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Harder Randoms 6
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In which film did Esther Williams play her only biographical role as Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman? | Million Dollar Mermaid |
| Richard Ramirez, who died in June 2013, having been on death row for 23 years, having been found guilty on 13 counts of murder was known by whach two word nickname? | Night Stalker |
| '"Consider Phlebas", published in 1987, was the first novel by which author in his "The Culture" series? | Iain M Banks |
| Slip Anchor. Reference Point, Commander in Chief and Oath were all Derby winners trained by whom? | Sir Henry Cecil |
| The title of the 2008 film "Synecdoche, New York" is a play on the name of which city, the HQ of the General Electric Company? | Schenectady |
| In 1970, a song by a Dutch band topped the Billboard Hot 100 and sold 13.5 million records by 1973, the year before the group disbanded. What were the group and the song? | Venus" by Shocking Blue |
| Which layer of the human cornea was discovered in 2013? | Dua's layer |
| As well as his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Vivian Stanshall is best known for narrating which 1973 album? | Tubular Bells |
| What is the more familiar name of Apollo C Vermouth, who produced the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band hit "I'm The Urban Spaceman"? | Paul McCartney |
| Fer-de-lance vipers are endemic to and appear in each quarter of the flag of which Caribbean island? | Martinique |
| What colour are the stripes on the flag of Cuba? | Blue and white |
| Which Swedish actress and model played Elizabeth Woodville in BBC's series based on Pilippa Gregory's "The White Queen"? | Rebecca Ferguson |
| Who played the future Inspector Morse in the ITV series "Endeavour"? | Shaun Evans |
| Who played Inspector Javert in the original London version of the musical "Les Misérables" and has since appeared on TV in "The Thick of It", "Game of Thrones" and "Endeavour"? | Roger Allam |
| Which French chemist is best known for detecting beryllium by analysis of emeralds and chromium in red lead ore? | (Louis Nicolas) Vauquelin |
| Which French chemist is best known for his accidental discovery of iodine in seaweed? | Bernard Courtois |
| Whose portrait of the Queen in Westminster Abbey was vandalised by a member of Fathers for Justice? | Ralph Heimans |
| Thought to have played a part in deposing Richard II, which is the only Archbishop of Canterbury to have served two separate terms? | Thomas Arundel |
| Who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1503 to 1532, being succeeded by Thomas Cranmer? | William Warham |
| Dying twelve hours after Queen Mary, who was the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury? | Cardinal Reginald Pole |
| A langspil is a drone zither associated with the folk music of which European country? | Iceland |
| The gusli is a zither-like instrument largely associated with the folk music of which country? | Russia |
| Which capital city lies on the Tuul River? | Ulan Bataar |
| Which capital city lies on the Klang River? | Kuala Lumpur |
| Which star of the film "Barbarian Queen" was Phil Spector accused of fatally shooting at his home in February 2003? | Lana Clarkson |
| Seen in the writings of Plato, Aristotle and in the New Testament, which Greek derived word means the insatiable desire to have what rightly belongs to others? | Pleonexia |
| Which team beat New Caledonia in the 2012 final to become the first team besides Australia and New Zealand to win the OFC Nations Cup? | Tahiti |
| What was the surname of the Bollywood singer referred to in the title of Cornershop's 1998 hit "Brimful of Asha"? | Bhosle |
| Which Hungarian-American died in 2013, his floating piers possibly having a greater global impact than anything his more famous younger brother did? | Paul Soros (brother of George) |
| Which band, originally called Mookie Balylock after their favourite basketballer, were fronted by Eddie Vedder? | Pearl Jam |
| Gary Holton who played Wayne in "Auf Wiederseht Pet" was frobt man of which group from 1974-77? | Heavy Metal Kids |
| Which driver won the Formula One Championships with four different teams? | Juan Manuel Fangio |
| In 2012, which two countries bid to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup? | Canada and Mexico |
| Which Mexican acoustic guitar duo have contributed to the soundtracks of "Puss in Boots" and the fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie? | Rodrigo y Gabriela |
| Which Mexican guitar legend wrote the score of the 1987 film "La Bamba" and opened a chain of Mexican restaurants in the US called "Maria Maria"? | (Carlos) Santana |
| Which year's FIFA World Cup Final took place in the Wankdorf Stadium? | 1954 (Bern, Switzerland) |
| Which stadium has hosted two FIFA World Cup finals? | Estadio Azteca |
| Which singer sold two million records with her 1952 hit "Hound Dog"? | Big Mama Thornton |
| Who was defeated by Alton B Parker for the 1904 Democratic Party nomination for US President, unsuccessfully tried in 1905 and 1909 to be New York mayor and failed to be New York Governor in 1906? | William Randolph Hearst |
| Known as "The Great Commoner", who was the unsuccessful Democrat candidate in the 1896, 1900 and the 1908 US Presidential elections? | William Jennings Bryan |
| Which twice unsuccessful Democrat candidate for the US Presidency was the grandson of a US Vice President of the same name? | Adlai Stevenson |
| Which "Seinfeld" actor gave up stand-up in 2007 after a racist outburst at the Hollywood Laugh Factory? | Michael Richards |
| Which Oscar winning actor made his film debut in the 1980 slasher film "He Knows You're Alone"? | Tom Hanks |
| The first film role of which Hollywood actor was an ill-fated policeman in the 1987 slasher "Return to Horror High"? | George Clooney |
| The city of Memphis, Tennessee borders counties in which two other US states? | Arkansas and Mississippi |
| Which major Texan city borders New Mexico? | El Paso |
| Cincinnati, Ohio borders which other US state? | Kentucky |
| Toledo, Ohio borders which other US state? | Michigan |
| Who composed the theme tunes for the Irwin Allen TV series "Lost In Space" "The Time Tunnel" and "Land of the Giants"? | John Williams |
| Which star of US reality show "Jersey Shore" is known by his nickname The Situation or Sitch? | Michael Sorrentino |
| Credited under the name Bijou Drains, who was the founder and bass guitarist of the one-hit wonder group Thunderclap Newman? | Pete Townsend |
| In 2008, what was the first western country to apply for an IMF loan since the UK in 1976? | Iceland |
| A pediculicide is a substance intended to kill what? | Lice |
| An ixodicide is a substance intended to kill what? | Ticks |
| Umbundu and Kimbundu are two of the main languages spoken in which African country? | Angola |
| Dzongkha is the national language of which Asuan country? | Bhutan |
| Which actor was twelfth in the 1992 World Diving Championships? | Jason Statham |
| The largest ever crowd at Old Trafford watched a match between which two teams? | Grimsby Town v Wolverhampton Wanderers (1939 FA Cup Semifinal) |
| At about one square mile, the Carcross in the Yukon is often claimed to be the world's smallest what? | Desert |
| In many versions of Inuit legend, the creatures of the sea arise from the fingers of which sea goddess? | Sedna |
| In football, which team has won more European Cups than domestic league titles? | Nottingham Forest |
| Based on Confucianism and rejecting any idea of an afterlife, which Korean religion has a name meaning "religion of the heavenly way"? | Cheondoism |
| Named after his sons, which two tribes of Israel made up the House of Joseph? | Ephraim and Manasseh |
| People of which religion, close to but not part of Judaism, take their name from a city that was once capital of the Kingdom of Israel and are famously mentioned in the New Testament? | Samaritans |
| '"Unsinkable" is the 2013 biography of which Hollywood star who played Grace's mother in "Will and Grace"? | Debbie Reynolds |
| Which singer played Dr Leo Markus, Grace's husband in the TV series "Will and Grace"? | Harry Connick Jr |
| The introduction of which fizzy drink in 1982 is the reason usually giving for declining sales of Tab? | Diet Coke |
| Solna, which has three royal palaces and was host to a FIFA World Cup Final, is a municipality of which capital city? | Stockholm |
| Which 11th century Pope, was the first among other things for being said to be primarily homosexual and was claimed to have held orgies in the Lateran Palace? | Benedict IX |
| Which company was founded in 1926 in Gothenberg as a subsidiary of SKN, a manufacturer of ballbearings? | Volvo |
| Originally the Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company, whcih luggage manufacturer, founded in Denver has, since 1966, used a name based on a Biblical figure? | Samsonite |
| Who succeeded Eddie Seaward as the All England Club head groundsman at Wimbledon after the 2012 Olympics? | Neil Stubley |
| In 2010, 28 MPs, including Ed Balls stood for both the Labour Party and which other party as an agreement between the two? | Co-operative Party |
| Before going on to be head of government, who appeared on a TV quiz show called "Reach For The Top"? | Stephen Harper |
| Where was the 1986 Birds Series replaced by the 2001 Journey Series and that in turn replaced by the 2011 Frontier Series? | Canada (on banknotes) |
| Lake Retba or Lac Rose, a pink lake which has been the finishing point of a famous race, is in which country? | Senegal (near Dakar) |
| Lake Hiller, noted for its pink colour, is on Middle Island of the Recherche Archipelago in Israelite Bay, part of which country? | Australia (Western) |
| Matt Osborne, who died in 2013, was best known for playing which clown character in WWF? | Doink the Clown |
| Which appropriately named commodities trader who died in 2013 founded Glencore and was indicted in the US for tax evasion and making illegal oil deals with Iran? | Marc Rich |
| Bert Stern, who died in 2013, was a photographer best known for "The Last Sitting", a 1982 book of 2,500 photos of which actress taken twenty years earlier? | Marilyn Monroe |
| Remembered for his unkempt hair and colourful jumpers, which English archaeologist was the resident expert from 1994 to 2011 on TV's "Time Team"? | Mick Aston |
| Which song by Bobby Bland was used as the closing theme to "World's Craziest Fools", a clip show hosted by Mr T? | I Pity The Fool |
| With a style once derided as Hiroshima chic for its distressed fabrics, holes and asymmetry, which French sounding fashion label was founded by Rei Kawakubo? | Comme des Garçons |
| Designed by Yuko Shimizu for Sanrio, which white character with a red bow first appeared on a coin purse in 1974, but has since become a $5 billion a year marketing brand? | Hello Kitty |
| Which Japanese word for a section of Japanese culture translating as cuteness can be made by replacing the first letter of a US state? | Kawaii |
| Which singer with the surname Allsopp, who has been described as a male Lily Allen, had hits with "The Day I Died" and "Starz in Their Eyes"? | Just Jack |
| Which Italian physicist, with a wave equation and a type of fermion named after him, bought a boat ticket from Palermo to Naples in 1938 ans was never seen again? | (Ettore) Majorana |
| The red-billed streamertail or doctor bird is the national bird of which island nation? | Jamaica |
| The pharaoh hound is the national dog of which island nation? | Malta |
| Generally regarded as one of the first Italian painters to break from the Italo-Byzantine style, the 13th century Cimabue was, according to Vasari, the teacher of which more famous painter? | Giotto |
| His fresco "The Triumph of Death" inspired Liszt to write "Totentanz", by which one name is Andrea di Cioni, pupil of Giotto and Pisaro, usually known? | Orcagna |
| Which two letter word can mean a Maori fortified village with defensive terraces? | Pa |
| The imposing 11th/12th century Crusader castle Krak des Chevaliers lies 25 miles west of which city? | Homs |
| In 2006, which country became the most populous whose English name begins with E? | Ethiopia (overtaking Egypt) |
| In 2009, which country became the most populous whose English name begins with L? | Laos (overtaking Libya) |
| In 2008, which country became the most populous whose English name begins with Z? | Zambia (overtaking Zimbabwe) |
| Which German discus thrower won five out of six World Championship golds from 1991 to 2001 but only one Olympic gold in 1996? | Lars Riedel |
| Which German athlete extended the discus world record by over seven feet in 1988? | Jürgen Schult |
| Which former England Under 18 captain was jailed for killing two in a car crash, but had to be rearrested after being mistakenly released early? | Courtney Meppen-Walter |
| Craig Newmark was inducted into the first Internet Hall of Fame in 2012 for starting which website in 1995? | Craigslist |
| Which law, stating that the value of a telecommunications company is proportional to the square of the number of its connected users, is named after the man who founded 3Com and co-invented Ethernet? | Metcalfe's Law |
| What is the full name of the US TV network known generally by the initials HBO? | Home Box Office |
| Who succeeded Shah Jehan as the sixth and last great Mughal ruler of India, ruling 48 years from 1658 to 1707? | Aurangzeb aka Alamgir |
| In Islamic life, what are Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha'? | Times for the five daily prayers |
| What is both the longest and the second deepest lake in the world? | Lake Tanganyika |
| Lake Urmia, the largest lake in the Middle East is in which country? | Iran |
| Named after a musician, what was the main stadium for US Open tennis until the Arthur Ashe Stadium opened in 1997? | Louis Armstrong Stadium |
| Which Dorset born director's films include "Shaun of the Dead", "Scott Pilgrim vs The World" and "The World's End"? | Edgar Wright |
| Salalah is which country's second city and has been home to many of its sultans? | Oman |
| Which US playwright wrote stage works on which Puccini operas "Madame Butterfly" and "The Girl of the Golden West" were based? | David Brasco |
| The rapper Shyne was with Sean Combs and J-Lo when he was involved in a shooting and was jailed for ten years. In 2008, his father became PM of which country? | Belize |
| President Carlos Funes was formerly a TV reporter during the civil war that raged across which American country from 1979 to 1992? | El Salvador |
| In 2013, what became the first film based on a graphic novel to win the Palm D'Or? | Blue Is The Warmest Colour |
| The poodle Baby Boy won the 2013 Palm Dog for its part in which film? | Behind the Candelabra |
| How many years after Valentina Tereshkova become the first woman in space, did Svetlana Savitskaya become the second? | '19 |
| Part of the name of which Easr European country means "land of a duke"? | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| In 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall III discovered which two Solar System objects? | Phobos and Deimos |
| Which famous novel described two moons of Mars 150 years before their discovery? | Gulliver's Travels |
| Which German claimed to have discovered the four Galilean satelites of Jupiter some days before Galileo and gave them the names by which we now know them? | Simon Marius |
| Long considered the most likely base for human exploration of the Jovian system, which of the four Galilean moons is furthest from the planet? | Callisto |
| A series of three government created posters included "Freedom Is In Peril. Defend It With All Your Might" and "Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory". Which words were on the third? | Keep Calm and Carry On |
| Spencer Fairey is a designer best known for creating a poster showing a politcian with a four letter word underneath. What were the word and the name of the politician? | Hope, Obama |
| Launched in 1962, what was the first satelite constructed by a country other than the USA or USSR? | Alouette I (Canada) |
| Later adapted into the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which Prime Minister introduced the Canadian Bill of Rights in 1960? | John Diefenbaker |
| Which actor, well known for portraying a US superhero, was born in Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire? | Christian Bale |
| Which actor, well known for portraying a US superhero, was born on Jersey in the Channel Islands? | Henry Cavill |
| In which city was "The Adventures of Spider-Man" actor Andrew Garfield born? | Los Angeles (he has dual US-British citizenship) |
| Which foundation, based in Amsterdam, has since 2005 awarded an annual International Children's Peace Prize, the first being awarded by Mikhail Gorbachev? | KidsRight Foundation |
| Who is the youngest ever nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize with the UN's Ban-Ki Moon announcing that July 12th is to be celebrated in her honour? | Malala Yousafzai |
| What has the Canadian province of Newfoundland been called since 2001? | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Sometimes called the Labrador Strait, what is the usual name for the strait separating the island of Newfoundland from Labrador? | Strait of Belle Isle |
| Popularised in 2012 by Youtube clips, what is the ominous name given to the craze of jumping off sea cliffs while remaining vertical? | Tombstoning |
| Coming from the Spanish for one who is fifteen, which word means a coming of age party for 15 year old girls in Mexico and other parts of Latin America? | Quinceañera |
| What is the surname of the founder member of the Black Eyed Peas known as will.i.am? | Adams |
| In 2012 he became the first ever DJ to headline the Radio City Music Hall, under what name does Swedish DJ Tim Bergling perform? | Avicii |
| In a Norwegian reality TV series, also the basis of two series on ITV, celebrities had to try and reach which parallel of latitude? | 71 degrees North |
| Describing how ten thousand Greek mercenaries returned from an ill-fated military expedition in Persia, "The Anabasis" is a work by which pupil of Socrates? | Xenophon |
| Which city is the state capital of Mexico State in central Mexico? | Toluca |
| The building supplies company Cemex and Banorte Bank are based in which city, the capital of the state of Nuevo Leon? | Monterrey |
| Which city, the capital of Veracruz state on the Gulf of Mexico, is best known for its peppers? | Jalapa |
| Prior to the opening of the Panama Canal which 120 mile wide isthmus between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific was a major trade route? | Isthmus of Tehuantepec |
| Abraham Lincoln was ill while reading the Gettysburg Address and was diagnosed as suffering which illness shortly afterwards? | Smallpox |
| As runner up in 1964 and 1966, which New Zealand rally driver was the only person from outside the British Isles to be in the last three places of the BBC Sports Personalitty of the Year Award? | Barry Briggs |
| From 2006 to 2012, how many BBC SPOTY Awards went to people for sports involving a saddle? | Five (out of seven) |
| Which Danish motor racing driver died in a crash at the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans? | Allan Simonsen |
| Who wrote the 1970 bestseller on US culture "The Pursuit of Loneliness"? | Philip Slater |
| Which US golfer who died in 2013, was claimed to have saved The Open Championship by playing in it after WWII (runner-up in 1947 and 1953) when few Americans were interested in playing in Britain? | Frank Stranahan |
| Who wrote "I Am Legend", the short story "Duel", adapted into a Spielberg film, and several episodes of "The Twilight Zone"? | Richard Matheson |
| Sometimes known as "The Sinatra of the Blues", which singer was tributed in the title of Mick Hucknall's album "A Tribute to Bobby"? | Bobby Bland |
| Which four-letter name is given to the dioxin associated with Agent Orange, the Seveso disaster and a 2004 attack on Ukrainian politician Viktor Yushchenko? | TCDD |
| Published in 1948, which notable physicist's name was added to the front of a paper "On the Origin of Chemical Elements" by Ralph Alpher and George Gamow, despite him playing no part in the theory? | H Bethe |
| Iqualuit, the capital of the Nunavut Province on Baffin Island, was known by what name until 1987? | Frobisher Bay |
| In 1824, Guadalupe Victoria became the first president of which country? | Mexico |
| Pipil people are native to which Latin American country? | El Salvador |
| Which capital city contains the remains of the city of Kaminaljuyu? | Guatemala City |
| Which terrorist's picture appeared on the August 2013 issue of "Rolling Stone" magazine? | Dzhokhar Tsamaev |
| Which infamous Moroccan nightclub dancer was also known by the stage name Ruby Rubacuori or Ruby the Heart Stealer? | Karima El Mahroug |
| Which part was played on children's TV by Carol Lee Jones in the 1980s and 90s? | Grotbags |
| What was the name of the inept handyman on Tony Hart's shows in the 1970s and 80s? | Mr Bennett |
| Which country was ruled by the Shah dynasty from 1768 to 2008? | Nepal |
| Name either of the two countries whose rulers abdicated in 2006? | Bhutan or Kuwait |
| What name is given to the ornamental cords which sometimes hang off a sumo wrestler's mawashi? | Sagari |
| With many Japanese mountains named after it, which black lacquered hat is worn by Shinto priests and sumo referees? | Eboshi |
| What role does a yobidashi play at a sumo match? | Announcer |
| Which Olympic games featured a 200 metre swimming obstacle race? | Paris, 1900 |
| At which Olympic games were water motorsports featured? | London 1908 |
| In July 2013, which children's characters appeared on the cover of The New Yorker to represent the Supreme Court's ruling on gay marriages? | Bert and Ernie |
| In her first movie for United Artists, what part did Mary Pickford play in a 1920 film based on a book by Eleanor H Porter? | Pollyanna |
| What part did Mary Pickford play in a 1917 film based on a book by Kate Douglas Wiggin? | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm |
| Which producer of films such as "Grand Hotel" and "Mutiny on the Bounty" was married to the popular Canadian actress Norma Shearer? | Irving Thalberg |
| How many of the first four Best Actress Oscar winners were born in Canada? | Three (all but Janet Gaynor) |
| Who co-wrote "The Front Page" with Ben Hecht and wrote the screenplay for "The Sin of Madelon Claudet" for which his wife won the Best Actress Oscar? | Charles McArthur |
| Which actress was married only once in her long career, to the actor Ludlow Ogden Smith from 1928 to 1934? | Katherine Hepburn |
| Which German born Oscar winning actress turned 100 in 2010? | Luise Rainer |
| Which German city was the target of Operation Gomorrah in World War II? | Hamburg |
| Drawn up in August 1944 but subsequently shelved what was the codename of the planned large scale bombing raids on Berlin? | Operation Thunderclap |
| Who won the Young Riders classification and the King of the Mountains to come second in the 2013 Tour de France? | Nairo Quintana |
| Which Slovakian retained his Points classification win in the 2013 Tour de France? | Peter Sagan |
| Elizabeth Domitien, the first woman head of government in 20th century Africa, was prime minister from 1975-6 in which country? | Central African Republic |
| In July 2013, twenty baseball players, including Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers, were accused of obtaining performance enhancing drugs from which clinic? | Biogenesis of America |
| Which Australian mollusc is the world's largest freshwater invertebrate? | Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish |
| Part of the tourist route known as the Diamond Circle, what is Europe's most powerful waterfall by volume? | Dettifoss |
| Seen at the start of "View To A Kill", which ice cap, the most voluminois in Europe, covers 8% of Iceland? | Vatnajökull |
| Which film special effects artist who has worked with Spielburg, Cameron and Lucas has won eight Academy Awards? | Dennis Muren |
| Who composed music for over 200 films and with nine, was second only to Disney in numbers of Oscars won? | Alfred Newman |
| For which 1981 film did Rick Baker win the inaugural Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstylist? | An American Werewolf In London |
| Which world championships have been held annually at Sonkajärvi since 1992, with competitors usually employing the Estonian-style hold? | Wife Carrying |
| Played in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, which is the oldest known game to use a rubber ball? | Ulama |
| After Paris what are the second and third most populous French speaking cities in the world? | Kinshasa and Abidjan |
| Standardised by Guru Angad in the 16th century, Gurmukhi is the most common script for writing which language? | Punjabi |
| A famous example of the International Gothic style, the Wilton Diptych centres around which King of England? | Richard II |
| The gurdwara Harmandir Sahib, founded by Guru Ram Das, is usually known in English by what name? | The Golden Temple |
| The fifth of Sikhism's ten gurus, Arjan was executed by which Moghul emperor in 1606? | Jahangir |
| Which South African businessman founded Wonga.com in 2007? | Erroll Damelin |
| In 2013, CBBC viewers voted for Lindsay Russell to be the 36th presenter of which show? | Blue Peter |
| The mother tongue of Gilbert Prousch, the artist partner of George Pasmore, is which language spoken largely in the Dolomite Mountains? | Ladin |
| Sorbian is a language spoken mainly in Lusatia, a former region found in which modern day European country? | Germany |
| Created by John J McLaughlin in Enniskillen, Ontario in 1904, which brand of carbonated drink became popular as a mixer during Prohibition? | Canada Dry Ginger Ale |
| Which Canadian company rose in the 1980s to be the world's biggest distiller of alcoholic drinks but has since dissolved after a number of mergers and sell-offs? | Seagram |
| Dick James music attempted to sue George Michael for allegedly lifting the tune of "Last Christmas" from which song made famous by Barry Manilow? | Can't Smile Without You |
| Radiohead were successfully sued due to part of their hit "Creep" being similar to which Hollies song? | The Air That I Breathe |
| Ray Parker Jr's "Ghostbusters" was clearly based on "I Want A New Drug" by which which band who were working on the music for another hit 80s film? | Huey Lewis and the News |
| Who played in Wales's only World Cup Finals appearance before winning three FA Cups, a league title and the first European title won by an English club? | Cliff Jones |
| Tshering Tobgay's PDP party won which country's second general election in 2013? | Bhutan |
| Catholicos Garegin II is the head of which country's Apostolic Church, which claims to be the world's oldest national church? | Armenia |
| The Mogok Valley, famous for its rubies and blue sapphires, is in which country? | Myanmar |
| In May 2013, a flag weighing 5 tons, made of 44 miles of thread and covering three football pitches was unfurled. The world's largest flag is that of which European country? | Romania |
| Which 1961 hurricane destroyed Belize City, prompting the government to move the capital to Belmopan? | Hurricane Hattie |
| In video gaming, which word specifically means one who deliberately irritates and harasses players in a game, using aspects of the game in unintended ways? | Griefer |
| Which Union general in the American Civil War was famously killed by a sniper seconds after saying "They couldn't hit an elephant from this distance"? | John Sedgwick |
| Which pub and restaurant, a former winner of the Yorkshire Post Restaurant of the Year, dates back to the 10th century? | The Bingley Arms |
| Which Bavarian monastery is home to an operating brewery which was licenced in 1040? | Weihenstephan Abbey |
| Developed by students at Stanford University which photo messaging app, with a mascot called Ghostface Chillah, was claimed to delete its messages after between one and ten seconds? | Snapchat |
| Which French-born Iranian-American computer programmer created Auctionweb in 2002 which was later renamed eBay? | Pierre Omidyar |
| Which notorious British-born slum landlord has described Mugabe as "100% decent and incorruptible" and is thought to own an area of Zimbabwe larger than Cornwall? | Nicholas Van Hoogstraten |
| Who acted with Jack Nicholson in "The King of Marvin Gardens", "The Fortune", "One Flew Over thhe Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Shining"? | Scatman Crothers |
| In which US state are the book and film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" set? | Oregon |
| In which US state are the book and film "The Shining" set? | Colorado |
| The Kiss Nightclub Fire was a 2013 tragedy in which at least 242 people died in which country? | Brazil |
| At which religious festival do large numbers make stampedes common with over 1,000 dying at the 1954 event and 36 dying at the 2013 event? | Kumbh Mela |
| Which country joined the G6 group of countries in 1976 to form the G7? | Canada |
| What two word geographical metaphore, popularised by Ben Bernanke, was used to mean the simultaneous tax rate increase and government spending decrease that the US appeared to face at the end of 2012? | Fiscal cliff |
| The KIA is a military branch of the Kachin Independence Organisation in which country? | Myanmar |
| In 2013, Caleb Moore became the first participant to die of injuries sustained at the X Games. What was his sport? | Snowmobile racing |
| Pete Briquette, Simon Rowe and Garry Roberts were members of which 1970s band who reformed for the 2013 Isle of Wight Festival, their first gig since 1986? | Boomtown Rats |
| Who was the first tennis player of the Open era to win three consecutive Australian Open titles? | Novak Djokovic |
| In January 2013, for the first time in 24 years, a game between which teams saw a non-league team knock a Premier League team out of the FA Cup? | Luton Town & Norwich City |
| Eden Hazard, the Chelsea midfielder involved in the ball boy kicking incident in 2013, plays nationally for which country? | Belgium |
| To what did the NBA team the New Orleans Hornets change its name in 2013? | New Orleans Pelicans |
| Who hosted the US launch party for the Rubik's Cube, had a husband who designed an iconic doll and a sister who popularised Twister on a US talk show? | Zsa Zsa Gabor |
| Any Rubik's Cube is a maximum of how many twists away from a solved puzzle? | '20 (but there is no known algorithm to find that shortest solution) |
| Bislett Stadium, which has seen the breaking of over 50 track and field world records is in which country? | Norway |
| David Krumholtz is best known for playing Caltech maths professor Charlie Eppes in which TV series? | Numb3rs |
| What name is shared by Piper Perabo's central character in the TV series "Covert Affairs" and a former landlady of the Rovers Return? | Annie Walker |
| In which language did the name for 4th January 2013 sound like "I will love you all my life", leading to a rush of marriages on that date? | Mandarin |
| From 1982 to 1987, which former BBC Director General oversaw the introduction of Breakfast TV and Live Aid? | Alasdair Milne |
| Which US state passed a law permitting driverless cars in 2011 and issued the first licence for such a car in June 2012? | Nevada |
| According to the Met Office, 2012 was the UK's second wetter year on record. Which year was wetter? | '2000 |
| In January 2013, the authorities in which Central American country seized a gold plated jewel-encrusted AK47 rifle worth an estimated £30,000? | Honduras |
| In the UK Army in January 2013, which 9mm handgun replaced the Browning, which had been in use since 1967? | Glock 17 |
| In Florida in 2013, a man captured and killed a snake that was 18 feet long and weighed 128lb of which species? | Burmese Python |
| Who reputedly lost $75 million of sponsorship in a day after an interview with Oprah Winfrey in January 2013? | Lance Armstrong |
| Based on a Lincoln Futura, it first appeared on TV in 1966; an iconic version of which fictional vehicle? | Batmobile |
| According to a survey by US and Chinese Universities, the commonest lie told by parents is that they will do what if a child doesn't behave? | Leave the child alone in a public place |
| Who wrote about his investigations into alien spacecraft, lost civilisations and crop circles in the book "Wild Things They Don't Tell Us"? | Reg Presley |
| What was the only UK number one hit for The Troggs? | With A Girl Like You |
| Which F1 driver is played by Chris Hemsworth in Ron Howard film "Rush"? | James Hunt |
| Which coefficient, based on the Lorenz curve and named after an Italian sociologist, is a measure used to indicate inequality of income or wealth? | Gini coefficient |
| What is the one word stage name of British rap group member Andrew Major? | Maggot |
| Most famous for playing Finn in "Glee", who died of a mixture of heroin and alcohol in 2013? | Cory Monteith |
| Which US singer-songwriter and guitarist who died in 2013 wrote the Eric Clapton hit "Cocaine"? | JJ Cale |
| What was the name of the army captain played by Eileen Brennan in "Private Benjamin"? | Doreen Lewis |
| Who in 2013 became Queen of Belgium? | Queen Mathilde |
| In July 2013, who became heir apparent to the Belgian throne? | Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Brabant |
| In 2013, who became heir apparent to the Dutch throne? | Catherine-Amalia, Princess of Orange |
| What was the birth name of Pope Francis? | Jorge Mario Borgoglio |
| Which chain of restaurants in the southern US were inspired by and named, following a deal with Viacom, after a fictional company in a 1995 film? | Bubba Gump Shrimp Company |
| The problem of finding one circle given another such that the area of intersection of the circles equals the total areas within the circles but outside the intersection is named after which character, the title of a 1940s Best Film Oscar? | Mrs Miniver('s problem) |
| The 1922 story "Bertie Changes His Mind" is notable as the only one narrated by which character? | Jeeves |
| Where, in 1986, was the guilder replaced by the florin? | Aruba |
| Which Alabama student became a US media sensation when she went missing on a trip to Aruba in 2005? | Natalee Holloway |
| Which Aruba born member of Boney M infamously made very little vocal contribution to the band? | Bobby Farrelly |
| In 2007, it was revealed that the real name of which 16th century artist, nicknamed Il Furioso, was Jacopo Comin? | Jacopo Robusti aka Tintoretto |
| Which territory owned by the Hudson Bay Company from 1670 to 1870, consisted mainly of the drainage basin of Hudson Bay? | Rupert's Land |
| Capable of sustaining hammer blows at the bulbous end and disintegrating explosively if the thin end is damaged, what royal name is given to a tadpole shaped piece of glass formed by dripping molten glass into cold water? | Prince Rupert's Drops |
| What number is usually given to the Shakespearean sonnet which begins "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"? | Eighteen |
| The subjects of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets are usually known by three descriptions, the Fair Youth, the Dark Lady and the...? | Rival Poet |
| Who provided the voice of Dick Dastardly and Tigger and created 30 patents including an artificial heart, invented with the help of Heimlich of "manoevre" fame? | Paul Winchell |
| At the University of Queensland is a famous experiment in which pitch is allowed to drip out of a funnel. Between 1930 and 2010, the pitch has dripped how many times? | Eight |
| At the annual ceremony for awarding which prizes does an eight-year old girl called Miss Sweety Poo repeatedly shout "Please stop. I'm bored" if speakers go on too long? | Ig Nobel Prizes |
| Marc Abrahams, originator, in 1991, and emcee of the Ig Nobel Prizes was also the co-founder and editor of which magazine, abbreviated to AIR? | Annals of Improbable Research |
| In 2007, Mayu Yamamoto won an Ig Nobel Prize for obtaining vanilla flavouring from what? | Cow dung |
| Which TV documentary showed a retrospective in 1982 subtitled "The First Million Miles"? | Whicker's World |
| Who directed "Great", a 1974 life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel which was the first British animated film to win an Oscar? | Bob Godfrey |
| In which country was Alan Whicker born in 1925? | Egypt (Cairo) |
| Which notoriously difficult to read novel published in 1939 became a surprise bestseller in China in 2013 after being translated by Dai Congrong from English to Chinese? | Finnegan's Wake |
| In 2013, at Super Bowl XLVII, who fielded a kick and returned the ball 108 yards to score a touchdown for the Baltimore Ravens, the longest play in Super Bowl history? | Jacoby Jones |
| From November 1800 to February 2013, French women were not legally allowed to wear what unless they asked the police for permission? | Trousers |
| Which US writer was named, in February 2013, as the most borrowed author from UK libraries for the sixth successive year? | James Patterson |
| In 2013, which European country's ban of horses on the road led to them selling horsemeat disguised as beef across the EU? | Romania |
| The last part of which film franchise won the 2013 Razzies for worst film, worst actress and worst supporting actor? | Twilight (Breaking Dawn Part 2) |
| With adults standing 13 to 14 inches at the shoulder, the northern species of which South American deer is the world's smallest? | Pudu |
| Living in the Atacama desert, viscachas are most closely related to which other South American mammals? | Chinchillas |
| Which Dutchman had a 1969 number 21 in the Netherlands singing "Oei Oei Oei"? | Johan Cruyff |
| Who had a minor German hit in 1967 with "1:0 für die Liebe"? | Franz Beckenbauer |
| Headquartered in Rennes, what is the bestselling Francophone newspaper? | Ouest-France |
| In 1950, what was the best-selling newspaper in the world? | News of the World |
| Which country has ruled that its flag must be made from hand-woven cloth called khadi? | India |
| How many spokes are in the Ashoka Chakra, the wheel on the flag of India? | '24 |
| From 1999 to 2012, who hosted 370 episodes of the weekly talk show "Alo Presidente"? | Hugo Chavez |
| Ten years after they formed as Ivan Jay and the Jaycats, which English band, who performed at Woodstock, had their only UK top ten in 1970 with "Love Like A Man"? | Ten Years After |
| Which UK trumpeter led his jazzmen to a US and UK number two in 1962 with "Midnight in Moscow"? | Kenny Ball |
| The paternal aunt of King Gustav XVI of Sweden, which city is birthplace of Princess Lilian, who died in 2013? | Swansea |
| Which actor's plaque on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was installed posthumously on St David's Day 2013, next to that of his two times wife? | Richard Burton |
| Which 2013 Rolls-Royce car, a coupé version of the Ghost, was named in honour of a car from the 1930s? | Rolls-Royce Wraith |
| Which Warwickshire coal mine, closed in 2013 following a fire, was the last of the deep mines operating in the UK? | Daw Mill |
| Which breed of French scent hound, abbreviated to PBGV, won Best of Breed at Crufts in 2013? | Petit Basset Griffon Vendée |
| Which smartphone, launched in 2013, was the first to be controlled by the user's eyes? | Samsung's The Galaxy S4 |
| Which smartwatch was launched in 2013 after a record $10 million was raised on the Kickstarter website? | The Pebble |
| Whose album was at number one while he was the subject of the V&A's fastest ever selling exhibition? | David Bowie |
| Which controversial website was named by its 17-year old Russian founder Andrey Temovsky after watching "The Deer Hunter"? | Chatroulette |
| The band Nightlife Thugs from Dun Laoghire changed their name and became better known under which name? | The Boomtown Rats |
| Which UK number one hit has the lyric "Already told you in the first verse. And in the chorus"? | Yes Sir, I Can Boogie |
| Named after a federal judge, what was the name of the federal building destroyed in the 1995 Oklahoma bombing? | Alfred P Murrah Federal Building |
| What was the airline and flight number of the plane that famously crashed into a reclaimed strip mine in Stonycreek Township, near Shanksville? | United 93 |
| The USS Phoenix (CL-46) survived the bombing of Pearl Harbor but was ultimately sank by which ship? | HMS Conqueror (after it was renamed General Belgrano) |
| What was the first ship sunk in action by a submarine following World War II? | INS Khukri (by Pakistani Hangor in 1971 Indo-Pakistan War) |
| How did preacher of "The People's Temple" in Guyana, Jim Jones, commit suicide in 1978? | Shot himself in the head (NOT cyanide in Kool-Aid) |
| In 1995 Eileen Collins became famous as the first woman to pilot which vehicle? | The Space Shuttle |
| The 2005 Foreign Language Oscar winner "Tsotse" was based on a novel by which South African playwright, novelist, actor and director? | Athol Fugard |
| Which 1969 film with a single letter name was based on a Greek novel about a Greek politician and by a Greek director but was made in Algeria so was the first African film to win the Best Foreign Language Oscar? | Z |
| Which terrorist was executed exactly three months before 9/11? | Tim McVeigh |
| According to its inventor, which musical instrument was invented in 1959, after an attempt to dry a portrait of the conjuror Robert Hardin? | Wobble board |
| Which American animator was club member number one on "Rolf's Cartoon Club"? | John Lasseter |
| How are Miss Burke and Miss Tunstall known in the title of an adult comic strip? | The Fat Slags (Sandra and Tracy) of Viz |
| Which energy minster (1979-1981) caused controversy in 2013 by saying that fracking should be done in the "desolate" north-east of England? | Lord Howell |
| Who wrote the 54 novels of the Animorphs series as well as the Remnant and Everworld series and won the 2013 Newbery Medal for "The One and Only Ivan"? | Katherine A Applegate |
| Which monarch instituted the Order of the Bath? | George I (in 1725) |
| Which monarch instituted the Order of the Thistle? | James II (VII of Scotland in 1687) |
| On the US, which Pennsylvania city, named after one in England, is noted for chocolate covered mints called Peppermint Patties? | York |
| Who performed with The Gypsy Travellers, managed The Old Vic and re-opened the Sadlers Wells theatre? | Lilian Baylis |
| Which two 17th century joint stock companies (coincidentally sharing their names with varieties of gin) formed the Virginia Company for establishing settlements on the coast of North America? | London Company & Plymouth Company |
| In 1977, which UK museum won the inaugural European Museum of the Year award? | Ironbridge (Gorge Museum Trust) |
| Which city houses the Riverside Museum, winner of the 2013 European Museum of the Year? | Glasgow |
| Often referred to as a curry western, which 1975 action-adventure starring Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan is the highest grossing Indian film of all time, adjusted for inflation? | Sholay |
| The majority of Indian films are made in Hindi, which language comes in second ahead of Tamil in numbers of Indian films made? | Telugu |
| By being marooned on Floreana from 1807 to 1809, Irishman Patrick Watkins was the first known human resident of which group of islands? | Galapagos Islands |
| Granted the position for helping the Sultan of Brunei fight piracy, in 1842 Indian born Englishman, James Brooke, became the first White Rajah of which kingdom? | Sarawak |
| Ankole, Toro and Bunyoro are traditional kingdoms recognised within which African country? | Uganda |
| In 2013, what was the name of the Norwegian PM who admitted working undercover as a taxi driver? | Jens Stoltenberg |
| In 1956, who managed his football team to win the first two European Cups? | José Villalonga (Real Madrid) |
| In 1993, which Belgian managed his football team to the first UEFA Champions League title? | Raymond Goethals (Marseilles) |
| Only cheeses aged in which caves in Aveyron in the Midi-Pyrenees region are allowed by EU law to bear the name Roquefort? | Cambalou caves |
| Which dairy breed of sheep from southern France is the predominant breed in the production of Roquefort? | Lacaune sheep |
| Cancale in Brittany has a museum dedicated ro which food? | Oysters (Musée des Huitres) |
| In France, which food items are traditionally associated with Morteau, Strasbourg and Toulouse? | Sausages |
| Houses where which writer lived in Paris, Luxembourg and Guernsey have been preserved as museums? | Victor Hugo |
| Which 18th century count of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Italy and Generalissimo of the Russian army is noted for fighting over sixty battles without a loss? | Alexander Suvarov |
| Which US author was a seal-hunter, cannery worker, tramp, jailbird, boxer and more famously, an oyster pirate? | Jack London |
| Which actor, who died in 2013, made the most appearances in "Steptoe and Son" after the two leads and was also in Hancock's "Blood Donor" sketch? | Frank Thornton |
| The whole population of which town runs into the sea in the 1975 horror novel "The Fog"? | Bournemouth |
| Which English actor, who died in 2013, was the voice of Archibald the Koala in 52 episodes of the series? | Richard Griffiths |
| Named after an Angolan city, what is the name of the northward flowing oceanic current, which mixes with the south-flowing Agulhas current to creat the marine ecosystem of the Cape of Good Hope? | Benguela Current |
| The codename for the British operations in the War in Afghanistan is shared with the name for which 17th century poet whose most famous work is of the carpe diem genre? | Herrick |
| The title being the unit's call sign, which 2013 BBC sitcom starring Oliver Chris, centred on a bomb disposal team in Afghanistan? | Bluestone 42 |
| BBC's 2013 drama, "The Village" starring John Simm and Maxine Peake, was set in a village in which English county? | Derbyshire |
| What are the first names of the old gay couple played by Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi in the ITV comedy "Vicious"? | Freddie and Stuart |
| Which 2013 UK entertainment show, hosted by Gabby Logan and Vernon Kaye, was based on a Dutch format called "Sterren Springen"? | Splash! |
| After a break of 11 years, which game show returned to ITV in 2013, hosted by Stephen Mulhern? | Catchphrase |
| Which character presented "Through the Keyhole" on ITV in 2013? | Keith Lemon |
| Which BBC channel ran from 15th May 2006 to 26th March 2013? | BBC HD |
| Which American band, led by John Fogerty, had the original hit with "Proud Mary"? | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| Which UK drama serial originating in the 1970s was still being made, with a slight change of name, in 2013? | Emmerdale (Farm) |
| Which US singer wrote the song "Hello Mary Lou", later sung by Johnny Duncan and, more famously, Ricky Nelson? | Gene Pitney |
| Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia and subject of a well-known 1853 Christmas carol, ruled in which century? | Ninth |
| Which cloth pattern shares its name with the title for a commander-in-chief of the army in ancient Assyria? | Tartan |
| In the Bible, two she bears tore apart 42 children after they made fun of which prophet's bald head? | Elisha |
| In the book of Judges in the Old Testament, which enemy captain is killed by having a tent peg driven through his head while sleeping? | Sisera |
| Which Brazilian mechanic made his name by inventing a light bulb involving a plastic bottle with water, bleach and requiring no electricity? | Alfredo Moser |
| John Brookes, who died in 2013 aged 44 from a brain tumour, was drummer with which 90s band? | The Charlatans |
| Which word can mean a burrowing flea, a hand-operated railcar, a cocktail measure or a pallet jack? | Jigger |
| The New York Yankees have won the most World Series (27), which team is second with 11, most recently in 2011? | St Louis Cardinals |
| Nicknamed Double X, which baseballer for the Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox in 1939 became the second after Babe Ruth to hit over 500 career home runs? | Jimmie Foxx |
| In 1667, Nicholas de la Reynie became the first person to hold which position in Paris? | Lieutenant General of the Police |
| Which sports stadium was demolished in 2010 and replaced by the MetLife Stadium? | Giants Stadium |
| Which controversial figure, portrayed by Kenneth Branagh in the film "Rabbit-Proof Fence", was from 1915 the Chief Protector of Aboriginals in Western Australia? | A O Neville |
| GLONASS is the Russian operated version of which US operated system? | GPS |
| Which 19th century explorer is the first man known to have circumnavigated Australia? | Matthew Flinders |
| In 2011, Hollywood published a list of actors by total box office takings since 1980. Third was Tom Hanks, second was Samuel L Jackson, but which voice-artist, best known as Fred in Scooby Doo came top? | Frank Welker |
| Who wrote, produced, directed, edited, composed the soundtrack of and starred in the 2007 film "2 Days in Paris"? | Julia Delpy |
| Who won a directing actor for a film he also starred in, produced and co-wrote with Trevor Griffiths? | Warren Beatty (Reds) |
| The US model and actress Emily Ratajkowski rose to prominence in 2013 after topless appearances in the video for which song? | Blurred Lines |
| John Logan's Tony winning play "Red" centres around which abstract expressionist artist, played on Broadway by Alfred Molina? | Mark Rothko |
| Which Tony winning musical centres around Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play rock and roll music? | Memphis |
| What is the name of The Duckworth Lewis Method's song about Shane Warne's "ball of the century"? | Jiggery Pokery |
| The EU operated equivalent of GPS is named after which astronomer? | Galileo |
| The 2009 Vuelta a España, the 2010 Giro d'Italia and the 2010 Tour de France all started in which country? | The Netherlands |
| The discovery of which mammal of the raccoon family in the jungles of Colombia and Ecuador was announced in 2013? | Olinguito |
| Which Nobel Prize winner has a pen name which means "don't speak"? | Mo Yanm |
| Which Celtic goddess became part of the Greco-Roman religion as a protector of horses, donkeys and mules and is also the title of an Enya instrumental, heard in the film "LA Story"? | Epona |
| In 2013, which tournament became the fifth LPGA major? | The Evian Championship |
| In the 15 years since Laura Davies won four golf majors, two other English women have won majors. Name either. | Alison Nicholas ('97 US Open) or Karen Stupples ('04 British Open) |
| Which Taiwanese golfer won five women's majors before her 23rd birthday? | Yani Tseng |
| Which South Korean won the first three majors of 2013? | Inbee Park |
| In 2010, they beat Internacional of Brazil to become the first team outside Europe or South America to reach the final of the World Club Cup. TP Mazambe are from which country? | D R Congo |
| Hailee Steinfeld was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for playing a 14 year old in which 2010 remake of a 1969 film? | True Grit |
| Christian Bale's infamous expletive-filled rant at cinematographer Shane Hurlbut took place on the set of which 2009 movie? | Terminator Salvation |
| How is the fictional town of Gulfhaven, Florida known in the title of a TV series starring Courteney Cox? | Cougar Town |
| Which character in a series of children's books by Rick Riordan discovers he is the son of Poseidon? | Percy Jackson |
| The Filmfare Awards are major awards for films made in which country? | India (in Hindi) |
| Which eccentric US art collector, who made his money treating gonorrhoea, amassed a collection containing 178 Renoirs and more Cézannes than all of the museums in Paris? | Albert C Barnes |
| Which deep-voiced Spanish TV host and actor (1947-2013) is also known for dubbing the Spanish version of many movies, roles including Darth Vader, The Terminator, Captain Kirk and Mufasa in "The Lion King"? | Constantino Romero |
| Which writer, who died in 2013, had 10 Rules of Writing including "try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip"? | Elmore Leonard |
| The likes of Pavarotti, Elton John and Tom Jones have performed in which well-preserved Roman amphitheatre, the only one with three Roman architectural orders entirely preserved? | Pula Arena (Croatia) |
| Which saint, along with St Cyril is usually credited with inventing the Glagolitic alphabet, the precursor to the Cyrillic? | St Methodius |
| St Cyril, after whom the Cyrillic alphabet was named, was born in the 9th century in which modern day country? | Greece (Thessalonika) |
| The world's first commercial hydro power plant was the 1895 Adams Power Plant, constructed on which river? | Niagara |
| The Sea Organ is an architectural structure designed to act like a musical instrument and is found in which European country? | Croatia (Zadar) |
| In 2006, which Bosnian lutenist accompanied Sting on his "Songs From The Labyrinth"? | Edie Karamazov |
| The unit of currency in Croatia, the kuna, is named after which animal whose pelts were used in mediaeval trading? | Marten |
| In Croatia, the Eternal Derby is the name given to the match between which rival football teams? | Dinamo Zagreb v Hajduk Split |
| Raylan Givens, played by Timothy Olyphant, is the central character of which TV series based on two novels by Elmore Leonard? | Justified |
| Which British company is based at the former site of RAF Hethel in Norfolk? | Lotus Cars |
| While working on which TV series, based on a Stephen King novel, did one producer say "I must hear the words 'just like "The Simpsons Movie"' fifty times a day"? | Under the Dome |
| Regarded by some historians as one of the most significant battles in the history of the British Isles, which 10th century battle saw Athelstan's forces defeat a combined force of Scots and Vikings? | Battle of Brunaburh |
| What is the medical term for perceiving of a smell which does not exist? | Phantosmia |
| Which Lotus car, launched in 2008, has a name which, ignoring an accent, it shares with a city in southern Portugal? | Evora |
| Having met and drawn most of the world's sport stars in a career spanning over fifty years, who revived his cult football cartoon "You Are the Ref" in 2006? | Paul Trevillion |
| Produced by Spielberg, Hanks and Goetzman as a companion series to "Band of Brothers", which 2010 HBO series dealt with battles such as Guadalcanal, Okinawa and Iwo Jima? | The Pacific |
| Which US doctor of animal science invented the "hug box" to calm autistic children and revolutionised the treatment of cattle in slaughterhouses? | Temple Grandin |
| Which famous doctor (1928-2011) used devices he called the Thanatron and Mercitron and was convicted of second-degree murder in 1999? | Dr Jack Kevorkian |
| Which alphabet has been the main script for writing Sanskrit since the 19th century and is the standard script for many languages including Hindi, Bhojpuri and Punjabi? | Devanagari |
| Which east Indian state north of Assam, capital Itanagar, is claimed by China? | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Which east Indian state, capital Gangtok, borders Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and West Bengal? | Sikkim |
| By being visible to the naked eye for 18 months, Hale Bopp doubled the record set by the Great Comet of which year of the 19th century, which was visible for 260 days? | '1811 |
| Discovered in January and named after its discoverer, what was the Great Comet of 1996? | Hyakutake |
| Which English village which has hosted the Ryder Cup shares its name with the birthplace of a Scottish World Champion snooker player? | Wishaw (Warks home of The Belfry, North Lanarks, J Higgins's birthplace) |
| In its first three years (from 2010) only players from which two teams reached the top three of the voting for the FIFA Ballon d'Or? | Barcelona and Real Madrid |
| Which country won silver at the 2013 Aquatics Championships in the men's water polo having come fourth at the last two Olympics? | Montenegro |
| From 2005 to 2013, which Russian has won a total of 23 medals in Olympic, World Championship and European Championship synchronised swimming, all of them gold? | Svetlana Romashina |
| Which actress, who died in 2013, was a commentator for synchronised swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics? | Esther Williams |
| In which sport do international teams of women play for the annual Algarve Cup? | Football |
| Which team did Germany beat to win the final of the UEFA Women's Euro 2013, held in Sweden? | Norway |
| Who to date (2013) has been the longest serving Italian Prime Minister? | Benito Mussolini |
| Who to date (2013) has been the longest serving Spanish Prime Minister? | Felipe González |
| Bruce Robinson, the director of "Withnail & I", claimed he based the predatory gay Uncle Monty character on which Italian film director? | Franco Zefferelli |
| Which English actress, largely remembered for a 70s sitcom, can be heard dubbing Ursula Andress's singing of "Underneath the Mango Tree" in "Dr No"? | Diana Coupland |
| Which viscous honey with claimed antibacterial properties should legally contain 70% of pollen from the Australian or New Zealand tea tree? | Manuka honey |
| Launched in 1841, Charles W Morgan, the only surviving wooden 19th century US whaling ship, is found at the Mystic Seaport museum in which US state? | Connecticut |
| Which 17th century warship was salvaged in 1961 and has become one of Sweden's biggest tourist attractions? | Vasa |
| Who, in 1981, won the Pritzker Prize and, four years after his death in 1992, the first prizes named after him were awarded? | James Stirling |
| Who won $1 million on the last episode of "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader", won a 2006 Nobel Prize for work on cosmic background radiation and has a 5'7" tall cousin who was once used to measure a bridge? | Charles Smoot |
| In education, STEM is an acronym standing for science and which other three subjects? | Technology, Engineering and Maths |
| What was the full first name of the baseball batting average record holder, the Georgia Peach, Ty Cobb? | Tyrus |
| With a batting average second only to Ty Cobb and a two times Triple Crown winner, which baseballer was nicknamed "The Rajah"? | Rogers Hornsby |
| Found in most birds, insects, gastropods and worms, what four-letter name is given to part of the alimentary canal which holds food in storage prior to digestion? | Crop |
| Over 100 footballers have played for both Oldham Athletic and which other league club? | Rochdale |
| Over 100 footballers have played for both Notts County and which other league club? | Lincoln City |
| Which UK rock star is alleged to have fathered a love child with US journalist Liza Ghorbani? | Liam Gallagher |
| In 2013, over 25,000 students took an entrance exam to at least one of the two state-run universities. Everyone failed meaning there will be no university first-years in 2014. In which African country was this? | Liberia |
| Which Pixar film had added publicity in Colombia due to its central character resembling former president Julio Turbay? | Up |
| What was the first cartoon to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture? | Beauty and the Beast |
| Whose film voice roles have included an Abominable Snowman, The Underminer, PT Flea, a school of moonfish, Mustafa the waiter, Mack the truck and Hamm the Piggy Bank? | John Ratzenberger |
| In 2013, who replaced Bryan Dowling as the UK host of "Big Brother"? | Emma Willis |
| In darts, what is both a nickname for treble twenty and the 2012 BDO Darts Champion Christian Kist? | Lipstick |
| Which Nobel winning neuroscientist assisted Michael Foster in writing "A Textbook of Physiology" in which he is usually credited with coining the word "synapse"? | Charles Sherrington |
| The 16th/17th century Belgian scientist Jan Baptista van Helmont is best remembered for coining which three letter word in science? | Gas |
| Which England cricketer is also lead singer of a band called Dr Comfort and the Lurid Revelations? | Graeme Swann |
| Which winner of "Big Brother UK" was born Jorge Leodoro in Madeira? | Nadia Almada |
| What name is given to the cockerel on the Tottenham Hotspurs logo? | Harry Hotspur |
| Which DC superhero is the alter ego of Oliver Queen, played in a TV series by Stephen Arnell? | Green Arrow |
| In the 2013 World Athletics Championships, which daughter of a BBC SPOTY winner was in the final of the women's steeplechase? | Eilish McColgan |
| At what age in 2013 did New Yorker Diana Nyad become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage or swim fins? | '64 |
| Attempting to bring basketball exhibitions to North Korea, who, in February 2013, was widely reported as the first American to have met Kim Jong-un? | Dennis Rodman |
| Up to the end of the 2012 Olympics, which two women had each won a British record of four Olympic medals? | Rebecca Addlington & Katherine Grainger |
| From the 15th to the 18th century, defendants in England under common law who refused to plea had increasing weights placed on their chest until they gave a plea or died. By what four word French phrase is this practice usually known? | Peine fort et dure |
| The scheuled 2013 Grand Prix of America was due to take place at the Post Imperial Street Circuit in which US state? | New Jersey |
| Which son of a World Champion Driver won the 2013 British Grand Prix, infamous for the number of tyre blowouts? | Nico Rosberg |
| Which co-founder of the fashion chain Zara was Spain's richest woman when she died in August 2013? | Rosalia Mera |
| 2014 is the 200th anniversary of which of the five British Classics of horse racing? | 1000 Guineas |
| Played by James Stewart, what was the first name of the title character in the 1939 film "Mr Smith Goes To Washington"? | Jefferson |
| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is usually known by what name after a sportsman who was a famous sufferer? | Lou Gehrig's Disease |
| Lucas Jackson is the title character of which 1965 Donn Pearce novel and a 1967 film of the same name? | Cool Hand Luke |
| The pre-title sequence of which Bond film sees the death of a character which looks like Ernst Stavro Blofeld, but was not named as such for legal reasons? | For Your Eyes Only |
| In the AFI's 100 Years list of "100 Heroes and Villains" which actress appeared on the list, not as an actress, but as one of the villainous characters? | Joan Crawford (played by Faye Dunaway in "Mommie Dearest") |
| Which father and son played a Hogwarts teacher and a Weasley respectively in the Harry Potter series? | Brendon & Domhnall Gleeson |
| The autobiography "Tattoos and Tequila" is by Vince Neil, the front man of which band? | Mötley Crüe |
| The autobiography "Scar Tissue" is by Anthony Kiedis, the front man of which band? | Red Hot Chilli Peppers |
| How many contestants are there each year in the annual Miss United States beauty contest? | 55 (50 states plus Guam, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Puerto Rico & DC) |
| Playing at Langtree Park from 2012, which RFL team has played for most of its life at Knowsley Road? | St Helens |
| The Wish Communications Stadium, better known as Wheldon Road or The Jungle, is home to which RFL side? | Castleford Tigers |
| In 1989, which loose forward became the first player to win the Man of Steel Award for a third time? | Ellery Hanley |
| Who were the three long serving captains of team A on "A Question of Sport" during Henry Cooper's nine year stint as Team B captain? | Cliff Morgan, Fred Trueman & Brendan Foster |
| Who were the three long serving captains of team B on "A Question of Sport" during Bill Beaumont's 14 year stint as Team A captain? | Willie Carson, Emlyn Hughes & Ian Botham |
| Which Brazilian footballer, the top scorer of the 1938 World Cup, was famous for perfecting the bicycle kick? | Leonidas da Silva |
| By what one word name was the footballer often referred to as "Pele's goalkeeper" known? | Gilmar |
| A composer of over 200 songs, translated into many languages, rock singer Baris Manço was a popular figure in which country? | Turkey |
| A spin-off of "An Idiot Abroad", in which 2013 travel series does Karl Pilkington visit places he wants to go to? | The Moaning of Life |
| In meteorology, which French word is used to mean rain falling from a cloudless sky? | Serein |
| First photographed in 1989, what name, shared with a generic name for small legendary creatures, is given to electrical discharges from above thunderstorm clouds? | Sprites |
| In 2013, Australian of the Year was won by Ita Buttrose, best known as the founder of which magazine, famous for its Bachelor of the Year awards and nude male centrefolds? | Cleo |
| Which winner of the Triple Crown of Acting, that is an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony, was 2012 Australian of the Year? | Geoffrey Rush |
| The 2012 "Strictly Come Dancing" champion and the 2013 "Dancing on Ice" champion were both competitors in which sport? | Gymnastics (Smith & Tweddle) |
| '"Dancing on Ice" champions Hayley Tamaddon (2010) and Henry Wolfendon (2012) were both best known for parts in which soap? | Emmerdale |
| Which admiral, who died in 2013, commanded the British Naval forces in the South Atlantic in the Falklands War? | Sandy Woodward |
| Cooked and eaten in London in 2013, scientists from which country produced the first lab-grown burger? | The Netherlands |
| Built to accompany Koichi Wakata on the ISS, what is Japan's talking robot astronaut called? | Kirobo |
| The sound of which two Brians is featured on the 2013 campaign song "Save the Badger Badger Badger"? | Brian May & Brian Blessed |
| In 1952, which baseballer was the most famous member of the Indianapolis Clowns? | Hank Aaron |
| Which nuts, indigenous to Australia, can cause temporary hind leg paralysis in dogs? | Macadamia |
| The last one being famously adapted by Andrew Lloyd Webber in his "Variations", how many caprices did Paganini write? | 24 |
| Which fruits commonly given to dogs as treats are known to cause renal failure in some dogs? | Grapes or raisins |
| Who was removed from his see as Archbishop of Constantinople in 431 AD for preaching that Mary was not the Theotokos or "Mother of God"? | Nestorius |
| Born in Omagh, County Tyrone with the first name Nigel, which actor was one of the main candidates to replace Roger Moore as James Bond, ultimately losing to Timothy Dalton? | Sam Neill |
| The Oscar winning film "Amadeus" was based on a play by Peter Shaffer, inspired by an 1830 play "Mozart and Salieri" by which writer? | Alexander Pushkin |
| Situated north of Llanelli and opened in 2009, what was the first new National Hunt course in the UK for 80 years? | Ffos Las |
| Which rodent spread virus, identfied in the 1990s and linked to a sweating sickness that spread through England in 1485, is named after a river in South Korea? | Hantavirus (River Hantan) |
| The name of which UNESCO World Heritage Site with cave paintings is contained within the name of another UNESCO World Heritage Site with cave paintings? | Alta, Norway (in Altamira, Spain) |
| Which 2010 French-Belgian comedy film starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu has a name which is French for trophy wife? | Potiche |
| '"La Bisbetica Domata" and "La Mégère apprivoisée" are the Italian and French names for which Shakespeare play? | The Taming of the Shrew |
| Which Norwegian archipelago, a UNESCO World Heritage site, shares its name with the brightest star of the constellation Lyra? | Vega |
| Which TV series starring AnnaSophia Robb is a prequel to HBO's "Sex and the City"? | The Carrie Diaries |
| Known as the city of roses and ruins, which island based European World Heritage Site did Hiyao Miyazaki say was the main basis for the look of "Kiki's Delivery Service"? | Visby (Gotland) |
| Polish American chemist Stephanie Kwolek is best known for inventing a polymer commonly known by what tradename? | Kevlar |
| Which Japanese word meaning strange monsters features strongly in the film "Pacific Rim" and in the films of Ishiro Honda? | Kaijus |
| Who sang the theme tunes to the TV sitcoms "Stay Lucky" and "On the Up"? | Dennis Waterman |
| Three main characters of the first seasons of which TV series are named after a former stand at West Brom's Hawthorns stadium? | New Tricks (Halford, Lane, Standing after the Halford Lane Stand) |
| With a length of 98 kilometres and varying in width from 400 metres to 3,800 metres, which spit of land contains a lagoon between Lithuania and Kaliningrad? | Curonian Spit |
| In the 2011 film "The Smurfs" and its 2013 sequel, which singer voices Smurfette? | Katy Perry |
| Who directed the 2013 film "Blue Jasmine", starring Cate Blanchett and based on the plot of "A Streetcar Named Desire"? | Woody Allen |
| Kernavé is the mediaeval capital of a Grand Duchy situated in which modern day country? | Lithuania |
| What name is given to the unicameral parliament of Finland? | Eduskunta |
| Based in the Christiansborg Palace, what is the name of the unicameral parliament of Denmark? | Folketing |
| The Green Belt of Glory is a war memorial made of 80 smaller memorials commemorating an event in WW2 and surrounds which city? | St Petersburg |
| Literally meaning "She who shows the way", which word means an iconic depiction of Mary holding the Christ Child while pointing to Him? | Hodegetria |
| The Arctic port of Murmansk lies on the northern coast of which peninsula? | Kola |
| Which port lies on Dvina Bay, part of the White Sea at the mouth of the North Dvina River? | Archangelsk |
| In 1723, a team of doctors released four pounds of blocked urine and two years later he died and was found to have a gangrenous bladder. Which world leader? | Peter the Great |
| Good Neighbourliness Day, Racing Horse Day, Melon Day and Carpet Day are among the 24 public holidays in which country? | Turkmenistan |
| The Time of Troubles in Russia has been linked to the 1600 eruption of Huaynaputina in which country? | Peru |
| Thilafushi is a controversial artificial island made from municipal landfill which is part of which island nation? | The Maldives |
| The Koruwai people, many of whom live in wooden tree houses and were unaware of other people until 1970, are in the west of which island? | New Guinea |
| In 2013, which Co-CEO of the cloud-based IT business Outsourcery and which South African born British interior designer became the new "Dragons" on BBC's "Dragons' Den"? | Piers Linney & Kelly Hoppen |
| In the 1950s, Ivy, Upshot-Knothole, Castle, Teapot, Wigwam, Redwing and Plumbob were operation names for series of what? | Nuclear Tests |
| Which German word, associated with Wagner, is used to mean a work which makes use of many art forms and is often translated as "total work of art"? | Gesamkunstwerk |
| Which French born Argentinian composer of many of the world's best known tangos died in a plane crash in Medellin, Colombia in 1935? | Carlos Gardel |
| What is a spotted dikkop? | African bird (also called spotted thick-knee) |
| With populations ranging from Mexico to Peru, the green-breasted mango is a bird of which family? | Hummingbird |
| Which notation describes steam locomotives by numbers of leading wheels, driving wheels and trailing wheels, e.g. 4-4-2 for the Atlantic arrangement? | Whyte notation |
| Which British double Olympic medalist died in May 2013 during training for the America's Cup with Sweden's team Artemis Racing? | Andrew "Bart" Simpson |
| Sir Ben Ainslie's Oracle Team USA overhauled an 8-1 deficit to beat Team New Zealand 9-8 in 2013 to win the America's Cup, winning the last race by how many seconds? | '44 |
| Which famous river rises as Lancang in the Three Rivers Area of China? | The Mekong |
| In April 2013, the Rana Plaza, an eight storey garment factory building, collapsed killing 1,129 people in which capital city? | Dhaka |
| In 1976, Ronald Wayne co-founded which company, shortly selling his ten percent share for $800? | Apple Inc |
| Which German chemist, the first to suggest that double and triple bonds can form between carbon atoms, is best known for the graduated conical flask named after him? | Emil Erlenmeyer |
| Simon Jeffes, who died of a brain tumour in 1997, was the core performer of which musical collective, abbreviated to PCO and best known for their piece "Telephone and Rubber Band"? | Penguin Café Orchestra |
| '"Penguin Eggs" is the best known album of which folk musician whose career was cut short by a traffic accident in 1982? | Nic Jones |
| Closely related to the Royal Penguin, with some authorities regarding them as the same species, what is the most abundant species of penguin? | Macaroni (Eudyptes chrysolophus) |
| Named after the African Penguins that live there, the Penguin Islands lie off the coast of which country? | Namibia |
| Which US orchestrator of various films including "My Fair Lady", "Jurassic Park" and "Mulan" but is best known as the composer of the original theme to "Star Trek"? | Alexander Courage |
| In November 1953, in a Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket, which US test pilot became the first to fly at twice the speed of sound? | Albert Scott Crossfield |
| Granted by King Louis I the Great in 1369, which 2013 European City of Culture was the first town to have its own coat of arms? | Košice, Slovakia |
| Which film theme song topped the French charts for six weeks in 2012? | Skyfall |
| From 1957 to 1974, every year's 500cc World Championship was won on a bike by which Italian motorcycle manufacturer? | MV Agusta |
| Manuel Poggiali who won motorcycle World Championships on 125cc bikes in 2001 and 250cc bikes in 2003 is one of which country's most successful sportsmen? | San Marino |
| Which Sudanese-born actor played Dr Julian Bashir in "Star Trek DSN", Prince Nasir Al-Sahaai in "Syriana" and King Minos in the BBC series "Atlantis"? | Alexander Siddig |
| Named after the 1994 fate of The Green Lantern's girlfriend, Alex DeWitt, a website listing female comic characters who have been injured, killed or depowered is called "Women in" what? | Refrigerators |
| Traditionally, St Marinus, the saint who founded the republic of San Marino in 301 AD, was from Rab, an island in which modern day country? | Croatia |
| Which Romanian pop singer was hospitalised in June 2013, claiming to have been beaten by her manager Marcel Prodan? | Alexandra Stan |
| Born in Guimarães who, in 1139, became the first King of Portugal? | Alfonso I |
| A 440 year old grapevine, a 14th century synagogue and slalom courses for the Alpine Skiing World Cup are features of which 2012 European Capital of Culture? | Maribor |
| Which country is named after someone often depicted as carrying their eyes on a plate? | St Lucia |
| Which two countries each contain two of the world's most populous islands? | Indonesia (Java and Sumatra) and The Philippines (Luzon and Mandanao) |
| In 2010, lepatata Mambus became internationally known by what other one word name? | Vuvuzelas |
| Since April 20, 2012, the tallest building in New York, what is the height in feet of One World Trade Center? | '1,776 ft |
| In 1669 phosphorus became the first element discovered since ancient times and in 1735 cobalt became the first metallic element discovered since ancient times. Which similar surnames did the discoverers have? | (Henning) Brand and (George) Brandt |
| Sunny Beach is the largest and most popular holiday resort in which European country? | Bulgaria |
| Trenneman, Moss and Barber were the surnames of the three central characters of which sitcom which ended in September 2013? | The IT Crowd |
| In 1978, Toshihiro Nishikado created Space Invaders while working for which Japanese corporation? | Taito |
| In 1979, Toru Iwatani created Pac-Man while working for which Japanese corporation? | Namco |
| Skye Edwards is the lead vocalist of which 90s trip hop band whose name comes from "Middle of the Road" and a slang word for cannabis? | Morcheeba |
| Which actor starrred as Jason in the 2013 BBC TV series "Atlantis"? | Jack Donnelly |
| Launched in 2013, what was the second blues album by Hugh Laurie and his Copper Bottom Band? | Didn't It Rain |
| Grand Theft Auto III was set in which city, based on the city that is the HQ of Rockstar Games? | Liberty City (based on New York) |
| What are the first three names of the player controlled protagonists in Grand Theft Auto V? | Michael, Trtevor & Franklin |
| Which men's track athlete who broke a world record in 2012 shares his surname with a track athlete who was a world champion in 2013? | Aries Merritt (with LeShawn Merritt) |
| Godfrey Chitalu, who scored over 100 goals in various competitions in 1972, is often regarded as the greatest footballer of which country? | Zambia |
| Which US Czech-born ophthalmologist who introduced cocaine as a local anaesthetic in eye surgery was humorously nicknamed "Coca"? | Karl "Coca" Koller |
| Since its preparation by Arthur Eichengrün in 1897 until the 1940s, silver proteinate or Protargol was mainly used for treating which bacterial disease? | Gonorrhoea |
| Which nerve agent, discovered in 1938 was named after its discoverers Schrader, Ambros and Ritter? | Sarin |
| Costing $6.4 billion dollars, part of a bridge was rebuilt and opened in 2013. Now carrying ten lanes of traffic making it the world's widest bridge it is named after the two Californian cities it connects. What is it called? | San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge |
| Which cheerful animal, usually shown wearing earrings, is a Jura based maker of spreadable wedges and Babybel cheeses? | The Laughing Cow |
| In September 2013, which company announced its intention to buy Nokia in a $7.2 billion deal? | Microsoft |
| In the 2013 final in Ljubljana, which country beat Lithuania to win its first ever Eurobasket? | France |
| On September 5th 2013, foggy conditions led to a 130 car pile up in which English county? | Kent (Sheppey Crossing) |
| At the US Open who partnered Czech Radek Štepánek to deny the Bryan brothers a calendar grand slam and win his 14th Grand Slam doubles title? | Leander Paes |
| Which Swiss player reached the 2013 US Open semifinal, having knocked out defending champion Andy Murray in straight sets? | Stanislas Wawrinka |
| Which film about the ring road around Rome became, in 2013, the first documentary to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival? | Sacro GRA |
| DJ Victor Miller was arrested in September 2013 for breaking into where? | Buckingham Palace |
| In September 2013, which Member of the Scottish Parliament was arrested for 23 charges of domestic violence? | Bill Walker |
| In 2013, which German fencer succeeded Jacques Rogge as President of the IOC? | Thomas Bach |
| In which country were Tokyo announced as hosts of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games? | Argentina |
| Seleka, meaning "union" in Sango, is the name of the rebel group who overthrew François Bozizé in which country? | Central African Republic |
| In 2013, "Sunset at Montmajour" was confirmed as an 1888 painting by which artist? | Vincent Van Gogh |
| Against whose crotch did Miley Cyrus controversially twerk at the 2013 MTV Video Awards? | Robin Thicke |
| Which actor, in 2013, was tried under his real name Michael Robert Turner and cleared of all charges? | Michael Le Vell |
| Which acclaimed US number one album of 2012 shares its name with an unrelated and less acclaimed 2013 US chart topping single by another act? | Wrecking Ball |
| What name was given to the 300 mile human chain along the east coast of Spain in September 2013 in support of Catalan independence? | The Catalan Way (Via Catalana) |
| Originating with Black Ribbon Day protests, in which year did an estimated 200 million people join to form a 370 mile chain known as the Baltic Way? | '1989 |
| After two years of competing, Baruto Kaito became the first Estonian to reach the top division in which sport? | Sumo Wrestling |
| In Sepetember 2013, it was announced that Voyager 1 had crossed which theoretical boundary, where the sun's solar wind is no longer strong enough to push back that from surrounding stars? | Heliopause |
| In a fight billed as "The One", Floyd Mayweather received $41.5 million for his fight against which previously undefeated Mexican light middleweight, nicknamed El Canelo (The Cinnamon), the most profitable boxing match of all time? | Saul Alvarez |
| In 2013, which Nobel laureate was part of the 30,000 strong march against restarting nuclear power in Japan? | Kenzaburo Oe |
| In 2010 and 2013, Mount Sinabung erupted for the first time since 1600 in which country? | Indonesia |
| Edi Rama was mayor of which European country's capital city before becoming its Minister of Culture and, in 2013, its Prime Minister? | Albania |
| The third largest aircraft manufacturer after Boeing and Airbus, which company launched the first of its fuel saving CSeries planes, the CS100, from Mirabel Airport in 2013? | Bombadier Airspace |
| Which hyphenated two-word adjective makes the deadly amoeba Naegleria fowleri sound particularly alarming to quizzers? | Brain-eating |
| A phone call to Barrack Obama in September 2013 was the highest political exchange between his country and the US since 1979. Who was the President of Iran who made the call? | Hassan Rouhani |
| In 2011, who did Tim Cook succeed to become the highest paid CEO in the world? | Steve Jobs |
| At which resort in 2013, were 106 killed and over 40,000 stranded as a result of Hurricanes Manuel and Ingrid? | Acapulco |
| Originating in contract bridge, what name is given in baseball to a home run in which all three bases are occupied, so scoring four runs? | Grand slam |
| In 2013, which Yankees star overtook Lou Gehrig's career record of 23 career grand slams in Major League Baseball? | Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod) |
| Which Greenpeace ship was boarded by the Russian Coast Guard after its crew attempted to board a Gazprom oil rig? | (MV) Arctic Sunrise |
| What name is shared by a Chief Superintendant in TV series "The Bill" and the highest individual award in Aussie Rules Football? | (Charles) Brownlow |
| Which Dutch cyclist and former speed skater became women's Road World Champion in 2012 and 2013? | Ellen van Dijk |
| Nicknamed the Hawks, what is the only Aussie Rules team with victories in every decade from the 60s to the 2010s? | Hawthorn (FC) |
| Founded in New York in 1966 by AC Bhaktivedanta Swami, by what two word name is the religious organisation ISKCON better known? | Hare Krishna |
| In which 2013 film does Scarlett Johansson play an man-eating alien temptress who preys on unwary hitch-hikers? | Under the Skin |
| Which song with a four-letter title by a female vocalist replaced another by knocking Ellie Goulding's "Burn" off the top of the UK charts? | Roar" by Katy Perry |
| Which band made it five out of five, when their fifth album "AM" topped the UK charts? | Arctic Monkeys |
| Launched in 2013, which Japenese solid-fuel rocket, costing half the price of previous rockets shares its name with a letter of the Greek alphabet? | Epsilon |
| With over 20 universities offering free courses, what is the first UK-led MOOC (massive open online course) platform? | Futurelearn |
| From 1993 to 1997, which Professor of International History was the first leader of UKIP? | Alan Sked |
| The US born actress Megan Young was crowned as Miss World 2013 representing which country? | The Philippines |
| Regarded by many as the greatest post-war sumo wrestler, Taiho Koki was born Koki Naya in which East European country? | Ukraine |
| In 2013, 81 sculptures of which children's character, including one dressed as Buzz Lightyear raised £2.3 million for Bristol Royal Hospital for Children? | Gromit |
| Which US artist who shared his surname with a US President is largely remembered for his paintings of dogs playing poker and dogs playing pool? | Cassius Coolidge |
| Which English artist (1860-1939) is famous for his drawings of cats, the increasingly bizarre nature of which has been linked to his descent into madness? | Louis Wain |
| Many towns in Cornwall give their staff a day off work on March 5th to celebrate which saint's day? | St Piran |
| The ankle length Arabian garment known as a thawb is also commonly known by what name in Oman? | Dishdasha |
| The ankle length Arabian garment known as a thawb is also commonly known by what name in the UAE? | Kandura |
| Which city's Metro has 500 stray dogs including a small proportion who have famously learnt to use the trains to travel regularly between stations? | Moscow |
| Which film and spin-off MTV series takes its name from slang for people who use fake profiles of themselves for online dating? | Catfish |
| Which pioneering sexologists, the subjects of a TV drama starring Michael Sheen and Lizzie Caplan, wrote the 1966 book "Human Sexual Response" before marrying in 1971? | Dr William H Masters & Virginia E Johnson |
| What record does the Rüppell's Vulture hold that might remind you of Noel Gallagher since 2011? | Highest flying bird |
| Deriving from a Sanskrit word for country, which four-letter term means relating to the people, culture or products of the Indian subcontinent or South Asia? | Desi |
| According to a UN report of October 2013, which country came top, for the third year in a row, for internet connectivity? | South Korea |
| In 2013, which country developed the world's first "Incest Prevention" app where two people can bump phones to see how closely related they are? | Iceland |
| Remedy Entertainment, makers of Max Payne, Rovio Entertainment, makers of Angry Birds, and the Nokia Corporation are all based in which city? | Espoo |
| Seen in classical European literature and maps, which word for a northern region has given rise to the name of a planet in "Star Wars:Attack of the Clones", one of the lanthanide elements and, until it was renamed Qaanaak, the most northerly town in Green | Thule |
| Jazz pianist and composer Thelonius Monk was given which solid geometric figure as his middle name? | Sphere |
| Which former member of hip hop groups CIA and NWA was born O'Shea Jackson? | Ice Cube |
| Allowing pilots or drivers to see a screen without lowering the eyes, what is an HUD? | Head-up Display |
| A controversial social networking site with an option for user anonymity, Ask.fm is based in which European country? | Latvia |
| Situated in the Ennedi Range in the Sahara Desert, the Aloba Arch, the longest natural arch outside the Colorado Plateau and the tallest in the world stands in which country? | Chad |
| Launched in July 1999, Europol is based in which European city? | The Hague |
| At the same time as British mathematician, John Couch Adams, which French mathematician predicted the position of Neptune, enabling German astronomer Johannes Galle to locate it in 1846? | Urban Le Verrier |
| The title of which Lionel Ritchie song can be translated into Swahili as "Jambo"? | Hello |
| The 1704 Battle of Blenheim took place in Blindheim on the banks of which river? | The Danube |
| From 1705 until French rule in 1881 and again from 1956 until it became a republic the following year, the Husainid Dynasty ruled which African country? | Tunisia |
| Which word in feudal Japan, was used to mean a samurai with no master, most famously one of 47 who killed to avenge the death of their master at the start of the 18th century? | Ronin |
| A grandson of Tamurlane, Mirza Muhammad Taraghay bin Shahrukh, who ruled most of central Asia from 1411 to 1499 and founded an observatory in Samarkand is generally known by which name? | Ulugh Beg |
| BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin) is a dating system in which film franchise? | Star Wars |
| Not to be confused with the area around a nipple, what is the name of the parts of a cactus from which the spines grow? | Areoles |
| Which parts of the human body contain endolymph or Scarpa's fluid? | Ears (labyrinths including the semicircular canals) |
| Combining all dialects, which language has the third most speakers in the US after English and Spanish? | Chinese (French is fourth) |
| Cuy chactado is a traditional South American dish made with which meat? | Guinea pig |
| Which film was nominated for four Oscars and seven Razzies, winning one for Worst Actor, and was the highest grossing film of 1998? | Armageddon |
| Which former undisputed welterweight boxing champion is a son and a nephew of former world champion boxers? | Cory Spinks (son of Leon, nephew of Michael) |
| With a name literally meaning End Island, Pulau Ujong is the largest island of which country? | Singapore |
| Containing the capital, the island officially called Ngazidja is the largest of which country? | Comoros |
| Gan is the largest of the 1,190 islands making up which country? | The Maldives |
| Named after the Malaysian state to the north, which straits separate Singapore from Malaysia? | Straits of Johor |
| Which country takes its name from the Arabic for two seas? | Bahrain |
| Which word goes in front of ski and snowboard to give two events introduced at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi? | Slopestyle |
| Played by Matt Damon in the 2013 film of his book, who wrote "Behind the Candelabra: My Life With Liberace"? | Scott Thorson |
| Nicknamed the "Master of Disaster", who's "rock and roll" is used to mean the rocking of a camera on set while the cast run from side to side simulating a vessel being tossed around? | Irwin Allen |
| Which 1957 film's roles included Hedy Lamarr as Joan of Arc, Dennis Hopper as Napoleon, Peter Lorre as Nero, Bobby Watson as Adolf Hitler and Harpo Marx as Sir Isaac Newton? | The Story of Mankind |
| A chef's toque, a red and white stocking hat and a marching bandsman's peaked hat are the usual headwear of which three cartoon mascots? | Snap, Crackle and Pop |
| Which Olympic event was introduced for men in 1896 and for women in 1996? | Triple jump |
| What sort of fruit grew on the Bo Tree at Bodh Gaya in the state of Bihar, under which Buddha sat to gain Enlightenment? | (Sacred) fig or Ficus religiosa |
| With a name meaning the "Great Awakening Temple", what name is given to the temple erected on the site at Bodh Gaya where Buddha gained Enlightenment? | Mahabodhi Temple |
| Along with the soleus muscle, which muscle, whose name comes from the Greek for "stomach of the leg", makes up the calf muscle? | Gastrocnemius |
| The cubital fossa of the arm is given what common two word name related to a similar area under the shoulder? | Elbow pit |
| The ECSC, the forerunner of the EU, from 1952 to 1956 contained Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Italy, West Germany, West Berlin and which region, until it joined West Germany in 1957, the last significant international border change in Europe u | Saarland |
| Liechtenstein uses the Swiss Franc. Which was the last of the other five microstates of Western Europe to officially join the Euro? | Andorra |
| According to the actess who played her, a young Whoopi Goldberg said "Momma! There's a black lady on TV and she ain't no maid!", on seeing which character? | Uhura |
| A controversial Californian organisation at odds with the global scientific community, NARTH is the National Association for Research and Therapy of what? | Homosexuality |
| Portsmouth Association Football Club disbanded in 1896, with which famous author having been their goalkeeper? | Arthur (Ignatius) Conan Doyle |
| According to legend, which Asian capital city was founded by Shem son of Noah and was known in ancient times as Azal? | Sana'a |
| Which city is at the centre of controversial moves to rename it as Tshwane? | Pretoria |
| Opening in 2006, Ngerulmud on the island of Babeldaob is the official capital of which country? | Palau |
| In classical times, what name was given to a slave whose duty was the recall names of people his master met in a political campaign? | Nomenclator |
| Released in 1979, which Star Trek inspired song by punk band Spizzenergi on the Rough Trade Records label, was the first to top the UK Indie Chart? | Where's Captain Kirk? |
| Which 1980 UB40 hit on the Graduate Records label, was the second to top the UK Indie Chart and the first single to reach the UK Top 10 without the backing of a major record company? | Food For Thought/King |
| Which performer on BBC's "The Fast Show" was previously a member of an 80s new wave/punk band who had indie hits with songs like "I Don't Want To Live With Monkeys"? | Charlie Higson |
| Which Moscow airport, the second largest in Russia, hit headlines in 2013 when NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was detained there for a month? | Sheremetyevo (International) |
| The Nine-dotted line is a name commonly given to Asian territorial claims based on a segmented line drawn around which sea? | South China Sea |
| Elected in 2013, aged 38, who became Iceland's youngest PM to date and, at the time, the world's youngest democratically elected leader? | Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson |
| What is the fourth largest city in New Zealand, found on the river Waikato and home of the 2012 and 2013 Super Rugby League winners, the Chiefs? | Hamilton |
| Taal Volcano on Volcano Island is a notorious feature in which country? | The Philippines |
| Who completed his purchase of the Washington Post for $250 million in October 2013? | Jeff Bezos |
| Which famous two-step was written by John Phillip Sousa for a newspaper essay writing contest awards ceremony? | The Washington Post March |
| What was the International Herald Tribune renamed in October 2013? | International New York Times |
| The region of Balochistan is largely divided between which two countries? | Iran and Pakistan |
| Which well-known US based German act had the surnames Fischbacher and Horn? | Siegfried & Roy |
| Which stadium whose name means "The Meadows" hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 2013 World Athletics Championships? | Luzhniki Stadium |
| By what German name is one hundredth of a Swiss franc officially known? | Rappen |
| Which European currency is divided into 100 bani (singular ban)? | Leu (Romanian or Moldovan) |
| The convertible mark, as decided by a treaty, is the unit of currency in which European country? | Bosnia & Herzegovina |
| The site of the first known evidence of bipedalism over 3.5 million years ago, excavated by Mary Leaky in 1978, in which country are the Laetoli Footprints? | Tanzania |
| Donald Johanson and Maurice Taieb are best known for their discovery in Hadar, Ethiopia of an Australopithecus which they gave which girl's name? | Lucy |
| Which word in ancient Rome for a brooch, used to fasten clothing such as cloaks, shares its name with a bone? | Fibula |
| Where would an ancient Greek have worn a zone or zoster? | Round the waist [it was a belt or girdle] |
| Named after the first man to climb all 14 "eight-thousanders", which South Tyrolean museum is abbreviated to MMM? | Messner Mountain Museum |
| Which fomer president of the Cambridge Footlights, comedian and director of pop videos has a Norwegian mother and a Nigerian father? | Richard Ayoade |
| In the 1960s which successful European football team were nicknamed the Yé-yé team after posing for a photo wearing Beatles wigs? | Real Madrid |
| Paintings of St Thomas examining the wounds of Christ, especially one by Caravaggio c.1601-2, are usually called the what of St Thomas? | Incredulity |
| Soisalo, the largest inland island in Europe is the largest island of which European country? | Finland |
| Having been tortured and threatened with HIV injection during a fifteen year prison stretch under the presidency of Ben Ali, Ennahda Movement member Ali Laarayedh was in 2013 elected PM of which country? | Tunisia |
| Kidnapped in October 2013 from outside the Corinthia Hotel and released hours later, Ali Zeidan was Prime Minister of which country? | Libya |
| The US indie folk band took their name Bon Iver from a greeting heard on which 90s US TV series? | Northern Exposure |
| What is the first name of the scientist after whom Bernoulli's Principle of fluid dynamics is named? | Daniel |
| To whom was the profit Muhammed married for 25 years until her death in about 620 CE? | Khadija |
| Who won the 2012 BRIT awards for Best Male and Best Female? | Ed Sheeran & Adele |
| Who won the 2012 BRIT awards for Best International Male and Female? | Bruno Mars & Rihanna |
| Who won the 2013 BRIT awards for Best International Male and Female? | Frank Ocean & Lana Del Rey |
| Who was the FA Premiership's top goalscorer in the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons (for two different teams)? | Robert van Persie |
| In which century was the ornately carved Divrigi Great Mosque and Hospital in eastern Turkey built? | Thirteenth |
| Which word for fairy chimney rock formations, such as those found in Capadocia, Turkey, is also a common word for folk magic? | Hoodoo |
| From about 1700 to 1200 BC, which city in central Turkey served as the capital of the Hittite Empire? | Hattusha |
| Site of the famous Selimye Mosque, what was the former name for Edirne, which served as the capital of the Ottoman Empire from 1365 to 1453? | Adrianople |
| Who, in 2013 at Styria, Austria, became the first skier since Jean-Claude Killy in 1968 to win three gold medals at one Alpine World Ski Championships? | Ted Ligety |
| The first two World Baseball Classic tournaments were won by Japan, but which Caribbean country in 2013, won the third? | Dominican Republic |
| Mama Killa was the goddess of marriage, festivals and the moon in which mythology? | Incan |
| Herbacious plants with small yellow flowers of the genus Lapsana have which common name deriving from the body parts their closed flower buds are said to resemble? | Nipplewort |
| Held in January and known locally as Wan Dek, which country's Children's Day activities include guided tours of Government House, the Air Force, free rides for children on buses and an address by the King? | Thailand |
| Which French commune on the River Rhone is known for a mythical dragon named after it and the home of Daudet's 19th century literary hero Tartarin who travels to Algiers in search of lions? | Tarascon |
| Created by Aleko Konstantinov, the uneducated, pompous traveller Bay Ganyo is one of the best known literary characters of which country? | Bulgaria |
| The winner of the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is based in which country? | The Netherlands (The Hague) |
| The 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathi is best known for establishing which ecological movement in Nairobi in 1977? | The Green Belt Movement |
| In 2011, former South African swimmer, Caroline Whittock, became Princess of where? | Monaco |
| Eleanor Farjeon, the English inaugural winner of the Hans Christian Anderson Medal for children's literature in 1956, is better known for writing the lyrics to which hymn in 1931? | Morning Has Broken |
| In which successful 2013 film stars Nicolas Cage as Grug and Emma Stone as Eep? | The Croods |
| What name is given to a semicircular niche in a mosque indicating the qibla or direction of Mecca? | Mirhab |
| Which Yiddish writer's tales about Tevye the Dairyman formed the basis of the musical "Fiddler on the Roof"? | Sholem Aleichem |
| Before the pogroms and the Holocaust, which word meant a town, larger than a dorf but larger than a shtot, with a largely Jewish population, especially in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire? | Shtelt |
| Which US Jewish lyricist wrote the lyrics for "Brother Can You Spare A Dime", "April in Paris" and "It's Only A Paper Moon", but is possibly best known for writing the lyrics for "The Wizard of Oz"? | Yip Harburg |
| Which Sherlock Holmes inspired US drama stars Johnny Lee Miller as Holmes and Lucy Liu as Dr Joan Watson? | Elementary |
| The common one word English names of which two African countries differ only by a change of one letter? | Gambia and Zambia |
| The plot of which 2010 Oscar-winning film did director Darren Aronofsky say was partly inspired by Dostoyevsky's "The Double"? | Black Swan |
| In 2001 who scored the first Premiership goal by a goalkeeper when he scored for Aston Villa against Everton? | Peter Schmeichel |
| Which US-born Blackburn Rovers goalkeeper was the second to score a goal in the Premiership and the oldest person to play for Aston Villa and Spurs? | Brad Friedel |
| In November 2013, Asmir Begovic scored the fifth ever Premiership goal by a keeper against Southampton, while playing for which team? | Stoke City |
| Which Taiwan based multinational electronics contract manufacturing company makes iPads, iPhones, iPods, Kindles, Playstations and Wiis? | Foxconn |
| Philadelphia Passion, Chicago Bliss and LA Temptation are teams in the US national league of which sport? | Lingerie Football |
| Which Barbadian singer had the original 2010 hit with the song "Impossible", later a hit for UK "X Factor" winner James Arthur? | Shontelle |
| Which 2012 hit from the album "#willpower" was the first number one of the Billboard's new Dance/Electronic Music chart? | Scream & Shout |
| Which early 20th century Parisian street dance with a Native American inspired name is said to enact a violent discussion between a pimp and a prostitute? | Apache |
| Paid £30,000 for her appearance as Professor Vrooshka in "Carry on Behind", which German actress was, along with Phil Silvers, the highest paid performer in that series? | Elke Sommer |
| Dressed in a wig and gold jump suit, Dustin Rhodes creeped out his WWF opponents by being provocative and flirtatious with them mid-fight. What was his one word ring name? | Goldust |
| What was the stage name of white rapper Darrin O'Brien, best known for a 1994 hit with fast lyrics and the line "A licky boom boom down"? | Snow |
| Due to "kilo" officially meaning one thousand, which word is used to mean 1,024 bytes as a standard unit of digital information? | Kibibyte |
| Chan Mifelew, a Polish pioneer of mental magic in the 1950s and 60s, cited as an influence on Derren Brown, had which card game as his stage name? | Canasta |
| Consisting of one DJ and five rappers, what was the first hiphop group to be accepted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? | Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five |
| Nathaniel Glover Jr, part of Grandmaster Flash's Furious Five, and August Darnell, who led a trio of girls in a 1980s band inspired by Latin big band music, both shared which stage name, but for one doubled letter? | Kidd Creole/Kid Creole |
| Brandeis University, Harvard University, Boston University and the MIT all lie on which river? | Charles River |
| The US Coast Guard Academy, Connecticut College and a US Navy submarine base lie on which river, also the venue of the Harvard-Yale Boat Race? | Thames River |
| Which king of France died without a male heir in 1328, one of the main causes of the Hundred Years War? | Charles IV |
| Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle", "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby" by the Beatles and "Loving You" by Minnie Ripperton are rare examples of songs which have topped the US chart without what? | Backing percussion |
| Which star of "Saturday Night Live" and films such as "Grown Ups" and "Bridesmaids" has her first name sung at the end of unedited versions of her mother's hit "Loving You"? | Maya Rudolph (daughter of Minnie Riperton) |
| What is a Peruvian Inca Orchid? | A (hairless) breed of dog |
| Victoria, also known as Rabat, is the capital of which Mediterranean island? | Gozo |
| By Maltese tradition, Gozo is the location of which island in Homer's Odyssey, home to the nymph Calypso? | Ogygia |
| Which bird is sometimes called the Crocodile Bird due to a legend that it pulls meat from the teeth of resting crocodiles? | Egyptian plover |
| How are the 3,000+ insects of the order Phasmatodea, including one from Borneo that was 22 inches long (with outstretched legs), better known? | Stick insects |
| '"You don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows" is a line that gave the 1970s US terrorist organisation The Weathermen their name. From which Bob Dylan song does it come? | Subterranean Homesick Blues |
| Essex, Gloucestershire and Sussex play first class cricket at the County Cricket Ground. Which three English first class teams play at the County Ground? | Derbyshire, Northamptonshire and Somerset |
| Which English first class cricket side play at New Road? | Worcestershire |
| Which famous dyslexic sportsman was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 1992 and Diabetes mellitus type 2 in 1997? | Sir Steven Redgrave |
| Which Uruguayan architect is noted for buildings including the Vdara in Las Vegas and the Walkie Talkie building at 20 Fenchurch Street, London, both of which have hit headlines for causing problems by focussing the sun's heat onto the ground below? | Rafael Viñoly |
| The Skwxwú7mesh language, more commonly known as Squamish, is spoken almost exclusively in which province of Canada? | British Columbia |
| Which word, the Latin for condition, is used in medicine to mean a person's general physical state, especially with regards to their susceptibility to a disease? | Habitus |
| Which animal order takes its name from the past participle of a Latin word meaning creeping or crawling? | Reptilia |
| '"Discovery" (1979) and "Time" (1981) were UK chart topping albums by which band? | ELO |
| '"Love For Sale" (1977), "Nightflight To Venus" (1978) and "Oceans of Fantasy" (1979) were the UK chart topping albums of which band? | Boney M |
| A statue of Eleanor Rigby in Stanley Street, Liverpool and a statue of wo rugby players outside Twickenham Stadium were sculpted by whom? | Tommy Steele |
| The birthplaces of dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, director Sergei Eisenstein and chess world champion Mikhail Tal are in which modern day country? | Latvia |
| Which portfolio of social networking sites was launched by husband and wife team Steve and Julie Pankhurst of Barnet in 2000? | Friends Reunited |
| Which online retailer was launched by Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman in London in 1998? | Lastminute.com |
| If he had still been alive, which classical composer would have had his 55th birthday in 2012? | Rossini |
| On a waterway described by Nelson as "the finest port in Christendom", what is the English name for the port of Aberdaugleddau? | Milford Haven |
| Debuting for the England rugby side as centre/fly half in 2013, which player, while under an Irish captain at Leicester, had the nickname "36"? | William Twelvetrees |
| In 2011, which England rugby player and nephew of a World Cup winning footballer stepped down from the game to concentrate on his Standup Foundation, created to combat bullying and homophobia? | Ben Cohen |
| Will Greenwood, Austin Healy and Kyran Bracken have all played for which rugby club, based just north of Liverpool? | Waterloo RFC |
| The col of Mickledore and Foxes Tarn lie between which two mountains? | Sca Fell and Scafell Pike |
| What is the most famous character introduced in the 1902 novel "The Little White Bird"? | Peter Pan |
| Which 1995 pirate film starring Geena Davis and Matthew Modine (after Michael Douglas pulled out) had a total cost of $98 million, but only grossed $10 million in the US? | Cutthroat Island |
| Which 2011 motion capture animated sci-fi comedy, starring Seth Green as the voice of nine-year old Milo, is noted for grossing $35 million, but costing $150 million, making it the biggest box office bomb of all time? | Mars Needs Moms |
| Who played Peter Stoddard alongside Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton in the 2001 romantic comedy flop "Town & Country" which cost the studio an estimated $100 million and was his last film appearance? | Warren Beatty |
| Which four letter word means a baby of a camelid such as a llama, alpaca, vicuña or guanaco? | Cria |
| Which Muslim superheroine was launched by Marvel comics in November 2013? | Kamala Khan |
| The TV series "A Young Doctor's Notebook", starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe, is based on stories by which Russian writer? | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| Remaining an active campaigner until her death in 2006, what was the first name of the widow of Martin Luther King? | Coretta (Scott King) |
| Which US educator and civil rights activist was the widow of Malcolm X? | Betty Shabazz |
| With a name meaning "Gate of Grief" which strait connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden? | Bab-el-Mandab |
| What five letter word is usually used in comics and fan-based material to indicate the sound made by the TARDIS in "Dr Who"? | Vworp! |
| Which Canadian film and TV producer created "The Avengers" for ABC and "Dr Who" for the BBC? | Sydney Newman |
| Gabriel Fahrenheit created his familiar temperature scale after visiting which Danish scientist in 1708 who had created his own scale while convalescing with a broken leg? | Ole Romer |
| Since 1954, 0 degrees Celsius has been based on the triple point of VSMOW where the letters stand for what? | Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water |
| The musical "Carousel", set in Maine, is based on Molnar's 1909 play "Liliom" which is set in which European capital city? | Budapest |
| Imperial rounds include Hereford, Windsor and Warwick while metric rounds include bray I, bray II, Stafford and Vegas in which sport? | Archery |
| In what year were South Africa's four provinces abandoned for the current nine? | '1994 |
| Which South African province has Pietermaritzburg as its capital and has Durban as its largest city? | KwaZulu Natal |
| In 2013, Stratford-upon-Avon chose Richard II for its first broadcast to over 300 cinemas and 1,000 schools, with who in the title role? | David Tennant |
| The OK Oil Drilling Company were a fictional company in which TV sitcom? | The Beverly Hillbillies |
| Which actor (1908-2003) would have been the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz" but was allergic to the make up and is best known for his role as Jed Clampett in the "Beverley Hillbillies"? | Buddy Ebsen |
| Born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith, which Doctor Who's stage name was coined by Brian Murphy of "George and Mildred" fame? | Sylvester McCoy |
| Created in 2006 to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the series, which of the Mr Men series started by Roger Hargreaves is first alphabetically? | Mr Birthday |
| Which of the Mr Men, not the best to have on a quiz team, is last alphabetically? | Mr Wrong |
| Who became the sole owner of Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland after her husband's death? | Terri Irwin |
| Which Asian family of primates are the only one whose wrists have a ball and socket joint, enabling them to be masters of brachiation, swinging between branches? | Gibbons/Hylobatidae |
| Which unit of currency was issued from 1922 to 1940 and then again from 1993 to 2013, being replaced on January 1st 2014? | Latvian Lats |
| Until 2014, the Booker Prize was restricted to authors from either the Commonwealth of Nations or which two other countries? | Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe |
| Which former model played the title role in the US TV series "Don't Trust the B___ in Apartment 23"? | Krysten Ritter |
| Which Nobel Prize winner for Literature was born in what is now Iran and grew up in what is now Zimbabwe before moving to England? | Doris Lessing |
| The extinct carnivorous 8ft tall Australian bird Bullockornis was a relative of which modern family of birds leading to its other name the Demon _____ of Doom? | Duck |
| Differing by less than a thousandth, taking e to the power of pi then minus pi gives an answer close to which multiple of ten? | Twenty |
| According to Acts chapter 20, who raised a young man called Eutychus from death after talking to him for so long into the night that he slept and fell out of a third storey window? | Paul |
| According to Genesis, because the parents laughed at the idea that his old barren mother was to give birth to him, who was given a name that was Hebrew for "laughter"? | Isaac |
| In a 1611 work, which German scientist first hypothesised that the hexagonal symmetry of snowflake crystals was due to regular packing of spherical water particles? | Johannes Kepler |
| Also known as Perudo, Cacho, Pico or Dadinho, which Peruvian dice game has a four-letter name that is Spanish for "I doubt"? | Dudo |
| Previously known for roles in "The IT Crowd", "Garth Marenghi's Dark Place" and TV ad voiceovers for Moneysupermarket.com, who played the title role in the 2013 comedy series "Toast of London"? | Matt Berry |
| Part of whose 2003 hit "I'm Lovin' It" has been used in McDonalds commercials? | Justin Timberlake |
| What were the names of the wife, daughter and son-in-law of Alf Garnett in "Till Death Us Do Part"? | Else, Rita and Mike (Rawlins) |
| What were the names of the wife, daughter and son-in-law of Archie Bunker in "All In The Family"? | Edith, Gloria and Mike (Stivic) |
| Christopher Reeve, Fay Wray, Peter Ustinov, Ray Charles, Marlon Brando, Brian Clough, John Peel and Ronald Reagan all died in which year? | '2004 |
| Dennis Weaver, Gene Pitney, Gerald Ford, Charlie Drake, Jack Palance, Ron Greenwood and James Brown all died in which year? | '2006 |
| Also known as Gustavus Vassa, which 18th century Nigerian slave was famous for his 1789 autobiography and his involvement in the British abolitionist movement? | Olaudah Equiano |
| Which former slave acted as Unionist spy in the American Civil War where she assisted in the raid on Harper's Ferry and helped over 300 slaves escape? | Harriet Tubman |
| With two prongs at either end, what torture device used as for sleep deprivation was often engraved with the word "abiuro" meaning "I recant"? | Heretic's Fork |
| Named after a city in Germany, which torture device was a disc on which victims were spun around at speed to induce nausea and disorientation? | Nuremberg plate |
| Founded in Wisconsin in 1872, which Texas based company's brands include Kotex, Andrex, Huggies and Kleenex? | Kimberley-Clark (Corporation) |
| Which 3M brand name originated in an insult about certain people from the UK? | Scotch (tape, guard, etc.) [The original tape saved on the amount used so was called Scotch as in stingy] |
| 3M famously owns the Post-it Note brand, but which French company owns the brand name Sticky Notes? | (Société) Bic |
| A princess with which fruity name is Mario's love interest and the damsel in distress in most Mario video games? | Princess Peach |
| Jane Austen had six brothers but was very close to her only sister who was called what? | Cassandra (Elizabeth) |
| Who wrote the chart hits "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)" and "Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear"? | Randy Newman |
| With a cover of which song did Thelma Houston top the US chart in 1977 and The Communards top the UK charts in 1986? | Don't Leave Me This Way |
| Covering which song did Grand Funk Railroad top the US chart in 1974 and Kylie Minogue top the UK chart in 1988? | The Loco-Motion |
| In World War II, what did British and Japanese soldiers do differently that enabled Gurkha soldiers crawling on the ground to distinguish them by touch alone? | Tie shoelaces |
| After Yellowstone, it is the second largest geyser field in the world and the only one on the Eurasian landmass. In which country is the Valley of Geysers, containing about 200 hot springs? | Russia (on the Sea of Okhotsk in Eastern Siberia) |
| Which country contains El Tatio, the third largest geyser field in the world which has overtaken New Zealand to become the largest in the southern hemisphere? | Chile |
| A 1970 earthquake caused 80 million cubic feet of ice, mud and rock to break from which Peruvian mountain killing an estimated 66,000 people? | Huascaran |
| Which French sounding word for an ornamental shoelace tag derives from a common Scottsih word for a thingummy or whatchamacallit? | Deubré (from "doobrie") |
| Which English dramatist's play "Follow My Leader", a satire on Nazi Germany, was originally refused a licence on grounds that it gave offence to a foreign country, but was performed in 1940? | Terence Rattigan |
| Which swimmer from Brisbane, Australia, won eight golds at the 2012 Paralympics? | Jacqueline Freney |
| Who scored a header in stoppage time to enable Wigan to beat Manchester United in the 2013 FA Cup final? | Ben Watson |
| Appearing in only two Grand Slam single's finals, whose first final saw her losing the 2007 Wimbledon final to Venus Williams? | Marion Bartoli |
| After Daimler and Peugeot, which Czech company is the third oldest car manufacturer in the world? | Tatra |
| Which company made the Curved Dash, the first mass-produced car made from the first automotive assembly line? | Oldsmobile [Ford made the first moving automotive assembly line] |
| By what name is the Scottish Episcopal Church cathedral at Millport on the Isle of Cwmbrae in the Firth of Clyde known? | The Cathedral of the Isles |
| Diurach is a word meaning people from where? | The Isle of Jura |
| The ancient Greek battlesite of Marathon took its name from the word for which herb? | Fennel |
| Partly deriving from the Greek for a physician, which word means adversely caused by medical practice or advice? | Iatrogenic |
| The Swiss town of Meiringen, which claims to have created the meringue, is also noted for which nearby natural feature, site of a very famous scene in English literature? | The Reichenbach Falls |
| Which actor played the first to be killed by dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park", appears in the leg-crossing scene of "Basic Instinct" and is best known as Newman in the TV series "Seinfeld"? | Wayne Knight |
| Jules Michelet's 1855 work "Histoire de France" is the earliest known work to use which well known French word to indicate a period of history? | Renaissance |
| Which Spanish region borders France on the Bay of Biscay? | The Basque Region |
| In World War II, while involved in deception work with the Army Film Unit, Peter Ustinov had to pose as whose batman? | David Niven |
| The English name of which European country has eleven letters, all different? | Switzerland |
| Played by Piper Laurie in the 1976 film, who played Carrie's mother, Margaret, in the 2013 remake? | Julianne Moore |
| With a name deriving from the Greek words for band and body, which cell structures cause skin cells to stick together? | Desmosomes |
| What was first won by Helen Dunmore in 1996 with "A Spell of Winter"? | The Orange Prize for Fiction |
| Made with apples, cider and spices, including liquorice, black butter is a speciality of which island? | Jersey |
| Which Belgrade born novelist won the 2011 Orange Prize with her debut novel, "The Tiger's Wife"? | Téa Obreht |
| Where would tribesmen of New Guinea traditionally wear a koteka? | Over the penis (it's a penis gourd or sheath) |
| At its height in the 15th century, which Grand Duchy, actually a principality, was the largest state in Europe? | Grand Duchy of Lithuania |
| Which New Jersey based company annually decalres a "Color of the Year", e.g. Cerulean for 2000, Tangerine Tango for 2012 and Emerald for 2013? | Pantone |
| Which US radio astronomer discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way, has a unit of radio source strength named after him and probably would have won a Nobel prize had he not died in 1950, aged 45? | Karl Jansky |
| Which song on The Beatles "Abbey Road" album features Ringo Starr on the anvil? | Maxwell's Silver Hammer |
| "The Anvil Chorus" or "Coro di zingari" ("Gypsy Chorus") in the original Italian, features in which 1853 opera? | Verdi's Il Trovatore |
| Which Grand Duchy, which existed intermittently between 1569 and 1859, later became part of Italy? | Grand Duchy of Tuscany |
| By what name is the blues musician Steven Gene Wold better known? | Seasick Steve |
| Whose 1980s novels "The Diary of a Good Neighbour" and "If The Old Could" were published under the pseudonym Jane Somers? | Doris Lessing |
| From 2010, Pinarello made which series of bicycles, including the ones on which Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome won the 2012 and 2013 Tours de France? | Dogma |
| In 2013, which late author's unpublished works "Paula", "Birthday Boy" and "The Ocean Is Full of Bowling Balls", were leaked onto the Internet despite his wishes that they not be published until 50 years after his death? | JD Salinger |
| Which Hollywood actress was born in 1979 with the middle name Garry? | Kate Hudson |
| Which two Presidents of the United States were Quakers? | Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon |
| Having had no previous formal church affiliation, which US President was baptised, confirmed and became a communicant in one service 12 days after his inauguration? | Dwight D Eisenhower |
| The Southern Cross constellation appears on the flags of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and which two other countries? | Brazil and Samoa |
| Captain Cook declared the Australian coast British territory after landing on which island off Queensland in August 1770? | Possession Island |
| Found off Lord Howe Island and measuring 1,844 feet high, what is the tallest volcanic stack in the world? | Bell's Pyramid |
| In which Australian state is Glenrowan, the site, in 1880, of Ned Kelly's last violent clashes with police? | Victoria |
| Before its parent company was unsuccessfully taken over by Chrysler, which British marque made the Alpine, Tiger and Rapier models? | Sunbeam |
| Which MP succeeded Margaret Thatcher as a Secretary for Education in Wilson's government, switched parties in 1977, and became a minister for Social Security in Margaret Thatcher's government? | Reg Prentice |
| Which MP for Newport East and Stratford-upon-Avon became, in 1995, the first to defect directly from the Conservative Party to the Labour Party? | Alan Howarth |
| What was the common nickname for the Sunbeam 1000 hp Mystery, despite it being the first car to travel at over 200 mph? | The Slug |
| '"You Made Me Late Again!" is a 2013 collection of whose poetry? | Pam Ayres |
| Based on the works of PG Wodehouse, Sebastian Faulks wrote the novel "Jeeves and the" what? | Wedding Bells |
| Which grey haired cricketer won BBC Sports Personality of the Year in the same year as he made his Test debut against Australia? | David Steele |
| In 1958, which 17 year old swimmer became the first Scotsman to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award? | Ian Black |
| Hiller B Zobel is best known as the presiding judge over whose trial in 1997? | Louise Woodward |
| Rodney Melville is best known for presiding over whose trial in 2005? | Michael Jackson |
| Which area of Paris is named after a Greek mountain? | Montparnasse |
| Which Shakespeare play contains the famous line "Let's to billiards", the sport having originated in the 15th century? | Antony and Cleopatra |
| Augusto Odone created a medicine which saved his son's life in the 1992 film "Lorenzo's Oil" where he was portrayed by which actor? | Nick Nolte |
| Which river was known to the Romans as Clutha? | The Clyde |
| Which raspy voiced singer who appeared in the film "Training Day" was born Natalie Revée McIntyre? | Macy Gray |
| A sparrow was the mascot of which major sporting event of 2013? | The World Athletics Championships in Moscow |
| Who returned from a year's suspension in 2013 and gave Malik Scott his first defeat in his 37th professional fight? | Dereck Chisora |
| Which British boxer did Chelyabinsk born Sergey Kovalev beat in 2013 to win the WBO Light Heavyweight title? | Nathan Cleverly |
| Which British boxer was voted World Boxing News's Fighter of the Year 2012? | Carl Froch |
| Which British boxer reached the final of ITV's 2013 series of "Dancing on Ice"? | Luke Campbell |
| Which Nigerian born former WBO heavyweight champion went to jail in 2013 for supplying cocaine? | Herbie Hide |
| The second Ashes Test match of December 2013 was played at the Oval in which city? | Adelaide |
| Aussie character actor John Meillon was Mayor in "The Cars That Ate Paris" and the father who went berserk in "Walkabout", but is probably best known for which supporting role in a 1986 comedy film and its sequel? | (Walter) Wally (Reilly) [in "Crocodile Dundee"] |
| Gilbert are the official ball suppliers for the Rugby World Cup and also the world cup of which other sport? | Netball |
| Which country is Taiwan's biggest export partner? | China |
| Traditionally, which rugby league club is supported by people west of the River Hull? | Hull FC |
| Which 1943 riots that broke out in LA between US Marines and sailors and Latinos were named after the preferred clothing of the latter? | Zoot Suit Riots |
| Stretching 40 miles in from the Sound of Bute, what is Scotland's longest sea loch? | Loch Fyne |
| Trevor Francis's million pound transfer in 1979 broke whose transfer record from Middlesborough to West Brom the previous month? | David Mills |
| Johnny Haynes became the first £100 a week footballer in 1961, immediately following the abolition of which maximum wage? | '£20 |
| With the most alleged sightings after Nessie, what name is given to the monster claimed to inhabit Loch Morar? | Morag |
| Who succeeded Demetrius Vikelas to become the second President of the International Olympic Committee? | Pierre de Coubertin (from 1896 to 1925) |
| Which competitor at the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Olympics refused to reinstate Jim Thorpe's medals at those events during his Presidency of the IOC? | Avery Brundage |
| In 2013, Thomas Bach became the first IOC President to have won a gold medal. This was in 1976 in which sport? | Fencing |
| What material was first strengthened in 1844 by treating with sodium hydroxide by John Mercer of Lancashire, in a process called mercerisation? | Cotton |
| Vapour galvanising is also called what after the first name of Cowper-Coles who discovered the process in 1900? | Sherardisation |
| In 1892, Percy Ellis patented the earliest known example of which sporting apparatus to pierce the ground? | (Golf) tee |
| Succeeded by Baron Thomas of Cwmgiedd who, from 2008 to 2013, was Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales? | (Lord Justice Igor) Judge |
| The name of which TV and film production company, makers of "The Mighty Boosh", "Gavin & Stacy" and "Hebburn", comes from founder Steve Coogan's characters Paul and Pauline Calf? | Baby Cow Productions |
| Which Simpsons character married Ned Flanders after a public vote and was retired from the show in 2013 after the death of Marcia Wallace? | Edna Krabappel |
| Whose 1991 novel "Moments of War" was the third in an autobiographical trilogy and was an account of his time in the Spanish Civil Wat? | Laurie Lee |
| Which character was played by Paul Walker (1973-2013) in the "Fast and Furious" films? | Brian O'Conner |
| In which country is Kerobokan Prison, the notorious Hotel K, who inmates have included the brother of TV chef Gordon Ramsay? | Indonesia (Bali) |
| Since 1989, the Praemium Imperiale prizes for painting, sculpture, architecture, music and film/theatre have been awarded by which country? | Japan |
| Which Italian, uncle of a two times Best Actor winner at Cannes, won the first Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture? | (Umberto) Mastroianni |
| In which town is Sir David Chipperfield's award winning building the River and Rowing Museum? | Henley-on-Thames |
| His brother having a famous league scoring record, who scored 211 goals for Manchester United in the 1930s to the 1950s and was nicknamed "The Gunner"? | Jack Rowley |
| Which German TV crime drama from 1969 to 1976 has a name often translated as "The Police Inspector"? | Der Komissar |
| German network ZDF announced it would no longer rerun episodes of which crime drama starring Horst Tappert after it was revealed that Tappert lied about his service with the Waffen-SS? | Derrick |
| Hiroshi Yamauchi is credited with turning a maker of playing cards into which current multi-billion dollar company? | Nintendo |
| In 2013 he appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and New York Magazine. How is the Arizona born feline Tardar Sauce better known? | Grumpy Cat |
| Inspired by a pet cat called Marty who died in 2012, what is the two word name for the animated cat-pop tart hybrid who flies through the air leaving a rainbow behind? | Nyan Cat |
| Which 1980s ITV children's show kickstarted the TV writing careers of Anthony Horowitz, Kay Mellor and Paul Abbott and the TV acting career of David Tennant? | Dramarama |
| The barrister and former child actress of ITV series such as "Dramarama" and "Hardwicke House", Justine Thornton married which MP in 2011? | Ed Milliband |
| Which model, granddaughter of former English Heritage boss Sir Jocelyn Stevens, played the marriage interest of Count Vronsky in the 2012 adaptation of "Anna Karenina"? | Cara Delevingne |
| Which two Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals of 1993 and 2013 have lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton? | "Sunset Boulevard" & "Stephen Ward" |
| In November 2013, whose mayoral powers were transferred to Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly for the remainder of his term? | Rob Ford (of Toronto) |
| In November 2013, who did the press dub the "crystal methodist"? | Paul Flowers |
| Which St Kitts born comedian and star of sketch show "The Real McCoy" and sitcom "Citizen Khan" died in October 2013, aged 52? | Felix Dexter |
| Which word for a coat derives from the word for "animal skin" in Nenets, a language of the Aleutian Islands? | Parka |
| Which word for a lightweight weatherproof raincoat comes from a French word for a hood? | Cagoule |
| In November 2013, only two football managers of the English leagues had been continuously manager of their team for over five years. One was Arsene Wenger, the other was Paul Tisdale of which team? | Exeter City |
| Inhabitants of which town, one of the most prosperous in the English Midlands are called Silhillians? | Solihull |
| In which year did the English Football League First Division become the Football League Championship? | '2004 |
| Who were the 2004-5 and 2006-7 winners of the England's Football League Championship? | Sunderland |
| In 1998, who the first Wisden Australia Cricketer of the Year, until 2009 the only woman to be nominated for the title? | Belinda Clark |
| Which monarch first adopted "Dieu et mon Droit" as the royal motto of England? | Henry V |
| From the 15th century, rulers of which dynasty became associated with the device "A.E.I.O.U"? | Habsburg |
| The three easternmost provinces of Belgium all begin with the same letter. What are they? | Limburg, Liège and Luxembourg |
| Which town, nine miles from Aachen and also from Maastricht is the capital of the German-speaking Community of Belgium? | Eupen |
| Previous winners including Botham, Richards, Hick, Flintoff and Gilchrist, what award is given to the fastest century in an English county cricket season? | Walter Lawrence Trophy |
| Completed in 1840, which town's viaduct contains over eleven million bricks? | Stockport |
| When Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton played Martha and George, who played Nick and Honey? | George Segal and Sandy Dennis |
| Neil Smith, James Male, Harry Foster and James Stout have all been world champions of which sport? | Rackets |
| Winston Churchill served for four and a half years as Chancellor of the Exchequer under which prime minister? | Stanley Baldwin |
| The Old and New Fortress, the Achilleion and the Kaiser Bridge are features of which holiday island, nicknamed the island of the Phaeacians? | Corfu |
| From World War II to the 2010 general election, how many Chancellors of the Exchequer went on to become UK Prime Ministers? | Four (Macmillan, Callaghan, Major, Brown) |
| Windmills, Petros the Pelican and the Aegean Maritime Museum are features of which holiday island, nicknamed the island of the winds? | Mykonos |
| In December 2013, which country became the first to legalise the sale, cultivation and distribution of cannabis? | Uruguay |
| Who played the title role in the 1987 film "Mandela"? | Danny Glover |
| Who, along with Michael Caine, played the title roles in the 1997 film "Mandela and de Klerk"? | Sidney Poitier |
| In which year was the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute shown in 67 countries to an estimated audience of over 600 million? | '1988 |
| Named after a suburb of Johannesburg, what name is given to the 1963/4 trial of ten ANC leaders including Mandela that led to his 27 year incarceration? | Rivonia Trial |
| What was the only football club making its debut in the English Premier League in the 2013-14 season? | Cardiff City |
| What was the only football club making its debut in the English Premier League in the 2011-12 season? | Swansea City |
| Chelsea have twice scored a record 29 out of 38 wins in a Premier League season, but in 2007-8, which team managed only one? | Derby County |
| Which team have been relegated from the English Premier League a record four times and have never come higher than 18th? | Crystal Palace |
| Which commander of the Portuguese fleet is generally credited with having discovered Brazil for the west in 1500? | Pedro Alvares Cabral |
| Trained to deal with bomb disposal, what, in the British Army, is an ATO? | Ammunition Technical Officer |
| Staying at Eltham Palace in 1400, Manuel II Palaiologos was the only person with which title ever to visit England? | Holy Roman Emperor |
| Who created controversy in 2006 with the Manuel II Palaiologos quotation: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."? | Pope Benedict XVI |
| Ruling most of Korea from 936 AD, which dynasty, noted for its porcelain, ruled until they were replaced in 1392 by the Joseon dynasty? | Goryeo or Korya [after which Korea is named] |
| In 2010, Wang Jianlin donated a billion yuan to which city for the reconstruction of the 15th century Porcelain Pagoda which was destroyed in 1856 during the Taiping Rebellion? | Nanjing |
| The Ming Dynasty emperor Zhu Di who moved the Chinese capital from Nanjing to what is now Beijing in 1403 is also known by what name? | The Yongle Emperor |
| Which MP and Mayor of Calais left £7,000 in his will to charity on his death in 1423, giving rise to a charity that is still named after him? | Dick Whittington |
| Emily Carr (1871-1945), associated with the Group of Seven, primarily painted landscapes of which Canadian Province? | British Columbia |
| Which painter (1877-1917), an inspiration for Canada's Group of Seven is associated with paintings such as "The Jack Pike" and "The West Wind" and theories surrounding his mysterious death on Canoe Lake? | Tom Thomson |
| Related to Surrealism and Dadaism, which Catalonian art movement founded by poet Joan Brossa and including Antoni Tapies, had a name meaning "The seventh side of the die"? | Deu al Set |
| 2012 was the 90th anniversary of which condiment, named after a town in Staffordshire? | Branston Pickle |
| In 2006, Elizabeth Arden released a perfume named after which prolific California-based writer with a fear of flying? | Danielle Steel |
| Who fought in partnership with John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough and had a cruiser named after him that helped the Bismarck to sink HMS Hood in 1941? | Prince Eugene of Savoy (Prinz Eugen was the ship) |
| Introduced in the reign of Edward III and discontinued in the 1470s, a noble was what fraction of a pound? | One third |
| In December 2013, which spacecraft, named after a Chinese goddess of the Moon, was the first to land on it since Luna 24 in 1976? | Chang'e 3 |
| Meaning "Jade Rabbit", but sounding to westerners like a famous rock band, what was the name of the Chinese lunar rover that landed on the Moon in December 2013? | Yutu |
| Which shampoo is advertised on TV with the slogan "German engineering for your hair"? | Alpecin (C1 Energizer Shampoo) |
| Who was the Snapchat CEO who in November 2013 said no to an offer from Facebook of $3 billion? | Evan Spiegler |
| Nichelle Nichols has claimed that the famous first scripted US TV interracial kiss between Uhura and Kirk in the episode "Plato's Stepchildren" was meant to be with which other character (until Shatner had the scene rewritten)? | Mr Spock |
| In "Star Trek", the name Uhura meant Freedom in Swahili but what does her first name Nyota mean? | Star |
| Charles, the hero of at least 18 whodunnits by Simon Brett, has which capital city as his surname? | Paris |
| In the Fethering series of novels by Simon Brett, which village lies adjacent to the eponymous one? | Tarring |
| Which fictional people experience a period of arousal every seven years called pon farr? | Vulcans |
| Which notorious Star Trek creatures hail from the planet Iota Geminorum IV? | Tribbles |
| Which was the only African country in the first two Rugby World Cups in 1987 and 1991? | Zimbabwe |
| Besides South Africa, what was the only other African country at the 1995 Rugby World Cup? | Cote d'Ivoire |
| What is the English translation of Yr Wyddfa, the Welsh name for Mount Snowdon? | The Tumulus or The Tomb |
| The Seven Lucky Gods are a feature of the mythology and folklore of which country? | Japan |
| What name is usually given to the Three Star Gods of China, representing Good Luck, Prosperity and Longevity? | Fu Lu Shou |
| Home of the Pennington family, which castle in Cumbria lies a mile east of Ravenglass? | Muncaster Castle |
| Which castle, stately home and garden can be found at Helsington, about four miles south of Kendal? | Sizergh Castle and Garden |
| What was the first name of Dr Bowman in "2001: A Space Oddyssey"? | David/Dave |
| Which sauce of butter, parsley and lemon takes its name from the French for "miller's wife"? | Meunière |
| Which French sauce, often, like tartar sauce, used as a condiment with seafoods takes its name from a French dialect word for horseradish? | Remoulade |
| George Bernard Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple". "Caesar and Cleopatra" and "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" were issued as a collection in 1901 with the name "Three Plays for" whom? | Puritans |
| Rudyard Kipling's short story "The Janeites" was about a group of World War I soldiers who were fans of who? | Jane Austen |
| Which actor's voicework includes the title role in 2003's "Sinbad:Legend of the Seven Seas" and Metro Man in the 2011 superhero action comedy "Megamind"? | Brad Pitt |
| Whose voice work has included Billy the Krill in 2011's "Happy Feet Two" and Spirit in 2002's "Spirit:Stallion of the Cimarron"? | Matt Damon |
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