Question: From which town or city is 'The Wave Radio' station broadcast?
Answer: Blackpool

Question: Which is the only team that has never been relegated from the top tier (Premier or old First Division) of English football?
Answer: Wigan Athletic.

Question: What is the state capital of Virginia?
Answer: Richmond

Question: What is the motor-car international identification for Iceland?
Answer: Is

Question: Who wrote the 1973 Booker Prize winning novel 'The Siege of Krishnapur'?
Answer: J.G. Farrell

Question: Which Italian artist 1480-1576 was nicknamed after the colour he predominately used?
Answer: TITIAN (Tiziano Vecelli)

Question: Who created the character 'Walter Mitty'?
Answer: James Thurber

Question: Kevin Whately plays the title role in the television series 'Lewis', who plays his Sergeant?
Answer: Laurence Fox

Question: In which year was HRH Prince Charles invested as Prince of Wales?
Answer: 1969

Question: Which Irish born writer wrote 'A Woman Of No Importance'?
Answer: Oscar Wilde

Question: Who was the first 'Inquisitor-General' of Spain?
Answer: Torquemada

Question: The 'Dulcimer' is a forerunner of which musical instrument?
Answer: Piano

Question: Singultus is the medical name for which minor complaint?
Answer: Hiccoughs

Question: According to the Bible, who donated his own tomb for the burial of Jesus after the crucifixion?
Answer: Joseph Of Arimathea

Question: In which Austrian city was the composer Mozart born?
Answer: Salzburg

Question: Who was the only Romanian chosen by Pele on the aforementioned 'FIFA 100' list?
Answer: Gheorghe Hagi

Question: In the Book of Genesis, to which land to the east of Eden was Cain banished after killing his brother Abel?
Answer: Land Of Nod

Question: Which small wildcat, found in South and Central America and Mexico, is also known as the 'Dwarf Leopard' as its fur is said to resemble that of the larger cat?
Answer: Ocelot

Question: Fought in the Pyrenees Mountains on the border between Spain and France, at which battle of 778 AD did the Basques defeat the forces of Roland, commander of the rear guard of Charlemagne's army?
Answer: Battle Of Roncevaux Pass

Question: In the TV show 'South Park', what is the name of the boys' handicapped classmate whose vocabulary is mostly limited to the enthusiastic shouting of his own name?
Answer: 'Timmy'

Question: Which small wildcat, native to Central and South America, is sometimes known as the 'Tree Ocelot' because of its skill in climbing?
Answer: Margay

Question: In the TV show 'South Park', the boys' classmate 'Leopold Stotch', often the butt of many jokes and pranks, is better known by what one word nickname?
Answer: 'Butters'

Question: Kasimir Malevich is the best known painter from which Russian artistic school that was founded in 1915 and which focused on fundamental geometric forms?
Answer: Suprematism

Question: In 1999, which became the newest of the territories of Canada when it was officially separated from the vast Northern Territories?
Answer: Nunavut

Question: The 2001 film 'A Beautiful Mind', starring Russell Crowe, told the true story of which brilliant but disturbed mathematician?
Answer: John Forbes Nash

Question: In June 2011, Ayman al-Zawahiri was appointed as the new leader of which organisation?
Answer: Al-Qaeda

Question: The name of which chemical element, with the symbol 'Ta', is derived from the Latin for 'Earth'?
Answer: Tellerium

Question: Geoffrey Rush won an Academy Award for his portrayal of which Australian pianist in the 1996 film 'Shine'?
Answer: David Helfgott

Question: In 2000, the International Hydrographic Organisation created Earth's fifth ocean from southern portions of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Which ocean?
Answer: Southern Ocean

Question: Winning the US Open in 2006, who was the last Australian to win a Golf 'major'?
Answer: Geoff Ogilvy

Question: Who was the founder of the People's Temple church, 914 of whose members committed suicide in the jungle of Guyana in 1978?
Answer: Jim Jones

Question: Published in 1939, what was the title of James Joyce's final novel?
Answer: 'Finnegan'S Wake'

Question: In Greek mythology, who did Zeus turn into a heifer in fear of the jealous wrath of Hera, his queen?
Answer: Io

Question: Winning the US Open in 2005, who was the last New Zealander to win a Golf 'major'?
Answer: Michael Campbell

Question: What was the name of Nelson's flagship at the Battle of the Nile in 1798?
Answer: Vanguard

Question: What was the pen-name used by the British short-story writer H.H. Munro?
Answer: Saki

Question: Which of the 'Seven Wonders Of The World' stood at Ephesus?
Answer: TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS (accept Temple of Diana)

Question: Which Asian capital city has a name meaning 'Town of Victory' in the local tongue?
Answer: Jakarta

Question: Which British author died in 1975 just weeks after being knighted at the age of 93?
Answer: P.G. Wodehouse

Question: What was the name of the language spoken by the Aztecs?
Answer: Nahuatl

Question: Which large lake lies on the River Rhine on the border between Germany, Switzerland and Austria?
Answer: LAKE CONSTANCE (accept Bodensee)

Question: What was the name of the language spoken by the Inca?
Answer: Quechua

Question: Which lake, located about halfway between Venice and Milan is the largest lake in Italy?
Answer: Garda

Question: What was the name of the Scottish mathematician who invented Logarithms?
Answer: John Napier

Question: Which of the Japanese islands has the highest population?
Answer: Honshu

Question: In 1919, the Curzon Line was proposed as a boundary between the Soviet Union and which country?
Answer: Poland

Question: A dish described as 'a la Dubarry' features which vegetable?
Answer: Cauliflower

Question: First performed in 1896, which was the last opera written by Gilbert & Sullivan?
Answer: 'The Grand Duke'

Question: In the human body, what is the more common name for the 'Zygomatic Bone'?
Answer: Cheekbone

Question: In which children's TV programme would you have found the characters 'Brain', 'Spook' and 'Choo-Choo'?
Answer: 'Top Cat'

Question: Which rap star and record producer discovered and signed 'Eminem' in 1998?
Answer: 'Dr. Dre'

Question: Which of Shakespeare's plays was based loosely on the life of Cunobelinus, a pre-Roman king of England?
Answer: 'Cymbeline'

Question: Who played the title character in the American t.v. series 'Columbo'?
Answer: Peter Falk

Question: Almost always consisting of roast meat or dried seafood, served on baguette-like New Orleans French bread, what name is given to a traditional submarine sandwich from Louisiana?
Answer: Po'Boy

Question: Deriving ultimately from the Geek for 'knowledge, or study, of custom', what name is given to the study of animal behaviour?
Answer: Ethology

Question: Which High King of Ireland conquered Munster, Leinster and Connacht in 976 AD?
Answer: Brian Boru

Question: Which country started the Second Balkan War in 1913 by invading Greece and Serbia?
Answer: Bulgaria

Question: Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo, the 'Gal' is a unit to measure what?
Answer: ACCELERATION (do not accept 'speed')

Question: In mathematics, which letter of the alphabet is given to the imaginary number equal to the square root of -1?
Answer: (the letter) i

Question: What is the name of the actor and singer who voiced the character 'Chef' in the animated series 'South Park' from 1997 to 2006?
Answer: Isaac Hayes

Question: Which musical instrument takes its name from the German for 'play of bells'?
Answer: Glockenspiel

Question: In which American state is the Newport Country Club that hosted Golf's first US Open in 1895?
Answer: Rhode Island

Question: On which river do the cities of Dresden and Hamburg stand?
Answer: Elbe

Question: Which musical instrument is sometimes known as the 'clown of the orchestra'?
Answer: Bassoon

Question: In which country does the Amazon River rise?
Answer: Peru