Question: Premiered in 1947 which composer wrote the music for the opera 'Albert Herring'?
Answer: Benjamin Britten

Question: Which T.V. sitcom starred Donald Sinden, Windsor Davies and Honor Blackman?
Answer: Never the Twain

Question: In mythology who was the muse of astronomy?
Answer: Urania

Question: Which country are the current Olympic football champions?
Answer: Mexico

Question: In what year was the Battle of Blenheim?
Answer: 1704

Question: Who sang the theme for the Jams Bond film ‘Octopussy’?
Answer: Rita Coolidge

Question: Stranraer in Scotland stands at the head of which loch?
Answer: Loch Ryan

Question: Who sang the theme for the Jams Bond film ‘The Living Daylights?
Answer: A-Ha

Question: ‘The Endless River' due for release in October 2014 is the latest album by which veteran rock band?
Answer: Pink Floyd

Question: Which character from Sir Walter Scott's novel ‘Marmion’ gave his name to a breed of dog?
Answer: Dandy Dinmont

Question: What was the name of the mystic fluid which flowed through the veins of the mythological gods?
Answer: Ichor

Question: Taron Egerton portrays which famed English sportsman in a film biopic of his life released in 2016?
Answer: Eddie The Eagle (Edwards)

Question: What was first set at three groats per household in 1380 and caused social unrest, as it would do again some 608 years later?
Answer: Poll Tax

Question: Anne Hyde and Mary of Modena were the wives of which British king?
Answer: James II

Question: Bridgetown is the capital city of which island nation?
Answer: Barbados

Question: Bryn and Emma Parry founded which military charity in 2007?
Answer: Help for Heroes

Question: Where did Billy Clanton and the brothers Tom and Frank MacLaury famously die on October 26, 1881?
Answer: The O.K. Corral

Question: In cookery Sauce Mousseline, Sauce Dijon & Sauce Foyot are all derivatives of which ‘mother’ sauce?
Answer: Hollandaise

Question: Which word, meaning to censor, abridge or expurgate is taken from the name of the man who in 1807 published an expurgated 10 volume set of the works of Shakespeare entitled ‘The Family Shakspeare’?
Answer: Bowdlerise

Question: The Australian rapper, songwriter, and model Amethyst Amelia Kelly performs under which stage name?
Answer: Iggy Azalea

Question: Oscuro is the darkest variety of which aromatic product?
Answer: Cigar Wrapper

Question: The slang term 'Monkey' is used for what sum of money?
Answer: £500

Question: Which Greek deity, the daughter of Zeus and Hera was goddess of youth?
Answer: Hebe

Question: Celebrated on 21st March, Nowruz, is the Persian celebration of new year, it is a holy day of which monotheistic religion?
Answer: Zoroastrianism/ Mazdeism

Question: Which species of penguin is the only penguin that lives north of the equator in the wild?
Answer: Galapagos Penguin

Question: Which Italian theoretical and experimental physicist was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity and the discovery of transuranic elements?
Answer: (Enrico) Fermi

Question: Which 2016 ‘reality’ T.V. competition was won on the 6th March by Ben Cohen, he was presented with the ‘prestigious’ Cow Bell Trophy?
Answer: The Jump

Question: Procyon and Gomesia are the two brightest stars in which constellation?
Answer: Canis Minor

Question: Which 1965 Joe Orton play tells the story of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis who rob a bank together?
Answer: Loot

Question: Which is the only English sporting venue apart from the Oval to have held both an F.A. Cup Final and an England cricket test match?
Answer: Bramall Lane

Question: Chablis, Pouilly-Fuissé, and Macon-Villages are all white wines from which French region?
Answer: Burgundy

Question: A maple leaf is the livery of which airline?
Answer: Air Canada

Question: Brie Larson won the 2016 Best Actress Oscar for her performance in which film?
Answer: The Room

Question: Which plant widely cultivated for its seeds and oil has the Latin name Helianthus Annus?
Answer: Sunflower

Question: Plantar Fasciitis is a medical condition affecting which part of the body?
Answer: Feet

Question: Who was the first the first U.S. president to be born a United States citizen?
Answer: (Martin) Van Buren

Question: Which Scottish city is nicknamed ‘The Granite City’?
Answer: Aberdeen

Question: In the Harry Potter series of books and films, what is the name of Hagrid’s dog?
Answer: Fang

Question: Kernow is the name for which area of the U.K., when spoken in the local language?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: Which Australian psychedelic rock group won the Best International Group award and the 2016 Brit awards?
Answer: Tame Impala

Question: Which architect found the Bauhaus School in Weimar in 1919?
Answer: (Walter) Gropius

Question: Constantine XI Palaiologos was the last ruler of which empire?
Answer: Byzantine

Question: Which birds make the saliva nests used in the Chinese delicacy bird’s nest soup?
Answer: (Cave) Swifts

Question: Paraesthesia is the medical term for which condition?
Answer: Pins & needles

Question: Pastor Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr, is the founder of which American church; he died in 2014 but received no funeral, as according to his daughter Shirley “this church does not worship the dead”?
Answer: Westboro Baptist (Church)

Question: After receiving a late fee of $40 dollars for an overdue Apollo 13 videotape, Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph founded which online company in 1997?
Answer: Netflix

Question: Rising to fame in Geordie Shore, reality TV star Scotty T. won which reality TV competition on 5th February 2016?
Answer: Celebrity Big Brother

Question: Which musical features the songs Stranger in Paradise & the Olive Tree?
Answer: Kismet

Question: In which English county is Wincanton racecourse?
Answer: Somerset

Question: Based in Hexam Northumberland, the publishing company Bloodaxe Books specialises in what kind of literature?
Answer: Poetry

Question: The 2015 film Straight Outta’ Compton was a biopic of which rap/hip hop group?
Answer: N.W.A.

Question: What was the name of the fictional country in the Marx Brothers film 'Duck Soup'?
Answer: Freedonia

Question: What term is often used to describe a 6-0 scoreline in a set of a Tennis match?
Answer: Bagel

Question: Hastings Banda was the first President of which African country?
Answer: Malawi

Question: If it's a "Yowie" in Australia and a "Sasquatch" in Canada, what is it in the USA?
Answer: Bigfoot

Question: Who played OJ Simpson in the 2016 TV series "The People v OJ Simpson"?
Answer: Cuba Gooding Jnr

Question: In which county are the towns of Okehampton, Sidmouth and South Molton?
Answer: Devon

Question: Who wrote the "Sharpe" novels?
Answer: Bernard Cornwell

Question: In which Bond film does Charles Grey play the villain Blofeld?
Answer: Diamonds are Forever

Question: Which British Prime Minister said: "The world is becoming a lunatic asylum, run by lunatics"?
Answer: David Lloyd George

Question: From which poem by Keats did F Scott Fitzgerald get the title of his 1934 book "Tender is the Night"?
Answer: Ode to a Nightingale

Question: Dinosaur National Park is a World Heritage Site in the Canadian Badlands, in which Province is it?
Answer: Alberta

Question: In Meteorology, what name is given to a body of air in which the pressure is higher than the surrounding air?
Answer: Anticyclone

Question: What is the comparative rank in the RAF of a Brigadier in the army?
Answer: Air Commodore

Question: Where in the body would you find the Fovea?
Answer: The Eye (near the centre of the retina)

Question: Who is the current French Prime Minister?
Answer: Manuel Vails

Question: What name was given to the religious and social rebellion against Henry VIII in 1536?
Answer: The Pilgrimage of Grace

Question: Which High Street electrical chain collapsed into administration in November 2012?
Answer: Comet

Question: If a dish is cooked or served "a La Portuguese", what is it with?
Answer: Tomatoes