Question: Who wrote "I Write the Songs", a 1976 chart-topping song by Barry Manilow?
Answer: Bruce Johnston

Question: How many legs has an arachnid?
Answer: 8

Question: What is the art of decorating materials with marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object?
Answer: Pyrography

Question: The satirical TV series called "The Games", about the preparations for the Sydney 2000 Games, featured original theme music by whom?
Answer: Jeremy Smith

Question: On 1/1/2014 the first legal sales of cannabis/marijuana for recreational use since about 1940 took place where?
Answer: Colorado, USA

Question: To which part of the world are the Zulu people native?
Answer: Southern Africa

Question: What chemical materials does the process of photosynthesis depend on?
Answer: Carbon dioxide and water

Question: Cherry barbs, koi, bristlenose pleco and neon tetras are types of what?
Answer: Freshwater tropical fish

Question: According to Forbes as at June 2014, which is the second richest football club in the world?
Answer: Barcelona

Question: What was the real first name of "Paul" of "Peter, Paul, and Mary"?
Answer: Noel

Question: What does the Water Festival mark in Burma/Myanmar?
Answer: Burmese New Year

Question: REM is a term sometimes applied to what?
Answer: A stage of sleep

Question: Whose painting of "The Last Supper" represents Jesus as transparent to sun light, and incorporates a modernistic window through which islands can be seen, surmounted by the chest arms and neck of a nude male figure?
Answer: Salvador Dali

Question: What name was given by Rudyard Kipling in one of his stories to a mongoose?
Answer: Rikki Tikki Tavi

Question: What English folk singer, songwriter, and musician whose primary musical instruments are the violin, the tenor guitar, the banjo and the viola, was brought up in the village of Buckland Monachorum, near Yelverton, Devon, produced 4 solo studio albums ("The Punch Bowl", "Kitty Jay", "Freedom Fields" & "Poor Mans Heaven") between 2002 and 2008, and in February 2007 won Singer of the Year and Best Album awards at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards?
Answer: Seth Lakeman

Question: in tuning a snare drum, the resonant head is generally tunes more loosely than what?
Answer: The batter head

Question: The explorer Abel Tasman discovered Australia and New Zealand in what year?
Answer: 1642

Question: Big Daddy Pollitt is a character in which Tennessee Williams play?
Answer: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Question: """Pomp and Circumstance"" is the title of 5 marches by which composer?"
Answer: Edward Elgar

Question: Which resort shares both the summit of Mont Blanc and the title of highest commune in France with Saint-Gervais-les-Bains?
Answer: Chamonix

Question: The absent-minded Professor Calculus was a colleague of which fictional character?
Answer: Tin Tin

Question: In the fantasy novel series, The Throne of Fire, the characters must play what ancient Egyptian game?
Answer: Senet

Question: The escaped prisoner "Angelotti" appears in which opera?
Answer: Tosca

Question: Who had a hit record in 1960 with the song "Poetry In Motion"?
Answer: Johnny Tillotson

Question: Who was the songwriter and main driving force behind The Streets?
Answer: Mike Skinner

Question: Which English football team was both the last to win the FA Cup final at the old Wembley Stadium, and the first to win the FA Cup final at the New Wembley Stadium?
Answer: Chelsea

Question: What is a mainly instrumental piece of music by Elton John, the closing track of his 1978 album, "A Single Man"?
Answer: Song for Guy

Question: Rome is on the banks of which river?
Answer: Tiber

Question: What is a gregorian chant?
Answer: Church music

Question: Paraplegic New Zealand sportswoman Neroli Fairhall won Paralympics and Commonwealth Games golds and held medals and titles in international and World Championship contests for what discipline?
Answer: Archery

Question: What is the common name for the seeds of horse-chestnut trees?
Answer: Conkers

Question: Which people (besides the Rolling Stones) appeared on the cover of "Their Satanic Majesties Request", a 1967 album by The Rolling Stones?
Answer: The Beatles

Question: Sherry was first associated with which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: When did St Francis of Assisi found the Order of the Friars Minor?
Answer: 1206

Question: Where was the first officially recorded baseball game held in the USA?
Answer: Hoboken, New Jersey

Question: During performances of which musical were the audience encouraged to join in with the performance by bringing with them (and throwing them onto the stage at the appropriate times) Bounty Bars, Kit Kats, rice, party poppers, water pistols, torches, toilet paper and confetti?
Answer: Rocky Horror Show

Question: From 1801 to 1812 Lord Elgin, under a controversial permit from the Ottoman Empire, removed many marble sculptures from a famous building in which country, and brought them to the UK?
Answer: Greece

Question: Which are the only strictly marine herbivorous mammals?
Answer: Dugongs

Question: What is the term "synaesthesia" applied to?
Answer: Where one sensory or cognitive experience is involuntarily experienced as also being a different one

Question: Who is a British fashion designer, known for her work on pop art in fashion, opened a clothes shop called Bazaar on London's Kings Road with her husband, Alexander Plunkett-Greene, and a former solicitor, Archie Mcnair, in November 1955?
Answer: Mary Quant

Question: Besides a back complaint, what else did John F Kennedy suffer from?
Answer: Addison's disease

Question: What is a high-powered vacuum tube that generates microwaves using the interaction of a stream of electrons with a magnetic field?
Answer: Magnetron

Question: Miami, Florida, sits near the southernmost point of what land form?
Answer: Peninsula

Question: Who is the only NBA player to score 100 points?
Answer: Wilt Chamberlain

Question: What was the background for the UK TV series "Whitechapel"?
Answer: Jack the Ripper

Question: In 1992, aged 56, Woody Allen became romantically involved with 21 year old Soon-Yi Previn, who was the adopted daughter of whom?
Answer: Mia Farrow

Question: What is the Maracaibo Beacon?
Answer: Frequent lightning storms in the area

Question: Birds, reptiles, amphibians and egg-laying mammals share a common feature, which is what?
Answer: Cloaca

Question: In 1660, John Milton's books were burned in London because of his attacks on whom?
Answer: Charles II

Question: Which organisation was formed in 1976 by Fred Hemmings to put together an annual tour of 12 events around the world with a points system for event placings to decide a champion?
Answer: International Professional Surfing (IPS) organisation

Question: When did the use of sugar make its way from Asia and the Middle East into Western recipes?
Answer: early 12th century

Question: The Persian Gulf runs between Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the south and what country to the north?
Answer: Persia (now Iran)

Question: The first time that Rome was ruled by two emperors was in 161. Who were they?
Answer: Marcus Aurelius & Lucius Verus

Question: What sea or ocean borders the country of Niger?
Answer: None

Question: An "elegant, organic, and rigorously logical" game of strategy developed in China more than 2,500 years ago is called...?
Answer: Go

Question: When is The Sundance Film Festival, that began in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival, held annually?
Answer: January

Question: What is a Russian name for a type of savoury pancakes?
Answer: Blinis

Question: In Australia, what name is given to two different kinds of crustacean: a type of crayfish and a type of shrimp?
Answer: Yabby

Question: How could the majority of the land in Laos be described?
Answer: Mountainous