Question: What feature of British life is owned by "Lord Gnome"?
Answer: Private Eye

Question: Who presents Radio 4's I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue?
Answer: Jack Dee

Question: """Arise, children of the Fatherland, the day of glory is here"" are the first words of which country's national anthem?"
Answer: France

Question: How many naturally-occurring elements are there in the periodic table?
Answer: 92

Question: Which battle took place on June 18th 1815?
Answer: Waterloo

Question: Which castle is the seat of the Dukes of Northumberland?
Answer: Alnwick

Question: How old was Elvis Presley when he died in 1977?
Answer: 42

Question: Name either of the two US states which share a land border with Florida.
Answer: Alabama or Georgia

Question: Who presents Radio 4's The News Quiz?
Answer: Sandi Toksvig

Question: Which bathe took place on October 25th 1415?
Answer: Agincourt

Question: How old was Jimi Hendrix when he died in 1970?
Answer: 27

Question: Which castle is the seat of the Dukes of Norfolk?
Answer: Arundel

Question: Which 1959 film comedy featured a European country called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick?
Answer: The Mouse That Roared

Question: What is the name of the Israeli parliament?
Answer: Knesset

Question: In which TV programme is there a segment devoted to Adam's Farm?
Answer: Countryfile

Question: The Laughing Song comes from which Johann Strauss operetta?
Answer: Die Fledermaus

Question: What is the name of the Spanish parliament?
Answer: Cortes

Question: 36 Quai des Orfevres is the headquarters of the French equivalent of which UK body?
Answer: Scotland Yard

Question: Give either of the middle names of Venus Williams.
Answer: Ebony Starr

Question: In Russia, what is a banya?
Answer: Steam Bath / Sauna

Question: Closing Time was a sequel to which famous novel of 1961?
Answer: Catch 22

Question: By what name was TV's Ben Collins better known?
Answer: Stig

Question: What is the name of the day in May on which Americans honour their war dead?
Answer: Memorial Day

Question: Which London Underground line would you take to get directly to Heathrow Airport?
Answer: Piccadilly

Question: Under what name does Luis Carlos Almeida da Cunha play Premiership football?
Answer: Nani

Question: Who was President of France immediately before Nicolas Sarkozy?
Answer: Jacques Chirac

Question: Complete this Groucho Marx quote: "Go, and never darken..."
Answer: """...my towels again"""

Question: In 1962, Maurice Wilkins and two others won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of what?
Answer: Structure of DNA

Question: Which was Status Quo's only not hit single, which came in 1974?
Answer: Down Down

Question: James Harding is the editor of which daily newspaper?
Answer: The Times

Question: Alan Watkins theorised that there are unseen straight lines connecting prehistoric sites in Britain. What are they called?
Answer: Ley Lines

Question: Who writes verse obituaries in Private Eye?
Answer: E J Thribb

Question: The Grand National has been run at Aintree since 1839 except for 1916-18 when it was run where?
Answer: Gatwick

Question: Burns refers to a "cutty sark" in his poem" Tam O'Shanter" but what precisely is a "cutty sark"?
Answer: A short shirt

Question: Which French word commonly used in English means an awkward clash or inopportune occurrence, and is also a fencing term?
Answer: Contretemps

Question: The Midlands Grand National is run on which racecourse?
Answer: Uttoxeter

Question: What is the capital of the southern Italian region of Puglia?
Answer: Bari

Question: Which Austrian composer was accidentally shot dead by an American soldier in September 1945?
Answer: Anton von Webern

Question: The Trilby hat derives its name from the stage adaptation of a 1894 novel by which author?
Answer: George Du Maurier

Question: Which British Prime Minister had a type of hat named after him?
Answer: Anthony Eden

Question: In which 1952 Howard Hawks film did Marilyn Monroe co-star with Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers?
Answer: Monkey Business

Question: Which is the smallest, most westerly and most southerly of the Canary Islands?
Answer: El Hierro

Question: At which football ground was the FA Cup Final played the year prior to the 1923 opening Wembley final?
Answer: Stamford Bridge

Question: Who is the Greek equivalent of Aurora, the Roman Goddess of the Dawn?
Answer: Eos

Question: Three famous English composers died in 1934 - Elgar and Delius were two, who was the third?
Answer: Gustav Holst

Question: Which US president died of pneumonia 31 days after his inauguration in 1841?
Answer: W H Harrison

Question: Which Bradford Bulls Rugby League player scored a hat trick of tries in the 1996 Wembley Challenge Cup Final, and was awarded the Lance Todd Trophy?
Answer: Robbie Paul

Question: 'Endless Love' is a song duet by Diana Ross and which singer/composer?
Answer: Lionel Richie

Question: The 72-hole British Open Golf scoring record is 267 posted in 1993 at Royal St George's. Who holds that record?
Answer: Greg Norman

Question: 'II Dolce' refers to what in an Italian restaurant?
Answer: Dessert

Question: In 1949 who became the first post-WW2 World Heavyweight Boxing Champion?
Answer: Ezzard Charles

Question: Which is the largest of the Ionian Islands off the Greek west coast?
Answer: Cephalonia

Question: L'Aquila, scene of the 2009 earthquake, is the capital of which central Italian region?
Answer: Abruzzo

Question: Prior to 2005 Alesha Dixon was a member of which girl band?
Answer: Mis-Teeq

Question: Under which monarch did Lanfranc become Archbishop of Canterbury?
Answer: William I

Question: In the 1957 Frank Sinatra / Rita Hayworth musical 'Pal Joey', what was Joey's surname?
Answer: Evans

Question: In 'My Fair Lady' what is the occupation of Eliza Doolittle's father?
Answer: Dustman

Question: The Wizard of Wishaw' is better known as which sportsman?
Answer: John Higgins

Question: 'It Takes Two' was a 60s duet for Kim Weston with which male US singer?
Answer: Marvin Gaye

Question: Who played Wycliffe in the 1990s ITV detective series?
Answer: Jack Shepherd

Question: Which painter's works include 'Judith beheading Holofernes' in 1598 and 'Supper at Emmaus' in 1602?
Answer: Caravaggio

Question: Two Rugby League clubs play home games at a ground with the same name, Craven Park - Hull Kingston Rovers and which other team?
Answer: Barrow

Question: Who played Bret's brother, Bart Maverick in the 1957-62 Warner Bros TV western?
Answer: Jack Kelly

Question: Which playwright said "I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me"?
Answer: Noel Coward

Question: What is the name of the main concert hall that houses the Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk?
Answer: (Snape) Maltings

Question: In which Ayrshire village was Robert Burns born in 1759?
Answer: Alloway

Question: Who is the Greek equivalent of Pax, the Roman Goddess of Peace?
Answer: Irene

Question: Who wrote the 1980 children's book 'The Twits'?
Answer: Roald Dahl

Question: Who was the wife of King Henry V of England?
Answer: Catherine of Valois

Question: What does the word 'vodka' literally mean in Russian?
Answer: Little water

Question: Which boxer did Muhammad Ali beat in September 1978 to become the only 3-time world heavyweight champion?
Answer: Leon Spinks

Question: Which US president was shot and killed in Buffalo, New York state in 1901?
Answer: William McKinley

Question: If you were to fly due east out of Brisbane, which country's coastline would you fly over first?
Answer: Chile

Question: Where does the annual pop festival 'T in the Park' take place?
Answer: Balado

Question: What small fruit is the main ingredient of a tapenade?
Answer: Olive

Question: Name one of the two football teams involved in the first League Cup Final in 1961.
Answer: Rotherham United or Aston Villa

Question: Who refused the office of Poet Laureate in 1984?
Answer: Philip Larkin