Question: Amelia Earhart is famous for what area of activity?
Answer: Aviation

Question: According to the Bible's Book of Genesis, the Five Cities of the Plain near the Dead Sea were Adimah, Zebolim, Zour, Gomorrah and which other?
Answer: Sodom

Question: Frank Langella and Anthony Hopkins have both played which historical character?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: Who won the Hockey Champions Challenge for Women played in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2009?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: What is the Spanish word for "house"?
Answer: Casa

Question: In 1949 the inaugural tournament of the Thomas Cup, the most important men's badminton team competition in the world, was won by competitors from which country?
Answer: Malaya

Question: Which Australian city do the natives call "Freo"?
Answer: Fremantle

Question: The membership of which British intellectual socialist group formed in London in 1884 included George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Ramsay MacDonald, Emmeline Pankhurst and Bertrand Russell?
Answer: The Fabian Society

Question: Who is credited with the invention of the rotary internal combustion engine, introduced by NSU in their "Ro 80" in 1967 and used by Mazda in their "RX"models, the first of which, the RX-2, was introduced in 1970?
Answer: Felix Wankel

Question: Which gas is likely to be present in a light bulb?
Answer: Argon

Question: Who, in 2003, received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour, for the Sydney Opera House, a multi-venue performing arts centre on Bennelong Point in Sydney, Australia?
Answer: Jrn Utzon

Question: Which British film actor and author of 9 autobiographies and 6 fiction books first appeared on a West End stage using his own first name of Derek?
Answer: Dirk Bogarde

Question: Carl Lewis won Olympic gold medals at 4 Olympic Games in 4 different events, including the 4x100m relay. He did not win gold for one of these sports. Which one?
Answer: High jump

Question: The Clipper ship "Dunedin" caused excitement when it arrived in London after a 98 day voyage in 1882. Where had it come from?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Who adopted Ziggy Stardust as an on-stage identity?
Answer: David Bowie

Question: What is the name for the study of the advent and evolution of biological systems in the universe, with particular emphasis on the possibility of non-terrestrial life?
Answer: Astrobiology

Question: What legendary island is said to have sunk?
Answer: Atlantis

Question: When is International Women's Day?
Answer: 8 March

Question: What sport involves pockets, spots and rests?
Answer: Snooker

Question: What was signed to end World War I?
Answer: The Treaty of Versailles

Question: What is the height of a triangle with an area of 16 square metres and a base 4 metres long?
Answer: 8 metres

Question: Who holds the record for having received the most Grammy awards?.
Answer: Sir Georg Solti

Question: Which Olympic Games were the first to be telecast worldwide?
Answer: Tokyo, 1964

Question: What ceremony is sometimes called obsequies?
Answer: Funeral

Question: Why did Larry Doby become famous in the history of baseball when he joined the Cleveland Indians in 1947?
Answer: He was the first black player in the American League

Question: Who brought together dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan and nurtured their collaboration on 13 operas from "Trial by Jury" (1875) to "The Grand Duke, or The Statutory Duel" (1896)?
Answer: Richard D'Oyly Carte

Question: What name did Pol Pot give to the ideology that he forced on the people of Democratic Kampuchea?
Answer: Year Zero

Question: What was wrong with up to 200,000 20p coins issued by the Royal Mint in 2009 that made them instant collector's items?
Answer: They had no year of issue

Question: Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the punch card in 1801 as a means of automating what process?
Answer: Weaving in patterns

Question: Which sewing machine company has held a patent on the mechanism that creates the blanket stitch since its introduction in 1877 (the most recent patent renewal was in 2007), and is involved in litigation with several Chinese firms who are accused of violating their intellectual property rights?
Answer: Merrow

Question: What glands produce adrenaline and cortisol?
Answer: Suprarenal

Question: Which dictator was known as "Il Duce"?
Answer: Mussolini

Question: What has been awarded to the winners of the Super Bowl since 1967?
Answer: Vince Lombardi Trophy

Question: Why is the city of Williamsburg, the capital of Virginia, so named?
Answer: After King William III of England

Question: Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine are associated with what?
Answer: Fashion

Question: Bondi Beach is near which city?
Answer: Sydney

Question: Who was the only golfer in the President's Cup tournament held at San Francisco in 2009 to win all 5 of his matches?
Answer: Tiger Woods

Question: Hell's Angels are associated with what type of transport?
Answer: Motor cycles

Question: According the Bible, who was the cousin of Mordecai?
Answer: Esther

Question: In 1980, Nikolai Andrianov (USSR/RUS) broke the record for being awarded the most Olympic medals (15) ever. What was his sport?
Answer: Gymnastics

Question: Which American rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2001, consisting of Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Ray Toro and Bob Bryar, released the albums "I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love", "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge", and "The Black Parade"?
Answer: My Chemical Romance

Question: What is the maximum number of people that make up the supreme council of the Roman Catholic Church, the College of Cardinals?
Answer: 70

Question: Where is the Bagram air base?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: T E Lawrence was known as Lawrence of where?
Answer: Arabia

Question: In international flag signalling code, what is a rectangular flag centred with a white square?
Answer: The letter "P"

Question: Who is the city of Charleston, the capital of South Carolina, named after?
Answer: King Charles II of England

Question: According to legend, who was the sweetheart of Robin Hood?
Answer: Maid Marian

Question: In June 2009 it was announced that the rats on Rat Island had finally been eradicated, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck caused an infestation. Where is Rat Island?
Answer: Alaska

Question: What was heavyweight boxer Joe Louis' nickname?
Answer: The Brown Bomber

Question: What is a Mohammedan sect which reveres Ali, cousin of Muhammad, believing him to be Muhammad's rightful successor?
Answer: Shiite

Question: The greater part of Lake Maggiore is in which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: What was an American post-World War II art movement baginning in New York City that was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence?
Answer: Abstract expressionism

Question: In 1978, Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was found dead where?
Answer: In the boot of a car

Question: The Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics published in 1910, 1912 and 1913, with a second edition In 1927, was co-written by Bertrand Russell and who else?
Answer: Alfred North Whitehead

Question: The Society for the Prevention of an Unwholesome Diet was a 19th century activist group dedicated to keeping what out of Britain?
Answer: Potatoes

Question: Seattle Grace Hospital is the setting for which TV series?
Answer: Gray's Anatomy

Question: Who was crowned King of Scotland in 1306 and defeated the forces of Edward II at Bannockburn in 1314?
Answer: Robert Bruce

Question: Prior to its independence in 1964, the Mediterranean island of Malta belonged to which country?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: What is another name for pain in one or more nerves?
Answer: Neuralgia

Question: In 1908, the winners of the Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning set a world record of 73 hours aloft that would stand until 1995. What nationality were they?
Answer: Swiss