Question: """Speed of Sound"" by British rock band Coldplay marked a milestone in February 2006, which was what?"
Answer: It became the billionth song downloaded on iTunes

Question: What is the name for the indication that a group of 3 notes are to be performed in the time of 2 of equal value, which is shown by a "3" and a slur placed above or below the group?
Answer: Triplet

Question: In 1871, Otto von Bismarck became the first what?
Answer: Chancellor of the German Empire

Question: What song by Helen Reddy was subject to much debate about what it was really about?
Answer: Angie Baby

Question: When did the European Space Agency launch its first successful rocket, Ariane I?
Answer: 1979

Question: When were the first world championships in alpine skiing held?
Answer: 1931

Question: Where is the oldest working gin distillery in England?
Answer: Plymouth

Question: What is the real name of the artist known as Fatboy Slim?
Answer: Norman Cook

Question: Who beat Lee Westwood, then the new world golf #1, into second place at the WGC-HSBC Championship in Shanghai in November 2010?
Answer: Francesco Molinari

Question: Queen Maude Land and Mount Erebus are on which continent?
Answer: Antarctica

Question: Mixing the colours red and blue results in what colour?
Answer: Purple

Question: What musical is set in Deadwood?
Answer: Calamity Jane

Question: In 1886, John Pemberton claimed that a certain concoction cured diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence. Which was it?
Answer: Coca-Cola

Question: The flag of which country is sometimes nicknamed the "auriverde"?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Which European country did not finally lose its territory in India until 1961?
Answer: Portugal

Question: The title "Simple on a Soapbox" uses...?
Answer: Alliteration

Question: Snail fever is caused by organisms of which genus?
Answer: Schistosoma

Question: Bezique is what kind of game?
Answer: Card game

Question: If you were on the Great Slave Lake where would you be?
Answer: Near Yellowknife, District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories, Canada

Question: Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey are the only surviving members of which pop group who had its first hit record in England in 1965?
Answer: The Who

Question: In surnames, e.g. Fitzwilliam, FitzGerald, Fitzherbert & Fitzhenry, what does "Fitz-" mean?
Answer: Son of ...

Question: What mineral takes its name from the Greek word for "unquenchable" or "inextinguishable"?
Answer: Asbestos

Question: The city was founded under the rule of King Byzas around 660 BC. What name was officially adopted for the city in 1930?
Answer: Istanbul

Question: The Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is a shrine for which religion?
Answer: Islam

Question: Who is credited with finding the cross used by Jesus and the remains of the Three Wise Men?
Answer: Saint Helena

Question: The filings of wood or metal are referred to as ...?
Answer: Swarf

Question: In what field is John Galliano famous?
Answer: Fashion

Question: For over a century, a logo of a sailor in a "Navy Cut" cap has been the logo for whose cigarettes?
Answer: Player's

Question: Why was Captain William Kidd hanged in 1701?
Answer: Piracy

Question: Who wrote the novel "Wives and Daughters"?
Answer: Elizabeth Gaskell

Question: What wild animal appears in a traditional "Punch and Judy" show?
Answer: Crocodile

Question: Who plays Bree Van De Kamp in the US TV series "Desperate Housewives"?
Answer: Marcia Cross

Question: What colour are the stars on the US flag?
Answer: White

Question: What is the English translation of the title of Mozart's opera "Die Zauberflte"?
Answer: The Magic Flute

Question: Which TV series made in different countries includes characters with names such as Lace, Siren, Titan, Amazon, Panther, Warrior, Ice, Scorpio, Lightning, Blade, Cyclone, Flash, Force, Shadow, Thunder, Viper, Nitro and Cobra?
Answer: Gladiators

Question: What indicates the legal limit to which a ship may be loaded?
Answer: Plimsoll line

Question: Who said, at a march in London organised by the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign on 17 March 1968 in Trafalgar Square, "A Vietcong victory is the only way to peace"?
Answer: Vanessa Redgrave

Question: What do loxodromes contribute to?
Answer: Map drawing

Question: Which is the highest military decoration awarded by the USA?
Answer: Medal of Honour

Question: Who popularised the phrase "The buck stops here"?
Answer: Harry S Truman

Question: Who was the first British monarch to make a Christmas broadcast to the nation?
Answer: George V

Question: The Fox Islands, Islands of Four Mountains, Andreanof Islands, Rat Islands, Buldir Island, Commander Islands and Near Islands are all part of which island chain?
Answer: Aleutians

Question: Steel bands originated in which country?
Answer: Trinidad

Question: Alfonso de Albuquerque took areas of which modern day country for Portugal in the early 1500s?
Answer: India

Question: Clusterball is a game involving aircraft, balls, magnetic ramps and a collection point, and is played on what?
Answer: A screen

Question: In 2012 where is the magnetic North Pole?
Answer: In Beaufort Sea, Alaska, USA

Question: What is a method of preserving and sterilizing food, in which a product is processed under very high pressure, leading to the inactivation of certain microorganisms and enzymes in it?
Answer: Pascalisation

Question: Brazil is the largest country on which continent?
Answer: South America

Question: Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel "On the Road" was written in what style?
Answer: Stream of consciousness

Question: Approximately how long is the traditional Scottish caber?
Answer: 20 feet

Question: What is the stage name of Londoner Susan Janet Ballion, who fronted the group "The Banshees" between 1976 and 1996?
Answer: Siouxsie Sioux

Question: In the 1960s, how many African countries became independent from the UK and joined the "Commonwealth of Nations"?
Answer: 13

Question: L S Lowry is associated with what occupation?
Answer: Artist

Question: What is the full name of the lobby group that operates in the USA called "NOW"?
Answer: National Organisation for Women

Question: What sportsman would perform a triple salchow?
Answer: Figure skater

Question: Who was on the throne when Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, was appointed?
Answer: George I

Question: A black widow is a type of what?
Answer: Spider

Question: Who played the title role in the 2004 film "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"?
Answer: Geoffrey Rush

Question: Who was the criminal released by Pilate in preference to Jesus on the demand of the Jerusalem mob?
Answer: Barabbas

Question: Which autonomous grouping of islands in the Caribbean was dissolved on 10 October 2010?
Answer: Netherlands Antilles

Question: In which sport is "lock" a position?
Answer: Rugby union

Question: What genus of bulbous flowering plants, native to the eastern Mediterranean region east to Iran and Turkmenistan has 3 species: litwinowii, orientalis and transcaspicus?
Answer: Hyacinth

Question: When is a stirrup cup traditionally served?
Answer: At the start of a foxhunt

Question: What is the profession of Damien Hirst?
Answer: Visual artist

Question: Where are the headquarters of the Arab League, which currently has 22 members?
Answer: Cairo

Question: Tony and Maureen Wheeler began publishing what travel publications in the early 1970s?
Answer: Lonely Planet

Question: What was the first film starring "Chucky"?
Answer: Child's Play

Question: What was the cause of an epidemic of 355 cases (46% fatal) between March and June 2010 in Zamfara State, Nigeria?
Answer: Lead poisoning

Question: What word describes a retail dealer in special supplies or equipment for ships?
Answer: Chandler

Question: The 328 metre high Sky Tower is in which city?
Answer: Auckland, New Zealand