Question: What is the radius of a circle whose area is 154 square inches?
Answer: 7 inches

Question: What is the name given to the silent electrical discharge between the atmosphere and, for example, trees, ships' masts, steeples and flagpoles?
Answer: St Elmo's Fire

Question: Joseph Smith is known as the founder of what movement?
Answer: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Question: Michael Keaton starred in which film as a spirit who makes a living from scaring people?
Answer: Beetlejuice

Question: At the opening ceremony of every Olympic Games when the athletes parade into the stadium, what is traditionally the first nation to enter?
Answer: Greece

Question: Where are Southampton Island and King George Island?
Answer: Hudson Bay, Canada

Question: Muhammad Ali (who was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) is associated with which sport?
Answer: Boxing

Question: Where was the first McDonalds outlet opened in 1955?
Answer: Chicago

Question: What is the next number in the sequence 0; 4; 36; 1,444?
Answer: 2,090,916

Question: A litre is a measure of what?
Answer: Volume

Question: At the 2008 Olympics, South Korea protested that for Norways winning goal in the semifinals, the ball had failed fully to cross the goal line prior to time expiring and requested that the game continue into overtime. What sport was this?
Answer: Handball

Question: What is the musical term for playing each note separated from the rest?
Answer: Staccato

Question: What federation of free cities who had developed trade with foreign countries, formed in the 14th century, had its headquarters in Lbeck?
Answer: Hanseatic League

Question: Louis XIV of France was known as what?
Answer: The Sun King

Question: Matt Damon played which role in a trilogy of films about an amnesiac who also suffers from PTSD who is attempting to discover his true identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the CIA to track him down and arrest or kill him?
Answer: Jason Bourne

Question: Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the world's oldest and most famous cricket club (founded in 1787), is based where?
Answer: Lord's Cricket Ground

Question: What is the Mufti of Jerusalem?
Answer: An Islamic official

Question: What is the term for a period of isolation to prevent the spread of disease?
Answer: Quarantine

Question: The Belgian Revolution, that began after a performance at the Brussels opera in 1830, led to the secession of the Southern provinces of which kingdom to establish an independent Kingdom of Belgium?
Answer: United Kingdom of the Netherlands

Question: What was the capital city of Russia from 1712 to 1918?
Answer: Saint Petersburg

Question: The islands Santa Ysabel, Choiseul, Guadalcanal, Malaita and San Cristbal are in which group?
Answer: Solomon Islands

Question: Which astronomer, born in West Yorkshire, England in 1915 and dying in 2001 in Bournemouth, England, was a science fiction writer, whose output includes the novel "The Black Cloud", a TV series "A for Andromeda" and a play "Rockets in Ursa Major"?
Answer: Sir Fred Hoyle

Question: What is the name given to the planet Venus when it appears in the West after sunset?
Answer: Evening Star

Question: How old was Kurt Cobain when he died?
Answer: 27

Question: Who unknowingly slew his father and married his mother, and, when he discovered his true identity, blinded himself when his mother hanged herself?
Answer: Oedipus

Question: What was the dolphin that accompanied vessels near French Pass, a channel used by ships sailing between Wellington and Nelson, New Zealand between 1888 and 1912?
Answer: Pelorus Jack

Question: What card game was derived from the 16th century Italian game called "ronfa"?
Answer: Piquet

Question: What is the name for the point on the ecliptic when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equator?
Answer: Solstice

Question: In the 2003 film "What A Girl Wants", Amanda Bynes played the illegitimate daughter of a British politician played by whom?
Answer: Colin Firth

Question: How high should a badminton net be at the centre?
Answer: 1.524 metres (5 ft)

Question: According to Virgil's Latin epic poem "The Aeneid", who, during the Trojan War, made a wooden horse and filled it with soldiers that the Trojans took through the gates of Troy?
Answer: Greeks

Question: What modern sport can trace its origin back to a Scramble that took place at Camberley, Surrey England in 1924?
Answer: Motocross

Question: What is the capital of Greece?
Answer: Athens

Question: Slogans such as "The Truth Is Out There", "Trust No One" and "I Want to Believe" that became part of pop culture in the 1990s were from which TV series?
Answer: The X-Files

Question: What is another name for sodium bicarbonate?
Answer: Baking soda

Question: The Greek mathematician, mystic and scientist Pythagoras is best known for the Pythagorean theorem, which concerns what?
Answer: Triangles

Question: What was the name given to the group of people in the English Midlands who destroyed machinery in 1811 - 1812, believing it to be the cause of their unemployment?
Answer: Luddites

Question: Usain Bolt is what type of athlete?
Answer: Sprinter

Question: What song was played at the end of the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb"?
Answer: We'll Meet Again

Question: Who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, which he proposed in "Stenographic Soundhand" in 1837?
Answer: Isaac Pitman

Question: What medium had its first test with a recording of Richard Strauss's "Eine Alpensinfonie" by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan in 1981, and its first commercial pressing with "The Visitors" by ABBA a year later?
Answer: Compact disc

Question: """A Little Night Music"" by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler and Harold Prince, was based on which 1955 film directed by Ingmar Bergman?"
Answer: Smiles Of A Summer Night

Question: Who designed the white chiffon one-shoulder gown worn by Michelle Obama at the series of 10 balls celebrating Barack Obama's inauguration?
Answer: Jason Wu

Question: Who has won the most medals in Olympic Games since the modern Olympics began in 1896?
Answer: Michael Phelps

Question: From its discovery in 1930 until 2006, what was considered to be the Solar System's ninth planet?
Answer: Pluto

Question: What name is given to a cocktail consisting mainly of vodka, Galliano, and orange juice?
Answer: Harvey Wallbanger

Question: Which ballet, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky under impresario Serge Diaghilev, caused a riot at its 1913 premire in Paris by The Ballets Russes because the music and choreography were considered barbaric and sexual?
Answer: The Rite of Spring

Question: In which country did the USA enter a war by sending military advisors in 1950, escalating their involvement until finally combat units played an active part between 1965 and 1975?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: Which Italian island in the Mediterranean is to the south of Corsica?
Answer: Sardinia

Question: What ampihibia are native to Europe and Asia, with 4 fingers and five toes, one species of which ejects a white poisonous fluid from the glands in the skin?
Answer: Salamander

Question: Who was the Roman god of the sea?
Answer: Neptune

Question: Che Guevara was among the revolutionaries who invaded which country with the intention of overthrowing its US-backed dictator in December 1956?
Answer: Cuba

Question: What is a "theatre sister"?
Answer: Nurse in an operating theatre

Question: What has been a state religion in Japan?
Answer: Shintoism

Question: How many metatarsal bones are in each human foot?
Answer: 5

Question: Billy Piper played the travelling companion to the lead role in which TV series that played in Great Britain in 2005?
Answer: Dr Who

Question: What legendary land was between the Scilly Isles and Cornwall before it was overwhelmed by the sea?
Answer: Lyonesse