Question: What was the first name of the fictional sleuth Baretta?
Answer: Tony

Question: How many people traditionally sing barbershop?
Answer: Four

Question: What was Diana Ross's first solo No 1?
Answer: Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Question: Which Argentinean became conductor of the New York Philharmonic in 1970?
Answer: Daniel Barenboim

Question: Which Bond girl was Honor Blackman?
Answer: Pussy Galore

Question: Which Latvian was principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater in the 70s returning later as director?
Answer: Mikhail Baryshnikov

Question: Hard-rock group Motley Crue come from which city?
Answer: Los Angeles

Question: Cindy Birdsong was a member of which singing group?
Answer: Supremes

Question: Which movie won Marlon Brando his second Oscar?
Answer: The Godfather

Question: On a Monopoly board, what are B & O, Reading, Short Line and Pennsylvania?
Answer: Stations

Question: The Harry Lime theme was used in which film?
Answer: The Third Man

Question: In horse racing, on which course is the Belmont Stakes run?
Answer: Belmont Park, Long Island

Question: Which city hosts the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival?
Answer: New York

Question: What was the profession of Burt Reynolds' father?
Answer: Police Officer

Question: Which Scottish border town was the scene of a jumbo jet disaster?
Answer: Lockerbie

Question: Solidarity was the mass movement of the people in which country?
Answer: Poland

Question: Which golfer Sandy triumphed at the US Masters?
Answer: Lyle

Question: Who became the world's youngest ever boxing heavyweight champion?
Answer: Mike Tyson

Question: Addressing the Republican convention in 1988, how did Ronald Reagan misquote John Adams saying "Facts are stubborn things?"
Answer: Facts are stupid things

Question: What was Patricia Highsmith's first novel?
Answer: Strangers On A Train

Question: How many years did the Holocaust last?
Answer: 12

Question: Which tennis ace completed his fifth successive Wimbledon singles triumph?
Answer: Bjorn Borg

Question: Who replaced Erich Honecker as GDR head of state?
Answer: Egon Krenz

Question: Off which pitcher did Babe Ruth smash his 714th and final Major League home run?
Answer: Guy Bush

Question: What does the Palestinian name Intifada mean?
Answer: Resurgence, throwing off

Question: Which US President was linked with the 'Star Wars' policy?
Answer: Reagan

Question: Where in the Ukraine was there a nuclear explosion in 1986?
Answer: Chernobyl

Question: Anwar Sadat was President of which country when he died in 1981?
Answer: Egypt

Question: Who released an album called Thriller in 1982?
Answer: Michael Jackson

Question: Which 80s leader had a wife called Raisa?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev

Question: In what month in 1990 did Iraq invade Kuwait?
Answer: August

Question: Who was the founder of Japan's first political party?
Answer: Taisuke Itagaki

Question: In what months of 1945 did the battle of Iwo Jima take place?
Answer: February and March

Question: Who won the ladies singles most times at Wimbledon in the 80s?
Answer: Martina Navratilova

Question: Which island was the home of Bob Marley, who died in 1981?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: Which John portrayed The Elephant Man on film?
Answer: Hurt

Question: Which city was devastated by an earthquake in 1985 and then hosted the World Cup in 1986?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Hahnium was so named by US scientists in honor of Otto Hahn; what was its original name?
Answer: Unnilpentium

Question: Which movement was thought to be responsible for the kidnapping of Western hostages in Lebanon in the 890s?
Answer: Hezbollah

Question: Who was Franklin ?D Roosevelt's secretary of state from 1933 to 1944?
Answer: Cordell Hull

Question: The increasing scarcity of elephants and rhinos led ot a 1989 ban on which substance?
Answer: Ivory

Question: Sarah Ferguson became Duchess of where?
Answer: York

Question: Tiananmen Square was a scene of conflict in which country?
Answer: China

Question: Which hospital was Princess Diana taken to after her tragic car accident?
Answer: La Pitie-Salpetriere

Question: Elected in 1913, how long was Pedro Mascurain president of Mexico?
Answer: One hour

Question: Who was NATO commander between 1974 and 1979?
Answer: Alexander Haig

Question: Which disks replaced cassettes and ordinary records?
Answer: Compact disks

Question: Groucho Marx resigned from where as he didn't care to belong to any club that would have him as a member?
Answer: Friars Club

Question: In which natural valley is San Jose?
Answer: Santa Clara

Question: In which Chicago theater did over 500 people die in a fire in 1903?
Answer: Iroquois Theater

Question: How long did it take to construct a Model T Ford in 1914?
Answer: 95 minutes

Question: Which couple were implicated in the Whitewater affair?
Answer: The Clintons

Question: Where was the first nuclear reactor built, by Enrico Fermi?
Answer: Chicago

Question: Which state on the Gulf of Mexico has the longest name?
Answer: Mississippi

Question: The Rotary Club was founded in 1905 in which American City?
Answer: Chicago

Question: Where is the HQ of Chrysler and General Motors?
Answer: Detroit

Question: In All In The Family, what was Archie's son-in-law's full name?
Answer: Mike Stivic

Question: What is the architectural style of the Radio City Music Hall in New York?
Answer: Art Deco

Question: What was the debut movie of the actress born Shirley Beaty?
Answer: The Trouble With Harry

Question: On which river is the USA's highest concrete dam?
Answer: Colorado

Question: In square miles, how big is lake Superior?
Answer: 31,700

Question: What does the name of Hawaii's capital mean in Hawaiian?
Answer: Sheltered bay

Question: Near which town were there reports of a space ship landing on the 4th July 1947?
Answer: Roswell, New Mexico

Question: Philadelphia lies between which two rivers?
Answer: Delaware & Schuylkill

Question: Which magazine first described young women as 'flappers?'
Answer: Vanity Fair

Question: Where was the World Fair held in 1903?
Answer: St. Louis

Question: Which singer had the first names Harry Lillis?
Answer: Bing Crosby

Question: Whose last words were, "Now it's on to "Chicago and let's win there"?
Answer: Bobby Kennedy

Question: What was the San Francisco Ballet formerly called?
Answer: San Francisco Opera Ballet

Question: Parker and Barrow were more usually known as what?
Answer: Bonnie and Clyde

Question: Al Capone was finally nailed for what crime?
Answer: Tax evasion

Question: Alcatraz was in which Bay?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: Which 20s gangland boss was nicknamed Scarface?
Answer: Al Capone

Question: Where is the Valley of the Kings, the scene of a terrorist attack in 1997?
Answer: Egypt

Question: Who was Butch Cassidy's partner?
Answer: The Sundance Kid

Question: Irish Olympic champion Michelle smith was suspended in 1999 over drug allegations in which sport?
Answer: Swimming

Question: In which decade did the Nuremberg trials take place in Germany?
Answer: 1940s

Question: Colombian underworld boss Pablo Escobar dealt in what commodity?
Answer: Drugs

Question: Which actress Sharon was murdered by Charles Manson?
Answer: Tate

Question: In which state was the 1999 massacre at Columbine High?
Answer: Colorado

Question: Which saint's day saw a massacre in Chicago in 1929?
Answer: St. Valentine's Day

Question: What was supposedly the profession of Sweeney Todd in London?
Answer: Barber

Question: In 1990, Idaho and which other state celebrated the centenary of joining the Union?
Answer: Wyoming

Question: What is the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands?
Answer: Maui

Question: Who founded the New York City ballet in 1928?
Answer: Balanchine

Question: Whose Complete Guide To Running is credited with beginning the craze for jogging?
Answer: James F Fixx

Question: In which theater did The Wizard of Oz have its New York debut?
Answer: Majestic