Question: What is pognophobia the fear of?
Answer: Beards

Question: At the end of the film "The Bridge On The River Kwai", who blew up the bridge?
Answer: Colonel Nicholson (played by Alec Guiness)

Question: What city was founded on the island of Manhattan by Peter Minuit in 1626?
Answer: New Amsterdam

Question: Before 1945, what was the city of Gdansk called?
Answer: Danzig

Question: Which Sultan of Egypt ruled an expanding empire that included Syria, Mesopotamia, and most of Asia Minor until stopped in 1192 by Richard I in the first Crusade?
Answer: Saladin

Question: Where was a battle fought between General Robert E Lee and General Meade from 1 to 3 July 1863, which is generally accepted as the turning point of the American Civil War?
Answer: Gettysburg

Question: What was patented in London by Ralph Wedgewood in 1806?
Answer: Carbon paper

Question: In international sport, what is the IPL?
Answer: Indian Premier League

Question: What was invented by Elias Howe in 1846 and improved by Isaac Merritt Singer?
Answer: Sewing machine

Question: In a film script, what do the letters POV mean?
Answer: Point Of View

Question: Laurence Olivier directed and starred in a 1944 film, which began in the Globe Theatre and then gradually shifted to a realistic evocation of the Battle of Agincourt, which was adapted from which one of Shakespeare's plays?
Answer: Henry V

Question: What painting medium consists of pigment suspended in water?
Answer: Gouache

Question: Who was Queen of England between 1837 and 1901?
Answer: Victoria

Question: Who were the contenders in the longest cricket test match ever played?
Answer: England v South Africa

Question: Rheumatism affects what part of the body?
Answer: Joints

Question: What name was given to Nepalese soldiers recruited into the Indian army?
Answer: Gurkhas

Question: Which river, the longest in France, empties into the Atlantic at St. Lazaire?
Answer: Loire

Question: Who was the American poet who worked for Mussolini to broadcast propaganda to the USA, was tried for treason in 1945 and was judged to be insane?
Answer: Ezra Pound

Question: In a TV series, who lived in the town of Bedrock?
Answer: The Flintstones

Question: Eamon de Valera was a politician in which country?
Answer: Republic of Ireland

Question: What is the name of the square in the UK TV series "EastEnders"?
Answer: Albert Square

Question: What is claustrophobia the fear of?
Answer: Confined spaces

Question: Who is most likely to edit the problem page in a magazine or newspaper?
Answer: Agony Aunt

Question: Which family has been awarded the most Nobel Prizes?
Answer: Curie

Question: To what is Lake Erie connected by the Erie canal?
Answer: Hudson River

Question: What standard distance was selected because it was expected to be "one ten millionth of the quadrant of the earth's meridian"
Answer: Metre

Question: Andy Warhol is associated with what sort of art?
Answer: Pop

Question: In Israel in 2009, what did they call the world outbreak of swine flu?
Answer: Mexico flu

Question: What is the traditional name for someone who draws up contracts?
Answer: Scrivener

Question: Which famous artist and ornithologist is the son of an Antarctic explorer and adventurer?
Answer: Peter Scott

Question: In 1953 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed in the USA for spying for which country?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: If you were watching a game between the Red Sox and the Yankees, what sport would they be playing?
Answer: Baseball

Question: What is the name given to river crossing suitable for vehicles?
Answer: Ford

Question: International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge used to play which sport, representing Belgium?
Answer: Rugby union

Question: The Pan-American Highway, a network of roads nearly 48,000 km (29,800 miles) long links the mainland nations of the Americas in a connected highway system, except for an 87 km (54 mile) stretch called what?
Answer: Darin Gap

Question: What fluid has groups called A, B, AB and O?
Answer: Blood

Question: What sort of animals were "Lady and The Tramp", the main roles in a Walt Disney cartoon released in 1955?
Answer: Dogs

Question: Who nailed a paper with 95 theses as a basis for debate with Friar John Tetzel to a church door at Wittenberg on 31 October 1517?
Answer: Martin Luther

Question: Who devised a practical system for classifying fingerprints?
Answer: Sir Edward Henry

Question: Cotswold, Southdown, Dorset, Lonk and Lincoln are breeds of what animal?
Answer: Sheep

Question: Which sport, a version of which had been a medal sport in 1924, and a demonstration sport in 1928, 1936 and 1948, became an official Winter Olympic sport in 1960?
Answer: Biathlon

Question: Who was the hero of a number of tall stories by Rudolph Erich Raspe, published in 1785?
Answer: Baron von Munchausen

Question: FINA announced in November 2008 that the cities that had expressed interest in hosting the 2013 World Aquatics Championships were Belgrade (Serbia), Budapest and Balatonfred (Hungary), Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Hamburg (Germany), Hong Kong (China), Madrid (Spain), and which other?
Answer: Moscow (Russia)

Question: What is the capital of the archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean called The Falkland Islands?
Answer: Stanley

Question: The "Saucy Jacky" postcard, received by Scotland Yard in 1888, was claimed to have been written by whom?
Answer: Jack the Ripper

Question: How was Joan of Arc killed in 1431 after she was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English and tried by an ecclesiastical court?
Answer: Burnt at the stake

Question: Irish is one of the official languages of the Republic of Ireland. What is the other?
Answer: English

Question: The excavation of what city, destroyed in 79AD, was begun in 1748?
Answer: Pompeii

Question: Whose trademark wardrobe included a bowler hat and cane?
Answer: Charlie Chaplin

Question: What does the Italian word "Piazza" mean?
Answer: Open space or square

Question: The cocktail "Black Russian" is created by mixing what spirits?
Answer: Vodka and kahlua

Question: If Guy Berryman and Will Champion are the rhythm section, what is the band?
Answer: Coldplay

Question: What nationality is sailor Russell Coutts, MBE, winner of numerous international match races, World Championships victories and America's Cups?
Answer: New Zealander

Question: Where is the stretch of water called The Solent?
Answer: Between the Isle of Wight and the coast of England

Question: The theatres for which war included North Africa, the Philippines, Italy, Germany and Crete?
Answer: World War II

Question: Mount Etna and the Plain of Catania are on which island?
Answer: Sicily

Question: Which Irish dramatist wrote "The Rivals" and "The School for Scandal"?
Answer: Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan

Question: Who released an album in May 2009 called "21st Century Breakdown"?
Answer: Green Day

Question: Why was Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian disqualified by the IOC from his medal for the men's 84kg Greco-Roman wrestling event at the 2008 Olympics?
Answer: He threw his medal on the floor at the medal ceremony

Question: After winning the silver in equestrian dressage 1932 Summer Olympics, why was Swedish rider Bertil Sandstrm demoted to last?
Answer: Clicking to his horse to encourage it.

Question: When was the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable service opened?
Answer: 1956

Question: Who starred in "Mogambo", "Dial M For Murder", "Rear Window" and "High Society" before giving up her film career for marriage in 1956?
Answer: Grace Kelly

Question: Where in the body is the scapula?
Answer: Shoulder

Question: The River Nile is on what continent?
Answer: Africa

Question: Eddie Murphy starred in a remake of which Jerry Lewis comedy?
Answer: The Nutty Professor

Question: Which Irish born British admiral and hydrographer created a standard scale in 1805 by which naval officers could report wind speed?
Answer: Sir Francis Beaufort