Question: Blue Mountain Coffee, noted for its mild flavour and lack of bitterness (the beans of which are the flavour base of Tia Maria coffee liqueur), is grown in which country?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: Ben Hogan, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson competed against each other in the 1940s in which sport?
Answer: Golf

Question: Inspired by lucid dreaming and corporate espionage, it won Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Cinematography. Which film is it?
Answer: Inception

Question: Who created the character of the detective priest known as Father Brown?
Answer: G K Chesterton

Question: In the Bible, who was the apostle chosen by the remaining 11 to replace Judas Iscariot following his betrayal of Jesus and suicide?
Answer: Matthias

Question: What term is applied to a left-handed boxer?
Answer: Southpaw

Question: Found in the human body, what are the "venae cavae"?
Answer: Veins that return deoxygenated blood from the body to the heart

Question: A non-SI unit of radioactivity is named after ...?
Answer: Marie and Pierre Curie

Question: The formula for World Rally Championship cars changed for the 2011 championship, with engines limited to many litres?
Answer: 1.6

Question: Who reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later, the shortest reign in papal history since 1605?
Answer: John Paul I

Question: The term "Teutonic" means relating to what country?
Answer: Germany

Question: Which Biblical temptress has inspired plays by Oscar Wilde and Nick Cave, operas by Richard Strauss and Antoine Mariotte, a ballet by Florent Schmitt, films, a sculpture by Tilman Riemenschneider and numerous paintings, including those by Sandro Botticelli, Titian, Caravaggio, Caracciolo, Gustave Dor, James Tissot, Aubrey Beardsley and Robert Henri?
Answer: Salome

Question: What was the title of a 1996 American disaster film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as "storm chasers"?
Answer: Twister

Question: In snooker, what is the name of the shot where a ball goes into a pocket after hitting the opposite cushion?
Answer: Double

Question: Of the 5 Presidents of Egypt since it was declared a republic in 1953 who has served the longest?
Answer: Hosni Mubarak

Question: The volcano Vesuvius looks down on what?
Answer: Bay of Naples

Question: What number, on the Ph scale, represents "neutral"?
Answer: 7

Question: Olefin, Vinyon, Saran, Vinalon, Aramids, Lyocell, Orlon, Zylon, Vectran & Derclon are types of what?
Answer: Man made fibre

Question: Clara Petacci was the mistress of whom?
Answer: Mussolini

Question: What is the literal translation of the French phrase "cul de sac"?
Answer: The bottom of the bag

Question: Who is a central figure in Homer's "Iliad"?
Answer: Achilles

Question: What is an Afrikaans and South African English word for a roughly circular enclosure for livestock, surrounded by fencing?
Answer: Kraal

Question: What is the name for a mixture of clay, sand and silt?
Answer: Loam

Question: How many members of a netball team are allowed to shoot at goal?
Answer: 2

Question: The Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 was decisive in which conflict?
Answer: The Wars of the Roses

Question: What do the plays Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh have in common?
Answer: The people named in the title never appear in the play

Question: What is 40-40 in tennis?
Answer: Deuce

Question: What is the word for an annual calendar that contains statistics and information of specialist interest?
Answer: Almanac

Question: Which word means "like a fox"?
Answer: Volpine

Question: Who is the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. who has become well-known for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, and his social and political activism?
Answer: Michael Stipe

Question: By what name was the Castle of St Antoine that was built in Paris in 1369 as a fortress better known?
Answer: Bastille

Question: How many planets orbit the sun between it and earth?
Answer: 2

Question: In the song "How Much is that Doggy in the Window", "they say in the papers there are ... " what?
Answer: Robbers

Question: The humerus bone connects what other bones?
Answer: Elbow and shoulder blade

Question: Where was Harris Tweed originally produced?
Answer: Outer Hebrides

Question: During the Great, or Western, Schism from 1378, there were two or more Popes recognised in the Catholic Church. Who was elected in 1417 and eventually recognised by the majority as the single Pope?
Answer: Martin V

Question: In the James Bond film "Dr. No" who played Bond girl Honey Rider?
Answer: Ursula Andress

Question: Sometimes called elephant or chinese chess, what is this game known as in the Asian Games?
Answer: Xiangqi

Question: Before becoming US president, George W Bush was governor of which state?
Answer: Texas

Question: Hussars is a word applied to what type of troops?
Answer: Cavalry

Question: Which king formed the first English parliament?
Answer: Henry III

Question: What is the Fijian word for a wood-and-straw hut, sometimes similar to a cabin?
Answer: Bure

Question: In which country, in June 2010, were there clashes between the two main ethnic groups, the Uzbeks and Kyrgyz, a state of emergency declared and troops deployed, inciting fears that the country could be heading towards a civil war?
Answer: Kyrgyzstan

Question: What makes soft drinks fizzy?
Answer: Carbon dioxide

Question: Where was the TV series Stargate-SG1 filmed?
Answer: Vancouver, Canada

Question: Who was the head of an international sporting body who once suggested that women players (in that sport) should wear tighter shorts and lowcut shirts to make their game more appealing?
Answer: Sepp Blatter

Question: Cloth used to be measured in what?
Answer: Ells

Question: The phrases "cry wolf" and "sour grapes" have a basis in which collection of stories?
Answer: Aesop's Fables

Question: What were the first names of author D H Lawrence?
Answer: David Herbert

Question: What name is given to a set of noncommunicable diseases brought on by consumption of junk food, to which Native Americans and the indigenous people of Oceania are particularly susceptible, characterised by obesity, heart disease, diabetes and a shortened life span?
Answer: New World Syndrome

Question: Which band, led by Mick Hucknall, released its first single, "Money's Too Tight (To Mention)", in 1985?
Answer: Simply Red

Question: North, South, East and West are the way that players are designated in which game?
Answer: Bridge

Question: Who was the literary character behind the play Man of La Mancha?
Answer: Don Quixote

Question: Where is the Sultanate of Brunei, a country which regained its independence from the UK on 1 January 1984?
Answer: On the north coast of Borneo, in Southeast Asia

Question: South African-born English cricketer Kevin Pietersen was dropped from the England team in August 2012. What was the reported reason?
Answer: For sending controversial messages about his team mates to an opposing team

Question: Ulysses is the Roman name for which Greek king?
Answer: Odysseus

Question: What character did Sharon Stone play in the 1992 film "Basic Instinct"?
Answer: Catherine

Question: When was the eastern part of Australia claimed by Great Britain?
Answer: 1770

Question: A 1973 James Bond film was entitled "Live and Let ... " what?
Answer: Die

Question: Who is cartoon character "The Phantom" married to?
Answer: Diana Palmer

Question: In May 1909, Oscar Slater was sentenced to death for murder and released in 1928 with 6,000 compensation. People who campaigned for his release included William Roughead (who published his "Trial of Oscar Slater" in 1910), William Park (who published his "The Truth about Oscar Slater" in 1927) and by which other author who published "The Case of Oscar Slater" in 1912?
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle