Question: The names of how many continents end with the same letter that they started with?
Answer: 5

Question: Ashkenazic and Sephardic are the two divisions of what cultire?
Answer: Jewish

Question: What is the name of a free improvisatory passage inserted near the end of a composition to create a feeling of suspense before the final cadence?
Answer: Cadenza

Question: What is boiled in water to form gelatine?
Answer: Collagen

Question: """Silks"" is the name used to describe the uniform of a competitor in which sport?"
Answer: Horse racing

Question: Ranidaphobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: Frogs

Question: In the UK in 1926 there was a General Strike that attempted to improve working conditions for which occupational group?
Answer: Coal miners

Question: Who was in charge of the ransacking of much of northern Italy in 452 AD?
Answer: Attila the Hun

Question: Where is the Sea of Smyth?
Answer: On the Moon

Question: How is the starting position of Legan chess different from the starting position of standard chess?
Answer: The pieces are arranged across two corners, not laterally

Question: Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as US president in 1865?
Answer: Andrew Johnson

Question: What US TV series concerned a New Jersey crime family?
Answer: The Sopranos

Question: """Rawhide"" was played to a bar full of hostile country music fans in which film?"
Answer: The Blues Brothers

Question: The Jake Gaudaur Veterans' Trophy, presented annually to the Canadian Football League player "who best demonstrates the attributes of Canada's veterans in times of war, peace and military conflict", was first awarded in 2010 to Mike McCullough who played for which team?
Answer: Saskatchewan Roughriders

Question: The modern British period of history called "The Winter of Discontent" began when?
Answer: 1978

Question: In basketball, what is the offence of running with the ball called?
Answer: Travelling

Question: Before she was a Member of Parliament, what was Margaret Thatcher's occupation?
Answer: Barrister

Question: Wht word can, depending on context, mean white, reddish, or black and blue
Answer: Livid

Question: The 50.5 km Channel Tunnel, built under the English Channel or, in France, La Manche, to link the UK and France with road and rail access was finally opened in 1994. When was the first official Anglo-French protocol established to create the railway aspect of the link?
Answer: 1876

Question: What term is used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment, commonly in opera, although they also form movements of oratorios and cantatas?
Answer: Aria

Question: When were 18 year olds allowed to vote in a General Election in the United Kingdom?
Answer: 1970

Question: In Greek mythology, what was the name for the deepest part of hell, for those who had committed really bad crimes?
Answer: Tartarus

Question: On 10 and 11 June 1964, what was at 2120 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA?
Answer: Chess Records' studios

Question: What island, 1 mile from Manhattan, which has been used by the army as an isolation centre for infectious diseases (such as typhoid and TB) and as a drug rehabiltation centre, is now deserted?
Answer: North Brother Island

Question: What is a Thompson seedless?
Answer: Grape

Question: Sliced bread, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped", was first sold when?
Answer: 1928

Question: Who was the last monarch in the recent reunified kingdom of Italy?
Answer: Umberto II

Question: The mandrill is the word's largest what?
Answer: Monkey

Question: Which ancient people with a conferacy of 5 cities (Ekron, Ashdod, Gath, Askalon and Gaza) came into conflict with Israel under Samson, Samuel and David?
Answer: Philistines

Question: Which BBC TV programme of 4 series featured Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, with Chris Langham in the first series?
Answer: Not the Nine O'Clock News

Question: Where was the record for the longest professional match broken in 2010 when John Isner & Nicolas Mahut took 11 hours and 5 minutes over a three day period?
Answer: Wimbledon

Question: Who published their autobiography "Life is a Rollercoaster" in 2000?
Answer: Ronan Keating

Question: What is the Roman military formation called the Testudo named after?
Answer: Tortoise

Question: A zamboni is used to prepare the playing surface for which sport?
Answer: Ice hockey

Question: The Battle of Agincourt in 1415 was fought between which two countries?
Answer: England and France

Question: Which 19th century Austrian composer is famous for his waltzes such as "The Blue Danube" and "Tales of the Vienna Woods", and the operetta "Die Fledermaus"?
Answer: Johann Strauss

Question: Which Canadian won the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest representing Switzerland?
Answer: Celine Dion

Question: According to Lewis Carroll in his novel "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" (1872), what was used to kill the Jabberwock?
Answer: A vorpal sword

Question: When the Olympics was resurrected in modern times, with a Summer Olympics in 1896, where were the games held?
Answer: Athens, Greece

Question: What species of spiny lobster is probably the longest decapod crustacean in the world, growing to lengths of up to 60 centimetres (24 in)?
Answer: Packhorse crayfish

Question: """Now is the winter of our discontent"" is a line from which play?"
Answer: Richard III

Question: What ocean borders the US state of California?
Answer: Pacific

Question: Something formed to resemble glass is known as what?
Answer: Vitriform

Question: What is the best known work by German composer Carl Orff?
Answer: Carmina Burana

Question: What name was commonly used for the struggle that emerged after World War II between capitalism and communism that centred around the USSR & the USA and their partners, that lasted from about 1947 to 1991?
Answer: The Cold War

Question: The 2006 Open Golf Championship was played on which English course after a gap of almost 40 years?
Answer: Hoylake

Question: What is another name for oedema?
Answer: Dropsy

Question: """Lusail"" is a new city in which country?"
Answer: Qatar

Question: The film The Philadelphia Story was made into which musical?
Answer: High Society

Question: What is the overall name for a branch of applied mathematics used to study behaviour in strategic situations, in which an individual's success in making choices depends on the choices of others?
Answer: Game theory

Question: Followers of which religion observe Ramadan?
Answer: Islam

Question: Loihi Seamount, an active undersea volcano, is around 35 km (22 miles) off the southeast coast of where?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: Roland Berrill, an Australian barrister, and Dr. Lancelot Ware, a British scientist and lawyer, founded which international organsation in the UK in 1946?
Answer: Mensa

Question: What was a typical subject of paintings by Dgas?
Answer: Ballet dancers

Question: Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities along the Rhine in Germany from Alsace in the south to the Rhineland in the north are known as what?
Answer: Ashkenazi

Question: The Gregorian calendar was named after what public figure at the time?
Answer: Pope

Question: Fingerprint classification was refined sufficiently to be used as evidence to solve a crime in which decade?
Answer: 1890s

Question: It was a highly popular music hall song in 1910, a signature tune of Harry Champion, and was revived and popularised by Joe Brown and by Herman's Hermits, and is...?
Answer: I'm Henery the Eighth, I am

Question: In 2004, Barbie dumped Ken for an Australian. What was his name?
Answer: Blaine

Question: Who was awarded FIFA's Ballon D'Or in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012?
Answer: Lionel Messi

Question: In which decade was the hovercraft invented?
Answer: 1950s