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Fortunes of War | The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy, both written by Olivia Manning were made into which 1987 BBC TV series starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh? |
Lost Horizon | Bacharach and David composed the music for a 1973 musical remake of which 1937 Frank Capra film? |
Whitehorse | What is the capital of the Yukon, Canada? |
Drachma | What was the currency of Greece before it adopted the Euro? |
Windsor | Frogmore House, previously used as a royal residence and now largely used on ceremonial occasions only is located within which larger crown estate? |
Volkswagen | Which car company produces a convertible model called the Eos? |
Commit a crime | In the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, what must the Baronet Ruddigore do every day to avoid the witch's curse and die in agony? |
Pakistan | India is the most populous country in the British Commonwealth. Which country has the 2nd largest population in the Commonwealth? |
Starlight Express | Opening in London in 1984, which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical had lyrics by Richard Stilgoe and choreography by Arlene Phillips? |
George Boole | Who is the English logician who devised an algebraic system that has since been adopted for the analysis of digital electronic circuitry? |
Pancreas | Insulin is produced by which organ of the human body? |
Emma | The 1995 film Clueless starring Alicia Silverstone is based on which novel by Jane Austen? |
To cross the Rhine | What was the aim of the World War 2 allied operation Market Garden? |
Tungsten | Which element, atomic no. 74 derives its name from the Swedish word for heavy stone? |
Donegal | With the county town of Lifford, which is the most northerly of the counties of the Irish Republic? |
Switch hitter | In baseball, what name is given to an ambidextrous batter? |
Greenland | To date, no full member of the E.U. has ever left, but which autonomous country within the union voted to leave in 1982, leaving in 1985? |
Boris Johnson | Who became MP for Uxbridge South & Ruislip at the 2015 General Election? |
Dambusters Raid | During World War 2 Operation Chastise was the code name for which event of 1943? |
Booker Prize | PH Newby was the first winner in 1969 of which award? |
Attorney General | Which government post is held by Jeremy Wright, MP for Kenilworth & Southam? |
Lake Huron | In terms of area, which is the second largest lake in North America after Lake Superior? |
Eddie Redmayne | For his role in the film The Theory of Everything’, which actor won the Best Film Actor BAFTA in 2015? |
Ghana | Which African country uses the cedi as its currency? |
Viagra | What is the most common name for the drug Sildenafil Citrate? |
Volleyball | Mintonette was the original name given to which sport? |
1994 | In which year did the Channel Tunnel open? |
Fingernail | Where on the human body is the lunula? |
12 | How many stars are there on the EU flag? |
Walter Mondale | Which Democrat candidate did Ronald Reagan defeat in the 1984 US Presidential Election? |
Denmark | Which country's parliament is called the Folketing? |
Wiltshire | In which English county is Longleat House and Safari Park? |
Women and children first | What maritime order is also termed The Birkenhead Drill? |
You Only Live Twice | Nancy Sinatra sang the theme tune for which 1967 James Bond film? |
Japan | Which country will host the 2019 Rugby Union World Cup? |
Croatia | Which is the latest country to join the EU, doing so in July 2013? |
Lake Tanganyika | In terms of area which is the second largest lake in Africa after Lake Victoria? |
Birdman | Which film starring Michael Keaton and Amy Ryan won the Best Picture Oscar in 2015? |
Peru | Which South American country uses the Nuevo Sol as its currency? |
Pig | What type of animal is a mulefoot? |
Anwar Sadat | Who was assassinated on 6th October 1981 by troops when he was inspecting at a victory parade? |
Prozac | What is the most common trade name of the drug Fluoxetine? |
1994 | In what year did the United Kingdom National Lottery begin? |
eBay | Which internet company was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995? |
Miss Jean Brodie | In a 1961 novel, which title character taught at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls? |
Diet | What is the English name for the Japanese Parliament? |
Clarence House | What was the name of the Queen Mother’s official residence in London until 2002? It is now the official residence of Prince Charles. |
The Shining | Which Stephen King novel features the characters John and Wendy Torrance and their son Danny? |
Uruguay | In which country is the port of Fray Bentos? |
Uttoxeter | Which is the only racecourse in Staffordshire? |
Bull Run | What alternative name was given to the American Civil War battles at Manassa in 1861? |
A | Which vitamin is also known as Retinol or Retinal? |
1963 | In which year was the Great Train Robbery in Buckinghamshire? |
Borneo | In terms of area, what is the largest island in Asia? |
Marshalsea | Which debtors’ prison, in Southwark, was depicted in Charles Dickens’ book Little Dorrit? |
Medals | Apart from coins and banknotes-what else can a numismatist collect? |
The Kalahari | Which desert covers much of Botswana, and parts of Namibia and South Africa? |
(Creme de) Cassis | The French drink Kir consists of white wine and which other ingredient? |
Saint Columba | Which Saint founded the monastery on the island of Iona and died there in 597 AD? |
The Pelican | What was the name of Sir Francis Drake’s ship at the start of his circumnavigation of the world in 1577? |
Crecy | Which battle between England and France was fought in August 1346? |
Scotland | In 1872, which country played England in the first ever international game of football? |
Yoga | The word for which discipline is derived from the Sanskrit word for ‘to unite’ or ‘to join’? |
A Cohort | What name was given to one of the ten divisions of a legion? |
Theatre Royal Drury Lane | Which theatre did David Garrick, the famed actor manage and run from 1747-1776? |
Ku Klux Klan | Which organisation founded in Pulaski Tennessee in December 1865 by 6 former members of the Confederate Army? |
Bassoon | Which orchestral instrument is known as fagotto in Italian? |
Washington DC | In which city did Martin Luther King make his ‘I have a dream’ speech in August 1963? |
5 Furlongs | According to the British Horseracing Authority, what is the shortest distance over which horses race? |
Critical Mass | What two word phrase means the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction? |
Neptune | Triton is the largest moon of which planet? |
Ten | How many hurdles must be cleared in Men’s 110m and 400m Hurdles races? |
Aspirin | By what name is Acetylsalicylic Acid better known? |
Ramsey McDonald | Who was the first British Labour Prime Minister? |
Aldous Huxley | Who wrote the 1932 novel ‘Brave New World’? |
Show Boat | Which 1927 musical features the song ‘Old Man River’? |
South Dakota | The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is in which American state? |
Iron Man | Tony Stark is the real name of which super-hero featured in Marvel comics and later films? |
Frankie Laine | Who sang the theme tune to Rawhide, the TV series which ran from 1959-1966? |
Tay | Which is Scotland’s longest river? |
Mars | Which god was said to be the father of Romulus and Remus the legendary founders of Rome? |
Robin Cousins | Which Briton won an ice-skating Gold at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics? |
Three | In English Common Law, what is the minimum number of people that can constitute a riot? |
Wiltshire | In which English county would you find Stonehenge? |
Masham | In which small North Yorkshire market town is the Black Sheep Brewery based? |
Edgehill | What was the first pitched battle of the English civil War? |
Ukraine | In which country did the 'Orange’ Revolution take place between 2004 and 2005? |
Blackbeard | Which pirate’s ship was called Queen Anne’s Revenge? |
Steve Jobs | According to the video trailer promoting a 2014 spiritual movie, Autobiography of a Yogi was the only book on the iPad of which person who died on Oct 5, 2011? |
Camels | The Pushkar Fair, an annual event in the desert state of Rajashtan in India, witnesses sales of thousands of livestock with a focus on what? |
Scents | François Coty’s Chypre, Paul Parquet’s Fougère Royale, and Aimé Guerlain's Jicky are three of the many representations at an archive in Versailles, France that was founded in 1990 to preserve what? |
Raphael | On the way to the Vatican Museums are the Sistine Chapel (which obviously features Michelangelo's frescoes) and a suite of rooms that features frescoes of what other great? |
Humans | French artist Yves Klein created a series of works he called Anthropometry using what as paint brushes? |
Pileus | Because it was worn by recently freed slaves in Ancient Rome, what cap became the symbol of liberty? |
Happy Valley set | What name was given to the group of hedonistic British and Irish aristocrats who lived in an area overlapping Kenya and Uganda between the 1920s and the 1940s? |
Barabbas | Who is the person of religious history whose pardon was the subject of a 1950 novel by Pär Lagerkvist as well as a 1961 portrayal by Anthony Quinn? |
Peter Paul Rubens | The Marie de' Medici Cycle is a series of twenty-four paintings by which artist? |
Icarus | So what if he failed, he tried, didn't he? The Hellenic Air Force Academy was renamed after which mythological character in 1967? |
Elgin Marbles | What controversial objects of the world of culture are by far the biggest attraction in the purpose built Duveen Gallery of the British Museum? |
Wind | In an Aesop fable that shows the power of persuasion over force, what element fights the sun? |
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