Question: Who did Fabio Capello replace as England Football team manager in 2008?
Answer: Steve McLaren

Question: Which car manufacturer is named after the Latin translation of the founder’s surname, Horch?
Answer: Audi

Question: Which heavyweight boxing champion retired in April 1956 without losing a professional boxing match?
Answer: Rocky Marciano

Question: What age was Queen Elizabeth II at her coronation in 1953?
Answer: 27

Question: Who wrote the 1934 novel ‘I, Claudius’?
Answer: Robert Graves

Question: ‘Where Everybody Knows Your Name’ is the theme tune to which US tv series?
Answer: Cheers

Question: In January 1986 who did George Younger succeed as British Secretary of State for Defence?
Answer: Michael Heseltine

Question: Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock play sisters from a long line of witches in which 1998 film?
Answer: Practical Magic

Question: ‘On Stranger Tides’ and ‘Dead Man’s Chest’ are subtitles of which series of films?
Answer: Pirates of the Caribbean

Question: What is the extreme sport called in which a person hurls themselves down a hill inside a large hollow ball?
Answer: Zorbing

Question: Jason Vorhees is a fictional character, who uses a machete on his victims, in which series of films?
Answer: Friday the 13th

Question: In the 1990 film ‘Misery’, what occupation does Paul Sheldon, played by James Caan, have?
Answer: Novelist

Question: The controversial Boruca Dam is in which South American country?
Answer: Costa Rica

Question: The ‘Hats’ and the ‘Caps’ were political factions during the 18th Century ‘Age of Liberty’ in which European country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: Which King of Sparta was the husband of Helen of Troy?
Answer: Menelaus

Question: The Australian city of  Melnbourne lies at the mouth of which river?
Answer: Yarra River

Question: The song ‘Ugly Duckling’ by Danny Kaye features in which car manufacturers television advert?
Answer: Audi

Question: Who wrote the 1973 novel ‘A Fairy Tale of New York’?
Answer: J P Donleavy

Question: Footvolley, a variation of football, originated in which country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: The 11th Century nobleman Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar was better known by what name?
Answer: El Cid

Question: Which two states border the US state of Florida?
Answer: Alabama and Georgia

Question: If someone suffers from ‘Stendhal Syndrome’ they suffer giddiness and confusion when exposed to what?
Answer: Art

Question: Sweet Vermouth, Angostura Bitters and Bourbon Whiskey are the ingredients of which cocktail?
Answer: Manhattan

Question: In the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield, what are the first names of David’s two wives?
Answer: Dora and Agnes

Question: Pumba is what type of animal in the film ‘The Lion King’?
Answer: Warthog

Question: In the Harry Potter series of books what is the name of the team sport, played by seven players on each team, at Hogwarts School?
Answer: Quidditch

Question: Which British organisation has the motto ‘For Ever, For Everyone’?
Answer: National Trust

Question: In the human body, what is a hallux valgus more commonly known as?
Answer: Bunion

Question: What was the name of the prison from which anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela was released in February 1990?
Answer: Victor Verster

Question: Jodie Foster sings ‘My Name is Tallulah’ in which 1976 film?
Answer: Bugsy Malone

Question: Which British boxer was nicknamed ‘The Dark Destroyer’?
Answer: Nigel Benn

Question: Which rapper’s real name is Louise Harman?
Answer: Lady Sovereign

Question: Philip Pirrip is the lead character in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: Great Expectations

Question: Which English monarch was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine?
Answer: Henry II

Question: Acute Coryza is a medical term for which common complaint?
Answer: A cold

Question: Which Michelin star chef launched his own brand of beer called ‘The Governor’ in 2011?
Answer: Marco Pierre White

Question: Who are the rival gangs in the 1961 film ‘West Side Story’?
Answer: Sharks and Jets

Question: A polliwog (or pollywog) is an old English word for which creature?
Answer: Tadpole

Question: The medical condition priapism is a persistent and usually painful what?
Answer: Erection

Question: Which British sportsman was the first 2012 Olympic Torchbearer in the UK?
Answer: Ben Ainslie

Question: Who succeeded Lyndon B Johnson as President of the United States?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: What is the name of the ‘cake’ which is flat, round, made of licorice and named after a Yorkshire town?
Answer: Pontefract Cake

Question: In which 1976 horror film did John Travolta appear with Sissy Spaceck?
Answer: Carrie

Question: Popular in Victorian times, what is the name of the toy made of a disc or card with a picture on each side attached to two pieces of string, when turned would appear as one picture?
Answer: Thaumotrope

Question: What was the name of the horse that won the 1990 English Grand National?
Answer: Mr Frisk

Question: ‘The Clockwork Orange’ is the nickname of which British city’s underground railway system?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: In the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, what is the name of Mr Rochester’s housekeeper?
Answer: Mrs Fairfax

Question: Which country won the FIFA Award for Most Entertaining Team at the 2006 World Cup?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Top hat, iron, dog and ship are all pieces in which board game?
Answer: Monopoly

Question: Keith Lemon and Avid Merion are alter-egos of which British comedian?
Answer: Leigh Francis

Question: Who wrote the novel ‘The Hunt For Red October’?
Answer: Tom Clancy

Question: Fray Bentos is a port in which South American country?
Answer: Uruguay

Question: A purfle is an ornamental border, typically inlaid on which musical instrument?
Answer: Violin

Question: In the UK, during which year were women first allowed to vote in a General Election?
Answer: 1918

Question: In Greek mythology, the ‘Grey Sisters’, or Graeae, shared one eye and one ‘what’ among them?
Answer: Tooth

Question: In which century did the Montgolfier brothers succeed in launching the first manned ascent in a hot-air balloon?
Answer: 18th Century

Question: Which scientist discovered the radioactive element Radium in 1898?
Answer: Marie Curie

Question: Anglophobia is the fear of which country and its people?
Answer: England

Question: What is the official language of Uruguay?
Answer: Spanish

Question: Which band released a 2007 album entitled ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’?
Answer: Arctic Monkeys

Question: Situated in Paris, what was the original name of the ‘Place Charles de Gaulle’?
Answer: Place de l’Etoile

Question: Who plays Michael Douglas brother Conrad in the 1997 film ‘The Game’?
Answer: Sean Penn

Question: Carinthia is a state in which European country?
Answer: Austria

Question: Which child of British monarch Queen Elizabeth II was born on 19th February 1960?
Answer: Prince Andrew

Question: The character Miss Froy goes missing on a train in which 1938 Hitchcock film?
Answer: The Lady Vanishes

Question: Who shot former US President Ronald Reagan in March 1981?
Answer: John Hinckley Jr

Question: ‘Donnerstag’ is German for which day of the week?
Answer: Thursday

Question: The English town of Tewkesbury is in which county?
Answer: Gloucestershire

Question: Disc jockey John Ravenscroft was better known by what name?
Answer: John Peel

Question: What is the US state capital of Maryland?
Answer: Annapolis

Question: Joe Buck and Rico Rizzo are characters in which 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy?
Answer: Midnight Cowboy

Question: In July 1969, Charles, Prince of Wales, was invested with his title at which Welsh castle?
Answer: Caenarfon Castle

Question: Which book by Harper Lee won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
Answer: To Kill a Mocking Bird

Question: Which sportsman was known as the ‘Louisville Lip’?
Answer: Muhammed Ali

Question: Francois Fillon was appointed Prime minister of which country in May 2007?
Answer: France