Question: Which county cricket team has its headquarters at the SWALEC Stadium in Sophia Gardens?
Answer: Glamorgan

Question: Following the creation of South Sudan, which is now the largest country by area in Africa?
Answer: Algeria

Question: Which county cricket club is based at Grace Road?
Answer: Leicestershire

Question: Which American actress was named after a city in Minnesota?
Answer: Winona Ryder

Question: Apart from The Beatles, which other group topped the UK singles charts on seven consecutive occasions?
Answer: Westlife

Question: Who was Poet Laureate throughout the Second World War?
Answer: John Masefield

Question: What is the highest prize awarded at the Berlin International Film Festival?
Answer: The Golden Bear

Question: Richard Bachman is the pen name of which famous author?
Answer: Stephen King

Question: The second tallest dam in the world is in which former soviet republic?
Answer: TAJIKISTANi

Question: Which Premiership referee was accused of making a racist comment during a game between Chelsea and Manchester United in October 2012?
Answer: Mark Clattenrurg

Question: What was the Christian name of Italian conductor Toscanini?
Answer: Arturo

Question: Which fashion designer was sacked by Dior in 2011 after being found guilty of making anti-Semitic comments?
Answer: John Galliano

Question: 'The Colour of Magic' is the first novel in which comic fantasy book series?
Answer: Discworld

Question: Give either Christian name of Russian composer, pianist and conductor Rachmaninoff?
Answer: Sergei Vasilievich

Question: What is the name of the footballer whose heart stopped during a match between Bolton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur in March 2012?
Answer: Fabrice Muamba

Question: Which actor played DS James Hathaway in the television
Answer: detective drama Lewis? LAURENCE FOX

Question: What river, meaning 'plenty of eels', flows through Sydney, Australia?
Answer: Parramatta

Question: Romney Marsh, Suffolk and Clun Forest, are all breeds of which animal?
Answer: Sheep

Question: Which number completes the dialling code for Newcastle upon Tyne - 01 1?
Answer: 9

Question: What is the official motto of the USA?
Answer: In God We Trust

Question: With which English band did Graham Nash make his name, before going on to greater success with Crosby, Stills and Nash?
Answer: The Hollies

Question: Which sport played by men is almost identical to the game of Camogie, played by women?
Answer: Hurlin G

Question: Who was the acknowledged mastermind behind the 'Great Train
Answer: Robbery' in 1963, who went on the run for 5 years before being arrested?

Question: What name, derived from the Greek word for chalk, is given to hydrated calcium sulphate?
Answer: Gypsum

Question: How many players are there in each team in a game of Gaelic Football?
Answer: Fifteen

Question: Which chart-topping American band was fronted by Harry Wayne Casey?
Answer: Kc And The Sunshine Band

Question: What term for an area of characteristic limestone scenery is named after a region of Slovenia?
Answer: Karst

Question: Which BAFTA award-winning scriptwriter created the TV series The Street, Accused, The Lakes and Cracker?
Answer: Jimmy Mcgovern

Question: Bridgeport is the largest city in which New England state?
Answer: Connecticut

Question: Which BAFTA-nominated television writer has created the series Scott & Bailey. At Home with the Braithwaites for ITV and Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley for the BBC?
Answer: Sally Wainwright

Question: What is known as 'lättöl' in Scandinavia and `pivo' in most of the Balkan countries?
Answer: Beer

Question: Which Democrat did George Bush defeat in order to become President in 1988?
Answer: Michael Dukakis

Question: If a dish is cooked a la soubise, the sauce primarily contains which vegetable?
Answer: Onion

Question: The New York borough of Queens is named after which British Queen consort?
Answer: Catherine Of Braganza

Question: Who, is buried in Westminster Abbey, not because he was a poet but because lie was clerk of works to the Palace of Westminster?
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer

Question: What was the first name of the wife of Plantaganet Palliser in the 1974 series The Pallisers recently repeated on BBC Two?
Answer: Glencora

Question: Born in 1897, who was the only future Dad's Army cast member to serve in the Home Guard.?
Answer: John Laurie

Question: The Blue Danube airport serves which Austrian City?
Answer: Linz

Question: The Swiss Transport Museum is in which Swiss city?
Answer: Lucerne

Question: Baseline, doubleton and squop are all terms in which game?
Answer: Tiddlywinks

Question: Which diamond, given by the Sikh ruler of the Punjab to Sir John Lawrence became the prize exhibit at the Great Exhibition?
Answer: Koh-I-Noor

Question: Which island home of the St Aubyn family in the South West is accessed by a causeway at high tide?
Answer: St Michael'S Mount

Question: A cochonnet is used in which game?
Answer: PETANQUE or BOULES

Question: Which Irish gardener has written a book called Outer Spaces?
Answer: Diarmuid Gavin

Question: Which gardener came out of retirement to present BBC TVs Gardener's following a major stroke?
Answer: Monty Don

Question: The constellation Carina is supposed to represent the keel of which mythical ship?
Answer: Argo

Question: The constellation Pavo represents which bird?
Answer: Peacock

Question: Which artist, with a famous brother, studied in Paris with Whistler and had a long affair with Rodin?
Answer: Gwen John

Question: Which member of the Royal family also has the title Earl of Inverness?
Answer: Prince Andrew

Question: Which artist painted Lizzie Siddal floating in a bath as Ophelia?
Answer: John Everett Millais

Question: What to the Inuit people are mukluks?
Answer: Boots

Question: Who sculpted the Space Age Angel on the tomb of Oscar Wilde in 1912?
Answer: Jacob Epstein

Question: What to the Inuit people is a Nanook?
Answer: Polar Bear

Question: Archibald Ormsby-Gore was the teddy bear of which author?
Answer: John Betjeman

Question: What is the capital city of the South African province of Gauteng?
Answer: Johannesburg

Question: In Morse code what letter is represented by one dash?
Answer: T

Question: Which patron saint was said to have carried his own head after death?
Answer: St Denys

Question: What is the name of the device used to raise boats from the River Weaver in Cheshire to the canal system?
Answer: The Anderton (Boat) Lift

Question: How many dots are used to make up each letter in the Braille system?
Answer: 6

Question: Peak Forest, Macclesfield and Bridgewater are some of the canals that make up what network?
Answer: The Cheshire Ring

Question: Which major figure (1893-1976) is tattooed on Mike Tyson's right shoulder?
Answer: Mao Tse Tung

Question: Which historical figure (356 BC- 323 BC) does Mark Philippoussis have tattooed on his right shoulder?
Answer: Alexander The Great

Question: What is the traditional birthstone for May?
Answer: Emerald

Question: Who has managed Leicester City, Blackpool and Crystal Palace football clubs since 2007?
Answer: Ian Holloway

Question: Which children's novel published in 1865 was written by a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford?
Answer: Alice In Wonderland

Question: Which Wagnerian hero was the son of Parsifal?
Answer: Lohengrin

Question: The image of which physicist appears on the New Zealand 100 dollar bill?
Answer: Ernest Rutherford

Question: What was the name of the gang's van in the Scooby-Doo TV series?
Answer: Mystery Machine

Question: Which famous English explorer charted the northern coasts of America in 1819?
Answer: Sir John Franklin

Question: How many gallons of beer are in an English barrel?
Answer: 36

Question: The animal the ratel is better known by what other name?
Answer: Honey Badger