Question: What orchestral string instrument has a deeper tone than a violin, and higher than a cello?
Answer: Viola

Question: What U K TV series about a father and son, rag and bone men, was the basis for the U S TV series "Sandford and Son"?
Answer: Steptoe and Son

Question: Who was the first black woman, second African American, and the second woman to serve as U S Secretary of State?
Answer: Condoleeza Rice

Question: Which group of people took control of Carthage in 439 AD?
Answer: Vandals

Question: What wine originated in the Spanish town of Jerez de la Fontera?
Answer: Sherry

Question: Which city was the site of the dervish rebellion and the death of the British General Gordon in 1885?
Answer: Khartoum

Question: In Billy Wilder's film "Sunset Boulevard", in which Gloria Swanson often said the line, "All right, Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up", who played Cecil B DeMille?
Answer: Cecil B DeMille

Question: What theory, developed by Franz Joseph Gall, in which personality traits were determined by "reading" bumps and fissures in the skull, was once considered a science?
Answer: Phrenology

Question: The singer and English TV personality Priscilla White is better known by what name?
Answer: Cilla Black

Question: Who, as the world's oldest person according to the Guinness Book of records, died in January 2009?
Answer: Maria de Jesus

Question: Who described "unified field theory", an attempt to unify and simplify the fundamental laws of physics, in a paper titled "On The Generalised Theory of Gravitation" in 1950?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: How many of the Great Lakes form part of the border between the U S A and Canada?
Answer: 4

Question: In 1952, Jonas Salk invented a vaccine to prevent the spread of which disease?
Answer: Polio

Question: Who had a positive drug test for excessive levels of testosterone after initially being declared the winner of the 2006 Tour de France?
Answer: Floyd Landis

Question: Both opposing generals, the British general Wolfe, and the French general Montcalm, were killed in a battle for which city in 1759?
Answer: Quebec

Question: In the 1960's, record players were manufactured to revolve at 78, 45 and 33 revolutions per minute, and what other speed?
Answer: 16 rpm

Question: The Taj Mahal is nearest to which city?
Answer: Agra

Question: What was the cause of the disqualification of Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall at Mexico City in 1968, the first as a result of failing a doping test at an Olympic Games?
Answer: Beer

Question: In which film starring Bill Murray was each day the same as the one before?
Answer: Groundhog Day

Question: Who wrote the play "Bent"?
Answer: Martin Sherman

Question: Spain's war in 1898 with which power resulted in its loss of sovereignty over Cuba and the Philippine Islands?
Answer: U S A

Question: What star is closest to the Earth?
Answer: The sun

Question: Which Scotsman took out a patent in 1876 that was the nucleus of the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Bell

Question: In which war were the sieges of Mafeking, Kimberley and Ladysmith lifted following the arrival of reinforcement British troops under the command of Lord Kitchener and Lord Roberts?
Answer: Boer War

Question: Charlie Chaplin wore his tramp costume for the first time in 1914 in which film?
Answer: Kid Auto Races in Venice

Question: The Gulf Stream, a warm ocean current, flows from the North American continent to where?
Answer: British Isles

Question: In 1960 an international agreement defined the metre in terms of the wavelength of the light from which gas, when burnt?
Answer: Krypton

Question: What is the capital of the province of Alberta, Canada?
Answer: Edmonton

Question: Which European discovered New Zealand and Australia in 1642?
Answer: Abel Tasman

Question: In darts, what is the name of the line behind which the throwing player must stand?
Answer: Oche

Question: From which musical does the song Maria come?
Answer: West Side Story

Question: Who was the 15th century woman who led a French army to relieve the siege of Orleans by the English army?
Answer: Joan of Arc

Question: What animal does an ostler deal with?
Answer: Horses

Question: On a standard dartboard, what is immediately to the right of the number 20?
Answer: 1

Question: What would one normally do with velout?
Answer: Eat it

Question: What Italian film, released in 1999, told the story of a Jewish family sent to a concentration camp in World War II?
Answer: Life is Beautiful

Question: Who wrote the plays "The Cherry Orchard", "Three Sisters", "The Seagull" and "Uncle Vanya"?
Answer: Anton Chekhov

Question: Which forces were defeated by Ho Chi Minh's forces at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam in May 1954?
Answer: French

Question: What is the capital of the province of New Brunswick, Canada?
Answer: Fredericton

Question: Cambodia is better known in Asia as, and its official name was changed in 1975 temporarily to, what?
Answer: Kampuchea

Question: Which character is the first to die in the British TV soap "Coronation Street" (in the seventh episode)?
Answer: Mary Hardman

Question: Who was Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers during the occupation of Japan immediately following World War II?
Answer: Douglas MacArthur

Question: What is the main protein of connective tissue in animals and the most abundant protein in mammals, making up about 25% of the total protein content?
Answer: Collagen

Question: Who, in 1948 at London, equalled the record of winning 4 gold medals at one Olympics, set at the previous Games by Jesse Owens?
Answer: Fanny Blankers-Koen

Question: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier became better known as who?
Answer: Jackie Kennedy

Question: What event took place at Yasgur's farm, New York, on 15 to 18 August 1969?
Answer: Woodstock Music and Art Fair

Question: Before Ron Howard became a film director, and before he starred in "Happy Days", he appeared in a long-running US TV series set in Mayberry. What was the name of the show?
Answer: The Andy Griffith Show

Question: In standard tuning for a 6 string guitar, two strings are tuned to the same note, two octaves apart. What is the note?
Answer: E

Question: In which city did General Jodl, the German Chief of Staff, sign the surrender document on 7 May 1945, ending World War II in Europe?
Answer: Rheims

Question: What is the longest named river in North America, which runs from Montana to near St Louis, Missouri?
Answer: Missouri

Question: Of whom, when told he intended to return to private life and retire to his plantation, did King George III say, "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world"?
Answer: George Washington

Question: In which city did Popes officially reside from 1309 to 1378?
Answer: Avignon

Question: Western nations allied with the United States to intervene between warring countries and defend the border at the 38th Parallel in which country?
Answer: Korea

Question: What was believed to be a hemisphere above the ground, carrying the fixed stars and surrounding the seven spheres of the planets, through which the Sun and Moon moved in and out through a series of openings?
Answer: Firmament

Question: Who won the Formula One Championship for drivers in 2000?
Answer: Michael Schumacher

Question: Which plays characters comprise two married couples called Honey and Nick, and Martha and George?
Answer: Whos Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

Question: Who was the Venetian who made a number of journeys to China and India in the 13th century and was later taken prisoner by the Genoese?
Answer: Marco Polo

Question: What is the Diet of Worms?
Answer: The religious court that judged Martin Luther in 1521

Question: The Kalahari Desert is on which continent?
Answer: Africa

Question: Who, in 1831, first demonstrated that the motion of a conductor in a magnetic field generates an electric current?
Answer: Michael Faraday

Question: Who was the king of England who succeeded James I?
Answer: Charles I