Question: What is the study of the production of very low temperature and the behaviour of materials at those temperatures?
Answer: Cryogenics

Question: What rock is where the "Pilgrim Fathers" are said to have landed in North America in 1620?
Answer: Plymouth

Question: Which team beat the defending champions, Russia, 21 in the final of the 2010 Ice Hockey World Championships?
Answer: Czech Republic

Question: Sake is fermented from what?
Answer: Rice

Question: What is the collective name for table items such as salt, mustard, vinegar and pepper?
Answer: Condiments

Question: Which British ruler was nicknamed "The Merry Monarch"?
Answer: Charles II

Question: Which country voted in November 2012 to work to become the 51st state of the USA?
Answer: Puerto Rico

Question: Which World Championship inaugurated in 1963 has been dominated primarily by the Australian and New Zealand national teams?
Answer: Netball

Question: What Hindu practice involves a widow throwing herself onto her husband's funeral pyre?
Answer: Suttee

Question: What is the name for the coloured part around the pupil of the eye?
Answer: Iris

Question: The 1983 film "Staying Alive" was the sequel to what film?
Answer: Saturday Night Fever

Question: The "Big Day Out" is what?
Answer: A music festival

Question: What free trade area that came into effect on 1 January 2010 is the largest free trade area in terms of population and third largest in terms of volume?
Answer: Acfta

Question: What is the meaning of the medical term "tachycardia"?
Answer: Abnormally fast heart rate

Question: John Muir is known as the father of which US national institution?
Answer: National Park service

Question: What name is given to the area above the stage into which scenery can be raised?
Answer: Flies

Question: How many centimetres are there in 3.5 metres?
Answer: 350

Question: The Tour de France is traditionally held in what month of the year?
Answer: July

Question: Following the 1997 return of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China to become a special administrative region, Macau was returned to become its second special administrative region. When was that?
Answer: 1999

Question: A businessman with the surname of Masterley is the subject of a comic strip. What is his first name, and the title of the strip?
Answer: Alex

Question: Rameses the Great presided over what empire?
Answer: Egyptian

Question: What is credited in Western media with having caused the political downfall in 2012 of Bo Xilai, a senior Chinese leader and party chief in the south-western metropolis of Chongqing?
Answer: His wife's suspected involvement in the murder of a British businessman

Question: Which two countries between them have won every Netball World Championship since its inception in 1963?
Answer: Australia and New Zealand

Question: Where was the first FIFA Club World Championship, a football competition contested between the world's champion clubs, held in 2000?
Answer: Brazil

Question: What is the name of the large seat covered with red cloth, being the seat of the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords, the Upper House of the UK Parliament?
Answer: The Woolsack

Question: """Campbell's Soup Cans"", produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol, consists of a number of canvases, each 20 inches by 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm), each with a painting of a can. How many canvases are there?"
Answer: 32

Question: Who was the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1964 to 1965 and the first Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979?
Answer: Ian Smith

Question: Kikuyu and Tutsi are two types of what?
Answer: African tribes

Question: Which Scotswoman is an Oscar, Brit and Grammy award-winning pop musician and vocalist who, after 3 years as lead singer of "The Tourists", formed the duo "Eurythmics" with British musician Dave Stewart?
Answer: Annie Lennox

Question: What machine, that enables a person to breathe when the work of breathing exceeds their ability to do so, was invented by Phillip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw in 1928 and improved upon by John Haven "Jack" Emerson in 1931?
Answer: Iron lung

Question: What is the country of origin of the cheese called "edam"?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I of England?
Answer: Anne Boleyn

Question: Which phrase that first came to public attention as a U.S. television commercial for the Wendy's chain of hamburger restaurants in 1984 became associated with the 1984 U.S. presidential election when Walter Mondale ridiculed Gary Hart's candidacy?
Answer: Where's the beef?

Question: What are the main ingredients of a Waldorf salad?
Answer: Raw apples, celery, grapes & walnuts in mayonnaise

Question: The FAI awards the Leonardo da Vinci Diploma annually in what discipline?
Answer: Parachuting

Question: Vermicide is used to kill what?
Answer: Worms

Question: What is the mental disorder OCD?
Answer: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Question: What cemetery near Sturgis, South Dakota, is associated with a gold rush, land wars, and a famous 19th century last stand?
Answer: Black Hills National Cemetery

Question: Who wrote the book "In His Own Write", published in March 1964, and the follow up, "A Spaniard in the Works", published in June 1965?
Answer: John Lennon

Question: What was the occupation of Willy Loman in the play written in 1949 by Arthur Miller?
Answer: Salesman

Question: Traditionally, to whom would one go to buy cloth?
Answer: A draper

Question: Acapulco sits in the foothills of which mountain range?
Answer: Sierra Madre del Sur

Question: Twin English playwrights, the play of one of whom famously starred in 2007 a graduate of the Harry Potter film series, share what family name?
Answer: Shaffer

Question: If you flew due west from Libreville, capital of the Gabon, where would you first make landfall?
Answer: The mouth of the Amazon River

Question: What international sporting body is based in Dublin, Ireland?
Answer: International Rugby Board

Question: Who wrote the lyrics to Burt Bacharach's music for the songs including "The Look of Love", "Walk on By", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "This Guy's in Love with You" and "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"?
Answer: Hal David

Question: Who was the writer of the books on which the UK comedy TV series "Doctor in the House" (1969-70) were based?
Answer: Richard Gordon

Question: The wettest and greenest part of Africa lies roughly between the Tropic of Capricorn and which latitude?
Answer: 10 degrees north

Question: Charles II was the sovereign during which period of British history?
Answer: Restoration

Question: What provides the staple diet of a koala?
Answer: Eucalyptus tree

Question: What mythical monster In Greek mythology with the face of a woman and the body of a vulture stole food and was an agent of punishment, abducted people and tortured them?
Answer: Harpy

Question: The pirate radio station Radio Caroline was named after the daughter of which US President?
Answer: John F Kennedy

Question: During the production of the Disney animated feature "Fantasia", what nickname was given by the animation department to the unnamed sorcerer in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment?
Answer: Yen Sid

Question: Which country has, at various times, been known as "Kingdom of" (1918), "Democratic Federal" (1943) "Federal People's Republic of" (1946), "Socialist Federal Republic of" (1963) and "Federal Republic of" (1992 to 2003)?
Answer: Yugoslavia

Question: A relatively modern religion laying claim to roots in an ancient belief system is...?
Answer: Wiccan

Question: Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa & Andrea Dovizioso compete in what sport?
Answer: Motorcycling

Question: How many proper nouns are there in the sentence "On Saturday Ruth is going to fly in an Airbus 380 with her son Christopher and her daughter Naomi to Phoenix, Arizona to attend a family reunion."?
Answer: 7