Question: In 2005, what major sporting event was delayed 25 minutes due to the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles?
Answer: Grand National

Question: What is Canada's largest province by area?
Answer: Quebec

Question: What is it called when a surfer falls off the surfboard while riding a wave?
Answer: Wipeout

Question: What gas is used to make carbonated soft drinks and soda water?
Answer: Carbon dioxide

Question: Which recording plays as the first song of the new year in Times Square?
Answer: """Auld Lang Syne"" by Guy Lombardo's The Royal Canadians"

Question: Who was shot by Valery Solanas on 3 June 1968?
Answer: Andy Warhol

Question: When is Shakespeare's play "Troilus and Cressida" set?
Answer: The Trojan War

Question: David Leadbetter and Butch Harmon are coaches in which sport?
Answer: Golf

Question: Members of what family were killed in the Massacre of Glencoe in Scotland, on 13 February 1692?
Answer: McDonald

Question: What is the name of the leg action used in breaststroke?
Answer: Frog kick

Question: What is the highest mountain in Austria?
Answer: Grossglockner

Question: What is the largest inland delta?
Answer: Okavango Delta

Question: Of whom did the Greek philosopher Plutarch write "Plato admits 4 sorts of flattery, but she had 1,000"?
Answer: Cleopatra

Question: What is the occupation of the serial killer hero of the TV series "Dexter"?
Answer: A blood spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department

Question: In what country were measures announced on 22 April 2010 by the Prime Minister to cut consumption of power, affecting the length of the official weekend, signs, government offices, air conditioners, street markets, commercial centers, weddings and wells?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: What are the bottom-most 3 to 5 fused vertebra of the backbone called?
Answer: Coccygeal

Question: What chemical element takes its name from the Roman name for Paris?
Answer: Lutetium

Question: The "Ballad of Chevy Chase" is an old English folk song about what event?
Answer: The Battle of Otterburn

Question: Since 1980, what has been the official country residence of the British Foreign Secretary?
Answer: Chevening

Question: A "parsec" is a measure of what?
Answer: Distance

Question: Memorial Day, formerly known as Decoration Day, a US federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May to commemorate US men and women who died while in the military service, was first commemorated to honour soldiers in which war?
Answer: American Civil War

Question: Who led a team to make the Cumberland Gap, a way through the Appalachian Mountains, accessible to pioneers, who used it to journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee?
Answer: Daniel Boone

Question: """f you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself then make a change"" is a line from what song?"
Answer: Man In The Mirror

Question: Who caused the crash of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, near Cayucos, California, USA on 7 December 1987, by shooting the pilots and killing all 43 people on board?
Answer: David Burke

Question: What sport is featured in "Chariots of Fire", a 1981 film starring Ben Cross?
Answer: Running

Question: A "Howitzer" is a type of what?
Answer: Gun

Question: How many lungs should a human have?
Answer: 2

Question: In cricket, what name is given to a lower-order batsman who comes in to bat higher up the order than usual near the end of the day's play, to maintain most of the strike until the close of play and so protect other, more capable batsmen from being out cheaply in what may be a period of tiredness or in poor light?
Answer: Nightwatchman

Question: Which suit is the most powerful, i.e. apart from no trumps, in Contract Bridge?
Answer: Spades

Question: Who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont, which defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC?
Answer: Lysander

Question: What UK televison programme that has been running since 1979 travels the country and provides the opportunity for people to bring along items and have them valued?
Answer: Antiques Roadshow

Question: Pedology is the study of what?
Answer: Soil

Question: """The Gorbals"" is an area in which city?"
Answer: Glasgow

Question: According to a report by the organisation called "Transparency International", what was the most corrupt country in the world in 2009?
Answer: Somalia

Question: Who wrote the stage play "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice"?
Answer: Jim Cartwright

Question: World War I took place mostly on what continent between 1914 and 1918?
Answer: Europe

Question: What measurement has been used for the intensity of earthquakes?
Answer: Richter scale

Question: What does a mycologist study?
Answer: Fungi

Question: What was the cause of the sinking of the "Lusitania" in May 1915 and the subsequent deaths of 1,198 people?
Answer: She was torpedoed

Question: The tiger is native to which continent?
Answer: Asia

Question: A zebra has the same stripe pattern as which of its relatives?
Answer: None:  each pattern is unique

Question: Asperger's syndrome is believed to a form of what?
Answer: Autism

Question: What is the word for a document issued by a political party before an election that sets out party policies?
Answer: Manifesto

Question: Where was the "Equitable Life Building", the first office building to feature passenger elevators?
Answer: 120 Broadway, New York City, New York

Question: When was the North Atlantic Treaty which established NATO signed?
Answer: 1949

Question: Artist David Hockney was born in what country?
Answer: England

Question: The NBA team the Supersonics is based in which US city?
Answer: Seattle

Question: The now-extinct Elephant Bird, believed to have been 3 metres tall and weigh 500 kg, was believed to have inhabited what area?
Answer: Madagascar

Question: In September 2010, The Beach Boys allegedly threatened a lawsuit due to a line in which song by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg?
Answer: """California Gurls"""

Question: Which country, between 1964 and 1973, became the most bombed country in the world?
Answer: Laos

Question: What kind of beverage is "oolong"?
Answer: Tea

Question: """Wild geese"" was the name given to soldiers who fought as mercenaries in continental armies in the 16th to 18th centuries who were from which country?"
Answer: Ireland

Question: What was Victoria Beckham's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
Answer: Posh

Question: In November 1963, a place called Dealey Plaza become famous for what event?
Answer: The assassination of John F Kennedy

Question: Who directed the 2005 film "Munich"?
Answer: Steven Spielberg

Question: The satellite "Aryabhata", launched on 19 April 1975, to conduct experiments in X-ray astronomy, aeronomics, and solar physics, was built by which country?
Answer: India

Question: On the buttons of a tape, VCR or DVD player, what does the sign in the shape of a single right pointing arrow mean?
Answer: Play

Question: Kerkyra is what the locals call what island?
Answer: Corfu

Question: The word plagiarism comes from the Latin word meaning what?
Answer: Kidnapping

Question: Who was sent by the African Association in 1795 to find the source of the River Niger?
Answer: Mungo Park

Question: What is the next in this series: 2000, Me, XP, Vista ...
Answer: 7

Question: What was the stage name of Brenda Mae Tarpley, an American singer of rockabilly, pop and country music who had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s (a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis) and was best known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry"?
Answer: Brenda Lee

Question: What is the world's longest traffic (railway or road) tunnel?
Answer: Seikan Tunnel that connects the islands of Honsh and Hokkaid

Question: What is the main ingredient in "yellowcake"?
Answer: Uranium

Question: What is a word game where paragraphs are written in which a particular letter or group of letters is omitted?
Answer: Lipogram