Question: In medicine, which suffix denotes the surgical removal of something, usually from inside the body?
Answer: -ectomy

Question: What 1918 Act of the US Congress forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the US government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the US government or its institutions with contempt, and allowed the Postmaster General to refuse to deliver mail that met those criteria?
Answer: The Sedition Act

Question: What weapon is traditionally held in a quiver?
Answer: Arrow

Question: What private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, was founded as a women's college in 1861, and became coeducational in 1969?
Answer: Vassar

Question: At the 1st World Rowing Championships held at Lucerne in 1962, the International Federation of Rowing Associations did not recognise countries with similar names. Selection trials from 2 countries were held the day before the championships. Which "country" was this?
Answer: Germany

Question: In the words of the 1941 song popularised by Glenn Miller and his band, about when does the Chattanooga Choo Choo leave Pennsylavania Station?
Answer: A quarter to four

Question: What is the stage name of Robin Hannah Louise Kenny, who was born on 7 January, 1983?
Answer: Rhianna

Question: Where was the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting held in the year 2000?
Answer: Brunei

Question: What did Ellen MacArthur achieve with "B&Q;/Castorama" on 7 February 2005?
Answer: Broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe

Question: What becomes less dense as it soldifies?
Answer: Water

Question: What word is used to describe a grotesque stone carving with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building?
Answer: Gargoyle

Question: In England, what are Lloyds, Barclays, Westminster, Midland and National Provincial?
Answer: Banks

Question: In Turkey, what is "Galatasaray Spor Kulb"?
Answer: A soccer club

Question: Robert and James Adam are associated with which field?
Answer: Architecture

Question: What was the middle name of Nol Coward?
Answer: Peirce

Question: In 1858, why did Paul Broca name 5 skeletons "Cromagnon Man"?
Answer: They were found in the Cromagnon grotto

Question: The Cyclops computer system, conceived by British inventor Bill Carlton, was first used in international competition in 1980 for which sport?
Answer: Tennis

Question: What was a Roman road from York to Scotland near the Firth of Forth?
Answer: Dere Street

Question: What is the name for the study of light and the principles underlying light and vision?
Answer: Optics

Question: The killing of 58-year-old Robert Krentz and his dog, shot on 27 March 2010 on his ranch roughly 19 miles (31 km) from the Mexican border, led to increased public support for a bill to combat illegal immigration in which US State?
Answer: Arizona

Question: In which decade was George Washington born?
Answer: 1730s

Question: Who played eventual winners Atltico Madrid in the final of the 2010 UEFA Europa League soccer competition?
Answer: Fulham

Question: What term is used to describe the layers of smells and aromas perceived in an aged wine?
Answer: Bouquet

Question: The UK TV series "Doctor in the House", based on books by Richard Gordon, was set in which hospital?
Answer: St Swithin's

Question: Who is the next in this series: Julie Stevens, Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson ... ?
Answer: Joanna Lumley

Question: The World Surfing Champion title is awarded annually to the best competition surfer for the year, based on points earned for placings at which events?
Answer: ASP World Tour

Question: The standard tuning of which instrument is one octave higher than a cello?
Answer: Viola

Question: Which legendary couple are said to be buried at Glastonbury, Somerset, England?
Answer: Arthur and Guinevere

Question: Where did the car manufacturer Fiat originate?
Answer: Italy

Question: Which instrument, with a range of around 4 octaves, has its lowest string tuned to G below middle C, with the others tuned in fifths?
Answer: Violin

Question: Formula One world champions James Hunt, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button are all from which country?
Answer: United Kingdom

Question: Badfinger, Black Dyke Band, Elephant's Memory, Grapefruit, Mary Hopkin, Jackie Lomax, Modern Jazz Quartet, Radha Krsna Temple, Ravi Shankar, Ronnie Spector, James Taylor and White Trash have all recorded for what label?
Answer: Apple

Question: Which US TV programme is broadcast regularly from the Ed Sullivan Theatre?
Answer: The Late Show with David Letterman

Question: The main religion in Nepal is a style of what?
Answer: Hinduism

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, what did little Jack Horner pull out of his Christmas pie?
Answer: Plum

Question: What is the most populous city in Canada, the provincial capital of Ontario, which is on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario?
Answer: Toronto

Question: According to tradition, elephants have good what?
Answer: Memories

Question: In which country were elections planned for 1991 were stopped by the military (leading to Civil War), were held in 1995, and, in 1999, after a series of short-term military leaders, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected president?
Answer: Algeria

Question: What branch of biology, dating from the discovery of blood corpuscles by Marcello Malpighi in 1661, classifies and descibes the development of the forms of living organisms?
Answer: Histology

Question: King George III signed The Instrument of Foundation on 10 December 1768 for (and made large grants from his private funds to) which independent, privately funded institution?
Answer: The Royal Academy of Arts

Question: Which poisonous compound can be a gas, solid or liquid, the most infamous application of which was use by the Nazi regime in Germany for mass murder in some gas chambers during the Holocaust?
Answer: Cyanide

Question: In what year did Canada win a gold medal for the first time at an Olympic Games that they hosted?
Answer: 2010

Question: What is the difference between the sum of the prime numbers between 0 and 10 and the product of those numbers?
Answer: 193

Question: What is the country of origin of the cheese called "Monterey Jack"?
Answer: Usa

Question: In what year was the Married Womens Property Act passed into British law, that recognised husband and wife as separate legal entities, and gave married women the legal right to sue and be sued, be liable for their own debts, hold stock in their own names and to own, buy and sell separate property?
Answer: 1882

Question: Artists Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Frederic Edwin Church, Jane Frank and Thomas Cole painted in what style?
Answer: Landscape

Question: What sport was part of the Olympic Games programme between 1896 and 1924, and returned as a full medal sport at the 1988 Olympics?
Answer: Tennis

Question: John Boyd Dunlop was associated with the development of what item?
Answer: Pneumatic tyre

Question: Marie Curie, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911), was born where?
Answer: Warsaw, Poland

Question: What are the first words of the US Declaration of Independence?
Answer: When in the course of human events ...

Question: Which ancient belief about the third finger of the left hand is the reason why engagement and wedding rings are worn on it in many countries?
Answer: It contains the vena amoris ("vein of love")

Question: Which wonder of the ancient world was at Olympia?
Answer: Statue of Zeus

Question: Which professional boxer from the USA, a multiple world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions between 1986 and 2001, was nicknamed "The Real Deal"?
Answer: Evander Holyfield

Question: The British version of the TV series "The Office", is set where?
Answer: Slough