Question: What's the 2-word anti-Vietnam War poster which got its title from the conversation of a CBS reporter and a US soldier?
Answer: And babies

Question: The Condor Legion of the Luftwaffe is best-known for the bombing of what place which was subsequently immortalized in art?
Answer: Guernica in 1937

Question: The Three Pashas of the Ottoman Empire organized what 'fledgling' political group during the early 20th century whose name has now become synonymous with any internal reform group?
Answer: Young Turks

Question: What was the code name of the war game that NATO conducted in Belgium in 1983 the events surrounding which led to the closest brush to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: Able Archer 83

Question: What major 1915 campaign of the First World War is also called as the Battle of Çanakkale and is credited with shaping the consciousness of more than one country?
Answer: Gallipoli campaign

Question: The Wars of the Diadochi were a series of conflicts fought for the control of an empire after whose death?
Answer: Alexander the Great

Question: The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 that was fought in places like Cawnpore, Lucknow before ending in Gwalior is said to be the first war of independence in the history of which country?
Answer: India

Question: What name was given by pilots of the US Air Force to the area of North Korea considered the birthplace of jet fighter combat as it saw numerous dog fights during the Korean War?
Answer: Mig Alley

Question: The Population Registration Act which required that each inhabitant be classified in accordance with their racial characteristics was passed by which country in 1950?
Answer: South Africa (as part of the system of apartheid)

Question: What diplomatic crisis ended with the signing of the Algiers Accords in January, 1981?
Answer: Iran hostage crisis

Question: If the Chinese are associated with the Long March in the 20th century, who are associated with the Great Trek in Africa in the 19th century?
Answer: Boers

Question: The remarkable 2006 film The Lives of Others chronicles the inner workings of which dreaded European state security organization that existed from 1950 to 1989?
Answer: East Germany's Stasi

Question: What were the military units made up of volunteers from different countries who traveled to defend the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) called?
Answer: International Brigades

Question: On 2 August 1943, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri rammed into which boat commanded by someone who was to become famous in the future?
Answer: PT-109, commanded by JFK

Question: Sengbe Pieh (1813–ca.1879), later known as Joseph Cinqué was a West African man and the most prominent defendant in which 1841 case in American history named for a ship?
Answer: Amistad case

Question: The ship SS St. Louis is most famous for a single voyage in 1939, when it sailed from Hamburg to Cuba, tried to get to Canada unsuccesfully, and then to England, France, Belgium and Holland. What was it carrying?
Answer: Jewish passengers

Question: Sometimes called the greatest of the lyric poets of ancient Greece, whose house in Thebes was spared from demolition by Alexander the Great in recognition of the complimentary works the poet composed for one of his ancestors?
Answer: Pindar (c.522 BC - 443 BC)

Question: What 1990s theory proposed by the political scientist Samuel Huntington contends that cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world?
Answer: Clash of Civilizations

Question: What was the topic of the only official editorial that Time ever published? (hint: It happened in 1974)
Answer: Call for the resignation of Nixon

Question: The celebrated spy Eli Cohen is credited with being a deciding factor in the outcome of what war of the 20th century that didn't even last a week?
Answer: Six-Day War (1967)

Question: In a 2004 interview to The Telegraph, an inmate in Russia's Petak prison claimed that he knifed two women out of sheer boredom and then asked the interviewer if he is familiar with which author?
Answer: Dostoyevsky

Question: Which person who supposedly sailed on Lord Ligonier that arrived at Annapolis in September 1767 had his life dramatized in a book as well as a television series?
Answer: Kunta Kinte (Roots)

Question: American poet Dixon Lanier Merritt's well-known limerick is about what bird?
Answer: Pelican

Question: A 1986 book on the pivotal role of six Cold War diplomats including Dean Acheson and George Kennan had what title evoking a certain Biblical trio?
Answer: The Wise Men

Question: The award winning 2005 children's book And Tango Makes Three has been subject to much controversy as it was seen to be highlighting what behavior in the animal kingdom?
Answer: Homosexuality

Question: In March 1989, Britain and Iran broke diplomatic relations over what reason related to literature?
Answer: Fatwa on Salman Rushdie

Question: What sonnet of Irish poet Seamus Heaney, a tribute to a long-running bulletin from BBC, starts as "Dogger, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea"?
Answer: The Shipping Forecast

Question: What is the name of the castle in Mervyn Peake's series of fantasy novels that has now come to mean any sprawling complex?
Answer: Gormenghast

Question: In Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola, the children's tale of magic gone awry, a town in Italy is buried in an avalanche of what?
Answer: Pasta

Question: What 1904 story by M. R. James in which the protagonist finds an antique artifact with undesirable consequences gets its ominously inviting title from a 1793 Robert Burns poem/song?
Answer: Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad

Question: A controversial 1994 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein whose premise is that genes and environment are predictors of intelligence is titled after what statistical function?
Answer: Bell curve

Question: The central character of which 1919 novel is the reporter George Willard to whom the denizens of a certain American Midwest town confide their secrets?
Answer: Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Question: The global think tank that attracted considerable attention with its 1972 publication of The Limits of Growth is called 'The Club of' what European city?
Answer: Rome

Question: What 1874 nonsense poem in which the objective is to find an 'inconceivable creature' features a crew of ten whose descriptions all begin with the letter B? (hint: not Jabberwocky)
Answer: The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Question: What concocted 1903 text that asserts a Jewish plan to take over the world is sometimes cited as Hitler's justification for the Holocaust?
Answer: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Question: According to J. K. Rowling's Quidditch Through the Ages, what are said to be more popular than broomsticks for playing Quidditch in India, Pakistan and Iran?
Answer: Flying carpets

Question: Which 1844 novel of William Makepeace Thackeray, later adapted into a movie by Stanley Kubrick, is based on the life of an Anglo-Irish fortune-hunter called Andrew Robinson Stoney?
Answer: The Luck of Barry Lyndon

Question: In July 2010, who was announced as the first author to sell more than one million books in Amazon's Kindle? Were he alive, he probably would have gotten a dragon tattoo.
Answer: Stieg Larsson

Question: Which classic 1951 sci-fi novel that also served as an inspiration for the movie 28 Days Later starts with the protagonist waking up in a hospital to find the world eerily quiet?
Answer: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

Question: The favorite expression of which belle from the Southern United States is "God's Nightgown!"?
Answer: Scarlett O'Hara

Question: Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the titular character of what controversial 1928 book?
Answer: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence