Question: What is the next number in the series 1, 8, 27, 64, 125?
Answer: 216

Question: Why was Eric Fishl's sculpture "Tumbling Woman", a memorial to those who jumped from the World Trade Centre on 11 Sept 2001, removed from the Rockefeller Centre in New York City?
Answer: It was too disturbing to the public

Question: Which building was attacked at the start of the French Revolution on 14 July 1789 because it was symbolic of injustice?
Answer: The Bastille

Question: Who was the Anglo-Irish scientist who, in the 17th century, discovered that "the volume of a given mass of gas at a given temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure"?
Answer: Robert Boyle

Question: What is the name of the system whereby a number of persons subscribe to an invested fund which becomes the property of the last survivor?
Answer: Tontine

Question: Who collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber to create the musical "The Beautiful Game"?
Answer: Ben Elton

Question: What is the name of the process by which plants obtain carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water?
Answer: Photosynthesis

Question: What is a 'single make' open-wheel auto racing series wherein competitors represent their nation as opposed to themselves or a team?
Answer: A1 Grand Prix

Question: During World War II, where was the HQ of the English code cracking unit that was set up to decipher the output from the "Enigma" machine?
Answer: Bletchley Park

Question: What is the dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada that was completed in 1935?
Answer: Hoover Dam

Question: Which jazz musician has a memorial, created by sculptor Robert Graham and unveiled in 1997, in Central Park New York, near the intersection of 5th Avenue and 100th Street?
Answer: Duke Ellington

Question: The Team sprint track cycling event is, in the men's event, a three-man team time trial held over three laps of a velodrome. What makes up the women's event?
Answer: Two women over two laps

Question: In which country would you find the Moorish castle called the Alhambra?
Answer: Spain

Question: What is the highest mountain on Antarctica?
Answer: Vinson Massif

Question: Who, in the 16th century, published "Orbium Coelestium", the theory that underlies our current understanding of the relationship of the earth to the sun and the planets?
Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus

Question: Which chief laid siege to Fort Detroit in 1763, an action that led to widespread rebellion against colonists in the area around Ohio and Illinois?
Answer: Pontiac

Question: How many semitones are there in an octave?
Answer: 12

Question: When was the Euro first used as a unit of currency?
Answer: 1999

Question: What is the French name for Lake Geneva?
Answer: Lac Leman

Question: Where in Europe would you go to attend the World Backgammon Championship?
Answer: Monaco

Question: Who was President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979 and was depicted in the film "The Last King Of Scotland"?
Answer: Idi Amin

Question: What city was once known as Lutce?
Answer: Paris

Question: What virtual cricketing prize began in 1882 when Australia beat England by 7 runs?
Answer: The Ashes

Question: According to Roman legend, which son of Ceres was turned into a river in Tartarus which supplied the Titans with water in their battle with the gods?
Answer: Acheron

Question: What is a legal defence for being somewhere other than at the scene of a crime?
Answer: Alibi

Question: In which literary work does the character of Mrs. Malaprop appear?
Answer: Sheridans "The Rivals"

Question: What word refers to a note whose pitch is not a member of the scale indicated by the key signature?
Answer: Accidental

Question: What is the next in the series: Melbourne; Rome; Tokyo; Mexico City?
Answer: Munich

Question: What is petrology the study of?
Answer: Rocks

Question: What series of 29 British films made between 1958 and 1978 were made by a collection of actors including Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, and Kenneth Connor?
Answer: Carry On

Question: According to Greek legend, whose fate was to stand near the garden of the Hesperides and support the universe on his shoulders?
Answer: Atlas

Question: What 1980's TV programme starred Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless?
Answer: Cagney and Lacey

Question: What American Indian word was used to describe the first international Boy Scout rally held at Olympia, London, in 1920?
Answer: Jamboree

Question: What organisation, formed by Reverend John Flynn and based in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia, began in 1928?.
Answer: Royal Flying Doctor Service

Question: Which light-heavyweight boxer won a gold medal when he competed at an Olympic Games for the first time in 1960 at Rome?
Answer: Cassius Clay

Question: Normally, a string quintet contains how many violins?
Answer: 2

Question: Which Irish step dancer, flautist and choreographer, born 16 July 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, became internationally known through the musical "Riverdance"?
Answer: Michael Flatley

Question: What phrase used by the US during the Cold War to justify American intervention around the world, suggested that if any country came under the influence of communism, the surrounding countries would follow?
Answer: Domino Theory

Question: Which US horse race for three year-old thoroughbred horses is held on the first Saturday in May, over one and a quarter miles (2 km) at Churchill Downs?
Answer: The Kentucky Derby

Question: What is the Russian rocket launch and development site in the Astrakhan Oblast, between Volgograd and Astrakhan, established in 1946?
Answer: Kapustin Yar

Question: Nelson beat Napoleon's fleet, which lost 13 of 17 ships, in which battle in Aboukir Bay on 1 August 1793?
Answer: Battle of the Nile

Question: What is the lowest number that is both the square of one integer and the cube of another?
Answer: 64

Question: Which manufacturer of pens was established in 1884 in New York City, USA?
Answer: Waterman

Question: Which impresario, music manager and record producer has been involved with The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Graham Gouldman, Godley and Creme, (later 10cc), Soft Machine, and Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity?
Answer: Giorgio Gomelsky

Question: Which mountains are between Lake Champlain and the St Lawrence, in the state of New York, USA?
Answer: Adirondacks

Question: Americans call it a hood. What do the British call it?
Answer: Bonnet

Question: Who made the first, in western countries, practical successful and widely usable vaccinations in 1796 against smallpox?
Answer: Edward Jenner

Question: What scale initially related wind conditions to their effects on the sails of a man of war, from "sufficient for steerage" to "which canvas sails couldn't withstand."
Answer: Beaufort scale

Question: A vestry is a feature of what sort of building?
Answer: Church

Question: Animal is a regular character in which TV programme?
Answer: The Muppets

Question: In 2008, who was the President of Palestine and Fatah leader?
Answer: Mahmoud Abbas

Question: Which river flows from north to south through eastern New York State, USA, and forms the border between Pennsylvania and New Jersey before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: Hudson

Question: Where was the men's world best time (up to 2009) for the Team Sprint, of 42.950 seconds, set by the British cycling team of Jamie Staff, Jason Kenny and Chris Hoy?
Answer: Olympic Games Beijing 2008

Question: Launched on 4 March 2001 as the largest ship operated by the U S Navy, this aircraft carrier is named after which past U S president?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: What is a highly magnetized, rotating, neutron star emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation that can only be observed when the beam of emission is pointing towards the Earth (known as the lighthouse effect)?
Answer: Pulsar

Question: What 3-D puzzle was invented in 1974 by a Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture?
Answer: Rubik's Cube