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RIMSKY KORSAKOV | Which classical composter wrote 'The Snow Maiden' and 'The Golden Cockerel'? |
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS | """When you happen to know today is Wednesday and starts like sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere"" is the opening line of which John Wyndham novel?" |
ROVER | Which make of car was the first to be powered by gas turbine? |
PERSEUS | Which Greek hero married Andromeda? |
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY | Janet Street Porter was once the editor of which British newspaper? |
DAVID CORNWELL | What is the real name of John le Carre? |
PIG | Which is the only non human land animal to suffer from sunburn? |
10 LENGTHS | What is the longest winning distance in the Epsom Derby? |
EDINBURGH | In which City was Tony Blair born? |
1793 | In which year was Marie Antoinette executed? |
WINSTON CHURCHILL | "Who first said or wrote ""I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat""?" |
MONOPOLY | What is the world's biggest selling copyrighted board game? |
1950 | In which year was the first bikini worn in Britain? |
HERE IN MY HEART | The British hit parade was first published in 1952, what was the first record to be number one? |
1957 | In which year did Queen Elizabeth make her first Christmas speech? |
Illinois | Barack Obama was a senator for which state? |
Yangtze | Which is the longest river in Asia that flows through only one country? |
Darjeeling | Which black tea is known as the 'Champagne of Tea'? |
France | UK, USA, Russia and China are four of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, which country is the fifth? |
Ulysses S. Grant | In 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to which general? |
Robert Burns | The 'Kilmarnock Volume' features whose poetry? |
San Francisco | In which US city did Clint Eastwood's character 'Dirty Harry' fight crime? |
Ospreys | The rugby union teams of Neath and Swansea amalgamated and now play under what name? |
Gas Giants | How are the planets Neptune, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus collectively described? |
Robbie Williams | In 2010, actress Ayda Field married which British entertainer? |
Via Dolorosa | What name is given to the road in Jerusalem said to be the path that Jesus took carrying his cross? |
Decimal half-penny | Which was the last British coin to cease to be legal tender? |
U2 | Which group released the album 'Zooropa' in 1993? |
Lemony Snicket | What is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler who wrote the children's book 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'? |
Hertfordshire | Three Counties Radio covers Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and which other county? |
Galway | In which county of the Republic of Ireland are Connemara National Park and the country's largest lake, Lake Corrib? |
Hamlet | Lawrence Olivier won only one Oscar, for which film in 1948? |
Marmite | Which food company, still in existence today, was founded in 1902 in a disused malthouse in Burton-on-Trent? |
Electra Complex | What name is given to the female equivalent of the Oedipus Complex? |
Bahrain | The Al Khalifa family has ruled which country since 1783? |
Minute Waltz | What common name is given to Chopin's 'Waltz in D Minor'? |
Benito Mussolini | Which prominent European politician was injured by a shot fired by Violet Gibson in 1926? |
Valery Borzov | Which Russian man won both the 100 and 200m gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games? |
Cincinnati | Of which US city was Jerry Springer the mayor in 1977-78? |
Rossini | "Which Italian composer claimed that he could ""set a laundry list to music""?" |
Le Bourget | At which Paris airfield did Charles Lindbergh complete the first solo transatlantic flight in 1927? |
Phosphorus | Which chemical element gets its named from the Greek for 'bringer of light'? |
Armagh | The Primate of All Ireland is the Archbishop of which City? |
Lord Rosebery | Archibald Primrose was Prime Minister 1894-95, what was his title? |
Seeds | The global collection of what is stored in a vault in Svalbard on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen? |
York Minster | The bell, Great Peter is in the northwest tower of which cathedral? |
Northants | Which county cricket team play home games at Wantage Road? |
Eamonn de Valera | Which future president escaped from Lincoln Prison in 1919 when a key to his cell was smuggled in to him in a cake? |
Fidelio | Which opera features a 'Prisoner's Chorus'? |
Dunfermline Athletic | Which Scottish football team is nicknamed the 'Pars'? |
Fourth Thursday | On which precise day of the month in November does the USA celebrate Thanksgiving? |
Magpie | Which bird has the Latin name Pica Pica? |
Lady Gaga | Under what name does Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta perform? |
Gerhard Schroeder | Who was Chancellor of Germany immediately before Angela Merkel? |
Guglielmo Marconi | Who, along with Karl Ferdinand Braun, won a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909 for their work on wireless telegraphy? |
Gloucester | Which city was known in Roman times as Glevum? |
Annie Walker | Doris Speed played which part in Coronation Street? |
Rumours | Which Fleetwood Mac album of 1977 sold 15 million copies and remained in the UK charts for more than eight years? |
The Guardian | Alan Rusbridger is the editor of which newspaper? |
Lusitania | The liner Mauretania was launched in 1906 as a sister ship to which other liner? |
Rugby | At which school were Tom Brown's Schooldays spent? |
Private Eye | "What feature of British life is owned by ""Lord Gnome""?" |
Jack Dee | Who presents Radio 4's I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue? |
France | """Arise, children of the Fatherland, the day of glory is here"" are the first words of which country's national anthem?" |
92 | How many naturally-occurring elements are there in the periodic table? |
Alnwick | Which castle is the seat of the Dukes of Northumberland? |
42 | How old was Elvis Presley when he died in 1977? |
Sandi Toksvig | Who presents Radio 4's The News Quiz? |
Agincourt | Which bathe took place on October 25th 1415? |
27 | How old was Jimi Hendrix when he died in 1970? |
Arundel | Which castle is the seat of the Dukes of Norfolk? |
The Mouse That Roared | Which 1959 film comedy featured a European country called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick? |
Knesset | What is the name of the Israeli parliament? |
Outnumbered | Claire Skinner plays a wife and mother in which TV comedy? |
Die Fledermaus | The Laughing Song comes from which Johann Strauss operetta? |
Cortes | What is the name of the Spanish parliament? |
Ebony Starr | Give either of the middle names of Venus Williams. |
Catch 22 | Closing Time was a sequel to which famous novel of 1961? |
Foreign Secretary | Which post in Gordon Brown's government was held by David Miliband? |
Stig | By what name was TV's Ben Collins better known? |
Piccadilly | Which London Underground line would you take to get directly to Heathrow Airport? |
Nani | Under what name does Luis Carlos Almeida da Cunha play Premiership football? |
Jacques Chirac | Who was President of France immediately before Nicolas Sarkozy? |
Structure of DNA | In 1962, Maurice Wilkins and two others won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of what? |
Len Fairclough | Peter Adamson played which character in Coronation Street? |
Down Down | Which was Status Quo's only not hit single, which came in 1974? |
The Times | James Harding is the editor of which daily newspaper? |
1915 | In which year was the Lusitania sunk? |
E J Thribb | Who writes verse obituaries in Private Eye? |
Gatwick | The Grand National has been run at Aintree since 1839 except for 1916-18 when it was run where? |
Uttoxeter | The Midlands Grand National is run on which racecourse? |
Bari | What is the capital of the southern Italian region of Puglia? |
George Du Maurier | The Trilby hat derives its name from the stage adaptation of a 1894 novel by which author? |
Anthony Eden | Which British Prime Minister had a type of hat named after him? |
Monkey Business | In which 1952 Howard Hawks film did Marilyn Monroe co-star with Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers? |
El Hierro | Which is the smallest, most westerly and most southerly of the Canary Islands? |
Stamford Bridge | At which football ground was the FA Cup Final played the year prior to the 1923 opening Wembley final? |
Eos | Who is the Greek equivalent of Aurora, the Roman Goddess of the Dawn? |
Angie Dickinson | Who played the female lead in Howard Hawks' 1959 film 'Rio Bravo'? |
W H Harrison | Which US president died of pneumonia 31 days after his inauguration in 1841? |
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