Question: In 1962, who starred in the first of the longest-running series of films with the same main character?
Answer: Sean Connery

Question: Which tuber of the nightshade family was cultivated by the Incas, was taken to Spain from Peru in the 16th century and to Ireland from Virginia in the 16th century?
Answer: Potato

Question: Which English-born sculptor is best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures, usually depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures, that are pierced or contain hollow spaces?
Answer: Henry Moore

Question: Which animal has very low metabolic rates and a quarter of the muscle tissue of animals of similar size, and whose hair grows in a direction opposite to that of its extremities?
Answer: Sloth

Question: What was the first alliance entered by the U S A in peacetime after World War II?
Answer: N A T O

Question: What actor is common to the films "Ned Kelly" (1970), "Performance" (1970), "Freejack" (1992), "Bent" (1997) and "The Man From Elysian Fields" (2001)?
Answer: Mick Jagger

Question: Which one of these planets was not represented in the musical work by Gustav Holst called The Planets?
Answer: Earth

Question: Who wrote the text on which the musical Cats was based?
Answer: T S Eliot

Question: What was the name of the regular feature of the European motorsport calendar from 1927 to1957 that was held 24 times in Italy?
Answer: The Mille Miglia

Question: What Pope took office on 21 June 1963?
Answer: Paul VI

Question: The Roman Coliseum was built under the direction of which Emperor?
Answer: Vespasian

Question: Which law enforcement agency was established in 1908 as a branch of the U S Department of Justice?
Answer: F B I

Question: What game is set in a mansion where players attempt to solve a murder, the solution requiring the components of "Suspect", "Weapon", and "Room"?
Answer: Cluedo

Question: What playwright wrote many of his plays for the Stephen Joseph Company in Scarborough, UK?
Answer: Alan Ayckbourn

Question: What miners' oil lamp, invented in 1815, had a wire cylinder to enclose the flame, preventing the explosion of coal-gas?
Answer: Davy Lamp

Question: """Trigger"" was the name of the horse belonging to which film cowboy?"
Answer: Roy Rogers

Question: In ballet, what is the name for a dance duet in which ballet steps are performed together?
Answer: Pas de deux

Question: What is someone who makes or repairs stringed instruments called?
Answer: Luthier

Question: What word best describes a triangle where all sides are different lengths?
Answer: Scalene

Question: At the 1968 Olympic Games held at Mexico City, what was the now-universal style introduced to the high jump?
Answer: Fosbury flop

Question: Which artist, born in Leeuwarden in 1898, is famous for his optical illusions such as "Ascending And Descending", "Convex and Concave", and "Metamorphosis I"?
Answer: M C Escher

Question: What is the study of plant diseases?
Answer: Phytopathology

Question: Mahatma Gandhi led Indians in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with what 400 km (249 mile) journey in 1930?
Answer: Dandi Salt March

Question: Which British playwright won the 2005 Nobel Prize for literature?
Answer: Harold Pinter

Question: Who, with his crew, was the first person to circumnavigate the continents of North and South America, including a transit of the North West Passage?
Answer: Sir Robert McClure

Question: In 2004 it was announced that what new fixture was planned for Wimbledons Centre Court, to be completed in 2009?
Answer: A retractable roof

Question: Time On Our Hands, which held the record for the highest UK audience for a sitcom episode from 1996 for over ten years, is from which TV series?
Answer: Only Fools and Horses

Question: Horatio Nelson lost his right eye in which battle?
Answer: Calvi, Corsica

Question: Which Greek mathematician, from the 1st century BC, is best known for the theorem which bears his name and for leading a group who discovered square numbers and proposed that the earth was round, planets have an axis, and they travel around the sun?
Answer: Pythagoras

Question: CRP (or CREEP) was The Committee to Re-elect which US president?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: Which one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus is the only one found in the New World (i.e. Mexico, across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina)?
Answer: Jaguar

Question: Which is the largest of the Channel Islands, where the official language is French?
Answer: Jersey

Question: Who married the woman who was to become Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, on 10 March 1966?
Answer: Prince Claus

Question: What light display in Antarctica is caused by atomic bombardment from the sun on the earth's magnetic field?
Answer: Aurora Australis

Question: Which winner of an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, a Tony and a Pulitzer, wrote musicals with Hart, Hammerstein and Sondheim?
Answer: Richard Rodgers

Question: In the TV series "The Flintstones", who were the parents of Pebbles and Bam Bam?
Answer: Fred & Wilma (Pebbles); Barney & Betty (Bam Bam)

Question: What was the occupation of Vaslav Nijinsky from 1908?
Answer: Dancer and choreographer

Question: In what sport would one use a carabiner and a piton?
Answer: Climbing

Question: What is a navigation instrument used until the 18th century to measure the angles between heavenly bodies, or between them and the horizon?
Answer: Astrolabe

Question: What name for an army unit composed of New Zealand and Australian troops was applied to them in World War I?
Answer: ANZACs

Question: What is the fate of "Carmen" in Bizet's opera?
Answer: She was stabbed to death by her lover

Question: Which film ended with the two main characters driving a car off a cliff?
Answer: Thelma and Louise

Question: What is a collector of coins and medals called?
Answer: Numismatist

Question: What is an apparatus consisting of a frame containing a number of parallel wires on which there are rows of beads which can be moved left and right?
Answer: Abacus

Question: How long was the Hundred Years War, fought between England and France in the 14th and 15th centuries?
Answer: 116 years

Question: In 2014, how many colours are there on the New Zealand flag?
Answer: 3

Question: In 2003, which team broke Australia's winning streak of the World Netball Tournaments since 1971?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: An axolotl is the larva or early form of what?
Answer: Salamander

Question: What is the capital of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada?
Answer: Halifax

Question: Which film, that opens at the annual presentation of the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement, focusses on the personality clash of two stage actresses played by Bette Davis and Anne Baxter?
Answer: All About Eve

Question: Which state donated the land occupied by the US capital city, Washington, District of Columbia?
Answer: Maryland

Question: What is the oldest continuous Olympic team sport?
Answer: Water polo

Question: Around 1910, the White Star Line was building three sister ships: The Titanic, The Gigantic (later named the Britannic) and which other?
Answer: The Olympic

Question: In which nursery rhyme were horses, not unexpectedly, unable to mend an egg?
Answer: Humpty Dumpty ..

Question: Where did Colonel James Bowie and Davy Crockett die fighting Mexican forces?
Answer: Alamo

Question: Which racquet sport game is played by two or four players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball?
Answer: Squash

Question: In England, the Estates of the Realm are the Clergy, the Lords and the Commons. What is known as the "Fourth Estate"?
Answer: The press

Question: What is the name of the bird in the Peanuts comic strip?
Answer: Woodstock

Question: Which country, the capital of which is Monrovia, was founded by the American Colonisation Society in 1820 as a home for freed slaves?
Answer: Liberia