Question: Spaniards Vicente Yez Pinzn, Francisco de Orellana and Lope de Aguirre, Portuguese Pedro Teixeira and Antnio Raposo Tavares o Velho, and Frenchman Charles Marie de La Condamine were involved in the exploration of what area?
Answer: Amazon

Question: Set to poetry, owing much to fairytales of the same kind as those used by Hans Christian Andersen, and an enduring Czechoslovakian masterpiece this was was first performed in 1901. What is the piece?
Answer: Rusalka by Antonn Dvok

Question: The national flag of which country consists of just a horizontal red stripe top and bottom, and a white stripe across the centre?
Answer: Austria

Question: Before becoming president of the USA, Theodore Roosevelt was vice president to whom?
Answer: William McKinley

Question: How many nouns are in the following sentence: "Roger told his dog not to jump on the furniture with muddy feet"?
Answer: 4

Question: In 1965, who became the first non-American golfer to win the Masters, the US Open, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship?
Answer: Gary Player

Question: What jersey is awarded to the "King of the Hill", the best climber in the Tour de France?
Answer: Polka dot

Question: What is a word for a long piece of wood?
Answer: Beam

Question: What was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organisations, created by a decree issued on 20 December 1917 by Vladimir Lenin and subsequently led by Felix Dzerzhinsky?
Answer: The Cheka

Question: Where is the palace called Istana Nurul Iman?
Answer: Brunei

Question: What launcher was used by the European Space Agency, the first of which was sucessfully launched in 1979?
Answer: Ariane

Question: In golf, what is the term for "three strokes under par"?
Answer: Albatross

Question: Who created the cartoon series called "Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero", "Bruce the Barbarian", "All the King's Comrades" and "Footrot Flats"?
Answer: Murray Ball

Question: Which future member of The Monkees pop group appeared on the TV series "Coronation Street"?
Answer: Davy Jones

Question: US President Bush sent 2,000 troops into which country to conduct regular military exercises and, after a US serviceman was shot by local forces in December 1989, ordered an additional 24,000 troops in to take control?
Answer: Panama

Question: Blood Wedding (1932) by Garcia Lorca was based on elements of a true story which happened when?
Answer: 1928

Question: What word was coined by Charles Richet to denote a substance or spiritual energy "exteriorised" by physical mediums, said to be associated with formation of ghosts?
Answer: Ectoplasm

Question: What is another name for a barrel organ?
Answer: Hurdy Gurdy

Question: In 1803, part of which two Canadian provinces were bought by the USA from France with the Louisiana Purchase, and ceded to Great Britain in 1818?
Answer: Alberta and Saskatchewan

Question: Whose art exhibit "My Bed", a double bed in a dishevelled state with stained sheets, surrounded by detritus such as soiled underwear, slippers and empty drink bottles, was exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1999 as one of the shortlisted works for the Turner Prize?
Answer: Tracey Emin

Question: Which UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Mosel Valley, Germany, is known for its Roman architecture incuding the Porta Nigra, the best-preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps?
Answer: Trier

Question: Who is credited with writing the software for Skype?
Answer: Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn

Question: The character of Mary Alice Young is heard but does not appear in which US TV series?
Answer: Desperate Housewives

Question: Where in Paris would you find the Arc de Triomphe?
Answer: The Place Charles de Gaulle

Question: The North German Federation together with Bavaria and other southern German states fought which other country in 1870 in what war?
Answer: France in the Franco-Prussian War

Question: Which of the Corrs plays the violin?
Answer: Sharon

Question: British world champion, double Olympic gold medalist and extreme sportsman James Cracknell won his medals in what sport?
Answer: Rowing

Question: Who was the governor of California from 1967 to 1975?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: What word refers to a length of chain, rope, scarf, wire or fishing line used to strangle someone or an execution device used in Spain until 1974?
Answer: Garotte

Question: On 30 September 2010, the Allahabad High Court pronounced its verdict on four title suits relating to ownership of "Ayodhya land", which had been disputed since 1853. Which country was this land in?
Answer: India

Question: Playing a scenario close to the rise and assassination of real-life 1930s Louisiana Governor, Huey Long, the film won three Oscars (Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Picture) and was nominated for four more. Which was it?
Answer: All the King's Men

Question: Winchester was the capital of which Anglo-Saxon kingdom?
Answer: Wessex

Question: What English pop band, formed in Manchester in 1990 with Robbie Williams, Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen, achieved major success in the early to mid 1990s, split up in 1996, and in 2006 released the album "Beautiful World"?
Answer: Take That

Question: What is produced from coarse aggregate, sand, cement and water?
Answer: Concrete

Question: What island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean, comprising 32 atolls and one raised coral island, dispersed over 3,500,000 square kilometres, (1,351,000 square miles) was formerly called the Gilbert Islands?
Answer: The Republic of Kiribati

Question: Who became Heavyweight world boxing champion after Riddick Bowe refused to fight him in 1992?
Answer: Lennox Lewis

Question: A play, first performed in 1933, whose writer died in 1936, continues to attract powerful international interpretations, including film, TV, and dance; what is the play?
Answer: Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca

Question: Edinburgh of the Seven Seas is the capital of which group of islands?
Answer: Tristan da Cunha

Question: What is the word used in Greek mythology for the underworld?
Answer: Hades

Question: Andrew Lloyd Webber stands in what relationship to Julian Lloyd Webber, the renowned cellist?
Answer: Brother

Question: What does the Mohs scale measure?
Answer: The hardness of minerals

Question: Phil Mickelson is a professional in what sport?
Answer: Golf

Question: When did Polish codebreakers first break the code of the Enigma Machines used by German military?
Answer: 1932

Question: What language does the modern English "cat" come from originally?
Answer: Unknown

Question: Despite its name it is square and contains the arena for boxing contests, what is it called?
Answer: Ring

Question: Which British prime minister returned from Munich to London in 1938 with an agreement signed by Hitler, Mussolini and the French Premier that promised peace in Europe?
Answer: Neville Chamberlain

Question: What is the world's largest inland body of water?
Answer: Caspian Sea

Question: By what name have Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sometimes been known since 1974?
Answer: The Glimmer Twins

Question: Since 1991 what is "OPM" most often used to mean?
Answer: Other people's money

Question: Which play by Alan Bennett, set in Cutlers' Grammar School, Sheffield, in the early 1980s that follows a group of pupils preparing for examinations, premired in London in 2004?
Answer: The History Boys

Question: What is the name of needlework where pieces of fabric are sewn onto a fabric background?
Answer: Applique

Question: What is the nickname of opera singer Lesley Garrett?
Answer: The Doncaster Diva

Question: Homeland, broadcast 2011-12 on US TV , concerned the activities of which law enforcement organisation?
Answer: Cia

Question: We the People, which started a new direction in the wargame movement and is very influential in current wargame design, is what kind of game?
Answer: Cards