Question: Which Austrian, a pioneer in psycho-analysis, died in London in 1939, a refugee from Nazi persecution?
Answer: Sigmund Freud

Question: What instrument is used for measuring relative humidity?
Answer: Hygrometer

Question: Which instrument, with a range of around 3 octaves, has its lowest string tuned to C below middle C, with the others to G, D and A?
Answer: Viola

Question: What do ethnologists call people occupying most of North Africa, after one of Noah's sons who is, according to legend, their ancestor?
Answer: Hamites

Question: What was the name of the river, 200 m north of Rome, where returning generals disbanded their armies when returning from campaigns to keep order in or expand the Roman Empire?
Answer: Rubicon

Question: Which film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat, begins and ends with public performances by The Memory Man in a London music hall?
Answer: The Thirty-Nine Steps

Question: The "Zapruder film" is famous for being a colour film of which event?
Answer: Assassination of John F Kennedy

Question: What word best describes a triangle where one angle is greater than 90 degrees?
Answer: Obtuse

Question: Which Venezuelan river has the same name as a Womble?
Answer: Orinoco

Question: Who invented a system of cartography whereby lines of latitude and longitude are drawn at right angles?
Answer: Gerardus Mercator

Question: Brogues are a type of what?
Answer: Shoes

Question: William Crapo Durant merged Oldsmobile and what other car company to form General Motors?
Answer: Buick

Question: In a popular children's story, what is the name of the young tugboat that saves an ocean liner?
Answer: Little Toot

Question: What was the last engineering work completed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel?
Answer: Great Eastern steamship

Question: In which country was the Althing, a legislative and judiciary parliament, founded in 930?
Answer: Iceland

Question: Which film from 1942 contains the lines "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine" and "Here's looking at you, kid"?
Answer: Casablanca

Question: For a netball net, how high should the top of the ring be from the ground?
Answer: 10 feet (3.05 m)

Question: Which US film actress married and divorced both Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan?
Answer: Rita Hayworth

Question: What artificial international language invented by Dr Zamenhof was published in 1887?
Answer: Esperanto

Question: Gibbons are native to which continent?
Answer: Asia

Question: What mechanical device allows the wheels of a vehicle to turn at different speeds when cornering?
Answer: Differential

Question: Which Greek physician born in 460 BC to a family of priests and doctors lived most of his life on Cos and Cnidus and is generally considered to be the father of modern medicine?
Answer: Hippocrates

Question: Where is the headquarters of the International Red Cross?
Answer: Geneva

Question: Who plays Mrs. Smith opposite Brad Pitt in the movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"?
Answer: Angelina Jolie

Question: When Lieut Thomas E Selfridge became the first death in a crash of a powered airplane in 1908, who was the pilot?
Answer: Orville Wright

Question: In 1988, what was marketed as "the game for your whole brain"?
Answer: Cranium

Question: The natural habitat of penguins is centred where?
Answer: Antarctica

Question: Dick Francis wrote novels based in what environment?
Answer: Horse racing

Question: L. Ron Hubbard is known as the founder of what movement?
Answer: Scientology

Question: Who was the sister of film actress Joan Fontaine?
Answer: Olivia De Havilland

Question: What is the highest national capital city?
Answer: Quito, Ecuador

Question: Canis Major is also known as what?
Answer: The Dog Star

Question: Which book by Sir Thomas More, his view of an ideal society with community ownership, was written in Latin in 1516 and translated into English in 1551?
Answer: Utopia

Question: Near what French town did Marie-Bernarde (Bernadette) Soubirous reportedly see visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858?
Answer: Lourdes

Question: Who designed the wedding dress for the marriage of Lady Diana Spencer to Charles, Prince of Wales?
Answer: David and Elizabeth Emanuel

Question: From which sport do we get the expression "Thrown a curve ball"?
Answer: Baseball

Question: Which river, formed by the union of the Murad Nehri and the Karu Su, flows for 2781 km (1728 miles) through Turkey and Syria into Iraq, where it joins the Tigris to form the Shatt-el-Arab?
Answer: Euphrates

Question: """My Heart Will Go On"" is the theme from what film?"
Answer: Titanic

Question: The Union Jack, the British flag, was first used in its present form in what year?
Answer: 1801

Question: What is Spartacus famous for doing?
Answer: Leading a slave rebellion

Question: Which UK TV series starred David Jason as market trader Derek "Del Boy" Trotter and Nicholas Lyndhurst as his brother Rodney?
Answer: Only Fools and Horses

Question: Gruyre is a town in which country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: What is represented by the peace symbol, which looks like a 3 legged inverted "Y" inside a circle?
Answer: A combination of the semaphore letters N and D, standing for "nuclear disarmament"

Question: Who was the commander of the Luftwaffe during World War II and died by taking poison after being condemned to death at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946?
Answer: Hermann Wilhelm Goering

Question: Which English composer, whose work was influenced by folk song and the music of the 16th century, wrote "London Symphony", "Pilgrim's Progress" and "Sinfonia Antarctica"?
Answer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

Question: What Christian festival is observed on the seventh Sunday after Easter?
Answer: Whitsunday

Question: In the southern USA, what is the name for an embankment that allows the water to flow at a higher level than the surrounding land?
Answer: Levee

Question: In darts, what is the next in the sequence 1, 18, 4, 13, 6?
Answer: 10

Question: Which 1952 film, directed by Vittorio de Sica, was about a penniless old man (played by Carlo Battisti) and his dog, Flick?
Answer: Umberto D

Question: Which flowering plant in the pea family, cultivated as feed for cattle, horses, sheep, and goats, is known in the UK, Australia and New Zealand as lucerne, as lucerne grass in south Asia and as Kuthirai Masal in Tamil?
Answer: Alfalfa

Question: According to a survey carried out by Deloittes early in 2009, which was the world's richest soccer club at that time?
Answer: Real Madrid

Question: In architecture, what is the name for an ornamental vertical groove in a column?
Answer: Flute

Question: Zydeco is a type of music from which country?
Answer: Usa

Question: Who was the last king of Egypt?
Answer: Fuad II

Question: Who served in the Crimean War (1854 - 56), was responsible for suppressing the Taiping rebellion in China in 1860, was governor of the Sudan 1877 - 79, and died there?
Answer: General Charles Gordon

Question: Which city would you go to to see "Grant's Tomb", a memorial to Ulysses S Grant, once President of the USA?
Answer: New York

Question: The foundations for which science were laid by Adam Smith in 1776 and followed up by people such as John Stuart Mill and David Ricardo?
Answer: Economics

Question: Where was the war that began in 1998 and sometimes referred to as the "African World War", that has been called the world's deadliest conflict since World War II, with 5.4 million people killed?
Answer: Congo

Question: In badminton, how many times may the shuttlecock be struck by each side before it passes over the net?
Answer: Once

Question: Who, in 2004, riding the prototype KTM 250-SXF four stroke, won the MX2 World Championship?
Answer: Ben Townley

Question: Canada is divided into how many provinces and how many territories?
Answer: 10 provinces and 3 territories

Question: The main ingredients of gunpowder are saltpetre, charcoal and what else?
Answer: Sulphur