Question: 'Tennis Whites and Teacakes" and 'Trains and Buttered Toast" are collections of work by which writer, who died in 1984 aged 77?
Answer: Sir John Betjeman

Question: In which century did the Battle of Roncesvalles take place which inspired the epic poem "The Song of Roland'?
Answer: 8th Century AD

Question: What word can follow Garden, Willow and Grasshopper, to give the names of three bird-species that can be seen in the UK?
Answer: Warbler

Question: """Frank"" was the title of whose 2003 debut album?"
Answer: Amy Winehouse

Question: For what did the F stand in the name of US President J.F. Kennedy?
Answer: Fitzgerald

Question: Which singer married Bianca Perez-Mora Macias in St Tropez in 1971?
Answer: Mick Jagger

Question: At what figure do the Centigrade and Fahrenheit temperature scales coincide?
Answer: Minus 40 '

Question: What term is given to a plant that lasts more than two years?
Answer: Perennial

Question: The antimalarial drug "Quinine" is derived from the bark of which tree?
Answer: Cinchona

Question: In which Shakespeare play does Banquo's ghost appear?
Answer: Macbeth

Question: In which century did El Cid fight against the Moors in Spain?
Answer: Eleventh

Question: Of which Italian region is Genoa the capital?
Answer: Liguria

Question: Who designed the then Princess Elizabeth's wedding dress in 1947?
Answer: Norman Hartnell

Question: In what year where the Summer Olympic Games hosted in Munich?
Answer: 1972

Question: Bright's disease affects which organ of the human body?
Answer: Kidney

Question: Sparrows belong to which family of birds?
Answer: Passeridae

Question: What did the USA purchase from Russia for $7,200,000 in 1857?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Perugia is the capital of which Italian region?
Answer: Umbria

Question: Who married TV and radio personality David Mitchell in 2012?
Answer: Victoria Coren

Question: Which British physicist won the Nobel prize in 2013, sharing the prize with Francois Englert?
Answer: Peter Higgs

Question: Whose debut album "Rockferry" was the bestselling UK album of 2008?
Answer: Duffy

Question: Which actor is the husband of Sinead Cusack?
Answer: Jeremy Irons

Question: Which Imperial measurement is the equivalent of 6.35kg?
Answer: Stone

Question: Stan Smith is the main character of which American animated television series?
Answer: American Dad

Question: In which musical do the songs "As Long as He Needs Me" and "Food Glorious Food" feature?
Answer: Oliver

Question: What is the alternative name of the Chilean Pine?
Answer: Monkey Puzzle Tree

Question: Which 1972 film starring Dick Emery took its title from the catchphrase of one of his characters?
Answer: Ooh You Are Awful

Question: Trenton is the state capital of which US State?
Answer: New Jersey

Question: In which country did Mohammed Ali fight for the World Heavyweight boxing championship with George Foreman in what was known as "The Rumble in the Jungle"?
Answer: Zaire

Question: Which situation comedy character was invariably 11 minutes late to work for a variety of train related incidents?
Answer: Reginald Perrin

Question: Which band teamed up with Run DMC on the hit single "Walk This Way"?
Answer: Aerosmith

Question: Which former Pope was canonised alongside Pope John XXIII in April 2014?
Answer: John Paul II

Question: In a classic Ealing comedy, which area of London declares independence after the discovery of documents showing it is part of the Duchy of Burgundy?
Answer: Pimlico

Question: What is the lightest weight of boxing class used by the WBC?
Answer: Straw weight

Question: Who wrote the 1842 poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
Answer: Robert Browning

Question: Dave Vanian, Brian James, Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies were the original members of which punk band?
Answer: The Damned

Question: Which 'cake' is a small, circular black sweet made of liquorice?
Answer: Pontefract Cake

Question: Of which American state is Tallahassee the state capital?
Answer: Florida

Question: In heraldry which colour is known as gules?
Answer: Red

Question: Who played the time travelling Gary Sparrow in the sitcom "Goodnight Sweetheart"?
Answer: Nicholas Lyndhurst

Question: To which actress is Daniel Craig married?
Answer: Rachael Weisz

Question: What unit of measurement, the equivalent to four inches, is used in the measurement of horses?
Answer: Hand

Question: Which musical was an adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's "Goodbye to Berlin"?
Answer: Cabaret

Question: Which actor was born Archibald Leech in Bristol in 1904?
Answer: Cary Grant

Question: The River Manzanares runs through which city?
Answer: Madrid

Question: Which was the debut novel of Frederick Forsyth later made into a film?
Answer: The Day of the Jackal

Question: Which history professor founded UKIP in September 1993?
Answer: Alan Sked

Question: What was the former name of the Pura Cup before 1999? It is the first-class cricket competition in Australia.
Answer: Sheffield Shield

Question: Which operatic heroine is the daughter of Amonasro, King of Ethiopia?
Answer: Aida

Question: In which novel of 1869 does Pierre Bezuhov fight a duel in which both participants survive?
Answer: War and Peace

Question: Which theatre critic devised and produced the erotic revue ‘Oh! Calcutta!’ in 1969?
Answer: Kenneth Tynan

Question: Used to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the BBC, the song ‘Perfect Day’ was written by which American performer?
Answer: Lou Reed

Question: Who skippered an all-woman crew in the 1989 Whitbread round-the-world yacht race in a yacht called Maiden?
Answer: Tracy Edwards

Question: Striding Edge is a feature on which English mountain?
Answer: Helvellyn

Question: In 2004, who performed a record 499 jokes in one hour at the Soho Theatre, London?
Answer: Tim Vine

Question: Who is credited with creating the periodic table?
Answer: Dmitri Mendeleev

Question: Whose only novel won the Pulitzer Booker Prize in 1937?
Answer: Margaret Mitchell

Question: Which political leader has a black Labrador called Connie Paulgrave?
Answer: Vladimir Putin

Question: Which singer is known as the “Empress of the blues?
Answer: Bessie Smith

Question: Deriving their name from the Latin for ‘fat’, which cells are found in connective tissue and are specialised to synthesise large globules of fat?
Answer: Adipose

Question: Name either the 47th or the 48th State to join the United States of America in 1912.
Answer: New Mexico or Arizona

Question: Who narrated the children’s animation called 'Bod'?
Answer: John Le Mesurier

Question: Name either of the French Departments located in the Indian Ocean?
Answer: (La) Reunion or Mayotte

Question: Brother and sister Scout and Jem are the main characters in which book?
Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

Question: Which musical era began in August 1935 at LA’s Palomar Ballroom?
Answer: Swing

Question: Which building’s proposed extension did Prince Charles describe as a great carbuncle?
Answer: The National Gallery

Question: In geology what is the layer below the earth’s crust?
Answer: The Mantle

Question: Name either country, which is a member of the Commonwealth that has no historical links to Britain?
Answer: Mozambique or Rwanda

Question: Which BBC newsreader narrated‘Mary, Mungo and Midge’?
Answer: Richard Baker

Question: In which 2014 film was Chris Kyle the central character?
Answer: AmericanSniper

Question: Sir Hudson Lowe was whose gaoler?
Answer: Napoleon

Question: Tsar Alexander I is a silent role in which opera?
Answer: William Tell

Question: In literature, which paradox is first explained by Doc Daneeka?
Answer: Catch-22

Question: Goodluck Jonathan was defeated in an election in 2015 ending his term as president of which country?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: Where do the Rivers Foss and Ouse meet?
Answer: York

Question: How is Jordan Belfort described in a 2014 film title?
Answer: The Wolf of Wall Street

Question: Who made the “Tryst with Destiny” speech in 1947?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru