Question: What event led to a US grand jury indicting E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and G. Gordon Liddy for conspiracy, burglary and violation of federal wiretapping laws?
Answer: Watergate

Question: Which science fiction writer developed "The Three Laws of Robotics"?
Answer: Isaac Asimov

Question: The drink of the Gods is nectar: what is the food of the Gods?
Answer: Ambrosia

Question: Of which species of plant found on the floors of east Asian forests from eastern India, Indochina, China and Japan have 93 species been formally described, and, it is speculated, there may be 200 to 300?
Answer: Aspidistra

Question: Who wrote the songs "Suzanne", "First We Take Manhattan" and "Everybody Knows"?
Answer: Leonard Cohen

Question: What weapon, used by some African tribes, is a light throwing spear, tipped with iron?
Answer: Assegai

Question: Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and was President of Poland from 1990 to 1995?
Answer: Lech Walsa

Question: Who is the maker of the Xbox?
Answer: Microsoft

Question: Why were the fossilised remains of an extinct race, discovered in 1856, called "Neanderthal man"?
Answer: They were found in the Neander Valley

Question: According to the Bible, which one of Eve's sons killed his brother?
Answer: Cain

Question: The aim of which board game, which is based on one created in India around 500 BC, is to move pawns from the "nest" to "home"?
Answer: Parcheesi

Question: What type of instrument can be played "pizzicato"?
Answer: String

Question: Who became King of Belgium on 9 August 1993?
Answer: King Albert II

Question: Which city was founded in 1624 as a commercial trading post by the Dutch, who called it New Amsterdam, and was a nation's capital from 1785 until 1790?
Answer: New York

Question: Absolute zero is at approximately what temperature?
Answer: -273.3 deg C

Question: Who live in a seraglio?
Answer: Wives and concubines

Question: Which British sitcom featured Captain Mainwaring's catch phrase "You stupid boy!"
Answer: Dads Army

Question: Which Irishman wrote the novels "Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man", "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake"?
Answer: James Joyce

Question: Which of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments is played on grass courts?
Answer: Wimbledon

Question: What is an aficionado of Gilbert and Sullivan's light operas called?
Answer: Gilbertian

Question: Who began producing accounts of debates in the British parliament in 1803, the work continued by his family until it was taken over by the staff of "The Times" in 1895?
Answer: Thomas Hansard

Question: What name is given to the death of tissue due to failure of the blood supply?
Answer: Necrosis

Question: In curling, how do team members help to direct the "stones" towards the target?
Answer: Sweeping

Question: When "The Titanic" set out on her maiden voyage, she had enough lifeboats for what percentage of the passengers and crew that were on board?
Answer: 50

Question: Which is the gerund in the sentence "we listened to the whispering"?
Answer: whispering

Question: What was the fate of Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian who helped Germany to invade and conquer Norway in 1940?
Answer: He was convicted of treason and shot

Question: Which German scientist published "The Natural History of Creation" in 1876 (to prove that man was descended from apes) and "The Riddle of the Universe" in 1899 (to prove that it was created by natural causes)?
Answer: Ernst Heinrich Haeckel

Question: Which board game depends on each competitor drawing destination cards, railway car cards and locomotive cards?
Answer: Ticket To Ride

Question: Burt Munro set the current land speed record for motorcycles under 1000cc in 1967 on what make of motorcycle?
Answer: Indian

Question: The Great Falls of the Potomac River are located upstream (to the northwest) of which US city?
Answer: Washington

Question: What was King George VI's first name?
Answer: Albert

Question: What is the name given to the retreat from Chiang Kai-sheks forces by the Chinese communists from Jiangxi to Shaanxi, a 9,600 km (5,965 mile), year-long journey that began in October 1934?
Answer: The Long March

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, who was Humpty Dumpty?
Answer: It doesn't say

Question: What word best describes a triangle where two sides are equal?
Answer: Isosceles

Question: At which university on 4 May 1970 were 4 students killed and 9 wounded when an Army National Guard unit fired at students during a protest against the US invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War?
Answer: Kent State University

Question: In the Roman calendar, what was the 7th day called for the months of March, May, July and October?
Answer: Nones

Question: Which author, who wrote "Portrait Of A Lady", "The American" and "Roderick Hudson", was born in New York in 1843 and became a naturalised Englishman in 1915?
Answer: Henry James

Question: Christopher Reeve had the title role in the first of which series of films?
Answer: Superman

Question: What does the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom relate directly to?
Answer: Its atomic number

Question: Babe Ruth played for which Major League Baseball team between 1914 and 1919?
Answer: Boston Red Sox

Question: What is the next in the series: Waterloo, Blackfriars, Blackfriars Railway, Millennium ?
Answer: Southwark

Question: What multi-venue rock music concert, held on 13 July 1985, was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia?
Answer: Live Aid

Question: If x = yz, what is the value of x if y = 4 and z = 3?
Answer: 36

Question: What is the literal translation of "Ave Maria"?
Answer: Hail Mary

Question: Who played Jemima in the then new musical Cats in 1981, and later starred in more of Lloyd Webber's work, with two roles written for her: in the mass Requiem, and Christine Daa in The Phantom of the Opera?
Answer: Sarah Brightman

Question: Which song begins with this lyric "There she was just a-walkin' down the street"?
Answer: Doo Wah Diddy Diddy

Question: What is the name given to a cataclysmic nuclear explosion caused by the accretion of hydrogen onto the surface of a white dwarf star?
Answer: Nova

Question: Which English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era had a mysterious and untimely death?
Answer: Christopher Marlowe

Question: Where in New York city are the New York Zoo and the New York Botanical Gardens?
Answer: Bronx Park

Question: The first railway line across the U S A, from the East Coast to San Franisco via Chicago, Omaha and Salt Lake City, was completed in what year?
Answer: 1869

Question: Alan Longmuir, Derek Longmuir, Eric Faulkner, Stuart "Woody" Wood and Les McKeown were collectively known as what band from 1974 to 1976?
Answer: The Bay City Rollers

Question: As at 2006 elections which Sunni Islamist paramilitary organisation and political party holds a majority of seats in the legislative council of the State of Palestine, the name since 2012 of the Palestinian National Authority?
Answer: Hamas

Question: Where were the first world championships for mountain bike racing, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 1990, held?
Answer: Purgatory, Colorado

Question: What is the branch of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Asia Minor which contains many Greek islands?
Answer: Aegean Sea

Question: What type of design was used for London's Millennium Footbridge across the Thames, that opened on 10 June 2000?
Answer: Steel suspension bridge

Question: Which female jazz singer died in December 2008?
Answer: Eartha Kitt

Question: What sea creature living in the Arctic has a tapering tusk, spirally grooved, 2 to 3 metres (7 to 10 feet) long?
Answer: Narwhal

Question: Who led the expedition that successfully made the first ascent of Mt Everest in 1953?
Answer: Colonel H C J (John) Hunt

Question: In books by A A Milne, which of the main characters was usually depressed?
Answer: Eeyore