Question: Who is the only All Black (New Zealand rugby) captain to have been inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame?
Answer: Wilson Whineray

Question: The Tagus River runs through which capital city?
Answer: Lisbon

Question: Pingping, who died aged 21 in March 2010, was reputed to be what?
Answer: The world's shortest man

Question: How many months are there in a decade?
Answer: 120

Question: What sport is featured in "The Defense", a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1930?
Answer: Chess

Question: Henry VIII married Anne of Cleves after seeing a (presumably, too) flattering portrait of her by whom?
Answer: Hans Holbein

Question: In which year did the South African government lift the ban on the African National Congress, the Pan Africanist Congress, the South African Communist Party and the United Democratic Front, and release Nelson Mandela from prison?
Answer: 1990

Question: Which group had a 1989 hit with "The Living Years"?
Answer: Mike and the Mechanics

Question: Which comic strip created by Rudolph Dirks that first appeared in 1897 in the "American Humorist", the Sunday supplement of the New York Journal, is still distributed, making it the oldest comic strip still in syndication?
Answer: The Katzenjammer Kids

Question: Which lake, the largest in Central Europe, is sometimes referred to as the "Hungarian Sea"?
Answer: Balaton

Question: What is another name for the Southern Boobook owl, also called the Mopoke or Ruru?
Answer: Morepork

Question: The most renowned oracles were Zeus (at Dodona) and Apollo. Where was Apollo based?
Answer: Delphi

Question: Where is it a traditional 'sport' to stand on a beach and throw a rope with a weight at the end to catch birds when they return from foraging at sea?
Answer: Nauru

Question: The documentary film "This Is It" centred around the backstage preparations for a tour by which pop star?
Answer: Michael Jackson

Question: These are the first lines from what song: "I was a humdrum person, leading a life apart, when love flew in through my window wide, and quickened my humdrum heart"?
Answer: What Is This Thing Called Love

Question: What style of music was made popular in the early 1970s largely due to the fame of Bob Marley, who incorporated nyabinghi and Rastafarian chanting into his music, lyrics and album covers?
Answer: Reggae

Question: How did Vesna Vulovic make history in 1972?
Answer: She survived a fall of over 10,000 metres from an aeroplane

Question: Roughly how many days does it take the moon to orbit the earth?
Answer: 27

Question: South Africa, Australia and New Zealand were designated "Dominions" in the early part of which century?
Answer: 20th

Question: Who plays Lexie Grey in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
Answer: Chyler Leigh

Question: What phenomenon was discovered by Frenchman Joseph Fourier in 1824, reliably experimented on by Irishman John Tyndall in 1858, and first reported quantitatively by Swede Svante Arrhenius in 1896?
Answer: The greenhouse effect

Question: What is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Armenia?
Answer: .am

Question: What sport that began in Wnaka, New Zealand in 1867 is popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, the USA and Australia?
Answer: Sheepdog trialling

Question: The theme tune of what TV show was Frank Sinatra's version of "Love and Marriage"?
Answer: Married ... With Children

Question: Where was "the Aberfan Disaster" where the collapse of a colliery spoil-tip in 1966 killed 144 people, including 116 children?
Answer: Wales

Question: Where is the tendon known as the hamstring?
Answer: Behind the knee

Question: Linus Torvalds is known for originating what in 1991?
Answer: Linux computer operating system

Question: The Great Plague, an outbreak of disease in England that killed an estimated 100,000 people, lasted for how long?
Answer: 538 days

Question: What word refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India, which are associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism?
Answer: Yoga

Question: Which pretender to the English throne during the reign of King Henry VII claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV, one of the "little princes in the Tower" who, legend has it, was executed by Richard III?
Answer: Perkin Warbeck

Question: What is a nickname or a fancy name of a person, group or place which is familiar enough to be used instead of a real name without the need of explanation?
Answer: Soubriquet

Question: What device emits light (electromagnetic radiation), which is usually spatially coherent, through a process called stimulated emission?
Answer: Laser

Question: The Wright Brothers' first powered flight, in 1903, took place where?
Answer: Kitty Hawk

Question: What was the title of Kylie Minogue's tenth album, released in 2007?
Answer: X

Question: In which country is the city of Lisburn?
Answer: Northern Ireland

Question: What annual event, to have been held in 2008, was cancelled after al-Qaeda's murder of four French tourists on Christmas Eve in December 2007 in Mauritania?
Answer: The Dakar Rally

Question: Competitors representing which country won the most Olympic gold medals in Greco-Roman wrestling between 1896 and 2008?
Answer: The Soviet Union (URS)

Question: Which river runs through the cities of Shanghai, Chongqing, Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Nantong?
Answer: Yangtze

Question: """The Iliad"" was originally written in what language?"
Answer: Greek

Question: What DVD region covers Australia and New Zealand?
Answer: 4

Question: What name was given to a group of racing drivers that included Woolf Barnato, Glen Kidston, Henry Birkin, Bernard Rubin, Dudley Benjafield & Sammy Davis, who were responsible for four consecutive victories at the Le Mans 24 hours from 1927 to 1930?
Answer: The Bentley Boys

Question: What genus of about 70-75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia and North and South America are mostly shrubs 1 to 3 metres tall, though some are small trees, and others are lianas reaching up to 30m by climbing trees?
Answer: Hydrangea

Question: What was the title of Susan Boyle's hit record at the end of 2009?
Answer: I Dreamed a Dream

Question: In the James Bond film "Die Another Day" who played Bond girl Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson?
Answer: Halle Berry

Question: What regular feature on page 3 of the Sun newspaper first appeared in November 1970?
Answer: Picture of a bare-breasted woman

Question: In the Olympic shot put competition, what is the weight of the women's shot?
Answer: 4 kilograms (8.82 lb)

Question: In June 2008, Duran Duran played as part of a fundraising effort for building restoration at a venue that had not allowed a rock concert there before. What was the venue?
Answer: The Louvre, Paris

Question: The Arapawa Island, California Red, Corriedale, East Friesian, Hampshire, Oxford, Romney, South Dorset, Swifter and Yemeni are all types of what?
Answer: Sheep

Question: What did Goldilocks eat when she visited the Three Bears house?
Answer: Porridge

Question: The song "Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans" was banned by the BBC in 1942. Who was the artist?
Answer: Noel Coward

Question: What name was popularly given to the event on 6 December 1989 when Marc Lpine killed 14 women and injured 10 women and 4 men, now commemorated annually in Canada as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women?
Answer: The cole Polytechnique Massacre

Question: Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette-Dart, Robert Motherwell, Peter Voulkos & Jackson Pollock painted in what style?
Answer: Abstract expressionism