Question: Who had the title role in the 1996 film "The Nutty Professor"?
Answer: Eddie Murphy

Question: What is Andrew Stanton most associated with?
Answer: Pixar Animation Studios

Question: Claudius is the murderous uncle of which character in a Shakespearean play?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: The word "pronto" comes to English from which language?
Answer: Spanish

Question: What country is the world's largest coffee grower?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Michael J Fox played which character in the "Back to the Future" trilogy (1985-1990)?
Answer: Marty McFly

Question: What live in an artificial environment known as a formicarium?
Answer: Ants

Question: What body of water between Israel and Jordan fed by the Jordan River has no outlet stream?
Answer: Dead Sea

Question: The Koran was written in what language?
Answer: Arabic

Question: Who was Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, was then imprisoned for over two years and burnt at the stake for heresy?
Answer: Thomas Cranmer

Question: Countries which in the 19th century permanently abolished the death penalty were the Roman Republic (1849), Venezuela (1854), San Marino (1865), and which other?
Answer: Portugal

Question: What 2003 film, starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz, was based on a book by John Grisham?
Answer: Runaway Jury

Question: Which country between the Andes mountain range and the Atlantic Ocean has borders with Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay?
Answer: Argentina

Question: The Dalai Lama is a high lama in which religion?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: Hazards created or used to challenge a golfer near the green where the ball needs to be sunk are bunkers (usually filled with sand), water such as lakes or rivers, and which else?
Answer: Dense vegetation and/or rough grass

Question: Who was US Ambassador to Great Britain at the start of World War II, from 1938 to 1940?
Answer: Joseph P Kennedy, Snr.

Question: What was the first name of the poet Coleridge?
Answer: Samuel

Question: The first successful public operation under which anaesthetic was carried out at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846 by William Morton?
Answer: Ether

Question: An orchestra frequently tunes to an A provided by which instrument?
Answer: Oboe

Question: What was the name of Vincent Van Gogh's brother?
Answer: Theo

Question: Waterford Crystal was manufactured in Waterford City, Ireland, from 1783 until the factory was shut down after the receivership of Waterford Wedgwood plc in what year?
Answer: 2009

Question: In May 2010, what store was sold to Qatar Holdings by Mohammed Al Fayed for 1.5 billion?
Answer: Harrods

Question: What shape is the course used for snail racing championships?
Answer: Circle, radius approximately 14 inches (35 cm)

Question: The standard negative pulldown for 35 mm motion picture film is four perforations per frame along both edges, which makes for exactly how many frames per foot?
Answer: 16

Question: The phrase "The Dashing White Sergeant" refers to ...?
Answer: Dance

Question: In 1642, Cardinal Mazarin succeeded whom as Chief Minister of France?
Answer: Cardinal Richelieu

Question: Why did the Roslin Institute in Scotland become known world-wide in 1996?
Answer: The birth of the cloned sheep, Dolly

Question: In which conflict between 1455 and 1485 were there battles at St Albans, Northampton, Wakefield, Towton, Barnet, Tewksebury and Bosworth?
Answer: The Wars of the Roses

Question: Who played the title role in the 1998 film "Blade"?
Answer: Wesley Snipes

Question: Who wrote the music forthe 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance patter song "I am the very model of a modern Major-General"?
Answer: Sir Arthur Sullivan

Question: What is an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight, distorted body image and an obsessive fear of gaining weight which has an incidence of between 8 and 13 cases per 100,000 persons per year, and largely affects young adolescent women?
Answer: Anorexia nervosa

Question: Where is the world's largest underground natural chamber?
Answer: Sarawak, Malaysia

Question: The budgerigar is native to which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: What was the first name of the English Prime Ministers known as Pitt the Elder and Pitt the Younger?
Answer: William

Question: What do the French call "crme anglais"?
Answer: Custard

Question: Which group of 6 women in ancient Rome each had a term of office of 30 years (10 to be trained, 10 to work, including keeping a flame alive, and 10 to educate others)?
Answer: Vestal Virgins

Question: An American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, is Edgar Rice who?
Answer: Burroughs

Question: In 1936, prototypes of a car called "strength through joy", with a round shape and air-cooled, flat-four, rear-mounted engine, appeared and was developed to become which car that is still recognisable?
Answer: Volkswagen Beetle

Question: What was one aspect characterising the races for the Louis Vuitton Cup in 2013?
Answer: For much of some of the races there was only one boat competing

Question: Which area, which translates as "the land of five rivers", is on the border between India and Pakistan?
Answer: Punjab

Question: Who was the first President of Czechoslovakia?
Answer: Tom Masaryk

Question: At the Battle of Bannockburn, an army led by Robert the Bruce defeated troops led by whom?
Answer: Edward II

Question: What element has the symbol "P"?
Answer: Phosphorus

Question: What is a dish that originated in 19th-century Russia, of sauted pieces of beef served in a sauce with sour cream?
Answer: Beef Stroganoff

Question: Which autonomous region within the Kingdom of the Netherlands is a 33-kilometre (21 mile) long island with a land area of 193 km2 (75 sq miles) in the southern Caribbean Sea?
Answer: Aruba

Question: What Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor was granted a peerage in 1917, was the first Minister of Information responsible for allied propaganda in allied and neutral countries in 1918 and, during World War II, was Minister of Aircraft Production and Minister of Supply?
Answer: Lord Beaverbrook

Question: In classical music, what is the deepest female singing voice?
Answer: Contralto

Question: In the American War of 1812 against Great Britain the ship now known as Old Ironsides defeated five British warships (HMS Guerriere, HMS Java, HMS Pictou, HMS Cyane and HMS Levant). She is still afloat. What name was she commissioned under?
Answer: USS Constitution

Question: In which sport do participants compete for "the Auld Mug"?
Answer: Yachting

Question: Where is the town that is the setting for the animated TV series "South Park"?
Answer: Rocky Mountains, Colorado

Question: Who played "Charlie" in the 2005 film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"?
Answer: Freddie Highmore

Question: What is the name of the killer rat that features in the 1973 film "Willard"?
Answer: Ben

Question: What is the name commonly used for a location system for radio transmission?
Answer: Huff-duff

Question: What nationality is Richard O'Brien, the writer of the stage musical "The Rocky Horror Show"?
Answer: New Zealander

Question: In Greek mythology, what was left in Pandora's box after the evils, ills, diseases, and burdensome labour had escaped?
Answer: Hope

Question: A film released in 2000 starring Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson tells the life story of which painter?
Answer: Jackson Pollock

Question: What name is given to a railway in which a cable attached to a pair of vehicles on rails moves them up and down a steep slope, the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalancing each other?
Answer: Funicular

Question: Ronnie Scott's club in London is the venue for what kind of music?
Answer: Jazz