Question: Who played Rooster Cogburn in the remake of the film 'True Grit'?
Answer: Jeff Bridges

Question: Which element has the symbol Sc?
Answer: Scandium

Question: Who was the last Leader of the Liberal Party?
Answer: David Steel

Question: Who succeeded Edmund Ironside as King of England?
Answer: Canute

Question: In which city was David Lloyd George born?
Answer: Manchester

Question: In which of Charles Dickens' novels does Dick Swiveller appear?
Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop

Question: What company was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1998?
Answer: Google

Question: Who directed Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2011 film 'J Edgar'?
Answer: Clint Eastwood

Question: Which sporting event, first held in July 1903, was the idea of Geo Lefevre, a journalist on L'Auto newspaper?
Answer: Tour De France

Question: For what does the A stand in the acronym for the organisation UCAS?
Answer: Admissions

Question: Who, in a children's film, are Anastasia and Drizella?
Answer: Cinderella'S Sisters

Question: Which country established a new capital at Naypyidaw in 2005?
Answer: Myanmar

Question: Of which State was Mitt Romney the governor from 2003-2007?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: Which Russian composer moved to France in 1920 and then to the USA in 1939 where he later became a naturalised citizen?
Answer: Igor Stravinsky

Question: What links the films 'Blade Runner' and 'Total Recall'?
Answer: Both Based On Stories By Philip K Dick

Question: What name is given to the wire frame on a dartboard?
Answer: Spider

Question: Who is the pop lyricist, and former husband of Carole King, who has been responsible for nearly sixty US Top 40 hits?
Answer: Gerry Goffin

Question: Who, in October 2012, became the first British player in 24 years to win a Women's Tennis Association Tour singles title?
Answer: Heather Watson

Question: Which river rises near Rivington and flows through Wigan and Parbold to the Ribble near Tarleton?
Answer: Douglas

Question: Alexander MacEwan was the first leader of which political party?
Answer: Scottish National Party

Question: 'A Handful of Dust' by Evelyn Waugh and 'The Grass is Singing' by Doris Lessing have their titles taken from lines written by which poet?
Answer: T S Eliot

Question: Which was the first group to win 'The X Factor'?
Answer: Little Mix

Question: The ancient games at Olympia were held every four years. Name any one of the other Greek cities where games were held in the intervening years?
Answer: DELPHI, CORINTH or NEMEA

Question: What name is given to the moveable curved top part of a padlock?
Answer: Shackle

Question: Under what name is comedian-Michael Pennington better known?
Answer: Johnny Vegas

Question: Which R & B duo had 10 consecutive US Top 20 singles for the STAX label between 1965 and 1968?
Answer: Sam And Dave

Question: In 2012-13 who were the sponsors of the Football League Cup?
Answer: Capital One

Question: Which Queen of England was the mother of Henry III?
Answer: Isabella Of Angouleme

Question: Of what will Keith Bristow become the first head in 2013?
Answer: National Crime Agency

Question: Which character catches the Grinch red handed stealing Christmas presents?
Answer: Cindy Lou

Question: The western part of the island of Timor belongs to which country?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: Which former Presidential candidate was a US Navy pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 and endured ill treatment and torture until his release in 1973?
Answer: John Mccain

Question: Who were Australia's opponents in the first One Day International cricket match at the MCG in January 1971?
Answer: England

Question: Which science fiction film of 1956 was loosely based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
Answer: Forbidden Planet

Question: The singer/songwriter Tulisa, an X Factor judge, was a member of which hip-hop group formed in 2000?
Answer: N-Dubz

Question: Although now sometimes disputed, who is generally held to be the first recorded winner of the ancient Athenian dramatic contests?
Answer: Thespis

Question: What name is given to the form of divination through books?
Answer: Bibliomancy

Question: Which native British wildlife includes species called Field, Bank and Short-tailed?
Answer: Vole

Question: What is the surname of the Detective Sergeant, played by Lee Ingleby, in the Inspector George Gently TV series?
Answer: Bacchus

Question: In which English county is the village of Stilton?
Answer: Cambridgeshire

Question: According to von Clausewitz, War is the continuation of what, by other means?
Answer: Politics

Question: What is the highest point in Northern Ireland?
Answer: Slieve Donard

Question: In which city was William Ewart Gladstone born?
Answer: Liverpool

Question: What acid is found naturally in grapes and bananas?
Answer: Tartaric

Question: What company was founded by Jerry Young and David Filo in 1994?
Answer: Yahoo!

Question: Which very successful Australian Director's first American film was 'Witness' in 1985, starring Harrison Ford?
Answer: Peter Weir

Question: Excluding Bradley Wiggins and Chris Boardman, name any British cyclist who has worn the Yellow (race leaders) Jersey in the Tour de France?
Answer: Tom Simpson, Sean Yates Or David Millar

Question: Manganese Bronze Holdings of Coventry is famous for the production of what sort of vehicle?
Answer: London Taxis

Question: Graham Seed played which character in 'The Archers' for almost thirty years?
Answer: Nigel Pargetter

Question: Which former sportswoman's 2012 autobiography is titled 'Between the Lines'?
Answer: Victoria Pendleton

Question: Which country was featured in the first of the Rough Guide travel series published in 1981?
Answer: Greece

Question: Which country declared war on Japan - the day before the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: Who has written books under the pseudonym Barbara Vine?
Answer: Ruth Rendell

Question: What was the activist Malcolm X's real surname?
Answer: Little

Question: The radio telescope at Jodrell Bank is named after which physicist and astronomer?
Answer: (Sir Bernard) Lovell

Question: Who wrote the plays The Caretaker' in 1959 and 'The Birthday Party' in 1957?
Answer: Harold Pinter

Question: What was the Christian name of the character played by Felicity Kendal in The Good Life' TV series?
Answer: Barbara

Question: The Irish town of Drogheda in Ireland is situated on which river?
Answer: River Boyne

Question: Who assassinated Robert Kennedy in June 1988?
Answer: Sirhan Sirhan

Question: Who designed the Menai Suspension Road Bridge in 1826?
Answer: (Thomas) Telford

Question: Who did the then Cassius Clay defeat to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world in 1964?
Answer: Sonny Liston

Question: Which former Nazi war criminal was the subject of Ira Levin's 1976 novel The Boys from Brazil'?
Answer: (Josef) Mengele

Question: In which country was the former Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichman captured in 1960?
Answer: Argentina

Question: What is the name of the alternative medicine involving applying pressure to the feet and hands?
Answer: Reflexology

Question: Name the world's first commercially operational jet passenger plane. It first operated from London to Johannesburg in 1952.
Answer: (De Havilland) Comet

Question: What was the RAF's first operational jet, first flying in 1943?
Answer: (Gloster) Meteor

Question: How is the Japanese Shinkansen train, better known in the UK?
Answer: Bullet Train

Question: Upminster and Wimbledon are termini of which London Underground line?
Answer: District

Question: Which was the British Army's main battle tank of the post VVWII period? It was replaced by the Chieftain tank in 1967.
Answer: Centurion

Question: Of which country was Edith Cresson prime minister from 1995 to 1999?
Answer: France

Question: Through which European capital city does the River Tagus flow?
Answer: Lisbon