Question: Who lived with his father (Howard), his mother (Marion), and his sister Joanie and had friends called Potsie Weber, Ralph Malph and Arthur Fonzarelli?
Answer: Richie Cunningham

Question: On Monday 20 July 2015 what happened in Washington, USA, for the first time in 54 years?
Answer: The Cuban flag was raised over the newly re-opened Cuban Embassy

Question: In West Africa what is a griot?
Answer: An oral historian, conveyor of religious text, and storyteller poet and/or musician

Question: Which comic character first appeared in Action Comics #1 in June 1938?
Answer: Superman

Question: With which sport are Rodney Eyles, Peter Nicol, Susan Devoy and Cassie Campion associated?
Answer: Squash

Question: Where is the town of Asbestos?
Answer: Canada

Question: Which Hollywood star married baseball hero Joe DiMaggio?
Answer: Marilyn Munroe

Question: George H. W. Bush was vice president to whom?
Answer: Reagan

Question: What about an 11 stringed lute resonates with a type of mushroom?
Answer: Chanterelle

Question: Who was Vice President to US President Ronald Reagan during his terms from 1981 to 1989?
Answer: George H W Bush

Question: What is the southernmost point in territory claimed by Chile?
Answer: South Pole

Question: """Wicked"" by Stephen Schwartz & Winnie Holzman, which is loosely based on a novel by Gregory Maguire, is about who?"
Answer: The Wicked Witch of the West from "The Wizard of Oz"

Question: Which son of an actor, also an actor, was awarded the US Navy's Legion of Merit with bronze V (for valour), the Italian War Cross for Military Valour, the French Lgion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre with Palm, the British Distinguished Service Cross?
Answer: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Question: A 1982 film directed by Ingmar Bergman, initially prepared for television as a 4 part serial, was what?
Answer: Fanny and Alexander

Question: What sounds the closest to a low point?
Answer: Nadia

Question: Niccol Machiavelli, Thomas Carlyle, and Thomas Macaulay share a scholarly interest in what?
Answer: History

Question: Glacier-formed fjords can be found on the coasts of Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, north east Siberia, the Kerguelen Islands, New Zealand, British Columbia, Nunavut, Washington and where else?
Answer: Chile

Question: The liqueur Grand Marnier contains the distilled essence of what fruit?
Answer: Bitter orange

Question: Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and what other country feature in this order as the least corrupt countries in Transparency International's 2014 Corruptions Index?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: In 1906 which country became the second in the world since the 18th century to grant full suffrage to all adult citizens, and the first country in the world to grant all women full political rights?
Answer: Finland

Question: What was the sporting fixture called Baku 2015?
Answer: The inaugural European Games

Question: The name of a 19th century Warden of New College, Oxford, UK, is given to which play on words, deliberate or not, in which corresponding sounds are switched between words?
Answer: Spoonerism

Question: Which is a security agency administered by the Ministry of Justice in Japan ?
Answer: The Public Security Intelligence Agency

Question: What was the purpose of the English "Navigation Act" of 1651?
Answer: To prevent import of goods except in British ships, or ships of the country of origin

Question: The organising committee of the 1960 Winter Olympic games decided to exclude which sport due to the expense of building a track?
Answer: Bobsleigh

Question: What was the name of the otter, the subject of a novel by Henry Williamson that was first published in 1927?
Answer: Tarka

Question: An eruption in Iceland, known as the Laki eruption, where lava erupted from a 17-mile crack rather than from a standard volcano and lava tubes extended lava travel to more than 50 miles, devastated the country killing 80% of livestock, caused starvation for over 20% of the population, and affected areas as far as Africa and Asia. When was this?
Answer: 1783-4

Question: Development of the iron lung with which Drinker and Shaw's names are associated, and which was used to aid polio victims, was first funded by which body?
Answer: Consolidated Gas Company of New York

Question: Who was killed when a helicopter crashed in dense fog on 27 August 1990 in East Troy, Wisconsin?
Answer: Stevie Ray Vaughan

Question: The Sundance Film Festival, that began in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival, is for what type of films?
Answer: New work from independent filmmakers

Question: The original terms of reference of the International Whaling Commission were to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry"; what did the Commission do in 1982?
Answer: Adopted a moratorium on commercial whaling

Question: Its capital is Monrovia, its first settlements were founded in 1822 on land bought from local tribal leaders, it was initially a protectorate of the USA but independent from 1847; what country is it?
Answer: The Republic of Liberia

Question: Every year since 1947 which two countries have commemorated the support given by one of them to the other during Word War II, by the gift of a Christmas tree?
Answer: Norway thanks Great Britain

Question: Which king of England was called "the wisest fool in Christendom"?
Answer: James I

Question: The 2011 US crime drama TV series "The Killing" was based on a work created by whom?
Answer: Sren Sveistrup

Question: What is toasted garlic bread drizzled with olive oil seasoned with salt and pepper and served warm, called?
Answer: Bruschetta

Question: Who, called the "King of Jazz", was the leader of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s, commissioned and debuted George Gershwin's jazz-influenced "Rhapsody In Blue" in 1924?
Answer: Paul Whiteman

Question: In 2007, the largest known specimen of what, weighing 495 kg (1,091 lb) and measuring 4.2 m (14 ft) in length, was caught in the Ross Sea?
Answer: Colossal Squid

Question: Herodotus, Josephus, Michael King, Simon Schama and Edward Gibbon share what common focus?
Answer: History

Question: The root of the word "carotid", as used for arteries carrying blood to the head, is the Greek for what?
Answer: Stupor

Question: Which way is it likely that the head of the successor of Queen Elizabeth II will face on a British coin?
Answer: Left

Question: Who wrote "Ann Veronica", a novel first published in 1909 that deals with contemporary political issues of the time, concentrating specifically on feminist issues?
Answer: H G Wells

Question: Which one of these flightless birds would be most likely to be tall enough to be able to walk over the others?
Answer: Ostrich

Question: Papagena is a character in which opera?
Answer: The Magic Flute

Question: What links American Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) and James Wyld (1812-1887) MP for Bodmin, UK?
Answer: Giant scale models of the Earth

Question: The Olympic Hymn at the opening ceremony at the 1992 Summer Olympics was sung in what language or languages?
Answer: Spanish and Catalan

Question: Which Italian painter contemporary with Caravaggio, celebrated at the time but neglected until recently (with many paintings attributed to others), is admired for work celebrating female strength and chiaroscuro techniques?
Answer: Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653)

Question: Which is the smallest sovereign country in South America?
Answer: Suriname

Question: Which scandal involving an oil well on public land occurred during the presidency of Warren Harding?
Answer: The tea pot dome scandal

Question: What island group may be described as a triangle with its corners at Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island, including the island groups Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Tokelau, and Niue?
Answer: Polynesia