Question: In the painting ‘Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy’ by David Hockney, who or what is Percy?
Answer: Cat

Question: At which celebrated German art school did the painters Kandinsky, Klee and Albers all lecture?
Answer: Bauhaus

Question: Which popular British artist was noted for her affectionate, lyrical paintings of fat people?
Answer: Beryl COOK

Question: Which fruit is the title of an Estonian-Georgian nominee in the Best Foreign Language category?
Answer: Tangerines

Question: Which freckled, red-headed actress has now had five nominations, this time around for 'Still Alice'?
Answer: Julianne MOORE

Question: Spoken by J.K. Simmons, "not quite my tempo" is a noted line from which jazz-themed movie?
Answer: Whiplash

Question: Almost unrecognisable with a prosthetic nose, who plays John E. du Pont in 'Foxcatcher'?
Answer: Steve CARRELL

Question: Which movie did President Obama screen at the White House just before Martin Luther King Day?
Answer: Selma

Question: A former ‘Bond Girl’, which UK actress is nominated for her leading role in 'Gone Girl'?
Answer: Rosamund PIKE

Question: Which Best Picture nominated movie tells the story of US soldier, 'Chris' Kyle?
Answer: American Sniper

Question: What was nominated for its song, 'Everything Is Awesome', but not in the best animation category?
Answer: The LEGO MOVIE

Question: Who became the first socialist President of France in 1981, being re-elected in 1988?
Answer: François MITTERAND

Question: Who was the President of Argentina when it invaded the Falklands in 1982?
Answer: Leopoldo GALTIERI

Question: What is the name of the strait linking the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman?
Answer: Straits of HORMUZ

Question: Joab slew him as he was fleeing a battle, who was the rebellious third son of King David?
Answer: Absalom

Question: Who many lines are there on a single, standard musical staff or stave?
Answer: Five

Question: To be precise, which musical term of Italian origin translates into English as "pinched"?
Answer: Pizzicato

Question: Which company made The Comet, the world’s first passenger jet airliner?
Answer: De Haviland

Question: The famous ‘Route 66’ in America connected Los Angeles to which other city?
Answer: Chicago

Question: Which Irish band provided the music for Harry’s Game and Robin of Sherwood?
Answer: Clannad

Question: Used on social media when framing a question; what does DAE represent?
Answer: Does Anyone Else…

Question: Where did the BBC set up permanent radio broadcasting facilities in April?
Answer: House Of Commons

Question: Which airline pioneer was given a knighthood in June?
Answer: Freddie LAKER

Question: The murder of which paperboy in September sparked a massive Police manhunt?
Answer: Carl BRIDGEWATER

Question: Which pioneering British photographer famously recorded the Crimean War?
Answer: Roger FENTON

Question: Where is the largest tropical forest in Africa?
Answer: CONGO Basin

Question: In 1975, which British band became the first to receive royalties for record sales in the USSR?
Answer: Rolling Stones

Question: Who had a 1974 UK No 1 hit with Ms Grace?
Answer: The TYMES

Question: Who won the Australian Open Men’s Tennis Championship?
Answer: Stanislas WAWRINKA

Question: Which metal with an atomic number of 31, melts at 30 degrees Centigrade?
Answer: Gallium

Question: In which town in Ceredigion will you find the world's biggest Camera Obscura?
Answer: Aberystwyth

Question: Masai, Reticulated, and Angolan are all species of which African mammal?
Answer: Giraffe

Question: Which US author wrote the books on which The Hunger Games series of films are based?
Answer: Suzanne COLLINS

Question: An island group in the Pacific; which country administers the Chonos Archipelago?
Answer: Chile

Question: Three Scottish kings, three Russian tsars and eight popes have all shared what name?
Answer: Alexander

Question: Which Radio 4 programme calls itself ‘the antidote to panel games’?
Answer: I’M Sorry, I Haven’T A Clue

Question: Which 80s sitcom starred Penelope Wilton as Ann Bryce and Peter Egan as Paul Ryman?
Answer: Ever Decreasing Circles

Question: What corrosive liquid makes up about 38% of the electrolyte in a car battery?
Answer: Sulphuric Acid

Question: In which British city can you find the Roman temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva?
Answer: Bath

Question: Ace of Base, The Cardigans and Roxette are all bands from which country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: A smooth hill shaped by moving ice made up of glacial drift is known as a what?
Answer: Drumlin

Question: Under what pseudonym did Theodor Geisel write over sixty books for children?
Answer: Dr. Seuss

Question: The polling booths closed at 10.00 pm. At what time did they open?
Answer: 7.00 Am

Question: The Frasch process is used to extract what chemical element from underground deposits?
Answer: Sulphur

Question: With what type of transport would you associate the term ‘bow collector’?
Answer: Trams

Question: Born in New Zealand, who was the Cambridge professor who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908?
Answer: Ernest, Baron

Question: Half the island of Timor belongs to East Timor. Which country owns the other half?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: In nuclear science, what word used to follow ‘half-life’, before the term was shortened in the early 1950s?
Answer: Period

Question: “ .. he'll grow to be an angry young man some day” comes from the lyrics of which 1969 no.2 hit?
Answer: In The Ghetto

Question: What nationality is tennis star Novak Djokovic?
Answer: Serbian

Question: What was the result of this summer’s Men’s Ashes series?
Answer: England Won 3-2

Question: On the original 1939 posters, what were the two last words?
Answer: Carry On

Question: In 2012, which London pop-rock band took part in ‘The Keep Calm and Play Louder Tour’?
Answer: McFLY

Question: Who starred as Dan Matthews in ‘Highway Patrol’?
Answer: Broderick Crawford

Question: What was the name of the cow in ‘The Woodentops’?
Answer: Buttercup

Question: What was the original, slightly controversial title of the Monkees’ hit ‘Alternate Title’?
Answer: Randy Scouse Git

Question: Mythology. Who was said to be the husband of Helen of Troy?
Answer: Menelaus

Question: The Bible. Who was the royal person who questioned the wisdom of Solomon?
Answer: The QUEEN OF SHEBA

Question: What name is shared by a violet-coloured flower and a gastropod mollusc?
Answer: Periwinkle

Question: According to the proverb, ‘None but the brave deserve …’ what?
Answer: The Fair

Question: Which politician was described as “a snarling, thin-skinned, obsessive man”?
Answer: Nigel Farage

Question: Odds of 100-30 are familiarly known by what two-word term?
Answer: Burlington Bertie

Question: The Fitzroy shipping area, named after him, was previously known as what?
Answer: Finisterre

Question: In 1831 he was re-appointed commander of which famous vessel?
Answer: Hms Beagle

Question: What is the name of SpongeBob SquarePants’ (sic) pet snail?
Answer: Gary

Question: Who wrote the play ‘Barefoot in the Park’, which premiered on Broadway in 1963?
Answer: Neil Simon

Question: What was unusual about Ian Murray’s success in the election?
Answer: Only Scottish Labour Mp

Question: What was the first name of the English painter Gainsborough, 1727-1788?
Answer: Thomas

Question: Which musical features the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons?
Answer: The Jersey Boys

Question: One of John Lennon’s sons is named Julian. What is the other son’s name?
Answer: Sean

Question: In what decade were driving tests first introduced into Britain?
Answer: 1930s

Question: Who became the deputy leader of the Labour party in September 2015?
Answer: Tom Watson

Question: Umnak, Unimak and Unalaska are islands in which group, belonging to the USA?
Answer: ALEUTIAN Islands

Question: In the news in Somerset in April, what is a Hudsonian Godwit?
Answer: A Bird