Question: The epiglottis is in what part of the body?
Answer: Throat

Question: What is the Hindu Kush?
Answer: Mountain range

Question: What is the surname of the brothers Auguste and Louis, who are often credited with the invention of motion pictures?
Answer: Lumire

Question: """Magic"" Johnson was a leading player in which sport?"
Answer: Basketball

Question: """Massacre in Korea"", a 1951 expressionistic painting by Pablo Picasso which is seen as a criticism of American intervention in the Korean war is drawn from the painting ""The Third of May 1808"", which shows Napoleon's soldiers executing Spanish civilians, by whom?"
Answer: Francisco Goya

Question: What was invented by Rene Laennec in the early 19th century?
Answer: Stethoscope

Question: London Bridge, bought for US$2.5 million from the City of London when the bridge was replaced in 1968, crosses a 930ft (280m) long man-made canal in Lake Havasu City in which US state?
Answer: Arizona

Question: What is the early morning or night prayer service in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran and Eastern Orthodox churches, used in some Protestant denominations to describe morning services?
Answer: Matins

Question: Which two teams set a record for the total number of points (96) scored in an NFL playoff match when they met in January 2010?
Answer: Arizona Cardinals  and the Green Bay Packers

Question: """The Debate"", an hour-long episode of which TV series was aired live on 6 November 2005, with different broadcasts for East and West Coast audiences?"
Answer: The West Wing

Question: The head of state of Jersey and Guernsey, which are both Crown dependencies and not part of the United Kingdom, is Queen Elizabeth II. She rules there because she holds what title?
Answer: Duke of Normandy

Question: Who was president of the USA at the outbreak of World War II?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question: What is the name of the surface used to play a game of curling?
Answer: Sheet

Question: Who painted "Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer", which sold at auction for $US135 million in 2006?
Answer: Gustav Klimt

Question: What role is played by Elizabeth Hurley in the 2000 film "Bedazzled"?
Answer: The Devil

Question: What is the standard measure used in the oil production industry?
Answer: Barrel

Question: Who is Joseph Alois Ratzinger?
Answer: Pope Benedict XVI

Question: What was the capital of West Germany from 1945 to 1999?
Answer: Bonn

Question: Where was the 1991 film "The Commitments" set?
Answer: Dublin

Question: Which cricketer has scored the most first class centuries in history?
Answer: Jack Hobbs

Question: Urticaria affects what part of the body?
Answer: Skin

Question: What tax was current in ancient Athens, in Jerusalem more than 2,000 years ago, in Egypt, in Europe and England from time to time (leading in 1381 to Wat Tyler's rebellion), including Charles I's, Charles II's, and Margaret Thatcher's governments, in Canada and the USA, and in NZ among others?
Answer: Poll Tax

Question: What is the largest city in the province of British Columbia, Canada?
Answer: Vancouver

Question: What word is applied to a Muslim devotee, usually a monk or wandering mendicant?
Answer: Dervish

Question: Which Roman goddess is the equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite?
Answer: Venus

Question: What sport is featured in the film "Blades of Glory", starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder?
Answer: Ice skating

Question: Who wrote the play "Still Life", on which the 1945 film "Brief Encounter" was based?
Answer: Noel Coward

Question: What street leads to the front of Buckingham Palace in London?
Answer: The Mall

Question: In the USA, what name is given to an isolated hill with steep sides and a small flat top?
Answer: Butte

Question: What is the stringy substance used to clean between the teeth?
Answer: Floss

Question: In jazz, what kind of singing is vocal improvisation with nonsense syllables or without words at all, whereby singers have the ability to create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using their voice?
Answer: Scat

Question: What musical instrument is Woody Allen known for playing?
Answer: Clarinet

Question: Which musical by Elton John and Lee Hall, which revolves around a motherless boy who trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes and is based on a 2000 film, opened in London's West End in 2005?
Answer: Billy Elliot the Musical

Question: Port Said is at the entrance to which canal?
Answer: Suez

Question: Who was the first to be quoted as saying "There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics"?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: What book introduced "the Thought Police"?
Answer: 1984

Question: Where is "The Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race", the world's longest certified footrace according to its organisers, which is held annually June-August?
Answer: Queens, New York, USA

Question: What is the fluid in which the human foetus grows?
Answer: Amniotic fluid

Question: The Tuareg and the Berber inhabit which desert?
Answer: Sahara

Question: Gregory Peck played attorney Sam Bowden in what 1962 film?
Answer: Cape Fear

Question: The Australian species of what bird has the longest beak in the world?
Answer: Pelican

Question: On a roulette wheel, what colour is the number 5?
Answer: Red

Question: Which religion is most associated with kosher food?
Answer: Judaism

Question: What was special about Shirley Eaton's costume in the 1964 James Bond movie "Goldfinger"?
Answer: It was just gold body paint

Question: The Pilton Festival that started in 1970 and is held annually is now called what?
Answer: Glastonbury Festival

Question: What religion is the Dalai Lama?
Answer: Buddhist

Question: The Central Criminal Court, London, which is also known as "The Old Bailey", stands on the site of what structure, now demolished?
Answer: Newgate Prison

Question: Lake Titicaca is in which mountain range?
Answer: Andes

Question: What was the alliance of Eastern European nations, the counterpart of NATO, during the Cold War?
Answer: Warsaw Pact

Question: Who provides the voice for Gromit in the "Wallace and Gromit" series of TV shows?
Answer: No-one

Question: On 3 July 1844, which bird became extinct when the last two were killed by hunters?
Answer: Great Auk

Question: In the 1989 film "Batman", the Joker revealed his real name, which was ?
Answer: Jack Napier

Question: What rock band played together for the first time in over 20 years at the London Live Eight Concert in 2005?
Answer: Pink Floyd

Question: The Summer Olympic Games 2016 will be held where?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Question: What is the largest country by land area in Central America?
Answer: Nicaragua

Question: Where was "the Bhopal disaster" that took place at a pesticide plant owned and operated by Union Carbide (UCIL), when the plant released methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other toxins in December 1984, exposing over 500,000 people?
Answer: Madhya Pradesh, India

Question: What is Judge Judy's last name?
Answer: Sheindlin

Question: What musical term means "an immediate reduction in pace"?
Answer: Ritenuto

Question: In 1954, in a television adaptation of a book by Ian Fleming, Barry Nelson was the first person to appear on a screen as which fictional character?
Answer: James Bond

Question: In 1469, the crowns of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon were united by the marriage of Isabella and Ferdinand. This was an important event in the history of which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: How did Ronnie Lee Gardner make the news at 6.20 p.m. on 18 June 2010 in Utah?
Answer: He was executed by firing squad

Question: The asteroid belt is a series of rocks that orbit the sun between Mars and which other planet?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: Who was a first baseman in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox who is famous for his 49-game hitting streak in 1915, while playing in the Pacific Coast League, a league record until it was broken by Joe DiMaggio?
Answer: Jack Ness