Question: Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 23 July 2011) an English singer and songwriter known for her deep contralto vocals and her work in a wdie range of musical genres including R&B;, soul and jazz, is recorded as dying from what cause?
Answer: Alcohol poisoning

Question: The "Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests In The Atmosphere, In Outer Space And Under Water", known as the "Partial Test Ban Treaty", "Limited Test Ban Treaty" and "Nuclear Test Ban Treaty", introduced in 1963, was signed by a number of countries including the UK, the USA and which other?
Answer: Ussr

Question: On 17 June 1994, what vehicle was O J Simpson driving in a slow-speed chase by police at 35 miles per hour (56 km/h)?
Answer: Ford Bronco

Question: The adjectival clause in the following sentence begins with which word: "Roger told his dog, which had just come inside, not to jump with such vigour on the brand new furniture"?
Answer: Which

Question: In which city was the Reichstag burnt down in 1933?
Answer: Berlin

Question: What does a tennis player score when he has no points?
Answer: Love

Question: The chemical compound trinitrotoluene is what colour when solid?
Answer: Pale yellow

Question: Who became the World Superbike Champion in 2005?
Answer: Troy Corser

Question: What planet orbits between Uranus and Pluto?
Answer: Neptune

Question: What Shakespearean play begins "When shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning or in rain"?
Answer: Macbeth

Question: Stalactites and stalagmites are formed from what?
Answer: Limestone

Question: A team from which country won the World Elephant Polo Association world championship in 2004 and 2005?
Answer: Scotland

Question: Where is the TV series "Ally McBeal" set?
Answer: Boston

Question: Who was England's goalkeeper when they won the soccer World Cup Final in 1966?
Answer: Gordon Banks

Question: Who created the framework for the Virginia Plan, that structured the US Government into three branches?
Answer: James Madison

Question: The TT on the Isle of Man, first run in 1905, is for what?
Answer: Motorcycles

Question: Who was the first person (and only person, except for "Sergeant Pepper") other than The Beatles themselves, to have their image on the front cover of a Beatles LP?
Answer: Klaus Voorman

Question: The first interracial kiss in a US TV drama series was in 1968 on what show?
Answer: Star Trek

Question: The US Congress passed legislation in late June 2008 to provide Mexico with $400 million and Central American countries with $65 million in a relation to what activity?
Answer: Drug trafficking, organized crime & money laundering

Question: In the British army, how many chevrons does a sergeant wear on his arm?
Answer: 3

Question: What term describes a deep ravine with sloping sides that is often dry in summer?
Answer: Coulee

Question: Which epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia is believed to have originated as a series of Sumerian legends and poems about a hero-king, which were gathered into a longer Akkadian poem much later?
Answer: The Epic of Gilgamesh

Question: The head of state of the Isle of Man, which is a Crown dependency and not part of the United Kingdom, is Queen Elizabeth II. She rules there because she holds what title?
Answer: Lord of Mann

Question: What was the occupation of the George Eliot character of Silas Marner?
Answer: Weaver

Question: In their original Greek version, what architectural style of fluted column stood directly on the flat pavement (the stylobate) of a temple without a base, topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus at the intersection with the horizontal beam (entablature) that they carried?
Answer: Doric

Question: Who married British actress and producer Trudi Styler in 1992?
Answer: Sting

Question: Queen Rania is queen in which country?
Answer: Jordan

Question: What is the name of the engraved stone, discovered in 1799, that provided a key to deciphering the languages of ancient Egypt?
Answer: Rosetta Stone

Question: What is the simple past tense of the verb "swim"?
Answer: Swam

Question: The Broads, a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes, are mainly in which English county?
Answer: Norfolk

Question: A clavichord is what type of instrument?
Answer: Keyboard

Question: Who was the Formula One racing driver's champion in 1963 and 1965?
Answer: Jim Clark

Question: Which 19th century American writer is best known for his "Tales of Mystery and Suspense", "Tales of the Arabesque and the Grotesque", and his poems "The Raven", "The Bells" and "Annabel Lee"?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: What is the name for the shape of a proscenium in a theatre?
Answer: The proscenium arch

Question: Which cricketer scored 158 runs in 2005 to secure the ashes for England?
Answer: Kevin Pietersen

Question: What does FRCP after someone's name mean?
Answer: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

Question: In which state of Australia would you find the Snowy Mountains?
Answer: New South Wales

Question: Four countries have observer status to the Arab League, which entitles them to express their opinion and give advice but denies them voting rights. They are Eritrea, Brazil, Venezuela and which other?
Answer: India

Question: What was the last dynasty of emperors in China, on the throne when China became a republic in 1912?
Answer: Quing

Question: The German bandwurm word "rindfleischetikettierungsuberwachungsaufgabenubertragungsgesetz" became famous in early June 2013 for what reason?
Answer: It was officially removed from the German language

Question: Susan, Lucy, Edmund and Peter Pevensie are children who appear in what 2005 film, based on the novel by C. S. Lewis?
Answer: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Question: Sometimes thought of as the Stone of the Hebrew Old Testament Jacob, also known as Jacob's Pillow, the Stone of Destiny, and, most usually, as the Stone of Scone what has it been used for?
Answer: The coronation variously of the monarchs of Scotland, England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom

Question: A 1986 film starring Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann, described as "one of Britain's biggest cult films", is what " ... and I"?
Answer: Withnail

Question: Who is the only US president to have served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as both the 22nd and 24th president?
Answer: Grover Cleveland

Question: The Richter scale measures the intensity of what?
Answer: Earthquakes

Question: Thomas Hughes wrote about the schooldays of which of the Browns?
Answer: Tom

Question: The left and right ventricles and the left and right atriums are found where in the human body?
Answer: Heart

Question: What was the first standardised system of measurement established in Mesopotamia?
Answer: Royal gur-cube

Question: The Great Fire of London in 1666 happened when which King was on the British throne?
Answer: Charles II

Question: What robe is part of Japanese traditional costume?
Answer: Kimono

Question: A drake is the adult male of which bird?
Answer: Duck

Question: When was windsurfing accepted as an Olympic sport?
Answer: 1984

Question: Tolstoy's book "War and Peace" is set when?
Answer: Napoleonic Wars

Question: What plant, a bushy herb of the mint family, has a heavy, strong scent, and has been used for centuries in perfumes?
Answer: Patchouli

Question: What is the name of the airport at Salzburg?
Answer: W. A. Mozart Airport

Question: Who was the (subsequently) Pulitzer-Prize-winning American playwright who wrote "The Odd Couple"?
Answer: Neil Simon

Question: What is a mythological "xana"?
Answer: Fairy

Question: What is a Chinese-inspired meat dumpling-style snack food that normally consists of a large ball of pork or other meat, cabbage and flavourings, encased in a wrapper similar to that of a more traditional dumpling?
Answer: Dim sim