Question: Which planet has a diameter of 7,700 miles and a mass 0.83 times that of the Earth?
Answer: Venus

Question: Which US state borders Canada and the Connecticut River, and has the Green Mountains running through its centre?
Answer: Vermont

Question: What is the Scottish name for All Saints Day, a Christian ceremony grafted onto an ancient pagan ceremony?
Answer: Hallowe'en

Question: What sport is played in an area that can vary between 20 x 10 and 30 x 20 metres, with 7 players in play at any one time per side playing for around 8 minutes for each of four periods?
Answer: Water polo

Question: With whom are the islands of Elba and St Helena associated?
Answer: Napoleon

Question: The aim of which game, normally played on hard dirt or gravel, and also on grass, while standing with the feet together in a small circle, is to throw metal balls as close as possible to a small ball called a cochonnet?
Answer: Petanque

Question: The first of what event, organised by journalist Henri Desgrange in 1903, was won by Maurice Garin?
Answer: Tour de France

Question: Which 20th century painter claimed to have invented a new technique called "action painting" and was called by the contemporary press "Jack The Dripper"?
Answer: Jackson Pollock

Question: According to the Bible, who was the son of Isaac and Rebeckah, the twin brother to Esau, the husband of Leah and Rachel, and the father of Joseph?
Answer: Jacob

Question: Who founded "Answers" in 1888, and later founded Amalgamated Press in the UK which, at various times, owned "The Evening News", "The Daily Mail", "The Daily Mirror", "The Observer" and "The Times"?
Answer: Lord Northcliffe

Question: What is the smallest state in the USA by land area?
Answer: Rhode Island

Question: In the original meaning of "decimate", who is killed?
Answer: Every tenth person

Question: The Australian city of Hobart is on which river?
Answer: Derwent

Question: How many kings of France were named Louis?
Answer: 18

Question: Symptoms of what disease include fever, shivering, joint pain, vomiting, anaemia, hemoglobinuria, retinal damage, and convulsions, with cyclical occurrence of sudden coldness followed by rigour, fever and sweating?
Answer: Malaria

Question: In January 1949, "micro-groove" records, on vinyl, were put on the market in the USA by RCA and Columbia. What was the main difference between them?
Answer: RCA's played at 45 rpm and Columbia's at 33.3 rpm

Question: Which card game involves 2 teams of 2 players aiming to reach 7 points, with each trick taken above 6 counting as 1 point, using 52 cards, all dealt except the last, which is turned up as trumps?
Answer: Whist

Question: Where did Horatio Nelson lose his right arm?
Answer: Santa Cruz

Question: On what does the cast of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical "Starlight Express" perform?
Answer: Roller skates

Question: In music, what does the term "Allegro" mean?
Answer: At a quick pace

Question: If someone is injured and the blood flow is bright red and coming out in regular spurts, where is it coming from?
Answer: Artery

Question: What did Shakespeare compare "Katharina" to?
Answer: Shrew

Question: What expression is used to signify the obligations of the aristocracy to those less privileged?
Answer: Noblesse oblige

Question: Viewed from Earth, Venus crosses the sun twice every 100 to 120 years or so, about 8 years apart. The next is on 10-11 December 2117. When was the last?
Answer: 5-6 June 2012

Question: Where did Sherlock Holmes lose his struggle with Moriarty but did not die after all?
Answer: Reichenbach Falls

Question: The Union Jack, the British flag, is a combination of flags of different saints. Where does the blue come from?
Answer: St Andrew

Question: The city of Miami, Florida, is at the mouth of which river?
Answer: Miami River

Question: While most juries can only provide a verdict of "Guilty" or "Not Guilty", in which country can a jury decide "Not Proven"?
Answer: Scotland

Question: The circuit at Parc Jean-Drapeau on le Notre-Dame, a man-made island in the St. Lawrence River, is named after which winner of the Formula One World Championship for drivers?
Answer: Gilles Villeneuve

Question: What was the title of the spin off TV show from "Friends", starring Matt le Blanc?
Answer: Joey

Question: In early 2008, Yang Yun, an artistic gymnast who won two bronze medals at the 2000 Olympics, admitted on Chinese state-run television what fact about herself that interested the international press?
Answer: She was 14 when she had competed

Question: Which award winning building was built directly underneath Waterloo Bridge, London, in the 1980s and has stalagtites (from water leaking through the Bridge) growing in it?
Answer: Museum of the Moving Image

Question: Under English law, what was the earliest date that a woman could obtain a divorce with the sole ground of adultery?
Answer: 1923

Question: What conflict in 1935 resulted in Mussolini annexing a large African territory for Italy, withdrawing in 1941?
Answer: Abyssinian War

Question: New Zealander Michael Campbell is a leading player in which sport?
Answer: Golf

Question: In 2008, the game of Cluedo was updated as Cluedo Reinvention" with some new weapons. Which one of these was in the original game?
Answer: Lead pipe

Question: What is unusual about the Saint Pierre and Miquelan Islands, which are only 25 km (16 miles) south of Newfoundland?
Answer: They are French

Question: Which film starring The Beatles concerned the theft of a ring from Ringo Starr by a religious organisation?
Answer: Help

Question: In which 1940 film did the characters Adenoid Hynkel, Benzino Napolini, Garbitsch and Herring appear?
Answer: The Great Dictator

Question: Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, is famous for leading resistance to the invasion of Britain by whom?
Answer: Romans

Question: The ozone molecule is made up of three atoms of which gas?
Answer: Oxygen

Question: Who preceded George W Bush as president of the USA?
Answer: Bill Clinton

Question: At the end of The War of 1812, the USA held Canadian territory near Detroit, and the British held parts of which Eastern state?
Answer: Maine

Question: All Scrabble tournament (and most club) games are played with a game clock and a set time control. Typically how long does each player have in which to make all plays?
Answer: 25 minutes

Question: What is the next number in this sequence: 4; 16; 256; 65,536?
Answer: 4,294,967,296

Question: She slopped her dripper is an example of what?
Answer: Spoonerism

Question: Juan Manuel Fangio, Mario Andretti, James Hunt and Niki Lauda were world champions in which sport?
Answer: Formula One

Question: Who was the British Prime Minister during the Falklands War of 1982?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Question: What is added to water to make brine?
Answer: Salt

Question: In November 1903, Panama declared its independence from which country to enable a treaty to be signed with the USA?
Answer: Colombia

Question: What are rotating stars that emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation that can only be observed when the beam of emission is pointing towards the Earth, which is called "the lighthouse effect"?
Answer: Pulsars

Question: 1.1 million square miles of land in North America were the subject of what agreement in 1803?
Answer: Louisiana Purchase

Question: In 2014 what are the main differences between the Australian and New Zealand flags?
Answer: The Australian flag has two more stars than the NZ one

Question: Which automobile design has a passenger cabin with an integrated cargo space, accessed from behind by a single, top-hinged tailgate or large flip-up window, commonly with two rows of seats, with the rear seat able to fold down to increase cargo space?
Answer: Hatchback

Question: Who coined the term "Big Bang" to explain the difference between it and his theory of the expanding universe?
Answer: Sir Fred Hoyle