Question: An annual World Cup for which sport, which ran from 1979 to 1990, featured teams of three players representing their country against other such teams, but with individual 1st, 2nd, etc., places?
Answer: Snooker

Question: Queen Elizabeth I of England was from which Royal House?
Answer: Tudor

Question: What word means the spread of a cancer from one organ or part to another non-adjacent organ or part?
Answer: Metastasis

Question: What is a "bichon frise"?
Answer: Dog

Question: Whose song begins with the lyrics "I wanna hold em like they do in Texas Plays, Fold em let em hit me raise it baby stay with me, Luck and intuition play the cards with Spades to start, And after hes been hooked Ill play the one thats on his heart"?
Answer: Lady Gaga

Question: James, son of Mary Queen of Scots (who was executed for treason during the reign of Elizabeth I) was the first to use which title?
Answer: King of Great Britain

Question: What is the first geological period of the Paleozoic era?
Answer: Cambrian

Question: Where is the Hedingley Cricket Ground?
Answer: Leeds

Question: Where is the British Royal Yacht "Britannia", decommissioned in 1997, permanently moored as a visitor attraction?
Answer: Ocean Terminal, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland

Question: A cubit, an ancient unit of measurement, was derived from what?
Answer: The distance of the forearm from index fingertip to elbow

Question: What military strategy involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while passing through an area, first used by the Scythians against King Darius the Great of Persia around 500 BC., and best known for its use by both sides when Germany attacked and then retreated from the USSR in World War II?
Answer: Scorched earth

Question: Which character in a play has a soliloquy that begins "To be or not to be, that is the question."?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: What range of hills runs 50 miles from the Worcestershire border through Gloucestershire to the Avon?
Answer: Cotswolds

Question: What is the term used to describe the collection of flowers in species that have more than one flower on an axis (sometimes called "composite flowers"?
Answer: Inflorescence

Question: Theoretically, what is the minimum number of strokes with which a tennis player can win a set?
Answer: 12

Question: What figure of Apollo stood from around 280 BC until destroyed by an earthquake around 224 BC?
Answer: Colossus of Rhodes

Question: 17 year old Zac Sunderland made the world's news in July 2009 for doing what?
Answer: Sailing around the world solo

Question: The record for the most years between winning gold medals was set by Aladar Grevich (Hungary) in 1960. His previous gold had been won in 1932. What sport did he compete in?
Answer: Fencing

Question: What is the oldest missionary organisation in the Church of England?
Answer: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK)

Question: In economics, what is TWI?
Answer: Trade Weighted Index

Question: What sign of the zodiac is represented by an archer?
Answer: Sagittarius

Question: If someone is referred to as a "liverpudlian", which city do they come from?
Answer: Liverpool

Question: What is the name for the point on the earth's surface that is directly above an earthquake?
Answer: Epicentre

Question: Who starred in the film "Good Morning, Vietnam" (1987)?
Answer: Robin Williams

Question: Del Boy from the UK TV series "Only Fools and Horses" drove what vehicle?
Answer: Three wheeled yellow Reliant Robin van

Question: Who was behind the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, a failed attempt to overthrow the government?
Answer: Adolf Hitler

Question: How heavy is a US ton?
Answer: 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms)

Question: Which Scottish biologist and pharmacologist who published many articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy, discovered the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and an antibiotic substance from a fungus in 1928?
Answer: Alexander Fleming

Question: Which Olympic sport was contested in only 1900 and 1908, by teams from only 3 countries (Canada, USA and Germany) altogether?
Answer: Lacrosse

Question: The longest winning streak by any nation at an event in the Olympic Games was set by the USA, between 1896 and 1968. What was the event?
Answer: Pole vault

Question: What is the collective name for the islands with a land area of 4,167 squ km (1,622 squ miles) over 2,500,000 squ km (965,255 squ miles) of ocean, made up of several groups of islands, including the Austral Islands, the Marquesas, the Society Islands and the Tuamotu Archipelago?
Answer: French Polynesia

Question: Which element, with a melting point of 3,370 degrees C was discovered in 1783 by Jos and Fausto Elhuyar?
Answer: Tungsten

Question: Salvador Allende, General Augusto Pinochet and the "Caravan of Death" are all connected with the history of which country in the 1970s and 1980s?
Answer: Chile

Question: What was the first name of Senor Domingo, one of the "Three Tenors"?
Answer: Plcido

Question: Where did United Airlines flight 93, hijacked by terrorists on 11 September 2001, crash?
Answer: Pennsylvania

Question: What is the main intelligence service of Israel?
Answer: Mossad

Question: What was the title of the novelty single released by the Israeli duo Esther and Abi Ofarim, number one for 3 weeks in the UK in 1968, that features yodelling and 1920s-style lyrics and music?
Answer: Cinderella Rockefeller

Question: Suede is variety of what?
Answer: Leather

Question: In a film script, what do the letters MCU mean?
Answer: Medium Close Up

Question: Which early 20th century artist gained a reputation for the beauty and novelty of his staging of operas, plays and ballets, especially in Paris, London, Berlin and New York?
Answer: Sergei Diaghileff

Question: What book published in 1864 by William Wallace Mitchell, a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, became the basis of the rules of a modern game?
Answer: """Manual of Bowls Playing"""

Question: """Tiramisu"" is a type of what?"
Answer: Cake

Question: What is on the northern border of South Dakota?
Answer: North Dakota

Question: By what name was Eric Weiss better known?
Answer: Harry Houdini

Question: What was worn by the leader of the first Tour de France?
Answer: Green armband

Question: In 1959, the Soviet space probe "Luna Two" became the first man-made object to do what?
Answer: Reach the moon

Question: Which TV series had the slogan "The Truth Is Out There"?
Answer: The X Files

Question: What is the name given to the code of Roman law that was "published" with the approval of the Roman Republic in 450 BC?
Answer: The Twelve Tables

Question: Trinity College, London, issues which diplomas?
Answer: Ltcl

Question: Mastitis is a complaint affecting what?
Answer: Dairy cows

Question: Who printed his own translations of a French romance "The Recwyell of the Historyes of Troy" and "The Game and Plays of the Chesse" in Bruges in 1474?
Answer: William Caxton

Question: General Victoriano Huerta, Emiliano Zapata and "Pancho" Villa feature in the history of which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: What is the surname of Rebecca in the novel by Daphne du Maurier?
Answer: De Winter

Question: What name was given by the Greeks to cave dwellers who supposedly lived in the Caucasus or on the banks of the Red Sea?
Answer: Troglodytes

Question: Duke Kahanamoku, who won Olympic gold in Swimming (100 m freestyle) in 1912 at Stockholm and 1920 at Antwerp popularised what sport?
Answer: Surfing

Question: What collection includes 3 King's crowns. 3 Queen's crowns, 5 sceptres, 2 orbs, St Edward's staff, 5 swords and 2 bracelets?
Answer: Britain's Crown Jewels

Question: Who, in 2004, was nominated for two academy awards: Best Supporting Actor in "Collateral"and Best Actor in "Ray" (which he won)?
Answer: Jamie Foxx

Question: The song "Shall We Dance" is from which musical?
Answer: The King And I

Question: In the human body, the adrenal glands are directly above which organ?
Answer: Kidney