Question: Which mountain range would you come across first if you went due East from San Jose, California?
Answer: Rockies

Question: What was the first French settlement in North America?
Answer: Port Royal

Question: In the film "Basic Instinct" (1992) Detective Nick Curran and Catherine Tramell were played by which actors?
Answer: Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone

Question: Which music magazine edited by Geoff Barton, first published in 1981 as a one-off supplement to "Sounds" newspaper, was devoted to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and the rise of other hard rock acts such as AC/DC, who appeared on its first cover?
Answer: Kerrang!

Question: Which car company badge includes the City of Milan's emblem and that of the Visconti family in a circular motif, bordered by a dark blue metallic ring containing inscriptions, separated by two Savoy dynasty knots to honour the Kingdom of Italy?
Answer: Alfa Romeo

Question: Which African country is the largest in area?
Answer: Algeria

Question: Of the 8 Summer Olympics between 1896 and 1952 inclusive, how many were held outside of Europe?
Answer: 2

Question: Who was Christianity's first openly gay bishop in a major Christian denomination believing in the historic episcopate?
Answer: Gene Robinson, New Hampshire

Question: Which song, in the best known translation, contains the words "Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear, And he shows them pearly white, Just a jack-knife has Macheath dear, And he keeps it out of sight"?
Answer: Mack the Knife

Question: After Sir William Herschel observed Uranus on 13 March 1781 while in the garden of his house in Bath, England, he reported it as a what?
Answer: Comet

Question: What sport will be played at Horse Guard's Parade when London hosts the 2012 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: Beach volleyball

Question: If someone is dismissed from employment, what are they said to have been?
Answer: Fired

Question: The "Don't Make a Wave Committee" founded in the early 1970s by Jim & Marie Bohlen, Irving & Dorothy Stowe, Paul Cote and Robert & Bobbi Hunter grew into what organisation?
Answer: Greenpeace

Question: What equipment puts an object in rotation around a fixed axis, applying a force perpendicular to the axis, and uses the sedimentation principle to cause heavier particles to move out along the radius?
Answer: Centrifuge

Question: Ouagadougou is the capital of which country?
Answer: Burkina Faso

Question: What was the name of the Ewing ranch in the TV series "Dallas"?
Answer: Southfork

Question: When Charles I was beheaded, and contrary to custom, the words "Behold the head of a traitor!" were not said when his head was held up and exhibited to the crowd. Revolutionary leader Oliver Cromwell ordered what else to occur that was unusual after such a beheading?
Answer: The head to be sewn back onto the body

Question: Where in Britain is "The Millennium Stadium"?
Answer: Cardiff

Question: What was the name of NASA spacecraft that were metallised balloon satellites acting as a passive reflector of microwave signals, the first successful launch of which was on 12 August 1960?
Answer: Echo

Question: Burning methane in the presence of oxygen produces water and what gas?
Answer: Carbon dioxide

Question: Who painted two versions of "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" in 1890?
Answer: Vincent van Gogh

Question: Who was the only Chinese track and field athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in Atlanta in 1996 (for the 5,000m)?
Answer: Wang Junxia

Question: The Latin phrase "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" from Virgil's Aeneid is often translated into English as what?
Answer: Do not trust Greeks bearing gifts

Question: In the early 19th century, who began classifying minerals by their physical characteristics and not, as had been done traditionally, by their chemical composition?
Answer: Friedrich Mohs

Question: On 12 June 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected as president of which country?
Answer: Iran

Question: Whose autobiography was called "Unreliable Memoirs"?
Answer: Clive James

Question: When Winston Churchill wrote "Before this, we had no victory and after it we had no defeats", which event was he talking about?
Answer: The Second Battle of El Alamein

Question: In 2009, which was the most dominant women's softball team, having won three of the last four Olympic tournaments and the last six Women's ISF XI World Championships?
Answer: United States

Question: Where did the University of Paris called "La Sorbonne" get its name from?
Answer: Its founder

Question: Which sportsman appeared in the James Bond film "Octopussy" with Roger Moore?
Answer: Vijay Amritraj

Question: Which 1959 film, directed by Franois Truffaut with music by Jean Constatin, was the story of a 13 year old Parisian (played by Jean-Pierre Leaud) falling into delinquency?
Answer: The 400 Blows

Question: In musical notation, what word means "higher in pitch by a semitone"?
Answer: Sharp

Question: What number do you get if you add all of the 7 Roman numerals?
Answer: 1,666

Question: In 1937 the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Simpson were married in which country?
Answer: France

Question: On which continent would you find the mountain chains called Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Occidental?
Answer: South America

Question: Which English all-female pop trio based in London, consisting of Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah and Jade Ewen, was formed in 1998 by original members Siobhn Donaghy, Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan?
Answer: Sugababes

Question: What does the phrase "In loco parentis" mean?
Answer: Temporarily  in charge of a child

Question: In the UK, until what date was a person not able to give evidence in the trial of their spouse?
Answer: 1898

Question: What sign of the zodiac is represented by a crab?
Answer: Cancer

Question: Who won a Best Actor Oscar for the 1996 film "Shine"?
Answer: Geoffrey Rush

Question: What scale, developed by Terence Meaden as an extension of the Beaufort scale, measures tornado intensity between T0 and T11?
Answer: TORRO scale

Question: What was the name given to Jiang Qing (Mao Zedong's ex-wife), Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen, Chinese Communist Party officials who were prominent during the Cultural Revolution and were arrested in 1976, charged with treason?
Answer: The Gang of Four

Question: Until September 2004, how many members were there in the French upper house, the Senate?
Answer: 321

Question: Early in 2010 which telescope was used to discover 5 new planets and 2 objects circling stars that were too hot to be planets and too small to be stars?
Answer: Kepler Telescope

Question: At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Lee Chang-hwan of Korea broke the Olympic Record with a score of 117 points (though he didn't win a medal for it) in what sport?
Answer: Archery

Question: In the TV series, what was Blackadder's first name?
Answer: Edmund

Question: The fact that hot water freezes more quickly than cold water is known as what?
Answer: The Mpemba effect

Question: Who, an ironmonger by trade, created the first practical steam engine to pump water from mineshafts?
Answer: Thomas Newcomen

Question: What is Canada's national day ("Canada Day")?
Answer: 1 July

Question: What name was popularly given to the murder of Maria Marten in Polstead, England in 1827 by her lover, which inspired 5 films and songs such as those by the Albion Country Band (1971), Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan on the album "Bone Machine" (1992), and Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman on the album "2" (2004)?
Answer: The Red Barn Murder

Question: What is the name for a badger's nest?
Answer: Sett

Question: In golf, what is the term for "one stroke over par"?
Answer: Bogey

Question: Where is the Sea of Tranquility?
Answer: On the Moon

Question: In the Gospel of Nicodemus, what were the names of the two people were crucified alongside Jesus?
Answer: Dismas and Gestas

Question: Who was the last English king to be executed?
Answer: Charles I