Question: If someone is ostracised by the rest of their social group, where are they said to have been sent to?
Answer: Coventry

Question: What part of the caper is salted and pickled and used as a seasoning or garnish?
Answer: Bud

Question: Who designed Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress for her marriage to Aristotle Onassis (1968), Elizabeth Taylor's gown for the premiere of "Spartacus" in Rome (1961) and Julia Robert's & Cate Blanchett's "Oscars" gowns (2001 & 2005 respectively)?
Answer: Valentino Garavani

Question: Who, when discussing the power of a lever, is reputed to have said "give me but one firm place on which to stand and I will move the earth"?
Answer: Archimedes

Question: Who are Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick?
Answer: """South Park"" kids"

Question: The general assembly of which US state voted to express "profound regret" for its involvement with slavery?
Answer: Virginia

Question: What item of sporting equipment usually has three holes drilled in it, although the rules allow for up to five?
Answer: Ten-pin bowling ball

Question: In mathematics, what is the name for the following sequence of numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765 ...
Answer: Fibonacci numbers

Question: What letters of the modern basic Latin alphabet do not occur in the Turkish alphabet?
Answer: Q, W and X

Question: In November 2009 at Pointe Magnin in New Caledonia, Bruna Kajiya beat Gisela Pulido to become women's freestyle World Champion in which sport ?
Answer: Kitesurfing

Question: How many apostrophes should be in the following sentence: "Andrews dogs licked their lips whenever Pavlovs bells rang to signal meal times"?
Answer: 2

Question: According to Greek legend, which of the 9 Muses was the muse of Choral poetry?
Answer: Polymnia

Question: PADI Worldwide, which has its corporate headquarters in California, USA, is concerned with what?
Answer: Diving

Question: What term was used to describe the pattern where, from 1840 to 1960, each American President who had won election in a year ending in zero died in office?
Answer: The Curse of Tippecanoe

Question: What is the specialty of a podiatrist?
Answer: Feet

Question: How long is a polo pitch?
Answer: 300 yards

Question: Buenos Aires is the capital city of which country?
Answer: Argentina

Question: What type of competition is "Western Pleasure", a popular type of competition in the USA?
Answer: Equestrian

Question: Topiary is practised on what objects?
Answer: Plants

Question: Prague is known to its residents as what?
Answer: Praha

Question: What nationality is Ilie Nstase, World No. 1 tennis player in 1973/1974, who won more than 100 ATP professional titles, 7 Grand Slam titles and 4 ATP World Tour Finals championships?
Answer: Romanian

Question: What war was described as "the equivalent of two bald men fighting over a comb"?
Answer: Falklands War

Question: Where are chemical elements listed?
Answer: Perodic table

Question: The most southerly point of England is at the tip of what peninsula?
Answer: The Lizard

Question: Carageen, used in cosmetics and foods is a type of what?
Answer: Seaweed

Question: Which of Britain's Labour Prime Ministers was in office for the shortest continuous period?
Answer: Ramsay MacDonald

Question: In Norway, in December 2010, it was announced that 2,000 of what animal had been fitted wth reflective collars or tags to reduce the chances of their being hit by cars?
Answer: Reindeer

Question: The IWC, established in 1946, is the International ... what ... Commission?
Answer: Whaling

Question: In the 25 years from 1962 to 1986, which golfer won a record 18 professional major championships?
Answer: Jack Nicklaus

Question: What distance from earth does one have get to qualify for NASA's definition of an astronaut?
Answer: 50 miles

Question: Which song contains the following characters: a banker who never wore a mac even in the pouring rain, a fireman with an hourglass and a portrait of the Queen in his pocket, a pretty nurse who sold poppies from a tray, & a barber who had photographs of heads he'd worked on?
Answer: Penny Lane

Question: In England, what is commonly known as "The Old Bailey"?
Answer: The Central Criminal Court

Question: What is unusual about the type of fishing called "noodling"?
Answer: Fish are caught with bare hands

Question: The annual RAF Airshow at Hendon was established in 1920 by the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, and grew into a major international event with exhibitors from all over the world. It is now held in mid-July in even-numbered years. Where has it been held since 1949?
Answer: Farnborough

Question: The St Bernard Pass connects Switzerland to what other country?
Answer: Italy

Question: The French horse race called the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is run at which race course?
Answer: Longchamp

Question: What name was given to an uprising of rural workers in the south and east of England in 1830 who wanted to stop reductions in their wages and protest against the new threshing machines?
Answer: The Swing Riots

Question: In August 2005, which single broke a record for the most digital downloads in a week, selling over 80,000 digital downloads, and was the fastest selling digital download of all time?
Answer: """Gold Digger"" by Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx"

Question: What was the title applied by the Ottoman Empire and, later, Turkey, to their viceroy of Egypt?
Answer: Khedive

Question: What element takes its name from the German word for "evil spirit"?
Answer: Cobalt

Question: Which city, originally a monastic settlement founded by Saint Finbarr in the 6th century, built on the River Lee, became a major point of Irish emigration to North America after the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s?
Answer: Cork

Question: James Chadwick discovered which sub-atomic particles in 1932?
Answer: Neutrons

Question: What is an expression used to describe across a number of different sports the apparent loss of certain fine motor skills seemingly without explanation?
Answer: The yips

Question: In 1997, who was appointed the first female US Secretary of State?
Answer: Madeleine Allbright

Question: What is a disorder of the immune system (called "type I hypersensitivity") whereby the human body reacts adversely to normally harmless environmental substances?
Answer: Allergy

Question: What Scottish place name is used for a promontory?
Answer: Mull

Question: A "triple peel" is a manoeuvre that is common in what sport?
Answer: Croquet

Question: What event that caught international attention happened in room 1742 at the Hotel Reine Elizabeth, Montreal on 1 June 1969?
Answer: John and Yoko led guests to record "Give Peace a Chance"

Question: Which Scotsman, a self-made man, merchant and yachtsman who created a tea brand, was a persistent challenger for the America's Cup?
Answer: Sir Thomas Lipton

Question: An 1885 ceremony conducted by Sir Donald Smith in Craigellachie, British Columbia, Canada, marked what event?
Answer: Completion of the The Canadian Pacific Railway

Question: What would one do with a "snood"?
Answer: Wear it

Question: """The Year of Three Popes"", involving Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II, is the name given to which year?"
Answer: 1978

Question: Katia Zatuliveter, who was deported from the UK in December 2010 on suspicion of spying for the Russians, worked in the House of Commons for which MP?
Answer: Michael Hancock (Portsmouth South) Liberal Democrats

Question: Who wrote "The Naked Ape" and "The Human Zoo"?
Answer: Desmond Morris

Question: MC Kenzie and MC Reaper were members of which group?
Answer: Blazin Squad

Question: Who, before being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003, was the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize twice?
Answer: J M Coetzee

Question: Which body of water borders the state of Washington, USA?
Answer: Pacific Ocean