Question: Name either of the people, who on the 30th April 1927, become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood?
Answer: Douglas Fairbanks/Mary Pickford

Question: Which British monarch made Leamington Spa royal?
Answer: Queen Victoria

Question: What is the name of the thick soup popular in the southern states of the U.S.A. (One of the main ingredients is okra which gives the dish its smooth silky texture)?
Answer: Gumbo

Question: Where in the human body are the 'Billroth Cords'?
Answer: Spleen

Question: The tune 'Galloping Home' was used as a signature tune for
Answer: which children's television series shown from 1972 to 1974 andcfor a new series featuring the same characters 1990-1991?

Question: Milwaukie is the largest city by population in which state of America?
Answer: Wisconsin

Question: Which character has been portrayed in films by Richard Chamberlain, Sean Connery and Stewart Granger?
Answer: Alan Quartermain

Question: What is the name of the Indian dish made from stewed dried peas, onions and spices (lentils are most popular but many other varieties of dried peas are used)?
Answer: Dahl

Question: What name, that of a mythological creature, is given to the smallest species of owl?
Answer: Elf Owl

Question: Which 1998 film was released with the advertising tag line 'The Mission is a Man'?
Answer: Saving Private Ryan

Question: Which British explorer discovered the source of the River Nile in 1862?
Answer: John Hanning Speke

Question: Name the singer or group, whose record in February 1981 kept 'Vienna' by Ultravox off the number one spot in the hit parade?
Answer: Joe Dolce/Shaddap Your Face

Question: Who starred in the TV series `Nice Guy Eddie' as a Liverpool Private Investigator?
Answer: Ricky Tomlinson

Question: What was the first name of Labour politician James Callaghan?
Answer: Leonard

Question: Which 1953 film musical tells the romanticised story of frontiers woman Martha Jane Canary?
Answer: Calamity Jane

Question: Emily Robinson sang with which pop group?
Answer: The Dixie Chicks

Question: Forbes magazine named who as the top earner singer between July 2012 and August 2013?
Answer: Michael Jackson

Question: Who was the voice of Mr Wormsworth in the film Chicken Little?
Answer: Patrick Stewart

Question: Which former English Football International has the middle name Ivanhoe?
Answer: Emile Heskey

Question: Which football club replaced Barrow in the football league after the 1971-1972 season?
Answer: Hereford

Question: What part of the human body is known to doctors as the hallux?
Answer: The Big Toe

Question: Between 1795 and 1799, which English navigator surveyed the coast of Australia?
Answer: Matthew Flinders

Question: 'Jessica' is the signature tune for which television series, first shown in 1977 and still being screened?
Answer: Top Gear

Question: Mollie King sang with which pop group?
Answer: The Saturdays

Question: Which British monarch put the 'Regis' into Bognor?
Answer: King George V

Question: How many gallons of beer are in an English hogshead?
Answer: 54

Question: In which war film would you hear the line 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning'?
Answer: Apocalypse Now

Question: Which is the only British City which begins with the letter 'I'?
Answer: Inverness

Question: What name is given to the smallest species of hummingbird, it is named after the insect it is closest in size to?
Answer: Bee Hummingbird

Question: Where in the human body are the Kupffer Cells to be found?
Answer: Liver

Question: Who is the famous mother of actress Rachael Stirling?
Answer: Diana Rigg

Question: Name the only English City in the south-west beginning with the letter `T'?
Answer: Truro

Question: Name the singer or group, whose record in November 1969 kept 'Suspicious Minds' by Elvis Presley off the number one spot in the hit parade?
Answer: Rolf Harris/Two Little Boys

Question: Who wrote the novel 'The Name of the Rose'?
Answer: Umberto Eco

Question: What type of animal is the fennec?
Answer: (Desert) FOX

Question: Who was the Labour Secretary of State for Health 2003-2005?
Answer: John Reid

Question: Who was the voice of Scar in the film The Lion King?
Answer: Jeremy Irons

Question: Who starred on TV as the Newcastle detective 'Spender'?
Answer: Jimmy Nail

Question: Which British explorer was in 1796 the first European to discover and travel the course of the Niger river?
Answer: Mungo Park

Question: Which character has been portrayed in films by Andre Morell, Robert Duvall, and Ben Kingsley?
Answer: Doctor John Watson

Question: Name the ship originally a German Cruise Ship, thar brought the first 500 group of immigrants from the Caribbean to settle in Britain in 1948?
Answer: Empire Windrush

Question: Which well known manufacturer had to re-brand one of its best selling cars before marketing it in South America because the cars name means, 'doesn't go' in Spanish?
Answer: General Motors

Question: Which football club replaced Workington in the football league after the 1976-1977 season?
Answer: Wimbledon

Question: Who wrote 'The Martian Chronicles'?
Answer: Ray Bradbury

Question: Bourbon is a county in which US State?
Answer: Kentucky

Question: Which animal's dwelling is a lodge?
Answer: Beaver

Question: Who was the female lead in the various 'Road to ' films?
Answer: Dorothy Lamour

Question: Who was the Roman prefect of Judea from about 26-36 AD?
Answer: Pontius Pilate

Question: Who was the first National Hunt Jockey to reach 1000 wins?
Answer: Stan Mellor

Question: Which 'one hit wonders' topped the UK charts in 1976 with 'Mississippi'?
Answer: Pussycat

Question: 'John Jasper's Secret' by Henry Morford was an early attempt to
Answer: complete and solve the mystery of which novel, left unfinished at its author's death in 1870?

Question: In 2014 who was accused of killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in South Africa?
Answer: Oscar Pistorius

Question: Who was the first Plantagenet monarch?
Answer: Henry Ii

Question: What song about the Highland Clearances was performed by the Proclaimers in 1987?
Answer: Letter From America

Question: In 2013 the Reverend Paul Flowers was implicated in sex, drugs and drinking scandals. Of which bank was he chairman?
Answer: Co-Operative

Question: Which footballer was fined for giving 'the quenelle', known as the reverse Nazi salute, during a match at West Ham?
Answer: Nicholas Anelka

Question: Holme Fen in Cambridgeshire has what geographical distinction?
Answer: The Lowest Land Point In Britain

Question: Which Liverpool film maker made 'Of Time And The City' and 'Deep Blue Sea'?
Answer: Terence Davies

Question: What nickname was given to Sir Henry Percy who was killed in the rebellion of 1403 against Henry IV?
Answer: Hotspur

Question: The Hedge Sparrow is commonly known by what one-word name?
Answer: Dunnock

Question: Brackley, Old Sarum, Dunwich and Ansmither were examples of what that lost their status in 1832 (in the 1832 reform act)?
Answer: Rotten Boroughs

Question: Which snooker player was a torch bearer in the 1968 Melbourne Olympics?
Answer: Eddie Charlton

Question: Which 'earworm' No. 1 song featured in the film 'Despicable Me 2'?
Answer: Happy

Question: In 1956 which scientific concept was demonstrated in Magdeburg by Otto von Guericke?
Answer: Atmospheric Pressure

Question: The Amalfi Coast is in which Italian region?
Answer: Campania

Question: 'One-Eyed Jacks' (1961) is whose only film as a Director?
Answer: Marlon Brando

Question: The Costa Prize winning book 'Pure' by Andrew Miller was set in the ancient cemeteries of which city?
Answer: Paris

Question: Which 17 year old New Zealander won the 2014 Grammy for Song of the Year with 'Royals'?
Answer: Lorde

Question: Which famous Netherlands writer and philosopher came to lecture at Oxford in 1498?
Answer: Erasmus