Question: What is a feud where the relatives of a murdered man take vengeance on the family of those who killed him, for generations?
Answer: Vendetta

Question: What is the subject of the study of "limnology"?
Answer: Inland waters

Question: The British TV series "Porridge" was set in what prison?
Answer: Slade

Question: Which two British Prime Ministers had the same name?
Answer: William Pitt

Question: A stiletto heel gets its name from a type of what?
Answer: Knife

Question: Leo Joseph Ryan Jr., the first US congressman to be killed in the line of duty, was murdered where?
Answer: Guyana

Question: Which sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia, bounded on the west by Novaya Zemlya and to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya?
Answer: Kara Sea

Question: Which Grand Prix, that had taken place for 31 years at the same circuit, was dropped from the 2009 Formula One Championship?
Answer: Canadian Grand Prix

Question: Which Greek poet (1200 - 850 BC) is famous for the poems popularly attributed to him about the siege of Troy and the wanderings of Ulysses?
Answer: Homer

Question: Which American TV sitcom, originally aired from 1974 to 1984, presented an idealized vision of life in 1950s and early 1960s America?
Answer: Happy Days

Question: In 1492, the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria were trying to reach which part of the world?
Answer: China and India

Question: What make of car is associated with Trevor Wilkinson?
Answer: Tvr

Question: Which weightlifting lift was discontinued at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal due to difficulties in judging proper form?
Answer: Clean and press

Question: Which chemical process is involved in changing ethyl chloride to ethyl alcohol?
Answer: Hydrolysis

Question: In which game do players take the roles of children sneaking to the refrigerator?
Answer: Don't Wake Daddy

Question: What is the national park in Wyoming covering 3350 square miles that was opened in 1872?
Answer: Yellowstone National Park

Question: The first of which make of car came off the assembly line at Fisherman's Bend in September 1948?
Answer: Holden

Question: What name is given to the earth's crust?
Answer: Lithosphere

Question: Americans call it a faucet. What do the British call it?
Answer: Tap

Question: Which American photographer who lived from 1923 to 1971 was noted for her portraits of people such as transvestites, dwarfs, giants and prostitutes in unconventional poses and settings?
Answer: Diane Arbus

Question: What strait connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf Of Oman?
Answer: Hormuz

Question: What name is given to a compound of carbon and hydrogen in various proportions?
Answer: Hydrocarbon

Question: Who was the son of King John and Isabella of Angoulme who became King of England when 9 years old?
Answer: Henry III

Question: Which country, once part of the Republic of Colombia under Simon Bolivar, became independent in 1830 and annexed the Galapagos Islands in 1832?
Answer: Ecuador

Question: What is the science that deals with the principles and construction of timepieces?
Answer: Horology

Question: In 1874 the Teddington Cricket Club began to draw up rules that were formally published by the Wimbledon club in 1883, for which game?
Answer: Hockey

Question: What 1939 film, set during the American Civil War, starring Clark Gable and Vivienne Leigh, was based on a book by Margaret Mitchell?
Answer: Gone With The Wind

Question: What, in October 1871, was one of the biggest U.S. disasters of the 19th century, killing hundreds and destroying about four square miles of city buildings?
Answer: Great Chicago Fire

Question: Excluding Australia, what is the third largest island in the world?
Answer: Borneo

Question: Ground-breaking research into American sexual habits was made by which couple?
Answer: William Masters and Virginia Johnston

Question: Which town in Lincolnshire, UK, is the birthplace of Margaret Thatcher, and has connections with Isaac Newton, Nicholas Parsons and Richard Todd?
Answer: Grantham

Question: What is the natural habitat of the electric eel?
Answer: The rivers of Brazil and Guiana

Question: Which political organisation was founded by Jos Antonio Primo de Rivera in 1933, during the Second Spanish Republic?
Answer: Falange

Question: Which film starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton was set mainly on a ship at sea?
Answer: Mutiny on the Bounty

Question: I want to be rich and effluent is an example of what?
Answer: Malapropism

Question: How did Hannibal die in 183 BC?
Answer: Committed suicide

Question: Which Greek mathematician, active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I and often referred to as the "Father of Geometry", published the textbook Elements?
Answer: Euclid

Question: Which country was proclaimed an independent republic under the leadership of Bernardo O'Higgins on 12 February 1818 after an army led by him and Jos de San Martn defeated the royalists?
Answer: Chile

Question: Honeycomb is made of wax cells in what shape?
Answer: Hexagon

Question: Hadrian's Wall, built following 122 AD, stretches for 73 miles from Solway Firth to where?
Answer: Wallsend-on-Tyne

Question: Who was the first General Secretary of the International Olympic Committee and later became its President, serving until 1924?
Answer: Baron de Coubertin

Question: What British sitcom, written by and starring Jennifer Saunders and co-starring Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks, was first broadcast by the BBC in 1992?
Answer: Absolutely Fabulous

Question: Which US-born naturalised Briton wrote "Murder In The Cathedral", "The Cocktail Party" and "The Wasteland"?
Answer: T S Eliot

Question: What is the name of the system of lakes, canals and rivers that enables shipping to get from the Atlantic to as far as Duluth, Minnesota, on Lake Superior?
Answer: St Lawrence Seaway

Question: Which manufacturer of pens had a large production plant in Birmingham, UK, during the first half of the 20th century?
Answer: Osmiroid

Question: Who established a precision tool making business in Manchester in 1883, and perfected a system of standard measurements and gauges?
Answer: Joseph Whitworth

Question: Which calendar, introduced in 46 BC, had a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months, and a leap day added to February every four years?
Answer: Julian calendar

Question: Which song was sung by Aretha Franklin just before Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the USA in 2009?
Answer: My Country 'Tis Of Thee

Question: Who, in 1936, was the last British man to win the singles event at Wimbledon until Andy Murray from Scotland won in 2013?
Answer: Fred Perry

Question: What is the coastal region of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Israel known as?
Answer: The Levant

Question: Who ordered the execution of Catherine Howard in 1542?
Answer: Henry VIII

Question: What were the people who were part of Elvis Presley's entourage known as?
Answer: Memphis Mafia

Question: The Summer Olympics are held how many years apart?
Answer: 4

Question: What wood, a member of the walnut family, is often used in making tool handles, wheel spokes, drumsticks, lacrosse stick handles and skis?
Answer: Hickory

Question: Who was the chief deity of the Romans, the equivalent to the Greek's Zeus?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: Who had their first cooking series on UK television in the 1970s?
Answer: Delia Smith

Question: What is "A" in the International Radio Alphabet?
Answer: Alpha

Question: Who was physician to James I and Charles I, and whose chief discovery was to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart, which he published in 1628?
Answer: William Harvey

Question: What is the maximum number of individual players for Ludo?
Answer: 4

Question: Babe Ruth played for which Major League Baseball team in 1936?
Answer: Boston Braves