Question: From which country does the singer Bjork come?
Answer: Iceland

Question: Who wrote and starred in the TV series Q7 and Q8?
Answer: Spike Milligan

Question: Name either of the original stars of the western series Alias Smith and Jones?
Answer: Pete Duel And Ben Murphy

Question: Who wrote the Mallens series of books?
Answer: Catherine Cookson

Question: In which country is the city of Mons?
Answer: Belgium

Question: During Spain's 5-1 defeat in the 2014 World Cup, who scored the Spanish goal?
Answer: Xabi Alonso

Question: Which former Royal Navy ship, launched in 1938, is now moored in London and is a now a museum ship operated by the Imperial War Museum?
Answer: HMS Belfast

Question: Taking its name from the Latin for anvil, which is the smallest bone in the human body?
Answer: Incus

Question: The California Institute of Technology (Cal-tech) features in which TV comedy series?
Answer: The Big Bang Theory

Question: What is the lowest possible bid in bridge?
Answer: One Club

Question: The name of which Italian region means Foot of the Mountain?
Answer: Piedmont

Question: Which type of four-wheeled open carriage shares its name with an English county?
Answer: Surrey

Question: Which comedy duo played two inept policemen in the 1980s film The Boys in Blue?
Answer: Cannon & Ball

Question: Who composed the Symphonie Fantastique?
Answer: Hector Berlioz

Question: Which island country's flag depicts the head of Neptune's trident on its national flag?
Answer: Barbados

Question: Which city was the first to supply both finalists in a European Cup or Champions League Final?
Answer: Madrid

Question: Which country's national flag features the Sun of May in a white canton (not in the centre of the flag)?
Answer: Uruguay

Question: Garden, Display, Professional and Indoor are the four categories given to what?
Answer: Fireworks

Question: In which Midlands town will the National Civil War Centre open in Spring 2015?
Answer: Newark

Question: Name the last battleship commissioned by the USA, it is now a museum ship in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii?
Answer: USS Missouri

Question: Name a country other than Chad that borders Lake Chad?
Answer: Nigeria, Cameroon or Niger

Question: In which town did the Gunfight at the OK Corral take place?
Answer: Tombstone, Arizona

Question: After a 118 day siege, which town was relieved by General Buller on February 28th/March 1st 1900?
Answer: Ladysmith

Question: In the activity known as BASE jumping, for what does the E stand?
Answer: Earth

Question: In which country is Unity Day celebrated on October 3rd?
Answer: Germany

Question: Name a country other than Tanzania that borders Lake Tanganyika?
Answer: Burundi, Zambia or Democratic Republic of Congo

Question: Who played the lead role of Dr Gabriel Monroe in the TV series Monroe?
Answer: James Nesbitt

Question: What was former Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's hereditary title?
Answer: (Earl of) Beaconsfield

Question: Which country celebrates National Foundation Day on 11th February, the anniversary of the coronation of the first emperor, Jimmu, in 660BC?
Answer: Japan

Question: Keith Relf was the singer with which 1960s group, three of their guitarists are some of the most famous in rock music?
Answer: The Yardbirds

Question: In which English county is the town of Wells-next-the-Sea?
Answer: Norfolk

Question: Name the year in which Gladiator won the Best Picture Oscar, George W Bush was sworn in as US President and Dennis Tito became the first space tourist?
Answer: 2001

Question: Which Law of Physics defines the relationship between the pressure and volume of an ideal gas?
Answer: Boyle's Law

Question: In the Asterix stories, what is the name of the portly chief?
Answer: Vitalstatistix

Question: Which eponymous Dickens character married Madeline Bray?
Answer: Nicholas Nickleby

Question: In Jeff Wayne's original musical version of 'War of the Worlds', which famous actor played the part of the Journalist?
Answer: Richard Burton

Question: The first woman to win Time Magazine's Man of the Year was in 1936, she was an American who became much better known in the UK, who was she?
Answer: Wallis Simpson

Question: Several chemical elements are named after places, which one is named after Russia?
Answer: Ruthenium

Question: The Signalstadion is the largest football ground in Germany, which team play their home games there?
Answer: Borussia Dortmund

Question: Which US state is known as ?The Constitution State? as it was first to have a constitution in 1638-39?
Answer: Connecticut

Question: Which eponymous Dickens character married Mary Graham?
Answer: Martin Chuzzlewit

Question: What was former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's title when he became a peer?
Answer: (Baron Wilson of) Rievaulx

Question: Prior to forming the rock group Humble Pie, Peter Frampton had top ten 1960s hits with which group?
Answer: The Herd

Question: Which coin was first introduced as a gold coin by Edward III in 1334 but then re-introduced as a silver coin in 1849, supposedly as a tentative first step towards decimalisation?
Answer: Florin

Question: Mufasa, Nala and Pumbaa are characters in which Disney film?
Answer: The Lion King

Question: Who played Scottish policeman Hamish Macbeth on TV?
Answer: Robert Carlyle

Question: Whose Law of Physics states that ?equal volumes of all gases, at the same temperature and pressure, have the same number molecules??
Answer: Avogadro?s Law

Question: The Dardanelles in north-western Turkey connect the Aegean Sea to which other sea?
Answer: Sea of Marmara

Question: Who won the Golden Boot at the 1966 World Cup, scoring 9 goals?
Answer: Eusebio

Question: Who owned Estimate, the winner of the Ascot Gold Cup in 2013?
Answer: The Queen

Question: Writer and model, Sophie Dahl is married to which musician?
Answer: Jamie Cullum

Question: Who was the Vice President to US President John F Kennedy?
Answer: L B Johnson

Question: Tony Abbott was elected to which office in 2013?
Answer: Prime Minister of Australia

Question: Name the spacecraft launched in 2004 by the European Space Agency to chase the comet 67P Churuyumov-Gerasimenko?
Answer: Rosetta

Question: Which was the county town of Westmoreland?
Answer: Appleby

Question: In the musical and T S Eliot's book Cats, which was the railway cat?
Answer: Skimbleshanks

Question: In a standard game of backgammon with how many playing pieces does each player start the game?
Answer: 15

Question: Who was the comic script-writing partner of Marty Feldman?
Answer: Barry Took

Question: Which motor company now manufactures the Mini and the Mini Cooper?
Answer: Bmw

Question: Which county cricket limited over side is nick-named The Steelbacks?
Answer: Northamptonshire

Question: Who plays singer Paul Potts in the 2013 biopic One Chance?
Answer: James Corden

Question: The name of which element is derived from the Latin for lime?
Answer: Calcium

Question: As of January 2014, what post is held by Sir Nicholas Hytner?
Answer: Artistic Director of the National Theatre

Question: Name the last British winner, who was also the oldest winner, of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Doris Lessing

Question: Whicn former captain of tne England cricket team was announced as the new President of the MCC in May 2013?
Answer: Mike Getting

Question: Which character is played by Peter Capaldi in The Thick of It?
Answer: Malcolm Tucker

Question: Which German fashion house, still trading today, allegedly supplied uniforms for the Hitler Youth and the National Socialist Party from 1928 until 1939?
Answer: Hugo Boss

Question: Published in 2013, Saints of the Shadow Bible is the latest novel to feature which detective?
Answer: John Rebus

Question: Who directed the 2013 film 12 Years a Slave?
Answer: Steve McQueen

Question: After featuring in the Wallace and Gromit film The Curse of the Were Rabbit the sales of which cheese increased by 500%?
Answer: Stinking Bishop