Question: On 11 May 2010 David Cameron was asked by Queen Elizabeth II to form a government and, as Prime Minister of the UK, announced that he wished to lead a formal coalition of the Conservative Party and which other party?
Answer: Liberal Democrats

Question: Which one of these is not a main difference between the rings specified for a netball court and the hoops specified for basketball?
Answer: Netball rings are a pastel shade.  Basketball rings are always black

Question: What is the name of the special type of glass in which champagne should be served?
Answer: Flute

Question: What is the surname of the father and son actors Martin and Charlie?
Answer: Sheen

Question: How many members are there in the German Bundestag?
Answer: 622

Question: Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot was the "real" name of which Batman villain?
Answer: Penguin

Question: The historically significant "Wind of Change" speech was made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on 3 February 1960 to the Parliament of which country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: How many nickels are there in $2.45?
Answer: 49

Question: What is the name of the song by Kenny Rogers that includes the lines "You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, Know when to walk away and know when to run"?
Answer: The Gambler

Question: What name was given to the predominant type of 20th-century battleship, with an 'all-big-gun' armament & steam turbine propulsion, that was named after the first of the kind, launched by the Royal Navy in 1906?
Answer: Dreadnought

Question: An oenophile is fond of what?
Answer: Wine

Question: What does "feng shui" mean literally?
Answer: Wind and water

Question: Where is the pituitary gland situated?
Answer: Brain

Question: Pirates operating off the coast of which country took over $100 million in ransom payments between 2007 and 2009?
Answer: Somalia

Question: P B S Pinchback was the first non-white and first person of African American descent to become governor of a US state, serving for 35 days from 9 December 1872, to 13 January 1873. Which state was this?
Answer: Louisiana

Question: The annual rock festival at Roskilde is held in which country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Whose body was buried in 1543 in an unnamed tomb in the Catholic church of Frombork, Poland, exhumed in 2005, and buried there for a second time in May 2010 in a ceremony conducted by the archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland?
Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus

Question: What is the name of the 12 levels of proficiency in judo and karate?
Answer: Dan

Question: Which religion is based on the teachings of Siddartha Gautama?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: The statue called "Manneken Pis", of a small boy relieving himself, is in which city?
Answer: Brussels

Question: Besides the assassination of US president John F Kennedy, what happened on 22 November 1963?
Answer: The album "With the Beatles" is released in London

Question: What sign of the zodiac is represented by twins?
Answer: Gemini

Question: What do Seung-Hui Cho, Thomas Watt Hamilton, Robert Steinhuser, Charles Joseph Whitman, Tim Kretschmer, Marc Lpine, Dylan Bennet Klebold, Eric David Harris, Farda Gadirov, Bai Ningyang and Walter Seifert have in common?
Answer: They carried out massacres at schools

Question: Which British TV soap opera ran from 2 November 1964 to 4 April 1988 with minor changes of name, was revived on 5 March 2001, went into hiatus from August 2002 to January 2003, with the final episode broadcast on 30 May 2003?
Answer: Crossroads

Question: The numbers 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888 and 999 are all multiples of what number?
Answer: 37

Question: Traditionally, the leader of a symphony orchestra plays what?
Answer: The violin

Question: When Winston Churchill said "Now this is not the end, nor is it even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning", which event was he talking about?
Answer: The Second Battle of El Alamein

Question: Rosehill racecourse is in which Australian city?
Answer: Sydney

Question: What disease reached epidemic proportions in Haiti late in 2010?
Answer: Cholera

Question: In 1932 the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd unified with the principal regions of Al-Hasa and Qatif to form which country?
Answer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Question: How many letters are there in the Turkish alphabet?
Answer: 29

Question: Which TV series contained the characters Sybil, Polly, Basil and Manuel?
Answer: Fawlty Towers

Question: What animal takes part in Olympic "dressage" events?
Answer: Horse

Question: A "Wobbegong" is a type of what?
Answer: Shark

Question: Scott Robinson, Ritchie Neville, J Brown, Abs Breen and Sean Conlon were the founder members of which boy band?
Answer: 5ive

Question: The term "rope-a-dope" is from what sport?
Answer: Boxing

Question: The phrase "Mountain Standard Time" refers to what mountains?
Answer: Rockies

Question: The flag of which country is a horizontal tricolour of "deep saffron" at the top, white in the middle, and green at the bottom with, in the centre, a navy blue wheel with twenty-four spokes?
Answer: India

Question: Billy Blaze, an 8-year-old genius who constructed a spaceship in his backyard from old soup cans and other household objects called "The Bean-with-Bacon Megarocket" puts on his brother's football helmet and becomes what character in a video game series?
Answer: Commander Keen

Question: In the Bible, Goliath was a member of what group?
Answer: Philistines

Question: Ned Flanders, a character in "The Simpsons", runs a store that sells what?
Answer: Things for left handed people

Question: Who is a former British triple jumper who held the Olympic, Commonwealth, European and World records, and has held the world record in the event since 1995?
Answer: Jonathan Edwards

Question: Who is involved in a "curtain call"?
Answer: Performers

Question: Who wrote, often with Howard Greenfield, the songs "Oh! Carol" (1959), "Calendar Girl" (1960), "Little Devil" (1961), "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" (1961), "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (1962) and "Next Door to an Angel" (1962)?
Answer: Neil Sedaka

Question: On 1 September 2010, In the Iraq War, the USA replaced the name "Operation Iraqi Freedom" by what?
Answer: Operation New Dawn

Question: What is the name of the transition from a liquid state directly to a gas of an element or compound?
Answer: Vaporisation

Question: If Christmas Eve falls on a Monday, what day will New Year's Day be?
Answer: Tuesday

Question: What term applies to an engine comprising two banks of four cylinders inclined towards each other, with a common crankshaft?
Answer: V8

Question: Which football team returned home from the 2010 African Nations Cup in Angola after their bus was shot at and three people were killed?
Answer: Togo

Question: The "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act" signed into law in the US state of Arizona on 23 April 2010 to take effect on 28 July 2010, concerns what?
Answer: Illegal immigration

Question: Whose autobiography was entitled "A Long Walk to Freedom"?
Answer: Nelson Mandela

Question: In the film "Scream", what was Drew Barrymore doing while she was on the telephone?
Answer: Making popcorn

Question: Tofu is made by coagulating what, and compacting the resulting curds into blocks?
Answer: Soy milk

Question: Where is the boxing venue known as Madison Square Garden?
Answer: New York

Question: Who wrote "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, it isn't fit for humans now"?
Answer: Sir John Betjeman

Question: How many Mexican states share a land border with the USA?
Answer: 6

Question: What is the term for reactions some people have that are severe and life-threatening allergies (to environmental or dietary allergens or to medication)?
Answer: Anaphylactic

Question: Ashley Jensen played Maggie Jacobs in which TV series?
Answer: Extras