Question: Who is the current chairman of the radio 4 panel game 'I'm sorry I haven't a clue'?
Answer: Jack Dee

Question: Who is the author of the Nursery Crime and Thursday Next series of books?
Answer: Jasper Fforde

Question: How is the Rowan tree also known in the UK?
Answer: Mountain Ash

Question: Give a year in the life of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, inventor of various thermometers?
Answer: 1686 - 1736

Question: If you were in Japan eating wakame, what would you be eating?
Answer: Edible Seaweed

Question: Erythrophobia is the irrational fear of?
Answer: Blushing

Question: Who is Greek mythology was the goddess of the hearth?
Answer: Hestia

Question: Which American wit said 'The covers of this book are too far apart'?
Answer: Ambrose Bierce

Question: Who wrote the poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage?
Answer: Byron

Question: In what part of the world would you find a Gamelan Orchestra?
Answer: South East Asia

Question: Rigel and Betelgeuse are two stars in which constellation?
Answer: Orion

Question: King Edward III founded this premier order in about 1349, what is it called?
Answer: The Order Of The Garter

Question: It was known as Tsaritsyn, then Stalingrad and in 1962 its name was changed to what?
Answer: Volgograd

Question: What is the brightest star in the northern hemisphere of the sky?
Answer: Sirius

Question: At sea what period of time is covered by the first 'Dog Watch"?
Answer: 4Pm-6Pm

Question: During the First World War what did writer Ernest Hemmingway do (apart from write)?
Answer: He Was An Ambulance Driver

Question: Which athlete came 4th in the Women's Pentathlon in the Tokyo Olympics?
Answer: Mary Peters

Question: Rick Allen is the one armed drummer of which English rock band?
Answer: Def Leppard ,

Question: The Lupercal is a cave at the foot of which hill in Rome?
Answer: The Palatine

Question: What is the term for the change of a vowel sound in German and the diacritical mark which indicates it?
Answer: Umlaut

Question: Created by John Lawson Johnston "Johnston's Fluid Beef' was renamed what?
Answer: Bovril

Question: The Battle of Ligny, June 1815 was which man's final military victory?
Answer: Napoleon

Question: Whose Blackadder roles included Lord Percy and Captain Darling?
Answer: Tim Mcinnernay

Question: In nautical slang what is a bumboat?
Answer: Either A Scavengers Boat Recovering Filth From The Thames Or A Boat

Question: The Architect Clough Williams-Ellis designed which Welsh village?
Answer: Portmeirion

Question: Pulex irritans is a parasitic insect. What is.it more commonly known as?
Answer: Flea

Question: If you lapidated someone what would you be doing to them?
Answer: Stoning Them To Death

Question: Who was the designer of the airship R1002
Answer: Barnes Wallis

Question: Who was the only British King of the House of Saxe-Coburg?
Answer: Edward Vii

Question: Name one of the chemicals used as the raw materials for the production of urea?
Answer: Amnonia Or Carbon Dioxide

Question: The word "batty" derives from which expression?
Answer: Bats In The Belfry

Question: Which nation is the richest in the world per head of capita?
Answer: Qatar

Question: Which toxic protein is extracted from the castor oil plant?
Answer: Ricin

Question: Which 1950's pop singer was known as the "singing barber?
Answer: Perry Como

Question: St Martins is another name for which weather phenomenon?
Answer: Indian Summer

Question: Which actress played both Estella and Miss Havisham in 1946 and 1985 respectively?
Answer: Jean Simmons

Question: Who were Liverpool playing when a red balloon scored the only goal?
Answer: Sunderland

Question: The gamay grape is most notably used in the production of which French wine?
Answer: Beaujolais

Question: In which constellation is the star Sirius, also called the Dog Star, the brightest in the Northern Hemisphere?
Answer: Canis Major

Question: The sportsman Oscar Pistorius has what nickname?'
Answer: Blade Runner

Question: The Preraphaelite artist John Collier painted which famous naked person?
Answer: Lady Godiva

Question: Which state capital in USA is known as the Athens of America?
Answer: Boston

Question: The "Penguin News" is a local newspaper in which island group?
Answer: Falklands

Question: The 'Battle of Marengo' was fought between Napoleon's army and which European Country?
Answer: Austria

Question: Which city in Switzerland is a European heritage site?
Answer: Berne

Question: Which town in the Cotswolds is known as the 'Little Venice of the Cotswolds"?
Answer: Bourton On The Water

Question: In which sport is the Stanley Cup Contested?
Answer: Ice Hockey

Question: Who beat Maria Sharapova in the 2012 Australian Open Tennis?
Answer: Victoria AZARENKA

Question: Little boy and fat man were names for what?
Answer: Atomic Bombs

Question: Newstead Abbey is the ancestral home of which poet?
Answer: Lord Byron

Question: At which battle of 1403 was Henry Percy (Hotspur) killed?
Answer: Shrewsbury

Question: On which river does Adelaide, South Australia stand?
Answer: Torrens

Question: Making its final flight in July 2011, what was the name of the last space shuttle?
Answer: Atlantis

Question: In which film did Mae West say 'Why don't you come up sometime, see me"?
Answer: She Done Him Wrong

Question: In Greek myth, what was the name of the infinite space existing before creation?
Answer: Chaos

Question: Who, by winning the 1906 Peace Prize, became the first American to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: (Theodore) ROOSEVELT

Question: From which opera does the aria "O Caro Nome" come?
Answer: Rigoletto

Question: What type of creature is a bongo?
Answer: Antelope

Question: Which port is situated at the southern tip of the Negev desert?
Answer: Eilat/Elat

Question: In which battle of 1898 did Kitchener defeat the Mahdi?
Answer: Omdurman

Question: In which film did Greta Garbo say "I want to be alone"?
Answer: Grand Hotel

Question: What was the name of the United States first satellite, launched in January 1958?
Answer: Explorer

Question: Who, by winning the 1904 Prize for Medicine, became the first Russian to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: (Ivan) PAVLOV

Question: In Milton's "Paradise Lost" what is the capital of Hell?
Answer: Pandemonium

Question: What name is given to naturally occurring magnetic iron ore?
Answer: LODESTONE or MAGNETITE

Question: How many letters are used to make Roman numerals?
Answer: Seven

Question: In which mountain range were monkey puzzle trees first discovered by Europeans?
Answer: Andes

Question: What is the sequel to Robert Grave's novel "I Claudius"?
Answer: CLAUDIUS the GOD

Question: In which sport would you use a knuckleball?
Answer: Baseball

Question: Which motor manufacturer makes the Juke and Note models?
Answer: Nissan

Question: Which German, together with Ernst Abbe, developed and produced many new lenses and heat resistant glasses?
Answer: (Carl) ZEISS

Question: What type of plant is a saguaro?
Answer: Cactus

Question: Which nightclub and music venue in Manchester was largely financed by the record label "Factory Records"?
Answer: The Hacienda

Question: The current US president Barack Obama has what middle name?
Answer: Hussein

Question: What is the salary paid to a Church of England clergyman called?
Answer: Stipend

Question: Which jazz pianist and composer composed "Ain't Misbehavin"' and "Honeysuckle Rose"?
Answer: (Fats) WALLER

Question: What is the name of the fluid that surrounds the embryo in the womb?
Answer: Amniotic

Question: In which country are the Tugela Falls?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Who was king of Wessex from 871 to 899?
Answer: ALFRED the GREAT

Question: Who, in a play, wrote 'The truth is rarely pure, and never simple"?
Answer: (Oscar) WILDE

Question: Which jazz pianist and composer 1917-1982 composed "Round Midnight" and "Criss Cross"?
Answer: (Thelonius) MONK

Question: In which country are the Masurian Lakes?
Answer: Poland