Question: One of Hannibal's most famous achievements was at the outbreak of the Second Punic War, when he marched an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy with the intention of attacking Rome. What city was he from?
Answer: Carthage

Question: Who won a (then) record seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich?
Answer: Mark Spitz

Question: Who, at the age of 50, had become the world's richest man through the activities of the Standard Oil Company?
Answer: John Davison Rockefeller

Question: Who is George Dowd better known as?
Answer: Boy George

Question: Thailand is on what continent?
Answer: Asia

Question: According to legend, what did Alexander the Great cut with his sword after an oracle said that the person who released it would be master of Asia?
Answer: Gordian knot

Question: Who constructed railway lines between Stockton and Darlington (in 1821) and Manchester and Liverpool (in 1829), and designed and built railway engines, including "The Rocket".
Answer: George Stephenson

Question: Suspension, hump and cantilever are all types of what?
Answer: Bridges

Question: Emperor Quetzalcoatl ruled which ancient people in Mexico in the 10th century CE?
Answer: Toltecs

Question: Whose hit records include "I Feel Love", Love to Love You Baby", "Starting Over Again" and "On the Radio"?
Answer: Donna Summer

Question: Chris Stein, Debbie Harry, Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri and Gary Valentine, originally billed as "Angel and the Snake", achieved fame under what name?
Answer: Blondie

Question: What spirit is traditionally made from maize grain, flavoured with juniper berries?
Answer: Gin

Question: The Battle of the River Plate was between the "Ajax", the "Achilles", the "Exeter" and which other ship?
Answer: Admiral Graf Spee

Question: After allegations of collusion among judges at the 2002 Olympic Games pairs figure skating, how was the disagreement resolved regarding the placings of Canadian pair David Pelletier / Jamie Sal and Russian pair Yelena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze?
Answer: Dual gold medals were awarded

Question: The painting medium "tempera" has what as a base?
Answer: Egg yolk

Question: Who was alleged to have choked pop star Rhianna until she was unconscious in a rented Lambhorgini shortly before the 2009 Grammy Awards?
Answer: Chris Brown

Question: In England, which fish, when caught in a river, traditionally belongs to the Sovereign?
Answer: Sturgeon

Question: Anton Geesink represented which country in Judo between 1951 and 1967, winning 21 European titles, was World Champion in 1961 in the open class, and won gold in the open weight division at the 1964 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: What is the name for a small single-headed drum, in the rim of which are fitted pairs of small circular metal plates, called "jingles"?
Answer: Tambourine

Question: Who became the youngest actor to have 6 Oscar nominations with her Best Actress nomination for "The Reader" (which was her first win!)?
Answer: Kate Winslett

Question: What is the capital city of Turkey?
Answer: Ankara

Question: Who asked the question "Are We Human or Are We Dancers?"?
Answer: The Killers

Question: What was the first nation to recognise the USA as an independent nation in 1777?
Answer: Morocco

Question: What city, heavily bombed in the Spanish Civil War, was featured in a painting by Picasso?
Answer: Guernica

Question: What is the highest point in Wales?
Answer: Snowdon

Question: If someone is referred to as "canine", what animal are they being compared to?
Answer: Dog

Question: Who wrote "The Prince and the Pauper" and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"?
Answer: Mark Twain

Question: In 1958 the first World Championship in biathlon was held in which country?
Answer: Austria

Question: Rowan Atkinson created which character that first appeared on British TV in 1990?
Answer: Mr Bean

Question: Which country's national zoo quarantined its only pig for two months in case it spread swine flu?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: Which team won the Hockey World Cup the most times between 2000 and 2010?
Answer: Germany

Question: Kaiser Wilhelm II was the last Emperor of which country, ruling from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918?
Answer: Germany

Question: What is a textile fabric, usually of linen or cotton with simple geometric or conventional pattern uniformly repeated?
Answer: Diaper

Question: Where would you go in all of U.S. territory to see the first sunrise of a new day?
Answer: Peacock Point, Wake Island

Question: Whose career, from 1922 to 1946, included World Billiards Champion 4 times and World Snooker Champion 20 times?
Answer: Joe Davis

Question: What term was popularized in the books "The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man" (1962) and "Understanding Media" (1964) by Marshall McLuhan to describe how the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time has heightened human awareness of responsibility?
Answer: Global village

Question: What group was Roger Bannister representing when he broke the 4 minute mile at 3 minutes 59.4 seconds on 6 May 1954?
Answer: Amateur Athletic Association

Question: A tongue and groove joint is used when working with what material?
Answer: Wood

Question: What is the name for the dome or arched roof at the top of a building that is a distinctive part of Byzantine architecture and characteristic of mosques?
Answer: Cupola

Question: What is the name for a mysteriously flattened area in a field?
Answer: Crop circle

Question: Which Russian composed "God Bless America"?
Answer: Irving Berlin

Question: In Othello, of whom does Iago say "Forsooth, a great arithmetician"?
Answer: Cassio

Question: Which team broke Germanys decade-long stranglehold on the Rowing World Cup in 2007?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: How many teams have ever entered the Olympic La Crosse competitions?
Answer: 5

Question: What name is given to the eastern part of a Christian church, sometimes known as the choir, which is usually separated from the nave by a screen or railing?
Answer: Chancel

Question: In Shakespeare's "Hamlet", who was Ophelia's father?
Answer: Polonius

Question: What wine is named after a city in the south of Iraq?
Answer: Shiraz

Question: What ancient people, whose major cities were Tyre and Sidon, founded Carthage?
Answer: Phoenicians

Question: Who, with husband Chris Martin, called their child Moses when he was born in 2006?
Answer: Gwyneth Paltrow

Question: What is the term for a section of a building that runs at right angles to the main body, giving the shape of a "T" or a cross?
Answer: Transept

Question: The earliest known example of what was built by Micah, according to Judges 17, verse 5?
Answer: Jewish Temple

Question: Which series of films were numbered 11, 12 & 13, without any "episodes" numbered 10 or below?
Answer: Oceans

Question: Whose film career began in 1993 with "The Piano" and whose roles have included Jane Eyre, Queen Isabella II of Spain, a teenage mutant, and a human in a vampire TV series?
Answer: Anna Paquin

Question: What is the name of the rose coloured gaseous envelope outside the incandescent surface of the sun?
Answer: Chromosphere

Question: In 1915, Rev Philip (Tubby) Clayton founded which organisation as a club and church for returned soldiers?
Answer: Toc H

Question: How many times has croquet been an Olympic sport?
Answer: 1

Question: About which conflict did Winston Churchill say "never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"?
Answer: Battle of Britain

Question: In which city was US president John F Kennedy assassinated on 22 November 1963?
Answer: Dallas, Texas

Question: The rivers Tewy, Taff, Tone, Taw and Torridge flow into which body of water?
Answer: Bristol Channel