Question: What country became independent from Pakistan in 1971?
Answer: Bangladesh

Question: What is another name for caribou?
Answer: Reindeer

Question: In what city would you find the Bolshoi Theatre?
Answer: Moscow

Question: What African country is projected to pass the United States in population by the year 2055?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: What Japanese cartoon cat has appeared on dolls, greeting cards, toasters, and even a commercial jet?
Answer: Hello Kitty

Question: What is the official name of the city of Derry, in Northern Ireland?
Answer: Londonderry

Question: What "supercontinent" contained nearly all the world's land during the age of the dinosaurs?
Answer: Pangea

Question: What is the literally translation of "Kindergarten"?
Answer: Children's Garden

Question: What element are diamonds made of?
Answer: Carbon

Question: On what river do Oxford and Cambridge compete in a "Boat Race"?
Answer: Thames

Question: What is the most widely-produced assault rifle of all time?
Answer: Ak-47

Question: What mythical bird rises from its own ashes?
Answer: Phoenix

Question: In the year 1800, what was the Earth's largest undiscovered landmass?
Answer: Antarctica

Question: In the book "Great Expectations", what did Miss Havisham wear every day?
Answer: Wedding Dress

Question: What city was once the 4th largest in the United States, before losing over half its population?
Answer: Detroit or St. Louis

Question: What Paris cabaret was famous for the can-can dance, and was the subject of a 2001 movie starring Nicole Kidman?
Answer: Moulin Rouge

Question: What is a common word that means "pedagogue"?
Answer: Teacher

Question: If one kisses the Blarney Stone, what gift will they supposedly receive?
Answer: Gift of Gab

Question: What island chain at the tip of South America can be translated as "Land of Fire"?
Answer: Tierra del Fuego

Question: Which country contains the cities of Cairo, Oxford, Berlin, and Athens?
Answer: United States

Question: If I drive from Toulouse to Zaragoza, what mountain range will I likely cross?
Answer: Pyrenees

Question: What Greek god was the equivalent of the Roman god Neptune?
Answer: Poseidon

Question: What green stone was prized in ancient China, and used to make burial suits for royalty?
Answer: Jade

Question: What iconic album cover featured the four band members walking across a street in single file?
Answer: Abbey Road

Question: What province nearly voted to declare independence from Canada in 1995?
Answer: Quebec

Question: What "hunchbacked" English king's remains were discovered in 2012?
Answer: Richard III

Question: What elite scholarship is given to foreign students for post-graduate study at Oxford?
Answer: Rhodes Scholarship

Question: Whose effigy is burned on "Bonfire Night" in the UK?
Answer: Guy Fawkes

Question: What did the Manhattan Project create?
Answer: Atomic Bomb

Question: What is the preferred food of zombies?
Answer: Braaiinns

Question: What Olympic event was won by Kim Kardashian's step-father, Bruce Jenner?
Answer: Decathlon

Question: What devilish creature of European lore can be described as an "anti Santa Claus"?
Answer: Krampus

Question: What country has territorial disputes with 11 other countries?
Answer: China

Question: What figurative "curtain" separated Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War?
Answer: Iron Curtain

Question: What sauce is made with basil, pine nuts, garlic, cheese, and olive oil?
Answer: Pesto

Question: What is either a place for unbaptised babies or a back-bending party game?
Answer: Limbo

Question: What African country was founded as a place for freed American slaves?
Answer: Liberia

Question: If you can make it where you'll make it anywhere?
Answer: New York

Question: Which U.S. President had the shortest lifespan, just 46 years?
Answer: John F. Kennedy

Question: In what country did the tango originate?
Answer: Argentina / Uruguay

Question: In what country did the Tamil Tigers wage a civil war?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: In which U.S. state was "LOST" filmed?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: What type of alcohol, known as "the green fairy", was once banned in most of Europe?
Answer: Absinthe

Question: Impalas and Springboks are types of what?
Answer: Antelope

Question: What was J.S. Bach's middle name?
Answer: Sebastian

Question: What are the next three letters in the sequence that begins "QWERTY"?
Answer: Uio

Question: What was the last name of literary sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne?
Answer: Brontë

Question: What is the most famous book written by Mario Puzo?
Answer: The Godfather

Question: What are God's first four words in the Bible?
Answer: Let There Be Light

Question: What arc can be found at the end of the Champs-Élysées?
Answer: Arc de Triomphe

Question: What are Peach, Xena, and Mononoke?
Answer: Princesses

Question: What must nearly all American men register for at age 18?
Answer: The Draft

Question: Laphroaig, Glenfiddich, and Aberfeldy are types of what?
Answer: Scotch Whisky

Question: What country is projected to become the world's largest oil producer in the year 2014?
Answer: United States

Question: What is either Superman's home planet or an element starting with K?
Answer: Krypton

Question: What country, to Winston Churchill, was "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma"?
Answer: Russia

Question: What film director has parodied Frankenstein, Star Wars, and Robin Hood?
Answer: Mel Brooks

Question: What is the best medicine, according to cliché?
Answer: Laughter

Question: Where would you find Olympus Mons?
Answer: Mars

Question: What country is 2,600 miles long, but less than 220 miles in width?
Answer: Chile

Question: What food is sometimes called the French version of a pancake?
Answer: Crêpes

Question: Australia has two national animals. One is the kangaroo. What's the other one?
Answer: Emu

Question: What nation's flag depicts the yin-yang symbol?
Answer: South Korea or Mongolia

Question: Most people have 23 pairs of these. Women and men share 22. What are they?
Answer: Chromosomes

Question: What is the typical method of execution in Saudi Arabia?
Answer: Beheading

Question: What is the last name of musical brothers Nick, Joe, and Kevin?
Answer: Jonas

Question: What country gets nearly 75% of its electricity from nuclear power?
Answer: France

Question: What was the profession of W. B. Yeats?
Answer: Poet

Question: What was the name of the rabid Saint Bernard in the Stephen King book of the same name?
Answer: Cujo

Question: In the phrase "filthy lucre", what is lucre?
Answer: Money

Question: What is either a type of tree or an expensive ski resort in Colorado?
Answer: Aspen

Question: Ben & Jerry's is headquartered in which U.S. state?
Answer: Vermont

Question: Terra revolves around Sol. What revolves around Terra?
Answer: Luna

Question: What building is the traditional site of royal British weddings?
Answer: Westminster Abbey

Question: What type of snake is known for spitting?
Answer: Cobra

Question: Which Greek god could supposedly be reached by the Oracle of Delphi?
Answer: Apollo

Question: What is the name of Mickey Mouse's pet dog?
Answer: Pluto

Question: What is depicted on the the flag of Canada?
Answer: Maple Leaf

Question: Who once attended a tea party with a hatter and a hare?
Answer: Alice

Question: What was the name of the dog in the children's book series "Dick and Jane"?
Answer: Spot

Question: What traditional dish is made with sheep organs and oatmeal, encased in an animal stomach?
Answer: Haggis

Question: What animal says "coin coin", according to the French?
Answer: Duck

Question: What country is on the exact opposite end of the globe from Beijing, China?
Answer: Argentina

Question: In what building did Quasimodo live?
Answer: Notre Dame de Paris

Question: On what island did the term "Mafia" originate?
Answer: Sicily

Question: What did James Naismith invent in 1891?
Answer: Basketball