Question: What film, in production between 2007 and 2009, is directed by James Cameron ("Titanic")?
Answer: Avatar

Question: At which event is milk, not champagne, the celebration drink?
Answer: Indianapolis 500

Question: What is the longest continuously-serving state capital in the USA?
Answer: Boston, Massachusetts

Question: Where was the most damage done by the Loma Prieta earthquake, that struck on 17 October 1989?
Answer: San Francisco Bay Area, California

Question: 11.00100100001111110110 is an approximation, in binary, of a mathematical constant relating to what?
Answer: A circle's circumference and diameter

Question: What word best describes a political situation common to England in 1647, France in 1789, Spain in 1936 and Jamaica in 1720?
Answer: Anarchy

Question: Who was the first Chancellor of West Germany from 19491963, who retired at age 87?
Answer: Konrad Adenauer

Question: Which French city near the Mediterranean Sea, was an embarcation point for the 7th and 8th Crusades, and is now a tourist destination because of its well-preserved city walls?
Answer: Aigues-Mortes

Question: Theo van Doesberg, Piet Mondriaan, Vilmos Huizar and Bart van der Leck are identified with what art movement?
Answer: Neoplasticism

Question: What is an aramaic word meaning "father" that is used as a title of respect to bishops and patriarchs in Coptic, Syrian and Abyssinian churches?
Answer: Abba

Question: Who is Warren Beatty's actress sister?
Answer: Shirley MacLaine

Question: What is a food consisting of sweetened milk thickened with rennet into a curd, sometimes flavoured with brandy?
Answer: Junket

Question: What is the name in England for the mystery crime fiction board game devised by Anthony E. Pratt and originally published in 1949?
Answer: Cluedo

Question: Which river forms the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia?
Answer: Zambezi

Question: In Morse code, what letter is represented by "dash dash dash"?
Answer: O

Question: In which UK TV series did Ronnie Barker play "Arkwright" and David Jason play his nephew "Granville"?
Answer: Open All Hours

Question: Which country was the largest producer of kiwifruit (also known as Chinese Gooseberry or kiwi) in 2012?
Answer: Italy

Question: Who was the first President of the French Fifth Republic?
Answer: Charles de Gaulle

Question: Which Scottish architect, buried in Westminster Abbey, is famous for staircases, fireplaces, chimney pieces, and furniture built in residences in the 18th century?
Answer: Robert Adam

Question: Five spice powder is commonly used in which ethnic cuisine?
Answer: Chinese

Question: Who wrote "Badjelly The Witch", "A Little Pot Boiler" and "Small Dreams Of A Scorpion"?
Answer: Spike Milligan

Question: Greenland and the Faroe Islands are dependencies of which European nation?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Which drummer for the 1960s rock band Holy Modal Rounders (featured in the movie "Easy Rider") received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play, Buried Child?
Answer: Sam Shepard

Question: The anniversary that commemorates Captain Arthur Phillip founding the British Colony of Australia in 1788, is celebrated on which day every year?
Answer: 26 January

Question: Nitroglycerin is made by treating glycerin with nitric acid and what?
Answer: Sulphuric acid

Question: In what sport is the object to get one's balls as close to the "jack" as possible?
Answer: Bowls

Question: Which American screenwriter, producer, director, actor, author and editor, most productive in the 1950's, made "Plan 9 From Outer Space", "Glen or Glenda" and "Bride Of The Monster"?
Answer: Ed Wood

Question: Who wrote the music for the musical Mamma Mia!?
Answer: Benny Andersson & Bjrn Ulvaeus

Question: What organisation financed Henry Hudson's voyage when he explored much of what is now Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay in 1610?
Answer: Virginia Company with the British East India Company

Question: What is the name for a queen reigning in her own right, with her husband as one of her subjects?
Answer: Queen regnant

Question: What is the name for the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, from which Muslims date their era?
Answer: Hejira

Question: In "The Lord Of The Rings", what was the name of Gandalf's horse?
Answer: Shadowfax

Question: Who wrote "The Threepenny Opera", "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" and "Life of Galileo"?
Answer: Bertolt Brecht

Question: What name is given to the "house" constructed by beavers?
Answer: Lodge

Question: Members of which family were, at various times, Kings or Emperors of Germany, Austria, Rome, Hungary, Spain and Bohemia between 1273 and 1918?
Answer: Hapsburg

Question: From 2008 Ferrari provided cars (a modification of the F1 Ferrari F2004 chassis) with a V8 engine for which 'single make' motor racing series?
Answer: A1 Grand Prix

Question: Swiss physician and psychologist Carl Jung was initially a disciple of whom, until he disagreed with his theories regarding the Libido etc?
Answer: Sigmund Freud

Question: William Randolph Hearst, Turk Murphy, Wyatt Earp and Joe DiMaggio are buried in cemeteries at Colma, where the dead outnumber the living by thousands to one. Where is Colma?
Answer: San Mateo County, California

Question: What team water sport involves two teams of six field players and one goalkeeper with a maximum of six substitutes?
Answer: Water polo

Question: The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, established in 1884, was formed by people from what religion?
Answer: Jehovah's Witnesses

Question: From which play is the quotation "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players"?
Answer: As You Like It

Question: What is the name for what is commonly known as aspirin?
Answer: Acetyl-salicylic acid

Question: What event affecting television will happen in the United States on 17 February 2009 and in Canada on 31 August 2011?
Answer: Cessation of analog transmissions

Question: What disaster occurred on the San Andreas Fault in 1906?
Answer: San Francisco earthquake

Question: What was the first combat aircraft to provide cabin pressurisation for the crew?
Answer: B29 Bomber

Question: Middelburg is the capital of which province in the South West of The Netherlands?
Answer: Zeeland

Question: Who wrote "Auld Lang Syne" in 1789?
Answer: Robert Burns

Question: Which Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under a parabola, and provided formulas for the volumes of surfaces of revolution and a system for expressing very large numbers?
Answer: Archimedes

Question: What British sitcom features Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone, immature, prosperous, preposterous, substance-abusing fashion obsessed Londoners who value fame and style over substance?
Answer: Absolutely Fabulous

Question: The 9th Marquess of Queensberry sponsored the rules for which sport?
Answer: Boxing

Question: In Greek mythology, who was the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope, murdered by his wife Clytemnestra on his return home from the Trojan War?
Answer: Agamemnon

Question: What is the second longest named river in the USA, which runs from Lake Hasca, Minnesota, to the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: Mississippi

Question: What is the name of the English law that prevents anyone building so as to completely cut out light from a window that had provided light for at least 20 years?
Answer: Ancient Lights

Question: An aviary is a place to keep what?
Answer: Birds

Question: Which song contains the lyric "There'll be fun and laughter and joy ever after tomorrow when the world is free"?
Answer: The White Cliffs Of Dover

Question: In 1898, an agreement was made between Britain and China for a 99 year lease for part of which colony?
Answer: Hong Kong

Question: Yale University is in which state of the USA?
Answer: Connecticut