Question: If something is called "tuppenny ha'penny" what is meant?
Answer: It is virtually worthless

Question: Who is the ringmaster in the UK TV series "QI"?
Answer: Stephen Fry

Question: Who was the US president when women got the vote in the USA due to the ratification of The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Question: In 1961, the office of the Postmaster General of Australia introduced which emergency telephone number in major population centres and, near the end of the 1980s, extended the coverage nationwide?
Answer: 000

Question: Who created the comic strip "Doonesbury"?
Answer: Garry Trudeau

Question: The English parliament met for the first time under that name in which century?
Answer: 13th

Question: Daniel Craig played Ted Hughes in what 2003 film?
Answer: Sylvia

Question: What is an ornamental string of feathers?
Answer: Boa

Question: According to Greek legend, which of the 9 muses was the muse of Comedy?
Answer: Thalia

Question: What is the setting for the first film titled "Night at the Museum" (2006) an adventure comedy film based on a 1993 children's book by Milan Trenc?
Answer: American Museum of Natural History, New York City

Question: Where did the borzoi dog breed originate?
Answer: Russia

Question: Who was the father of Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: George VI

Question: What branch of the British military wear red caps?
Answer: Military police

Question: John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their famous "bed ins" for peace In which two cities in 1969?
Answer: Amsterdam and Montreal

Question: Antonia Robinson and Anna Valentine, London designers who work under the name Robinson Valentine, designed a cream-coloured dress and coat worn by whom at her wedding to Prince Charles on 9 April 2005?
Answer: Camilla Parker Bowles

Question: Where is the Great Karoo found?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Obsidian, caused naturally when lava cools very quickly, is what type of substance?
Answer: Glass

Question: She has figured in plays by John Lyly, Sir W.S. Gilbert, Lawrence Aronovitch, and George Bernard Shaw as well as in novels, opera, painting, and a video game as well as in place and ship names. Who is she?
Answer: Galatea

Question: Which Greek city was also known as Lacedaemon?
Answer: Sparta

Question: Who is the main character in "Blondie", a comic strip which appeared around 1933, who was originally heir to a fortune but was disowned when he married a flapper, Blondie Boopadoop?
Answer: Dagwood Bumstead

Question: What is "La Sorbonne" in Paris?
Answer: University

Question: The Colorado beetle destroys what kind of crop?
Answer: Potato

Question: Which is the strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania?
Answer: Bass Strait

Question: The Kalahari Desert in Africa stretches across South Africa, Botswana and which other country?
Answer: Namibia

Question: At the 1925 Wimbledon Championships, the finals of the Men's Singles were contested by Ren Lacoste who defeated Jean Borotra and the finals of the Women's Singles by Suzanne Lenglen who defeated Joan Fry Lakeman. Three of these players were French: what nationality was the other?
Answer: English

Question: An astrolabe was used for astrology, navigation and what else?
Answer: Astronomy

Question: Colombia's shores are in the Caribbean Sea and which other body of water?
Answer: Pacific Ocean

Question: One of the forms of music usually sung a capella is...?
Answer: Madrigal

Question: Kathleen Brennan produced albums for which musician, starting with his 1983 album "Swordfishtrombones"?
Answer: Tom Waits

Question: Adriano De Souza, Joel Parkinson, Adam Robertson, Bobby Martinez, Kelly Slater, Damien Hobgood, Mick Fanning, Dane Reynolds, Bede Durbidge, Chris Davidson & Taj Burrow are international competitors in what sport?
Answer: Surfing

Question: The word "Scandinavian" refers to which part of the world?
Answer: Northern Europe

Question: What is the name of the ripple effect caused by spectators standing up successively and raising their arms?
Answer: Mexican wave

Question: What is the principal ore of aluminium?
Answer: Bauxite

Question: After a military coup on 21 March 2009, in which country did Andry Rajoelina became the youngest of the current heads of state in the world and the youngest head of state in Africa?
Answer: Madagascar

Question: What has been the longest-running comedy in US TV history?
Answer: The Simpsons

Question: In Greek mythology Argus Panoptes, guardian of the heifer-nymph Io and son of Arestor, was a primordial giant described as having multiple, often one hundred, what?
Answer: Eyes

Question: From the 1850s up to WW I, passport requirements effectively disappeared in the UK and Europe. What is understood to have led to this?
Answer: Rapid expansion of railway travel

Question: What name is given to ducks which feed mainly at the surface rather than by diving?
Answer: Dabbling ducks

Question: The Fast5 World Netball Series, first contested in October 2009 under modified rules, was scheduled to be held in Manchester, England, initially but was played where in 2012?
Answer: Auckland, New Zealand

Question: The ancient Maya, Toltec and Aztec civilisations centred generally on which area?
Answer: The land between the continents of North and South America

Question: Who wrote the historical romances "The White Company" and "Brigadier Gerard"?
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

Question: Austro-Hungarian Theodore Herzl was the first leader of what international movement?
Answer: Zionism

Question: What is the name for the movement of water across a partially permeable membrane from an area of high water potential (low solute concentration) to an area of low water potential (high solute concentration)?
Answer: Osmosis

Question: What play is seldom referred to in theatre by its own name but called instead "the Scottish play"?
Answer: Macbeth

Question: What sea between Israel and Jordan is 1,385 feet (422 metres) below sea level?
Answer: Dead Sea

Question: The term "blue collar" refers to what?
Answer: Manual workers in industry

Question: Which African kingdom, founded by Osei Tutu in the 1670s, was increased until 1701, fought 4 wars against Britain between 1823 and 1896 until, in 1900, it was incorporated into the Gold Coast colony as a protectorate?
Answer: Ashanti

Question: Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain during the Edward VIII abdication crisis?
Answer: Stanley Baldwin

Question: Who were remarried (for the second time) in January 2006, and redivorced less than three months later?
Answer: Eminem and Kimberly Anne Scott

Question: Forty hours before he committed suicide in 1945 Adolf Hitler married whom?
Answer: Eva Braun

Question: What term is given to an infection when it is maintained in a human population without external inputs?
Answer: Endemic

Question: What note does an orchestra tune to?
Answer: A above middle C

Question: What is used in the technique for opening a champagne bottle called "sabrage"?
Answer: Sword

Question: Who scored the league winning goal for Manchester City in the 2011/12 Premier League season?
Answer: Sergio Agero

Question: What is a plectrum used for?
Answer: Picking a stringed instrument

Question: A major Middle Eastern city is...?
Answer: Beirut

Question: What paradise was created by James Hilton in his book "Lost Horizon"?
Answer: Shangri-La

Question: Film actor Russell Crowe was born in which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Who is the main character in a film whose plotline begins in 1845 in Canada, when young James Howlett kills a groundskeeper named Thomas Logan, who was John Howlett's murderer?
Answer: Wolverine

Question: When were Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria formally amalgamated?
Answer: 1914

Question: What is the street term for the drug Gamma-Hydroxibutyric acid (GHB)?
Answer: Fantasy

Question: What do Switzerland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia have in common?
Answer: None of them has a seaport