Universal Stumpers VIII by Sijnaanik

What singer and former frontman released the album Ukulele Songs in 2011?

What former one hit wonder served 28 days in prison for voluntary manslaughter of a country music writer in 1978, and died of an alleged self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1989? The wound was inflicted the previous year in a taxicab in Guatemala City, where unsubstantiated rumors circulated that he was selling arms to the Contras.

Mystery writer Ellis Peters wrote a series of novels centering on a 12th century monk in the town of Shrewsbury who has a talent for solving murders. Name this monk, who has been played by Derek Jacobi in a television adaptation.

What clothing brand once advertised that all its products had to pass 11 quality tests, as well as the approval of an elderly woman known as Inspector 12?

For most of the 13th through 17th centuries, The King of Bohemia, The Count Palatine of the Rhine, The Duke of Saxony, The Margrave of Brandenburg, and the Archbishops of Mainz, Trier, and Cologne, were the seven people who comprised what group?

S1W, or Security of the First World, were a group known for backing what band?

What do Steve Urkel, Arthur Fonzerelli, and Ben Linus have in common?

When the Modern Library published their list of 100 best English language novels of the 20th Century, what Arthur Koestler novel about a political prisoner was included at #8, despite having been translated from German? (This was allowed because the original German version had been lost at the time.)

The fictitious land of Xanth, setting of fantasy novels by Piers Anthony, bears an uncanny resemblance to what US state?

What 1942 event did Churchill call the “worst disaster” and “largest capitulation” in British military history?

In the Menotti opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, who are the night visitors?

What is Fiddler’s Green?