Question: What nickname was given to the 7th Armoured Division in 1940?
Answer: The Desert Rats

Question: US outlaw Henry McCarty was better known by what nickname?
Answer: Billy the Kid

Question: Which US State is known as "Mount Rushmore State".
Answer: South Dakota

Question: Which Chelsea footballer of the 60s and 70s was given the nickname Chopper?
Answer: Ron Harris

Question: What nickname has been given to Indian bowler Harbhajan Singh?
Answer: The Turbanator

Question: Which British Prime Minister was nicknamed The Grocer in Private Eye?
Answer: Edward Heath

Question: Which American golfer is affectionately called The Walrus for his portly build and his ample moustache?
Answer: Craig Stadler

Question: Linseed Oil is generated from which plant?
Answer: Flax

Question: The transportation of what is performed with an Archimedes Screw?
Answer: Water

Question: What was the maiden name of Jane Austen's heroine Emma?
Answer: Woodhouse

Question: A hendecagon has how many sides?
Answer: Eleven

Question: What was the title of The Mixtures only UK hit?
Answer: The Pushbike Song

Question: Which fruit has a Latin name that translates as Armenian Plum?
Answer: Apricot

Question: Which large fleshy fruit of the far east has been banned from some public areas because of it's distinctive odour?
Answer: Durian

Question: Which fruit shares a name with a 1969 short film by Eric Sykes, and an animated television show for children?
Answer: Rhubarb

Question: What is the name of Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter?
Answer: Apple

Question: A cantaloupe belongs to which family of fruits?
Answer: Melon

Question: Which football league club are known as the Cherries?
Answer: Bournemouth

Question: Native to India, what is the largest treeborne fruit in the world?
Answer: Jackfruit

Question: Which member of Take That shares his name with a fruit?
Answer: Jason Orange

Question: What motorcycle has three crossed tuning forks as its emblem?
Answer: Yamaha

Question: Famous for its V-twins, what American motorcycle manufacturer started producing machines in 1903?
Answer: Harley-Davidson

Question: The Bonneville' is made by whom?
Answer: Triumph

Question: What famous marque of motorcycle was Lawrence of Arabia riding when he was tragically killed in Dorset in 1936?
Answer: Brough Superior

Question: The Black Shadow and Black Prince are two motorcycle models made in the 1950's, by whom?
Answer: Vincent

Question: What motorcycle has a stylised' propeller as its tank badge?
Answer: B.M.W.

Question: The Pogues lead singer Shane MacGowan was born on Christmas Day in 1957.  Which female singer featured on their 1987 Christmas single?
Answer: Kirsty MacColl

Question: On Christmas Day 1977, Menachem Begin of Israel met with Anwar Sadat of Egypt to start peace talks.  Which one of them was celebrating their birthday that day?
Answer: Anwar Sadat

Question: Humphrey Bogart, who was born on Christmas Day 1899, said the line "Here's looking at you kid." In which film?
Answer: Casablanca

Question: Born on Christmas Day in 1944, by what stage name was the broadcaster Maurice Cole better known?
Answer: Kenny Everett

Question: What is the more common name for the plant viscum album?
Answer: Mistletoe

Question: Comedian Jerry Lewis formed a double act with which actor who died on Christmas Day in 1995?
Answer: Dean Martin

Question: Former communist dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, was executed on Christmas Day in 1989.  Which country did he once control?
Answer: Romania

Question: The American comedian and actor William Claude Dukenfield, died on Christmas Day in 1946.  How was he better known?
Answer: W C Fields

Question: If William Hartnell is 1, and Patrick Troughton is 2, who is 4?
Answer: Tom Baker. (Jon Pertwee 3, Peter Davidson 5).

Question: If Alpha is 1, and Beta is 2, what is 6?
Answer: Zeta.

Question: If Tony Blackburn won in 2002, Phil Tuffnell won in 2003, and Kerry Katona won in 2004, who won in 2007?
Answer: Christopher Biggins. (I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. Joe Pasquale 04, Carol Thatcher 05, Matt Willis 06, and Joe Swash 08).

Question: If David Lloyd George is 1, Andrew Bonal Law is 2, and Stanley Baldwin is 3, who is 4?
Answer: Ramsay MacDonald. (Prime Ministers post WW1).

Question: If Liverpool won in 2006, and Chelsea won in 2007, who won in 2008?
Answer: Portsmouth. (FA Cup).

Question: In 1999 Wales hosted it, in 2003 Australia hosted it, and in 2007 France hosted it, but who hosts it in 2011?
Answer: New Zealand (Rugby Union World Cup).

Question: If China is 1, India is 2, and USA is 3, who is 4?
Answer: Indonesia.

Question: B.O.A.C. are the initials of which airline?
Answer: British Overseas Airways Corporation

Question: Concerned about the impact of uncontrolled development and industrialisation, what National Charity was founded in 1895 by three Victorian philanthropists, Miss Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley?
Answer: The National Trust

Question: What famous make of motorcycle was Lawrence of Arabia riding when he was tragically killed in Dorset in 1936?
Answer: Brough Superior

Question: What colour of flag should a ship fly to show it is in quarantine?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Purple Brittlegill, Velvet Shank and Orange Milkcap are three types of what?
Answer: Fungi

Question: Who were Tom and Barbara's neighbours in The Good Life?
Answer: Margo and Jerry Leadbetter

Question: In Cockney Rhyming slang what are your `Daisy Roots`?
Answer: Boots

Question: What is the river Ganga called in Bangladesh?
Answer: Padma

Question: Chaetophobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Hair

Question: Winston Churchill married Clementine in 1908, but what was her maiden name?
Answer: Hozier

Question: Who wrote Twenty Years Before The Mast?
Answer: Charles Erskine

Question: How many pints does a ten gallon hat hold?
Answer: 6

Question: What procedure removes the threat of brucellosis from milk?
Answer: Pasteurisation

Question: Michael Barratt was the presenter of which BBC current affairs programme in the 1970s?
Answer: Nationwide

Question: Who was the softly spoken presenter of Out Of Town in the 1960s, and went on to appear on the children's TV programme How?
Answer: Jack Hargreaves

Question: Who presented a series in 2008 where he visited each of the US states in 6 episodes?
Answer: Stephen Fry

Question: Which sitcom actor presents Scrapheap Challenge?
Answer: Robert Llewellyn

Question: Who has presented City Hospital, Departure Lounge and Last Choir Standing?
Answer: Nick Knowles

Question: Who presents Location, Location, Location with Phil Spencer?
Answer: Kirstie Allsopp

Question: Myleen Klass now presents 10 Years Younger on Channel 4, but what was the name of the pop band that gave her success in 2001?
Answer: Hear'Say

Question: Who presented Ask The Family in the 1970s?
Answer: Robert Robinson

Question: Which Radio 4 comedy panel game has run since 1972, but did not air in 2008 following the death of it`s presenter?
Answer: I`m sorry, I haven`t a clue

Question: Bob Holness presented the TV quiz show Blockbusters in the 1980s, but name either of the two presenters of the less popular 1997 or 2000 versions?
Answer: Michael Aspel and Lisa Tarbuck

Question: What answer did Major Charles Ingram give to his £1m question?
Answer: Googol

Question: Who joined the Eggheads team in 2008, having won Are You An Egghead?
Answer: Barry Simmons

Question: What was the name of the first cloned mammal?
Answer: Dolly

Question: In which country was the first FIFA World Cup held?
Answer: Uruguay

Question: Who is the present FIFA president?
Answer: Sepp Blatter

Question: Which part of the ear is commonly known as the anvil?
Answer: Incus

Question: A chinese astronaut is known as what?
Answer: Taikonaut

Question: Daughter of the East is the title of which famous person's autoboigraphy?
Answer: Benazir Bhutto's?