Question: Complete the title of the recent BBC TV improvised comedy Murder in …?
Answer: Successville

Question: Workshop and Digital are visual effects companies named after which large insects native to New Zealand?
Answer: Weta

Question: Chasing Pavements in 2008 and Rolling in the Deep in 2010 both reached Number Two in the UK singles chart for which singer before she had her first Number One?
Answer: Adele

Question: Who wrote the poem that begins: There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night Ten to make and the match to win A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in.?
Answer: Henry Newbolt

Question: The predominant cause of rickets is a deficiency of which vitamin?
Answer: D

Question: How are the twelve symphonies (numbers 93 to 104) of Joseph Haydn, which include The Surprise and The Clock, known collectively?
Answer: London (or Salomon) Symphomes

Question: In which modem day African country was Roman Emperor Septimius Severus born?
Answer: Libya

Question: What is the name given to a mountain in Scotland with a height that is over 3000 feet?
Answer: Munro

Question: What was the family name of the first Viscount Rothermere and his brother the first Viscount Northcliffe, founders of the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror?
Answer: Harmsworth

Question: Which novelist (1879-1980) wrote the libretto for the Benjamin Britten opera Billy Budd with Eric Crozier?
Answer: EM Forster

Question: The Great City Games is an athletics event in Manchester with a track laid on which thoroughfare?
Answer: Deansgate

Question: Who plays Denis Thatcher in the 2011 film The Iron Lady?
Answer: Jim Broadbent

Question: Which Mughal Emperor commissioned the building of the Red Fort in Delhi when he moved his capital from Agra to Delhi?
Answer: Shah Jahan

Question: The Purple Revolution: The Year That Changed Everything is a memoir by which current politician
Answer: Nigel Farage

Question: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ended which war, known in North America as the French and Indian War
Answer: The Seven Years' War

Question: In November 1982 Eltham Little Theatre in London was renamed after which performer born in Eltham in 1903 who raised funds for the theatre?
Answer: Bob Hope

Question: Which of the five dwarf planets is in the asteroid belt?
Answer: Ceres

Question: Recently in the news, which is the largest of the Italian Pelagie islands in the Mediterranean Sea
Answer: Lampedusa

Question: In which city did Torvill and Dean win their Olympic Gold in 1984
Answer: Sarajevo

Question: Which ITV soap that ran from 1964 to 1988 made a comeback in 2001 (lasting until 2003)?
Answer: Crossroads

Question: Where in the body is the Hyaloid canal?
Answer: Eye

Question: Brittany Ferries run services from Portsmouth to Santander and which other city in Spain
Answer: Bilbao

Question: What name connects a member of the Seekers, a diocese of the Church of England served by Justin Welby and the Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 to 1999?
Answer: Durham (Judith Durham, Durham, Jeremy John Durham Ashdown)

Question: In Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome give the name of either of the families of children.
Answer: Walker or Blackett

Question: Which city lies at the west side of the Nile delta?
Answer: Alexandria

Question: Waterloo Sunset was a 1967 hit for which band?
Answer: The Kinks

Question: King Claudius and Queen Gertrude appear in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: D WL is the code of which railway station in Devon?
Answer: Dawlish

Question: Which company whose name means "I roll", started life in 1915 as a subsidiary of a ball-bearing factory?
Answer: Volvo

Question: What is the common name of Fagus sylvatica?
Answer: THE BEECH (tree)

Question: By what nickname was the comic book character 'Alf Tupper' known?
Answer: 'The Tough Of The Track'

Question: Which battle near York, in 1644, saw the end of Royalist resistance in the North of England?
Answer: Marston Moor

Question: Which American city is served by 'Hopkins International Airport'?
Answer: CLEVELAND, Ohio

Question: 'CH' are the international identification letters for which country's motor cars?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: In which BBC crime series did the characters 'Brian Lane', 'Jack Halford' and 'Jerry Standing' appear?
Answer: 'Newtricks'

Question: How many stars are there on the flag of China?
Answer: Five (5)

Question: In which Olympic event did John Braithwaite win Gold for Great Britain in 1968?
Answer: Clay Pigeon Shooting

Question: 'SF' are the international identification letters for which country's motor cars?
Answer: Finland

Question: Terry Gene Bollea is the real name of which wrestler turned actor?
Answer: 'Hulk Hogan'

Question: In which English county is the Lightwater Valley Theme Park?
Answer: North Yorkshire

Question: Which French Impressionist painter, famed in later life for his portraits of nudes, was born in Limoges in 1841, and died in Cagnes in the south of France in 1919?
Answer: Pierre Auguste Renoir

Question: In which town or city is ‘Banks' beer brewed?
Answer: Wolverhampton

Question: In which BBC crime series did the characters 'Ray Carling', 'Chris Skelton' and 'Alex Drake' appear?
Answer: 'Ashes To Ashes'

Question: Which film star and director called one of his children Satchell?
Answer: Woody Allen

Question: What was the name of the daily train service that ran between London and Paris until 1972?
Answer: The Golden Arrow

Question: Great Britain won Silver at every Olympic Games between 1936 and 1960 in which event?
Answer: High Jump

Question: Which month of the 'French Revolutionary Calandar' had a name derived from the French for fog?
Answer: Brumaire

Question: To where was Saul heading when he had a vision from God, thus becoming St. Paul?
Answer: Damascus

Question: Which pop star called of his children Moon Unit?
Answer: Frank Zappa

Question: Which Scottish city isserved by 'Riverside Airport'?
Answer: Dundee

Question: Which terrorist group were responsible for the killing the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics?
Answer: Black September

Question: How is Galanthus nivalis better known?
Answer: Snowdrop

Question: In which town or city is Charles Wells beer brewed?
Answer: Bedford

Question: The result of dividing a number into one is called the what, of that number?
Answer: Reciprocal

Question: Which product was advertised with the slogan "Good to the last drop"?
Answer: COFFEE (Maxwell House)

Question: Dwayne Johnson is the real name of which wrestler turned actor?
Answer: 'The Rock'

Question: Who had a top ten hit in 1986 with the song, 'Too Good To Be Forgotten'?
Answer: 'Amazulu'

Question: Which French Impressionist painter, famed for his portrait 'The Bar At The Folie Bergere', was born in Paris in 1832, and died of a gangrenous leg in 1883?
Answer: Edouard Manet

Question: Which stretch of water joins the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara?
Answer: The Dardanelles

Question: In which children's TV show did 'Robin of Islington' and 'Little Ron' appear?
Answer: 'Maid Marion & Her Merry Men'

Question: After how many years of marriage is a 'Emerald Wedding' celebrated?
Answer: Fifty-Five (55)

Question: Which poet wanted to be in England "now that April's there"?
Answer: Robert Browning

Question: Excluding Russia, which country is the largest in Europe by area?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: By what name is Allen Konigsberg better known?
Answer: Woody Allen

Question: The Britannia Monument, correctly called the Norfolk Pillar, in Great Yarmouth is a memorial to who?
Answer: Horatio Nelson

Question: 'Stephen Blackpool', a mill worker, is a character in which novel by Charles Dickens?
Answer: 'Hard Times'

Question: Murray Gold has been musical director for which TV series since it was revived in 2005?
Answer: 'Doctor Who'

Question: In the 'Star Wars' films, who was the twin sister of 'Luke Skywalker'?
Answer: 'Princess Leia'