Question: What was the code name of the World War II operation in which British children were evacuated from the cities to the countryside?
Answer: Pied Piper

Question: Which area of Haringey, North London shares its name with the cluster of stars also known as The Pleiades?
Answer: (The) Seven Sisters

Question: Sebastian Vettel won the Formula One championship four years running from 2010-2013 driving for which team?
Answer: Red Bull

Question: Which composer wrote the tune to which Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is sung?
Answer: Mozart

Question: Which Oceanside neighbourhood in New York shares its name with the UK resort at which nude bathing in the sea was first permitted?
Answer: Brighton Beach

Question: Which poet wrote the lines: “Theirs is not to question why, Theirs is but to do and die”?
Answer: Alfred Lord TENNYSON

Question: Which capital city houses the headquarters of the African Union?
Answer: Addis Ababa

Question: What is the alter-ego of the Marvel Comics super-hero Iron Man?
Answer: Tony Stark

Question: What was the name of the pop-up exhibition organised by street artist Banksy in a disused lido at Weston-Super-Mare? It was open to the public for a short time in Autumn 2015.
Answer: Dismaland

Question: Benjamin Britten's last opera. Death in Venice, is based on a 1912 short story by which author?
Answer: Thomas Mann

Question: What is the young of a squirrel called ?
Answer: Kitten

Question: In which city did the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, known informally as The Earth Summit, take place in June 1992?
Answer: Rio De Janeiro

Question: What is the stage name of the English actor and comedian born in 1970 whose real name is Michael Pennington?
Answer: Johnny Vegas

Question: Rudolf Abel was exchanged by the Americans for the return of whom?
Answer: Gary Powers

Question: In the 2003 film Love Actually, which actor plays the part of the pop star Billy Mack who is first seen recording the song Christmas is All Around?
Answer: Bill Nighy

Question: What is the name of the former Bolton Wanderers footballer who survived the cardiac arrest he suffered during an FA Cup tie (against Spurs) in March 2012?
Answer: Fabrice Muamba

Question: Which novel first published in 1871 has the first line “Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress”?
Answer: Middlemarch

Question: What name is given to the bone and cartilage in the nose that separates the nasal cavity into the two nostrils?
Answer: (The nasal) SEPTUM

Question: What specifically was advertised with the slogan “Cool as a mountain stream”?
Answer: Consulate Cigarettes

Question: In 2008 who became the first British female jockey to ride one hundred winners in a calendar year?
Answer: Hayley Turner

Question: What was the name of the former Russian spy who died in London in November 2006 of polonium poisoning?
Answer: Alexander LITVINENKO

Question: Within one year either way, in what year did the Channel Tunnel first open for business to fee-paying passengers?
Answer: 1994

Question: Which 1953 novel begins with the line “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”?
Answer: The Go-Between

Question: What was specifically advertised with the slogan “Keep your schoolgirl complexion”?
Answer: Palmolive Soap

Question: Which jockey was runner up to A P McCoy on fifteen of the twenty occasions when the latter won the National Hunt Jockeys’ championship?
Answer: Richard Johnson

Question: Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee are characters in which 1964 children’s novel?
Answer: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

Question: In which decade was the 999 Emergency Calling system introduced in the United Kingdom?
Answer: 1930’s

Question: In which 1963 children’s book does Barney meet a strange boy who wears a rabbit skin and speaks in grunts?
Answer: Stig Of The Dump

Question: Which mountain range stretches from Morocco, through Algeria and into Tunisia?
Answer: The Atlas Mountains

Question: Roger Allam plays Detective Inspector Thursday in which TV series?
Answer: Endeavour

Question: Since July 2011, who has been the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund?
Answer: Christine Lagarde

Question: What is the surname of the first two brothers to play alongside each other for England in a Rugby World Cup match?
Answer: Underwood

Question: What is the stage name of the entertainer born in Bradford in 1982 whose real name is Stephen Frayne?
Answer: Dynamo

Question: What is the name of the prizes which are awarded annually at Harvard University whose stated aim is “to honor achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think”?
Answer: The Ig Nobel Prizes

Question: Who won a best supporting actor Oscar for his performance as Little Bill Daggett in the 1992 film “Unforgiven”?
Answer: Gene Hackman

Question: Actress Dakota Johnson is the daughter of actor Don Johnson and which actress?
Answer: Melanie Griffith

Question: Who directed the Godfather trilogy of films?
Answer: Francis Ford Coppola

Question: Which Democrat did George W Bush defeat in the 2000 US Presidential Election?
Answer: Al Gore

Question: “If music be the food of love, play on” is the opening line from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Twelfth Night

Question: Phil Lynott was lead singer and bassist with which rock group from 1969 to 1983?
Answer: Thin Lizzy

Question: How many letter tiles, including the blanks, are there in a game of Scrabble?
Answer: 100

Question: Who, in June 1963, became the first woman to go into space?
Answer: Valentina Tereshkova

Question: A ‘monkey’ is the slang term for what sum of money?
Answer: £500

Question: Which vegetable is known to Americans as Zucchini?
Answer: Courgette

Question: Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was located at Ephesus?
Answer: The Temple of Artemis

Question: How many people are needed to dance a Quadrille?
Answer: 8

Question: Alex Turner is the lead singer with which Sheffield band?
Answer: Arctic Monkeys

Question: In mythology, in which country is Benzaiten the Goddess of Love and Luck?
Answer: Japan

Question: Nicky Morgan is the current Secretary of State of which Government Department?
Answer: Education

Question: In the children’s animated TV series, who was the uncle and arch enemy of Noggin the Nog?
Answer: Nogbad the Bad

Question: Who plays Father Brown in the 2013 BBC TV series of the same name?
Answer: Mark Williams

Question: Which is the only current Football League team to play its home games in Kent?
Answer: Gillingham

Question: ‘Blood and Fire’ is the motto of which charitable organisation?
Answer: Salvation Army

Question: Which feminist book label was established by Carmen Callil and others in 1973?
Answer: Virago

Question: In which Royal Chapel situated in the Tower of London is Anne Boleyn buried?
Answer: St Peter ad Vincula

Question: What fictional place name connects a literary version of Salisbury and the comic cartoon character Roy of the Rovers?
Answer: Melchester

Question: Michael Fallon is the current Secretary of State for which Government Department?
Answer: Defence

Question: Which author wrote the comic play ‘The Admirable Crichton' in 1902?
Answer: J M Barrie

Question: The Pollex is the anatomical name for what part of the human body?
Answer: The Thumb

Question: Derived from a word meaning ‘rows of lighted lamps’, what is the Hindu Festival of Lights called?
Answer: Diwali

Question: Maryam Minzakani is the first woman to receive which prestigious Mathematics Award?
Answer: The Fields MedaI

Question: Which actor provides the voice of Po the Kung Fu Panda in the two films in the series?
Answer: Jack Black

Question: Which organisation’s flag includes an image of the continents of the world flanked by olive branches on a blue field?
Answer: The United Nations

Question: In which fictional English county is the radio series ‘The Archers’ set?
Answer: Borsetshire