Question: Although the position was not officially designated as such for nearly 200 years who was the first person (in 1721) unofficially called the Prime Minister of the British Parliament?
Answer: Sir Robert Walpole

Question: """Four Quartets"", a set of four poems (""Burnt Norton"", ""East Coker"", ""The Dry Salvages"" and ""Little Gidding"") published between 1936 and 1942, were written by whom?"
Answer: T. S. Eliot

Question: The main character in the film "Memento" (2000) suffered from what mental condition?
Answer: Anterograde amnesia

Question: The World Games, first held in 1981 to provide a world forum for sports not contested in the Olympic Games, includes which sport - once an Olympic sport but dropped after 1920?
Answer: Tug-o-war

Question: J Rock, Flawless, Cherise and Nasia were members of which group?
Answer: Big Brovaz

Question: What is 7 in binary?
Answer: 111

Question: What name is primarily used in British English for red wine from the Bordeaux region of France?
Answer: Claret

Question: Early in the 12th century a boy named Astrolabe was born to whom?
Answer: Pierre Ablard and Hlose d'Argenteuil

Question: What is Sarah Fergusson's character called "Budgie"?
Answer: Helicopter

Question: Daisy Ridley and John Boyega achieved world-wide recognition as the two young stars in what film released December 2015?
Answer: Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Question: What is geocaching most usually involved in?
Answer: A type of outdoors treasure hunt

Question: The most successful tennis player to date, with 8 singles titles and 12 doubles titles, in the WTA Tour Championships was originally a citizen of which country?
Answer: Czechoslovakia

Question: What did Sir Francis Drake's ship, the Golden Hind, achieve from 1577 to 1580 ?
Answer: Circumnavigated the globe

Question: """La Donna e Mobile"" is an aria from which opera?"
Answer: Rigoletto

Question: Which Austrian performed the winning song, "Rise Like a Phoenix", at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014?
Answer: Conchita Wurst

Question: BCG is a vaccine, the only one currently recognised by the World Health Organisation, for what disease?
Answer: Tuberculosis

Question: Which book broke the record for book sales in July 2007, selling 15 million copies in the 24 hours following its release?
Answer: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Question: In the 19th century a number of British theatres, because they showed a preponderance of bloodthirsty melodramas, became known as what?
Answer: Blood Tub

Question: What is the prevailing climate in Uruguay?
Answer: Temperate

Question: What is used to remove creases from clothing?
Answer: Iron

Question: What were the Quebec Nordiques known for?
Answer: Ice hockey

Question: What effect does annealing glass have?
Answer: Removes internal stresses

Question: What film, based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant and written and directed by Jean Renoir in 1936 that chronicles a love affair over a single summer afternoon along the banks of the Seine was not released until 1946, when the producer turned the available material into a release?
Answer: Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country)

Question: Three weeks after the USSR launched the first man into space what craft did the USA launch, with its first manned space flight?
Answer: Mercury-Redstone 3

Question: Who is the next in this series: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry ... ?
Answer: Daniel D. Tompkins

Question: The French bank and financial services company, BNP Paribas, holds an annual event giving awards in what field?
Answer: Philanthropy

Question: Where are the Beth Chatto Gardens?
Answer: Essex, UK

Question: Boris Godunov ruled, first as de facto regent and then as ruler, in which country?
Answer: Russia

Question: What is one of the fictional languages spoken by the Elves in the fantasy works of J R R Tolkien?
Answer: Quenya

Question: Why were the Far Eastern Games discontinued after 1934?
Answer: China withdrew because of Japan's preconditions (at the time at war with China) for participating

Question: Who, at the beginning of 2016, was golf's World Number One?
Answer: Jordan Speith

Question: Silver Thursday on 27 March 1980 refers to a reaction by USA regulators to activities by what or whom?
Answer: The Hunt brothers (attempting to corner the world market in silver)

Question: What does British sculptor Sir Antony Gormley's work, "Another Place", consist of?
Answer: 100 iron sculptures of men, installed along Crosby Beach near Liverpool

Question: At the end of the 8th century the Emperor of Japan moved his capital to which city?
Answer: Kyoto

Question: Britain's second-longest-running TV serial has been running, as at the end of 2015, for how many years?
Answer: 43

Question: What is a microlight used for?
Answer: For powered flight

Question: Which is the missing country in the sequence: Angola, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon?
Answer: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Question: A pink gin is gin mixed with what?
Answer: Angostura bitters

Question: A philosophy which explores whether everything you can touch/smell/taste/see/hear, i.e. perceive it, really exists except to the extent you perceive it, is one advanced by whom?
Answer: Bishop of Cloyne (1685  1753)

Question: In November 2015 how did Michelle Payne make history?
Answer: She was the first female jockey to win Australia's Melbourne Cup

Question: Which European country overthrew its monarchy and underwent a revolution 1789 to 1799?
Answer: France

Question: The 2010 release "Plundered My Soul" was an extra track on a re-released album by which artist(s)?
Answer: Rolling Stones

Question: Why was the colour pink, instead of the traditional red, officially adopted for the cricket balls used for the inaugural day-night test in Australia in 2015?
Answer: The pink balls were designed to keep their colour longer and to show up better under lights

Question: March Bread is made or flavoured primarily by what?
Answer: Almonds

Question: Which is the closest to an alternative name for a cyclone?
Answer: Hurricane

Question: The film "Revenant" (2015) was inspired by the experiences of what frontiersman?
Answer: Hugh Glass

Question: The desert known as "crumble" usually consists of a sweet topping covering a layer of what?
Answer: Stewed fruit

Question: How often are the Asian Games held?
Answer: Every 4 years

Question: She trained as a goldsmith, has been a film actress, and a lead and solo singer with international and European hits under what name?
Answer: Nena

Question: John Wayne played the lead role of whom in the 1958 film "The Conqueror"?
Answer: Genghis Khan

Question: What, among other things, was special about 2015?
Answer: The highest global average temperature on record

Question: What was the family name of the Mafia mob depicted in the "Godfather" movies?
Answer: Corleone

Question: What can describe a phlegmatic person?
Answer: Even-tempered

Question: What is the regulation space in a croquet hoop?
Answer: 1/32" (0.8mm) wider than the largest ball used in a game

Question: A pyroclastic flow from a volcano is called that, strictly speaking, because it what ...?
Answer: Contains rock pieces and gas broken by fire

Question: Who wrote, between 2003 and 2008, "Little Red", "Little Reds Christmas Story", "Little Reds Summer Adventure" and "Tea for Ruby"?
Answer: Sarah Ferguson

Question: In 2003, Rebecca Wade became the first female editor of which British newspaper?
Answer: Sun

Question: What is the name of the measure, by law or usage established in most of the United States, which is contained in a cylindrical vessel eighteen and a half inches in diameter and eight inches deep inside?
Answer: Winchester bushel

Question: What is a link between the films "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953) and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy (2001-2003) based J.R.R. Tolkien's saga?
Answer: Actors of the name Mortenson/Mortensen