Question: The Marcia Blane academy for girls is the setting for what famous novel, which also became a famous film?
Answer: The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

Question: What is the longest river in Europe?
Answer: Volga

Question: Television adverts - which actor provides the voice in the adverts for British Gas?
Answer: Timothy Spall

Question: Television adverts - which TV personality provides the voice in the adverts for Sky Television?
Answer: Victoria Wood

Question: Films - Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon starred in a remake of which famous western?
Answer: True Grit

Question: In our solar system, which planet is the hottest, with a mean surface temperature of 457 degrees centigrade?
Answer: Venus

Question: Which singer, originally successful as part of a pop group, had solo top ten hits in the 1970's with the records "Fallen Angel" and "My Eyes Adored You"?
Answer: Frankie Valli

Question: Who wrote the poem "The Darkling Thrush"? He is better known as a classic novelist?
Answer: Thomas Hardy

Question: Words - what adjective is used to describe a person who is fox-like in appearance or manner?
Answer: Vulpine

Question: Words - what adjective is used to describe a person who is wolf-like in appearance or manner?
Answer: Lupine

Question: Films - Russell Crowe and Christian Bale starred in a remake of which famous western?
Answer: 3.10 To Yuma

Question: In our solar system, which planet is the coldest, with a mean surface temperature of minus two hundred degrees centigrade?
Answer: Neptune

Question: Who wrote the poem "Snake". He is better known as a classic novelist?
Answer: D.H.Lawrence

Question: The opera "The Cunning Little Vixen" and the song cycle "The diary of one who has vanished" are the works of which composer?
Answer: Janacek

Question: Which country is bordered by Georgia to the north, Turkey to the west and Azerbaijan to the east?
Answer: Armenia

Question: Andy Murray is the number one British male tennis player. Who is the British number two who first came to prominence by reaching the semi-final of this year's Queen's Club Tournament?
Answer: James Ward

Question: Which young British tennis player won the 2011 U.S. Open Junior tennis championship , the first to do so since Andy Murray?
Answer: Oliver Golding

Question: Amoebas and some parasites, including those which cause malaria and sleeping- sickness are different forms of which microscopic single-celled organisms?
Answer: Protozoa

Question: In which English city would you find the district of Holgate?
Answer: York

Question: Which Italian liqueur is a key ingredient of the well known sweet, Tiramisu?
Answer: Amaretto

Question: On this day, 8th November, which famous poet who was blind in his later years, died in his home in London in 1647?
Answer: John Milton

Question: On this day, 8th November, which famous mathematician and astronomer was born in 1656? He was the first to realise that comets do not appear randomly.
Answer: Edmond Halley

Question: Which snooker player co-hosted the TV show "Big Break" with Jim Davidson?
Answer: John Virgo

Question: What, exactly, is an S.U.V.?
Answer: Sports Utility Vehicle

Question: What is the name given to fundamental particles of light?
Answer: Photons

Question: Which gulf is an arm of the South China Sea, bounded by the coasts of China and Vietnam?
Answer: Gulf Of Tonkin

Question: In our solar system which is the largest planet?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: In our solar system which is the smallest planet?
Answer: Mercury

Question: Which traditional Scottish soup is made with the principal ingredients of haddock and potatoes, served in fish stock and sometimes milk with onion added and garnished with parsley?
Answer: Cullen Skink

Question: Which composer wrote the opera 'Falstaff', based on the Shakespeare play 'The Merry wives of Windsor'?
Answer: (Guiseppe) VERDI

Question: The group 'Gorillaz' made a record which got to number 4 in the pop charts in 2001. The title of the record was the name of which film star?
Answer: Clint Eastwood

Question: Sport - which cricket player has the nickname "BOOM-BOOM"?
Answer: Shahid Afridi

Question: Sport - which tennis player has the nickname "BOOM-BOOM"?
Answer: Boris Becker

Question: The group 'Bananarama' made a record which got to number 3 in the pop charts in 1984. The title of the record contained the name of what film star?
Answer: Robert De Niro

Question: Which composer wrote the opera 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' based on Shakespeare's play?
Answer: (Benjamin) BRITTEN

Question: Which traditional Scottish soup is made with the principal ingredients of leek, onions and chicken stew, and sometimes also with prunes?
Answer: Cock-A-Leekie

Question: Who was the leader of the early christian church in Ephesus addressed by a letter from St Paul in the New Testament?
Answer: Timothy

Question: In which year did the novelists George Bernard Shaw and George Orwell die? (Will accept plus or minus one year)
Answer: 1950

Question: Mythology - Prosperina was the Roman goddess of the underworld. Who was the Greek equivalent?
Answer: Persephone

Question: In the children's programme 'The Magic Roundabout', shown on television in the 1960's , who was the narrator?
Answer: Eric Thompson

Question: Which playwright, with a three letter surname, wrote the plays The Lady's not for Burning and Venus Observed?
Answer: Christopher Fry

Question: The song 'If ever I would leave you' came from which musical?
Answer: Camelot

Question: The Government department known as DEFRA is properly known as The Department of ....... exactly what in the full title?
Answer: Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Question: Name one of the two Falls that make up Niagara?
Answer: HORSHOE or RAINBOW

Question: The Government department known as DECC, is properly known as the Department of ....... exactly what in the full title?
Answer: Energy & Climate Change

Question: Who was the leader of the early Christian church in Crete addressed by a letter from St Paul in the New Testament?
Answer: Titus

Question: In which year did the novelists Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy die? (will accept plus or minus one year)
Answer: 1910

Question: Mythology - Diana was the Roman goddess of fertility and hunting. Who was the Greek equivalent?
Answer: Artemis

Question: In the children's programme 'Paddington Bear' shown on television in the 1970's, who was the narrator?
Answer: Michael Horden

Question: The Watergate scandal came to light partly as a result of a sustained press campaign by the "Washington Post". Name either of the two investigative journalists who carried out this campaign.
Answer: (Carl) BERNSTEIN or (Bob) WOODWARD

Question: Which novelist, with a three letter surname, wrote the novels 'The Name of the Rose' and 'Foucault's Pendulum'?
Answer: Umberto Eco

Question: The type of person not required in quiz teams. Which French expression, commonly used in English, means - A person whose behaviour is indiscreet, embarrasing to associates?
Answer: Enfant Terrible

Question: In the famous American TV series, which actress played "Ally McBeal"?
Answer: Callista Flockhart

Question: In 2008, the 800th Formula One race was held at night. In which Grand Prix did this take place?
Answer: Singapore

Question: Which German river flows 1159 kilometres from the Czech Republic flowing into the North Sea just north of Hamburg?
Answer: Elbe

Question: Aspirin was originally obtained from which tree?
Answer: Willow

Question: In golf, the 5 iron club was originally known by which old Scottish name?
Answer: Mashie

Question: John Bartholomew was the original name of which famous comedian?
Answer: Eric Morecambe

Question: Anagram - Which classic novel published in 1865 is contained in ARMOURED FLU UNIT ?
Answer: Our Mutual Friend

Question: Anagram - Which classic novel published in 1937 is contained in IN COMMAND FEE ?
Answer: Of Mice And Men

Question: Robert Davies was the original name of which famous comedian?
Answer: Jasper Carrott