Question: Which is the largest of the salt lakes of Salt Lake City?
Answer: The Great Salt Lake

Question: Starting on Christmas Day, which is the last of these astrological signs to be reached?
Answer: Leo

Question: What nickname is applied to the Western coast of Namibia, home to many shipwrecks?
Answer: The Skeleton Coast

Question: The catastrophic disaster at a plant in Chernobyl in the Ukraine in April 1986 is described as what kind of accident?
Answer: Nuclear

Question: Elliot Gould played whose father on the TV series Friends?
Answer: Ross & Monica

Question: Who created the international competition called the Goodwill Games, that were held between 1986 and 2001?
Answer: Ted Turner

Question: To travel by sea from the British mainland to the Channel Islands, it is necessary to travel through the territorial waters of which country?
Answer: France

Question: Which team won the Fdration Internationale de Volleyball Women's World Championship in Japan, that was held in October / November 2010?
Answer: Russia

Question: What reaction did Bob Dylan receive to the second night of his performances at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday 25 July 1965?
Answer: Booing

Question: What name is given to the cabin that is suspended from a balloon?
Answer: Gondola

Question: In 1812, who was the first and only British Prime Minister to be assassinated?
Answer: Spencer Perceval

Question: What type of creature is a katydid?
Answer: Insect

Question: How many wheels were there on each hansom cab, the horse-drawn taxis that used to operate in London in Victorian times?
Answer: 2

Question: It was released as a video game in 1994, was restructured as a subscription-based MMORPG in 2004, and in February 2012 had more than 10 million subscribers. Which is it?
Answer: Warcraft

Question: If A = 1, B = 2 and so on, what number would represent BEECH?
Answer: 25538

Question: In what sport is Arnold Palmer known?
Answer: Golf

Question: Morten Harket was the lead singer for which band?
Answer: a-ha

Question: Raymond, Celia and Blanche were the real names of the subjects of which painting by David Hockney?
Answer: Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy

Question: The first nuclear reactor was built in 1942 in which US city?
Answer: Chicago

Question: Indycar sportsman Scott Dixon, who won his first Indy championship in 2000 and whose ratio of wins to career starts is the best of all-time regular drivers in the IRL, comes from where?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger played what unlikely pair in a 1988 film?
Answer: Twins

Question: In 1720 speculation in a company's stock on the British stock market led to financial ruin for many investors; what was the event known as?
Answer: South Sea Bubble

Question: The Jewish King Solomon was the son of whom?
Answer: David and Bathsheba

Question: What word describes a person who sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons and ribbons, and in the USA is another term for a men's outfitter?
Answer: Haberdasher

Question: What does a contestant using a longbow need?
Answer: Strong arms

Question: The 2nd and 4th presidents of the USA had the same surname. What was it?
Answer: Adams

Question: The "venae cavae" are found in what part of the body?
Answer: Heart

Question: Which film star became Governor of California?
Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Question: Which island was sold by Genoa to France in 1764, was ruled by Britain for two years from 1794 to 1796, and then returned to France?
Answer: Corsica

Question: What is the maximum score in a game of ten-pin bowling?
Answer: 300

Question: A clown fish creates a home for itself inside what?
Answer: Anemone

Question: Which fashion designer created Madonna's clothes for her 1990 "Blonde Ambition" tour, which included the "conical bra"?
Answer: Jean-Paul Gaultier

Question: In snooker, what is usually the maximum that can be scored in a single break?
Answer: 147

Question: Who became president of Afghanistan in December 2004?
Answer: Hamid Karzai

Question: Who was on the British throne when Balmoral Castle was purchased?
Answer: Victoria

Question: Someone who is frightened of blood is suffering from what?
Answer: Haemophobia

Question: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, the official mistress of Louis XV of France from 1745 to 1750, lent her titled name to what hairstyle?
Answer: Pompadour

Question: In 2009 it was announced that the WGC-HSBC Champions, a men's professional golf 72-hole tournament, had been awarded World Golf Championships status. Where is it held?
Answer: Sheshan Golf Club, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Question: The sparkling wine called cava originated in which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: What is the average of 1, 2, 2, 5, 9 and 17?
Answer: 6

Question: What was the occupation of Anna Lindh, who was assassinated in 2003 while shopping in the ladies' department at the Nordiska Kompaniet store in Stockholm?
Answer: Politician

Question: Nicotine is named after the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum. Who did the plant get its name from?
Answer: Jean Nicot de Villemain

Question: Patrick Cox is known as a designer of what?
Answer: Shoes, leather goods and accessories

Question: What is the nationality of the actor wsho played Rumpelstiltskin in the TV series Once Upon a Time?
Answer: Scottish

Question: Who said "I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back"?
Answer: Zsa Zsa Gabor

Question: What is the name for the range of limestone hills south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England which run east to west between Weston-super-Mare and Frome, and overlook the Somerset Levels to the south and the Avon valley to the north?
Answer: The Mendip Hills

Question: First released in 2009 and based on stylised wingless fighters, the game is called what?
Answer: Angry Birds

Question: What is another name for bilharzia?
Answer: Snail fever

Question: Who released the album "Tissues and Issues" in 2005?
Answer: Charlotte Church

Question: What is the name for the style of furniture made in England between 1603 and 1688?
Answer: Jacobean

Question: Which musical term means "sustained", and occasionally also implies "a slowing of tempo"?
Answer: Sostenuto

Question: Who won Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2012, and for what?
Answer: J B Gurdon, S Yamanaka: stem cell research

Question: Which kingdom, established by King Wickramabahu in the 14th century, repelled invasions by the Portuguese and the Dutch in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries and the British in the 19th century, until the signing of a treaty with the British in March 1815?
Answer: Kandy

Question: Which cricket ground was the home ground of the Manchester Cricket Club from 1856 until it became the home of the Lancashire County Cricket Club when that was founded in 1864?
Answer: Old Trafford

Question: Which long-running British TV series featured the characters Captain Peacock, Mrs. Slocombe, Mr. Humphries, Miss Brahms, Mr. Rumbold, Mr. Grainger and Mr. Lucas?
Answer: Are You Being Served?

Question: Where, in 1961, did US-supported Cuban exiles invade Cuba?
Answer: Bay of Pigs

Question: After discovering a new planet, Herschel named it Georgium Sidus (George's Star), or the "Georgian Planet" in honour of King George III. The scientific community did not like the name, and decided to call it what?
Answer: Uranus

Question: What former First Lady of the USA said that "no-one can make you feel inferior without your consent"?
Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt

Question: Pashto has been the official language of which country since 1936?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: What was Colin Powell's role in George W Bush's government from 2001 to 2005?
Answer: Secretary of State

Question: Which English folk song has been popular since Tudor times?
Answer: Greensleeves

Question: In October 2005, a week before her 16th birthday, Michelle Wie announced that she was turning professional at what sport?
Answer: Golf