Question: In which sport have Chinese players won the men's World Championship 60% of the time since 1959, and in the women's competition, all but two of the World Championships since 1971?
Answer: Table tennis

Question: Who, in 1916, was the first woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives, the first female member of the Congress, and the only woman to be elected to Congress from Montana?
Answer: Jeannette Rankin

Question: Which item of footwear can be applied to starting up a computer?
Answer: Boot

Question: What did Sarah Ferguson and Beatrice & Eugenie film in the UK documentary "Duchess and Daughters" that caused an international incident?
Answer: Disabled children tied to their beds

Question: Which country won the most gold medals for the Olympic Marathon, the first 25 times that it was run (1894 - 2004)?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: Which American TV series (2000 to 2004) centred on Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts, had the slogan "Every day is a fight. For respect. For dignity. For sanity."?
Answer: Boston Public

Question: What name is given to raised parts of the skin when frightened or cold?
Answer: Goose bumps

Question: """Omnibus"" is a word for a common form of public transport taken directly from Latin. What does it mean?"
Answer: For all

Question: Who, co-founders of the Spartacist League in January 1916, were executed in Berlin in January 1919?
Answer: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht

Question: """Star Trek"" creator Gene Roddenberry and the writer Timothy Leary were on what famous flight together?"
Answer: """Earthview 01: The Founders Flight"" into space"

Question: In 2009, The Mongoose Bat was introduced into which sport, with the aim of providing 20% more power and 15% more bat speed?
Answer: Cricket

Question: Which company was founded and named after the inventor of vulcanised rubber in 1898, almost 4 decades after his death, by Frank Seiberling?
Answer: Goodyear

Question: Who was Sancho Panza companion to?
Answer: Don Quixote

Question: Which holy book consists of two parts, the Mishnah and the Gemara, the latter of which differs between the Jerusalem and Babylonian versions ?
Answer: The Talmud

Question: Which character in "Friends" had a mother who wrote romance novels and a father who was a woman?
Answer: Chandler Bing

Question: Who did Jon Venables and Robert Thompson kidnap from a shopping centre in Bootle, Liverpool on 12 February 1993?
Answer: James Bulger

Question: Traditionally, Presidential elections are held in the USA in which month?
Answer: November

Question: When part of Ireland was given a new constitution in 1937, what name was given to it?
Answer: ire

Question: Geologically speaking, where would you go to stand on land at the southernmost point of the North American continental plate?
Answer: Guatemala

Question: Who first employed his evolving methodology of satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent protest in 1906 while a lawyer in South Africa during the Indian community's struggle for civil rights to protest against registration laws in the new state of Transvaal?
Answer: Mohandas Ghandi

Question: Where is "The Royal Tennis Court", a "real tennis" court built for Henry VIII of England who played there from 1528, that is still home to an active "real tennis" club?
Answer: Hampton Court

Question: What colour does red litmus paper turn when in contact with alkaline?
Answer: Blue

Question: Who was Mel Gibson's co-star in the "Lethal Weapon" series of films?
Answer: Danny Glover

Question: Where was the 9 hour amphibious operation on 19 August 1942 that led to the death and injury of 3,369 of 5,000 Canadians and the loss of the ship "Berkeley", while German casualties were less than 600?
Answer: Dieppe

Question: What is the deepest known part of the world's oceans, and the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust?
Answer: The Mariana Trench

Question: Bill Bryson called his 2006 autobiography "The Life and Times of .. " who?
Answer: The Thunderbolt Kid

Question: Who was the first driver to complete all 1,100 racing miles (1,800 km), and finish in the top six for both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in the same day (The Double)?
Answer: Tony Stewart

Question: As a first step to manufacturing steel, iron is extracted from ore by removing oxygen and combining it with what element?
Answer: Carbon

Question: What is a musical term for "slowing down"?
Answer: Rallentando

Question: Which sport, that involves running through an obstacle track 253.5 metres long, has major competitions held in Sonkajrvi (Finland) and in the USA in Monona and Minocqua (both in Wisconsin) and Marquette (Michigan)?
Answer: Wife carrying

Question: In August 1830, the audience were so stirred by a performance of Auber's "La Muette de Portici" at their capital's opera house, that it led to what successful fight for independence?
Answer: The Belgian Revolution

Question: The London market at Billingsgate, now situated close to Canary Wharf in Docklands, London, deals in what?
Answer: Fish

Question: """Let's Get It Started"" (2003) by the Black Eyed Peas was originally recorded with what offensive word in the title, making it unsuitable for play on some radio stations and at sports games?"
Answer: Retarded

Question: Which 1956 film, filmed in an early version of modern widescreen, starred David Niven and Cantinflas, with guest appearances by Noel Coward, Frank Sinatra, John Gielgud, Buster Keaton and Marlene Deitrich?
Answer: Around The World In 80 Days

Question: The Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" was stereo-typical of milliners making felt hats, who used what chemical to separate the fur from the pelt and mat it together?
Answer: Mercury

Question: Who was the "fourth man" in the scandal that rocked the British Government between 1951 and 1963 when it was discovered that members of the Foreign Office and Intelligence Services were spies for the Russsians?
Answer: Anthony Blunt

Question: In astronomy, what is the word applied to the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line?
Answer: Syzygy

Question: What is a set of table top games simulating team sports such as soccer, cricket, both rugby and hockey, and closely associated with soccer, which for many years was marketed as "the replica of Association Football"?
Answer: Subbuteo

Question: What is the proper term for the # symbol, often referred to as a "number sign", "hash" or "pound sign"?
Answer: Octothorpe

Question: What is the most southerly town in Chile, on the Straits of Magellan?
Answer: Punta Arenas

Question: The stars Betelgeuse, Rigel, Bellatrix, Mintaka, Alnilam, Mintaka, Alnitak, Alnitak and Saiph are found in which constellation?
Answer: Orion

Question: The word "Honcho" comes from what language?
Answer: Japanese

Question: Whose hit records include "Gold Digger" (feat. Jamie Foxx) "Stronger" and "Heartless"?
Answer: Kanye West

Question: What is shouted by the first person to have a full card in a game of bingo?
Answer: House

Question: Which British sitcom about the Home Guard in World War II was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast between 1968 and 1977, running for 80 episodes?
Answer: Dads Army

Question: What US policy introduced in 1823, that efforts by European governments to colonise land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed by the USA as acts of aggression requiring US intervention, became one of the longest-standing tenets of US foreign policy?
Answer: The Monroe Doctrine

Question: What is the nationality of playwright Henrik Ibsen?
Answer: Norwegian

Question: What did Bayer name its new over the counter drug in 1898, developed and advertised as a morphine substitute and cough suppressant that did not have its addictive side-effects?
Answer: Heroin

Question: What sport is known as "the Turf"?
Answer: Horse racing