Question: Luge and skeleton racing were developed in the late 19th century in which country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: What is the term for a collector of autographs?
Answer: Philographer

Question: What gas is the main component of the atmosphere of the planet Mars?
Answer: Carbon dioxide

Question: Shah Jahan directed the construction of which from 1632 to 1648?
Answer: Taj Mahal

Question: What is the relationship of the word "ten" to the word "net"?
Answer: Palindrome

Question: What substance in the human body causes blood vessels to dilate when released as part of an allergic reaction?
Answer: Histamine

Question: A baseball pitch called a "knuckleballer" is characterised by what?
Answer: Minimised spin and unpredictable flight

Question: Which London station does the "Eurostar" leave from?
Answer: St Pancras

Question: In 2010, who became the first person to win the Women's Singles title at the Australian Open tennis tournament 5 times?
Answer: Serena Williams

Question: What river rises in the Black Forest and travels 1,775 miles to empty into the Black Sea?
Answer: Danube

Question: In Roman mythology, when, on the dethronement of Saturn, Jupiter and his brothers divided his dominions, who got the realms of the dead?
Answer: Pluto

Question: Gordonstoun School is famous mainly because of which past pupils?
Answer: Prince Philip & his 3 sons

Question: Who painted the famous paintings known as "The Cardplayers" and "Les Grandes Baigneuses"?
Answer: Czanne

Question: In the time of the British Empire, India was referred to as what?
Answer: The Jewel in the Crown

Question: What is the staple diet of the panda?
Answer: Bamboo

Question: The northern mass of the continent of the Americas is bounded by the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, by the Caribbean Sea, by South America and by which other?
Answer: Bering Sea

Question: What is the next in this series: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts ... ?
Answer: Romans

Question: Who discovered Uranus in 1781?
Answer: William Herschel

Question: Football Golf has annual World and European Championships, as well as Open Tournaments in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and what other country?
Answer: Spain

Question: Who was the leader of 617 Squadron, formed during World War II and known as the Dambusters?
Answer: Guy Gibson

Question: What is the monetary unit of Thailand?
Answer: Baht

Question: A logarithmic spiral, frequently seen in natural phenomena and called spira mirabilis by Jacob Bernoulli in the 17th century, is characterised by what?
Answer: Its shape stays the same as its size increases

Question: Who were the Persians defeated by in the sea battle at Salamis in 480BC?
Answer: Greece

Question: Which Saint's Day is 17 March?
Answer: St Patrick

Question: What was the original name of Mickey Mouse?
Answer: Mortimer

Question: In which long-running comic series did the eponymous hero experience two dream sequences where he married each of his girlfriends, Veronica and Betty?
Answer: Archie

Question: The musical term "scherzo" takes its name from the Italian word for what?
Answer: Joke

Question: A Russian political satirist, later exiled, who wrote the plays "Dead Souls" and "The Government Inspector" was..?
Answer: Gogol

Question: What war, begun in 1740 when Austrian Emperor Charles VI died and his daughter Maria Theresa came to the throne, involved attacks by Prussia, Bavaria, France, Spain, Sardinia and Saxony, and ended in 1748?
Answer: The War of the Austrian Succession

Question: In which James Bond film does he have to defeat shipping magnate Karl Stromberg?
Answer: The Spy Who Loved Me

Question: The Tarantula is named after a town in which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: Bangladesh declared independence from which country on 26 March 1971?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: The second largest bay in the world, after Bengal Bay, relatively shallow and considered an epicontinental sea, is...?
Answer: Hudson's Bay, Canada

Question: Who was the lead guitarist of the band "Guns N' Roses" between 1985 and 1996?
Answer: Slash

Question: Who refused to enter the US army, saying "I ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong. No Vietcong ever called me nigger"?
Answer: Muhammad Ali

Question: What is the surname of sisters Rain and Summer, who come from a Hollywood acting family?
Answer: Phoenix

Question: What was the last James Bond film made that starred Roger Moore?
Answer: A View to a Kill

Question: The Massacre of Aleppo in 1850 in Syria was carried out during which rule?
Answer: Ottoman Empire

Question: What is the name of mid-ocean ridge which separates much of north America from Africa and Europe?
Answer: Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Question: Snuff is made of a powdered form of what?
Answer: Tobacco

Question: Which bridge across the Thames is closest to the Houses of Parliament in London?
Answer: Westminster Bridge

Question: Piggyback, fireman's, and Estonian-style are holds in what sport with Championships in North America, Finland, and (in 2011) India?
Answer: Wife-carrying

Question: The TV series was only 17 episodes (approximately 5 months of screen time) but it quickly became a cult series and has remained one. Which series was it?
Answer: The Prisoner

Question: The initiative for what current unit of the British Army began during World War II in 1941 by David Stirling as a commando force operating behind enemy lines during the war in North Africa and Europe?
Answer: Sas

Question: Tony Kushner wrote the award-winning play "Angels in...?
Answer: America

Question: Which English soccer player, whose career in first class soccer ran from 1958 to 1976, was captain of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup and was England's most capped player (108) when he retired from the England team in 1973?
Answer: Bobby Moore

Question: What note is in the centre of a standard piano keyboard?
Answer: Middle C

Question: In 1968, which book by Philip K Dick was published that became the basis for the 1982 film "Blade Runner"?
Answer: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Question: Sometimes called the gates of the Arctic the 700 mile long Brooks Range straddles which two countries?
Answer: Canada and the USA

Question: Which issue in the state of Western Australia has been defeated each time it has been put to a plebiscite in 1975, 1984, 1992 & 2009?
Answer: Daylight saving

Question: Who of these is most associated with Fleetwood Mac?
Answer: Stevie Nicks

Question: Who was killed on 4 January 1967 when his jet propelled boat, Bluebird K7, somersaulted and disintegrated on Coniston Water?
Answer: Donald Campbell

Question: In chess, what term is given to the situation where a king is under direct attack and cannot avoid being captured?
Answer: Checkmate

Question: What is the Japanese delicacy that consists of the poisonous puffer fish with the poisonous parts (hopefully) removed?
Answer: Fugu

Question: The federal government of Australia moved to what new, purpose-built, planned, capital city in 1927?
Answer: Canberra

Question: By what name is Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus better known?
Answer: Caligula

Question: What was the nickname of snooker player Ray Riordan?
Answer: Dracula

Question: Which family of 3 painters depicted the life of peasants, paintings in which devils and witches appear, and landscapes?
Answer: Brueghel

Question: What sort of bird is on the Dominican flag?
Answer: Parrot

Question: It originated in the 5th century BCE or earlier as training for the military, could involve up to 200 a game, was fted for both men and women in Persian poetry and art. Which game is it?
Answer: Polo

Question: Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" became a No.1 single on Billboard's country chart and the longest running country chart topper since 1966. What else?
Answer: It is the longest-running No. 1 country song by a female artist