Question: The first European landfall was made on the continent of Australia by Willem Janszoon in what year?
Answer: 1606

Question: What was the first product advertised on British TV?
Answer: Toothpaste

Question: What international news TV network is based in Doha, Qatar?
Answer: Al Jazeera

Question: In nursery rhymes, Tommy Tucker and Jack Horner are both referred to as what?
Answer: Little

Question: What is the name of the line of latitude that is approximately 23 degrees 30 minutes North?
Answer: Tropic of Cancer

Question: Who appeared on the first postage stamp?
Answer: Victoria

Question: In what field is "The Meisner Technique" used?
Answer: Acting

Question: What is the name of Bill and Hilary Clinton's daughter?
Answer: Chelsea

Question: The 2006 film "A Cock and Bull Story" was about an attempt to film what book?
Answer: Tristram Shandy

Question: What was the first public library in Europe?
Answer: The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford

Question: Since 2003, the symbol of the Paralympic Games is composed of three symbols of movement in the shape of an asymmetrical crescent. What colours are the symbols?
Answer: Red, blue & green

Question: What is the meaning in English of the French word "clair"?
Answer: Lightning

Question: What was the original title of "The Goon Show"?
Answer: Crazy People

Question: A "Henry" is a basic SI unit of what?
Answer: Inductance

Question: Charente, France, is famous for its production of what?
Answer: Slippers

Question: There were two events called "The Siege of Sevastopol". One of them took place in which war?
Answer: Crimean War

Question: The Celtics are a professional basketball team based where?
Answer: Boston

Question: In October 2009 a diplomatic incident arose between Albania, India and Macedonia about whether whose remains should be disinterred and where they should be reburied?
Answer: Mother Teresa

Question: Which Roman emperor was nicknamed "Little Greek"?
Answer: Hadrian

Question: What are found in only two places in Africa: on Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Kenya?
Answer: Glaciers

Question: What country would you be in if you were where the Yukon River empties into the Bering Sea?
Answer: Usa

Question: The nectarine, which has a smooth, fuzzless skin, is a type of what?
Answer: Peach

Question: Harrison Ford was working as what before his first big break as a film actor?
Answer: Carpenter

Question: What principal Dickens character wears a wedding dress throughout her appearance in the novel?
Answer: Miss Havisham

Question: Who boxed briefly and unsuccessfully under the name Packy East, once making it to the semifinals of the Ohio novice championship?
Answer: Bob Hope

Question: Which army besieged Paris from 18 September 1870 for 4 months?
Answer: Prussian

Question: The lumbar region of the human body contains how many vertebrae?
Answer: 5

Question: In the Bible, whose return heralded the killing of "the fatted calf"?
Answer: The prodigal son

Question: From medieval times in Germany, what is the literal translation of "junkers", a term still in use today?
Answer: Young aristocrats

Question: What animal is native to Russia, the USA (especially Alaska), Canada, the Carpathian region (especially Romania), and Finland, where it is the national animal?
Answer: Brown bear

Question: In Greek mythology, who is the son of Chaos and the god of darkness?
Answer: Erebus

Question: Who is the natural father of Fifi Trixibelle (born in 1983), Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa (1989), Little Pixie (1990) and the adoptive father of Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily (1996)?
Answer: Bob Geldof

Question: """Superbad. Superdad."" was the tagline for which 2010 film?"
Answer: Despicable Me

Question: What is the science involved with the study, design, and manufacture of flight-capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft?
Answer: Aeronautics

Question: What is a traditional dance of Hawaii?
Answer: Hula

Question: When does a biannual event occur?
Answer: Twice a year

Question: Gregor Johann Mendel, a 19th Century Augustinian priest and scientist, gained posthumous fame as the figurehead of which new science for his study of pea plants?
Answer: Genetics

Question: Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was the first US-born citizen of the USA to what?
Answer: Be made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church

Question: Sheep are aged by their teeth and are referred to by the number of permanent incisors that have erupted. About how old is a "two-tooth"?
Answer: 1 to 1.5 years

Question: What is a word for the heart liver and lungs of a slaughtered animal?
Answer: Pluck

Question: The pineapple express is a Pacific jetstream that runs from Hawaii to where?
Answer: West coast of the USA

Question: What is the name for the negative pressure generator invented by Robert Henderson and used extensively by Phillip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw?
Answer: Iron lung

Question: Who made the statue "Alison Lapper Pregnant" that was erected in Trafalgar Square, London, between September 2005 and October 2007?
Answer: Marc Quinn

Question: What London landmark has served as the Royal Mint, the Public Records Office, a royal menagerie, a residence and a prison?
Answer: Tower of London

Question: What word's original meaning was "to remove every tenth one"?
Answer: Decimate

Question: Which New York nightclub manager, who appeared on a cover of the New York Post holding a picture of her fianc who was killed in the September 11 attacks, was alleged by The National Enquirer in 2009 to have had an affair with Tiger Woods?
Answer: Rachel Uchitel

Question: On 10 May 1775, during the American Revolutionary War, a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame and looted Fort Ticonderoga, a small British garrison, and took away cannons and other armaments to fortify which city that was under siege?
Answer: Boston

Question: What was the occupation of Jules Leotard who popularised one-piece gymwear in the 19th century?
Answer: Trapeze artist

Question: What is measured using the Rankine scale?
Answer: Temperature

Question: How many members are there in the French lower house, the National Assembly?
Answer: 577

Question: The first European scientific observation of a transit of Venus (when Venus passes between the Sun and Earth, and can be seen as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun) was made by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree in England in what year?
Answer: 1639

Question: What does the word "Kendo", a modern Japanese martial art, mean?
Answer: Way of the Sword

Question: The Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus, a street theatre troupe that toured the USA between 1971 and 1993 as the self-described "world's smallest circus" was a ministry of what religious order?
Answer: Jesuits

Question: What was invented by Alessandro Volta in 1800?
Answer: Battery

Question: What is the capital of the US state of Idaho?
Answer: Boise

Question: A Soviet film adaptation of which Shakespearean play, directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with black-and-white photography, a score by Shostakovich and a script based on a translation by Boris Pasternak, was made by Mosfilm in 1971?
Answer: King Lear

Question: What is an item designed to protect from the sun?
Answer: Parasol

Question: In November 1938, while attempting to obtain a respiratory and circulatory stimulant (an analeptic), Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann became what?
Answer: The "inventor" of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)

Question: What military unit was established in 1831 so that foreign nationals could serve in a nation's Army?
Answer: The French Foreign Legion

Question: In May 2010, David Byrne, the former lead singer of 1980s band "Talking Heads", began a lawsuit claiming $1 million in damages against Florida governor Charlie Crist over the use of which song in an election commercial?
Answer: Road to Nowhere