Question: What is considered to be the cowboy capital of America?
Answer: Dodge City

Question: The musical Oliver was based on a novel by which author?
Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: Who was known as the demon barber of Fleet Street?
Answer: Sweeney Todd

Question: Hippocrates was known as the Greek what?
Answer: Father of Medicine

Question: What was the Roman name for 'Bath'?
Answer: Aquae Sulis

Question: Which American President was the teddy bear named after?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Question: What is the name of the plain intelligent girl in glasses in Scooby Doo?
Answer: Velma

Question: What flavouring is added to brandy and egg yolks to make advocaat?
Answer: Vanilla

Question: Which motor car manufacturer took their name from the medieval home of Fulke le Breant called Fulkes Hall?
Answer: Vauxhall

Question: In which road do Watford play their home games?
Answer: Vicarage

Question: In which of his operas did Rossini use the alpenhorn?
Answer: William Tell

Question: What flower was named after the Duke of Cumberland?
Answer: Sweet William

Question: Who sponsored the annual Golden Spurs award which ran from 1973 to 1991?
Answer: William Hill

Question: Who was the female member of Britain's gang of four?
Answer: Shirley Williams

Question: Which William is associated with the abolition of slavery?
Answer: William Wilberforce

Question: Who had a hit with 'Me And You And A Dog Named Boo'?
Answer: Lobo (Kent Lavoie) Listen to song on YouTube

Question: 'Poetry In Motion' was the only No. 1 hit for which singer?
Answer: Johnny Tillotson

Question: Who had their biggest British hit with 'Don't Leave Me This Way' in 1986?
Answer: The Communards

Question: There Must Be An Angel - Playing With My Heart was the only No. 1 hit for which group?
Answer: Eurythmics - See this LIVE version here

Question: Under what name does Muhammad Ali's daughter Laila fight (box) and for a bonus point who did she beat in her debut fight?
Answer: Madame Butterfly - With her father Muhammad Ali watching from the ringside the 21-year-old made her pro debut by knocking out April Fowler in just 31 seconds

Question: Who attended schools in Cheam, Surrey, Gordonstoun, Scotland, and Timbertop, Australia?
Answer: Prince Charles

Question: Shakespeare - Antony, Romeo, Othello - what did the characters all have in common?
Answer: Suicide

Question: At which racecourse is the Derby and the Oaks traditionally run?
Answer: Epsom

Question: 'Question or Nominate' was a phrase commonly heard on which UK TV quiz show?
Answer: Fifteen-to-one

Question: The rules for what card game state: deck is divided evenly among the two players, giving each a face-down stack. In unison, each player reveals the top card on his stack (a “battle”), and the player with the higher card takes both the cards played and moves them to the bottom of his stack. If the two cards played are of equal value, each player lays down three face-down cards and a fourth card face-up, and the higher-valued card wins all of the cards on the table, which are then added to the bottom of the player’s stack. In the case of another tie, the process is repeated until there is no tie.
Answer: War

Question: Name the 1987 movie and the character/actor who uttered the following quote: You fell victim to one of the classic blunders – The most famous of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia” – but only slightly less well-known is this: “Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line”!
Answer: The Princess Bride/ Vizzini/Wallace Shawn

Question: A recent announcement of the discovery of a possible finger bone on tiny island of Nikumaroro is thought to be associate with whom, who was officially declared dead on January 5, 1939, having first gone missing on July 2, 1937?
Answer: Amelia Earhart

Question: The nations highest military decoration, what medal is awarded to members of the armed forces, who ho distinguish themselves "conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in a action against an enemy of the United States."
Answer: Medal of Honor

Question: What do all of the following people have in common? Dido, Marcus Trufant, Humphrey Bogart, Sissy Spacek, Annie Lennox and Karl Rove.
Answer: They were all born on Christmas Day

Question: Who's missing: Hermey; Yukon Cornelius; King Moonracer; Clarice; Bumble
Answer: Rudolph

Question: In what country did the real St Nicholas live?
Answer: Turkey

Question: In the film 'Die Hard 2', which airport did the terrorist take over on Christmas Eve?
Answer: Washington Dulles International Airport

Question: If a male ass is a jack, what is a female called?
Answer: Jenny

Question: January 6, 1941 saw FDR deliver his famous Four Freedoms State of the Union address. For a point each, list the freedoms he enumerated.
Answer: Freedom of speech and expression, Freedom of religion, freedom from want, freedom from fear

Question: Who's missing: Greg Knapp; Bill Lazor; Kasey Dunn; Robert Prince; Mike DeBord; Mike Solari; Chris Beake
Answer: Jim Mora

Question: The Gremlin, Matador, Pacer, and AMX were models produced by what car company?
Answer: Amc

Question: What is the common name for Fairy Floss, which William Morrison and John Wharton dreamed up in 1897 and introduced to the world at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904?
Answer: Cotton Candy

Question: Brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice (before his untimely death on Jan 12, 2003) Gibbs were better known as what band, who hit their peak during the disco era?
Answer: The Bee Gees

Question: What do the 3 little pigs build their houses out of?
Answer: Straw, sticks, and bricks

Question: What legendary blues guitarist, best known for his hit "The Thrill Is Gone" , played a guitar he dubbed Lucille?
Answer: B.  B. King

Question: Which of the 4 annual Grand Slam tennis events is played first?
Answer: Australian Open

Question: Which word describes the flat area of alluvial deposits on the mouth of some rivers, such as the Nile, Mississippi, and the Ganges?
Answer: Delta

Question: With a record 22 guest appearances, who has been Saturday Night Live's most frequent guest host?
Answer: Steve Martin.

Question: In honor of     A.     A. Milne’s birthday (Jan 18, 1882), name the characters in the original Winnie the Pooh book.
Answer: Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Christopher Robin, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit, Tigger, Eeyore, Owl

Question: One of the new seven wonders of the modern world, in what country is the carved city of Petra located?
Answer: Jordan

Question: For a point each, name the states surrounding Arkansas
Answer: Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas and Oklahoma.

Question: January 28, 1841 marked the birth of the famous Welsh explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley, most famous for his trek to find what famed Scottish explorer/missionary, who went missing in Africa for 6 years?
Answer: David Livingstone

Question: January 24, AD 41, saw the death, at the hands of his Praetorian Guard, of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. By what name is he more commonly known?
Answer: Caligula

Question: Used to assess the effect of an atomic bomb, how many people must die to be qualified as a megadeath?
Answer: 1 million

Question: On Star Trek, what was “The Trouble With Tribbles”?
Answer: They multiply rapidly

Question: Amethyst is the birthstone for which month of the year?
Answer: February

Question: Feb 4th marks the anniversary of the election of George Washington to the nation's highest office. In what year did he become the first US president?
Answer: 1789

Question: Which cartoon character, who cooks at the Krusty Krab, lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Answer: Spongebob Squarepants

Question: From which East Coast state does the current Miss America hail from, having been crowned earlier this week?
Answer: Virginia