Question: How many cards are dealt to each player in a game of contract rummy?
Answer: 11

Question: In computing, how many bits are in one byte?
Answer: 8

Question: How may moons does the planet Mars have?
Answer: 2

Question: How many colours are in the rainbow?
Answer: 7

Question: What do the opposite numbers on a regular dice always add up to?
Answer: 7

Question: How many wives did actor and film director Charlie Chaplin have?
Answer: 4

Question: What is the title of the 1985 single by British musician Paul Hardcastle which has a strong anti-war message?
Answer: 19

Question: Pteridology is the study of which type of plants?
Answer: Ferns

Question: According to the Bible, what was the name of Noah’s second son?
Answer: Ham

Question: Which type of seeds are traditionally used in a recipe for seed cake?
Answer: Caraway seeds

Question: Scrumpy is a type of which alcoholic drink?
Answer: Cider

Question: At which temperature do Fahrenheit and Celsius meet?
Answer: -40 degrees

Question: The Greek national anthem has a total of how many verses (or stanzas)?
Answer: 158

Question: Which late singer was known as the ‘Electric Poet’?
Answer: Jim Morrison

Question: An atoll is formed by which natural substance?
Answer: Coral

Question: Port-of-Spain is the capital of which Caribbean republic?
Answer: Trinidad & Tobago

Question: What are the names of Peter Rabbit’s sisters in ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ by Beatrix Potter?
Answer: Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail

Question: What does an anemometer measure?
Answer: Wind speed

Question: What are the name of the veins on each side of the neck which drain blood from the head and neck to larger veins passing to the heart?
Answer: Jugular

Question: Who wrote the novel ‘The Invisible Man’, published in 1897?
Answer: H.G.Wells

Question: In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungary throne, was assassinated in which Bosnian province?
Answer: Sarajevo

Question: Demophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Answer: Crowds

Question: Which band’s 2007 album is entitled ‘Send Away the Tigers’?
Answer: Manic Street Preachers

Question: A piculet is which type of creature?
Answer: Bird

Question: Who directed the 1987 film ‘Full Metal Jacket’?
Answer: Stanley Kubrick

Question: King Zog was the monarch of which country?
Answer: Albania

Question: The magazine Marie Claire was first published in 1937 in which country?
Answer: France

Question: Bridgeport is the largest city by population in which US state?
Answer: Connecticut

Question: In which year were women first allowed to participate in the Olympic Games?
Answer: 1900

Question: Army Day, the memorial day for the foundation of the People’s Liberation Army, is celebrated in China during which month of the year?
Answer: August

Question: What do the numbers on a standard dice add up to?
Answer: 21

Question: Digger, Plasterer and Orchid are all types of which creature?
Answer: Bees

Question: In which year was the Sydney Harbour Bridge officially opened?
Answer: 1932

Question: Which two countries jointly hosted the 2002 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: South Korea and Japan

Question: Maslak is the commercial district of which European city?
Answer: Istanbul

Question: In mathematics, whose theorem states that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal in area to the sum of the squares on the other two sides?
Answer: Pythagoras

Question: ‘Better to die than be a coward’ is the motto of which British Army regiment?
Answer: The Royal Ghurka Rifles

Question: An apple seed contains which poisonous substance?
Answer: Cyanide

Question: Kopi Luwak coffee beans, the most expensive in the world, come from the dung of which animal, after it has partially digested the berries which contain the beans?
Answer: Civet

Question: Which British sailor was given a Helen Rollason award in 2001 for outstanding courage?
Answer: Ellen McArthur

Question: Habib Bourguiba became the first President of which North African country in 1957?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: Shantung is a type of which fabric?
Answer: Silk

Question: Which Charles Dickens novel was set during the Gordon riots?
Answer: Barnaby Rudge

Question: In the human body, what does dermal relate to?
Answer: The skin

Question: Billy (Blue) Cannon, Wind and Ira Bean are characters in which US tv series?
Answer: High Chaparral

Question: Which museum is home to Leonardo di Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’?
Answer: The Louvre ? Paris

Question: What are the first names of US tv characters ‘Starsky and Hutch’?
Answer: David and Kenneth

Question: Ricki Lake played the character Tracy Turnblad in which 1988 film?
Answer: Hairspray

Question: Helminthology is the study of which creatures?
Answer: Worms

Question: Nairobi is the capital of which country?
Answer: Kenya

Question: Which singer plays Chicago police officer Sharon Pogue in the 2001 film ‘Angel Eyes’?
Answer: Jennifer Lopez

Question: Which tennis player won the 2011 Women’s Wimbledon Championship?
Answer: Petra Kvitova

Question: Gallipoli is in which European country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Blenheim Palace is in which English county?
Answer: Oxfordshire

Question: In Greek mythology, Boreas, Eurus, Notus and Zephryus were all what?
Answer: Winds

Question: What type of creature is a flying fox?
Answer: Bat

Question: Enid Lyons was the first woman to be appointed to the federal cabinet in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: The Pieniny National Park is in which European country?
Answer: Poland

Question: Joseph Wiseman played which James Bond villain?
Answer: Dr Julius No

Question: A grisette is a variety of which foodstuff?
Answer: Mushroom

Question: In the children’s tv series, what is the name of Bob the Builder’s cat?
Answer: Pilchard

Question: Mr Barkis, Edward Murdstone and Tommy Traddles are all characters in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: David Copperfield

Question: Vladimir Kramnik became World Champion in November 2000 in which game?
Answer: Chess

Question: Garter, Chevron, Pavilion and Windmill are all terms used in which handicraft?
Answer: Knitting

Question: German army officer Erwin Rommel was known by what nickname?
Answer: Desert Fox

Question: The US tv show ‘All in the Family’ was based on which British tv sitcom?
Answer: Till Death Us Do Part

Question: The Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral is in which European city?
Answer: Florence

Question: In which year was the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race declared a draw because it was said that the judge was asleep under a bush as the crews passed the finish line?
Answer: 1877

Question: What is the main ingredient of the soup shchi?
Answer: Cabbage

Question: Effie Crockett was said to have composed which lullaby in 1886?
Answer: Rock-a-bye-baby

Question: What was former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s maiden name?
Answer: Roberts

Question: ‘Papaver’ is the Latin name for which flower?
Answer: Poppy

Question: What was the first name of Russian monk Rasputin, who befriended Nicholas II and his family?
Answer: Grigori

Question: Erythema affects which part of the human body?
Answer: Skin

Question: What was the name of the restaurant opened by Lily Savage and Loyd Grossman in the UK tv soap ‘Brookside’?
Answer: Grants Restaurant

Question: ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ is the work of which American dramatist?
Answer: Edward Albee

Question: The Nou Camp Football Stadium is in which Spanish city?
Answer: Barcelona

Question: Who wrote the ‘Canterbury Tales’ in the 14th Century?
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer

Question: In which James Bond film did Rowan Atkinson make his film debut?
Answer: Never Say Never Again

Question: What type of creature is a bitterling?
Answer: Fish

Question: Which British musician hosts their Annual Hootenanny on television on New Year’s Eve?
Answer: Jools Holland

Question: ‘The Thought Police’ feature in which 1949 novel?
Answer: 1984

Question: How many medals did Germany win in the 2002 Winter Olympic Games?
Answer: 36