Question: Which football manager, now at Monaco, was known as 'the Tinkerer' or 'Tinkerman' during his time in England?
Answer: Claudio Ranieri

Question: Which 'Amazing' sportsman appeared in the 'Wizard'?
Answer: Wilson

Question: Who was the CBS News anchor-man known as 'the man Americans most trust'?
Answer: Walter Cronkite

Question: Which children's character is a fry cook at the Krusty Krab restaurant?
Answer: SpongeBob Squarepants

Question: The fashion for wearing silicone gel wristbands started in 2004 with a yellow 'anti-cancer' band, whose charity launched it?
Answer: Lance Armstrong

Question: What is the occupation of TV personality Aldo Zilli?
Answer: Chef

Question: In 2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf defeated ex-footballer George Weah to become the first female president of which African country?
Answer: Liberia

Question: What kind of animal is a 'green unicorn'?
Answer: Snake

Question: In which country do the majority (over 1 million) of Dromedary camels live in the wild, having been introduced there in the 1840s?
Answer: Australia

Question: The songs 'Summertime' and 'I've Got Plenty of Nothing' feature in which musical?
Answer: Porgy & Bess

Question: Which event takes place nearly every year at Worthy Farm, Pilton in Somerset?
Answer: Glastonbury Festival

Question: Who was the mother of Richard I?
Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question: Established in 1948, the Bodil Award is one of the oldest film awards in Europe, in which country is it awarded?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Castries is the capital of which island nation?
Answer: St Lucia

Question: Which cocktail is a mixture of brandy and crème de cacao, often with cream?
Answer: Brandy Alexander

Question: Which book is subtitled 'A Pure Woman'?
Answer: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Question: The Bactrian camel is found in the wild in remote areas of two Asian deserts, name either,
Answer: Gobi or Taklamakan

Question: Amy Whitehouse had two albums, 'Back to Black' and her first which had which male name as its title?
Answer: Frank

Question: The railway nicknamed the 'Watercress Line' got the name because it carried the crop to London from which county?
Answer: Hampshire

Question: What can be mouse-eared, long-eared or whiskered?
Answer: Bats

Question: Who is the only person to win an Oscar playing an Oscar winning actress?
Answer: Cate Blanchett

Question: The holiday company 'Hoseasons' started with holidays in which area of the UK?
Answer: Norfolk Broads

Question: Carmen Polo was the wife of which 20th century dictator?
Answer: Franco

Question: Which country elects a monarch every five years?
Answer: Malaysia

Question: To within three years, in which year was the Metropolitan Police Act passed, forming the first official police force?
Answer: 1829

Question: Which independent Commonwealth state is the smallest republic in the world?
Answer: Nauru

Question: Who is the only person to refuse a Nobel Peace prize (in 1973)?
Answer: Le Duc Tho

Question: Which name is shared by the former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party and MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark and the Channel 5 TV cricket analyst and former Middlesex and Durham player?
Answer: Simon Hughes

Question: Which group were one hit wonders with the 1983 hit 'It's Raining Men'?
Answer: The Weather Girls

Question: Richard Parker is a major character in the book and film 'Life of Pi', what is he?
Answer: A Tiger

Question: Which is 'Queen of the Sciences'?
Answer: Mathematics

Question: Which German City is home to the headquarters of the Volkswagen car manufacturer?
Answer: Wolfsburg

Question: Stokes' Law describes the force on objects passing through a fluid. It includes which property of the fluid usually represented by the Greek letter eta?
Answer: Viscocity

Question: Alice Arnold is the lifetime partner of which other broadcaster?
Answer: Clare Balding

Question: In France, with what occupation would you associate the nickname 'une aubergine'?
Answer: Traffic Warden

Question: Which U.S. President's face is depicted on the $20 dollar bill?
Answer: Andrew Jackson

Question: In the world of professional darts, which player is nicknamed 'The Silverback'?
Answer: Tony O'Shea

Question: What first appeared on the streets of St Helier (Jersey) in November 1852?
Answer: Post Boxes

Question: Who designed the Mount Rushmore monument in the U.S.A. to four presidents?
Answer: Gutzon Borglum

Question: The image of which boxer appears on the cover of the Beatles 'Sergeant Pepper' album?
Answer: Sonny Liston

Question: Who in 1588, commanded the English fleet that confronted the Spanish Armada?
Answer: Lord Howard Of Effingham

Question: In Britain, what name is given to a trader who deals in buttons, thread, ribbon and other small articles used in the making of clothes?
Answer: Haberdasher

Question: Which group sharing its name with a military aircraft had hits with 'Rock Lobster and 'The Love Shack'?
Answer: THE B52's

Question: According to legend Romulus and Remus, founders of the city of Rome, were raised by a she-wolf and fed by what bird?
Answer: A Woodpecker

Question: Of the original Cinque Ports, which was the only one not in Kent?
Answer: Hastings

Question: Mary Todd became the wife of which President of the U.S.A.?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: In the Bible, Daniel was thrown to the lions for refusing to worship which king?
Answer: Darius

Question: Which English monarch was on the throne at the beginning of the Hundred Years War?
Answer: Edward Iii

Question: Name the year Russia shoots down U2 spy plane; France becomes the world's 4th nuclear power and Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Israelis in Buenos Aires.
Answer: 1960

Question: Which English composer produced the operas 'Artaxerxes', 'Love in a Village' and the 'Fairy Prince' in the decade 1761 to 1771?
Answer: Thomas Arne

Question: Marcus Bentley provides the voice-over for which TV show?
Answer: Big Brother

Question: Which boxer's image appeared on the cover of the Band on the Run album?
Answer: John Conteh

Question: What was the name of the flagship of the English Commander, Lord Howard of Effingham, which faced the Spanish Armada?
Answer: Ark Royal

Question: Specifically, in what commodities does a fellmonger deal?
Answer: Animal Skins

Question: Which English author and postal service employee was responsible for the introduction of post boxes to the British Isles?
Answer: Anthony Trollope

Question: Name the citizen, whose 'home movie' is regarded as the most accurate record of J.F.K's assassination?
Answer: Abraham Zapruder

Question: In religion, by what name is the Decalogue better known?
Answer: Ten Commandments

Question: Bella Wilfer is a character in which of Charles Dickens' books?
Answer: Our Mutual Friend

Question: Which London building was completed in 1977 from a design by Denys Lasdun?
Answer: The NATIONAL THEATRE

Question: Which English composer wrote the opera Dido and Aeneas, whose first public performance was in 1684?
Answer: Henry Purcell

Question: Peter Dixon provides the voice-over for which T.V. show?
Answer: The X Factor

Question: Name the year: the U.S. Draft Board refuses Muhammed Ali's exemption, the Boston Strangler is sentenced to life imprisonment and three astronauts perish in the Apollo I fire.
Answer: 1967

Question: Who was the ruler of England when the War of the Spanish Succession began in 1701?
Answer: William Iii

Question: Succeeding Kevin Rudd in 2013, who is the current Prime Minister of Australia?
Answer: Tony Abbott

Question: Two of Radio 4's long standing female news broadcasters retired in 2012 as a result of BBC cutbacks. Name either of or them.
Answer: HARRIET CASS or CHARLOTTE GREEN

Question: Whose image was depicted on the first U.S. postage stamp?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Question: Which U.S. city saw the foundation in 1903 of the Harley-Davidson motor cycle manufacturer?
Answer: Milwaukee