Question: What 1967 film had the tagline "This is Benjamin. He's a little worried about his future."?
Answer: The Graduate

Question: The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour was a gift in 1886 to the USA by whom?
Answer: The people of France

Question: Toxicology is the study of the effects of what?
Answer: Drugs and poisons

Question: Who plays Gail Platt in the British TV soap opera "Coronation Street"?
Answer: Helen Worth

Question: At which event, in 2010, was Francesca Schiavone the first Italian woman to win a tennis Grand Slam event in singles?
Answer: French Open

Question: The name of Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula commemorates a landing in 1915 by what or who?
Answer: An army corps of Australian and New Zealand soldiers

Question: Who developed the live attenuated polio vaccine which has led to hopes of global eradication of the virus?
Answer: Albert Sabin

Question: Which country annexed Korea in 1910?
Answer: Japan

Question: Two wars fought in 1880-1881 and then in 1899-1902 in South Africa are known as what?
Answer: Boer Wars

Question: China is the world's biggest tea producer. Which is the second biggest?
Answer: India

Question: Who won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Al Gore

Question: Martini & Rossi is a brand of what drink?
Answer: Vermouth

Question: Who was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev

Question: What does the Latin phrase "ad infinitum" mean?
Answer: Forever

Question: How many tusks does a typical adult male walrus have?
Answer: 2

Question: In architecture, what is the space around the altar at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building?
Answer: Chancel

Question: The partition of India, formalised in 1947, was characterised by religious tension and violence between Hindus and people of which other major religious group?
Answer: Muslim

Question: What is name for the holistic, global, comparative study of humans (the comprehensive study of human beings and of their interactions with each other and the environment), which has its intellectual origins in both the natural sciences and the humanities?
Answer: Anthropology

Question: In the 12th century, who was the lover and then husband of Hlose, celebrated as a writer and scholar and who became a nun and abbess?
Answer: Pierre Ablard

Question: What was the area now known as the Mekong Delta called in the 19th century?
Answer: Cochinchina

Question: Which country lies between Libya and Algeria?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: What is the chemical symbol for copper?
Answer: Cu

Question: What is the name for the home for a pet rabbit?
Answer: Hutch

Question: What was the first name of Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement?
Answer: Mohandas

Question: Music which consists of at least two independent lines sounding at the same time is most usually called what?
Answer: Polyphony

Question: What does a trichologist treat?
Answer: Hair

Question: Who played James Herriot in the British TV series (1978 1990) "All Creatures Great and Small"?
Answer: Christopher Timothy

Question: The Matterhorn is on the border between which two countries?
Answer: Switzerland and Italy

Question: The Polisario Front disputes which country for control of the Western Sahara?
Answer: Morocco

Question: In Greek mythology, which herald had a voice louder than 50 men combined?
Answer: Stentor

Question: In film and photography, what is the name for the distance in front of and behind the subject which appears to be in focus?
Answer: Depth of field

Question: In 1992, Boutros Boutros-Ghali became head of what organisation?
Answer: United Nations

Question: What type of instrument is a sitar?
Answer: Plucked strings

Question: What was the name of the security organisation that operated in East Germany during the Cold War?
Answer: Stasi

Question: What is the name of the chemical that naturally occurs in sheep's wool?
Answer: Lanolin

Question: Otto Lilienthal was an inventor whose designs and practice led to the first practical what in the 1890s?
Answer: Hang glider

Question: Sir Paul McCartney released an album, New, in 2013, with what as one of its distinguishing features?
Answer: It was the first for 6 years to consist entirely of new compositions

Question: Emilio Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Vicente Fernndez, Gilberto Gil and Carlos Santana were the first 5 recipients of which award from 2000 to 2004?
Answer: The Latin Recording Academy's Person of the Year

Question: What are Argon, Helium, Nitrogen, Neon and Xenon?
Answer: Inert gases

Question: Zonker, Boopsie and Roland Hedley appear in which comic strip?
Answer: Doonesbury

Question: In 1698 findings were published by the Royal Society, Britain, from the discovery near Llandeilo in Wales of fossils of what, the first recorded publication on the subject?
Answer: Trilobites

Question: Military signals are given on which musical instrument?
Answer: Bugle

Question: How many countries in South America have land which lies south of the equator?
Answer: 8

Question: Who in the 16th century founded the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits?
Answer: Ignatius de Loyola

Question: What long-running US TV series from the 1980s returned in June 2012, after a 21 year break?
Answer: Dallas

Question: Who appeared in the films "The Parent Trap" (1998), "Freaky Friday" (2003), "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" (2004), "Mean Girls" (2004), "Herbie: Fully Loaded" (2005), "Bobby" (2006) and "Machete" (2010)?
Answer: Lindsay Lohan

Question: Two of the characters in the US TV sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" are fans of work by whom, the source for their respective names?
Answer: Sheldon Leonard

Question: What is the name for the lowest point of a sound wave?
Answer: Trough

Question: Which of the four Gospels in the Christian New Testament is not a synoptic gospel?
Answer: John

Question: What is the name for the protein which is the main constituent of hair, horns, nails, claws and hooves of mammals?
Answer: Keratin

Question: Saint-Etienne is a city in which country?
Answer: France

Question: What thick rich soup is made from lobster or shellfish?
Answer: Bisque

Question: Craig Breedlove is mostly associated with which activity?
Answer: Setting land speed records

Question: The condition whereby hostages and their captors form sympathetic bonds is known as what?
Answer: Stockholm syndrome

Question: Beatrix Potter created a character called Jemima who?
Answer: Puddleduck

Question: Celebrated archaeologists Frederick Bligh Bond and later Dr C.A. Ralegh Radford excavated at Glastonbury Abbey in the 20th century searching for what remains?
Answer: King Arthur and Guinevere

Question: What was the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, first isolated on 19 October 1943 by Albert Schatz, a graduate student, in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University?
Answer: Streptomycin

Question: Who invented the saxophone in 1840?
Answer: Adolphe Sax

Question: Who is credited with overseeing the development of the computer mouse?
Answer: Douglas Engelbart

Question: The Little Red Book was required reading by whom?
Answer: Mao Zedong

Question: Classical Greek theatre, and several current theatre spaces, such as La Boite in Australia, The Globe in Canada, Blue Orange Theatre in the UK, L'Europen in France and Theatre '47 in the USA, specialise in what style of performance?
Answer: Theatre in the round

Question: What was unique about the yacht "Alinghi" which won the America's Cup in 2003?
Answer: It was sailed for a landlocked country, the first to win the race

Question: In which part of the body would you find the bone called the trapezium?
Answer: Wrist

Question: A Hawaiian pizza is topped with ham and what else?
Answer: Pineapple

Question: What body of water surrounds the Seychelles?
Answer: Indian Ocean

Question: What does a CD player use to read a CD?
Answer: Laser