Question: Which tyre company produces a hotel and restaurant guide?
Answer: Michelin

Question: The children's book "Swallows and Amazons" by Arthur Ransome is set in what area of Great Britain?
Answer: Lake District

Question: The Tumuc-Humac Mountains are between Brazil and where else?
Answer: Suriname and French Guiana

Question: What name was given to teenage boys who wore drainpipe trousers and liked rock and roll in 1950s Britain?
Answer: Teddy boys

Question: What would you mainly expect to see on the US TV series "The Jeff Probst Show"?
Answer: Talking

Question: What was the flight number of the aircraft which disappeared in 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and as at the end of 2014 has still not been traced?
Answer: Mh370

Question: Hertz is the standard SI unit for the measurement of what?
Answer: Radio frequency

Question: Who released the albums "Hounds of Love" and "The Red Shoes"?
Answer: Kate Bush

Question: Who wrote the book "Angela's Ashes"?
Answer: Frank McCourt

Question: In 1854, John Snow proved that what was transmitted by infected water?
Answer: Cholera

Question: This actor is the youngest of 5 children, his great-grandfather was blind and a piano tuner and music teacher, he acts frequently with his wife, he won a Primetime Emmy Awards 2014 for Outstanding Actor, and among many films and TV series starred in the film version of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"; who is he?
Answer: Martin Freeman

Question: The main ingredients of advocaat (or advokat), a rich and creamy liqueur with a smooth, custard-like flavour, are sugar, brandy and what else?
Answer: Eggs

Question: When Henry Bellingham, sitting MP for North West Norfolk, England, lost his seat in 1997 public comment linked it to votes received by the Referendum Party candidate Roger Percival; why particularly?
Answer: In 1812 John Bellingham, related to Henry, killed Roger's ancestor prime minister Spencer Perceval

Question: Who hosted the Oscar ceremony in 2014?
Answer: Ellen de Generes

Question: Three quarters of the east boundary of the Republic of Malawi is what?
Answer: Lake Nyasa

Question: What government system is in place in Lesotho, an enclave in the Republic of South Africa?
Answer: Parliamentary or constitutional monarchy

Question: Which one of these people is most associated with heat treatment of milk?
Answer: Louis Pasteur

Question: The Caucasus Mountains run through which countries?
Answer: Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Iran

Question: What forces or countries were involved in the War of the Pacific?
Answer: Chile, Bolivia and Peru

Question: What was the predecessor to the computer game Riven?
Answer: Myst

Question: In which continent does the Mekong River rise?
Answer: Asia

Question: What is found in a "parliament"?
Answer: Owls

Question: What was the first name of Inspector Maigret, a character created by George Simenon?
Answer: Jules

Question: Who was twice the prime minister of Jamaica between 1972 and 1992?
Answer: Michael Manley

Question: In what situation would an aubade be played?
Answer: Outside somebody's window or door at dawn as a courtly love song to wake them up

Question: What is the next in this sequence: Madison, Monroe, Polk , Buchanan, Garfield ... ?
Answer: Carter

Question: In February 1939 Madison Square Gardens was the venue for a rally some 20,000 strong in vociferous support of what or whom?
Answer: Hitler and Nazi Germany

Question: Often celebrated as the first, and great, detective novel in English literature was "The Moonstone" by whom?
Answer: Wilkie Collins

Question: What are the thin leaves of conifers called?
Answer: Needles

Question: When did twerking arrive on the American music scene?
Answer: 1990s

Question: Where was the film "Angel At My Table" (1990), starring New Zealander Kerry Fox, directed by New Zealander Jane Campion, and based on books by New Zealand writer Janet Frame, made?
Answer: Australia

Question: """In the Land of Blood and Honey"", set in Sarajevo in the 1990s in the Bosnian war, was the directorial debut of what USA actress?"
Answer: Angelina Jolie

Question: A bear, a dog, and a panda, only one of which speaks on the soundtrack, are characters in a long-running UK children's TV series; what are the names of the bear and the dog?
Answer: Sooty and Sweep

Question: How many official languages does South Africa have?
Answer: 11

Question: What office exercises executive authority over the island of St Helena?
Answer: The British monarchy

Question: Te Ika a Maui and Te Waipounamu are the two main islands of which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: The song "Why Does It Always Rain on Me" is by which band?
Answer: Travis

Question: A hypodermic needle is called that because of its capacity to do what?
Answer: Penetrate to under the skin

Question: Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514) are works by which artist?
Answer: Albrecht Drer

Question: Where would a tympanum, anvil and hammer be found together?
Answer: In a human ear

Question: Based on a UK political drama TV series of the same name, the US version featuring the actor Kevin Spacey is called "House..." what?
Answer: Of Cards

Question: The exploits of the hero Beowulf, thought to date from the 8th century or before, are associated with which country or countries?
Answer: Denmark and Sweden

Question: What is the next line of the 1960s hit song for the New Christy Minstrels: "Green, green, it's green they say, on the far side of the hill. Green, green, I'm going away"?
Answer: To where the grass is greener still

Question: Which sport is track designer Udo Gurgel most associated with?
Answer: Bobsleigh

Question: What is an epic poem from Ancient Iraq, originally titled "He who Saw the Deep" or "Surpassing All Other Kings", of which the most complete version exists on 12 clay tablets in the library collection of the 7th century BCE Assyrian king Ashurbanipal?
Answer: The Epic of Gilgamesh

Question: The 2002 FIFA World Cup was held in two countries simultaneously, the first time, being South Korea and which other?
Answer: Japan

Question: What is a good idea not to do in public if you want keep secrets private?
Answer: Wash one's dirty linen

Question: What is the southernmost point of the African continent?
Answer: Cape Agulhas

Question: When were the annual All-Japan Judo Championships first held in Japan?
Answer: 1930

Question: What does a painter use a palette for?
Answer: To lay out paints for use for a painting

Question: What is Thailand's largest island?
Answer: Phuket

Question: Why did Charles de Gaulle and his wife Yvonne establish a foundation in 1945 for people who have Down's Syndrome?
Answer: Their daughter had Down's Syndrome

Question: Which Australian composer became particularly well-known for his theme, and incidental, music for the UK television series "Inspector Morse"?
Answer: Barrington Pheloung

Question: Where is the Mose Project, construction work on which began in 2003, being carried out?
Answer: Venice, Italy

Question: Who had a number 1 hit in 1990 with "Opposites Attract"?
Answer: Paula Abdul

Question: Who wrote "The Sheep Pig", that was made into the film "Babe"?
Answer: Dick King-Smith

Question: The Columbia Pictures logo in 1924 was a female figure, as now, but with a shield in her left hand and what in her right hand?
Answer: Stick of wheat

Question: What is the name given to a pointless, long drawn out story?
Answer: Shaggy dog

Question: Who won the 1975 Wimbledon men's singles title?
Answer: Arthur Ashe

Question: The Walt Disney animated 1949 feature "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" is based on "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame and which other work?
Answer: """The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" by Washington Irving"

Question: When were television sets with built-in closed-caption display first introduced to the US?
Answer: 1991