Question: Who was described by co star Nick Nolte as, "...a ball buster. Protect me from her?"
Answer: Barbra Streisand

Question: Who in 1996 made the longest spaceflight by a woman?
Answer: Shannon Lucid

Question: Who performed the first artificial heart transplant?
Answer: William DeVries

Question: Who founded the magazine Camera Work?
Answer: Alfred Stieglitz

Question: How long is Indianapolis's most famous motor race?
Answer: 500 miles

Question: Which detective lived on a boat called St Vitus Dance?
Answer: Crockett

Question: Who produced the first jumbo jet in 1975?
Answer: Boeing

Question: Which musical featured the song Tonight?
Answer: West Side Story

Question: What kind of orchard did Chekhov write a play about?
Answer: Cherry

Question: The Battle Of New Orleans was a big No 1 for which singer?
Answer: Johnny Horton

Question: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face was featured in which Clint Eastwood film?
Answer: Play Misty For Me

Question: In which Center is he Metropolitan Opera House?
Answer: Lincoln Center

Question: Which mountains stretch from West Virginia to Georgia?
Answer: Blue Ridge Mountains

Question: Which C S wrote The African Queen?
Answer: Forester

Question: Vehicles from which place use the international registration letter V?
Answer: Vatican City

Question: What was the world's first reusable spacecraft called?
Answer: Space Shuttle

Question: In which war was cowboy star Tom MIx shot in the mouth?
Answer: Spanish American War

Question: Which soap had people asking. "Who shot JR?"
Answer: Dallas

Question: Who did James Earl Ray shoot in Memphis in April 1968?
Answer: Martin Luther King

Question: Who was the first president of the first university for black people in the USA?
Answer: Booker T Washington

Question: Who was the first black American to win the Nobel peace prize?
Answer: Ralph Bunche

Question: Who wrote the book on which the musical Whistle Down the Wind was based?
Answer: Mary Hayley Bell

Question: Most of the Three Tenors come from which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: Which brothers bought Shepperton movie studios in 1994?
Answer: Scott

Question: On whose life was the short-lived musical Winnie based?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: About whom did Kenneth Tynan say, "What one sees in other women drunk, one sees in... sober?"
Answer: Greta Garbo

Question: The first great rock charity show was in aid of the people of which country?
Answer: Bangladesh

Question: What was Scotland's answer to California's Silicon Valley called?
Answer: Silicon Glen

Question: In which year did Britain's lease on Hong Kong officially expire?
Answer: 1997

Question: In which township were 69 demonstrators killed by South "African police in March 1960?
Answer: Sharpeville

Question: What is the dominant classical language of the Indian subcontinent?
Answer: Sanskrit

Question: Which sheikhdom is the capital of the United Arab Emirates?
Answer: Abu Dhabi

Question: Isfahan is a major city in which country?
Answer: Iran

Question: Who was supposed to have told the Arabian Nights tales?
Answer: Scheherazade

Question: What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World, now in ruins?
Answer: Jamestown

Question: Who was the prime minister of South Africa who was assassinated in 1966?
Answer: Hendrik Verwoerd

Question: What year saw the nationalization of British Railways?
Answer: 1948

Question: During which war was the Battle of Blenheim?
Answer: War of Spanish Succession

Question: In which year did the Korean War break out?
Answer: 1950

Question: What name is shared by the chairs of the UK House of Commons and the US House of Representatives?
Answer: Speaker

Question: Which is the lower house of the British parliament?
Answer: House of Commons

Question: Which publication was the vehicle for John 'Wilkes's attacks on the Tories for which he was imprisoned in 1768?
Answer: The North Briton

Question: Which human-rights organization campaigns for the release of political prisoners worldwide?|
Answer: Amnesty International

Question: What do the British call the person other countries might call minister of the interior?
Answer: Home Secretary

Question: Which British minister of health inaugurated the National Health Service?
Answer: Aneurin Bevan

Question: Who was the first president of France's Fifth Republic?
Answer: Charles de Gaulle

Question: Who was the Lord Chancellor beheaded for refusing to recognize Henry VIII as head of the church?
Answer: Thomas More

Question: What is the sticky wax obtained from sheep?
Answer: Lanolin

Question: How many legs has an insect?
Answer: Six

Question: What are classified by their measurement in degrees as "right", "reflex", "obtuse", or "acute"?
Answer: Angles

Question: What was the name of the unit of heat now replaced by the joule?
Answer: Calorie

Question: What is studied in the science of cryogenics?
Answer: Very low temperature

Question: Where in an animal would you find a mandible?
Answer: Skull

Question: Which European tree lives the longest?
Answer: Yew

Question: What is the name of the structures which allow leaves to breathe?
Answer: Stomata

Question: Which acid is contained in rhubarb leaves, making them poisonous to eat?
Answer: Oxalic acid

Question: The best longbows were constructed from which wood?
Answer: Yew

Question: Which part of the brain regulates physiological stability in the body?
Answer: Hypothalamus

Question: What is the average human body temperature when taken by a thermometer under the tongue.
Answer: 98.4 degrees F

Question: Which part of the eye contains about 137 million light-sensitive cells in one square inch?
Answer: Retina

Question: Where do the Graafian follicles develop?
Answer: Ovaries

Question: What makes up 60-70% of human body weight?
Answer: Water

Question: What is the fluid that lubricates and cushions the movable joints between the bones?
Answer: Synovial fluid

Question: Which human body organ weighs about 2 kilos?
Answer: Liver

Question: Which gland secretes the corticosteroids?
Answer: Adrenal

Question: What is the name given to the outermost layer of the Earth?
Answer: Crust

Question: Which sea is so highly polluted that the Barcelona Convention was set up in 976 to try and clean it up?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea

Question: What is the collective noun for larks?
Answer: Exhalation

Question: Which gas forms approximately 1% of the atmosphere?
Answer: Argon

Question: Which animal has been hunted almost to extinction because of its horn?
Answer: Rhinoceros

Question: What is the earth's core made of?
Answer: Molten iron and nickel

Question: What type of rock is basalt?
Answer: Igneous

Question: How do igneous rocks form?
Answer: From cooling volcanic lava

Question: Marble is formed by the metamorphosis of which rock?
Answer: Limestone

Question: What name is given to the huge growths of algae sometimes seen in polluted lakes and rivers?
Answer: A bloom

Question: What component of CFCs causes destruction of ozone?
Answer: Chlorine

Question: What is the term for a fold of the Earth's crust in which the layers of rock dip inwards?
Answer: Syncline

Question: Which planet is named after the Roman god of war?
Answer: Mars

Question: What kind of extraterrestrial objet has been named after the 17th-century astronomer Edmond Halley?
Answer: A Comet

Question: Which planet id named after the sky-god who was father of the Titans?
Answer: Uranus

Question: What can contract to give birth to a star?
Answer: A nebula

Question: What is the Latin name for the North Star?
Answer: Polaris

Question: Saturn's ring has how many sections?
Answer: Three

Question: What was the name of two space probes launched in 1977 which sent back remarkable pictures of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
Answer: voyager 1 and voyager 2

Question: What is the only sign of the zodiac not named after a living creature, and what is it named after?
Answer: Libra - named after the scales