Question: In the 1990s, which country briefly became a tax haven and illegal money laundering centre and from 2001 to 2008, accepted aid from the Australian government in exchange for housing an illegal migrant detention center that held and processed asylum seekers trying to enter Australia?
Answer: Nauru

Question: Between 1960 and 1987, Maurice Yamogo, Lt. Col. Sangoul Lamizana, Col. Saye Zerbo, Maj. Dr. Jean-Baptiste Oudraogo, Capt. Thomas Sankara and Capt. Blaise Compaor were involved in the politics of which country?
Answer: Burkina Faso

Question: Which mountain range extends over Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela?
Answer: Andes

Question: How were Plcido Domingo, Jos Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti known collectively?
Answer: Three tenors

Question: Doggles, invented by Ken and Roni di Lullo, are a type of what?
Answer: Sunglasses

Question: What does an angler try to catch?
Answer: Fish

Question: In the 1960s, which instrument was associated with Mick Avory, John Steel, Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, Charlie Watts, Dave Clark, Richard Taylor, Viv Prince and Jim McCarty?
Answer: Drums

Question: What was the name of the country in west Africa which, in 1975, was re-named "The People's Republic of Benin"?
Answer: Dahomey

Question: David Attenborough is best known for narrating what kind of TV programme?
Answer: Natural History

Question: The cities of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Reading, Scranton, Bethlehem, Altoona and Harrisburg are in which US state?
Answer: Pennsylvania

Question: In Greek and Roman mythology, who is the son (with a twin sister, Artemis) of Zeus and Leto, who has been worshipped as a god of a number of responsibilities, including light, the sun, truth, prophecy, archery, medicine, healing, music, poetry and the arts?
Answer: Apollo

Question: Who won the World Darts Championship 13 times between 1995 and 2010 inclusive?
Answer: Phil Taylor

Question: What name is given to a young lion?
Answer: Cub

Question: What was the official date of the formation of the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland"?
Answer: 1 January 1801

Question: What is the name for the act of murdering of one's own brother?
Answer: Fratricide

Question: In the original Star Trek TV series that aired from 1966 to 1969, who played Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy?
Answer: DeForest Kelley

Question: Gene Kelly played Tommy Allbright in which 1954 film musical?
Answer: Brigadoon

Question: Bernard and Phyllis Coard and Maurice Bishop were involved with the politics of which country in 1983?
Answer: Grenada

Question: Retired professional wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura, is a former governor of which US state?
Answer: Minnesota

Question: Where are the Kasubi Tombs, also known as the Ssekabaka's Tombs, the burial grounds for four kings, which were badly damaged by fire on 16 March 2010?
Answer: Kampala, Uganda

Question: The ratio of the input voltage to the output voltage of a transformer is directly proportional to what?
Answer: The number of turns in the windings of the input and output coils

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, what happened just before the clock struck one?
Answer: The mouse ran up it

Question: The screenplay for which 2000 film, set against the UK miners' strike in County Durham in 1984 & 1985, was inspired in part by A. J. Cronin's novel "The Stars Look Down"?
Answer: Billy Elliot

Question: What is the common name of the endangered Techmarscincus jigurru, usually found above 1400 m on the slopes of Queensland's highest mountains, which was discovered in 1981?
Answer: The Bartle Frere skink

Question: The International Pageant of Pulchritude, held from 1926 to 1932, was the forerunner of what modern event?
Answer: Miss Universe

Question: Which singer-songwriter, who won 2 BRIT Awards and 2 Ivor Novello Awards and was nominated for 5 Grammy Awards in 2006, was an officer in a cavalry regiment of the British Army, and served under NATO in Kosovo in 1999?
Answer: James Blunt

Question: A teaching technique invented by Sarah Ann Glover (who adapted it from a number of earlier systems) and popularised by John Curwen in the 19th century is associated with what activity?
Answer: Singing

Question: What were the weapons used mainly by infantrymen in the American Civil War?
Answer: Rifles

Question: A book by D H Lawrence that caused controversy in the 1960s is "Lady Chatterley's ..." what?
Answer: Lover

Question: In 2009, L'Osservatore Romano published a controversial article that demonstrated that what had done more for the liberation of woman than the contraceptive pill and abortion pill?
Answer: Washing machine

Question: Olympic gold medallists Ian Fergusson and Danyon Loader represented which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Who stands off-stage and reminds actors of forgotten lines during a performance?
Answer: Prompter

Question: Arnall Patz received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 for his lifetime of work in what field?
Answer: Ophthalmology

Question: The Plum Judy, Painted Lady, Monarch, Speckled Wood, Mallow Skipper, and Zabulon Skipper are varieties of what?
Answer: Butterfly

Question: Where is the region known as Transylvania?
Answer: Romania

Question: What was the cause of a state of emergency in Kenya from October 1952 to December 1959?
Answer: Mau Mau rebellion

Question: A compilation of whose inspirational letters to a young jazz student named Anthony, has been published as "To a Young Jazz Musician"?
Answer: Wynton Marsalis

Question: Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Joan Baez are associated with what style of music?
Answer: Folk

Question: The term "Gallic" means relating to what country?
Answer: France

Question: Who were Bert van Marwijk, Vicente del Bosque, scar Tabrez & Joachim Lw?
Answer: Head coaches for the semi-finalist teams in the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Question: English actress Lily Langtry was the mistress of whom?
Answer: Edward VII

Question: What historical period is commonly dated from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the rise of nation-states and the beginnings of European overseas expansion?
Answer: The Middle Ages

Question: What old English unit equalling inch (8.46 mm) is the base for the English and the US shoe sizing system?
Answer: Barleycorn

Question: The city of Leningrad, Russia, is now known as what?
Answer: St Petersburg

Question: An oenophile is a lover of what?
Answer: Wine

Question: Britney Spears, at her first international performance since 2003, mimed to "Gimme More" in a performance that was met with derision and disappointment by fans and critics alike. Where was this?
Answer: The 2007 Video Music Awards

Question: Which fruit is used to make cider?
Answer: Apples

Question: What name was given to members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France from the 16th to the 18th centuries, many of whom emigrated in the late 17th century, who were inspired by the writings of John Calvin in the 1530s?
Answer: Huguenots

Question: Which cartoon character was born at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm?
Answer: Snoopy

Question: Sheep are aged by their teeth and are referred to by the number of permanent incisors that have erupted. About how old is a "four-tooth"?
Answer: 1.5 to 2 years

Question: Thomas Cranmer held what position during the reign of Henry VIII, between 3 December 1533 and 4 December 1555?
Answer: Archbishop of Canterbury

Question: What is the legal tender (face) value of the "American Buffalo", a 24-karat gold bullion coin first offered for sale by the US Mint on 22 June 2006?
Answer: Us$50

Question: What is the next in this series: 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians ... ?
Answer: Colossians