Question: What stretches 267 miles from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders (or vice versa)?
Answer: The Pennine Way

Question: Who painted Dancer Lacing Her Shoe in 1878?
Answer: Edgar Degas

Question: Heroes sung by Måns Zelmerlöw won the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest representing which country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: Which designer created the jacket without lapels made famous by The Beatles?
Answer: Pierre Cardin

Question: Where did former first-class cricketer John Thayer die on April 15th, 1912?
Answer: On The Titanic

Question: Which symbolic figure first appeared in the song Yankee Doodle Dandy and was first popularly depicted on a series of 1916 recruitment posters mimicking the pose of Lord Kitchener?
Answer: Uncle Sam

Question: FFS performed at Glastonbury this year. They are a collaboration between Sparks and which band?
Answer: Franz Ferdinand

Question: Which city, called the Florence of the Elbe, stands 200 km from Berlin and 150 km from Prague?
Answer: Dresden

Question: In the season 2014-15 Queens Park Rangers and Burnley were relegated from the Premier League. Which was the other team to be relegated?
Answer: Hull City

Question: Who is the central character of Hilary Mantel?s Booker Prize winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies?
Answer: Thomas Cromwell

Question: The German word Krankenhaus signifies what type of building?
Answer: Hospital

Question: What is the first name of the Coronation Street character who has had surnames Potter, McIntyre and Rodwell among others?
Answer: Gail

Question: How many threepenny bits were in a pound?
Answer: 80

Question: Which instrument appears in a Mexican Mariachi band, alongside guitars and violins?
Answer: Trumpet(S)

Question: Which African country is bordered by six countries including to the North by Libya, to the East by Sudan, to the South by The Central African Republic and to the West by Niger?
Answer: Chad

Question: Who was the losing presidential candidate to Dwight D Eisenhower in 1956?
Answer: Adlai Stevenson

Question: In which city were Jessica Ennis and Naseem Hamed born?
Answer: Sheffield

Question: In which fictional city in Rhode Island does the Griffin family live in the Family Guy TV cartoon series?
Answer: Quahog

Question: What is the name of the bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden?
Answer: Øresund Bridge

Question: Who scored most goals, 26, in the Premier League in 2014-2015?
Answer: Sergio Agüero

Question: Who played Bond villain Max Zorin in A View to a Kill?
Answer: Christopher Walken

Question: Which car company made the Interceptor, ceasing production in 1976?
Answer: Jensen

Question: What was the name of the Sheffield sports stadium built for the 1991 World Student Games ? it was demolished in 2014?
Answer: Don Valley

Question: The US hit TV comedy series The Big Bang Theory is set in which Californian city?
Answer: Pasadena

Question: What form of theatre has preserved the style of drama being performed in 14th century Japan?
Answer: Noh Theatre

Question: The name of which US elite military force is an acronym based on the amphibious role in which it operates?
Answer: (Navy) Seals

Question: What was the old silver coin worth 4 pennies?
Answer: Groat

Question: Which jazz trumpet player, born in South Carolina in 1917, is credited with inventing 'be-bop' alongside Charley Parker?
Answer: Dizzy Gillespie

Question: What is the largest city in Africa (by population)?
Answer: Lagos

Question: Which eponymous Shakespearean character sulks at a funeral, disrupts another and gives the wrong wine to his mother in the final scene?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: Which golfer won his second major title when he won the 2015 Open Championship?
Answer: Zach Johnson

Question: Which statesman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, largely for brokering a deal to end the Russo-Japanese War in 1905?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Question: What is the date of St Sylvester's Day?
Answer: December 31St

Question: What name is given to the female figure who symbolises France, seen for example on coins and stamps and on the frontage of law courts?
Answer: Marianne

Question: Which city, capital of Andalusia, is the only river port in Spain?
Answer: Seville

Question: Who is Secretary of State for Education?
Answer: Nicky Morgan

Question: Which Italian designer was famous for his leather garments and leather trimmed knitwear in the 1980s?
Answer: Gianni Versace

Question: Which double Scottish international sportsman died in a Japanese internment camp in Weifang, China, in 1945?
Answer: Eric Liddell

Question: Who was on the English throne in 1500?
Answer: Henry The Seventh

Question: Who painted Old Woman Cooking Eggs and portraits of theIInfanta in the 17th century?
Answer: Diego Velasquez

Question: '4 pi r²' is the formula for the surface area of which solid?
Answer: Sphere

Question: In a sporting context what links London (England) 1934, Brisbane (Australia) 1982 and Christchurch (New Zealand) 1974?
Answer: Commonwealth Games Venues

Question: What species of British breeding bird can be crested, bearded or willow?
Answer: Tit

Question: Who was the last British monarch to succeed to the throne unmarried?
Answer: Edward Viii

Question: Two Booker Prize winning novels were the basis for movies that won Best Picture Oscars in the 1990s. Name either of the movies.
Answer: SCHINDLER’S LIST or THE ENGLISH PATIENT

Question: Which present day capital city was the capital of Hungary from 1536 to 1784 because of the Ottoman occupation?
Answer: Bratislava

Question: In what year was the Cuban missile crisis?
Answer: 1962

Question: Which French writer, born Marie-Henri Beyle in 1783, wrote The Charterhouse of Parma and The Red and the Black?
Answer: Stendhal

Question: Who plays Alan Buttershaw in the TV series Last Tango in Halifax?
Answer: Derek Jacobi

Question: What is the second largest city, by population, in Austria?
Answer: Graz

Question: Which band has had Donald Fagen and Walter Becker in its lineup since its inception in the 70s?
Answer: Steely Dan

Question: What is the largest prime number less than 100?
Answer: 97

Question: Gérard Biard is editor-in-chief of which Parisian satirical weekly magazine?
Answer: Charlie Hebdo

Question: Who hosts the ITV quiz show The Chase?
Answer: Bradley Walsh

Question: Two European capitals lie on the same latitude (48º__´N) as Paris. One is Bratislava, name the other.
Answer: Vienna

Question: Which prominent Labour MP lost his seat of Morley and Outwood in May’s general election?
Answer: Ed Balls

Question: Which clothing retailer founded in 1975 is based in Arteixo in northern Spain?
Answer: Zara

Question: Who composed a Sea Symphony, a London Symphony and a Pastoral Symphony?
Answer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

Question: In the Bible, who succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelites?
Answer: Joshua

Question: Muscadet is a white wine from which French wine region?
Answer: Loire

Question: What is the English equivalent of the French Christian name Étienne?
Answer: Stephen

Question: Which musical features the songs People will say we’re in love and Oh what a beautiful mornin’?
Answer: Oklahoma!

Question: On what date is Candlemas Day?
Answer: February 2

Question: To which musician is food critic and model Sophie Dahl married?
Answer: Jamie Cullum

Question: Which radioactive element, atomic number 89, is the first alphabetically in a list of naturally occurring elements?
Answer: Actinium

Question: Who was the last British monarch to succeed to the throne before the age of 21?
Answer: Victoria

Question: In which city did Oscar Wilde die?
Answer: Paris

Question: 4 musicals won Best Picture Oscars in the 1960s. The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady were two. Name either of the others.
Answer: WEST SIDE STORY or OLIVER!

Question: In what year was the Suez crisis?
Answer: 1956

Question: What country’s international vehicle code is A?
Answer: Austria