Question: What hipster city has been called a place where young people go to retire?
Answer: Portland

Question: What union do nearly 100,000 employess of Ford and GM belong to?
Answer: The United Auto Workers

Question: What is the best-selling type of lettuce in the United States?
Answer: Iceberg

Question: Whose failed business ventures include vodka, steaks, an airline, a casino, and a "university"?
Answer: Donald Trump

Question: In the "Peanuts" comic strip, what Halloween spirit does Linus believe in?
Answer: The Great Pumpkin

Question: What cable station broadcasts the proceedings of U.S. Congress?
Answer: C-Span

Question: What Crayola crayon color, starting with the letter P, is a pale blue?
Answer: Periwinkle

Question: What happened to both Patty Hearst and Charles Lindbergh Jr.?
Answer: They Were Kidnapped

Question: What's the best-selling variety of Girl Scout cookies?
Answer: Thin Mints

Question: What Tennessee senator was also an actor who starred in "Law & Order" and "The Hunt for Red October"?
Answer: Fred Thompson

Question: What state's capital city is Charleston?
Answer: West Virginia

Question: What was the wrestling nickname of former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura?
Answer: The Body

Question: Who replaced Charlie Sheen on "Two And A Half Men"?
Answer: Ashton Kutcher

Question: If I have two Benjamins, three Jacksons and a Hamilton, how much money do I have?
Answer: $270

Question: What criminal was famously pursued by Eliot Ness?
Answer: Al Capone

Question: In what New York neighborhood would one find the Apollo Theater?
Answer: Harlem

Question: Who was at the center of the square in the opening credits to "The Brady Bunch"?
Answer: Alice

Question: A valedictorian is the person who finishes first in their class. What is the name for the person who finishes second?
Answer: Salutatorian

Question: What is the biggest city in Maricopa county?
Answer: Phoenix

Question: What mountain range, starting with the letter B, can be found in western Massachusetts?
Answer: The Berkshires

Question: What is the tallest type of tree in the U.S. (and also the world)?
Answer: Coast Redwood

Question: What city in Rhode Island is famous for its many mansions built during the late 1800's?
Answer: Newport

Question: What city in Minnesota borders Lake Superior?
Answer: Duluth

Question: What unusual religious group are numerous in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania?
Answer: Amish

Question: What type of moss commonly grows on Live Oak and Bald Cypress trees in the southeast?
Answer: Spanish Moss

Question: Which state has the lowest population density?
Answer: Alaska

Question: What desert, starting with the letter M, can be found in southeast California?
Answer: Mojave Desert

Question: Michael O'Hehir (pronounced O'Hair) was, for many years, a commentator for the BBC on which sporting event?
Answer: The Grand National

Question: What name is given to the boards which protect the ends of the roof timbers at the gable end of a house?
Answer: Bargeboards

Question: Which French wine region, North of Lyons, produces Chiroubles and Saint Amour red wines?
Answer: Beaujolais

Question: Who is the first Scotsman to appear on the reverse of an Bank of England banknote?
Answer: Adam Smith

Question: Which British musician had U.K. No 1 hits with his instrumental versions of the tunes, "Oh Mein Papa" in 1954, and in 1955 with, "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White"?
Answer: Eddie Calvert

Question: Which actor, star of the 1950 film, "Sunset Boulevard", died after a fall at his home in Santa Monica in 1981?
Answer: William Holden

Question: The temple of which of their gods was destroyed by Samson, as his last act of war against the Philistines?
Answer: Dagon

Question: Which Jockey rode Shergar to victory in the 1981 Epsom Derby?
Answer: Walter Swinburne

Question: Which firm owned the factory in Bhopal in India, devastated by a poison gas leak in 1984?
Answer: Union Carbide

Question: Who was elected President of the Palestinian National Authority in January 2005?
Answer: Mahmoud Abbas

Question: Who was the Roman goddess of the Moon, equivalent to the Greek Goddess Selene?
Answer: Luna

Question: The advert for which insurance company used the slogan, "We won't make a drama out of a crisis"?
Answer: Commercial Union

Question: Grandpa Frost is the equivalent of Father Christmas in which country?
Answer: Russia

Question: Which boxing Champion was known as 'The Fighting Marine'?
Answer: Gene Tunney

Question: What collective name is given to Jews dispersed around the world?
Answer: The DIASPORA

Question: In 1889, who painted the picture 'Starry Night'?
Answer: Vincent VAN GOGH

Question: Who was Hitler's minister of propaganda?
Answer: Josef Goebbels

Question: Other than Marcus Brutus, name one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of Julius Caesar in the Shakespeare play?
Answer: Cassius, Casca, Trebonius, Ligarius, Cinna, Metellus Cimber, Decius Brutus

Question: Give the Christian name of either of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Answer: Proteus or Valentine

Question: On radio in the late 1940's, and early 50's, as what was Archibald Berkeley Willoughby better known?
Answer: Pc 49

Question: The Wurzels No 1 hit record, "Combine Harvester", was a parody on which song, a No 1 hit for the singer Melanie in 1971?
Answer: Brand New Key

Question: Who was the third wife of the Roman emperor Claudius, noted for her cruelty and debauchery?
Answer: (Valeria) Messalina

Question: """Jane, the diary of a bright young thing"", was a cartoon strip that first appeared in Britain in 1932, in which daily newspaper?"
Answer: Daily Mirror

Question: What type of creature is a peccary?
Answer: A Wild Pig

Question: Which daily newspaper was a colour tabloid that was launched in March 1986 and ceased publication in November 1995?
Answer: Today

Question: In which book does the character Melanie Wilkes appear?
Answer: Gone With The Wind

Question: The PFA footballer and young footballer of the year 1982 were Kevin Keegan and Steve Moran; they were both playing for which club at the time?
Answer: Southampton

Question: What was the name of the province, led by Moise Tshombe, that seceded from the Congo Republic in 1960?
Answer: Katanga

Question: Which Australian car manufacturer is a division of the worldwide General Motors?
Answer: Holden

Question: Graves Disease is caused by a malfunction of which gland in the human body?
Answer: Thyroid

Question: Since November 2006 the voice of Sara Mendes da Costa can be heard supplying which service?
Answer: Speaking clock

Question: By what name was the city of Jakarta known until 1942?
Answer: Batavia

Question: Carol Hersee was seen on TV for over 70,000 hours, for what purpose was her picture used?
Answer: Test card

Question: Which Welsh town was granted city status as part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of 2002?
Answer: Newport

Question: In a mosque, the mirhab indicates what?
Answer: Direction of Mecca '

Question: Melissa Joan Hart plays which TV character (the same as the Roman name for the River Severn)?
Answer: Sabrina

Question: Which of the UK armed forces has the motto "Utrinque Paratus"?
Answer: Parachute Regiment

Question: In which Metropolitan borough are Middleton, Heywood, Littleborough, Milnrow and Wardle?
Answer: Rochdale

Question: In which Derbyshire town is the famous Tramway Museum?
Answer: Crich

Question: In which year did Desmond Tutu win the Nobel Peace Prize; WPC Yvonne Fletcher shot at Libyan Embassy; Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo?
Answer: 1984

Question: Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, and who else formed the pop group 'Cream'?
Answer: Eric Clapton

Question: Bow Street is what colour on a Monopoly board?
Answer: Orange

Question: Which English sculptor is famous for large abstract figures, and reclining figures, such as the one outside Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge?
Answer: Henry Moore