Question: By 1929 actions of the Austrian Schober government, together with the simultaneous Wall Street Crash brought down the then largest and allegedly best-financed Austrian credit institution two years later and resulted in a global financial crisis and ultimately the bank failures of the Great Depression. What were the actions?
Answer: Hyperinflation, requiring the bank to take on weaker failing banks together with its own bad loans

Question: Where would one most usually find a wishbone boom?
Answer: Windsurfing equipment

Question: Which British prime minister resigned as a result of the Suez Crisis?
Answer: Anthony Eden

Question: What product was commercially introduced to Britain in 1930?
Answer: Sliced bread

Question: In 1840 Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom married her cousin. What was his name?
Answer: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Question: What is the full name of the organism found in abundance in the mammalian gut, and used as the host organism for the majority of work with recombinant DNA, in early commercial work the bacterium of choice for cloning and mass-producing new materials?
Answer: Escherichia coli

Question: What island off the coast of Iceland was formed in a volcanic eruption which began 130 m (426 ft) below sea level, reached the surface on 14 November 1963 and continued to 5 June 1967, when it measured 2.7 sq km (1 sq mile)?
Answer: Surtsey

Question: What are the mathematical odds of the perfect deal in a bridge hand (i.e. 13 cards all of one suit)
Answer: 158,753,389,899 to 1

Question: When the UK version of the biographical documentary "This Is Your Life" TV series aired who was the first presenter?
Answer: Eamonn Andrews

Question: It is considered to have been conceived in the West as an idea in 1508 and in its current highly-oxygen-permeable form 490 years later, and is..?
Answer: Contact lens

Question: At 8.5 million square km, and covering 5.5% of the earth's surface, what is the world's largest desert?
Answer: Sahara, North Africa

Question: Which newspaper, established in 1917, expressed the official views of the Soviet government and continued after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Izvestia

Question: In December 2005, Amelle Berrabah became a member of which group?
Answer: Sugababes

Question: What is the modern process used to make steel?
Answer: Linz-Donawitz

Question: A British comedy, first staged in London's West End in 1971 that ran for nearly a decade to packed audiences though unanimously panned by critics, was "No Sex, Please, We're " what?
Answer: British

Question: Which soprano, born Margaret McEathron, has appeared with the NY Philharmonic, LA Phlharmonic, & the LSO, and whose voice can be heard coming from Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", Deborah Kerr in "The King And I" and Natalie Wood & Rita Moreno in "West Side Story"?
Answer: Marni Nixon

Question: What did Bikini Atoll become famous for in 1946?
Answer: As the target for the USA to drop an atomic bomb as a test

Question: Who was Formula One Champion driver for 2013?
Answer: Sebastian Vettel

Question: Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker and Peter Mayhew are reprising some of the most famous film roles, filming 2014-5, but although they will be seen their faces will never appear. They are, respectively, C-3PO, R2-D2 and which other character?
Answer: Chewbacca

Question: Where would an oxbow be found?
Answer: Near a river

Question: Where does the dance called the "tarantella" have its roots?
Answer: Greece

Question: The Book of Mormon, central book of the Mormon faith developed in the 1820s, was published in Palmyra, New York, on what date?
Answer: March 26 1830

Question: Who is one of the stars of the film "Frost/Nixon" (2008)?
Answer: Michael Sheen

Question: What in the human body shows the effect of melanin?
Answer: Skin

Question: """Things to do before you die"" was the subject of which 2007 film?"
Answer: The Bucket List

Question: The Treaty of Brussels, the precursor to NATO and a basis for WEU, was signed on 17 March 1948 by Belgium, France, the UK, the Netherlands and which other nation?
Answer: Luxembourg

Question: In Star Wars, what is the name of Han Solo's companion?
Answer: Chewbacca

Question: In Western films, what is a bar regularly called?
Answer: Saloon

Question: In which country did the USA provide information to a 1963 coup, against General Abd al-Karim Qasim the then Prime Minister of the country?
Answer: Iraq

Question: In which continent is the country of Gabon found?
Answer: Africa

Question: In what constellation is the multiple star Polaris found?
Answer: Ursa Minor

Question: Sturgis in South Dakota, USA, annually hosts an international rally for racing, stunts and similar by what vehicles?
Answer: Motorbikes

Question: What sort of pie is a critical plot element in Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan"?
Answer: Veal and ham

Question: The drug "diazepam" is used chiefly to what?
Answer: Reduce anxiety

Question: In a lonely hearts advertisement, what does "GSOH" mean?
Answer: Good sense of humour

Question: Leni Riefenstahl was strongly associated with Adolf Hitler and the beginnings of the Third Reich in her capacity as what?
Answer: Film maker and director

Question: The three mascots for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics were a polar bear, a snow leopard and what other animal?
Answer: Snow hare

Question: When UK scientist Sir Timothy Berners-Lee finalised and implemented the first world wide web page on the internet at the end of 1990, for whom was he solving a problem?
Answer: European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Switzerland

Question: Which stringed instrument is named for its ability to convey a range of volume?
Answer: Piano

Question: Charlotte was the queen of which British king?
Answer: George III

Question: Who was instrumental in 1996 in bringing world attention to Dunblane Primary School?
Answer: Thomas Hamilton

Question: What club, the first of many bars with entertainment by big name drawcards, opened at 116 E. Walton in downtown Chicago, Illinois, USA on 29 February 1960?
Answer: Playboy

Question: What shape is the ground which has been home to the Surrey County Cricket Club since 1845?
Answer: Oval

Question: What system of rule is in place in Patagonia?
Answer: Combined republic and federal republic

Question: The War of the Pacific 1879-1883 was fought where?
Answer: Western South America

Question: A swallowtail is a type of what?
Answer: Butterfly

Question: Hebrew Noah, Babylonian Atrahasis and Sumerian Ziusudra were all known in their respective Epics for having which common preoccupation?
Answer: An overwhelming flood

Question: What shape hole is found in the resonating chamber of a banjo?
Answer: None, it does not have one

Question: In 1961 an entire American sports team was lost in a plane crash when travelling to the World Championships in its sport; which sport was it?
Answer: Figure skating

Question: Who owned the fictional plantation of Tara?
Answer: Scarlett O'Hara

Question: What was the first finished product to roll off Henry Ford's moving assembly line established in 1913?
Answer: Car

Question: In physics what is the triple point?
Answer: The temperature and pressure where a substance exists in equilibrium as gas, liquid and solid

Question: Who wrote "The Thirty Nine Steps"?
Answer: John Buchan

Question: The Jordan, Bear and Weber Rivers empty into which major lake in central USA?
Answer: Great Salt Lake

Question: What was significant about a recording released by Capitol Records In 1948 by Les Paul, entitled "Lover (When You're Near Me)", with "Brazil", on the B-side, that had begun as an experiment in Paul's garage?
Answer: It was the first time that multitracking had been used in a recording

Question: Where does the African continent lie most immediately?
Answer: South of Europe