Question: How many valves are there on a (standard) trumpet?
Answer: Three

Question: Which actor, one of the stars of the t.v. series 'New Tricks' was the first to play the innkeeper 'Thenardier' in 'Les Miserables' in 1985?
Answer: Alun Armstrong

Question: Which fish is used in the dish 'gravlax' (or 'gravadlax')?
Answer: Salmon

Question: John McCain and Barry Goldwater, the defeated candidate in the 1964 US Presidential Election, were both Senators for which state?
Answer: Arizona

Question: What is the full name of the breed of cattle originating in Scotland, known as 'Belties'?
Answer: Belted Galloway

Question: For what does the 'w' stand in 'PwC', one of the 'Big Four' accountancy firms in the world?
Answer: Waterhouse

Question: The 'Maxilla' is the upper jawbone. What is the name of the lower jawbone?
Answer: Mandible

Question: The most famous piece performed by which jazz quartet is 'Take Five'?
Answer: Dave Brubeck Quartet

Question: 'Marianne Dashwood', 'Fanny Price' and 'Anne Elliot' are characters created by which author?
Answer: Jane Austen

Question: In 2010 who was created Baron Bannside of North Antrim, in the County of Antrim?
Answer: Ian Paisley

Question: Who was Chancellor of Germany between Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel?
Answer: Gerhard Schroder

Question: Formerly the capital, which is the largest city in Nigeria?
Answer: Lagos

Question: Which country was host to the terrorist organisation FRELIMO?
Answer: Mozambique

Question: The main asteroid belt is between Jupiter and which other planet?
Answer: Mars

Question: The spymaster 'Jack Ryan' was created by which author?
Answer: Tom Clancy

Question: The museum in Crich, Debyshire is dedicated to which form of transport?
Answer: Trams

Question: Who wrote the plays ‘The Entertainer’ and ‘Look Back in Anger’?
Answer: John Osborne

Question: What is the name of the Icelandic Parliament?
Answer: ALTHING or ALTHINGI

Question: In which month of 1789 was the Storming of the Bastille?
Answer: July

Question: What is the name of the 18 mile long shingle bank in Dorset that separates the Fleet lagoon from the sea?
Answer: CHESIL BEACH (or BANK)

Question: Complete the name of the 13th President of the USA Millard ..............
Answer: Fillmore

Question: All stations on the National Rail network have a 3-letter code. Which London station has the code LST?
Answer: Liverpool Street

Question: What is the one-word stage name of 16 year old singer Jasmine van den Bogaerde, who won ‘Open Mic UK’ in 2008 as a 12 year old?
Answer: Birdy

Question: Who did Andrew Waugh succeed as Surveyor General of India, Waugh naming Peak XV in the Himalayas after him?
Answer: George Everest

Question: Which imperial unit is the result of multiplying 1 chain by 1 furlong?
Answer: 1 Acre

Question: Name any of the three sports which are unique to the Paralympics.
Answer: BOCCIA, GOALBALL or (WHEELCHAIR) RUGBY

Question: The Iveco LMV is a 4-wheel drive vehicle used by many European armies. For what does the M stand?
Answer: Multirole (Light Multirole Vehicle)

Question: For which book did Margaret Mitchell win the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
Answer: Gone With The Wind

Question: Which religious figure lived at Auckland Castle until last year, although his office is still there?
Answer: Bishop Of Durham

Question: Which operatic heroine dies after secretly following her lover into a vault where he was sentenced to die?
Answer: Aida

Question: In which language was the Magna Carta originally written?
Answer: Latin

Question: Travelling along the coast of Africa – which country is next – Somalia, Kenya, ..........?
Answer: Tanzania

Question: Six special stamps issued in January featured the 150th Anniversary of which transport system?
Answer: London Underground

Question: Name the first Formula 1 driver to win his first three titles consecutively?
Answer: Sebastian Vettel

Question: In which sport did Sarah Storey win four gold medals at the 2012 Paralympics?
Answer: Cycling

Question: On which game show of the 1980s was Una Stubbs a regular team captain?
Answer: Give Us A Clue

Question: What is the one-word nickname of Michael Balzary, the bass player with the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
Answer: Flea

Question: In which year was the Prince of Wales born?
Answer: 1948

Question: Which of Enid Blyton’s ‘Famous Five’ was a dog?
Answer: Timmy

Question: Six special stamps issued in February featured the novels of which author marking the bicentenary of the publication of her most famous work?
Answer: Jane Austen

Question: For which Bond film, in which she has a cameo role as a fencing instructor, does Madonna sing the theme?
Answer: Die Another Day

Question: Cosima, the younger daughter of Franz Liszt, became the second wife of which composer in 1870?
Answer: Richard Wagner

Question: The flag of which Republic that existed from the 7th century until 1797 contained the Lion head of Saint Mark with an open gospel?
Answer: Venice

Question: Which mountain rises 10200 metres from its ocean base although it is only 4205 metres above sea level?
Answer: Mauna Kea (In Hawaii)

Question: Who plays Edward Cullen in the ‘Twilight’ films?
Answer: Robert Pattinson

Question: How is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 usually known?
Answer: Domesday Book

Question: Travelling along the coast of South America – which country is next – Chile, Peru, .......?
Answer: Ecuador

Question: Who won her only Singles title at Wimbledon in 2004 when she beat Serena Williams in the Final?
Answer: Maria Sharapova

Question: DFTD, a facial tumour disease is seriously affecting the population of the world’s largest carnivorous marsupial. Which mammal is this?
Answer: Tasmanian Devil (Devil Facial Tumour Disease)

Question: Name any of the three types of ball used in the sport of Quidditch in the Harry Potter books.
Answer: QUAFFLE, BLUDGER or (GOLDEN) SNITCH

Question: In which month of 1805 was the Battle of Trafalgar?
Answer: October

Question: The 81 mile Speyside Way runs from Buckie to which town and resort in the Cairngorms?
Answer: Aviemore

Question: What is the next line of this 1926 song ‘Pack up all my cares and woe, here I go, singing low, ..........’?
Answer: Bye Bye Blackbird

Question: Who wrote the plays ‘Jumpers’ and ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’?
Answer: Tom Stoppard

Question: The Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha are the two Houses of the Parliament of which country?
Answer: India

Question: Which team did Spain beat in the Final of the 2010 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: How was the bird Pinguinus impennis commonly known?
Answer: Great Auk

Question: Which dynasty ruled China in the year 1AD?
Answer: Han

Question: The 1993 film ‘The Pelican Brief’ was based on whose 1992 book?
Answer: John Grisham

Question: Espoo and Tampere are the second and third largest cities by population in which European country?
Answer: Finland

Question: Which of Picasso’s ‘periods’ came first - from 1901 to 1904?
Answer: Blue

Question: Name either one of Jim Lovell’s companions on the ill-fated Apollo 13 moon mission.
Answer: John (Jack) Swigert or Fred Haise

Question: What name is given to the long pole used to propel a punt?
Answer: Quant

Question: Who playe Mr Lucas in the TV sitcom “Are You Being Served”?
Answer: Trevor Bannister

Question: Which tree is sometimes called the “false plane” tree?
Answer: Sycamore

Question: Which county cricket team won seven consecutive county championships in the 1950’s?
Answer: Surrey

Question: The Battle of the Boyne, the Glencoe Massacre and the Salem Witch Trial all occurred in which decade?
Answer: 1690’s

Question: Which character from children’s literature has a wife called Mildew and a son called Mould?
Answer: Fungus the Bogeyman

Question: The eldest son of the British monarch traditionally holds which Scottish dukedom?
Answer: Duke of Rothesay