Question: Which French writer, born François-Marie Arouet in 1694, wrote Candide?
Answer: Voltaire

Question: Who played Henry VIII in BBC’s recent adaptation of Wolf Hall?
Answer: Damian Lewis

Question: In the 2014-15 season which championship team’s stadium had the largest capacity?
Answer: Sheffield Wednesday

Question: What is the second largest city, by population, in Ireland?
Answer: Cork

Question: What is two divided by a half?
Answer: 4

Question: Which European capital city has the same latitude (38º__´N) as Washington DC?
Answer: Lisbon

Question: Which Lib Dem cabinet minister lost his seat - Twickenham - in May’s general election?
Answer: Vince Cable

Question: Which clothing retailer was founded in Dublin in 1969 under the name Penneys?
Answer: Primark

Question: Where in the body is the trapezium bone?
Answer: Wrist

Question: Who composed a London Symphony, a Clock Symphony and a Surprise Symphony?
Answer: Joseph Haydn

Question: Which French artist painted several views of Rouen Cathedral in the 1890s?
Answer: Claude Monet

Question: In the Bible, who succeeded David as King of the Israelites?
Answer: Solomon

Question: Châteauneuf-du-Pape is a red wine from which French wine region?
Answer: Rhone

Question: Who was Prime Minister of the UK in 1980?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Question: In Spain, Paco or Pancho is a nickname for which Christian name?
Answer: Francisco

Question: What is the name of the Greek dip of yoghurt, cucumber, garlic and mint?
Answer: Tzatziki

Question: To which musician was actress Gwyneth Paltrow married; they separated in 2014?
Answer: Chris Martin

Question: Which transition metallic element, atomic number 40, is the last alphabetically in a list of naturally occurring elements?
Answer: Zirconium

Question: For what does the I stand in the organisation FBI?
Answer: (Federal Bureau Of) Investigation

Question: What is the capital of the French region of Aquitaine?
Answer: Bordeaux

Question: Which British Prime Minister died in office in 1827?
Answer: George Canning

Question: Which river runs through Shrewsbury?
Answer: Severn

Question: What is the full first name of the detective character known as Harry Bosch in American author Michael Connelly’s crime novels set in Los Angeles?
Answer: Hieronymus

Question: Who painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon in 1907?
Answer: Pablo Picasso

Question: Tony Hadley was the lead singer with which UK chart-topping group in the 1980s?
Answer: Spandau Ballet

Question: Who played the character Andy Dufresne, a banker wrongly convicted of murdering his wife in the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption?
Answer: Tim Robbins

Question: Who in 1807 & 1808 was the first to discover and isolate the metals sodium, potassium and calcium?
Answer: Sir Humphrey Davy

Question: Who is Secretary of State for International Development – she was previously Secretary of State for Transport?
Answer: Justine Greening

Question: Who led the British forces at the Battle of Assaye in 1803 in the 2nd Anglo-Maratha War in India?
Answer: Major General Arthur Wellesley

Question: Which river rises in south Poland and empties into the Baltic Sea at Gdansk?
Answer: Vistula

Question: John Proctor and Abigail Williams are characters in which play by Arthur Miller?
Answer: The Crucible

Question: Which Swiss sculptor appears with his creation L’Homme Qui Marche I on the 100 Swiss Franc note?
Answer: Alberto Giacometti

Question: The Resurrection is a symphony by which composer?
Answer: Gustav Mahler

Question: Who in 2014 scored the highest innings by an England number 11 batsman in Test cricket when he scored 81 versus India?
Answer: James Anderson

Question: Gavin Maxwell’s book Ring of Bright Water is about which creatures?
Answer: Otters

Question: What is the name of the BBCs free online support resource for children, where the topics are broken down into small sections?
Answer: Bitesize

Question: Which American poet wrote Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening?
Answer: Robert Frost

Question: Côte d’Azur Airport serves which French city?
Answer: Nice

Question: Which opera by Rossini has the alternative title The Useless Precaution?
Answer: The Barber Of Seville

Question: Who is the only man to have trained three consecutive Epsom Derby winners?
Answer: Aidan O'Brien

Question: The stars Rigel and Bellatrix are in which constellation?
Answer: Orion

Question: Bert Weedon wrote a book entitled Play In a Day which gave advice on how to play which musical instrument?
Answer: Guitar

Question: Which bird is the symbol of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds?
Answer: Avocet

Question: In 2002 Johnny Vegas sold his wedding pictures to which comic magazine for £1?
Answer: Viz

Question: Chris Leslie holds which position in the Labour Shadow Cabinet?
Answer: Chancellor Of The Exchequer

Question: Aneto is the highest mountain in which European mountain range?
Answer: Pyrenees

Question: Dick Dudgeon and Reverend Anthony Anderson are characters in which play by George Bernard Shaw?
Answer: The Devil’S Disciple

Question: Which Romanian sculptor made more than 20 versions of his Bird in Space sculpture out of marble or bronze?
Answer: Constantin Brâncu?I

Question: Whose 6th and final symphony is called The Pathetique?
Answer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Question: Susan Stranks was the female presenter of which ITV children’s programme designed to rival BBC’s Blue Peter?
Answer: Magpie

Question: Which of Mozart’s operas has the alternative title The Rake Punished?
Answer: Don Giovanni

Question: The stars Aldebaran and Electra are in which constellation?
Answer: Taurus

Question: Whom did Nicolas Sarkozy succeed as President of France in 2007?
Answer: Jacques Chirac

Question: Larry Adler was a virtuoso on which musical instrument?
Answer: HARMONICA (accept MOUTH ORGAN

Question: Headmaster’s Message from the Cameron Free School (formerly Coalition Academy) appears in which magazine?
Answer: Private Eye

Question: Which Bulgarian beat Andy Murray in the 2014 Wimbledon quarter-final?
Answer: Grigor Dimitrov

Question: What is the name of the Bengal tiger in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling?
Answer: Shere Khan

Question: Which comedian and actor was announced in June as the new presenter of The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4?
Answer: Miles Jupp

Question: Nuits-Saint-Georges comes from which wine-making region in France?
Answer: Burgundy

Question: The Ivy League university Brown is in which US State capital?
Answer: Providence

Question: Which British Prime Minister died in office in 1865?
Answer: Viscount Palmerston

Question: Which river flows through Dewsbury and Wakefield?
Answer: Calder

Question: Detective Jane Rizzoli and Doctor Maura Isles work for the Police Department in which city in US author Tess Gerritsen’s crime novels?
Answer: Boston

Question: Who painted The Night Café in 1888?
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

Question: Damon Albarn was lead singer and guitarist with which UK chart-topping group in the 1990s?
Answer: Blur

Question: Which actor played the part of Oskar Schindler in the film Schindler’s List?
Answer: Liam Neeson

Question: Who in 1869 arranged the 63 known elements at that time into the first modern periodic table and correctly predicted several other elements?
Answer: Dmitri Mendeleev

Question: Which British born actor who lived from 1913 to 1993 had the real name James Lablache Stewart?
Answer: Stewart Granger

Question: Which US TV series is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce?
Answer: Mad Men

Question: Which horse won the 2014 Epsom Derby?
Answer: Australia

Question: A spiked wheel is the principal emblem of which saint, martyred in Alexandria?
Answer: St Catherine

Question: In Greek mythology who was the father of Castor and Pollux?
Answer: Zeus