Question: What game is played in 4 quarters between two teams of 18 outdoors on a large oval grass field with two goal posts and two behind posts at each end, where the primary aim of the game is to score by kicking a ball between the posts of the opposing goal?
Answer: Australian football

Question: Why did Captain James Cook give the name "The Sandwich Islands" to the Hawaiian Islands on his discovery of them on 18 January 1778?
Answer: He named them for John Montagu

Question: Which film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland, was about four days in the life of a chronic drunkard?
Answer: The Lost Weekend

Question: Of all of the capitals of sovereign countries that are closest to each other, which two are the furthest apart?
Answer: wellington and canberra

Question: What is the name for an intermittent hot spring, characterised by violent explosive eruptions of steam and boiling water, alternating with quiet periods?
Answer: Geyser

Question: What, if decreased, will lower the boiling point of water?
Answer: Pressure

Question: In 1996, it was rumoured that which company had influenced the International Olympic Committee to hold the Olympics in Atlanta?
Answer: Coca-Cola

Question: The Dominican Republic and Haiti are the two countries that occupy which island?
Answer: Hispaniola

Question: What is the deepest lake in the world?
Answer: Lake Baikal

Question: What TV series was set on Craggy Island?
Answer: Father Ted

Question: Which island fort, built to protect the port of Charleston, South Carolina, USA, was the site of the first action in the American Civil War?
Answer: Fort Sumter

Question: The Passover is part of the calendar for which religion?
Answer: Jewish

Question: The game of "racquets" developed into which sport?
Answer: Squash

Question: Whose wife, Elin, gave birth to his son, Charlie, early in 2009?
Answer: Tiger Woods

Question: """Doo lang doo land doo lang"" is the start of which hit from the 1960s?"
Answer: He's So Fine

Question: Where in Britain is Bishop Rock lighthouse?
Answer: Scilly Isles

Question: Where would you find a eustachian tube?
Answer: In the ear

Question: Who wrote the stories "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" which inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" and "The Sandman" which inspired the ballet "Copplia" by Delibes?
Answer: Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman

Question: Islamabad is the capital of which country?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: What is the name of the revised version of the game Cluedo, with changes to board, gameplay and characters, created in 2008?
Answer: Cluedo Reinvention

Question: Which 18th century painter and engraver is famous for his works "The Rake's Progress" and "Marriage la Mode"?
Answer: William Hogarth

Question: What is the common name for "lentigo"?
Answer: Freckles

Question: The Tower of Babel is mentioned in which book of the Bible?
Answer: Genesis

Question: Who painted mostly in egg tempera, is best known for "Christina's World", and whose common subject was Helga Testorf?
Answer: Andrew Wyeth

Question: How many colours are there on the American flag?
Answer: 3

Question: Which poet is buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey?
Answer: Ben Jonson

Question: Who won a record six motorcycle speedway World Championships in 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977 and 1979?
Answer: Ivan Mauger

Question: Given that the speed of sound is 1120 feet per second, if a person makes a sound that bounces off an object 112 feet away, how long will it take for that echo to be heard?
Answer: 0.2 seconds

Question: Who was the illustrator for the Tintin series of books?
Answer: Herg

Question: Which European ruler reigned for the longest time?
Answer: Louis XIV, France

Question: At which Olympic Games did a water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union end as a pitched battle between the teams?
Answer: 1956, Melbourne

Question: Bavaria is a state of which country?
Answer: Germany

Question: Which British TV series, a contest to decide the best new pop singer in the UK based on viewer voting, debuted in October 2001 and became an international franchise?
Answer: Pop Idol

Question: Which country lies between Spain and France, in the Pyrenees?
Answer: Andorra

Question: What is disrupted when "Jet lag" occurs?
Answer: Circadian rhythms

Question: What bands most commercially successful line-up, in 1969-73, featured Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Roger Glover and Ian Paice?
Answer: Deep Purple

Question: Which country, after its Act of Union agreement expired, held a four-day plebiscite in 1944 and became an independent republic on 17 June 1944, with Sveinn Bjrnsson as the first President?
Answer: Iceland

Question: Who, in the 16th century, was a member of the court of Ivan The Terrible and became Tsar on the death of Ivan's son, Feodor/Theodore?
Answer: Boris Godunov

Question: James Frederick Ferrier introduced which word to cover the branch of philosophy conerned with "the theory of knowledge"?
Answer: Epistemology

Question: What is the name of a pipe originating in India and Persia where smoke passes from a bowl to a water bottle and thence by a tube to the mouth?
Answer: Hookah

Question: The Snake River runs through Hells Canyon on the border of which two US states?
Answer: Oregon and Idaho

Question: If Charlie Watts is playing drums, who is most likely to be singing?
Answer: Mick Jagger

Question: Which castle, when used as a prison for prisoners of war in World War II, was known as Oflag VII C?
Answer: Colditz

Question: Why is a Netball court divided into thirds?
Answer: To regulate where individuals of each position are allowed to move

Question: What is the second longest river on the island of New Guinea?
Answer: Fly

Question: What was the capital of Italian East Africa between 1936 and 1941?
Answer: Addis Ababa

Question: Which archaeologist is famed for excavating the palace of Minos, Crete between 1900 and 1908?
Answer: Sir Arthur John Evans

Question: What was the last record to be played on Radio Caroline South before its radio ship was towed into harbour over unpaid debts on the morning of 3 March 1968?
Answer: """Cinderella Rockefella"" by Ester and Abbie Ofarim"

Question: Which of Galileo's achievements brought him into conflict with the church, resulting in his being confined to his house for the last years of his life?
Answer: He said that the Copernican view of the universe was correct

Question: At which Olympic Games were there new events including BMX (men and women), swimming marathon (10 km), and for the first time, women competed in the steeplechase and some team fencing events?
Answer: 2008, Beijing

Question: Which tree native to Mexico, South America and Central America, part of a family of flowering plants, produces a fruit (technically a large berry) that contains a pit which may be egg-shaped or spherical?
Answer: Avocado

Question: The Gila Cliff Dwellings and Fort Union National Monuments are in which US State?
Answer: New Mexico

Question: How many US Presidents have been assassinated by being shot?
Answer: 4

Question: How many white squares are there on a chessboard?
Answer: 32

Question: In France, what would you buy in a fromagerie?
Answer: Cheese

Question: What name is given to the unit of electrical power represented by a current of 1 ampere flowing through a circuit whose potential difference is 1 volt?
Answer: Watt

Question: In the British sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous", what is the name of Edina's daughter?
Answer: Saffron

Question: Which German composer was assistant to Wagner at Bayreuth 1880-1, taught at Barcelona, Frankfurt and Berlin, and is best known for his opera "Hansel and Gretel"?
Answer: Englebert Humperdinck

Question: In which 20th century conflict did the "Tet offensive" take place?
Answer: Vietnam War

Question: In which country is the area called "the Algarve"?
Answer: Portugal

Question: What is the ordinal of one?
Answer: First