Question: A troubadour (11-13thC France) was originally a?
Answer: Singing poet

Question: Czech Emil Zatopek (1922-2000) is a famously brilliant?
Answer: Distance runner

Question: The human hormone Ghrelin (also called Lenomorelin) is known as the '(What?) hormone'?
Answer: Hunger

Question: Panama disease destroys what crop?
Answer: Bananas

Question: The UK billionaire called for Parliamentary questioning (2016) about his governance of the collapsed BHS company is Sir Philip?
Answer: Green

Question: Professor Pat Pending, the Arkansas Chuggabug, and the Ant Hill Mob feature in which popular 1968-69 17-episode TV cartoon series?
Answer: Wacky Races

Question: The logo on the famous Victorinox Swiss Army pocket knife is a (What?) in a shield?
Answer: Cross

Question: The large 14-35inch elastic plastic exercise ball developed in 1963 by Aquilino Cosani, is called a (What?) ball?
Answer: Swiss

Question: The salad condiment comprising oil and vinegar, often reddened with parika and tomato, popularized/produced first in the 1950s is '(What?) dressing'?
Answer: French

Question: Which newspaper remains shunned in Liverpool UK due to its grossly false reporting of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster?
Answer: The Sun

Question: What 1940s-originating word meaning 'take a quick look around' derives from British military slang from Arabic 'safa', 'try to see'?
Answer: Shufti

Question: An increasing human/animal health hazard in Europe is the 'Oak Processionary (What?)'?
Answer: Caterpillar

Question: James Grieve, Blenheim Orange, Irish Peach, and Ashmead's Kernel are traditional varieties of?
Answer: Apples

Question: A traditional Moroccan house with central atrium courtyard/garden is called a?
Answer: Riad

Question: Junk, Trimaran, Pontoon, and Luzzu are types of?
Answer: Boats

Question: Twelve three-hundredths (12/300) expresssed as a percentage is?
Answer: 4%

Question: Sabot and saboton (from French, savate and botte) are respectively a box from which casino cards are dealt, and knight's armour, equating to a?
Answer: Shoe

Question: The traditional pudding of strawberries, meringue and whipped cream is called?
Answer: Eton Mess

Question: Who discovered gravity and proposed the Three Laws of Motion?
Answer: Newton

Question: Clove hitch, Sheepshank, Figure eight, and Bowline are?
Answer: Knots

Question: The Piolet d'Or is a major award by the French magazine Montagnes for?
Answer: Mountaineering

Question: The UK average hourly wage for a FTSE company CEO (2014/15) is about?
Answer: £1200

Question: To enable accurate measuring of Moon-Earth distance the NASA lunar landings of 1969-72 left on the moon a?
Answer: Mirror

Question: What scientist did the Vatican officially pardon in 1992, having declared him a heretic, and forced him to recant under threat of torture, for asserting in 1632 that the Earth orbits the Sun?
Answer: Galileo

Question: A linen 'stola' is the female equivalent of the Roman man's woollen?
Answer: Toga

Question: The poodle dog/name originated in Germany from association with?
Answer: Water

Question: In Europe which dangerous natural phenomenon exists only in Portugal, Norway, Iceland, Italy and the Canary Islands?
Answer: Volcanoes

Question: Richard Adams' 1972 anthropomorphic novel Watership Down is about a colony of?
Answer: Rabbits

Question: 1960s Thamesmead social housing estate in SE London was the main location for the film?
Answer: A Clockwork Orange

Question: The Battle of Jutland was the only (What?) battle of the 1st World War?
Answer: Naval

Question: The expression 'Book him Dano' (urging action/reprimand) originated 1960-80s in?
Answer: Hawaii Five-O

Question: In May 2016 the world record for 'planking' (a stress position on toes and forearms) was set at?
Answer: 8hrs

Question: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did what in May 1953?
Answer: First ascent of Everest

Question: Baklava, a food in Turkish/Central-West Asian cuisine, is a type of?
Answer: Pastry

Question: What iconic British brand of matches and tobacco smoking materials is the Roman goddess of the hearth/fire?
Answer: Vesta

Question: Grévy's, Grant's, Chapman's, and the extinct Quagga, are varieties of?
Answer: Zebra

Question: Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), first identified in willow bark by Hippocrates c.400BC, is better known as what a genericized trademark?
Answer: Aspirin

Question: What Anglicized German word originally from 'harm-joy' refers to pleasure derived from misfortunes of others?
Answer: Schadenfreude

Question: The Latin word via originally meant?
Answer: Road

Question: Coach Claudio Raniero spent how many years in management before winning his first top-level league championship with Leicester FC in 2016?
Answer: 28

Question: In the early 2000s Leicester became the first UK city whose majority of population is?
Answer: Ethnically diverse

Question: Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire is famous for its European Protected designation of origin named?
Answer: Pork pie

Question: Which English King was found in a Leicester car park in 2012, and reburied in Leicester Cathedral in 2015?
Answer: Richard III

Question: In how many games did Leicester City FC not concede a goal in their 2015-16 Premiership winning season?
Answer: 14

Question: How many games did Leicester City FC lose at their home ground in their winning 2015-16 season?
Answer: 1

Question: Leicester is the location of the UK's foremost visitor centre devoted to?
Answer: Space and astronomy

Question: Leicester City FC's 2015-16 Premier League winning coach Claudio Ranieri is?
Answer: Italian

Question: Wes Morgan's role for Leicester City FC's 2015-16 Premier League winning team was?
Answer: Captain

Question: Name the English 'Queen of nine days' (1553), born and raised at Bradgate House at Newtown Linford in Leicestershire?
Answer: Lady Jane Grey

Question: Name the Leicester City FC striker who in 2016 broke the record for scoring in consecutive Premiership games?
Answer: Jamie Vardy

Question: In 1485 the last English monarch to be (What?) occurred at Bosworth Field in Leicestershire?
Answer: Killed in battle

Question: At 2016 Leicester City FC's stadium and shirt sponsor name, and owner is called '(What?) Power'?
Answer: King

Question: What internationally popular Leicester-formed rock band played at Leicester City FC's Premiership celebrations in May 2016?
Answer: Kasabian

Question: Leicester City FC's colours are?
Answer: Blue and white

Question: What Leicestershire village is famous for its historic fox hunt and the name origin for a popular meat substitute food?
Answer: Quorn

Question: Leicester City FC's 1950s-70s players Gordon Banks and Peter Shilton are considered among the world's best ever?
Answer: Goalkeepers

Question: In 2016 Mark Selby from Leicester won for the second time the World Championship for?
Answer: Snooker

Question: Name the Leicester-born world-class goalscorer for Leicester City FC and England who became a hugely successful TV presenter?
Answer: Gary Lineker

Question: Name the globally popular snack brand founded and based in Leicester, at the largest production plant of its type in the world?
Answer: Walkers

Question: Leicester City FC's playing kit sponsors/makers during their 2015-16 Premiership winning season were?
Answer: Puma

Question: 0.6214 mile is how many metres?
Answer: 1000

Question: Vaseline is a genericized brandname for what sort of 'Jelly'?
Answer: Petroleum

Question: French writer/philosopher Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) inspired which behavioural term?
Answer: Sadism/Sadist

Question: Name the ancient Greek slave/storyteller to whom many fables are attributed in an eponymous collection?
Answer: Aesop

Question: The US Hillerich & Bradsby company's 'Louisville Slugger' is a?
Answer: Baseball bat

Question: Zugzwang is a globalized German term for an obligatory disadvantageous?
Answer: Chess move

Question: The old weight 'dram' or 'drachm' equates to?
Answer: 1.772 grams