are there on an icosahedron?
Answer: Twenty

Question: Mary Jane is a popular figure in song lyrics, often being taken to the movies or a dance. For what is 'Mary Jane' a coded name?
Answer: Marijuana

Question: Who presents the TV quiz Perfection?
Answer: Nick Knowles

Question: Which Manchester band had Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke as members?
Answer: The Smiths

Question: Who directed the film Olympia premiered at Adolf Hitler?s 49th birthday celebrations?
Answer: Leni Riefenstahl

Question: In 1835, a French mathematician suggested an explanation for the prevailing air movements observed north and south of the equator. What was his name?
Answer: Gustave Coriolis

Question: In 1864, the Dale Dyke Dam burst while being filled, leading to the death of 240 people in which British city?
Answer: Sheffield

Question: In OS maps, what metric scale replaced the old one inch to a mile scale in the 1970s?
Answer: 1 To 50,000

Question: What is the family name of a former England footballer until recently managing Sheffield United and his father, a European-cup-winning manager?
Answer: Clough

Question: Who wrote the play A Chorus of Disapproval?
Answer: Alan Ayckbourn

Question: Two chemical elements start with O. One is oxygen. What is the other?
Answer: Osmium

Question: What nationality was composer Frédéric Chopin?
Answer: Polish

Question: Rock musician Bruce Springsteen and the TV crime family The Sopranos hail from which US state?
Answer: New Jersey

Question: Which team won the FA Cup in 2015?
Answer: Arsenal

Question: The original version of the play Waiting for Godot was written in which language?
Answer: French