Question: Which famous American bodybuilder had the advertising slogan "You too can have a body like mine"?
Answer: Charles Atlas

Question: The Stanley Cup Final is a best-of-seven playoff series to determine the National Hockey League champion. In the 200910 season, how many games were needed to decide the best of seven between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Chicago Blackhawks?
Answer: 6

Question: Opened in 1890, with 6 stations over 3.2 miles (5.1 km) and running in a pair of tunnels between the City of London and Stockwell passing under the River Thames, what was the first deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, and the first major railway to use electric traction?
Answer: The City and South London Railway

Question: Where was the annual G8 leaders summit held in the year 2000?
Answer: Japan

Question: What sport is associated with Vladimir Putin, the second President of the Russian Federation?
Answer: Judo

Question: What sign of the zodiac is represented by a set of scales?
Answer: Libra

Question: In the James Bond film "Thunderball" who played Bond girl Domino Derval?
Answer: Claudine Auger

Question: What is the only US state that touches both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: New York

Question: What is the literal meaning of the Latin legal expression "habeas corpus"?
Answer: You must have the body

Question: What did Sweyn Forkbeard do for revenge on the English after the St. Brice's Day massacre, when Danes in the Kingdom of England were killed on St Brice's day (13 November) in 1002 AD, as ordered by King thelred the Unready?
Answer: He invaded and eventually became king

Question: How many defensive players are on a baseball field at any one time?
Answer: 9

Question: On which island is the port of Messina?
Answer: Sicily

Question: Which UK television series starred Ross Kemp as a tough SAS officer?
Answer: Ultimate Force

Question: Gee Jon. a member of the Hip Sing Tong criminal society from San Francisco, California, sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly member from another gang in Nevada, was the first person in the US to do what?
Answer: Be executed by lethal gas

Question: What popular name is given to a situation where a man cannot make up his mind which of two women to marry?
Answer: The Betty and Veronica syndrome

Question: Which jazz musician was known for his voluminous cheeks and "bent" trumpet?
Answer: Dizzy Gillespie

Question: Who played eventual winners Chelsea in the FA Cup final in May 2010?
Answer: Portsmouth

Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "On Her Majesty's ... "
Answer: Secret Service

Question: In the late 18th century, Pennsylvania built a presidential palace in a futile effort to have Philadelphia made the permanent national capital. What happened to it?
Answer: It was bought by the University of Pennsylvania

Question: Which European country has a flag that is not oblong?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: The islands of Zanzibar and Madagascar are in which ocean?
Answer: Indian

Question: The House of Representatives of which country unanimously voted to become a secular and inclusive democratic republic on 28 May 2008, giving the King 15 days to vacate the palace, to re-open it as a public museum?
Answer: Nepal

Question: Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey were involved with the launch of what computer application?
Answer: Twitter

Question: What phrase refers to an old-fashioned person who is reluctant to change or innovate?
Answer: Stick in the Mud

Question: The cities of Ciudad Jurez, El Paso, Laredo and Brownsville are on the banks of which river?
Answer: Rio Grande

Question: After the mutiny on the "Bounty", Fletcher Christian and his men took women from where to colonise Pitcairn Island?
Answer: Tahiti

Question: Which album by the Arctic Monkeys was the fastest selling album in UK chart history?
Answer: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Question: Betsy Ross was a figure in the history of the USA in what century?
Answer: 18th

Question: Which Stoke City, Blackpool and England player was the first European Footballer of the Year in 1956?
Answer: Stanley Matthews

Question: What series of books would you go to to read about Snowy, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus and Thomson and Thompson?
Answer: The Adventures of Tintin

Question: Ball, fork and sheet are all types of what?
Answer: Lightning

Question: Lake Titicaca is on which continent?
Answer: South America

Question: In 1964, who became the first male to appear on the cover of "Playboy" magazine?
Answer: Peter Sellers

Question: General Stanley Allen McChrystal, who had led all forces in Afghanistan since 15 June 2009, was relieved of his command on 23 June 2010 after he made unflattering remarks about US presidential administration officials in an article in which magazine?
Answer: Rolling Stone

Question: World War I was triggered when Germany invaded which country?
Answer: Belgium

Question: What is the name for the hair that surrounds a lion's neck?
Answer: Mane

Question: What is the title given to the widow of the holder of a title which has been passed on to another?
Answer: Dowager

Question: Who holds the records as the youngest and oldest winner in the Men's singles at the Australian Open tennis tournament?
Answer: Ken Rosewall

Question: These are the first lines from what song: "There's a saying old, says that love is blind, Still we're often told, "seek and ye shall find"', So I'm going to seek a certain lad I've had in mind"?
Answer: Someone to Watch Over Me

Question: Olympic gold medallists Vilhelm Carlberg, Gunde Svan, Agneta Andersson, Sixten Jernberg, Tomas Gustafson, Thomas Wassberg, Ingemar Stenmark, Gert Fredriksson, Henri Saint Cyr, Alfred Swahn, Eric Lemming and Oscar Swahn represented which country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: On 14 November 1910, Eugene Burton Ely was the first to do what in an aeroplane?
Answer: Take off from a ship

Question: What river runs through Phoenix, Arizona, USA?
Answer: Salt River

Question: The song "Invisible Sun" was banned by the BBC in 1981. Who was the artist?
Answer: Police

Question: In 2001, American Dennis Tito was the first person to do what?
Answer: Be a space tourist

Question: Who said "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl"?
Answer: Charlie Chaplin

Question: The Sabine River forms the border of Texas with what other area?
Answer: Louisiana

Question: The song "I Whistle A Happy Tune" is from which musical?
Answer: The King and I

Question: In the human body, what does melanin determine?
Answer: Skin colour

Question: The Volstead Act, that became law in the USA on 28 October 1919, concerned what?
Answer: Prohibition of alcohol

Question: According to the Edward Lear, before "they danced by the light of the moon", the Owl and the Pussycat "dined on mince, and slices of quince". What did they eat with?
Answer: A runcible spoon

Question: What was the name given to people who went to California to join in the goldrush in the mid 19th century?
Answer: 49ers

Question: Who painted the famous paintings known as "Children at the Beach at Guernsey", "Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette", "The Swing" and "The Theater Box"?
Answer: Renoir

Question: What film character was created by Paul Hogan?
Answer: Crocodile Dundee

Question: Which mythical figure carries a scythe?
Answer: The Grim Reaper

Question: What is the technical term for double vision?
Answer: Diplopia

Question: What nationality was Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel prize?
Answer: Swedish

Question: There are 1,860 steps from where to where?
Answer: Ground level to the top of the Empire State Building, New York, USA

Question: What is the name of a famous concerto by Vivaldi?
Answer: The Four Seasons

Question: What sport is featured in the film "Field of Dreams" starring Kevin Costner?
Answer: Baseball

Question: The term "three in a bed" is used in which sport?
Answer: Darts