Question: John Williams said to Steven Spielberg, "You need a better composer than I am for this film" and got the reply "I know. But they're all dead!" What was the film?
Answer: Schindler's List

Question: In athletics, what name is used for the preliminary races that precede quarter-finals or semi-finals?
Answer: Heats

Question: Which of the five Great Lakes of North America is the only one that does not border the US state of Michigan?
Answer: Ontario

Question: What is a cord of wood?
Answer: 3.6 cubic metres

Question: Which of earth's oceans holds the most water?
Answer: The Pacific Ocean

Question: Which city was hit by a 7.5 Mw earthquake about 160 km northeast of it, centred in the Motagua Fault, on 4 February 1976 at 3.01 am, local time, killing 23,000 and injuring 76,000?
Answer: Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Question: What name is given to a spasm of the diaphragm muscle caused by indigestion, intoxication or some forms of pleurisy?
Answer: Hiccough

Question: Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone caused controversy in July 2009 by praising whom because he "got things done"?
Answer: Adolf Hitler

Question: After being called various names including the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and Congo-Lopoldville, what was the (now) Democratic Republic of the Congo known as?
Answer: Zaire

Question: Which Frenchman was a Franciscan, then a Benedictine monk, a teacher, a professor of anatomy and a priest, who wrote "Gargantua et Pantagruel", a huge comic narrative full of miscellaneous learning from the 16th century?
Answer: Franois Rabelais

Question: Rachel Hunter, model and Rod Stewart's ex wife, posed nude for which magazine in 2004?
Answer: Playboy

Question: According to the Bible, who were Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar?
Answer: Three wise men

Question: The technology industry centre known as "Silicon Valley" is in which state of the USA?
Answer: California

Question: Octavian and Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius in 42BC near which city in East Macedonia?
Answer: Philippi

Question: Who, from 1940 to 1949 was Jane Wyman's third husband?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: Which country has hosted the greatest number of world curling championships (of any kind: men's, women's and mixed championships) between 1959 and 2015?
Answer: Canada

Question: Which part of the body is made up of a series of vertebra?
Answer: Backbone

Question: Where is the International Gemological Institute and the World Diamond Centre, which play an important role in setting standards, regulating professional ethics, training and promoting the interests of the city as a centre of the diamond industry?
Answer: Antwerp

Question: In England, what word refers to a parish constable of the Anglican Church, often charged with duties of charity?
Answer: Beadle

Question: What happened to the image of a naked man hanging out of a bedroom window on a wall in central Bristol created by "Banksy" in June 2006, after the City Council asked the public to vote on its fate via the internet?
Answer: It was left on the building

Question: What is a group of stars called?
Answer: Constellation

Question: In the 1908 Olympics, Jay Gould from the USA won a gold medal for competing in which sport?
Answer: Jeu de Paume

Question: What is an informal phrase for "intelligence"?
Answer: Grey matter

Question: Which actor was married to actress Joan Plowright?
Answer: Laurence Olivier

Question: Who was Mr Ed's owner in the TV series featuring a talking horse?
Answer: Wilbur

Question: What was the name of the bottlenose dolphin who became famous in 1955-56 for playing with the children of the small town of Opononi, New Zealand, and performing with beach balls and bottles?
Answer: Opo

Question: Which European city is built at the mouth of the river Tagus?
Answer: Lisbon

Question: Geoff Hunt, Jahangir Khan and Ross Norman were the only World Open Champions in the first ten years that the Championships were held, in which sport?
Answer: Squash

Question: How many adjectives are there in the following sentence: "The tall old man in a smart black suit hit the little green car with a long red stick"?
Answer: 8

Question: Leonardo di Caprio played multi-millionaire Howard Hughes in which film?
Answer: The Aviator

Question: Rod Blagojevich was alleged to have solicited personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the US Senate after Barack Obama resigned because he had been elected President of the USA. He was the Governor of which US state?
Answer: Illinois

Question: Which alpine ski racer was World Cup champion in 1967 and 1968, won the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing with a sweep of the three gold medals for downhill, giant slalom and slalom at the 1968 Winter Olympics, and then retired?
Answer: Jean-Claude Killy

Question: What is another name for "lateral epicondylitis"?
Answer: Tennis elbow

Question: Which state of the USA, initially called New Connecticut, declared independence in 1777, issued its own coinage 1785-1788, exchanged ambassadors with France, the Netherlands and the USA, and in 1791 joined the US Federal union as the 14th state?
Answer: Vermont

Question: Who said, at a critical time in the history of inventions, "Mr Watson, come here - I want you"?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

Question: What is the name of the daughter of Ginger Spice (Geri Halliwell), born in 2006?
Answer: Bluebell Madonna

Question: What is the name of the raised bumps that cover the striking area of a table tennis bat?
Answer: Pimples

Question: The Basque country is centred mainly around which mountain range?
Answer: Pyrenees

Question: The River Don flows 1,325 miles from near Tula, Russia, to which sea?
Answer: Sea of Azov

Question: What was a Roman name for France?
Answer: Gallia

Question: What literary character was portrayed by Cliff Richard in a 1990s stage musical?
Answer: Heathcliffe

Question: Who has been engaged to US tennis player Jimmy Connors and married to British tennis player John Lloyd, Olympic downhill skier Andy Mill and Australian golfer Greg Norman?
Answer: Chris Evert

Question: Wick and Thurso are towns in the far north of which country?
Answer: Scotland

Question: What name is given to a young whale?
Answer: Calf

Question: By the 15th century, coffee was known in the Middle East, Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa. It first arrived in Europe in the area covered by what modern day country?
Answer: Italy

Question: Which film about figure skaters starred Jon Heder and Will Ferrell?
Answer: Blades of Glory

Question: Who carried out his early experiments at Villa Grifone, Bologna, Italy, with his brother Alfonso?
Answer: Guglielmo Marconi

Question: Hattie McDaniel, an American actress, was the first black performer to win an Academy Award, in 1939 for Best Supporting Actress for her role of "Mammy" in which film?
Answer: Gone with the Wind

Question: Who was Ron Hextall playing for when, on 8 December 1987, in a game against the Boston Bruins, he became the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal by actually shooting the puck into an open net?
Answer: Philadelphia Flyers

Question: Who was the youngest First Lady of the USA?
Answer: Frances Cleveland

Question: What is the relationship between the words "left" (the opposite of right) and "left" (the past tense of "leave")?
Answer: Homonyms

Question: How many days are there in 4 consecutive years?
Answer: 1461

Question: What is the medical term for abnormally low body temperature?
Answer: Hypothermia

Question: What is the real first name of the pop star Madonna?
Answer: Madonna

Question: What is the name of cities in Argentina and Spain that are both capitals of provinces of the same name?
Answer: Cordoba

Question: """A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!"" is an example of what?"
Answer: Palindrome

Question: Because of the speed at which the earth and the moon move relative to the sun, a total solar eclipse can never last more than how long?
Answer: 7 minutes 31 seconds