Question: Banff National Park and Jasper National Park, which are connected by the Icefields Parkway, are in which Canadian province?
Answer: Alberta

Question: In what sport is a "triple salchow" performed?
Answer: Figure skating

Question: On 25 June 1991, Slovenia and Croatia became the first republics to declare independence from which country?
Answer: Yugoslavia

Question: Who did Uma Thurman marry in 1990?
Answer: Gary Oldman

Question: What is the most abundant element in the earth's crust?
Answer: Silicon

Question: What is the name for an area of land, of which there are about 310 in the USA, managed by a Native American tribe under the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs?
Answer: Indian reservation

Question: Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, Beast and Jean Grey were the original members of which group of fictional characters?
Answer: X-Men

Question: What marks a 40th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Ruby

Question: Who was the first person to be recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations as running the 1500 metres in under 3 minutes 30 seconds?
Answer: Steve Cram

Question: Rubbing a balloon on one's hair and then sticking it to a wall is an example of what type of electricity?
Answer: Static

Question: The "New Model Army" was formed to fight in which war?
Answer: English Civil War

Question: The lands of Castile, which came to prominence in Europe in the 13th century, make up much of which modern country?
Answer: Spain

Question: What is the name for a site serving as the final resting place of human skeletal remains, which is frequently used where burial space is scarce?
Answer: Ossuary

Question: Where are the islands called Amherst, Bayfield, Greene, Simcoe, High Bluff, Nicholson, Waupoos and Wolfe?
Answer: Lake Ontario

Question: What are raced in the Melbourne Cup?
Answer: Horses

Question: The Rocky Mountains stretch over 3,000 miles from New Mexico to where?
Answer: British Columbia

Question: The existence of what was conjectured by Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold in 1995 and proven in 2006 by Hungarian scientists Gbor Domokos and Pter Vrkonyi?
Answer: Gmbc, a type of convex 3 dimensional body

Question: What was the name given to actions by Timothy McVeigh on 19 April 1995 at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building?
Answer: The Oklahoma City bombing

Question: What is the name for a period that occurs about every 11 years when the sun's magnetic field lines are the most distorted?
Answer: Solar maximum

Question: Which musical term denotes a repetitive oscillation about a single pitch that occurs in rapid cycles?
Answer: Vibrato

Question: What is the stage name of Victoria Hesketh, an English electropop musician who sings and plays the keyboard, piano, stylophone and the Tenori-on?
Answer: Little Boots

Question: Women's judo and what other sport debuted in the Olympic Games programme in 1992?
Answer: Badminton

Question: Herpetophobia is a fear of what?
Answer: Snakes

Question: Which story by Hans Christian Andersen involves Kai, Gerda and a splintered mirror?
Answer: The Snow Queen

Question: In Olympic archery, the outer 2 circles on the target (called 1 ring and 2 ring) are what colour?
Answer: White

Question: Who plays Preston Burke in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
Answer: Isaiah Washington

Question: Beginning in the late 15th century, expeditions mainly from Britain and which other country explored, and later settled, along the Atlantic coast of Canada?
Answer: France

Question: What sport is featured in the film "The Water Boy", starring Adam Sandler?
Answer: American football

Question: Which school is the setting for the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle"?
Answer: North Manual High School

Question: What is the northernmost point in all U.S. territory?
Answer: Point Barrow, Alaska

Question: Which wonder of the ancient world was at Babylon?
Answer: Hanging gardens

Question: Julie Burchill, Peter Arnett, P J O'Rourke and John Pilger are associated with which activity?
Answer: Journalism

Question: How many points can you get in Pontoon without going bust?
Answer: 21

Question: Whose works include "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912) and a parody of the "Mona Lisa" (1919) which shows a moustache and goatee attached to a cheap reproduction of the painting?
Answer: Marcel Duchamp

Question: Quakers are also known by what name?
Answer: Society of Friends

Question: Karol Jzef Wojtya reached the high point of his career on 16 October 1978 as what?
Answer: Pope

Question: Which festival in honour of a Roman god was forbidden in Rome in 186 BC?
Answer: Bacchanalia

Question: A 1969 American western film that tells the story of two bank robbers is "Butch Cassidy and the ... what ... Kid"?
Answer: Sundance

Question: How many US states lie north of the Tropic of Cancer?
Answer: 49

Question: What was the purpose of explorer Captain, then Lieutenant, James Cook's first voyage to the south Pacific Ocean in 1768?
Answer: Take a scientific team to observe the transit of Venus

Question: The Sphinx is in which country?
Answer: Egypt

Question: The groundhog that famously appears at Gobbler's Knob, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, on 2 February annually is said to be able to predict what?
Answer: The length of the winter

Question: What film is the source of the phrase, "I'll get you, my pretty ... and your little dog too!"
Answer: The Wizard of Oz

Question: What native language would Jesus Christ have spoken?
Answer: Aramaic

Question: Louis Goldenberg and Alva J. Fisher have been credited with the invention of what device?
Answer: Electric washing machine

Question: What is a "marksman" good at?
Answer: Shooting

Question: Susan Brown was the first woman to take part in what event, in 1981?
Answer: The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

Question: What is the holy book of Shintoism?
Answer: Kojiki

Question: According to the Bible, Ham, Shem and Japheth were whose sons?
Answer: Noah

Question: The Bible Belt is a name commonly given to which parts of the USA?
Answer: The religious southern states

Question: Who fought the first world title fight between two undefeated world heavyweight champions?
Answer: Muhammad Ali & Joe Frazier

Question: Where is the world's largest cave system with 345 km of mapped passageways?
Answer: Kentucky, USA

Question: Evel Knievel is mostly associated with which activity?
Answer: Motor cycle stunt riding

Question: What gas is a component of common table salt?
Answer: Chlorine

Question: What is a word for a computer user's representation of themselves, usually in the form of a three-dimensional model used in computer games?
Answer: Avatar

Question: What is the line from Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" that follows "Actin' funny, but I don't know why"?
Answer: S'cuse me while I kiss the sky

Question: What causes the sting caused by a nettle or an ant?
Answer: Formic acid

Question: What airline, with a fleet of 55 aircraft, the flag carrier of Poland, was established in 1929, and is one of the world's oldest airlines still in operation?
Answer: Polskie Linie Lotnicze

Question: First released in 1928, which animated cartoon was the first to feature Mickey & Minnie Mouse?
Answer: Plane Crazy

Question: What is between Malaysia and Singapore?
Answer: Straits of Johor

Question: Where is the Sea of Muscovy?
Answer: On the Moon

Question: Marti Pellow was the lead singer of which band?
Answer: Wet Wet Wet

Question: What temperature is the equivalent of 0 degrees Kelvin?
Answer: -273.15 degrees Celsius

Question: Vellum, a type of parchment, was originally made from the skin of which animal?
Answer: Calf

Question: Who is the lead singer of the American rock / ska-pop / reggae band "No Doubt", winners of 2 Grammy Awards, which was formed in Anaheim, California, in 1986?
Answer: Gwen Stefani

Question: Where is the Flavian Amphitheatre?
Answer: Rome