Who was the longest-serviing head of government of any EU country when he resigned in 2013?

Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg PM 1995 to 2013)

Since 2012, the 24 Hours of Le Mans has also served as the third round of which international event?

FIA World Endurance Championships

Players from which two countries teamed up to win the women's doubles at the 2013 Wimbledon and 2014 French Open?

China (Peng Shuai) and Taiwan (Hsieh Su-wei)

Which major character in a British sitcom was named after the title character of a JM Barrie play?

Kryten in "Red Dwarf" ("The Admirable Crichton")

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Question	Answer
In March 2014, the Minya Criminal Court sentenced 529 of the Muslim Brotherhood to death in which country?	Egypt
Chief Wahoo is the controversial grinning Native American logo of which Major League Baseball team?	Cleveland Indians
Featuring a tomahawk in their logo, who are the only Major League Baseball franchise to have won the World Series based in three different cities having been previously based in Boston and Milwaukee?	Atlanta Braves
Name either of the two European countries which have a unicameral parliament known as the Chamber of Deputies?	Luxembourg or Malta
Who was the longest-serviing head of government of any EU country when he resigned in 2013?	Jean-Claude Juncker (Luxembourg PM 1995 to 2013)
Elected in May 2014, which President is nicknamed the "Chocolate King" due to his ownership of the Roshen confectionary company?	Petro Peroshenko (Ukraine)
Miransha is the capital of the north and Wana the capital of the south of which Pakistani region named after a Pashtun tribe?	Waziristan
In June 2014, Peter O'Neill responded to a watchdog's findings that he had expropriated $31 million of public funds by shutting down the watchdog and sacking the chief of police. He was the Prime Minister of which country?	Papua New Guinea
Who avenged their defeat in the 2013 NBA finals against Miami by beating them in the 2014 finals?	San Antonio Spurs
In the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Porsche is the most successful constructor (as at 2014). Who is second, having only lost once from 2000 to 2014?	Audi
Since 2012, the 24 Hours of Le Mans has also served as the third round of which international event?	FIA World Endurance Championships
Which one word name, a portmanteau of an Italian leather goods maker and a name for the devil, was used by a Romanian hacker who accessed the e-mails of Colin Powell, Candice Bushnell and members of the Rockefeller family?	Guccifer
Recent years have seen over 10 million people annually flying between Gimpo and Jeju Airports in which country?	South Korea
Lee Joon-seok was charged with murder as the captain and the first to leave which sinking vessel?	MV Sewol
In June 2014, which former Speaker of the Knesset was elected to be the tenth President of Israel?	Reuben Rivlin
Players from which two countries teamed up to win the women's doubles at the 2013 Wimbledon and 2014 French Open?	China (Peng Shuai) and Taiwan (Hsieh Su-wei)
Which US President did Bryan Cranston play in the 2012 Tony Award winning play "All The Way"?	Lyndon B Johnson
Which 2012 musical won a Tony for its scenery which included a full-size regulation boxing ring?	Rocky: The Musical
Which jockey was the last to win the US Triple Crown in 1978 on Affirmed?	Steve Cauthen
Played by Justin Timberlake in "The Social Network", who founded Napster and was the first president of Facebook?	Sean Parker
Randy Bachman of the Bachman-Turner Overdrive was previously a member of which Canadian band, best known for the song "American Woman"?	The Guess Who
Sharing their name with a form of chemical element, which band was the first successful all-white group singed to Motown, their biggest hit being a cover of The Temptations hit "Get Ready"?	Rare Earth
Which band named after a novel, with some deliberate misspelling, had a worldwide hit in 1970 with "Hitchin' a Ride"?	Vanity Fare
Which funk band led by former Animals lead singer Eric Burdon had a 1970 hit with "Spill The Wine"?	War
Which early whale of the Late Eocene period, despite having been a mammal, has a name which means "king lizard"?	Basilosaurus
Situated in the Serengeti, which active volcano is the only one that emits carbonate rather than silicate minerals and at 500-600 deg C erupts with the lowest temperature lava in the world?	Ol Doinyo Lengai
Deriving from the Greek for strength, which word means the stablest part of a continental land mass, extending down hundreds of kilometres into the earth's mantle?	Craton
With construction starting in 2003, MOSE is a controversial project intended to protect which city?	Venice
In May 2014, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) was formed to govern which nation after a military coup?	Thailand
Which European country has a president who can be elected for an unlimited number of seven-year terms?	Italy
In 2014 Telengana split from which state to form the 29th state of India?	Andhra Pradesh
Which team, with a name reminiscent of a popular 80s US TV show, won Indian cricket's Premier League in 2012 and 2014?	Kolkata Knight Riders
Which team, with a name reminiscent of a brand of cigarettes, won the Indian Premier League of cricket in 2010 and 2011?	Chennai Super Kings
Its name being a backward acronym for the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, what is the largest political faction of the PLO?	Fatah
With the ninth century Bukhari collection often regarded as the most reliable, which word in Islam means a report of the teachings, sayings and deeds of the prophet Mohammed?	Hadith
A staple dish throughout southern India and Southeast Asia, what is a dosa?	(Rice batter) pancake
Which spicy sauce made with a pestle and mortar is common throughout Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, its name being a Malay word of Javanese origon?	Sambal
Which colour takes its name from the French for the mallow family of plants?	Mauve
Founded by John Mackintosh in 1890, which brand of chocolates was named after a play by JM Barrie?	Quality Street
Which major character in a British sitcom was named after the title character of a JM Barrie play?	Kryten in "Red Dwarf" ("The Admirable Crichton")
Which British city once had the nickname "Copperopolis" due to its copper smelting industry?	Swansea
Which city of the UK is sometimes known as Stroke City after the punctuation mark?	Derry/Londonderry
In 2014, which company introduced a new computer programming language called Swift?	Apple
The three times British Supersport champion Karl Harris died in 2014 at Joey's Corner during which motorcycle race?	The Isle of Man TT
In 2014, who became the first non-white captain of the South African cricket team?	Hashim Amla
The turn Joey's Corner on the Isle of Man TT circuit is named after which winner of three hat-tricks at the event and the subject of "Road", a 2014 documentary?	Joey Dunlop
Which hip hop band decided to fight for their copyright after Monster Drinks used their music in TV ads without permission?	The Beastie Boys
Whose resignation in 2013 led to the South Shields by-election, won by Labour's Emma Lewell-Buck?	David Milliband
Whose resignation in 2013 led to the Mid Ulster by-election, won by Sinn Fein's Francie Molloy?	Martin McGuinness
The first of three by-elections in 2013 was the Eastleigh by-election caused by which Liberal Democrat's resignation?	Chris Huhne
What nationality is Simona Halep who lost the 2014 French Open final to Maria Sharapova?	Romanian
After a court order, which FIFA World Cup first happened in a game between Portugal and USA?	Water break
Which Juventus player was bitten by Luis Suarez in the 2014 World Cup?	Giorgio Chellini
With over 90 film credits to his name, who said he had more fan mail for playing Mr Freeze in the 1960s TV series "Batman" than his other roles combined?	Eli Wallach
So long that in many markets it was divided into two novels subtitled "Steel and Snow" and "Blood and Gold", what is the third novel in "The Song of Ice and Fire" series by George RR Martin?	A Storm of Swords"
Many George RR Martin fans turned after the six year wait for which 2011 novel, the fifth in the "Song of Ice and Fire" series?	A Dance With Dragons
To hear which organist, said to have influenced Handel, Mattheson and Telemann, did JS Bach once famously walk over 250 miles to Lubeck?	Dieterich Buxterhude
Which UK number one single of 2002 is based on "Simarik", meaning "Naughty", a 1997 hit for the Turkish singer Tarkan?	Kiss Kiss (by Holly Valance)
A famous US singer-songwriter was born with the surname Howard and later changed his name to Sananda Maitreya. How was he known inbetween?	Terence Trent D'Arby
Who has served as First Lady of two countries from 1975 to 1986 and 1998 to 1999?	Gra�a Machel (Mozambique and South Africa)
Which US singer with the surname DiMucci left a successful group to have hits with "The Wanderer" and "Runaround Sue"?	Dion
Banba is a patron goddess and is sometimes used as a poetic name for which country?	Ireland
Ophiussa, meaning "land of the serpents" is an ancient name for a territory covering much of which modern day country?	Portugal
Which brothers often edit their films together, credited as Roderick James?	The Coen brothers
The 1968 film "Fade In" aka "Iron Cowboy", starring Burt Reynolds was the first film to be credited to which director?	Alan Smithee
Which chat show host has the real last names William Walker?	Graham Norton
Which disco instrumental based on a classical piece appeared on the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack and was a 1976 Billboard number one for Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band?	A Fifth of Beethoven
Which new extreme sport, pioneered on the Greek island of Zakynthos by Norwegian inventor Simon Sivertsen, is a form of underwater waterskiing?	Subwing
The bestselling chair in the world, created by designer Robin Day for S Hille and Co in 1963, is a stacking chair whose body is made of which plastic?	Polypropylene
What was invented by the cutler Karl Elsener in 1891?	The Swiss Army Knife
For which company did Barnes Wallis pioneer geodetic aircraft design in the Wellesley, Warwick, Windsor and, most famously, the Wellington bomber?	Vickers
Who wrote "Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer" about his time as chief assistant to Barnes Wallis is creating the R100 and R101 airships?	Neville Shute
Soto, Rinzai and Obaku are the three main sects of which religion?	Zen Buddhism
The origin of Japan's four islands and many kami are told in which 8th century chronicle, supposedly compiled by O no Yasumaro at the request of Empress Gemmai?	Kojiki
Which 1966 hit for The Lovin' Spoonful features the sounds of car horns in the middle and a jackhammer at the end?	"Summer In The City"
With the lyric "two girls for every boy", the 1963 song "Surf City", the first surf song to top the Billboard charts, was a hit for which duo with the surnames Berry and Torrence?	Jan and Dean
Who had a US number six with the 1963 album title track "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer"?	Nat King Cole
According to a 1972 hit for Seals and Crofts what "makes me feel fine, blowin' through the jasmine in my mind"?	Summer Breeze
Which 1985 film opens with an establishing shot of Sherman High School?	The Breakfast Club
Which 1984 film opens with an establishing shot of New York Public Library?	Ghostbusters
The KPCS is a Process Certification established in 2003 to prevent the sale of conflict diamonds where K stands for which city?	Kimberley
Which 19th century author wrote collections of short stories called ""The Mudfog Papers" and "The Uncommercial Traveller"?	Charles Dickens
"Xscape", realeased in 2014, was whose second posthumous album?	Michael Jackson (the first was called Michael)
Culver is a word used in south east England for which bird?	Wood pigeon
What colour do sunsets appear on Mars?	Blue
At Wimbledon in 2014, Djokovc won the men singles title and Kvitova the women's title. In which year did this first happen?	2011
Who was the Algerian born subject of a 2014 biopic starring Pierre Niney?	Yves Saint Laurent
Which character has been played on film by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and, in 2014, Chris Pine?	Jack Ryan
In 2006, Josip �imunic became the first player to get three what in a FIFA World Cup match?	Yellow cards
Randomist, "Fizzy Logic", "Nonsensory Overload", "Mindblender" and "Tangentleman" have all been tours by which comedian?	Ross Noble
Which John Lennon album was in the charts at the time he was killed?	Double Fantasy
Which studio album by Elvis Presley was released a month before he died?	Moody Blue
Of unknown origin, the winged-arrow has, since 1923, been the logo of which motor car manufacturer?	Skoda
Which Liberal MP and first president of the Institute of Bankers, coined the terms palaeolothic and neolithic and, possibly more famously, in 1871, tabled the Bank Holidays Act?	John Lubbock, 1st Baron of Avebury
Which motor manufacturer has a name that means "modernity"?	Hyundai
Established by Henry VIII in 1516, the Master of the Posts was renamed what in 1710?	Postmaster General
With postage paid by the recipient, the Royal Mail was established in the reign of which monarch?	Charles I
Which singer-songwriter passed NASA's physical exam and was a finalist for the first citizen to fly in the Challenger Space Shuttle?	John Denver
Bracers are traditionally worn by people doing which sport?	Archery
Which US aircraft engineer designed the Long-EZ plane in which John Denver crashed and died in 1997?	Burt Rutan
Which UK number one hit of 2014 from the EP "Meltdown" is based on the 1979 track "San Francisco Bay" by harmonica player Lee Oskar?	Timber" by Pitbull feat Ke$ha
Which UK number one hit of 2014 includes violins and was the best-selling January hit since the 1996 hit "Spaceman" by Babylon Zoo?	Rather Be" by Clean Bandit feat Jess Glynne
In reality TV, how are the Robertson family of West Monroe, Louisiana better known?	Duck Dynasty
In reality TV how is Alana Thompson of Mcintyre, Georgia better known?	Honey Boo Boo
The Guido culture of the TV show "Jersey Shore" has also become known as GTL which stands for what?	Gym Tan Laundry
Invented by Johanne Verheen, which exercise product was widely parodied for its adverts which have been described as slightly pornographic?	Shake Weight
Invented in 1986 by Rick Hunts, and parodied in the film "Wayne's World", the Flowbee is a vacuum cleaner attachment designed for doing what?	Styling hair
Ron Popeil is best known as the founder of which company which made the Veg-O-Matic, Smokeless Ashtray, an Inside-the-Shell Egg Scramler and GLH-9 (spray on hair)?	Ronco
Which Christian charity based in Salisbury has since the early 2000s co-ordinated the UK's only network of food banks?	The Trussell Trust
In dermatology, how are ephelides more commonly known?	Freckles
Which lightweight typically chequered cotton fabric is named after a city in India?	Madras
Made from the wood of a Malaysian palm, a penang-lawyer is a type of what?	Walking stick
Officially called the Asia Minor Agreement, what is the usual name given to the 1916 agreement which divided much of the Middle East between the French and the English?	Sykes-Picot Agreement
Which surreal cartoon which began in 2010 centres around a blue jay called Mordecai and a racoon called Rigby?	Regular Show
Which surreal cartoon with a pilot in 2007 and running since 2010 centres around a boy called Finn and his adoptive brother, a shape-shifting dog called Jake?	Adventure Time
The comedian Phil Fletcher is the man behind which canine character from Wigan, a puppet often seen on CBBC?	Hacker T Dog
Which female war painter's works include "The Roll Call" and "Scotland Forever" showing the charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo?	Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler
Which Impressionist painter, whose works include domestic subjects such as "The Cradle" and "The Dining Room", was the sister-in-law of Eduard Manet?	Berthe Morisot
In 1894, art critic Gustave Geffroy referred to "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism. This referred to Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and which artist whose career was stifled by her anti-Impressionist husband?	Marie Bracquemond
What was the surname of Carl and Karin, whose designs of textiles and furniture in their house at Sundborn in the late 1880s is credited by IKEA with creating a model of Swedish home furnishing design?	Larssen
Associated with the pioneering 1920s and 30s dress-designer Madeleine Vionnet, what name is given to a cut at 45 degrees to the warp and weft threads?	Bias-cut
He coined the terms "neurology" and "mellitus", as in diabetes mellitus, and has the circle of arteries at the base of the brain named after him. Which physician of King Charles I of England?	Thomas Willis [Circle of Willis]
"The Greatest Game Ever Played" in a 2005 Bill Paxton directed sports biopic starring Shia LeBoeuf about how Francis Ouimet won which event in 1913?	US Open (Golf)
The early 20th century golfers Harry Verdon and Ted Ray were born on which island?	Jersey
The New Zealand winner of the 2010 National Road Race Championships in cycling has what name suggesting he might be good at 24 hour tournaments?	Jack Bauer
Who scored Uruguay's winning goal against Brazil in 1950 and was the last surviving player from that Urusguayan team?	Alcides Ghiggia
Which European bank was International Financing Review's 2012 Bank of the Year and in 2014 was fined $8.9 billion for breaking US sanctions against Cuba, Iran and Sudan?	BNP Paribus
The underwater habitat off the coast of Florida in which Fabien Cousteau and his crew spent 31 days in 2014 is named after which zodiac sign?	Aquarius
After 1912, in what year was the South Pole next reached overland?	1958 (by Edmund Hillary and Vivian Fuchs)
What two word name is usually given to a group of nobles who tried to impeach five of King Richard II's favourites?	Lords Appellant
What two word name is given to the parliamentary session of February 1388 in which many of Richard II's court were convicted of treason?	The Merciless Parliament
Introduced by German police in 1995, what is the Ziegler Wasserwerfer 9000?	A water cannon
Which journalist famously uncovered journalistic malpractice in his 2008 book "Flat Earth News"?	Nick Davies
Who was President of the British Humanist Association from 2007 to 2012 and is the granddaughter of a famous historian?	Polly Toynbee
Which entertainment, news and social networking website was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian?	Reddit
Who found solo success after time in bands called 'Kat Kool & The Kool Cats', Streetband and Q-Tips?	Paul Young
Bobby Brown left which successful boy band in 1986?	New Edition
Which celebrity photographer who worked with Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, the Rolling Stones and others also recorded songs like "Kissing WIth Confidence" as Will Powers?	Lynn Goldsmith
Which band consisting of Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie and John Leeway were joined onstage at Live Aid by Madonna?	The Thompson Twins
The name of which 80s jazz-pop band is often wrongly assumed to be an alias for the frontman Mark Reilly?	Matt Bianco
Heavily bombed from 1982 to 1986, Kharg Island belongs to which country?	Iran
Which Greek poet of the 7th or 6th century BC became associated wth a paradox inspired by the line "All Cretes are liars"?	Epimenides
Named after a German astronomer, by what other name is the dark night sky paradox also known?	Olber's paradox
According to 2010 figures, which European country had over half a million Portuguese nationals?	France
In 2012, which Trinidadian became the first ever black man to win an Olympic gold in a throwing event?	Keshorn Walcott [Javelin]
In 2006, which country replaced the brown shield, assegai and knobkerry on its flag with a black hat?	Lesotho
Billy Ocean played Keith Lemon's father on film but Billy Ocean's real son has represented Barbados at the Commonwealth Games in which sport?	Rugby sevens
In 1958, who released "Rumble", one of the few instrumentals to be banned from US radio play and also pne of the first to use the power chord?	Link Wray (& His Ray Men)
Who wrote "Apache" and several other hits for The Shadows?	Jerry Lordan
Which guitarist for the band Toto has played on over 1,500 albums, his work including guitar with Eddie Van Halen on Michael Jackson's "Beat It"?	Steve Lukather
Married to fellow judoka Gemma Gibbons, who carried the flag for Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games?	Euan Burton
Which Roman governor of Britain was replaced by Nero shortly after the Boudiccan revolt?	Suetonius Paulinus
Which Celtic tribe assisted Boudicca and the Iceni in destroying their capital city Camulodunum (Colchester)?	Trinovantes
How are Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles, daughters of Professor Utonium better known?	The Powerpuff Girls
Thor the Warrior, Merlin the Wizard, Thyra the Valkyrie and Questor the Elf were the playable characters in which 1985 arcade game?	Gauntlet
In the Dickens novel, what is the name of Oliver Twist's deceased mother?	Agnes Fleming
Oliver Twist's deceased father, Edwin Leeford, had a son Edwin, who goes by what name for most of the novel?	Mr Monks
A series of paintings Edvard Munch worked on from 1892 to 1902 including many of his best known works, including "the Scream", are known by what name?	The Frieze of Life
The Edvard Munch painting "Love and Pain" showing a woman kissing a man's neck, sold for $38 million in 2008, and is better known by which one word name?	Vampire
His defensive role helped Baltimore Colts win Super Bowl V in 1971, but who is better known worldwide for playing Moses Hightower in six Police Academy films?	Bubba Smith
Finnish-born American singer and actor George Gaynes is probably best known for playing which role in all seven Police Academy films?	Commandant Eric Lassard
Which coastal castle ruin in Aberdeenshire is best known as the place where the Scottish Crown Jewels were hidden from Oliver Cromwell?	Dunnottar Castle
Connected by the River Galway to the sea at Galway, what is the largest lake in Ireland after Lough Neagh?	Lough Corrib
The Diageo World Class is a prestigious international competition to find the best makers of what?	Cocktails [Mixology]
"The devil will find work for idle hands to do" is a line from which Smiths song, their first UK Top 20 hit?	What Difference Does It Make?
Which UK top ten Smiths song contains the line "In my life, oh why do I give valuable time to people who don't care if I live or die"?	Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Dying Germany's richest man in July 2014, who was the Al in the name Aldi?	Karl Albrecht [Albrecht Diskont]
Who bought the name Lidl from a retired schoolteacher for 1,000 Deutschmarks?	Dieter Schwartz [He decided against his own name as Schwarzmarkt means "black market"]
With a name deriving from the Latin for delay, which unit of syllable weight features twice in a long vowel but once in a short vowel sound?	Mora
In Japanese, deriving from the man�yogana, there are two main types of kana or syllabic script. One is hirugana, what is the other?	Katakana
Which language is written in the Roman alphabet with various diacritic marks, a system called Quoc ngu?	Vietnamese
Measuring about 3,600 feet (1,100 metres) from base to summit and made of gneiss, which Norwegian massif is the tallest vertical rock face in Europe?	Troll Wall
Situated in Rogaland, Norway, what name is given to the large rock wedged over 3,000 feet up in a glacial crevasse, standing on which has become a famous photo opportunity?	Kjeragbolten
What measure of the collected pieces of a single named meteorite is abbreviated to TKW?	Total known weight
Weighing over 60 tonnes, the largest known single piece meteorite and also the largest known naturally occurring piece of iron at the earth's surface, the Hoba meteorite lies in which country?	Namibia
Having died in 2008, which US author of "Infinite Jest" was a finalist of the 2012 Prize for Fiction with his unfinished novel "The Pale King"?	David Foster Wallace
With regards to proposed privacy laws, which UK parliamentary bill of 2014 was abbreviated to DRIP?	Data Retention and Investigatory Powers bill
Motihari in the Indian province of Bihar was, in 1903, the birthplace of which famous British writer?	George Orwell
Widely carried out on the carotid artery to prevent strokes, which surgical procedure removes plaque from an arterial wall?	Endarterectomy
In medicine, what name is given to any mesh tube inserted into a natural passageway in the body to counteract a restriction in blood flow?	Stent
Which culinary spice has the scientific name Carum carvi?	Caraway
Which culinary herb is the best known species of the genus Ocimum?	Basil [Ocimum basilicum]
In March 2014, during a live broadcast, whose name was rendered by Channel 4 subtitles as "so gay lover of"?	Sergei Lavrov [Russian foreign minister]
Given Russia's anti-gay stance, what four letter name for its special police has amused western observers when seen in a mirror?	OMOH, (in Roman script OMON).
The bounty hunter Samus Aran is the heroine of which series of Nintendo games starting in 1986?	Metroid
In which popular puzzle-platform video game of 2007 is Chell promised cake and grief counselling if the levels are completed?	Portal
Which river runs 941 miles through Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan where it empties into the Caspian Sea?	Kura River
Its drainage basin including parts of 14 US states, what is the largest tributary of the Mississippi?	The Ohio
Which Botswanan improved on his Olympic silver to beat Rudisha to gold in the 2014 Commonwealth 800 metres?	Nijel Amos
Nauru's ten Commonwealth golds to 2014 have all been in which sport?	Weightlifting
Which major sporting trophy is engraved with "2004-5 Season Not Played"?	The Stanley Cup
Ramree Island is a home of saltwater crocodiles and a source of oil revenue belonging to which country?	Myanmar/Burma
Played by Tony Goldwyn, Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III is the US President in which TV series?	Scandal
Who did a 100 metre/200 metre sprint gold double at the 2014 Commonwealth Games?	Blessing Okagbare [of Nigeria]
In 2014, which Polish ski-jumper won golds in both the normal and large hill events, becoming the third ever to do so?	Kamil Stoch
The Polish ski jumper Adam Malysz, who won Olympic silvers in 2006 and 2010 and four World Championship golds was nicknamed the Flying what?	Moustache
First held in 1987 and claimed to be the world's most demanding one day survival ordeal the Tough Guy Challenge, including the Stalag Escape, Vietcong Torture Chamber Tunnels and the Gurkha Grand National takes place in which English county?	Staffordshire
The mascot was so unpopular that a blue line on the road, actually marking the city's marathon route, was said to be "Izzy's ass being dragged out of town". Of which city was Izzy the first computer generated Olympic mascot?	Atlanta
Due to the cost of the Olympics, posters were made showing him cocking his leg against the Olympic Tower. What was the name of Munich's dachshund mascot, the first official Olympic mascot?	Waldi
Resembling the Hypnotoad on the TV series "Futurama", a proposed fuzzy blue frog mascot with Olympic rings for eyes was widely seen as a fun countercultural alternative to the state approved mascots. In a master-stroke of guerilla marketing, it turned out	Zoich
In 1968, Jimmy James and the Vagabonds were the first to chart in the UK with which Neil Diamond song?	Red Red Wine
Which reggae singer wrote and had the original hit with "The Tide Is High"?	John Holt
Which character made his first appearance in the 1961 novel "Call for the Dead"?	George Smiley
Which character made his first appearance in the 1997 novel "Killing Floor"?	Jack Reacher
Which river in Western Australia gives its name to the region of Western Australia south of Perth that makes 20% of Australia's premium wines?	Margaret River
Which mine in northern Western Australia, in the East Kimberley region, was the largest diamond producer in the world when the intention to close it in 2018 was announced?	Argyle Diamond Mine
Published serially from 1819 to 1820, which collection of 34 essays and short stories by Washington Irving includes "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?	The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
Partly based on his experiences as captive on Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, who wrote the popular 1842 work "Typee: A Peep At Polynesian Life"?	Herman Melville
Rottnest Island, west of Fremantle in Western Australia, was so named after which local mammals were mistaken for giant rats?	Quokkas
In 1844, which London draper and son of a Somerset farmer founded the YMCA?	George Williams
Who played Marissa Cooper in the Fox TV series "The OC"?	Mischa Barton
Which South African born swimmer was disqualified from the 1986 Commonwealth Games at the same time as Zola Budd, also on residency grounds?	Annette Cowley
What colour is the logo of the Youth Hostels Association of England and Wales?	Green
Who starred as the twins Brandon and Brenda Walsh in "Beverly Hills 90210"?	Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty
In Afghanistan in August 2014, who became the highest ranking US general to be killed on foreign soil since 1972?	Major General Harold J Greene
Paul Cummins's commemorative artwork Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red cosistes of 888,246 what?	Ceramic poppies
Which DJ was the first announcer heard on BBC2, but was convicted of sexual offences in 1974?	Chris Denning
Clippings of which trees are sold to pharmaceutical companies to make the chemotherapy drug Docetaxel?	Yew trees (Taxus)
In which TV comedy set in Lichfield, Staffordshire was Adam Samberg replaced by Taylor Lautner?	Cuckoo
Australian fast bowler Graham McKenzie, noted for his muscular physique, was generally known by what name after a British comic strip hero?	Garth
In honour of a pair of birds that in 2005 nested in the tower of Derby Cathedral, what is Derbyshore's limited overs cricket team called?	Derbyshire Falcons
In 1963, which three areas beginning with S joined the Federation of Malaya to form Malaysia?	Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore [Singapore was expelled two years later]
What was the first name of Abdul Rahman, the first Prime Minister of Malaysia?	Tunku
Discovered in the Gunung Mulu National Park in 1981 by four British explorers, the Sarawak is the world's largest known what?	Cave chamber
Which cape in Johor, Malaysia is the most southerly point in mainland Eurasia?	Tanjung Piai
Kennedy William Gordy, son of Motown founder Berry Gordy, released singles under what name? His biggest hit featured Michael Jackson on guest vocals.	Rockwell [the hit was "Somebody's Watching Me"]
Motown founder, Berry Gordy, named his son Kennedy William Gordy after John F Kennedy and which Motown singer, whose real first name was William?	Smokey Robinson
With a three letter name deriving from Russian for beech tree, which surface-to-air missile system includes that suspected of downing Malaysian Flight 17?	Buk
In 1991, which country legally established volleyball as its national sport a few years before winning a world cup in another sport?	Sri Lanka
In the 1960s, which country made a form of rodeo its national sport in the same year as it hosted a world cup in another sport?	Chile [Chilean rodeo]
A 1987 TV series was based on which animatronic toy with a cassette tape in its back made by Worlds of Wonder?	Teddy Ruxpin
Magician Richard Cadell is best known for his work with which bear?	Sooty [Matthew Corbett's successor]
Who designed the oldest college building in the US at the College of William and Mary in Williamsberg, Virginia?	Sir Christopher Wren
The choir of which Parisian chuch, completed in 1144, is generally regarded as the world's first Gothic building?	Basilica of St Denis
In 2001 in Indonesia, four girls were killed in a stampede at a signing for which British-Norwegian boyband?	A1
Which member of the pop group Eternal was sacked by fax from the group's solicitor?	K�ll� Bryan
In 2014, which country made a proposal to give the disputed Minerva Islands to Fiji in exchange for the Lau Islands?	Tonga
In 2014, which country agreed to introduce a minimum wage of �8.50 per hour from January 1st 2015?	Germany
Remains of the largest ever flying bird, Pelagornis sandersi, with a wingspan over 20 feet, were discovered in 1983 while building a new terminal at the airport in which country?	USA [North Charleston]
Before Brazil was beaten 7-1 by Germany, in what year were Brazil's football team last beaten on home soil?	1975 (by Peru)
Which Chelsea midfielder scored Brazil's only goal in their 7-1 defeat v Germany at Belo Horizonte known as the Mineirazo?	Oscar (dos Santos Emboaba J�nior)
Robin Williams won an Oscar for "Good Will Hunting", but for which other 90s film was he Oscar nominated?	The Fisher King"
For how many 1980s films was Robin WIlliams Oscar nominated?	Two ["Good Morning Vietnam" & "Dead Poets Society"]
In 2014, Ray Nagin was sentenced to ten years for twenty counts of fraud, bribery and money lending. He had previously come to the world's attention in 2005 as mayor of which US city?	New Orleans
Which two Ukrainian oblasts formed self-proclaimed "People's Republics" in 2014, which then merged to form the Federal State of Novorossiya?	Donetsk and Lugansk
Six weeks after its formation, the Party of Miro Cerar won over a third of the country's vote in which European country's parliamentary election?	Slovenia
Who is the famous for being famous mother of Mason Dash Disick and Penelope Scotland Disick?	Kourtney Kardashian
Who was the first US President to be born outside the thirteen colonies which declared independence in 1776?	Abraham Lincoln [Sinking Spring Farm near Hogdenville, Kentucky]
From 1868 to 1920, seven US Presidents were born in which US state, making it second only to Virginia as a "mother of Presidents"?	Ohio
Prior to the 1536 and 1543 Laws in Wales Acts, North Wales lived under English law as part of the 1284 Statute of Wales, also known by what name after a castke in Denbighshire?	Statute of Rhuddlan
Which Bedford born anti-apartheid protester was, from 1978 to 1983, the Archbishop of the Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean based in Mauritius?	Trevor Huddleston
Which prison reformer was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1773?	John Howard
Which Oscar winning American actor went to Dunstable Grammar School in Bedfordshire from 1910 to 1913?	Gary Cooper
Julian Pettifer, Jonathan Dimbleby, Kate Humble and Miranda Krestovnikoff have all been presidents of which organisation headquartered in Sandy, Bedfordshire?	RSPB
TV-am and Midlands Today presenter Nick Owen in 2008 became chairman of which football club?	Luton Town FC
Known in Russian as Akula, meaning shark, what is the NATO reporting name for the class containing the world's largest submarines ever built (574 ft long)?	Typhoon
The Mil V-12, with the NATO reporting name Homer, was at 121 feet 5 inches, the longest what ever built?	Helicopter
Although it has been depicted as tiger-like, giraffe-like and often with flames over its body, which mythical creature is often known in the west as the Chinese unicorn?	Qilin
Rounded down to the nearest ten miles per hour, what is the fastest recorded speed of a running ostrich?	40 (45mph)
The double-wattled, single-wattled and Bennett's are the three known extant species of which bird?	Cassowary
Drew Barrymore voiced the pampered pet in the title of which 2008 Disney film?	Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Anne Hathaway voiced the girl who transforms into an animal in the western version of which 2002 film by Hiroyuki Morita?	The Cat Returns
Which warrant gives a commissioned officer a higher rank for meritorious behaviour without the authority, precedence or pay of the real rank?	Brevet
Nicknamed "Old Fuss and Feathers", who served 53 years in the US Army, spent a record twenty years as Commanding General of the US Army and unsuccessfully stood against Franklin Pearce in the 1852 Presidential election?	Winfield Scott
Which mountain pass near the junction of Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky has been immortalised in an Appalachian folk song?	Cumberland Gap
Which 1908 Western romance novel by John Fox Jr about the beautiful June Tolliver, set in the Appalachians, has been immortalised in a 1913 song?	The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Gruit is a mixture of herbs that was once widely used in the making of what?	Ale/Unhopped beer
To the local Aranda people, which famous town is known as Mparntwe?	Alice Springs
Which Queensland town, named after the extent of the Thompson River, is home of the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame?	Longreach
Which German neoclassicist's best known work is the 1772-8 painting "Tribuna of the Uffizi" showing various artworks clustered in one room?	Johann Zoffany
Which inventor depicted 38 other paintings including the Mona Lisa in his 1831-3 painting "The Gallery of the Louvre"?	Samuel Morse
Silence Dogood, Alice Addertongue and Polly Baker were all pseudonyms used by which famous 18th/19th century American?	Benjamin Franklin
Coined by Frank White, what name is given to the cognitive shift in awareness caused by viewing the Earth from space?	Overview effect
From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin published an Almanack under what name?	Poor Richard (Saunders)
What are the third and fourth most abundant elements in the known universe?	Oxygen and carbon
Martial arts expert Ryu was the only playable character in the original 1987 arcade version of which popular video game?	Street Fighter
Which two kings of England were buried at Fontevraud Abbey in western France?	Henry II and Richard I [it is in Anjou]
Who was the last British monarch to be buried outside Windsor?	George II [Westminster Abbey]
Which German lighting manufacturers name came about by combining the names of the two elements most commonly used for filaments at the start of the 20th century?	Osram
Which 2006 book by journalist Roberto Saviano about organised crime in southern Italy has been made into a play, a film and a TV series of the same name?	Gomorrah
In 2014, it was reported that 146 American mothers had named their children Khaleesi, after this Dothraki title was given to which fictional character?	Daenerys Teagaryen
In the 1990s, Australian brothers Ben and Tas Pappas held the top two world rankings in which sport?	Skateboarding
In September 1995, how did a broken laser pointer make history?	First item sold on eBay [for $14.83]
Headquartered at Pullach near Munich, what is the three letter name of Germany's foreign intelligence agency?	BND
Which town, nineteen miles southwest of central Rome, is home to Leonardo Da Vinci International airport?	Fiumicino
The Church of Almighty God, also known as Eastern Lightning, a sect believing Christ has returned as a woman, have been linked to savage attacks in which country?	China
In the world of education, what are MOOCs?	Massive open online courses
Coltan, found in and around the Democratic Republic of Congo, is the main ore of which element used in iPhone capacitors?	Tantalum
Which popular tourist attraction was founded by Billy Smart's Circus in 1969 and closed in 1992?	Windsor Safari Park
Which 1960s children's TV programme shares its name with a nickname for people from Bedfordshire?	Clangers
The Battle of Broad Street in Reading was the only military action marking whose accession to the throne?	William III
Hanged in Aylesbury in 1845, John Tawell had murdered his wife with prussic acid. Which two firsts marked his attempted escape and capture?	First to flee by train. First to be captured by telegraph. [He fled Slough by train. Details were telegraphed to Paddington.]
According to the 2011 Census, which Berkshire town has England's highest proportion of Sikhs and the southeast's highest proportion of Muslims and Hindus?	Slough
Susan Billington was the last tennis player to serve underarm in a Wimbledon competition. Who is her famous grandson?	Tim Henman
Originally run at Cheltenham in 1957 and transferred to Newbury in 1960, which race represents British racing's longest sponsorship?	Hennessy Gold Cup
Which Oscar nominated star got his first name because his pregnant mother was looking at an Italian painting when he kicked?	Leonardo DiCaprio
In June 2014, the remaining members of which Welsh band formed a band called No Devotion?	Lostprophets
The first time a US President flew on official business was in 1943 when FDR visited which "white house"?	Casablanca
Who won Great Britain's 100th gold medal at the European Athletics Championahips?	Adam Gemill [2014, Men's 200 metres]
Which country did Great Britain beat into second place in the medals table at the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Zurich?	France
World bronze, Commonwealth silver and European gold medal winning hurdler Tiffany Porter was born with the same surname as which Turner Prize winner?	Chris Ofili
The parents of London born 100 metre European Champion James Dasaolu were born in which country?	Nigeria
Which electrical property extends the idea of resistance to AC circuits using complex numbers?	Impedance
In physics, what name is given to the opposition of a circuit to a change in voltage or current due to induction or capacitance?	Reactance
Which word generally means softening by soaking and in winemaking is the process of leaching materials from skins, seeds and stems into the must, giving red wine its colour?	Maceration
What is added to unfermented grape must to increase alcohol content in the process known as chaptalisation?	Sugar
Which Hungarian born American paediatrician is best known for his work to eradicate diphtheria in the US?	Bela Schick [of Schick Test fame]
Deriving from the Persian for landowner, which word is used in the history of India to mean any aristocrat who had control over land and peasants?	Zamindar
"Whiteout", "eiderfalls", "shovelcrusted" and "vanilla swarm" are spoken lyrics on the title track of which 2011 album?	Fifty Words for Snow [by Kate Bush]
Which manor house near Kendal in Cumbria is famous for its Grey Lady ghost and topiary garden dating from 1689 to 1712?	Levens Hall
What was the family name of the Earls of Cumberland, associated with the remains of York Castle?	Clifford [as in Clifford's Tower]
Which sea captain founded the Foundling Hospital in 1739 and now gives his name to the Foundation for Children based there?	Thomas Coram [Foundation for Children]
Set in the Haldon Hills, 850 feet above sea level, what is the highest racecourse in the UK?	Exeter
Situated on Lansdown Hill, 780 feet above sea level, what is the highest flat racecourse in the UK?	Bath
Aurora, Rockford and Joliet are the second, third and fourth most populous cities in which US state?	Illinois
West Valley City, Provo and West Jordan are the second, third and fourth largest cities in which US state?	Utah
Which grocer organised an international football tournament in 1909 and 1911, challenged for the America's Cup five times but is most associated with iced tea?	Thomas Lipton
How is the female medical event amniorrhexis usually known?	Waters breaking
What part of the body is examined with a colposcope?	Vagina/vulva/cervix
Cairo and which other two capital cities lie on the River Nile?	Khartoum and Juba
Budapest and which other two capital cities starting with B lie on the River Danube?	Belgrade and Bratislava
Who died in 1543, was exhumed in 2005 and reburied five years later at Frombork Cathedral, where he had worked as a canon?	Nicolaus Copernicus
Having been buried at Pentonville Prison in 1916, who was in 1965 exhumed, given a state funeral and reburied in Glesnevin Cemetery in Dublin?	Roger Casement
Which Scotsman has won the Indycar Series four times from 2007 to 2011 and has been Indy 500 Champion three times (2007, 2010 and 2012)?	Dario Franchitti
Which former Formula One driver for Force India is a cousin of Indycar racer Dario Franchitti?	Paul di Resta
Which duo of Joy Williams and John Paul White appropriately followed Lady Antebellum?	The Civil Wars
Becoming a global star in 2006 and appearing on the cover of "Vanity Fair" magazine, what was the name of the first polar bear to be born at Berlin Zoo in 33 years?	Knut
Which car company is named after a region, whose capital, prior to Roman occupation was Sarmizegetusa?	Dacia
The title track of "The Sensual World" by Kate Bush was based on a soliloquy from which novel?	Ulysses
Which number is the title of a song lasting six minutes on the 2005 Kate Bush album "Aerial"?	Pi
What is the full name of a PET scan?	Positron Emission Tomography
Which transition metal element gives its name to a gamma ray cancer treatment?	Cobalt (therapy)
What is the full name of ALS, a disease whose profile was raised in 2014 by the Ice Bucket Challenge?	Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
How did the media dub the "crime" which happened to Howard Middleton in the Desserts round of Series 4 of "The Great British Bake Off"?	Custardgate
How did the media dub the "crime" which happened to Iain Watters in the Desserts round of Series 5 of "The Great British Bake Off"?	Bingate
Wolfberries are also commonly known by which Chinese derived name?	Goji berries
Acai fruits come from trees of which family?	Arecaceae/Palm trees
Replacing Aironi (The Herons) in Pro12 Rugby, Zebre are a team based in which city in Emilia Romagna?	Parma
Which fashion brand has sponsored the Treviso rugby team since 1979?	Benetton
Charged by the Inquisition of including "buffoons, drunken Germans, dwarves and other such scurrilities" into a 1573 "Last Supper", which artist changed the title to "The Feast In The House of Levi"?	Paolo Veronese
Most of which objects are C-Type containing mainly carbon or S-type meaning stony?	Asteroids
Which album, in 1992 the first to win the Mercury Music Prize, contains the song "Loaded"?	Screamadelica (by Primal Scream)
Which 1994 Mercury Prize winning album included the songs "One Night In Heaven" and "Moving On Up"?	Elegant Slumming (by M People)
At which Scottish victory of 1388 has it been claimed that Douglas's body was hidden so that his death did not encourage the English?	Battle of Otterburn
In which century did a treaty signed by John Balliol and Philip IV signal the start of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France?	Thirteenth (1285)
A 1528 treaty signed by Francis I and John Z�polya was between France and which other kingdom?	Hungary
An upper floor apartment of Culzean Castle in Ayrshire was given to which US President who stayed there four times?	Dwight D Eisenhower
Which ninth century King of Scots has since been given the nickname An Ferbasach meaning "The Conqueror"?	Kenneth McAlpin
Which weak 11th century King of Scotland is probably best known for being ignored by Shakespeare, his reign coming between Macbeth and Malcolm Canmore's?	Lulach
Which 13th century successor to the Scottish monarchy died before reaching Scotland?	Margaret Maid of Norway
What name is given to the declaration of Scottish Independence submitted to Pope John XXIII in 1320?	The Declaration of Arbroath
Kowalski, meaning "smith's son" is the second most common surname in Poland. Which name meaning "new man" is the most popular?	Nowak
Tamm, meaning "oak" is the commonest surname in which north European country?	Estonia
Robert the Bruce was King of Scotland. From 1314 to 1318, what position was held by his younger brother Edward the Bruce?	High King of Ireland
Which law, named after German scientists, suggests that the orbits of planets is a linear function of two to the power of their sequential order from the Sun?	Titius-Bode's Law
Until 2013, Harold Mahony in 1896 was the last Scot to achieve what?	Winning Wimbledon
Scottish Backhold is a form of which sport?	Wrestling
Which sporting variant was created by Ned Haig and David Sanderson, two butchers from Melrose, as a fundraiser in 1883?	Rugby Sevens
The grounds of which of the Borders Abbeys contain the burial places of Sir Walter Scott and Field Marshall Douglas Haig?	Dryburgh
Which 1277 treaty between Edward I and Llewellyn the Last was a big step towards ending self-rule in Wales?	Aberconwy
There was scepticism, not least because the story broke in "The Daily Mail", but in 2014, evidence appeared to suggest that hairdresser Aaron Kosminski was the identity of who?	Jack the Ripper
In September 2014, who became the new host of "Celebrity Squares"?	Warwick Davis
Born Ralph Pierre LaCock, who presented "Hollywood Squares" from 1966 to 1981?	Peter Marshall
For most of the first run of "Hollywood Squares", the centre square was occupied by Paul Lynde, camp king of the snarky one-liner who also voiced which character in a "Wacky Races" spin-off?	The Hooded Claw [In "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop"]
Who played "Agnes Browne" in a 1999 film based on Brendan O'Carroll's book "The Mammy"?	Angelica Houston
Competing in the 2014 series of "Strictly Come Dancing", what is the name of Brendan O'Carroll's wife who plays the daughter Cathy in "Mrs Brown's Boys"?	Jennifer Gibney
What is the common Tamil derived name for a thick rice porridge, eaten in many Asian countries and often served with side dishes?	Congee
Which Sicilian dish of stuffed rice balls coated in breadcrumbs gets its name from its visual resemblance to oranges?	Arancini
What name from the Hawaiian for immeasurable heaven was given in 2014 to the supercluster of 100,000 galaxies which includes the Milky Way?	Laniakea
Based on over half a skeleton discovered in Argentina, which dinosaur, named after an early 20th century type of warship, was over 60,000 kilos in weight?	Dreadnoughtus
Katy Perry was accused of ripping it off for her song "Roar" and Microsoft used it to advertise Windows 8. Which Sara Bereilles song?	Brave
Which British film about an unusual alliance won the Queer Palm at the 2014 Cannes Festival?	Pride
What was the name of the character played by Edward Woodward (and by Denzel Washington in the film remake) in the TV series "The Equalizer"?	Robert McCall
Based on the 2014 play "Posh" by Laura Wade, the film "The Riot Club" starring Max Irons is a fictionalised account of which real group?	The Bullingdon Club
Whose role as a German intelligence agent in the film of John Le Carr�'s "A Man Most Wanted" was his last leading role?	Philip Seymour Hoffman
"Maps to The Stars" is a 2014 satirical film about two child stars by which director, more associated with the "body horror" genre?	David Croenenberg
Who directed "Magic in the Moonlight" in which Colin Firth plays a magician who sets out to debunk a spiritualist played by Emma Stone?	Woody Allen
Which Hungarian film won Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Festival, and also won the Palm Dog for its cast of dogs?	"White God"
In World War I, women who did what were known as canary girls bacause exposure to poisons turned their skin orange-yellow?	Made (TNT) shells
Headed by David Lloyd-George, which government department lasting from 1915 to 1921 was a response to the Shell Crisis of 1915?	Ministry of Munitions
Gustav or Winter, Bernhardt and Hitler were the names of German World War II defensive lines in which country?	Italy
Originally used against the Germans, but later used by them in the Atlantic Wall and by the Soviet Union, what were Czech hedgehogs a defense against?	Tanks
Which Elite Ice Hockey League team has the National Ice Centre as its home venue?	Nottingham Panthers
The Fife Ice Arena, home to the Fife Flyers ice hockey team is in which town?	Kirkcaldy
Hill size has replaced the K-point as a measure in which sport?	Ski jumping
Ice hockey stars Eric Lindros, Sidney Crosby and John Tavares have all been given which nickname indicating them as successors to Wayne Gretzky?	The Next One
Which form of ski jumping takes place on hills with a K-point of 185 metres or more?	Ski flying
Which part of Mayfair has been the fictional home of Bertie Wooster and the real home of Winston Churchill but is probably most associated with the death of Lady Agatha in "Kind Hearts and Coronets" and a song performed by Vera Lynn?	Berkeley Square
Which boxer reached the 2014 final of the BBC TV series "Tumble"?	Carl Froch
Which boxer was runner-up in the 2014 UK series of "Celebrity Big Brother"?	Audley Harrison
Dying of malnutrition in 1954, Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead is notorious as the McGill university student who did what in 1926?	Sucker-punched Houdini
Still seen in parts of Southeast Asia, what historical Japanese name is given to the practice of dying teeth black?	Ohaguro
Originally called "Glan Rhondda", what was written by Evan James and his son James James in Pontypridd in 1856?	Hen Wlad Fy Nhada/Land Of My Fathers
Which 1967 song by Roy Williamson of "The Corries" was about the 1314 Battle of Bannockburn?	Flower of Scotland
Anna Marie Russell, the Duchess of Bedford is credited with inventing "afternoon tea" in the 1840s while visiting the 5th Duke of Rutland in which castle?	Belvoir Castle
Founded by Charles Dickens in the 1850s which weekly magazine took its name from a quotation from Shakespeare's "Henry V"?	Household Words
Which moon, the only large moon moving in an opposite orbit to its planet, shares its name with a particle made of a proton and two neutrons?	Triton
Created by Carte Blanche Greetings in 1987, what other name is usually given to the grey blue-nosed Me to You Bears which by 2006 had annual sales of �400 million?	Tatty Teddies
Which French city's post WWII reconstruction by Auguste Perret is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?	Le Havre
Containing the second largest collection of Impressionist art after the Mus�e d'Orsay, the Mus�e d'Art Moderne Andr� Malraux in Le Havre is known by which four-letter abbreviation?	MuMa
Which candy, which changed its UK name in 1998, shares its name with a stage in a galaxy's development?	Starburst
First discovered in 2007, luminous blue compact galaxies which a high rate of star formation are named after which vegetable?	(Green) peas
What name is given to the compact bone making up the midsection or shaft of a long bone?	Diaphysis
Usually filled with red marrow, what name, also another name for the pineal gland, is given to a rounded end on a long bone?	Epiphysis
Founded in 1893 as a future crossing point of the Transiberian Railway over the River Ob, what is the third largest city in Russia after Moscow and St Petersberg?	Novosibirsk
Which English gymnast won Olympic bronze at the pommel horse in 2012 and won the men's floor and all-round title at the 2014 Commonwealth Games?	Max Whitlock
Jodie Stimpson won England's first gold of the 2014 Commonwealth Games and later won another as part of the inaugural mixed event in which sport?	Triathlon
Ashley McKenzie, Colin Oates, Nekoda Smythe-Davis, Danny Williams, Megan Fletcher and Owen Livesey all won English 2014 Commonwealth golds in which sport?	Judo
Which world championship has been held annually since 1992 at Harry's Bar in Wigan?	World Pie-Eating Championships
Founded in the 1930s, which sport, traditionally all-female, and for a while scripted like WWE wrestling, has returned to being a comptitive sport and held its first Men's World Cup in Birmingham, England in 2014?	Roller Derby
What name is given to the furry hat worn as part of the folk costume of Iberia, in particular that traditionally worn by bullfighters?	Montera
What three word name is commonly given to the general costume worn by Spanish bullfighters?	Traje de luces/Suit of lights
In medical research what name is given to an observational study that looks at a population or subset at a particular point in time?	Cross-sectional study
What name is given to an observational study in which two sets differing in outcome are studied to find the causal effect of that difference?	Case-control study
Which ITN Newsreader edited "The Economist" from 1965 to 1974 and the "Daily Express" from 1974 to 1976?	Sir Alistair Burnet
Which index used as an informal measure of purchasing power parity between two currencies was introduced by "The Economist" in 1986?	The Big Mac Index
Which Marshall of France and military engineer of Louis XIV is renowned for his fortifications, twelve of which on the western, northern and eastern borders of France are UNESCO World Heritage Sites?	S�bastien Le Prestre de Vauban
What old name for Bridlington is also the name of the largest city in Vermont and is in the title of two popular music hall songs?	Burlington
Which East Sussex town associated with a chalk figure shares its name with the largest city in Delaware?	Wilmington
Which 90s dance group was founded by two Belgian producers and was fronted by Dutch DJ Ray Slijngaard and vocalist Anita Doth?	2 Unlimited
Which 90s dance group was fronted by Norwegian singer-songwriter Lene Nystr�m and Danish singer and actor Ren� Dif?	Aqua
Debuting in 2014, which reality series is a behind-the-scenes look at the restaurant owned by chef Paul and his showbiz brothers Mark and Donnie?	Wahlbergs
What is the surname of brothers Jonathan and Jordan who were members of boy band New Kids on the Block?	Knight
Which German Eurodance act were fronted by Tania Evans and rapper Jay Supreme and are best known for one 1993 hit that topped the charts in 11 countries?	Culture Beat
Who divided his novels into three classes, namely Novels of Character and Environment, Romances and Fantasies and Novels of Ingenuity?	Thomas Hardy
What name is given to netted drawstring handbags popular in the 18th century?	Reticules
The earliest known leather clutch handbags were made for the wife of Doncaster retailer Samuel Parkinson, better known as one of the first makers of which confection?	Butterscotch
Which East European dish of minced meat, chopped fish and onions, sharing its name with a Jewish appetiser, has become traditional in Finland, due to it being a favourite dish of Finnish statesman and war hero Mannerheim?	Vorschmack
What name is usually given to the flat, pan-fried minced meat dumplings of Denmark which are a popular part of a Swedish Sm�rg�sbord?	Frikadeller
Who has an asteroid, a Parisian avenue, a street in Bilbao, various towns and cities, a currency and a country named after him as well as having a statue in Belgrave Square, London?	Simon Bolivar
In which country are the Pico Cristobal Colon and the Pico Simon Bolivar both contenders for the highest point?	Colombia
Millstone Grit is a form of coarse sandstone particularly associated with which English national park?	The Peak District
Which inselberg, 850 km north of Perth and known in the local Wadjira dialect as Burringurrah, is often incorrectly claimed to be the world's largest rock?	Mount Augustus
In Raphael's 1510 work, "The School of Athens", the appearance of the elderly Plato is generally thought to have been based on which contemporary figure?	Leonardo da Vinci
In Raphael's 1510 work, "The School of Athens", the appearance of the weeping philosopher Heraclitus is generally thought to be modelled on which artist?	Michelangelo
Which Birmingham magician plays tricks on members of the public in the ITV2 show "Tricked"?	Ben Hanlin
Which British actor directs and plays the villainous Viktor Cherevin in the 2014 film "Jack Ryan:Shadow Recruit"?	Kenneth Branagh
Which 2014 film starring Kristin Stewart as a US army private and Peyman Moaadi as a detainee is set in Cuba?	Camp X-Ray
The documentary "Kidnapped for Christ" revolves around the experiences of US teenagers removed from their homes and taken to a school in which country for behaviour modification at an ex-gay run school?	Dominican Republic
"Revenge of the Fallen", "Dark of the Moon" and "Age of Extinction" are the second, third and fourth films in which popular franchise?	Transformers
Which successful 2014 film is a live action re-imagining of a 1959 Disney animation from the antagonist's perspective?	Maleficent
In April 2014, which twentieth century pope was canonised at the same time as Pope John Paul II?	John XXIII
Pope John Paul II, as St John Paul the Great, has his feast day on the anniversary of his papal inauguration on the 22nd of which month?	October
In "X Men: Days of Future Past", Wolverine wakes up in which year of the twentieth century?	1973
Which TV presenter, whose name is an anagram of "pedestrian", hosted the ITV quiz show "Ejector Seat"?	Andi Peters
Analogous to stem cells in animals, what name is given to plant tissue made of undifferentiated cells where growth can take place?	Meristem
SAM and RAM are the two types of apical meristem in a plant where S and R stand for the rhyming words for which two parts of a plant?	Shoot and Root
Which running back for the Baltimore Ravens was sacked after a video showed him punching his then fianc�e in the face?	Ray Rice
Which cavalier poet is largely remembered for the 1642 poem "To Althea, From Prison" and the line "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage"?	Richard Lovelace
Which cavalier poet is probably best known for being credited with inventing the game of cribbage?	Sir John Suckling
Which herb's name is thought to derive from Latin for "dew of the sea"?	Rosemary
Which herb's name is of unknown origin but is often claimed to derive from the Greek for "mountain delight"?	Oregano
After "I Believe" by Frankie Laine and "Singing the Blues" by Guy Mitchell, what was the third song to spend three non-consecutive periods at the top of the UK charts?	Happy" by Pharrell Williams
With Frayser Boy and DJ Paul he won a Best Original Song Oscar with "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" and rapped on the Katy Perry single "Dark Horse". What is the stage name of Jprdan Michael Houstin?	Juicy J
Which Sky News anchor has played himself in "St Trinians", "The Bourne Ultimatum" and advises "removing the head or destroying the brain" in "Shaun of the Dead"?	Jeremy Thompson
A role played by spear carriers in the original play, which Channel 4 newsreader played TV Anchorman in the 2011 film of "Coriolanus"?	Jon Snow
From top to bottom, a standard credit card measures what distance to the nearest whole centimetre?	5 [8.560 x 5.368 cm]
From top to bottom, what is the height of a standard passport to the nearest inch?	5 [4.921 � 3.465 in]
A French colony from 1862 to 1954, Cochinchina was the lower third of which modern day country?	Vietnam
Including the rich rice growing area of the Red River, which historical French protectorate comprised North Vietnam, east Laos and a small part of southern China?	Tonkin
Who, with Nicolas-Louis Robert, made the first hydrogen-balloon flight in 1783 but is possible better known for a gas law named after him?	Jean Alexandre Charles
Who, with American John Jeffries, made the first flight across the English Channel in 1785?	Jean-Pierre Blanchard
What was the main operation launched by Israel as part of the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict?	Operation Protective Edge
A West African ebola outbreak started in December 2013 in which country?	Guinea
Presidents Francois Hollande and Joachim Gauck marked the centenary of the German declaration of war on France by laying the first stone on a memorial at Hartmannswillerkopf in which mountain range?	Vosges Mountains
On August 4th 2014, leaders and representatives of 83 countries including King Philippe of Belgium, Hollande, Gauck and the Duke of Cambridge met at the Allied Memorial at Cointe on the outskirts of which city?	Li�ge
US Press Secretary James Brady's death in 2014 from whose gunshot 33 years earlier was controversially ruled as a homicide?	John Hinckley (Jr)
What was the former name of the band "Joy Division" shared with the capital of an East European country?	Warsaw
Which news reporter and founder of a record label was played by Steve Coogan in the 2002 film "24 Hour Party People"?	Tony Wilson
Which naval officer was commander of the squadron which attacked the cruiser Admiral Graf Spee in 1939?	Sir Henry Harwood
Which 1956 film set in 1939 starred Peter Finch as Hans Langsdorff?	The Battle of the River Plate
The 2014 shooting of 18 year old Michael Brown by a police officer in which Missouri town led to over two weeks of protests and riots?	Ferguson
In office from 2000 to 2014, who was the longest serving governor of Texas, later indicted on felony charges for abuse of power?	Rick Perry
Whose sitcoms include "Only When I Laugh", "The Bounder" and "Home to Roost"?	Eric Chappell
Which actor was in the film of "Rising Damp" following the death of Richard Beckinsale, but is best known as Norman Binns in "Only When I Laugh"?	Christopher Strauli
While also making turbines, which Connecticut based company, founded in 1925, is one of the big three aero-engine manufacturers, with General Electric and Rolls Royce?	Pratt and Whitney
Which model of US aircraft dropped an estimated 640,000 tons of bombs on Germany during World War II?	B-17 The Flying Fortress
Which Boeing aircraft was the one which dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?	B-29 The Superfortress
It is July 2014 and John Humphrys is expressing his annoyance at the use of which grammatical tense?	Present historic
The films "Mystic River", "Gone, Baby Gone" and "Shutter Island" are all based on novels by which US author?	Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane's debut novel "A Drink Before the War", "Sacred", "Prayers for Rain" and "Moonlight Mile" have all featured which pair of private investigators?	Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro.
After unsuccessfully trying to keep the Supersonics in Seattle, then failing to buy the Sacramento Kings and bring them to Seattle, Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer successfully bought which NBA franchise in 2014?	LA Clippers
In 2012, which baseball team were sold to a group that included NBA legend Magic Johnson for over $2 billion?	LA Dodgers
Which Sri Lankan cricketer retired in 2014 having scored 11,814 test runs and with only Sachin Tendulkar having played in more international matches?	Mahela Jayawardene
Under the name Chan Yuen Lung, Jackie Chan worked as a stuntman on which two Bruce Lee movies?	"Fist of Fury" and "Enter the Dragon"
In which film did Jackie Chan voice the role of Master Monkey?	"Kung Fu Panda"
In which country's 2014 Presidential election did Eduardo Campos have to be replaced after dying in a plane crash?	Brazil
Following a military coup in 2014, General Prayut Chan-o-cha became prime minister of which country?	Thailand
After Hvannadalshn�kur, a peak of the �r�faj�kull volcano, what is the second highest mountain in Iceland which erupted in 2014?	B�r�arbunga
Found in the Nagano prefecture, which volcano, the second highest in Japan erupted in 2014?	Mt Ontake
Governed by the IWUF and based on Chinese martial arts, which sport was a demonstration sport at the 2014 Youth Summer Olympics in Nanjing?	Wushu
On July 4th 2013, which South American city was selected to host the 2018 Youth Summer Olympic Games?	Buenos Aires
Containing Mount Tavurvur, which erupted in 2014, New Britain is an island of which country?	Papua New Guinea
In 2014, who became the first Australian to be IndyCar Series champion?	Will Power
In Berlin in August 2014, Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland broke the world record in which athletics field event?	The Hammer
Which singer-songwriter was romantically linked to Ringo Starr, Roy Wood, James Coburn, Sean Connery and Dudley Moore but never married?	Lynsey de Paul
Who wrote the themes for "Krypton Factor", "Taggart" and "New Tracks" and performed "Rock Bottom" with Lynsey de Paul at the 1977 Eurovision Song Contest?	Mike Moran
Moktar Ali Zubeyr, killed by a drone strike in Somalia in 2014, was the emir of which Islamist group?	Al-Shabaab
Eventually dying in 2014, Norman Gordon, the first test cricketer to reach the age of 100 played for which country in the 1930s?	South Africa
Who wrote the New York Times bestseller "I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me"?	Joan Alexandra Molinsky aka Joan Rivers
Which K-pop group of five girls lost two of its members in a car crash in September 2014?	Ladies' Code
Which 7ft 1 inch high actor played "The Incredible Hulk" in the TV pilot before they chose Lou Ferrino instead?	Richard Kiel
Which actor played Benskin in the "Doctor" film series, where he chased pretty nurses and became known for his trade-mark "wolf growl"?	Donald Sinden
Which songwriter co-wrote various hits including "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More" and "Lady Marmalade"?	Bob Crewe
Who succeeded Ian Paisley after 37 years as head of the DUP?	Peter Robinson
Along with umbrellas and yellow ribbons, what number became a symbol of the Hong Kong riots, being the number of votes with which CY Leung was voted as Executive Council chief?	689
The name of which European country is thought to be an old English plural for the people whose name means "one's own people"?	Sweden
Which European country has a name meaning "little castle"?	Luxembourg
Which European country's name is thought to derive from the Turkic for "alliance of the ten tribes"?	Hungary
As part of the British Antarctic Territory it would be the UK's largest overseas island but it is also claimed by Chile and Argentina, which island with an area of 18,950 square miles is the largest in Antarctica?	Alexander Island
Argentina's largest island, Isla se los Estados, shares its English name with which island off the east coast of the US?	Staten Island
At the 2014 World Music Awards in Monaco, the first awarded since 2010, hip-hop act Stromae won Best Selling European Artist. He is from which country?	Belgium [also won Best Selling Benelux Artist]
At the 2014 World Music Awards, Best Selling African Artist went to Nigerian singer-songwriter and harmonica player Dapo Daniel Oyebanjo aka D'Banj. His biggest hit was named after which Dickens character?	Oliver Twist
At the 2014 World Music Awards, the surname of the Best Selling Philippines Artist was also the name of a famous Apache. What is that name?	(Sarah) Geronimo
AKB48, a girl group of originally 48 members which has since grown to over 140 is based in which country?	Japan
Which song, written for the 1996 film "Evita" won an Oscar for Best Song?	You Must Love Me
Which song, written for the 2012 film "Les Miserables" was nominated for Best Song at the following year's Oscar ceremony?	Suddenly
After talc and gypsum, which mineral appears at number three on the Moh's scale of hardness?	Calcite
Before diamond and corundum, which mineral appears at number eight on the Moh's scale of hardness?	Topaz
In 2014, five women reached the third round of every tennis Grand Slam. Of those name either the German or Czech who failed to reach a 2014 Grand Slam final?	Angelique Kerber or Lucie �af�rov�
In 2014, four men reached the fourth round of every tennis Grand Slam. Which two failed to reach a final that year?	Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
In 2014, the Russian Grand Prix was held on the centenary of the previous one. The new race was held on which circuit?	Sochi Autodom
Formerly known as the �sterreichring and the A1 Ring, the Red Bull Ring, host of the Austrian Grand Prix is in which city, sharing its name with a famous film director?	Spielberg
How many different sports were represented at the 2014 Commonwealth Games?	Eighteen
Who were the only two women to win track golds at the 2014 Commonwealth Games who were not Jamaican or Kenyan?	Blessing Okagbare [100m & 200m, Nigerian] and Sally Pearson [100m hurdles Australian]
With how many golds did Team GB top the medals table at the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Zurich?	Twelve
At which weight did Nicola Adams win golds at the 2012 Olympics and 2014 Commonwealth Games?	Flyweight
Which Argentine boxer only lost five of his first forty professional fights, his losses including two against Floyd Mayweather in 2014?	Marcos Maidana
Which US boxer, nicknamed Desert Storm, had his first loss in 33 fights against Manny Pacquiao in 2014?	Tim Bradley
Which Dutch woman did the 100 and 200 metres double at the 2014 European Championships having won a heptathlon bronze at the 2013 World Championships?	Dafne Schippers
Since 2005, the Compton-Miller Award has been given to the best player at which event?	The Ashes Test Series in cricket
Which Aussie bowler helped them defeat England 5-0 by taking 37 wickets in the 2013-14 Test Series?	Mitchell Johnson
Trowell, Tibshelf, Woodall and Woolley Edge are all service stations on which motorway?	M1
The M9 motorway runs from Edinburgh past Stirling Services to end where?	Dunblane
By mass the Sun is the largest known object in the Solar System. Where does the Earth rank?	Sixth [After the Sun and the four gas giants]
Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards and Perri Kiely, a dancer with the Diversity troupe, are the first UK winners of which TV series?	Splash!
Which "X Factor" runner-up won the final edition of "Dancing on Ice", an "All Stars" edition featuring previous winners?	Ray Quinn
Betting was suspended prior to the final owing to a rush of bets on the winner causing bookies to believe the result had leaked. Who won the 2013 series of "The Great British Bake Off"?	Frances Quinn
In 2014 he became WBA World Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Nicknamed the White Tyson, Ruslan Chagaev is from which of the former Soviet republics?	Uzbekistan [First Asian heavyweight champion]
Nicknamed "Nightmare" and with a name which sounds like part of a human breast, which boxer lost his WBC heavyweight title in 2014 to Canadian Bermane Stiverne?	Chris Arreola
In the 2014 Commonwealth Games, at which field event did England's Steven Lewis and Luke Cutts win gold and silver?	Pole vault
Which Yorkshire batsman scored 518 runs to help England secure a 3-1 Test win against India in 2014?	Joe Root
In 2014, which Welshman in his Ryder Cup debut scored Europe's winning point against Keegan Bradley?	Jamie Donaldson
Bumblebee, Ratchet and Leadfoot are known as what in a popular TV and film franchise?	Transformers
Which multi-Emmy Award winning sitcom star cameos in "X-Men: Days of Future Past" as the Beast, a mutant with super strength, agility and speed?	Kelsey Grammer [Nicholas Hoult is the younger version]
Which 2014 Hollywood blockbuster had the subtitle "The Rise of Electro" in some markets?	The Amazing Spider Man 2
Owned by Nike founder Phil Knight, which stop motion animation company, sharing its name with an historically famous dog, made "Coraline" and "Paranorman"?	Laika
Which 2014 stop animation film, centring around a boy called Eggs, is based on the novel "Here Be Monsters" by Alan Snow?	Boxtrolls
Who in 2015, is the narrator of the revived "Danger Mouse" cartoon starring sketch show comedians Alexander Armstrong and Kevin Eldon as the White Wonder himself and his assistant Penfold?	Dave Lamb [Of "Come Dine With Me" fame]
In January 2014, Channel 4 News played the only known recording of which Cambridge spy's voice?	Guy Burgess
On Sport Relief 2014, the original singers of which UK number one song was performed it together live for the first time since 1989?	Especially For You
Which piece of music by Ralph Vaughan-Williams was played during Hayley Cropper's death scene in "Coronation Street"?	The Lark Ascending
In 2014, who became the first regular host of "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" since Simon Amstell left in 2008?	Rhod Gilbert
First drawn by Austrian cartographer Michael Altzinger, what is the two word Latin name for maps of the Low Countries drawn in the shape of a certain animal?	Leo Belgicus
With five member nations, originating in agreements made at the Congress of Vienna and based at a palace in Strasbourg, what is (in 2014) the world's oldest extant international organisation, abbreviated as CCNR?	Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine
CEFTA, the Central European Free Trade Association has seven member states (in 2014). What, in 1992, were the three founder states, one of which has since split into two and all have since left to join the EU?	Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia
In 2013, the number of spears was reduced from 61 to 34 on the flag, first flown in 1976, of which organisation?	Commonwealth (of Nations)
The flag of which international organisation which lasted from the 1950s until 2002 had a blue top half containing five white stars and a black lower half containing five white stars?	European Coal and Steel Community
A white flag containing a circle made of five overlapping circular arcs of yellow, green, purple, red and blue represents which Paris based organisation with over 50 member states?	(Organisation internationale de) la Francophonie
Designed by Ky�sti Varis OF Finland and first flown in 1984, the flag of which international organisation involves a stylised white swan with eight feathers on a blue disk?	The Nordic Council
Approved in 1971 in London, the flag of which people has a top half blue and a lower half green overlaid with a 16-spoked red chakra wheel?	Romani
On a cut diamond, what is the name of the flat surface, usually octagonal, forming the upper face of the crown?	Table
On a cut diamond, what name is given to the lower pointed part, separated from the crown by a central section called the girdle?	Pavilion
Which cartoon strip's sixtieth anniversary in 2009 was celebrated by a Hong Kong jeweller making a model of the character, encrusted in 9,917 diamonds, including 783 black diamonds and 415 rubies for his collar?	Snoopy
Found in the Queen's royal sceptre, what is the largest diamond cut from the record-breaking Cullinan diamond?	The Great Star of Africa
The 1777 death of Maximilian Joseph from smallpox led to which war of succession, which ended two years later in the Treaty of Teschen?	Bavarian
The 1733 death of Augustus II, known as "the Strong", led to which war of succession which ended five years later in the treaty of Vienna?	Polish
Which province of China on the South China Sea was the first to have a population over 100 million?	Guangdong/Kwangtung or Canton
Which Chinese province on the Yellow Sea, the birthplace of Confucius, overtook Henan and Sichuan in the 2000s to become the second most populous?	Shandong
On which body in the Solar System is Rheasilvia, a crater 310 miles wide with a central peak rising over 12 miles above the crater floor?	Vesta (aka 4 Vesta)
On which body in the Solar System is there an impact crater measuring 1,600 miles wide and over 8 miles deep?	The Moon [South Pole-Aitken Basin]
Which planet has a mysterious hexagonal cloud formation over its North Pole?	Saturn
The name of the supermassive black hole in the centre of our galaxy contains the name of which zodiac constellation in whose direction it lies?	Sagittarius (A*)
Better known for containing a bright star, which constellation gives its name to the overdensity, thought by some astronomers to be the closest galaxy to the Milky Way?	Canis Major (Overdensity) [or Dwarf - depending on point of view]
A comet has a nucleus, a cloud of dust and gases called a coma all surrounded by an envelope of which gas?	Hydrogen
In 1910, there was panic buying of "anti-comet pills" after spectroscopic analysis revealed which toxic gas in Halley's Comet's tail, which Earth would be passing through that year?	Cyanogen
Which river, which usually flows into the river Mekong at Phnom Penh, reverses flow twice a year forming a lake which expands and shrinks rapidly with the seasons?	Tonl� Sap
Released in 2014, "Brother" was the sixth studio album and fourth English language album by which Norwegian singer?	Morten Harket
Which 2014 song by Nico and Vinz reached number four in the Billboard Hot 100, the highest positiion by a Norwegian srtist since A-ha's "Take On Me"?	Am I Wrong
In the study of exoplanets, what index, with a name abbreviated as ESI, runs from zero to one, closeness to the latter being of most interest?	Earth Similarity Index
In 1900, the flow of which US river was reversed using canal locks to prevent sewage flowing into a city's drinking water supply?	Chicago River
The town of St Paul in northeast Alberta is notable for having the world's first landing site designed for what?	UFOs
Which is the only country with a national currency of pesos that does not indicate monetary amounts with the dollar sign?	The Philippines
Which African country is the only one where a capital P is the symbol of its currency?	Botswana (pula)
Featuring in the finale of the Bond film "Goldeneye", the 1,000 ft diameter dish of the Arecibo Observatory is found on which Caribbean island?	Puerto Rico
What name is given to the motor which moves or changes the shape of the mirror in a reflecting telescope?	Actuator
Which spacecraft took humans a record 400,000 kilometres above the Earth's surface to the dark side of the Moon?	Apollo 13
Which 15th century ruler presided over the introduction of the Hangul, the 28-letter Korean alphabet so that people of all classes could read?	Sejong the Great
The largest chain of atolls in the world, covering an area of the Pacific the size of Western Europe, which islands east of Tahiti and the Society Islands were the destination of Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition?	Tuamotu (Archipelago)
Thor Heyerdahl's unsuccessful 1969 Ra Expedition and successful 1970 Ra II expedition which landed in Barbados, both set off from which country?	Morocco
Running from 1920 to 1945, what was the official newspaper of the German Nazi Party?	V�lkischer Beobachter
Also called the Carstensz Pyramid or Nemangkawi, what is the highest mountain situated on an island?	Puncak Jaya
Vinson Massif, the highest point of Antarctica is in the Sentinel Range which forms part of which larger range measuring 224 miles by 30 miles?	Ellsworth Mountains
Sharing its name with a tributary of the Rhone river, which ship carried the parts of the Statue of Liberty from France to New York?	Is�re
Situated near the start of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-6), what is the most well-known feature of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial?	Gateway Arch
Which US politician came to prominence with his book condemning the motor industry's attitude to road safety called "Unsafe At Any Speed"?	Ralph Nader
Based on a quote by George Bernard Shaw, what was the title of the 2006 documentary tracing the life and career of Ralph Nader?	An Unreasonable Man
Known as "The Spring Classic" or "the Sprinter's Classic", between which two Italian cities is the first major cycling race of the season, also the longest one day race- ran?	Milan-San Remo
Known as "The Classic of the Dead Leaves" or "Climber's Classic", which Italian cycling race is the last Monument race of the European calendar?	Giro si Lombardia
In 2009, which US economist became the only woman to have won the Nobel Prize for Economics, sharing the award with Oliver E Williamson	Elinor Ostrom
Which Nobel Prize winning economist was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Bill Clinton?	Josef Stiglitz
What is the capital of the Tierra del Fuego, commonly regarded as the southernmost city in the world?	Ushuaia
Although both are now lost, which Argentine is generally thought to have produced the world's first animated feature films; the 1917 "El Ap�stol" running 70 minutes ar 14 frmaes a second and	Quirino Cristiana
What name, appropriate for the Russians who named them but less so for the Americans who own them, is given to the westermost of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska?	Near Islands
The Hindenberg Cup, annually awarded to German aviators from 1928 onwards, was replaced in 1934 by which prize?	The Adolf Hitler Prize
Taking its title from a line in Milton's "Paradise Lost", which Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds song has been played in all the first three "Scream" movies and is the theme tune to "Peaky Blinders"?	Red Right Hand
Her works have been described as like "Jane Austen" if she "got angry" and include the 2002 novel "I giorni dell'abbandono", translated into English in 2005 as "Days of Abandonment". Which Neopolitan writer who has had much speculation about her true iden	Elena Ferrante
What is the pen name of the author of The Secret Series of children's books starting with 2007's "The Name of This Book is Secret"?	Pseudonymous Bosch
2014 saw the closure announced of which military hospital whose patients have included President Bouteflika, King Hassan II, Bashir Assad, Johnny Halliday's daughter and a number of French Presidents?	(Paris) Val-de-Gr�ce
In July 2014, a new bridge by Austrian architect Dietmar Feichtinger was opened connecting which part of France to the mainland?	Mont Saint-Michel
Who was the last Emperor of Vietnam and its Nguyen dynasty, who died at Paris Val-de-Gr�ce hospital in 1997?	Bao �ai
Which US dancer and choreographer was a frequent collaborator and life partner of the composer John Cage?	Merce Cunningham
Best known for "Revelations", a 1960 story of the African-American journey from slavery to freedom told in dance, which choreographer and activist founded a group nicknamed the "Cultural Ambassador to the World" because of its extensive international tour	Alvin Ailey
The nine spheres of the Atomium Building in Brussels represent a unit cell of a crystal of which chemical element?	Iron
Which famous 1869 novel contains the name of a future space station in its title?	Voyna i Mir ("War and Peace")
Michael Stern Hart, the US inventor of the ebook, is also known as the founded of the oldest digital library, started in 1971 and known by what two word name?	Project Gutenberg
Clearly based on a Peter Sellers character, which cartoons featured as part of "The Pink Panther Show" in the 1970s?	The Inspector
In the 1983 flop film "The Curse of the Pink Panther", which actor has an uncredited cameo playing Inspector Clouseau?	Roger Moore
In 1900, which country were runners up to Great Britain in the only match in the only cricket match ever played at the Olympic Games?	France
What interrupted the first planned cricket tour of France by the MCC? The game was eventually played in 1989 with France winning by 7 wickets.	The French Revolution
Which Polish logician's high school problem asked if any true identity involving only addition, multiplication and exponentiation cannot by proved by the eleven axioms taught to high school students about these operations?	Alfred Tarski
Which German mathematician introduced the Axiom of Choice and showed that it was equal to the well-ordering theorem?	Ernst Zermelo
Which 2008 game, developed by Will Wright of Sim City and The Sims fame, in which players control species development from microscopic beings to complex organisms, sold over two million copies in its first three weeks?	Spore
US game designer Sid Meier is best known for which 1991 game which had the objective to "Build an empire to stand the test of time"?	Civilisation
Which girl's name is also the name for a modified bud of plant tissue that detaches from the parent and forms a new individual?	Gemma
Which Parisian electric car sharing scheme started in 2007 had over 100,000 registered users in 2013 and in 2014 expanded into Indianapolis?	Autolib
Which word given by the English to the Germans in World War I is thought to derive from a French word meaning a head of cabbage?	Boche (from "caboche")
With origins going back to the 15th century, which country referred historically to Gernans as the "Moff"?	The Netherlands
In 1907, which French photographer, known for his 1917 pictures of children playing war games, was the first photographer to have images published in colour?	L�on Gimpel
The Codex Borbonicus, named after the Palais Bourbon in which it is kept, is thought to be a 16th century codex written by which people?	Aztecs
Under Hollande's 2014 plans to reduce the 22 French regions down to 14, Upper and Lower Normandy are merging, as are Alsace and Lorraice and Picardy and Champagne-Ardennes. Which region is joining to Burgundy?	Franche-Comt�
Under Hollande's 2014 plans to reduce the 22 French regions down to 14, which region is joining to Rh�ne-Alpes?	Auvergne
Also known as laser or laserwort, which plant of unknown identity was widely used in ancient medicine and had seeds whose shape may be the origin of the heart symbol?	Silphium
Which event, first held in Masterton, New Zealand, in 1961 has been won a record 16 times by David Fagan?	The Golden Shears
A sport played in the Indian hill resort of Manali using a pulley and a rope and a Mongolian variant of polo, increasing in popularity, both involce which large mammal?	Yaks [Yak skiing and yak polo]
The Chonburi Province on the east of the Gulf of Thailand is associated with the racing of which animals?	(Water) Buffalos
Over 95% of all commercially grown examples of which fruit descend from a single tree planted by Milwaukee postman Rudolf Hass in 1926?	Avocado
Which cultivar of apple is the state fruit of West Virginia where the first tree was found by chance on the Mullins family farm in about 1891?	Golden Delicious
Lydia Nsekera of Burundi and Sierra Leone's Isha Johansen were the first two women to hold which sporting position?	President of their national football team
In 2006, researchers in Iceland found the world's longest lived animal but killed it working out its age of 405 years, on further examination found to be actually 505 years. What sort of animal was Ming?	Clam
Deriving from Latin, which word means pertaining to yesterday?	Hesternal
Deriving from Latin, which word means pertaining to the current day?	Hodiernal
In ethnology, which word, deriving from German words for move and anxiety, means the anxiety experienced by migratory animals, especially birds, in captivity during the migration period?	Zugunruhe
Lalochezia means the relief of pain or stress by doing what?	Swearing
Presidents of which English county's beekeeping association have included TV presenter John Craven and David Cameron before he was UK Prime Minister?	Oxfordshire
Born in Hungary but associated with a city in France, which 4th century saint became a conscientious objector after finding being a Roman soldier conflicted with his Christian beliefs but is best known for using his sword to cut his cloak in half and givi	St Martin of Tours
As one word it is a trademark held by Aish HaTorah, an Orthodox Jewish organisation. What was invented by Rabbi Yaacov Deyo in Beverley Hills in1998 as a way of helping Jewish singles meet?	Speed dating
Starting with a 25 year marriage to Khadija and ending with his marriage to Maymuna, how many wives did the prophet Mohammed have?	Thirteen
What was the occupation of Alfred P Southwick, credited with inventing the electric chair as a means of execution?	Dentist
Tobias Schmidt, a German engineer and harpsichord maker is credited with making the first what?	Guillotine [designed by Antoine Louis and Laquiante, inspired by the Halifax Gibbet]
What aerial incidents are sometimes known by the acronym BASH resulting in remains called snarge?	Bird strike [Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard]
Which former pilot is best known for his 2009 emergency water landing of US Airways Flight 1549 after the plane hit a flock of Canada geese, the incident being known as "The Miracle on the Hudson"?	Chesley B Sullenberger
Which Japanese gymnast was a hero of the 1964 Olympics, winning golds for the parallel bars and the all-round event?	Yukio Endo
Which Japanese gymnast won 12 Olympic medals including eight golds and taking the all-round title in 1968 and 1972?	Sawao Kato
The Glosas Emilianenses are marginal notes marking the earlist known writing in Basque and possible Castilian and are found in which small Spanish state?	La Rioja
Which 1784 confrontation between the troops of the Republic of the Seven Netherlands and the Holy Roman Empire saw only one shot fired which hit the item after which the war is named?	Kettle War
Which 1859 boundary conflict between the US and the British Empire was triggered by the shooting of an animal, the only casualty of the war and after which, the war was named?	Pig War
From the 1960s to the 1980s which company was making the M61 gas mask for the Finnish army?	Nokia
Which French company dropped an H from the end of its original name to stop English people pronouncing it in an insulting way?	Bic
As well as erectile disfunction, Viagara is also used to treat which cardiovascular problem abbreviated to PH?	Pulmonary hypertension
The opening of a new stadium in 1903 meant that which city then had the world's three largest sports stadia?	Glasgow [Hampden (1903), Celtic Park (1892), Ibrox (1899)]
With a gestation period of up to three and a half years, the longest of any vertebrate, the frilled is a species of which creature?	Shark
Which reptile, with a name that comes from the Maori for "peaks on its back", is best known for having a prominent photoreceptive third eye or parietal eye in the middle of its forehead?	Tuatara
In the human body, what are divided into four types - fungiform, filiform, foliate and circumvallate?	Papillae/taste buds
In May 1991, a temperature of -77.5 deg C (-106.6 deg F) was measured on which mountain, the coldest temperature recorded on the Earth's surface outside Antarctica?	Mount Logan
One of the earliest appearances of which architectural term was the name of the tall winner of the 1789 Epsom Derby?	Skyscraper
In 1873, Chester Greenword of Farmington, Maine invented which items of protective wear while ice skating at the age of fifteen?	Earmuffs
She failed to patent a stop-motion device for textile mills she invented at age 12, but gained the second US patent ever obtained by a woman for a flat bottomed paper beg machine and 25 further patents. Who was the most prolific female inventor of the 19t	Margaret (Mattie) Knight
Also called Yakutia, which Siberian Republic contains Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon, the coldest inhabited places in the northern hemisphere and Yakutsk, the world's coldest city?	Sakha Republic
Moby Dick was based on a notorious sperm whale called Mocha Dick which was named after Isla Mocha off the coast of which country?	Chile
What breed was Ranulph Fiennes's dog Bothy who, in 1982, became the first and so far only dog to visit both the North and South Pole?	Jack Russell
In 1983, at the age of 51, which singer relapsed into painkiller addiction after being treated for a kick from an ostrich on his farm?	Johnny Cash
Which colourful Australian birds, scientific name Malurus cyaneus, are noted for teaching their chicks to sing a password while still in the egg to avoid raising cuckoos?	Superb Fairy-wrens
The game of ludo is thought to be a simplification of which game, regarded as the national game of India whose name id Hindi for "twenty five"?	Pachisi
Which game played with 54 blocks takes its name from the Swahili for "to build"?	Jenga
Which poet's ascent of Scafell Pike in 1802 was the earliest recorded climb of that mountain and is sometimes regarded as the first recreation rock climb?	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In which country has the selling of ones kidneys for profit been legal since 1988, with an estimated 1,400 in that country doing so annually?	Iran
Coming from the French for "wake", what word in the perfume industry means the fragrance trail left behind by a perfume wearer?	Sillage
Which word usually meaning agreement is used in perfumery to mean a balanced mix of scents which lose their individual scents to become a combined odour?	Accord
Which future star of a BBC comedy once spent four days at a summit in Dublin Castle as Margaret Thatcher's butler?	Brendan O'Carroll
Who played Agnes Brown in the title role of a 1999 film based on a book called "The Mammy" by Brendan O'Carroll?	Anjelica Huston
Which famous sportsman has six sons all called George and a daughter called Georgetta?	George Foreman
Seen at a Paris exhibition, an open mouthed mummy from which country inspired Edvard Munch to paint "The Scream">	Peru [it was a Chacharpoya warrior]
Which famous writer made over 4,000 drawings which he didn't make public but showed to other artists such as Van Gogh and Delacroix, the latter claiming that if he had become a painter he would have outshone the artists of his day?	Victor Hugo
Which ITV series starring James Norton and Robson Green is based on books by James Runcie, son of the former Archbishop of Canterbury?	Grantchester
Childhood flatulence and a mother's suggestion that a Jewish surname would do better in Hollywood resulted in whose stage name?	Whoopi Goldberg
The Shire of Esperance in Western Australia is probably best known for an event in 1979 that led to it fining which organisation $400 for littering?	NASA [the landing of Skylab]
Which geological period includes 100 million years ago and is usually abbreviated to K?	Cretaceous [K from the German for chalk Kreide]
Its name means "Jointed ribs". Living in the Carboniferous period in what is now North America and Scotland which millipede arthropod could grow over eight feet long?	Arthropleura
In Christianity, what symbol of Advent is of German origin and consists of an orange surrounded by a red ribbon with a lit candle and dried fruits on cocktail sticks stuck into it?	Christingle
Also called armed or banana spider, what is the three word name for the spider which from 2010 has been listed in the Guinness World Records as most venomous? It can also cause an erection in male humans that lasts for hours.	Brazilian wandering spider
Sharing his surname with a popular author, which Japanese-American animator filmed the Raymond Briggs works "The Snowman" and "When the Wind Blows"?	Teruaki "Jimmy" Murakami
She inspired Nina Simone to write "To Be Young, Gifted and Black". Which author, best known for "A Raisin in the Sun" died of cancer in 1965 aged 34?	Lorraine Hansberry
Which Dutch chemist and meteorologist is best known for a law that states that in the Northern Hemisphere, an observer with his back to the wind has low pressure to his left?	CHD Buys Ballot
Which German doctor and theologian is best known for the effect in which a liquid in contact with a hot surface forms an insulating vapour layer that prevents it boiling rapidly?	(Johann Gottlob) Leidenfrost
What is the English name of the creature referred to in France as a loup-garou?	Werewolf
What is the usual pen-name of author Howard Allen Frances O'Brian who wrote the erotic Sleeping Beauty Trilogy under the name A.N. Roquelaure?	Anne Rice
What first on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick was performed by plastic surgeon Joseph Murray in 1954?	Kidney transplant
Dr James Hardy pioneered the transplant of which organ at the University of Mississippi in 1963?	Lung
In geology what name is given to the vast global ocean which surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea?	Panthalassa
Which 4th century BC cynic philosopher was later known as "The Scourge of Homer" for his harsh criticism of the poet?	Zoilus
Which pupil of Socrates, who was present at his death and was instrumental in ensuring his persecutors were punished, is regarded as the founder of cynicism?	Antisthenes
Which Swedish botanist, a pupil of Linnaeus, worked at the British Museum, where he gave his name to a standard book-form case used for storing manuscripts, maps, prints, old books and so on?	(Daniel) Solander
Invented in 1886 by Friedrich Soennecken, the Papierlocher f�r Sammelmappen is known to English speaking office workers by what name?	Hole punch
The Casquiere canal is actually the longest river connecting two major river systems. Which two rivers in South America does it connect?	Orinoco and Amazon
According to Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt, what was unusual about the last known speaker of the Atures language?	He was a parrot
What sort of bird was Puck who, according to the Guinness Book of Records, had a vocabulary of 1,728 words?	Budgerigar
Jellyfish Lake, home to thousands of jellyfish, is found on the Rock Islands in which small Pacific nation?	Palau
Found in the Californian part of the Cascade Mountains, which volcano, which erupted in 1915 became, along with Mount St Helens, was the only volcano to erupt in mainland US in the 20th century?	Mount Lsssen
When the supercontinent Pangaea starting splitting into Laurasia to the north and Gondwanaland to the south, what name, after a Greek goddess, is usually given to the ocean that arose between the two?	Tethys Ocean
Beltex, Dorpen and Lonk are all breeds of which farm animal?	Sheep
Four libertines keep a harem of 46 young victims for orgies ultimately ending in their torture and slaughter. This is the plot of which work written in 37 days on a 39 feet long roll of paper in the Bastille by the Maquis de Sade?	The 120 Days of Sodom
Banned in many countries, the 1975 film of "The 120 Days of Sodom", re-set in 1943 Italy, was directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini who was murdered shortly before the film was released. By what four-letter title is the film also known?	Salo
Which semi-autobiographical film of the director Franco Zeffirelli starred Cher, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lily Tomlin, Judy Dench and Michael Williams in his last screen role?	Tea With Mussolini
Which region of Czechoslovakia declared independence on March 15th 1939 but was occupied by Hungary over the next two days?	Carpatho-Ukraine
How is the European region known locally as Ardeal and in German as Siebenb�rgen usually referred to in English?	Transylvania
With fencing as their top medal-producing sport, which country has won more Olympic medals than any other country which has not hosted the games?	Hungary [476 Summer and 6 Winter up to 2014]
As the only Eastern Bloc country taking part, which country had its greatest medal haul of 53 medals including 20 golds at the 1984 Summer Olympics?	Romania
In 2011, which country became the first to make chess compulsory in its schools?	Armenia
Carpet trader Zebulon Simintov, in 2005, became noted as the last Jew living in which country?	Afghanistan
Unlike the kayak, which is covered and designed to carry one or two men, which form of Inuit boat, sometimes known as a "woman boat" is usually 20 to 33 feet long?	Umiak
Held on the second Sunday in May, which holiday in the US is the greatest for long-distance phone calls?	Mother's Day
Gastric-brooding was a name given to two Australian species of which animal both becoming extinct in the 1980s, so-named because the females used their stomach as a womb and regurgitated their young?	Frogs
Which future quiz show host and Footlights member was holding hands with Neil Armstrong's secretary as Neil stepped onto the Moon?	Sandi Toksvig
Nicknamed the Lion King and Super Mario, which cyclist, who won 42 stages in the Giro d'Italia, dressed like a character in "Tron", released phots of himself lounging on the beach during mountain stages and sometimes taped a picture of Pamela Anderson to	Mario Cipollini
Whose looks inspired his friend Robert Louis Stevenson to create Long John Silver while JM Barrie's Wendy was based on his daughter? He is best known for writing the poem "Invictus".	WE Henley
Nicknamed "Jambe de Bois" by the French, who was the first European to land in St Lucia and also the first pirate known to have had a peg-leg?	Fran�ois le Clerc
Sir Arthur Aston was governor of Drogheda during Oliver Cromwell's infamous 1649 siege where he was famously beaten to death with what?	His own wooden leg
Which French group, famous for their pop-oriented Spanish flamenco music such as the hit "Djobi Djoba", were co-awarded the 2014 Grammy for World Music with the Ladysmith Black Mambazo choir?	Gypsy Kings
First described in 2011, what sort of arthropod is the Tanzanian wandering leg sausage?	Millipede
Who were the two stars of the TV sitcom "Two's Company" who both died in 2014?	Donald Sinden and Elaine Stritch
Credited as the first to implement systematic selective breeding of livestock, which 18th century English agriculturist bred the Lincoln Longwool sheep, the Black Cart horse which became the Shire horse and was widely cited by Charles Darwin in "On the Or	Robert Bakewell
Born Christopher Breaux, which US singer-songwriter and rapper took his stage name from a 1960 heist movie?	Frankie Ocean
Which high street store, operating in the UK and across Europe, began in 1969 as Penneys in Dublin?	Primark
Which US rapper and record producer co-founded Odd Future records and has the surname Okonma?	Tyler the Creator
Running north of the Grand Palace and the Wat Phra Kaew, which Bangkok street, a world famous backpacker ghetto, has a name meaning "milled rice"?	Kaosan Road
Which two word food commonly gives its name to the trail of southeast Asian places most commonly visited by Western backpackers such as Vang Vieng in Laos, Ko Phi Phi in Thailand or Penang in Malaysia?	Banana Pancake (Trail)
What is the family name of Joseph who founded the Ladysmith Black Mambazo choir for his brothers and cousins, "mambazo" being Zulu for axe, symbolic of their chopping down the competition?	Shabalala
Meaning "ridge of white waters" in Afrikaans, which scarp forms a continental divide between water running north flowing to the Indian Ocean and water running south flowing to the Atlantic? The scarp is better known for providing much of the world's gold	Witwatersrand
The Georgina River, Finke River (the world's oldest river bed) and Cooper Creek, where explorers Burke and Wills died in 1861, all very slowly flow into which drainage basin covering about a sixth of Australia?	Lake Eyre Basin
Who founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan, literally "Save the Childhood" movement in 1980, his work leading to the ILO's Convention No 182 on child labour and shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Malala Yousafzai?	Kailash Satyarthi
Winning the Nobel Prize for Physics with his father in 1915 for work on X-rays who, at 25 was the youngest ever Nobel Prize winner until 2014?	Lawrence Bragg
An early draft was chewed up by the author's dog. Which American classic novel of 1937 was originally going to be called "Something That Happened" to indicate that the main tragedy of the novel was nobody's fault? The eventual title was a quote from an 18	Of Mice and Men
Which Roman character, known for hosting over-lavish feasts in "Satyricon" by Petronius, was "in West Egg" in the working title of F Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"?	Trimalchio
Ecce homo qui est faba composed by Howard Goodall and sung by the Choir of Southwark Cathedral is the appropriately named theme tune of which 90s British TV comedy series, sold to over 200 different countries and territories worldwide?	Mr Bean [The Latin means "Behold the man who is a bean"]
The theme to which BBC 90s sitcom was written by Howard Goodall and performed by the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford?	The Vicar of Dibley
Prior to 1972, the lyrics of Gaumii Salaam, the national anthem of which Asian country were sung to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne"?	The Maldives
Prior to 1981, the Swiss national anthem was "Rufst Du mein Vaterland" performed to which well-known tune?	God Save the Queen
In 1901, Prussian Eugen Sandow introduced the world's first competition at the Albert Hall in which sport, with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle being among the first judges?	Bodybuilding
Tallulah Bankhead regularly climbed the ladder to the filming tank without any underwear in the making of which film based on a story by John Steinbeck and the only film directed by Alfred Hitchcock for 20th Century Fox?	Lifeboat
In which country were the clocks put forward an hour to Daylight Savings Time in March 2011 and not put back until October 2014?	Russia
According to the Book of Genesis she died aged 127. Who is the only woman whose age is mentioned in the Bible?	Sarah (wife of Abraham)
In 2013, the Ig Nobel Peace Prize went to which dictator for banning applause and to his police for arresting a one-armed man for applauding?	Lukashenko [of Belarus]
Pleureurs were people paid to do what at a theatrical performance?	Cry
In the Sherlock Holmes stories of Conan Doyle, which two recurring characters have a first name that is only mentioned once and is James in each case?	Moriarty and Mycroft
Which British monarch was killed in a sewer?	James I of Scotland [in 1437]
James II, king of Scotland from 1437 to 1460 was nibknamed James the Fiery what?	Face [after a birthmark]
In Japanese folklore, a shirime is a creature who has an eye where which part of the body would normally be?	Anus
Sharing its name with a Greek letter, which character of Japanese folklore is green, scaly and child-like?	Kappa
Elected in 2013, Erna Solberg was the second female Prime Minister of Norway. Who from 1990 to 1996 was the first?	Gro Harlem Brundtland
In 2014, Stefan L�fven succeeded Fredrik Reinfeldt as Prime Minister of Sweden. Prior to being a trade unionist he did which job for IF Metall?	Welder
US inventor Charles Francis Jenkins and Russian Boris Rosing were both pioneers in the invention of what?	Television
Which monkey, one of the largest in the world, co-exists in Borneo with the Orang-utan and has the scientific name Nasalis larvatus?	Proboscis monkey
Which international bridge which opened in 1941 replaced the Honeymoon Bridge which collapsed in January 1938?	Rainbow Bridge [over the Niagara Falls]
Deriving from the Greek for wave, what name is given to the study of making sound waves visible, usually by scattering particles onto a vibrating plate or membrane?	Cymatics
Which Wittenberg born physicist and musician gives his names to the patterns formed by drawing a violin bow along a metal plate covered in sand?	(Ernt) Chladni [Chladni figures]
Of limited availability, which high cost brand of coffee, which has sold at 50 US dollars per cup, is made in Northern Thailand from Arabica beans eaten by elephants and extracted from their faeces?	Black Ivory coffee
The word thenar pertains to which parts of the human body?	Palms of the hands
Deriving from Middle French, which word means the lines running along the wrists at the base of the palms?	Rascettes
After 1928, the US Republican Party has not to date (2014) won any US Presidential election without one of which two surnames on the ticket?	Nixon or Bush
The frame holding a light bulb under a lampshade shares its name with which musical instrument?	Harp
Which mediaeval unit of time was equal to one fortieth of a solar hour where a solar hour was a twelfth of the time between sunrise and sunset?	Moment
Which telecoms company started in Chicago in 1928 as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, later changing its name to that of its commercially successful car radio?	Motorola
On April 3rd 1973, who at Motorola made the first demonstration of a mobile phone by calling his rival Dr Joel S Engel at Bell Labs?	Martin Cooper
Which writer, humanist, pacifist and taker of psychedelic drugs taught French at Eton for a year where one of his pupils was Eric Blair, later to become George Orwell?	Aldous Huxley
In 1763, which seven year old future queen received a proposal of marriage from a famous seven year old composer?	Marie Antoinette [from Mozart]
23 Brook Street, London was the home of which 20th century guitarist and which 18th century composer?	Jimmi Hendrix and George Frideric Handel
The International Antarctic Centre, home to the US, Italian and New Zealand Antarctic Programmes is based in which city?	Christchurch
Holding over 19 million gallons and designed for storing rainwater to prevent flooding, the Cisterns of Tawila are one of the best-known historic sites in which country?	Yemen
The rural areas of the Swiss cantons of Appenzeil and St Gallen have a controversial tradition of eating which meat?	Dog
Arena, Daggerfall, Oblivion and Skyrim are editions of which series of action role-playing open world fantasy video games primarily developed by Bethesda Game Studios?	The Elder Scrolls
The Franz Josef Glacier is a 7.5 mile long feature of which country's coastline?	New Zealand
Which appropriately surnamed Soviet woman hurdler was the first to run the 400 metre hurdles in less than 53 seconds?	Marina Stepanova
Which Bulgarian woman hurdler won gold in the 2006 European Championships but lived up to her surname in London 2012 by tripping in her opening heat?	Vania Stambolova
In 1960 who played to a Berkshire pub as a duo called The Nerk Twins?	John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Gamla Stan is the name for the old town part of which European capital city?	Stockholm
In 1954, Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli made the news as the first people to do what?	Reach the summit of K2
In which year did Joe Brown and George Band become the first to climb the world's third highest mountain Kanchenjunga?	1955
By which shorter name is Mount Masherbrum in the Karakoram range also known?	K1 [first to be surveyed]
Headquartered in B�blingen, Germany, Smart Automobiles is a division of which car manufacturer?	Daimler
Which city car made by Toyota since 2011 has a two letter name inspired by that of the Smart car?	iQ
A mosaic salamander known as "le drac" and the Gaudi House Museum are part of which Barcelona park designed by the artist?	Parc Guell
Which French painter, sculptor and film maker is best known for her "Shooting Paintings", bags of paint in human form shot at to open the bags and her Tarot Garden inspired by Gaudi's Parc Guell?	Niki Saint Phalle
What is the full name of the IRSO whose Mars Orbital Mission or Mangalyaan orbited the planet in 2014?	India Space Research Organisation
Which German political theorist, who escaped to the US from a Jewish concentration camp in 1941, coined the term "the banality of evil" in her reporting of the Adolf Eichmann trial?	Hannah Arendt
Named after the 1901 author of "My Brilliant Career", the Miles Franklin Award is a major award in which country?	Australia
Having won four swimming golds at the 2012 Olympics, who was voted 2014 Laureus World Sports Woman of the Year?	(Melissa) "Missy" Franklin
The Arrow Cross Party who killed ten to fifteen thousand people outright and deported 80,000 to their deaths at Auschwitz ruled from October 1944 to March 1945 in which country?	Hungary
Which two digit number is the agent number of Maxwell Smart in "Get Smart", the race number of the villain in "Cars" (indicating the year Pixar was founded) and is generally used as a verb in US slang meaning to get rid of?	86
The village of Prosecco, which gives its name to the sparkling ingredient of a Bellini cocktail, is now part of which Italian border city and regional capital?	Trieste
With a name going back over 2000 years, Pro�ek is a dessert wine. Due to the similarity of its unrelated name to Prosecco, the name has been banned across the EU leading to complaints from which country?	Croatia
Which suburb of Melbourne is possibly best known as the original home of superstar Dame Edna Everage?	Moonee Ponds
The sella turcica, Latin for Turkish seat, is the bony surround of which gland in the human body?	Pituitary gland
The pogonion is the anatomical name for the lowest part of which part of the human face?	The chin
Involving degrees of violence called "liedu" which country uses the CSIS as a national standard for earthquake intensity?	China
Developed in the 1970s to replace the Richter Scale, and involving rigidity of Earth, amount of slip and area affected in its calculation, what is the full name of the MMS?	Moment Magnitude Scale
Which Anglo-Hungarian fashion designer specialising in knitwear, also a former actress in such films as "A Hard Day's Night" and "Carry On Cowboy", is the daughter of a famous food critic?	Erina Ronay
Until both were destroyed in 2005 the compound of the Sky Kingdom included a two story teapot and a matching blue vase. The members still meet in secret in which country?	Malaysia
The English engineer William Tierney Clark is best known for his design of which East European bridge?	Chain Bridge [Budapest]
The German engineer Peter Parler is best known for his design of which East European bridge?	Charles Bridge [Prague]
Swift Current, Prince Albert and Moose Jaw are three of the larger cities in which Canadian province whose name comes from the Cree for "swift flowing river"?	Saskatchewan
Bordering James Bay and Ungava Bay, which Canadian province's name comes from Algonquin meaning "where the river narrows"?	Quebec
Which hamlet near Faversham in Kent is best known for housing the National Fruit Collection, one of the largest collections of fruit trees and plants in the world?	Brogdale
South African Max Thelier, who cultivated the virus in chicken eggs, won the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for developing a vaccine for which African disease?	Yellow Fever
Which mosquito borne disease of East Africa is abbreviated to RVF?	Rift Valley Fever
Which 2014 Flaming Lips charity album is a track by track cover of the Beatles Sergeant Pepper album and features artists such as Miley Cyrus and Moby?	With A Little Help From My Fwends
Whose "Once Upon A Good Time Band" was a Rutles parody of Sergeant Pepper?	Major Happy's
What follows Ahura to give the name of God in Zoroastrianism, which also inspired the name of a car manufacturer?	Mazda
Which rebellion of 1850 to 1864 saw the deaths of 20 million people, then a tenth of the world's population?	Taiping Rebellion
In medicine, what is a CABG, pronounced "cabbage"?	Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
Historically, a Spanish dollar was worth how many reales?	Eight [Pesos, hence Pieces of Eight]
Made by punching the centres out of Spanish dollars, the holey dollar was used as currency from the 1810s in which two British settlements?	Prince Edward Island and New South Wales
Since they were introduced in 1966, which two Australian coins feature monotremes?	5 cent (echidna) and 20 cent (platypus)
The two species of echidna are the short and long what?	Beaked
Which word can mean the time delay of an electronic system, a stage in a child's psychosexual development or the period between exposure to a pathogen, chemical, radiation and when symptoms become apparent?	Latency
Which former fashion model played Jessie Owens in "Baywatch" and in 2013 became the US host of "The Chase USA"?	Brooke Burns
Rumoured to be the site of a lost gold mine and the Apache hole leading to hell, the Superstition Mountains lie east of which US state capital?	Phoenix
Built by returning soldiers between 1919 and 1932 and dedicated to soldiers killed in World War I, Great Ocean Road, running from Torquay to Allansford claims to be the world's largest war memorial and is in which Australian state?	Victoria
Containing craggy peaks, deep glacial valleys, granite walls and over 700 mountain lakes, the Alpine Lakes Wilderness is in which US state?	Washington
Mount Kelimutu, with its three crater lakes, one usually blue and the others sometimes green, sometimes red is a tourist attraction in which Asian country?	Indonesia
In Indonesia, what four-letter name is given to any mountain over 1,000 metres high, of which Indonesia has 222?	Ribu
Until 1919, the Three Peaks of Lavaredo traditionally marked the boundary between which two European countries?	Italy and Austria
Famous for the sea bursting through limestone blowholes, the Pancake Rocks near Punakaiki are on which New Zealand island?	South Island
Naegele's rule is a standard way of calculating what?	Pregnancy due date [Last menstruation date + one year - 4 months + 7 days]
Which word can mean a dessert or the semi-digested milk brought up by babies after a feed?	Posset
Preikestolen, or Pulpit Rock, a 600 metre high cliff with an almost flat top is a popular tourist attraction lying 25 kilometres from which Norwegian city?	Stavanger
Starting with "The Cave of Time" by Edward Packard, which series of second person narrative children's books published by Bantam Books with stories that unfold according to choices by the reader sold 250 million books between 1979 and 1998?	Choose Your Own Adventure
The 1982 book that kick-started the gamebook craze in the UK had two sequels, four novel adaptions, a board game and a video game spin-off was "The Warlock of" which "Mountain"?	Firetop
Which Russian born surrealist painter established in the US is noted fro prints of works such as "Departure of the Winged Ship" in which the sails are butterflies?	Vladimir Kush
In 2014 which man made object rose to a kilometre high on its first bounce which lasted two hours?	Philae [the cometary probe]
Sharing its name with an R&B singer which syndrome causes gradual hearing loss, and slower loss of vision, being a leading cause of deaf-blindness?	Usher syndrome
Which US astronomer (1906-2004) discovered some asteroids and comets, is most associated with the "dirty snowball" cometary hypothesis and invented an impact shield which has been used in manned and unmanned spacecraft?	(Fred Lawrence) Whipple
Which unit of magnetic field strength named after a German scientist and mathematician is a ten-thousandth of a Tesla?	Gauss
Probably Chopin's best known �tude, Opus 10 No 3 in E Major, the tune of Jo Stafford's "No Other Love" and Ken Dodd's "So Deep Is The Night", is commonly known by which one word French name due to its melancholy nature?	Tristesse
Chopin's �tude Opus 10 No 12 in C Minor, used as a theme for UK game show "The Interceptor", was written after the failed 1831 November Uprising by Poland against the Russian Empire so is commonly known by what one word name?	Revolutionary
Les Claypool, Ler LaLonde and Herb Alexander make up which US rock group who wrote and performed (along with Parker and Stone) the theme song for "South Park"?	Primus
While "South Park" is the third longest running animated series in the US and "The Simpsons" is the longest, which cartoon set in Elwood City and started in 1996 is second?	Arthur
In 2012, which US attorney was appointed chairman of the investigative branch of FIFA's Ethics Committee?	(Michael J) Garcia
In 2014, which country replaced Morocco as the host of the 2015 African Cup of Nations after the former withdrew for fear of ebola?	Equatorial Guinea
Born in Reval, now Tallinn, in 1893, who led the Nazi Party while Hitler was in prison in 1923, became its chief racial theorist and was hanged for war crimes in 1946?	Alfred Rosenberg
Featuring interviews by Frank Gehry and IM Pei, the 2003 documentary "My Architect: A Son's Journey" visits the Yale Centre for British Art, The Salk Institute and the Bangladesh Parliament Building, all designed by which Estonian architect?	Louis Kahn
Gwann-ha-du, meaning black and white in the local language, is the name for the flag of which region of a European country?	Brittany
Which village in Brittany gives its name to one of the most extensive collections of Neolithic menhirs in the world?	Carnac
Which Ukraine-born French actress, star of video game inspired movies "Hitman" and "Max Payne", rose to fame as the central Bond girl Camille Montes in "A Quantum of Solace"?	Olga Kurylenko
In 2007, the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary became the first ever UNESCO World Heritage Site to be delisted due to poaching and loss of habitat. It was found in which country?	Oman
In 2009, a Dresden valley became the second UNESCO World Heritage Site to be listed after the Waldschl�sschen Bridge was constructed across which river?	Elbe
The song "Perfect World" by Dublin band Kodaline is the theme tune to which Channel 4 reality show which started in March 2013?	Gogglebox
In an Ancient Roman city or camp, a decumanus was a street running east to west. Which word meant a street running north-south?	Cardo
Regarded as the most fundamental concept of Islam, what is the Tawhid?	Oneness of God/Allah
How is the Islamic prophet Yahya ibn Zakariya more familiar to Christians?	John the Baptist
In Islam three holy books are revealed by God before the Quran, the Tawai or Torah revealed to Musa or Moses, the Injil or Gospel revealed to Isa or Jesus and the Zabur, revealed to who?	King David or Dawud
Who was the first sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty which ruled Egypt following the collapse of the Fatimids in the 12th century?	Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub aka Saladin
The nocturnal arboreal marsupial, the monito del monte, lives in which two countries?	Argentina and Chile
BN Biscuits are manufactured in Vertou, France, a suburb of which city after which they are partly named?	Nantes (Biscuiterie Nantaise)
Which town in Massachussetts follows Fig to give the name of a branded fig roll made by Nabisco?	Newton(s)
Which 2013 Pulitzer Prize winning novel takes its title from a painting by 17th century Dutch master Carel Fabritius?	The Goldfinch
Which 2013 Costa Book Award winning novel by Kate Atkinson centres around Ursula Todd, who goes through many alternate realities, starting with one where she is strangled by her own umbilical cord and stillborn?	Life After Life
A wormhole in the narrator's foot and "hunger birds" are a feature of the 2013 National Book Awards' Book of the Year, "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by which author?	Neil Gaiman
Released in 2013, what was the long-awaited third novel by Afghan-American Khaled Husseini following "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns"?	And the Mountains Echoed
A Naxalite is a member of a Communist guerilla group in which country?	India
Which books form the second and third parts of the "Divergent" trilogy by Veronica Roth following Tris Prior in a post-apocalyptic version of Chicago?	"Insurgent" and "Allegiant"
Who was the head of the architectural department of Gustav Eiffel's company whose changes to Koechlin and Nougier's design for the Eiffel Tower included adding arches to the base?	Stephen Sauvestre
The Yeomen of the Guard were created by the monarch on the field of which battle?	Bosworth Field
Who is the Colonel in Chief of the Yeomen of the Guard?	The Queen
What position in the House of Lords is traditionally also the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard?	Deputy Chief Whip
Which positions in the Yeomen of the Guard are abbreviated to YBH and YBG?	Yeoman Bed Hanger and Yeomen Bed Goer
Which prolific TV producer and original member of the pop group The Four Preps had the middle name Albert?	Glen A Larson
The 1928 novella "Armageddon 2419 AD" by Philip Francis Nowlan introduced which character of science fiction who went on to appear in comic books, radio shows, film serials and in the title role of a Glen A Larson TV series?	Buck Rogers
Marriage for "time and eternity" and "a council of twelve" were elements of Mormonism found in which Glen A Larson series whose episodes started with an opening narrative by Patrick McNee and a theme tune co-composed by Larson himself?	Battlestar Galactica
The TV series "McCloud", starring Dennis Weaver, is thought to have been loosely based on which 1968 film named after a promontary in upper Manhattan?	Coogan's Bluff
The TV series "The Fall Guy" starring Lee Majors, is thought to have been loosely baed on which 1978 film starring Burt Reynolds?	Hooper
Which of his many TV shows did Glen A Larson himself claim was largely inspired by "The Lone Ranger"?	Knight Rider
What were the names of the two pubs involved in the November 1974 Birmingham pub bombings?	The Mulberry Bush and The Tavern In The Town
The Horse and Groom and The Severn Stars were two pubs bombed by the IRA in which town in 1974?	Guildford
The Danish flag is the world's oldest being adopted in which century?	Thirteenth
Along with Leo James Rainwater and fellow Dane Ben Roy Mottelson, which Dane won the 1975 Nobel Physics Prize, 53 years after his father?	Aage Bohr
Ruling from the city of Jelling from 936 to 958 AD, who is usually the first historically recognised King of Denmark?	Gorm the Old aka Gorm the Sleepy
In 1976, which Puerto Rican won the WBA light-welterweight title aged 17 to become the youngest world champion in boxing history?	Wilfred Benitez
In 1986, who did Mike Tyson beat to win the WBC title aged 20 and so beat Floyd Patterson's record to become the youngest world heavyweight boxing champion?	Trevor Berbick
Although Illinois is nicknamed the Land of Lincoln, which US President was the only one to be born and raised in that state?	Ronald Reagan
Besides Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S Grant, which other US President was living in Illinois when elected?	Barack Obama
Which Grammy winning song by Anthony Ray aka Sir Mixalot was only outsold in 1992 by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and has the well-known chorus that begins "I like big butts and I cannot lie"?	Baby Got Back
British singer-songwriter David Jackson released his 1979 debut album "Look Sharp!" with what first name due to his resemblance to a Gerry Anderson puppet character?	Joe (Jackson after Joe 90)
What is the stage name of US record producer and DJ Josh Davis, best known for his widely acclaimed 1996 100% sampled debut album "Endtroducing..."?	DJ Shadow
All of which pet breed are descended from one pair bred by zoologist Israel Aharoni at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1930?	Golden or Syrian hamsters (the pair were captured in the wild in Syria)
What is the full name of the pet breed commonly known as a robo hamster?	Roborovski hamster
In which 1978 TV series did Bob Hoskins play Arthur Parker?	Pennies From Heaven
In which 1995 film does Bob Hoskins play J Edgar Hoover?	Nixon
In which 2001 film does Bob Hoskins play Nikita Khrushchev?	Enemy At The Gates
Home of the Karpass donkey, the Karpass peninsula is a long finger of land forming the easternmost part of which country?	Cyprus
Which ITV sitcom (1977-1981) shared its name with the beach front estate in the US TV series "Magnum PI"?	Robin's Nest
What initials link the helicopter pilot played by Roger E Mosley in "Magnum PI" and the title character of a Hannah Barbera cartoon (1961-2)?	TC (Theodore Calvin and Top Cat)
Which actress with a surname which means "baker" in Italian started dating Wladimir Klitschko in 2009?	Hayden Panetierre
In 2014, which 62 year-old Hollywood star's boxing defeat of 29 year old Elliott Seymour was widely dismissed as a PR stunt?	Mickey Rourke
The Battles of Huta, Zinjibar and two Battles of Lawdar have been part of which country's war against Al-Qaeda?	Yemen
Literally meaning "Those who confront death", what name is used by Kurds to mean Kurdish armed fighters?	Peshmerga
The Fulda Gap, an area of strategic importance during the Cold War, is situated in which country?	Germany
Seven Days to the River Rhine was a secret World War III simulation exercise drawn up in 1979 and revealed by which Warsaw Pact country in 2006?	Poland
The name of which facial feature is also used to mean someone dated in order to hide a person's sexual orientation?	Beard
What is the flowery name for a male-female marriage of convenience in which at least one of the two partners is not heterosexual?	Lavender marriage
The Musandam Peninsula, lying on the Strait of Hormuz at one end of the fastest catamaran ferry service in the world, is an exclave of which country?	Oman
In 2008, a company owned by Tarek bin Laden, half-brother of Osama, announced plans to build a Bridge of the Horns over the Bab-El-Mandeb linking Yemen to which other country?	Djibouti
Which four letters can mean a parliament in Slavic countries such as that of Slovakia or the Ukraine or a specialist school based in Bloomsbury, London?	Rada
Which sea is linked to the Black Sea by the Strait of Kerch?	Sea of Azov
In 2014, the football club Sydney Wanderers beat the Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal 1-0 to be the first Australian club to win which Champions League?	AFC [Asian Football Confederation]
Which city's football club have won five of the first eight seasons of the Oceania Champions League?	Auckland
Which 2014 sexism scandal involving the harassment of indie video game developer Zoe Quinn shares its name with a female ant who reproduces when a colony is lacking a queen?	Gamergate
Which controversial anonymous social media network, limited to a ten kilometre radius, was launched in 2013 and has a yak's head as its logo?	Yik Yak
Selim II, nicknamed Selim the Sot. is known, possibly unfairly, for indulging in orgies rather than ruling, losing a major battle and dying after slipping on a bathroom floor. Who, with a hard to follow reputation, did he succeed?	Suleiman the Magnificent [The battle was Lepanto]
Who was the highly respected second Sultan of the Seljuk Empire who in 1071 defeated the Byzantine army at Manzikert, was assassinated by a prisoner a year later and had a name meaning "Heroic Lion"?	Alp Arslan
Formed from the Central Council of British Naturism in 2009, British Naturism is headquartered in which county town?	Northampton
The French nudist resort of Cap d'Agde brings money to which southern French region?	Languedoc-Rousillon
Which word means the formation of a solid mass by heat or pressure without melting to the point of liquefaction, as often happens with hardening snow?	Sintering
After a 13th century invasion, which capital city has a name originally thought to mean Danish city or Danish castle?	Tallinn
She co-authored a scientific paper that laid out the Chayes-McKellar-Winn theorem, but Danica McKellar is better known for playing Winnie Cooper in which 1990s TV series?	The Wonder Years
Which child star is best known for his roles in "Jerry Maguire", "Stuart Little" and "The Little Vampire"?	Jonathan Lipnicki
Judith Keppel's win on "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" was first broadcast at the same time as the last episode of which TV sitcom?	One Foot In The Grave"
Which ITV documentary, broadcast on 21st April 2003, highlighted the case against "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" winner, Charles Ingram?	Millionaire: A Major Fraud"
In April 2014, Ricky Norwood was suspended from the cast of "Eastenders" for two months for taking cannabis. What was his role in the soap?	Arthur Chubb aka Fat Boy
Which Canadian First World War military doctor and artillery commander is largely remembered for writing the poem "In Flanders Fields"?	John McCrae
Which English county has two plaques, both supposedly marking the spot where Laurence Binyon composed the 1914 poem "For The Fallen"?	Cornwall [at Polzeath and Polreath]
Gabriele Kerner was the lead singer of which one hit wonder band of the 1980s?	Nena
Joseph Edgar Foreman was a 2000 one hit wonder with a video directed by Kevin Smith, performing under what name?	Afroman
Which song failed to knock "Everything I Do" by Bryan Adams off the UK number one spot, but topped the charts in 1991 in Ireland where the 1979 film it was written for was banned?	Always Look On The Bright Side of Life"
Oakland gospel trio, the Stovall Sisters sang backing vocals on which 1970 one hit wonder?	Spirit in the Sky" (by Norman Greenbaum)
Often in lists of the most annoying songs, which song was on the soundtrack to "Rugrats in Paris:The Movie" shortly before becoming a worldwide hit in 2000?	Who Let The Dogs Out?"
Which 80s hit by a band from Montreal Canada, originally a protest about bouncers banning pogoing in US dance clubs, had a video filmed in Chippenham, Wiltshre featuring morris dancer, mummers and a Punch and Judy show?	The Safety Dance
Which 2014 film starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and James Corden is based on a 1986 musical by Stephen Sondheim?	Into The Woods
What is the name of the updated version of Daddy Warbucks, a cell phone mogul and would be mayor played by Jamie Foxx in the 2014 film Annie?	Will Stacks
Which actress is best known for having played the title role in the 1982 film "Annie"?	Aileen Quinn
In both the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie", created in 1924 by Harold Gray and the subsequent musical "Annie", what was the first name of Daddy Warbucks?	Oliver
Which Japanese volcanic island, 650 nautical miles south of Tokyo, has a name meaning "Sulphur Island"?	Iwo Jima
The Irish word for an Irish province, cuige, means fifth. However, there are now four. Which Irish province became a part of Leinster?	Meath
The Dragon's Mouths are a series of straits between which two countries?	Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago
Which of Belgium's main cities are joined by the Albert Canal?	Antwero and Liege
Who appeared at various venues including the show "Later With Jools Holland" playing with The Steep Canyon Band?	Steve Martin
Who never had a top 40 hit singke in the US Billboard 100, but in 1973 saw Johnny Nash reach number 12 and in 1974 saw Eric Clapton reach number 1 with covers of his songs?	Bob Marley ["Stir It Up" and "I Shot the Sheriff"]
In which 2008 Disney film was the character voiced by John Travolta a pet of the character voiced by Miley Cyrus?	Bolt
Betty Lou Gerson narrated Disney's 1950 film "Cinderella" but was probably better known for providing the voice of which villainess eleven years later?	Cruella de Vil
In 1998, an artist released "Too Cold", a hardcore version of his earlier chart-topping single. What was the original single called?	Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice
Discovered by a 13 year old girl in 1958 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the southeast corner of France, which cave is famous for its million year old stone tools?	Grotte du Vallonnet
Who discovered the Neanderthal skull known as Gibraltar 2, but is best known for her work on the palaeolithic Natufian culture and being the first woman professor at Cambridge?	Dorothy Garrod
Named after a suburb of Paris, the Levallois technique was a stone age method of doing what?	Cutting flint (to make tools)
The term EEMH (Early European Modern Humans) has been introduced to replace which term for early man, deriving from a cavity in southwestern France?	Cro-Magnon
The Tregothnan near Truro and the Charleston, ten miles outside Charleston, South Carolina are the only plantations of what in the UK and US respectively?	Tea
Which pharmacologist was head of the Dermal and Ocular Toxicity Branch of the FDA and has a name that is controversially linked to white albino rabbits?	(John Henry) Draize
What is the only one of the eight Australian state and territorial capitals not to be a venue for the 2015 Cricket World Cup?	Darwin
Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin and Wellington are four of the New Zealand venues at the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Name one of the other three.	Hamilton, Napier or Nelson
In 2013, it was announced that the start of the 2015 Tour de France would be in which Dutch city?	Utrecht
Prior to 2015, what was the last Dutch city to see the Grand Depart of the Tour de France?	Rotterdam (2010)
Which three final bids did England beat to host the 2015 Rugby World Cup?	Italy, Japan and South Africa
Including parodies of songs by Pharrell Williams, Lorde and Imagine Dragons, "Mandatory Fun", who achieved his first Billboard number one album in August 2014?	Weird Al Yankovic
Glendale, which hosts Super Bowl XLIX in 2015 is in which US state?	Arizona
Bata, venue of the 2015 African Cup of Nations final is the largest city in which African country?	Equatorial Guinea
Amr Waked, plays Sheikh Mohammed from which country in the title of a 2011 romantic comedy film?	Yemen [as in "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen"]
"The Decameron" (1971), "The Canterbury Tales" (1972), in which he played Chaucer, and "Arabian Nights" (1974) make up the "Trilogy of Life" by which director?	(Pier Paolo) Pasolini
A Jackeen is a pejorative term for someone from which city?	Dublin
Which word for a rural Irishman from outside Dublin is also the name given to an annual festival, a regional competition to select a "village character"?	Culchie
In which 2011 film, based on a novella by George Moore, do Glenn Close and Janet McTeer play women pretending to be men to gain emplayment in 19th century Ireland?	Albert Nobbs
Rosemaling is a form of decorative painting associated with which country?	Norway
Crystal forms of which substance, first isolated from bird excement in 1844, form the tapetum lucidum (literally "bright tapestry") that make a cat's eyes shine in dim light?	Guanine
Which DNA nucleotide base substance is sometimes referred to as Vitamin B4, but is not now regarded as part of the B complex?	Adenine
Formed about 65 million years ago by a six mile wide meteor, which 110 mile wide impact crater was discovered in the 1970s in the Yucatan Peninsula, and is generally considered to be the site of the collision which wiped out the dinosaurs?	Chicxulub Crater
Which Canadian impact crater, the world's second largest, is named after a city which is named after a town which was the birthplace of Thomas Gainsborough?	Sudbury
Which US President had known his wife, Frances Folsom, since birth and when he became the only US Presient to marry in the White House itself, she was 21, still the youngest ever First Lady?	Grover Cleveland [the first First Lady to serve non-consecutive terms, Frances later also became the first presidential widow to remarry]
Who was US President when Harriet Lane served as a popular First Lady of the US, not marrying until after the President's term had finished?	James Buchanan [She was his niece]
The South American stringed instrument, the charango, is usually now made of wood but was traditionally made with the shell of which animal?	Armadillo
Which meteor shower, whose Zenithal Hourly Rate (ZHR) can be as rich as the Persids, tends to occur in the first week of January?	Quadrantids
In England and Wales, what was the last year to begin on March 25th?	1751 (the following year began on Jan 1st)
Whose law of radio transmissions states that for simple vertical sending and receiving antennas of equal height, the maximum working telegraphic distance varied as the square of the height of the antenna?	Marconi's Law
Released posthumously in 2014, "There Must Be More To Life Than This" was the only song recorded together by which two pop icons?	Freddie Mercury & Michael Jackson
Which late Shakespearean actor wrote the screenplay for a gay porn movie called "Trouser Bar" for the director Peter de Rome, which was never made?	John Gielgud
What instrument did Ray Jackson play on Rod Stewart's hit song "Maggie May"?	Mandolin
David Mason played the trumpet solo on which Beatles track?	Penny Lane
Clare Torry was the uncredited vocalist on which famous Pink Floyd album track?	The Great Gig In The Sky [from "Dark Side of the Moon"]
In UK pavement marking convention a sprayed line with an R would indicate a gas line but what would the R stand for?	Radar [How the line was detected]
Dollar symbols sprayed on a UK pavement traditionally indicate what?	Electric cables
In 2014, a peat bog the size of England was discovered in which African country?	Congo-(Brazzaville)
The 23A bus through Salisbury Plain runs how often?	Once a year
What was the name of the first Romanian immigrant to arrive after the visa changes of New Year 2014?	Victor Spirescu
What is the English meaning of the second part of the name of the French satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo"?	Weekly
The name of which magazine can mean "the inside whisper" as well as the more literal translation?	Le Canard Enchainé
Founded in Dresden in 2014 by Lutz Bachmann, which group opposing the Islamisation of Europe has spawned copycat groups and demonstrations all over Germany?	PEGIDA
Daniel Lawrence Taylor and Esther Smith play Tom and Suse, survivors of a nuclear war, in which ITV2 sitcom?	Cockroaches
Andreas Grassl, a German found wandering about in Kent, but refusing to reveal his identity in 2005 was given what nickname by the press?	Piano Man
Garra rufa or doctorfish were widely used in which craze of the 21st century?	Fish spas
What was the name of the French woman who in 2006 received the first face transplant?	Isabelle Dinoire
In 2006, there were over 100,000 hits a day to the BBC website page describing the story of a man from which country being forced to marry a goat after being caught having sex with it?	Sudan [Juba, now in South Sudan]
The Canadian Kyle MacDonald became famous after obtaining a house in a series of 14 internet swaps starting with which item?	(One red) Paperclip
What is the distinctive feature of people with high levels of pheomelanin and low levels of eumelanin?	Red hair/pale skin/freckles

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