Question: Twins of the name of Evers-Swindell are associated with what sport?
Answer: Rowing

Question: A major canal link between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was named what?
Answer: Panama

Question: Iraq lies between Syria to the west and what country to the east?
Answer: Iran

Question: Which continent most closely resembles the letter "q"?
Answer: South America

Question: Who released the album "The Transformed Man" in 1968?
Answer: William Shatner

Question: What is another name for a wild hyacinth?
Answer: Bluebell

Question: In which war did forces led by the Duke of Marlborough and the Duke of Savoy beat a combined French-Russian force at Blenheim in Western Bavaria in 1702?
Answer: The War of the Spanish Succesion

Question: Where would you find the machair?
Answer: Scotland

Question: Which 1962 film directed by Roman Polanski shows the differences in economic status of an unemployed youth and a successful older man, played out as a psychological contest to possess the older man's wife?
Answer: Knife In The Water

Question: Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko were political figures in which country?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: What was the setting for the novel "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery?
Answer: Prince Edward Island

Question: The RSMDT, started in 1927 and now known as the White Helmets, perform in what?
Answer: Displays of motorcycling skills, acrobatics and stunt riding

Question: What is another word for a hiccup?
Answer: Singultus

Question: Who directed the pilot episode of the award-winning US TV series "Boardwalk Empire"?
Answer: Martin Scorsese

Question: With what country was the game of Senet first associated?
Answer: Egypt

Question: Who is the only 20th century US president carved into Mount Rushmore?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Question: Rabbits are the background for what hit song, biggest selling single in the UK in 1979?
Answer: Bright Eyes

Question: In 1291 a number of mainly alpine European communities formed a protective alliance which with the later addition of others became what is now known as what?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Thomas Telford is associated with which field?
Answer: Engineering

Question: Which Nobel prize-winning British playwright died in December 2008?
Answer: Harold Pinter

Question: What 1973 film, based on a novel by French ex-convict Henri Charrire, starred Steve McQueen & Dustin Hoffman?
Answer: Papillon

Question: The influential 1848 Cambridge University rules for football were drawn up with the participation of what groups?
Answer: English public schools

Question: The Victoria Falls are on the border of Zimbabwe and which other country?
Answer: Zambia

Question: What, in 1337, caused the Hundred Years' War between France and England?
Answer: English king Edward II claimed the French throne

Question: Vlastimil Hart together with 11 colleagues won the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for documenting what in relation to dogs?
Answer: When dogs defecate/urinate, they prefer to align the body with Earth's north-south geomagnetic axis

Question: What genre best describes the 1967-72 UK TV series Callan?
Answer: Spy

Question: What does one usually do with a rutabaga?
Answer: Eat it

Question: What part of speech is the subject of the sentence "John carried some parcels for Mary"?
Answer: Proper noun

Question: What would audiences watching the play "The Comedy of Errors" by William Shakespeare expect their main response to be?
Answer: Laughter

Question: Famous in NBA Basketball, Michael Jordan first retired in 1993 to develop a career in what?
Answer: Baseball

Question: What is a sextant used for?
Answer: Marine navigation

Question: A well known early historian with a particular focus on Jewish history was...?
Answer: Josephus

Question: What light-sensitive tissue lines the inner surface of the eye?
Answer: Retina

Question: What pollinates the tubular, bright red flowers of the Salvia coccinea (known as Texas Sage, Scarlet Sage, or Blood Sage), a species of flowering plant native to the south of North America, the Caribbean, and the north of South America?
Answer: Hummingbirds

Question: In 2012 which was the city, second only to Paris, with the most populous metropolitan area in the world?
Answer: Seoul

Question: What is used in paper or textile making, and to form a protective coating on a canvas or other surface to be used for some art techniques?
Answer: Size

Question: What play does the character Blanche Dubois appear in?
Answer: A Streetcar Named Desire

Question: Renowned sportsman Michael Phelps decided in 2014 to come out of retirement and compete in what sport?
Answer: Swimming

Question: What is the word for a mat placed under a glass or cup to protect a surface?
Answer: Coaster

Question: Why was the Iron Age called that?
Answer: It was characterised by the use of iron for tools and weapons

Question: As at 2014, when will the next Winter Olympics be held?
Answer: 2018

Question: What name is given to the external set of floral leaves or sepals in a flower?
Answer: Calyx

Question: What happened to Napoleon immediately before he was sent to prison on the island of Elba in 1814?
Answer: He was forced to abdicate as Emperor

Question: Who wrote the poem "The Love Song of J Albert Prufrock"?
Answer: T S Eliot

Question: The Richter Scale used for measuring the energy released by earthquakes, mostly replaced since 1979 by the MMS (moment magnitude scale), was developed by Charles Richter and which other scientist?
Answer: Beno Gutenberg

Question: What is the word for the minimum number of people that must be at a meeting for it to become official?
Answer: Quorum

Question: Which album by Fleetwood Mac including the single releases "Go Your Own Way", "Don't Stop", "Dreams" and "You Make Loving Fun" was #1 on album charts in Australia, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK & the USA?
Answer: Rumours

Question: When Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was brought down by hostile fire over East Ukraine on 17 July 2014 what was the death toll of passengers and crew?
Answer: 298

Question: Who plays the role of Hagrid in the Harry Potter series of films?
Answer: Robbie Coltrane

Question: Founded in 1934, the IBF was the international governing body for what?
Answer: Badminton

Question: After what or who is the continent to the north of Africa named?
Answer: Europa

Question: In 2013 Bhutan pledged to become a 100% organic sovereign country, the first, and alongside the developments by Vedic agriculture expert Dr. A. Thimmaiah has invited international advisers one of whom is ... ?
Answer: Environmental activist, Vandana Shiva

Question: When was the Company of Scottish Archers, thought to be one of the oldest sporting bodies in the world, formed?
Answer: 1676

Question: When Britain fought the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the forces it opposed were from France and which other country?
Answer: Spain

Question: Where did the car manufacturer Renault originate?
Answer: France

Question: The 1984 Winter Olympics were the first conducted under the presidency of whom?
Answer: Juan Antonio Samaranch

Question: What programme would feature James May, Richard Hammond, and Jeremy Clarkson as presenters?
Answer: Top Gear

Question: Margaret Kelly founded the Bluebell Girls to perform ar which venue in 1932?
Answer: Folies Bergre

Question: What is the name for Government House, Canberra, the official residence of the Governor-General of Australia?
Answer: Yarralumla

Question: What is a disease of the bone, estimated to affect 2-3 million across Tibet, north-eastern to south-western China, South Siberia, and Korea?
Answer: KashinBeck disease

Question: The Mesa Verde National Park with its ancient cliff cities is found where?
Answer: Usa

Question: Which star musician wrote and performed the ending song for the game "Destiny", released in 2014?
Answer: Paul McCartney