Question: Jay Ward and Alex Anderson created which character which first appeared on American TV in 1959?
Answer: Bullwinkle J. Moose

Question: Six states in the USA are split between two time zones, Eastern and Central. They are Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee and which other?
Answer: Alabama

Question: What is the aim of a game of chess?
Answer: To put the opponent's king in a posotion where he cannot avoid being taken

Question: Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, was previously known as what?
Answer: Longacre Square

Question: A "basho" is a tournament for what sport?
Answer: Sumo wrestling

Question: How many different people were President of the USA in the first 200 years after 30 April 1789?
Answer: 40

Question: In what sport are there "16 yard hits" and "penalty corners"?
Answer: Hockey

Question: Anthony Hopkins is a supporter and fundraiser for which British national park?
Answer: Snowdonia

Question: What British town's pier was referred to in a book title by George Orwell?
Answer: Wigan

Question: What shape are the individual cells in a honeycomb?
Answer: Hexagonal

Question: Where did a magnitude 7.7 earthquake, 12.8 miles (20.6 km) deep occur at 9:42 p.m. local time on 25 October 2010, which generated a "significant tsunami" and resulted in at least 113 people reported dead, and over 160 missing?
Answer: Sumatra,  Indonesia

Question: Restoration Drama in Britain in the 1690s differed noticeably from that of the 1670s, one aspect being...?
Answer: A strong middle-class element

Question: What sport is a fletcher essential to?
Answer: Archery

Question: According to the old saying, what "is a virtue, possess it if you can, seldom found in women and never in a man"?
Answer: Patience

Question: The thymol derivatives concentrated in the roots of which flowering plant are used in ointments for strains, sprains, bruises, and as an anti-inflammatory?
Answer: Arnica

Question: When King George II of Great Britain and Ireland died in 1760, who succeeded him?
Answer: His grandson

Question: Whose work "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine, became the iconic work of British art in the 1990s?
Answer: Damien Hirst

Question: What is the meaning of the German word "ausgang"?
Answer: Exit

Question: In the 18th century John Harrison solved the problem of determining longitude at sea using what instrument?
Answer: Clock

Question: What colour does blue litmus paper turn when in contact with acid?
Answer: Red

Question: Where is the county of Barsetshire, which contains the county town and cathedral town of Barchester, near the towns of Silverbridge, Hogglestock and Greshamsbury?
Answer: It is fictional

Question: What is the name of the official proceedings of the UK's House of Commons?
Answer: Hansard

Question: What is the name for the middle part of the nose that separates the nostrils?
Answer: Chaffanue

Question: What is the resort area in the east of Long Island in New York state?
Answer: The Hamptons

Question: Who won all the Grand Slam major tennis tournaments in 1970?
Answer: Margaret Court

Question: The IWC, an international body established in 1946, is concerned with what activity?
Answer: Whaling

Question: """Take up the bodies. Such a sight as this becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. Go, bid the soldiers shoot."" are the last lines of which play?"
Answer: Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Question: What tough, tightly woven fabric used to make suits, overcoats, trousers and other garments, traditionally made from worsted wool fibre, was patented by Thomas Burberry in 1888?
Answer: Gabardine

Question: In which country is the Arab Spring recognised as first taking hold?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: Snowflake was the name of what albino animal that died in the Barcelona Zoo in 2003?
Answer: Gorilla

Question: The military aeroplanes the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the F-22 Raptor, the F-15 Eagle, the F-16 Falcon, the C-17 Globemaster III, the EA-6B Prowler, and the F-111 are powered by engines from which manufacturer?
Answer: Pratt and Whitney

Question: The aim of a hot dog eating contest is to ...?
Answer: Eat the most hot dogs in a set time

Question: The New Spitalfields Market in Leyton, East London, deals in what?
Answer: Fruit, vegetables and flowers

Question: With what profession was Vidal Sassoon most associated?
Answer: Hairdressing

Question: What was the name given to the series of trials presided over by Judge Jeffreys after the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 when hundreds were put to death or transported to the colonies?
Answer: Bloody Assizes

Question: The Harvard-Yale Regatta, first contested between Harvard and Yale Universities in 1852, is rowed on what river?
Answer: Thames, New London, Connecticut, USA

Question: Goose bumps (also called goose flesh or goose pimples), which may involuntarily develop when a person experiences cold or strong emotions is known as what?
Answer: Horripilation

Question: To travel in a direct line from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine in the USA how many major mountain ranges would need to be crossed?
Answer: 2

Question: What do Eurythmics, Fleetwood Mac, Bee Gees, David Bowie, Elton John, Van Morrison, Rod Stewart, Freddie Mercury, Status Quo and Queen have in common?
Answer: Winning the "Outstanding contribution" BRIT award

Question: What is the official state religion in Nepal?
Answer: Hinduism

Question: What lies directly beneath the liver in the human body?
Answer: Gall bladder

Question: Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at a stage performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre on Good Friday, 14 April 1865?
Answer: John Wilkes Booth

Question: From 1618 the Thirty Years War between Catholic and Protestant countries in the Holy Roman Empire, in 1632 became a fight between the Hapsburgs and Spain on one side against who on the other?
Answer: France

Question: What are the only arteries in the adult human body to carry deoxygenated blood?
Answer: Pulmonary

Question: What type of ball is football (soccer) played with?
Answer: Sphere

Question: """The course of true love never did run smooth"" is a line from which play?"
Answer: Midsummer Night's Dream

Question: The English sovereigns Henry VII and Mary I were members of which Royal House?
Answer: Tudor

Question: The Appenines is a mountain range that runs for 870 miles in what country?
Answer: Italy

Question: The qualifying age to compete in World Figure Skating Championships has been '15 years old by 1 July of the previous year', since when?
Answer: 1996

Question: When was the Fifth, and current, Republic established in France?
Answer: 1958

Question: Six New Zealanders went away from the 2010 Academy Awards with Oscar statuettes, all for their work on one film; what was the film?
Answer: Avatar

Question: What is the southern-most Australian state capital?
Answer: Hobart

Question: Acorns come from which species of tree?
Answer: Oaks

Question: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes developed what online computer application?
Answer: Facebook

Question: Where did King Charles II hide himself after the Battle of Worcester in 1651?
Answer: In an oak tree

Question: What was the stage name of Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr., a singer and songwriter from 1957 until his accidental death in 1959, who is best known for his recording of "Chantilly Lace"?
Answer: Big Bopper

Question: Sledge, tack, claw, framing, upholstery, ball-peen, twist, dog-head and bush are all types of what?
Answer: Hammer

Question: What is a word game played using a grid of lettered dice, in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters?
Answer: Boggle

Question: What is the technical term for baldness?
Answer: Alopecia