Question: Which film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was about a young ballet dancer who defies the producer by being in love with a composer, and starred Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann and Marius Goring?
Answer: The Red Shoes

Question: Who did Peter Sellers marry in 1964?
Answer: Britt Eklund

Question: What is the word for a male swan?
Answer: Cob

Question: Who wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"?
Answer: Washington Irving

Question: Eric Clapton recorded an album with whom called "Riding With the King"?
Answer: B.B. King

Question: A famous, currently infamous, Australian entertainer known for rapid paintings is who?
Answer: Rolf Harris

Question: What does the SI unit "Pascal" measure?
Answer: Pressure

Question: The peacock is an important part of which faith?
Answer: Yazidism

Question: A madeleine, originating in France, is a type of what?
Answer: Cake

Question: Hippocrates who lived in the 5th century BCE is remembered for his work and knowledge in what area?
Answer: Medicine

Question: In 1988, the American Society of Civil Engineers created an award to recognize outstanding achievements in erosion control, sedimentation and/or waterway development, named in honour of which scientist?
Answer: Hans Albert Einstein

Question: Which countries are the Republic of Togo's nearest neighbours?
Answer: Ghana, Benin and Burkina Faso

Question: Who first demonstrated his safety mechanism for elevator operation at the 1853 New York World's Fair?
Answer: Elisha Otis

Question: What was the name of the taxi company in the US TV series "Taxi"?
Answer: Sunshine Cab Company

Question: The eponymous leads in the US TV series "Rizzoli and Isles", which began in 2010, are what?
Answer: Police officer and medical examiner

Question: What is Rachel Hunter's profession?
Answer: Supermodel

Question: A disaster which killed six million people in China in 1333-37 AD was ...?
Answer: Famine

Question: FIA introduced a new racing category, with its first race in September 2014 in Beijing, China, and finishing June 2015 in London, UK. What distinguishes it from the other categories?
Answer: The cars are fully electric

Question: When was the spacecraft Rosetta launched to make contact with comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko (67P)?
Answer: March 2004

Question: Who had a hit in 1967 with "Silence is Golden"?
Answer: The Tremoloes

Question: Which 2014 international conference held in Australia did Vladimir Putin leave before the closing ceremonies?
Answer: G20 Summit

Question: Which Walt Disney animated feature film bombed when it was first released in 1940, only eventually reaching profit in 1945?
Answer: Pinocchio

Question: What was the title of John Denver's song about Jacques Cousteau's boat?
Answer: Calypso

Question: Whose novel "Wives and Daughters", about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a doctor in a provincial English town in the 1830s, was completed by Frederick Greenwood when the author died suddenly in 1865?
Answer: Elizabeth Gaskell

Question: Which 20th century musical is based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"?
Answer: West Side Story

Question: In mathematical terms what is a definition of infinity?
Answer: An unbounded quantity that is greater than every real number

Question: What is the expression of equating two things which are in fact the same thing expressed in different words?
Answer: Tautology

Question: What does the ancient name for Egypt mean in modern Greek?
Answer: Chemistry

Question: Which team beat Australia 34 - 20 in the Rugby League World Cup final in 2008?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: With a career that lasted from 1967 to 1971, who had 2 hit records that made #2 on the US charts and #1 and #5 on the UK charts: "Young Girl" and "Lady Willpower"?
Answer: Gary Puckett and the Union Gap

Question: Calling someone a doofus means what?
Answer: Implies they are inept and foolish

Question: What country was the first country in Oceania, and fifteenth overall, to legalise same-sex marriage?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: What is unusual about the current (in 2013) Governor General of Australia, Quentin Bryce?
Answer: The first woman appointed to the position

Question: What was the name of spacecraft which created history on 12 November 2014 and landed a probe on a comet?
Answer: Rosetta

Question: What is 0 degrees Celsius on the Fahrenheit scale?
Answer: 32 degrees

Question: The annual International Tree Climbing Championship is held under the auspices of which organisation?
Answer: Isa

Question: When and where was the first full facial reattachment performed?
Answer: 1994, India

Question: Which French composer wrote a large number of works including over 90 songs and the opera "Pnlope"?
Answer: Gabriel Faur

Question: Where in the UK is the only remaining Hanseatic warehouse, built to house the trade which operated out of that harbour under the Hanseatic League?
Answer: King's Lynn

Question: What is common to the 1953 films "Man in the Dark", "House of Wax", "The Mad Magician", "Dangerous Mission", "Son of Sinbad", "Melody", "Fort Ti" and "It Came from Outer Space"?
Answer: They were all features in 3-D

Question: Egg and spoon races were staged as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II in 2012. When was the earliest recorded reference in the Oxford English Dictionary to an egg and spoon race?
Answer: 1894

Question: What term is used to describe the nesting place of colony forming seabirds, some seals and sea lions, and even some turtles?
Answer: Rookery

Question: """Everything's All Right"" and ""Heaven on Their Minds"" are songs from which musical?"
Answer: Jesus Christ Superstar

Question: Limes became part of the British Royal Navy's diet in an attempt to prevent what?
Answer: Scurvy

Question: Where was opera singer Maria Callas born?
Answer: Usa

Question: What was the subtitle of the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley?
Answer: The Modern Prometheus

Question: What kind of film is director/writer Jacques Tati known for?
Answer: Comedy

Question: Approximately how many years ago is it thought that humans (of the species homo sapiens) arrived on the Australian continent?
Answer: At least 50,000

Question: In 2015 the Dakar Rally includes classes for cars, motorbikes, and which other?
Answer: Trucks and quadbikes

Question: What is the name for a fictional murder mystery?
Answer: Whodunnit

Question: Who is the latest actor to portray Alan Turing's fiance, Joan Clarke, in film?
Answer: Keira Knightley

Question: Who created the "Piet" in St Peter's Basilica, the "Doni Tondo" in the Uffizi Gallery, and the sequence of poems written to Tommaso dei Cavalieri?
Answer: Michelangelo Buonarotti

Question: What type of land constitutes most of the country of Gabon on the west coast of Africa?
Answer: Rainforest

Question: If a group have gathered for a bonspiel, and have the appropriate stones, brooms and hacks what other equipment is also needed?
Answer: Special shoes, one of which has a slick sole

Question: Benjamin Caunt (1815-1861) from Nottinghamshire, England's heavy weight champion boxer 1838-1845 although his fights occasionally suffered claims of fouls, is popularly supposed to have been the source of what name?
Answer: Big Ben, the bell hung in 1858 in the clock in Westminster

Question: Who was Britain's only Prime Minister of Jewish birth?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: With what decade was the Dust Bowl, the period of prolonged dust storms and severe drought, in the USA and Canada mainly associated?
Answer: 1930s

Question: With what film company did Tom and Jerry make their first appearance in animated film cartoons?
Answer: Mgm

Question: How is a rebec usually played?
Answer: With a bow

Question: The game of Rummikub, invented in Israel in the 1930s, can be played with either tiles or cards; which describes best how many are needed?
Answer: 53 pairs

Question: Where is the Menai Strait?
Answer: Between the Isle of Anglesey and mainland Wales, UK