Question: What is the world's largest international hospitality education institution with 29 schools on 5 continents?
Answer: Le cordon bleu

Question: What ancient Sumerian city stood on the banks of the Euphrates River between 3200 and 2300 BC?
Answer: Ur

Question: The Rock of Gibraltar and Mt Abyla on the African coast were known as what?
Answer: The Pillars of Hercules

Question: What word is used in mathematics to mean "if and only if"?
Answer: Iff

Question: In 1946, what did the USA offer to buy for $100,000,000?
Answer: Greenland

Question: At which racecourse would you find Beecher's Brook and Canal Turn?
Answer: Aintree

Question: At which Olympiad did the Olympic symbol of five rings officially debut?
Answer: 1920, Antwerp

Question: The volcano Mt Pinatubo is in which country?
Answer: The Philippines

Question: Which country traditionally leads the opening parade of the Olympic Games?
Answer: Greece

Question: At an auction in New York in March 2009, Vijay Mallya made international news by buying personal items belonging to whom?
Answer: Mahatma Ghandi

Question: Of what were He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan, Yang Yilin and Deng Linlin accused at the 2008 Olympic Games?
Answer: They were under-age

Question: Who first crossed the Atlantic non-stop by air on 14 June 1919 in a Vickers Vimy from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland?
Answer: Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Brown

Question: What best selling novel begins "The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail"?
Answer: Jaws

Question: The United Nations Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco on which day?
Answer: 26 June 1945

Question: In what board game do players compete to acquire wealth through buying, renting, and trading properties, with the object of bankrupting the other players?
Answer: Monopoly

Question: To whom did a crowd ouside the White House chant "Na, na, na, na - hey, hey - goodbye" in January 2009?
Answer: George W Bush

Question: A campanile is built to contain what?
Answer: Bells

Question: As of 2009, who is the only winner of a Formula One Drivers' championship to do so in a car bearing his own name?
Answer: Jack Brabham

Question: Which 17th century English poet is famous for "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agonistes"?
Answer: John Milton

Question: Which machine game is the basis for a storyline in "Friends" ("The One Where Joey Dates Rachel"), where Chandler enters crude words onto the game's high-score screen and has Phoebe try to beat his scores (removing them) before Ross's young son arrives?
Answer: Ms. Pac-Man

Question: What is the name for an alcoholic preparation of opium widely used in the 18th and 19th centuries to treat a number of different complaints?
Answer: Laudanum

Question: King George VI had two daughters: Elizabeth Alexandra Mary and which other?
Answer: Margaret Rose

Question: In 1985 the Greenpeace protest ship "Rainbow Warrior" was bombed and sunk by French agents in which harbour?
Answer: Auckland, New Zealand

Question: In music, which word means "lively" or "animated"?
Answer: Vivace

Question: Where are The Prince Edward Islands, two islands named Marion Island and Prince Edward Island, which are politically part of South Africa?
Answer: Indian Ocean

Question: By what name is the writer Alfred Maximovitch Peshkov better known?
Answer: Maxim Gorky

Question: Which canal joins the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
Answer: Panama

Question: Which strong man appears in the Bible in the Book of Judges?
Answer: Samson

Question: What name is given to a revolving tray that is usually placed in the middle of a dining table?
Answer: Lazy Susan

Question: Which lake in Canada has the same name as a constellation?
Answer: Great Bear

Question: Who married film star Grace Kelly in April 1956?
Answer: Prince Rainier of Monaco

Question: What was the name of the first of the space shuttles that was used only for testing purposes?
Answer: Enterprise

Question: Ronan Keating was a member of which band?
Answer: Boyzone

Question: What is the name of the major Greek stadium in Athens that was the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies, athletics events and the football (soccer) final at the 2004 Summer Olympics?
Answer: The Olympic Stadium

Question: Which islands in the South Pacific between New Guinea and South America were annexed by France in 1842?
Answer: Marquesas

Question: Which inert gas with a density 2.8 that of air was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1895?
Answer: Krypton

Question: What Indian word was used by the Portuguese for army servants and became applied by British to Asiatic seamen?
Answer: Lascars

Question: The revolver, with a single barrel and a number of chambers for cartridges fired by a one-lock mechanism, was patented in 1835 by whom?
Answer: Samuel Colt

Question: Which sport holds its World Cup, its largest tournament event, including over 3,000 athletes and held each October at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Kissimmee, Florida?
Answer: Paintball

Question: What reddish-brown bean-shaped organs lies in the abdomen just under the diaphragm, one on each side of the backbone?
Answer: Kidneys

Question: Macular degeneration affects what part of the body?
Answer: Eyes

Question: Who won gold for the individual pursuit at the Track Cycling World Championships in 2009?
Answer: Alison Shanks

Question: The borders of which country which became independent in 1971 were established with the partition of Bengal and India in 1947, when the region became the eastern wing of the newly formed Pakistan?
Answer: Bangladesh

Question: Which gas is the most common in the earth's atmosphere?
Answer: Nitrogen

Question: What name was given to the political scandal in the USA 1970s that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, President of the United States, on August 9, 1974 and the indictment and conviction of several of his officials?
Answer: Watergate

Question: Big Ben is in which London building?
Answer: Houses of Parliament

Question: Which trophy, damaged by Benjamin Peri Nathan with a sledgehammer in March 1997, was restored to its original condition, free of charge, by London silversmiths Garrard & Co., who had made it in 1848?
Answer: The Americas Cup

Question: Which university, in 1878, was the first in Britain to make all degrees open to women?
Answer: University of London

Question: What is the next in the series 1, 4, 25, 676?
Answer: 458329

Question: What secret organisation of Irishmen in the Scranton Anthracite Mining district of Pennsylvania 1865 - 1875, was in violent conflict with the mine owners?
Answer: Molly Maguires

Question: In which 1925 silent film, directed by Fred Niblo, were extras offered a prize of $100 to the winner to make a race more exciting, resulting in a horrendous crash that remains in the movie?
Answer: Ben-Hur

Question: Which country was represented by Hanni Wenzel, who won the women's giant slalom and slalom at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics in 1980?
Answer: Liechtenstein

Question: What gambling game is based on a wheel with 37 compartments?
Answer: Roulette

Question: In the 7th to 9th century, which kingdom of England was between the Thames and the Trent?
Answer: Mercia

Question: Who succeeded Lenin as the leader of the Soviet Union when he died in 1924?
Answer: Joseph Stalin

Question: Who became the King of Sweden on 15 September 1973?
Answer: King Carl XVI Gustaf

Question: Where does kapok, use for stuffing mattresses and cushions, come from?
Answer: Trees

Question: Sun Myung Moon is known as the founder of what movement?
Answer: Unification Church

Question: At the medal ceremonies for events at the Olympics, national anthems are played for those who have which placing(s)?
Answer: First place