Question: In Irish legend, what name is given to the Otherworld or Land of Promise, inhabited by fairies?
Answer: Tir Na Nog

Question: Normally presented by the Queen, who presented the Ascot Gold Cup to the Queen when her horse won, in 2013?
Answer: Prince Andrew

Question: In Downton Abbey, who plays the Earl of Grantham?
Answer: Hugh Bonneville

Question: Who was the US Attorney General to J F Kennedy?
Answer: Robert Kennedy

Question: Bill de Blasio took which office on 1st January 2014?
Answer: Mayor of New York

Question: Name the probe launched from Rosetta which landed on the comet 67P/C-G in November 2014.
Answer: Philae

Question: Which Liverpool born writer penned the comedy series Butterflies?
Answer: Carla Lane

Question: In a standard game of draughts with how many playing pieces does each player start the game?
Answer: 12

Question: Which then twice a season cricket fixture was last contested in Scarborough in September 1962?
Answer: Gentlemen v Players

Question: In 1969, who took over from Dick Hills and Sid Green as a script?writer for Morecambe and Wise?
Answer: Eddie Braben

Question: The Mersey ferries Iris and Daffodil were both given Royal status after which World War I action?
Answer: The raid on Zeebrugge

Question: Name the German manufacturer of the Smart Automobile?
Answer: Daimler AG

Question: The cast of which Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine film also included footballers Bobby Moore, John Wark and Ossie Ardilles?
Answer: Escape to Victory

Question: In the 2014 English Counties Twenty/20 cricket competition, which is the only side named after a city rather than a county?
Answer: Birmingham Bears

Question: Who played Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film A Long Walk to Freedom?
Answer: Idris Elba

Question: Name the British scientist who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics.
Answer: Peter Higgs

Question: Who captained the English XI on the 1987 rebel cricket tour of South Africa?
Answer: Graham Gooch

Question: Who created the TV series The Thick of It?
Answer: Armando lannucci

Question: Who wrote the 1989 novel A Clear and Present Danger?
Answer: Tom Clancy

Question: Who directed the film The Hurt Locker, winner of the Oscar for Best Director in 2010?
Answer: Kathryn Bigelow

Question: The Grade 1 listed Pulteney Bridge spans which river?
Answer: Avon

Question: Who was the President of France immediately before Jacques Chirac?
Answer: Francois Mitterand

Question: Who presents the BBC Radio 4 Food Programme?
Answer: Sheila Dillon

Question: Which singer played the lead in the 1972 film, The Harder they Come?
Answer: Jimmy Cliff

Question: In which country was politician Peter Hain born?
Answer: Kenya

Question: James Ramsden was the last person to hold which political office in the UK, which was abolished in 1964 under Alec Douglas Hume's premiership?
Answer: Secretary of State for War

Question: Which small country has the official language of Catalan?
Answer: Andorra

Question: What is the straight line called which joins two points on the circumference of a circle but does not pass not through the centre?
Answer: Chord

Question: Which of Dickens' novels is set at the time of the Gordon Riots?
Answer: Barnaby Rudge

Question: What was the first of the Labours of Hercules?
Answer: The Slaying Of The Nemean Lion

Question: The National Gallery paid £1 lmillion in 1997 to buy a painting of the Marquess of Rockingham's racehorse Whistlejacket. Who was the artist?
Answer: George Stubbs

Question: What was the name of the pub in Only Fools and Horses?
Answer: The Nags Head

Question: Charles X Gustav ruled which Kingdom from 1654 to 1660?
Answer: Sweden

Question: To turn a Welsh rarebit into a buck rarebit what is placed on top?
Answer: (Poached) Egg

Question: Which poet was killed a week before the end of World War I?
Answer: Wilfred Owen

Question: Which land was Cain banished to after he slew Abel?
Answer: Land Of Nod

Question: Who wrote The Day of the Jackal?
Answer: Frederick Forsyth

Question: Who was commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain?
Answer: Sir Hugh Dowding

Question: Which state of Germany borders Denmark?
Answer: Schleswig-Holstein

Question: Which A road that starts at Selby, North Yorkshire, runs through York and Middlesbrough and finishes just south of Jarrow?
Answer: A19

Question: What is the common name for the gas with chemical formula O3?
Answer: Ozone

Question: Which group had a 1968 UK hit with Baby Come Back?
Answer: The Equals

Question: The Claret Jug is the name of the trophy awarded to the winner of which annual sporting championship?
Answer: The Open Golf Championship

Question: What is the name of the actress who is the mother of actor Rupert Penry-Jones?
Answer: Angela Thorne

Question: Which sportsman?s recent autobiography is called Staying Power: A Year in My Life?
Answer: Phil Taylor

Question: Which word completes the title of the trade union BECTU - Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union?
Answer: Broadcasting

Question: If a dish is a la forestiere with what is it served?
Answer: Mushroom

Question: In which city was the inaugural Russian F1 Grand Prix held in 2014?
Answer: Sochi

Question: What was the name of the pub in Ballykissangel?
Answer: Fitzgerald'S

Question: Bom in Brighton in 1894 Thomas Henry Sargent was a stand-up comedian - by what name was he better known?
Answer: Max Miller

Question: In scientific classification if Taraxacum Officinale is a species what is Taraxacum?
Answer: Genus

Question: Which A road that starts at Holyhead in North Wales runs through Conwy and Colwyn Bay and finishes at Chester?
Answer: A55

Question: What is the name of the son of Cain born in the Land of Nod, after whom Cain named a city?
Answer: Enoch

Question: Who wrote The ipcress File?
Answer: Len Deighton

Question: The Germans call it the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal. What do we call it?
Answer: Kiel Canal

Question: Whose recent autobiography is called The Corridor or Certainty: My Life Beyond Cricket?
Answer: Geoffrey Boycott

Question: Who lived at the TV address, 30 Kelsall Street Liverpool?
Answer: The Boswells

Question: Workers in which industry belong to NACODS?
Answer: Coal

Question: If the chemical elements with a single letter symbol were arranged alphabetically which letter would come next - B, C, ...?
Answer: F

Question: Which group had a 1970 UK hit with Woodstock?
Answer: Matthews Southern Comfort

Question: Who was the Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967 - he is remembered in the name of a trophy in the sport?
Answer: Vince Lombardi

Question: What is the name of the actress who is the mother of actress Rachael Stirling?
Answer: Diana Rigg

Question: How is the 1871 painting Arrangement in Grey and Black No 1 usually known?
Answer: Whistler?S Mother

Question: Which Spanish football club plays its home games at Vicente Calderon Stadium?
Answer: Atletico Madrid

Question: According to Flanders and Swann what is the G-nicest work of G-nature in the zoo?
Answer: A Gnu

Question: Who preceded Menzies Campbell as Leader of the Liberal Democrats?
Answer: Charles Kennedy

Question: The Costa Smerelda is a feature of which Mediterranean island?
Answer: Sardinia

Question: A chord divides a circle into two what?
Answer: Segments

Question: In which Shakespeare play would you find the character Touchstone?
Answer: As You Like It

Question: Who won the men's 400m Olympic gold medal in Paris in 1924?
Answer: Eric Liddell

Question: On a map, an isohaline is a line joining points of equal what?
Answer: Salinity

Question: The second highest mountain in Africa has the same name as which country?
Answer: Kenya

Question: Three clues lead to a one word answer: 1. Daughter of a hotel dynasty, 2 Troy, 3 Plaster.
Answer: Paris

Question: Which sign of the zodiac is known as Jungfrau in German?
Answer: Virgo

Question: Who wrote the poem Dulce et Decorum est?
Answer: Wilfred Owen