Question: In which month of 1066 was the Battle of Hastings?
Answer: October

Question: Which is the second largest of the Orkney Islands?
Answer: Hoy

Question: What was the first name of the character played by Connie Booth in 'Fawlty Towers'?
Answer: 'Polly'

Question: 'Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by' are words from the first verse of which Christmas carol?
Answer: 'O Little Town Of Bethlehem'

Question: In which classic 'western' does 'Marshal Will Kane' marry 'Amy Fowler' and turn in his badge, only for events to change on the arrival of a train?
Answer: 'High Noon'

Question: Who was the US President when Clement Attlee was the UK Prime Minister?
Answer: Harry S Truman

Question: Which British poet was announced in July as the winner of the 2012 PEN/Pinter Prize?
Answer: Carol Ann Duffy

Question: Which constellation is named after the daughter of Cassiopeia who was chained to a rock to be eaten by the sea monster Cetus?
Answer: Andromeda

Question: 'Point Guard' and 'Centre' are positions in which sport?
Answer: Basketball

Question: Which car manufacturer makes the 'Yeti' model?
Answer: Skoda

Question: The Rugby League club Hunslet is based in which city?
Answer: Leeds

Question: In pre-decimal currency, what was the value in shillings and pence, of one-third of a pound?
Answer: SIX SHILLINGS AND EIGHT PENCE (6s/8d)

Question: In which century did Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume live?
Answer: Eighteenth (1711 - 1776)

Question: On which island in 1191 did King Richard I marry Berengaria?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: The rivers Tawd and Yarrow are tributaries of which river, itself a tributary of the River Ribble?
Answer: RIVER DOUGLAS (accept R.Asland/Astland)

Question: In the first act of which opera set in Paris at Christmas 1830, does 'Mimi' knock at the door of 'Rodolfo's' flat who then holds her frozen hand?
Answer: 'La Boheme'

Question: What sort of animal is 'Marty' in the 'Madagascar' series of animated films?
Answer: Zebra

Question: Which Press Secretary to Margaret Thatcher was described by John Biffen MP as " a rough-spoken Yorkshire Rasputin"?
Answer: Bernard Ingham

Question: Great Victoria Street railway station serves the centre of which UK city?
Answer: Belfast

Question: Which opera, set in 1930 Seville, opens in a factory where workers make cigarettes all day?
Answer: 'Carmen'

Question: What sort of animal is 'Pumbaa' in 'The Lion King' film and stage show?
Answer: Warthog

Question: George Entwistle was announced in July as the next Director-General of which organisation?
Answer: B.B.C.

Question: The constellation Mensa was created in the eighteenth century and named in honour of which African mountain?
Answer: Table Mountain

Question: How many points are awarded for a goal in Australian Rules Football?
Answer: Six (6)

Question: """We may not know, we cannot tell, what pains he had to bear"" are words from the second verse of which Easter hymn?"
Answer: 'There Is A Green Hill Far Away'

Question: In which classic film is businessman 'George Bailey' on the brink of suicide when 'Clarence Oldbody' shows him what the world would have been like without him?
Answer: 'It'S A Wonderful Life'

Question: Which Yorkshire town between Scarborough and Bridlington is at the eastern end of the Cleveland Way and the northern end of the Yorkshire Wolds Way?
Answer: Filey

Question: Which arts series which ran on ITV for over 30 years has recently been revived on 'Sky Arts'?
Answer: 'The South Bank Show'

Question: In 1969 which MP was described by Stratton Mills MP as "Fidel Castro in a miniskirt"?
Answer: Bernadette Devlin

Question: Who also writes using the pseudonym 'Richard Bachman'?
Answer: Stephen King

Question: Renzo Piano is the architect of a new main building, due to open in 2015, for the Whitney Museum of American Art in the meatpacking district of which city?
Answer: New York

Question: In pre-decimal currency how many pence was a half- crown worth?
Answer: Thirty (30)

Question: Which horse, ridden by Brian Fletcher, won the Scottish Grand National in 1974?
Answer: 'Red Rum'

Question: In which county was Laszlo Biro, the inventor of the ballpoint pen, born?
Answer: Hungary

Question: Which small people from an isolated Atlantic island does 'Willy Wonka' invite to work in his chocolate factory?
Answer: 'Oompa-Loompas'

Question: Complete the name of the Roam Catholic diocese 'Hexham and ......'?
Answer: Newcastle

Question: Odo, the half-brother of William the Conqueror who supported him at the Battle of Hastings, was Bishop of ....., where?
Answer: Bayeux

Question: Which island, which gives its name to an area in the Shipping Forecast, lies halfway between Orkney and Shetland?
Answer: Fair Isle

Question: 'Wherever You Are' last year's Christmas number one is by 'Military Wives and .......', who?
Answer: Gareth Malone

Question: What was the first name of the handyman played by Paul Henry in the t.v. soap 'Crossroads'?
Answer: 'Benny'

Question: Who wrote the music for the ballet 'The Three Cornered Hat'?
Answer: Manuel De Falla

Question: Which P.G. Wodehouse character has a surname that begins with a 'silent P'?
Answer: 'Psmith'

Question: '4.50 From Paddington' and 'Murder At The Vicarage' are novels featuring which detective?
Answer: 'Miss Marple'

Question: Cassiterite is a major ore of which metal?
Answer: Tin

Question: For her performance in which film did Meryl Streep win the Best Actress 'Oscar' earlier this year?
Answer: 'The Iron Lady'

Question: For which film did Woody Allen win the 'Oscar' for Best Original Screenplay earlier this year?
Answer: 'Midnight In Paris'

Question: Galena is a major ore of which metal?
Answer: Lead

Question: Who was the first Italian boxer to be World Heavyweight Champion?
Answer: Primo Carnera

Question: 'The Dead Of Jericho' and 'Last Bus To Woodstock' are novels featuring which detective?
Answer: 'Inspector Morse'

Question: Which colour completes the title of the 1970 number one by 'Christie', '.......... River'?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Hephaestus?
Answer: Vulcan

Question: In which country was Alexander Dubcek First Secretary of the Communist Party in 1968-1969?
Answer: Czechoslovakia

Question: Who was the Greek equivalent of the Roman goddess Venus?
Answer: Aphrodite

Question: Which musical instrument completes the title of the 1968 top ten hit by the 'Lemon Pipers', 'Green ........'?
Answer: Tambourine

Question: Which Welshman was proclaimed Prince of Wales by his supporters on September 16th 1400?
Answer: Owain Glyndwr

Question: Manhattan is surrounded by three rivers, the East, Harlem and which other
Answer: Hudson

Question: Which scientist discovered the neutron in 1932?
Answer: James Chad Wick

Question: Give a year in the life of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
Answer: 1685 To 1750

Question: What is the full name of the disease in pigs SVD?
Answer: Swine Vesicular Disease

Question: Which novel by Dickens features Mr Wackford Squeers' Academy in the village of Dotheboys near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire?
Answer: Nicholas Nickleby

Question: Whose yacht was the Handicap Winner of the 1969 Sydney to Hobart Race?
Answer: Edward Heath

Question: In which sport did Southport-born Francesca Halsall win three gold and two bronze medals for Great Britain in the 2014 European Championships?
Answer: Swimming

Question: Which word completes the title of MOCA in Los Angeles: Museum of???????????? Art?
Answer: Contemporary

Question: Which 1936 novel tells the story of 20-year old Mary Yellan who was brought up on a farm but has to and live with her Aunt Patience in Cornwall after her mother dies?
Answer: Jamaica Inn

Question: In which German city, is the tomb of Charlemagne?
Answer: Aachen

Question: Wroxeter, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum, is in which English county?
Answer: Shropshire