Question: Which 1942 film starring Tim Holt, Joseph Cotton, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, Dolores Costello and Richard Bennett was adapted by Orson Welles from a novel by Booth Tarkington?
Answer: The Magnificent Ambersons

Question: What is the Chinese name for the Yellow River?
Answer: Huang Ho

Question: In central and northern Italy, the Guelphs, who supported the Pope, and Ghibellines, who supported the Holy Roman Emperor, became a metaphor for rivalry between individual families and cities. When was this?
Answer: 12th and 13th centuries

Question: On the Jewish calendar, what is Rosh Hashanah?
Answer: New Year

Question: Tamerlane was a 14th-century conqueror of Western, South and Central Asia, founder of which empire?
Answer: The Timurid Empire

Question: What is known most usually in the UK as "The Sport of Kings"?
Answer: Horse racing

Question: What 17th century French playwright is still celebrated and popular for his witty satires, among them The School for Wives, The School for Husbands and The Imaginary Invalid?
Answer: Molire

Question: According to Charlotte Bront, who married Jane Eyre?
Answer: Mr Rochester

Question: What is Mexico's largest commercial port?
Answer: Manzanillo

Question: What does the parotid gland produce?
Answer: Saliva

Question: If you went due east of Rio De Janeiro, what country would you get to first?
Answer: Namibia

Question: What name is given to a person or animal with a form of hypopigmentary congenital disorder, characterized by a lack of melanin pigment in the eyes, skin and hair?
Answer: Albino

Question: Who wrote the opera "Pagliacci"?
Answer: Leoncavallo

Question: What is the name of the Hobbit who carries the ring to Mordor to be destroyed?
Answer: Frodo

Question: The era of political liberalisation in Czechoslovakia in 1968 was called what?
Answer: Prague Spring

Question: The Wash is an English estuary which opens to which body of water?
Answer: North Sea

Question: What is the Hebrew word for the holocaust?
Answer: Shoah

Question: Where in the United Kingdom would you find a statue of Anteros?
Answer: Piccadilly, London, England

Question: According to Arthurian legend, who was the father of Galahad?
Answer: Lancelot

Question: In cricket, what term is used to describe the situation when a batsman is "out" for no score in both innings of the same two-innings match?
Answer: Pair

Question: Who are Anne Valerie Hash, Stephanie Rolland, Alexis Mabille, Rebecca Taylor, Marc Jacobs and John Galliano?
Answer: Fashion designers

Question: What name is given to a general practitioner's business?
Answer: Practice

Question: Who played Rick, the self-proclaimed anarchist who writes poetry and calls himself "The People's Poet" in the UK TV series "The Young Ones"?
Answer: Rik Mayall

Question: The national team of the Iroquois League was admitted to the international federation for what sport in 1990 and competes internationally, the only native American/First Nations team to do so?
Answer: Lacrosse

Question: What type of computer uses three possible values in its calculations: the digits -1, 0, and +1?
Answer: Ternary computer

Question: St James's Palace is in what street in London?
Answer: Pall Mall

Question: Charles Lindbergh's first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 was between which two cities?
Answer: New York and Paris, France

Question: Who is acknowledged as the founder of Singapore as a trading post and European settlement in 1819?
Answer: Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles

Question: Johnny Weissmuller, the star of 12 "Tarzan" films between 1932 and 1948, won 5 Olympic gold medals in the 1920s in what sport?
Answer: Swimming

Question: What was the first satellite put into orbit by the USA?
Answer: Explorer

Question: Who played the title role in the 1970s TV series "McCloud", about a cowboy policeman working in New York?
Answer: Dennis Weaver

Question: The French National Assembly is housed in which building?
Answer: Palais Bourbon

Question: In what sport does one "play the ball" by rolling it back to a dummy half?
Answer: Rugby league

Question: Quicksilver is the alternative name for what?
Answer: Mercury

Question: What are carried on a hod?
Answer: Bricks

Question: What name is given to English comedies written from 1660 to 1700 which signalled the rebirth of English drama after public stage performances had been banned for 18 years?
Answer: Restoration comedy

Question: Who defected from Russia to the West at a Paris airport on 17 June 1961?
Answer: Rudolph Nureyev

Question: The rumba was originally danced where?
Answer: Cuba

Question: In snooker, what coloured ball scores 3 points?
Answer: Green

Question: Who would use an inkblot or Rorschach Test?
Answer: Psychologist

Question: What is the monetary unit of Laos?
Answer: Kip

Question: What is a nickname for Inverness?
Answer: The Capital of the Highlands

Question: In snooker, what coloured ball scores 1 point?
Answer: Red

Question: Graphic representation of a formula containing two variables one of which is the reciprocal of the other, is a what?
Answer: Hyperbola

Question: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) installed as First Consul in France by 1800 and crowned Emperor of France 1804, was born where?
Answer: Ajaccio, Corsica

Question: According to the Bible (and Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice), who had a coat with many colours?
Answer: Joseph

Question: How many pockets does the modern pocket billiards table have?
Answer: 6

Question: Who played Mr Big in the TV series "Sex and the City" which first ran from 1998 to 2004, and the films "Sex and the City" (2008) and "Sex and the City 2" (2010)?
Answer: Chris Noth

Question: Serotonin is a hormone that mainly affects what in the human body?
Answer: Mood, intestinal movements, vasoconstriction

Question: The newest distinct territory in Canada, Nunavut, is contiguous or very nearly with how many other Canadian provinces or territories?
Answer: 4

Question: On 31 October 1941, the USS Reuben James, a post-World War I four-funnelled Clemson-class destroyer, became the first US Navy ship to do what?
Answer: Be sunk by hostile action in World War II

Question: In the film "Batman Forever", released in 1995, who played the villain called "Two Face"?
Answer: Tommy Lee Jones

Question: Where does the phrase "show me the money" come from?
Answer: """Jerry Maguire"", a 1996 film"

Question: What was the first name of the political cartoonist known as Hogarth?
Answer: William

Question: What is the engineering term for a shallow masonry construction used to carry the supports of a timber superstructure?
Answer: Plinth

Question: What caused the end of the last kingdom of Italy?
Answer: Public referendum

Question: What boxer was known as "The Brown Bomber"?
Answer: Joe Louis

Question: The Michael Phelps Foundation Golf Classic is an annual fundraiser for what?
Answer: Growing the sport of swimming and promoting healthier lifestyles

Question: Who have lived for 20,000 years as hunter-gatherers, whose territory spans parts of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola, centred on a large arid to semi-arid sandy area?
Answer: Bushmen of the Kalahari

Question: Which country, after the collapse of its government-owned bank and via a referendum, decided in March 2010 not to pay Great Britain and the Netherlands the 3.9 billion that it owed them?
Answer: Iceland

Question: What film was based on the book "Q and A" by Vikas Swarup?
Answer: Slumdog Millionaire

Question: Who has played, on film, John Dillinger, Sweeney Todd, J M Barrie, Jack Kerouac and Ed Wood?
Answer: Johnny Depp

Question: Where is the Satsuma peninsula?
Answer: Japan

Question: Who is most likely to perform a "pas de deux"?
Answer: Ballet dancer

Question: Which British golfer won the US Masters in 1989, 1990 & 1996?
Answer: Nick Faldo

Question: Who designed the jet boat?
Answer: Sir William Hamilton