Question: In medieval England what name was given to an axe head on a long pole?
Answer: Halberd

Question: Who hosts Radio 4's News Quiz?
Answer: Sandi Toksvig

Question: What is the capital of the US state of Delaware?
Answer: Dover

Question: Lumley Castle overlooks a cricket ground used by which county?
Answer: Durham

Question: In Greek mythology who was abducted and raped by Zeus when he was disguised as a bull?
Answer: Europa

Question: Which American actor also performs with the band Dogstar?
Answer: Keanu Reeves

Question: Abkhazia, recognised as independent by Russia, is a breakaway region from which former Soviet republic?
Answer: Georgia

Question: Who was the South African cricket captain who was banned for life in 2000 for his part in a match-fixing scandal?
Answer: Hansie Cronje

Question: The jazz musician Charles Mingus played which instrument?
Answer: Double Bass

Question: The single word 'prepared' is the motto found on the crest of whichcEnglish football club?
Answer: Aston Villa

Question: The words admiral and arsenal are derived from which language?
Answer: Arabic

Question: What spirit is added to Drambuie to make a Rusty Nail cocktail?
Answer: Whisky

Question: The A59 road runs from Liverpool to which English town or city?
Answer: York

Question: Alfred Wainwright's coast-to-coast walk starts from which point in Cumbria?
Answer: St. Bee's Head

Question: Who was the founder of the Flavian dynasty of Roman emperors?
Answer: Vespasian

Question: Who designed the Princess class of locomotives, commonly called 'Duchesses'?
Answer: Sir William Stanier

Question: Famous for one best-selling novel, which American writer also wrote a series of novels featuring the Glass family?
Answer: J D Salinger

Question: Which highway, also known as the Will Rogers Highway, was part of the original US Highways System and ran from Chicago Illinois to Los Angeles, California?
Answer: Route 66

Question: The National Tank Museum is in Bovington, in which county?
Answer: Dorset

Question: How many groats were there in £1?
Answer: 60

Question: The President of the USA sometimes travels in Marine One what kind of vehicle is this?
Answer: Helicopter

Question: How many nobles were there in £1?
Answer: 3

Question: The name of which type of beer glass is also the name of a flower?
Answer: Tulip

Question: Stansted Airport is accessed from junction 8 of which motorway?
Answer: M11

Question: By what given name was physicist Fahrenheit known?
Answer: Gabriel

Question: The Royal Navy Submarine Museum is in which port?
Answer: Gosport

Question: Which creatures belong to the order Coleoptera?
Answer: Beetles

Question: Who played the title role in the modern day pirate film 'Captain Philips'?
Answer: Tom Hanks

Question: Which famous English painter (1727-1788) was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk?
Answer: Thomas Gainsborough

Question: In 1794 Horatio Nelson lost the sight of his right eye during a battle for which island?
Answer: Corsica

Question: Located in the Lake District and with a maximum depth of 79 metres, what is the deepest freshwater lake in England?
Answer: Wastwater

Question: Who played the title character in the TV series 'Wycliffe'?
Answer: Jack Shepherd

Question: Who usually flies in an aircraft with the call-sign 'Shepherd One'?
Answer: The Pope

Question: Muscavado is an unrefined form of what?
Answer: Sugar

Question: Which young singer/songwriter was born Jake Edwin Kennedy in Nottingham in 1994, he has released two albums, the first self titled and the second called `Shangri La?
Answer: Jake Bugg

Question: Who played the title role in the recent Biblical epic Noah'?
Answer: Russell Crowe

Question: Which creatures belong to the order Hymenoptera?
Answer: Accept any of Bees, Wasps, Hornets or Ants

Question: Goin' Home is a song adapted from which piece of classical music in 1922?
Answer: (From the) New World Symphony

Question: Which wheat is not suitable for bread making because of its low gluten content but is ideal for pasta?
Answer: Durum

Question: Four people have won two Nobel Prizes, name any one of them.
Answer: Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, John Bardeen, Frederick Sanger

Question: Retiring at the end of the 2013 Formula 1 season, which driver has scored the most points (1047.5) without becoming World Champion?
Answer: Mark Webber1

Question: What is the purpose of an antitussive medicine?
Answer: To suppress coughing

Question: Who, in 2013, succeeded George Entwistle as Director-General of the BBC?
Answer: (Lord) Tony Hall

Question: Napoleon Bonaparte is associated with the 'Hand-in-waistcoat' pose as he was portrayed many times like that by which famous artist?
Answer: (Jacques-Louis) David

Question: F&F is the clothing brand of which supermarket chain?
Answer: Tesco

Question: Becoming an independent state in 1946, which country's flag features a seven-pointed star representing the first seven verses of the Koran?
Answer: Jordan

Question: The mountains formerly known as Mt Communism and Lenin Peak are in which mountain range?
Answer: Pamirs

Question: In English law, what name is given to a written statement of fact voluntarily made by a person under oath or affirmation?
Answer: Affidavit

Question: His works including 'L'Orfeo' and 'The Coronation of Poppea', who is considered to be the Father of the Opera?
Answer: Claudio Monteverdi

Question: The first album to be at No 1 in the UK chart (in 1956) was `Songs For Swingin' Lovers', who recorded it?
Answer: Frank Sinatra

Question: Which Greek letter is used in maths or physics to represent a change or difference in a quantity?
Answer: Delta

Question: Which philosopher founded the 'Academy' in Athens around 355 BC?
Answer: Plato

Question: By what name was the Democratic Republic of the Congo known between 1971 and 1997?
Answer: Zaire

Question: What is the purpose of a vermifuge or anthelmintic medicine?
Answer: To expel or destroy parasitic worms

Question: Which young singer/songwriter was born near Halifax in 1991 but was raised in Suffolk, he has released two albums, + (plus) and x (multiply)?
Answer: Ed Sheeran

Question: Four authors have won two Man Booker (or Booker) Prizes, name any one of them?
Answer: Hilary Mantel, JG Farrell, JM Coetzee, Peter Carey

Question: How is the bird Erithacus rubecula more commonly known?
Answer: Robin

Question: Ken Livingstone was runner-up to Boris Johnson in both of the last two elections for Mayor of London, who is the former Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Liberal Democrat candidate who finished third and fourth?
Answer: Brian Paddick

Question: Which Greek letter is used in maths to show that the values following it should be summed together?
Answer: Sigma

Question: What was the title of the Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical about the Profumo Affair that flopped in early 2014?
Answer: Stephen Ward

Question: Having written more than one hundred of them, who is known as the Father of the Symphony?
Answer: Joseph Haydn

Question: In English law, what name is given to the defence whereby an accused alleges that he or she was unlawfully pressured to perform the act in question?
Answer: Duress

Question: In which country was former King Juan Carlos of Spain born?
Answer: Italy

Question: Who became Leader of the Opposition when the coalition government was formed in May 2010?
Answer: Harriet Harman

Question: Who co-hosts the TV show Pointless with Alexander Armstrong?
Answer: Richard Osman

Question: What was claimed by Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583 as Britain's first overseas colony?
Answer: Newfoundland

Question: According to the RSPB which is the most commonly found wild bird in Britain?
Answer: Wren

Question: Which premiership football club has a badge showing gold lion rampant above the motto "prepared"?
Answer: Aston Villa

Question: In which English county would you find the towns of Blandford Forum, Sherborne and Bridport?
Answer: Dorset