Question: Which painter's most famous works include "Portrait of Mrs. Graham", "Mary and Margaret: The Painter's Daughters", "William Hallett and His Wife Elizabeth, nee Stephen", known as "The Morning Walk", and "Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher"?
Answer: Thomas Gainsborough

Question: The half-length portrait of Lisa di Anton Maria di Noldo Gherardini is better known by what name?
Answer: Mona Lisa

Question: Which word was coined by Karel Capek in his play "R. U. R." in 1929?
Answer: Robot

Question: A baby's first teeth are called what?
Answer: Milk teeth

Question: Olympic gold medallists Fanny Blankers-Koen, Inge de Bruijn, Leontien van Moorsel, Yvonne van Gennip, Ard Schenk, Jochem Uytdehaage, Pieter van den Hoogenband, Gianni Romme, Marianne Timmer, Wim Ruska, Charles Pahud de Mortanges and Adolph van der Voort van Zijp represented which country?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: What Latin-American word means "foreigner"?
Answer: Gringo

Question: Which TV series had characters called Dougal, Zebedee, Brian, Ermintrude, Dylan, Florence and Mr Rusty?
Answer: The Magic Roundabout

Question: In which country was there a civil war between 1861 and 1865, which was lost by the Confederate forces?
Answer: Usa

Question: What function must be applied to the numbers 10 and 5 to provide 2 as the result?
Answer: Division

Question: What is the English chalk plain crossed by the Avon that includes the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Amesbury?
Answer: Salisbury Plain

Question: Six Korfball World Championships were held last century, the first in 1978. Which country won them the most times?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: Where was the first commercial railway line built?
Answer: Stockton to Darlington, UK

Question: Who had a team of Dr. Eric Foreman, Dr. Robert Chase, and Dr. Allison Cameron and replaced them with Dr. Eric Foreman, Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley, Dr. Chris Taub and Dr. Lawrence Kutner?
Answer: Dr. Gregory House

Question: Who discovered, in 1895, that X Rays could be applied to medicine?
Answer: Rontgen

Question: What film, sub-titled "The Story of Christy Brown", is a 1989 drama directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Fiona Shaw, Julie Hale, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam, Marie Conmee and Cyril Cusack, that tells the true story of an Irishman born with cerebral palsy?
Answer: My Left Foot

Question: A phrase meaning "there must be some truth in the rumour" is "where there is [what] there is fire"?
Answer: Smoke

Question: Where was the British ship Royal Oak sunk by German submarine U47 in October 1939?
Answer: Scapa Flow

Question: What organisation, set up to encourage scientific research, was founded in 1648 and obtained a charter from King Charles II in 1660?
Answer: Royal Society

Question: What waterway was opened to shipping on 15 August 1914 but not officially opened until 12 June 1920?
Answer: Panama Canal

Question: Which 1943 film concerns the lynching of three suspected murderers (played by Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn and Francis Ford) by a mob (played by Frank Conroy, Marc Lawrence and Jane Darwell, among others)?
Answer: The Ox-bow Incident

Question: Which country has the same name as a state of the USA?
Answer: Georgia

Question: The Honda Formula One team was taken over by which team for the 2009 season?
Answer: Brawn

Question: Which President of the USA was involved in a scandal concerning Monica Lewinsky?
Answer: Bill Clinton

Question: What are the joints in the fingers called?
Answer: Knuckles

Question: What device, with a scale of 60 degrees was used in marine navigation for measuring the altitude of a celestial object above the horizon?
Answer: Sextant

Question: In the old song, what comes after "Old MacDonald had a farm"?
Answer: E I E I O

Question: For administrative purposes, Germany consists of sixteen areas which they call what?
Answer: States

Question: Sasha and Malia are the daughters of which political figure?
Answer: Barack Obama

Question: Which venue has hosted the Ryder Cup the most times since 1980?
Answer: The Belfry, Wishaw, Warwickshire, England

Question: Which former American football star was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and was later convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping?
Answer: O J Simpson

Question: What is the term for the conversion of a solid directly into a vapour by applying heat, and vice versa?
Answer: Sublimation

Question: In the finals of the 3000 metre track event 1984 Summer Olympics, who was accused of colliding with Mary Decker, who was unable to complete the race?
Answer: Zola Budd

Question: Who directed himself in his last western film in 1992, which also starred Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris?
Answer: Clint Eastwood

Question: On what date on the Christian calendar is the day of the Annunciation or Lady Day?
Answer: 25 March

Question: Whose top hat and other belongings fetched nearly half a million euros at auction in May 2009?
Answer: Marcel Marceau

Question: Which warship captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships (HMS Guerriere, HMS Java, HMS Pictou, HMS Cyane and HMS Levant) in the War of 1812 against Great Britain?
Answer: USS Constitution

Question: Which canal allows ships to travel from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean?
Answer: Suez

Question: What name was given to Indian religious fanatics who were suppressed in 1830 and 1848 for carrying out robbery and murder?
Answer: Thugs

Question: Who was a British dog trainer, author and television personality who introduced the catch-phrases "walkies" and "sit!" in her 1980 television series?
Answer: Barbara Woodhouse

Question: The modern version of what code-breaking board game for two players, that resembles an old pencil and paper game called Bulls and Cows, was invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert?
Answer: Mastermind

Question: The film "Bright Star", directed by Jane Campion, released in May 2009 and starring Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish, is a period drama about Fanny Brawne's romance with whom?
Answer: Keats

Question: According to Greek mythology, who accompanied Jason on his journey to find the Golden Fleece?
Answer: Argonauts

Question: Who was the female co-star with Elvis Presley in the film "Viva Las Vegas"?
Answer: Ann Margret

Question: Which country won the Men's World Championship in softball the most times between 1996 and 2004?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: What is the term for the measure of the brightness of a star as it appears on earth?
Answer: Apparent magnitude

Question: At the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's volleyball, during the final game of the match between the USA and Greece, a whistle was blown from the audience when USA had possession. What happened next?
Answer: Greece stopped their defence, the US team won and went into the next round

Question: The city of Venice is on which sea?
Answer: Adriatic

Question: Who was the dessert the "pavlova" named after?
Answer: Anna Pavlova (18811931), Russian ballet dancer

Question: In Greek legend, who was the son of Daedalus who fell to his death?
Answer: Icarus

Question: The Mississippi River is on what continent?
Answer: North America

Question: What apple-like fruit containing pulp covered seeds with a golden-red rind is formed from (usually scarlet) flowers?
Answer: Pomegranate

Question: Who fell out of favour with Queen Elizabeth I over his intrigue with Elizabeth Throgmorton, was imprisoned and eventually beheaded?
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh

Question: Which newspaper, originally called "The Daily Universal Register" was founded by John Walter in 1785?
Answer: The Times

Question: Who invented the spa bath?
Answer: Candido Jacuzzi

Question: In 1970, Brazil's third victory in which tournament entitled them to keep the Jules Rimet Trophy permanently?
Answer: FIFA (Football) World Cup