Question: What is an annual holiday in some parts of the world, celebrated on 31 October, that has its roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints?
Answer: Halloween

Question: Which construction, designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel in 1947, that stands 630 feet (192 m) tall and is 630 feet (192 m) wide at its base, is called "the tallest monument in the USA"?
Answer: The Gateway Arch, in St. Louis, Missouri,

Question: Who is the boss of the fictional Inspector Clouseau of the French Sret in the "Pink Panther" series of films?
Answer: Chief Inspector Dreyfus

Question: New York businessman and gambler Arnold Rothstein was believed to have been behind baseball's Black Sox Scandal, in which the 1919 World Series was fixed, giving the series to which team?
Answer: Cincinnati Reds

Question: In January 2006, what space probe was sent to investigate Pluto?
Answer: New Horizon

Question: Who headed up the "Rolling Thunder Revue", a US concert tour consisting of a travelling caravan of musicians including Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Kinky Friedman & Bob Neuwirth, that took place in late 1975 / early 1976?
Answer: Bob Dylan

Question: What word would you expect to find "Lobster" described as on a French menu?
Answer: Langouste

Question: Where was Expo 2010 held from 1 May to 31 October 2010, the most expensive Expo in the history of world's fairs with the largest site (5.28 square km), with more than 190 countries and over 50 international organisations participating?
Answer: Shanghai, China

Question: What was the real name of El Cid, a Spanish national hero?
Answer: Rodrigo Daz de Vivar

Question: Which country left the British Commonwealth in 1949?
Answer: Ireland

Question: The modern Oxford-Cambridge University boating course runs from Putney to where?
Answer: Mortlake

Question: According to Greek legend, which of the 9 Muses was the muse of Dance?
Answer: Terpsichore

Question: Ceramic items are made from what material?
Answer: China

Question: What was the name of the ship used by Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the east coast of the American colonies from 1717 to 1718?
Answer: Queen Anne's Revenge

Question: Cramp affects what part of the body?
Answer: Muscles

Question: n which song does the singer say "I'm gonna love you, like nobody's loved you", "High as a mountain, deep as a river"?
Answer: Come Rain or Come Shine

Question: According to Greek legend, Leander was visited nightly by whom, who swam across the Hellespont?
Answer: Hero

Question: In the USA, what is the filling for a bread bun to make a "sloppy Joe"?
Answer: Cooked mince beef and tomato sauce

Question: Which film, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, John Carradine and Claire Trevor, was indirectly based on Guy de Maupassant's story "Boule de Suif"?
Answer: Stagecoach

Question: Which national leader's 3 wives were Aurelia Tizn (married 1929) and Eva Duarte (married 1945) who both died of cancer, and Isabel Martnez (married 1961)?
Answer: Juan Pern

Question: The village of Zermatt is close to what geographical feature?
Answer: The Matterhorn

Question: What is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies, consisting mainly of psalms, said around 3 p.m.?
Answer: None

Question: The counties of Clinton, Delaware, Erie, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Nassau, Ontario, Orange, Orleans, Saratoga, Seneca, Ulster, Washington, Westchester and Wyoming are in what state of the USA?
Answer: New York

Question: According to Greek legend, which of the 9 Muses was the muse of epic poetry?
Answer: Calliope

Question: Where are the Straits of Mackinac?
Answer: Between Lakes Huron & Michigan

Question: A state of Australia, one of the world's biggest waterfalls, a London railway station, Africa's largest lake and a large public park in Hong Kong are all named after whom?
Answer: Queen Victoria

Question: What ship, formerly called USS "Phoenix" which saw action in World War II, became the first to be sunk by a nuclear-powered submarine, in 1982?
Answer: The Argentine cruiser "General Belgrano"

Question: Until the year 2000, how many US presidents had previously served as vice president?
Answer: 14

Question: What was the occupation of William Kidd, who was hanged for it in 1701?
Answer: Pirate

Question: How many members are there in the UK's House of Commons?
Answer: 646

Question: What area was claimed as a colony by the German Empire in the late 19th century, became a League of Nations mandate administered by Australia, New Zealand and the UK after World War I, was occupied by Japanese troops during World War II, and became a trusteeship until it was declared independent in 1968?
Answer: Nauru

Question: Raymond Blanc, Rick Stein and Graham Kerr are all associated with what activity?
Answer: Cooking

Question: What are the first names of Torville and Dean, who were the highest ever scoring figure skaters for a single programme at the 1984 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Jayne and Christopher

Question: """Dae Jang Geum"" (2003), an internationally telecast TV series from South Korean TV channel MBC (entitled ""Jewel in the Palace"" in English-speaking countries) and loosely based on the Annals of Joseon Dynasty of Korea, focuses on a character with what occupation?"
Answer: Physician

Question: What relation are Billy Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus to each other?
Answer: Father and daughter

Question: In geometry, there is a name for convex polyhedrons that are regular, of which there are 5 types. Generically, what kind of solid are they called?
Answer: Platonic

Question: Which abolitionist was hung in 1859 for his role in the Harper's Ferry Raid and played a major role in starting the Civil War?
Answer: John Brown

Question: What is the next in this series: 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy ... ?
Answer: Titus

Question: Which 31 minute documentary made in 1938, which asked for better housing, farm techniques and flood control and more electrical power, showed a great flood in the Mississippi River?
Answer: The River

Question: Who played Dorothy in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz"?
Answer: Judy Garland

Question: In 2008, Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton began dating Nicole Scherzinger, who made her name with which American pop/R&B; girl group and dance ensemble?
Answer: Pussycat Dolls

Question: What is a synonym for "plethora"?
Answer: Abundance

Question: What was the stage name of American jazz singer and songwriter Eleanora Fagan?
Answer: Billie Holiday

Question: The internal angles of a rectangle add up to how many degrees?
Answer: 360

Question: What is the capital of the US state of Alaska?
Answer: Juneau

Question: In which country do these laws apply: the 1975 State Protection Act (Article 10 b), which grants the government the power to imprison persons for up to five years without a trial, and the Law to Safeguard the State Against the Dangers of Those Desiring to Cause Subversive Acts (Article 10 a)?
Answer: Myanmar

Question: These are the last lines of which play: H: Shall the worms declare his truth? Go to him, take his shame away. E: He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him.
Answer: """The Crucible"" by Arthur Miller"

Question: What book was published by Florence Nightingale in 1860?
Answer: Notes on Nursing

Question: Which English cricketer, a left-handed batsman who was named one of the Five Batsmen of the Year by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1893, captained Somerset in the late 19th century and appeared for Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club?
Answer: Herbie Hewett

Question: Who "ran through the town, upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown"?
Answer: Wee Willie Winkie