Question: Which rock band did Dave Gilmour join in 1967?
Answer: Pink Floyd

Question: Who co-wrote the sitcom Gavin and Stacey and starred in the original cast of the stage play One Man, Two Guvnors?
Answer: James Corden

Question: The Common Noctule is the largest type in Britain of what creature?
Answer: Bat

Question: Curtain, a book published in 1975, featured the death of which detective?
Answer: Poirot

Question: The song Stranger in Paradise featured in which 1955 film musical?
Answer: Kismet

Question: What Oscar nominated film was adapted from Noel Coward?s play Still Life?
Answer: Brief Encounter

Question: In the Arab Spring which country's uprising was called the Jasmine Revolution?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: What was the former name, until 1976, of Ho Chi Minh City?
Answer: Saigon

Question: Which French author declined to accept his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964?
Answer: Jean Paul Sartre

Question: Mussorgsky's composition Pictures at an Exhibition was originally written for piano. Who produced the most popular orchestral version in 1922?
Answer: Maurice Ravel

Question: Which letter in the Morse code is represented by a single dot?
Answer: E

Question: How is the Rembrandt painting 'The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch preparing to march out' more commonly known?
Answer: The Night Watch

Question: Who plays Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films?
Answer: Maggie Smith

Question: The chemical symbol for which element is derived from hydrargyrum meaning watery silver?
Answer: Mercury

Question: What is the full name of the policeman in the Scottish village of Lochdubh created by M C Beaton?
Answer: Hamish Macbeth

Question: How many chapters or sutras are there in the Koran?
Answer: 114

Question: Which Scottish king was killed in the Battle of Flooded Field?
Answer: James Iv

Question: Ballymena is in which Northern Irish county?
Answer: Antrim

Question: Tom Brady has been the starting quarterback for which NFL team since 2000?
Answer: New England Patriots

Question: In old measures how many chains made a furlong?
Answer: 10

Question: Of the fortyeight contiguous states in the USA, which contains the most northerly point?
Answer: Minnesota

Question: Which two words complete the title of the 1992 book by Richard Burridge The Greyn Hores: The True Story of ....?
Answer: Desert Orchid

Question: Which Duke commanded the Government forces at the 1745 Battle of Culloden?
Answer: Duke Of Cumberland

Question: The river Lee enters the sea at which Irish port?
Answer: Cork

Question: Michael Jordan played for which NBA team from 1984 to 1998, except for a season of retirement in 1993-94?
Answer: Chicago Bulls

Question: Who was President of the USA between 1869 and 1877?
Answer: Ulysses Grant

Question: Which state of the USA has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico between Florida and Mississippi?
Answer: Alabama

Question: Falco subbuteo is the scientific name for which small falcon?
Answer: Hobby

Question: Salem?s Lot published in 1975 was which writer?s second novel?
Answer: Stephen King

Question: Give either of the first names of Acker Bilk whose instrumental, with the Paramount Jazz Band, Stranger on the Shore was the best selling single of 1962?
Answer: BERNARD or STANLEY

Question: In which film did Noel Coward play Captain E V Kinross and Celia Johnson his wife Alix?
Answer: In Which We Serve

Question: Which American singer-songwriter who was born on February 17th 1940 died in a Cardiff hotel in 2006?
Answer: Gene Pitney

Question: Who plays Bella Swan in the Twilight films?
Answer: Kristen Stewart

Question: KOH is the formula for which chemical compound?
Answer: Potassium Hydroxide

Question: What is the full name of Alexander McCall Smith?s 'No 1 Lady Detective'?
Answer: Precious Ramotswe

Question: Alexandr Borodin died before he could finish his opera Prince Igor. Who collaborated with Alexandr Glazunov to complete the work?
Answer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Question: What is the name of four of the five cats owned by the family in The Simpsons?
Answer: Snowball

Question: What is the title of the Holbein painting of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve?
Answer: The Ambassadors

Question: Vientiane is the capital of which Asian country?
Answer: Laos

Question: Who was the last South African to win the Open Golf Championship?
Answer: Ernie Els

Question: Sklodowska was the maiden name of which Nobel Prize winner?
Answer: Marie Curie

Question: How was Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, bom in Jersey in 1853, better known?
Answer: Lillie Langtry

Question: Which African lake, the longest freshwater lake in the world, has the same name as a former country?
Answer: Tanganyika

Question: Which Yorkshire football club plays home games at New York Stadium, having played at Millmoor until 2008?
Answer: Rotherham United

Question: Three clues lead to a one word answer: 1 T.Pau song, 2 Syndrome, 3 Porcelain.
Answer: China

Question: Which sign of the zodiac is known as Balance in French?
Answer: Libra

Question: Who was the author of the poem Home Thoughts From Abroad?
Answer: Robert Browning

Question: Who joined The Who as drummer in 1964 before they recorded their first single?
Answer: Keith Moon

Question: Who replaced Angus Deayton in 2009 as presenter of the BBC panel show Would I Lie to You?
Answer: Rob Brydon

Question: In mediaeval York, if streets were called Gates, what were gates called?
Answer: Bars

Question: In which country is Mdina Glass made?
Answer: Malta

Question: Matabeleland is part of which African country?
Answer: Zimbabwe

Question: Which famous singer's real first names were Harry Lillis?
Answer: Bing Crosby

Question: Which book is divided into 114 chapters called Suras??
Answer: Koran

Question: Which town or city is at the mouth of the Yangtze River?
Answer: Shanghai

Question: In 1993 two British boxers fought each other for the World Heavyweight title, Lennox Lewis won, who was the loser?
Answer: Frank Bruno

Question: James Stewart played the part of George Bailey in which film?
Answer: It's a Wonderful Life

Question: Whose first book was called Three Railway Engines?
Answer: Rev W Awdrey

Question: In 1587 Francis Drake 'singed the King of Spain's beard' in the harbour of which city?
Answer: Cadiz

Question: What male condition is classified on the Hamilton-Norwood scale?
Answer: (male-pattern) Baldness

Question: Running from Exeter to Lincoln, which was the longest Roman road in Britain?
Answer: Fosse Way

Question: Who partnered Andy Murray to win the 2012 Olympic tennis mixed doubles silver medal?
Answer: Laura Robson

Question: What is the ruling house of Monaco?
Answer: Grimaldi

Question: Which toy was originally called the Pluto Platter?
Answer: Frisbee

Question: By what name is the Battle of Aboukir Bay (1798) more commonly known?
Answer: Battle of the Nile

Question: Which government agency has its headquarters at Explorer House, Southampton?
Answer: Ordnance Survey

Question: In the New Testament, who demanded the head of John the Baptist?
Answer: Salome

Question: On which river does Warsaw stand?
Answer: Vistula

Question: The mineral stibnite is a source of which metallic element?
Answer: Antimony

Question: In the Thomas the Tank Engine series of books, what is the name of the Fat Controller?
Answer: Sir Topham Hat

Question: Name either of the two car companies that part of General Motors in the year it was founded (1908).
Answer: Buick, Oldsmobile

Question: Which organisation benefits from The Secret Policeman's Balls?
Answer: Amnesty International

Question: What is the name of the bell that hangs in Lloyd's of London;s HQ in Lime Street, London?
Answer: Lutine Bell

Question: In which month is Oak Apple Day?
Answer: May

Question: Which geographical feature separates Swansea Bay from Carmarthen Bay?
Answer: Gower Peninsula

Question: Which tree is sometimes known as the false plane?
Answer: Sycamore