Question: Which was the 2013 sci-fi film which scored an Oscar for Best Director and starred Sandra Bullock and George Clooney?
Answer: Gravity

Question: Which film actress was born in Germany in 1904, went to America after appearing in the film "Blue Angel", and became an American citizen in 1937?
Answer: Marlene Dietrich

Question: What is the name of the UK TV series, first screened 2006, centred on small computer maintenance department?
Answer: The IT Crowd

Question: Cape Horn is the southernmost point of what area?
Answer: Tierra del Fuego

Question: What is a jury said to do when they leave the courtroom to decide on their verdict?
Answer: Retire

Question: In USA, Canada and New Zealand, days highlighted in May, November and April respectively all commemorate what?
Answer: Members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty

Question: Which is the oldest of these religions to be recognised as a identifiable belief system?
Answer: Zoroastrianism

Question: Who was the London-based Jewish music impresario who managed Gene Vincent, Small Faces, Electric Light Orchestra and Black Sabbath?
Answer: Don Arden

Question: Prior to Kermit the Frog another Kermit was well-known; he accompanied his father Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of the USA, on an expedition 1913-14 during which the River Kermit was named in his honour. Where was the expedition?
Answer: The Amazon Basin

Question: What was referred to in the title of Bill Bryson's book "Notes From A Small Island"?
Answer: Britain

Question: What member of the music and comedy duo "The Flight of the Conchords" was recently seen, under heavy disguise, as the Boris the Animal in the film "Men in Black 3"?
Answer: Jemaine Clement

Question: What is Pablo Picasso's 1967 work known as the "Chicago Picasso"?
Answer: Sculpture

Question: In which continent did Allan Quatermain, the explorer in H. Ryder Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines", search for the mines?
Answer: Africa

Question: How is a mandolin usually played?
Answer: By plucking

Question: Which of Henry VIII's wives was the mother of Mary I?
Answer: Catherine of Aragon

Question: What British motor car manufacturer, founded in 1909 by H.F.S. Morgan and run by him until 1959 when his son Peter Morgan took over until 1999, is currently run by Peter's son, Charles Morgan?
Answer: The Morgan Motor Company

Question: The husband of Mumtaz designed and built what magnificent monument in India to her when she died in 1631?
Answer: Taj Mahal

Question: If a shawm were a member of the modern orchestra what section would it be in?
Answer: Woodwind

Question: In 2014 what Formula One team was Lewis Hamilton driving for?
Answer: Mercedes AMG

Question: Emperor Bokassa was overthrown as ruler of what country in September 1979?
Answer: Central African Republic

Question: What is the name for a geometric figure with 3 sides?
Answer: Triangle

Question: People who speak Magyar are likely to be or have been native to what country?
Answer: Hungary

Question: What fraction of a second is a nanosecond?
Answer: One thousand millionth

Question: The first Winter Olympics was held in conjunction with 1924 Olympic Games and was originally called what?
Answer: The Week of Winter Sports

Question: Dr Nelson Glueck, rabbi and head of the Hebrew Union College from 1947-1971, was also renowned as a what?
Answer: Archaeologist, particularly pioneering work in Biblical archaeology

Question: Who was re-elected President of the Republic of Germany in 1932 defeating Adolf Hitler?
Answer: von Hindenburg

Question: Mills and Boon are publishers of what type of books?
Answer: Romance

Question: Which people from a currently minority and persecuted faith, having suffered genocide in World War I, and repeated massacres and hostile political regimes, as at 2015 have largely left their homeland?
Answer: Suriani

Question: A "prickly pear" is a type of what?
Answer: Cactus

Question: The contents of "The Zimmermann Telegram" of 16 January 1917 revealed a German plan to offer Mexico what territory in return for a military alliance against the USA?
Answer: Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona

Question: Traditionally, horses were kept in a what?
Answer: Mews

Question: Crimea, over which multiple wars have been fought, was annexed from Ukraine in 2014 by which country?
Answer: Russia

Question: Charles Higson's book "Silver Fin" concerned the adventures of which fictional character as a teenager in the 1930s?
Answer: James Bond

Question: What is the Silver Fissure in Iceland known for?
Answer: Diving

Question: What weapon is associated with Darth Vader?
Answer: Light sabre

Question: Mrs Josephine Cochrane (1839-1913) in the USA is associated with which invention?
Answer: Mechanical dishwasher

Question: Which city on the mainland is the island of Montecristo, famous from the Victor Hugo novel, closest to?
Answer: Piombino

Question: 1944 marked what in Iceland?
Answer: End of the DanishIcelandic Act of Union and election of the first President of the new republic

Question: Who created the character of Dracula?
Answer: Bram Stoker

Question: Shallots and scallions are types of what?
Answer: Onions

Question: What is commemorated in New Zealand on Waitangi Day?
Answer: Signing the treaty between Britain and Maori for New Zealand to become part of the British Empire

Question: Three great Siberian rivers are the Ob, Lena and which other?
Answer: Yenisei

Question: Which 20th century novelist wrote "The Quiet American", "Stamboul Train", "Brighton Rock" and "The Power And The Glory"?
Answer: Graham Greene

Question: What does an imprimatur convey?
Answer: Formal permission to print a book

Question: What is a specialised stem, leaf or petiole with a threadlike shape that is used by climbing plants for support and attachment, usually by twining around whatever it touches?
Answer: Tendril

Question: """Nicholas Blake"" was the pseudonym of which author?"
Answer: C Day Lewis

Question: Who was the 2014 Formula One World Champion driver?
Answer: Lewis Hamilton

Question: What was the subject of "The Knowledge" (1979), a film written by Jack Rosenthal for UK TV?
Answer: Training in routes for taxicab drivers in London

Question: Who won the World Darts Championship 4 times in the 1980s?
Answer: Eric Bristow

Question: What is the name of the style of roasting meat, whereby it is skewered on a spit and slowly rotated over a flame?
Answer: Rotisserie

Question: Which American jazz musician, clarinettist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman", in the mid-1930s led one of the most popular musical groups in America, which was also one of the first racially-integrated musical groups?
Answer: Benny Goodman

Question: The two official languages of Paraguay are Spanish and what other?
Answer: Guarani

Question: The Great Barrier Reef lies off which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: What is the highest hereditary title in the British peerage?
Answer: Duke

Question: Where and when was the 1st Summer Universiade held?
Answer: turin italy in 1959

Question: A drink dating from the 15th century and particularly popular in the 18th, was regarded as a health-giving drink and good for hangovers. It contained milk, spices and ale or other alcohol; what was it called?
Answer: Posset

Question: The shores of the African continent are variously on the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and which other body of water?
Answer: The Red Sea

Question: Josephus who lived in the 1st century AD was a military commander and scholar but is now known more for his work as what?
Answer: Historian

Question: How is an accacciatura written in music?
Answer: With a stroke through the tail of the accacciatura quaver

Question: Black Bess, the horse of Dick Turpin (1706-39), would have been used to what phrase if legend is to be believed?
Answer: """Stand and deliver"""