Question: Jacob Zuma led the ANC party to election victory in which country's 2009 election?
Answer: South Africa

Question: What in January 2009 did David Miliband significantly denounce as a 'mistaken concept'?
Answer: The War on Terror

Question: Who was nominated for the best actress Oscar in the film Doubt?
Answer: Meryl Streep

Question: The son of which iconic communist was alleged to have been compromised by an eight-month internet romance with 'Claudia', a 46 year-old male Florida prankster?
Answer: Fidel Castro

Question: Andy Murray became the first British man to win what tennis tournament since Bunny Austin in 1938?
Answer: Queen's

Question: What leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) admitted ironically to receiving over £2m expenses in ten years from the EU, used chiefly for UKIP's promotion of anti-EU policies?
Answer: Nigel Farage

Question: Manuel Zelaya was ousted by military coup as leader of what Central American country?
Answer: Honduras

Question: England's humiliating defeat in their first game of the cricket World Twenty20 Championship was by whom?
Answer: Holland

Question: Australian novelist Harry Nicholaides was jailed in January 2009 for insulting the monarchy in which country?
Answer: Thailand

Question: Which South Pacific island nation became the first in the 21st century to change its driving on the road from right to left?
Answer: Samoa

Question: What international organization did Albania and Croatia join on 1st April 2009?
Answer: Nato

Question: Which US city lost its bid to host the Summer 2016 Olympics?
Answer: Chicago

Question: What was the name of the typhoon which hit the Philippines in October 2009?
Answer: Parma

Question: A new ring was discovered around which planet in 2009?
Answer: Saturn

Question: What Tory MP was found to have claimed unsuccessfully on his parliamentary expenses for a floating duck island?
Answer: Sir Peter Viggers

Question: Ratu Epeli Nailatakau was sworn in as president of which country?
Answer: Fiji

Question: Porfirio Lobo Sosa was elected president of which central American nation?
Answer: Honduras

Question: What is cartoon character Spongebob Squarepants' starfish friend called?
Answer: Patrick Star

Question: Mr Wopsle is a character in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: Great Expectations

Question: Who was the target of an assassination plot in the 1978 film Foul Play?
Answer: The Pope

Question: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in which city in 1780?
Answer: Boston

Question: Dove vive? (pronounced 'dovay veevay') means 'where do you live?' in what language?
Answer: Italian

Question: The Order of the British Empire was founded by which monarch?
Answer: George the Fifth

Question: What term describes the now generally illegal practice requiring people to be members of a trade union before being employed by an organization?
Answer: Closed shop

Question: What word for a waterway refers to the distribution route by which a product or service reaches its customers?
Answer: Channel

Question: What gruesome animal behaviour term, refers to the undesirable loss of product sales when customers switch to a similar product offered by the same supplier?
Answer: Cannibalisation

Question: What was Jodie Foster's character in the 1991 film Silence of the Lambs?
Answer: Clarice Starling

Question: Tolo TV is which country's leading independent TV company (as at 2010)?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: What figurative construction expression refers to an unfair barrier to career advancement, especially for females and minorities?
Answer: Glass ceiling

Question: Kentish Ale, Jersey Royal potatoes, Abroath smokies and Melton Mowbray pork pies are among foods having what special status?
Answer: EU name protection

Question: A hi-hat is part of which musical instrument?
Answer: Drums

Question: St Petersburg in Russia lies on which river?
Answer: Neva

Question: In squash or racquetball what is the shot played into a side or back wall before hitting the front wall?
Answer: Boast

Question: The volcanic mountain Chimborazo is in which South American country?
Answer: Ecuador

Question: A graph shape which rises slowly initially and then very steeply in a straight line is known by what sporty name?
Answer: Hockey stick

Question: What hit song by the Crash Test Dummies comprised four three-letter words all containing the same letter?
Answer: Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

Question: What two-colour scarf did David Beckham wear in support of the anti-Glazer campaign when leaving the Old Trafford pitch after playing for Milan in their European Championship defeat by Manchester United?
Answer: Green and yellow

Question: Suggestions from the 'politically correct' community occasionally call for what creative group process to be renamed 'Thought Showers'?
Answer: Brainstorming

Question: The analytical model acronym SLEPT refers to what traditional external areas of influence on a business?
Answer: Social, Legal, Economic, Political, Technological

Question: What long-necked instrument, now usually with four pairs of strings, originated in Greece and is still popularly associated with Greek music?
Answer: Bouzouki

Question: In Greek mythology what are the goddesses or spirits which inspire the creation of literature and the arts?
Answer: Muses

Question: Coober Pedy, the largest opal mine in the world, is in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Which is the only city to lie in two continents?
Answer: Istanbul

Question: A heptahedron is a solid figure with how many plane sides?
Answer: Seven

Question: A cope is a long ceremonial cloak worn by a member of what profession?
Answer: Clergy

Question: Credited with popularising the girl's name Wendy in a famous children's book, who also wrote the stage play The Admirable Crichton?
Answer: J M Barrie

Question: The cephalothorax and the opisthosoma are body sections of what?
Answer: Arachnids

Question: How many grams are in a hectogram?
Answer: One hundred

Question: Otoplasty is the surgical alteration of what external body parts?
Answer: Ears

Question: In which European country is the Caledonian Canal?
Answer: Scotland

Question: Which British football team is nicknamed the Blades?
Answer: Sheffield United

Question: Chladni patterns are formed when a surface covered in what is made to vibrate?
Answer: Sand

Question: Bibliomania is the compulsive collecting or hoarding of what?
Answer: Books

Question: Whose state funeral was on 15 December 1840, nineteen years after his death and burial in an unmarked grave?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Question: What word, orginally meaning female slave in Greek, refers to a woman who gives support and help to a pregnant woman before, during and after childbirth?
Answer: Doula

Question: What ball is worth three points in snooker?
Answer: Green

Question: Hyacinthoides is the scientific name for what protected (in the UK) spring flowering plant?
Answer: Bluebell

Question: What colour is the mineral rock malachite?
Answer: Green

Question: The artist El Greco was born on which Greek island?
Answer: Crete

Question: In 1958, Maria Teresa de Filippis was the first woman to compete in which sport?
Answer: Formula One Grand Prix

Question: Penalty shoot-outs were introduced to the FIFA World Cup in which tournament (state the year of the Finals)?
Answer: 1978

Question: What is the call-sign name of the US presidential helicopter?
Answer: Marine One

Question: A flittermouse is an old term for which type of creature?
Answer: Bat

Question: Exophthalmic Goitre is the medical term for which disease?
Answer: Graves Disease

Question: What album title does England footballer Wayne Rooney have tattooed on his right forearm?
Answer: Just Enough Education To Perform

Question: How many cards are dealt to each player at the start of a game of Blackjack or Pontoon?
Answer: Two