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Skimbleshanks | In the musical and T S Eliot's book Cats, which was the railway cat? |
15 | In a standard game of backgammon with how many playing pieces does each player start the game? |
Barry Took | Who was the comic script-writing partner of Marty Feldman? |
RMS Lancastria | In September 2013, a plaque was unveiled at the Pier Head, Liverpool commemorating the loss of which ship, sunk in June 1940 with the loss of at least 4000 lives? |
BMW | Which motor company now manufactures the Mini and the Mini Cooper? |
James Corden | Who plays singer Paul Potts in the 2013 biopic One Chance? |
Calcium | The name of which element is derived from the Latin for lime? |
Doris Lessing | Name the last British winner, who was also the oldest winner, of the Nobel Prize for Literature? |
Malcolm Tucker | Which character is played by Peter Capaldi in The Thick of It? |
Hugo Boss | Which German fashion house, still trading today, allegedly supplied uniforms for the Hitler Youth and the National Socialist Party from 1928 until 1939? |
Steve McQueen | Who directed the 2013 film 12 Years a Slave? |
Tir Na Nog | In Irish legend, what name is given to the Otherworld or Land of Promise, inhabited by fairies? |
Bert Trautmann | Which hero of the 1956 F A Cup Final played for non-league side St. Helen's Town before joining Manchester City? |
Hugh Bonneville | In Downton Abbey, who plays the Earl of Grantham? |
Robert Kennedy | Who was the US Attorney General to J F Kennedy? |
Mayor of New York | Bill de Blasio took which office on 1st January 2014? |
Philae | Name the probe launched from Rosetta which landed on the comet 67P/C-G in November 2014. |
Aylesbury | Which town is the administrative centre of Buckinghamshire? |
12 | In a standard game of draughts with how many playing pieces does each player start the game? |
Eddie Braben | In 1969, who took over from Dick Hills and Sid Green as a script?writer for Morecambe and Wise? |
The raid on Zeebrugge | The Mersey ferries Iris and Daffodil were both given Royal status after which World War I action? |
Daimler AG | Name the German manufacturer of the Smart Automobile? |
Escape to Victory | The cast of which Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine film also included footballers Bobby Moore, John Wark and Ossie Ardilles? |
Idris Elba | Who played Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film A Long Walk to Freedom? |
Peter Higgs | Name the British scientist who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics. |
Graham Gooch | Who captained the English XI on the 1987 rebel cricket tour of South Africa? |
Tom Clancy | Who wrote the 1989 novel A Clear and Present Danger? |
Kathryn Bigelow | Who directed the film The Hurt Locker, winner of the Oscar for Best Director in 2010? |
Avon | The Grade 1 listed Pulteney Bridge spans which river? |
Francois Mitterand | Who was the President of France immediately before Jacques Chirac? |
Jimmy Cliff | Which singer played the lead in the 1972 film, The Harder they Come? |
Kenya | In which country was politician Peter Hain born? |
ANDORRA | Which small country has the official language of Catalan? |
CHORD | What is the straight line called which joins two points on the circumference of a circle but does not pass not through the centre? |
BARNABY RUDGE | Which of Dickens' novels is set at the time of the Gordon Riots? |
GEORGE STUBBS | The National Gallery paid £1 lmillion in 1997 to buy a painting of the Marquess of Rockingham's racehorse Whistlejacket. Who was the artist? |
CHELMSFORD | Where are the headquarters of Essex County Cricket Club? |
FAIRYHOUSE | At which racecourse is the Irish Grand National held? |
SWEDEN | Charles X Gustav ruled which Kingdom from 1654 to 1660? |
LAND OF NOD | Which land was Cain banished to after he slew Abel? |
FREDERICK FORSYTH | Who wrote The Day of the Jackal? |
SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN | Which state of Germany borders Denmark? |
DANDELION | Taraxacum Officinale is the Latin name of which common wild flower? |
A19 | Which A road that starts at Selby, North Yorkshire, runs through York and Middlesbrough and finishes just south of Jarrow? |
THE EQUALS | Which group had a 1968 UK hit with Baby Come Back? |
THE OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP | The Claret Jug is the name of the trophy awarded to the winner of which annual sporting championship? |
ANGELA THORNE | What is the name of the actress who is the mother of actor Rupert Penry-Jones? |
JESSICA FLETCHER | Who lived at the TV address, 698 Candlewood Lane, Cabot Cove, Maine? |
BROADCASTING | Which word completes the title of the trade union BECTU - Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union? |
PEAK DISTRICT | Kinder Downfall is the tallest waterfall in which National Park? |
MAX MILLER | Bom in Brighton in 1894 Thomas Henry Sargent was a stand-up comedian - by what name was he better known? |
GENUS | In scientific classification if Taraxacum Officinale is a species what is Taraxacum? |
A55 | Which A road that starts at Holyhead in North Wales runs through Conwy and Colwyn Bay and finishes at Chester? |
ENOCH | What is the name of the son of Cain born in the Land of Nod, after whom Cain named a city? |
LEN DEIGHTON | Who wrote The ipcress File? |
KIEL CANAL | The Germans call it the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal. What do we call it? |
COAL | Workers in which industry belong to NACODS? |
MATTHEWS SOUTHERN COMFORT | Which group had a 1970 UK hit with Woodstock? |
VINCE LOMBARDI | Who was the Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967 - he is remembered in the name of a trophy in the sport? |
DIANA RIGG | What is the name of the actress who is the mother of actress Rachael Stirling? |
ATLETICO MADRID | Which Spanish football club plays its home games at Vicente Calderon Stadium? |
A GNU | According to Flanders and Swann what is the G-nicest work of G-nature in the zoo? |
CHARLES KENNEDY | Who preceded Menzies Campbell as Leader of the Liberal Democrats? |
SARDINIA | The Costa Smerelda is a feature of which Mediterranean island? |
SEGMENTS | A chord divides a circle into two what? |
AS YOU LIKE IT | In which Shakespeare play would you find the character Touchstone? |
STONYHURST | Saint Mary's Hall, founded by the Jesuits, is the preparatory department for which Lancashire Independent school? |
SALINITY | On a map, an isohaline is a line joining points of equal what? |
WILFRED OWEN | Who wrote the poem Dulce et Decorum est? |
PINK FLOYD | Which rock band did Dave Gilmour join in 1967? |
JAMES CORDEN | Who co-wrote the sitcom Gavin and Stacey and starred in the original cast of the stage play One Man, Two Guvnors? |
BAT | The Common Noctule is the largest type in Britain of what creature? |
KISMET | The song Stranger in Paradise featured in which 1955 film musical? |
BRIEF ENCOUNTER | What Oscar nominated film was adapted from Noel Coward?s play Still Life? |
TUNISIA | In the Arab Spring which country's uprising was called the Jasmine Revolution? |
SAIGON | What was the former name, until 1976, of Ho Chi Minh City? |
JEAN PAUL SARTRE | Which French author declined to accept his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964? |
MAURICE RAVEL | Mussorgsky's composition Pictures at an Exhibition was originally written for piano. Who produced the most popular orchestral version in 1922? |
E | Which letter in the Morse code is represented by a single dot? |
THE NIGHT WATCH | How is the Rembrandt painting 'The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch preparing to march out' more commonly known? |
MAGGIE SMITH | Who plays Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films? |
MERCURY | The chemical symbol for which element is derived from hydrargyrum meaning watery silver? |
HAMISH MACBETH | What is the full name of the policeman in the Scottish village of Lochdubh created by M C Beaton? |
114 | How many chapters or sutras are there in the Koran? |
JAMES IV | Which Scottish king was killed in the Battle of Flooded Field? |
ANTRIM | Ballymena is in which Northern Irish county? |
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS | Tom Brady has been the starting quarterback for which NFL team since 2000? |
10 | In old measures how many chains made a furlong? |
MINNESOTA | Of the fortyeight contiguous states in the USA, which contains the most northerly point? |
DUKE OF CUMBERLAND | Which Duke commanded the Government forces at the 1745 Battle of Culloden? |
CORK | The river Lee enters the sea at which Irish port? |
CHICAGO BULLS | Michael Jordan played for which NBA team from 1984 to 1998, except for a season of retirement in 1993-94? |
ALABAMA | Which state of the USA has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico between Florida and Mississippi? |
HOBBY | Falco subbuteo is the scientific name for which small falcon? |
STEPHEN KING | Salem?s Lot published in 1975 was which writer?s second novel? |
IN WHICH WE SERVE | In which film did Noel Coward play Captain E V Kinross and Celia Johnson his wife Alix? |
KRISTEN STEWART | Who plays Bella Swan in the Twilight films? |
POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE | KOH is the formula for which chemical compound? |
PRECIOUS RAMOTSWE | What is the full name of Alexander McCall Smith?s 'No 1 Lady Detective'? |
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV | Alexandr Borodin died before he could finish his opera Prince Igor. Who collaborated with Alexandr Glazunov to complete the work? |
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