Question: Which female vocalist had a 2001 hit with the song “Here With Me”?
Answer: Dido

Question: In which country was the first motorway built?
Answer: Italy

Question: Which Chancellor, executed in 1535, became the patron saint of politicians?
Answer: Sir Thomas More

Question: A costermonger sells fruit and vegetables, usually from a barrow. Which particular item did a costermonger originally sell?
Answer: Apples

Question: The daughter of which famous author of many children’s books wrote “A Childhood at Green Hedges”?
Answer: Enid Blyton

Question: The domed folly known as the Ashton Memorial overlooks which English city?
Answer: Lancaster

Question: Which type of grass is extensively used in the binding together of sand dunes?
Answer: Marram

Question: Which World War Two general was nicknamed ‘Vinegar Joe’?
Answer: Joseph Stillwell

Question: In which American state does the Mississippi river enter the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: Louisiana

Question: Which Thames dredger made the headlines in 1989 when it rammed the Marchioness pleasure boat?
Answer: The Bowbelle

Question: Which powerful illuminant gas is produce from the action of water on calcium carbide?
Answer: Acetylene

Question: Who played investigator Jim Hardie in the TV western series “Wells Fargo”?
Answer: Dale Robertson

Question: Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew was reprimanded after head butting a player from which Premier League team?
Answer: Hull City

Question: What is the more common name of hydrated magnesium silicate?
Answer: Epsom Salts

Question: Trappist monks are a stricter version of which religious order?
Answer: Cistercian

Question: Emil Zatopek won the 5000 and 10000 metres at the 1952 Olympics. In which event did his wife Dana also win a gold medal?
Answer: Javelin

Question: The Lempira is the main unit of currency in which central American country?
Answer: Hondura

Question: Which golfer won the British Open, US Open and Canadian Open in 1971?
Answer: Lee Trevino

Question: What was the name of the model tragically shot by Oscar Pretorius?
Answer: Reeva Steenkamp

Question: Which aviation company manufactured the Cherokee, Comanche and Seminole light aircraft?
Answer: Piper

Question: What is the name of the traditional stiff skirt worn by Greek and Albanian men?
Answer: Fustanella

Question: What name is given to the point of a planet’s orbit furthest from the sun?
Answer: Aphelion

Question: A dish described as “a la Dubarry” would contain which vegetable?
Answer: Cauliflower

Question: When the rock band Free disbanded, Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke went on to form which other group?
Answer: Bad Company

Question: Which Austrian racing driver was the posthumous Formula One world champion in 1970?
Answer: Jochen Rindt

Question: The filbert is an alternative name for which nut?
Answer: Hazelnut

Question: On a standard UK Monopoly board, which property comes last alphabetically?
Answer: Whitehall

Question: Which French cyclist won the Tour de France four consecutive times in the 1960’s?
Answer: Jacques Anquetil

Question: Which fashion designer, girlfriend of Mick Jagger, committed suicide in New York earlier this year?
Answer: L’Wren Scott

Question: Which motorcycle company made models called the Manx, the International and the Dominator?
Answer: Norton

Question: Once punningly depicted on a British coin, the sea pink is an alternative name for which flower?
Answer: Thrift

Question: In Judaism, what name is given to the ram’s horn blown in a synagogue as a call to repentance?
Answer: Shofar

Question: In the Chinese zodiac, 2014 is the year of which animal?
Answer: Horse

Question: Which rock group did Steve Marriot form with Peter Frampton after leaving The Small Faces?
Answer: Humble Pie

Question: Something described as hastate would ne shaped like which weapon?
Answer: Spear

Question: Invar is an alloy chiefly consisting of iron and which other metallic element?
Answer: Nickel

Question: Fusilatily is the relatively new hobby of collecting what?
Answer: Phone cards

Question: Which Coronation Street character has been played fro several years by Chris Gascoyne?
Answer: Peter Barlow

Question: Which is England’s northernmost landlocked county?
Answer: West Yorkshire

Question: Occurring during the winter months, what is the much more familiar name of St Sylvester’s day?
Answer: New Year’s Eve

Question: DZ are the international registration letters for which Nort African country?
Answer: Algeria

Question: Orange Peko and Dust are grades of which consumable commodity?
Answer: Tea

Question: Which bird takes its name from the erectile feathers seen around its neck in courtship?
Answer: Ruff

Question: Which Yorkshire Rugby League club were the first team to retain the Challenge Cup/
Answer: Batley

Question: Which lone gunman went on the rampage around the town of Hungerford in 1987?
Answer: Michael Ryan

Question: Who won the best actor Oscar in 1997 fro the film Shine?
Answer: Geoffrey Rush

Question: Who played scout Flint McCullough in the TV western series “Wagon Train”?
Answer: Robert Horton

Question: Which type of deer is named after a French missionary?
Answer: Pere David’s Deer

Question: In mythology, which female gave Theseus a ball of thread to guide him out of the labyrinth?
Answer: Ariadne

Question: Which is the only state of the USA to share a land border with Maine?
Answer: New Hampshire

Question: How are the lovers Vrechen and Sali described in the title of a 1906 opera by Frederick Delius?
Answer: A Village Romeo and Juliet

Question: What kind of animal is a Langur?
Answer: Monkey

Question: Former West Bromwich Albion footballer Nicholas Anelka made an apparently anti-Semitic gesture after scoring a goal against which Premier League club?
Answer: West Ham United

Question: Which cricketer’s autobiography is called “Sunny Days”?
Answer: Sunil Gavaskar

Question: The highly successful 2014 film “Frozen” is based on a story by which author?
Answer: Hans Christian Anderson

Question: Which saint, a former Roman soldier, was martyred in Jersey?
Answer: St Helier

Question: Mount Narodnaya is the highest point in which dividing range?
Answer: Urals

Question: What first started appearing in hotel rooms in 1908?
Answer: Gideon Bibles

Question: Which former sportsman, now a BBC presenter, provides the voice for the children’s TV programme “Underground Ernie”?
Answer: Gary Lineker

Question: Who wrote “Tree and Leaf” and “Farmer Giles of Ham”?
Answer: JRR Tolkein

Question: Which item of athletics equipment weighs 7.26 kilograms for men?
Answer: Shot

Question: Who wrote the recent historical novel The King’s Curse?
Answer: Philippa Gregory

Question: Who designed the cover of the album The Velvet Underground & Nico?
Answer: Andy Warhol

Question: In which city was Christopher Columbus born?
Answer: Genoa

Question: What colour are the star and crescent on the flag of Pakistan?
Answer: White

Question: The last holder of which post, abolished in 1964 was the second Earl Jellicoe – previous holders include Winston Churchill (from 1911 to 1915 and 1939 to 1940)?
Answer: First Lord Of The Admiralty

Question: Monument to the Unknown Woman Worker is a sculpture by Louise Walsh on Great Victoria Street near to the Europa Hotel in which British city?
Answer: Belfast

Question: Which former American tennis player has been married to a tennis player, a skier and a golfer?
Answer: CHRIS EVERT (to JOHN LLOYD, ANDY MILL, GREG NORMAN)

Question: What is the English title of the French police drama Engrenages shown on BBC4?
Answer: Spiral

Question: How many laps are there in the Indianapolis 500 motor race?
Answer: 200

Question: At which school were actors Eddie Redmayne, Damian Lewis and Dominic West educated?
Answer: Eton College

Question: Where in the body is the occipital artery?
Answer: Head

Question: Which monarch was present at the death of Queen Victoria?
Answer: WILHELM II, GERMAN EMPEROR (accept THE KAISER)