Question: Who took the name Sebastian Melmoth while living in exile?
Answer: Oscar Wilde

Question: The Talmud was written in Hebrew and which other language?
Answer: Aramaic

Question: Who said ‘If only I had known, I should have become a watch maker’?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: What was the only World War II battle fought in South America?
Answer: Battle of the River Plate

Question: Common and pygmy are the only species of which large mammal?
Answer: Hippopotamus

Question: Which 1970’s best seller was about an ostracised sea bird?
Answer: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Question: Helen Graham is the eponymous heroine of which Bronte novel?
Answer: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Question: Who refuses Mr St John Rivers’ offer of marriage?
Answer: Jane Eyre

Question: Barry Fairbrother collapsed and died in the first episode of which recent BBC drama?
Answer: The Casual Vacancy

Question: Which 10-part Channel 4 drama starring Julie Walters depicts the 1930’s British Raj?
Answer: Indian Summers

Question: We have motorways, the Germans have autobahns, what does Italy have?
Answer: Autostrade

Question: Which city is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian railway?
Answer: Vladivostok

Question: Brazil has one of the world’s largest soccer stadia – what is it called?
Answer: Maracana

Question: Which comic and presenter said ‘I love Sainsburys – it keeps the riff-raff out of Waitrose’?
Answer: Stephen Fry

Question: In which capital city were the 1928 Summer Olympic Games held?
Answer: Amsterdam

Question: The song Don’t Rain On My Parade features in which musical?
Answer: Funny Girl

Question: The Ivy League university Princeton is in which US state?
Answer: New Jersey

Question: The song How To Handle A Woman features in which musical?
Answer: Camelot

Question: The Ivy League university Yale is in which US state?
Answer: Connecticut

Question: What was the surname of Mamas and Papas singer Mama Cass?
Answer: Elliot

Question: Which tv personality was said to have ‘the sleekest wink’?
Answer: Anne Robinson

Question: A traditional gift for a 20th wedding anniversary should be made of what?
Answer: China

Question: In what county are both Woburn Abbey and Leighton Buzzard Light Railway?
Answer: Bedfordshire

Question: What is 0.625 when converted to a vulgar fraction?
Answer: Five-Eighths

Question: V is the symbol for which chemical element?
Answer: Vanadium

Question: In poker, what hand is next above two pairs?
Answer: Three Of A Kind

Question: In an 1883 novel, what was the first name of Mr. Hands, a sailor on The Hispaniola?
Answer: Israel

Question: What was the surname of the Chris who topped the charts with ‘Out of Time’ in 1966?
Answer: Farlowe

Question: Chris Andrews got to no.3 in ’65 with a title whose initials were YM. What was it?
Answer: Yesterday Man

Question: ‘Let’s Dance’ and ‘The More I See You’ were top five hits for which Chris?
Answer: Montez

Question: Sometimes called golden chain, which genus of small tree is poisonous in all its parts?
Answer: Laburnum

Question: According to Ophelia in ‘Hamlet’, what can also be called ‘herb of grace’?
Answer: Rue

Question: What genus of flowering plants in the carnation family is also known as ‘baby’s breath’?
Answer: Gypsophila

Question: What motorway links the M1 at Rotherham to the M62 near Goole?
Answer: M18

Question: Object, Nature, Random, Person, Action and World are terms used in what game?
Answer: Articulate!

Question: Which Monarch was his great, great grandfather?
Answer: Henry Vii

Question: QUOTATIONS. Who said each of the following?
Answer: The year of their birth is given in brackets.

Question: Lewis Hamilton was born in which home counties town?
Answer: Stevenage

Question: What is the only word uttered by the unusual visitor, in Edgar Allen Poe’s 1845 poem?
Answer: Nevermore

Question: In the world of equestrian sport, what does 3DE mean?
Answer: Three-Day Eventing

Question: Who was the Roman goddess of the hearth and the household?
Answer: Vesta

Question: In the Harry Potter books and films, what is the first name of Harry’s uncle?
Answer: Vernon

Question: Which poet wrote about the charms of Miss Joan Hunter Dunn?
Answer: John BETJEMAN

Question: Which 1979 film is based on Conrad’s story ‘Heart of Darkness’?
Answer: Apocalypse Now

Question: Which autumn-flowering bulbous plant is sometimes known as ‘the belladonna lily’?
Answer: Amaryllis

Question: What can be a drink in Britain, a vegetable in the USA, and a leisure activity in both?
Answer: Squash

Question: What chemical term describes a compound that has had the water removed?
Answer: Anhydride

Question: In Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’, what was the title character’s first name?
Answer: Antonio

Question: What part of a horse takes the strain of the collar?
Answer: Withers

Question: According to legend, which Greek philosopher slept in a tub?
Answer: Diogenes

Question: ‘The Manassa Mauler’ was the nickname of which heavyweight boxing champion?
Answer: Jack DEMPSEY

Question: What acid does the stomach use to break down food?
Answer: Hydrochloric

Question: What is 11” long, 5” round, and can cover 400 metres in around 38 seconds?
Answer: A relay BATON

Question: Charles Dickens was born in which English town in 1812?
Answer: Portsmouth

Question: What name do Toyota give to their luxury vehicle division?
Answer: Lexus

Question: Which Asian city shares its name with a river on the Isle of Wight?
Answer: Medina

Question: Six states of the USA have mountains whose names include what animal?
Answer: Bear

Question: Which 74-year-old veteran actor received a knighthood in the New Year Honours?
Answer: John Hurt

Question: In which month in 2015 will the American Football Superbowl be played?
Answer: February

Question: WWII was brought to a close when Japan surrendered in what month?
Answer: September

Question: In the dead parrot sketch, what breed was the parrot?
Answer: Norwegian Blue

Question: In ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’, what was desired by the knights who say ‘Ni’?
Answer: A Shrubbery

Question: By what name is hydrated magnesium sulphate better known?
Answer: Epsom Salts

Question: What is the SI derived unit of radioactivity?
Answer: Becquerel

Question: Which US author (1889-1961) had a brief stint as an ambulance driver in WWI?
Answer: Ernest HEMINGWAY

Question: What do the letters T.T. represent, in the Isle of Man T.T. Race?
Answer: Tourist Trophy

Question: Who has been the tallest British Prime Minister since WWI?
Answer: James CALLAGHAN

Question: Which Spanish king sent the armada to conquer England?
Answer: Philip Ii

Question: What is the chemical symbol for manganese?
Answer: Mn

Question: What was the surname of the central family in the tv series ‘Bread’?
Answer: Boswell

Question: What sort of holiday was the subject of ‘Three Men on the Bummel’ (1900)?
Answer: CYCLING tour

Question: Who celebrated his 100th birthday on May 29th, 2003, but died two months later?
Answer: Bob Hope

Question: Where might you expect to meet “a pretty nurse … selling poppies from a tray”?
Answer: Penny Lane

Question: Who wrote the 1748 novel ‘Fanny Hill’?
Answer: John CLELLAND

Question: What was the title of Peter Wright’s controversial 1987 book? (One word will suffice.)
Answer: Spycatcher

Question: Jai Alai is a variation of what court sport?
Answer: Pelota

Question: Who won the 2014 Men’s US Open Golf Championship?
Answer: Martin Kaymer

Question: What was the first name of the Ms. Loos who wrote ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’?
Answer: Anita

Question: What is the oldest British classic flat race?
Answer: St. Leger

Question: Which French statesman (1758-1794) was nicknamed ‘The Incorruptible’?
Answer: Maximilien ROBESPIERRE

Question: Which detective was in charge of the hunt for the Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs?
Answer: Jack Slipper

Question: What C is the alternative name for the Water Moccasin,the U.S.A.’s only venomous water snake?
Answer: Cottonmouth