Question: Who was murdered with an ice pick in 1940 by Ramon Mercader?
Answer: Leon Trotsky

Question: Who plays psychiatrist Dr Buddy Rydell in the 2003 film ‘Anger Management’?
Answer: Jack Nicholson

Question: What is the study of lakes and other bodies of freshwater?
Answer: Limnology

Question: What is the medical term for twins who are derived from two separate fertilised eggs, and so are not identical?
Answer: Dizygotic (or dizygous)

Question: Which US President had the nickname ‘Mr Nice Guy’, because of his clean-cut image?
Answer: Gerald Ford

Question: What is the capital of the Yukon Territory in Canada?
Answer: Whitehorse

Question: The European port of Split lies in which body of water?
Answer: Adriatic Sea

Question: In which religion do people worship communally in a Fire Temple?
Answer: Zoroastrianism

Question: What is the young of a bobcat called?
Answer: Kitten

Question: Which English poet was buried upright in London’s Westminster Abbey in 1637?
Answer: Ben Johnson

Question: Which fashion designer re-designed the UK hospital gown in 2010?
Answer: Ben de Lisi

Question: The ‘Canon Shot Rule’ said to be developed in the early 18th Century by Dutch jurist Cornelius van Bynkershoek, ruled that a nation’s territory extended to how many miles out to sea?
Answer: Three miles

Question: In Afrikaans, which city is called Kapstad?
Answer: Cape Town

Question: In the human body, which vitamin helps the blood to clot?
Answer: Vitamin K

Question: The Caloris Basin, a large impact crater, is on which planet in our solar system?
Answer: Mercury

Question: In the NATO phonetic alphabet, the letter ‘Z’ is represented by which word?
Answer: Zulu

Question: ‘Connubial’ relates to which type of relationship?
Answer: Marriage

Question: Indian politician Sonia Gandhi was born in which country in 1946?
Answer: Italy

Question: What is the name of the four-sided spinning top with a Hebrew letter on each side, used by Jews in gambling games, especially at Hanukkah?
Answer: Dreidel (or dreidl)

Question: In which year was the Factory Act passed in Britain, to improve conditions for children working in factories?
Answer: 1833

Question: In 1997, what was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell?
Answer: Dolly the sheep

Question: What is the highest range of the male singing voice?
Answer: Countertenor

Question: Who was the mother of King James l of England?
Answer: Mary Queen of Scots

Question: Which Irish musician released a 1988 album entitled ‘Watermark’?
Answer: Enya

Question: What is the name of the long, loose hooded cloak worn by Arab men?
Answer: Burnous (or burnoose)

Question: What is the name of the spiked metal plate fixed to a boot for climbing on ice or rock?
Answer: Crampon

Question: A pneumonectomy is the removal or part-removal of which part of the human body?
Answer: Lung

Question: Which US President ordered the development of the hydrogen bomb, in response to Russia (USSR) detonating its first atomic bomb?
Answer: Harry S. Truman

Question: Which British designer designed the iPod?
Answer: Jonathan Ive

Question: Saint Apollinia is the patron saint of which medical profession?
Answer: Dentists

Question: The ‘Harvester Judgement’ was a benchmark legal case for ensuring workers in which country were paid a fair basic wage?
Answer: Australia

Question: ‘The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there’, are the opening words to which novel?
Answer: ‘The Go Between’

Question: Which UK children’s tv show, launched in 1968, had a mascot called Murgatroyd?
Answer: Magpie

Question: The Antionette Perry Awards for Excellence are better known by what name?
Answer: Tony Awards

Question: According to the Bible, how many pieces of silver did each of the Philistines offer Delilah to find out where Samson’s strength lay?
Answer: 1100

Question: In which board game do players use a ‘doubling cube’, which has the numbers 2,4,8,16,32,64 on it?
Answer: Backgammon

Question: In paleontology, a coprolite is fossilised what?
Answer: Animal dung

Question: In 2003, which UK retailer won a legal battle to advertise for employees in jobcentres?
Answer: Ann Summers

Question: Haddonfield, Illinois is the setting for which 1978 horror film?
Answer: Halloween

Question: In Britain, the Cabal Ministry was formed during the reign of which monarch?
Answer: King Charles ll

Question: The Seychelle Islands lie in which body of water?
Answer: Indian Ocean

Question: Which jazz pianist, bandleader and composer was backed by the Red Hot Peppers?
Answer: Jelly Roll Morton

Question: Which British luxury liner made her maiden voyage from Southampton in May 1936?
Answer: RMS Queen Mary

Question: What is the name of the principal of Springfield Elementary School in the US tv show ‘The Simpsons’?
Answer: Seymour ‘Spanky’ Skinner

Question: In space, the ‘Big Bang Machine’ is another name for what?
Answer: The Large Hadron Collider

Question: In Greek mythology, who tore his eyes out when he discovered that he had married his mother?
Answer: Oedipus

Question: In which part of the human body is the metacarpus?
Answer: Hand

Question: Which player scored for both sides in the 1981 UK F.A. Cup Final between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City?
Answer: Tommy Hutchinson

Question: Adele Casagrande founded which Italian fashion house in 1925 in Rome?
Answer: Fendi

Question: Who played Will Scarlet in the 1980’s UK tv series ‘Robin of Sherwood’?
Answer: Ray Winstone

Question: In the UK, which item of furniture in the House of Commons at Westminster was originally designed by Augustus Welby Pugin in the 19th Century?
Answer: Speaker’s Chair

Question: What is the name of a brooch or ring with a portrait profile carved in relief?
Answer: Cameo

Question: The epitaph of which Hollywood actress is ‘She did it the hard way’?
Answer: Bette Davis

Question: In the game of scrabble, how many points is the ‘F’ tile worth?
Answer: Four

Question: Which US actress was born Edna Gillooly in 1932?
Answer: Ellen Burstyn

Question: Who played lawyer Andrew Beckett in the 1993 film ‘Philadelphia’?
Answer: Tom Hanks

Question: Chionophobia is an irrational fear of which type of weather condition?
Answer: Snow

Question: What was the name of the first US steam locomotive, built in 1830, to be operated on a common-carrier railroad?
Answer: Tom Thumb

Question: Bukit Timah is the highest point in which Republic of Southeast Asia?
Answer: Singapore

Question: Which country defeated England 1-0 on 29th June in the 1950 FIFA World Cup ?
Answer: Usa

Question: ‘Marianne’ is a national emblem of which European country?
Answer: France

Question: In the novel ‘The Lord of the Rings’, Barliman Butterbur is the proprietor of which inn?
Answer: The Prancing Pony

Question: The Sanremo Music Festival, held in Italy, was the inspiration for which song contest?
Answer: Eurovision Song Contest?

Question: Which US poet wrote the 1864 poem ‘Christmas Day’, after he had received news that his son had been seriously injured fighting in the American Civil War?
Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question: What type of foodstuff is halloumi?
Answer: Cheese

Question: Lord Gnome is purported to be the proprietor of which fortnightly British publication?
Answer: Private Eye

Question: Yorick’s skull appears in which play by William Shakespeare?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: What was the name of the daughter of the Native American chief of the Powhatan Confederacy who married English settler John Rolfe in 1613?
Answer: Pocahontas

Question: What is the name of the private yacht that golfer Tiger Woods gave as a wedding gift to his ex-wife Elin?
Answer: Privacy

Question: Inauguration Day in the US is held during which month of the year?
Answer: January

Question: In Australia, on which side of the road do motorists drive?
Answer: Left

Question: Who played barmaid Michelle Connor in the UK tv soap ‘Coronation Street’?
Answer: Kym Marsh