Question: Name either of the islands separated by the Foveaux Straits?
Answer: South Island NZ and Stewart Island

Question: Where in the body would you find Glisson’s capsule and Kupffer cells?
Answer: Liver

Question: Holly Bleasdale is the holder of the British record in which athletics event?
Answer: Pole Vault

Question: Which city, the third largest in Denmark, is the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen?
Answer: Odense

Question: Which British high street store is owned by the US chain Walgreens (not Walmart)?
Answer: Boots

Question: Which King’s claim to France precipitated the 100 Years War?
Answer: Edward 3rd

Question: Which is the smallest native British gull?
Answer: Kittiwake

Question: England’s largest nature reserve is at Holkham, in which county?
Answer: Norfolk

Question: In which film and musical does Cottonblossom appear?
Answer: Showboat

Question: Severely damaged by fire in May 2014, who deigned the Glasgow School of Art?
Answer: Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Question: What in ancient Rome was the Cloaca Maxima?
Answer: The main sewer

Question: Founded in 1909 which was the first British aircraft manufacturing company?
Answer: Handley Page

Question: Who, along with her husband, founded the first birth-control clinic in the UK?
Answer: Marie Stopes

Question: Which is the only Hitchcock film to win a Best Picture Oscar (in 1940)?
Answer: Rebecca

Question: Vanessa Vankorn represented Thailand in a skiing event at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, under what professional name is she better known?
Answer: Vanessa-Mae

Question: 2015 is the 200th anniversary of which battle (actually fought from late December 1814 to eariy Januaiy 1815), the last time that British and US forces fought on opposite sides?
Answer: Battle of New Orleans

Question: Which London hospital, the oldest in the country, is the only place in London with a statue of Henry 8th and in fiction was the first meeting place of Holmes and Watson?
Answer: St Bart’s

Question: ‘No 5, 1948’ was sold for $140 million in 2006, who painted it?
Answer: Jackson Pollock

Question: Rupert of Henzau is the sequel to which famous novel?
Answer: The Prisoner of Zenda

Question: The author Andrea Camilleri created which Sicilian detective?
Answer: (Salvo) Montalbano

Question: Who painted "'Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers’ in 1888?
Answer: Paul Gauguin

Question: Which is the only group to have had at least one UK hit single in every year of the 1970s?
Answer: Hot Chocolate

Question: Which language is the only form of Arabic written in the Roman alphabet?
Answer: Maltese

Question: Who won the 2015 Tour de France?
Answer: Chris Froome

Question: Who plays Christian Grey in the 2015 film Fifty Shades of Grey?
Answer: Jamie Dornan

Question: The Gruffalo is a creation of which former children’s laureate?
Answer: Julia Donaldson

Question: Based in Washington DCs Eccles Building, what is the American equivalent of the Bank of England in the UK?
Answer: System

Question: According to the Women’s Institute, what flavour jam should be used in a Victoria sponge?
Answer: Raspberry

Question: Which former Prime Minister held the title “Father of the House” (of Commons) between 1983 and 1987?
Answer: Jim Callaghan

Question: What city is the northern terminus of the Suez Canal?
Answer: Port Said

Question: Which leader was born in present-day Hungary in about 406AD, murdered his co-ruler and brother, Bleda, in 445 and died on his wedding night in 453AD?
Answer: Attila

Question: Since its adoption in 2000, the US dollar has been the official currency of which mainland South American nation?
Answer: Ecuador

Question: Lord Kitchener, British General in WW1, was lost at sea in 1916 off the Orkney Islands. What was the name of his ship?
Answer: \Hms Hampshire

Question: Cn is the symbol for which element?
Answer: Copernicium

Question: Roger Mellie ‘The Man on the Telly’ appears in which comic magazine?
Answer: Viz

Question: In the title of a Shakespeare play, of which city in the Levant was Pericles the prince?
Answer: Tyre

Question: Who is captain of the England Women’s cricket team?
Answer: Charlotte Edwards

Question: Which former Labour cabinet minister headed the Better Together group campaigning for a No vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum?
Answer: Alistair Darling

Question: Six islands of 10 000 km2 or greater are “divided” between two or more nations. Which country has a share of three of these six islands?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: Which Italian TV chef was jailed for two years in the 1990s for burgling singer Paul Young’s house?
Answer: Gino D’Acampo

Question: The Count di Luna, and his brother Manrico, vie for the love of Leonora in which Verdi opera, first performed in 1853?
Answer: Il Trovatore

Question: As well as being a Radio 2 newsreader, who provides the voiceovers for Strictly Come Dancing and, due to his work on various lottery shows, is known as “The Voice of the Balls”?
Answer: Alan Dedicoat

Question: Which entertainer’s autobiography is entitled The Life and Loves of a He-Devil?
Answer: Graham Norton

Question: Only three people served continuously in the Labour cabinet from 1997 to 2010; Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown were two, who was the third?
Answer: Jack Straw

Question: Who was the architect of the Thiepval War Memorial to the Missing of the Somme?
Answer: Edwin Lutyens

Question: With its capital at Dusseldorf and its largest city of Cologne, what is the most populous state of Germany?
Answer: North Rhine-Westphalia

Question: Fm is the symbol for which element?
Answer: Fermium

Question: Handbags named in honour of Alexa Chung, Lana Del Rey and Cara Delevigne are all made by what manufacturer?
Answer: Mulberry

Question: Helleborus niger is the scientific name for what evergreen flowering plant?
Answer: Christmas Rose

Question: How many digits make up a bank’s sort code?
Answer: 6

Question: Which player won the Gentlemen’s Singles at Wimbledon four times in the 1960s?
Answer: Rod Laver

Question: Which Monty Python member’s autobiography is entitled So, Anyway?
Answer: John Cleese

Question: Matt (surname Pritchett) provides a front-page cartoon in which daily newspaper?
Answer: Daily Telegraph

Question: Which title character in a Shakespeare play is a king of ancient Britain and has a daughter called Imogen?
Answer: Cymbeline

Question: The national anthem of which European country has the same tune as that of the UK?
Answer: Liechtenstein

Question: In which sport is Tracey Neville the coach of the England team?
Answer: Netball

Question: The 1961 western One-Eyed Jacks was the only feature film to be directed by which actor?
Answer: Marlon Brando

Question: William Boyd’s 2013 novel Solo is the latest outing for which character?
Answer: Bond

Question: The National Gallery of British Art was renamed the Tate Gallery in 1932, to honour a major benefactor who made his fortune with what commodity?
Answer: Sugar

Question: Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s consecutive singles record was broken in 1996-1997 by which group?
Answer: The Spice Girls

Question: Who won the 2015 Formula 1 British Grand Prix?
Answer: Lewis Hamilton

Question: Who is the director of the 2015 film Cinderella?
Answer: Kenneth Branagh

Question: Currently held by John Kerry, what American governmental role is equivalent to that of Foreign Secretary in the UK?
Answer: Secretary Of State

Question: Marmalade originates from the word marmelo which is Portuguese for which fruit?
Answer: Quince

Question: Which former Prime Minister held the title “Father of the House” (of Commons) between 1929 and 1945?
Answer: David Lloyd George

Question: What city is regarded as the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway?
Answer: Vladivostok

Question: In April 2014, Pope Francis canonised two former popes; John Paul II was one, who was the other?
Answer: John Xxiii

Question: The blessings known as the Beatitudes were part of which address by Jesus?
Answer: Sermon On The Mount