Question: In which English county would you find Stonehenge?
Answer: Wiltshire

Question: In which small North Yorkshire market town is the Black Sheep Brewery based?
Answer: Masham

Question: About which politician did Harold Wilson say “He immatures with age”?
Answer: (Anthony Wedgwood) Tony Benn

Question: What was the first pitched battle of the English civil War?
Answer: Edgehill

Question: In which country did the 'Orange’ Revolution take place between 2004 and 2005?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: Which pirate’s ship was called Queen Anne’s Revenge?
Answer: Blackbeard

Question: At any one time how many holders are there of the Order of Merit?
Answer: 24

Question: The painting Sleeping Lady with Black Vase by Robert Bereny which was thought to be lost was rediscovered by a art historian in unusual circumstances while he was doing what with his daughter?
Answer: Watching a movie! (Stuart Little)

Question: A set of six medieval tapestries that are said to represent the five senses and maybe love/understanding that are currently on display in a Paris museum are called The Lady and the ... what mythical beast?
Answer: Unicorn (The Lady and the Unicorn)

Question: Christmas decorations commonly seen in German homes during the holiday season and which are said to be the predecessors for Christmas trees are usually in what shape?
Answer: Pyramid

Question: Which colorful military personality of the 20th century purportedly carried a lucky charm called "Charlie", a lump of lava rock carved into a Hawaiian warrior?
Answer: General George S. Patton

Question: A type of whole foot shoes called sabots were associated with the working classes in France and neighboring countries. When the workers were disgruntled, they allegedly threw them in workplace machinery and this is one possible origin of what word?
Answer: Sabotage, of course!

Question: According to the video trailer promoting a 2014 spiritual movie, Autobiography of a Yogi was the only book on the iPad of which person who died on Oct 5, 2011?
Answer: Steve Jobs

Question: The Pushkar Fair, an annual event in the desert state of Rajashtan in India, witnesses sales of thousands of livestock with a focus on what?
Answer: Camels

Question: François Coty’s Chypre, Paul Parquet’s Fougère Royale, and Aimé Guerlain's Jicky are three of the many representations at an archive in Versailles, France that was founded in 1990 to preserve what?
Answer: Scents

Question: What is the defining property of the Coffeepot for Masochists object designed by Jacques Carelman which is often used as an example in design studies?
Answer: Handle and spout are on the same side

Question: As seen on Jessica Simpson's show Price of Beauty, some would-be-brides in Uganda are confined to huts before their impending wedding with what motive?
Answer: Fattening!

Question: Said to be aimed at youth venturing into adulthood, what is the defining feature of the statues at the Khajuraho temples of India that were constructed between the 10th and the 12th centuries?
Answer: Erotica

Question: On the way to the Vatican Museums are the Sistine Chapel (which obviously features Michelangelo's frescoes) and a suite of rooms that features frescoes of what other great?
Answer: Raphael

Question: Once when he was hunting, he came across a stag but was out of bullets. He used the pit of the cherry he was eating and shot the stag between the eyes but the stag still ran away. After a few years, he apparently encountered the same stag in the forest but with a cherry tree between its antlers. This is one of the fantastical stories attributed to which 18th century German nobleman?
Answer: Baron Münchhausen

Question: French artist Yves Klein created a series of works he called Anthropometry using what as paint brushes?
Answer: Humans

Question: Because it was worn by recently freed slaves in Ancient Rome, what cap became the symbol of liberty?
Answer: Pileus

Question: One of the earliest representations of the human face was an ivory figurine discovered in 1892 at Brassempouy, France. Which mythic figure's name is used to describe it?
Answer: Venus (Venus of Brassempouy)

Question: Dr. Byron McKeeby and a lady named Nan are immortalized in art - how?
Answer: They are the two people in American Gothic by Grant Wood

Question: What name was given to the group of hedonistic British and Irish aristocrats who lived in an area overlapping Kenya and Uganda between the 1920s and the 1940s?
Answer: Happy Valley set

Question: Who is the person of religious history whose pardon was the subject of a 1950 novel by Pär Lagerkvist as well as a 1961 portrayal by Anthony Quinn?
Answer: Barabbas

Question: The Marie de' Medici Cycle is a series of twenty-four paintings by which artist?
Answer: Peter Paul Rubens

Question: So what if he failed, he tried, didn't he? The Hellenic Air Force Academy was renamed after which mythological character in 1967?
Answer: Icarus

Question: Because of the flexibility of its branches and growing characteristic, what tree species is most popularly used for bonsai? (hint: gin!)
Answer: Juniper

Question: What controversial objects of the world of culture are by far the biggest attraction in the purpose built Duveen Gallery of the British Museum?
Answer: Elgin Marbles

Question: In an Aesop fable that shows the power of persuasion over force, what element fights the sun?
Answer: Wind

Question: Which legendary queen is said to have claimed an area of North Africa by using thin strips of oxhide?
Answer: Dido, Queen of Carthage

Question: In the world of US theater, it has become customary to encourage audience to clap to save which character of a popular children's play?
Answer: Tinkerbell

Question: Susuk that is practiced by the Malays is the loose equivalent of what practice of Chinese culture?
Answer: Acupuncture

Question: America's oldest and still-running wooden roller coaster that can be found at Coney Island has what 'stormy' name?
Answer: Cyclone

Question: An ankle length overcoat and a bird-like beak mask filled with lavender were prominently worn by what group of professionals in the days past?
Answer: Plague doctors

Question: The Tree of Life, a sculpture that can be seen in the British Museum, was created by four artists in Mozambique from what? (hint: sure to please peace advocates!)
Answer: Surrendered weapons

Question: The Spoonmaker's Diamond is a major attraction of a museum at what location that used to be the primary residence of the Ottoman Sultans for 400 years?
Answer: Topkapi palace

Question: May you live for ten thousand years if you get this right. What is the particular type of skydiving which involves throwing a parachute out of a plane and then jumping after it?
Answer: Banzai skydiving

Question: Two punsters who call themselves Ol' Chumbucket and Cap'n Slappy designated September 19 as the annual what day? Arrrrrrrrrrr!
Answer: Talk like a pirate day

Question: Mohini the enchantress is the only female manifestation of which male deity of the Hindu pantheon known for his avatars?
Answer: Vishnu

Question: A Japanese painting in the simplistic style of haiga is also likely to contain what?
Answer: Haiku poem

Question: The staged performance at what renowned location in Vienna includes the levade, capriole and courbette and ends with School Quadrille?
Answer: Spanish Riding School (that of the Lipizzan horses)

Question: Lapot in Romania, Ubasute in Japan and Ättestupa in the Nordic world are all terms for what custom in difficult times that is commonly associated with the Inuit?
Answer: Senicide

Question: In the 1950s, because of what fad did the price of a certain mammal skin jump from twenty-five cents a pound to eight dollars a pound?
Answer: Coonskin caps

Question: If Lisa Gherardini the wife of Francesco del Giocondo is the subject of Da Vinci's masterpiece (Mona Lisa), who is the wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer who was the subject of Klimt's record setting 1907 painting?
Answer: Adele