Question: Anne Geddes, an Australian-born photographer and clothing designer, is known for her stylized depictions of what?
Answer: Babies and motherhood

Question: What was the value of the last question in the Indian version of the TV programme "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" that featured in the film "Slumdog Millionaire"?
Answer: 20 million rupees

Question: What do Americans call what the English call "chips"?
Answer: French fries

Question: What is the world's largest carnivore species found on land, which is native to the north of the northern hemisphere?
Answer: Polar bear

Question: The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis culminated on 11 November with the removal of which Australian Labor Party Prime Minister by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, and the appointment of the Leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser, as caretaker Prime Minister?
Answer: Gough Whitlam

Question: The Eddystone Rocks are 14 miles from which part of the UK?
Answer: Plymouth

Question: What was the title of Lily Allen's first full single release?
Answer: Smile

Question: According to the Bible's old testament, what was deciphered by Daniel?
Answer: The writing on the wall

Question: Which board, for a standard game, has the most squares?
Answer: Scrabble

Question: What breed of dog was the subject of the 1992 film "Beethoven"?
Answer: St Bernard

Question: What is the star sign of someone born on Christmas Day?
Answer: Capricorn

Question: At 115 metres (377 ft) tall, the ArcelorMittal Orbit observation tower is planned to be Britain's largest piece of public art. Where will it be built?
Answer: Olympic Park, Stratford, London

Question: Emmitt Douglas was an African-American businessman from Louisiana, who served as president of the state's NAACP from 1966 until 1981. Why was he arrested in 1970?
Answer: He attempted to eat at an all-white restaurant in Baton Rouge

Question: What river flows under the Ponte Vecchio, a Medieval bridge noted for still having shops built along it?
Answer: Arno

Question: What do cygnets grow up to be?
Answer: Swans

Question: Roger Bannister ran what distance in the record-breaking time of under 4 minutes at Oxford in 1954 over what distance?
Answer: Mile

Question: Why does the Archbishop of York sign himself "Ebor"?
Answer: Eboracum was the Roman name for York from 75AD

Question: Which US state consists of two separate peninsulas, separated by the Straits of Mackinac, a five-mile (8 km)-wide channel?
Answer: Michigan

Question: A "moog" was what type of instrument?
Answer: Synthesizer

Question: Who was Christopher Robin's favourite bear?
Answer: Winnie the Pooh

Question: What is the name used for the young of a kangaroo?
Answer: Joey

Question: What territory was sold by Russia under Tsar Alexander II in 1867, for about 1.9 per acre ($4.74/km2), a total of US$7.2 million?
Answer: Alaska

Question: From the landing of Pedro lvares Cabral in 1500 until its independence in 1822, Brazil was a colony of which nation?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Which city hosted the 1972 Olympics?
Answer: Munich

Question: Where is the only population of wild apes in Europe?
Answer: Gibraltar

Question: Harry Osborn is the offsider to which comic book superhero?
Answer: Spiderman

Question: Who was "the fourth man" in the Cambridge spy ring, whose name was not publicly known until 1979?
Answer: Anthony Blunt

Question: In World War I, what was the third battle of Ypres, from 31 July to 6 November 6, 1917, also known as?
Answer: The Battle of Passchendaele

Question: Sitting Bull was chief of what group?
Answer: Sioux

Question: Where would you find a "spruiker"?
Answer: Fairground

Question: What 1963 political scandal in the UK involved the Secretary of State for War, after he had a brief relationship with the mistress of a Russian spy (a showgirl named Christine Keeler), and lied to the House of Commons about it?
Answer: The Profumo Affair

Question: The first nationally formalised rules for which sport were drawn up by the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland in 1884, and now has two sets of rules, the other being . administered by the NRA in Great Britain, which was formed in 1943?
Answer: Rounders

Question: Where is the US National Archives, which holds the original documents of the US Constitution and the US Declaration of Independence?
Answer: Washington, DC

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, where does the Muffin Man live?
Answer: In Drury Lane

Question: Alsace, Aquitaine, Auvergne, Bourgogne, Bretagne, Limousin and Lorraine are all regions of which country?
Answer: France

Question: Andy Green, driving Thrust SSC, did what in 1997?
Answer: Broke the land speed record

Question: Why is the ship the "Mayflower" famous?
Answer: It carried settlers to North America in 1620

Question: What was the surname of the family who looked after Paddington Bear?
Answer: Brown

Question: What is a word for a deep narrow valley?
Answer: Gorge

Question: What 4 part UK television series frequently contained the line "You might very well think that: I couldn't possibly comment"?
Answer: House of Cards

Question: John Scopes was put on trial in 1925 in the USA for teaching the theories of which scientist?
Answer: Darwin

Question: Who was the subject of a 4 week inquiry by the US Atomic Energy Commission in 1954 into his background, actions and associations, due to suspicions that he was a member of the Communist Party and might have spied for the Soviet Union, which resulted in his top secret security clearance being revoked?
Answer: J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question: Where did the car manufacturer Audi originate?
Answer: Germany

Question: What name is given to the frst person to enter a house in the New Year?
Answer: First footer

Question: What animal is involved in "dressage"?
Answer: Horse

Question: The Great Salt Lake, in the north of the US state of Utah, is the largest salt lake in the western hemisphere. What is the approximate average salinity of its main basin, Gilbert Bay?
Answer: 13%

Question: Series I to V of which video game takes place on the planet of Enroth and its southern continent, Antagarich, and other worlds, Axeoth and Ashan?
Answer: Heroes of Might and Magic

Question: What gives the flamingo the colour of its plumage?
Answer: Diet

Question: What nickname was given to German Chancellor Otto Van Bismarck?
Answer: The Iron Chancellor

Question: The single "Sara" was from Fleetwood Mac's 12th studio album (that followed the album "Rumours"), released in 1979. What was the album?
Answer: Tusk

Question: In the term "taxi-cab", the word cab" is an abbreviated form of what word?
Answer: Cabriolet

Question: The flags of Australia and New Zealand feature representations of what?
Answer: Southern Cross

Question: Approximately how far is the moon from Earth?
Answer: 240,000 miles

Question: Which chapel in the Apostolic Palace (the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City), famous for its architecture and decoration, has been frescoed by the Renaissance artists including Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini, and Sandro Botticelli?
Answer: Sistine Chapel

Question: What was the name of the series of religiously sanctioned military campaigns between 1095 and 1291 waged by much of Latin Christian Europe to restore Christian control of the Holy Land?
Answer: The Crusades

Question: Who played the title role in the 2004 film "The Passion of Christ"?
Answer: Jim Caviezel

Question: According to a Time - Pew Research Centre poll published on 29 November 2010, the percentage of married people in the USA has changed from 75% (of those over 18) in 1960 to what in 2008?
Answer: 50%

Question: In 1998 the Iroquois nation sent its first team to the world championships of which sport?
Answer: Lacrosse

Question: British engineers Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson built their most impressive structures and locomotives in which century?
Answer: 19th

Question: What is Valerie Adams's profession?
Answer: Athlete