Question: What is the Egyptian hawk headed god of light called?
Answer: Horus

Question: Jacksonville is the largest city by population in which American state?
Answer: Florida

Question: In the BBC comedy TV series 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum', who played the part of Gunner Beaumont?
Answer: Melvyn Hayes

Question: In which range of English hills is the town of Watlington?
Answer: Chilterns

Question: Which fictional seafarer is the hero of Dudley Pope's novels?
Answer: Nicholas Ramage

Question: Which former England cricket captain was nicknamed Bumble?
Answer: David Lloyd

Question: Malev was the national airline of which European country from 1946 to 2012?
Answer: Hungary

Question: The Azed crossword puzzle appears in which newspaper?
Answer: Observer

Question: On a standard typewriter keyboard which letter appears between the letters Q and E?
Answer: W

Question: By what name is musician David Robert Hayward-Jones better known?
Answer: David Bowie

Question: What is the meaning of the Spanish word 'Zorro'?
Answer: Fox

Question: What was the name of the political statement made by four members of the Labour Party in January 1981 effectively launching the SDP?
Answer: The Limehouse Declaration

Question: Who plays the part of Tommy Beresford in the BBC series "Partners in Crime", based on an Agatha Christie novel?
Answer: David Walliams

Question: What name is given to the territory of one country that is inside the territory of another?
Answer: Enclave

Question: With which sport would you associate with the "Toronto Raptors" and the Houston Rockets"?
Answer: Basketball

Question: Which Scottish cheese is rolled in oatmeal?
Answer: Caboc

Question: Chartwell, the former home of Winston Churchill is in which county?
Answer: Kent

Question: Which Roman Emperor wrote "meditations'1 in the 2nd century AD?
Answer: Marcus Aurelius

Question: Sharing its name with a painter, what was the name of the dog that won Britain's Got Talent in 2015?
Answer: Matisse

Question: Name the year: 900 followers of the Rev Jim Jones commit suicide in Guyana, Ipswich Town defeat Arsenal in the FA cup final and Louise Brown becomes the first test tube baby?
Answer: 1978

Question: What do Australian's call a "Stag Party*?
Answer: A Buck's Party

Question: Name the year Rumanian dictator Nicolae Ceausecu is executed, Boris Becker wins the last of his three Wimbledon titles and Akihito succeeds his father as Emperor of Japan?
Answer: 1989

Question: Who sang the title theme song to the bond film "The spy who loved me"?
Answer: Carly Simon

Question: A monopoly is where there is only one seller of a goods or service, what word is used for only one buyer?
Answer: Monopsony

Question: Jackpot, Snakebite, Mighty Mike and the Machine, are some of the nicknames of players from which sport?
Answer: Darts (Adrian Lewis, Peter Wright, Michael Van Gerwin and James Wade)

Question: What does a Fellmonger deal in?
Answer: Animal Skins

Question: Demophobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Crowds

Question: Which city was founded by Samuel De Champlain in 1608?
Answer: Quebec

Question: """Sussudio"", ""One more night"" and ""Don't lose your number"" were all hit singles from which 1985 album?"
Answer: No Jacket Required (Phil Collins)

Question: Who bowled the one millionth ball in test cricket in England at the Ashes match at Trent Bridge in 2015?
Answer: Ben Stokes

Question: Named after a city in Pakistan, what type of naan bread is made with fruit and nuts
Answer: Peshwari (Peshwar)

Question: Name either judge on the BBC cooking show "MasterChef?
Answer: Greg Wallace or John Torode

Question: Which tree has the Latin word Taxus?
Answer: Yew

Question: What was the name of the concealed tracks through Eastern Laos that was used as a supply route during the Vietnam War?
Answer: The Ho Chi Minh Trail

Question: Who was wearing the Armour of Achilles when he was killed by Hector at the Siege of Troy?
Answer: Patroclus

Question: In which town or city is the East Anglian Daily Times published?
Answer: Ipswich

Question: How many UN Secretaries Generals have there been?
Answer: 8

Question: Which assassin was the most famous member of the revolutionary group "Young Bosnia"?
Answer: Gavrilo Princip

Question: In January 2015 a French Court banned a couple from naming their child after which popular food item?
Answer: Nutella

Question: Which Austrian composer was shot and killed by an American soldier in 1945?
Answer: Anton Webern

Question: 19th century surgeon Dr Joseph Bell was the inspiration for which literary character?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Question: Which is the most northerly Test Cricket Ground in the world?
Answer: Chester-Le-Street (Durham)

Question: Who is the Minister for Energy and Climate change?
Answer: Amber Rudd

Question: """It is this day three hundred and forty eight years, six months and nineteen days that the good people of Paris were awakened by a grand pealing from all the bells"" is the first line of which novel?"
Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Question: Which comedy actor said "He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy" in the Life of Brian?
Answer: Terry Jones

Question: Julius Nyerere became the first leader of which African country in 1964?
Answer: Tanzania

Question: Which is the largest of the Ionian Islands, it is also the setting for the Louis De Bernieres novel "Captain Correlli's mandolin?
Answer: Cephallonia

Question: What is the more common name of the flowering plant Myosotis?
Answer: Forget-Me-Not

Question: In which county is the Cerne Abbas Giant?
Answer: Dorset

Question: Which car manufacturer produces the models Ghibli and Levante?
Answer: Maserati

Question: Which actor plays the part of John Snow in the TV series Game of Thrones?
Answer: Kit Harrington

Question: How many symphonies did Mozart write?
Answer: 41

Question: Where would you find the Tomb of the Venerable Bede?
Answer: Durham Cathedral

Question: Which actor spoke the line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning* in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now?
Answer: Robert Duval

Question: With which instrument is Jazz musician Miles Davis most associated with?
Answer: Trumpet

Question: """Nil Satis Nisi Optimum"" or ""Nothing but the Best* is the motto of which Premiership Football Club?"
Answer: Everton

Question: Which musical festival was founded by John Christie in 1934 in East Sussex?
Answer: Glyndebourne

Question: Who wrote the song "God bless America"?
Answer: Irving Berlin

Question: At which naval battle did the Greeks defeat the Persians in 480BC?
Answer: Salamis

Question: Which film star (1923 - 2008), was born John Carter in Evanston, Illinois?
Answer: Charlton Heston

Question: Europe’s first female President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was President of which country from 1980 to 1996?
Answer: Iceland

Question: WBQ is the National Rail code for which station in the North West?
Answer: Warrington Bank Quay

Question: In the Bible who was the father of Jacob and Esau?
Answer: Isaac

Question: Named by the BFI in 2000 as the best TV series of all time, which sitcom only had two six-episode series, the first in 1975, the second in 1979?
Answer: Fawlty Towers

Question: What is the term in economics for a market where there is only one buyer but many sellers, the opposite of a monopoly?
Answer: Monopsony

Question: Who won the men’s long jump at the Olympics four times, from 1984 to 1996?
Answer: Carl Lewis

Question: For what does the second C stand in the Government Department known as DECC?
Answer: (Department Of Energy And Climate) Change

Question: Which country adopted the euro as its currency on January 1st this year?
Answer: Lithuania

Question: Of which country is South Tyrol an autonomous province?
Answer: Italy

Question: Which 1998 film tells a fictionalised account of the Battle of Mount Austen, part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Second World War?
Answer: The Thin Red Line