Question: The city known as Stalingrad from 1925 to 1961 stands on which major river?
Answer: Volga

Question: Complete the full title of the 1776 publication by the economist Adam Smith An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of ______________________.
Answer: The Wealth Of Nations

Question: Which club resigned from the Football League in 1962 to be replaced by Oxford United? A new club was formed with the same name and won promotion to the League in 2006. One of the two clubs they replaced was Oxford United.
Answer: Accrington Stanley

Question: How many edges has a hendecagon?
Answer: ELEVEN (also known as UNDECAGON or ENDECAGON)

Question: EY is the name of one of the Big Four professional service companies (tax, audit etc.). What was its full name before a rebranding in 2013?
Answer: Ernst & Young

Question: Graham Hill won the Monaco Grand Prix five times. Name either of the British drivers who won three times.
Answer: STIRLING MOSS or JACKIE STEWART

Question: Known by his initials F U, what is the name of the Old Etonian Conservative politician created by Michael Dobbs and played on British TV by Ian Richardson?
Answer: Francis Urquhart

Question: The trigeminal nerve, or fifth cranial nerve, has three branches – the ophthalmic nerve, the mandibular nerve and which other nerve?
Answer: MAXILLARY (accept MAXILLA)

Question: If the elements in the periodic table are arranged alphabetically which is the first with four letters in its name?
Answer: Gold

Question: The title of the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner comes from a line in the Odyssey by which Greek poet?
Answer: Homer

Question: Which composer, born on this date in 1928, wrote the music for the songs Magic Moments and Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa?
Answer: Burt Bacharach

Question: By what two-word alliterative name is Patricia Reichardt known in the Peanuts comic strip?
Answer: Pepperminnt Patty

Question: Beat It and Billie Jean are singles from which Michael Jackson album?
Answer: Thriller

Question: Which father and son were both Lord Chancellor twice, the father from 1928 to 1929 and 1935 to 1938, the son from 1970 to 1974 and 1979 to 1987 – title needed not family name?
Answer: VISCOUNT (accept LORD) HAILSHAM

Question: Which A road crosses the Forth Road Bridge?
Answer: A90

Question: Chance Meeting is a sculpture by Tom Murphy at Liverpool Lime Street Station of Ken Dodd and which female politician who lived from 1899 to 1970?
Answer: Bessie Braddock

Question: What is the four letter prefix which means a factor of ten to the power nine?
Answer: Giga

Question: Which former cricketer, made a life peer in 2011, was the first woman elected to the full committee of the MCC?
Answer: Rachel Heyhoe Flint

Question: Of which country does Brigitte Nyborg become the first female Prime Minster in the drama Borgen shown on BBC4?
Answer: Denmark

Question: The city known as Titograd from 1946 to 1992 is the capital of which modern day country?
Answer: Montenegro

Question: The Swale is an inlet of sea that separates which island from Kent?
Answer: Sheppey

Question: Which American economist wrote the 1958 book The Affluent Society?
Answer: J K Galbraith

Question: What is the middle name, her stage name, of Barbadian born singer Robyn Fenty?
Answer: Rihanna

Question: Three of the four nominations for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor in 1982 were John Gielgud, Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews (who won) for their roles in which period drama?
Answer: Brideshead Revisited

Question: In which country are the global headquarters of the professional services company KPMG?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: Which organisation has won the Nobel Peace Prize three times, in 1917, 1944 and 1963?
Answer: Red Cross

Question: Which Carry On film features characters The Khasi of Kalabar, Private James Widdle and the 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment?
Answer: Carry On Up The Khyber

Question: Who wrote the recent book for children Awful Auntie?
Answer: David Walliams

Question: In which city was Marco Polo born?
Answer: Venice

Question: The flag of Vietnam is a yellow star on a background of what colour?
Answer: Red

Question: Dorothea is the middle name of which European politician?
Answer: Angela Merkel

Question: Which TV drama was set in the offices of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak?
Answer: L A Law

Question: In which year of the First World War was the Battle of Verdun?
Answer: 1916

Question: Who was the time keeper when Roger Bannister ran the first sub four- minute mile?
Answer: NORRIS McWHIRTER

Question: What name is given to the position of the Moon in it's orbit, when it is closest to the Earth?
Answer: Perigee

Question: Edward II was murdered in the south tower of which castle?
Answer: Berkeley Castle

Question: What is the main ingredient of the traditional Scottish soup, 'Partan Bree'?
Answer: Crab

Question: What was the name of New York's 'JFK Airport' before it was renamed in honour of the assassinated President?
Answer: Idlewild

Question: Who was the first Soviet leader not to be buried in Moscow's 'Red Square'?
Answer: Nikita Kruschev

Question: What is the setting for Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio'?
Answer: A Prison

Question: The Isle of Man's 'Laxey Wheel' is the largest water wheel in the world. What name is it known by?
Answer: Lady Isabella

Question: Cuba and Jamaica are part of which group of West Indian islands?
Answer: Greater Antilles

Question: Who was the expedition leader when Edmund Hillary became the first person to climb Mount Everest?
Answer: John Hunt

Question: In the Christian church in Britain, which feat day falls on the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday?
Answer: Corpus Christi

Question: Which scale is used to measure the intensity, not the magnitude, of earthquakes?
Answer: The Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale

Question: Who is credited with being the first Archbishop of Canterbury?
Answer: Augustine

Question: What is the name of the national UK charity that was founded by Sir Arthur Pearson in 1915 to help blind ex- servicemen and women?
Answer: St. Dunstan'S

Question: Which is Britain's oldest public museum?
Answer: The Ashmolean Museum

Question: Which opera does the famous aria 'Nessun Dorma' come from?
Answer: 'Turandot'

Question: Which is the only one of New York's five boroughs that is situated on the mainland?
Answer: The Bronx

Question: Which British athlete was taking part in her sixth Summer Olympic Games when she competed in the 1996 Atlanta event?
Answer: Tessa Sanderson

Question: Which type of tradesman is a 'gaffer', often seen in the production credits at the end of a film?
Answer: Electrician

Question: Which American disc jockey is credited with putting the name to 'Rock 'n' Roll' music?
Answer: Alan Freed

Question: Which military operation of World War II had the codename 'Operation Dynamo'?
Answer: Evacuation Of Dunkirk

Question: Which London station did the 'Flying Scotsman' depart from on it's daily journey to Edinburgh?
Answer: King'S Cross

Question: What was the title of the only painting that Vincent van Gogh sold during his lifetime?
Answer: 'The Red Vineyard'

Question: In which country is the source of the River Danube?
Answer: Germany

Question: The 'Battle of Agincourt' took place during which war?
Answer: The Hundred Years War

Question: What is the ballet term for a leap taking off from one foot and landing on the other?
Answer: Jete

Question: Which city is home to the world's oldest stock exchange?
Answer: Amsterdam

Question: In 1799, which British Prime Minister introduced a new Income Tax to help finance the war against France?
Answer: WILLIAM PITT (the younger)

Question: Before Bill Clinton, who was the last Democrat President of America?
Answer: Jimmy Carter

Question: What is the name of the method of predicting the future by examining leftover tea leaves?
Answer: Foliomancy

Question: Which planet in our soar system spins on its axis faster than any of the other planets?
Answer: Jupiter