Question: Who wrote "Banished Misfortune", "Fighting With Shadows" and "A Goat's Song"?
Answer: Dermot Healy

Question: Who is the present wife of golfer Greg Norman?
Answer: Interior decorator Kirsten Kutner

Question: Who was nicknamed "The Sweater Girl" after she appeared in the 1937 film "They Won't Forget"?
Answer: Lana Turner

Question: Zeami, also called Kanze Motokiyo, (1363 - 1443) is considered the greatest playwright and theorist of which type of Japanese theatre in its current form?
Answer: Noh

Question: The term "a glee" could most appropriately be applied to ...?
Answer: A part song, usually sung a cappella

Question: A French/American/British coproduced film focussing on German and Italians in one of the Greek islands in 1943, based on the novel by Louis de Bernires, was "Captain Corelli's ..."?
Answer: Mandolin

Question: Where was film actor James Mason born?
Answer: England

Question: What is the name of an American dish of diced chicken in a cream sauce with pimentos, mushrooms, green peppers and sometimes sherry?
Answer: Chicken  la king

Question: What communist military junta came to power in Ethiopia following the ousting of Haile Selassie I on 12 September 1974 and although officially coming to an end on 22 February 1987, was not formally abolished until September?
Answer: Derg

Question: Who directed the films "Clerks", "Mallrats" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back "?
Answer: Kevin Smith

Question: Where was Kylie Minogue born?
Answer: Australia

Question: In which 1973 thriller film directed by Nicolas Roeg was there an explicit sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie?
Answer: Don't Look Now

Question: Between 1985 and 1991 a number of demonstrations and protests led to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania variously taking back their independence from the USSR and (later) Russia; what overall name has characterised the revolution?
Answer: Singing Revolution

Question: Where was the most recent volcanic eruption in the USA as at the end of 2013?
Answer: Mt Pavlof on the Alaskan Peninsula

Question: Who, as president of Argentina, ordered the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982?
Answer: General Leopoldo Galtieri

Question: Which Spanish author served as a soldier at Lepanto (where he lost the use of his left hand), was captured by pirates in 1575 and imprisoned in Algiers until 1580, and was then employed in government work in Madrid?
Answer: Miguel Cervantes

Question: What was the title of Martin Scorsese's 2008 documentary about the Rolling Stones?
Answer: Shine a Light

Question: Who was born in 1812 near Porstmouth, spent his childhood in Chatham and London, married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, separated from her in 1858, had much of his work published serially in journals, and died in 1870?
Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: In mathematical terms what does a martingale offer?
Answer: The chances of a future outcome are not affected by past outcomes

Question: What is the name of the flower named after pop singer Duffy?
Answer: Duffydil

Question: Gothic, romanesque, and rococo are terms found in what?
Answer: Architecture

Question: Who wrote "In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking"?
Answer: Cole Porter

Question: Where was the first Women's World Cup, at that time called Women's World Championship, held?
Answer: China

Question: Which two Gibb brothers in the Bee Gees were twins?
Answer: Robin and Maurice

Question: Which team came third in the 2002 men's basketball world championships in Indianapolis?
Answer: Germany

Question: What date in the western Gregorian Calendar is currently the date for the Russian Orthodox Church Christian New Year?
Answer: 14 January

Question: Escamillo, a bullfighter, is a character in which opera?
Answer: Carmen

Question: What is a pas de bourre?
Answer: A dance step

Question: What family name is next in the series Ivanievi, Hewitt, Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, and Murray?
Answer: Djokovic

Question: Conchiglie is a type of what?
Answer: Pasta

Question: The founding of Precept Software in 1995 sparked what in the USA?
Answer: Development of IPTV (internet protocol TV)

Question: The US satirical TV series is what Park?
Answer: South

Question: The version of Magna Carta signed by King John of England at Runnymede was annulled shortly afterwards by Pope Innocent III; who issued the version which then survived to become the basis of much of modern Western law?
Answer: Henry III

Question: Which Russian composer wrote the ballets "The Firebird", "Petrouchka" and "the Rite of Spring"?
Answer: Igor Stravinsky

Question: What is the oldest surviving book printed using movable metal type?
Answer: The Jikji, Korea, 1377 AD

Question: Why did Lawrence Lemieux, a Canadian sailor competing in the 1988 Summer Olympics, and finishing in 21st place in his race receive the Pierre de Coubertin medal?
Answer: He abandoned his race to save an injured competitor

Question: An organisation formed in 1890 to promote cooperation across the countries of Latin America and the U.S was established under what name?
Answer: International Union of American Republics

Question: France's largest international airport and one of the world principal aviation centres, also known as Roissy, is usually known by the name of what historical figure?
Answer: Charles de Gaulle

Question: The famous armless statue of Venus, or Aphrodite, was first discovered in CE times (in 1820 CE) in what ancient city ruins?
Answer: Milos

Question: Paul Galdone illustrated a series of children's books written by Eve Titus about a mouse called what?
Answer: Anatole

Question: Who wrote under the pseudonym of "Elia" and, with his sister Mary, wrote "Tales From Shakespeare"?
Answer: Charles Lamb

Question: Wackford Squeers, headmaster of "Dotheboys Hall", appears in which book by Charles Dickens?
Answer: Nicholas Nickleby

Question: What word is applied to the cutting down of trees in, e.g., the Amazon basin?
Answer: Deforestation

Question: Kelly Slater and Layne Beachley are multi world champions in which sport?
Answer: Surfing

Question: Before it was moved to the purpose-built city of Brasilia, what city was Brazil's capital?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro

Question: Twitch.tv, where people can among other things watch gamers playing online, was generated by what other site?
Answer: Justin.tv

Question: Which merchant seaman wrote poems, novels, plays and critical essays and became Poet Laureate in 1930?
Answer: John Masefield

Question: What was the name of the uprising in Rhode Island that attempted to extend voting rights because, by 1829, only landowners could vote, and thus 60% of the state's free white men could not (as well as non-whites and women)?
Answer: Dorr Rebellion

Question: What do Solfatara in Italy, Mount Pico in the Azores, and Hekla in Iceland have in common?
Answer: They are all active, or dormant, volcanoes

Question: What is the name for the phenomenon that occurs, e.g., in magnetic and ferromagnetic materials and in the elastic, electric, and magnetic behaviour of materials, in which a lag occurs between the application or the removal of a force or field and its subsequent effect?
Answer: Hysteresis

Question: Which computer company was founded by former employees of Acer?
Answer: Asus

Question: In a court case in Toronto in October 1978, whose defence counsel compared him to Sylvia Plath, Vincent Van Gogh, Aldous Huxley, Judy Garland and F Scott Fitzgerald?
Answer: Keith Richards

Question: If viewed mathematically the alphabet leads to "A plus B equals C"; what does "I plus Q" equal?
Answer: Z

Question: How does history better know Ioseb Jughashvili, who changed his surname to mean "steel"?
Answer: Joseph Stalin

Question: What is the name for the ceremonial meal which breaks the fast each evening in Ramadan?
Answer: Iftaar