Question: What was the codename of the Iraqi agent who admitted lying to US intelligence services about the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and providing US/UK justification for the Iraq War?
Answer: Curveball

Question: Clas Ohlson is a hugely popular DIY store chain based in which country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: Hatha, Jnana, Bhakti and Karma are all branches of which activity?
Answer: Yoga

Question: In British politics, what is the only one of the 'Four Great Offices of State' never (at at Feb 2011) held by a woman?
Answer: Chancellor of the Exchequer

Question: A parody of Hitler and Nazism, what was Charlie Chaplin's first talking feature film?
Answer: The Great Dictator

Question: Which European capital city is known as 'Pearl of the Danube'?
Answer: Budapest

Question: What family of tectosilicate minerals, named from the German for 'field', is the most abundant in the Earth's crust?
Answer: Feldspars

Question: Who won the American NFL Super Bowl in February 2011?
Answer: The Green Bay Packers

Question: Menudo, a soup-like dish featuring tripe (beef stomach) and chili peppers, is from which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: The charter for what international organization was signed in San Francisco, in June 1945?
Answer: United Nations

Question: The popular children's Christian hymn composed by Nellie Talbot around 1900 is widely known by its opening line, "Jesus Wants Me for a..." (what?)?
Answer: Sunbeam

Question: How many squares are in the grid of a Sudoku number puzzle (this is not a trick question - individual squares - not including other 'squares' which could be formed from blocks of individual squares)?
Answer: 81

Question: What English monarch was born in 1533?
Answer: Elizabeth I

Question: Who wrote the play Man and Superman?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw

Question: Invented in 1987, what game for two players, played on a hexagonal board with 61 spaces and 28 marbles (14 per player - aiming to remove 6 of the opponent's marbles) shares its name with a decorative marine mollusc?
Answer: Abalone

Question: If a leaf is obcordate, what shape is it?
Answer: Heart-shaped

Question: The ground-dwelling mesite bird is confined to which island, fourth-largest globally, behind Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo (given that Australia is regarded as a continent, not an island)?
Answer: Madagascar

Question: In Arthurian and Welsh Romance legendary stories, who was the faithful wife of Geraint/Gereint?
Answer: Enid

Question: How many stars are on the national flag of The Cook Islands?
Answer: Fifteen

Question: Producing meibum, an oily sealant, where on the human head are the meibomian glands ?
Answer: Eyelids

Question: What common term for a man and increasingly pluralized for a group of people arose from a 1605 conspiracy?
Answer: Guy/Guys

Question: In the Bible, what are the (English names of the) five books of the Pentateuch, also called the Torah and the Five Books of Moses?
Answer: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

Question: In 1936, Ethel Cain, otherwise known as Tim, became the first what?
Answer: Talking clock

Question: Galena is the primary ore mineral of which metal?
Answer: Lead

Question: The world's largest working waterwheel, the Lady Isabella (also known as the Laxey Wheel), is on which island, known in its national language as Ellan Vannin?
Answer: Isle of Man

Question: Englishman John Wycliffe's 14th century Lollardy movement addressed reform of what?
Answer: Religion

Question: Which uncle of Prince William announced his engagement to Karen Gordon in February 2011?
Answer: Charles, Earl of Spencer

Question: In UK politics, what flower is the emblem of the Labour Party?
Answer: Rose

Question: Which US oil company said it would appeal against an $8.6 billion fine imposed by Ecuador judges in 2011 after being accused of polluting the country's Amazon region in a legal wrangle spanning almost two decades?
Answer: Chevron

Question: According to the gospel of Luke, Zachariah and his barren wife Elizabeth were the parents of which great Biblical character?
Answer: John the Baptist

Question: What is an angle called which is larger than 180 degrees and smaller than 360 degrees?
Answer: Reflex angle

Question: In which European country did the 16th Century St Bartholomews Day Massacre take place?
Answer: France

Question: What was the previous name of Taiwan, the island off the southeast coast of mainland China?
Answer: Formosa

Question: Born Joseph Frank... by what name was the US silent film comic actor noted for his deadpan expression and pork-pie hats better known?
Answer: Buster Keaton

Question: Which island group is known by the French as Iles Normande?
Answer: The Channel Islands

Question: From the Greek meaning 'against', and 'a name', what is a word called which has the opposite meaning to another word?
Answer: Antonym

Question: What are the fertile South American lowlands covering more than 750,000 square kilometres in Argentina and most of Uruguay?
Answer: The Pampas

Question: Austrian monk and scientist Gregor Johann Mendel used which plant for the study and experiment of genetics and heredity of certain traits?
Answer: Pea

Question: What is the name of the ship of (1960s UK TV) cartoon pirate Captain Pugwash?
Answer: Black Pig

Question: Originally meaning 'as if in this manner', by what name is the second Sunday of Easter known, which provided the name of a deformed tragic character from a classic book?
Answer: Quasimodo

Question: In the British honours system where a man is made a Knight (i.e., becomes 'Sir...') what is the female equivalent?
Answer: Dame

Question: South African Ron Hickman, (1932-11), designer of classic Lotus cars including the Elan and Europa, also designed what multi-million-selling DIY gadget?
Answer: The Workmate

Question: What is the commonly used term for the subtle form of advertising by which brands are featured in films and TV programmes?
Answer: Product placement

Question: Seen around the world on marked police cars, what is the distinctive chequered pattern named the after the Glasgow police chief who first introduced it in 1932?
Answer: Sillitoe Tartan

Question: Which fashion house sacked designer John Galliano in 2011, after his racist rant at fellow customers in a Paris cafe?
Answer: Christian Dior

Question: Which tropical fish, named after an iconic four-legged beast, has the ability to regenerate its fins, skin and heart?
Answer: Zebrafish

Question: The defence minister of which European country resigned in 2011, after he was found to have copied large parts of his 2006 university doctorate thesis?
Answer: Germany

Question: What 1790 poem by Robert Burns inspired the naming of a hat, and also indirectly the tea clipper Cutty Sark?
Answer: Tam o'Shanter

Question: Which Indian city, second largest in Rajasthan state behind capital Jaipur, after which styles of trousers and boots were named in the late 1800s, is known as 'Sun City' and the 'Blue City'?
Answer: Jodhpur

Question: English cartoon character John Bull was provided with a sister called Peg (by creator Dr John Arbuthnott), representing which country of Great Britain?
Answer: Scotland

Question: Two former Argentinian military leaders went on trial in February 2011, accused of stealing what from political prisoners?
Answer: Babies

Question: What does the Latin phrase 'Vox populi' (shortened often in media to vox pop) translate to in English?
Answer: Voice of the people

Question: The North African social uprisings of 2010-11 caused the successive departure of leaders Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Mohammed Ghannouchi from which country?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: A suplex is an offensive move in which professional sport?
Answer: Wrestling