Question: What name was given to the political and social movement that united the states of the Italian peninsula into the single country of Italy in the 19th century?
Answer: Il Risorgimento

Question: Mount Vesuvius overlooks what area?
Answer: Bay of Naples

Question: In freestyle skiing, what are the large bumps on the piste called?
Answer: Moguls

Question: After the Battle of Landriano, French monarch Franois I was forced to concede defeat in which war?
Answer: The War of the League of Cognac

Question: On the Christian calendar, what is the day before Ash Wednesday?
Answer: Shrove Tuesday

Question: Reed Richards, Susan "Sue" Storm (Reed's wife), Johnny Storm (Sue's younger brother), and Ben Grimm are the secret identities of which fictional group?
Answer: Fantastic Four

Question: In Greek mythology, who were the children of Uranus and Galatea?
Answer: Titans

Question: Who was Marlon Brando's co-star in the 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris", directed by Bernardo Bertolucci?
Answer: Maria Schneider

Question: With what country is the sombrero associated?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Between 1989 and 2002, the UK's Dalton Grant was a gold medal winner in what sport?
Answer: High jump

Question: The lychee is native to which area?
Answer: southern China and southeast Asia

Question: In French cooking, the traditional dish of, basically, pickled herring is called what?
Answer: Gendarme

Question: How, it is generally agreed, did John Wilkes Booth (who assassinated Abraham Lincoln) die?
Answer: He was killed by soldiers in northern Virginia

Question: Andrea Jaeger of the US had a successful career in professional tennis, becoming World Ranked number 2, between the ages of 15 and 19, but it ended prematurely due to major shoulder injuries. What profession did she take up in 2006?
Answer: Nun

Question: What was the name of the "state" that was never officially admitted into the Union of the USA after delegates from some North Carolina counties declared independence from North Carolina in 1784, and, in 1788, went back to being part of North Carolina?
Answer: Franklin

Question: What name was given to a narrative poem typically sung by trouvres (medieval minstrels)?
Answer: Lay

Question: Burge Al Arab Hotel, built in the shape of a sail, is where? SP
Answer: Dubai

Question: In Greek mythology, Zeus disguised himself as a swan to seduce whom?
Answer: Leda

Question: Which band played a free concert with a claimed 1.5 million attendance at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on 18 February 2006?
Answer: The Rolling Stones

Question: A manx cat has no what?
Answer: Tail

Question: Where is the 2.5-acre (10,000 m2) landscaped area dedicated to the memory of musician John Lennon, called "Strawberry Fields"?
Answer: Central Park, New York City

Question: What is the next in this series: Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter ... ?
Answer: 1 John

Question: Where is it that Roman Catholics believe souls are held after death for purification to be made fit for heaven?
Answer: Purgatory

Question: French actress Catherine Deneuve has been married once, from 1965 to 1972, to whom?
Answer: Photographer David Bailey

Question: In Greek mythology, who thought up the idea of the Trojan Horse?
Answer: Odysseus

Question: Balsam and cottonwoods are species of what?
Answer: Poplar

Question: Who is the naval officer in Puccini's "Madam Butterfly"?
Answer: Lt Pinkerton

Question: What was name of the last English monarch from the House of Hanover?
Answer: Victoria

Question: When did a man last walk on the moon?
Answer: 1972

Question: Who was Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government and Prime Minister of Russia from 21 July 1917 (following the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II) to 8 November 1917 (the Bolshevik revolution), who is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery, London?
Answer: Alexander Kerensky

Question: According to the Bible, "money is the root of all ..." what?
Answer: Evil

Question: Marti Pellow was the lead vocalist of what group?
Answer: Wet Wet Wet

Question: Who became the head of the UK's Lawn Tennis Association in 2006?
Answer: Roger Draper

Question: The USA won the most medals at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. Out of these countries, which one won the most?
Answer: Australia

Question: In Greek mythology, who rode Pegasus, the flying horse?
Answer: Perseus

Question: What country has the most Catholics in the population?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Bob Geldolf was lead singer for which band?
Answer: Boomtown Rats

Question: What is the title of a detective crime novel by Robert B. Parker, written as an authorised sequel to "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler?
Answer: Perchance to Dream

Question: Edward the Confessor became King of England in which century?
Answer: 11th

Question: What is the name of the supercomputer at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, China, one of the few petaFLOP-level supercomputers in the world, that in October 2010 became the world's fastest supercomputer, performing at peak computing rate of 2.507 petaflops?
Answer: Tianhe-1A

Question: What was the first name of the first First Lady of the USA?
Answer: Martha

Question: What is the name for a squirrel's nest?
Answer: Drey

Question: In 1965, who became the first person to summit Mount Kennedy, at the time the highest mountain in Canada that had not yet been climbed, that had been named in honour of John F Kennedy after his assassination?
Answer: Robert Kennedy

Question: Drummer Rick Allen lost an arm in an accident but continued to perform with which band?
Answer: Def Leppard

Question: What device, invented by Peter Cooper Hewitt in 1902 and obsolete by 1975 with the introduction of devices such as the silicon diode and thyristor, converts alternating current to direct current by means of putting electricity through vapor?
Answer: Mercury arc rectifier

Question: La Plata is the capital city of which province of Argentina?
Answer: Buenos Aires

Question: Which group in a TV series were on the run for "a crime they didn't commit"?
Answer: The A Team

Question: Where is the Palazzo Farnese (the Farnese Palace), in which, in Puccini's opera "Tosca", the heroine confronts Scarpia, the malevolent Chief of Police?
Answer: Rome

Question: The Bombay duck or bummalo is what type of creature?
Answer: Lizardfish

Question: What contest takes place when two teams pull at opposite ends of a rope?
Answer: Tug o War

Question: Which cocktail has scotch whisky and vermouth as a base?
Answer: Rob Roy

Question: In 300 BC, the country now known as Spain was part of which empire?
Answer: Roman

Question: Chris Martin is the singer for which band?
Answer: Coldplay

Question: Bear Grylls is the only person to appear in what TV series?
Answer: Man v Wild

Question: Where was the capital of the Roman Empire in 400 AD?
Answer: Ravenna

Question: What name is given to sympathetic pregnancy?
Answer: Couvade syndrome

Question: Cerro Aconcagua in the Andes, the highest mountain in the Americas and the highest mountain outside Asia, is 112 km (70 miles) from which closest city?
Answer: Mendoza, Argentina

Question: What country was divided at the 38th parallel in 1945?
Answer: Korea

Question: What was the name of the character played by George Clooney in the "Oceans" film series released from 19 to 19?
Answer: Danny

Question: """Die Fledermaus"" is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II. What is a ""fledermaus""?"
Answer: Bat

Question: What actress, born in Muscat, Oman, began acting on Australian television on "Paradise Beach" and "Home and Away" and is known for her roles in "Wedding Crashers" (2005), "Hot Rod" (2007), "Definitely, Maybe" (2008) and "Confessions of a Shopaholic" (2009)?
Answer: Isla Fisher

Question: What is the largest species of whale?
Answer: Blue whale