Question: What is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city?
Answer: Ankara

Question: Where is the Gulf of Bothnia?
Answer: Baltic Sea

Question: The lead character in the TV series "Lovejoy", which was based on stories by John Grant (under the pen name Jonathan Gash), was an expert in what?
Answer: Antiques

Question: Who launched a perfume called "Lovely"in 2005?
Answer: Sarah Jessica Parker

Question: The record for the most nations represented in a single event (79) was in 1996. What was the event?
Answer: Men's marathon

Question: A "mufti" is a legal expert in what religion?
Answer: Islam

Question: In 1978 George Moscone, the mayor of which city, and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by ex-supervisor Dan White?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: What is the sum of the even numbers between 1 and 9?
Answer: 20

Question: The painting that has the words "ceci n'est pas une pipe" written on it, is by which artist?
Answer: Magritte

Question: What world leader surprisingly announced his resignation on 31 December 1999?
Answer: Boris Yeltsin

Question: Which term was coined by the US computer scientist Grace Hopper in 1945?
Answer: Bug

Question: Kanukai Jackson represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games at what sport?
Answer: Gymnastics

Question: Vientiane is the capital of which country?
Answer: Laos

Question: Artists Chuck Close, Henri-Edmond Cross, John Roy, Georges-Pierre Seurat, Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce and Vincent van Gogh painted in what style?
Answer: Pointillism

Question: What does the SI unit "Newton" measure?
Answer: Force

Question: Before becoming president of the USA, why did Hiram Ulysses Grant change his name to Ulysses S. Grant?
Answer: The Military Academy at West Point had his name wrong

Question: Which British boxer lost the heavyweight title in 1972?
Answer: Ken Buchanan

Question: What was the setting for the 1960s children's TV adventure series "Daktari"?
Answer: East Africa

Question: Which country occupies the islands called Euboea, Kefalonia, Khos, Zakynthos, Thassos, Lefkada, Karpathos and Kythira?
Answer: Greece

Question: Who adopted the surname "Mountbatten" in 1947?
Answer: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Question: Which inn that stood on the east side of Borough High Street in Southwark accommodated pilgrims headed on annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Thomas Beckett in Canterbury Cathedral, and is mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"?
Answer: The Tabard

Question: In 1958, the Dodgers baseball team moved to Los Angeles from where?
Answer: Brooklyn, New York

Question: At which city was Kai Tak airport replaced by Chek Lap Kok in 1998?
Answer: Hong Kong

Question: Edward Elgar's March no 1 in D contains the tune of what song?
Answer: Land of Hope and Glory

Question: What was the name given to the line of German defences that ran across Italy from east to west just north of Florence?
Answer: Gothic Line

Question: In the musical "West Side Story", where have about half of the characters (including "Maria" and her family) emigrated from?
Answer: Puerto Rico

Question: Who is the protagonist in the Tomb Raider series of computer games?
Answer: Lara Croft

Question: Who is the author of the fiction books "Lace" (published in 1982), "Lace 2" (1985), "Savages" (1987), "Crimson" (1992), "Tiger Eyes" (1994), "Revenge of Mimi Quinn" (1998) and "The Amazing Umbrella Shop" (1990)?
Answer: Shirley Conran

Question: The minting of which English gold coin began in 1663, and ceased in 1817?
Answer: Guinea

Question: What was the first name of the "Rambo" character created by Sylvester Stallone?
Answer: John

Question: What is the word in music for any set of different notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously?
Answer: Chord

Question: In 1835, why did Richard Lawrence, an unemployed housepainter from England, fail in the first attempt to kill a sitting President of the US, Andrew Jackson?
Answer: Both his pistols misfired

Question: The Oscar statuettes are made of gold-plated britannium. During World War II, they were made of what material?
Answer: Plaster

Question: What programme run by the US Government since 1961 involves volunteers who work abroad for 24 months in the areas of education, business, information technology, agriculture & the environment?
Answer: The Peace Corps

Question: What was Ellis Island, in New York harbour, used for from 1892 to 1954?
Answer: Processing immigrants to the USA

Question: What German engineer led the design teams for the V2 rocket that blitzed London and the Saturn V rocket for the US space programme?
Answer: Werner von Braun

Question: Who was the female lead in the film "Leprechaun"?
Answer: Jennifer Aniston

Question: The first playoff tiebreaker in Major League Baseball history was held on 1 & 3 October 1946, a best-of-three playoff to decide the winner of the MLB National League (NL) conference, between which 2 teams?
Answer: St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers

Question: What is the largest moon of Pluto?
Answer: Charon

Question: In the British TV series "Til Death Do Us Part", who played Alf Garnett's wife?
Answer: Dandy Nichols

Question: What type of drink is "scrumpy"?
Answer: Cider

Question: What are Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, The Inner Temple and The Middle Temple, all in London?
Answer: Inns of Court

Question: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are mentioned in what 1982 hit song?
Answer: """Key Largo"" by Bertie Higgins"

Question: What is the word for a plant which grows on something else, using moisture and food from the environment other than what is supporting it?
Answer: Epiphyte

Question: Who plays Mark Sloan in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
Answer: Patrick Dempsey

Question: The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C. in 1949 by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, UK, US, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Canada and which other country?
Answer: Iceland

Question: Which artist was the architect for the dome of St Peter's Basilica, Rome?
Answer: Michelangelo

Question: The Super Bowl, the championship game of the premier association of professional American football, was first held in what year?
Answer: 1967

Question: Because of a disputed election result in December 2010, two candidates, Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara, were separately sworn in as the winner of the presidential election in which country?
Answer: Cte d'Ivoire

Question: Marie Curie named which element in homage to her homeland?
Answer: Polonium

Question: Which US president declared the first national Mother's Day in the USA?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Question: What device enables a player to use the same chord shapes on a guitar to be played a number of frets higher to raise the key uniformly?
Answer: Capo

Question: In climbing and mountaineering, where are crampons worn?
Answer: Feet

Question: Dr Kay Scarpetta was invented by which author?
Answer: Patricia Cornwell

Question: The autonomous region of Catalonia is in which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: The Abominable Snowman, a mythological ape-like cryptid said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet, is also known as what?
Answer: Yeti

Question: In 1963, US President Johnson imposed a 25 % tax (almost 10 times the average) on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks, resulting in VW vans and pickups disappearing from the U.S. market. Why?
Answer: France and West Germany had placed tariffs on imports of US chicken

Question: Magnus Carlsen, at the age of 18, became the world's youngest what?
Answer: Chess champion

Question: A song written by Chuck Berry is "Roll Over ... " who?
Answer: Beethoven

Question: What district in the south of Rio de Janeiro has a beach 4km long?
Answer: Copacabana

Question: What is the chemical symbol for tin?
Answer: Sn

Question: What are dehydrated to make raisins?
Answer: Grapes