Question: What is the process of decreasing or eliminating an unwanted magnetic field, a term first used by Commander Charles F. Goodeve, RCNVR, during World War II while trying to counter German mines?
Answer: Degaussing

Question: What are SMS messages sent by?
Answer: Mobile phone

Question: What is one expected to do in a dormitory?
Answer: Sleep

Question: Ptanque, boules, bocce, bolas criollas are all related games involving what?
Answer: Balls, and a target jack or piglet

Question: What was the popular name for Joseph Stalin by Americans during World War II?
Answer: Uncle Joe

Question: Which fictional character in a popular book published in 1876 was born in St Petersburg?
Answer: Tom Sawyer

Question: """The Bowery"" is a street in which US city?"
Answer: New York

Question: Between them, who controls over half of the shares and voting rights of the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company, L'Oral?
Answer: Liliane Bettencourt & Nestl

Question: In falconry what is a tiercel?
Answer: A male hawk or falcon

Question: Where is the United Kingdom's National Space Centre?
Answer: Leicester

Question: What is the common name for Anagallis known for the opening and closing of the flowers in response to environmental conditions?
Answer: Pimpernel

Question: His name could be loosely translated as "rule by, or supported by, horses" and is enshrined in the traditional doctors' oath. Who is he?
Answer: Hippocrates

Question: What projectile is fired by a crossbow?
Answer: Bolt

Question: Before the US Open Tennis Championship was held at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City, where was it held?
Answer: West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, New York

Question: What is unusual about the flag of Nepal?
Answer: It is not quadrilateral in shape.

Question: What 1973 film starring Al Pacino, John Randolph and Tony Roberts is based on the true story of New York City policeman who went undercover to expose the corruption of his fellow officers?
Answer: Serpico

Question: The Mawlawyah (Sufi Order) in Turkey are also known as what?
Answer: Whirling dervishes

Question: What was the capital of Yugoslavia from 1918-2006?
Answer: Belgrade

Question: According to the English nursery rhyme, who "called for his pipe and called for his bowl and called for his fiddlers three"?
Answer: King Cole

Question: In what is often called boxing's biggest upset ever Buster Douglas beat who in the world unified Heavyweight title fight in 1990 ?
Answer: Mike Tyson

Question: The Hanseatic League was a union of ports on which sea?
Answer: Baltic Sea

Question: Health workers in Nigeria and Pakistan were killed in 2012 and 2013 while carrying out vaccination programmes for what?
Answer: Poliomyelitis

Question: Who painted "A Bar at the Folies-Bergre"?
Answer: Manet

Question: What type of apple was adopted by The Beatles' "Apple Records" as its symbol?
Answer: Granny Smith

Question: In golf, what is the term for "two strokes under par"?
Answer: Eagle

Question: What is the name for the open areas of country in South Africa?
Answer: Veldt

Question: What influential and at times highly controversial book was published in November 1859?
Answer: """On the Origin of Species"" by Charles Darwin"

Question: In 1935 Count Basie, composer, jazz pianist and band leader, with his newly formed band developed his signature tune, which was what?
Answer: One O'Clock Jump

Question: Opus Dei is a sect within which religious movement?
Answer: Catholicism

Question: Oscar Pistorius from South Africa is particularly well known, as a sportsman, for what?
Answer: Running at international level with blades in place of his lower legs

Question: In Scandinavian mythology, who were the maidens who rode through the sky on horses, sword in hand, to influence the outcome of battles and select the bravest fighters to live in Valhallah?
Answer: Valkyries

Question: What are alternative names for "typhus"?
Answer: Prison fever

Question: What song was a UK #1 hit for Mike and the Mechanics in 1989?
Answer: The Living Years

Question: Ukraine, the second largest country in Eastern Europe, is bordered by Romania and Moldova to the southwest and what to the west?
Answer: Poland, Slovakia & Hungary

Question: When was the last major volcanic activity at Mount St Helens, Washington USA?
Answer: 2008

Question: What compound in the human body acts as a neurotransmitter and helps to regulate temperature?
Answer: Serotonin

Question: Phil Taylor (1960-now), ranked world number one in 2012 in the Professional Darts Corporation order of merit, holds a record 16 darts World Championship titles; in what year did he win his first World Championship?
Answer: 1990

Question: What adjective is used to describe a golfer with a handicap of zero?
Answer: Scratch

Question: Which planet is closest to Neptune in size and composition?
Answer: Uranus

Question: What does the dish called "kedgeree" traditionally consist of?
Answer: Rice, cooked flaked fish & hard boiled eggs

Question: Where is the "Day of Skulls" celebrated on 8 November?
Answer: Bolivia

Question: Who married stylist Ric Pipino in 1997, divorced him in 2002, had a daughter by Italian businessman Flavio Briatore, married musician Seal in 2005, and had 3 three more children with him between 2005 and 2009?
Answer: Heidi Klum

Question: The First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5) was fought between which two countries?
Answer: China and Japan

Question: What is the nickname of Nike's company logo?
Answer: The "swoosh"

Question: The white fumes that form when hydrogen chloride dissolves in water consist of what?
Answer: Hydrochloric acid

Question: Which planet comes closest to the earth in its orbit around the sun?
Answer: Venus

Question: In which year was artist Pablo Picasso born?
Answer: 1881

Question: What was the first US Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies, passed in 1890, that still forms the basis for most antitrust litigation by the United States federal government?
Answer: The Sherman Act

Question: What are "La donna mobile", "Celeste Aida", "Una furtiva lagrima" and "E lucevan le stelle"?
Answer: Arias for tenor voice

Question: What was the nickname of Lawrence Peter Berra, a former Major League Baseball player and manager who played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972?
Answer: Yogi

Question: In 1957 Luxembourg, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy joined together to form what?
Answer: Eec

Question: Before 1972, what was Sri Lanka known as?
Answer: Ceylon

Question: Which golfer was continuously ranked as the world's number one golfer on "McCormack's World Golf Rankings" from its inception in 1968 to 1977?
Answer: Jack Nicklaus

Question: According to the Bible's Genesis 32:28, 30 and Hosea 12:3, 5, God wrestled with whom all night?
Answer: Jacob

Question: What are Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium and Caesium?
Answer: Alkali metals

Question: What were the first names of comedians Abbott and Costello?
Answer: Bud and Lou

Question: Which country is the biggest producer of corn?
Answer: Usa

Question: When was canoeing accepted as an Olympic sport?
Answer: 1936

Question: In the Pink Panther series of films, who is Clouseau's house boy, an expert in martial arts, who frequently unexpectedly attacks him?
Answer: Cato Fong

Question: Who played "One Punch Mickey" in the 2005 film "Snatch"?
Answer: Brad Pitt

Question: One couple won the World Figure Skating Championships for Ice Dancing for four successive years 1981-1984. Who were they?
Answer: Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean

Question: At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards Show in February 2013 New Zealand singer Kimbra won two Grammies for her part in an album with Gotye. What were they?
Answer: Record of the Year, and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

Question: A landscape design feature, with one straight side and one sloping, is a ...?
Answer: Ha-ha