Question: Who worked on the film scripts for "Barbarella", "Dr Strangelove ", "Easy Rider", "Candy" and "The Magic Christian"?
Answer: Terry Southern

Question: Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the assassination of whom?
Answer: Robert Kennedy

Question: If you were watching a contest in the first century AD and heard the phrase "morituri te salutant" where would you be?
Answer: Watching a Roman staged naval battle

Question: What is "mightier than the sword" in the old saying?
Answer: Pen

Question: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) by Kurt Weill was based on which work?
Answer: The Beggars Opera

Question: What is the capital of Namibia?
Answer: Windhoek

Question: What was the "Haymarket Massacre" in 1886?
Answer: Chicago police fired on striking workers

Question: If the sides of a triangle measure 5, 13 and 12, what is the angle defined by the sides which are 5 and 12?
Answer: 90o

Question: Before 1949, by what name was Thailand known?
Answer: Siam

Question: What caused the sinking of the British ship "The Royal Oak" on the night of 13 and 14 October 1939?
Answer: Torpedos from a submarine

Question: Gwyneth Paltrow played which American poet in a 2003 film?
Answer: Sylvia Plath

Question: Which comic strip has the characters Violet Gray, Linus, Rerun and Lucy van Pelt, Schroeder, Marcie, Franklin and Frieda?
Answer: Charlie Brown

Question: On 24 July 2010 at least 19 people are killed and 100 others injured in a stampede at which music festival in Duisburg, Germany?
Answer: Love Parade

Question: Which constellation, that lies between Taurus to the west and the dim Cancer to the east, with Auriga and Lynx to the north and Monoceros and Canis Minor to the south, is associated with the myth of Castor and Pollux, collectively known as the Dioscuri?
Answer: Gemini

Question: Eye of newt, toe of frog, wool of bat, tongue of dog, lizard's leg, owlet's wing, scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, liver of blaspheming Jew, gall of goat, slips of yew, nose of Turk and Tartar's lips were some of the ingredients for a famous preparation made by whom?
Answer: The Three Witches

Question: The term "checkmate" is based on a phrase from which language?
Answer: Persian

Question: In the SI system, what is the basic unit for the measurement of electric current?
Answer: Ampere

Question: The words of the national anthem for which country were written by Francis Scott Key?
Answer: Usa

Question: What was Merlin's position at the court of King Arthur?
Answer: Wizard

Question: Which set of 19 piano pieces based on folk themes were composed by Franz Liszt between 1846 and 1885 and named after his homeland?
Answer: The Hungarian Rhapsodies

Question: In depictions of the Hindu God Rama, he is famously holding what in his right hand?
Answer: Bow and arrow

Question: Christiaan Huygens has been credited with inventing what in the 1650s?
Answer: Pendulum clock

Question: """Pulmonary"" refers to which organ?"
Answer: Lungs

Question: Gibraltar was ceded to the UK by Spain in 1713 and although now semi-autonomous is still under UK government; it has been a strategic advantage to the UK at a number of times, which is NOT one of these?
Answer: during the Spanish Civil War 1820-23

Question: Who of these is supposedly buried in the town of Santiago de Compostela, in North Western Spain?
Answer: St James

Question: Who is being spoken about with the Shakespearean line "Frailty, thy name is woman"?
Answer: Hamlet's mother

Question: Spinoff TV series from "Beverly Hills, 90210" included "Melrose Place", "90210" and which other?
Answer: Models Inc

Question: Which member of the trio ZZ Top does not have a chest-length beard, only a trimmed mustache?
Answer: Frank Beard (drums and percussion)

Question: The constellation Volpecula means what?
Answer: Little fox

Question: In cricket, what term is used to describe the situation when a batsman is "out" for nought on the third ball they face?
Answer: Bronze duck

Question: Which organisation was involved in a scandal in the 1980s, concerning the 1982 $3.5 billion collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, has been the subject of a US government report which accused it of funding the Solidarity Polish trade-union and the Contras, and managing US covert funds, was reported in 2009 of being investigated for money laundering transactions worth 180 million (US$ 218 million) and in September 2010 came under investigation for other money laundering charges?
Answer: The Institute for Works of Religion

Question: Who won the Tour de France every year from 1991 to 1995?
Answer: Miguel Indurain

Question: Macadamia is a type of what?
Answer: Nut

Question: """He's got this dream about buyin' some land. He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands. And then he'll settle down, there's a quiet little town, and forget about everything"" is a line from which hit song of the 1970s?"
Answer: Baker Street

Question: What is the most populous city in Africa?
Answer: Cairo

Question: Whose followers rose in 1745, taking Edinburgh and defeating the government army in Scotland at the Battle of Prestonpans, marched into England as far as Derby but were defeated by the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746?
Answer: Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie)

Question: Who, after a distinguished cricketing career, in his last ever test match innings was bowled out for a duck by Eric Hollies?
Answer: Don Bradman

Question: What does "tour de force" mean?
Answer: An exceptional creative achievement

Question: Who is associated with the phrase "history is bunk"?
Answer: Henry Ford

Question: Who played the title role in the 1975 film "The Man Who Fell to Earth"?
Answer: David Bowie

Question: As at October 2011, ice covers about what percentage of the world's land surface?
Answer: 10

Question: In which famous piece of music by Tchaikovsky does the French national anthem appear?
Answer: 1812 Overture

Question: Who wrote the music for the ballet "Swan Lake"?
Answer: Tchaikovsky

Question: What is a specific learning disability involving innate difficulty in learning or comprehending mathematics, similar to dyslexia?
Answer: Dyscalculia

Question: The early kings of Scotland are buried on which island?
Answer: Iona

Question: What is the name of the British annual pop music awards, that are held in February each year?
Answer: The Brit Awards

Question: What region lies mainly in the Dinaric Alps, ranging to the southern borders of the Pannonian plain, with the rivers Sava and Drina marking its northern and eastern borders?
Answer: Bosnia

Question: What is the literal translation of the Russian word "Kremlin"?
Answer: Fortress

Question: What was the subtitle of the 1904 play "Peter Pan" by J M Barrie?
Answer: The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up

Question: Before 2012 when was the most recent time the Summer Olympics were held in London, UK?
Answer: 1948

Question: Which playwright wrote the plays that won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1963 & 2002 and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967, 1975 & 1994, and gained nominations for Tony Award for Best Play in 1964, 1965, 1967 & 1975, Tony Award for Best Author of a Play in 1965, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001 & 2003 and a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play in 2005?
Answer: Edward Albee

Question: How many players per side are allowed on the field in a game of rugby league?
Answer: 13

Question: The French and what other nation sent colonists to New Zealand in the 1830s?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: What TV series contained the frequent line "Let's be careful out there"?
Answer: Hill Street Blues

Question: What is the name of the test cricket venue in Leeds, England?
Answer: Headingley

Question: How many US states do not border another US state?
Answer: 2

Question: Francis Drake captained the ship "Revenge" during naval engagements concerning what?
Answer: The Spanish Armada