Question: Where and when did Martina Navritolova became the oldest winner of a tennis grand slam titled aged 46?
Answer: Australian Open, in 2003

Question: 16 of what pieces are on a chess board at the start of a game?
Answer: Pawns

Question: What was the name of the result of a nationwide census of virtually everything in Britain that was ordered by William I in 1085?
Answer: The Domesday Book

Question: Which plant has leaves and flowers (each of which consists of 5 or 6 small yellow flower heads surrounded by leaflets in star form that bloom between July and September) that are covered with white hairs and appear woolly?
Answer: Edelweiss

Question: Pete Wentz is best known for being the bassist for which American rock band?
Answer: Fall Out Boy

Question: What was the painter Monet's first name?
Answer: Claude

Question: The islands of Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii and New Caledonia are in which ocean?
Answer: Pacific

Question: Lladro porcelain comes from what country?
Answer: Spain

Question: Where was Eric "Butterbean" Esch's mixed martial arts bout with Mariusz Pudzianowski on 18 September 2010, where an incomplete rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner", with wrong and incomplete words, made news around the world?
Answer: Lodz, Poland

Question: What term is used to describe a wine with noticeable acidity that is balanced with enough fruit structure so as not to taste overly acidic?
Answer: Zippy

Question: Which US city has the same name as the state that it is in?
Answer: New York

Question: In September 2010 Lady Gaga attracted attention by posing in a bikini for the cover of Japan's Hommes Vogue magazine and appearing on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards wearing a dress made of what?
Answer: Meat

Question: The wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton is the 10th royal wedding to be held at Westminster Abbey. The first was that of Princess Patricia of Connaught to the Hon. Alexander Ramsay, which was in what year?
Answer: 1919

Question: What is the word for the point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the point where an earthquake or underground explosion originates?
Answer: Epicentre

Question: Who is SpongeBob SquarePants's pet, who meows like a cat, and lives with him in a pineapple under the sea?
Answer: A snail called Gary

Question: Who became president of Iraq in May 2005?
Answer: Jalal Talabani

Question: In the UK, General Elections are usually held on what day of the week?
Answer: Thursdays

Question: What name is given to the unnatural fear of death?
Answer: Thanatophobia

Question: Which boxer bit both of Evander Holyfield's ears in a fight for the WBA World Heavyweight Championship on 28 June 1997?
Answer: Mike Tyson

Question: According to a musical by Gilbert and Sullivan, whose "lot is not a happy one"?
Answer: Policeman's

Question: After his defeat at Waterloo, to where was Napoleon exiled?
Answer: St Helena

Question: In which country is the city of Wells?
Answer: England

Question: Which English novelist was arranged to be released from prison in 1703 by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, and was employed by him as a spy?
Answer: Daniel Defoe

Question: Which National Basketball Association team, whose colours are purple, gold and white, use purple uniforms for road games and gold uniforms for home games, with white jerseys for Sunday and holiday home games?
Answer: Los Angeles Lakers

Question: What is added to steel to make stainless steel?
Answer: Chromium

Question: Who is the only person to receive 2 Oscars for the same role?
Answer: Harold Russell

Question: According to the Bible, who visited Solomon?
Answer: The Queen of Sheba

Question: In 2009, Kelly Clarkson released a song that included the lyric: "You got a piece of me, And honestly, My life would ... "what" ... without you'"?
Answer: Suck

Question: Ophanin, piscivorin, ablomin, latisemin and triflin, cysteine-rich secretory proteins that can reduce muscle contractions, are naturally found where?
Answer: Snake venom

Question: What is the name of about 1,100 acres (445 hectares) of peat bog near Greater Manchester, England that was reclaimed in the latter half of the 19th century for farming and the disposal of city waste?
Answer: Carrington Moss

Question: In Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, whose hand extends to the hand of Adam?
Answer: God

Question: """It's still the same old story, the fight for love and glory"" are lines from the theme song for which film?"
Answer: Casablanca

Question: Who had a famous chestnut horse named "Copenhagen"?
Answer: Duke of Wellington

Question: How many hours are there in a week?
Answer: 168

Question: How many pedals are standard on a grand piano in the USA?
Answer: 3

Question: The Beaufort Sea constitutes part of which ocean?
Answer: Arctic

Question: With which sport is Nadia Comneci associated?
Answer: Gymnastics

Question: In the UK, the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 and three other documents listed here are considered to be some of the basic documents of the uncodified British constitution. Which is NOT one of them?
Answer: The Corn Laws (The Importation Act) 1815

Question: Japatis are part of the cuisine of which country?
Answer: India

Question: What nickname was given to Mary Mallon, who infected a known 53 people working as a cook in New York and, in 1907, was the first healthy typhoid carrier to be identified?
Answer: Typhoid Mary

Question: Which amendment to the US constitution provides freedom of religion, assembly, speech and the press?
Answer: First

Question: The home of the drink called "bourbon" is Bourbon County. What state of the USA is it in?
Answer: Kentucky

Question: What is the name for money obtained from illegal activities?
Answer: Ill gotten gains

Question: What is the next in this series: 1.0, 2.0, 2.10, 2.11 ...
Answer: 3.0

Question: Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination triggered World War I, was a member of which family?
Answer: Hapsburg

Question: In cricket, what term is used to describe the situation when a batsman is "out" from the first ball they face?
Answer: Golden duck

Question: Hawaii is in which ocean?
Answer: Pacific

Question: Which Irish playwright was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Mdaille de la Rsistance by the French government for his efforts in fighting the German occupation as part of the French resistance in World War II?
Answer: Samuel Beckett

Question: According to Greek mythology, "Hope" was the only thing left in what container after it had been opened?
Answer: Pandora's box

Question: """Parsifal"" was the last opera by which composer?"
Answer: Wagner

Question: A "marlin" is a type of what?
Answer: Fish

Question: The Hudson River forms the boundary between the states of New York and what other?
Answer: New Jersey

Question: What natural ice 1,212.5 metre (3,978 ft) long racing sled run in the Swiss town of St. Moritz, based on a river, was built in 1884?
Answer: Cresta Run

Question: The English town of Hay-on-Wye is famous for a festival featuring what?
Answer: Books

Question: Where is the Sea of William Henry Smyth?
Answer: On the Moon

Question: In June 1944, the names Juno, Omaha, Sword, Utah & Gold were given to what?
Answer: Beaches

Question: Florence is the capital of what Italian region?
Answer: Tuscany

Question: """Poison arrow"" or ""poison dart"" is what type of creature?"
Answer: Frog

Question: Who introduced the term "horsepower" in a scientific context?
Answer: James Watt

Question: What is old Delhi's military fort, built by Shah Jahan, known as?
Answer: The Red Fort

Question: The Individual World Championships for which sport, the first of which was in 2005 and are held every two years, include events called "Constant Weight", "Constant Weight Without Fins", "Free Immersion", "Variable Weight", "Static", "Dynamic" and "Dynamic No Fins"?
Answer: Freediving