Question: What part of the body does interstitial nephritis affect?
Answer: Kidneys

Question: """Fanny and Alexander"", a Swedish/French/German co-production classic about a Swedish family in Uppsala released in 1982, was directed by whom?"
Answer: Ingmar Bergman

Question: In which area is part or all of the Dakar Rally run since 2008?
Answer: South America

Question: Why did the protesters in the 2014 Umbrella Revolution use umbrellas?
Answer: To ward off pepper spray used by police

Question: Who starred in "The Long Good Friday" (1979), a British gangster film set in London, England?
Answer: Bob Hoskins & Helen Mirren

Question: What age (in years) does a horse have to be to run in the Epsom Derby?
Answer: Three

Question: The government of the Andaman Islands archipelago is divided between India and which other country?
Answer: Burma (Myanmar)

Question: The US TV series "The In-Betweeners", the remake of the UK series of the same name, featured the writer of "My Name is Earl" Brad Copeland for several episodes, and director Taika Waititi from the 2004 Academy Award nominated short film called what?
Answer: Two Cars: One Night

Question: What was an action by the USA immediately after acquiring the Philippines from Spain in 1898?
Answer: Quash the budding First Philippine Republic and suppress Filipino independence fighters

Question: Who wrote the line "No man is an island entire of itself"?
Answer: John Donne

Question: The podcast which grew out of "This American Life", and first aired in 2014, is called...?
Answer: Serial

Question: A cheroot is a type of what?
Answer: Cigar

Question: From which country do the professional boxers, the Klitschko brothers originate?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: Fort Belan, purpose built to defend against raiding American privateers was built in 1775 where?
Answer: Menai Strait, UK

Question: The term "skimo" is used in what?
Answer: Ski mountaineering

Question: The long running TV series, "Band of Brothers", was a co-production between what two countries?
Answer: USA and UK

Question: Toronto, Canada, is on the northern shore of which lake?
Answer: Ontario

Question: What is the term for someone a young woman will keep on good terms with so she will be bought presents?
Answer: Sugar daddy

Question: What was a unique aspect of the 2015 presidential election in Croatia?
Answer: The first woman president was elected

Question: Which English king was removed from the throne in 1399?
Answer: Richard II

Question: Java, Borneo, Bali, and Sulawesi are what?
Answer: Islands

Question: When and where was the first Rugby League World Cup held?
Answer: France, 1954

Question: According to the children's tale, what was the name of the Three Billy Goats?
Answer: Gruff

Question: """General Sherman"" in California, USA, is the name of what?"
Answer: A tree

Question: Who is singer and actor Miley Cyrus's godmother?
Answer: Dolly Parton

Question: English poet John Keats composed five odes in 1819: The "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode to Psyche" and which other?
Answer: Ode on a Grecian Urn

Question: The horse Red Rum finished second twice in the British Grand National, in 1975 and 1976; Rag Trade and which other were the horses that beat him?
Answer: L'Escargot

Question: The two films "Pipe Dreams" (1976, starring R&B; / soul singer Gladys Knight & her then husband Barry Hankerson) and "Joyride" (1977, with Desi Arnaz, Robert Carradine & Melanie Griffith) were about what US feature?
Answer: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System

Question: The surrounds of the village of Avebury, Wiltshire, UK, contain what?
Answer: A prehistoric henge and stone circles

Question: What type of being is a cicada?
Answer: Insect

Question: In what conflict did King Richard I of England (the Lionheart) die in 1199?
Answer: Suppressing a revolt in the Limousin, France

Question: Which major Roman road in England linked London to the Fosse Way, passing through Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Tring, Aylesbury and Bicester before changing direction towards the south-west, passing Woodstock and Witney to the north before heading into Cirencester?
Answer: Akeman Street

Question: The shallow Java Sea is between the islands of Java and what?
Answer: Borneo

Question: What sound announces the start of the performance of a play in France?
Answer: Three knocks

Question: What in particular makes Aoshima Island, Japan, a tourist destination for Japanese?
Answer: A large population of cats

Question: What country is the origin of the wine tokay?
Answer: Hungary

Question: What is the principal ingredient of slivovitz brandy?
Answer: Plum

Question: Dame Barbara Hepworth is known mainly for her work in sculpture but later in her career was known for work in what other medium?
Answer: Lithography

Question: Which was the person credited with saying "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits"?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: Which comic character was introduced in More Fun Comics #73 in November 1941?
Answer: Aquaman

Question: Under whose watch were fishing vessels in Tasmania, Australia, first required to be registered?
Answer: William Saville-Kent, from the UK

Question: Which country saw the closest finish in a World Rallly Championship event, when, in 2007, Marcus Gronholm beat Sebastian Loeb by 0.3 of a second?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Glenn Miller, famous as a band leader in the 1930s & 1940s, played which instrument?
Answer: Trombone

Question: The most immediate sea to the east of Drake Passage, south of South America, is what?
Answer: Scotia Sea

Question: Who hosted the travel programmes "Around the World in 80 Days" (1989), "Pole to Pole" (1992), "Full Circle" (1997), and "Hemingway Adventure" (1999)?
Answer: Michael Palin

Question: Where is a proscenium arch usually found?
Answer: In a theatre

Question: In 1985, Barbara Dickson released "I Know Him So Well" from the musical Chess, which remains the biggest-selling record by a female duo, with what other singer?
Answer: Elaine Paige

Question: Who was the first soccer player to win 100 caps for England?
Answer: Billy Wright

Question: In 2014 and 2015 Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Senegal, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo are, sadly, linked by what?
Answer: An epidemic of infections from the Ebola virus

Question: What fully-fledged fictional language, which has a number of typologically uncommon features, was deliberately designed to be "non-human" by Marc Okrand?
Answer: Klingon

Question: What in the UK is referred to as "grilling" is called what in the USA?
Answer: Broiling

Question: Which was the first of these Disney films to be released?
Answer: The Jungle Book

Question: Where would most seagulls typically be found?
Answer: Near to the seashore, or over land

Question: In 2010, Veera Musikapong, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Khattiya Sawasdiphol, Suthep Thaugsuban, Prompong Nopparit, Colonel Sansern Kaewkamnerd, Natthawut Saikua and Buranaj Smutharaks were prominent in the politics of which country?
Answer: Thailand

Question: A game developed initially in Canada which involved throwing discs at a target or into a "hole", a 50 gallon drum or a hula hoop, is called what?
Answer: Frisbee, or disc, golf

Question: Around the upper Coppename River a nature reserve in what South American country has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its unspoiled forests and biodiversity?
Answer: Suriname

Question: Peter Bogdanovich is well known for which activity?
Answer: Film director

Question: Who, in 1983, was named the top-selling author in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records?
Answer: Barbara Cartland

Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "You Only Live ... "
Answer: Twice

Question: Where would a customer find "silver service"?
Answer: Restaurant

Question: Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), revered as a great poet, also wrote which play or drama?
Answer: Boris Godunov