Question: The island Commonwealth of Dominica sits in which sea or ocean?
Answer: Caribbean

Question: A way of looking at mathematical relationships and operations using abstract symbols instead of specific numbers is called what?
Answer: Algebra

Question: What do Cliff Richard, The Who, Eric Clapton, Wham!, Elton John, The Police, George Martin, The Beatles and John Lennon have in common?
Answer: Winning the "Outstanding contribution" BRIT award

Question: What language does the word "chutney" come from?
Answer: Hindi

Question: Mike Dee, Ad-Roc and MCA were members of which band?
Answer: Beastie Boys

Question: Who was the first US president to visit the People's Republic of China and when did he do it?
Answer: Richard Nixon, 1972

Question: The endocrine glands secrete their products directly into what rather than through a duct?
Answer: Blood stream

Question: At 2.78 million square kilometres, what is the largest country in Africa?
Answer: Algeria

Question: The death of which dictator, closely associated with revolution and with World War II, happened in 1953 while he was in office as leader of his country?
Answer: Josef Stalin

Question: What field is Albert Einstein best known for working in?
Answer: Physics

Question: The Kuril island archipelago lies between the Pacific Ocean and which other sea?
Answer: The Sea of Okhotsk

Question: The marshmallow was first created as a medicinal substance when extracts from what part of the marsh mallow plant were used as a remedy for sore throats?
Answer: Root

Question: Which playwright wrote the musical "Mamma Mia"?
Answer: Catherine Johnson

Question: The River Irwell runs through which English city?
Answer: Manchester

Question: """The Leader of the Pack"" was a #1 hit record world-wide between 1972 and 1976 for which group?"
Answer: The Shangri-Las

Question: New Zealand celebrates Matariki, Maori New Year in late May or early June, marking the rising in the southern hemisphere of the seven stars of what?
Answer: Pleiades

Question: The Joad family appear in which novel and 1940 film directed by John Ford?
Answer: The Grapes of Wrath

Question: What was the final score of the USA vs. RUSSIA men's ice hockey game at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on February 14, 2014?
Answer: Russia: 2 USA: 3

Question: Which name is associated with the IT developments which grew into Apple?
Answer: Jobs

Question: In what region do the Sahel droughts occur?
Answer: West and central Africa

Question: When the Badminton World Federation was first formed in 1934 (initially as the International Badminton Federation) where was it located?
Answer: Cheltenham, UK

Question: The UK TV series Sharpe, 1993-2009, starred which two actors?
Answer: Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley

Question: What term is used to describe a certain type of documentary?
Answer: Fly on the wall

Question: Africa is considered to have been part of which early landmass?
Answer: Gondwana

Question: What distinguishes a yacht from other sailing or motor vessels?
Answer: Type of use

Question: What stitch, also called a whip stitch (when done by machine) or a crochet stitch (when done by hand), is used to reinforce the edge of thick materials?
Answer: Blanket stitch

Question: What is a group of owls called?
Answer: Parliament

Question: What gives the game of crib, or cribbage, its name?
Answer: The crib of cards sequestered for the dealer as part of a deal

Question: What Roman road ran from London to Weymouth, via Silchester, Old Sarum and Dorchester?
Answer: The Portway

Question: Sometimes seen as one of the first feminist central female characters in Western theatre, who was she and who was the playwright?
Answer: Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen

Question: Which Tropic runs through the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: Cancer

Question: Sebastian Pinera was the president of where?
Answer: Chile

Question: What did the Romans call Scotland?
Answer: Caledonia

Question: What is the name for the increase in size of tissue or an organ due to physiological change from old age, or lack of use, nutrition or nerve supply?
Answer: Atrophy

Question: Barbara is the name of the First Lady of which US president?
Answer: George H Bush

Question: Wargaming in one form or another has gone through surges of use and popularity but one form is both ancient and still greatly popular; which is it?
Answer: Chess

Question: Where did the term "bluetooth" in communication devices come from?
Answer: 10th century King Harald of Denmark

Question: Which political figure's assassination was among the events which precipitated World War I?
Answer: Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question: What is the name of Thomas Gray's most famous poem?
Answer: Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

Question: Which book of the Christian Bible provides the details of the Apocalypse?
Answer: Revelation

Question: A hit song of 1960 by Brian Hyland concerned an itsy bitsy teenie weenie polka dot bikini of what colour?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Who plays Dr. Addison Montgomery in the US TV series "Private Practice"?
Answer: Kate Walsh

Question: When did the USSR and Japan sign a Joint Declaration to end the state of war that existed during World War II and provided for the restoration of normal diplomatic relations?
Answer: 1956

Question: What device removes a pilot from an aircraft in an emergency?
Answer: Ejector seat

Question: In 1898, 14 years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published "Futility", a short novel about an enormous British passenger liner, which, thought to be unsinkable, carries insufficient lifeboats and on a voyage in April, hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of almost everyone on board. What was the name of the ship in this story?
Answer: The Titan

Question: What is the common name for trypanosomiasis?
Answer: Sleeping sickness

Question: Until the Simpsons came along, what was the most successful TV cartoon series?
Answer: The Flintstones

Question: """Boz"" was the pseudonym of which author?"
Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: What is the name of the calms and light baffling winds in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans?
Answer: Doldrums

Question: What is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets?
Answer: The Torino Scale

Question: Who was an English record producer for The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Lulu, Nancy Sinatra, The Yardbirds, Suzi Quatro, Kim Wilde and the Jeff Beck Group?
Answer: Mickie Most

Question: In April 2014 a record BASE jump from top of the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, involved how many people jumping?
Answer: 3

Question: What is the technical term for 4 bits of digital data?
Answer: Nybble

Question: Which mountain in the Sierra Nevada over 13,000 feet high was first climbed by Joseph N. Le Conte, Hubert P. Dyer, Fred S. Pheby, and C. B. Lakeman, who called it University Peak?
Answer: Mount Gould

Question: The sign language used in some stock exchanges to buy and sell is called what?
Answer: Arb

Question: When did Genghis Khan fight and lead in Asia and Europe?
Answer: 12th and 13th centuries

Question: Red Gauntlet is a type of climbing what?
Answer: Strawberry

Question: In 2003, Britain's first what was opened just north of Birmingham?
Answer: Toll motorway

Question: """What things soever"" is an example of what?"
Answer: Tmesis

Question: Who wrote the first stage musical version of The Phantom of the Opera, and when?
Answer: Ken Hill 1976

Question: Az, buky, vd and glagoli and dobro are the first 5 letters of which alphabet?
Answer: Glagolitic

Question: The US War of Independence was in which century?
Answer: 18th

Question: What was the setting for "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas", a 2008 film directed by Mark Herman starring Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, and Vera Farmiga, based on the book by John Boyne?
Answer: Concentration camp