Question: Speculation about the possibility of a southern land mass has been around for at least 2,000 years. When was the first recorded sighting of the Antarctic continent?
Answer: 1820

Question: There is a "famed Tahiti Beach" on the ...
Answer: French Riviera, in Saint Tropez, France

Question: What actor had the title role in the film "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"?
Answer: Steve Carell

Question: The parable of "The Good Samaritan" is in which Christian gospel?
Answer: Luke

Question: What was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample to Earth?
Answer: Luna 16

Question: Who "is watching you" in George Orwell's book "Nineteen Eighty-Four"?
Answer: Big Brother

Question: Which boxer was known as the "Manassa Mauler"?
Answer: Jack Dempsey

Question: In which city is the Imperial Spanish Riding School?
Answer: Vienna

Question: What is the name of a Japanese dish consisting of noodles and broth?
Answer: Ramen

Question: How many countries surround the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: 3

Question: Poland was partitioned in 1795 and again in 1815. In 1918 what happened?
Answer: It regained its independence, as the Second Polish Republic

Question: What is the base for the common logarithm?
Answer: 10

Question: What decade saw the Russian revolution which overthrew the existing government and established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the world's first constitutionally socialist state?
Answer: 1910s

Question: Marabi, a form of South African music popular 1920s-1940s, was characterised by restless, rebellious energy; where was it most practised?
Answer: Urban slums

Question: What stands at the west end of the Champs lyses?
Answer: Arc de Triomphe

Question: The New Stone Age was in what period?
Answer: Neolithic

Question: Where is the stratovolcano called Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano in the world [6,891 metres (22,608 ft)] and the second highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere?
Answer: In the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border

Question: Lacrosse, thought to have been played by at least 1100 AD and originally a ceremonial ritual with up to 1,000 people, currently (except in Box lacrosse) involves how many players?
Answer: 20

Question: Alecia Beth Moore is better known by what stage name?
Answer: Pink

Question: What was the name of his backing band for Bill Haley on the record "Rock Around the Clock" that was released in 1954?
Answer: The Comets

Question: Which Apollo mission was the first to land on the moon?
Answer: 11

Question: Which European country was twice, in 1892 and again in 1902, declared bankrupt?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Where would one find a kibbutz?
Answer: Israel

Question: Designer Karl Lagerfeld is famous for carrying what as a fashion accessory?
Answer: Fan

Question: Who became president of the Islamic Repubic of Iran in August 2005?
Answer: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Question: A game originating in Mexico, much loved by Henri III of France and highly popular in many countries currently, particularly with children, is called (in English)...?
Answer: Cup-and-ball

Question: During which war were occupying Ottoman forces forced to withdraw from the town of Aqaba after a raid led by T. E. Lawrence and the Arab forces of Sharif Hussein?
Answer: World War I

Question: What song was written by Bob Geldof in the aftermath of Brenda Ann Spencer's attempted massacre at an elementary school across the street from her house in San Diego, California, in 1979?
Answer: I Don't Like Mondays

Question: Stocking stitch is used in what kind of activity?
Answer: Knitting

Question: Jane Horrocks plays which role in the TV series "Absolutely Fabulous"?
Answer: Bubble

Question: Who escaped to the Isle of Skye, assisted by Flora MacDonald?
Answer: Bonnie Prince Charlie

Question: Wakame and Kombu are what type of dishes?
Answer: Seaweed

Question: London's Hatton Garden is the centre of trade in what?
Answer: Jewellery

Question: Where do arboreal animals live?
Answer: In trees

Question: In 1991, Warner Bros was picketed by a major national organisation over the use of which cartoon character?
Answer: Porky Pig

Question: In 1848, the USA offered Spain $100 million, equivalent to around $2.45 billion in present day terms, for the purchase of which area of land?
Answer: Cuba

Question: What 1983 Scottish film, starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi and Burt Lancaster, was directed by Bill Forsyth with music by Mark Knopfler?
Answer: Local Hero

Question: What is traditionally added to sulphur and saltpetre to make gunpowder?
Answer: Charcoal

Question: In which country was mountaineer and explorer Edmund Hillary born?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: To whom does the nickname "Dubya" refer?
Answer: George W. Bush

Question: Concorde, a collaboration between British Aircraft Corporation from the UK and Arospatiale from France, took its first supersonic flight when?
Answer: October 1969

Question: What name was given to a series of violent events on 21 May 1979 in San Francisco, USA, sparked by the lenient sentencing (for voluntary manslaughter, the lightest possible) of Dan White for the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, which led to changes in the city's official attitude to gays?
Answer: White Night riots

Question: A group of what is usually called a "parliament"?
Answer: Owls

Question: In November 2010, China announced that it would have its first what in 2011?
Answer: Aircraft carrier

Question: In the 18th century, Carl Linnaeus laid the foundations for what system, still in use today?
Answer: Describing and categorising organisms

Question: From 2010 to 2012 a series of major earthquakes devastated areas in the South Island of which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Approximately how much of the water on earth is fresh water?
Answer: 3%

Question: Sony introduced a product to the world market in 1979, and in October 2010 announced that they would cease selling it in Japan. What product was it?
Answer: Walkman

Question: What nationality is the soccer player Dennnis Bergkamp?
Answer: Dutch

Question: Mastitis affects what part of the body?
Answer: Breast

Question: Which sport, practised since at least the 8th century BC, is still current and was celebrated on the special 10 Greek coin minted in 2003?
Answer: Discus throwing

Question: Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the end of World War I?
Answer: David Lloyd George

Question: Emperor Pedro II, Deodoro da Fonseca, Floriano Peixoto, Manuel Vitorino Pereira and Prudente de Morais are names that crop up in the politics of what country in the 19th century?
Answer: Brazil

Question: What kind of window is made of one or more movable panels that form a frame to hold panes of glass where the glazed panels are opened by sliding vertically, or horizontally?
Answer: Sash

Question: An unexpected event is described as being "out of the ... " what?
Answer: Blue

Question: In 1938, after receiving the Nobel Prize, which physicist emigrated to the USA, protesting the oppressive regime of his homeland?
Answer: Enrico Fermi

Question: In 1846, using mathematical predictions by French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle became the first person to observe which planet?
Answer: Neptune

Question: The musical "South Pacific" was based on the book "Hawaii" by which author?
Answer: James A Michener

Question: What is Ireland's longest river?
Answer: Shannon

Question: The Battle of Guadalcanal was between troops from the USA and what other country?
Answer: Japan

Question: Who owned the flat at No.12, 9 Curzon Place, Shepherd Market, Mayfair where both Cass Elliot (Mama Cass) died in 1974 and Keith Moon died in 1978?
Answer: Harry Nilsson

Question: In snooker, what coloured ball scores 5 points?
Answer: Blue

Question: What sport, when it was first played in 1902, was called immoral and "a monster that spreads its claws to all sides"?
Answer: Korfball