Question: Humidity measures the quantity of water vapour in the air as a percentage by what?
Answer: Volume

Question: How many states are there in Australia?
Answer: 6

Question: Quickly is what part of speech?
Answer: Adverb

Question: Who "packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus"?
Answer: Nellie the Elephant

Question: The film actor Maurice Micklewhite is better known by what name?
Answer: Michael Caine

Question: The Boston Tea Party, where tea was tipped into the harbour to protest taxation, precipitated what historical event?
Answer: American Revolution

Question: The musical "West Side Story" is associated with which geographical area?
Answer: New York

Question: What is the branch of the Mediterranean Sea between Italy and the Balkans, with ports such as Bari, Venice, and Trieste?
Answer: Adriatic Sea

Question: What mathematical tabular system was invented in 1614 by John Napier that changes calculations of, for example, multiplication and finding square roots to addition and division respectively?
Answer: Logarithms

Question: What are oysters wrapped in bacon called?
Answer: Angels on horseback

Question: How did Eric Robert Rudolph, an American terrorist, try to disrupt the Summer Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta?
Answer: Detonated a bomb at the Centennial Olympic Park

Question: Who perfected a process in 1880 for making sensitive gelatine dry plates for photography, and patented photographic roll film in 1884?
Answer: George Eastman

Question: What infectious disease is characterised by catarrh of the respiratory tract and paroxysms of coughing?
Answer: Whooping cough

Question: The song "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" is from which musical?
Answer: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Question: The USS "Constitution", launched in 1797, earned the nickname of "Old Ironsides" when she defeated the British warship HMS Guerriere in the War of 1812. What is her hull made of?
Answer: Wood

Question: Who directed "Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid", "Convoy", "The Wild Bunch" and "Cross of Iron"?
Answer: Sam Peckinpah

Question: Pi, a mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, is the same value as what other ratio?
Answer: A circle's area to the square of its radius

Question: Who captained the Nautilus in "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"?
Answer: Nemo

Question: Which one of the four provinces of Ireland includes Northern Ireland, and three counties in the Republic of Ireland?
Answer: Ulster

Question: Opened in February 1907, what was built on the site of Newgate Prison?
Answer: Criminal Courts of Justice, Old Bailey

Question: Which actor, writer, producer and director, sometimes known as "Number 6", died in January 2009?
Answer: Patrick McGoohan

Question: What does "in vino veritas" mean?
Answer: In wine there is truth

Question: Three members of which family, between 1781 and 1850, discovered Uranus, compiled a star catalogue, mapped all the stars in the Northern hemisphere and founded an observatory to map those in the Southern?
Answer: Herschel

Question: In darts, what is the next in the sequence 7, 16, 8, 11, 14?
Answer: 9

Question: Shepherd's pie has what on top?
Answer: Mashed potato

Question: What does the Federation Internationale de Natation administer?
Answer: Aquatic sports

Question: In what film did Mae West as Lady Lou (starring with Cary Grant) first say "why'n'cha come up and see me sometime?"?
Answer: She Done Him Wrong

Question: What is an affliction of nose, throat, upper air passages and eyes caused by over-sensitivity to proteins of pollen in certain plants?
Answer: Hay fever

Question: As whom did Mohammad Reza Pahlavi become better known?
Answer: Shah of Iran

Question: Giuseppe Rossi, who was born and raised in Clifton, New Jersey, USA, was the top scorer with 4 goals in the men's association football tournament at the 2008 Olympics. Which team did he play for?
Answer: Italy

Question: Which new year has ever started on 16 July?
Answer: Islamic

Question: Benjamin Franklin once wrote that nothing was certain in this world except death and what?
Answer: Taxes

Question: According to Greek legend, who ferried the souls of the dead across the river that divided the world of the living from that of the dead?
Answer: Charon

Question: Who referred to her quarter final match against Svetlana Kuznetsova in the 2009 Australian Open as "an out of body experience"?
Answer: Serena Williams

Question: Where in London, covering 350 acres (140 hectares), would you find the Serpentine (an artifical lake), Rotten Row (for riding horses) and a bird sanctuary?
Answer: Hyde Park

Question: An autobiography is about whom?
Answer: The writer

Question: Auditory refers to which of the senses?
Answer: Hearing

Question: The band currently touring as "Eric Burdon & The Animals" has which of the original Animals as one of Eric Burdons backing musicians?
Answer: Hilton Valentine

Question: The southernmost point of the USA is in which state?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: Who won the F.I.M. World Championship 500cc motocross title in 1996?
Answer: Shayne King

Question: Which author disappeared on a walk along the River Ouse near Monk's House, Rodmell, Sussex, England, in March 1941, leaving letters for her husband Leonard and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell?
Answer: Virginia Woolf

Question: How many signs of the Zodiac are human?
Answer: 3

Question: Which delta blues musician wrote "Love in Vain", "Cross Road Blues", and "Rambling on My Mind"?
Answer: Robert Johnson

Question: From which sport do we get the expression "Struck out"?
Answer: Baseball

Question: What word did the Romans have for the City of London?
Answer: Londinium

Question: Who was the first person to sail through the North East Passage north of Russia from Europe to the Pacific Ocean in 1878/79?
Answer: Baron Adolf Nordenskild

Question: In which film does Tom Cruise play Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg?
Answer: Valkyrie

Question: Which German mathematician and scientist, sometimes called the "Prince of Mathematicians", completed "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae", in 1798 at the age of 21?
Answer: Carl Friedrich Gauss

Question: Which month appears last in the rhyme "30 days have September "?
Answer: February

Question: A popular understanding is that The White House in Washington DC was painted white to cover what damage?
Answer: Burning by the British in 1812

Question: Vanilla is obtained from what part of the plant?
Answer: Pod

Question: In which film was Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" used to underscore a helicopter attack?
Answer: Apocalypse Now

Question: The US state of Kentucky is known "the (what) Grass State"?
Answer: Blue

Question: Which railway, covering 4,607 miles from Chelyabinsk to Vladivostok, was completed in July 1904?
Answer: Trans-Siberian

Question: Which US President spent his term of office in a wheelchair?
Answer: Franklin D Roosevelt

Question: The trophy for which event, presented since 1936, has a bas-relief sculpture of the likeness of each winning driver, along with the driver's name, date of victory and average speed?
Answer: The Indianapolis 500

Question: What treaty was signed in Paris in 1815 after the overthrow of Napoleon, whereby Alexander I of Russia, Francis II of Austria and Frederick William II of Prussia agreed to apply Christian principles to the government of their countries?
Answer: Holy Alliance

Question: What was the first film made especially as a musical comedy, which included the songs "The Wedding of the Painted Doll" and "You Were Made For Me", by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed?
Answer: The Broadway Melody

Question: Piles is a familiar word for what medical condition?
Answer: Haemorrhoids

Question: Who died in 1972, which led to the accession of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark?
Answer: King Frederik IX

Question: What is traditionally thrown into the Trevi Fountain, Rome
Answer: Coins