Question: What do the letters c.b. represent, in the context of the constituent atoms in a diamond?
Answer: Covalent Bonds/Bonding

Question: To within a year either way, when did the R101 crash in France, with the loss of 48 lives?
Answer: 1930

Question: According to many sources, Aeschylus was killed by what falling from the sky and landing on his head?
Answer: Tortoise

Question: Laura Massaro and Nick Matthew are 2016 British champions at which sport?
Answer: Squash

Question: The Thirty Years’ War took place in which half of which century?
Answer: FIRST HALF OF 17th

Question: Which brand of whisky has an image of Lagopus lagopus scotica on the label?
Answer: Famous Grouse

Question: Where in the human body would you find the mitral valve?
Answer: Heart

Question: What plain, woven cloth gets its name from a port in north-east India?
Answer: Calico

Question: Which saint is frequently depicted as being killed by arrows?
Answer: Sebastian

Question: Who created the literary character Major-General Sir Richard Hannay?
Answer: John Buchan

Question: Peter Murrell is the husband of which politician?
Answer: Nicola Sturgeon

Question: Scurvy is caused by a deficiency of which vitamin?
Answer: C

Question: Opera. Which Benjamin Britten opera is set in a fictional fishing village?
Answer: Peter Grimes

Question: In ‘Monopoly’, what is the first non-property square after ‘Go’?
Answer: Community Chest

Question: Baron Bomburst is a character in which British family film?
Answer: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Question: In which pantomime does the character Baron Hardup appear?
Answer: Cinderella

Question: On which 2014 Richard Linklater film did production begin in 2002, but not end until 2014?
Answer: Boyhood

Question: Which 1950 film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, an aging Broadway star?
Answer: All About Eve

Question: What was the real name of Herman, from the pop group Herman’s Hermits?
Answer: Peter Noone

Question: Two of the four blood groups are ‘A’ and ‘B’. What are the other two?
Answer: AB and O

Question: To the nearest whole litre, how much blood does an average adult male have?
Answer: FIVE litres

Question: In a cryptic crossword, what bird might be referred to as a “quiet paramour”? (Six letters, third letter O.)
Answer: Plover

Question: What is the capital of Paraguay?
Answer: Asuncion

Question: Who was Chair of the Conservative Party from 2010 until 2012?
Answer: Baroness Warsi

Question: Born in Bolton in 1982, Jenny Ryan is the latest person to join which ITV programme?
Answer: The Chase

Question: Which drug derives its name from the Greek god of dreams?
Answer: Morphine

Question: Who preceded General Cornwallis as Governor-General of India?
Answer: Warren Hastings

Question: Who was the ecclesiastical figure who founded Winchester College in 1382?
Answer: William Of Wykeham

Question: In rugby union, the hooker wears no.2. What number is worn in rugby league?
Answer: Nine

Question: For religious people, the shamrock is said to be a metaphor for what?
Answer: Holy Trinity

Question: Born in 1882, which famous Irishman left Sinn Fein in 1926, and founded Fianna Fail?
Answer: Eamon DE VALERA

Question: Where will you find the communities of Peel, Port St. Mary, Castletown and Ballabeg?
Answer: Isle Of Man

Question: What is rugby union’s equivalent of a ‘fair catch’ in American football?
Answer: A Mark

Question: Which ‘jukebox’ musical ran at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre from 2004 until 2012?
Answer: Mamma Mia

Question: Florence, Pegasus, Symphony and Alice are all varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Strawberry

Question: The uninhabited Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic is a dependency of what country?
Answer: Norway

Question: Liberty Island in New York harbour was formerly known as what?
Answer: Bedloe’s Island

Question: What method of demise is known medically as exsanguination?
Answer: Bleeding to Death

Question: Stranger’s Gate is an entrance to which world-famous park?
Answer: Central Park New York

Question: What does the Latin phrase ‘lapsus linguae’ mean in English?
Answer: Slip of the tongue

Question: What is the name of the long loose cloak worn by Arab men?
Answer: Burnoose

Question: Which forest features in Shakespeare’s As You Like It?
Answer: Forest of Arden

Question: A babirusa is a wild variety of which creature?
Answer: Pig

Question: Which form of Buddhism is prevalent in Japan?
Answer: Zen

Question: What word is used by Christians for the suffering and death of Jesus?
Answer: Passion

Question: Which animated 1970s characters were a green dog and a pink cat?
Answer: Roobarb and Custard

Question: To where was Archbishop Makarios exiled by the British in the mid 50s?
Answer: The Seychelles

Question: Who did Jacques Santer replace as President of the European Commission in 1995?
Answer: Jacques Delor

Question: For which county side does record-breaking batsman Ben Stokes play?
Answer: Durham

Question: Which rugby union side play home games at Kingsholm?
Answer: Gloucester

Question: Who is killed by Kylo Ren in a recently released movie?
Answer: Han Solo

Question: Who plays the title role in the film The Lady In The Van?
Answer: Maggie Smith

Question: What unofficial title was given to George Hudson MP in 1844?
Answer: The Railway King

Question: Which kings have the motto ‘One never knows’?
Answer: Pearly Kings

Question: Which synth pop trio topped the UK singles chart in 2015 with the song ‘King’?
Answer: Years and Years

Question: Which ancient story-teller was sentenced to death and thrown off a cliff?
Answer: Aesop

Question: Who did Lloyd George describe as ‘brilliant to the top of his army boots’?
Answer: General Haig

Question: Which adventurer’s wife kept his head in a velvet bag until she died?
Answer: Walter Raleigh

Question: What was the last Beatles album to be recorded before the band split up?
Answer: Abbey Road

Question: Who is the French equivalent of our Britannia?
Answer: Marianne

Question: What is the correct name for an ant’s nest?
Answer: Formicary

Question: The word tintinnabular relates to the sound of what?
Answer: Bells

Question: Mass multiplied by velocity gives what?
Answer: Momentum

Question: What is the more common name of methanoic acid?
Answer: Formic Acid

Question: Which principle of physics is used in police speed traps?
Answer: Doppler Effect

Question: For which profession is the word ‘hack’ a disrespectful term?
Answer: Journalist/Reporter

Question: Cape St Vincent is the most southwestern point of which country?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Which mountain range stretches from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea?
Answer: Caucasus

Question: Which is the main island of the Greek group the Dodecanese?
Answer: Rhodes

Question: In which city were all but six French kings crowned?
Answer: Rheims

Question: Chaim Weizmann was the first president of which country?
Answer: Israel

Question: What word is used for the divination of dreams?
Answer: Oneiromancy

Question: Who wrote The Interpretation of Dreams in 1899?
Answer: Sigmund Freud

Question: In wine production what is the syrah grape almost invariably called in Australia?
Answer: Shiraz

Question: Which spirit is used in a Sex On The Beach cocktail?
Answer: Vodka

Question: The tune Duelling Banjos featured in which 1972 film?
Answer: Deliverance

Question: What was Casanova’s occupation at the time of is death?
Answer: Librarian

Question: Which fabric derives its name from a Syrian city?
Answer: Damask

Question: Which god rode an eight-legged horse called Sleipnir?
Answer: Odin

Question: Who appeared for 30 years with the jazz outfit John Chilton’s Feetwarmers?
Answer: George Melly

Question: What is the ancient Hebrew ceremonial wind instrument made from a ram’s horn?
Answer: Shofar

Question: Which instrument consists of hanging metal bars which are struck by a hammer?
Answer: Glockenspiel

Question: In the Bible what instrument did David play?
Answer: Harp