Question: Used till the 2000s when it was supplanted by superior technology, what was the camera system that was used to judge service line calls in tennis which took its name from Greek myth?
Answer: Cyclops

Question: The policy of banning weapons enforced in Okinawa in medieval Japan influenced the development of what combat technique from Ryukyu Islands?
Answer: Karate

Question: What 'intoxicating' practice of the sporting world was started in 1967 by 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Dan Gurney?
Answer: Spraying champagne

Question: Which European soccer club is named after the goddess of youth in Roman mythology whose Greek equivalent name is Hebe?
Answer: Juventus

Question: In September 2002, when this lady beat a certain gentleman, it was not only the first time in that sport's history that a female player beat the world's No. 1 player, it was also the first time in any sport that the No. 1 ranked male player has lost to the No. 1 ranked female player. Whom/what are we talking about?
Answer: Judith Polgár beating Garry Kasparov

Question: Duke Kahanamoku, an Olympic swimming champion during the years of 1912 and 1924 is credited with popularizing which sport?
Answer: Surfing

Question: What is the maximum score that can be achived in a single game of bowling? And how many perfect throws?
Answer: 300; 12

Question: What medieval sport is the official sport of Maryland as well as the first to be made an official sport by an American state?
Answer: Ring jousting

Question: Although a total of 43 clubs have competed in the English Premier League since its 1992 inception, how many teams have won the title as of 2009?
Answer: Only four (Arsenal, Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, and Manchester United)

Question: An attempt to run round the perimeter of the Great Court in the time during the clock striking twelve is a tradition at which hallowed institution?
Answer: Trinity College, Cambridge

Question: What nickname was given to the New York Yankees baseball team of the late 1920s, in particular to the first six hitters in the 1927 team lineup?
Answer: Murderer's Row

Question: Which type of race originated in the British Isles where runners raced from one town's ___ to the next where the ___'s were used as markers due to their visibility over long distances? Along the way runners inevitably had to jump creeks and low stone walls separating estates.
Answer: Steeplechase (the missing word is steeple)

Question: In which year did Burges and Maclean defect?
Answer: 1951

Question: By what name is the 16th century painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos better known?
Answer: 'El Greco'

Question: The Ebro is the second largest river in which country?
Answer: Spain.

Question: What nationality was golfer Bobby Locke?
Answer: South African

Question: If you suffered from Apnoea, what would you be unable to do?
Answer: Breathe

Question: Strongly associated with Shirley Bassey, the song 'Big Spender' comes from which musical?
Answer: 'Sweet Charity'

Question: The song 'Hello Young Lovers', comes from which musical?
Answer: 'The King And I'

Question: Sometimes used in Staff recruitment, what name is given to the Science of measuring mental capacities and processes?
Answer: Psychometrics

Question: In which 1972 John Boorman film is a leading character, played by Ned Beatty, raped by a 'Hillbilly'?
Answer: 'Deliverance'

Question: In which decade of the last century were 'the Samaritans'founded?
Answer: 1950's (1953)

Question: Broccoli and Cauliflower are members of which vegetable family?
Answer: Brassica

Question: Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera has the subtitle 'The Statutory Duel'?
Answer: 'The Grand Duke'

Question: In 1960, who became the first President of the newly independent Zaire. A Moscow University was named after him?
Answer: Patrice Lumumba

Question: What is the capital of Slovakia?
Answer: Bratislava

Question: In February 1984, which ex-PM was awarded an earldom on his 90th birthday?
Answer: Harold Macmillan

Question: Which Polish-born cosmetic maker's autobiography is entitled 'My Life Of Beauty'?
Answer: Helena Rubenstein

Question: Name the 1968 novel by Johnle Carreset at a time of unrest and resurgent neo-Nazism?
Answer: 'A Small Town In Germany'

Question: Which motor company owns the truck maker, 'Scania '?
Answer: Saab

Question: Which confederation of North European cities dominated the Baltic and North Sea trade in the late Middle Ages?
Answer: The Hanseatic League

Question: In which town or city was Frederick Delius born?
Answer: Bradford

Question: In the Bible, who was the first-born of Isaac?
Answer: Esau

Question: Which pre-Socratic philosopher, born in the city of Miletus in the 7th century BC, is regarded as 'The Father of Science' and the first modern western philosopher?
Answer: Thales

Question: Deriving from the Greek for 'thick', what name is given to any class of sub-atomic particle that is composed of quarks, and is thus affected by the strong nuclear force?
Answer: Hadron

Question: Which fashion designer founded the Kings Road clothes shop Bazaar in 1955?
Answer: Mary Quant

Question: Prior to the introduction of the Euro, which coin was equal to one-hundredth of a French Franc?
Answer: Centime

Question: Who wrote the 1909 opera 'The Golden Cockerel'?
Answer: Nickolai Rimsky- Korsakov

Question: In 2009, Sean Penn won the 'Oscar' for Best Actor for his role in which film?
Answer: 'Milk'

Question: Also featuring 'Dizzee Rascal', who had a number two hit in February 2010 with 'You Got The Dirtee Love'?
Answer: 'Florence And The Machine'

Question: After Mexico and Spain, which country has the third largest Spanish-speaking population?
Answer: Columbia

Question: Which late 19th and early 20th century art movement takes its name from the French for 'wild beasts'?
Answer: Fauvism

Question: The name of which 20th century art movement means 'hobby-horse' in French?
Answer: Dada

Question: Which Shakespearean character dies with the words, "The rest is silence"?
Answer: 'Hamlet'

Question: There are two Czech tennis players currently ranked in the Men's top twenty. Name either?
Answer: RADEK STEPANEK or THOMAS BERDYCH

Question: If an animal is described as 'riparian', where would it live?
Answer: On A Riverbank

Question: In which country are the headquarters of the clothing company 'H & M'?
Answer: Sweden

Question: What was the middle name of the decorative artist Louis Tiffany?
Answer: Comfort

Question: Which king excluded his wife, Caroline of Brunswick, from his Coronation?
Answer: George Iv

Question: Which recent BBC drama starring Hermione Norris and Liam Cunningham was set on the planet Carpathia?
Answer: 'Outcasts'

Question: At which ground in Rome do Italy play home games in the Six Nations Rugby Union tournament?
Answer: Stadio Flaminio

Question: Gene Hackman won the Best Actor 'Oscar' for his role as 'Popeye Doyle' in which film?
Answer: 'The French Connection'

Question: Roissy/Charles de Gaulle and Le Bourget are two of Paris' airports. Name the third?
Answer: Orly

Question: Whose Symphony #45 is called 'The Farewell'?
Answer: Joseph Haydn

Question: Name either of the main presenters of 'Blue Peter'?
Answer: BARNEY HARWOOD or HELEN SKELTON

Question: Which 1932 novel has characters 'Flora Poste', 'Seth Starkadder' and 'Adam Lambsbreath'?
Answer: 'Cold Comfort Farm'

Question: Whose album '21' topped the UK charts for 18 weeks last year?
Answer: 'Adele'

Question: Which is the most easterly of these Libyan cities: Benghazi, Misrata, Sirte, Tobruk, Tripoli?
Answer: Tobruk

Question: In the 2009 film 'The Gruffalo', who voiced the 'Gruffalo'?
Answer: Robbie Coltrane

Question: Which actress is married to singer Chris Martin?
Answer: Gwyneth Paltrow

Question: Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories. One of the territories is Northwest Territories. Name either of the other two?
Answer: NUNAVUT or YUKON