Question: What is the name of the mount on which the Hollywood sign sits in California?
Answer: Mount Lee

Question: In which country is the Nafud Desert?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: Which gemstone is associated (traditional UK/US) with a 45th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Sapphire

Question: Roughly how many seconds are in a year?
Answer: 31½ million

Question: Anthomania refers to a great love of?
Answer: Flowers

Question: A mummichog is what type of creature?
Answer: Fish

Question: In which year was the National Health Service established in Great Britain?
Answer: 1948

Question: In 1919, which country became the first to legalise abortion?
Answer: Russia

Question: Name the French bank controversially exonerated (judged free of any responsibility/liability) in the 2010 trial of its employee rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, who was imprisoned for, and fined, the 4.9bn euros he lost in 2008 futures trading?
Answer: Soc Gen

Question: What is the name of the hook which forms on the lower jaw of the male salmon during the breeding season?
Answer: Kype

Question: Which monarch was the first Supreme Governor of the Church of England?
Answer: Elizabeth I

Question: Permalloy is made from which two metallic chemical elements?
Answer: Nickel and iron

Question: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in which US city?
Answer: Boston

Question: Mock Turtle Soup is traditionally made from the head of a?
Answer: Calf

Question: If something is 'fluviatile', it is produced or found in a?
Answer: River

Question: Which if these is the square (a number multiplied by itself) of a whole number?
Answer: 289

Question: A deuteragonist is second in importance in a?
Answer: Greek tragedy

Question: The lempira is the basic monetary unit of which Central American country?
Answer: Honduras

Question: The Odense River is in which European country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Name the mine in Copiapo, Chile, where 33 miners were trapped after a collapse on 5 Aug 2010?
Answer: San José

Question: In 1760, Belgian inventor Joseph Merlin patented which item of footwear?
Answer: Roller skates

Question: The resort of St Tropez is in which department of France?
Answer: Var

Question: American mathematician Norbert Wiener, 1894-1964, coined what scientific term concerning complex systems, and helped define its modern understanding?
Answer: Cybernetics

Question: When steel is galvanized it is most commonly coated by what?
Answer: Zinc

Question: What element, with zirconium, forms the compound zirconia, which is used to make synthetic diamonds?
Answer: Oxygen

Question: What characterised the Neolithic age?
Answer: Stone tools

Question: What British institution, originating in the 12th century, is to be turned into a mutual or cooperative, according to government plans announced in 2010?
Answer: The Post Office

Question: What name (in English) was given to the capsule which brought the 33 Chilean miners to the surface in the San Jose rescue on 13 October 2010?
Answer: Phoenix

Question: According to Forbes magazine's 2010 listings, who was the highest earning dead celebrity?
Answer: Yves Saint Laurent

Question: Meaning literally 'make like' what is the full Latin word from which 'fax' derives (as in fax machine)?
Answer: Facsimile

Question: According to Greek legend, the labyrinth built by architect Daedalus housed which monster?
Answer: The Minotaur

Question: What 'z' is the activity where person is rolled down a hill inside a large plastic transparent ball?
Answer: Zorbing

Question: Sir Thomas Sopwith designed what famous British biplane fighter aircraft, whose name combined his own name with an animal?
Answer: Sopwith Camel

Question: What type of wartime field gun took its name originally from the old Czech word (loosely 'houfnice') meaning catapault?
Answer: Howitzer

Question: What is a brief period of time and a turning effect produced by a force?
Answer: Moment

Question: What colour/color normally follows orange moving up the scale, low to high, in judo belts?
Answer: Green

Question: Sometimes called Echo Boomers, people born between around 1980 to the mid-1990s (or later depending on interpretation), are more commonly referred to as Generation what?
Answer: Y

Question: Used especially in marketing and consumer profiling, what is the study of size, structure, development and dispersement of human populations?
Answer: Demography

Question: What term, common in fantasy games, also refers to the three wise men in the Bible?
Answer: Magi

Question: In which city is the new 27-storey $1bn residential property 'Antilla', home to the 4th richest person in the world, and (as at 2010) reportedly the most expensive home anywhere?
Answer: Mumbai

Question: 'Five-finger discount' is US slang for what crime?
Answer: Shoplifting

Question: What number is neutral on the pH acid/alkali scale?
Answer: 7

Question: How many microns are in a metre?
Answer: One million

Question: What four words appear on the rectangual logo molded into most plastic CD cases?
Answer: Compact Disc Digital Audio

Question: In Gustav Holst's orchestral suite 'The Planets' what planet from the (our) Solar System is missing?
Answer: Earth

Question: Which aspiring US politician was criticized in Oct 2010 for her technically illegal act of autographing an American flag?
Answer: Sarah Palin

Question: In which country is Lake Banyoles, site of the 1992 Olympic rowing events?
Answer: Spain

Question: Jomo Kenyatta became the first president of which African country in 1964?
Answer: Kenya

Question: What chemical element is a pure diamond?
Answer: Carbon

Question: Which character is the science officer of the starship Enterprise (in the original TV series)?
Answer: Spock

Question: What (aside from slight variation with temperature and air pressure) is the metric weight of a litre/liter (1,000cc) of water?
Answer: 1 kilogram

Question: What (usually wooden item) securely holds a set of spirit decanters, and is named after a mythical Greek king, condemned to stand surrounded by unreachable water and fruit?
Answer: Tantalus

Question: Coca Cola announced in Oct 2010 the closure of which famous British bottled water company, said to be the Queen's favourite?
Answer: Malvern

Question: What type of animal is a markhor, the national animal of Pakistan?
Answer: Goat

Question: Which couturiere and perfumier's first names were Gabrielle Bonheur?
Answer: Coco Chanel

Question: The flavoured fishing bait boilie is mainly used to catch which type of fish?
Answer: Carp

Question: In geological classification what granular term is between silt and gravel?
Answer: Sand

Question: William Van Allan designed which New York building - the tallest brick building in the world in 1930?
Answer: The Chrysler Building

Question: What was Brad Pitt's initialised character name in the film 'Thelma and Louise'?
Answer: J D

Question: Opened in 1998, accessible usually only by air, and continually in permafrost, the EKATI Diamond Mine is in which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: Which US president's mother was known as 'Miss Lillian'?
Answer: Jimmy Carter

Question: In human anatomy, in which part of the body is the buccinator muscle?
Answer: Cheek

Question: What is the square root of four million?
Answer: 2,000

Question: Diacetylmorphine is the technical term for which drug?
Answer: Heroin

Question: The actress Caryn Johnson is better known by which name?
Answer: Whoopi Goldberg

Question: Name the Panama military dictator imprisoned from 1992-2007 in the USA for drug trafficking, racketeering and money laundering, and subsequently extradited to France for money laundering, and imprisoned again in 2010?
Answer: General Manuel Noriega

Question: Laconia is a southern region of which European country?
Answer: Greece

Question: What is the large dog breed named after a town in south-west Germany, with St Bernard, Newfoundland and Pyrenean Mountain Dog ancestry?
Answer: Leonberger