Question: Which Canadian portrait photographer of Armenian heritage photographed Winston Churchill in his studio in Ottawa on 30 December, 1941, which, it is claimed, is the most reproduced photographic portrait in history?
Answer: Yousuf Karsh

Question: What colours are on the flag used to signify the finish of a Formula One motor race?
Answer: Black and white

Question: Nadya Suleman, a resident of Southern California, made the news early in 2009 for doing what?
Answer: Giving birth to octuplets

Question: What is the next in the series: Antwerp; Paris; Amsterdam; Los Angeles?
Answer: Berlin

Question: What is the ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen atoms respectively in a molecule of water?
Answer: 2 to 1

Question: Which city was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles as a trading settlement in 1819?
Answer: Singapore

Question: Which islands mostly belong to the USA, since they were purchased from Denmark in 1917?
Answer: Virgin Islands

Question: Which golfer was named as Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year in 1996?
Answer: Tiger Woods

Question: Who invented an early form of fragmentation shell that was first used by the British army in 1803?
Answer: Henry Shrapnel

Question: The Scrabble game board is marked with what sized grid?
Answer: 15 by 15

Question: Which section of the British forces made a famous charge against Russian forces at Balaklava on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War?
Answer: The Light Brigade

Question: What is the generic name for all of the greater festivals of the Christian Church?
Answer: Sacraments

Question: What was the name given to a type of xylophone consisting of large stones, dating from 2,500 - 4,000 BC found in China?
Answer: Lithophone

Question: Which team won the eighth World Polo Championship in Mexico in May 2008?
Answer: Chile

Question: Which monotheistic, Abrahamic religious movement accepts Haile Selassie I, the former and final Emperor of Ethiopia, as the incarnation of God, called Jah?
Answer: Rastafarian

Question: Which avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque around 1906, revolutionized European painting and sculpture and inspired related movements in music and literature?
Answer: Cubism

Question: Which island group between the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean was discovered in 1521 by Magellan, was taken by Spain, ceded to the USA in 1898 and became an independent republic in 1946?
Answer: Philippines

Question: In the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove ... ", the doctor, working as national security consultant to the president, was a sinister character with a heavy Germanic accent and darkly Teutonic attitudes. Who had the nickname "Dr Strangelove" when in public office in the 1970s?
Answer: Henry Kissinger

Question: What is the name for a poem of 14 lines that first appeared when written by Giacomo da Lentini in 1220, for which various rhyme schemes were developed?
Answer: Sonnet

Question: At the 1976 Olympic Games at Montreal, who repeated (from the 1972 Games at Munich) his double gold in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres, making him the first athlete to win the distance double twice?
Answer: Lasse Virn

Question: What are raced in the Indianapolis 500?
Answer: Cars

Question: The Australian city of Adelaide is on which river?
Answer: Torrens

Question: What does a series of dots above musical notes mean?
Answer: Staccato

Question: Loch Ness is part of which canal?
Answer: Caledonian

Question: In the nursery rhyme, who sat on a wall and had a great fall?
Answer: Humpty

Question: Who claimed to be a direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and worked to achieve the independence of Abyssinia?
Answer: Menelek II

Question: What is the common name for Herpes Zoster?
Answer: Shingles

Question: What is the cause of the effervescence in a bottle of real Champagne?
Answer: Fermentation takes place after the bottle has been sealed

Question: Who is credited with the design of the small British car known as the Mini?
Answer: Alec Issigonis

Question: In which British sitcom does a draughtsman give up his job to live a self-sufficient lifestyle, planting fruit and vegetables, and running chickens, pigs and a goat in the garden, to the horror of their next-door neighbours?
Answer: The Good Life

Question: What was the name of eleven rulers of the 19th and 20th Egyptian dynasties?
Answer: Rameses

Question: Where is "The White House"?
Answer: Washington

Question: Where was the venue for the Commonwealth Games in 2010?
Answer: New Delhi

Question: Which English playwright ("The Conscious Lovers") founded the "Tatler", the "Spectator" and the "Guardian"?
Answer: Sir Richard Steele

Question: What is the collective name for eight elite universities in the North Eastern USA?
Answer: Ivy League

Question: Which primary colour is mixed with white to produce pink?
Answer: Red

Question: Who designed Britain's first atomic bomb, which was exploded aboard HMS Plym in the Monte Bello Islands in October 1952?
Answer: Dr W G Penney

Question: What disaster occurred in Ireland in 1845?
Answer: Potato famine

Question: Salvador Dali, Max Ernst and Paul Klee are classified in what school of painting?
Answer: Surrealist

Question: A tabard is a type of what?
Answer: Short coat

Question: Who fronted the BBC 2 specials Gambling in Las Vegas, The Most Hated Family in America, Under The Knife, Behind Bars, African Hunting Holiday, Law and Disorder in Philadelphia and A Place for Paedophiles?
Answer: Louis Theroux

Question: The Bacon Society was founded in England in 1866 to promote the study of what?
Answer: Evidence that infers that Francis Bacon wrote plays attributed to Shakespeare

Question: What word is given to the association of dissimilar organisms for mutual benefit?
Answer: Symbiosis

Question: What is an Italianate resort village on the coast of Snowdonia in Wales, near Penrhyndeudraeth, two miles southeast of Porthmadog?
Answer: Portmeirion

Question: The two main branches of the River Nile are known as what?
Answer: White and Blue

Question: The idea of an Olympic Flame burning throughout the Games was reintroduced during which Games, when an employee of the local Electric Utility lit the flame in the Marathon Tower of the Olympic Stadium?
Answer: Amsterdam, 1928

Question: Except for a brief competition at Helsinki in 1952, the People's Republic of China (PRC) did not attend Olympic Games for some time because of the status of The Republic of China (ROC) within the IOC. When did they next compete in an Olympics?
Answer: 1980 Winter Olympics, Lake Placid, USA

Question: Renee Zellweger played which author in a 2007 film?
Answer: Beatrix Potter

Question: Where was Ronald Reagan when he said, as part of a speech on 12 June 1987, "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall"?
Answer: In front of the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

Question: What is the name for the fitting together of the masticating surfaces of the upper and lower teeth in biting?
Answer: Occlusion

Question: What very popular sport, introduced to England by the Romans, was banned temporarily under Cromwell and finally outlawed in 1849?
Answer: Cock fighting

Question: Which concert pianist became the first President of the Polish Republic in 1919?
Answer: Ignaz Jan Paderewski

Question: Where does linseed oil come from?
Answer: Flax

Question: The board for which game has 121 indentations arranged to form a six-pointed star, with ten indentations in each triangular star-point of the hexagram, and 61 within its hexagon?
Answer: Chinese Checkers

Question: What structure was designed by John A Roebling, who supervised construction until his death when the project was taken over by his son, Washington?
Answer: Brooklyn Bridge, New York

Question: What character was the child of the character played by Tom Hanks in the film "Sleepless in Seattle"?
Answer: Jonah