Question: What is the name of the wooden pavement which is a feature of Atlantic City, USA?
Answer: Boardwalk

Question: Which precious stone can be described as being 'of the first water'?
Answer: Diamond

Question: Who was the hero of several Sir Arthur Canon Doyle stories, first introduced in "The Lost World"?
Answer: Professor Challenger

Question: What name is given to a mechanical model of the Solar System?
Answer: Orrery

Question: Who wrote the poem “The Listeners”?
Answer: Walter De La Mere

Question: Who played Frank Spencer’s long suffering wife Betty in the TV series “Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em”?
Answer: Michelle Dotrice

Question: Which football team beat Benfica on penalties to win the Europa League in 2014?
Answer: Sevilla

Question: Which stretch of water do the Germans call the Bodensee?
Answer: Lake Constance

Question: Considered to be a possible location for the fabled Camelot, in which county is Cadbury Castle?
Answer: Somerset

Question: Taxus is the generic name for which tree?
Answer: Yew

Question: The TV dramatization “Threads” concerned the effects of a nuclear strike on which English city?
Answer: Sheffield

Question: The prefix “thio” indicates the presence of which chemical element?
Answer: Sulphur

Question: Of the many Livery Companies which one is considered to be the most prestigious?
Answer: Mercers

Question: Which duo had top five hits in the 1980’s with “Torch” and “Say Hello Wave Goodbye”?
Answer: Soft Cell

Question: Which gap-toothed comedy actor was drained of blood by Vincent Price in the 1971 film “The Abominable Doctor Phibes”?
Answer: Terry-Thomas

Question: Which car company made the Chamois and Gazelle models?
Answer: Singer

Question: Which snooker player is nicknamed “The Jester from Leicester”?
Answer: Mark Selby

Question: Who composed the opera “The Girl of the Golden West”?
Answer: Giacomo Puccini

Question: The emmet is an archaic name for which insect?
Answer: Ant

Question: Which writer created the detective Van der Valk?
Answer: Nicholas Freeling

Question: Stephenson’s “Rocket” won the Rainhill Trials of 1829. Name either of its two main competitors.
Answer: Novelty or Sanspareil

Question: What is the more familiar name of the house plant Ficus elastica?
Answer: Rubber plant

Question: Which duo had top five hits in the 1980’s with “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”?
Answer: Tears For Fears

Question: Which German city is the capital of Lower Saxony?
Answer: Hanover

Question: On which horse did Lester Piggott ride the first of nine Epsom Derby winners?
Answer: Never Say Die

Question: Give any year in the life of Russian Empress Catherine the Great.
Answer: 1729-1796

Question: Historically associated with George Washington, in which English county is Sulgrave Manor
Answer: Northamptonshire

Question: In the famous novel by Charles Dickens, what is Little Dorrit’s first name?
Answer: Amy

Question: The TV documentary “Death of a Princess” caused a diplomatic rift between Britain and which other country?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: The poet John Suckling is credited as the inventor of which card game?
Answer: Cribbage

Question: Which darts player is known as “The Count”?
Answer: Ted Hankey

Question: Muriatic acid is an alternative name for which acid?
Answer: Hydrochloric

Question: Which former chart topping song for Frankie Laine gave the Jimi Hendrix Experience their first British hit?
Answer: Hey Joe

Question: Which writer created the detective Paul Temple?
Answer: Francis Durbridge

Question: Which car company made the Sceptre and Snipe models?
Answer: Humber

Question: What kind of bird is a Lammergeyer?
Answer: Vulture

Question: Who composed the opera “The Silken Ladder”?
Answer: Gioachino Rossini

Question: Which Shakespeare play is set in Navarre?
Answer: Loves Labours Lost

Question: Which stretch of water is known in Welsh as Llyn Tegid?
Answer: Lake Bala

Question: Which footballer scored a late goal in this season’s playoff final to take QPR back into the Premier League?
Answer: Bobby Zamora

Question: On which Mediterranean island are the Nebrodi mountains?
Answer: Sicily

Question: Which Pope instigated the first Crusade?
Answer: Urban 2nd

Question: Electrum is an alloy chiefly consisting of gold and which other metal?
Answer: Silver

Question: Name either of the countries that joined the European Union in January 2007.
Answer: BULGARIA or ROMANIA

Question: If the eight Royal Parks in London are arranged alphabetically which comes last?
Answer: St James'S

Question: His father was an MP. His mother was an MEP. His wife is a Prime Minister. Who was elected MP for Aberavon in the 2015 General Election?
Answer: Stephen Kinnock

Question: In which year was the first FA Cup Final played at Wembley?
Answer: 1923

Question: Who plays Cedric Diggory in the film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"?
Answer: Robert Pattinson

Question: A man and a woman sitting in a Paris bar — who painted L 'Absinthe in 1876?
Answer: Edgar Degas

Question: The first international cricket match was played in Pakistan last month since 2009 when in March of that year the team bus of which country was attacked in Lahore?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: Which Shakespeare play could be summarised as 'The magician Prospero shipwrecks the enemies that originally ousted him from Italy, but when Ferdinand falls for his daughter Miranda he finally faces them down and learns to forgive'?
Answer: The Tempest

Question: Which member of the Royal family is Earl of Carrick and Baron of Renfrew?
Answer: Prince Charles

Question: Whose thirteenth studio album released in March this year is Rebel Heart?
Answer: Madonna

Question: Riley was the real first name of which singer, known by initials, who died last month?
Answer: Bb King

Question: Sir Seretse Khama was from 1966 to 1980 the first President of which African country?
Answer: Botswana

Question: Which is the only one of the Great Lakes which does not border the US state of Michigan?
Answer: Lake Ontario

Question: What is the nickname of the character Henrietta played by Anna Chancellor in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral?
Answer: Duckface

Question: What is the atomic number of the element ununpentium?
Answer: 115

Question: Who owns the Empress of Blandings the creation of P G Wodehouse
Answer: Lord Emsworth

Question: Which word beginning with 'o' is the branch of medical science that deals with pregnancy and childbirth?
Answer: Obstetrics

Question: Name any of the three Welshmen who have been World Professional Darts Champion
Answer: Leighton Rees, Richie Burnett Or Mark Webster

Question: Complete the title of the 1933 book by Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B …?
Answer: Toklas

Question: In which English county is the Tank Museum at Bovington?
Answer: Dorset

Question: What is the name of the brother of Peppa Pig?
Answer: George

Question: Complete the title of the 1934 book by Evelyn Waugh A Handful of.
Answer: Dust

Question: Which word beginning with 'o' is the scientific study of bones?
Answer: Osteology

Question: Name any of the three winners of the World Snooker Championship in the modern era (since 1969) who were not from the UK.
Answer: CLIFF THORBURN, KEN DOHERTY or NEIL ROBERTSON

Question: Which highly soluble crystalline salt has chemical formula NH4CI?
Answer: AMMONIUM CHLORIDE (accept SAL AMMONIAC)

Question: Which book of the Bible immediately follows Psalms?
Answer: Proverbs

Question: Lewis Hamilton signed a new three year contract last month with which motor racing team?
Answer: Mercedes

Question: The Met Office became part of which government department in July 2011?
Answer: DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS (accept BUSINESS)

Question: Which Welsh town was granted city status in 1969?
Answer: Swansea

Question: The peninsula of Istria is shared between Italy, Slovenia and which other country which has about 89%?
Answer: Croatia