Question: The "rig veda" is a collection of scriptures sacred to which religion?
Answer: Hinduism

Question: What was the name of the paranoid android in the book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams?
Answer: Marvin

Question: Who emigrated to the USA in 1842, opened a detective agency in Chicago in 1861, and organised the US Secret Service?
Answer: Allan Pinkerton

Question: A hexagon has how many angles?
Answer: 6

Question: Which cartoon character is the adoptive father of Swee'Pea, an infant foundling left on his doorstep?
Answer: Popeye

Question: Leif Ericson, a Norse explorer regarded as the first European to land in North America before Christopher Columbus, established a settlement at Vinland, which has been tentatively identified as being where?
Answer: Newfoundland

Question: What song is on the soundtrack of the 2009 film "Inglourious Basterds" at the start of the section called "Final Chapter: Revenge of the Giant Face"?
Answer: """Cat People (Putting Out Fire)"" by David Bowie"

Question: Baffin Island is what direction from New York?
Answer: Due north

Question: What is the chief ore from which aluminium is obtained?
Answer: Bauxite

Question: Who is the New Zealander who directed "Shrek", "Shrek 2", "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian"?
Answer: Andrew Adamson

Question: Who is the next in this series: Mary Ann Nichols ("Polly") , Annie Chapman ("Dark Annie", maiden name Eliza Ann Smith) , Elizabeth Stride ("Long Liz"), Catherine Eddowes (also known as "Kate Conway", "Kate Kelly" and "Mary Ann Kelly") ... ?
Answer: Mary Jane Kelly (called herself "Marie Jeanette Kelly", nicknamed "Ginger")

Question: Malagasy is an official language of which country?
Answer: Madagascar

Question: Official Tug o War competitions use specially engineered rope to avoid what?
Answer: Damage to contestants from breakage

Question: Pure gold is denoted by how many carats?
Answer: 24

Question: Block, Fan, Horsetail, Plunge, Punchbowl and Segmented are types of what?
Answer: Waterfall

Question: Where did Scottish patriot William Wallace lead soldiers to a defeat of the English in 1297?
Answer: Battle of Stirling Bridge

Question: The rank insignia of Swiss generals has representations of what flower instead of stars?
Answer: Edelweiss

Question: In which form of fencing contest do the competitors wear a sleeveless lam?
Answer: Foil

Question: Which 15th century Italian painted "The Adoration of the Magi" and "The Birth of Venus"?
Answer: Sandro Botticelli

Question: What is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and by some to be the largest naval battle in history, and the first battle in which Japanese aircraft carried out organized kamikaze attacks?
Answer: The Battle of Leyte Gulf

Question: What country has the largest area?
Answer: Russia

Question: What is the name for the traditional French spread made from olives, capers, anchovies and olive oil?
Answer: Tapenade

Question: How are coffee beans harvested?
Answer: Plucked from a tree like apples

Question: In 1906, Lee de Forest developed a "triode" to amplify and convert alternating current to direct current, which played a major role in the development of which invention?
Answer: Radio

Question: Roughly where in the USA is the area called Tornado Alley?
Answer: North-South: Dakota through Kansas and Oklahoma to Texas

Question: """A little dab'll do ya, Use more, only if you dare, But watch out, The gals will all pursue ya,-- They'll love to put their fingers through your hair"" was a jingle for what product that was first marketed in the 1920s?"
Answer: Brylcreem

Question: Billy Bowden is an official in what sport?
Answer: Cricket

Question: Which singer invested in the Ampex company in 1947 (which developed North America's first commercial reel-to-reel tape recorder), was the first to pre-record his radio shows and to master his commercial recordings on magnetic tape?
Answer: Bing Crosby

Question: What clothing item made of synthetic material was first sold in Wilmington Delaware in 1939?
Answer: Nylon stockings

Question: A family of ancient Germanic and Celtic games played in northern Europe on a checkered or latticed board, involves two armies one of which is trying to capture the other one's king, possibly using dice, and was called ...?
Answer: Tafl

Question: When was Nicolae Ceauescu, at the time Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and Head of State in Romania, deposed and later shot?
Answer: 1989

Question: The Gaelic name for which sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, is Uamh-Binn, meaning "cave of melody"?
Answer: Fingal's Cave

Question: How many volunteer hours were estimated to have supported the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Answer: 8 million

Question: How many common nouns are there in the words "Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you are."?
Answer: 1

Question: What character has been played by Howard Marion Crawford, Jude Law, Nigel Bruce and, in 2012, Martin Freeman
Answer: Dr Watson

Question: Which orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician composed the film scores for "Brazil", "Highlander", "X-Men", "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves", "Licence to Kill", the "Lethal Weapon" series, the first three "Die Hard"s and "Mr. Holland's Opus"?
Answer: Michael Kamen

Question: Lydia Ko who took the 2012 Canadian Women's Open as a 15 year old amateur, became the youngest person to win an LPGA Tour event. What is her nationality?
Answer: New Zealander

Question: At a banquet, the ghost of whom enters and sits in Macbeth's chair?
Answer: Banquo

Question: The Boxer Rebellion China officially waged 1900-1901 was against what?
Answer: Foreign imperialism and Christianity

Question: If someone stands with their hands resting on their hips, they are said to be "arms " what?
Answer: Akimbo

Question: What message did Benito Mussolini famously send to the Italian soccer team before the 1938 World Cup?
Answer: Win, or die

Question: Which chemist, engineer, and armaments manufacturer invented dynamite and a detonator for it and then founded a longstanding series of world prizes for, among other things, promoting peace?
Answer: Alfred Nobel

Question: Where is the Sea of Fertility?
Answer: On the Moon

Question: Who married actress Ta Leoni on 6 May 1997, announced their separation on 15 October 2008, and in September 2009 announced that they had reconciled?
Answer: David Duchovny

Question: Which was the first Soviet Union republic to establish its independence when the Soviet Union was dissolving?
Answer: Lithuania

Question: Aspartame is a chemical used as what?
Answer: Sweetener

Question: A hit single for Queen was "Radio ... What?"
Answer: Gaga

Question: Baja California is part of which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: When archery was included for the first time at the Summer Olympics, in 1900, how many nations competed?
Answer: 3

Question: Which 15th century Portuguese navigator discovered the sea route around the Cape of Good Hope?
Answer: Bartholomew Diaz

Question: An aegrotat is given, in certain circumstances, to whom?
Answer: A scholar

Question: In November and December 2001 the first of which two film series were released in the USA?
Answer: Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings

Question: Elton John co-wrote 5 songs with Tim Rice for which Walt Disney musical?
Answer: The Lion King

Question: Who, legend has it, led Phoenicians to found Carthage?
Answer: Dido

Question: A 19th century French physicist, chemist, botanist and teacher is particularly well-known for his seminal work in establishing entomology. What was his name?
Answer: Jean-Henri Fabre

Question: What kind of event is the Welsh word Eisteddfod applied to?
Answer: An arts festival