Question: Which mountain chain runs down the centre of South America?
Answer: Andes

Question: Miso soup originated in which country?
Answer: Japan

Question: Where does Harry Potter have a scar in the shape of a bolt of lightning?
Answer: On his forehead

Question: Which make of car has won the most 24 Hour races at Le Mans?
Answer: Porsche

Question: In 1934, English inventor and businessman Percy Shaw patented and then set up a company to manufacture what invention?
Answer: The reflective road stud ("cat's eye")

Question: How many states of the USA have the words North, South, East or West in their name?
Answer: 5

Question: What festival is known as Yom Kippur?
Answer: Day of Atonement

Question: Until and including the birth of her twins in July 2008, how many children, including adopted children, did Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have?
Answer: 6

Question: What is the richest horse race in Europe?
Answer: Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

Question: What colour is pure sulphur?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Since the late 1930s, what date has been reserved for the inauguration of a President of the USA?
Answer: 20 January

Question: Who won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen"?
Answer: Helen Mirren

Question: In the southern hemisphere, when does the winter solstice occur?
Answer: June

Question: What is the closest relation that your father's sister's sister in law can be to you?
Answer: Mother

Question: The USA purchased Alaska in 1867 from which country?
Answer: Russia

Question: According to the song, where did Molly Malone "wheel her wheelbarrow"?
Answer: Dublin

Question: Who was the British sugar merchant who donated his collection of 65 paintings to the nation in 1892, together with cash to provide a building to house them?
Answer: Sir Henry Tate

Question: Film actor Mel Gibson was born in which country?
Answer: Usa

Question: How many three minute rounds are there in a boxing match at the Olympic Games?
Answer: 3

Question: After leading a rebel army for 20 years, Ahmed Sukarno was elected the first president of which country after it was granted independence in 1949?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: The Tri Nations Championship played between South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, is in what sport?
Answer: Rugby union

Question: What was the stage name of Jean Franois Gravelet, a French acrobat who crossed Niagara Falls in 1859 on a tightrope 160 feet above the water?
Answer: Charles Blondin

Question: Which 19th century French artist is best known for his illustrations for the "Bible", "Paradise Lost", Dante's "Inferno", "Don Quixote" and the works of Rabelais and Balzac?
Answer: Gustave Dor

Question: What is the name of the three bones that make up a human finger?
Answer: Phalanges

Question: Why did Aeroflot Flight 593, a "Russian Airlines" Airbus A310 passenger airliner, crash into a hillside in Kemerovo Oblast on 23 March 1994, killing all 75 passengers and crew?
Answer: A 15-year-old boy was at the controls

Question: What name is given to a 25th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Silver

Question: In which general direction would you sail from New York to London?
Answer: East

Question: The Boer War was fought in which country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: What is the common name for a lepidoptera pupa and its silky cocoon?
Answer: Chrysalis

Question: What is the name of the French National Theatre, established in 1680?
Answer: Comdie Franaise

Question: Hudson Bay is a large inland sea in which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: What name was given to 6 labourers in Dorset, England, who formed a "Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers" and in 1834 were sentenced to 7 years transportation for "administering unlawful oaths"?
Answer: The Tolpuddle Martyrs

Question: What was a negative term US Southerners gave to Northerner speculators in the South soon after the Civil War?
Answer: Carpetbaggers

Question: What attaches muscles to bone?
Answer: Tendons

Question: Why did Washington cross the Delaware to Trenton on the night of 25 December 1776?
Answer: To attack British troops

Question: Which African city has the largest population?
Answer: Lagos

Question: Which animal appears in the opening credits of the British TV series "Coronation Street"?
Answer: Cat

Question: Which Swiss theologian, philosopher, author, organist and medical missionary won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1952?
Answer: Albert Schweitzer

Question: Cleopatra is reputed to have killed herself because of the death of whom?
Answer: Mark Antony

Question: Which song contains the line "You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life"?
Answer: Dancing Queen

Question: Death Valley is in which state of the USA?
Answer: California

Question: Who holds the record for being the world heavyweight boxing champion at 11 years 8 months and 9 days?.
Answer: Joe Louis

Question: What is the name for 40 foot (12 meters) high round forts, designed to accommodate a small garrison with cannon, constructed on the English coast and the Channel Islands at the time of threatened invasion by Napoleon?
Answer: Martello Towers

Question: Most of Yellowstone National Park is in which state?
Answer: Wyoming

Question: A US senator is elected for term of how many years?
Answer: 6

Question: The Superclsico is contested between Boca Juniors and River Plate in Buenos Aires, in what sport?
Answer: Soccer

Question: In September 2009, it was rumoured that which 5 foot 5 inch (1.65 m) politician ensured that people who stood around him when he was on television were no taller than him?
Answer: French President Nicolas Sarkozy

Question: What is the name of the small village near Calcutta where the first hollow-nosed rifle bullets were made?
Answer: Dum-dum

Question: What is the first name of the British fashion designer Westwood?
Answer: Vivienne

Question: What is the basis for a pina colada?
Answer: Rum

Question: Of the 37 venues used to host events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, how many new ones were constructed for use at the Games?
Answer: 12

Question: What does the The River Ganges empty into?
Answer: Bay of Bengal

Question: By the time his Olympic career ended in 1960, who had won more Olympic medals than any other fencer?
Answer: Edoardo Mangiarotti

Question: Who wrote the tale "The Princess and the Pea"?
Answer: Hans Christian Andersen

Question: The Giant's Causeway is a rock formation found where?
Answer: Northern Ireland

Question: The Czechoslovakian composer Anton Dvork was most proficient in which instrument?
Answer: Violin

Question: What name is given to the period of British history between 1901 and 1910?
Answer: Edwardian

Question: Which of the Great Lakes is the furthest east?
Answer: Ontario

Question: In April 2009 citizens of the Swiss canton of Appenzell Inner Rhodes in the Alps voted overwhelmingly to pass legislation banning what?
Answer: Naked hiking

Question: Which Saint's Day is 1 March?
Answer: St David

Question: Which international soccer team plays in shirts with blue and white vertical stripes?
Answer: Argentina

Question: What is the oldest city of European origin, established in 1565 by Pedro Menedesto, that still exists in what is now the USA?
Answer: St Augustine, Florida

Question: A peace camp was established at which RAF base in Berkshire, England from 1981 to 2000 to protest at nuclear weapons being sited there?
Answer: Greenham Common

Question: What is used to find the pitch of a note?
Answer: Tuning fork

Question: What is the relationship between Ukrainians Vitali Klitschko and Wladimir Klitschko, who have dominated the IBF, WBO, WBC and IBO world heavyweight championships since 1999?
Answer: Brothers

Question: Chicago is known as what?
Answer: The Windy City

Question: Who is the mother of Pax, Knox, Vivienne, Zahara, Shiloh and Maddox?
Answer: Angelina Jolie

Question: Which team won the inaugural tournament for the FIFA World Cup (Soccer) in 1930?
Answer: Uruguay