Question: Between 2000 and 2010, how many times had Venus and Serena Williams met in a Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Final?
Answer: 4

Question: Who was the Greek goddess of wisdom, war and the liberal arts?
Answer: Pallas Athene

Question: The USA purchased Alaska in 1867; when did it become one of the states in the United States?
Answer: 1959

Question: Where is the island of Montserrat?
Answer: Caribbean Sea

Question: Who is a saxophone player from Slaton, Texas, who has performed with musicians such as Bobby Vee, Buddy Holly, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen?
Answer: Bobby Keys

Question: The Angus, Australian Lowline, Blue Albion, Florida Cracker, Hereford, Romagnola, Tasmanian Grey and Whitebred Shorthorn are all types of what?
Answer: Cattle

Question: It premiered at the Olivier Theatre in the Royal National Theatre in London, UK, using life-size, non-human puppets. What was the play?
Answer: War Horse

Question: Which point on the African coast stands most closely to the point where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer: Cape Spartel

Question: What 1983 film directed by Brian De Palma, scripted by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana, is based on Howard Hawks's 1932 biopic of Al Capone?
Answer: Scarface

Question: Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess of nature and mother of the earth, Demeter?
Answer: Ceres

Question: Syntax is the study of the underlying principles and the ways of what?
Answer: How a sentence is put together

Question: Who lives with the rest of the Darling family and Nana the dog?
Answer: Wendy in "Peter Pan"

Question: Tijuana and San Diego are on either side of what?
Answer: USA / Mexico border

Question: Who, according to Greek legend, was forced to stand up to his neck in water which receded when he tried to drink, under fruits which were blown aside by the wind when he tried to eat?
Answer: Tantalus

Question: Where is the Fdration Aronautique Internationale based?
Answer: Geneva, Switzerland

Question: Writers of episodes for the UK comedy TV series "Doctor in the House" (1969-70) included comic artists Graham Chapman, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Bernard McKenna and who else?
Answer: John Cleese

Question: What better describes the game of Scrabble?
Answer: Word game

Question: What have the two constellations Ursa Major and Minor given their name to?
Answer: The Arctic

Question: What is the Spanish word for "chestnut"?
Answer: Castanet

Question: What are the first names of comedians French and Saunders?
Answer: Dawn and Jennifer

Question: The ports of Astrakhan and Baku are on which body of water?
Answer: Caspian Sea

Question: Who was the subject of the film "I'm Not There", and did not appear in it?
Answer: Bob Dylan

Question: Tenzing Norgay was famous for his activities in what field?
Answer: Mountaineering

Question: Which poet's middle name is Bysshe?
Answer: Shelley

Question: Sigmund Freud coined the term Oedipus complex to describe the tendency for a male to want to kill his father and marry his mother. What did he call the female equivalent (of a female being attached to her father and wishing to replace her mother)?
Answer: Electra complex

Question: When was the FAI, the Fdration Aronautique Internationale which governs air sports, aeronautics and astronautics world records, founded?
Answer: 1905

Question: What record did Clint Eastwood set when he received the Academy Award for Best Director, for "Million Dollar Baby" in 2004?
Answer: He was the oldest to receive it

Question: What is a symbol of food and abundance dating back to the 5th century BC, which is classically depicted as a goat's horn filled with fruits and flowers?
Answer: Cornucopia

Question: What links French dramatist Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) and actor Charlton Heston (1923-2008)?
Answer: El Cid

Question: In 2009 three women - an Australian, a Norwegian and a Venezuelan - created a record for the Venezuelan at Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world, doing what?
Answer: BASE jumping

Question: Who was found guilty by the High Court of Admiralty, London, on five counts of piracy and for the murder of William Moore, was hanged on May 23, 1701, at 'Execution Dock', Wapping, London?
Answer: William Kidd

Question: What type of creature can be called earth, round, flat, butt, arrow, jaw, horsehair, ribbon, velvet, horseshoe, peanut and tape?
Answer: Worm

Question: The US version of the Indian game pachisi, Parcheesi, was trademarked by US firm E. G. Selchow & Co in what year?
Answer: 1874

Question: Who wrote "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" between 1772 and 1787 (published from 1776 to 1789) in 6 volumes?
Answer: Edward Gibbon

Question: Africa is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean and which other major body of water?
Answer: The Red Sea

Question: When was the bridge celebrated in the French nursery song new?
Answer: 1185

Question: Reginald Rose wrote a play adapted from his 1957 teleplay, and later film, script of the same name. The film became famous with Henry Fonda in the lead role as foreman of a jury. What was the play?
Answer: 12 Angry Men

Question: When was the first train run on the route known as the Orient Express?
Answer: 1883

Question: What type of land does Bogota, Columbia, have most of?
Answer: Mountains

Question: What is the next city in the series Beijing, London, Rio de Janeiro ...?
Answer: Tokyo

Question: Snakes are kept in a what?
Answer: Terrarium

Question: On the Christian calendar, what is the name for the Sunday before Easter?
Answer: Palm Sunday

Question: It was called by one government the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart" and by a neighbouring government the "Wall of Shame", what was it and when was construction started?
Answer: The Berlin Wall, 1961

Question: What does a gourmand enjoy, specifically?
Answer: Eating

Question: If you travelled along the line of latitude from New York on the east coast of the USA to Eureka, California, on the west what would you pass through?
Answer: The Great Salt Lake

Question: Vikings, ruling East Slavic peoples in the 9th to the 12th centuries were known as what, which led to the name for which present country?
Answer: The Rus; Russia

Question: In 2010, Iyad Allawi and Nuri Al-Maliki contested an election in which country?
Answer: Iraq

Question: What was a nickname of 11th century British king, Edward?
Answer: The Confessor

Question: The American TV miniseries "Shogun", based on the book by James Clavell, was set in which country?
Answer: Japan

Question: In 2006 Mark Inglis, a New Zealand mountaineer, successfully climbed Mt Everest; what singled him out from the many who have now achieved this climb?
Answer: He was missing both legs below the knee

Question: The Trans-Siberian Railway is the third longest continuous rail service and spans how many time zones?
Answer: 7

Question: Considered by Eugene Merle Shoemaker to be the first definitive proof of an extraterrestrial impact on the Earth's surface, the research related to which meteorite impact crater?
Answer: Barringer, in Arizona, USA

Question: In their raiding, exploring, trading and settling in the 9th century Scandinavian Vikings took which city, and grew it into the capital of what became known as the Land of the Rus?
Answer: Kiev

Question: Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood's clothing shop in Chelsea, London was called "Let It Rock" when it opened. The name was changed to "Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die" 1972, and was next called what?
Answer: Sex

Question: What sort of sound does a goose make?
Answer: Honk

Question: Who wrote the 1955 novel "The Quiet American"?
Answer: Graham Greene

Question: The Tuareg are the principal inhabitants of which area?
Answer: Sahara Desert

Question: If you went directly south from France, which sea would you meet first?
Answer: Mediterannean