Question: Which country governs the islands called Crete, Lesbos, Rhodes, Corfu, Lemnos, Andros, Naxos and Kos?
Answer: Greece

Question: In 2006, which country announced that it was withdrawing from test match cricket for 12 months?
Answer: Zimbabwe

Question: Anders Behring Breivik is known for what?
Answer: Murdering 77 people in Norway

Question: What was the last armed conflict on land to be fought in the British Isles?
Answer: The Battle of Vinegar Hill, 1798

Question: Who were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1993?
Answer: F W de Klerk & Nelson Mandela

Question: Edison Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pel, retired in 1977 from what sport?
Answer: Football

Question: What currency is used in Thailand?
Answer: Baht

Question: What play has the characters Lady Bracknell, Miss Prism and Doctor Chasuble?
Answer: The Importance of Being Earnest

Question: What figure in Greek mythology was killed by a wild boar?
Answer: Adonis

Question: Why were the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles boycotted by the Soviet Union and most of the communist world (though China, Romania, and Yugoslavia participated)?
Answer: In retaliation for the US-led boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow

Question: A QR, or quick response, barcode is a machine-readable label, and encodes virtually any type of data including the standardised modes of alphanumeric, binary, numeric and what other kind?
Answer: Kanji

Question: Why did Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German carpenter, make international news in 1936 when he was sentenced to death and executed for what became known as "The Crime of the Century"?
Answer: The Lindbergh kidnapping

Question: On the Christian calendar, what name is given to the 40 days before Easter?
Answer: Lent

Question: The Basques are native people of France and which other neighbouring country?
Answer: Spain

Question: After she beat Francesca Schiavone at the Sony Ericsson Tennis Championships in Doha, who was ranked World No. 1 on the WTA Tour?
Answer: Caroline Wozniacki

Question: What is the name of a measure that is equal to 42 US gallons, 158.9873 litres, or 34.9723 Imperial (UK) gallons?
Answer: Barrel

Question: Which of Queen Elizabeth II's children was married last?
Answer: Edward

Question: A "quack" is usually defined as someone who pretends to be an expert in what field?
Answer: Medicine

Question: Which is the biggest ball?
Answer: Beach volleyball

Question: It was formed in 1885 by members of the Theosophical Society, was a major force in the Indian independence movement and is still a potent political party in India. What is it called?
Answer: Indian National Congress

Question: Which long-running TV series first aired on UK TV in 1963?
Answer: Dr Who

Question: Which band's seventh album "In Rainbows" was released through their website on 10 October 2007 as a download for which customers could make whatever payment that they wanted, even nothing?
Answer: Radiohead

Question: Which snooker player, nicknamed "The Grinder", in 1980 became the first player from outside the United Kingdom to win the world snooker championship?
Answer: Cliff Thorburn

Question: Where, on 24 June 1314, did Robert Bruce defeat Edward II's army?
Answer: Bannockburn

Question: What is the order of which Anders Behring Breivik claims to be a justiciar?
Answer: Knights Templar Europe

Question: Which country owns most of the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego?
Answer: Chile

Question: Hamlet figures in which play?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: Competitors from which country won the most medals at the 2010 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: The first broadcast of the UK scifi series Dr Who on TV in November 1963 coincided with what?
Answer: Extended coverage of President John F. Kennedy's assassination the previous day

Question: Who was thrown into the Tiber by his uncle, was suckled by a wolf, co-founded Rome and was killed by his brother?
Answer: Remus

Question: What is used on a greyhound racetrack to induce the dogs to race?
Answer: A moving lure

Question: In "necromancy" the practitioner seeks to do what?
Answer: Summon the spirit of a deceased person or to raise them bodily

Question: The Kadima, Likud and Shas political parties are active in which country?
Answer: Israel

Question: Lindsay Lohan starred in a film called "Confessions of a " what?
Answer: Teenage Drama Queen

Question: Which musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber is based on a book by Wilkie Collins?
Answer: The Woman in White

Question: Which species of shark is the largest fish in the world?
Answer: Whale shark

Question: Which country, a founder member of the Arab League in 1945 was suspended from the League from 1979 to 1989 after it signed a peace treaty with Israel?
Answer: Egypt

Question: In the TV series "Extras", Stephen Merchant played what role?
Answer: The agent, Darren Lamb

Question: What is the name of the office of someone who acts as a trusted intermediary between an organisation such as a corporation, professional regulatory body, or a branch of government and those outside it, to represent those outside interests?
Answer: Ombudsman

Question: In Canada, although women had a limited right by 1884 to vote in governmental elections they did not have full voting rights until when?
Answer: 1919 for all Canada except Quebec (1940)

Question: It is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal, with currently 14 countries contesting its World Championships. What is it called?
Answer: Bandy

Question: In 1984 Anne Wood founded a company to produce children's shows for TV, the early shows from which included Pob's Programme, Playbox and Teletubbies. What was it called?
Answer: Ragdoll Productions

Question: The hula is traditional dance from where?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: A 2002 feature-length documentary film directed by David C. Thomas, that includes US government surveillance footage of a performance at the protests outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, is about which Detroit-based rock band?
Answer: Mc5

Question: Erik the Red was convicted of killing both Thorgest (after a dispute over a shovel) and Valthjof (who had killed some of his slaves) and banished from Iceland. He led a group of approximately 500 settlers to settle in what country?
Answer: Greenland

Question: Kelly Slater is both the youngest and oldest person to hold the world title in what sport?
Answer: Surfing

Question: What part of an egg does albumen come from?
Answer: White

Question: David Marks, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton, Frank Anatole and Nic Bailey were the architects of which London landmark that was opened on 31 December 1999?
Answer: London Eye

Question: Directly leading up to WW I (1914-18) were two other major European conflicts in 1912 and 1913, usually called the First and Second what?
Answer: Balkan War

Question: The river which carved out the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, is thought to have begun in its present course about how long ago?
Answer: 17 million years

Question: Who is to be Australia's first Catholic saint?
Answer: Mary McKillop

Question: The line "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse" is from which play?
Answer: Richard III

Question: Who was the first U.S. President to take residence in the White House, then known as the Executive Mansion?
Answer: John Adams

Question: Which is not another name for allspice?
Answer: Clove

Question: Who was the first left handed golfer to win one of the four majors?
Answer: Bob Charles

Question: Which country is known as "The Land of 1,000 Lakes"?
Answer: Finland

Question: Which country has the largest coal reserves in Latin America and produces most of the world's emeralds?
Answer: Colombia

Question: What was the name of the TV doctor played by Richard Chamberlain in a US TV series in the 1960s?
Answer: Kildare