Question: Which American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress who made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, married him in 1993, separated in 1997, and married actor & rapper Nick Cannon in 2008?
Answer: Mariah Carey

Question: The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations was licensed in 2006 as what?
Answer: National securities exchange

Question: What name is given to the age at the end of which the extinction event happened which saw the end of the dinosaur?
Answer: Cretaceous

Question: A 2002 romantic comedy film written by and starring Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick is "My Big Fat Greek ..." what?
Answer: Wedding

Question: What was Kriegsspiel initially particularly associated with?
Answer: Training for military officers

Question: Who is the only president of the USA to have been elected four times?
Answer: Franklin D Roosevelt

Question: What did Edgar the Atheling spectacularly fail to do in England in 1066?
Answer: Succeed to the throne vacated by the death of Edward the Confessor

Question: What are spiracles used for?
Answer: Breathing

Question: What is the language most commonly spoken in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan?
Answer: Urdu

Question: In 1990 a strip of land seceded from its then parent country and called itself Transnistria, or Trans-Dniester; what is the parent country?
Answer: Moldova

Question: What do a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist and developer of antibiotics and a popular English writer have most in common?
Answer: The name Fleming

Question: Where is the city of Medellin?
Answer: Colombia

Question: The discovery of the process of vulcanisation is most closely associated in the modern context with whom?
Answer: Charles Goodyear

Question: In 1905-6 the New Zealand representative rugby team toured the British Isles, France and North America, winning all matches apart from a loss to Wales, and are now known as what?
Answer: The Originals

Question: Which is the seat of National Parliament and the legislative capital of South Africa?
Answer: Cape Town

Question: What do the names Charles, Orville, Jean, Wilbur and Laika suggest?
Answer: Powered flight

Question: What is meant by "dramatis personae"?
Answer: List of people in a play

Question: Who wrote, in 1894: "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal a loaf of bread"?
Answer: Anatole France

Question: In which field would the term "chiaroscuro" usually be applied?
Answer: Painting

Question: Jock Paget, a New Zealand equestrian international competitor, was not able to compete from October 2013 to August 2014; what was the reason?
Answer: He was accused and subsequently cleared of using a horse with a banned substance in its system

Question: What is the meaning of the German word "Gesundheit", said after a sneeze?
Answer: Health

Question: By the time Warcraft III was issued in 2003 the playable races were Orcs, Humans, Night Elves and which other?
Answer: Undead

Question: Warren Beatty played what comic strip character in a 1990 film?
Answer: Dick Tracy

Question: Breadcrumbs are the outermost layer of which dish?
Answer: Chicken Kiev

Question: Which was not a medium used by British artist J.M.W.Turner to create his works?
Answer: Sculpture

Question: An article of the Swiss constitution dating from 1850 established what?
Answer: The end of military foreign service

Question: What is a common factor in the careers of Giacomo Puccini, Paul McCartney, and Arthur Sullivan?
Answer: Opera

Question: What is a common feature of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt?
Answer: They are the only countries on the African mainland with a shore on the Mediterranean Sea

Question: Which all-girl group had hits with "Whole Again", "Eternal Flame", "It's OK!" and "The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)"?
Answer: Atomic Kitten

Question: Who takes care of animals on a film set?
Answer: Wrangler

Question: Which film contained advice to the eponymous hero to "phone home", which then became the 15th best known quote in AFI list of top 100 quotes?
Answer: E.T.

Question: The first electric what were installed in 1914 in Ohio, USA?
Answer: Traffic lights

Question: What sport was Thierry Sabine, who founded the Paris-Dakar Rally in 1977, most involved with at the time?
Answer: Motorcycle racing

Question: Hamlet in the play of the same name was a Prince of which country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Who wrote the aria "O mio babbino caro"?
Answer: Puccini

Question: Who wrote the "Outlander" series of novels, in which the heroine, Claire Randall, travels in time?
Answer: Diana Gabaldon

Question: An computer game first released in 1993 and drawing inspiration from Rube Goldberg devices, or Heath Robinson or Storm P thinking, is what?
Answer: The Incredible Machine

Question: Frida Kahlo, famous for her paintings, many of them self-portraits, was married to which other artist?
Answer: Mexican painter Diego Rivera

Question: If the participants in a game have just completed a rubber what game was it?
Answer: Bridge

Question: What is the basis of "pesto" sauce?
Answer: Basil

Question: What satirical musical by Kyle Jarrow about L. Ron Hubbard that pokes fun at his science fiction writing and personal beliefs, was originally presented in 2003 in New York City by Les Freres Corbusier (winning an Obie Award) and received a Garland Award for the director for the 2004 Los Angeles production?
Answer: A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant

Question: At the awards for "The Best of the Booker", a special prize awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary, it was noted that two authors had won the Booker twice, J.M. Coetzee and who else?
Answer: Peter Carey

Question: The coldest temperature recorded in Canada was -63 C (-81.4 F) on 3 February 1947; where was it?
Answer: Snag, Yukon

Question: """Silverside"" is a cut of what?"
Answer: Beef

Question: Which one of these has no part to play in the ring at a bull fight?
Answer: Ecuador

Question: The early Great Wall of China built in the tears following 221 BCE, new or by reinforcing existing remains of walls, by the Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, was intended to protect the newly unified empire against whom?
Answer: The Xiongnu people from the north

Question: Whose germ theory led to his devising a means to heat-treat milk to reduce disease?
Answer: Pasteur

Question: Which country's territory includes a long narrow east-west tongue separating Zambia from Botswana?
Answer: Namibia

Question: The 1987 record "La Bamba" was by which artist?
Answer: Los Lobos

Question: Epsom salts, traditionally used in bath salts and in agriculture, are what mineral compound?
Answer: Magnesium sulphate

Question: What is the word for a moving camera platform?
Answer: Dolly

Question: Mathematicians or code breakers from what country were the first to break the codes in the Enigma machines used by the German military from the 1920s to the 1940s?
Answer: Poland

Question: Characteristics of gothic church architecture include tall designs, flying buttresses, vaulted ceilings, light and air, gargoyles, decorative and ornate finishes, and what else?
Answer: Pointed arches

Question: The round of the 2014 World Taekwondo Federation competitions to be held in Kharkiv in early October was cancelled; what was the reason?
Answer: Ongoing armed unrest in Ukraine

Question: What is the overall subject of the sentence "UTC replaced GMT in most places in the world on 1 January 1972"?
Answer: Time zones

Question: In which English city is "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4" by Sue Townsend, set?
Answer: Leicester

Question: What is not a quality which characterises a millipede and distinguishes it from a centipede?
Answer: Fast moving

Question: How could a pot of liquid which is boiling over be described?
Answer: Ebullient