Question: Lake Huron is connected by the Sault Ste. Marie Canal to which other lake?
Answer: Superior

Question: What is known in poker as "dead man's hand"
Answer: Aces and eights

Question: For a constant sound wave, what is the distance between successive crests called?
Answer: Wavelength

Question: Which character in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" appears frequently in drag?
Answer: Frank n Furter

Question: Who were the brothers of Helen of Troy?
Answer: Castor and Pollux

Question: What appeared in a newspaper for the first time on 22 March 1904 in the USA's "Daily Illustrated Mirror"?
Answer: Colour photographs

Question: What is the next in the series: Innsbruck, Austria; Grenoble, France; Sapporo, Japan; Innsbruck, Austria?
Answer: Lake Placid, United States

Question: Which Latin poet wrote "Satires", "Epodes", "Epistles" and "Carmen Seculare"?
Answer: Horace

Question: What name is given to an ambassador to Great Britain who is representing a country that is a member of the British Commonwealth?
Answer: High Commissioner

Question: By what name is Gordon Sumner better known?
Answer: Sting

Question: Which species of llama from Peru and Chile is known for its soft, fine hair?
Answer: Vicuna

Question: What was the name of the hurricane that badly damaged New Orleans in 2005?
Answer: Katrina

Question: What is the smallest country in land area on the South American continent?
Answer: French Guiana

Question: The United Nations Declaration was signed by 4 nations and subsequently co-signed by a further 22 in Washington DC on which two days?
Answer: 1-2 January 1942

Question: In the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, who did Gandalf fight at the Bridge of Khazad-dum before he fell into the abyss?
Answer: The Balrog

Question: Which Indycar racing driver married American actress Ashley Judd in 2001 at Skibo Castle near Dornoch, Scotland?
Answer: Dario Franchitti

Question: In cockney rhyming slang, what are "Apples and Pears"?
Answer: Stairs

Question: In January 2009, what did global accountancy firm KPMG ask its 11,000 British staff to do, that was widely reported?
Answer: Switch to a 4 day week or take a long holiday at 30% pay

Question: The only original member, Ian Paice, still plays drums for which band?
Answer: Deep Purple

Question: What makes it necessary to drive through Alabama to take the shortest route from Miami, Florida to Houston, Texas?
Answer: Gulf of Mexico

Question: What name is given to a chemical compound in which water combines with other substances without alteration of the arrangement of the atoms in the water?
Answer: Hydrate

Question: Where was the first "Surf Bathers' Life-Saving Club" founded?
Answer: Bondi, Sydney, Australia

Question: Who designed the yellow sheath dress with matching coat worn by Michelle Obama at Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009?
Answer: Isabel Toledo

Question: Who, according to legend, discovered the principles of buoyancy while having a bath?
Answer: Archimedes

Question: On 3 November 1902 a telephone cable was opened between Vancouver, Canada, and where?
Answer: Queensland, Australia

Question: What is the capital of the province of British Columbia, Canada?
Answer: Victoria

Question: In traditional English pantomime, which shrewd, witty, light-hearted character vied with Pierrot for the affection of Columbine, and was based on the Commedia Dell'Arte character Arlecchino?
Answer: Harlequin

Question: Competition for which cup, sometimes called the World Men's Team Championships, for international badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation, have been held every three years since 1948-1949 and every t
Answer: The Thomas Cup

Question: Which American television sitcom that ran for 7 years from 19 September 1970 spun-off three television series: Rhoda (1974-1978), Phyllis (1975-1977) and Lou Grant (1977-1982)?
Answer: The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Question: Who was the pilot of the US Airways plane that landed on the Hudson River in January 2009?
Answer: Chesley Sullenberger

Question: What name is given to the potential difference measured across a conductor of 1 ohm resistance when current of 1 ampere is flowing?
Answer: Volt

Question: The Christian festival of Easter Sunday occurs on which day?
Answer: The first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox

Question: Why is the most southern part on the South American continent, Cape Horn, so called?
Answer: It was named by a Dutch sailor who was born in Hoorn

Question: Who won the 1986 World Cup Squash title, breaking another player's five year unbeaten run?
Answer: Ross Norman

Question: What is a word for giddiness, often associated with a disease of the inner ear?
Answer: Vertigo

Question: Which English barrister, who wrote the play "Voyage Around My Father" and the TV series "Rumpole of the Bailey", died in January 2009?
Answer: John Mortimer

Question: The governor of which state was removed from office by the state senate in January 2009?
Answer: Illinois

Question: What measure is used to measure the warmth of a duvet?
Answer: Tog

Question: Who wrote the "Uncle Remus" stories?
Answer: Joel Chandler Harris

Question: It is generally believed that which Ancient Roman festival, an archaic rite connected to fertility observed from 13 to 15 February, was converted by the Roman Catholic Church to honor the Virgin Mary which in turn became St Valentine's day?
Answer: Lupercalia

Question: Which sport is played with a goal 12 ft wide by 7ft high, with a maximum of 11 players from each team able to be on the field at any time?
Answer: Hockey

Question: Who, about to leave the Animals as bassist, brought Jimi Hendrix to London, signed him to a management and production contract and helped him form The Jimi Hendrix Experience?
Answer: Chas Chandler

Question: Who is the individual responsible for the cleaning and maintenance of the interior of a residence?
Answer: Housekeeper

Question: Tinnitus affects which part of the body?
Answer: Ears

Question: Broadcasting from Germany to England in English in 1940, by what name was William Joyce better known?
Answer: Lord Haw Haw

Question: What is the name of the type of curve traced by a point on a rolling wheel?
Answer: Cycloid

Question: Which painter, designer of stained glass and engraver born in Ausburg, Germany, became painter to the court of Henry VIII and died of the plague in 1543?
Answer: Hans Holbein

Question: Which "Great Fire" is believed to have started at the bakery of Thomas Farriner (or Farynor) on Pudding Lane?
Answer: London

Question: What was notable about the embrace on the podium after the medal ceremony for the 10 metre air pistol competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing between Nino Salukvadze (bronze) and Natalia Paderina (silver)?
Answer: There was disagreement between the countries they represented

Question: Which film, released at the end of 2008, was directed by Ron Howard and starred Michael Sheen and Frank Langella?
Answer: Frost / Nixon

Question: Who wrote the music for the musical Cats?
Answer: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Question: The meat is raw in what dish?
Answer: Steak tartare

Question: In 1957, there were how many states in the USA?
Answer: 48

Question: Altogether, how many strings are there on the four instruments in a traditional string quartet?
Answer: 16

Question: What town in South Australia has served a weapons-testing range since the 1950s, was the site of a detention facility for asylum seekers and refugees from 1999 to 2003, and was home to the Nurrungar satellite ground station until 1999?
Answer: Woomera

Question: Who led the expedition that discovered The Titanic on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: Robert Ballard

Question: What infectious disease, caused by a virus, is characterised by the eruption of successive crops of blisters?
Answer: Chickenpox