QLL Questions

Which American composer created Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man?

Aaron Copland

Bon Accord, who famously lost 36-0 to Arbroath in 1885, were a team from which Scottish City?

Aberdeen

D. B. Cooper disappeared in 1971 while travelling on which mode of transport?

Aeroplane

The Secretarybird is a bird of pray native to which continent?

Africa

What is the largest race of gorilla?

Eastern Lowland

Which king of England between 959 and 975 was nicknamed 'the Peaceful'?

Edgar

Who was the captain of the Costa Concordia, which capsized off the coast of Isola del Giglio in 2012?

Francesco Schettino

Who presented Treasure Hunt in the 1980s alongside "skyrunner" Anneka Rice?

Kenneth Kendall

In which country is the Maasai Mara National Park?

Kenya

Which Irish novelist wrote Circle of Friends and Tara Road?

Maeve Binchy

Which Peruvian novelist wrote a book called La Casa Verde, "The Green House"?

Mario Vargas Llosa

Which woman's 400m world record has stood since the 1985 World Cup meet in Canberra?

Marita Koch

The Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. saw a decisive defeat for the forces of which Roman general?

Mark Anthony

Which Darts player from Bristol has the nickname Flash?

Mark Dudbridge

Who played the title role in the 1968 musical film version of Oliver!?

Mark Lester

Who is the current Prime Minister of The Netherlands?

Mark Rutte

Which author wrote the 1869 travel book Innocents Abroad?

Mark Twain

Who wrote House of Leaves?

Mark Z. Danielewski

Who is the only deaf person to have won an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role in Children of a Lesser God (1986)?

Marlee Matlin

Which space probe was lost in 1999 due to a software mixup of SI and non-SI units?

Mars Climate Orbiter

Which Bulgarian athlete has held the high jump world record since the 1987 World Championships in Rome?

Stefka Kostadinova

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is which person's account of their exploits during the revolt against the Ottoman Empire?

T. E. Lawrence

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks and A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh take their name from works by which poet?

T. S. Eliot

What is the name of Richard Feynman's 1965 series of 7 lectures on the greatest 20th century physical theories?

The Character of Physical Law

The Sword in the Stone is the first book in which series of novels by T. H. White?

The Once and Future King

What was French artist Laure Prouvost's 2013 Turner Prize winning film that is a response to Dada artist Kurt Schwitters?

Wantee

Based in Manchesterford, which fictional shop created by Victoria Wood is staffed by Berta, Miss Babs and Mrs Overall?

Acorn Antiques

Which polymath presented the BBC programmes Local Heroes and What the Romans Did for Us?

Adam Hart-Davis

Which actor played Count Ilya Rostov in the recent War and Peace?

Ade Edmonson

Mount Marcy is the highest point of which Upstate New York mountain range?

Adirondacks

Les Dawson was the second presenter and Lily Savage the third, but who was the presented the 2016 remake of Blankety Blank?

David Walliams

Which actor plays the role of ex-cop Matt in 2014's neo-noir film A Walk Among the Tombstones?

Liam Neeson

Which Downton Abbey actress played Natasha Rostova in the recent War and Peace?

Lily James

What is the largest cnidaria species, the biggest of which washed up on the shore of Massachusetts bay in 1870?

Lion's Mane Jellyfish

Which state is known as the Tar Heel state, and has its capital at Raleigh?

North Carolina

Lyonnaise indicates a dish is prepard with which vegetable?

Onion

What name was given to the operations in WW2 Britain to evacuate civilians?

Operation Pied Piper

What is the name of Peter Carey's first Booker Prize winning novel?

Oscar and Lucinda

Which Dorset village in the South Downs is home to a famous White Horse carved into the limestone hillside?

Osmington

The young, villanous Iago, the father in law Brabantio and the hopeful wife-stealer Roderigo appear in which Shakespeare play?

Othello

The Eurasian Eagle and Blakiston's Fish are massive varieties of which bird?

Owl

They call the Wind Maria is a song by Lerner and Loewe from which musical?

Paint Your Wagon

South Carolina's state nickname is shared with which tree of the Arecaceae family?

Palmetto

What is the name of the Canadian national dish of fries toppes with cheese and gravy?

Poutine

Before her roles in HBO's True Blood, Anna Paquin won the Best Supporting Actress for her role in which film?

The Piano (1993)

Which TV show from 1961-63 was based on a small clothing workshop named Fenner's Fashions?

The Rag Trade

Which 1949 Paul Bowles book about post-colonial alienation was adapted to film by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1990?

The Sheltering Sky

What is the name of J. G. Farrell's 1973 Booker Prize winning novel?

The Siege of Krishnapur

Which classic children's novel of 1956 is the best remembered work of Ian Serrallier?

The Silver Sword

Which Stephen King examines the breakdown of society after an influenza outbreak?

The Stand

What was the name of Shakin' Stevens' backing band?

The Sunsets

Anne Tyler's Vinegar Girl is based on which Shakespeare play?

The Taming of the Shrew

John Dos Passos wrote which trilogy, consisting of The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932) and The Big Money (1936)?

The U.S.A. Trilogy

Who wrote The Heart is a Lonely Hunter?

Carson McCullers

Copernicus Airport serves which European city?

Wroclaw

Which state is the equality state?

Wyoming

Which shark is the second largest living fish?

Basking shark

What is the largest frog?

Goliath Frog

Which 18th century dramatist and British Army general wrote The Heiress?

John Burgoyne

Which Japanese martial art was developed by Morihei Ueshiba?

Aikido

Which French diplomat wrote Democracy in America in 1835?

Alexis de Tocqueville

Who is Othello's wife?

Desdemona

Who wrote the novel Wise Blood?

Flannery O'Connor

Which organisation was founded by Robert O. Anderson and David Brower in 1969?

Friends of the Earth

Who wrote Battlefield Earth, Mission Earth and Fear?

L. Ron Hubbard

The Comeback is a comedy-drama centred around which actress?

Lisa Kudrow

Sally Carr was the lead singer with which 1970s Scottish pop group?

Middle of the Road

For which county did Phil Tufnell play from 1986-2002?

Middlesex

Who wrote the fantasy novel Mythago Wood?

Robert Holdstock

Which Russian administrative area is the largest such area in the world?

Sakha

What is the name of Tony Judt's 2005 account of european history since 1945?

Postwar

Which French national dish translates at "pot on the fire"?

Pot-au-feu

A boxty is a traditional Irish pancake based on which foodstuff?

Potato

Which Scottish scientist discovered four of the six noble gases?

William Ramsey

Alisoun is a much-married woman from the Canterbury Tales known as 'The Wife of _____' where?

Bath

Garry Roberts was the original guitarist and Johnnie Fingers the Keyboardist for which band?

Boomtown Rats

Mikhael GLinka's opera Ruslan and Lydmilla is used as the theme to which Radio 4 comedy?

Cabin Pressure

The Moon's a Balloon is a best-selling memoir by which British actor who died in 1983?

David Niven

Who wrote The Worm Ouroboros?

E. R. Eddison

The Diary of Samuel Pepys was released in which year?

1825

The California Gold Rush occurred between which years?

1848-1855

In which year did Hawaii become the fiftieth state of the USA?

1959

Milton Berle ("Mr Television") and Dudley Moore died on March 27th in which year?

2002

According to the lyrics, how long were Smokie living next door to Alice?

24 Years

In which event did Sally Gunnell win an Olympic gold medal in the 1992 Barcelona games?

400m Hurdles

Jarmila Kratochvilova set the female world record in 1983 for which running distance?

800m

Which series of novels by Anthony Powell is name for a Nicolas Poussin painting?

A Dance to the Music of Time

Which Mozart piece was used as the theme to the Horse of the Year Show for many years?

A Musical Joke

What is the name of Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel book on about his journey from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople?

A Time of Gifts

Which partly-toxic fruit features in Jamaica's national dish with Saltfish?

Ackee

The African elephant is now considered to be two different species, one being the African bush elephant, but what is the other?

African Forest Elephant

Which English actor was the third husband of actress Diana Dors?

Alan Lake

Which colombian dance choriographer created Zumba in the 1990s?

Alberto "Beto" Perez

Point Counter Point is a 1928 novel by which author?

Aldous Huxley

Who played William S Preston, Esquire in the Bill & Ted franchise?

Alex Winter

Who led the Prague Spring, a 1968 attempt to reform socialism in Czecheslovakia?

Alexander Dubcek

Which British biologist coined the term lysozyme?

Alexander Fleming

What was Alison Moyet's first solo album after leaving Yazoo?

Alf

Robert Heinlein's 'To Sail Beyond a Sunset', Aldous Huxley's 'After Many a Summer' and Agatha Christie's 'The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side' take their name from lines in works by which poet?

Alfred Tennyson

Ulysses, The Lady of Shalott and Locksley Hall are poems by which 19th century British poet?

Alfred Tennyson

Who was Gertrude Stein's lover, about whom she wrote an "autobiography"?

Alice B. Toklas

Helena is the heroin in love with Bertram in which Shakespeare play?

All's Well that Ends Well

Which well-known 70s musician rebranded after the breakup of Shane Fenton and the Fentones?

Alvin Stardust

The largest river dolphins can be found in which river?

Amazon (Amazon River Dolphins)

Which 1971 Wallace Stegner novel follows a wheelchair-using historian and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972?

Angle of Repose

The largest African Bush Elephant ever was shot in 1974 in which country?

Angola

Which author is best known for writing The Baby-Sitters Club series of books?

Ann Matthews Martin

Which Swedish female golfer has won the most grand slams for her country, with 10?

Annika Sorenstam

Who wrote the Stormbreaker and Skeleton Key novels?

Anthony Horowitz

Who is the current Chelsea manager?

Antonio Conte

Who was the second President of Bolivia after Simon Bolivar, who gives his name to the currency of Ecuador before the year 2000?

Antonio Jose de SUCRE

Katherine is a novel by whom?

Anya Seton

Who turned Midas's ears into those of a donkey after Midas disagreed with his judgement in a music contest?

Apollo

Which four-time grandslam winner had the nickname 'The Barcelona Bumblebee'?

Aranxta SANCHEZ-VICARIO

On which subject is Sir Bannister Fletcher's work the standard reference book?

Architecture

Who wrote Darkness at Noon in 1940 about an Old Bolshevik who is tried for treason against the government he helped to create?

Arthur Koestler

Corin, Rosalind and the courts of Duke Frederick and Duke Senior, appear in which Shakespeare play?

As You Like It

Brinsley Forde was the lead singer of which reggae group?

Aswad

Mark Addy plays Hercules in which BBC show?

Atlantis

What is the name of Bertie Wooster's least favourite aunt in the Jeeves and Wooster stories?

Aunt Agatha

In the Cinderella pantomime, Buttons is the servant of which character, Cinderella's father?

Baron Hardup

Which Spanish word translates as neighbourhood but more commonly refers to a slum?

Barrio

Victoria Wood sang about the Ballad of which two people?

Barry and Freda

What was invented in 1955 by Bill Russell and Peter Hobbs?

Automatic Kettle

Anthem and We Are The Living are works by which author?

Ayn Rand

Ruling from 1526 until 1530 and succeeded by his son Humayun, who was the first Mughal Emperor?

Babur

What is the name of Steve Coogan and Henry Normal's production company, responsible for Nighty Night, Gavin & Stacy and The Mighty Boosh?

Baby Cow Productions

Which 1970s female vocal duo comprised Spanish artists Mayte Mateos and Maria Mendiola?

Baccara

What is the name of Lorna Sage's 2000 book on the "fantasy of family"?

Bad Blood

What is the name of Macbeth's co-general?

Banquo

Which Czech Javelin thrower achieved the world record throw in 2008?

Barbora Spotakova

What is the name of the two supercontinents that joined together to form Pangaea?

Gondwana & Laurasia

Mark Wallinger's 2007 Turner Prize winning work Sleeper involved someone dressing up as which animal?

Bear

Which country precedes Clanger in the name of a pastry?

Bedfordshire

What is Utah's official state nickname?

Beehive State

Which composer lived in the Red House?

Benjamin Britten

Who is Romeo's cousin that attempts to placate relations between the two families?

Benvolio

Which US soccer player was the first person to score a hat trick in world cup history, after scoring against paraguay in the 1930 competition?

Bert Patenaude

Which British guitarst created the guitar tutorial Play in a Day?

Bert Weedon

Which German playwright wrote The Good Person of Szechwan?

Bertolt Brecht

Who is missing from USA's London 2012 world record breaking 4x100m team: Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, _______, Carmelita Jeter?

Bianca Knight

The Russian word Bolshoi translates to what in English?

Big

Which famous anthropomorphic Koala was created by illustrator Dorothy Wall?

Blinky Bill

Smalt was an important pigment in European oil painting, and it was a dark shade of which colour?

Blue

Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976, had an a affair with which musician, who was married to Rita Anderson until his death in 1981?

Bob Marley

Which two players comprised the 2016 world cup of darts Northern Irish team?

Brendan Dolan, Daryl Gurney

In 1995, Greenpeace activists occupied which North Sea oil rig?

Brent Spar

Who wrote the book American Psycho?

Bret Easton Ellis

Which British author was best known for his Redwall series of fantasy novels and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series?

Brian Jacques

Which 1970s pop group had two unrelated women with the surname Stevens?

Brotherhood of Man

The Power of One is a famous book by which writer?

Bryce Courtenay

The riots that ensued after the rejection of the 1839 Chartist Act were named for which part of Birmingham?

Bull Ring Riots

Dewhurst was a former British chain of which type of shop?

Butchers

What is the chemical name for the compound that makes up gypsum and Plaster of Paris?

Calcium Sulfate

Joan Didion's 1968 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' is about life in which state?

California

Which Roman emperor ruled from 37-41 AD and was known as Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanises?

Caligula

Greenpeace was founded in which country in 1971?

Canada

What is the largest toad?

Cane Toad

Which 1945 John Steinbeck novel is set in the Great Depression on a namesake street?

Cannery Row

Who served as flag captain to Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar, commanding HMS Victory?

Captain Thomas HARDY

What is author Dav Piley's most famous creation?

Captain Underpants

Who was the author of the Nancy Drew Mystery stories?

Carolyn Keene

Which author wrote many books about her deprived youth in South Tyneside, including the Kate Hannigan series and Mary Ann stories?

Catherine Cookson

Slide Mountain is the highest peak of which Southeast New York state mountain range?

Catskills

In cookery, the term Dubarry indicates that a dish is prepared with which vegetable?

Cauliflower

What is the Welsh word for a soup or broth?

Cawl

What is the second best-selling album by a girl group of all time behind the Spice Girls' 'Spice'?

CrazySexyCool (TLC)

The Blue Whale belongs to what order of animals?

Cetacea

Which fish-based dish is the national dish of Peru?

Ceviche

Who played the lead role in the 1975 film The Streetfighter?

Charles Bronson

What was Charles Bronson's birth name?

Charles Buchinsky

Anthony van Dyck was the court painter of which King of England?

Charles I

William Dobson is famous for his painting of which King of England at the age of 12?

Charles II

What is the name of Diana Spencer's younger brother?

Charles Spencer

Which urban fantasy writer's best known works include Moonheart and Memory & Dream?

Charles de Lint

Which supporting role did Terrence Alexander play in the TV series Bergerac?

Charlie Hungerford

Who was the captain of US Airways Flight 1549, that landed on the Hudson River in 2009?

Chelsey Sullenberger

Razzle Dazzle and We Both Reached for the Gun are songs from which musical?

Chicago

What is the largest Amphibian?

Chinese Giant Salamander

In a former soviet republic, which European capital city is located on the Bic river?

Chisinau

Who created the children's hexalogy of books known collectively as The Land of Stories?

Chris Colfer

Who hosted the 90s game show 'Man O Man'?

Chris Tarrant

Which fashion designer is famous for his red-soled shoes?

Christian Loubtoutin

Who wrote the early feminist work The Book of the City of Ladies in 1405?

Christine de Pisan

The 1989 film My Left Foot tells the story of which Irish painter?

Christy BROWN

Who wrote the series of mystery books about Beverly Gray?

Clair Blank

Pensee Sauvage is a work by which Belgian-born French anthropologist?

Claude Levi-Strauss

In which film does Sissy Spacek play Loretta Webb Lynn, known affectionately as the First Lady of Country Music?

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

Which Catalan Sheepdog was the official mascot of the 1992 Summer Olympics?

Cobi

What is the name of the Navajo people used to communicate secretly during World War 2?

Code Talkers

Flora Poste is the heroin of which Stella Gibbons book?

Cold Comfort Farm

Who directed 2015's Jurassic World?

Colin Trevorrow

FARC rebels have been a guerilla movement since 1964 in which country?

Colombia

What is the best-selling album worldwide by a solo female artist?

Come On Over (Shania Twain)

Which American politician was Secretary of State from 1933-44, giving him the longest tenure in the post?

Cordell Hull

What nickname is Roman general Caius Martius given in the title of a Shakespeare play?

Coriolanus

Which Radio 4 comedy written by and starring Steve Delaney in the title role won the 2009 Sony Radio Gold Award for comedy? It was remade for BBC TV, directed by Graham Linehan and co-starring Rory Kinnear

Count Arthur Strong

Newgrange is an archaelogical prehistoric monument in which Irish county?

Count Meath

Novelty act Lieutenant Pigeon hail from which British city?

Coventry

Who wrote the How to Train Your Dragon books?

Cressida Cowell

In 1745, the first recorded women's match took place near Guildford, Surrey, in which sport?

Cricket

What was the name of the fictional town in which Noel's House Party was set?

Crinkley Bottom

Nile and Orinoco are two of which type of reptile?

Crocodiles

Marrakesh Express was a 1969 early release for which supergroup?

Crosby, Stills & Nash

Which sword used at coronations of British monarchs is known as the Sowrd of Mercy?

Curtana

Which city was the capital of the Inca Empire?

Cusco

Which king of Britain from a Shakespeare play is the father of Imogen?

Cymbeline

In which former country were Ivan Lendl and Martina Navratilova born?

Czechoslovakia

What name is given to the lowest age of Girl Scouts?

Daisies

Which Kentucky frontiersman blazed a trail for his Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap?

Daniel Boone

Claudio Magris wrote a 1986 work on his travels along which river?

Danube

Who is the only cricketer to have taken 200 test wickets and won Strictly Come Dancing?

Darren Gough

Which 1970s singer's solo career began after the breakup of his band Love Sculpture?

Dave Edmunds

Which author wrote Retur to the Hundred Acre Wood in 2009, the first Winnie-the-Pooh book in 81 years?

David Benedictus

Maps to the Stars is a 2014 film directed by whom?

David Cronenberg

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a 1779 posthumous work of which British empiricist who died in 1776?

David Hume

What is Grant Wood's middle name?

DeVoison

Who was the Secretary of State throughout the entirety of JFK & LBJ's Presidency, from 1961-69?

Dean Rusk

What was the name of Private Eye's spoof letters from Denis Thatcher to his friend about life in 10 Downing Street with Margaret Thatcher?

Dear Bill

Which prophetess is the only female judge to lead the Israelites?

Deborah

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is an account of the Native American point of view on American expansionism, by which author?

Dee Brown

Which actress played the lead role Dorothy in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl?

Dee Hepburn

Cervidae is the name of which family of animals?

Deer

Lysander and Hermia are in love, but Egius has instructed that Hermia marries which character in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

Demetrius

Which mountain is the tallest base-to-peak on land on Earth?

Denali

Which Labour party minister was the Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1974 and 1979?

Denis Healey

Lars Lokke Rasmussen is the PM of which country?

Denmark

The Lynmouth Flood of 1952 happened in which county?

Devon

Cross Stitch is the name of a novel by which author?

Diana Gabaldon

What is the name of the snorkasaurus in The Flintstones?

Dino

Who granted King Midas' wish that everything he touched turned to gold?

Dionysus

As opposed to nocturnal, what term describes animal or plant beheviour characterized by activity during the day?

Diurnal

Which Japanese martial art comes from the phrase "place of the way"?

Dojo

Which British businessman bought BHS in 2015?

Dominic Chappell

Jason Bradbury hosted which short-lived 2011 game show, narrated by Sue Perkins?

Don't Scare the Hare

Which Davina McCall game show was cohosted by Kate Thornton and featured a segment called Paul Hendy's Shoppers' Challenge?

Don't Try This at Home

Which early 19th-century graphic artist is known for his saucy seaside cards?

Donald McGill

Who wrote The Secret History?

Donna Tartt

Which artist won the Turner Prize for Confessions of a Justified Sinner, a slow-motion video of people screaming?

Douglas Gordon

Who captained England in the Bodyline Tour of 1932-33?

Douglas Jardine

Bertie Wooster is a member of which famous club?

Drones Club

A Nothern Pintail is which type of bird?

Duck

A Wigeon is what type of bird?

Duck

Aside from publishing biographies of William Morris and William Blake, which author wrote The Making of the English Working Class in 1963?

E. P. Thompson

Which character in King Lear fathers Edgar, and also an illegitimate son Edmund?

Earl of Gloucester

The Purloined Letter is a short story featuring detective C. Auguste Dupin, by which author?

Edgar Allan Poe

Princes Street is the main shopping thoroughfare in which city?

Edinburgh

Whose first novella was The Touchstone (1900), and also wrote The House of Mirth (1905)?

Edith Wharton

Which English king form 939-946 was nicknamed 'the Just'?

Edmund

Who wrote The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in 1776?

Edward Gibbon

Marguerite of France is the second wife of which King of England?

Edward I

The Hundred Years' War is divided in to which three phrases in order?

Edwardian, Caroline, Lancastrian

In 1952, King Farouk abdicated in favour of his son Fuad as monarch of which country?

Egypt

What is the name of Hannah Arendt's 1963 study of a certain Nazi's trial and influence on the Holocaust?

Eichmann in Jerusalem

What is the theme used for Brain of Britain?

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Which island, with its capital at Valverde, is the westernmost island of the Canaries?

El Hierro

The Death of the Heart is a 1938 novel by which female Irish novelist?

Elizabeth Bowen

Who created the 2012 Turner Prize winning work The Woolworths Choir of 1979 about a shop fire in Manchester?

Elizabeth Price

Who took the Cottingley Fairies photographs?

Elsie Wright, Frances Griffiths

Which woman, the mistress of Horatio Nelson, was born Amy Lyon?

Emma Hamilton

Which soap opera is known for the Dingle Family and a famous plane crash episode in 1993?

Emmerdale

Who was Emperor of Japan in WW1?

Emperor Taisho (Yoshihito)

Who was the mother of Marie-Antoinette?

Empress Maria Theresa

Which production company, featuring Richard Osman, produces Big Brother UK, Deal or No Deal, and Pointless?

Endemol UK

Which poem by John Keats begins with the line, A thing of beauty is a joy forever?

Endymion

A thing of beauty is a joy forever' is the first line of which 1818 poem?

Endymion (John Keats)

Which company, founded by Kenneth Lay, became the biggest bankruptcy in US history in 2001?

Enron

Canadian Ian Millar competed in the Olympics between 1972 and 2012 in which event?

Equestrianism

Who wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar?

Eric Carle

The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 is a work by which author?

Eric Hobshawm

What was Judy Murray's maiden name?

Erskine

Who wrote the 1932 book Tobacco Road?

Erskine Caldwell

Which rugby-like game is played annually between the Collegers and the Oppidans?

Eton Wall Game

Which bird is the biggest of the living birds of prey?

Eurasian Black Vulture

Martin Schulz has been the President of which EU body since 2012?

European Parliament

The word cilium derived from the latin for which body part?

Eyelash

What is the name of Brock Lesnar's finishing move?

F5

What name is given to light, decorative headpieces commonly worn by ladies at events such as Ladies' day?

Fascinators

Which bean soup is the national dish of Greece?

Fasolada

Which black beans based stew is the national dish of Brazil?

Feijoada

Industrial Light & Magic, Mary Leckey's 2008 Turner Prize winning work, involved an animation of which beloved character?

Felix the Cat

Denmark's Ivan Osiier competed in the Olympics from London in 1908 to London in 1948, in which sport?

Fencing

Who, along with Charles Sanders Pierce, is considered to be the father of Semiology?

Ferdinand de Saussure

How were the Cherokee, Chicksaw, Choctaw, Muscogee and Seminole Native American tribes known collectively?

Five Civilized Tribes

Who is the bully in Thomas Hughes' novel Tom Brown's Schooldays?

Flashman

Which of the lost rivers of London goes underneath Kentish Town and enters the Thames below Blackfriars Bridge?

Fleet

Which fictional dolphin from the 1960s lived in the Coral Key Park and Maritime Preserve in Florida?

Flipper

Ikebana refers to which Japanese art?

Flower Arrangement

Parade's End is a work by which novelist?

Ford Madox Ford

Which London department store had the nickname The Queen's Grocer?

Fortnum & Mason

In 1891, Tahiti was annexed by which European power?

France

The Dukan diet originated in which European country?

France

Nicaragua's currency is named after which Spanish explorer who discovered Yucatan?

Francisco Fernandez CORDOBA

Who painted The Disasters of War between 1810 and 1814?

Francisco de Goya

Which Rococo artist is well known for his portraits of Madame de Pompadour, the chief mistress of Louis XV?

Francois Boucher

Which king of Prussia from 1740-86 was known as 'the Great'?

Frederick II

Who voices Paul McCartney in the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine?

Geoffrey Hughes

Whose 1949 novel No Boats on Bannermere was the first in his series of five Bannerdale novels?

Geoffrey Trease

Who was Sax Rohmer's most famous creation?

Fu Manchu

Which brewery was founded in Chiswick in 1845?

Fuller's

Which children's TV show was hosted by Pat Sharpe with twins Melanie and Martina Grant?

Fun House

Only four men have scored two world-cup hat-tricks: Hungary's Sandor Kocsis (1954), Just Fontaine (1958), Gerd Muller (1970), and which Argentine in 1994 and 1998?

Gabriel Batistuta

Who created The Far Side comics?

Gary Larson

Who writes The Far Side comics?

Gary Larson

What is the more common name of the Indian Bison?

Gaur

Which army officer led the British at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 as part of the Seven Years' War?

General James Wolfe

The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady is the subtitle of which 1925 Anita Loos book?

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Which Ethiopean runner holds the female indoor world records in the 1500m, 3000m, and 5000m?

Genzebe Dibaba

Which Labour Foregin Secretary made the UK's second failed attempt to join the EEC?

George Brown

Who wrote the most famous Dictionary of Music and Musicians?

George Grove

Which author took the Tom Brown's Schooldays bully Flashman and made him the anti-hero of a series of books?

George Macdonald Fraser

The Diary of Nobody is a comic novel written in 1892 by which brothers?

George and Weedon Grossmith

The works 'Jimson Weed' and 'Blue and Green Music' are by which artist?

Georgia O'Keefe

Elizabeth is the most common first lady name, but Elizabeth "Betty" Bloomer was the wife of which President?

Gerald Ford

Kevin-Prince Boateng played for Ghana, but who does Jerome Boateng, his brother, play for?

Germany

Who wrote about The Boxcar Children in her series of books?

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Kwame Nkrumah was the first Prime Minister of which African nation after their independence from Britain in 1957?

Ghana

What is the largest type of cockroach?

Giant Burrowing Cockroach

What is the largest species in the pig family?

Giant Forest Hog

What is the largest living spider, which in 2008 replaced the Goliath birdeater?

Giant Huntsman Spider

What is the largest species of scaly anteater?

Giant Pangolin

What is the largest bat in the world?

Giant golden-crowned flying fox

Proesch and Passmore are the surnames of which artistic duo?

Gilbert and George

Which Air Canada craft was guided to safety in 1983 in part due to an imperial/metric mixup on the amount of fuel?

Gimli Glider

Macbeth is the Thane of where?

Glamis

Zloty takes its name from the Polish for what?

Golden

P.G. Wodehouse's Oldest Member stories are about which sport?

Golf

What is the name of the autobiography of writer Robert Graves?

Goodbye to All That

The only jockey to be knighted, who won the Epsom Derby on the horse Pinza?

Gordon Richards

What is the name of the entrance to Lord's, named for a cricketer who died in 1915?

Grace Gates

What is the largest living member of the Canidae family?

Gray Wolf

Which birds are the heaviest birds capable of flight?

Great Bustard & Kori Bustard

What is the location of the start of the London Marathon?

Greenwich Park

Operation Urgent Fury was the name for Reagan's invasion of which nation?

Grenada

Which artist won the Turner Prize in 1992 for their work HAL, two large steel cylinders?

Grenville Davey

Which book is the first in Laurell K. Hamilton's bestselling Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series?

Guilty Pleasures

Which Austrian composer's 8th symphony in E flat major is known as the Symphony of a Thousand?

Gustav Mahler

Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat is a song from which musical film?

Guys & Dolls

Which imperial dynasty was considered to have ended with the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire at the end of WWI?

Habsburg

Which 1960s rock musical was written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni?

Hair

"To the manor born" is a Shakespearean misquotation from which play?

Hamlet

Anita Wlodarczyk broke her own world record at Rio 2016 in which athletics event?

Hammer Throw

What is the name of the 1970 Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel?

Hard Times

Peter Thorneycroft was the first Chancellor of the Exchequer for which Prime Minister?

Harold Macmillan

Which two authors died on the 19th February 2016?

Harper Lee, Umberto Eco

Elizabeth is the most common first lady name, but Elizabeth "Bess" Wallace was the wife of which President?

Harry S. Truman

In which city were 69 Jews famously massacred by Arabs in 1929?

Hebron

Good + Simple is a cookbook by which duo, with forenames Jasmine and Melissa?

Helmsley + Helmsley

Who wrote the 1969 novel Papillon, named for the author's nickname?

Henri Charriere

Loving is a 1945 book by which British author?

Henry Green

Matilda of Scotland and Adeliza of Louvain are the two wives of which King of England?

Henry I

The Wings of the Dove (1902) and The Golden Bowl (1904) are novels by which literary realist?

Henry James

What is the name of the farm near the Mull of Kintyre that Paul McCartney purchased in 1966?

High Park Farm

The Heart of Gold is a spaceship in which fictional universe?

Hitchhikers' Guide

Which UK game show was based on the Japanese show Brain Wall?

Hole in the Wall

What is the name of the small cylindrical pieces of Sushi with nori on the outside?

Hosomaki

Passer Domesticus is the name of which common bird?

House Sparrow

What is the alternative title of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 1850 Sonnet 43?

How do I love thee?

A Small Thing But My Own is the winning artwork of the second Turner Prize, by which artist?

Howard Hodgkin

Who wrote the 1936 horror novella At the Mountain of Madness?

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Which eggs, tortillas and salsa breakfast dish is also known as a Mexican chili?

Huevos Rancheros

Who wrote the Doctor Dolittle books?

Hugh Lofting

Jonathan Sumption has written a number of books on which war?

Hundred Years' War

A Kuvasz is a breed of dog from which country?

Hungary

Which London bridge did Monet paint in 1899 and is one of only three to combine rail and pedestrian use along with the Fulham and Barnes bridges?

Hungerford Bridge

Which coast redwood in Northern California is the world's tallest living tree?

Hyperion

Which car manufacturer produces the Elantra and Tuscon models?

Hyundai

Which two conservative ministers were Chancellors of the Exchequer under the rule of Ted Heath?

Iain Macleod, Anthony Barber

What is the name of Richard Bach's followup to 1970's Jonathan Livingston Seagull?

Illusions

What is the largest living gamebird?

Indian Peafowl

What is the largest type of lemur?

Indri

Which Ukranian woman has held the Triple Jump world record since the 1995 Gothenberg World Championships, where she jumped 15.50m?

Inessa Kravets

Which Ralph Ellison novels is about an African-American man whose colour renders him invisible?

Invisible Man

Which Polish female sprinter won Golds in the 4x100m in 1964, 200m in 1968 and 400m in 1972?

Irena Szewinska

Which book won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for William Kennedy, the third in his Albany Cycle?

Ironweed

Which 1970s/80s British sitcom was set in Deolali, India?

It Ain't Half Hot, Mum

Which mascot for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics acquired the nickname Whatizit after its unveiling?

Izzy

Whose works include The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) and High-Rise (1975)?

J. G. Ballard

The GingerMan is a 1955 novel set in Dublin by which author?

J. P. Donleavy

The Oval's entrance gates are named for which cricketer who retired in 1934?

Jack Hobbs

Who wrote the 1949 Western novel Shane, later adapted to a film starring Alan Ladd in the lead role?

Jack Schaefer

Which child actor played the Artful Dodger in Oliver!?

Jack Wild

Who created The Thinker, a black monolith filled with computers that took the Turner Prize in 2002?

Keith Tyson

Which Belgian racing driver is best known for winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans six times in the 1960s and '70s?

Jacky Ickx

The Illustrated Mum, The Dare Game, Bad Girls, Lola Rose, Girls in Tears and Sleepovers are novels by which writer?

Jacqueline Wilson

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a work about impoverished sharecroppers in the southern U.S.A. by which two authors?

James Agee, Walker Evans

Go Tell it to the Mountain is a semi-autbiiographical novel about African-Americans in the Pentecostal Church by which author?

James Baldwin

Who wrote a famous biography of Samuel Johnson in 1791?

James Boswell

Which author is known for his series of books the Asian Saga, including 1975's Shogun?

James Clavell

Which comedian briefly played Wayne in Hollyoaks in 2000?

James Corden

Who wrote the 1970 novel Deliverance?

James Dickey

Who wrote the novel From Here to Eternity?

James Jones

Who wrote the 1934 crime novel The Postman Always Rings Twice?

James M. Cain

Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge is a work by which artist?

James McNeill Whistler

Who from 1862-1901 was the first Queen's Bargemaster?

James Messenger

Elizabeth is the most common first lady name, but Elizabeth Kortright was the wife of which President?

James Monroe

Which knight and trusted servant of King Richard III is said to have confessed to the murders of the Princes in the Yower?

James Tyrrell

Which welsh historian is best known for her Pax Britannia series?

Jan Morris

Which 19th century literary character was sent to the Red Room for biting her cousin John?

Jane Eyre

The Journalist and the Murderer is a work on the ethics of journalism by which author?

Janet Malcolm

What is the largest living animal of the Phylum Arthropoda?

Japanese Spider Crab

Who wrote The Clan of the Cave Bear?

Jean M Auel

Who played George Bluth in Arrested Development and is the title character of Transparent?

Jeffrey Tambor

Who played Ari Gold in Entourage and is the title character of Mr Selfridge?

Jeremy Piven

What is the first name of the detective Bergerac?

Jim

Which British cartoon series of the 1980s was named after the premise that the main character was supposed to be a large aircraft but the designer didn't know the difference between inches and centimetres?

Jimbo and the Jet-Set

Which American male tennis player, who holds the record for most singles title wins in the Open Era, was known by the nickname "The Brash Basher of Belleville"?

Jimmy Connors

Which 19th century German horologist is best known for his work on the spring-wound cuckoo clock?

Johann Beha

Which Booker Prize winning art critic wrote Ways of Seeing in 1972?

John Berger

The Wapshot Chronicle is which author's debut novel?

John Cheever

Which chemist was the first to study colour-blindness?

John Dalton

What was the name of Canoe Man?

John Darwin

The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman are works by which author?

John Fowles

Who wrote The Forsyte Sage and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932?

John Galsworthy

Who is the narrator of the play Pericles?

John Gower

Which porn star was the inspiration for Boogie Nights?

John Holmes

Which Romanian immigrant won the Best Supporting Actor for 1973's The Paper Chase?

John Houseman

Who wrote A Prayer for Owen Meany?

John Irving

Who wrote The World According to Garp?

John Irving

Appointment in Samarra is a novel by which American writer?

John O'Hara

Which darts player is nicknamed Darth Maple?

John Part

Which actor has played the role of Christian Clarke in Eastenders since 2008?

John Partridge

Who wrote the book The Night Manager, on which the 2016 TV series is set?

John le Carre

Which author wrote the 2011 bestselling book The Psychopath Test?

Jon Ronson

Who was the architect of the Sydney Opera House, which opened in 1973?

Jorn Utzon

Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes (1911) are novels by which writer?

Joseph Conrad

Who composed the Austrian... or Emperor's Hymn, best known as the tune of the German National Anthem?

Joseph Haydn

Which Norwegian author wrote the 1991 Sophie's World?

Jostein Gaarder

Who wrote the children's story The Tiger Who Came to Tea in 1968?

Judith Kerr

Who founded the Girl Scouts in 1912 after meeting with Robert Baden-Powell?

Juliette Gordon Low

Octavian, who won the Battle of Actium, later became known as Augustus and became the adopted son of which leader, assassinated in 44BC?

Julius Ceasar

John Raban wrote a 2000 book on his "Passage" from Seattle to which city?

Juneau

Which 2015 space opera, directed by the Wachowskis, features Mila Kunis & Channing Tatum?

Jupiter Ascending

What is the Japanese word that translates as "Overwork Death"?

Karoshi

Which English author wrote Behind the Scenes at the Museum?

Kate Atkinson

Born in Ceylon, who founded The New Seekers after the breakup of his band The Seekers?

Keith Potger

Who wrote The Pillars of The Earth?

Ken Follett

Which 1901 Rudyard Kipling novel is written against the backdrop of The Great Game, a political conflict between Russia and Britain?

Kim

Who is the King of Navarre in Love's Labour's Lost?

King Ferdinand

"To gild refined gold, to paint the lily" is a quote from which Shakespeare play?

King John

In which capital city was 1974's Rumble in the Jungle held?

Kinshasa (DRC)

Which Prime Minister formed the first Greek civilian government in 1974?

Kontantinos KARAMANLIS

Which Japanese instrument resembles a zither with 13 strings?

Koto

In which European city is Oskar Schindler's factory?

Krakow

What is the name of Prince Edward's daughter?

Lady Louise

Who was the winner of the first series of The Voice UK?

Leanne Mitchell

Keswick is a town near Bassenthwaite and Derwentwater in which National Park?

Lake District

Which Canary island is the easternmost and is known for its volcanic activity? Its capital is Arrecife.

Lanzarote

Who wrote the Little House on the Prairie?

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Who wrote the Bobbsey Twins novels?

Laura Lee Hope

The Alexandria Quartet was a tetralogy of novels by which writer?

Lawrence Durrell

What famous phrase does Macbeth give as an instruction for the Thane of Fife to go into battle?

Lay on, Macduff

Amatrice, which gives its name to the pasta sauce amatriciana, is located in which Italian region?

Lazio

Harewood House is a country house designed by John Carr and Robert Adam near which city?

Leeds

What are the first names of Peters and Lee?

Lennie & Diane

An important work of Scottish 20th century fiction, Sunset Song is a book by which author?

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

"An eye for an eye," which appears in Babylonian king Hammurabi's code, is sometimes referred to using which latin term?

Lex Talionis

The current Dalai Lama has religious name Tenzin Gyatso, but what was his birth name?

Lhamo Thondup

Eva Beadle is a teacher in which Laura Ingalls Wilder book?

Little House on the Prairie

Which rock n' roll icon was known as The Georgia Peach?

Little Richard

In Othello, which pair take the news of Desdemona's death back to the city of Venice?

Lodovico and Gratiano

Galina Chistyakova still holds the world record in which athletics event, set in 1988?

Long Jump

Who was Foreign Secretary at the time of the Argentine invasino of the Falklands?

Lord Carrington

Who was the Viceroy on India from 1925-31 and Foreign Secretary from 1938-40, at one point being the main candidate for PM succeeding Neville Chamberlain?

Lord Halifax

Nikita Krushchev banged his shoe on the table at a UN General Assembly meeting in 1960 in protest to a speech by which Philippine delegate?

Lorenzo Sumulong

Who supplied the libretto, based on a play by Beaumarchais, for Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro?

Lorenzo da Ponte

Who wrote the book Holes?

Louis Sacher

Who wrote Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging?

Louise Rennison

Lancaster takes its name from which city, on which it stands?

Lune

Which compromise solved the EEC's 'Empty Chair Crisis'?

Luxembourg Compromise

Robert Caro has written four books on which US President?

Lyndon Johnson

Who wrote Green Grow the Lilacs, the play on which Oklahoma! is based?

Lynn Riggs

The Far Pavillions ia a work by which writer?

M. M. Kaye

One Fine Day, We Will See is an English translation of an aria from which opera?

Madame Butterfly

At which stadium do London Irish play their home games?

Madejski Stadium

Ludwig Bemelmans wrote a series of children's books about which 7 year old girl attending boarding school under the teacher Miss Clavel?

Madeline

Christian Vander was the creative force of which French prog rock band, in which he created a language called Kobaian for most of the lyrics?

Magma

The nickname of Mississippi is shared with which flowering species of plant?

Magnolia

Rowan Atkinson played the title character in which 2016 TV detective series?

Maigret

Under the Volcano is a novel by which English writer?

Malcolm Lowry

Noughts and Crosses is a work by which former children's laureate?

Malorie Blackman

Who is the head servant of Lady Olivia in which Twelfth Night?

Malvolio

Which Tony Parsons book was awarded 2001 Specsavers British Book of the Year?

Man and Boy

Which city gives its name to a tart and was once nicknamed Cottonopolis?

Manchester

What is the largest of the Old World monkeys?

Mandrill

What is the title of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's 1988 work on the distortion of corporate media?

Manufacturing Consent

What is the common name of the trees of genus Acer?

Maple

Who wrote the Judy Bolton mystery stories?

Margaret Sutton

Who plays Joan of Arc in the 1928 C. T. Dreyer film The Passion of Joan of Arc?

Maria FALCONETTI

Which artist asked 'Do Words Have Voices' in the title of their 2011 Turner Prize winning work?

Martin Boyce

Who was the first US President born after the US declaration of independence?

Martin Van Burn

Who wrote the Betsy Tacy novels?

Maud Hart Lovelace

What was Harold Macmillan's first name given to him at birth?

Maurice

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford Love Story is a 1911 novel by which author, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford?

Max Beerbohm

Which Rhone, the second longest river in France behind the Loire, flows into which sea?

Mediterranean

Who is the American author of The Princess Diaries?

Meg Cabot

What is the most famous work of Arthur Golden?

Memoirs of a Geisha

What is the name of Jeremy Deller's 2004 Turner Prize winning documentary about his travels in Texas?

Memory Bucket

Which German composer's 5th symphony in D minor is known as the Reformation?

Mendelssohn

Which bird is known in the US as the pigeon hawk?

Merlin

Gormenghast is a series of books by which author?

Mervyn Peake

Goodnight Mister Tom is by which British author?

Michelle Magorian

Which detective is the most famous creation of American crime novelist Mickey Spillane?

Mike Hammer

The Master and Margarita is a novel by which which 20th century Russian author?

Mikhail Bulgakov

Who wrote The Unbearable Lightness of Being?

Milan Kundera

Which soprano is a seamstress and the lead lady of the 1896 Puccini opera La Boheme?

Mimi

Which city is situated on the Svislach and Nyamiha rivers?

Minsk

What is the name of Tony Cragg's 1988 Turner Prize winning work consisting of machine parts built into spires?

Minster

Which Russian Bear was the mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games?

Misha

Two men have scored hat-tricks in world cups consisting of all three goals being headers. Crezch player Tomas Skuhravy was the first in 1990, which German was the second in 2002?

Misoslav Klose

Which state is the Show Me state?

Missouri

The Story of My Experiments With Truth is a work by which famous activist?

Mohandas Karamchad Gandhi

The Komodo Dragon is a member of which family of lizards?

Monitor Lizard

What is the tallest mountain of the Moon?

Mons Huygens

Which state is the only one with a Spanish motto? It is Oro y plata, or Gold and Silver

Montana

The Canary Islands lay just off the coast of which African nation?

Morocco

Which mountain in Colorado is the highest peak in the Rockies?

Mount Elbert

Which Californian mountain is the highest in the contiguous American states?

Mount Whitney

Beatrice and Benedick are in a war of wits throughout which Shakespeare play?

Much Ado About Nothing

What is the name of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoe at George Bush?

Muntadhar al-Zaidi

Belgian national dish moules-frites consists of fries with which seafood?

Mussels

What collective name is given to the carnivorous mammals including the otter, badger, weasel, marten, ferret, stoat, mink and wolverine?

Mustelids

According to the song's title, why was Charlie Drake a big disgrace to the Aboriginal race?

My Boomerang Won't Come Back

For what does NASA stand?

National Aeronautics and Space Administation

Which author of On the Beach had the real surname Norway, although he dropped this for his pen name?

Nevil Shute

Who was the author of 'A Town Like Alice' and 'Trustee from the Toolroom'?

Nevil Shute

Historically located in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, which is the largest Native American tribe by land area and population?

Navajo

Terry Pratchett wrote Good Omens with which author?

Neil Gaiman

Who hosted the short-lived BBC car-based panel show Petrolheads in 2006?

Neil Morrissey

Who wrote the song One Way Ticket, with which Eruption had a hit in 1979?

Neil Sedaka

How was Roman ruler from 54 to 68 AD Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus known?

Nero

Which point in suffolk is the easternmost point in the British isles mainland?

Ness Point

Pussycat, famous for their 1975 hit Mississippi, came from which country?

Netherlands

Who created Clifford the Big Red Dog?

Norman Bridwell

The Cesarewitch Handicap takes place on which racecourse in Suffolk?

Newmarket

What is the name of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1996 work on Pablo Escobar's Meddelin Cartel?

News of a Kidnapping

Who wrote The Horse Whisperer?

Nicholas Evans

Who was the author of The Cruel Sea?

Nicholas Monsarrat

Which Scottish radio DJ was the first presenter of Wheel of Fortune, between 1988 and 1996?

Nicky Campbell

Who is the only Welsh person to have won the Eurovision Song Contest?

Nicky Stevens (Brotherhood of Man)

Benin City is located in which country?

Nigeria

What is the name of the event of 1962 in which Harold Macmillan sacked much of his cabinet?

Night of the Long Knives

Which whale is the second largest animal on Earth?

North Pacific right whale

Which fair has been held in Nottingham since 1284 each year and is considered one of the most prestigious in Britain?

Nottingham Goose Fair

"...Made glorious summer by this sun of York" follows which line in Richard III?

Now is the winter of our discontent

On a ship, what is the name fo the gibrous material used for packaging joints of timbers in wooden vessels?

Oakum

Who are the king and queen of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

Oberon & Titania

What is the name of the wide belt tied to the back to secure a kimono?

Obi

What is Rhode Island's nickname?

Ocean State

Which state is known as the Sooner State?

Oklahoma

What is Virginia's state nickname, due to it being the first colonial possession established in mainland British America?

Old Dominion

Which Russian footballer is the only person to have scored five goals in a single world cup match, doing so in 1994?

Oleg Salenko

Who is the beautiful Illyrian lady courted by Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night?

Olivia

In which work of 1859 did John Stuart Mill popularise the idea of the tyranny of the majority, first described by president John Adams?

On Liberty

Which biblical character "wasted his seed on the ground"?

Onan

In 1990, Katy Cropper became the first woman to win what TV event?

One Man and his Dog

Tits, Chickadees and Titmice are all passerine birds of which family?

Paridae

No Parlez is the 1983 debut album by which English singer?

Paul Young

Who was the lead singer with The Rubettes?

Paul da Vinci

The Russian "Mir" space station translates into what in English?

Peace

In which British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale does Kevin Whatley, Amanda Burton and Simon Shepherd appear?

Peak Practice

Following the beheading of Medusa, which two creatures sprung from her neck?

Peguses and Chrysaor (human)

Which recently discovered extinct bird had a wingspan twice as long as the Wandering Albatross, making it have the largest wingspan ever?

Pelgornis sandersi

Louisiana state shares its official nickname with which bird?

Pelican

Cross Fell is the highest and Great Dun Fell the second highest peak in which British mountain range?

Pennines

For what does the acronym PDSA stand in the name of the charity?

People's Dispensary for Sick Animals

Who is the current Man C manager?

Pep Guardiola

In Greek mythology, who beheaded Medusa with his polished shield?

Perseus

Who played the fifth Doctor in Doctor Who?

Peter Davison

Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow is a 1992 bestselling Danish novel by which author?

Peter Høeg

Who was Tsar of Russian between 1682 and 1725?

Peter I ("The Great")

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a novel by whom?

Peter Suskind

Which author first gained attention with the 1959 work Goodbye Columbus?

Philip Roth

San Miguel beer originated in which Asian country?

Philippines

What is the first name of cook Fanny Craddock?

Phyllis

Who supplied Bach with the text for his St Matthew Passion?

Picander

Which Paleoanthropological hoax was claimed to be found by Charles Dawson in 1912?

Piltdown Man

Maine's state nickname is shared with which conifer?

Pine Tree

Which fried bun dish with beef and vegetable fillings, meaning "little pirog", is Russia's national dish?

Pirozhki

From which country does vodka brand Belvedere come?

Poland

Which rebellion of 1763 revolved around native-american dissatisfaction with the British in the Great Lakes region, and was named for the leader of the Odawa tribe?

Pontiac War

In The Merchant of Venice, which heiress from Belmont marries her true love Bassanio and dressees as a law clerk to save Antonio from Shylock's knife?

Portia

Since 1689, the Bentinck family have been the dukes of where?

Portland

What links the Illinois state nickname and a Willa Cather trilogy?

Prairie

Who is the father of Troilus from Troilus and Cressida?

Priam, King of Troy

On which island is Anne of Green Gables set?

Prince Edward Island

In Romeo and Juliet, who is the Prince of Verona?

Prince Escalus

What is the name of the 1950s cloud seeding experiments performed by the UK government?

Project Cumulus

Who are The Two Gentlemen of Verona referenced in the title of the play?

Proteus & Valentine

The 1987 film The Last Emperor tells the tale of which Emperor of China?

Puyi

Paul Ludwig is the current incumbent of which ceremonial position in the Royal Houshold, responsible for the Royal Watermen's work on the Thames?

Queen's Bargemaster

In Moby Dick, what is the name of the cannibalistic Polynesian who serves as the harponer on the Pequod?

Queequeg

Nicknamed 'The Wizard of Oz' which snooker player was banned for 8 years in 2006 for match fixing?

Quentin Hann

Which Mexican dish translates as "flamed cheese" and consists of cheese and chorizo?

Queso Flameado

In which city was the 'Thrilla in Manilla" actually held in 1975?

Quezon City

Who wrote the novel Lorna Doone?

R. D. Blackmore

Which author's best known works include the Red Randall series about a military aviator in the Pacific Theatre in WW2?

R. Sidney Bowen

Which handbag manufacturer has a distinctive Scottie Dog logo?

Radley

What is the name of Anthony Worrall Thompson's autobiography?

Raw

Which author is best known for the Riftwar Cycle and the novel Magician?

Raymond E. Feist

What is the 1955 debut novel of author William Gaddis?

Recognitions

What is the largest living marsupial?

Red Kangaroo

Who was Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1962 and 1964, in the governments of Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home?

Reginald Maudling

Idina Menzel first found fame when playing Maureen Johnson in which Broadway musical in 1996?

Rent

What is the name of Henry Huggins' dog in the Beverly Cleary books?

Rigsby

Who wrote Jonathan Livingstone Seagull?

Richard Bach

Who wrote the 1929 novel A High Wind in Jamaica?

Richard Hughes

Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of France are the two wives of which King of England?

Richard II

Who won the Turner Prize in 1989 for their work White Water Line, a clay/water floor pattern?

Richard Long

Native Son is a 1940 novel by which African-American author?

Richard Wright

Who won the Turner Prize in 2009 for an untitled gold leaf fresco?

Richard Wright

Which park is the largest enclosed space in London?

Richmond Park

Which author wrote the Percy Jackson books, as well as The Kane Chronicles and The Heroes of Olympus?

Rick Riordan

Inspector Morse's sergeant Lewis, played by Kevin Whately, has what first name?

Robbie

Who wrote the 1959 science-fiction novel Starship Troopers?

Robert Anson Heinlein

Which author is well known for creating detective series Shoestring and Bergerac?

Robert Banks Stewart

Who wrote 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' and 'Stranger in a Strange Land'?

Robert Heinlein

Which Art Critic wrote The Shock of the New in 1980?

Robert Hughes

Who supposedly took the Surgeon's photograph in 1934?

Robert Kenneth Wilson

Who presented the short-lived early 2000s game theory based quiz show Shafted?

Robert Kilroy-Silk

Who wrote The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists?

Robert Tressell

Fifth Business is a 1970 novel by which Candian writer?

Robertson Davies

Which author wrote the novel about a holistic physician called The Cunning Man?

Robertson Davies

What bird is known in the US as the snow chicken?

Rock PTARMIGAN

A Fine balance is a book by which author?

Rohinton Mistry

Which character is commander of the Liberator spaceship in the first two series of Blake's 7?

Roj Blake

Who created the 1957 essay collection 'Mythologies'?

Roland Barthes

The servants Sampson & Gregory appear in which Shakespeare play?

Romeo & Juliet

Who is the woman with whom Romeo is infatuated at the start of Romeo & Juliet?

Rosaline

Who is the author of The Shell Seekers?

Rosamunde Pilcher

What is the name of Katherine Hepburn's character in The African Queen?

Rose Sayer

What does the charity RNIB stand for?

Royal National Institute for the BLIND

Which currency's named is derived from the phrase "Silver Bar"?

Ruble

Which author was named after a lake in Staffordshire?

Rudyard Kipling (Lake Rudyard)

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Familes by Philip Gourevitch is an account of which country's massacre?

Rwanda

Which waltz by Ronald Binge is most famous as the theme for the Shipping Forecast?

Sailing By

Who buried his Parmesan cheese in his garden to protect it from the Great Fire of London?

Samuel Pepys

Who plays Frida Kahlo in the 2002 biopic Frida?

Salma Hayek

Who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh?

Samuel Butler

What is the name of the word square containing a five-word Latin palindrome?

Sator square

Who wrote 'The Adventures of Augie March' and 'Henderson the Rain King'?

Saul Bellow

Which clade of dinosaurs included the Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus, some of the largest animals to ever live on land?

Sauropods

Which word, meaning 'stable' in Italian, precedes 'Ferrari' in the official name of the racing division of Ferrari?

Scuderia

How is the order of animals known as Sirenia known?

Sea Cows

Who is Viola's brother in Twelfth Night that Olivia wishes to marry, despite having never met him?

Sebastian

What is the name of the Japanese festival day that represents the beginning of Spring?

Setsubun

What is the name of the entrance to Anfield named after a man who died in 1982?

Shankley Gates

Who played Barry Evans on Eastenders between 1994 and 2004?

Shaun Williamson

What is the surname of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables?

Shirley

The Haunting of Hill House is a novel by which author, who also wrote the short story The Lottery?

Shirley Jackson

The Talbot family have, since 1442, been the earls of where?

Shrewsbury

Who is the Jewish moneylender in The Merchant of Venice that demands a pound of Antonio's flesh?

Shylock

Who played King Henry VIII in 1971's Carry on Henry?

Sid James

Which First World War poet wrote the three-volume fictionalised autobiography known as the Shertston Trilogy?

Siegfried Sassoon

Who won the Turner Prize in 2005 for their work Shedboatshed?

Simon Starling

Who wrote Main Street, and also became, in 1930, the first writer from the US to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Sinclair Lewis

Which Shakespeare character says "The better part of valour is discretion"?

Sir John Falstaff

Which 17th-18th century architect wrote The Provok'd Wife?

Sir John Vanbrugh

Which fictional Bush Kangaroo lived in the fictional Waratah National Park near Sydney?

Skippy

Linaeus's two-toed and Hoffman's two-toed are the largest types of which animal of the order Pilosa?

Sloths

Which European country's flag features a coat of arms with three hills, representing the Tatra, Fatra and Matra mountains?

Slovakia

Which variety of ostrich is the second heaviest living bird?

Somali Ostrich

Which 196 dark fantasy by Ray Bradbury follows two 13 year old best friends and their experience with a travelling carnival?

Something Wicked This Way Comes

While One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is most famous, which 1964 is considered by many to be Ken Kesey's magnum opus?

Sometimes a Great Notion

Which Ukranian entertainer was nicknamed The Last of the Red Hot Mamas?

Sophie Tucker

What is the longest venomous snake?

South Asian King Cobra

Which UK national park has by far the highest population?

South Downs

Which type of seal is the largest carnivorous mammal?

Southern Elephant Seal

Which London bridge replaced the John Rennie-designed Queen's Street Bridge in 1921?

Southwark Bridge

Which nation hold the world record in the women's 4x400m?

Soviet Union, 1988 Olympics

In which French city, capital of the Grand Est region, did the 'dancing plague' of 1518 take place?

Strasbourg

Which medical tool to investigate orifices takes its name for the Latin for "mirror"?

Speculum

Peter Firth and Matthew Macfadyen star in which British TV drama series?

Spooks

The Hoary Marmot is the largest animal in which family?

Squirrels

Which saint is often depicted in paintings carrying her eyes on a platter, having been gouged out during her martydom in 304 during the reign of Diocletian?

St Lucy

Which cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York?

St Patrick's Church

What is the name of the Private Eye parody of Tony Blair, a fictional newsletter mocking his supposed religious beliefs?

St. Albion Parish News

Which hospital gave its name to a blues song recorded numerous times, notably by Louis Armstrong in 1928?

St. James Infirmary

What is the school of which Theresa May is the headmistress in Private Eye's parody?

St. Theresa's Independent State Grammar School for Girls (and Boys)

Kevin Lyttle, who had a UK #2 in 2004 with Turn Me On, was born in which country?

St. Vincent & the Grenadines

Which American saxophonist had the nickname "The Sound"?

Stan Getz

What is the name of the club in Hamburg in which The Beatles played a number of gigs in 1962?

Star-Club

In which TVshow are the Cardassians a fictional race?

StarTrek

The Jaffa is an alien race in which TV sci-fi franchise?

Stargate

What is the name of Paul Scott's 1977 Booker Prize winning novel?

Staying On

Which snooker player from Trowbridge won 5 ranking titles and was banned for 12 years in 2012 for match fixing?

Stephen Lee

Who took over lead vocals when Fish left Marillion in 1989?

Steve Hogarth

Who hosted the UK game show The Pyramid Game in the 1980s?

Steve Jones

Which poet's best known work is Not Waving But Drowning?

Stevie Smith

Judgment Day is the 1935 final novel in which trilogy by James T. Farrell?

Studs Lonigan Trilogy

Which band reformed in 1998 as Doves after their recording studio burned down in 1996?

Sub Sub

What is the name of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimen, found in South Dakota in 1990?

Sue

What is the name of the company that Reginald Perrin works at as a sales executive?

Sunshine Desserts

Who created the sound instillation under bridges called Lowlands Away, that won the 2010 Turner Prize?

Susan Phillipsz

Who wrote Notes on Camp, about Jewish ethics and homosexual aesthetics?

Susan Sontag

Located in the British museum is a famous helmet from which East-Anglian region, known for its abundance of Anglo-Saxon artefacts?

Sutton Hoo

What is the name of Cormac McCarthy's semi-autobiographical 1979 novel written over a period of 20 years?

Suttree

Which poet wrote Daddy and Mad Girl's Love Song?

Sylvia Plath

Which post-WWI treaty between the Allied Power and the Ottoman Empire was signed in a porcelain factory in Paris?

Sèvres

Who is the Queen of the Goths, and mother to Chiron and Demetrius, in the play Titus Andronicus?

Tamora

What is the largest living marsupial carnivore?

Tasmanian Devil

Which Sussex and England captain of the 1960s was nicknamed Lord Ted?

Ted Dexter

Which French triple jumper set the world indoor record in 2011?

Teddy Tamgho

Which canary island is the largest and has the highest population?

Tenerife

Which state is the Volunteer State?

Tennessee

Who wrote Guards! Guards!, Night Watch, The Colour of Magic, Mort, Small Gods, Reaper Man, Wyrd Sisters, Hogfather and Men at Arms?

Terry Pratchett

Whose autobiography is called Born to Manage, and cowrote They Used to Play on Grass with Gordon Williams?

Terry Venables

Les Dawson was the second presenter and Lily Savage the third, but who was the first presenter of Blankety Blank?

Terry Wogan

Which 10-ft "petrified man" was found in 1869 by people digging a well in New York State is one of the most famous hoaxes in American History?

The Cardiff Giant

Who did Voltaire write a 'Letter Concerning' in in a famous work of 1734?

The English Nation

The Enchanted Wood is the first novel in which series of Enid Blyton children books?

The Faraway Tree

Frank Sidebottom, birth name Chris Sievey, was the lead singer with which band?

The Freshiers

Which series of children's books by Joanna Cole tells the tales of Ms. Valerie Frizzle and her class?

The Magic School Bus

Which Booth Tarkington book was adapted as Orson Welles' second film?

The Magnificent Ambersons

Which book of 2004 by Jon Ronson explores the potential US Army's military applications of the paranormal?

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Which book, published a year after the author's 1990 death, is Roald Dahl's final book?

The Minpins

What was Walker Percy's 1961 debut novel?

The Moviegoer

What was the title of the TV sitcom which featured the corrupt Conservative MP Alan B'Stard played by Rik Mayall?

The New Statesman

Which novel by Arnold Bennett is about the lives of sisters Constance and Sophia Baines?

The Old Wives' Tale

The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson is a retelling of which Shakespeare play which features King Leontes of Sicily?

The Winter's Tale

What is the name of the pond-filled forest that acts as a portal in The Magician's Nephew?

The Wood Between the Worlds

Franz Fanon wrote which work exploring colonisation in 1961?

The Wretched of the Earth

In which house did Vincent Van Gogh live?

The Yellow House

Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925) are novels by which US author?

Theodore Dreiser

Which Whig historian wrote The History of England in 1848?

Thomas Babbington Macaulay

In whose shop did the Great Fire of London break out?

Thomas Farynor

His name being now used generically to refer to somoene who is only concerned with cold hard facts and numbers, who is the school board Superintendent in Hard Times?

Thomas GRADGRIND Senior

Quinsy is an abscess that affects which part of the body?

Throat

What is the name of Thor's realm in Asgard?

Thrudheim

Which 1934 autobiographical novel by Henry Miller led to obscenity trials testing US pornography laws?

Tropic of Cancer

What is the largest species of ground shark?

Tiger Shark

Flavius is a servant of which Shakespeare character?

Timon of Athens

Marcus is the brother, and Lavinia the sister, of which Shakespeare character?

Titus Andronicus

What is the name of the sword carried by 11th century Castilian nobleman Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid?

Tizona

Marjorie Wallace, who was Miss World 1973, had an affair with which singer, whose wife was Melinda Trenchard?

Tom Jones

Who in 1987 wrote the Bonfire of the Vanities about class, racism and politics in NYC?

Tom Wolfe

Which Thai dish is a clear soup with both spicy and sour flavours?

Tom Yum

Which German abstract artist won the 2006 Turner Prize for her geometric work Ebe?

Tomma Abts

Which Scotsman managed Mn U between 1972 and '77, during which time they were relegated to the second division?

Tommy Docherty

Which boxer was nicknamed Motor City Cobra?

Tommy Hearns

Wisdom is a brand of which hygeine items?

Toothbrushes

The aria that translates as "I Lived For Art" is sung by the heroine in which opera?

Tosca

Which treaty of 1763 ended the Seven Years' War?

Treaty of Paris

The third phase of the Hundred Years' War effectively ended with the Battle of Castillon in 1453, but England and France remained formally at war until the signing of which 1475 treaty?

Treaty of Picquigny

Which English actor is best known for his eponymous lead role in detective series Shoestring, and has a famous daughter actress named Eve?

Trevor Eve

Which surname is shared by six rugby-playing brothers, five Samoans and one English, Manu?

Tuilagi

Which baked wafer biscuits take their name from the French for tile?

Tuile ("TWEEL")

Which city is the second largest in the state of Oklahoma?

Tulsa

Viola, who disguises herself as Cesario and becomes a page boy to Duke Orsino (whom she falls in love with), is the protagonist of which Shakespeare play?

Twelfth Night

Which Capulet is Juliet's cousin who is vain and drives hatred towards the Montagues?

Tybalt

Which of the lost rivers of London ran under Buckingham Palace?

Tyburn

Milton Obote led which nation after their independence in 1962?

Uganda

Which "play for voices" by Dylan Thomas features Captain Cat and Reverand Eli Jenkins?

Under Milk Wood

Of Human Bondage is a 1915 novel by which author?

W. Somerset Maugham

In RNA, which base replaces the DNA base thymine?

Uracil

Which state of India is the most populous subdivision in the world?

Uttar Pradesh

In which country would you find Ciudad Guyana?

Venezuela

Admitted in 1791, which US state was the first to join the Union after the original 13 colonies?

Vermont

Who was Lord Nelson's second in command at the Battle of Trafalgar?

Vice-Admiral Cuthbert COLLINGWOOD

Who created the character Tom Swift?

Victor Appleton

What is the largest species of pigeon?

Victoria crowned pigeon

Michael Herr's work Dispatches is an account of his experiences in which war?

Vietnam

A Suitable Boy is a book by which author?

Vikram Seth

Which American horror actor provided spoken commentary on Michael Jackson's Thriller album?

Vincent Price

The Mother of Presidents is an alternative nickname for which state, due to the fact that 8 presidents have been born there, more than any other?

Virginia

Flowers in the Attic is a book by which author?

Virginia Andrews

What is the name of the family of animals containing civets?

Viverrids

Which film star was married to Herbert Holman, and then Laurence Olivier?

Vivien Leigh

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot centres around which two characters, waiting in vain for Godot?

Vladimir & Estragon

Bigglesworth, nicknamed Biggles, is a fictional adventurer created by which pilot and children's author?

W. E. Johns

Which food chain first opened in 1992 and takes its name for the Japanese for self-indulgent?

Wagamamma

2005 Masterchef winner Thomasina Miers founded which Mexican restaurant chain?

Wahaca

Who wrote the bestselling series of books about The Black Stallion

Walter Farley

Which dentist shot Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe in 2015?

Walter Palmer

Who served as Bill Clinton's first Secretary of State, before Madeleine Albright took over?

Warren Christopher

Which state is known as the Evergreen State?

Washington

Which company made the beer Party 7 in the '60s and '70s?

Watneys

Which singer was known as the White Knight of Soul and was renowned for his white pompadour hairstyle?

Wayne Cochran

John Denver alludes to which state's nickname of the Mountain State in his song Take Me Home, Country Roads?

West Virginia

Which historic English county, disestablished in 1979, was bordered by Cumberland to the North, Durham and Yorkshire to the East and Lancashire to the South and West?

Westmorland

Which shark is the largest cartilaginous fish?

Whale Shark

In which film do the title characters have surnames Albright and Burns?

When Harry Met Sally

What is the name of the leisure centre in the Brittas Empire?

Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre

What is the largest species of the mongoose family?

White-tailed mongoose

Which pantomime character is the mother of both Aladdin and Wishy Washy?

Widow Twankey

Which South African novelist's first book is When the Lion Feeds, and also wrote River God?

Wilbur Smith

Which author wrote My Antonia, as part of a famous trilogy?

Willa Cather

Light in August is a novel by which author, who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949?

William Faulkner

Who wrote Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

Which American philosopher wrote The Varieties of Religious Experience in 1902?

William James

Which director created The Best Years of our Lives (1946), Mrs. Miniver (1942), and an adaptation of Wuthering Heights (1939) starring Merle Oberon as Catherine Earnshaw?

William Wyler

Which actors played Battery Sergeant Major Williams & Lofty in It Ain't Half Hot Mum?

Windsor Davis & Don Estelle

Which contest is competer annually between "Osiris" and "Blondie"?

Women's Oxbridge Boat Race

Bruce Wilhelm is the 1977 inaugural winner of which competition?

World's Strongest Man

Two players scored hat tricks in the 2014 world cup, one was Thomas Muller, which Swiss footballer was the other?

Xherdan Shaqiri

Which pub in Nottingham is claimed to be the oldest in Britain?

Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is Rebecca West's six week trip to which country?

Yugoslavia

In which former country was Monica Seles born?

Yugoslavia

Which Russian woman has held the 400m hurdles world record since 2003?

Yuliya Pechonkina

What french phrase translates as "master of work" and is given to an artist's greatest work?

chef d'œuvre