Question: Abyssinian, Balinese, British Shorthair, Birman, Bombay, Burmese, California Spangled, Devon Rex, Egyptian Mau, Himalayan, Japanese Bobtail and Javanese are all breeds of what?
Answer: Cat

Question: The Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381 led by men such as John Ball, Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, and the most extreme and widespread insurrection in English history, was about what?
Answer: Taxation

Question: Which company ran a promotion entitled "When the US Wins, You Win" during the 1984 Olympic Games, where customers scratched off a ticket, and if the US won that event, they would be given a free item from the menu?
Answer: McDonald's

Question: What do we know from childhood goes "twinkle twinkle", "up above the sky so high like a diamond in the sky"?
Answer: Little star

Question: Irish milliner Philip Treacy made the wide-brimmed cream-coloured hat worn by whom at her wedding on 9 April 2005?
Answer: Camilla Parker Bowles

Question: On 19 June 1975, an inquest jury named whom as the murderer of Sandra Rivett, the last time that an inquest was allowed to name the person they suspected of committing such a crime?
Answer: Lord Lucan

Question: The land of Azeroth features in which video game?
Answer: Warcraft

Question: What is the name given to 1 April, which, according to ancient custom, is still marked in many countries by carrying out hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication?
Answer: April Fools Day

Question: Which US President was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau in the Sixth Street Station of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in Washington, D.C.?
Answer: James Garfield

Question: What expression that probably comes from a description of the components of a musket means "everything"?
Answer: Lock, stock and barrel

Question: What complex, once the residence of the Muslim rulers of Granada that became a Christian palace, was "rediscovered" in the 19th century and now exhibits Islamic architecture, together with Christian 16th century buildings and gardens?
Answer: The Alhambra

Question: Who, in 1970, became the first woman during the open era and the second woman ever to win all four Grand Slam singles titles in the same calendar year and became a Pentecostal minister in 1991?
Answer: Margaret Court

Question: What gives mead its sweet taste?
Answer: Honey

Question: In the USA between 1852 and 1883, who were Reelfoot Williams, Tom Bell, Rattlesnake Dick and Charles Bolles (a.k.a. "Black Bart")?
Answer: Stagecoach robbers

Question: What is the stage name of Alecia Beth Moore, whose hits include "There You Go", "Stupid Girls", "Who Knew", "Funhouse"and "So What"?
Answer: Pink

Question: What was the last of these Star Wars films to be released?
Answer: Revenge of the Sith

Question: In statistics, what term is applied to techniques for modeling and analysing several variables to understand how the typical value of the dependent variable changes when one of the independent variables is varied, and the other variables are fixed?
Answer: Regression analysis

Question: According to the Bible, which country was hit by ten plagues, including of frogs and locusts?
Answer: Egypt

Question: Who in history is the only divorced wife of someone who later became president of the USA?
Answer: Jane Wyman

Question: A popular vote in Switzerland in November 2009 approved banning the building of what in the country?
Answer: Minarets

Question: Club Atltico Boca Juniors, known simply as Boca Juniors or Boca, a sports club best known for its football team, is based in which country?
Answer: Argentina

Question: What is the next in this series: 3.1, 95, 98, 98SE, ...
Answer: 2000

Question: Women took part in wrestling events at an Olympic Games for the first time in what year?
Answer: 2004 Athens, Greece

Question: Prints of which 1927 silent German expressionist science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang were discovered in Australia, the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the National Film Archive of New Zealand, to become the basis for a restoration project for a DVD/BD?
Answer: Metropolis

Question: What kind of gemstones are the Cullinane and the Hope?
Answer: Diamond

Question: Which state of the USA is divided into 64 parishes in the same way that 48 of the other states are divided into counties?
Answer: Louisiana

Question: By what name is actor William Pratt better known?
Answer: Boris Karloff

Question: What organisation was founded in London in July 1961 by English labour lawyer Peter Benenson?
Answer: Amnesty International

Question: In the early 21st century, why did the International Olympic Committee expand the swimming and diving programs and the gymnastics competition, and add a "Champions Gala"?
Answer: To make the Games more attractive for TV

Question: Whose famous books include "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex", "The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals", " The Power of Movement in Plants" and "The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms"?
Answer: Charles Darwin

Question: What is the only state flag in the USA that incorporates the Battle Flag of the Confederacy (also called the "rebel", "Southern Cross, or "Dixie" flag)?
Answer: Mississippi

Question: In the early stages of which Olympic sport would you hear the words "en garde"?
Answer: Fencing

Question: Which car company logo was based on the coat of arms of Free People's State of Wrttemberg of the former Weimar Germany?
Answer: Porsche

Question: The fifteen elements with atomic numbers 89 to 103, which includes Actinium (Ac), Thorium (Th), Uranium (U), Neptunium (Np), Plutonium (Pu), Americium (Am), Californium (Cf), Einsteinium (Es) and Lawrencium (Lr), are known as what?
Answer: Actinoid series

Question: 11 November is marked in many countries as Remembrance Day, Poppy Day, Armistice Day or Veterans Day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and civilians in time of war. Why has that date been selected?
Answer: The end of World War I

Question: With what type of music is Scott Joplin associated?
Answer: Ragtime

Question: The US Masters golf tournament started in 1934. How many left handers won in the first 70 tournaments?
Answer: 2

Question: What did American hero Davy Crockett call his musket?
Answer: Old Betsy

Question: What is the popular name of light green apples that originated in Australia in 1868 from a chance seedling propagated by Maria Ann Smith?
Answer: Granny Smith

Question: Who was the second person to orbit the earth?
Answer: Gherman Titov

Question: Who is M's secretary in the James Bond series?
Answer: Miss Moneypenny

Question: Which province of Canada has the longest border with the USA?
Answer: Ontario

Question: What was the nickname of ski jumper Michael Edwards, who first represented Great Britain at the 1987 World Championships and, as the sole British applicant, qualified for the 1988 Winter Olympics where he finished last in both the 70m and 90m events?
Answer: Eddie the Eagle

Question: What is a "full plaid"?
Answer: A piece of tartan fabric, worn over the shoulder as part of full highland dress uniform

Question: Tom Lehrer, an American singer-songwriter, whose work contained much black humor and risque lyrics, often parodying popular song forms, taught which subject from 1972 to 2001 at the University of California, Santa Cruz?
Answer: Mathematics

Question: Which 1987 film set during the Vietnam War was based on the career of Adrian Cronauer, a disc jockey on Armed Forces Radio Service who was popular with the troops but infuriated his superiors?
Answer: Good Morning, Vietnam

Question: What was used instead of paper in ancient Egypt?
Answer: Papyrus

Question: Cryosurgery is performed under what conditions?
Answer: Very low temperatures

Question: Which TV comedy series featured agents 86 and 99 and "Chief"?
Answer: Get Smart

Question: The Dunnart, Bandicoot, Cuscus and Potoroo are native to which country?
Answer: Australia