Question: Which Motor cycle company made "The Manx" and "Commando" models?
Answer: Norton

Question: In the 2005 remake of King Kong, who played the writer Jack Driscoll?
Answer: Adrien Brody

Question: Graham Hick played cricket for England and which other country?
Answer: Zimbabwe

Question: In World War Two, operation Husky was the codename for the invasion of which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: You’re Driving Me Crazy by the Temperance Seven was, in May 1961, the first Number One single for which record producer?
Answer: George Martin

Question: What is the last letter of the names of the cities of Lisbon and Rome when written in their own languages?
Answer: A (Lisboa and Roma)

Question: Which French footballer, currently at Manchester United, won the Golden Boy Award, for the best Under 21 player in Europe in 2015?
Answer: Anthony Martial

Question: Which newspaper published by Trinity Mirror, launched on February 29th this year, closed on May 6th?
Answer: The New Day

Question: Which BBC TV comedy is set in Sparkhill, Birmingham, described as ‘the capital of British Pakistan’?
Answer: Citizen Khan

Question: Which driver won the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix, the youngest ever winner of a Grand Prix?
Answer: Max Verstappen

Question: Career of Evil is the third novel by Robert Galbraith to feature which detective?
Answer: Cormoran Strike

Question: HMY Victoria and Albert, the third of that name, served four sovereigns between 1901 and 1939. For what word does the Y stand?
Answer: Yacht

Question: Which SI base unit is defined as ‘the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1 ⁄ 299792458 of a second’?
Answer: Metre

Question: Give a year in which Mozart and Beethoven were both alive.
Answer: 1770 To 1791

Question: On which Pacific island did Captain James Cook see the Transit of Venus in 1769?
Answer: Tahiti

Question: The state of Qatar has a land border with only one other country. Which one?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: Which insects are threatened by colony collapse disorder?
Answer: Bee

Question: Who succeeded Herman Van Rompuy as President of the European Council in 2014?
Answer: Donald Tusk

Question: The 1066 Country Walk and Normans Bay are in which traditional county?
Answer: Sussex

Question: Moon River and Days of Wine and Roses won Grammy Awards as Record of the Year in the early 1960s for which composer?
Answer: Henry Mancini

Question: Ken Macdonald, Keir Starmer and Alison Saunders have been the last three holders of which post in England and Wales?
Answer: Director of Public Prosecutions (or Head of Crown Prosecution Service)

Question: Who had the best selling single in the UK in 1999 with ...Baby One More Time?
Answer: Britney Spears

Question: The word calcaneal refers to which part of the body?
Answer: Heel

Question: Which is the only one of the English Classic horse races for which the Queen has not owned the winner?
Answer: The Derby

Question: Which painter killed a young man in a brawl in Rome in 1606?
Answer: Caravaggio

Question: Who was Chief Minister to Louis XIII from 1624 until his death in 1642?
Answer: Cardinal Richelieu

Question: In Yorkshire, what are the Huddersfield Narrow and the Huddersfield Broad?
Answer: Canals

Question: Which post was held by Lord Denning from 1962 to 1982 and Lord Donaldson from 1982 to 1992?
Answer: Master Of The Rolls

Question: Who had the best-selling single in the UK in 1994 with Love Is All Around?
Answer: Wet Wet Wet

Question: The Battlefield Line Railway that runs between Shackerstone and Shenton in Leicestershire is named after which battle?
Answer: Bosworth

Question: Whose name is missing from the first line of the Book of Proverbs in the Authorized Version of the Bible – ‘The proverbs of ________ the son of David, the King of Israel’?
Answer: Solomon

Question: Roberta Flack was the first artist to win the Grammy for Record of the Year in consecutive years. Which group were the second, for Beautiful Day in 2001 and Walk On in 2002?
Answer: U2

Question: Which three time world champion is the non-executive chairman of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team?
Answer: Niki Lauda

Question: In what year was the Royal Yacht Britannia launched – one year either way?
Answer: 1953

Question: The symbol for which SI derived unit is a letter from the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Ohm (Ω)

Question: Compositions by Mozart are given K numbers after which musicologist and composer who catalogued them?
Answer: Ludwig Ritter Von Köchel

Question: Which botanist, who was President of the Royal Society for 41 years, accompanied Cook on his 1768-1771 voyage?
Answer: Joseph Banks

Question: Bangladesh has borders with India and which other country?
Answer: Burma (or Myanmar)

Question: In the 1964 film Mary Poppins, what was the occupation of George Banks, Mary’s employer?
Answer: Banker

Question: The last two editors of which reference book, known as the ‘Bible of Cricket’ have been Lawrence Booth and Scyld Berry?
Answer: Wisden (Cricketers’ Almanack)

Question: In which 1935 novel does a 14 year old girl ride The Piebald to victory in The Grand National?
Answer: National Velvet

Question: The word buccal refers to which part of the body?
Answer: Cheek

Question: What is the family name of the father and son who trained and rode the winners of the Derby in both 2012 and 2014?
Answer: O’Brien

Question: Whose painting “Samson and Delilah”, from about 1609, is in the National Gallery in London?
Answer: Peter Paul Rubens

Question: Which element with atomic number 7 forms about 78% of the Earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: Nitrogen

Question: Later in 1961 George Martin produced “My Boomerang Won’t Come Back”. Which comedian and actor was the singer on the record?
Answer: Charlie Drake

Question: Which US President was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University?
Answer: Bill Clinton

Question: The lines on the Lisbon Metro are identified by colours. What colour is Linha Amarela?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Eight year old Bailey Matthews who has cerebral palsy won an award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2015 ‘for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity’ named after which late female Sports presenter?
Answer: Helen Rollason

Question: The last print edition of which national newspaper was on March 26th this year?
Answer: The Independent

Question: The TV comedy of the late 1970s and early 1980s Citizen Smith was set in which district of London?
Answer: Tooting

Question: What was the name of the man-eating monster defeated by Beowulf?
Answer: Grendel

Question: Which La Liga football team plays in a city on the west coast of Spain?
Answer: Celta Vigo

Question: Give a year in the life of bandmaster and composer John Philip Sousa.
Answer: 1854-1932

Question: In the Hindu religion Mohini, Krishna and Rama are all incarnations of which god?
Answer: Vishnu

Question: Fray Bentos is a seaport and capital of the Río Negro Department of which country of South America?
Answer: Uruguay

Question: """Appassionata"" is a name given to Piano Concerto number 23 by which composer?"
Answer: Beethoven

Question: Which famous sauce is manufactured by McIlhenny & Co of Avery Island Louisiana?
Answer: Tabasco

Question: What was the name of the Scottish theme park, on the Motherwell side of Strathclyde Park, where 9 people were injured after the ‘Tsunami’ roller coaster derailed on Sunday 26th June?
Answer: M & D’s

Question: “Just a cast away an island lost at sea-o, another lonely day, no one here but me-o” are the opening lines of which 1979 UK no1 hit single?
Answer: Message in a Bottle

Question: The Flamengo Vs Fluminense football derby, also known as the Fla–Flu is contested between two teams based in which city?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro

Question: Gevrik and Yarg cheeses come from which English county?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: On the standard UK Cluedo game board, which room can be reached by taking the secret passage from the lounge?
Answer: Conservatory