Question: Which game uses six sets of coloured pieces, ten of each colour, whereby a piece moves either to an adjacent spot or, by a jump over another piece?
Answer: Chinese Checkers

Question: The Exxon Valdez oil spill, considered one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters ever to occur at sea, happened on 24 March 1989 in the Prince William Sound, in which state of the USA?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Most of the Ozark Plateau is in which two US states?
Answer: Missouri and Arkansas

Question: Four year old Exodus, who died due to an accident with a treadmill in May 2009, was the daughter of whom?
Answer: Mike Tyson

Question: What name is applied to the general stiffening of the muscles caused by a coagulation of the muscle-plasma?
Answer: Rigor mortis

Question: A century covers how many years?
Answer: 100

Question: Which is the only regatta cancelled because it rained and there was water in the river, as happened in 1993 when it was cancelled due to flooding?
Answer: The Henley-on-Todd Regatta

Question: Which one of the signs of the zodiac is inanimate?
Answer: Libra

Question: Who began as a Broadway actor, made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and had lead roles in "The Grapes of Wrath", "The Ox-Bow Incident", "Mister Roberts" and "12 Angry Men"?
Answer: Henry Fonda

Question: The musical "Oliver!" is associated with which geographical area?
Answer: London

Question: The origins of which country can be traced to the forming of a defensive league by Uri, Schwyz and Lower Unterwalden in 1521?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Which English steeplechase is held annually at Aintree near Liverpool?
Answer: Grand National

Question: When he took office on 9 May 2009, the President of which country was pictured with three women who were said to be his wives: Sizakele Khumalo, Nompumelelo and Thobeka Mabhija?
Answer: South Africa

Question: What economic theory was originated by Major C H Douglas?
Answer: Social Credit

Question: What is an alternative name for a hydrolaccolith, a mound of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic and subarctic that can reach up to 70 metres (230 ft) in height and up to 600 m (2,000 ft) in diameter?
Answer: Pingo

Question: What instrument consisting basically of a telescope that can be rotated vertically and horizontally on graduated scales was designed for use in land surveying for measuring by triangulation ?
Answer: Theodolite

Question: Who is quoted as saying "... advertising ... attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. ... Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little"?
Answer: """Banksy"""

Question: Which war between Austria, France and Russia versus England and Prussia ended with the ceding of Silesia to Prussia by Austria and the ceding of French territory in Canada to Britain?
Answer: Seven Years War

Question: What is the next name in this series: Ross Kemp, Ben Stiller, Kate Winslet, Samuel L. Jackson, Les Dennis ?
Answer: Patrick Stewart

Question: The pineapple is native to which part of the world?
Answer: South America

Question: Which Chief of Staff of the US Army retired in 1937 but returned to lead the defence of the Philippines in WWII, and to direct both the occupation of Japan and the allied effort early in the Korean War?
Answer: Douglas MacArthur

Question: What genus of grass is also known as kaffir corn, dhurra, Guinea corn and Indian millet?
Answer: Sorghum

Question: According to the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church, how many "stations" are there in "The Stations of the Cross"?
Answer: 14

Question: What was the name of the character played by Bill Cosby in "The Bill Cosby Show"?
Answer: Cliff Huxtable

Question: On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian-Serb student and member of Young Bosnia, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia, which led to the start of which war?
Answer: World War I

Question: With a time of 3:49.4, breaking the existing world record by over 1.5 seconds, who was the first to run the mile in under 3:50 minutes ?
Answer: John Walker

Question: Who became President of the USA on the death of Franklin D Roosevelt and remained in office until 1953?
Answer: Harry S Truman

Question: What is the name for a device that measures the rate of rotation of a revolving shaft?
Answer: Tachometer

Question: Traditionally, what can women do on 29 February that they cannot do on any other date?
Answer: Propose marriage

Question: George Fox is associated with the founding of which religion?
Answer: The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Question: Singapore is connected to the mainland by a causeway that runs across which stretch of water?
Answer: Straits of Johore

Question: The FINA Swimming World Cup, which started in 1989, is an international series run over what length of course?
Answer: 25 metres

Question: Which civilisation left clearly identifiable traces dating from 2600 BCE, with cities on what are now the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, Honduras and Southern Mexico and still survives in language today?
Answer: Maya

Question: What is the British group of islands in the South Atlantic that consists of two main islands, together with 776 smaller ones?
Answer: Falkland Islands

Question: What 1956 film, that satirises the U.S. occupation of Japan following World War II, starred Glenn Ford & Marlon Brando?
Answer: The Teahouse of the August Moon

Question: Barbi Benton was famous as whose girlfriend from 1969 to 1976 ?
Answer: Hugh Hefner

Question: From the 15th century onward, which country took control of Ceuta (North Africa), Madeira, the Azores, Goa (India), Brazil, Ormuz (in the Persian Strait), Malacca (now part of Malaysia) and Macau (China)?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Which highly contagious disease, characterised by the sudden onset of rigor, headache, delirium and fever, followed by a rash, is caused by a virus conveyed by lice?
Answer: Typhus

Question: What creatures in Scandinavian folklore have evil powers and malevolent dispositions?
Answer: Trolls

Question: In 1935, which city was chosen to replace Livingstone as the capital of the British colony of Northern Rhodesia, and is now the capital of Zambia?
Answer: Lusaka

Question: What is the lining membrane of the cavity of the eyeball connected to the optic nerve which forms the receptor surface for light rays?
Answer: Retina

Question: Which 2002 play by Neil LaBute that takes place around 11 September 2001 concerns an extra-marital affair between a man (Sam) and his boss (Abby) who worked in the World Trade Centre?
Answer: The Mercy Seat

Question: The building of historical significance known as the Bastille is in which city?
Answer: Paris

Question: Ed Moses (United States) and Martina Moravcov (Slovakia) won World Cups for which sport in 2001/2002 and 2003/2004?
Answer: Swimming

Question: In what sport is an individual game called a frame?
Answer: Snooker

Question: What is the name of the branch of the Pacific Ocean between China and Korea?
Answer: Yellow Sea

Question: An aircraft flying at 40,000 feet can be heard to break the sound barrier when it achieves a speed of how many miles per hour?
Answer: 600

Question: What was the acronym for the organisation that was set up in 1950 to co-ordinate the armed forces of NATO?
Answer: Shape

Question: Who wrote "Raindrops Are Fallin' On My Head", the theme from the film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"?
Answer: Burt Bacharach

Question: Why was Los Angeles selected as the host of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games by the IOC session at Athens, Greece, without a vote?
Answer: It was the only city that submitted a bid to host them

Question: What is the capital of the state of California?
Answer: Sacramento

Question: Who had a hit with the song "The Rainbow Connection"?
Answer: Kermit the Frog