Question: What does the Latin phrase ‘Hic et nunc’ translate to in English?
Answer: Here and now

Question: What is the name of Alan Alda’s character in the US tv series M*A*S*H?
Answer: Hawkeye Pierce

Question: Irish actress Mrs Dorothea Jordan was the mistress of which British monarch?
Answer: William IV

Question: Which female singer starred as Astrid Peth in the 2007 ‘Dr Who’ Christmas special?
Answer: Kylie Minogue

Question: During which year was Mary, Queen of Scots, executed?
Answer: 1587

Question: What was the basic currency of Greece before the Euro?
Answer: Drachma

Question: Which writer invented the fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: What is the name of the short-sleeved midriff-baring bodice worn under a sari?
Answer: Choli

Question: What is the name of Earl’s band in the US tv series ‘My Name Is Earl’?
Answer: Van Hickey

Question: Which actress married Prince Ranier III of Monaco in 1956?
Answer: Grace Kelly

Question: What is the emblem of Canada?
Answer: Maple Leaf

Question: Which professional golfer is known as ‘The Big Easy’?
Answer: Ernie Els

Question: In which two US states does Monument Valley lie?
Answer: Arizona and Utah

Question: Who directed the 2002 film ‘Minority Report’, which is set primarily in the year 2054?
Answer: Steven Spielberg

Question: What is the first bird mentioned in the Bible?
Answer: Raven

Question: Lake Tuz is in which European country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: The Corbillon Cup is played for by women in which sport?
Answer: Table tennis

Question: In the UK, ‘The Trial of the …’what’, is the procedure for ensuring that newly minted coins conform to required standards?
Answer: Pyx

Question: Peladophobia is the morbid fear of what in people?
Answer: Baldness/bald people

Question: English monarch King John, who died in 1216, was the youngest son of which king?
Answer: Henry II

Question: John Patrick ‘Jack’ Ryan is a fictional character who appears in many novels by which author?
Answer: Tom Clancy

Question: Who wrote the opera ‘The Barber of Seville’?
Answer: Gioachino Rossini

Question: Which late actress played Elsie Tanner in the UK tv soap ‘Coronation Street’?
Answer: Patricia Phoenix

Question: Digambara and Svetambara are the two major sects in which religion?
Answer: Jainism

Question: Illusionist Ehrich Weiss was better known by what name?
Answer: Harry Houdini

Question: In which country was the ancient city of Ecbatana?
Answer: Iran

Question: What type of creature is a crappie?
Answer: Fish

Question: What was the name of the British submarine which collided with a Swedish oil tanker in the Thames estuary in 1950, killing over 60 people?
Answer: HMS Truculent

Question: Columbus Day is celebrated in Chile during which month of the year?
Answer: October

Question: What is the name of the headquarters of the US Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia?
Answer: The Pentagon

Question: The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of government in the history of which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Robert Timothy French created which type of condiment, which debuted at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904?
Answer: Mustard

Question: In religion, who is said to be the maternal grandmother of Jesus?
Answer: Saint Anne

Question: Which two of English monarch Henry VIII’s wives were executed for adultery?
Answer: Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard

Question: In Greek mythology, musician and poet Arion was kidnapped by pirates and saved by which creatures?
Answer: Dolphins

Question: Who became the youngest World Heavyweight Boxing Champion in 1956?
Answer: Floyd Patterson

Question: In humans, dipsosis is an excessive what?
Answer: Thirst

Question: What is the title of the 1984 film in which Bob Hoskins plays the owner of a club where Richard Gere plays the cornet?
Answer: The Cotton Club

Question: Which British comedian was known as ‘The Cheeky Chappie’?
Answer: Max Miller

Question: Portugal shares a land border with which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: Which US organisation has the motto ‘Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity’?
Answer: Fbi

Question: In Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ who does Beatrice agree to marry in the end?
Answer: Benedick

Question: What is the head of a jellyfish called?
Answer: The bell

Question: Which element is added to steel to make it stainless?
Answer: Chromium

Question: Which is the smallest instrument in the flute family?
Answer: Piccolo

Question: In religion, who traditionally sits on the Sedia Gestatoria?
Answer: The Pope

Question: In June 1940, who was officially recognised by Britain as the ‘Leader of all free Frenchmen, wherever they may be’?
Answer: General Charles de Gaulle

Question: What is composer Offenbach’s ‘Galop Infernal’ better known as?
Answer: The Can Can

Question: What is the eighth sign of the Zodiac?
Answer: Scorpio

Question: Which spirit is traditionally used to make the cocktail Mint Julep?
Answer: Bourbon whiskey

Question: Which explosive is named after a suburb of Pardubice in the Czech Republic, where it was first manufactured in 1964?
Answer: Semtex (SEMTin and EXplosive)

Question: Who was the last English monarch to enter the House of Commons?
Answer: Charles I

Question: Which two creatures are supporting the shield on the Australian coat of arms?
Answer: Kangaroo and emu

Question: Which US First Lady had an English Springer Spaniel called Millie?
Answer: Barbara Bush

Question: Pumpernickel is what type of foodstuff?
Answer: Bread

Question: The border between which two European countries re-opened to pedestrians in 1982 after 13 years?
Answer: Spain and Gibraltar

Question: Who was the first presenter of UK tv’s ‘National Lottery Live’ on 19th November 1994?
Answer: Noel Edmonds

Question: In medicine, Hansen’s Disease is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: Leprosy

Question: Woodford Airport is in which English city?
Answer: Manchester

Question: Which athlete became ‘The world’s fastest man’ at the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
Answer: Usain Bolt

Question: On which part of the body would a terai be worn?
Answer: Head

Question: Disney’s Magic Kingdom, near Orlando, Florida, opened in which year?
Answer: 1971

Question: Beamer, Flipper and Rabbit are terms used in which sport?
Answer: Cricket

Question: In May 1938, which South American country withdrew from the League of Nations?
Answer: Chile

Question: What is the cube root of 64?
Answer: 4

Question: The islands of Falster and Bornholm are part of which European country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Who wrote the children’s poem ‘How the Leopard Got His Spots’?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question: In which year did British monarch Queen Elizabeth II first pay Income Tax?
Answer: 1993

Question: Which American boxer was known as ‘The Manassa Mauler’?
Answer: Jack Dempsey

Question: Who directed the 1988 film ‘The Adventures of Baron Munchausen’?
Answer: Terry Gilliam

Question: Which island in the Ionian Sea has the Greek name Kerkira?
Answer: Corfu

Question: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain all died at what age?
Answer: 27

Question: What is the world’s oldest currency still in use?
Answer: Pound sterling

Question: Who created the comic strip ‘Blondie’, published in newspapers since 1930?
Answer: Chic Young

Question: In the game of Scrabble, how many points is a ‘D’ tile worth?
Answer: Two

Question: Who wrote the 1936 novel ‘Jamaica Inn’?
Answer: Daphne du Maurier

Question: What number is the title of singer Beyonceâs album, released in June 2011?
Answer: 4

Question: What number Downing Street is the official residence of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Answer: 0151

Question: What is the area dialling code for Liverpool, England?
Answer: 0151

Question: What is the sum, in degrees, of the angles in a triangle?
Answer: 180

Question: How many Wimbledon singles titles did US tennis player Billie Jean King win?
Answer: 6