Question: What was the title of J. K. Rowling's first novel for adults, - following the Harry Potter series?
Answer: The Casual Vacancy

Question: The Poet's Percy Shelley and John Keats are both buried in which European capital's Protestant cemetery?
Answer: Rome

Question: Only 3 sportsmen have won BBC's Sports Personality of the Year twice. Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill are two, who is the other, winning in 1967 and 1970?
Answer: Henry Cooper

Question: The 'Majestic Mountain' is the symbol of which film studio?
Answer: Paramount

Question: In 1952 Albert Einstein was offered, and turned down, the Presidency of which country?
Answer: Israel

Question: Which English cathedral has the world's oldest medieval clock?
Answer: Salisbury

Question: Who became the first woman to win a gold medal in boxing for GB in the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: Nicola Adams

Question: Now known as Cobh, which Irish town was the Titanic's last port of call?
Answer: Queenstown

Question: Which 20th century leader had an Alsatian called Blondi?
Answer: Adolf Hitler

Question: What was the surname of the US Medical Corp Army Captain nicknamed Hawkeye in the TV Series MASH?
Answer: Pierce

Question: The drama critic Kenneth Tynan devised which controversial 1969 musical revue?
Answer: Oh Calcutta

Question: Dakar is the capital city of which African country?
Answer: Senegal

Question: Suzuki is the maid of which operatic heroine?
Answer: Madame Butterfly

Question: Which English batsman holds the record for the highest score in an Ashes Test Match (364)?
Answer: Len Hutton

Question: Who has been Israel's only female Prime Minister?
Answer: Golda Meir

Question: Who lived under the name of Private Thomas Shaw at Clouds Hill, Dorset, where he eventually died following a motorcycle accident in 1935?
Answer: T. E. Lawrence

Question: What precious stone would you associate with the cities of Seattle, Sydney and Wichita?
Answer: Emerald

Question: Which Asian Country is an archipelago of 17,504 islands?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: In which pantomime does the character Maid Marian appear?
Answer: Babes In The Wood

Question: Vardon, overlapping and cross handed are grips used in which sport?
Answer: Golf

Question: Which TV show has been presented by Jeremy Beadle, Lisa Riley and Jonathan Wilkes?
Answer: You'Ve Been Framed

Question: What type of pastry derives its name from the Greek word for leaf?
Answer: Filo

Question: Which former Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland was stripped of his knighthood, having been blamed for the collapse of the bank?
Answer: Fred Goodwin

Question: Who is the author of the best-selling Fifty Shades of Grey series?
Answer: E L James

Question: Which poet and author served in Oliver Cromwell's Government for Foreign tongues?
Answer: John Milton

Question: Who was voted Times Magazine's man of the year in 1939 and 1942?
Answer: Joseph Stalin

Question: The World Bank has its HQ in which city?
Answer: Washington Dc

Question: What is the minimum age for male golfers on the European Seniors tour?
Answer: 50

Question: A deficiency of which vitamin cause rickets?
Answer: D

Question: In which county is the public school Marlborough College?
Answer: Wiltshire

Question: Which actress played Hazel the Witch in the children's TV programme "Rentaghost"?
Answer: Molly Weir

Question: Which fashion designer created the uniforms for the 2012 Olympic Team GB?
Answer: Stella McCartney

Question: Shirley Bassey has sung three Bond themes: "Goldfinger", "Diamonds are Forever", and what other?
Answer: Moonraker

Question: Under current legislation, General Elections in the UK are held on Thursdays, but at what time do polling stations close?
Answer: 10 pm

Question: In what year of WW2 was the German battleship 'Bismarck' sunk?
Answer: 1941

Question: Who is the mother of TV presenter and model Chloe Madeley?
Answer: Judy Finnigan

Question: In the US animated cartoon series "Rocky and Bullwinkle" what type of animal was Rocky?
Answer: (Flying) Squirrel

Question: At the beginning of the 2013-14 season, which former international player is manager of Championship team Blackpool FC?
Answer: Paul Ince

Question: Which two-word French phrase, used in English to mean a controversial issue, literally translates as 'famous case'?
Answer: Cause Celebre

Question: Pieter van Musschenbroek received the first recorded electric shock in 1746 whilst inventing which electrical storage device?
Answer: The Leiden Jar

Question: In Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", which character tells the first tale?
Answer: The Knight

Question: On a WW2 poster, what three words followed 'Lend a Hand'?
Answer: On the Land

Question: What is the name of the cafe/tea room, founded by Frederick Belmont in 1919 in Harrogate, and now a tourist attraction?
Answer: Betty's

Question: Which comedian's TV characters include Bubbles Devere and Vicky Pollard?
Answer: Matt Lucas

Question: Tchiakovsky's "1812 Overture" was written to commemorate which battle, fought around 60 miles west of Moscow?
Answer: Borodino

Question: Which English film actor and comedian starred in such films as "Trouble in Store" (1953) and "The Square Peg" (1958)?
Answer: Norman Wisdom

Question: Who replaced George Entwistle to become the present Director General of the BBC in April 2013?
Answer: Tony Hall

Question: The dish gumbo originated in which US state?
Answer: Louisiana

Question: Which country was the first to experience civil uprisings in 'The Arab Spring', the then existing government being overthrown in January 2011 after 23 years in power?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: Give either of the forenames of E. M. Forster
Answer: Edward / Morgan

Question: Which organic compound has the formula C4H10?
Answer: Butane

Question: The 2012 release "GRRR!" is the latest compilation from which band?
Answer: The Rolling Stones

Question: The artificial language Esperanto was devised in 1887 by Lazarus Ludwig who?
Answer: Zamenhof

Question: Actor Michael Sheard played which feared teacher in "Grange Hill"?
Answer: Mr. Bronson

Question: Which fashion designer created uniforms for the American 2012 Olympic team?
Answer: Ralph Lauren

Question: Which group released the soundtrack for the 1980 film "Flash Gordon"?
Answer: Queen

Question: In what year of WW2 did the German forces surrender at Stalingrad?
Answer: 1943

Question: Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Belle are among the children of which Hollywood actor, formerly married to Demi Moore?
Answer: Bruce Willis

Question: What type of animal is Hobbes in the syndicated cartoon strip "Calvin and Hobbes"?
Answer: Tiger

Question: At the beginning of the 2013-14 season, which former international player is manager of Championship side Watford FC?
Answer: Gianfranco Zola

Question: Which two-word French phrase, used in English to mean love letter, literally translates as 'sweet note'?
Answer: Billet Doux

Question: Which English poet died in a house at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome. It is now a museum dedicated to his memory?
Answer: John Keats

Question: Who is to replace Charles Dickens on the UK £10 note in 2017?
Answer: Jane Austen

Question: How many stories make up Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"?
Answer: Twenty Four

Question: After China and India, which African country is the world's largest tea producing nation?
Answer: Kenya

Question: What is the first name of the diplomat after whom Downing Street is named?
Answer: (Sir) George

Question: Who was murdered by John Bellingham in 1812?
Answer: Spencer Percival

Question: For what does the first 'S' stand in SMS?
Answer: Short

Question: Which American film actor and comedian starred in such films as It's a Gift (1934) and 'What a Man" (1941)
Answer: W. C. Fields

Question: Who replaced Rowan Williams to become the new Archbishop of Canterbury in February 2013?
Answer: Justin Welby

Question: Which fast food chain was founded by Harland Saunders in 1930?
Answer: Kfc