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HARRY S TRUMAN	Who was the US President when Clement Attlee was the UK Prime Minister?
CAROL ANN DUFFY	Which British poet was announced in July as the winner of the 2012 PEN/Pinter Prize?
ANDROMEDA	Which constellation is named after the daughter of Cassiopeia who was chained to a rock to be eaten by the sea monster Cetus?
BASKETBALL	'Point Guard' and 'Centre' are positions in which sport?
LEEDS	The Rugby League club Hunslet is based in which city?
THE CURRAGH	On which course is the 'Irish Oaks' horse race run?
CYPRUS	On which island in 1191 did King Richard I marry Berengaria?
'LA BOHEME'	In the first act of which opera set in Paris at Christmas 1830, does 'Mimi' knock at the door of 'Rodolfo's' flat who then holds her frozen hand?
ZEBRA	What sort of animal is 'Marty' in the 'Madagascar' series of animated films?
'LA VIE EN ROSE'	What was the signature song of Edith Piaf - she wrote the lyrics - and the title of a 207 film about her?
BERNARD INGHAM	"Which Press Secretary to Margaret Thatcher was described by John Biffen MP as "" a rough-spoken Yorkshire Rasputin""?"
BELFAST	Great Victoria Street railway station serves the centre of which UK city?
'CARMEN'	Which opera, set in 1930 Seville, opens in a factory where workers make cigarettes all day?
WARTHOG	What sort of animal is 'Pumbaa' in 'The Lion King' film and stage show?
B.B.C.	George Entwistle was announced in July as the next Director-General of which organisation?
TABLE MOUNTAIN	The constellation Mensa was created in the eighteenth century and named in honour of which African mountain?
WILLIAM	Guillermo is the Spanish for which male name?
'IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE'	In which classic film is businessman 'George Bailey' on the brink of suicide when 'Clarence Oldbody' shows him what the world would have been like without him?
FILEY	Which Yorkshire town between Scarborough and Bridlington is at the eastern end of the Cleveland Way and the northern end of the Yorkshire Wolds Way?
'THE SOUTH BANK SHOW'	Which arts series which ran on ITV for over 30 years has recently been revived on 'Sky Arts'?
BERNADETTE DEVLIN	"In 1969 which MP was described by Stratton Mills MP as ""Fidel Castro in a miniskirt""?"
STEPHEN KING	Who also writes using the pseudonym 'Richard Bachman'?
NEW YORK	Renzo Piano is the architect of a new main building, due to open in 2015, for the Whitney Museum of American Art in the meatpacking district of which city?
'RED RUM'	Which horse, ridden by Brian Fletcher, won the Scottish Grand National in 1974?
'LANCELOT'	"""She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalot"" is spoken by which Arthurian Knight at the end of Tennyson's poem?"
HUNGARY	In which county was Laszlo Biro, the inventor of the ballpoint pen, born?
'OOMPA-LOOMPAS'	Which small people from an isolated Atlantic island does 'Willy Wonka' invite to work in his chocolate factory?
NEWCASTLE	Complete the name of the Roam Catholic diocese 'Hexham and ......'?
BAYEUX	Odo, the half-brother of William the Conqueror who supported him at the Battle of Hastings, was Bishop of ....., where?
FAIR ISLE	Which island, which gives its name to an area in the Shipping Forecast, lies halfway between Orkney and Shetland?
GARETH MALONE	'Wherever You Are' last year's Christmas number one is by 'Military Wives and .......', who?
'BENNY'	What was the first name of the handyman played by Paul Henry in the t.v. soap 'Crossroads'?
MANUEL DE FALLA	Who wrote the music for the ballet 'The Three Cornered Hat'?
'PSMITH'	Which P.G. Wodehouse character has a surname that begins with a 'silent P'?
'MISS MARPLE'	'4.50 From Paddington' and 'Murder At The Vicarage' are novels featuring which detective?
TIN	Cassiterite is a major ore of which metal?
'THE IRON LADY'	For her performance in which film did Meryl Streep win the Best Actress 'Oscar' earlier this year?
'MIDNIGHT IN PARIS'	For which film did Woody Allen win the 'Oscar' for Best Original Screenplay earlier this year?
LEAD	Galena is a major ore of which metal?
PRIMO CARNERA	Who was the first Italian boxer to be World Heavyweight Champion?
'INSPECTOR MORSE'	'The Dead Of Jericho' and 'Last Bus To Woodstock' are novels featuring which detective?
VULCAN	Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Hephaestus?
CZECHOSLOVAKIA	In which country was Alexander Dubcek First Secretary of the Communist Party in 1968-1969?
APHRODITE	Who was the Greek equivalent of the Roman goddess Venus?
TAMBOURINE	Which musical instrument completes the title of the 1968 top ten hit by the 'Lemon Pipers', 'Green ........'?
Owain Glyndwr	Which Welshman was proclaimed Prince of Wales by his supporters on September 16th 1400?
Hudson	Manhattan is surrounded by three rivers, the East, Harlem and which other
Nicholas Nickleby	Which novel by Dickens features Mr Wackford Squeers' Academy in the village of Dotheboys near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire?
Swimming	In which sport did Southport-born Francesca Halsall win three gold and two bronze medals for Great Britain in the 2014 European Championships?
Contemporary	Which word completes the title of MOCA in Los Angeles: Museum of???????????? Art?
Jamaica Inn	Which 1936 novel tells the story of 20-year old Mary Yellan who was brought up on a farm but has to and live with her Aunt Patience in Cornwall after her mother dies?
Aachen	In which German city, is the tomb of Charlemagne?
Shropshire	Wroxeter, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum, is in which English county?
Bhopal	Which city that became famous following an incident in 1984 is the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh?
Adam’s Apple	What is the common name for the laryngeal prominence in the body?
Joan Bakewell	Harold Pinter's play Betrayal was inspired by his seven-year affair in the 1960s with which BBC TV presenter, referred to by Frank Muir as 'the thinking man's crumpet'?
David Bailey	Which photographer has had four wives including Catherine Deneuve and Marie Helvin
Yuri	What is the first name of Doctor Zhivago in the Boris Pasternak novel
Ghana	Nicknamed the Snow Leopard, for which country was Kwame Nkrumah- Acheampong the first representative in the Winter Olympics? (He finished 53rd in the slalom in 2010)
John Hancock	Which Massachusetts delegate was President of the Second Continental Congress and his large signature on the 1776 Declaration of Independence?
Job	Which is the only Book of the Bible with a three-letter name
Midge Ure	Who organised the original 1985 Live Aid concert with Bob Geldof?
Annie Leibovitz	Which American photographed the Queen on her visit to the USA in 2007 and Demi Moore nude and pregnant for Vanity Fair in 1991?
Herge	By what pen name was Belgian cartoonist Georges Prosper Remy known
My Fair Lady	Ascot Gavotte and I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face are songs from which film?
Holy Island	What is the four-letter name of the island, the second largest in Wales, that lies just off the west coast of Anglesey?
Joel	Which Book of the Bible follows Job alphabetically?
George Harrison	Who organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden with Ravi Shankar?
West Wallaby Street	Which street in Wigan is the home of Wallace and Gromit?
Football	In which sport have Ted Copeland, Hope Powell and currently Mark Sampson managed England Women?
Denmark	Roskilde Cathedral has been the burial site of the monarchs of which European country since the 15th century?
The Bruvvers	What was the name of Joe Brown's backing group in the 1960s?
Watling Street	Which ancient road linked Wroxeter to Dover via St Albans
Andaman And Nicobar Islands	What is the name of the Territory of India whose two main islands, after whom it is named, are separated by the Ten Degree Channel?
Albert Finney	Who plays Kincade the estate gamekeeper in the Bond film Skyfall?
David Weir	Who won the Marathon T54 for wheelchair athletes at the 2012 Paralympics?
Thetis	Who was the mother of Achilles in Greek mythology?
Andrew Bonar Law	Which British Prime Minister was born in the colony of New Brunswick on September 16th 1858?
Pittsburgh	In which US city do the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers join to form the Ohio River?
Uranus	Which planet was discovered by William Herschel in 1781?
Hard Times	In which novel by Dickens is Stephen Blackpool a power loom weaver in Josiah Bounderby's mill?
Onslow	What was the first name of the character played by Geoffrey Hughes in the TV sitcom Keeping Up Appearances'?
Lancashire	1969 was the first year of what was known as the Sunday League in cricket. Which county won?
Dubai	Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the ruler of which of the United Arab Emirates
Hovercraft	The SRN1 was the first practical design of what type of vehicle
Nigeria	Ibadan and Port Harcourt are large cities in which African country
Sidney Sussex	Which S S is a Cambridge College founded in 1596?
John Lennon	The album Menlove Ave, released posthumously in 1986, is by which musician?
Mickey Spillane	Who created the detective Mike Hammer?
Dashiell Hammett	Who created the detective Sam Spade?
Freddie Mercury	The Great Pretender is an album released in the USA in 1992 to mark the first anniversary of the death of which musician?
Corpus Christi	Which C C is an Oxford College founded in 1517? (Christ Church was not founded until 1546.)
Louis XIV	Who was King of France from 1643 to 1715?
Henry VIII	Hans Holbein the Younger was court painter to which King?
Reykjavik	Which capital city is served by Keflavik International Airport
Vienna	Marie Antoinette, the wife of King Louis XVI, was born in the Hofburg Palace in which city
H.M.S. BELLEROPHON	Following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon surrendered to the British aboard which warship?
AN ART GALLERY	Situated on the left bank of the Seine in Paris, what is the 'Musee d'Orsay'?
MORNAY SAUCE	What sort of sauce is created by combining Bechamel sauce with grated cheese?
LADYBIRD	What name connects a small beetle with a publisher of children's books?

HARRY S TRUMAN

Who was the US President when Clement Attlee was the UK Prime Minister?

CAROL ANN DUFFY

Which British poet was announced in July as the winner of the 2012 PEN/Pinter Prize?

ANDROMEDA

Which constellation is named after the daughter of Cassiopeia who was chained to a rock to be eaten by the sea monster Cetus?

BASKETBALL

'Point Guard' and 'Centre' are positions in which sport?

LEEDS

The Rugby League club Hunslet is based in which city?

THE CURRAGH

On which course is the 'Irish Oaks' horse race run?

CYPRUS

On which island in 1191 did King Richard I marry Berengaria?

'LA BOHEME'

In the first act of which opera set in Paris at Christmas 1830, does 'Mimi' knock at the door of 'Rodolfo's' flat who then holds her frozen hand?

ZEBRA

What sort of animal is 'Marty' in the 'Madagascar' series of animated films?

'LA VIE EN ROSE'

What was the signature song of Edith Piaf - she wrote the lyrics - and the title of a 207 film about her?

BERNARD INGHAM

"Which Press Secretary to Margaret Thatcher was described by John Biffen MP as "" a rough-spoken Yorkshire Rasputin""?"

BELFAST

Great Victoria Street railway station serves the centre of which UK city?

'CARMEN'

Which opera, set in 1930 Seville, opens in a factory where workers make cigarettes all day?

WARTHOG

What sort of animal is 'Pumbaa' in 'The Lion King' film and stage show?

B.B.C.

George Entwistle was announced in July as the next Director-General of which organisation?

TABLE MOUNTAIN

The constellation Mensa was created in the eighteenth century and named in honour of which African mountain?

WILLIAM

Guillermo is the Spanish for which male name?

'IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE'

In which classic film is businessman 'George Bailey' on the brink of suicide when 'Clarence Oldbody' shows him what the world would have been like without him?

FILEY

Which Yorkshire town between Scarborough and Bridlington is at the eastern end of the Cleveland Way and the northern end of the Yorkshire Wolds Way?

'THE SOUTH BANK SHOW'

Which arts series which ran on ITV for over 30 years has recently been revived on 'Sky Arts'?

BERNADETTE DEVLIN

"In 1969 which MP was described by Stratton Mills MP as ""Fidel Castro in a miniskirt""?"

STEPHEN KING

Who also writes using the pseudonym 'Richard Bachman'?

NEW YORK

Renzo Piano is the architect of a new main building, due to open in 2015, for the Whitney Museum of American Art in the meatpacking district of which city?

'RED RUM'

Which horse, ridden by Brian Fletcher, won the Scottish Grand National in 1974?

'LANCELOT'

"""She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalot"" is spoken by which Arthurian Knight at the end of Tennyson's poem?"

HUNGARY

In which county was Laszlo Biro, the inventor of the ballpoint pen, born?

'OOMPA-LOOMPAS'

Which small people from an isolated Atlantic island does 'Willy Wonka' invite to work in his chocolate factory?

NEWCASTLE

Complete the name of the Roam Catholic diocese 'Hexham and ......'?

BAYEUX

Odo, the half-brother of William the Conqueror who supported him at the Battle of Hastings, was Bishop of ....., where?

FAIR ISLE

Which island, which gives its name to an area in the Shipping Forecast, lies halfway between Orkney and Shetland?

GARETH MALONE

'Wherever You Are' last year's Christmas number one is by 'Military Wives and .......', who?

'BENNY'

What was the first name of the handyman played by Paul Henry in the t.v. soap 'Crossroads'?

MANUEL DE FALLA

Who wrote the music for the ballet 'The Three Cornered Hat'?

'PSMITH'

Which P.G. Wodehouse character has a surname that begins with a 'silent P'?

'MISS MARPLE'

'4.50 From Paddington' and 'Murder At The Vicarage' are novels featuring which detective?

TIN

Cassiterite is a major ore of which metal?

'THE IRON LADY'

For her performance in which film did Meryl Streep win the Best Actress 'Oscar' earlier this year?

'MIDNIGHT IN PARIS'

For which film did Woody Allen win the 'Oscar' for Best Original Screenplay earlier this year?

LEAD

Galena is a major ore of which metal?

PRIMO CARNERA

Who was the first Italian boxer to be World Heavyweight Champion?

'INSPECTOR MORSE'

'The Dead Of Jericho' and 'Last Bus To Woodstock' are novels featuring which detective?

VULCAN

Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Hephaestus?

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

In which country was Alexander Dubcek First Secretary of the Communist Party in 1968-1969?

APHRODITE

Who was the Greek equivalent of the Roman goddess Venus?

TAMBOURINE

Which musical instrument completes the title of the 1968 top ten hit by the 'Lemon Pipers', 'Green ........'?

Owain Glyndwr

Which Welshman was proclaimed Prince of Wales by his supporters on September 16th 1400?

Hudson

Manhattan is surrounded by three rivers, the East, Harlem and which other

Nicholas Nickleby

Which novel by Dickens features Mr Wackford Squeers' Academy in the village of Dotheboys near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire?

Swimming

In which sport did Southport-born Francesca Halsall win three gold and two bronze medals for Great Britain in the 2014 European Championships?

Contemporary

Which word completes the title of MOCA in Los Angeles: Museum of???????????? Art?

Jamaica Inn

Which 1936 novel tells the story of 20-year old Mary Yellan who was brought up on a farm but has to and live with her Aunt Patience in Cornwall after her mother dies?

Aachen

In which German city, is the tomb of Charlemagne?

Shropshire

Wroxeter, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum, is in which English county?

Bhopal

Which city that became famous following an incident in 1984 is the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh?

Adam’s Apple

What is the common name for the laryngeal prominence in the body?

Joan Bakewell

Harold Pinter's play Betrayal was inspired by his seven-year affair in the 1960s with which BBC TV presenter, referred to by Frank Muir as 'the thinking man's crumpet'?

David Bailey

Which photographer has had four wives including Catherine Deneuve and Marie Helvin

Yuri

What is the first name of Doctor Zhivago in the Boris Pasternak novel

Ghana

Nicknamed the Snow Leopard, for which country was Kwame Nkrumah- Acheampong the first representative in the Winter Olympics? (He finished 53rd in the slalom in 2010)

John Hancock

Which Massachusetts delegate was President of the Second Continental Congress and his large signature on the 1776 Declaration of Independence?

Job

Which is the only Book of the Bible with a three-letter name

Midge Ure

Who organised the original 1985 Live Aid concert with Bob Geldof?

Annie Leibovitz

Which American photographed the Queen on her visit to the USA in 2007 and Demi Moore nude and pregnant for Vanity Fair in 1991?

Herge

By what pen name was Belgian cartoonist Georges Prosper Remy known

My Fair Lady

Ascot Gavotte and I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face are songs from which film?

Holy Island

What is the four-letter name of the island, the second largest in Wales, that lies just off the west coast of Anglesey?

Joel

Which Book of the Bible follows Job alphabetically?

George Harrison

Who organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden with Ravi Shankar?

West Wallaby Street

Which street in Wigan is the home of Wallace and Gromit?

Football

In which sport have Ted Copeland, Hope Powell and currently Mark Sampson managed England Women?

Denmark

Roskilde Cathedral has been the burial site of the monarchs of which European country since the 15th century?

The Bruvvers

What was the name of Joe Brown's backing group in the 1960s?

Watling Street

Which ancient road linked Wroxeter to Dover via St Albans

Andaman And Nicobar Islands

What is the name of the Territory of India whose two main islands, after whom it is named, are separated by the Ten Degree Channel?

Albert Finney

Who plays Kincade the estate gamekeeper in the Bond film Skyfall?

David Weir

Who won the Marathon T54 for wheelchair athletes at the 2012 Paralympics?

Thetis

Who was the mother of Achilles in Greek mythology?

Andrew Bonar Law

Which British Prime Minister was born in the colony of New Brunswick on September 16th 1858?

Pittsburgh

In which US city do the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers join to form the Ohio River?

Uranus

Which planet was discovered by William Herschel in 1781?

Hard Times

In which novel by Dickens is Stephen Blackpool a power loom weaver in Josiah Bounderby's mill?

Onslow

What was the first name of the character played by Geoffrey Hughes in the TV sitcom Keeping Up Appearances'?

Lancashire

1969 was the first year of what was known as the Sunday League in cricket. Which county won?

Dubai

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the ruler of which of the United Arab Emirates

Hovercraft

The SRN1 was the first practical design of what type of vehicle

Nigeria

Ibadan and Port Harcourt are large cities in which African country

Sidney Sussex

Which S S is a Cambridge College founded in 1596?

John Lennon

The album Menlove Ave, released posthumously in 1986, is by which musician?

Mickey Spillane

Who created the detective Mike Hammer?

Dashiell Hammett

Who created the detective Sam Spade?

Freddie Mercury

The Great Pretender is an album released in the USA in 1992 to mark the first anniversary of the death of which musician?

Corpus Christi

Which C C is an Oxford College founded in 1517? (Christ Church was not founded until 1546.)

Louis XIV

Who was King of France from 1643 to 1715?

Henry VIII

Hans Holbein the Younger was court painter to which King?

Reykjavik

Which capital city is served by Keflavik International Airport

Vienna

Marie Antoinette, the wife of King Louis XVI, was born in the Hofburg Palace in which city

H.M.S. BELLEROPHON

Following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon surrendered to the British aboard which warship?

AN ART GALLERY

Situated on the left bank of the Seine in Paris, what is the 'Musee d'Orsay'?

MORNAY SAUCE

What sort of sauce is created by combining Bechamel sauce with grated cheese?

LADYBIRD

What name connects a small beetle with a publisher of children's books?