Question: The word "vascular" is associated with what?
Answer: Blood vessels

Question: According to legend, what did St Patrick drive out of Ireland?
Answer: Snakes

Question: Which 1937 film, made with altered storylines in 1954 and 1976, tells the story of the rise of a woman star and the fall of her husband who discovered her, due to drink?
Answer: A Star Is Born

Question: Actress Nicole Kidman married which country singer in 2006?
Answer: Keith Urban

Question: Who, at the end of her Olympic career in 1964, held the record for winning the most Olympic medals at 18 and the record for most individual medals (14 outside of team events) in Olympic history?
Answer: Larissa Latynina

Question: Where was nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale ("the lady with the lamp") born?
Answer: Florence, Italy

Question: Which country that achieved independence in 1962 has had leaders named Milton Obote and Idi Amin Dada?
Answer: Uganda

Question: Who is the only member of the current membership of Fleetwood Mac who does not play an instrument regularly on stage?
Answer: Stevie Nicks

Question: """The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."" This is known as what?"
Answer: The Olympic Creed

Question: Georges Leopold Cuvier is associated with which science?
Answer: Paleontology

Question: A 1999 James Bond film was entitled "The World is not ... " what?
Answer: Enough

Question: Who was the British engineer who designed the first television system suitable for broadcast transmission in 1939?
Answer: John Logie Baird

Question: Which country has won the most medals at the European Beach Volleyball Championship (later known as the Nestea European Championship Final) between 2000 and 2008 inclusive?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: On 29 March 1971, Lieutenant William Calley was found guilty by a court martial for murdering 20 civilians in 1968 - where?
Answer: My Lai, Vietnam

Question: John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport and LaGuardia Airport all serve which city?
Answer: New York

Question: What book was written by Alexandre Dumas about Edmond Dantes' imprisonment in the Chateau d'If?
Answer: The Count Of Monte Cristo

Question: The Drake Equation calculates the potential number of what?
Answer: Extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way

Question: Which biblical personality was called Jekuthiel, Heber, Jered, Avi Zanoah, Avi Gedor, Avi Soco, Shemaiah ben Nethanel, Toviah, Levi, Heman, Mechoqeiq and Ehl Gav Ish?
Answer: Moses

Question: The Galapagos Islands belong to which country?
Answer: Ecuador

Question: Who composed the music for the musical "Chess"?
Answer: Bjrn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson

Question: What word is used in the UK for chicken less than 28 days old at slaughter and usually weighing 400-450 grammes and in the USA for the Rock Cornish game hen, which is twice as old and twice as large?
Answer: Poussin

Question: In 2008 there were 193 members of the United Nations. How many "nations" were represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
Answer: 204

Question: What is the nationality of 2007 IndyCar Series champion George Dario Marino Franchitti?
Answer: Scottish

Question: Which currently reigning royal family is from the House of Orange?
Answer: Dutch

Question: What is the family name of the rulers of Monaco?
Answer: Grimaldi

Question: The large wrinkled leaves of which plant provide digitalin, used in the treatment of heart conditions?
Answer: Foxglove

Question: What did Sir Robert Peel establish in London in the late 19th century?
Answer: Metropolitan Police Force

Question: A United Nations report published in July 2007 placed which country first in the industrialized world in marijuana use, at 14.1% of the population?
Answer: Canada

Question: Who discovered the moon of Saturn called Titan in 1655?
Answer: Huygens

Question: Which company bought the Daimler, Lanchester, Jaguar and Land Rover brand names in March 2008?
Answer: Tata Motors, India

Question: Mount St Helens is in which state of the USA?
Answer: Washington

Question: Which city hosted the Commonwealth Games in 2002?
Answer: Manchester

Question: Who published his method of heating food to kill micro-organisms and sealing the container, in 1810?
Answer: Nicolas Appert

Question: What name is given to the liability of members of certain families or races to suffer from certain diseases?
Answer: Diathesis

Question: According to the proverb, the way to hell is paved with what?
Answer: Good intentions

Question: Singer Avril Levigne was born in which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: Liberia is a country on which continent?
Answer: Africa

Question: Who was the heroine who rescued 9 people from the wreck of the "Forfarshire", taking them to the lighthouse on the Longstone, one of the Farne Islands, on 7 September 1838?
Answer: Grace Darling

Question: Which archipelago, formerly administered by Madagascar, includes the islands of Mayotte, Anjouan, Grande Comore and Moheli?
Answer: Comoro

Question: What popular name was given to the British 8th Army in World War II?
Answer: Desert Rats

Question: What bodily process breaks food down into nutrients?
Answer: Digestion

Question: When someone is cold they say that they are "chilled to the ... " what?
Answer: Marrow

Question: Who was the British general who took Charleston, South Carolina, 1779 during the American War of Independence?
Answer: Sir Henry Clinton

Question: Joanna Lumley and David McCallum played which pair in a TV series?
Answer: Sapphire and Steel

Question: What might you find a "dowser" doing?
Answer: Searching for water underground with a forked stick

Question: Why did Canadian George Lyon refuse to accept his gold medal for golf at the 1908 Olympics?
Answer: He was the only competitor and did not want to win by default

Question: What title was taken by Napoleon Bonaparte on 2 December 1804?
Answer: Emperor of the French

Question: In music, what does "pp" mean?
Answer: Very soft

Question: What is the name of the New Zealand national rugby team?
Answer: All Blacks

Question: In 2009, when it was suggested that doctors in the state of Queensland, Australia, were losing patients due to their shifts of 80 hours per week, what did Queensland health officials suggest that doctors do about it?
Answer: Drink 6 cups of coffee per day

Question: What form of singing involves an extended note which rapidly repeatedly changes in pitch from the chest register to falsetto, making a high-low-high-low sound?
Answer: Yodeling

Question: Which early 20th century American novelist wrote "The Crisis", "Crossing", "Coniston", "Mr Crewe's Career" and "Far Country"?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: When would one use an auger?
Answer: To bore a hole

Question: What were the Christian names of Torvill and Dean?
Answer: Jayne and Christopher

Question: What was the name of the first British jet bomber built in 1949 by English Electric?
Answer: Canberra

Question: Who patented the phonograph in 1877?
Answer: Thomas Edison

Question: What did Kanye West do at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards that received criticism from Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Spencer Pratt, Heidi Montag, Katy Perry, Joel Madden, Adam Lambert, Kellie Pickler, Donald Trump Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter?
Answer: Interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech to say Beyonc had "one of the best videos of all time"

Question: In simple terms, what is "Bode's Law"?
Answer: Bodies in a solar system orbit at regular distances which can be calculated mathematically

Question: Which British monarch was the first to celebrate a diamond jubilee?
Answer: Victoria

Question: What was founded in 1560 and, except for intervals in the 17th century, became and continues to be the established church in Scotland ?
Answer: Church of Scotland