Question: In the 1970 UK general election, who was elected MP for North Antrim, became the longest serving MP from Northern Ireland, and led the Democratic Unionist Party from 1971 to 2008?
Answer: Ian Paisley

Question: How long is each round in a boxing match at the Olympic Games?
Answer: 3 minutes

Question: The River Volga runs through which capital city?
Answer: Moscow

Question: Of the 6 Summer Olympics held between 1988 and 2008 inclusive, how many were in Europe?
Answer: 2

Question: Who was the first female, the first Californian and the first Italian-American to hold the post of Speaker of the US House of Representatives?
Answer: Nancy Pelosi

Question: What is a sultan's wife called?
Answer: Sultana

Question: Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, represented which country?
Answer: Usa

Question: What was the name of the evil wizard that appeared in the TV series "The Smurfs"?
Answer: Gargamel

Question: What was the nickname for a 1913 British Act of Parliament that enabled suffragettes on hunger strike to be released from prison when they became ill?
Answer: The Cat and Mouse Act

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, where did Peter Peter pumpkin eater keep his wife?
Answer: Pumpkin shell

Question: The first name of the First Lady of which US president was Elizabeth, known as "Betty"?
Answer: Gerald Ford

Question: Since 1965, where has the headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) been located?
Answer: Vienna, Austria

Question: The US state of Alabama is known as what?
Answer: The Yellowhammer State

Question: What nation's boat "Black Magic I" won five races to nil in the America's Cup in 1995?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Ralph Nader's 1965 book "Unsafe at Any Speed" targeted which car?
Answer: Chevrolet Corvair

Question: At the 2000 Olympics at Sydney, which Cuban was the second person in Olympic history to win three gold medals in Heavyweight boxing?
Answer: Flix Savn

Question: In which country is the city of Dundee ?
Answer: Scotland

Question: """Rock 'n' Roll"", a play by Tom Stoppard that premiered in 2006, takes place in Cambridge, England and what other city?"
Answer: Prague

Question: Which British laws introduced by the Importation Act of 1815 and repealed in 1846 are examples of British mercantilism, the abolition of which marked a significant step towards free trade?
Answer: The Corn Laws

Question: Who, in 2010, became the first person from outside the British Isles to win the World Snooker Championship title since Cliff Thorburn in 1980, and the first non British player to win the title since Ken Doherty in 1997?
Answer: Neil Robertson

Question: Who was president of the USA when the first shots were fired in the American Civil War at First Sumter?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: The Owl and the Pussycat sailed away to the land where what grows?
Answer: The bong tree

Question: In which country was actor Sam Neill born?
Answer: Northern Ireland

Question: A relic that is claimed to be Jesus Christ's burial sheet is associated with which city?
Answer: Turin

Question: What was the nickname of the British army regiment called "5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards "?
Answer: The Green Horse

Question: Which band had a hit record in 1980 with "Smells Like Teen Spirit"?
Answer: Nirvana

Question: Who, having been ranked in the top 10 women players and after her second Olympic Games, announced her retirement in 1996, and in 2008 returned to the women's pro. tour aged 37?
Answer: Kimiko Date Krumm

Question: What position represents the head of government in Germany?
Answer: Chancellor

Question: Which movement was begun in 1909 by Richard Schirrmann, a German schoolteacher, and Wilhelm Mnker, a conservationist?
Answer: Youth Hostels

Question: What Hindi song composed by A. R. Rahman & Gulzar won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Best Song for a Motion Picture in 2008?
Answer: Jai Ho

Question: Who was born in 1682, died in 1764, and had the following written about her: "Her brow is like the snow-drift, Her neck is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That 'er the sun shone on And dark blue is her eye"?
Answer: Annie Laurie

Question: In which country is the city of Aberdeen?
Answer: Scotland

Question: What is a "put you up"?
Answer: A bed converted from a sofa

Question: Whose first novel, "The Lovers", after being rejected by 26 publishers, won a Hugo Award in 1953?
Answer: Philip Jose Farmer

Question: Which pope was elected in 1414, ending the situation where there were multiple Popes?
Answer: Martin V

Question: What was the occupation of Edmund Hilary, the first man (with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay) to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1953?
Answer: Beekeeper

Question: Who won his fourth Olympic gold medal with Paul MacDonald in 1988?
Answer: Ian Ferguson

Question: Which film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni showed the nature and emotions of the characters when Claudia (played by Monica Vitti) searched with her lover Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti) for her sister Anna (Lea Massar)?
Answer: L'avventura (The Adventure)

Question: The Academy Award-winning song "Mona Lisa", written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the film "Captain Carey, U.S.A", was a 1950 hit for which artist?
Answer: Nat King Cole

Question: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock market index that shows how stocks of large, publicly-owned companies based in the USA have traded during a standard stock market trading session. How many company's stocks does it track?
Answer: 30

Question: What relation were Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole to each other?
Answer: Father and daughter

Question: In the USA and Canada, what does "MLS" signify?
Answer: A professional soccer league

Question: Where was the body of Roberto Calvi, an Italian banker dubbed "God's Banker" by the press, found by a passing postman on 18 June 1982?
Answer: Blackfriars Bridge, London

Question: About 90% of the world's extractable material, used for the manufacture of ornamental objects and jewellery, is in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia on the Baltic Sea. What type of material is this?
Answer: Amber

Question: Who is the next in this series: Annette Kaye, Frada Miller, Alene Akins, Mickey Sutphin, Alene Akins, Sharon Lepore, Julie Alexander, ... ?
Answer: Shawn Southwick

Question: A famous opera by Rossini is about the barber of where?
Answer: Seville

Question: Which American became a professional golfer in 2005 at 16 years of age after, in 2000 aged 10, being the youngest player to qualify for the Women's US Amateur Public Links Championship, and, in 2002, the youngest player to qualify for a LPGA tour event ?
Answer: Michelle Wie

Question: What country surrounds the self declared "Principality of Hutt River" (founded in April 1970 by His Royal Highness Prince Leonard who rules with his family including his wife Princess Shirley and their son, Crown Prince Ian), which issues its own car registrations and currency and pays no taxes?
Answer: Australia

Question: George Gershwin wrote a piece of music called "Rhapsody in ..." what?
Answer: Blue

Question: The "promession" technique, announced in May 2010, was proposed to be used for what?
Answer: Burial

Question: What subregion of Oceania, comprising hundreds of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean, includes Guam, the Northern Marianas, Wake Island, Nauru, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and Kiribati?
Answer: Micronesia

Question: The first 3 winners of which road bicycle race were Emile Rogiers (BEL) in 1948, Gerrit Schulte (NED) in 1949 and Henk Lakeman (NED) in 1950?
Answer: Ronde van Nederland

Question: What is the national intelligence agency of Israel?
Answer: The Mossad

Question: What are the names of the two largest islands in The Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa?
Answer: Unguja and Pemba