Question: Which US President played the saxophone with the band at his own inauguration dance?
Answer: Bill Clinton

Question: Jools Holland was a founding member of which band in 1974?
Answer: Squeeze

Question: Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra appeared on a stamp issued last month in a scene from which 2002 film?
Answer: Bend It Like Beckham

Question: Which letter of the Greek alphabet is between Kappa and Mu?
Answer: Lambda

Question: What is the surname of Emma in the book by Jane Austen?
Answer: Woodhouse

Question: Gerald Grosvenor has since 1979 been the 6th Duke of _____________ where?
Answer: Westminster

Question: What is the surname of the former Welsh Rugby Union player usually just known by the initials J P R?
Answer: Williams

Question: Dublin Zoo is in which Park west of the city centre?
Answer: Phoenix Park

Question: Competitors from which country won 11 Gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics, second only to Russia with 13?
Answer: Norway

Question: The Aran Islands lie at the mouth of which Irish Bay?
Answer: Galway

Question: In which country was Natalie Bennett, the Leader of the Green Party in England and Wales born?
Answer: Australia

Question: In which Australian state is Cape York Peninsula?
Answer: Queensland

Question: Which football club are known as Los Rojiblancos and wear shirts with the logo Azerbaijan Land of Fire?
Answer: Atlético Madrid

Question: Which large brown bear is native to an island which is part of Alaska?
Answer: Kodiak Bear

Question: Whose cottage is on the left of the Constable painting The Hay Wain?
Answer: Willy Lott

Question: Which duo had the 1987 Christmas Number One Always on My Mind?
Answer: The Pet Shop Boys

Question: New Moon and Eclipse are titles in which series of films?
Answer: Twilight

Question: In the Bible who was the husband of Bathsheba when she was first seen by David?
Answer: Uriah The Hittite

Question: Which word describes a monologue where an actor addresses an audience by speaking his thoughts aloud?
Answer: Soliloquy

Question: The Aldeburgh Festival was founded in 1948 by Benjamin Britten, Eric Crozier and which tenor?
Answer: Peter Pears

Question: George and Mildred and Robin’s Nest were spinoffs from which 1970s sitcom?
Answer: Man About The House

Question: Which year of the twentieth century is known as the Year of the Three Popes?
Answer: 1978

Question: The Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea are a region of which country?
Answer: Finland

Question: Which golfer (1912-2002) was known as Slammin’ Sammy?
Answer: Sam Snead

Question: @3choirs is the twitter username of the Festival that alternates between Hereford, Gloucester and which other city where it will be held this year?
Answer: Worcester

Question: What is the occupation of Oliver Smallbridge, played by Windsor Davies, and Simon Peel, played by Donald Sinden in the long running sitcom Never the Twain?
Answer: Antique Dealers

Question: Which jockey (1931-2003) was known as The Shoe?
Answer: Willie Shoemaker

Question: There were two years in the twentieth century when two General Elections were held in the UK. One was 1910. When was the other?
Answer: 1974

Question: Which brewery introduced the Party Seven can in 1968 to complement its Party Four can?
Answer: Watneys

Question: Which venue will host the Athletics events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games?
Answer: Hampden Park

Question: In December 1814 the Treaty of Ghent was signed to end which War?
Answer: War Of 1812

Question: Hoy and Sanday are in which island group in the British Isles?
Answer: Orkney Islands

Question: Which opera singer did conductor Richard Bonynge marry in 1954?
Answer: Joan Sutherland

Question: What nationality is the wife of UKIP leader Nigel Farage?
Answer: German

Question: Which Cape is the northernmost point of South Island New Zealand – it has the same name as the southernmost point of Greenland?
Answer: Cape Farewell

Question: Sodium bicarbonate consists of sodium, carbon, oxygen and which other element?
Answer: Hydrogen

Question: In which city is the football match known as Derby della Madonnina played between I Nerazzurri and I Rossoneri?
Answer: Milan

Question: Which bear has the scientific name Ursus maritimus?
Answer: Polar Bear

Question: The name of which railway company is contained in the full title of the Turner painting Rain, Steam and Speed?
Answer: Great Western

Question: Who duetted with Robbie Williams on the 2001 Christmas Number One Somethin’ Stupid?
Answer: Nicole Kidman

Question: Which is the next letter in the Greek alphabet – omicron, pi, rho, ______?
Answer: Sigma

Question: Paul Jones was vocalist with which group until going solo in 1966?
Answer: Manfred Mann

Question: Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste appeared on a stamp issued last month in a scene from which 1996 film?
Answer: Secrets And Lies

Question: Founded in 1088 in which Italian city is the University said to be the oldest in continuous operation?
Answer: Bologna

Question: Former racing driver Johnny Dumfries, born at Rothesay in 1958, is the 7th Marquess of _______ where?
Answer: Bute

Question: M C C were the appropriate initials of which former England cricket captain?
Answer: (Michael) Colin COWDREY

Question: Yorkshire Bank is a subsidiary of Clydesdale Bank which itself is a subsidiary of the National Bank of which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: MINT is a term which refers to the economies of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and which other country, all members of the Next Eleven grouping?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Who is the mother of French actress Lou Doillon, the half-sister of Charlotte Gainsbourg?
Answer: Jane Birkin

Question: Who plays the title role in the 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom?
Answer: Idris Elba

Question: Which word completes the tile of a Kerry Greenwood novel about a visit to Sydney to watch cricket by her detective character Phryne Fisher – Death before ________?
Answer: Wicket

Question: Which hormone controls the supply of sugar from the blood to the muscles?
Answer: Insulin

Question: What type of creature is a 'Spanish Fly'?
Answer: A Beetle

Question: The three main constituents of glass are sand, soda, and what else?
Answer: Limestone

Question: How many Yorkshire teams are currently in Rugby League's 'Super League'?
Answer: SIX (Leeds Rhinos, Bradford Bulls, Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, Huddersfield Giants, Hull Kingston Rovers, Hull F.C.)

Question: Which composer who lived from 1833 -1897 wrote four symphonies and four concertos including the 'German Requiem'?
Answer: Brahms

Question: A card game using 32 cards and a Formula One racing champion share the same name. What is it?
Answer: Piquet

Question: Which monster is mentioned in the Book of Job as a sea serpent?
Answer: Leviathan

Question: Three US states have 13 letters in their names, North and South Carolina are two - what is the third?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: Who was the Persian god of wisdom, who shares his name with a make of motor car?
Answer: Mazda

Question: In World War II, what were 'Paravanes' used for?
Answer: Cutting The Cables Of Sea Mines

Question: """Well Price, so Genoa and Lucca are now just familyestates of the Bonapartes"", is the first line of which novel?"
Answer: 'War And Peace'

Question: From which musical did the song 'Chim Chim Cheree' come?
Answer: 'Mary Poppins'

Question: Under Islamic law, up to how many wives may a man have at one time?
Answer: 4 (four)

Question: In the Royal Navy, precisely what is an ERA?
Answer: Engineroom Artificer

Question: Which poet was known as 'Merlin'?
Answer: Alfred Lordtennyson

Question: Name any year in the life of the painter Botticelli?
Answer: 1445 - 1510

Question: Which dance, in quadruple time, combines short and long steps in various sequences?
Answer: Foxtrot

Question: What is the name of the copper and zinc alloy used as an imitation of gold?
Answer: PINCHBECK or ORMOLU