Question: Which classical composter wrote 'The Snow Maiden' and 'The Golden Cockerel'?
Answer: Rimsky Korsakov

Question: """When you happen to know today is Wednesday and starts like sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere"" is the opening line of which John Wyndham novel?"
Answer: The Day Of The Triffids

Question: Which make of car was the first to be powered by gas turbine?
Answer: Rover

Question: What species of flower are 'Dead Mans Fingers'?
Answer: Orchid

Question: Which Greek hero married Andromeda?
Answer: Perseus

Question: Janet Street Porter was once the editor of which British newspaper?
Answer: Independent On Sunday

Question: Give a year in the life of Leonardo da Vinci.
Answer: 1452-1519

Question: What is the real name of John le Carre?
Answer: David Cornwell

Question: Which is the only non human land animal to suffer from sunburn?
Answer: Pig

Question: What is the longest winning distance in the Epsom Derby?
Answer: 10 Lengths

Question: What was advertised with the slogan 'Buy some for Lulu'?
Answer: Smarties

Question: In which City was Tony Blair born?
Answer: Edinburgh

Question: In which year was Marie Antoinette executed?
Answer: 1793

Question: Who first said or wrote "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: 'Munchausen's syndrome' is the medical term for feigned symptoms brought on with what view?
Answer: Admission To Hosital

Question: A cornice is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: Pear

Question: What name is given to the young of an otter?
Answer: Whelp

Question: What is the world's biggest selling copyrighted board game?
Answer: Monopoly

Question: In which year was the first bikini worn in Britain?
Answer: 1950

Question: The British hit parade was first published in 1952, what was the first record to be number one?
Answer: Here In My Heart

Question: What was advertised with the slogan "Nice One Cyril"?
Answer: Bread

Question: In which year did Queen Elizabeth make her first Christmas speech?
Answer: 1957

Question: What was the tea ration per person per week during World War II?
Answer: Two Ounces

Question: Barack Obama was a senator for which state?
Answer: Illinois

Question: Which is the longest river in Asia that flows through only one country?
Answer: Yangtze

Question: Which black tea is known as the 'Champagne of Tea'?
Answer: Darjeeling

Question: UK, USA, Russia and China are four of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, which country is the fifth?
Answer: France

Question: In 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to which general?
Answer: Ulysses S. Grant

Question: The 'Kilmarnock Volume' features whose poetry?
Answer: Robert Burns

Question: In which US city did Clint Eastwood's character 'Dirty Harry' fight crime?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: The rugby union teams of Neath and Swansea amalgamated and now play under what name?
Answer: Ospreys

Question: How are the planets Neptune, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus collectively described?
Answer: Gas Giants

Question: In 2010, actress Ayda Field married which British entertainer?
Answer: Robbie Williams

Question: Which retail company markets the clothing label 'Atlantic Bay'?
Answer: Bhs

Question: What name is given to the road in Jerusalem said to be the path that Jesus took carrying his cross?
Answer: Via Dolorosa

Question: Which fictional character was born in Lithuania, imprisoned in Baltimore, escaped to Florence and was last known to be living in Buenos Aires?
Answer: Hannibal Lecter

Question: Which was the last British coin to cease to be legal tender?
Answer: Decimal half-penny

Question: What is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler who wrote the children's book 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'?
Answer: Lemony Snicket

Question: Three Counties Radio covers Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and which other county?
Answer: Hertfordshire

Question: In which county of the Republic of Ireland are Connemara National Park and the country's largest lake, Lake Corrib?
Answer: Galway

Question: The name of which African country means 'House of Stone'?
Answer: Zimbabwe

Question: Which food company, still in existence today, was founded in 1902 in a disused malthouse in Burton-on-Trent?
Answer: Marmite

Question: The MP for Pontefract & Castleford is Yvette Cooper; she is the wife of which other MP?
Answer: Ed Balls

Question: What name is given to the female equivalent of the Oedipus Complex?
Answer: Electra Complex

Question: Which fictional character was shipwrecked when the 'Demeter' ran aground?
Answer: Dracula

Question: The Al Khalifa family has ruled which country since 1783?
Answer: Bahrain

Question: Which current England footballer won his first four caps under four different managers?
Answer: Ashley Cole

Question: Which prominent European politician was injured by a shot fired by Violet Gibson in 1926?
Answer: Benito Mussolini

Question: What in Russia is a 'matryoshka'?
Answer: Set of dolls of decreasing size placed one inside the other

Question: Which Russian man won both the 100 and 200m gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games?
Answer: Valery Borzov

Question: Of which US city was Jerry Springer the mayor in 1977-78?
Answer: Cincinnati

Question: Which Italian composer claimed that he could "set a laundry list to music"?
Answer: Rossini

Question: Which creatures might be bred and reared in a 'ranarium'?
Answer: Frogs

Question: At which Paris airfield did Charles Lindbergh complete the first solo transatlantic flight in 1927?
Answer: Le Bourget

Question: Which chemical element gets its named from the Greek for 'bringer of light'?
Answer: Phosphorus

Question: The Primate of All Ireland is the Archbishop of which City?
Answer: Armagh

Question: Which current England footballer won his first three caps whilst playing for three different clubs?
Answer: Scott Parker

Question: Archibald Primrose was Prime Minister 1894-95, what was his title?
Answer: Lord Rosebery

Question: The global collection of what is stored in a vault in Svalbard on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen?
Answer: Seeds

Question: The bell, Great Peter is in the northwest tower of which cathedral?
Answer: York Minster

Question: Which county cricket team play home games at Wantage Road?
Answer: Northants

Question: Fat Charlie is the mascot of which company?
Answer: Little Chef

Question: Which future president escaped from Lincoln Prison in 1919 when a key to his cell was smuggled in to him in a cake?
Answer: Eamonn de Valera

Question: Which opera features a 'Prisoner's Chorus'?
Answer: Fidelio

Question: Which Scottish football team is nicknamed the 'Pars'?
Answer: Dunfermline Athletic

Question: On which precise day of the month in November does the USA celebrate Thanksgiving?
Answer: Fourth Thursday

Question: Which bird has the Latin name Pica Pica?
Answer: Magpie

Question: Under what name does Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta perform?
Answer: Lady Gaga

Question: Who was Chancellor of Germany immediately before Angela Merkel?
Answer: Gerhard Schroeder

Question: Complete this quote by Groucho Marx in the film Monkey Business :"Either this man is dead or ..."
Answer: """...my watch has stopped"""

Question: Who, along with Karl Ferdinand Braun, won a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909 for their work on wireless telegraphy?
Answer: Guglielmo Marconi

Question: Which city was known in Roman times as Glevum?
Answer: Gloucester

Question: Doris Speed played which part in Coronation Street?
Answer: Annie Walker

Question: Which Fleetwood Mac album of 1977 sold 15 million copies and remained in the UK charts for more than eight years?
Answer: Rumours

Question: Alan Rusbridger is the editor of which newspaper?
Answer: The Guardian

Question: The liner Mauretania was launched in 1906 as a sister ship to which other liner?
Answer: Lusitania

Question: At which school were Tom Brown's Schooldays spent?
Answer: Rugby