Question: On the western Christian calendar, what date is Twelfth Day?
Answer: 6 January

Question: What sort of creature is a coypu?
Answer: Rodent

Question: Where was the most recent volcanic eruption in the contiguous states of the USA?
Answer: Washington

Question: Who created the fictional detective Inspector Morse?
Answer: Colin Dexter

Question: What is the name of the vertical groove above the upper lip that connects the top lip to the bottom of the nose?
Answer: Philtrum

Question: The Harelle, a revolt that occurred in the French city of Rouen in 1382 followed by the Maillotins Revolt a few days later in Paris, and subsequently in Amiens, Dieppe, Falaise, Caen, Orleans, and Rheims during the Hundred Years War, was about what?
Answer: Taxation

Question: Built in 1869, what type of ship is the Cutty Sark, which was put on public display in 1954 and is preserved in dry dock in Greenwich, London, UK?
Answer: Clipper

Question: In Ireland, what are "Macgillycuddy's Reeks"?
Answer: Mountains

Question: In soccer, what coloured card is used to order a player off the field?
Answer: Red

Question: Which car maker has a trident as its symbol?
Answer: Maserati

Question: What country is bordered by Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro and Kosovo?
Answer: Albania

Question: Silkworms feed mainly on the leaves of what tree?
Answer: Mulberry

Question: According to legend, what is needed to kill a werewolf?
Answer: Silver bullet

Question: What country, part of the Ottoman Empire for 500 years as the provinces of Shkodra, Manastir and Yanya, proclaimed its independence on 28 November 1912, with Ismail Qemali as its first Prime Minister?
Answer: Albania

Question: What was the main theme for the 1994 film "Four Weddings and a Funeral"?
Answer: """Love is All Around"" by Wet Wet Wet"

Question: In what sport does the equipment include a spider, a hook rest and a half butt?
Answer: Snooker

Question: What alloy is made of 12% tin and 88% copper?
Answer: Bronze

Question: Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major (Op. 68) is known as what?
Answer: The Pastoral Symphony

Question: Which state in the USA is equidistant from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, containing both the geographic centre of the 48 contiguous USA states and the geodetic centre of North America?
Answer: Kansas

Question: What links a type of footwear, the home of NATO, the best known military exploit of an early British Prime Minister, and the final days of freedom for a short Corsican commander?
Answer: Brussels

Question: A game popular in a number of countries and known variously as Belote, Boeuf, Vida, and other names is played with what?
Answer: Cards

Question: Aten, Ra, Amun and Ptah are what?
Answer: Egyptian gods

Question: Where was the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles, held?
Answer: Windsor Guildhall

Question: Who identified and named alpha, beta and gamma radiation?
Answer: Ernest Rutherford

Question: A style of intimate singing, developed and made popular in the first half of the 20th century by, among others, Bing Crosby, is called...?
Answer: Crooning

Question: In which century did Henry VIII die?
Answer: 16th

Question: Taking 0 BC as a point in time, what is the last day of the first decade of the second millennium?
Answer: 31 December 2010

Question: What distinguishes Hawaii from other USA states?
Answer: It is made up entirely of islands

Question: In the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact after Germany conquered Poland in 1939 what happened to Poland?
Answer: It was partitioned, between Germany and the USSR

Question: What is the capital of San Marino?
Answer: The City of San Marino

Question: Which painter, who was born in Paris, France in 1848 and died in 1903 at Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, had lived at various times in Lima (Peru), Orlans (France), Copenhagen (Denmark), Panama, Saint Pierre (Martinique), Pont-Aven (France), Arles (France), Mataiea Village (Tahiti), Punaauia (Tahiti)?
Answer: Paul Gauguin

Question: In August 2005 the robotic rover Spirit explored the surface of what?
Answer: Mars

Question: What is the name of the government-owned corporation that provides the intercity passenger train service in the USA?
Answer: Amtrak

Question: Which bank robber, whose exploits were sensationalized across the USA, was shot dead by police in an ambush outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago in 1934?
Answer: John Dillinger

Question: If you were at a hoedown what would you do?
Answer: Dance

Question: By what name was Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better known?
Answer: El Cid

Question: In 2012 New Zealander Lydia Ko became famous as the youngest person to win a professional event in what?
Answer: Women's New South Wales Open Golf on the ALPG Tour

Question: In what country was the "Red Cross" founded?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Which city, on the River Arno, is the capital of the region of Tuscany?
Answer: Florence

Question: In 1954, the US Department of Defence established what song as the official musical tribute to the president of the USA?
Answer: Hail to the Chief

Question: """Solitaire"" is known as a card game in the USA: what is used to play the game known as ""Solitaire"" in the UK?"
Answer: Board with pegs and holes

Question: What is a common chronic neurological disorder characterised by recurrent unprovoked seizures, which are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain?
Answer: Epilepsy

Question: What is the title of ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard's autobiography, published in October 2010?
Answer: Lazarus Rising

Question: Manchuria is the historical name given to a vast geographic region that falls mostly within what country?
Answer: People's Republic of China

Question: What did Basutoland change its name to in 1966?
Answer: Lesotho

Question: In 1453, the Ottomans used a cannon called "the Great Turkish Bombard", which required an operating crew of 200 men and 70 oxen, and 10,000 men to transport it, during their siege of which city?
Answer: Constantinople

Question: Who dies at the end of Shakespeare's tragedy "Troilus and Cressida"?
Answer: Hector

Question: What is the only geometric shape that has infinite lines of symmetry?
Answer: Circle

Question: At the 2010 Grammy Awards, who set a new record for the most wins by a female artist in one night, winning six?
Answer: Beyonc

Question: What is a localised, blood-filled dilation of a blood vessel caused by disease or weakening of the vessel wall, which most commonly occurs in arteries at the base of the brain and in the aorta?
Answer: Aneurism

Question: Who created the character of James Bond?
Answer: Ian Fleming

Question: In Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book", what animal was Kaa?
Answer: Snake

Question: In the sentence "Wherever he went, he carried the scratching cat, his eyes red", what part of speech is "Wherever he went"?
Answer: Dependant clause

Question: In what year did Sweden change its laws to allow a woman to inherit the throne, USSR stage its first rock festival, the border officially re-open between Spain and Gibraltar, Iceland democratically elect its first woman president, and the 10.14 mile (16.32km) long St Gotthard Road Tunnel open in Switzerland?
Answer: 1980

Question: Held annually since 1923 which is the oldest active endurance race for sports cars?
Answer: 24 Hours of Le Mans

Question: What are the Russian steppes?
Answer: Treeless plains

Question: Which is the youngest of these New Zealand actresses ?
Answer: Keisha Castle-Hughes

Question: When were the inaugural X Games held?
Answer: Summer 1995

Question: Which play by Arthur Miller used events from early US history to mirror Senator McCarthy's communist witch hunts in the 1950's?
Answer: The Crucible

Question: What relation was Mary I of England to Elizabeth I?
Answer: Half sister