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Harder Randoms 3
Warning! Likely to make you feel dumb.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who is the first to score a century in ten Test playing nations and has also held the record for most Test catches? | Rahul Dravid |
| Which Swiss artist had a studio where he taught other artists including Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Whistler? | Charles Gleyre |
| Which French impressionist painter died in the Franco Prussian War at the age of 28? | Fréderic Bazille |
| In World War II, which country was home to the Hitler Line, breached in May 1944? | Italy |
| The singer Bloem de Ligny who sang "Bom Bom" as part of Sam and the Womp is from which country? | The Netherlands |
| In the video to which hit song is the lead singer dressed as an elephant making its getaway from a zoo on a unicycle? | "Paradise" by Coldplay |
| In the video to which hit song is the lead singer seen on a tricycle, as a figure in a music box and as a string puppet? | "Price Tag" by Jessie J and B.o.B. |
| Which hit song did Emeli Sandé sing at the 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony? | Read All About It |
| Which ancient city, which was capital of a kingdom bequeathed to the Roman Empire in 133 BC, was near modern day Burgama in Turkey? | Pergamon |
| Who led the revolt that defeated the last Western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus in 476AD, becoming the first barbarian King of Italy? | (Flavius) Odoacer OR Odovacer |
| Which singer performs in drag as the male alter ego Jo Calderone? | Lady Gaga |
| Which singer's alter egos include Harajuku Barbie and Roman Zolanski? | Nicki Minaj |
| Quintus Roscius Galla, known generally as Roscius and once famously defended by Cicero, was one of the highest regarded Romans of which profession? | Actor |
| In Ancient Rome, what name was given to an apartment building, of the sort that housed most of the urban population? | Insula |
| In Ancient Rome what was the name of the amulet given to male babies aged nine days and worn around the neck until the age of 16? | Bulla |
| In Ancient Roman Army what was the smallest unit of soldiers, eight men who, with their two servants were overseen by a Decanum? | Contubernium |
| Which Roman Emperor sent relief to the survivors of Pompeii and oversaw the inaugural games at the Colosseum? | Titus |
| Which Roman general died after the battle of Carrhae in 53BC, according to one story by having gold poured down his throat? | Crassus |
| Which actor stars in "Transformers", "Constantine", "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull" and "Lawless"? | Shia LeBoeuf |
| Which actor stars in "The A Team", "All About Steve", "The Hangover" and "Limitless"? | Bradley Cooper |
| In which US state is the International Tennis Hall of Fame? | Rhode Island |
| In which US state is the Pro Football Hall of Fame? | Ohio |
| Who won the Wimbledon men's singles title in 1954 and won an Olympic silver in 1948 for ice hockey? | Jaroslav Drobny |
| Which diacritic mark, a hook placed under vowels, takes its name from the Polish for little tail? | Ogonek |
| What is the one word German name for the character that looks similar to a truncated Greek beta and indicates a double s sound? | Eszett |
| Which Professor of Linguistics at the University of Birmingham fuelled the class debate by coining the terms U and non-U? | Alan C Ross |
| Taking its name from the Greek for "ox-turning" in which form of writing is every other line mirror reflected about a vertical axis? | Boustrophedon |
| Taylor Lautner was one of the ten highest paid Hollywood Stars of 2011 largely for playing which role in the Twilight films? | Jacob Black |
| Which black actor, one of the highest paid entertainers of 2011, largely for playing Mabel Simmons? | Tyler Perry |
| Created by Joe Petagno, War-Pig or Snaggletooth appears on album covers of which rock band? | Motörhead |
| In the film "This Is Spinal Tap" the band has a metal umlaut over which letter of its name? | N |
| Along with Metallica and Slayer which two bands make up the Big Four of Thrash Metal? | Anthrax and Megadeth |
| Which artist was responsible for Iron Maiden's Eddie artwork from 1980 to 1992? | Derek Riggs |
| Whose 2011 novel, "Untold Story", imagines Princess Diana arranging her own disappearance and trying to live undiscovered in Middle America? | Monica Ali |
| Sports journalist Matthew Syed was a three times Commonwealth champion in which sport? | Table Tennis |
| Reaching the 1977 US Open Ladies doubles final, which player did Richard Raskind become after a 1975 sex change? | Renée Richards |
| Written under the name Mary Godolphin, what connects all the words in Lucy Aikins versions of Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress and Swiss Family Robinson? | One syllable |
| Which US author is best known for his 50,000 word novel "Gadsby" which omits the letter E throughout? | Ernest Vincent Wright |
| Which Italian, who died in 1932, is best known for his simplified version of Latin and his axiomisation of natural numbers? | Giuseppe Peano |
| Which inventor used a metal detector to try and find the bullet in the dying President Garfield's chest? | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Wroclaw was the historical capital of which region covering parts of Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic? | Silesia |
| Astronaut Neil Armstrong was born and died in which US state? | Ohio |
| Buzz Aldrin, Meryl Streep and Whitney Houston were all born in which US state? | New Jersey |
| After which marine creature were the decoy sites used to protect British towns and cities from night time bombing in the Blitz known? | Starfish |
| Which magician led a group called the Magic Gang which hid Alexandra and Suez Canal from the Germans in World War II? | Joseph Maskelyne |
| Peter Cetera, who had a big 1986 hit with "The Glory of Love" was born and raised in which US city? | Chicago |
| Which gate in the northeastern wall of Ancient Rome, was the name of an 88BC battle in which Sulla ended the Social War? | Battle of Colline Gate |
| Who has a statue in Burgundy at the purported site of Alesia where he was defeated in 52 BC? | Vercingetorix |
| Damin, the only language outside Africa to use click consonants, is spoken in islands off the north coast of which country? | Australia |
| Spoken by around 8 million people, which official language of South Africa is noted for its click consonants? | Xhosa |
| "Jar of Hearts" was the 2010 breakout single for which Philadelphia born singer? | Christina Perri |
| A cover of which song by "The Calling" was the 2011 breakout single for Charlene Soraia? | Wherever You Will Go |
| Books of which American's works include "Dear Dead Days", "Favourite Haunts" and "Happy Ever After: A Collection of Cartoons to Chill the Heart of Your Loved One"? | Charles Addams |
| In which country in 2009, was President Ma criticised for his handling of Hurricane Morakot, the worst typhoon to hit the country in 50 years? | Taiwan |
| Sun Wukong, who creates chaos in the Heavenly Kingdom in Wu Cheng'en's epic novel "Journey To the West" is what sort of animal? | Monkey |
| An Op Artist working mainly in black, white and red, what was the nationality of Omar Rayo? | Colombian |
| Telling of a Dutch trader in Borneo and his half-cast daughter Nina, "Almayer's Folly" was the debut novel of which author? | Joseph Conrad |
| In which country are the shows "Pinoy Idol" and "Pinoy Big Brother" made? | Philippines |
| Amy Tan's debut novel "The Joy Luck Club" centres around which game? | Mahjong |
| Which 2005 book by Elizabeth Kostova was the first ever debut novel to hit number one in the New York Times Bestseller list in its first week? | The Historian |
| Which detective first appeared in the 1923 novel "Whose Body?" | Lord Peter Wimsey |
| Published in 1905, what was EM Forster's first novel, taking its name from a well known line of Alexander Pope? | Where Angels Fear To Tread |
| Whose debut novel was the 1993 "The Virgin Suicides", a novel noted for its first person plural narration? | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| The names of four sports can be preceded by "wheelchair" to make a Paralympic sport. If basketball and rugby are two, what are the others? | Fencing and tennis |
| How many players should be in play at any time on a Paralympic goalball team? | Three |
| Which two colours of the Olympic rings are not on the Paralympic logo? | Yellow and black |
| Appropriately enough, who was the director of the 2012 film "The Amazing Spider-Man"? | Mark Webb |
| Played by Gwyneth Paltrow in "Iron Man" and "The Avengers" who is Iron Man's love interest? | (Virginia) Pepper Potts |
| Which member of the team did former "Home and Away" actor Chris Hemmsworth play in the 2012 film "The Avengers"? | Thor |
| Coming from Greek words meaning "light" and "to show", what name is given to light seen that isn't entering the eye, such as when rubbing the eyes or after a bang on the head? | Phosphenes |
| Which Italian special effects man who died in 2012 designed ET and created the mechanical head effects in "Alien"? | Carlo Rambaldi |
| What is the name of the Syrian Prime Minister who defected from President Bashar's government in August 2012 to join the revolution? | Riad Hijab |
| Which US magazine editor was played by Natalie Wood in the film "Sex and the Single Girl"? | Helen Gurley Brown |
| What name replaced Olivia as the most popular name given to girls in the UK in 2011? | Amelia |
| Miss World 2012 was held in the city of Ordos in which Asian country? | China (in Inner Mongolia) |
| By what name did Phyllis Diller usually refer to her husband when on stage? | Fang |
| Which writer, who was raised by an African American maid in lieu of an absent mother, wrote "The Help"? | Kathryn Stockett |
| What name links Captain Shane Schofield in books by Matthew Reilly, Dr Jonathan Crane who spreads fear gas in Batman stories and a character in books by L Frank Baum? | Scarecrow |
| John Green's novel "The Fault In Our Stars" takes its name from a quote in which Shakespeare play? | Julius Caesar |
| For which crime was suffragette Mary Richardson jailed for six months in 1914? | Slashing the Rokeby Venus |
| Which German pacifist was, in 1935, the first person to win the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison? | Carl von Ossietzky |
| Which French language film directed by Michael Haneke won the 2012 Palm D'Or, his second win in three years? | Amour (Love) |
| Which Nebraskan representation of an English landmark is made of 38 spray painted cars? | Carhenge |
| Which Italian language film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani won the 2012 Golden Bear at Berlin? | Caesar Must Die |
| Which popular 1996 PlayStation game involves being trapped in a booby-trapped zombie infested mansion on the outskirts of Raccoon City? | Resident Evil |
| What did Sony launch in 2012 as a successor to the PlayStation Portable? | PS Vita |
| Which British actor is the narrator of the computer games LittleBigPlanet? | Stephen Fry |
| Rodrick Rules, The Last Straw and Dog Days are books in which series of children's books by Jeff Kinney? | Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| Who stars as Douglas Quaid in the 2012 remake of "Total Recall"? | Colin Farrell |
| Which stand-up comedian won the 2010 Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album with "The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo"? | Steve Martin |
| Which Cameroon lake suffocated 1,700 people in 1986 by releasing a sudden cloud of carbon dioxide? | Lake Nyos |
| Also called the Bight of Biafra, on which inlet of the Gulf of Guinea do Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea lie? | Bight of Bonney |
| What is the largest city and main port of Cameroon? | Douala |
| Terracotta statues are associated with which Iron Age people of central Nigeria? | Nok people |
| Which African language is spoken by 25 million people in Nigeria and its surrounding countries? | Hausa language |
| The people of which Latin American country are referred to as Ticos if male and Ticas if female? | Costa Rica |
| Which famous singer, born in Ibadan, Nigeria, has sold over 110 million albums worldwide? | Sade |
| Which Nigerian born author won the 1991 Booker Prize? | Ben Okri |
| Furry haired troll dolls originated in 1959 in which country? | Denmark |
| Which game, patented by Charles F Foley and Neil Rabens, became popular in 1966 after Eva Gabor and Johnny Carson played it on "The Tonight Show"? | Twister |
| Which country has produced over two fifths of the world's chromium? | South Africa |
| A cheese and bacon filled hamburger in which the buns are replaced by doughnuts are usually named after which singer, who died of a heart attack in 2005? | Luther Vandross |
| Which word can mean an electronic circuit with two stable states, an item of footwear or a political U-turn in the US? | Flipflop |
| Louise Borgeois (1911-2010) was a French-American sculptor best known for her giant sculptures of which creatures? | Spiders |
| Which word is used to mean one who holds or has held one of the forty seats of the Académie Francaise? | Immortel |
| Who has directed videos for the Arctic Monkeys but is better known for acting in "The IT Crowd"? | Richard Ayoade |
| Which French novelist wrote a satirical "Dictionnaire des idée recue" or "Dictionary of Received Ideas"? | Gustave Flaubert |
| The sacking of which French finance minister by King Louis XVI in July 1789 led to the Storming of the Bastille? | Joseph Necker |
| Which Canadian artist's most famous work is probably Shibboleth, a 167 metre long crack in the floor of the turbine hall of the Tate Modern? | Doris Salcedo |
| Which Danish-Icelandic artists works include 2004's The Weather Project in the turbine hall of the Tate Modern? | Olafur Eliasson |
| Which actor in "The IT Crowd" has also appeared as Officer Nathan Rhodes in "Bridesmaids"? | Chris O'Dowd |
| Which Sheffield geologist used etched iron under a microscope to show that carbon gave iron strength? | Henry Clifton Sorby |
| In 1906, German chemist Alfred Wilm discovered which alloy, used in planes and made from aluminium, copper, magnesium & manganese? | Duralumine |
| Which 1958 British film starring John Mills was shown in the US as "Desert Attack"? | Ice Cold in Alex |
| "A Saucerful of Secrets", "Ummagumma" and "Meddle" are three of the fourteen studio albums by which band? | Pink Floyd |
| "Goats Head Soup", "Black and Blue" and "A Bigger Bang" are three of the 29 studio albums by which band? | Rolling Stones |
| Which Marvel Comic book hero, who first appeared in 1974, is born James Howlett but is also known as Logan? | Wolverine |
| What is the Marvel Comic superhero name of Ororo T'Chalia, former queen consort of Wakanda? | Storm |
| Which 2012 Paralympic table tennis player had one shot in his losing quarter final go viral with over 4 million views? | David Wetherill |
| The Carron Fish Bar in Stonehaven is best known for inventing what? | The deep fried Mars Bar |
| In 2012, who was declared the richest rapper by Forbes magazine, largely due to his successful Beats headphones? | Dr Dre |
| In 2012, Sean Diddy Combs was Forbes magazine's second richest hip hop star, largely due to his investment in which brand of vodka? | Ciroc |
| Which country has a name meaning "depths" in Spanish? | Honduras |
| Which country has a name which comes from the Spanish for "shallow sea"? | Bahamas |
| Who beat Benazir Bhutto in an election to become President of the Oxford Union and in 2005 became Chairman of the British Olympic Commission? | Lord (Colin) Moynihan |
| Which athlete who is a quarter Punjabi was, in 2012, made Pro-Chancellor of Loughborough University where he had been an undergraduate? | Lord (Sebastian) Coe |
| Which Palm D'Or winning English director made the controversial "The Save the Children Fund Film" and tried to sue them for non-payment? | Ken Loach |
| In September 2012, which country expelled "Save the Children" workers, claiming the charity had been infiltrated by foreign intelligence agencies? | Pakistan |
| 419 scams are associated with which country? | Nigeria |
| Which US hip hop group's "Harder Than You Think" became their first UK top ten on the back of its use as the theme song to Channel 4's 2012 Paralympic coverage? | Public Enemy |
| Which wheelchair basketballer was a main host of Channel 4's Paralympic coverage alongside Claire Balding? | Ade Adepitan |
| Which singer and actress promotes breast self-examination kits called Liv-Kits and a cookbook called "Livwise: Easy Recipes for a Healthy, Happy Life"? | Olivia Newton-John |
| Which actress and singer created the blog GOOP and has a recipe book called "Notes From My Kitchen Table"? | Gwyneth Paltrow |
| Which Labour political adviser, married in 2005 to Kate Garraway, was at the centre of Lobbygate and Smeargate? | Derek Draper |
| Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton became, in 2009, the second woman to complete the 78 mile ultramarathon in under 24 hours in which desert country? | Namibia |
| Which singer, songwriter, drummer, DJ and model with the surname Arnold released three EPs online before joiniing a record label? | Florrie |
| Who appeared in Emmerdale and Titanic before playing Oswin Oswald in "Doctor Who"? | Jenna Louise-Coleman (Oswin is Clara Oswin Oswald) |
| Which voluptuous redhead best known for playing Joan Holloway in "Mad Men" was in 2010 voted Best Looking American Woman by "Esquire" magazine? | Christina Hendricks |
| Who in 2012 replaced Holly Willoughby as the presenter of ITV's "Dancing On Ice"? | Christine Bleakley |
| Who spent ten years playing for Saracens and gained 51 England caps before winning the second series of "Dancing on Ice"? | Kyran Bracken |
| Which Colombian actress stars at Gloria Delgado-Pratchitt in the US series "Modern Family"? | Sofia Vergara |
| Caggie Dunlop and Spencer Matthews were stars of which structured reality series? | Made in Chelsea |
| Which "Friends" actress has a father who has appeared in the soap "Days of Our Lives" since 1985? | Jennifer Aniston |
| In Norse myth, who wears a necklace called Brisingamen and rides a chariot pulled by two cats? | Freya |
| In Norse myth, which goddess is usually regarded as the only other permitted to sit in Odin's high seat? | Frigg |
| Closely resembling lizards, but belonging to a separate order of reptiles, which country is home to tuataras? | New Zealand |
| Which amphibians of the order Apoda, resembling earthworms or snakes, are limbless, largely blind and live hidden in the ground? | Caecilians |
| Made in Okinawa, Japan, which awamori-based liqueur has a venomous pit viper dissolved in it? | Habushu |
| Which reptile has only two species, the American and the Chinese? | Alligator |
| Which demon of Babylonian mythology possesses Regan in the film "The Exorcist"? | Pazuzu |
| What name was given to the Roman military standard bearing the Christian chi-rho, originally used by Constantine I? | Labarum |
| Which Italian former Formula One driver won two 2012 golds at the Paralympic handcycling? | Alex Zanardi |
| Which 1999 horror movie made the town of Burkittsville, Maryland, briefly famous? | The Blair Witch Project |
| Alexandre de Beauharnais was guillotined in 1794. His widow is now largely remembered by what name? | Josephine Bonaparte |
| The 17th century painter, Giovanni Barbieri, was known as Il Guercino literally meaning what? | The Squinter |
| The 15th century painter, Domenico Bigordi, who included Michelangelo among his apprentices, was known by what name meaning garland-maker? | Ghirlandiao |
| What can be a small picture drawn by an artist on a work next to his signature or the surname of a German antiwar novelist? | Remarque |
| Which 1866 painting by Courbet shows the genitals of a woman believed to be Whistler's lover? | L'Origine du Monde |
| Hogarth's series of paintings called "The Rake's Progress" starts with "The Heir", "The Levée" and "The Orgy". What is the eighth and final painting called? | The Madhouse |
| Which word can be a cross with a pug and a beagle or a newborn duck-billed platypus? | Puggle |
| Giovanni Capello, Danielle Favre, Ali Nadeem and Anna Schmidt were characters in which ITV sitcom? | Mind Your Language |
| In 2012, which city was chosen by Las Vegas Sands Corp to be the home of the gambling resort dubbed Eurovegas? | Madrid |
| In 2011, the second of which peace prize, named after a man born in the 6th century BC, was awarded to Vladimir Putin? | Confucius Peace Prize |
| Named after a breed of sheep, the Karakul Hat is also known by what name after a world stateman who died in 1948? | Jinnah Hat |
| Taking its name from the Yoruba for crown, which brimless rounded hat is worn by many populations of all religions throughout West Africa? | Kufi |
| Under what pen-name did Anne Desclos write the erotic 1954 novel "L'Histoire d'O"? | Pauline Réage |
| Which US alternative rock band who had one UK top ten hit in 2005 with "Beverley Hill" were led by Rivers Cuomo? | Weezer |
| Which US alternative rock band, founded by John Flansbugh and John Linnell, is often abbreviated to TMBG? | They Might Be Giants |
| In the Republic of Ireland, Bonfire Night is held on St John's Eve on the 23rd of which month? | June |
| Which Geordie singer is backed by the Hooves of Destiny? | Beth Jeans Houghton |
| What is the three letter stage name of Brazilian singer Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças, also the Portuguese word for "sky"? | Céu |
| Which group did Jack White form after "The White Stripes" and "The Raconteurs"? | The Dead Weathers |
| Which Hollywood action comedy was an extended remake of the 1991 French film "La Totale!"? | True Lies |
| In TV series "Doc Martin", his surname Ellingham was taken as an anagram of who, the writer of the series? | (Dominic) Minghella |
| Starring Thierry Lhermitte, in which French region is their remake of "Doc Martin" set? | Brittany |
| Which member of the "Star Trek" cast directed "Three Men and a Baby"? | Leonard Nimoy |
| The film "Three Men and a Baby" is based on a French film called "Trois Hommes et un couffin". What is a "couffin"? | Cradle |
| Which tiny Florida city is noted for its cave diving and its mermaid displays? | Weeki Wachee |
| From 2000, which world leader was often seen with his black Labrador retriever Koni? | Vladimir Putin |
| The traditional Russian fur hat with ear flaps is known by what Russian name meaning "ear hat"? | Ushanka |
| Which chocolate coloured Labrador retriever was too frisky for Bill Clinton's cat Socks and had to be kept separate? | Buddy |
| In August 2012, which company was ordered by a California jury to pay Apple over a billion dollars in damages? | Samsung |
| In 2011, which Asian country's king married a student ten years his junior? | Bhutan (Jigme Wangchuk) |
| The Turnip Winter was a period of German food shortages starting in which year? | 1916 |
| What name is given to the right-wing theory that the German army did not lose World War I but were betrayed by civilians on the home front? | Stab-in-the-Back myth |
| In 2012, whose body was claimed to have been discovered in a derelict Convent of St Ursula in Florence? | Lisa Gherardini or del Gioconda |
| Which 2004 film, containing one of the most parodied scenes on Youtube, starred Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler? | Downfall/Der Untergang |
| Now situated under a car park, what famous Berlin location was marked for the first time during the 2006 World Cup? | Hitler's bunker (Vorbunker) |
| Which star of "Armageddon" reputedly gave $5 to people who recognised him and could say what his full name was, but was best known for the role of John Coffey? | Michael Clark Duncan |
| Actor Michael Clark Duncan gave up bodyguarding after he let someone sub for him on the night which rapper was shot? | Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls aka Notorious BIG |
| Which Bond theme was the singer's last recorded song before he died and the only Bond theme with lyrics by Hal David? | On Her Majesty's Secret Service |
| "Charlie Moon" and "A Cry From the Streets" are 1950s films starring which singer who died in 2012? | Max Bygraves |
| The roles of which actor and puppeteer, who died in 2012, included Count Von Count, The Snufflupagus, Kermit's nephew Robin and Gobo Fraggle? | Jerry Nelson |
| "Like A Lampshade in a Whorehouse" was the 2005 autobiography of which comedienne who once employed Joan Rivers as a joke writer and was a lifelong non-smoker? | Phyllis Diller |
| Dr Thomas Stockmann is the central character in which Henrik Ibsen play? | An Enemy of the People |
| Halverd Solness is the central character in which Henrik Ibsen play? | The Master Builder |
| Which parts were played by Phyllis Thaxter and Glenn Ford in the 1978 film "Superman"? | Ma and Pa Kent |
| Which Bond theme was composed by Marvin Hamlisch? | Nobody Does It Better (The Spy Who Loved Me) |
| In 2005, which football manager girlfriend hosted a show called "Footballer's Cribs" on MTV | Nancy Dell'Olio |
| Which German city, named after a Roman emperor, is the only one with its own legal holiday? | Augsburg |
| The Constantine Basilica, the throne hall of the Roman emperor, is found in which German city? | Trier |
| Introduced in 1997 for use on the mass transit system, the colourful Octopus Card is used for transactions in which territory? | Hong Kong |
| The first contactless smart card system in the world, Upass, is used to pay for transport in which Asian city? | Seoul |
| While the term Maginot Line is used for France's WW2 fortifications facing Germany, what name is given to those on the Franco-Italian border? | Alpine Line |
| What did the Germans call the World War II defensive line known in English as the Siegfried Line? | Westwall |
| Hanja is the name for Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and used in which language? | Korean |
| Hepburn romanisation is the commonest way of transcribing the sounds of which language into the Roman alphabet? | Japanese |
| Which 1972 book is subtitled "A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"? | Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas |
| September 2nd, the date of which 1870 battle of the Franco-Prussian War was celebrated as an unofficial holiday in Germany until 1919? | Battle of Sedan |
| In 2011, Washington Monument was closed (until its reopening in 2014) after being damaged by an earthquake and which hurricane? | Hurricane Irene |
| Which DC landmark, which over a quarter of a million people stood around and in for Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech, was restored from 2010 to 2012? | Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool |
| What was the most widespread of the Rainbow Herbicides used as part of Operation Trail-Dust and named after the colours of the barrels containing them? | Agent Orange |
| Named after the Japanese city which saw such a disaster affect thousands, Minamata disease is a poisoning by which chemical element? | Mercury |
| The Seveso Disaster of 1976, saw widespread release of toxic TCDD in an area nine miles north of which Italian city? | Milan |
| What name with a repeated first syllable is given to the plant Simmondsia chinensis, used in moisturisers and as a carrier for fragrances? | Jojoba |
| Which succulent plant, used widely in herbal medicine despite no evidence of any benefits, is commonly known by its binomial name? | Aloe vera |
| The BBC programme "Fake or Fortune?" investigated a version of Dirck van Baburen's "The Procuress" and found it was by which forger, so making it more valuable? | Hans van Meegeren |
| Which ancient name for Mecca is still used to mean the sacred area around the Kaaba? | Bakkah |
| The pre-Islamic city of Yathrib is now generally known in the west what name, meaning "city"? | Medina |
| The gold for the medals at the 2012 Olympic medals came from which Asian country? | Mongolia |
| Who won Grenada's first Olympic medal, a gold in the 400 metres? | Kirani James |
| What was nominated for 16 Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012 and 11 in 2011, making it the most nominated non-US programme in Emmy history? | Downton Abbey |
| Which Commonwealth country has the King Protea as its national flower? | South Africa |
| In 1806, Queen Louise of Prussia hid her children in a field of which flowers which became the national flower of Germany? | Cornflowers |
| Which popular perennial flowering plant with upswept petals takes its name from the Greek for circle, possibly due to its round tubers? | Cyclamen |
| Whose retirement in 2012 leaves the US without an active Grand Slam winner for the first time in 129 years? | Andy Roddick |
| An rare condition involving an exaggerated startle reflex is known as the Jumping Frenchmen of which US state? | Maine |
| Which city is due to be the host of the 2015 Pan Arab games? | Beirut |
| Which Canadian city is due to be the host of the 2015 Pan American Games? | Toronto |
| A modern building inspired by ancient Islamic architecture, who designed Doha's Museum of Islamic Art? | IM Pei |
| Nicknamed the Laptop, what is the name of the world's first underground stadium in Doha, Qatar? | The Wall Stadium |
| The film "Casablanca" was inspired by the 1938 film "Algiers" and was wriiten for which actress from that film who MGM refused to release? | Hedy Lamarr |
| Which 1966 film by Gillo Pontecorvo, based on an event of 1957, has been hailed as an important commentary on guerilla warfare? | The Battle of Algiers |
| The surname of which country singer is also a word in particle physics, coined by Richard Feynmann, for a particle that is either a quark or a gluon? | Parton |
| For developing which area of particle physics did Feynmann, Tomonaga and Schwinger receive the Nobel Physics Prize in 1965? | Quantum Electrodynamics |
| In the 1956 film "High Society", based on the 1940 film "The Philadelphia Story", if Cary Grant became Bing Crosby, who did James Stewart become? | Frank Sinatra |
| "High Society" was Grace Kelly's last film and her singing debut. Which song did she duet with Bing Crosby? | True Love |
| Which country was one of the first three outside the US to bottle Coca Cola, but now doesn't buy or sell it? | Cuba |
| The novel "I Want You" by Federico Moccia sparked a craze of lovers adding what to locations around the world, especially the Ponte Milvio in Rome? | Padlocks |
| The blue-bottomed monkey called the lesula, was discovered in 2007 and confirmed in 2012 in which country? | Democratic Republic of Congo |
| What is the Italian word for a summer hit song that is played everywhere you go? | Tormentino |
| Which German mathematician is best known for a cut named after him that is used to define the real numbers? | Richard Dedekind |
| Who in 1878 advanced the theorem that there is no set, whose cardinality is between that of the integers and the real numbers, known as the continuum hypothesis? | Georg Cantor |
| Which famous event was originally billed as "An Aquarian Exposition in White Lane, New York"? | Woodstock |
| Later a hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Matthews Southern Comfort, who wrote the song "Woodstock" despite not being there? | Joni Mitchell |
| Which Finn has been a singer, a stripper, has given his name to a cider, has been jailed for 26 months for a stabbing and 19 months for assaulting his wife, and has won four Olympic golds and five World Championship titles in ski jumping? | Matti Nykänen |
| Why, in France in 1977, did Tunisian immigrant Hamida Djandoubi, become a famous last? | Last to be guillotined (or executed) |
| Longyearbyen is the largest settlement on which European island, its country's largest? | Spitzbergen |
| Which 2008 film starring Dany Boon as a postal worker who is sent to work near Calais became the most successful French film in France? | Bienvenu Chez le Ch'tis (Welcome to the Sticks) |
| Which famous film included a sorcerer called Yen Sid? | Fantasia |
| General Jan Dodonna, is known to fans of a 1977 movie, as the first to say which famous line? | May the Force be With You |
| With over 94,000 pages in 2012, what is the name of the biggest online encyclopaedia dedicated to all things "Star Wars"? | Wookieepedia |
| Who is best known as a star of Louis Bunuel's "The Discreet Charms of the Borgeois" and various films directed by her ex-husband Claude Chabrol? | Stephane Audran |
| Known for his Latin lover roles, who is the male star of many of Federico Fellini's films including "La Dolce Vita"? | Marcello Mastroianni |
| Ehenfried von Tschirnhaus and Johann Böttger, working for Frederick Augustus II, are credited as the first Europeans to make which product in the early 1700s? | Porcelain |
| Which 2004 runner-up in "American Idol" won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for "Dreamgirls"? | Jennifer Hudson |
| Born Leslie Thomas Hardin, this US jazz musician invented several musical instruments including a trimba. Used by a famous US DJ and in an early name of the Beatles, what was his performing name? | Moondog |
| Which Pulitzer Prize winning author released the 2012 novel "Black Box" as tweets on Twitter? | Jennifer Egan |
| Used by philosophers such as Derrida, which word means the believe that sounds and speech are inherently superior to written language? | Phonocentrism |
| Which Belgian phallagocentrist wrote "Speculum of the Other Woman" and "An Ethics of Sexual Difference"? | Luce Irigaray |
| Which airline, one of the largest in the world, was headquartered at Elk Grove Township until 2007 when its HQ moved to Chicago? | United Airlines |
| Which Washington DC station also serves as the headquarters of Amtrak? | Union Station |
| For which game, originally created by Gary Gygax and Dave Ameson, is a fifth edition planned for its 40th anniversary in 2014? | Dungeons and Dragons |
| Named after the mathematician who allegedly invented it, which drinking vessel, designed to encourage moderation, spills its contents out of the bottom if overfilled? | Pythagorean Cup |
| Which Swedish folk due comprises the sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg? | First Aid Kit |
| Who featues alongside Maroon 5 on the hit single "Moves Like Jagger"? | Christina Aguilera |
| At 47,500 square metres, the world's second largest thermal lake and the largest in Europe, Lake Héviz is in which country? | Hungary |
| Which Hungarian city was linked along with Buda and Pest in 1873 to form Budapest? | Obuda |
| What is the second largest city in Hungary after Budapest? | Debrecen |
| Nicknamed Spartacus, which Swiss cyclist became in 2012, the rider with the most frequent wearer of the Tour De France's yellow jerseys without ever winning it? | Fabian Cancellera |
| To whom did Laurent Fignon lose his attempt to win a third Tour de France in 1989 by a record eight seconds? | Greg LeMond |
| Belgian cyclist Laurent Fignon shares which nickname with a 1980s/90s Formula One driver? | The Professor |
| Which Belgian won the Légion d'honneur for his work on telegraphy, invented the first successful internal combustion engine and died in poverty in 1900? | Étienne Lenoir |
| Who resigned from Congress in January 2012 to concentrate on recovering from her wounds? | Gabrielle Giffords |
| A younger brother of Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, which French king abdicated after the 1830 July Revolution, romanticised by Delacroix in his "Liberty Leading the People"? | Charles X |
| "The Raft of the Medusa" by Géricault depicts the aftermath of the 1816 wreck of a ship off the coast of which modern day country? | Mauritania |
| Since 2006 the National Tennis Centre at Flushing Meadows has been named after which US tennis player? | Billie Jean King |
| Since 1998, the centre court at Roland Garros has been named after which ITC president (1977-91)? | Phillippe Chartier |
| The number 2 court at the US Open is named after which musician who lived nearby until his death in 1971? | Louis Armstrong |
| Issyk Kul, the world's second largest saline lake after the Caspian Sea is in the Tian Shan mountains in which country? | Kyrghyzstan |
| At the start of 2012, which Ohio born athlete had run 25 of the world's 100 fastest times in the 400 metres hurdles? | Edwin Moses |
| Agate with black and white banding is called black onyx, but what similar name is given to agate with brown, orange, red and white banding? | Sardonyx |
| Agate, carnelian and heliotrope are all varieties of which cryptocrystalline form of silica, possibly named after a town in Asia Minor? | Chalcedony |
| In which US TV series, running from 1987 to 1991, did Ken Olin play Michael Steadman? | thirtysomething |
| Which mathematical term means the generalisation of the concept of a vector used in general relativity or continuum mechanics? | Tensor |
| Who created the cockroach Archy, who would write about life in New York with an alley cat called Mehitobel? | Don Marquis |
| His surname was Harris but he also wrote as John Benyan and Lucas Parkes. Which two first names were the more well known pen name of this British sci-fi writer? | John Wyndham |
| Which Russian physicist who died aged 37 is best known for his equations for expanding space derived from Einstein's field equations? | Alexander Friedmann |
| Which material was developed in the 3rd or 2nd century BC in Pergamon, now known as Burgama, in Turkey and named after the city? | Parchment |
| Which musical instrument is described as headless if it has no skin? | Tambourine |
| Which word beginning with Z means finger cymbals such as those used in belly dancing music? | Zills |
| Which Italian company, the world's oldest active firearms manufacturer, makes the M9 pistol, the primary side arm of the US Army, Marine Corps and Air Force? | Baretta |
| Glock, who make firearms for many of the world's law enforcement organisations, are based in which country? | Austria |
| Which English cleric wrote the 1865 work "The Book of Were-Wolves" as well as penning the lyrics to "Onward Christian Soldiers"? | Sabine Baring-Gould |
| Which English cleric wrote the 1860 work "Outlines of British Fungology" and has over 6,000 species credited to him? | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
| Which Japanese chef, known for his Japanese-Peruvian fusion dishes, has a friendship with Robert de Niro which has landed him roles in "Casino", "Goldmember" and "Memoirs of a Geisha"? | Nobu Matsuhisa |
| Japanese chef Kenji Fujimoto is best known for having been the personal sushi chef of which very private world leader? | Kim Jong-Il |
| In 2005, who won an Oscar for playing an Oscar winner? | Cate Blanchett (K Hepburn in "The Aviator") |
| Which silicate gem shares its name with the man who streaked at the 1974 Oscars and a chat show host in "The Simpsons"? | Opal |
| Discovered in 1956 in Australia, and weighing over 3 kilos, what is the world's largest gem opal? | Olympic Australis |
| The name of which organic gem similar to amber can be made by adding one letter to the word "opal"? | Copal |
| Sharing its name with the sword in the centre, which Sikh symbol also consists of a circle and two single-edged swords? | Khanda |
| Which Sikh symbol, literally meaning "one constant" is often translated as "One Supreme Reality"? | Ik Onkhar |
| Meaning "Strength Through Joy", which Nazi controlled leisure organisation was the largest tourism operator of the 1930s? | Kraft durch Freude (KdF) |
| Launched in 1977, which spacecraft was originally planned to be called Mariner 11? | Voyager 1 |
| Launched in 2006, which spacecraft is planned to be the first to study Pluto? | New Horizons |
| Which word can be a group of bones or the first meeting place of Antony and Cleopatra? | Tarsus |
| The Tatra mountains lie on the border between Poland and which country? | Slovakia |
| With a name meaning "scratches" which mountain in the High Tatras is the highest in Poland? | Rysy |
| The five species of which rodents of the genus Cynomys are black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison's, Utah and Mexican? | Prairie Dog |
| Created by Walt Kelly and living in the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, which possum appeared as a comic strip from 1948 to 1975? | Pogo |
| In conservation, what architecture inspired term is used for species that have a disproportionate affect on their environment for their abundance, so would drastically change an ecosystem if removed? | Keystone species |
| Based in Geneva and founded by French former sports-car journalist Claude Vorilhon in 1974, what claims to be the largest UFO religion in the world? | Raelism |
| Which pair of Disney characters of the genus Tamias differentiated by their teeth, hair and noses, were named after an 18th century Englishman? | Chip 'n' Dale |
| Which word means silk workers, especially in Lyon, and gives its name to a series of riots starting in 1831? | Canuts |
| The largest recorded in 1913 weighed 5,000 kilogrammes. What is the largest mammal of the order Carnivora? | Southern Elephant Seal |
| Associated with the Barefoot Diva, Cesaria Évoria, which form of singing, originated in Cape Verde? | Morna |
| Which city on the Peel River in New South Wales is home to the Big Golden Guitar and is known as the Country Music Capital of Australia? | Tamworth |
| Which stadium can hold two-thirds of its country's population and hosted the UEFA Super Cup from 1998 to 2012? | Louis II Stadium, Monaco |
| In 2010, which English manager took Dutch team FC Twente to the top of the Dutch Premiership for the first time? | Steve McLaren |
| Which portmanteau word for African American speech was coined by the black social scientist Robert Williams in 1973? | Ebonics |
| Which word, from the French for to copy, means a word or phrase, borrowed from a language by word-for-word or root-for-root translation? | Calque |
| What is the Arabic name for the facial covering known in Turkish as a yashmak? | Niqab |
| Which 23rd century BC daughter of Sargon of Akkad collected hymns and is so thought to be the earliest writer known by name? | Enheduanna |
| Which off-shoot of cubism, whose meaning has remained vague, was pioneered by Frantisek Kupka and Robert Delauney with his wife Sonia? | Orphism |
| Brian Jones, Jimmi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse all died at what age? | 27 |
| Who sadly died aged 12, being famous for the line "They're here"? | Heather O'Rourke |
| Which Dutch-American band, originally called "Genesis", has since 2006 featured two brothers and one of their sons? | Van Halen |
| Which 80s hit starts "Last night I had the strangest dream, I sailed away to China"? | Break My Stride |
| Which indie band was named after a 1965 children's book by singer, dancer, actress and director Cécile Aubry? | Belle and Sebastian |
| Recording together in 1956, Sun Records's Million Dollar Quartet included Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and which other singer who married seven times? | Jerry Lee Lewis |
| Which singer who married seven times was born Ruth Lee Jones and was known as Queen of the Blues? | Dinah Washington |
| Which famous debunker and magician built props for Alice Cooper's 1973-4 stage tour? | James Randi |
| Which acclaimed band, the first African-American band to sell out Madison Square Gardens, had a young David Copperfield working on their 1970s stage shows? | Earth, Wind and Fire |
| Who released the song "Let It Be" before the Beatles on her 1970 album "This Girl's in Love With You"? | Aretha Franklin |
| Which song of 2012 has had over 100 million views for a version by the Canadian indie band Walk Off The Earth? | Somebody That I Used To Know |
| Which American footballer for the Baltimore Ravens was the subject of the 2009 film "The Blind Side" played by Quinton Aaron? | Michael Oher |
| He moved from Denmark to LA to concentrate on his tennis but Lars Ulrich instead ended as the drummer for which band? | Metallica |
| With over 11 million copies sold worldwide, what is the bestselling single whose title is a girl's name? | Macarena |
| In 1994, who made the Guinness Book of Records for performing in front of 4.2 million in a free concert at Copacabana Beach, Rio? | Rod Stewart |
| Konzo or mantakassa is a paralytic disease seen largely in Africa caused by exclusive consumption of which unprocessed root crop? | Cassava |
| In which European country in 1981 were over 600 people killed by Toxic Oil Syndrome, traced to industrial colza oil being sold as olive oil? | Spain |
| Which unit is known in China as a metric catty or gongjin? | Kilogram |
| In China, how many metres are there in a metric li? | 500 |
| First climbed by Edward Whymper in 1880, which Ecuadorian mountain is the only point on the Equator with permanent snow cover? | (Volcan) Cayambe |
| Isabela Island, named after the Queen of Spain who sponsored Columbus, lies on the Equator and is the largest island in which group? | Galapagos Islands |
| "Everyone Will Fall", "Here Comes the Bogeyman" and "You Will Not Escape" are part of a famous series of aquatints called "Los Caprichos" by which artist? | Francisco Goya |
| In the 1962 Bond film, this Goya painting appeared in Dr No's lair, having been stolen the year before the film's release by a 61 year old retired bus driver who weighed 17 stone. The painting was returned in 1965, but who was the painting's subject? | The Duke of Wellington |
| Who had 45 sons, five of which have succeeded him as king of his country? | King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud |
| Which country is ruled by the Al Said dynasty who also claimed rule over Zanzibar until their overthrow in 1964? | Oman |
| Attendance at which 1943 conference, codenamed SYMBOL, was declined by Stalin due to the ongoing conflict in Stalingrad? | Casablanca |
| Which conference, codenamed Eureka, was the first of the World War II conferences between all the Big Three leaders? | Tehran Conference |
| What follows "Gerry Anderson and Christopher Burr's" to make the full title of a 1980s TV series? | Terrahawks |
| Which short lived Gerry Anderson puppet series followed the adventures of Father Stanley Unwin? | The Secret Service |
| Which character, played by John de Lancie, appeared in both the first and last episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation"? | Q |
| Which Prohibition saloonkeeper and actress was commemorated by the name of a character played on TV by Whoopi Goldberg? | (Texas) Guinan |
| Pieter Snayer's best known painting is of which battle that ended the Bohemian phase of the Thirty Years War? | Battle of the White Mountain |
| Carl Wahlborn's best known painting is of the death of Gustavus Adolphus in which 1632 battle of the Thirty Years' War? | Battle of Lutzen |
| Which Bohemian soldier was supreme commander of the armies of the Hapsberg Monarchy, but was assassinated in 1634 on the Emperor's approval? | Albrecht von Wallenstein |
| Which author, who wrote "Conversation in the Cathedral", in 1990 ran for the presidency of his country? | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Which famous 1967 novel is set in the fictional town of Macondo? | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Which "father of the skyscraper" mentored Frank Lloyd Wright, built the Wainwright Building in St Louis and coined the phrase "form follows function"? | Louis Sullivan |
| Which composer wrote the score to most of Peter Greenaway's films of the 1980s? | Michael Nyman |
| What was the name of Robert E Lee's 1,100 acre estate which was seized by Unionists during the Civil War and put to another use? | Arlington |
| Which battle of April 1st 1865 is nicknamed the "Waterloo of the Confederacy" and was followed by Lee's surrender, just over a week later? | Battle of Five Forks |
| Among the first Americans to use flash photography, who is best known for his 1890 photobook "How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York"? | Jacob Riis |
| Named after the German for "beech forest", and originally called Ettersburg after the mountain near Weimar on which it lies, what was the largest Nazi concentration camp on German soil? | Buchenwald |
| Which Nazi extermination camp in occupied Poland was bulldozed over and covered with pine trees to hide it after October 1943 when 600 prisoners escaped? | Sobibor |
| Which outfielder caught up in the Black Sox scandal of 1919 still holds the rookie batting average record? | Joe Jackson |
| In Hindu mythology, the Rigveda largely consists of hymns addressed to the fire god Agni and to which god of weather and war? | Indra |
| Which Chennai born player became the undisputed World Chess Champion in 2007? | Viswanathan Anand |
| Which British-Czech Moscow-born player in 1927 became the first women's world chess champion? | Vera Menchik |
| Her sister became the first women's world chess champion who was not Soviet or Chinese. Which Hungarian born player was the first woman to break into the male dominated top ten and beat a current world number one? | Judit Polgar |
| Which student of Marie Curie discovered francium in 1939 and in 1962 was the first woman to be elected as a correspondent member to the French Acad�mie des Sciences? | Marguerite Perey |
| The Seikan tunnel passes under which strait between Honshu and Hokkaido? | Tsugaru Strait |
| "Miracles of Life" is a 2008 autobiography of which writer, covering the period he had fictionalised in his most famous novel and its sequel "The Kindness of Women"? | JG Ballard |
| Under what pseudonym did Nakoula Basseley Nakoula post his Youtube trailer for "The Innocence of Muslims"? | Sam Bacile |
| In which country in 2012 did Portia Simpson-Miller become the second person to serve non-consecutive terms as Prime Minister? | Jamaica |
| In 2012, Joyce Banda became the first woman president of which African country? | Malawi |
| In 2012, which former Lutheran pastor became President of Germany? | Joachim Gauck |
| In 2012, former Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo was impeached and ousted as President of which country? | Paraguay |
| In 1972, which Australian swimmer won three Olympic golds in world record time and at the time held every world freestyle record from 100 metres to 1500 metres? | Shane Gould |
| What traditional Indonesian food item is made from soy beans fermented, bound into a cake and wrapped in banana leaves? | Tempeh |
| In the Indonesian dishes nasi kuning, nasi campur and nasi goreng what does nasi mean? | Rice |
| Which 2012 TV series is based on "Au Bonheur des Dames", an 1883 novel by Émile Zola? | The Paradise |
| In the early 1400s, the Ming government sent which explorer on seven naval expeditions in over 300 ships to Africa, Arabia, India and South East Asia? | Zheng He |
| What is the highest rank in sumo, indicated by a rope around the waist which gives the rank its name? | Yokozuma |
| What name is given to a referee in sumo wrestling? | Gyoji |
| Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ASBL) excited linguists in 2005 when it was found to have sprung up spontaneously in the last 70 years among the population of Al-Sayyid, 150 of which have inherited deafness from the village's 19th century founders. In wh | Israel |
| American Sign Language is most closely related to the sign language of which European country? | France |
| Amborella, the world's most primitive flowering plant and kagus, birds with nostril covers are found on which French Pacific colony? | New Caledonia |
| Considered the originator of the lifestyle magazine, which company founded in 1909 and named after its founder, publishes "The New Yorker", "Vogue", "GQ" and "Vanity Fair"? | Condé Nast |
| Which company publishes 130 magazines including "Sports Illustrated", "Fortune" and "Entertainment Weekly"? | Time Inc. |
| Although he was never cardinal, who was the original eminence grise? | Francois Leclerc du Tremblay |
| Sometimes considered to be the world's first Prime Minister, who was known as L'Eminence Rouge? | Cardinal Richelieu |
| Famous for "The Dance of the Hours", what was the first name of the 19th century Italian composer Pochielli? | Amilcare |
| Which Ponchielli opera, based on a play by Victor Hugo, shares its name with a famous painting? | La Gioconda |
| Under Walter Mondale, who in 1984 became the first woman in a US Presidential election to be running mate of a major party? | Geraldine Ferraro |
| Representing Wyoming from 1925, who became the first elected female state governor to take office? | Nellie Taylor Ross |
| Which US entertainment show was originally hosted by Steve Allen (1954-7) and Jack Paar (1957-62)? | The Tonight Show |
| In 2002, which Dallas Cowboys running back broke Walter Payton's record for the most yard rushed? | Emmitt Smith |
| Described as the biggest selling English language novelist in Indian history, whose first novel was the 2004 "Five Point Something" made into a popular Bollywood movie? | Chetan Bhagat |
| Dirk the Daring was the hero of which 1983 arcade game designed by ex-Disney animator Don Bluth? | Dragon's Lair |
| Originating in 1981, which video game primate has the name of a member of the horse family? | Donkey Kong |
| Which survival horror video game franchise is called "Biohazard" in Japan and as of 2012 has had five spin-off live action films and two animated films? | Resident Evil |
| Which German maker of bolt action rifles and pistols since 1870 was mentioned in the Pirates of Penzance's "Major General's Song" and in 1949 was renamed Heckler & Koch? | Mauser |
| Since 1986, Link has been the main protagonist in which Nintendo game series? | Legend of Zelda |
| Which company, which began as Compagnie Générale des Eaux by decree of Napoleon III, owns Universal Music, Canal+ and has a controlling stake in Activision Blizzard, which makes World of Warcraft? | Vivendi |
| From 1993 to his death the following year, Bill Hicks accused which fellow comedian and former friend of ripping off his act? | Dennis Leary |
| Which famous actor is a nephew of actor Denis Lawson? | Ewan McGregor |
| Which doubly misnamed board game was invented in Germany in 1892 under the name Stern-Halma and is played on a hexagram shaped board? | Chinese checkers |
| A board game invented independently by Danish mathematician Piet Hein in 1942 and US mathematician John Nash in 1947, it was marketed by Parker Brothers under what name? | Hex |
| Until exhaustion forced his retirement in 1979, which Italian born entertainer performed at the Blackpool Tower Circus every summer season for forty years? | Charlie Cairoli |
| Having drawn lots to eat a sailor after being shipwrecked in the 1780s, which German born artist is often claimed to be the only Royal Academician to have been a cannibal? | Johannes Zoffany |
| Which Mexican-American singer, bigger in South Africa than his native America, was ths subject of the 2012 documentary "Searching for Sugar Man", named after his biggest hit? | Sixto Rodriguez |
| Which 14th century bridge with shops on it has a name meaning "old bridge"? | Ponte Vecchio |
| Completed in 1973, what was the first bridge joining Europe and Asia since the pontoon bridges of Xerxes in the 5th century BC? | Bosphorus Bridge |
| Inaugurated in 2002 and named after one of its former presidents, the Juscelino Kubitschek bridge is a landmark in the capital of which country? | Brazil |
| Known as the Rio Grande in the USA, what is the river usually known as in Mexico? | Rio Bravo |
| Famous as a symbolic boundary of the Wild West, which river flows south 926 miles before emptying into the Rio Grande? | Pecos River |
| Which singer dubbed Lauren Bacall's singing voice in the film "To Have And Have Not"? | Andy Williams |
| In 1983, which group had a hit with "The Sun and The Rain", their last top ten until 1999? | Madness |
| Which pop band manager had three UK top twenty hits in the 80s credited to himself and The World's Famous Supreme Team? | Malcolm McLaren |
| Who wrote the songs "Radio Ga Ga", "A Kind of Magic" and "These Are The Days of Our Lives"? | Roger Taylor |
| For the video for "Radio Ga Ga" Queen had to pay the German government to use clips from which 1926 film? | Metropolis |
| Malcolm McLaren's last words were said to be a request to free which Native American activist, jailed after a 1973 shoot-out at Pine Ridge, South Dakota? | Leonard Peltier |
| Which atrocity at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation was carried out by the US 7th Cavalry Regiment led by Samuel Whitside? | Wounded Knee Massacre |
| A famous actor born with the surname Kuchacevic ze Schluderpacheru changed it to which name of three letters? | Lom |
| Which Taiwanese company, founded in 1997, made the first Microsoft-powered smartphones and by 2011, was the largest smartphone supplier to the US? | HTC |
| Which Taiwanese company, sharing its name with a genus of trees, is the world's fourth largest PC maker? | Acer |
| Which of the world's six supermajor oil companies is headquartered near Paris in France? | Total (SA) |
| Which of the world's six supermajor oil companies, the third ranked US company after Exxonmobil and Walmart? | Chevron Corporation |
| Which word means one of the creatures, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls to the afterlife? | Psychopomp |
| The FIBA European Championships is a sporting event usually known by what one word name? | Eurobasket |
| Which European country won the 2006 Basketball World Cup and will be hosting the event in 2014? | Spain |
| How did Mumtaz Mahal, Catherine Parr, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mrs Beeton all die? | In childbirth |
| Which Frankish leader of the First Crusade became, after the successful 1099 siege, the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem? | Godfrey of Bouillon |
| Sometimes given the surname Thom, Tenque or Tune, who from 1099 was first Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallers? | (Blessed) Gerard |
| Which Swiss children's programme, first shown in 1986, was set in Antarctica? | Pingu |
| Owning the works of Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Enid Blyton and Georges Simenon, which entertainment company shares its name with a membrane surrounding a foetus? | Chorion |
| Which leader of the People Power Revolution was Time magazine's "Woman of the Year" in 1986? | Cory Aquino |
| Composed of over 80 former Presidents and Prime Ministers, the world's largest forum of former world leaders is called the Club of which European capital city? | Madrid |
| Headquartered in Madrid, and founded in 1974, what does the T of UNWTO stand for? | Tourism |
| Which member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band co-wrote and starred in the US-Norwegian TV series "Lilyhammer"? | Steven Van Sandt |
| "Hotel Caesar", broadcast since 1998, is Scandinavia's longest running TV drama and it set in which city? | Oslo |
| In 2010 and 2011, who won the World Open squash title, the first Englishman to do so? | Nick Matthew |
| Nicol David, winner of six out of seven women's World Open squash titles from 2005 to 2011 is from which Asian country? | Malaysia |
| Often regarded as the toughest foot race on the planet, the 156 mile Marathon des Sables is run in the desert of which country? | Morocco |
| Often regarded as the oldest and largest ultramathon, since 1921 the 56 mile Comrades Marathon has been run in which country? | South Africa |
| Situated in the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, which terrace has been nicknamed "Henman Hill" and, more recently, "Murray Mound"? | Aorangi Terrace |
| Living in England, but playing for South Africa, Reginald Bamford in 2011 won his fourth world championship in which sport? | Croquet |
| Which semiprecious stone, mined in Afghanistan since the 3rd millennium BC, was known to the Greeks as "sippheiris", giving us the word sapphire? | Lapis Lazuli |
| Who plays Martha Levinson in "Downton Abbey"? | Shirley MacLaine |
| Written in 2008, "Fela!" is an 11 times Tony nominated musical based on the songs of which Nigerian singer-songwriter? | Fela Kuti |
| Which Nigerian singer's 1982 album "Juju Music" is often credited with internationally popularising World Beat? | (King) Sunny Adé |
| "Beeton's Christmas Annual" was a paperback magazine that is best known for introducing which fictional characters in 1887? | Holmes & Watson |
| Who reputed survived 55 assassination attempts during his reign including one outside the Vienna Opera House where he shot back at his attacker? | King Zog of Albania |
| Cancelled after ten seasons, which was the first of TV's CSI shows to end? | CSI: Miami |
| Who died in Apollo 1 in 1967 and was the first American to walk in space? | Ed White |
| Home to Mount Stanley, Africa's third highest mountain, the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda and the DR Congo are also known by which extraterrestrial name? | Mountains of the Moon |
| What is the highest mountain outside Asia? | Aconcagua |
| Which Chilean mountain is the second highest outside Asia? | Ojos del Salado |
| Which Norwegian sang "Fairytale" which won the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest with a record 387 points? | Alexander Rybak |
| Which Swede sang "Euphoria" which won the 2012 ESC with a record 18 countries giving it top marks? | Loreen |
| Which Algerian singer based in France claimed to have inspired The Clash to write "Rock the Casbah" and recorded his own version in 2004? | Rachid Taha |
| A cheb can mean a singer of which musical style originating in the 1930s among the Bedouin in Oran, Algeria? | Rai |
| Remembered largely for his organ compositions, composer Josef Rheinberger was son of the treasurer of which small European state? | Liechtenstein |
| So named because no shots were fired but flowers were put into the guns of the army, in which country was Marcedo Caetano deposed in the 1974 Carnation Revolution? | Portugal |
| Jambyn Batmonkh resigned as premier after the 1990 Peaceful Democratic Revolution, so ending 70 years of socialism in which Asian country? | Mongolia |
| Serving the north-west of France, which Parisian station deals with an estimated 100 million passenger transits per year, making it Europe's second busiest after the Gard du Nord? | Gare Saint-Lazare |
| Serving 300,000 passengers daily, which railway station in New York is North America's busiest? | Penn(sylvania) Station |
| On opening in 2012, it was the world's tallest hotel, had the world's tallest clock tower and the largest clock face and had the world's largest floor area of any building. The Abraj Al Bait Towers are in which city? | Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
| Terminal 3 of which Middle East airport is the world's second largest building by floor space? | Dubai |
| Which Scottish playwright is best known for collaborating with Thomas Arne in 1740 to write the libretto for a masque called "Alfred", whose finale is the song "Rule, Britannia!"? | John Thomson |
| Which mountain, the highest in the Eastern Alps overlooks the St Moritz skiing resort? | Piz Bernina |
| Who owned the Krup Hotel and later the Palace Hotel at St Moritz and created the first purpose-built half-pipe track for sledging? | Caspar Badrutt |
| Which International Convention, set up in 1914 in the wake of the Titanic disaster, is abbreviated to SOLAS? | International Convention for the Safety of Life At Sea |
| Since 1914, in response to the Titanic disaster, what has been operated by the US Coast Guard and funded by 13 nations? | International Ice Patrol |
| Besides the USA, the Soviet Union and Canada, which country has won more than one Olympic ice hockey gold? | Sweden |
| In which year was the Olympic hockey game known in America as "The Miracle on Ice"? | 1980 |
| In which ominously named required element in pairs skating does the woman hold the man's hand and circle her partner while almost parallel to the ice? | Death spiral |
| Named after the Swiss skater who popularised it in the 1970s, which upright spin is often compared with a tulip on a turntable? | Biellmann Spin |
| Special Brew was made by the Carlsberg Brewery in 1950 to commemorate a visit to Denmark by which world leader? | Winston Churchill |
| What did Carlsberg use as a logo from the 19th century to the mid 1930s? | Swastika |
| What is the Japanese name for immature soybeans prepared in the pod? | Edamame |
| Literally meaning grilled chicken, which word is used in Japanese cuisine for skewered food in general? | Yakitori |
| If a proton beta decays into a neutron, which two particles are emitted? | Positron and neutrino |
| Which American discovered the muon in the same year as he won a Nobel Prize for discovering the positron? | Carl D Anderson |
| "The Procuress", "The Geographer" and "The Astronomer" are the only signed and dated works by which 17th century artist? | Johannes Vermeer |
| Which Pope of the Medici family excommunicated Henry VIII pf England in 1533? | Clement VII |
| Which Pope, who put together the Holy League that defeated the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, also excommunicated Elizabeth I of England? | Pius V |
| The Städel, containing works from seven centuries, is the main art gallery in the Museum Embankment of which city? | Frankfurt (am Main) |
| Which Madrid museum contains Picasso's "Guernica"? | Museo Reina Sofia |
| Which Emperor was defeated by Constantine at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 AD? | Maxentius |
| Which pair won Team GB's first Olympic gold of 2012? | Helen Glover and Heather Stanning |
| Who was the Madras-born drummer of the 1960s band The Original All-Stars? | Pete Best |
| In the Marvel Comics Universe, what fictional indestructible substance is in Wolverine's skeleton and claws? | Adamantium |
| Which word used to mean a fictitious substance with all the properties required to solve a problem is the name of the substance being mined in the film "Avatar"? | Unobtainium |
| The philosophers John Locke and Baruch Spinoza, scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, painter Johannes Vermeer and architect Christopher Wren were born in which year? | 1632 |
| Painters Antony van Dyck and Diego Velasquez and the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell were all born in which year? | 1599 |
| What dish containing aubergine crushed with olive oil and various seasonings is popular around the Levant? | Baba ghanoush |
| Which Swiss football team has won the most national titles? | Grasshopper Club Zurich |
| Which French football team has won the most national titles? | Saint Étienne |
| What was the first football team to have won the European Cup more often than their own domestic league? | Nottingham Forest |
| Which Englishman was playing against Nottingham Forest in the 1980 European Cup final? | Kevin Keegan |
| Which country's mass night-singing demonstrations in 1988 led to its fight for independence being called The Singing Revolution? | Estonia |
| Which team have won the Grey Cup a record 15 times? | Toronto Argonauts |
| Which county have won the Sam Maguire Cup a record 29 times? | Kerry |
| The first confirmed existence of a planetary system outside the Solar System around pulsar PSRB1257+12 was in what year? | 1992 |
| The first planetary system around a main-sequence star outside the Solar Syatem was found in 1999 around which star? | Upsilon Andromedae |
| Which Motown all-girl group had a US number one with "Please Mr Postman", but their only UK single was "When You're Young And In Love"? | The Marvelettes |
| "It's the Same Old Song" and "I Can't Help Myself" were hits for which Motown group? | The Four Tops |
| What is the largest island of The Bahamas? | Andros Island |
| What is the most populous island of the Bahamas, including the capital Nassau? | New Providence |
| Which New York artist who died of AIDS in 1990 was famous for his human figures including the Radiant Baby? | Keith Haring |
| Which New York art gallery was opened by Leslie and Lohman in 1968? | Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art |
| In Beverley Hills in 2001, Winona Ryder was caught shoplifting in which department store? | Saks (Fifth Avenue) |
| The Ebola virus was named after a river now in which modern day country? | DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) |
| On which horse did Princess Zara win an Olympic silver in 2012? | High Kingdom |
| On which horse did Charlotte Dujardin win an Olympic gold in 2012? | Valegro |
| In which 2012 film made by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, a winner of the Golden Bear award were the characters played by prisoners? | Caesar Must Die |
| In the 2012 Ryder Cup, José Marie Olazabal captained Europe. Who captained the US? | Davis Love III |
| Made by Chinese game developer "5 Minutes" which farm management role playing game is the ancestor of Farm Town and Farmville? | Happy Farm |
| Which role playing game made by Zynga involving real recipes allows players to run a restaurant? | Chefville |
| Who plays the title role in the 2013 Zack Snyder film "Man of Steel"? | Henry Cavill |
| What is the name of the fifth film in the "Die Hard" series? | A Good Day To Die Hard |
| In 2012, which Australian actor played Thor in "The Avengers" and the Huntsman in "Snow White and the Huntsman"? | Chris Hemsworth |
| In 2012, which British American actor played the title role in "The Amazing Spider Man"? | Andrew Garfield |
| At the Battle of Myeongnyang, Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin decisively beat 133 Japanese warships and 200 supply ships with a fleet of only 13. In which century? | Sixteenth |
| Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin is credited with designing a ship which fired cannons or fire from a dragon-shaped head. Their covered decks which deflected arrow and musket fire gave rise to what reptilian name? | Turtle ships |
| Which US teen drama starting in 2003 shares its name with a volcanic peak and Maori memorial place in Auckland, New Zealand? | One Tree Hill |
| Which TV series set in Massachussetts almost shares its name with the city in British Columbia at the south end of the Alaska Highway? | Dawson's Creek |
| In his 21 years with the Detroit Lions, which placekicker has played the most games for one NFL club? | Jason Hanson |
| Who won three Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49s and holds the career record for touchdowns, receptions and yards? | Jerry Rice |
| Whose murder sparked the 2012 Wang Lijun incident? | Neil Heywood |
| Which Soviet born American animator made "Dexter's Laboratory", "Samurai Jack" and "Star Wars: Clone Wars" and made his feature film debut in 2012 with "Hotel Transylvania"? | Genndy Tartakovsky |
| "Europe's Most Wanted" was the title of the 2012 third film in which Dreamworks animated series? | Madagascar |
| With over 300 million views and over 3 million likes on Youtube in three months, under what name did South Korean rapper Park Jae-Sang have a hit with "Gangnam Style"? | PSY |
| Which 6th century Scythian monk is usually credited with introducing the Anno Domini dating system? | Dionysus Exiguus |
| Actress Julianne Rose Mauriello learnt Icelandic while playing Stephanie in which children's show? | Lazy Town |
| Shown worldwide, which 1960s/70s Croatian cartoon was about a small elderly inventor? | Professor Balthazar |
| Who looked for happiness with his dog Harold (also called Gastone) in a series of cartoons by Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto? | Mr Rossi |
| A salt stack on Mount Sodom in Israel is named after which unnamed character from Genesis chapter 19? | Lot's wife |
| Israel's national cemetary is on which mountain, named after the founder of Zionism? | Mt Herzl |
| Which substance discovered in 1907 was made by an elimination reaction of phenol and formaldehyde? | Bakelite |
| The Showtime series "Homeland" starring Damien Lewis and Claire Danes was based on which Israeli series? | Hatufim |
| Which blonde detective, assumed by many to have Aspergers, was played by Sofia Helin in the Swedish-Danish drama "The Bridge"? | Saga Noren |
| After being used to measure the Harvard Bridge, which future president of the International Organisation of Standardisation had his name given to a nonstandard unit equivalent to 67 inches? | (Oliver) Smoot |
| John von Neumann used to say the maximum length of a lecture was a microcentury, which is how long to the nearest 10 minutes? | 50 (exactly 52.56 minutes) |
| Which film starring Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon was released 12 days before the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania? | The China Syndrome |
| What was the best-selling single on REM's 1987 album "Document"? | The One I Love |
| Which horse, owned by a country baker, won the 2012 Prix de Jockey Club at odds of 33-1 against? | Saonois |
| In 2003, which South African boxer caused an upset by knocking out WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko? | Corrie Sanders |
| Which strategy game whose Sanskrit name meant "divided into four parts" is regarded as an ancestor of modern chess? | Chaturanga |
| In Spanish speaking countries, the mouse known as Raton Perez, performs the same role as which character, commonly believed in by children, in the English speaking world? | The Tooth Fairy |
| What name is given to the occurence, rare in humans but common in rabbits, whereby a species can conceive to create birth while still already pregnant? | Superfetation |
| Invented by a German TV host and entertainer Stefan Raab, which sport involves going down a bobsled track on adapted kitchen utensils? | Wok racing |
| Which Estonian activity involves standing on a swing with telescopic arms capable of swinging 360 degrees over the spindle? | Kiiking |
| Which Ewok was played by Warwick Davis in "Return of the Jedi"? | Wicket |
| Born James George Tomkins and dying in 2012, who played session guitar on over 50 UK number one singles between 1960 and 1965? | Big Jim Sullivan |
| In which year does Super Bowl L take place? | 2016 |
| Who, via his investments in Fenway Sports Group, became chairman of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool FC? | Tom Werner |
| Which major Hollywood actor's career was launched with a lead part in early 80s sitcom "Bosom Buddies"? | Tom Hanks |
| In which sport might you see the Netherlands play the Unicorns? | Cricket |
| Which two German cities gave their names to treaties that together made the Peace of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years War? | Münster and Osnabruck |
| Which US folk band beat Nicki Minaj and Skrillex to win the 2012 Grammy for Best New Artist and have a name deriving from words meaning "good winter"? | Bon Iver |
| Who in 2011 became the first act to win the Mercury Prize in more than one year? | PJ Harvey |
| In 2011, which horse beat Red Cadeaux in a photofinish to win the closest ever Melbourne Cup? | Dunaden |
| Which US heroin dealer's life was dramatised in the 2007 film "American Gangster" in which he was played by Denzel Washington? | Frank Lucas |
| Released in 2012, Brad Bird's first live-action film was the fourth, subtitled "Ghost Protocol", in which thriller series? | Mission Impossible |
| Which Hammer horror movie, based on a book by Susan Hill, was screenwritten by Jane Goldman? | The Woman in Black |
| Based on Deborah Moggach's book "These Foolish Things", the film "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" is largely set in ehich country? | India |
| Which US pulp fiction author wrote the Barsoom series of novels, set on planet Mars? | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| Who played WPC Annie Cartwright in "Life on Mars" and the title role in the 2012 film "The Woman in Black"? | Liz White |
| After "Avatar", which film became, in 2012, the second to take $2 billion when it was re-released in 3D? | Titanic" |
| In 2002 he was homeless and sleeping on subway trains but in 2012 he starred in "John Carter", "Battleship" and "Savages". Who? | Taylor Kitsch |
| "Avengers Assemble" was the sixth movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise. Which 2008 film was the first? | Iron Man" |
| Which 2012 film centres on President Prime Minister Admiral General Haffaz Aladeen of Wadiya? | The Dictator |
| Which letter of the alphabet is the name of Will Smith's character in the "Men in Black" films? | J |
| In 2012, Idris Elba played the captain of which spaceship on the big screen? | Prometheus |
| In 2012, Benjamin Walker plays which famous 19th century historical figure with a secret identity? | Abraham Lincoln (Vampire Hunter) |
| In which 2012 film does a squirrel accidentally create the world's continents? | Ice Age: Continental Drift |
| Which villain first appears in the 1993 Batman comic book "Knightfall" where he breaks the hero's back? | Bane |
| Who plays Douglas Quaid, the role made famous by Arnold Scwarzenegger, in the 2012 remake of "Total Recall"? | Colin Farrell |
| Carlos Ezquerra, a Spanish comic book artist living in Andorra, and John Wagner in 1977 created which character since played on screen by Sylvester Stallone and Karl Urban? | Judge Dredd |
| Bob Welch who died in 2012 was best known as a guitarist in which band? | Fleetwood Mac |
| Who released an album of covers called "Kisses on the Bottom", his 15th studio album as a solo artist? | Paul McCartney |
| Whose debut album in 2012 was "Our Version of Events"? | Emile Sandé |
| Which Killers album takes its name from two words on the Nevada flag indicating that the state was founded during the American Civil War? | Battle Born |
| Who was arrested and exiled for writing "Death of a Poet" in response to Pushkin's death in a duel? In the last sixteen lines he accused the aristocracy for the event. | Mikhail Lermontov |
| Which actress whose mother was born in Liverpool, was named after an Ohio department store and was, in 1986, the first African-American Miss World entrant? | Halle Berry |
| Although usually regarded as a river, being 140 miles wide at its mouth, which South American waterway is regarded by some geograohers as a marginal sea? | River Plate |
| Made into a 1958 film starring Audie Murphy and Michael Redgrave and a 2002 film starring Michael Caine and Brendan Foster, which Graham Greene novel is set in Vietnam? | The Quiet American |
| The bumbling Otis, the villainess Ursa and the mute villain Non were characters in which 1980 blockbuster film? | Superman II |
| The main theme of the Harry Potter films by John Williams was named after which non-human character in the series? | Hedwig('s Theme) |
| Who wrote "Letters to a Young Poet", a set of ten letters to a young man choosing between a literary career and joining the Austro-Hungarian army? | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| His brother screenwrote "Citizen Kane" and his middle name was Leo, who won Oscars for directing "A Letter To Three Wives" and "All About Eve"? | Joseph L Mankiewicz |
| Who produced "African Queen" under the surname Eagle, but returned to his real name for films such as "On The Waterfront", "Lawrence of Arabia" and "A Passage to India"? | Sam Spiegel |
| Which mosquito-borne fever, also called breakbone fever, is estimated to infect 50 to 100 million people annually? | Dengue fever |
| Which mosquito-borne virus, abbreviated to WNV, was first seen in Uganda in 1937, but is now endemic in Africa, Asia, Australia, the US and Europe? | West Nile Virus |
| What was a kingdom from 1810 to 1894, a republic from 1894 to 1898 and a territory from 1898 to 1959? | Hawaii |
| Named after and invented by a French chemist in response to a competition run by the French Government as a way of delivering quinine to troops, which sweet wine-based ap�ritif was first produced in 1846? | Dubonnet |
| Which alcoholic apéritif, a red bitters named after its 1860 Italian inventor, is essential to Negroni and Americano cocktails? | Campari |
| Flowing only during the summer, which 25 mile river sharing its name with a variety of agate is the longest and largest in Antarctica? | Onyx River |
| Which Alaskan port, named after a Spanish naval officer, is probably best known for a ship named after it capsizing nearby? | Valdez |
| Which herbaceous perennial garden flower is named after a pupil of the Greek god of healing Asclepius? | Peony |
| Hannes Alfven, cousin of Swedish Rhapsody composer Hugo Alfven, won a Nobel Prize for inventing which field of physics abbreviated to MHD? | Magnetohydradynamics |
| The Taj Majal stands opposite the Moonlight Garden on which river, a tributary of the Ganges? | Yamuna |
| Which composer of concrete music paid for a piano by winning 5 million lire in the Italian version of TV quiz "Double or Nothing", answering questions on mushrooms? | John Cage |
| Which game, played on the intersections of a 19x19 board is governed by the IGF, based in Tokyo? | Go |
| "The Master of Go" is a novel by which Nobel Prize winning writer? | Yasunari Kawabata |
| The whistled language of El Silbo is largely associated with which of the Canary Islands? | La Gomera |
| Which German-Austrian cabinet maker is mostly remembered for his bentwood chairs, especially the coffee shop chair number 14, of which an estmated 50 million were made between 1859 and 1930? | Michael Thonet |
| Which Ukrainian merchant, spy, diplomat and soldier became a Viennese hero for his actions in the 1683 Battle of Vienna and is said to have opened the first Viennese caf� using coffee beans left by the retreating Ottoman Turks? | Jerzy Kulczycki |
| Glima, a form of stand-up wrestling held as a demo sport at the 2012 Olympics is peculiar to which island nation? | Iceland |
| Literally meaning "to swing" which Swiss form of folk-wrestling is also known natively as Hoselupf, meaning "breeches lift"? | Schwingen |
| With a name that is Russian for dawn what, in 1998, was the first part of the International Space Station to be launched? | Zarya |
| The name of which instrument, a precursor to the bassoon, may have taken the name from its tone being sweeter than the shawm it largely replaced? | Dulcian |
| Often represented by the letter mu, what property in fluid mechanics is named after the Latin for mistletoe? | Viscosity |
| Which unit of permeability widely used in geology shares its name with a well-known early 19th century romantic English literary hero? | Darcy |
| Which English playwright with an Italian sounding surname wrote "The Second Mrs Tanqueray"? | Sir Arthur Wing Pinero |
| Which London dry gin brand has for years been the highest selling gin import in the US? | Tanqueray |
| A cross between a mandarin orange and a lemon, a rangpur is named after a city in which country? | Bangladesh |
| Specifically, which plant with the botanical name Citrus aurantifolia makes a US dessert similar to lemon meringue pie? | Key lime |
| Which fruit named for the way it groups in clusters is a cross between a sweet orange and a pomelo, first bred in Barbados? | Grapefruit |
| Which composer married Ms Wieck one day before she came of age and spent his last two years in a mental institution? | Robert Schumann |
| What were the names of the landowner and his rat-faced nephew, villains of the film "Manon des Sources", who Bart Simpson encounters on an exchange trip to France? | César and Ugolin |
| Part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia, which atoll saw 181 nuclear explosions between 1966 and 1996? | Moruroa |
| Racing for Tyrell in 1974, who in Sweden secured the only Formula One win ever run in a six-wheeled car? | Jody Scheckter |
| Which US photographer won a Pulitzer Prize for his World War II photograph "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima"? | Joe Rosenthal |
| What is the unofficial but most widely used name for the free standing 40ft neon cowboy outside the Pioneer Club in Las Vegas? | Vegas Vic |
| Which blind singer of the 1920s is often dubbed the Father of the Texas Blues? | Blind Lemon Jefferson |
| Born with the first names Sam John, which Texas blues musician with a meteorological stage name is said to have recorded more albums than any other bluesman? | Lightnin' Hopkins |
| In medicine, what name is given to devices used to measure grip to determine hand strength, a word also used for various non-medical devices that measure force? | Dynamometer |
| In the sitcom "Getting On", Jo Brand's character shares a name with which 80s pop singer? | Kim Wilde |
| With versions made in many countries including the UK, US, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and the Philippines, "Taken Out" is a TV dating show from which country? | Australia |
| The video to "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus featured Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari in a clip from which teen movie? | Loser |
| Programmes starting on which sister channel to MTV, launched in 1985, have included "Pop-Up Video", "Behind the Music" and "Tool Academy"? | VH1 |
| In Egyptian mythology, which goddess fed hearts to the "Devourer of the Dead" Ammit, if their souls didn't make the hearts heavy enough to balance her feather? | Ma'at |
| In Egyptian mythology, what four letter name was given to the underworld ruled over by Osiris? | Duat or Tuat |
| Which ballet with libretto by Saint-Georges and Gaultier is also Beyoncé Knowles's middle name? | Giselle |
| In which film does Amy Adams play Princess Giselle? | Enchanted |
| Performed frequently in Sweden since the 70s, the evasive manoeuvre test for drivers is usually named after which mammal? | Moose or Elk (Test) |
| Which luxury Swiss watchmaker made the first mass-produced pocket watch in 1853 and merged with Omega in 1930? | Tissot |
| In the 19th century, the Naugatuck Valley in Connecticut produced millions of clocks, earning it the nickname the "Switzerland of America". What is now the only remaining watch company based there? | Timex (Group USA) |
| Which city is the most populous US state capital? | Phoenix (Arizona) |
| Which US state capital was previously known as Waterloo? | Austin (Texas) |
| Which city, the largest in Rajastan and the state's capital, is nicknamed the Pink City? | Jaipur |
| Which city, the second largest in Rajastan, is sometimes called the "Blue City" due to the colour of the houses around Mehrangar Fort? | Jodhpur |
| Which star in the southern constellation Carina is the second brightest in the night sky after Sirius? | Canopus |
| In 1752, astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille divided the constellation Argo Navis into three parts. Carinus (the keel) and Puppis (the poop deck) are two. What is the third? | Vela (The sails) |
| Featuring in the books "Neuromancer" by William Gibson and Asimov's "Foundation" series, the films "Lost in Space", "Transformers" and "Avatar" and the video game "Mass Effect 2", what is the more common two-word name for the star Rigil Kent? | Alpha Centauri |
| After acquiring its rival Wenger in 2005, which company became the sole supplier of multi-purpose knives to the Swiss army? | Victorinox |
| Which two lobes of the brain are separated by the central sulcus? | Frontal and parietal |
| Also called the lateral sulci, which fissures in the brain separate the frontal and parietal lobes from the temporal lobes? | Sylvian fissures |
| Two of which parts of the body have names that mean the soft mother and hard mother? | Meninges |
| Which word describing the outermost part of the spinal canal is most associated with analgesics or anaesthetics injected into the area? | Epidural |
| Deriving from the Greek for "without tail" what is the order of 4,800 species of amphibians made up of frogs and toads? | Anura |
| Sometimes called Urodela, what name meaning "Tailed" is given to the order of amphibians containing 550 species of newts and salamanders? | Caudata |
| Hugh Fraser co-wrote and sung the theme to children's TV series "Rainbow" but is better known for playing which role in 43 episodes of an ITV detective series? | Captain Arthur Hastings |
| Which two of the five traditional classes of vertebrates are not now considered to be taxonomic groups? | Fish/Pisces & Reptiles/Reptilia |
| Which two NHL teams compete in the derby known as the Battle of Alberta? | Calgary Flames & Edmonton Oilers |
| Which two NHL teams compete in the derby known as the Battle of Ontario? | Toronto Maple Leafs & Ottawa Senators |
| Which European city was known as Reval until 1917? | Tallinn |
| Which sport is played by the BC Lions and the Montreal Alouettes? | Canadian Rules Football |
| In 2006, a New York Times Best Books survey of the greatest American novels of the previous 25 years was topped by which 1987 book, inspired by the flight of an African-American slave Margaret Garner from Kentucky to Ohio? | Beloved |
| Which 1997 Don DeLillo novel, set against the background of the Cold War, came second in a New York Times survey to find the best American novel of the last 25 years? | Underworld |
| What items studied by topologists are classified in a 1944 reference work by Clifford Warren Ashley? | Knots |
| Which 1970 book by American psychotherapist Arthur Janov about his treatment methods originally featured a Munch painting on the cover? | The Primal Scream |
| Which 1967 book by Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing critiques normality in society inspired by the author's experiments with LSD? | The Politics of Experience (and the Bird of Paradise) |
| With the Maori name ngutuparore, what is the usual name for Anarrhynchus frontalis, a New Zealand plover that is the world's only bird with a beak bent sideways? | Wrybill |
| Which large New Zealand parrot, Nestor notabilis, is noted for its curiosity and intelligence? | Kea |
| The Spanish town of Juzcar, near Malaga, was painted blue for which 2011 children's movie? | The Smurfs 3D |
| The businessman and writer Demetrius Vikelas was the first person to hold which international position? | President of The International Olympic Committee |
| Which Dutch footballer played for Ajax for six years and, as manager of Ajax and the Netherlands team, was credited with inventing Total Football in the 1970s? | Rinus Michels |
| Which football team beat Argentina 4-2 in their first game with Johan Cruyff as manager? | Catalan |
| Which actor and former Thai boxer played title roles in 2012 BBC dramas "Inside Man" and "Good Cop"? | Warren Brown |
| In 1848, James W Marshall discovered gold at whose mine near Coloma, California, triggering the Gold Rush? | Sutter's Mill |
| Which city, the headquarters of the Bank of America, is the second largest US financial centre by assets after New York and also the home of the NASCAR Hall of Fame? | Charlotte, North Carolina |
| What nickname for Napoleon's Imperial Guard was taken from the heavy infantry in the Persian Empire whose numbers, according to Herodotus were kept at 10,000, and who fought the Spartans at Thermopylae? | Immortals |
| Which emperor, after his restoration in 1868, formed the Imperial Guard of the new Imperial Japanese Army from loyal retainers and former samurai? | Emperor Meiji |
| Which French 19th and 20th century organist and composer's best known piece is the last movement of his Fifth Symphony, known as the Toccata and used as a recessional in wedding ceremonies? | Charles-Marie Widor |
| Which 1942 existentialist novel by Albert Camus topped a 1999 poll by "Le Monde" to find the 100 Books of the Century? | L'Étranger (The Stranger) |
| In which Tintin book, largely set in China, does the title refer to an opium den? | Tintin and the Blue Lotus |
| Which Tintin book, set in the world of modern art was unfinished at the time of Hergé's death in 1983? | Tintin and Alph-Art |
| Which chanson singer released an album called "Je Me Souviens De Tout" in 2009 at the age of 82? | Juliette Gréco |
| Which US TV sitcom starring Charlie Sheen is based on a film starring Jack Nicholson? | Anger Management |
| Which US TV sitcom starring Craig T Nelson is based on a 1989 film starring Steve Martin? | Parenthood |
| Who died in 1982 after the longest monarchal reign in history of 82 years and nine months and having had over 1,000 grandchildren? | Sobhuza II |
| Born in 1968, four months before his country's independence from Britain, who is the current King of Swaziland? | Mswati III |
| Largely constructed from the 8th to the 10th century, the controversial Mosque-Cathedral is a Spanish World Heritage Site in which Andalusian city? | Cordoba |
| The Oceanographic, the Hemispheric and the Prince Felipe Science Museum and part of the City of Arts and Sciences in which Spanish city? | Valencia |
| Who divorced in October 2007, five months after becoming his country's president? | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| According to Forbes magazine in 2012, which CEO of LVMH, chairman of Christian Dior, major shareholder in Carrefour and noted art collector was the richest man in Europe? | Bernard Arnault |
| Who is the only daughter of Eugene Schueller, the founder of L'Oreal and according to Forbes in 2012, the richest woman in Europe? | Lilian Bettencourt |
| In 1924 American Charles Jewtraw became the first person to win a Winter Olympic gold medal in which sport? | Speed skating (500 metres) |
| Founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German born resident of Hong Kong and named after an island in the Aegean, what is the largest independent classical music label in the world? | Naxos |
| "The Curse of the Bambino" was name given to the 84 year failure of which team to win the World Series after selling Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1919? | Boston Red Sox |
| Which baseball team won the World Series in 2005, ending an 88 year drought the year after the Boston Red Sox ended an 86 year one? | Chicago White Sox |
| The Alhambra Decree, passed by King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I in 1492, banned which people from Castile, Aragon and their territories and possessions? | Jews |
| Which Germanic tribe gave their name to one of the regions of Spain? | Vandals (Andalusia) |
| Which "Coronation Street" actress was stepmother to Cherie Blair and so mother-in-law of Tony Blair? | Pat Phoenix |
| Who was found tied to her bed while her husband and stepmother had been suffocated, but is mostly remembered for what she was doing with F�lix Faure, President of France, whe he died? | Marguerite Steinheil |
| Which Hindu goddess, often depicted standing on a lotus throwing coins, in the consort of Vishnu? | Lakshmi |
| Which form of the Hindu goddess Parvati, consort of Shiva, is often depicted riding a tiger and killing the buffalo demon Mahishasura? | Durga |
| Bernard Kouchner, France's Foreign minister from 2007 to 2010 was, in 1971, a co-founder of which humanitarian group in the wake of the Biafra War? | Médecins Sans Frontiere |
| In 2006, who pledged to give "a large majority" of her £24.3 million divorce settlement to the charity Adopt-a-Minefield? | Heather Mills |
| Who created, wrote, produced and wrote the theme music of the TV series "Alias", "Lost" and "Fringe", also directing the first two? | JJ Abrams |
| Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs, who coined the term BRIC for the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, also coined the term MIKT for which four emerging economies? | Mexico, Indonesia, Korea (South) and Turkey |
| Comparable to Jim O'Neill's Next Eleven, Robert Ward of the Economic Intelligence Unit coined CIVETS for which emerging markets? | Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey & South Korea |
| Which Dutch rock band of the early 70s included the classically trained organist/flautist Thijs van Leer? | Focus |
| Which Dutch pop group driven by the three Kowalczyk sisters are best known for a country hit in the mid 70s that sold over 5 million worldwide? | Pussycat |
| The northeast Indian state of Bihar takes its name from a "vihara", which is a word for a monastery in which religion? | Buddhism |
| Sold to a private dealer in 2004 for £744,500 which Scottish artist painted the 1992 work "The Singing Butler"? | Jack Vettriano |
| What was the name of the 2003 children's picture book written by Madonna? | The English Roses |
| Who in 1960 broke Jesse Owen's 25 year old long jump world record? | Ralph Boston |
| At the 2012 European Championships, who anchored the Slovenian women's 4x100 metre relay at the age of 52? | Merlene Ottey |
| Often seen as foreshadowing the American War of Independence, which 1770 event invloving the killing of five men by British troops is also called the Incident on King Street? | Boston Massacre |
| Which star of "La Dolce Vita" won Miss Sweden in 1950? | Anita Ekberg |
| After the Gros Michel was largely wiped out by Panama disease, Cavendish became the commonest cultivar of which fruit sold in world markets? | Bananas |
| Eureka is the commonest supermarket variety of which fruit? | Lemon |
| In 2008, DNA evidence showed that 99% of which plant worldwide is bred from a variety grown on Chiloé Archipelago, off the coast of Chile? | Potato |
| In which Fox TV series were brothers played by Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller? | Prison Break |
| Known as a Dhaka topi, after a design style from Dhaka, Bangladesh, this hat is part of the national costume in which Asian country? | Nepal |
| What is the mandatory surname for female Sikhs? | Kaur |
| Guru Nanak Dev, the first of the Sikh Gurus, was born in which century? | 15th |
| What was the name of Larry Page and Sergey Brin's 1996 web crawler that developed into the Google search engine? | Backrub |
| Which Italian fencer, between 1936 and 1960, won six Olympic golds and thirteen World Championship gold medals in fencing? | Edoardo Mangiarotti |
| A version of which Cézanne painting sold in 2011 for between $250 million and $300 million making it the most expensive painting ever sold? | The Card Players |
| Which piece by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacommeti, in 2010 became the most world's most expensive sculpture, when it sold for �65 million? | L'Homme qui marche |
| Initially recorded by the Radha Krishna Temple in a 1970 album, which song, named after Krishna in the form of a cowherd, in 1996 became the only UK top ten hit sung entirely in Sanskrit? | Govinda (by Kula Shaker) |
| Which emetic derived from dried rhizomes has been blamed for the untimely death of Karen Carpenter and appeared in a well-known scene of the cartoon "Family Guy"? | Ipecac |
| Fields Medals in mathematics are usually awarded how often? | Every four years |
| Which song, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1960s and the UK charts in the 1980s, is based on "Mbube", a song written in the 1920s by Solomon Linda, a South African of Zulu origin? | The Lion Sleeps Tonight |
| Which Mbaqanga group, founded in the 1960s with lead singer Hilda Tloubatla, performed at Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday? | The Mahotella Queens |
| In 2007, the first Mo Ibrahim Prize for African leadership went to Joaquim Chissano for leading which country from conflict to peace and democracy? | Mozambique |
| For its first five years from 2007 onwards, the Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance has been topped by which island nation? | Mauritius |
| Mariska Hargitay, best known for playing Detective Olivia Benson on "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" is the daughter of which Hollywood sex symbol? | Jayne Mansfield |
| Mamie Gummer, who played Sally Adams in the TV series "John Adams" is the daughter of which major Hollywood actress? | Meryl Streep |
| Which Hungarian physician, famous for advocating that doctors wash their hands more, died in Vienna in 1865 of septicaemia? | Ignaz Semmelweis |
| Which Dutch physician discovered that plants need light to produce oxygen and in 1768 inoculated the Hapsbergs in Vienna against smallpox? | Jan Ingenhousz |
| Which Hungarian photojournalist was killed in 1954 by a landmine in French Indochina? | Robert Capa |
| Founded in 1947 by Capa, Cartier-Bresson and others, what was the first cooperative agency for worldwide photographers? | Magnum Photos |
| Designed by Norman Foster and Michel Verlogeux In 2001, what overtook the Eiffel Tower to be the tallest structure in France, and is the tallest such structure in the world? | Millau Viaduct |
| Overtaking the Shard as the tallest building in Europe on its completion in 2012, in which city is the Mercury City Tower? | Moscow |
| Which Japanese artist, associated with infinite nets of polka dots inspired by hallucinations she suffered as a child, sold a painting in 2008 for over $5 million? | Yayoi Kusama |
| The Yoshizawa-Randlett system of diagrams are used in which craft? | Origami |
| Bought by Northrop in 1994, but for many years the largest employer on Long Island, which company made the Apollo Lunar Module for NASA? | Grumman |
| Characters in TV series "Recess", "CSI:Crime Scene Investigators" and "Thunderbirds" are named after which ill-fated commander of Apollo 1? | Virgil "Gus" Grissom |
| What was launched in the UK in 1964 with kangaroo mascots called Hullabaloo and Custard? | BBC2 |
| Born in 1968, the year his namesake won the Giro D'Italia, which Belgian won the three cushion billiards championship a second time in 2012? | Eddy Merckx |
| After which successful 1792 battle against the Prussians did the National Convention of France declare the end of monarchy and the start of the First French Republic? | Battle of Valmy |
| Which Japanese actor, singer, filmmaker, painter, poet, video game designer and arts professor is best known as the man who owned the castle in a 1980s game show? | Takeshi (Kitano) |
| Which 1958 African novel set in the fictional village of Umuofia takes its title from a WB Yeats poem? | Things Fall Apart |
| Which 1970s Best Director Oscar winner has the middle name Guilbert? | John G Avildsen |
| Which 1980s Best Director Oscar winner has the middle name Lawrence? | James L Brooks |
| The 1944 Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organisation that agreed to establish the UN are more commonly known by what name? | Dumbarton Oaks Conferences |
| Along with papal supremacy which phrase, literally meaning "and the son" was a major cause of the East-West Schism of 1054? | Filioque |
| Which 16th century Ecumenical Council, the last for 300 years, espoused many ideals of the Counter-Reformation? | Council of Trent |
| Which square electronic instrument created by Japanese artist Toshio Iwai has been widely used in performances by Little Boots? | Tenori-on |
| Which record label, now merged into Universal Music Group, was started by Philips in 1945 as a holding company for their music interests? | Polygram |
| Which 2003 book tells the story of Amir, a Pashtun boy and Hassan, his Hazaza friend? | The Kite Runner |
| In which small African island nation did Sir Arthur Eddington claim to have proved general relativity during an eclipse of 1919? | Sao Tome & Principe |
| Which company makes Nick Grey's cordless bagless AirRAM vacuum cleaner? | Gtech |
| Which tropical fish with eleven defined species share their name with a Shakespeare play? | Hamlet |
| Who won the first Tour de France but was stripped of the 1904 title for cheating? | Maurice Garin |
| Tiffany is the middle name of which Hollywood actor whose son has the Tibetan middle name Jigme? | Richard Gere |
| Which Prime Minister witnessed William Huskisson fall in front of Stephenson's Rocket, becoming the world's first widely reported railway casualty? | Duke of Wellington |
| The Italian name for which herb, a primary ingredient in absinth, is Italian street slang for a homosexual? | Fennel (Finocchio) |
| Electric lights, a calculator, cigarette smoking and a typewriter appear in which director's 1986 film about the artist Caravaggio? | Derek Jarman |
| Operating from the 7th to the 1st century BC, which Corinthian trackway for boats has often been claimed to be the world's first railway? | Diolkos |
| For which 11th century European university, which a branch in Buenos Aires, was the term "universitas" coined? | Bologna |
| A network of 40 universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Uppsala and Tartu was founded in 1985 and named after which Portuguese city and university? | Coimbra (Group) |
| Which New York Yankees pitcher died crashing his plane into a residential building in New York in 2006? | Corie Lidle |
| Who was commissioned by Napoleon to build the submarine Nautilus, Invented torpedos for the British Navy but is probably best known as developer of the first practical steamboat? | Robert Fulton |
| Its Roman name Phasania meaning "land of the peasants" and the Biblical name Phut were succeeded by Fezzan as a region of which modern African country? | Libya |
| Which king of Castile, Leon and Galicia was father of Peter the Cruel and died of plague in 1350? | Alfonso XIII |
| Which parts of the human body are bounded by the vermillion border? | Lips |
| Which Ukrainian sisters won five golds at the Rome and Tokyo Olympics, but were claimed to be men and gave up just as sex testing was introduced? | Press (Irina and Tamara) |
| What nickname did the world media give Nadya Suleman after she gave birth in 2009? | Octomom |
| Starting in 1999, mixi is one of the biggest social networking sites in which country? | Japan |
| Housed in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, it was vandalised by Laszlo Toth with a geologist's hammer in 1972. What is the only sculpture Michaelangelo ever signed? | Pieta |
| Which 1963 novel did Charles Webb write shortly after graduating from Williams College, Massachussetts? | The Graduate |
| Bronze Night was the name given to the riots in 2007 over the movement of a controversial war memorial in which European capital city? | Tallinn |
| Becoming big in America due to play of their video to "I Ran (So Far Away)" on MTV, which band was led by former hairdresser Mike Score? | A Flock of Seagulls |
| Which NFL team play at Candlestick Park, until they move to Santa Clara Stadium in 2014? | San Francisco 49ers |
| The home of MLB's New York Mets from 1964-68, which stadium is often claimed to have seen the birth of stadium rock when the Beatles played there in 1965? | Shea Stadium |
| The "Yo Soy 132" movement led to thousands protesting in 2012 against the result of the Presidential election in which country? | Mexico |
| Since 1934, Mexico has had a new President every how many years? | Six |
| Which US talent manager, best known for discovering Justin Bieber, is also manager to The Wanted, Carly Rae Jepsen and Ashton Roth? | Scooter Braun |
| Containing the songs "One Time" and "Favorite Girl", what was Justin Bieber's 2009 debut album? | My World |
| Which famous architect designed the 1929 Barcelona Chair for the German Pavilion at the Barcelona Exposition? | Mies van der Rohe |
| Which Finnish architect designed the 1956 Tulip Chair, popularised by its use in the TV series "Star Trek"? | Eero Saarinen |
| Which island, the largest and most southerly of the Sporades, is the burial place of Rupert Brooke? | Skyros |
| The islands of Skiathos and Skopelos in the Sporades had increased tourism as the setting for which 2008 movie musical? | Mamma Mia |
| A white cross on a green saltire on a red background is the flag of which European region? | The Basque Country |
| Which autonomous region has a flag with eight horizontal yellow and red stripes? | Catalonia |
| In 1993 the Zambian football team were wiped out in an air crash and in 2012, Zambia won their first African Nations Cup. These events both happened in which country? | Gabon |
| Now nicknamed the Chipolopolo, or copper bullets, Zambia's team used to be the KK11 which stood for what? | Kenneth Kaunda's 11 |
| Named after a town whose name means "the cottonwoods", which New Mexico research lab created the bomb used in the first nuclear test? | Los Alamos |
| Which US biologist and one time wife of Carl Sagan showed that animals, plants and fungi originated from protists and co-developed the Gaia hypothesis with James Lovelock? | Lynn Margulis |
| Which US 1983 Nobel Laureate in Medicine showed that DNA sequences can be transposed, turning physical characteristics on and off? | Barbara McClintock |
| The Glad Game, looking for something to be glad about in any situation is associated which which children's character with the surname Whittier? | Pollyanna |
| A 230 ft diameter crater full of natural gas that has been burning since 1971 and has been nicknamed the Door to Hell is found in Derweze in which Central Asian country? | Turkmenistan |
| What is the Islamic equivalent of Hell in Christianity, the term coming from a valley outside Jerusalem? | Jahannam |
| What name is given to the Hindu equivalent of Hell where souls are tormented and the abode of Yama, the goddess of death? | Naraka |
| What was the name of the brothel east of La Grange that inspired a ZZ Top song and the Broadway musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"? | Chicken Ranch |
| What 1827 historical novel by Manzoni, based on Scott's "Ivanhoe", has been called the most famous and widely read novel of the Italian language? | The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) |
| In 1807, Giussepe Garibaldi was born in which city that lends its name to a biscuit? | Nice |
| Which Kingdom was united with Sicily in 1816 to form the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies? | Kingdom of Naples |
| Which Irish Province became a French client republic for 12 days in 1798? | Connacht |
| The name of which Czech nobleman and Austrian general who won battles in the First Italian War of Independence is largely remembered due to a piece of music composed by Johann Strauss Sr? | (Joseph) Radetzky |
| Which 1860 treaty, the result of a deal between Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia Camillo Cavour and Napoleon III, ceded Nice and Savoy to France? | Treaty of Turin |
| A 1859 battle in the Second Italian War of Independence, in which a French-Sardinian army beat the Austrians, gives its name to which colour? | Magenta |
| The Hopping Procession of Echternach takes place annually in which country? | Luxembourg |
| Named after a German born Russian scientist, which chain of triangulations to find the size and shape of the Earth stretches from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea? | Struve Geodetic Arc |
| Bridgestone Corporation, formerly the Bridgestone Tyre Company, is based in which country? | Japan |
| Which NHL team in the Southern USA has a sabre-tooth cat logo referring to a Smilodon skeleton found under the city? | Nashville Predators |
| Which NHL team based in Manitoba, inherited a place in the Southeast league from its predecessors, the Atlanta Threshers? | Winnipeg Jets |
| Which man who appears on US banknotes was born and grew up on the island of Nevis in St Kitts and Nevis? | Alexander Hamilton |
| Born in 1761 on the island of Nevis in St Kitts and Nevis, Frances Nisbet was the wife of which famous figure? | Horatio Nelson |
| Made into a film starring Julia Roberts, which memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert is subtitled "One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia"? | Eat, Pray, Love |
| Which Luis Bunuel film starring Catherine Deneuve, is based on a book by Joseph Kessel named after the French for the daylily? | Belle-de-jour |
| In the Bible, who disobeys God by sailing from Jaffa instead of going to Ninevah to prophesy against them? | Jonah |
| Known as Omini, the logo of a man and woman sitting back to back in the nude indicates which sportswear company? | Kappa |
| Hanbok is the national dress worn in what part of Asia? | Korea |
| Similar to an achkan and originating as a cross between the Shalwar Kameez and a British frock coat, what is the national dress of Pakistan? | Sherwani |
| Which TV series starring Madeleine Stowe and Emily VanCamp has been billed as an adaptation of "The Count of Monte Cristo", by Dumas? | Revenge |
| On January 23rd, 2012, which US show which started in 1963 was the only remaining soap opera on ABC? | General Hospital |
| "At Long Last Leave", shown in 2012, was the 500th episode of which show? | The Simpsons |
| Which French 18th century political thinker is best known for his "Spirit of the Laws" where he pleaded for separation of powers and a constitutional government? | Montesquieu |
| Which town on Lake Garda was capital of the Nazi puppet state of the Italian Socialist Republic from 1943 to 1945? | Salo |
| Which mountain range contains Lake Tahoe, the largest US alpine lake and Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous states? | Sierra Nevada |
| What was the name given to the 87 pioneers in 1846 who were snowbound in the Sierra Nevada, the survivors having to resort to cannibalism? | Donner Party |
| Titian spent the last 26 years of his life painting mainly for which Spanish monarch? | Philip II |
| In speedway, which British former world Under-21 champion, died in a crash in Poland in May 2012? | Lee Richardson |
| What was the largest city in Atlantic Canada until it was dissolved in 1996? | Halifax |
| Sharing its name with a famous mountain, which French munitions ship destroyed much of Halifax when it exploded in 1917, creating the largest man-made pre-nuclear explosion? | Mont Blanc |
| How does Japanese Yabusame differ from most forms of archery? | Mounted |
| What conical items are known in China and Taiwan as doulis? | Asian hats |
| Which English heavy metal band cited by Metallica and Motorhead as an early influence shares its name with the conical tuff voclano overlooking Wakiki Beach in Oahu, Hawaii? | Diamond Head |
| On August 4th 2012, which teacher who ran an after school club for autistic children famously said "Oh my God, we've won the Olympics"? | Katherine Copeland |
| After watching which 1988 film did author Milan Kundera say he decided not to allow further adaptations of his work? | The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| Which Taylor Swift album of 2010 had all fourteen songs chart in the US's Billboard Hot 100? | Speak Now |
| Which Guerlain perfume is named after the repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth in Hinduism or Buddhism? | Samsara |
| Which Guerlain perfume is named after the gardens built in Lahore, Pakistan for Mumtaz Mahal by Shah Jehan? | Shalimar |
| Which Indian in 2012 became the first tennis player to compete at six Olympics but is better known for his doubles and mixed doubles success? | Leander Paes |
| Which Canadian band fronted by Ed Robertson is often abbreviated to BNL? | Barenaked Ladies |
| What is the genus of the large venomous North American snake, the Bushmaster, named for one of the fates in Greek myth? | Lachesis |
| Following Khadija and Shawda, who was the third wife of the prophet Mohammed, involved in the necklace incident? | Aisha |
| What was the lead single of the Rolling Stones 50th anniversary album "Grrr!", their first album since "A Bigger Bang" in 2005? | Doom and Gloom |
| What was the name of the Rolling Stones documentary which premiered in Leicester Square in October 2012? | Crossfire Hurricane |
| In which US sitcom do the poor Max, played by Kat Dennings, and formerly rich Caroline, played by Beth Behrs, struggle to start a cupcake business? | 2 Broke Girls |
| Which US animated sitcom centres on the Belcher family running a hamburger business? | Bob's Burgers |
| Which a name said to mean "go in and you will never come out", what is China's second largest desert? | Taklamakan |
| Excluding polar ones, which desert of 900,000 square miles, covering part of eight countries is the world's second largest? | Arabian |
| Deriving from the German for hybrid, what is the chemical name for neutral molecules that contain a positive and a negative part? | Zwitterion |
| Which Central American capital city suffers from sinkholes including a 2010 piping pseudokarst that is 60 feet in diameter and 200 feet deep? | Guatemala City |
| Which Argentine singer songwriter was shot and killed in Guatemala City in 2011? | Facundo Cabral |
| NCIS" and "NCIS: Los Angeles" were US TV spinoffs of "JAG" which stood for what? | Judge Advocate General |
| Which country has been ruled by the Chakri dynasty since 1782? | Thailand |
| Made by Halfbrick Studios in Brisbane, which video game involving slicing reached 300 million downloads in May 2012? | Fruit Ninja |
| Who led the ill-fated 1811 Paraguay Campaign but is better known for creating the Argentinian flag? | Manuel Belgrano |
| What name is given to the colourful flowery line art found on Argentine lorries, taxis and buses? | Fileteado |
| Traditionally served with a metal straw from a calabash gourd, which drink, popular in Latin America is made from leaves of the holly Ilex paraguariensis? | Maté |
| Originally referring to horse drawn vehicles, which common word for a mode of transport takes its name from a village in northwest Hungary? | Coach |
| Which British Marxist historian who wrote "The Age of Empire" and "The Age of Extremes" died in 2012? | Eric Hobsbawm |
| Which Hungarian Marxist wrote the influential "History and Class Conscienciousness"? | Georg Lukacs |
| "Les Diaboliques" starring Simone Signoret and "La Salaire de la Peur" starring Yves Montand are films by which director? | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| Mohamed Ould Adelaziz, who was shot in 2012, possibly by accident, was president of which country? | Mauritania |
| November 1st 2012 saw the 500th anniversary of which work of art being exhibited to the general public? | Sistine Chapel ceiling |
| Gabriela Montero, a classical pianist known for her real-time improvisation of complex musical themes, was born in which country? | Venezuela |
| In October 2012, at the Borgio Egnazia resort in Fasano, Italy, which actress married Justin Timberlake? | Jessica Biel |
| The Vidin-Calafat Bridge, opened in 2012, is a bridge joining which two countries? | Romania & Bulgaria |
| US aviatrix Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel the day after which event dominated the world news? | Titanic sank |
| Who played Zeus in the 2012 film "Wrath of the Titans"? | Liam Neeson |
| Who directed the 2012 Bond film "Skyfall"? | Sam Mendes |
| In Rovio Entertainment's 2012 spin-off, which creatures are looking for the Angry Birds' eggs? | Bad Piggies |
| Since 2011, the number of points excluding bonuses for winning a NASCAR race has indicated the number of cars in a NASCAR race. How many? | 43 |
| Because it is always at the opposite phase of its orbit around Pluto, which dwarf planet is nicknamed the anti-Pluto? | Orcus |
| Jonsi Birgisson is the lead singer and guitarist of which Nordic ambient rock band named after Jonsi's sister? | Sigur Ros |
| Using 108 specially printed coloured cards which game, since 1992 licenced by Mattel, shares its name with an Italian car model? | Uno |
| The Swedish detective Martin Beck appeared in ten novels by Sjowall and Wahloo. How are these two writers related? | Husband and wife |
| With the first names Nestor Alexander, which Trinidadian-German Europop act's career peaked in 1993? | Haddaway |
| Which Italian pop act fronted by Brazilian Olga Souza had a 1993 hit with "The Rhythm of the Night"? | Corona |
| Which successful German 90s Eurodance group was fronted by rapper Durron Maurice Butler aka Turbo B? | Snap! |
| Which "doctor" was really a Nigerian-born Swedish 90s pop singer with the surname Nwapa? | Dr Alban |
| Which Zambian born Zimbabwean singer is best known for her 1992 hit "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)"? | Rozalla (Miller) |
| Who wore a yellow jump suit in his last film "Game of Death", referenced by a similar jump suit being worn by Uma Thurman in "Kill Bill Volume 1"? | Bruce Lee |
| Which stand-up comedian plays a psychopathic clown in the 2012 horror film "Stitches"? | Ross Noble |
| The US political catchphrase "Where's the beef?" originated as a slogan for which fast food chain named after the founder, Dave Thomas's daughter? | Wendy's |
| The Ice Age National Science Reserve containing nine sites showing evidence of glaciation is found in which US state? | Wisconsin |
| Which Scottish-born US naturalist, nicknamed the "Father of the National Parks" has three hiking trails, a mountain, a glacier and a wilderness and, along with only Reagan & Harvey Milk, has his own official day in California? | John Muir |
| Which country makes up most of the Sahul continental shelf? | Australia |
| For which role in the 1965 epic "The Greatest Story Ever Told" did Telly Savalas first shave his head? | Pontius Pilate |
| Which mountain on the Swiss-Austrian border gives its name to the sunscreen company that introduced the SPF (Sun Protection Factor)? | Piz Buin |
| Who called his autobiography "Q" and has had a record 79 Grammy nominations, winning 27? | Quincy Jones |
| Named after an American bulldog owned by the founder Mark Pinkus, which games company founded in 2007 features the dog in its logo? | Zynga |
| Which Pope refused to move to Rome and in 1309 moved the Papal Court to Avignon? | Clement V |
| In 2012, which Pictionary based app made by Omgpop was downloaded 50 million times in its first 50 days? | Draw Something |
| Billing itself as the world's largest surrealist object, the Dali Theatre and Museum is in which town, whose name is Catalan for fig trees? | Figueres |
| Which city in southwest France is home to the Old Bridge and the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum? | Albi |
| Which Chinese Imperial dynasty was founded in 1271 by Genghis Khan and ended in 1368? | Yuan Dynasty |
| The troubled period of Chinese history known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms occurred in which century? | 10th century AD |
| At the International Congress of Mathematicians, which German famously issued a set of 23 problems as a challenge to future mathematicians? | David Hilbert |
| Which US President is thought my many historians to have fathered children by his mixed race slave Sally Hemings? | Thomas Jefferson |
| In mathematics, which capital letter in blackboard bold is used to represent the set of quaternions? | H |
| Which German board game is named after a Mayan city in what is now Guatemala? | Tikal |
| Designed by Klaus Tauber in 1995, which popular German-style board game was at the centre of the 2012 documentary "Going Cardboard"? | The Settlers of Catan |
| Which Nobel Prize winner pushed his controversial theories about the beneficial effects of Vitamin C in his book "How To Live Longer and Feel Better"? | Linus Pauling |
| Which German pioneer in the study of localised mental functions in the brain is largely remembered as the founder of the pseudoscience of phrenology? | Franz Gall |
| What is the Japanese name for the controversial island group known as the Diaoyu Islands in China? | Senkaku Islands |
| Named after a 19th century British mariner, which group of 750 islands in the South China Sea is claimed by Brunei, China, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam? | Spratly Islands |
| Which moon of Saturn, discovered by William Herschel in 1789, is thought to have liquid water at or near the surface? | Enceladus |
| Which moon of Saturn discovered by William Herschel in 1789 is thought to be responsible for the Cassini division in Saturn's rings? | Mimas |
| In which country did chief police officer Juan Vucetich set up the world's first fingerprint bureau in 1892? | Argentina |
| Which Parisian building based on one with the same name in Rome was built as a church dedicated to and housing the relics of St Genevieve? | The Pantheon |
| Which 2011 film sequel set in 1975 starred Om Puri, Linda Bassett and Jimi Mistry? | West is West |
| Who was shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize for "Clear Light of Day", "In Custody" and "Fasting Feasting" before her daughter won it in 2006? | Anita Desai |
| Which backing singer for the Drifters, Tom Jones and Billy Ocean moved to Estonia in 1997 where he sang on "Everybody", the winner of the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest? | Dave Benton |
| For which country did Marie N win the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest in Estonia with "I Wanna"? | Latvia |
| Running in the women's 5,000 and 10,000 metres, which Ethiopian, nicknamed the "Baby Faced Destroyer", has won four World Championship golds and three Olympic golds? | Tirunesh Dibaba |
| Which newspaper running from 1897 to 1916, with a name meaning "Dawn", is best known for printing Zola's "J'Accuse" letter on the Dreyfus Affair? | L'Aurore |
| Which US state, joining the union on December 12th, 1797 became the second US state? | Pennsylvania |
| Which US state joined the union becoming a US state in 1876? | Colorado |
| Founded at Bronx Community College, New York in 1900, what was the first US Hall of Fame? | Hall of Fame for Great Americans |
| Which country contains Fais Island, the closest land to Challenger Deep? | Federated States of Micronesia |
| Developed by Emil & Max Skladanovsky, which movie projector preceded Lumiere's cinematograph, but lacked the side perforations making it less reliable? | Bioscop |
| Which 'sea' off the coast of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark is really an intertidal area whose name comes from the Dutch for "mud lfats"? | Wadden Sea |
| Jasmund National Park, noted for its primeval beech forests and high chalk cliffs, is on which Baltic island, Germany's largest? | Rugen |
| Tubism was a term coined to describe "Nudes in the Forest", "The City" and other works by which French painter and filmmaker? | Fernand Léger |
| Which albino Afro-pop singer songwriter, nicknamed the Golden Voice of Africa, is a direct descendent of the 13th century founder of the Mali Empire? | Salif Keita |
| Who, in 2012, became Senegal's Minister of Tourism and Culture? | Youssou N'Dour |
| Which Islamic ritual of pilgrimmage involves seven counterclockwise circuits of the Kaaba in Mecca? | Tawaf |
| Osmel Sousa is a beauty pageant guru who has guided women from which country to six Miss Universes, six Miss World's and six Miss International titles? | Venezuela |
| Debuting in a 1987 comic, which characters of the Freelance Police are a six-foot dog in a suit and fedora and an aggressive hyperkinetic rabbit thing? | Sam and Max |
| Which series of historical fiction action-adventure open world stealth video games by Ubisoft were inspired by "Alamut", a novel by Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol? | Assassin's Creed |
| In 1999, the group TrueBliss were the winners on the world's first series of Popstars which was shown in which country? | New Zealand |
| Named after the Frenchman who won the 1912 Nobel chemistry prize for their discovery, which magnesium based reagents are used to form carbon-carbon bonds? | Grignard Reagent |
| Which Nobel chemist discovered deuterium and with Stanley Miller gave his name to an experiment to test the chemical origins of life? | Harold Urey |
| Which modern day country largely consists of the old Holy Roman Empire region of Carniola? | Slovenia |
| Which French DJ's biggest hit was the 2005 "Love Generation", sung with Gary Pine formerly of Bob Marley's group "The Wailers"? | Bob Sinclair |
| Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szillard who patented the nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, also appeared on 45 patents with Albert Einstein to improve which household object? | Refrigerator |
| Oliver Winchester of repeating rifle fame once owned a company set up by which arms manufactures with the first names Horace and Daniel B? | Smith and Wesson |
| The Colchis of Jason and the Argonauts fame is associated with an ancient region that was part of which modern day country? | Georgia |
| In 1929, "Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History" was the first novel by which writer? | John Steinbeck |
| In 1929, "The Man Within" was the first published novel by which author? | Graham Greene |
| Which country has two principal regions, the Oesling and the Gutland? | Luxembourg |
| Originally used to describe an area of southeast India between the Easten Ghats and the Coromandel Coast, which word is often used to refer to the music traditions of southern India? | Carnatic |
| Who said that the Vice Presidency "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss" having served under FD Roosevelt from 1933 to 1941? | John Nance Garner |
| US writer Richard Hooker is best known for which 1968 novel on which a successful film and TV series were based? | MASH |
| One of the smallest European nations to colonise overseas territory including parts of Tobago and Gambia, which country is Courland and Semigallia now part of? | Latvia |
| Which theatre, not on the street after which it is named, saw riots in its opening season of 1913, following Starvonsky's "Rite of Spring"? | Théatre des Champs Élysée |
| Very similar to the flag of England, which Italian city has a flag which shows the red cross of St Ambrose on a white background? | Milan |
| Portrayed in a 1984 film, whose "Europa riconsciuta" was, in 1778, the first opera performed at La Scala opera house? | Antonio Salieri |
| Based in Vigevano, Lombardy, which brewery is known worldwide for is Nastro Azzuri or Blue Riband beer? | Peroni |
| Which full fat cow's milk cheese with a smooth skin originating in Casilli near Vesuvius usually comes in pear, sausage or cone shapes? | Provolone |
| By what name is "Il Canto degli Italiani", the Italain national anthem known, from the first three words of its lyrics? | Fratelli d'Italia |
| In the 1958 Eurovision Song Contest, Domenico Modugno represented Italy with "Nel blu dipinto di blu", a song which became a global hit under what one word name? | Volare |
| Made by combining their words for singer and author, which Italian word means a singer-songwriter? | Cantautori |
| Who has recorded 40 albums, starred in the 1968 film "Serafino", is referenced as one of Ian Dury's "Reasons to be Cheerful" and has long been Italy's best-selling male vocalist? | Adriano Celentano |
| Traditionally, pesto sauce is made with basil, garlic, olive oil, Parmesan cheese, pecorino cheese and which nuts? | Pine nuts |
| Which Ligurian town has, since 1951, been host to a song contest which has been used to select Italy's entant to the Eurovision Song Contest? | Sanremo |
| Eugene Poubelle introduced what to the streets of Paris, such an item in France is now called "une poubelle" in his honour? | Dustbin |
| Which Valencian town is associated with the annual Tomatina festival in August? | Bunol |
| Which Bulgarian mountain is the highest in the Balkans? | Mt Musala |
| Which capital city lies on the river Pedieos? | Nicosia |
| Which Croatian island has long been considered the largest island in the Adriatic although recent measurements say nearby Cres is the same area? | Krk |
| The 2012 European Cities of culture Guimaraes and Maribor are in which two countries? | Portugal & Slovenia |
| Which New Zealander, one half of comedy music duo "Flight of the Conchords", won 2011 Best Song Oscar for "Man or Muppet"? | Bret McKenzie |
| Which US state was named by Juan Ponce de Leon, who was searching for the Fountain of Youth? | Florida |
| Whose dad gave an enthusiastic interview with the BBC in 2012 after he beat Michael Phelps to win the 200 metre butterfly?$ | Chad Le Clos |
| Usually just referred to as the Persian Empire by what full name was the empire founded by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC known? | Achaemenid Persian Empire |
| From the Arsacid or Second Persian Empire, which empire lasting from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD are mostly remembered for a military tactic? | Parthian Empire |
| Sweden's Karl Gunnar Myrdal, famous for his bestselling book "An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem", won which Nobel Prize in 1974? | Economics |
| Which New Zealand economist built the 1949 hydraulic MONIAC computer to model the economy using the flow of water? | Bill Phillips |
| Which musician and jazz singer, nicknamed the Velvet Fog, co-wrote "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" with Bob Wells? | Mel Tormé |
| The Kalyan Minaret in Burkhara is also called the Tower of Death as for centuries up to 1870 and again from 1917 to 1920 criminals were thrown off the top of it. In which country is it? | Uzbekhistan |
| In which country is the Tower of Hercules, the oldest Roman lighthouse in use today? | Spain |
| Which city in Galicia, Spain is the only city in the world to be surrounded by completely in tact Roman walls? | Lugo |
| Who designed the sculpture awarded to Prince of Asturias Award winners? | Joan Miro |
| Which Spanish Pritzker Prize winning architect enlarged the Prado museum and designed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles? | Rafael Monteo |
| Which Japanese video game designer created Mario, Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda and the Wii game series? | Shigeru Miyamoto |
| In 1999 he was named one of Time magazine's "Most Influential Asians of the Century" and awarded an Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, what did Daisuke Inoue invent? | Karaoke Machine |
| Which former Japanese mining town revived its fortunes with an international film festival for young film directors, a killer schoolgirl in "Kill Bill Vol 1" was named in homage to it? | Yubari |
| Which TV series starring Luca Zingaretti, based on detective novels by Andrea Camilleri, was set in Vigata, Sicily? | Inspector Montalbano |
| Including all vertebrates, what name is given to the superphylum of animals whose embryo develops the anus first? | Deuterostome |
| Which Slovakian cyclst won the points classification in the 2012 Tour de France? | Peter Sagan |
| Who played the school caretaker Norman Potter in "Please Sir!" and Constable Corky Turnbull in "Sykes"? | Deryck Guyler |
| In the US what is sandwiched between two Graham crackers to make a s'more? | Marshmallow |
| Which style of architecture is named after the Moors and Muslims who stayed in Iberia and continued their religion after the Reconquista? | Mudejar |
| What German name is given to the curling of the upper lip, especially in felids and ungulates, to draw pheromones and other scents into the Jacobson's organ? | Flehmen response |
| Deriving from a Sanskrit root meaning "to enlarge", what is the supreme, universal spirit of Hinduism? | Brahman |
| In Hinduism, with a name meaning "she who has flow", who is the goddess of knowledge, music, art and science and the consort of Brahma? | Saraswati |
| Mario Bava is regarded as the pioneer of which Italian horror genre, associated with killers in black gloves, and taking its name from the colour of pulp novels? | Giallo |
| Which Italian horror director, famous for "Deep Red" and "Suspiria" and worked with George A Romero on "Dawn of the Dead"? | Dario Argento |
| What name is commonly given to pork-filled dough-wrapped Chinese dumplings cooked in soup and served with noodles? | Won ton |
| Indicating his own surname, which rapper with albums called Tha Carter and Tha Carter II, III and IV, in 2012 overtook Elvis Presley as the male with the most songs in the Billboard Hot 100? | Lil Wayne |
| The works of which US conceptual artist and philosopher include her LSD Paintings (1965-7) and "Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features" (1981)? | Adrian Piper |
| In 2009, which Hollywood actor was found in a Thai hotel room hanging by a rope in the closet, a verdict of accidental asphyxiation being recorded? | David Carradine |
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