Question: Who wrote the Queensberry rules published in 1867 for the sport of boxing?
Answer: John Graham Chambers, one of the founders of the British Amateur Athletic Club

Question: What narrows do you sail through to reach Scotia Sea?
Answer: Drake Passage

Question: He is credited with multiple advances in science, technology, engineering, anatomy, and the art of painting; who was he?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Question: The religious movement known as the Doukhobors was oppressed and circumscribed in Russia where it first developed; when its members were eventually allowed to leave what country welcomed them?
Answer: Canada

Question: Gamma-coniceine and coniine are the two principles which contribute most to the poisonous effect of what plant?
Answer: Hemlock

Question: The TV series "Peaky Blinders", aired first in 2013, is based on late 19th and early 20th century urban youth gangs in what city?
Answer: Birmingham, UK

Question: Why was Centralia, Pennsylvania, a town of 2,000 abandoned from 1981 on and has been largely demolished?
Answer: Poisonous fumes from underground coal fires started in the 1960s by burning rubbish dump material

Question: Carl Stotz began an organisation in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1939 to promote what sport to youth?
Answer: Baseball

Question: As part of a long career on stage, writing songs (recorded by Herman's Hermits, Adam Faith, Billy Fury) and musicals, and in TV and film working with Franco Zeffirelli, Bob Hoskins and Patrick Stewart, the actor Trevor Peacock stars in what UK TV series?
Answer: Vicar of Dibley

Question: The term, "soccer", coined first in the 1880s in the UK to distinguish types of football comes from what?
Answer: An abbreviation of "association football"

Question: Violet Carson made her last appearance as Ena Sharples in 1980 in which British TV series?
Answer: Coronation Street

Question: Some parts of the Amazon rainforest are being devastated by activities, including deposits of mercury, as part of what?
Answer: Gold mining

Question: Which UNESCO World Heritage Site in India covers the greatest land area, and is considered one of the "hottest hotspots" of biological diversity ?
Answer: The Western Ghats

Question: First appearing in English about the time of Shakespeare, what word means foppish, or, later, fabricated or tricked out?
Answer: Fangled

Question: Prince William left St Andrews University in 2005 with a degree in what subject?
Answer: Geography

Question: T S Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" (1939) formed the basis for which long-running musical show?
Answer: Cats

Question: Ambergris, once commonly used as a fixative in perfumery, is produced in the digestive system of what?
Answer: Sperm whale

Question: What purpose would groats NOT serve or have served?
Answer: Laying between kitchen or bathroom tiles

Question: Telly Savalas played Theo Kojak in a TV series that first aired from 1973 to 1978. What confectionery is associated with the character?
Answer: Lollipop

Question: This was used first as a spice by the Chinese, throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe, and was still popular in the 18th century as an ingredient in hot chocolate; what was it?
Answer: Ambergris

Question: In what country was Johnny Depp, at least until May 2015, filming the 5th chapter in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series?
Answer: Australia

Question: What is Britain's richest horse race in 2015?
Answer: Epsom Derby

Question: What Is the title of Somerset Maugham's book that is based on the life of Paul Gauguin?
Answer: The Moon and Sixpence

Question: The Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park, established 1995, contains a major untouched coral reef system and has seen major reestablishment of marine stocks and variety: where is it ?
Answer: East coast of the Baja Peninsula, Mexico

Question: Helen of Troy is particularly known in American and French thoroughbred horseracing circles for what?
Answer: She was the dam of La Troienne, who was imported to the USA and became dam of 10 race winners

Question: Typically what is in best supply in the Kalahari?
Answer: Sand

Question: Who wrote "J'accuse", an open letter to Flix Faur, President of France, accusing the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus (a French officer sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage) that was published on 13 January 1898, in the newspaper "L'Aurore"?
Answer: mile Zola

Question: What word is used to describe an aircraft moving along an airport runway?
Answer: Taxi

Question: Maurice Cole, under his stage name, was the creator of a number of anarchic irreverent radio and TV shows, the most well-known of which was called what?
Answer: The Kenny Everett Television Show

Question: When was the first IHF World Women's Handball Championship held?
Answer: 1949

Question: What was the name of the group of friends that Ken Kesey, the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", took on a trip from California to New York in a school bus nicknamed "Furthur"?
Answer: The Merry Pranksters

Question: Well known in the 1960s, what was the profession of Holland-Dozier-Holland?
Answer: Songwriters

Question: Which opera singer, and oratorio and concert soloist with the New York Philharmonic, London Symphony and Israel Philharmonic orchestras is even better known for dubbing the singing in films of musicals including for Margaret O'Brien in "The Secret Garden" (1949) and for singing roles on Broadway in 2000-2003?
Answer: Marni Nixon

Question: In the English version of the "Asterix" books, the character of Unhygienix has what occupation?
Answer: Fishmonger

Question: Sometimes called St Stephen's Tower, now formally Elizabeth Tower, it houses a famous landmark in Britain; what is that?
Answer: The bell, Big Ben, for the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster

Question: Pierre de Coubertin who founded the modern Olympic Games thought competing in art was an essential part of the movement; medals in various arts were awarded from 1912 until when?
Answer: 1948

Question: Jack Kerouac is famous for what activity?
Answer: Writing books

Question: Who was the other half of the Bouquet household, played by actor Clive Swift, in the UK TV comedy series "Keeping Up Appearances"?
Answer: Richard

Question: The Galapagos Islands are subject to continuing volcanic activity, and are situated where in relation to tectonic plates?
Answer: At the Galapagos Triple Junction

Question: What adjective is usually applied to an owl?
Answer: Nocturnal

Question: What was regarded at one time as the 27th letter of the English alphabet, and was formally in the alphabet from at least the 10th century CE?
Answer: The symbol, & (ampersand)

Question: Leo Zulueta is a notable artist in what field?
Answer: Tattoo art

Question: Architect George Clarke fronts which TV series?
Answer: The Restoration Man

Question: What are the narrows called between Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic?
Answer: Drake Passage

Question: What links the satire of manners, the play "Lady Windermere's Fan", and the Queensberry Rules for boxing?
Answer: A relationship between the playwright and the son of the man who sponsored the rules

Question: Which is the preposition in the tongue twister "She sells sea shells by the sea shore"?
Answer: By

Question: Who wrote "The Commitments", "The Snapper" and "The Van"?
Answer: Roddy Doyle

Question: Where is the volcanic Tibesti mountain range?
Answer: Sahara

Question: What is the name of the mascot for the cereal Cocoa Puffs?
Answer: Sonny

Question: Where is one situation in which gold leaf would not be found?
Answer: Origami

Question: What is the variety of coffee bean grown almost exclusively world-wide?
Answer: Coffea arabica

Question: In early 1998 the North American National Basketball Association began what, which lasted until 1999?
Answer: A lockout of players

Question: How did Princess Grace of Monaco die in 1981?
Answer: A car crash