Question: Who won the Women’s Singles at the 2015 Australian Open Tennis Championships?
Answer: Serena Williams

Question: To which school of art did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rotho belong?
Answer: Abstract Expressionism

Question: Which motorcycle manufacturer made the Trident and Bonneville models?
Answer: Triumph

Question: What was the maiden name of tennis player Billy Jean King?
Answer: Moffitt

Question: To which school of art did Matisse and Vlaminck belong?
Answer: Fauvism

Question: Which motorcycle manufacturer made the Dominator and Commando models?
Answer: Norton

Question: What was the maiden name of tennis player Margaret Court?
Answer: Smith

Question: What was the name of the Girl From Uncle?
Answer: April Dancer

Question: The object in pontoon is 21 – what is it in baccarat?
Answer: 9

Question: James Joyce’s Ulysses ends with an extended monologue by which character?
Answer: Molly Bloom

Question: Which king ordered the killing of all Danes in the St. Brice’s Day massacre of 1002?
Answer: Æthelred II or The Unready

Question: Maureen ’Mo’ Tucker was the drummer in which seminal 1960s rock band?
Answer: Velvet Underground

Question: Classical musician Alison Balsom is a virtuoso player of which instrument?
Answer: Trumpet

Question: Who is the lead female protagonist of Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth I

Question: The Trial and The Castle are works by which Czech author?
Answer: Franz Kafka

Question: Who composed the tone poem The Swan of Tuonela?
Answer: Jean Sibelius

Question: Which scientific law can be expressed in the form V = IR*? (*QR: vee equals eye are.)
Answer: Ohm’s Law

Question: Four of the first five Presidents of the USA came from which state?
Answer: Virginia

Question: What comes next in this sequence: butane, propane, ethane, ... ?
Answer: Methane

Question: Snooker cues, baseball bats, and cricket stumps are traditionally made from which wood?
Answer: Ash

Question: In which board game is the ‘huffing’ rule sometimes adopted?
Answer: Draughts

Question: In poker, which hand beats a flush but loses to four of a kind?
Answer: Full House

Question: The Black Mountains are part of which UK national park?
Answer: Brecon Beacons

Question: What is the signature feature of footwear designed by Christian Louboutin?
Answer: Red Soles

Question: Which quiz-show host will provide the new voice of Danger Mouse later in 2015?
Answer: Alexander Armstrong

Question: The Prostate Years is the final instalment of whose diaries?
Answer: Adrian Mole

Question: Star Beast was the working title for which 1979 blockbuster film?
Answer: Alien

Question: ‘Stop all the clocks’ are the opening words of which poem by W. H. Auden?
Answer: Funeral Blues

Question: Which poem by Philip Larkin describes a train journey on a hot bank-holiday Saturday?
Answer: The Whitsun Weddings

Question: According to John Betjeman, who was ‘Furnish’d and burnish’d by Aldershot sun’?
Answer: Miss Joan Hunter Dunne

Question: Which Championship football team was originally known as Riverside FC?
Answer: Cardiff City

Question: Who played Watson in Guy Ritchie’s 2009 film Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: Jude Law

Question: Which two cities form the termini of the passenger train known as The Ghan?
Answer: Darwin and Adelaide

Question: Which amendment to the Constitution mandated prohibition in the USA?
Answer: Eighteenth Amendment

Question: What was Queen Victoria’s first name at birth, in May 1819?
Answer: Alexandrina

Question: By what name are the Society of London Theatre’s annual awards known?
Answer: Olivier Awards

Question: Which all-Pullman train ran between London and Brighton from 1931 to 1972?
Answer: The Brighton Belle

Question: The Palk strait separates which two countries?
Answer: India and Sri Lanka

Question: What is the most populous city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido?
Answer: Sapporo

Question: Port Louis is the capital city of which island nation?
Answer: Mauritius

Question: Which tragic nineteenth-century military figure was nicknamed ‘Chinese’?
Answer: General Gordon of Khartoum

Question: When used as an artists’ pigment, the oxide of which metal is known as Chinese white?
Answer: Zinc

Question: Which England cricketer is nicknamed ‘Chef’?
Answer: Alistair Cook

Question: What word links a walrus and a telecommunications pioneer?
Answer: Morse

Question: Edmund II, son of Æthelred the Unready, was known by what appellation?
Answer: Ironside

Question: Lawyer Miriam González Durántez is married to which prominent UK politician?
Answer: Nick Clegg

Question: Which legendary American folk singer died in January 2014 at the age of 94?
Answer: Pete SEEGER

Question: 18 June will mark the 200th anniversary of which famous battle?
Answer: Waterloo

Question: In the Christian festival of Christingle, which fruit is used to represent the world?
Answer: Orange

Question: Which vegetable is used to layer a traditional Greek moussaka?
Answer: Aubergine

Question: Who designed the modern glass pyramid that sits at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris?
Answer: I. M. Pei

Question: Whose greatest work was laying out the plan for the city of New Delhi, India?
Answer: Edwin LUTYENS

Question: An architect and playwright, who designed Blenheim House in Oxfordshire, England?
Answer: John VANBRUGH

Question: What was the name of the prison setting for the TV comedy ‘Porridge’?
Answer: Hmp Slade

Question: What was the home state of character Tony Soprano in the TV series 'The Sopranos'?
Answer: New Jersey

Question: Which square on a UK Monopoly Board comes between Pall Mall and Whitehall?
Answer: Electric Company

Question: Who was the author of the 1992 novel ‘Jurassic Park’?
Answer: Michael CRICHTON

Question: Who wrote the picaresque American novel 'A Confederacy of Dunces'?
Answer: John Kennedy TOOLE

Question: Which town sits opposite Tynemouth at the mouth of the River Tyne?
Answer: South Shields

Question: What is the name of the village on the Wirral originally built by William Lever for his workers?
Answer: Port Sunlight

Question: In terms of population, which is the second largest city in Austria?
Answer: Graz

Question: In terms of population, which is the second largest city in Finland?
Answer: Espoo

Question: Served with a steak, which sauce is made with butter, egg yolks, white wine vinegar, and tarragon?
Answer: Béarnaise

Question: Above which castle did Charles I raise his Standard in 1642, effecting declaring war on parliament?
Answer: Nottingham

Question: Which bloody 1651 encounter was the final battle of the English Civil Wars?
Answer: Battle of

Question: What name is given to the speculation mania that ruined a great many investors in 1720?
Answer: South Sea Bubble

Question: Who revolutionized the high jump, inventing a unique "back-first" technique, named after him?
Answer: Dick FOSBURY

Question: By custom, the medals for which men’s event are presented during a Games’ Closing Ceremony?
Answer: Marathon

Question: In which musical does the song “I Got Plenty of Nuthin’”appear?
Answer: Porgy And Bess

Question: Which Mountain Pass provides a route between Kentucky and Tennessee via the Appalachians?
Answer: Cumberland Gap

Question: Which was Roger Moore’s final Bond film?
Answer: A View To A Kill

Question: Which film opens with Bond performing a bungee jump from a dam?
Answer: Goldeneye

Question: Who sang the theme for the film ‘You Only Live Twice’?
Answer: Nancy SINATRA

Question: Which film company did George Harrison create to finance ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’?
Answer: HANDMADE Films

Question: For which play did Shakespeare write the line: "All that glisters is not gold"?
Answer: The MERCHANT OF

Question: What colour gloves does Sonic the hedgehog wear?
Answer: White

Question: What kind of marsupial is the titular video game character ‘Crash’?
Answer: Bandicoot

Question: In the classic video game, what colour hair do the titular Lemmings have?
Answer: Green