Question: In the Old Testament, TWO books are named after women. Ruth is one - name the other.
Answer: Esther

Question: In 1978 who had their first UK Top Ten Hit with the song 'What A Waste'?
Answer: Ian Dury & The Blockheads

Question: Every episode of which TV detective series was introduced with a message on an answering machine?
Answer: Rockford Files

Question: Whose 19th century dictionary standardised US English?
Answer: Noah Webster

Question: Which number amendment to the U.S constitution abolished slavery?
Answer: Thirteenth

Question: Who was Tsar of Russia when the serfs were emancipated?
Answer: Alexander Ii

Question: On a map of scale 1:50,000, what distance is represented by 10 centimetres?
Answer: 5 Kilometres

Question: Which capital city lies at latitude: 60 degrees north, longitude: 25degrees east?
Answer: Helsinki

Question: On which island is the city of Djakarta
Answer: Java

Question: Who had a number one hit in 1955 with 'Give me your word' and in 1956 with 'Sixteen Tons'?
Answer: Tennessee Ernie Ford

Question: In which year did the Space Shuttle Challenger crash?
Answer: 1986

Question: In which year of WWI did allied forces land at Gallipoli?
Answer: 1915

Question: Which World Heavyweight boxing champion-was known as 'The Cinderella Man'?
Answer: James Braddock

Question: Who was Prime Minister at time of the Battle of Waterloo?
Answer: Lord Liverpool

Question: Name one of the colours on the flag of Ukraine.
Answer: Blue And Yellow

Question: Name one of the colours on the flag of Bangladesh.
Answer: Red And Green

Question: In which Shakespeare play do the characters Duke Frederick and Charles the Wrestler appear?
Answer: As You Like It

Question: Which contemporary US politician wrote an autobiography titled 'Living History'?
Answer: Hillary Clinton.

Question: Give a year in the life of Niccolo Machiavelli.
Answer: 1638-1715

Question: Give a year in the life of King Louis XIV, the Sun King.
Answer: 1638-1715

Question: In which US city was the 1968 film 'Bullitt' set?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: In which US state was the 1987 film 'The Big Easy' set?
Answer: Louisiana

Question: Who was British Prime Minister at the time of the accession of Elizabeth II?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: According to Greek mythology how often does a Phoenix rise from the ashes of its predecessor?
Answer: 500 Years

Question: In which 18th century war were the battles of Dettingen and Fontenoy?
Answer: War Of Austrian Succession

Question: A 'Winter Nelis' is a variety of which fruit?
Answer: Pear

Question: In which seaside town in the UK was a statue of a naked woman called Verity by Damien Hirst unveiled in 2012?
Answer: Ilfracombe

Question: Which fish is traditionally used in the Cornwall dish 'Stargazy Pie'?
Answer: Pilchards

Question: Who is the only Rugby Union player to have won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year?
Answer: Jonny Wilkinson

Question: The Voice (UK) judge Will. I. Am was a vocalist in which group?
Answer: Black Eyed Peas

Question: Alex Turner is the leader of which British group, winner of the 2006 Mercury Prize?
Answer: Arctic Monkeys

Question: Botswana was formerly known by what name?
Answer: (British) Bechuanaland

Question: Which author using the pen name Robert Markham wrote a James Bond book called 'Colonel Sun' after the death of Ian Fleming?
Answer: Kingsley Amis

Question: Where is Frederic Chopin Airport?
Answer: Warsaw

Question: What is the square root of 1/4?
Answer: Half

Question: An 'Empress' is the female of which animal?
Answer: Chimpanzee

Question: Which Eastern City was the second largest in England, after London, 1,000 years ago?
Answer: Norwich

Question: Of what country is Zagreb the capital?
Answer: Croatia

Question: What is the distance one eighth of a mile normally called, used especially in horse racing?
Answer: A Furlong

Question: In which shipping forecast area are the Channel Islands?
Answer: Portland

Question: Which famous surrender took place on 15th February 1942?
Answer: Singapore

Question: In which radio show did Sandi Toksvig take over from Simon Hoggart in 2006?
Answer: The News Quiz

Question: What is the stage name of American rapper Curtis James Jackson?
Answer: 50 Cent

Question: What is the longest river entirely in Spain?
Answer: Ebro

Question: In May 2013 the BBC decided to ditch the DMI. For what does the M in DMI stand?
Answer: Media

Question: Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633-45. As a staunch Catholic, he was beheaded in the midst of the English Civil War?
Answer: William Laud

Question: Which album, by a dead artist, became the biggest selling of the 21st century in the UK in September 2011 (i.e only counting sales in the 21st century)?
Answer: Back to Black

Question: Who married Brooke Shields in 1997?
Answer: Andre Agassi

Question: Which playwright wrote the plays Heartbreak House, The Devil's Disciple and Back to Methusaleh?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw

Question: If you saw the word 'Sag' on an Indian menu which vegetable would it signify?
Answer: Spinach

Question: Who is this: An American President sometimes called the 'Father of the Constitution', during his term of office the Treaty of Ghent was signed ending the war between Britain and America. He was also responsible for seizing West Florida from Spain?
Answer: James Madison

Question: American military slang for the time of half past midnight is part of the title of which 2013 Oscar nominated film?
Answer: Zero Dark Thirty

Question: What is considered the most successful (financially and most other ways) Australian film of the 1980's?
Answer: Crocodile Dundee

Question: Who, according to Pseudo-Apollodorus, was the only woman on the crew of the Argo?
Answer: Atalanta

Question: What, in a word, are retinol, niacin, cobalamin and ascorbic acid?
Answer: Vitamins

Question: Monte Marmolada is the highest peak in which mountain range?
Answer: The Dolomites

Question: What did the blowing up of the Gamboa Dyke effectively open in 1913?
Answer: The Panama Canal

Question: Of what country is Mogadishu the capital?
Answer: Somalia

Question: Who trained the winners of four of the five racing classics in 2012 (Christian name and surname please)?
Answer: Aidan O'Brien

Question: Who won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 2013?
Answer: Marion Bartoli

Question: Which Republic of Ireland football club was the first Irish club ever to get through to the group stage of the Europa Cup?
Answer: Shamrock Rovers

Question: Who founded the Young Men's Christian Association?
Answer: George Williams

Question: What links a famous Park Avenue store, Audrey Hepburn and the song 'I think we're alone now'?
Answer: Tiffany

Question: To which dynasty did the Plantagenet kings from Henry II to Richard II belong?
Answer: Angevin

Question: Name one of the two actresses who played Helen, the wife of James Herriott in the series 'All creatures great and small ?
Answer: Lynda Bellingham or Carol Drinkwater

Question: Which football team, nicknamed The Bluebirds, changed their mainly blue strip to red shirts at the beginning of the 2012/13 season?
Answer: Cardiff City

Question: What was the name of the 1990's sitcom featuring Joe McCann, Diana Weston and Honor Blackman?
Answer: The Upper Hand

Question: In which of the Gulf States is Al-Jazeera based?
Answer: Qatar

Question: A Jayhawker was a term applied to anti-slavery militant bands from a certain US state that clashed with pro-slavery factions from Missouri. Which state is this, sometimes referred to as the Jayhawk State?
Answer: Kansas

Question: For what were Baffin, Frobisher and Franklin all searching?
Answer: The Northwest Passage

Question: Which French cigarette brand, whose name translates as 'Gypsy Woman', has a logo featuring such a woman playing a tambourine?
Answer: Gitane

Question: In pop record terms, what have Snow Patrol being doing to cars, Adele to pavements and Shed Seven to rainbows?
Answer: Chasing