Question: What is the name of the main tournament course at St Andrews Golf Club?
Answer: The Old Course

Question: What French political scandal involved the sentencing of an artillery officer to life imprisonment for treason in 1894, who was exonerated and reinstated to the French Army in 1906 after the discovery that the French government had fabricated evidence?
Answer: The Dreyfus Affair

Question: Who is quoted as saying "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"?
Answer: Isaac Newton

Question: Which of his children did Michael Jackson famously hang over a hotel balcony?
Answer: Blanket

Question: What was the main activity of a group founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, and Ulrike Meinhof?
Answer: Terrorism

Question: The Macrocarpa tree is native to what continent?
Answer: North America

Question: What part of the body removes old red blood cells, holds a reserve of blood in case of haemorrhagic shock and recycles iron?
Answer: Spleen

Question: What is the setting for the Lord of the Rings trilogy?
Answer: Middle Earth

Question: Motorcycle speedway riders compete over how many anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit?
Answer: 4

Question: During the reign of Ashurbanipal who reigned in the seventh century BC, the SusaBabylon highway became the first recorded example of what?
Answer: Toll road

Question: What word describes the surface of the palms on the human body?
Answer: Volar

Question: What was initiated by British conductor Sir Henry Wood?
Answer: The Proms

Question: What country in Southeast Asia about 640 km (400 miles) northwest of Australia that occupies half of one island and two smaller ones, was colonised by Portugal in the 16th century, declared independence on 28 November 1975, was invaded by Indonesia 9 days later and became a sovereign state on 20 May 2002?
Answer: East Timor

Question: Former New York City police chief Bernard Kerik, appointed US homeland security chief in 2004, was imprisoned for 4 years in February 2010 for what reason?
Answer: Tax fraud

Question: What sign of the zodiac is represented by a goat?
Answer: Capricorn

Question: Which country occupies the islands called Luzon, Panay, Negros, Cebu, Mindanao, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi?
Answer: Philippines

Question: What was "The Hindenburg Line"?
Answer: A system of defences in northeastern France during World War I

Question: What was the first US city to host an Olympic Games?
Answer: St Louis

Question: Where did retired three-time World Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali light the Olympic flame?
Answer: Atlanta

Question: A song from the musical "Evita" is "Don't cry for me ... " where?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Sheep, which are aged by their teeth, are referred to by the number of permanent incisors that have erupted. About how old is a "six-tooth"?
Answer: 2 to 3 years

Question: Of the 6 Winter Olympics held between 1988 and 2006, how many were outside of Europe?
Answer: 3

Question: What country was forced to withdraw from the British Commonwealth in 1961 and was reinstated in 1994?
Answer: South Africa

Question: What is the title of the head of government of Ireland, similar to that of a Prime Minister, who is nominated by the lower house and appointed by the President?
Answer: The Taoiseach

Question: Penfold is the sidekick of which British animated super hero / secret agent?
Answer: DangerMouse

Question: The first Commonwealth Games, then called the Empire Games, was held where, in 1930?
Answer: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Question: What is the first on the list if these words are sorted based on the penultimate letter of each word?
Answer: March

Question: On what continent is The Gambia?
Answer: Africa

Question: What is the largest city in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada?
Answer: Saskatoon

Question: When did the USA officially enter World War II?
Answer: 1941

Question: In the words of the old song, "My old man said 'Follow the van, and don't ... what ... On the way' "?
Answer: Dilly dally

Question: Who was the first person to defeat Muhammad Ali during his professional career?
Answer: Joe Frazier

Question: The Battle of Midway, fought between 4 and 7 June 1942, was an important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Why was it called that?
Answer: It was fought near Midway Atoll

Question: Cassius Chaerea led the assassination of which Roman emperor during the Palatine games in January 41AD?
Answer: Caligula

Question: Which 1945 Italian film about the Italian Resistance Movement, made on location during the war to a script by Roberto Rossellini, Sergio Amidei and Frederico Fellini, was virtually unnoticed in Italy but caused a stir when smuggled to New York and London?
Answer: Rome, Open City

Question: In September 2003, who was the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open wicker basket beneath a hot air balloon?
Answer: David Hempleman-Adams

Question: It is believed that the first of what type of business was opened in 1936 in Fort Worth, Texas by Noah Brannen?
Answer: Washateria

Question: What is Paris Hilton famous for?
Answer: Being Paris Hilton

Question: Dodge Morgan, who became famous in 1986 at age 54 when he sailed solo around the globe without stops in 150 days (breaking the record of 292 days), had become a millionaire by operating a company that manufactured what from 1971 to 1983?
Answer: Radar detectors

Question: In Greek mythology, which winged horse sprang from the body of Medusa after her death?
Answer: Pegasus

Question: What was tuberculosis previously known as?
Answer: Consumption

Question: Ernest Lawrence of the University of California, Berkeley, is credited with the development in 1929 of what type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged particles using a high-frequency, alternating voltage in a perpendicular magnetic field, causing them to spiral and encounter the accelerating voltage many times?
Answer: Cyclotron

Question: What is the next number in the sequence 1, 7, 10, 13, 19, 23, 28, 31, 32, 44, 49, 68, 70, 79, 82, 86, 91, 94, 97, 100, 103, 109, 129, 130 ... ?
Answer: 133

Question: What people traditionally dance a hornpipe?
Answer: Sailors

Question: The first recorded fatality of a car accident in the USA was Henry Bliss, on 13 September 1899. Where was it?
Answer: New York City

Question: What is a British comic strip character created by Reg Smythe, first published in August 1957, now written by Roger Mahoney (artist) and Roger Kettle (writer)?
Answer: Andy Capp

Question: What scale is used for rating tornado intensity, based on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation?
Answer: The Fujita scale

Question: Who is the patron saint of Wales?
Answer: St David

Question: What are the main ingredients of a Snow White salad?
Answer: Yoghurt and cucumber

Question: Who sang on a record released in November 2010, "Boom boom boom, even brighter than the moon moon moon"?
Answer: Katy Perry

Question: Barry Bonds is an all-time great in what sport?
Answer: Baseball

Question: Oberon is a moon of which planet?
Answer: Uranus

Question: The Wimbledon tennis tournament that takes place annually in late June and early July runs for how long?
Answer: Two weeks

Question: Benjamin Franklin is usually credited with the creation of the first pair of what items of optical equipment in the early 1760s?
Answer: Bifocals

Question: In the phoenetic alphabet, what is represented by the letter "J"?
Answer: Juliet

Question: What dish would you expect if you asked for "funghi" in an Italian restaurant?
Answer: Mushrooms

Question: What do Robbie Williams, Pet Shop Boys, Sir Paul McCartney, Oasis, Paul Weller, Bob Geldof, Duran Duran, Tom Jones, Sting, U2 and the Spice Girls have in common?
Answer: Winning the "Outstanding contribution" BRIT award

Question: What was the name of the last of the six space shuttles that was built?
Answer: Endeavour