Question: Phobos and Deimos are the moons of which planet?
Answer: Mars

Question: Who was president of the Fdration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), when, on 28 May 1928, the FIFA Congress in Amsterdam decided to stage a world championship?
Answer: Jules Rimet

Question: Which Welsh mountain system runs from the Black Mountains to Snowdon?
Answer: Cambrian

Question: Susan Mayer, Lynette Scavo, Bree Van de Kamp, Gabrielle Solis, Edie Britt, Mary Alice Young, Betty Applewhite, Katherine Mayfair and Karen McCluskey have all lived in which street?
Answer: Wisteria Lane

Question: Crampons are used in what activity?
Answer: Climbing

Question: What was unusual about the catching of two examples of a species of fish, called the "Coelacanth", in 1938 and 1953?
Answer: They were thought to have been extinct for 50 million years

Question: Who was the Philistine warrior, famous for his battle with David, the future king of Israel, as described in the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament and, more briefly, in the Quran?
Answer: Goliath

Question: In the 1790's, what were "chouans"?
Answer: Royalists in Brittany

Question: What was the name of the representative body in pre-revolutionary Russia that was revived in 1905?
Answer: Duma

Question: What is the name for the position in the orbit of a heavenly body when it is nearest the sun?
Answer: Perihelion

Question: Which British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team won four drivers' and two constructors' world championships in its 30-year Formula One history?
Answer: Brabham (Motor Racing Developments Ltd)

Question: What was the nationality of the scholar Erasmus?
Answer: Dutch

Question: Who was the sister of the Emperor Augustus and great niece of Julius Caesar who married Mark Anthony?
Answer: Octavia

Question: What body of water is 86 feet (26 meters) below sea level?
Answer: Caspian Sea

Question: The first series of which BBC sitcom series, set in Billericay, Essex and Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, chronicled the developing romance of the two leads and ended with their becoming Mr. and Mrs. Shipman?
Answer: Gavin & Stacey

Question: Thomas de Torquemada is famous for his part in which event?
Answer: Spanish Inquisition

Question: Where in London would you find "Rotten Row"?
Answer: Hyde Park

Question: Who was a co-founder of The Undertones in 1976 (which had hits with "Here Comes The Summer", "My Perfect Cousin", "Wednesday Week" and "It's Going To Happen") and then went solo, releasing the singles "Listen To Your Father", "A Good Heart" (1985), "You Little Thief" (1986) and in the early 1990s moved into the business side of the music industry?
Answer: Feargal Sharkey

Question: With which sport is Brett Favre associated?
Answer: American football

Question: Which 72 year old Oscar-winning drector married his long-term German partner, 51, in Hamburg in July 2009?
Answer: Robert Redford

Question: What statistical term is used in government, marketing or opinion research to denote the characteristics of a population?
Answer: Demographic

Question: In which sport might a competitor perform a half Axel?
Answer: Figure skating

Question: In which series are FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) the investigators of cases involving paranormal phenomena?
Answer: The X-Files

Question: Which Saint's Day is 30 November?
Answer: St Andrew

Question: Where was the testing ground for British nuclear weapons in 1957?
Answer: Christmas Island, one of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, in the Pacific

Question: Which London street runs from St Paul's churchyard almost to the Bank of England?
Answer: Cheapside

Question: Who was separated from her husband in June 2009 to film "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" in Australia?
Answer: Katie Holmes

Question: What does "pro forma" mean?
Answer: In a set manner

Question: The Southfork Ranch featured in which TV series?
Answer: Dallas

Question: All of the gold medals at the 2009 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were won by Evgenia Kanaeva, who was representing which country?
Answer: Russia

Question: What was the name of the unofficial mascot of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, which has a statue as part of an official Olympic memorial outside the Sydney Olympic Stadium?
Answer: Fatso

Question: When Robert Falcon Scott reached the south pole in June 1912, he discovered that who had reached it before him?
Answer: Roald Amundsen

Question: The Keil Canal links which 2 seas?
Answer: North and Baltic

Question: Porfirio Diaz resigned from the presidency of which country in May 1911?
Answer: Mexico

Question: In Belgium, what are "polders"?
Answer: Reclaimed land

Question: To whom was David Rizzio the secretary, when he was stabbed to death by her husband, Lord Darnley in 1566 at Holyrood House, Edinburgh?
Answer: Mary Queen of Scots

Question: What was surname of "George and Mildred"?
Answer: Roper

Question: Daniel Carroll and Akakida Kakhiashvili are unusual in Olympic history for what reason?
Answer: They have both won gold medals while representing two entirely different countries

Question: What instrument was used to measure accurately, small differences in vertical heights?
Answer: Cathetometer

Question: What was the purpose of explorer Captain James Cook's last voyage in 1776?
Answer: Discover a northern passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic

Question: Seas and oceans make up roughly what proportion of the earth's surface?
Answer: 70%

Question: What is the driest region of the USA?
Answer: Death Valley

Question: What name is given to the silvery aureole enveloping the sun's chromosphere?
Answer: Corona

Question: Traditionally, what is shouted by a town crier?
Answer: Oyez

Question: The main characters of which play by Henrik Ibsen are Dr. Thomas Stockmann, his wife and three children, and Peter Stockmann, the Mayor, who is his elder brother?
Answer: An Enemy of the People

Question: What nationality was J Landy, who broke Roger Bannister's record for the mile of 3 minutes 59.4 seconds by recording 3 minutes 58 seconds on 21 June 1954?
Answer: Australian

Question: Tansu Ciller became the first female Prime Minister of which Muslim country in 1993?
Answer: Turkey

Question: What is the next in this series: Squaw Valley, Innsbruck, Grenoble ?
Answer: Sapporo

Question: Making their record debut in 1989, what were Squire, Mani, Reni and Brown collectively known as?
Answer: The Stone Roses

Question: In 1818 Bernadotte became King Charles XIV of Sweden due to the influence of whom?
Answer: Napoleon I

Question: The capital of which French island in the West Indies between Dominica and Santa Lucia, St Pierre, was destroyed by an earthquake in 1902 and moved to Fort de France?
Answer: Martinique

Question: Who was president of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress in England and the author of books on sexual hygiene published between 1918 and 1935 including "Married Love", "Radiant Motherhood" and "Marriage in My Time"?
Answer: Marie Stopes

Question: What was the popular name for the Paris prison at 232 Rue Saint-Antoine that was stormed during the French Revolution in 1789?
Answer: Bastille

Question: Where was film actor Errol Flynn born in 1909?
Answer: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Question: In botany, what is the word for the scar left on a tree or plant after a leaf falls?
Answer: Cicatrix

Question: In March 1918, the capital of Russia was moved to where?
Answer: Moscow

Question: The planet Mercury was photographed in 1974 and 1975 by which spacecraft?
Answer: Mariner 10

Question: According to the title of a song from the musical "The Sound of Music", who was lonely?
Answer: Goatherd

Question: In London, where are the trials of the pyx held?
Answer: Hall of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths