Question: Who was the Italian player head-butted by French captain Zinedine Zidane in the final of the football World Cup 2006?
Answer: Marco Materazzi

Question: Which New Zealand-born and New York-based artist, known for his kinetic sculpture produced between 1950 and 1980, also made films, applying dyes, stencils, air-brushes and other objects directly to celluloid?
Answer: Len Lye

Question: What is the freezing point of water, in degrees?
Answer: 32 Fahrenheit

Question: Which war ended as a result of peace negotiations at Panmunjon, completed on 27 July 1953?
Answer: Korean War

Question: There is an Irish County called ?
Answer: Down

Question: What was the name of the group that invaded the Olympic village at Munich in 1972, killing 2 Israelis and holding 9 others hostage, resulting in a firefight killing 15 people, including all the athletes and 5 terrorists?
Answer: Black September

Question: Which king of England was nicknamed Rufus?
Answer: William II

Question: Whose discovery, that there were other galaxies in existence besides the Milky Way, was announced in 1925?
Answer: Edwin Hubble

Question: In the nursery rhyme, a carving knife was used for amputation on who?
Answer: Three Blind Mice

Question: What hit song of 1987 included the line We come in peace, Shoot to kill
Answer: Star Trekkin

Question: In 1956, British and French forces invaded a country in North Africa due to a dispute over which engineering work?
Answer: Suez Canal

Question: In which 1988 Academy Award-winning film did Dustin Hoffman play a character with special mental powers called Raymond Babbitt?
Answer: Rain Man

Question: Who won the Formula One Championship in 2008?
Answer: Lewis Hamilton

Question: The film actor Julia Elizabeth Wells is better known by what name?
Answer: Julie Andrews

Question: What is the world's only alpine parrot?
Answer: Kea

Question: Who organised a congress in Paris, on June 23, 1894 to establish the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and choose the host city for the 1896 Olympic Games?
Answer: Baron de Coubertin

Question: What is the maximum number of players that can be on a polo field at any one time during a game?
Answer: 8

Question: After the Rolling Stones released their first LP, who was the first person to leave the band?
Answer: Brian Jones

Question: Which king of Egypt abdicated in favour of his infant son in July 1952?
Answer: Farouk

Question: In Victorian England, a "hunter" was a common term for a type of what?
Answer: Pocket watch

Question: In 1838, which steamship made the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, from Bristol to New York?
Answer: The Great Western

Question: The distance of the first modern Olympic Marathon in 1896 was 40 km (24 miles 85 yards), so why, at the 1908 London Olympic Games, was it run over its now-standard distance of 42.195 km (26 miles 385 yards)?
Answer: So that it finished in front of the British royal family's box

Question: Chicago, Illinois, U S A, is on the shores of what body of water?
Answer: Lake Michigan

Question: The first verse of which song begins "So you think youve lost your love? Well I saw her yesterday"?
Answer: She Loves You

Question: Which Olympic Games were the first to be broadcast worldwide on television?
Answer: 1964, Tokyo

Question: What is the name for two collections of lymphoid tissues, one on either side of the throat, level with the base of the tongue?
Answer: Tonsils

Question: What is the name of the stadium in The Bronx in New York City which was the home baseball park of the New York Yankees from 1923 to 2008?
Answer: Yankee Stadium

Question: Who, when Secretary-General of the U.N., was killed in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1961?
Answer: Dag Hammarskjld

Question: What was the title of the film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood that was about a thinly disguised episode in John Houston's life?
Answer: White Hunter, Black Heart

Question: What man-made waterway was constructed between 1859 and 1869?
Answer: Suez Canal

Question: What is the second northernmost state of the USA on the Pacific coast?
Answer: Washington

Question: What French phrase means "sea-sickness"?
Answer: Mal de mer

Question: What is another name for China clay?
Answer: Kaolin

Question: Until Lewis Hamilton's win at Spain in 2007, who held the record for being the youngest driver to lead the Formula One Championship?
Answer: Bruce McLaren

Question: What word refers to a measure used in Scotland for liquids, chiefly beer, equalling 9 gallons?
Answer: Firkin

Question: Who wrote the lyrics / music for the musical Chess?
Answer: Tim Rice / Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson

Question: What was the name for a foul smell believed to carry diseases, since discredited by the discovery of infectious agents?
Answer: Miasma

Question: In 1990, mountain climbers Rob Hall and Gary Ball were the first to do what in 7 months?
Answer: Climb the "Seven Summits"

Question: The skull can be divided into two parts: the cranium and what other part?
Answer: The mandible

Question: Who was the first Prime Minister of the Repubic of India when it was created in 1947?
Answer: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

Question: In the final episode of the TV series "M*A*S*H", which of the main characters did not return to the U S A?
Answer: Corporal Klinger

Question: On 1 July 2001, who was the IBF Heavyweight Champion, WBC Heavyweight Champion, IBO Heavyweight Champion, USBA Heavyweight Champion, & IBF Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion?
Answer: Hasim Rahman

Question: The names of how many US states begin with "New"?
Answer: 4

Question: What perennial herb with sweet pine and citrus flavours was known to the Greeks and Romans as a sign of happiness?
Answer: Marjoram

Question: What is the name of the arts programme made for British television from 1978 that is identified with Melvyn Bragg?
Answer: The South Bank Show

Question: The Fandango originated in which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: What was the name of the scheme approved by U S Congress in 1948 for the long term financing of the reconstruction of Europe following World War II?
Answer: Marshall Plan

Question: Titan is a moon of which planet?
Answer: Saturn

Question: What 2003 mystery-detective novel by Dan Brown has been denounced as an attack on the Catholic Church and criticised for historical and scientific inaccuracy?
Answer: The Da Vinci Code

Question: In which year did George Bush succeed Ronald Reagan as US President, the US ratified the Berne convention on copyright, Time Inc and Warner Communications merged to form Time-Warner, and the Exxon Valdez spilled oil in Alaska?
Answer: 1989

Question: According to Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky", what were "all mimsy"?
Answer: Borogoves

Question: Which US state borders another country, and no other US state?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Who was largely responsible for the development of the jet engine, seeing the first application of his engine installed in a Gloster aircraft in 1941?
Answer: Frank Whittle

Question: Who commanded No. 11 Group RAF, responsible for the fighter defence of London and southeast England, which took the brunt of the German air attacks in the Battle of Britain?
Answer: Keith Park

Question: What were first introduced in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in May 1, 1840, promoted by Rowland Hill?
Answer: Postage stamps

Question: What was the title of Walt Disney's first full length animated feature, released in 1937?
Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Question: Which Apollo mission brought the first rocks and other material from the Moon?
Answer: Apollo 11

Question: Why, at Stockholm in 1912, did Jim Thorpe have his medals taken away after winning the decathlon and pentathlon?
Answer: He had previously played baseball for a fee

Question: In total area, in relation to Western Europe, the United States is about ?
Answer: Two and a half times the size