Question: What is the surname of the brothers Joe, Kevin and Nick - the three members of a US pop group?
Answer: Jonas

Question: Emperor, Adelie and King are types of which bird?
Answer: Penguin

Question: Who is the patron saint of archers?
Answer: Sebastian

Question: Who played both Eddie Shoestring and Peter Boyd on TV?
Answer: Trevor Eve

Question: What do we call what the Americans call 'kerosene'?
Answer: Paraffin

Question: What was the title of the only novel written by Oscar Wilde?
Answer: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Question: Flying, Pygmy and Fox are types of which creature?
Answer: Squirrel

Question: The Halle Orchestra now plays at the Bridgewater Hall, which Manchester building was its former home?
Answer: Free Trade Hall

Question: In the Wallace & Grommitt film, "A Close Shave", who owned the evil robot bulldog, Preston?
Answer: Wendolene

Question: Which cricketer was nicknamed 'Big Bird'?
Answer: Joel Garner

Question: Queen's College, Cambridge was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou, wife of which English King?
Answer: Henry 6th

Question: In the Bible, Bartimaeus was the subject of which miracle performed by Jesus?
Answer: Blind man who had his sight restored

Question: Which comedian used to end his show with the words "Goodnight and may your God go with you"?
Answer: Dave Allen

Question: During 2011the four members of which pop group won TV's 'Strictly Come Dancing', 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here', won £100,000 for charity on 'The Cube' and finished fifth in 'Pop Star to Opera Star'?
Answer: McFly

Question: St Florian is the patron saint of people working in which occupation?
Answer: Fire-fighters

Question: Crime fiction writer Carolyn Keene created which sleuth?
Answer: Nancy Drew

Question: What name is given to a quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides?
Answer: Trapezium

Question: Carthage was founded about 3000 years ago by which people?
Answer: Phoenicians

Question: Who played Ray Doyle, John Deed and George Gently on TV?
Answer: Martin Shaw

Question: Which French composer wrote 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice'?
Answer: Paul Dukas

Question: What do we call what the Americans call a 'hickey'?
Answer: Love bite

Question: What name is given to a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides but not at right angles?
Answer: Rhombus

Question: The War of Jenkins' Ear was part of which bigger war?
Answer: Austrian Succession

Question: In Nick Park's animation, "Chicken Run", what was the name of the cockerel that helped the hens to escape from their evil owner?
Answer: Rocky Rooster

Question: The River Neva flows into which sea?
Answer: Baltic Sea

Question: Bellis perennis is the Latin name of which common flower?
Answer: Daisy

Question: Who, in 1961, founded Amnesty International?
Answer: Peter Benenson

Question: The Taino are the indigenous people of which island?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: Which dice board game originated as a Hindu journey of enlightenment?
Answer: Snakes and Ladders

Question: Hammurabi was a king of which people in about 1750BC?
Answer: Babylon

Question: In classical literature, whose home was Thomfield Hall?
Answer: Mr Rochester

Question: In Greek mythology who was the mother of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades?
Answer: Rhea

Question: In which country are the Ibo people mainly found?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: Who, in 1960, founded the Hospice movement in Britain?
Answer: Cicely Saunders

Question: Taraxacum officinale is the Latin name of which common flowering plant?
Answer: Dandelion

Question: What is the maximum possible score in a game of ten pin bowling?
Answer: 300

Question: Who is the Lord Chief Justice?
Answer: Lord Judge

Question: La Vuelta is the Spanish equivalent of which major sporting event?
Answer: Tour de France

Question: Which chemical element atomic number 45 is named for the Greek for rose?
Answer: Rhodium

Question: By winning the Mercury Music Prize in 2011 who is the only artiste to have won this prize twice?
Answer: P J Harvey

Question: Which Scottish league team have the nickname 'The Bairns'?
Answer: Falkirk

Question: The WW2 allied invasion of where was codenamed Operation Shingle?
Answer: Anzio Landings

Question: Who presents the Million Pound Drop on television?
Answer: Davina McCall

Question: At what weight did Alan Minter win his boxing world title?
Answer: Middleweight

Question: Who originally played the title role in the musical 'Heathcliff on the London stage?
Answer: Cliff Richard

Question: Later associated with the medical profession, in antiquity who would have carried carried a symbol called a caduceus?
Answer: Heralds or Messengers

Question: What is the name of the substitute for Silver invented in 1745 by Thomas Bolsover?
Answer: Sheffield Plate

Question: Who directed the 2010 Disney film Alice in Wonderland?
Answer: Tim Burton

Question: Who appointed in 2008 is the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales?
Answer: Lord Justice (Igor) Judge

Question: Daltonism is usually better known as which medical condition?
Answer: Colour Blindness

Question: Who wrote the poems Idylls of the King?
Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Question: What colour is the artists pigment called celandine?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Who was appointed in 2010 as Her Majesty's Attorney General for England and Wales?
Answer: Dominic Grieve MP

Question: Who wrote, directed and played the devil in the radio 4 series 'Old Harry's Game?
Answer: Andy Hamilton

Question: What is the SI derived unit of electrical capacitance?
Answer: Farad

Question: Who is the author of novels titled Charlotte Grey and The Girl at the Lion d'Or?
Answer: Sebastian Faulks

Question: Give a year in the life of Evangelista Torricelli the inventor of the barometer?
Answer: 1608 - 1647

Question: In the bible who is Moses' elder Brother?
Answer: Aaron

Question: Who in Greek mythology was the cupbearer to the gods and Goddess of eternal youth and was later replaced by Ganymede?
Answer: Hebe

Question: Which American wit said 'Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read'?
Answer: Groucho Marx

Question: Which British artist's most famous works are The Shadow of Death and The Scapegoat?
Answer: William Holman Hunt

Question: Troglodytes is a genus of small passerine birds in which bird family?
Answer: Wren

Question: Which Shakespeare play is mainly set in a forest outside Athens?
Answer: A Midsummer Night Dream

Question: Which goup released their second album 'Ceremonials' in 2011 follow up to their album Lungs?
Answer: Florence and the Machine

Question: The WW2 allied invasion of where was titled Operation Dragoon?
Answer: Southern France

Question: Who presents The Cube on television?
Answer: Phillip Schofield

Question: At what weight did Jim Watt win his boxing world title in 1979?
Answer: Lightweight

Question: Who originally played the title role in the Phantom of the Opera on the London stage?
Answer: Michael Crawford

Question: In antiquity the power of what profession was symbolized by a bundle of sticks called a fasces?
Answer: Magistrate

Question: Ormolu was orginally the gilding of which metal in its nitrate form to copper, brass or bronze?
Answer: Mercury

Question: Which animated film won an Oscar in 2010 at the 82nd Academy Awards honouring films released in 2009?
Answer: Up

Question: Who, appointed in 2008, is the Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales?
Answer: Keir Starmer

Question: Which every day edible vegetable is from the daucus genus of plants?
Answer: Carrot

Question: Christmas Disease is another name for one of the forms of which hereditary genetic disorder?
Answer: Haemophilia

Question: Who wrote the poem The Rape of the Lock?
Answer: Alexander Pope

Question: What colour is the artist's colour called cerulean ?
Answer: Blue

Question: Who appointed in 2010 is The Lord President of the Council the council in question being the Privy Council?
Answer: Nick Clegg