Question: Which country ended the USA's 132 year hold on the America's Cup?
Answer: Australia

Question: What does MIX in Roman numerals mean?
Answer: 1009

Question: Which city is "that toddlin' town" where "on State Street that great street ... They do things that they don't do on Broadway. They have the time the time of their life: I saw a man and he danced with his wife"?
Answer: Chicago

Question: In which of Shakespeare's plays did the Montague and Capulet families appear?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet

Question: Who was King of Hungary from 1000 to 1038, changed his name from Wajk on becoming Christian, and is Hungary's patron saint?
Answer: Stephen

Question: What, with the sickle, is a symbol of communism?
Answer: Hammer

Question: An outbreak of what in Nigeria affected 5,323 people and killed 333 in the first 3 months of 2009?
Answer: Meningitis

Question: The Maoist organisation Sendero Luminoso is based in which country?
Answer: Peru

Question: Beat Mndli, Daniel Deusser, Markus Beerbaum and Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum are world ranking competitors in which sport?
Answer: Show Jumping

Question: One US gallon is equal to how many pints?
Answer: 8

Question: What is the venue for the first World Outdoor Youth Ball Hockey Championship held in August 2009?
Answer: Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Question: What voting system for General Elections was first implemented in the Australian colony of Tasmania on 7 February 1856 and introduced to Britain in 1872 by the Ballot Act?
Answer: Secret ballot

Question: The best known works of which sculptor who aroused hostility over the depiction of sexuality, are 18 large nude sculptures in 1908 for the British Medical Association building on The Strand, the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris, "Rush of Green" in Hyde Park, London, and "St Michael's Victory over the Devil" in Coventry Cathedral?
Answer: Jacob Epstein

Question: Where would you find the mosques of El Hakim, Amru, Hason, El Maayyad and El Sunkur?
Answer: Cairo

Question: On July 6, 2007, the IOC approved what new venture to complement the Olympic Games, starting in 2010?
Answer: Youth Games, for athletes between the ages of 14 and 18

Question: Sir Mortimer Wheeler was connected with what activity?
Answer: Archaeology

Question: """The Warden"", ""Barchester Towers"", ""Dr Thorne"", Framley Parsonage"", ""The Small House of Allington"" and ""Last Chronicle of Barset"" are collectively known as what?"
Answer: The Barsetshire Novels

Question: Which US government official is the equivalent of the British Foreign Secretary?
Answer: Secretary of State

Question: Who was defence counsel at the Oz conspiracy trial in 1971 and defended the Sex Pistols in a 1977 obscenity trial over the title of their album "Never Mind The Bollocks"?
Answer: John Mortimer

Question: The Napa Valley wine producing region is in which country?
Answer: Usa

Question: What is another name for a ghost?
Answer: Apparition

Question: What was the English court case about in 1670, when the judge withheld food, water, and toilet facilities from jurors for 3 days as he was unsatisfied with their first decision and, when they returned a "not guilty" verdict, fined them?
Answer: William Penn was accused of 'preaching Quakerism to an unlawful assembly'

Question: Dermatitis affects what part of the body?
Answer: Skin

Question: Who was the star of "High Noon", the American 1952 western film directed by Fred Zinnemann that tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself?
Answer: Gary Cooper

Question: What pieces occupy all four corners of the board at the start of a chess game?
Answer: Rooks

Question: Where did Pluto, discovered in 1930 (and designated a planet at the time), get its name?
Answer: Greek legend

Question: What was organised by Catherine de Medici, Queen Mother, France, to crush the Huguenots in August 1572 at the wedding of Henry of Navarre to Marguerite, sister of Charles IX, that resulted in the death of around 30,000 people?
Answer: Massacre of St Bartholomew

Question: The Pyrenees mountain range is on which continent?
Answer: Europe

Question: Where would you find the Koh-I-Noor and the Cullinan?
Answer: British crown jewels

Question: Who were Mr and Mrs Munster in the 1960s TV series?
Answer: Lily and Herman

Question: Who wrote a book about the US car industry, published in 1965, called "Unsafe at Any Speed"?
Answer: Ralph Nader

Question: What shape are the 4 faces of a tetrahedron?
Answer: Triangles

Question: What is German for "ghost who makes a racket"?
Answer: Poltergeist

Question: What is the only joint rule in the history of England?
Answer: William III and Mary II

Question: What is an area of garden that contains flowers?
Answer: Bed

Question: Who was the world snooker champion in 1998, 2007 and 2009?
Answer: John Higgins

Question: The sun is mostly made up of what material?
Answer: Gas

Question: Which French naval officer invented the aqualung?
Answer: Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Question: For what event in 1215 is Runnymede famous?
Answer: King John signed the Magna Carta

Question: Which 1987 thriller film involves a spurned lover killing and boiling a pet rabbit?
Answer: Fatal Attraction

Question: The mantilla is a type of what?
Answer: Scarf worn over the head and shoulders

Question: What name was given to the one eyed giants in Greek fables?
Answer: Cyclopes

Question: In 1996, who joined Paavo Nurmi, Larysa Latynina and Mark Spitz, tied for the record numer of Olympic gold medals (9) ever?
Answer: Carl Lewis

Question: What type of plant is "stinkhorn"?
Answer: Fungus

Question: Daryl Hannah starred with Tom Hanks and John Candy as what in the 1984 film "Splash"?
Answer: Mermaid

Question: Which cross has the upright longer than the transverse piece, and has a circle around the head / join?
Answer: Celtic cross

Question: What disorder did the hero of the Bourne trilogy of films suffer from?
Answer: Amnesia

Question: When did the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) first lay down the laws of cricket?
Answer: 1788

Question: Who, on 2 October 1925, transmitted a picture of William Taynton, an office boy from the offices on the floor below his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in Soho, London, from one room to another?
Answer: John Logie Baird

Question: What was the setting for the 1998 film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah, "Sliding Doors"?
Answer: London

Question: Which sport, played by 2 teams of 8 who use a rope, is marked with a "centre line" and two markings four metres either side of the centre line?
Answer: Tug-of-War

Question: On 17 September 1862, where was The Battle of Antietam, the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil and the bloodiest single-day battle in American history (with about 23,000 casualties)?
Answer: Near Sharpsburg, Maryland

Question: Who was jailed for 150 years in June 2009 for investor fraud after being reported to federal authorities by his sons?
Answer: Bernie Madoff

Question: What is the accounting term for a liability that may arise if a future event does not happen?
Answer: Contingent liability

Question: For what did William Kemmler, then at New York's Auburn Prison, become famous on 6 August 1890?
Answer: The first person to be executed via the electric chair

Question: In the film Spiderman 2 (2004), which New York newspaper does Spiderman's alter ego take photographs for?
Answer: The Daily Bugle

Question: Who, in 1794, patented the cotton gin, that enabled cotton fibres to be plucked from seeds mechanically?
Answer: Eli Whitney

Question: What is the name used in the USA for the board game that the English call "draughts"?
Answer: Checkers

Question: Which word means "to refuse to take part"?
Answer: Boycott

Question: According to the tagline for a film musical starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, what "is the word"?
Answer: Grease