Question: Widowed at 25, Martha Custis, nee Dandridge, later married which future American president?
Answer: George Washington

Question: Adapted by Richard Bean from a 1743 original work by Goldoni, which play became a West End hit in 2011, and on Broadway in 2012, starring James Corden?
Answer: One Man, Two Guvnors

Question: The British and Irish Lions’ only ever series victory in New Zealand was in 1971. Name either the Welshman who coached that side or the Welsh centre who captained it.
Answer: Carwyn James or John Dawes

Question: At the 2012 London Olympics, Mexico won only one gold medal - at which sport?
Answer: Soccer

Question: The album ‘1989’ which became the biggest selling album in the USA in 2014 and produced 5 top ten singles is by which Brit award-winning singer/songwriter?
Answer: Taylor Swift

Question: K2 is the highest peak in which mountain range centred on the historic region of Kashmir? It is considered a sub-range of the Himalayas and one of the Greater Ranges of Asia.
Answer: Karakoram

Question: Which Cabinet member is the MP for Chingford and Woodford Green?
Answer: Ian Duncan Smith

Question: Dicky Mint, Mick the Marmalizer and Nigel Ponsonby-Smallpiece were puppet characters associated on TV with which comedian?
Answer: Ken Dodd

Question: HDL and LDL, standing for high- and low-density lipoproteins, are popularly known as the good and bad forms of which organic molecules?
Answer: Cholesterol

Question: Which country will host the UEFA Euro team championship tournament in 2016?
Answer: France

Question: In which town in Cumbria is Jennings Brewery located ?
Answer: Cockermouth

Question: Who has won Best Leading Actress Oscars for her roles in ‘Million Dollar Baby’ and ‘Boys Don’t Cry’?
Answer: Hilary Swank

Question: Which Cabinet member is the MP for Runnymede and Weybridge?
Answer: Philip Hammond

Question: Name one of the two colours that appear on the national flag of Macedonia.
Answer: Red/Yellow

Question: Which English engineer (1910-1999) is usually credited with inventing the hovercraft?
Answer: Sir Christopher Cockerell

Question: Thackeray took his novel’s title ‘ Vanity Fair’ from which author’s work The Pilgrim’s Progress’?
Answer: John Bunyan

Question: How many strings are there on a classical guitar?
Answer: Six

Question: Whose book The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ won the Man Booker Prize of 2014?
Answer: Richard Flanagan

Question: Deacon Blue took their name from ‘Deacon Blues’, a song on the album ‘Aja’ by which American jazz/rock duo?
Answer: Steely Dan

Question: Which golfer won the Open Championship at Hoylake in 2014?
Answer: Rory Mcllroy

Question: Which singer gave her first headline live performance in 35 years at the Hammersmith Apollo in August 2014?
Answer: Kate Bush

Question: Trevor Eve and Sue Johnston worked for the Cold Case unit in which police procedural TV series that ran from 2000-2011?
Answer: Waking the Dead

Question: Whose accession to the throne of England created the Union of the Scottish/English Crowns in 1603?
Answer: James VI and I

Question: Tirich Mir is the highest peak in which mountain range of central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, which is considered a sub-range of the Himalayas and one of the Greater Ranges of Asia?
Answer: Hindu Kush

Question: Which is the largest species of mammal indigenous to the UK?
Answer: Red deer

Question: Which is the third most populous city in Wales after Cardiff and Swansea?
Answer: Newport

Question: In the SI system of units, which prefix indicates a unit one million times bigger than the basic unit?
Answer: Mega-e.g. Megahertz

Question: One of two English dancers, along with Margot Fonteyn, to be recognised as a ‘prima ballerina assoluta’, who founded the English National Ballet in 1951?
Answer: Alicia Markova

Question: Which Scot has coached the British and Irish Lions on a record 4 tours, starting with victory in Australia in 1989?
Answer: Sir Ian McGeechan

Question: Which building society, mutualised in 2000 and nationalised and part sold to Abbey National in 2008, used a bowler hats logo in its marketing?
Answer: Bradford and Bingley

Question: What is the name of the Sky TV comedy sports panel game hosted by James Corden with Andrew Flintoff and Jamie Rednapp as team captains?
Answer: A League of their Own

Question: Who was the father of Alexander the Great?
Answer: Philip (II) of Macedon

Question: Which ventriloquist do you associate with Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey?
Answer: Keith Harris

Question: Although courted by his political opponent, Stephen Douglas, Mary Todd chose to marry which future American president?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: What is the capital of former USSR republic of Kyrgystan?
Answer: Bishkek

Question: In which city can you see the original statue of the Venus de Milo?
Answer: Paris

Question: At the 2012 London Olympics Ireland won only one gold medal - at which sport?
Answer: (Ladies) Boxing

Question: Which card game variant takes its name from the French for ‘railway’?
Answer: Chemin de fer

Question: Who was the President of the USA at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries'?
Answer: William McKinley

Question: Which son of Eric the Red is considered to be the first European to land in North America?
Answer: Leif Erikson

Question: Who created the US animated series ‘Family Guy’ in 1998?
Answer: Seth McFarlane

Question: The Limehouse Declaration, issued on 25th January 1981, effectively launched which UK political party?
Answer: Social Democratic

Question: On which Scottish Island would you find Rothesay Castle?
Answer: Bute

Question: On a menu in Italy what are pomodori?
Answer: Tomatoes

Question: In the nursery rhyme, when Lucy Locket lost her pocket who found it?
Answer: Kitty Fisher

Question: What is the Russian word for ‘little water’?
Answer: Vodka

Question: Which word is missing from the title of the swimming event held at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in which Christopher Walker-Hebborn, Adam Peaty, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Francesca Halsall won the gold medal for Great Britain - 4 × 100 metre ______ medley relay?
Answer: Mixed

Question: Name either film star who took a title role in the 1979 film Kramer versus Kramer.
Answer: DUSTIN HOFFMAN or MERYL STREEP

Question: What subatomic particle was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932?
Answer: Neutron

Question: Complete the name of the US baseball team the Atlanta _______.
Answer: Braves

Question: What is the name of the school in Croydon attended by Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis, and Adele among many other performers?
Answer: The Brit School

Question: Which 1987 film concerns the experiences of disc jockey Adrian Cronauer?
Answer: Good Morning, Vietnam

Question: In John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, what is the name of the family whose journey across the USA is traced?
Answer: Joad

Question: Which British scientist lived at Down House, Kent, now in the care of English Heritage?
Answer: Charles Darwin

Question: In the UK what kind of creatures are Eggar, Cinnabar and Herald?
Answer: Moths

Question: The Pie at Night is a recent book by which author – he describes it as a companion to his previous book Pies and Prejudice?
Answer: Stuart Maconie

Question: Which Australian Prime Minister disappeared, presumed drowned in 1967?
Answer: Harold Holt

Question: The Skeleton Coast is to be found in which African country?
Answer: Namibia

Question: Who wrote the 17th century verse play Samson Agonistes?
Answer: John Milton

Question: The song Too Darn Hot features in which musical?
Answer: Kiss Me Kate

Question: The memoirs of Jennifer Worth form the basis of which BBC TV drama series?
Answer: Call The Midwife

Question: Which Scot won a Gold medal at the 1991 World Athletics Championships and a Silver medal at the 1988 Olympics in the 10000 metres – she also won the London Marathon in 1996?
Answer: Liz Mccolgan