Question: What new radio edit was created of a 2009 song by Britney Spears because the original caused controversy in many English-speaking countries due to its use of a double entendre in the chorus?
Answer: If U See Amy

Question: Which English actor, director and producer, a descendant of the Terry acting family, was acclaimed for his youthful "Hamlet" which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937, and is one of the few to have won an Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award?
Answer: John Gielgud

Question: Olympic gold medallists Ian Thorpe, Stephanie Rice, Lisbeth Trickett, Mike Wenden and John Henricks represented which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Which long running British police procedural television series that originated as a one-off drama, entitled "Woodentop" in August 1983 was first broadcast in 1984?
Answer: The Bill

Question: Which American actress became known for her role in the television series "Ally McBeal" and has appeared in several films, including "Charlie's Angels", "Kill Bill" and "Kung Fu Panda"?
Answer: Lucy Liu

Question: What is both the botanical name and the English common name of a genus of flowering plants, sometimes also called sugarbushes, that were named in 1735 by Carolus Linnaeus?
Answer: Geranium

Question: Who became the first President of the French Republic by popular vote in 1848, became dictator after a coup in 1851, then ruled as "Emperor of the French" from 1852 to September 1870, when he was captured in the Franco-Prussian War?
Answer: Napoleon III

Question: In the nursery rhyme beginning "Hey Diddle Diddle", who laughed to see such fun?
Answer: Dog

Question: Dutch conductor and composer Andr Rieu, best known for creating an international revival in waltz music with his "Johann Strauss Orchestra" which began in 1987, is associated with which instrument?
Answer: Violin

Question: What is the only major US City (which was founded in 1701 by Frenchman Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac), that looks south to Canada?
Answer: Detroit

Question: Which British TV series about cars that began in 1977 is presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, and features a test driver known as The Stig?
Answer: Top Gear

Question: What island nation in the South Pacific Ocean was, from 1906, jointly managed by France and the UK as the New Hebrides, and became a Republic in 1980?
Answer: Vanuatu

Question: Minamata disease, a neurological syndrome with symptoms including ataxia, numbness, general weakness, narrowing of vision and damage to hearing and speech, and even insanity, paralysis, coma and death within weeks, is caused by severe poisoning by what?
Answer: Mercury

Question: Why was the Eiffel Tower built?
Answer: As part of the 1889 World's Fair

Question: What was the first of the World Trade Centre buildings to be rebuilt after 9/11?
Answer: 7 World Trade Center

Question: What is the subject of the song "Breakin' Dishes", recorded by Rihanna and released on her 2007 album "Good Girl Gone Bad"?
Answer: A woman getting revenge on her cheating husband

Question: After a Facebook campaign to make it the number 1 UK single in December 2009, "Killing In The Name" by which band set a record for most downloads in a single week, selling over 500,000 copies?
Answer: Rage Against the Machine

Question: Which active volcano is the second highest peak in Mexico?
Answer: Popocatpetl

Question: If you were watching a game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Philadelphia Flyers, what sport would they be playing?
Answer: Ice hockey

Question: Which New York Yankees baseball identity is credited with coining the phrase "It's deja vu all over again"?
Answer: Yogi Berra

Question: Which country had, at various times, included areas known at various times as Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, Vojvodina, Kosovo, Istria and Rijeka?
Answer: Yugoslavia

Question: The Sex Pistols' initial career lasted two and a half years. How many studio albums of frsh material did they issue officially in that period?
Answer: 1

Question: Who was the founder of the Christian Science movement?
Answer: Mary Baker Eddy

Question: What is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar, the month of fasting, in which Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and so on from dawn to sunset?
Answer: Ramadan

Question: What is the next in this series: "Lucky Town", "The Ghost of Tom Joad", "The Rising", "Devils & Dust", "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions", "Magic" ... ?
Answer: Working on a Dream

Question: When was the first Super Bowl for American football held?
Answer: 1967

Question: What thin, circular structure in the eye controls the diameter and size of the pupils and the amount of light reaching the pupil?
Answer: Iris

Question: The Easter Rising, an insurrection staged during Easter Week 1916 with the aim of ending British rule, was where?
Answer: Ireland

Question: """The Mystery of Edwin Drood"" is the unfinished novel by which author?"
Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: What originated as a French folk dance, notated in 4/4 or 2/2 time at moderate tempo, with a distinctive rhythmic feature, as phrases begin in the middle of the bar (on the third quarter note), creating a half-measure upbeat?
Answer: Gavotte

Question: What country, an ideal of the "Illyrian Movement" began to become a reality after the 1918 collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, and was formally renamed as a "Kingdom" in 1929?
Answer: Yugoslavia

Question: Busby Berkeley was famous for his contribution to elaborately staged extravagant scenes in film musicals, mainly between the 1920s to 1940s, as what?
Answer: Choreographer

Question: The national flag of which country differs from the Italian tricolor only because it contains the national coat of arms?
Answer: Mexico

Question: What tree is mentioned in the Christmas song 'Twelve Days of Christmas'?
Answer: Pear Tree

Question: The word "the" is what part of speech?
Answer: Definite article

Question: What is the chemical symbol for Helium?
Answer: He

Question: This is an extract from the lyrics of which song written by Lily Allen and Gregory Kurstin: It's sad but it's true how society says her life is already over, There's nothing to do and there's nothing to say, 'Til the man of her dreams comes along, Picks her up and puts her over his shoulder, It seems so unlikely in this day and age?
Answer: 22

Question: In 2007, who set a record by being the only soccer player to play on three World Cup-winning teams?
Answer: Pel

Question: What are formed from linear chains of amino acids?
Answer: Proteins

Question: What is the stage name of Natalie Renee McIntyre, a US R&B; and soul singer-songwriter, record producer and actress with a distinctive raspy voice and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday & Betty Davis?
Answer: Macy Gray

Question: The Red Ensign, a flag that originated in the early 17th century as a British ensign flown by the Royal Navy, is currently specifically used by which group?
Answer: British merchant navy

Question: When did homosexuality between consenting adults cease to be illegal in all of the United Kingdom?
Answer: 1982

Question: What did Shakespeare say were the names of Hamlet's mother and stepfather?
Answer: Gertrude and Claudius

Question: To what does the phrase "Sunday best" refer?
Answer: One's most presentable clothes

Question: What was the original name of the singer known as Annie Lennox, who was born on Christmas Day, 1954 in Torry, Aberdeen?
Answer: Ann Lennox

Question: What science features in the TV series "House"?
Answer: Medicine

Question: What early 18th century English club in London with strong political and literary associations, had members which included writers William Congreve, Jonathan Swift and Joseph Addison, and politicians the Duke of Marlborough and Sir Robert Walpole?
Answer: The Kit-Kat Club