Question: In which 1981 television series did Kenneth Williams voice at least 13 characters, and together with one other actor voice all of the characters in the series?
Answer: Willo the Wisp

Question: Who played the title role in the film "Saving Private Ryan"?
Answer: Matt Damon

Question: The Vandals sacked which city in 445 AD?
Answer: Rome

Question: The semi-arid region called The Sahel separates what from the rest of Africa?
Answer: The Sahara Desert

Question: What is the setting for the 1993 film "Alive", which stars Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano and Josh Hamiltonset and is narrated by John Malkovich?
Answer: The Andes

Question: What pigment found in plant leaves uses energy from sunlight to provide food?
Answer: Chlorophyl

Question: The New York Stock Exchange, established under that name in 1865, deals in what?
Answer: Shares and derivatives

Question: Which country held the most gold medals in the Men's European Volleyball Championship from 1948 to 1999?
Answer: Ussr

Question: What is the Mars rover, Curiosity, investigating in its first ever drilling operation in 2013?
Answer: What look like water-created minerals

Question: Roughly when was the Hampton Court Maze created?
Answer: 1700

Question: Where was the 2012 annual G8 leaders summit held?
Answer: Usa

Question: Who wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!"?
Answer: Walt Whitman

Question: After Gianni Versace died, Donatella Versace, formerly vice-president, stepped in as creative director of Versace. What relation is she to Gianni?
Answer: His sister

Question: What is a soft cheese made from skimmed milk curds?
Answer: Cottage cheese

Question: What are Proxima Centauri, Sirius A, Pollux, Arcturus and Betelgeuse?
Answer: Stars

Question: What is the word for bending at least one knee to the ground, a gesture of deep respect for a superior that was introduced in 328 BC by Alexander the Great into his court, a practice then already followed in Persia?
Answer: Genuflection

Question: Who was the first leader of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Lenin

Question: The British conquest of which country began in 1824 in response to its attempt to invade India, and from 1886 to 1937 was administered as a province of British India when it became a separate, self-governing colony?
Answer: Burma

Question: Prithvi Narayan, Jung Bahadur Rana, King Mahendra, King Birendra, and King Gyanendra were all political leaders of which country?
Answer: Nepal

Question: What is the main ingredient of hummus?
Answer: Chickpeas

Question: What is the name for a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration, civil decoration, or other medal, commonly used to indicate the campaign or operation the recipient received the award for?
Answer: Clutch

Question: Who in 2011 won the unofficial event he hosts, the Chevron World Challenge, his first professional golf tournament win since 2009?
Answer: Tiger Woods

Question: Which place between York and Knaresborough in the UK was the site of a decisive battle in 1642 when Cromwell defeated Royalist forces?
Answer: Marston Moor

Question: What was the governing body of ancient Rome?
Answer: Senate

Question: Which cricket team was accused of being the subject of rigging the result of an international cricket game against England at Lords in August 2010?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: Which two countries fought the four-day "Football War" from 14 July 1969 after they had met for an elimination match as a preliminary to the World Cup?
Answer: Honduras & El Salvador

Question: The Sargasso Sea, where ocean water is distinctive for its deep blue color and exceptional clarity with underwater visibility of up to 200 feet, is in which ocean?
Answer: Atlantic

Question: What is Russia's largest port city on the Pacific Ocean at the head of the Golden Horn Bay not far from Russia's border with China and North Korea, and the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet?
Answer: Vladivostok

Question: Where is El Nino, a warm current that affects the world's weather?
Answer: Pacific

Question: In December 2010, who apologised to his former groupies (over 1,000 over 3 years) for taking advantage of his privileged position as an object of adoration?
Answer: Mick Hucknall

Question: The Nazca Plate, part of the earth's lithosphere, lies under which ocean?
Answer: Pacific

Question: Greg LeMond was a champion in which type of sport?
Answer: Cycling

Question: Which ex Formula One driver competed in the World Rally Championship in 2010?
Answer: Kimi Rikknen

Question: When was the repeal of the US federal law called the "Chinese Exclusion Act" (1882) which banned Chinese immigration?
Answer: 1943

Question: What was the subject of the British TV programme "The South Bank Show"?
Answer: Arts

Question: """The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven"" is spoken by which Shakespearean character?"
Answer: Portia in "The Merchant of Venice"

Question: Dichromacy is a form of what?
Answer: Colour blindness

Question: What year did seven Manchester United footballers die in an air disaster at Munich airport, was Canadian Football League officially established in its current form, and the International Ptanque Federation founded in Marseille?
Answer: 1958

Question: In the late 1940s, a soldier named Constantin Esmont made detailed records of the various types of dog known as borzoi, concerned that the breed was degenerating. Where did the breed originate?
Answer: Russia

Question: Who was the head of Nazi propaganda during World War II who committed suicide with his family in 1945?
Answer: Paul Joseph Goebbels

Question: What is a "devil's coach horse"?
Answer: Beetle

Question: What is a group of rooks called?
Answer: Parliament

Question: What is the title of George W Bush's political memoir, published in 2010?
Answer: Decision Points

Question: What branch of medicine deals with the cause, origin and nature of disease?
Answer: Pathology

Question: Which English explorer commanded the ships "Discovery" and "Terra Nova" to explore the Antarctic?
Answer: Robert Falcon Scott

Question: What name is given to a brightly coloured and very wide tie?
Answer: Kipper tie

Question: Temujin (1162-1227), who made his capital in Karakorum was better known as who?
Answer: Genghis Khan

Question: Which bird became extinct in the 17th century?
Answer: Dodo

Question: By what name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento better known to his fans?
Answer: Pel

Question: In which city would you find Victoria Peak, Victoria Harbour, Tai Mo Shan, Lantau Island, Cheung Chau, Lamma Island, Peng Chau and Tsing Yi Island?
Answer: Hong Kong

Question: How are weights secured on the bar for Olympic weightlifting contests?
Answer: Tightening collars

Question: Where does the Guinness Book of World Records recognise the largest wave ever surfed, 78 feet (23.8 m), as having been ridden?
Answer: Portugal

Question: In 1459, the Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, England, 2 miles east of Market Drayton in Shropshire, was the first major battle of which campaign?
Answer: The Wars of the Roses

Question: What public disturbance early in June 1780 in London, described by Charles Dickens in "Barnaby Rudge", was put down by the military and followed by the execution of 11 people?
Answer: Gordon riots

Question: Which country has borders with Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and the People's Republic of China?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: What is an abacus-like finger counting method used to perform basic mathematical operations, by which it is possible to display all numbers from 0 to 99 with both hands?
Answer: Chisanbop

Question: Many major sporting fixtures were not held in 1919 because of what reason?
Answer: Too soon after the end of the First World War

Question: What surface is tennis played on at The Australian Open at Melbourne Park?
Answer: Hard court

Question: The internal angles of a pentagon add up to how many degrees?
Answer: 540