Question: In which year did the following events occur; the world's first football club to have its own TV channel, MUTV began broadcasting, the Good Friday agreement was signed and Rolls
Answer: Royce was sold to VW?

Question: Who was the captain of the Wales rugby union team who was sent off in the semi-final of the 2011 World Cup?
Answer: Sam Warburton

Question: What name is given to the slender glass tube used to deliver a fixed volume of liquid, especially used in chemistry?
Answer: Pipette

Question: The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct carries which canal over the River Dee?
Answer: Llangollen Canal

Question: In the Bible, which king of Israel was the husband of Jezebel?
Answer: Ahab

Question: Give either of the real forenames of 'Bix' Beiderbecke?
Answer: Leon Bismark

Question: Who designed the wedding dress for the Duchess of Cambridge?
Answer: Sarah Burton

Question: The Headrow is a major street in which British city?
Answer: Leeds

Question: Which of the Mr Men is covered in bandages?
Answer: Mr Bump

Question: Perth, Western Australia lies on which river?
Answer: Swan

Question: In 1549, the Book of Common Prayer was introduced leading to a rebellion known as the Prayer Book rebellion in two strongly Catholic counties, name either of the counties involved.
Answer: Cornwall or Devon

Question: Who was the manager of Burnley FC when they won promotion to the Premier League in 2009?
Answer: Owen Coyle

Question: Which US TV series, originally broadcast in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was set in the offices of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak?
Answer: LA Law

Question: In which year did the following events occur; Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space, Tim Berners-Lee established the first website and Robert Maxwell died?
Answer: 1991

Question: Who was the captain of the Pakistan Test cricket team sentenced in 2011 to 30 months imprisonment for betting irregularities?
Answer: Salman Butt

Question: On board a ship what is the name given to the rope used to pull a sail tight?
Answer: Sheet

Question: Which US TV show, originally broadcast in the late 1990s and early 2000s, was set in the offices of Boston law firm Cage and Fish?
Answer: Ally McBeal

Question: What kind of fish is a wobbegong?
Answer: Shark

Question: Who won Strictly Come Dancing, 2012?
Answer: Louis Smith

Question: Kett's Rebellion of 1549 took place in which county?
Answer: Norfolk

Question: Who wrote the ballet 'The Three Cornered Hat' first performed in London in 1919?
Answer: Manuel de Falla

Question: Who was the director of 'Twelve Angry Men', 'Serpico' and 'Network' who died in 2011?
Answer: Sidney Lumet

Question: Which famous bridge, built in 1607, is the oldest bridge in Paris?
Answer: Pont Neuf

Question: What kind of creature is a tanager?
Answer: Bird

Question: The world's only swing aqueduct carries which British canal?
Answer: Bridgewater

Question: There are two natural islands in the River Seine within the city of Paris, Ile de la Cite is one, name the other
Answer: Ile Saint-Louis (Ile aux Cygnes is artificial)?

Question: Which coastal West African country lies between Ghana and Benin?
Answer: Togo

Question: In 260, who was the only Roman Emperor captured as a prisoner of war?
Answer: Valerian

Question: Who won the 2012 series of X Factor?
Answer: James Arthur

Question: The two black aces and the two black eights is called the 'Dead Man's Hand' in poker, who is said to have been holding it when he was shot in the back in 1876?
Answer: Wild Bill Hickok

Question: What name is given to the graduated glass tube used to measure small precise amounts of liquids during titration in chemical analysis?
Answer: Burette

Question: Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes won an Oscar for best screenplay for which film?
Answer: Gosford Park

Question: Who wrote the ballet 'The Box of Toys' first performed in Paris in 1919?
Answer: Claude Debussy

Question: In which resort is the Cresta Run toboggan race run?
Answer: St Moritz

Question: Which Welsh-born woman became Australian Prime Minister in June 2010?
Answer: Julia Gillard

Question: Situated in the Brecon Beacons, the village of Penderyn is the only location in Wales that makes what product?
Answer: Whisky

Question: Which 8 times grand slam singles champion became Andy Murray's coach in 2011?
Answer: Ivan Lendl

Question: Which Bolton-born woman, the founder of Pall-Ex Ltd, replaced James Caan on BBC's Dragons Den?
Answer: Hilary Devey

Question: Cardinal Richelieu was known as the Red Eminence - by what name was his right hand man, Francois Leclerc du Tremblay known?
Answer: The Grey Eminence

Question: A character with what nickname appeared in "Absolutely Fabulous," "The Wire" and in the second series of Big Brother in 2001?
Answer: Bubble

Question: The-new Boeing "Dreamliner" aircraft has which numerical designation?
Answer: 787

Question: Which country has the highest population of Roman Catholics?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Continental Airlines is based in which US city?
Answer: Newark

Question: King Abdullah became king of what country in 1999?
Answer: Jordan

Question: Which country deposed King Gyanendra in 2008?
Answer: Nepal

Question: In the Ottoman Empire, what was an odalisque?
Answer: Female (harem) slave

Question: What is the name of the so called "God Particle", evidence for the existence of which is being sought at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland?
Answer: Higgs Boson

Question: FENSA is a registration system that regulates the installation of what in houses?
Answer: Windows

Question: The name of the NRL rugby league club South Sydney is completed by what animal-related name?
Answer: Rabbitohs

Question: Which Cuban born ballet dancer, joined the Royal Ballet in 1998 and was appointed its Principal Guest Artist in 2003?
Answer: Carlos Acosta

Question: In Roald Dahl's book, what is the name of Matilda's teacher, who is the niece of headmistress, Miss Trunchbull?
Answer: Miss Honey

Question: Delta Airlines is based in which US city?
Answer: Atlanta

Question: How does Tosca kill herself in the Puccini opera?
Answer: Throws herself from Castel Sant'Angelo

Question: The axolotl is the tadpole form of what creature found in Mexico and the USA. It is unusual in that it attains maturity and reproduces in the tadpole, or larval, stage of amphibian metamorphosis?
Answer: Salamander

Question: Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding formed which Swindon band, whose albums include "Drums and Wire," "Oranges and Lemons" and "English Settlement"?
Answer: Xtc

Question: In the BBC's 2011 reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes, who plays housekeeper Mrs Hudson?
Answer: Una Stubbs

Question: What is the alternative name of vitamin B2, useful in breaking down protein, fat and carbohydrates?
Answer: Riboflavin

Question: Who replaced Jeff Stelling as host of Channel 4's Countdown?
Answer: Nick Hewer

Question: Who was appointed Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs after the 2010 General Election?
Answer: Caroline Spelman

Question: At the start of 2011-12 season, 7 of the 20 English Premier League managers had been born in which city?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: In human anatomy, what can be cervical or thoracic, amongst others?
Answer: Vertebrae

Question: The 2011 Athletics World Championship took place in which Korean city?
Answer: Daegu

Question: Which 2008 musical film directed by Phyllida Lloyd is the highest grossing movie of all time in the UK?
Answer: Mamma Mia

Question: Who was the professor of radio astronomy at Manchester University who founded the Jodrell Bank Observatory and after whom the telescope he built has been renamed?
Answer: Sir Bernard Lovell

Question: The highest paid man in New Zealand sport, Steve Williams, makes his money in which
Answer: sport?

Question: Between 1991 and 2009, the registration scheme that certificated all work on gas appliances in houses, was known by what 5 letter acronym?
Answer: Corgi