Question: Which English dish consists of soaked and boiled split peas, usually served with ham or pork?
Answer: Pease Pudding

Question: The Dandie Dinmont is a dog breed named after a character from which novel by Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: Guy Mannering

Question: Opened in 1965, which is the oldest of Britain's long-distance footpaths?
Answer: The Pennine Way

Question: In which Dickens' novel do the characters Aunt Rose, Charley Bates and Toby Crackit appear?
Answer: Oliver Twist

Question: In World War II, what was the allies' code name for the Anzio Landings?
Answer: Operation Shingle

Question: In the Bible, who was the blind beggar that Jesus cured in Jericho?
Answer: Bartimeus

Question: Which actress took the role originally played by Margaret Lockwood in the 1979 remake of the film The Lady Vanishes?
Answer: Cybil Shepherd

Question: Where is the administrative centre of Hampshire?
Answer: Winchester

Question: Which English painter was born in Bury St, Edmonds, Suffolk in 1727?
Answer: Thomas Gainsborough

Question: Which singer was nicknamed The Velvet Fog'?
Answer: Mel Torme

Question: Who was the first woman to ride in the Grand National?
Answer: Charlotte Brew

Question: What is the name of the whaleship in Melville's novel Moby Dick?
Answer: Pequod

Question: Which former head of NKVD (The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) in USSR was executed in 1953 for treason after the death of Stalin?
Answer: Lavrentiy Beria

Question: In which film of the 1930's did child star Shirley Temple sing On the Good Ship Lollipop?
Answer: Bright Eyes

Question: Looking like a large grapefruit, which citrus fruit was once known as a shaddock?
Answer: Pomelo

Question: Who is the actress mother of Melanie Griffith?
Answer: Tippi Hedren

Question: Which English king was the father of Queen Anne?
Answer: James II

Question: In November 2014, a European Space consortium succeeded in landing a vehicle on a comet after a 10 year journey. What was the name of the mission?
Answer: Rosetta

Question: Which part of the human body do the French call 'la vessie'?
Answer: Bladder

Question: Kendal stands on a river that shares its name with which English county?
Answer: Kent

Question: Shaddongate United was the original name of which English Football League club?
Answer: Carlisle United

Question: Which Simon & Garfunkel song was used as the theme for the 1967 film The Graduate?
Answer: The Sound of Silence

Question: What was the occupation of Jack Russell, after whom a breed of dog is named?
Answer: Clergyman

Question: Established in April 1951, which was the first National Park in England?
Answer: Peak District

Question: Which actress took the role originally played by Janet Leigh in the 1998 re-make of Psycho?
Answer: Anne Heche

Question: Who, in January 2013, became the General Secretary of the TUC?
Answer: Frances O'Grady

Question: Which English painter was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk in 1776?
Answer: John Constable

Question: Which singer was known as 'Little Miss Dynamite'?
Answer: Brenda Lee

Question: The name of which type of wine glass is also the name of a musical instrument?
Answer: Flute

Question: A Brazilian Huntsman is a type of what?
Answer: Spider

Question: Who was the first woman to ride in the Epsom Derby in 1996?
Answer: Alex Greaves

Question: Who was the chief harpooner on Captain Ahab's whaleship?
Answer: Queequeg

Question: The assassination of which Soviet politician in 1934 triggered Stalin's purge of the Communist Party?
Answer: Sergei Kirov

Question: In which of her films did Shirley Temple sing Animal Crackers in my Soup?
Answer: Curly Top

Question: Which fruit is a cross between a grapefruit and a tangerine?
Answer: Tangelo

Question: Which artist designed the sleeve for The Beatles album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?Peter Blake
Answer: 4 Which is the most westerly county of Wales?

Question: In which Carry On film does Kenneth Williams play Captain Fearless and Bernard Cribbins Midshipman Albert Poopdecker?
Answer: Carry On Jack

Question: Milwaukee is the largest city of which US state?
Answer: Wisconsin

Question: In which modern day country was the "Battle of Waterloo" fought in 1815?
Answer: Belgium

Question: With whom did Lionel Ritchie duet on the 1981 hit "Endless Love"?
Answer: Diana Ross

Question: In the names of three trees, of the same family, what word follows "Spanish", "Macedonian" and Turkey"?
Answer: Oak

Question: From which club did Tottenham Hotspur sign Christian Eriksen in 2013?
Answer: Ajax

Question: The Kadjar and Twizy models of cars are produced by which company?
Answer: Renault

Question: Baltimore is the largest city of which US state?
Answer: Maryland

Question: Which British general commanded the forces who defeated the French at Quebec in 1759 led by The Marquis de Montcalm?
Answer: General Wolfe

Question: Which northern Irish singer-songwriters only UK top 20 hit was a duet with Cliff Richard, entitled "Whenever God Shines His Light"?
Answer: Van Morrison

Question: From which club did FC Barcelona sign Neymar in 2013?
Answer: Santos

Question: Which fish is used in an Arbroath Smokie?
Answer: Haddock

Question: Which battle of 23 June, 1757, was a major victory for the British East India Company's troops over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies?
Answer: The Battle of Plassey

Question: The adjective "vulpine", appertains to which animal?
Answer: Fox

Question: Who directed Robert De Niro in the film "Taxi Driver"?
Answer: Martin Scorsese

Question: Who was president of Malawi from 1966 to 1994?
Answer: Hastings Banda

Question: In which organ of the body can the Islets of Langerhans be found?
Answer: Pancreas

Question: Under which perfume company's name are the men's aftershaves or colognes "Safari" and "Big Pony" marketed?
Answer: Ralph Lauren

Question: Which 1978 film starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson was an African - American adaptation of a 1939 film starring Judy Garland?
Answer: The Wiz

Question: Chablis is a white wine from which wine growing region of France?
Answer: Burgundy

Question: Who deposed King Idris in a coup in Libya in 1969?
Answer: Colonel Gadhafi

Question: In which constellation, visible from the UK is the bright star Algol to be found?
Answer: Perseus

Question: The foremost of the Nine Muses, according to Hesiod, who was the muse of epic poetry?
Answer: Calliope

Question: Which is the main river flowing through the Portuguese capital of Lisbon?
Answer: Tagus

Question: Brouilly, Morgon, Fleurie and Julienas are among the better classifications of wine from which popular wine-growing area of France?
Answer: Beaujolais

Question: Who wrote the operetta, "The Merry Widow", first performed in 1905?
Answer: Franz Lehar

Question: In "The Prisoner of Azkaban" who was Harry Potter's godfather?
Answer: Sirius Black

Question: In 2001 Martin Creed notoriously won the Turner Prize, for an installation consisting of an empty room, with what happening every five seconds?
Answer: Lights going on and off

Question: Who played Eliza Doolittle in the 1964 film "My Fair Lady"?
Answer: Audrey Hepburn

Question: Since 1843, in which town of southern England has Arkell's brewery been located?
Answer: Swindon

Question: Who is the author of the books "Foucault's Pendulum" and "The Island of the Day Before"?
Answer: Umberto Eco

Question: On which river do Basle, Strasbourg and Cologne stand?
Answer: The River Rhine

Question: To within 10% either way, how many pieces are used in a game of Go?
Answer: 325 - 397

Question: Damien Hirst's "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", consisted of which creature preserved in formaldehyde?
Answer: A Shark

Question: In which city is Kingsford Smith airport?
Answer: Sydney

Question: Which 1952 musical about the introduction of talkies, has a title song which was once parodied by Morecambe and Wise?
Answer: Singin' in the Rain