Question: What shape are the 12 faces of a dodecahedron?
Answer: Pentagons

Question: Who set a world land speed record of over 400 miles per hour at Bonneville, Utah, USA, and was killed attempting a new water speed record on Loch Ness in September 1952?
Answer: John Cobb

Question: Mary Quant became famous in the 1960s for designing what?
Answer: Clothes

Question: Professional sidekick Dick Grayson is better known as who?
Answer: Robin

Question: What was the name of the plane that Amy Johnson flew solo from Britain to Australia in 1930?
Answer: Jason

Question: Which country came first second and third in the golf teams event at the 1904 Olympic Games at St Louis?
Answer: Usa

Question: Who wrote "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"?
Answer: Mary Baker Eddy

Question: What type of building is famous in Milan, Venice, Florence, Seville, Paris, Chartres, Amiens, Rheims, Cologne, Mainz and Trves?
Answer: Cathedral

Question: In bridge, the four players are referred to as what?
Answer: North, East, South and West

Question: An opthalmologist treats disorders of what part of the body?
Answer: Eyes

Question: """Choo choo"" is a child's name for what?"
Answer: Railway engine

Question: What word means the energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time?
Answer: Stamina

Question: At which cricket ground, in 1953, did England win the Ashes for the first time since 1933?
Answer: The Oval

Question: What is the name of the sand bank in the North Sea between Britain and Denmark that is famous as a fishing ground?
Answer: Dogger Bank

Question: Who was the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until 1991, and the only Soviet leader to have been born after the October Revolution of 1917?
Answer: Gorbachev

Question: Who was the mother of Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XIV of France?
Answer: Maria Theresa of Austria

Question: Where is Ho Chi Minh City?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: Which sport is played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of ice, whereby teams take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones towards the "house" while two sweepers with brooms accompany each one to help direct them to their resting place?
Answer: Curling

Question: What 19th century English draughtsman became known for illustrations of "exquisite decoration, morbidity and decadence", especially his illustrations for "The Rape of the Lock"?
Answer: Aubrey Beardsley

Question: What is meant by "persona non grata"?
Answer: An unwelcome person

Question: A test developed in 1924 by R.L. Smith & G.E. Sandland at Vickers Ltd as an alternative to the Brinell method, is used to measure what?
Answer: The hardness of materials

Question: With which sport is Michael Schumacher associated?
Answer: Motor racing

Question: Where is Howard Hughes's wooden aeroplane the Hughes H-4 Hercules (the "Spruce Goose") stored?
Answer: Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, USA

Question: Between 1955 and 1970, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Angela Davis were significant people in which movement in the USA?
Answer: Civil Rights Movement

Question: Which TV series follows Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation in Sacramento, California, who solves serious crimes by using his skills of observation?
Answer: The Mentalist

Question: What is the name for the order of insects with 2 membranous, usually transparent, wings such as mosquitoes, house flies and gnats?
Answer: Diptera

Question: Kingston is the capital of which country?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: What are the sculptures at the foot of Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square, London?
Answer: Lions

Question: The final of which sport at the 1900 Olympics in Paris attracted 6,000 spectators, the largest crowd at any event at that Olympics?
Answer: Rugby Union

Question: How did the leotard get its name?
Answer: The inventor was Jules Leotard

Question: What example of a clipper ship built in 1869 is preserved in a dry dock at Greenwich, London?
Answer: Cutty Sark

Question: What was the surname of the US president known as JFK?
Answer: Kennedy

Question: What was the title of Graham Norton's autobiography, published in 2004?
Answer: So Me

Question: Passiflora edulis, a vine native to South America, is also called passionfruit, maracuj or maracuy in South America, lilikoi in Hawaii and by what name in South Africa?
Answer: Granadilla

Question: Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County are all in the north west of which US state?
Answer: Oklahoma

Question: Nancy Astor made history in Britain in 1919 by doing what?
Answer: Being the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons

Question: Who sings: "But with nothing to consider they forget my name. They call me 'Hell', They call me 'Stacey', They call me 'her', They call me 'Jane', That's not my name"?
Answer: The Ting Tings

Question: Which cup was originally known as the Royal Yacht Squadron Cup, the RYS Cup for One Hundred Sovereigns, the One Hundred Guinea(s) Cup and the Queens Cup?
Answer: The Americas Cup

Question: What is the name for the animals found in a region?
Answer: Fauna

Question: The refugee camps Shatila and Shabra, the scenes of a massacre in 1982, were in which country?
Answer: Lebanon

Question: What name is given to someone who enforces racing rules and regulations at many types of race track?
Answer: Steward

Question: Which film musical ends with "Eliza? Where are my slippers?"
Answer: My Fair Lady

Question: When was the revolver, a hand gun with a rifled barrel and a revolving cartridge cylinder, invented?
Answer: 1835

Question: What is the name of the former island in the East End of London that is bounded on three sides by one of the largest meanders in the River Thames, with the West India Docks to the north?
Answer: Isle of Dogs

Question: Traditionally, what is the topping for a shepherd's pie?
Answer: Potato

Question: In her "Adventures in Wonderland", where did Alice first meet the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse?
Answer: A tea party

Question: The panama hat originated in which country?
Answer: Ecuador

Question: What is the name of the London theatre named after a mineral spring discovered in 1683 when a music house was built there?
Answer: Sadler's Wells

Question: What instrument is used to measure the specific gravity (or relative density) of liquids such as beer and wine?
Answer: Hydrometer

Question: Henry Cooper is associated with which sport?
Answer: Boxing

Question: Pepys, Wesley, Evelyn and Greville have what famous items in common?
Answer: Diaries

Question: Granite is an example of what sort of rock?
Answer: Igneous

Question: Who would use a creel?
Answer: Fisherman

Question: Which film was banned for 8 years in the Republic of Ireland and for a year in Norway, and was marketed in Sweden as '"The film so funny that it was banned in Norway"?
Answer: Monty Python's Life of Brian

Question: What is the official name of the spectator area at Wimbledon at the side of No. 1 Court known as Henman Hill or Murray Mound?
Answer: Aorangi Terrace

Question: ABBA named a song after which battle?
Answer: Waterloo

Question: Who used the pseudonym "Bab"?
Answer: W S Gilbert

Question: """Braeburn"" is a variety of what?"
Answer: Apple

Question: Who was the last of these to have a number 1 hit in Britain?
Answer: Kylie Minogue

Question: In the TV series "Boston Legal", who played the character of Denny Crane?
Answer: William Shatner

Question: What is the connection between the sport of Badminton and the Duke of Beaufort?
Answer: Badminton was the name of his home

Question: What is the name for playing the notes of a chord in sequence rather than all together?
Answer: Arpeggio

Question: Which country gained its independence from Australia on 16 September 1975?
Answer: Papua New Guinea

Question: What is changed at Buckingham Palace regularly, that is a tourist attraction?
Answer: The guard