Question: Which sibling trio had top ten hits in 1984 with "Automatic" and "Jump"?
Answer: Pointer Sisters

Question: Who is the patron saint of music?
Answer: St Cecelia

Question: Which well known author was born David John Cornwell in 1931?
Answer: John le Carre

Question: Which breakfast cereal was invented by Henry Perky in 1893?
Answer: Shredded Wheat

Question: In which sport did Britain's Peter Wilson win a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: Shooting

Question: What is the state capital of Wisconsin?
Answer: Madison

Question: Which well known singer was born Clementina Campbell in 1927?
Answer: Cleo Laine

Question: Which National Trust property in the north east of England was once owned by Lord William Armstrong?
Answer: Cragside

Question: In which year did Elvis Presley die?
Answer: 1977

Question: Who wrote the play "The Rose Tattoo" in 1951?
Answer: Tennessee Williams

Question: Which sub species of brown bear is the largest member of the bear family?
Answer: Kodiak bear

Question: During the second Sudanese war in which battle in September 1898 did General Kitchener inflict a crushing defeat on the Dervishes?
Answer: Omdurman

Question: To within a year, when did Tom Watson win his last Open Championship?
Answer: 1983

Question: During the Indian Mutiny in which town was the British Residency besieged by mutineers from June until November 1857 before being relieved by General Campbell?
Answer: Lucknow

Question: Who wrote the play "Miss Julie" in 1888?
Answer: August Strindberg

Question: During World War 2 North American Aviation built a fighter with a single Rolls Royce Merlin engine which proved to be the best long range fighter of the war. What was its name?
Answer: Mustang

Question: Who directed the film "Burn After Reading"?
Answer: Coen Brothers

Question: In which English county is Alnwick?
Answer: Northumberland

Question: In which US state is the Mohawk river situated?
Answer: New York State

Question: In weather terms what is a haboob?
Answer: Sandstorm

Question: Which author's first autobiography was entitled "Boy:Tales of Childhood"?
Answer: Roald Dahl

Question: Which former Labour MP and government minister contested the election for Mayor of London with Ken Livingstone?
Answer: Frank Dobson

Question: In which country was the retail chain Primark founded?
Answer: Republic of Ireland

Question: Who chairs the BBC radio and TV panel show 'Just A Minute'?
Answer: Nicholas Parsons

Question: Into which other war did the War of Jenkins Ear merge?
Answer: War of Austrian Succession

Question: In which war were the battles of Lutzen and White Mountain?
Answer: Thirty Years War

Question: The song '76 Trombones' comes from which musical?
Answer: The Music Man

Question: Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure is mainly set in which city?
Answer: Vienna

Question: In Dad's Army' what is the forename of Captain Mainwaring's wife?
Answer: Elizabeth

Question: In literature Carl Peterson is one of several aliases used by the enemy of which pre WWII British hero?
Answer: Bulldog Drummond

Question: Who was the writer of the novels 'Sad Cypress', 'N or M' and 'Sparkling Cyanide'?
Answer: Agatha Christie

Question: Who wrote the novels The Light that Failed', 'Captains Courageous' and 'Stalky and Co'?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question: What was the first name of Denis Compton's elder brother?
Answer: Leslie

Question: In which town was Oliver Cromwell born, in 1599?
Answer: Huntingdon

Question: In which city was Dr Samuel Johnson born, in 1709?
Answer: Lichfield

Question: Who created the literary character Violet Elizabeth Bott?
Answer: Richmal Crompton

Question: In which Australian state is Mount Kosciusko?
Answer: New South Wales

Question: In which Australian state is Lake Eyre?
Answer: South Australia

Question: Who was the oldest man to become Poet Laureate?
Answer: William Wordsworth

Question: Who was Poet Laureate for the longest period of time?
Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question: How many points are scored for potting a red ball in billiards?
Answer: 3

Question: What is the maximum score for one stroke in billiards?
Answer: 10

Question: What is recorded using Labanotation?
Answer: Ballet Movement

Question: The Pinyin system and Wade Giles system are used to do what?
Answer: Transcribing Chinese language

Question: Who succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as leader of the Soviet Union in 1964?
Answer: Leonid Brezhnev

Question: Who succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader in 1985?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev

Question: Who wrote the 1921 opera The Love for Three Oranges'?
Answer: Prokofiev

Question: Which online organisation does Alexander Orlov advertise?
Answer: Comparethemarket.com

Question: Who took over the Radio 2 breakfast show in 2010 succeeding Terry Wogan?
Answer: Chris Evans

Question: Give the surname of the sisters who are MPs on Merseyside.
Answer: (Angela and Maria) Eagle

Question: Which former Liverpool MP, when complaining about Churchill being drunk in the Commons was given the reply "Yes, but I'll be sober in the morning, and you will still be ugly"?
Answer: Bessie Braddock

Question: Walter Sickert was a leading figure in which group of London based painters?
Answer: Camden Town

Question: What is the SI unit of Electrical Charge?
Answer: Coulomb

Question: Which US state is known as the Hoosier State?
Answer: Indiana

Question: Which unit of the Territorial Army and Volunteer Reserve is abbreviated to HAC?
Answer: Honourable Artillery Company

Question: If you had the initials FRIBA after your name, what would your profession be?
Answer: Architect

Question: On a castle where would you find the merlon?
Answer: (They are the teeth on) battlements

Question: Which part of a castle derives its name from the old French words for 'sliding door'?
Answer: Portcullis

Question: In another life Gyles Brandreth was an MP for which constituency?
Answer: Chester

Question: Before being ennobled Lord Sebastian Coe was MP for which constituency?
Answer: Falmouth

Question: Prior to the US Dollar, what was the currency of Ecuador?
Answer: The Sucre

Question: On which West Indian island is the volcano Mount Pelee situated?
Answer: Martinique

Question: In the recent London summer Olympics, where was the majority of the Triathlon event(s) held?
Answer: Hyde Park

Question: In the recent London Olympics where were the rowing events held?
Answer: Eton Dorney

Question: Stephen Hester is the CEO of which bank?
Answer: Royal Bank of Scotland

Question: Which US space shuttle exploded shortly after take-off in January 1986?
Answer: Challenger

Question: What are the chemically identical species of atom with the same atomic number but different mass numbers called?
Answer: Isotopes

Question: Who was UN chief weapons inspector in Iraq from January 2000-June 2003?
Answer: Hans Blix

Question: Who released the 1995 hit album "Jagged Little Pill"?
Answer: Alanis Morrisette

Question: Who, in 1642, constructed a mechanical calculating machine?
Answer: Blaise Pascal

Question: From which fruit was marmalade originally made?
Answer: Quince

Question: Who directed the 1939 film "Gone With The Wind"?
Answer: Victor Fleming

Question: Which Greek dramatist wrote the three Theban Plays?
Answer: Sophocles

Question: Who had a 1995 hit album with "Stanley Road"?
Answer: Paul Weller

Question: Sabah is a state of which SE Asian independent federation?
Answer: Malaysia

Question: Eleanor of Aquitaine was married to which English king?
Answer: Henry the Second

Question: In which year was HRH Prince Harry born; the first Apple Macintosh went on sale; the UK coal industry strike began?
Answer: 1984

Question: Which NW Algerian town was the HQ of the French Foreign Legion?
Answer: Sidi-Bel-Abbes

Question: Who directed the 1943 film "Casablanca"?
Answer: Michael Curtiz

Question: Which fruit is a hybrid between a raspberry and a blackberry?
Answer: Loganberry