Question: Who founded The Promenade Concerts in 1895?
Answer: Henry Wood

Question: Algophobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Pain

Question: What is the brightest star in Ursa Minor?
Answer: Polaris

Question: Which car manufacturer's logo has one big star and five small stars on its badge, its name translating as "Pleiades"?
Answer: Subaru

Question: Where on the body would you find the Malleolus?
Answer: The bone sticking out either side of the ankle

Question: Which pop group took their name from a Richard Bach novel, their first top ten hit being "Wishing" in 1982?
Answer: A Flock of Seagulls

Question: Macadamia trees are indigenous to which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Which annual event was first held at the Teatro Kursaal in Lugano in 1956?
Answer: The Eurovision Song Contest

Question: When Zeus seduced Alcmene, who was the offspring?
Answer: Heracles (Hercules)

Question: What fruit has the Latin name Musa sapientum?
Answer: Banana

Question: Which 1985 TV series starred David Suchet in the title role about the proposed construction of a motorway through Cleeve Gorge it also starred George Cole, Julie McKenzie and Simon Cadell?
Answer: Blott on the Landscape

Question: In which county are the towns of "Rothbury", "Seahouses" and "Wooler"?
Answer: Northumberland

Question: In Edwards Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat", how much did they pay the pig for his ring?
Answer: One Shilling

Question: What name is given to Mohammed's flight from Mecca to Medina?
Answer: The Hegira

Question: What occupation is a "Coiffeur"?
Answer: Hairdresser/Stylist

Question: The Ashcliffe hospital for the criminally insane is the setting for which 2010 Martin Scorsese film?
Answer: Shutter Island

Question: What was the codename for the planned uprising to follow the failed) assassination of Hitler in July 1944?
Answer: Valkyrie

Question: Actress Patricia Neal, who won a best actress Oscar for her role in "Hud" in 1963, was married to which famous writer?
Answer: Roald Dahl

Question: Name the year - Adolf Hitler's beer hall putsch fails; President Warren Harding dies in office and Bolton beat West Ham in the first Wembley FA cup final?
Answer: 1923

Question: Rapa Nui National Park is a world heritage site belonging to which country?
Answer: Chile

Question: Arthur Sugarman founded which clothing company in 1963 initially becoming fashionable for the mods?
Answer: Ben Sherman

Question: In which country was the fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent born?
Answer: Algeria

Question: We call the fruit an Avocado, what do the American's call it?
Answer: Alligator Pear

Question: In which layer of the atmosphere would you find "The Ozone Layer?
Answer: Stratosphere

Question: What medical condition is characterised by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the Cavities or Tissues of the body?
Answer: Oedema or Dropsy

Question: In which Cathedral is the tomb of the "Black Prince"?
Answer: Canterbury

Question: """Galliwasp"" and ""Horned toad"" are types of which creature?"
Answer: Lizard

Question: In which South American country did the "Dina" secret police operate in the 1970's?
Answer: Chile

Question: Of which organisation was John Longworth Director General when he was suspended for suggesting Britain would be better off outside the EU (he later resigned in March 2016)?
Answer: British Chambers of Commerce

Question: The "Elephanta" is a strong southerly wind off the coast of which country?
Answer: India

Question: What is produced in a Solera?
Answer: Sherry

Question: Who took over from Ian Duncan Smith as Minister for Work and Pensions?
Answer: Stephen Crabb

Question: Which film company's logo is a lady with a torch?
Answer: Columbia

Question: Newport on the Isle of Wight stands on which river?
Answer: The Medina

Question: The hovercraft service across the Solent is between Southsea and which Isle of Wight town?
Answer: Ryde

Question: Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion are three members of which band formed in 1996?
Answer: Coldplay

Question: How many faces does a tetrahedron have?
Answer: Four

Question: How many rugby union teams took part in the 2015 Rugby World Cup?
Answer: 20

Question: Which of the Teletubbies is missing - Tinky-Winky, Laa-Laa, Po and ?
Answer: Dipsy

Question: Which novel is set in the seventh century AF (After Ford) - 632 years after the birth of the inventor of the model T?
Answer: Brave New World

Question: In which year was Mary, Queen of Scots executed and Sir Francis Drake 'Singed the King of Spain's Beard'?
Answer: 1587

Question: What is the first word of the song Memory from the musical Cats?
Answer: Midnight

Question: Who took over as Prime Minister of Australia in September last year?
Answer: Malcolm Turnbull

Question: What word can be a hairstyle, a wing of the New Zealand parliament buildings, and a nickname of the state of Utah?
Answer: Beehive

Question: Which letter is common to the LATA codes for the airports Christmas Island, Dubai International and Birmingham?
Answer: X (Xch, Dxb, Bhx)

Question: In which recent film does Leonardo DiCaprio play Hugh Glass and Tom Hardy play John Fitzgerald?
Answer: The Revenant

Question: Who wrote the fantasy book "Puck of Pook's" Hill published in 1906?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question: Which England cricketer scored 258 against South Africa in the second test in January?
Answer: Ben Stokes

Question: What is the two-word title of the 2002 Paul Greengrass directed film set in Derry in 1972
Answer: Bloody Sunday

Question: Which letter comes between delta and zeta in the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Epsilon

Question: Three cycle races, the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a Espana are known collectively as the Grand Tours. Name either of the French riders to win all three during their career.
Answer: Jacques Anquetil or Bernard Hinault

Question: In which city was the Independent Labour Party founded in 1893?
Answer: Bradford

Question: The 1998 Terrence Malick directed film "The Thin Red Line" is set during which war?
Answer: World War Two

Question: Name either of the drivers from the USA who have been Formula One World Champion.
Answer: Phil Hill or Mario Andretti

Question: What is the collective name for the stories by Kipling that includes "How the Camel Got His Hump" and "How the Leopard Got His Spots"?
Answer: Just So Stories

Question: Cobalt is a shade of what colour?
Answer: Blue

Question: Which bank, the fourth largest investment bank in the USA, filed for bankruptcy on September 15th 2008?
Answer: Lehman Brothers

Question: Bill Shankly played for Carlisle United from 1932 to 1933. Which club did he play for from 1933 to 1949?
Answer: Preston North End

Question: Robin's Nest, owned by Robin Masters, is a beach front estate in which US crime drama of the 1980s?
Answer: Magnum (PI)

Question: Who commanded the English fleet against the Spanish Armada?
Answer: Lord Howard of Effingham

Question: The Hassan II Mosque, opened in 1993, with the world's tallest minaret, is in which country?
Answer: Morocco

Question: What word can be part of an arch, part of the description of a team of incompetent policeman and a nickname of the state of Pennsylvania?
Answer: Keystone

Question: Which Hanoverian King was married to Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen?
Answer: William IV

Question: What is the name of the international airport with IATA code DSA built on the site of the former RAF Finningley?
Answer: Robin Hood Airport

Question: Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945 for discovery of the exclusion principle?
Answer: Wolfgang Pauli

Question: A bust of which architect and gardener by William Woodington is in Crystal Palace Park in London?
Answer: Joseph Paxton

Question: Two countries joined the United Nations in September 1947 - Yemen and which other, one month after its creation?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: Adam Clayton, The Edge and Larry Mullen Jr are three members of which band formed in 1976?
Answer: U2