Question: Who partners Neil Tennant in the Pet Shop Boys?
Answer: Chris Lowe

Question: Over which country did RAF Bomber Command make food drops, codenamed ‘Operation Manna’, in April 1945?
Answer: The Netherlands

Question: Which Italian renaissance painter (1485-1576) had the surname Vecellio?
Answer: Titian

Question: In which American state is Fort Meade, the HQ of the National Security Agency?
Answer: Maryland

Question: Who is the author of a series of short stories, published in 2014, under the collective title The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher?
Answer: Hilary Mantel

Question: (Everything I Do) I Do It for You was a number one hit for Bryan Adams in 1991. In which film of that year did it feature?
Answer: Robin Hood, Prince Of Thieves

Question: Stephen Fry is a director of which football club?
Answer: Norwich City

Question: Which car company owns the luxury carmaker Bentley?
Answer: Volkswagen

Question: Who played the title role in the TV sitcom Rhoda?
Answer: Valerie Harper

Question: Who is the heroine of Jane Austin’s Persuasion?
Answer: Anne Elliot

Question: The equator crosses the east coast of Africa in which country?
Answer: Somalia

Question: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and who else made up the Gang of Four?
Answer: Bill Rodgers

Question: What is the principal ingredient of the dish baba ghanoush?
Answer: Aubergine

Question: What is the name of the 15-minute news programme on BBC Radio 1 broadcast at 12 45 and 1745 on weekdays?
Answer: Newsbeat

Question: Which architect designed the 2014 Stirling Prize nominated London Aquatics Centre, where the Olympic indoor water sports were staged?
Answer: Zaha Hadid

Question: Who is the only South African to win the Formula 1 championship?
Answer: Jody Sheckter

Question: What is the first name of the successful singer brother of the actor Anthony Head?
Answer: Murray

Question: If you are pogonophobic what are you afraid of?
Answer: Beards

Question: In which film did Gordon McRae play Billy Bigelow after Frank Sinatra dropped out?
Answer: Carousel

Question: Love is All Around was a number one hit for Wet Wet Wet in 1994. In which film of that year did it feature?
Answer: Four Weddings And A Funeral

Question: Which Eastern European car maker is a subsidiary of Renault?
Answer: Dacia

Question: Who played the title role in the TV sitcom Ugly Betty?
Answer: America Ferrera

Question: Which of the nine counties of Ulster has the shortest name?
Answer: Down

Question: In which American state was Edward Snowden working as a contractor to the National Security Agency when he decided to leak secrets?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: What was the nickname of the East End murder victim Jack McVitie?
Answer: The Hat

Question: Who was the youngest of the Mitford sisters who died in 2014 aged 94?
Answer: Deborah

Question: Who has presented Pick of the Pops on BBC Radio 2 since 2010?
Answer: Tony Blackburn

Question: The architects of which Liverpool building won the 2014 Stirling Prize?
Answer: Everyman Theatre

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

Question: Give a year in the life of Alfred the Great.
Answer: 849-899

Question: In Pride and Prejudice, what is the Christian name of Mr Darcy’s sister?
Answer: Georgiana

Question: Who did Tim Farron beat for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats this year?
Answer: Norman Lamb

Question: Actress Talia Shire is the sister of which film director and producer?
Answer: Francis Ford Coppola

Question: Known as the Valley Isle, which is die second largest of the Hawaiian islands?
Answer: Maui

Question: The gifted female artist Marietta Robusti was the daughter of which painter?
Answer: Tintoretto

Question: In April 2008 PEP accounts automatically became stocks and shares ISAs. For what did the letter E stand?
Answer: (Personal) Equity

Question: Who presented Countdown from 2009 to 2011?
Answer: Jeff Stelling

Question: Who composed Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini?
Answer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Question: On which river does Stirling lie?
Answer: Forth

Question: Which member of the grouse family is colloquially known as the snow chicken in the USA?
Answer: Ptarmigan

Question: Who wrote the novel Cold Comfort Farm?
Answer: Stella Gibbons

Question: Which Merseyside band was named after a character in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird?
Answer: The Boo Radleys

Question: In which children’s television programme did Professor Yaffle appear?
Answer: Bagpuss

Question: Martello Towers, the line of defensive fortifications in south-east England were based on similar designs found on which Mediterranean island?
Answer: Corsica

Question: Who was monarch when the Act of Union was passed?
Answer: Queen Anne

Question: The moons of Uranus are named after characters from Shakespeare and Pope, name any of the 4 largest moons.
Answer: Titan/Oberon/Ariel/Umbriel

Question: What name is shared by the magician Steven Frayne and several different football teams?
Answer: Dynamo

Question: Who is the current presenter of Desert Island Discs on Radio 4?
Answer: Kirsty Young

Question: The Victoria Falls stand on which river?
Answer: Zambezi

Question: Which European geographical feature was known to the Romans as Mons Calpe?
Answer: Gibraltar

Question: Newman Noggs appears in which Dickens' novel of 1838?
Answer: Nicholas Nickieby

Question: What is the Italian spicy sauce for pasta made from garlic, tomatoes and red chilli peppers? The name translates as 'angry'.
Answer: Arrabiatta

Question: The family seat of the Dukes of Norfolk is not in Norfolk, in which county is it?
Answer: West Sussex

Question: The flag of which African country has a white five-pointed star on a blue background?
Answer: Somalia

Question: England Rugby Union player Steffon Armitage, who was European Player of the year in 2014, plays for which French club?
Answer: Toulon

Question: Who played PCI Stella Gibson in the BBC 2 series The Fall?
Answer: Gillian Anderson

Question: Which English cathedral was the world's tallest building between 1311 and 1549?
Answer: Lincoln

Question: Who portrayed the eponymous painter in the 2014 film Mr Turner?
Answer: Timothy Spall

Question: Which American state capital is the only one which cannot be accessed by road?
Answer: Juneau

Question: For what does the F stand in the name of the body, the FCA which is responsible for the regulation of the financial services firms in the UK?
Answer: Financial

Question: Which French artist (1748-1825) painted The Death of Marat?
Answer: Jacques-Louis David

Question: In which country was Che Guevara executed in 1967?
Answer: Bolivia

Question: In the NATO phonetic alphabet which professional sport is mentioned?
Answer: Golf

Question: Which Cole Porter musical of 1934 includes the songs You're the Top and I Get a Kick Out of You?
Answer: Anything Goes

Question: Future British Chancellor of the Exchequer Francis Dashwood founded which club in the 18th century?
Answer: Hellfire

Question: Which flower and girl's name is the equivalent of the Spanish name Jacinta?
Answer: Hyacinth

Question: Give any year in the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Answer: 1122-1204

Question: In the periodic table which element has the symbol Zr?
Answer: Zirconium

Question: The home of The Royal Concertgebouw is in which city?
Answer: Amsterdam

Question: Hail to thee, Blythe Spirit is the first line of which poem of 1820?
Answer: To a Skylark

Question: The moons of Jupiter are named are named after Jupiter's lovers and/or fancies. Name any of the 4 largest moons
Answer: Ganymede/Calisto/Europa/lo

Question: Which name is shared by the composer of the opera Norma and a cocktail?
Answer: Bellini

Question: Which English city was known to the Romans as Luguvalium?
Answer: Carlisle

Question: Tom Tulliver is a character in which novel of 1860?
Answer: The Mill on the Floss