Question: In the opera by Puccini, how does Tosca die?
Answer: She throws herself off battlements/Jumps to her death

Question: In 2014, Sam Burgess left South Sydney Rugby League Club to join which English Premiership Rugby Union Club?
Answer: Bath

Question: Who played the title role in the TV series Cilia?
Answer: Sheridan Smith

Question: Which Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador was a tireless social reformer who spoke out against corruption and repression and was assassinated n 1980 while saying mass?
Answer: Oscar Romero

Question: What was the tallest building in London from 1710 until 1960?
Answer: St. Paul's Cathedral

Question: Who portrayed Alan Turing in the 2015 film The Imitation Game?
Answer: Benedict Cumberbatch

Question: Which American state is the only one which borders only one other state?
Answer: Maine

Question: For what does the P stand in the name of the body, the PRA, which is responsible for the regulation of banks and building societies in the UK?
Answer: Prudential

Question: Which artist born in what is now Belgium (c. 1380-1441) painted the Ghent Altarpiece?
Answer: Jan van Eyck

Question: To which family of birds does the Yellowhammer belong?
Answer: Bunting

Question: Which football team plays its home games at Ewood Park?
Answer: Blackburn Rovers

Question: Which Irving Berlin musical of 1946 includes the songs Anything You Can Do and I Got Sun in the Morning?
Answer: Annie Get Your Gun

Question: Give any year in the life of Frederick the Great.
Answer: 1712-1786

Question: In the periodic table, which element has the symbol Rn?
Answer: Radon

Question: The art installation Bloodswept Lands and Seas of Red was first seen at which building in 2014?
Answer: Tower of London

Question: Which is the only current Major League baseball team based in Canada?
Answer: Toronto

Question: The first Consulate of the United States in the world opened in Liverpool in which year (allow 5 either way)?
Answer: 1790

Question: What do the letters MS on an Ordinance Survey map indicate?
Answer: Milestone

Question: The Glazer family, who own Manchester United also own which NFL American Football team?
Answer: Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Question: Hubert Humphrey served as Vice-President to which US President?
Answer: Lyndon Baines Johnson

Question: Which chemical element, the first of the halogens, has the atomic number 9?
Answer: Fluorine '

Question: In which Marx Brothers film does much of the action centre on the theft of a painting, during a party given in honour of Groucho's character, the explorer Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding?
Answer: Animal Crackers

Question: Katanga is a province in which African country?
Answer: Democratic Republic of Congo

Question: William Cavendish-Bentinck served twice as Prime Minister, briefly in 1783 and from 1807 to 1809: by what title is he better known?
Answer: Duke of Portland

Question: By what name is the bird which countrymen call the "water ouzel and which has the Latin name cinclus cinclus, generally known?
Answer: Dipper

Question: Which organisation (perhaps surprisingly to some) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012?
Answer: European Union

Question: Which chemical element has the atomic number 5?
Answer: Boron

Question: Who is the super villain in the James Bond book and film Moonraker?
Answer: (Hugo) Drax

Question: Which city is the capital of Madagascar?
Answer: Antananarivo

Question: Named after a historical personage, which Scottish band won the 2004 Mercury Music Prize for their self- titled debut album?
Answer: Franz Ferdinand

Question: Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek God of Love, Eros?
Answer: Cupid

Question: What name was given to the policy of reconstruction in the Soviet Union adopted by Mikhail Gorbachev?
Answer: Perestroika

Question: The star "Bellatrix", whose name comes from a Latin word meaning "warrior", can be found in which constellation?
Answer: Orion

Question: Which dessert consists of a meringue cake with a crisp crust topped with whipped cream and fruit?
Answer: Pavlova

Question: Which Pope commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine chapel?
Answer: Julius II

Question: Who invented the Kingdom of Kravonia in his 1906 novel "Sophy of Kravonia"?
Answer: Anthony Hope

Question: Of what was Vulcan the Roman God?
Answer: Fire

Question: Polaris, also called the North Star or the Pole Star, is located in which constellation?
Answer: Ursa Minor

Question: In The Simpsons what position is held by Joe Quimby?
Answer: Mayor

Question: What name is given to a savoury jelly made with meat stock, used as a mould for meat, seafood or eggs?
Answer: Aspic

Question: Who was the President of the USA at the outbreak of the First World War?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Question: Which author created, in a work of 1893, the fictitious gentlemen's club called "The Diogenes Club"?
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Question: In Greek Mythology, who was the Mother of Andromeda?
Answer: Cassiopeia

Question: Which Swiss city was the base for the early Protestant reformer Ulrich Zwingli?
Answer: Zurich

Question: Which drink takes its name from the Russian for "little water"?
Answer: Vodka

Question: Which series of books is set on the island of Sodor?
Answer: Thomas the Tank Engine

Question: In 2014 Stephen Harper was the prime minister of which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: Who was the Greek goddess of Retribution?
Answer: Nemesis

Question: Who was the Gold medallist, in the men's athletics 100m race at the 1980 Moscow Olympics?
Answer: Alan Wells

Question: The Bishop of Durham traditionally signs himself as what?
Answer: Dunelm

Question: Which Heritage railway runs between Caernarfon and Porthmadog?
Answer: Welsh Highland Railway

Question: Chartreuse liqueur can be found in two colours. Yellow is one what is the other?
Answer: Green

Question: In a nursery rhyme, where did Dr Foster step into a puddle right up to his middle?
Answer: Gloucester

Question: According to the Holy Bible, which of the eleven surviving original Apostles was the first to be put to death, after the Ascension of Jesus?
Answer: Saint James

Question: Daniel Ortega at the beginning of 2015 is the president of which country?
Answer: Nicaragua

Question: Which sport plays a big part in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski?
Answer: Ten Pin Bowling

Question: Which author used the pseudonym "Boz" in the 1830’s?
Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: The Hector Berlioz opera "Les Troyens" is based on which of Virgil's poems?
Answer: The Aeneid

Question: Which city is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
Answer: Riyadh

Question: Who had a UK number One hit single with "I Feel Love" in 1977?
Answer: Donna Summer

Question: Who served as senator for Massachusetts from 1962 until his death in 2009?
Answer: Edward Kennedy

Question: The flavouring vanilla comes from a species of which plant?
Answer: Orchid

Question: Which Marx Brothers film centres on a football-match between two US colleges, with Groucho playing the president of Huxley College, Quincy Adams Wagstaff?
Answer: Horse Feathers

Question: Which golfer was nicknamed "Mrs Doubtfire" due to his supposed resemblance to the cinematic character?
Answer: Colin Montgomerie

Question: What was the former name of Ho Chi Minh City immediately before it changed its name?
Answer: Saigon

Question: The bird whose Latin name is turdus viscivorous, and which ountrymen call "the stormcock" because of its habit of singing in rainy weather, is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: Mistle Thrush

Question: Boney M's UK chart topping hit of 1978 was a double A-side, "Rivers of Babylon" was on one side, which song was on the other?
Answer: Brown Girl in the Ring

Question: What was the name of the military nobility of medieval and early modern Japan?
Answer: Samurai

Question: In which decade, did Fred Basset, created by Alex Graham, first appear in ?
Answer: 1960's