Round 1 Question 1 With over 1.3m members of staff - approximately 2 per cent of the country’s entire population - what organisation is the largest employer in the UK?…

Round 1 Question 1 In 2012, scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine x-rayed 12 specimens of what type of bird in order to understand how its high degree…

Round 1 Question 1 First released in 1974, what tabletop game allows players to create their own characters that then collaborate with other players on games and campaigns overseen by…

Round 1 Question 1 In the children’s nursery rhyme, to which English city did Dr Foster travel? 1 point Question 2 What item on the menu of fast food outlet…

Round 1 Question 1 In the hit song by Gladys Knight and The Pips, what time was her man’s train back to Georgia? 1 point Question 2 Of New Zealand’s…

Round 1 Question 1 What word connects the English county known as ‘The Garden of England’ and the 18th century architect and garden designer who developed the ‘English landscape garden’ style,…

Round 1 Question 1 Which actor has had the nicknames ‘The Austrian Oak’ and ‘The Governator’? 1 point Question 2 What concert was opened by The Coldstream Guards on July…

Round 1 Question 1 The name of which knighted British actor, who starred in films such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, and Lawrence of Arabia, is…

Round 1 Question 1 Although the theory is neither universal nor scientifically proven, which of the two primary musical scales - namely major and minor - is said to produce…

Round 1 Question 1 The 1984 film Give My Regards to Broad Street follows a fictional day in the life of which member of the band The Beatles? 1 point…