Question: English couple Fred and Rosemary West were famous as what?
Answer: Serial killers

Question: What equation is considered to be remarkable for its "mathematical beauty", because 3 basic arithmetic operations occur exactly once each (addition, multiplication, and exponentiation), and it links five fundamental mathematical constants: (the numbers 0, 1, , e, and i)?
Answer: Euler's identity

Question: What name, currently used for the principal chamber of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland was given by Sinn Fein to the revolutionary parliament of the unilaterally declared Irish Republic that they set up in Dublin in 1919?
Answer: Dil ireann

Question: What game requires 6 hoops and 2 posts set up on a ground around 35 yards by 28 yards?
Answer: Croquet

Question: What is the meaning of "corpus delicti"?
Answer: It must be proven that a crime occurred before one can be convicted of committing it

Question: Which scholar and lawyer who became Speaker of the House of Commons and Treasurer of the Exchequer was beheaded for treason in 1534 after disagreeing with Henry VIII being head of the church?
Answer: Sir Thomas More

Question: Which Canadian-born bandleader and violinist was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame in 2002 for his accomplishments in hydroplane racing, such as winning the Gold Cup in 1946 and the Ford Memorial competition in 1948?
Answer: Guy Lombardo

Question: Which state of the USA calls itself the "Lone Star State"?
Answer: Texas

Question: What is a besom used to do?
Answer: Sweep

Question: In September 2009, where was it proposed to castrate paedophiles?
Answer: Poland

Question: What system of musical notation, originating in the 16th century, shows the fingering of notes on a fretted fingerboard?
Answer: Tablature

Question: Why was Yugoslav Anton Josipovic awarded a gold medal by default for the final of the Light Heavyweight boxing contest at the 1984 Olympic Games?
Answer: Neither of the two contenders in the other semi-final were eligible to fight him

Question: What system specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances from the point to two fixed perpendicular directed lines?
Answer: A Cartesian coordinate system

Question: Which country was ruled between 1971 and 1986 by Idi Amin, Milton Obote, General Tito Okello and Yoweri Museveni?
Answer: Uganda

Question: Duffel coats were named after a town in which country?
Answer: Belgium

Question: The term "Royal Ascot" is associated with which sport?
Answer: Horse racing

Question: What is an eye defect due to the abnormal formation of the cornea or lens resulting in an inability to see horizontal and vertical objects clearly, simultaneously?
Answer: Astigmatism

Question: Until the introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002, which country had the Deutsche Mark as its basic currency unit?
Answer: Germany

Question: Which Scottish ballerina made her international debut in 1941, married Ludovic Kennedy in 1950, appeared in films from 1948 to 1960, and died in 2006?
Answer: Moira Shearer

Question: Where did Malcolm Campbell set a water speed record of 141.74 m.p.h. in 1938?
Answer: Coniston Water

Question: Which team won the inaugural tournament of the Rugby World Cup in 1987, which was hosted by both Australia and New Zealand?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: An impala is a type of what?
Answer: Antelope

Question: In England, it was decided in October 2009 to make which 182 year old newspaper a free give away?
Answer: The Evening Standard

Question: Who are "The Dixie Chicks" whose success began in 1998 with songs like "Wide Open Spaces", "Cowboy Take Me Away", and "Long Time Gone", winning 5 Grammy Awards in 2007?
Answer: Martie Maguire, Emily Robison & Natalie Maines

Question: Who was the first president of the USA?
Answer: Washington

Question: In the TV series "Emmerdale", how is Zak Dingle related to Chastity Dingle?
Answer: Uncle

Question: Lon de Lunden killed 21 of what to win his gold medal at the 1900 Olympic Games?
Answer: Pigeons

Question: What was the name of The Beatles' manager who died from a drug overdose in 1967?
Answer: Brian Epstein

Question: Which military decoration is awarded to recognize people "being wounded or killed in any action against an enemy of the United States or as a result of an act of any such enemy or opposing armed forces"?
Answer: Purple Heart

Question: Where is the Tynwald the legislative body?
Answer: Isle of Man

Question: What shape are the 20 faces of a icosahedron?
Answer: Triangles

Question: How does the Bishop of Durham sign himself?
Answer: Dunelm

Question: Which country was established in 1822 by the American Colonization Society (A.C.S.)?
Answer: Liberia

Question: What coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, England, near the River Ouse, has the highest generating capacity of any power station in the UK and Western Europe?
Answer: Drax

Question: Who opened their own business in 1885, by 1890 was recognized as one of France's foremost Art Nouveau jewellery designers, and in the 1920s became famous for his work in the Art Deco style?
Answer: Ren Lalique

Question: According to Cole Porter's song, who regretted not being able to come to lunch?
Answer: Miss Otis

Question: What specially built city has been the capital of Nigeria since 1991, when it was moved from Lagos?
Answer: Abuja

Question: Edward VIII of the United Kingdom reigned for less than a year in 1936. Why was his reign so short?
Answer: He abdicted to marry an American divorce

Question: Who was the only President to have two women attempt to assassinate him - and in the same month?
Answer: Gerald Ford

Question: At which Winter Olympic Games were the mascots called Neve (which was a female snowball), and Gliz (which was a male ice cube)?
Answer: 2006, Turin, Italy

Question: Alveoli are found in which part of the body?
Answer: Lungs

Question: What chemical compound of 1 carbon and 4 hydrogen atoms is the simplest alkane, and the principal component of natural gas?
Answer: Methane

Question: Which Pope was carried off into France by Bonaparte's troops in 1798?
Answer: Pius VI

Question: What relationship had the Sword of Damocles to Damocles?
Answer: It hung over his head

Question: Mary Baker Eddy founded which religion?
Answer: Christian Science

Question: Who played the longest tennis match at Wimbledon?
Answer: Pancho Gonzalez and Charlie Passarell, 1969

Question: What is the name for a large gathering of boy scouts?
Answer: Jamboree

Question: Ex-US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice plays which musical instrument?
Answer: Piano

Question: Who was an American-born Greek soprano opera singer who had a public love affair with Aristotle Onassis?
Answer: Maria Callas

Question: Which country has 6 time zones called Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern, Atlantic and Newfoundland?
Answer: Canada

Question: Someone in disgrace is said to be where?
Answer: In the dog box

Question: Which play and film was adapted from a story by Christopher Isherwood and later adapted as the musical and film "Cabaret"?
Answer: I Am A Camera

Question: What causes a screeching sound when a live microphone is put too close to a speaker?
Answer: Feedback

Question: Which ancient country to the south west of the Caspian Sea had rulers called Deioces, Phraortes, Cyaxares and Astyages?
Answer: Media

Question: The line "You're a selfish narcissistic psycho freaking boot licking Nazi creep" is from which song?
Answer: """Handle Me"" by Robyn"

Question: In both Greek and Roman mythology, who was the twin of Castor?
Answer: Pollux

Question: Who is the mother of actors Oliver and Kate Hudson?
Answer: Goldie Hawn

Question: Leopold of Saxe-Coburg was invited to be the first king of what country in 1831 after it gained independence from the Dutch?
Answer: Belgium

Question: What is the longest river in Ireland?
Answer: Shannon